I hear, via Magpie, that tomorrow, Octber 3rd, is a grand holiday: The Great Mofo Delurk.
I have to say, I like getting comments. And I like celebrating made-up holidays. (Remind me that I should start making up holidays. I could design a whole line of greeting cards. Maybe I should declare some day to be “Make Up Your Own Holiday Day.”) Anyhow, we were talking about comments, weren’t we. Well, I like them. So do other people. So some folks