While Meekin was MIA, a few people had the idea of going to a rotating weekly writer for the QOTD. This would give it a new voice and diverse interests to explore every week, keep it fresh, and give everyone a chance to be a contributer here. It will continue to keep a non wrestling thread up everyday also, an idea lots of people seem to support.
With Meekin officially gone now (sadface), Scott has approved this idea so it's good to go.
Thoughts? Any way to improve it? Any volunteers right off the bat? I feel the easiest mechanism would be for the volunteer to write it daily and email it to me to post so I can just cut and paste it in.
I'm not gonna write any so volunteer contributers are crucial. I've seen people express interests in other threads...
I'm not gonna write any so volunteer contributers are crucial. I've seen people express interests in other threads...
Instead of an "of the Day" format how about "Whenever Someone Has a Legitimately Interesting Idea" format for a question/off-topic thread. Schedules are for squares.
ReplyDeleteI volunteer! I volunteer as tribute!
ReplyDeleteI fully agree. After 3 days QOTD degenerates into "Well guys, what color was your poop today?"
ReplyDeleteElaborate on this for me.
ReplyDeleteI always thought a podcast or Skype type show with different contributors would be cool.
ReplyDeleteToday's Question of the Day: What should we do with Question of the Day?
ReplyDeleteI'm going to agree with the idea that it doesn't actually need to be a daily thing, maybe once every few days, when a legit topic comes up. Or, we break it down into different themes for different days.
Monday is music, Tuesday is movies, Wednesday is comics, etc.
I feel that my post was sufficiently elaborate.
ReplyDeleteHowever it goes may I suggest no more fucking otters?
ReplyDeleteYoud be wrong. So you want just a free for all blog with threads on anything is what it reads as. I was legitimately tyring to understand the mechanics of your idea.
ReplyDeleteOk, I see there is a misunderstanding. I meant 'legitimately interesting' to imply that posts would be on average less frequent than daily, because a daily commitment often leads to the well running dry rather quickly. Quality over quantity. Who judges the quality? Not me, that's for sure, I'm just a passerby.
ReplyDeleteI think he's saying a lot of the QOTD are not worth posting and that when someone has a good/original idea, that should get posted.
ReplyDeleteQotd is the BoDs equivalent to the madden curse.
ReplyDeleteGotcha. I dont disagree, its frequent and the well runs dry quickly. People, along with myself, a fan of a non wrestling type of thread daily.
ReplyDeleteGod I hated that so much. Such a little thing but it bugged me for some reason
ReplyDeleteQotd: Bossmans "hard time" or Dusty Rhodes "American dream"? Go...
ReplyDeleteHard time
ReplyDeleteAmerica dream. Not even close
ReplyDeleteHe carries a big stick/ball and chain too/you better watch the line or he'll be coming after you
ReplyDeleteQotd: Sweet sapphire or vickir Guerrero?
ReplyDeleteIt bugged me that everyone said they hated it, and yet he still persisted with it.
ReplyDeleteQOTD: Wes Welker suffered his second concussion of the season yesterday. So, how close is he to committing child murder?
ReplyDelete/shows self out
See you guys tonight. Got to get back to work
I feel Vickie has insanely hairy nipples
ReplyDeleteNot sure if that's a vote for or against. Care to elaborate?
ReplyDeleteLike get stuck in your teeth and swallow
ReplyDeleteDef against
ReplyDeleteTJ: Bobby Cox, Joe Torre, and Tony LaRussa were all elected to the baseball HOF today by the Veterans Committee. Also, Roy Halliday announced his retirement.
ReplyDeleteAll deserving entrants I think
ReplyDeleteI actually use "I'm just a common man" during interactions occasionally.
ReplyDeletefor example - "White Thunder why don't you build a time machine? "because I am just a common man".
Those are three of the GOATs as far as managers go. Well deserved. The Halladay thing blew me away because I thought he still had something left, even though he had a bad year.
ReplyDeleteAs long as the QOTD does not run into such terms as "existentialism" and "pathos" and "banana hammock". Everything else is up for discussion.
ReplyDeleteI'm on the fence on Torre, he had by far and away the best players. Still, 5 rings is 5 rings. I feel the same way about Phil Jackson.
ReplyDeleteHalliday is one of my favorite players (only guy who's jersey I own), so I'm sad to see him go.
ReplyDelete(Cleveland voice) That's nasty.
ReplyDeleteMore like the equivalent of the union delegate that ends up wearing cement shoes within a couple months of getting the job (DENTAL PLAN!). At least guys burned by the Madden Curse usually bounce back the next season.
ReplyDeleteThe picture of the otter with a crappie in it's mouth made it all worthwhile to me.
ReplyDeleteLol.
ReplyDeleteA crappie is a fish, if that's what you're laughing at.
ReplyDeleteHard time. American Dream's not bad, but BBM's theme was just better.
ReplyDeleteI knew it was a fish, but just seeing "the picture with the otter with the crappie in its mouth..." in print made me laugh
ReplyDeleteIt is pretty funny when I think about it that way.
ReplyDeleteWell, fuck. There went 2 of my best ideas.
ReplyDelete...dafuq? Is this a thing?
ReplyDeleteI'd be happy to try my hand at emailing you a QOTD, though I think the best way to go would be to get contributions from a number of people, post the one you like best on any given day, and hold on to ideas you like for occasions where you don't get anything better.
ReplyDeleteladies and gentleman, the girl on fire, nick piers!
ReplyDeleteThe question of the day should be questions about how to format/create the question of the day.
ReplyDeletePut me down as happy to contribute to this or anything else on here. That doesn't involve otters, Blink 182 or your mystifying world of American sports and the mutderousness of its players.
ReplyDeleteWe'll never be as bad as the average football/soccer riot seen worldwide.
ReplyDeleteCan I have a question of the day?
ReplyDeleteDammit, I just used up my question. I'll have to try again tomorrow.
On a related note, that might be the one positive of our group drawing for the World Cup... at least we won't have death threats against our team and it's friends Asshole Fans At The Hotel and Asshole Fans Throwing Human Waste At Us. I feel (kinda) bad for Mexico, Croatia, and Cameroon.
ReplyDeleteI think.
To those who love football: "Ain't gonna happen."
ReplyDeleteTo those who despise football: "Not soon enough."
The "normal" human should be solidly in the first camp, or at least leaning that way.
OK, fine down-voter (whoever you are!), how about THIS suggestion? Instead of a QOTD, we have a regularly-posted open thread and, if someone has suggested a question, a QOTD can be included in said thread?
ReplyDeletePerhaps but our football riots contain less risk of death then just attending one of your high schools.
ReplyDeleteJust got out of the hospital, what happened with Meekin? Also, QOTD needs to be future endeavored.
ReplyDeleteMeekin got a new job where most of his time is spent writing tweets and summaries and tech support jobbing and considering his relatively lackluster time management skills, he'd hate to leave you all waiting with bated breath for a return that would never come.
ReplyDeleteSee also: Austin, Stone Cold Steve.
Oh are you from Brazil? Yeah, your team is going to just brutalize that group. And Argentina in theirs - they have NO competition there.
ReplyDeleteFWIW, I'm English but I don't want 'my' team to win. People here still keep crowing on about winning back in '66! It'd be insufferable.
USA up against Portugal and Germany is going to be a slaughter too.
My money is on South Korea - not to win but they're the guys I'll be cheering on. Germany to win it.
Um... I'm American.
ReplyDeleteBeing in the "Group of Death" is still better than being in the "Group of If We Win, We Probably Die, Literally."
Wow, that's pretty ignorant.
ReplyDeleteThe QOTD can't be half pregnant.
ReplyDeleteHow ya feelin, buddy?
ReplyDeleteI honestly think someone being in charge of picking the best ones that get emailed to him is the way to go... that way we don't have some stupid fucking gimmick like Otters, we don't have someone getting burned out after a few weeks, and we don't have to have it every day if there is nothing worth posting... furthermore I would like to contribute, but I just don't see me having the motivation to do this 7 days in a row, even once.
ReplyDeleteOh and something about married women... if I don't include that I get complaints.
You've lost me. Russia?
ReplyDeleteIgnorant of what? I admit it's a slight exaggeration. Slight.
ReplyDeleteBut then the person in charge of picking the best ones could get burned out.
ReplyDeleteThe danger here, and I've seen it way too many fucking times, is that we end up with some kind of really complicated political system just for this. I've seen too many forums, blogs, news groups etc. all disappear up their own vote-recounting arse.
How about we all just think of a good question, mail it to Scott or one of the other fine mods here, and then they post them in the order received? With no further approval / voting / selection unless they consider the question to be offensive, e.g. "How many dead children will satisfy the voices in Wes Welker's head?"
Getting up and walking kinda sucks but other than that, normal.
ReplyDeleteI thought it was an ignorant thing to say in general. I mean, if it was joke, fine. It's a bad joke, but I've posted some pretty shitty not funny jokes myself, I'll admit. If you're serious, comparing a soccer riot to school shootings is stupid on many levels.
ReplyDeleteSurgery?
ReplyDeleteGood to hear you're OK. You said you had to have to have your gallbladder removed. If you don't mind me asking, why?
ReplyDeleteSeriously. Look at her. Tell me you font think she has hairy nipples.
ReplyDeleteDon't give WWE Creative any more ideas towards jokes for John Cena to use tonight.
ReplyDeleteOkay, so what was I being ignorant of?
ReplyDeleteI'm sorry you found it stupid on many levels. I thought it an astute comment for this reason:
Football riots are frequently due to the presence of far-right hooligans intentionally causing fights, often for nationalistic reasons.
Whilst happily a LOT better as regards British fans, it's still a massive issue elsewhere... e.g. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Football_hooliganism_in_Poland
So there are sad parallels between a troubled youth with a very, let's say, nihilistic ideology, deciding to shoot up his school; and someone using say, a knife to do the same thing to opposing fans. The obvious bridge being that Scandinavian guy who shot all those poor kids last year, showing that what was once a local issue (American high school shootings) is becoming national - just as British football hooliganism is now plaguing Europe.
Or maybe I just thought it was a tired national stereotype and it's funny to see the hypocrisy of how people react when it's their OWN nation being stereotyped. Either/or.
I don't think she has hairy nipples. Mainly because I wasn't aware that this was a common problem. I've never run into it, and I can only remember one person who told a tale with first hand experience; a friend back in high school who said he was with a girl who had that issue.
ReplyDeleteWhy speak in the third person?
ReplyDeleteWho will put out the email address so we can start to send questions?
ReplyDeleteI hated the criticism of this question. It was worded really really poorly, even though I'm sure Meekin was joking, but it was a solid debatable premise. Not the killing of children part, but the part of should the nfl be afraid of a "benoit" type situation?
ReplyDeleteGallstones. I've had them for a few years and I actually made an appointment to get it taken out next week but last Wednesday it got infected and I had to be rushed to the ER. Doc told me if I had waited a month or 2, it would have started to leak and maybe even killed me. At minimum, he said I would have been in the hospital for 6 months.
ReplyDeleteYeah, had my gallbladder removed. Now I have 35 staples in my stomach. And I didn't even have to wrestle New Jack!
ReplyDeleteEveryone else calls me Meekin, and I wanted to try it out for myself. I like it!
ReplyDeleteI'm starting to rethink this because I didn't really want to sort through various emails to choose stuff, but I'll see how it goes...mhaas42@gmail.com
ReplyDeleteUgh, glad the surgery worked. Just read your reply to Amsterdam. Good think you went in when you did, I've seen gallbladder leaks man, and fuck does that shit get intense.
ReplyDeleteLooks like you got a few days of nothing but tv and wwe YouTube channel ahead of you.
i love you, easter bunny
ReplyDeleteYou make a lot of good points. I thought you were just kind of trolling at first, and may have misinterpreted your original comment. I don't disagree with what you just said, but I see it as a school shooting being one or two people going off the rails, whereas a soccer riot (or any kind of sports riot, American fans rioting after their team wins a title is no better) is a collective thing and a better representation of the culture. BTW, I don't think of soccer riots as a British thing (and have nothing against you Brits at all), but as a soccer fan thing, mostly South American fans. Hell, there was a big one on Brazil yesrerday.
ReplyDeleteCopy and hopefully it goes well, good luck.
ReplyDeleteI always thought it would be hilarious to use a fish as a weapon in a match. Just bust out a carp and blast someone with it.
ReplyDeleteThat's.....pretty clever.
ReplyDeleteYep. It's Britain's biggest contribution to world sports in the last few decades. Well, that and David Beckham, and the British government has repeatedly apologised now for inflicting Beckham on the world. Just like the Canadian government has apologised for Bryan Adams.
ReplyDeleteI hate when people call me by my last name.
ReplyDeleteAs a hardcore auto racing fan, I'd say England has contributed more than enough.
ReplyDeleteI'd love to do this fairly consistently, but I likely don't have the name value. I need to gain 20 pounds in BoD developmental and really learn how to work.
ReplyDeleteTry to be the designated driver for one of the main eventers. That worked out pretty well for the last guy that did it.
ReplyDeleteMake sure you shake hands properly
ReplyDeleteI could probably fire the odd one off, but not interested in coming up with a week's worth at a time.
ReplyDeleteJust make BLOGOTTERQOTD@gmail.com, and have people e-mail that! Then give the password to a trustworthy individdle!
ReplyDeleteI'd also like to point out that literally the day after I said I was too busy to do the QOTD, I'm suddenly all caught up on shit.
ReplyDeleteEh, it's a family tradition. Meekin just kinda rolls off the tongue, and for whatever reason the name Paul isn't as...fun to say?
ReplyDeleteBut it's a good one for it, I knew a guy named Curry at one point and I can't even remember his first name any longer..
ReplyDelete'I could probably fire the odd one off, but not interested in coming up with a week's worth at a time.'
ReplyDelete...you're talking about qotd's, right?
i really hope thats what you're talking about
'Meekin just kinda rolls off the tongue'
ReplyDeletethats what she said
So throw one up.
ReplyDeleteHard Time, and not even close. American Dream is good but Hard Time is A+
ReplyDeleteFor some reason it really irritates me. I've never been a big fan of nicknames either, just refer or talk to me by my first name.
ReplyDelete....wait a minute.
ReplyDeleteSure thing A-Bomb.
ReplyDeleteThe Wife had hers out a couple of years back, but they were able to do that keyhole surgery thing. Sucks about the staples.
ReplyDeleteAbsolutely. I stopped making the films years back.
ReplyDeleteor you know we could just stop trying to turn this place into the amateur hour home of badly written opinion pieces and help restore it to being what it should simply be, Scott's blog.
ReplyDeleteEh, I don't know. I like the off-topic QOTD discussions. Plus, Scott's got a busy life and can't keep up on a daily schedule, even if just to answer a question or two. This way, we get something to talk about between shows to bitch about and also keeps the hits coming for Scott.
ReplyDeleteJust read this thread. Seems like the popular opinion has evolved to be people firing in one off qotds they find interesting. Send them in and ill post them...mhaas42@gmail.com and well so how it goes. Seems like we support a non wrestling thread so as long as it keeps drawing I guess ill post until its time to future endeavor it
ReplyDeleteDisagree, I like that there's a B Team. Scott never does shoot reviews, or QOTD, or Saturday Night threads. All of that stuff is cool.
ReplyDeleteAnd even if he did all of that stuff, it's nice to hear different voices.
If only there was some way to...search...a...network....for...the...content...you...want. If you don't like it, don't read it, and for the record, this "B-team" shit you hate makes that Scott fellow money so he can keep doing this whole blog thing in the first place.
ReplyDeleteYou're killing the undercard because you want more Main Event. There can only be one main event.
Well if you say so!
ReplyDeleteMaybe Scott has a full time job and a wife and a kid and shit...
ReplyDeleteIdiot.
I love when guys come out of the woodwork to issue their very first comment as a complaint.
ReplyDeleteI imagine any topic can be turned into a question somehow.
ReplyDeleteTrue dat
ReplyDelete*ahem* I am running an idea through my head. Hear me out: a decently coherent opinion article about people's opinions. It will be 5 paragraphs of blank space.
ReplyDeleteI would say don't estimate the power of being able to piss people off to start good discussion. The more people disagree, the better the conversation, etc.
ReplyDelete#QOTDguru.
1. Do you like beans?
ReplyDelete2. Would you like to see a movie with George Wendt?
That's what they were supposed to do and it would have only took 15 minutes. But halfway through, they had to do it the old school way.
ReplyDeleteWhat's funny is that they actually had one last year. I read an article last week that talked about how Jevon Belcher has been wiped from existence.
ReplyDeleteJevon Belcher was on his way out of the league so it's pretty easy to forget him. The better question is can they erase a star player or hall of famer just as easily?
After Benoit the WWE went overkill with the wellness thing. The NFL has taken some hits but I'm amazed how this stuff can just keep bouncing right off them. That shield is damn near bulletproof
ReplyDeletedo you like gladiator movies? have you ever been in a turkish prison? have you seen a grown man naked?
ReplyDeleteSo meekin is dead?
ReplyDeleteYou're supposed to be dead.
ReplyDeleteSilly loser meekin will never have a she.
ReplyDelete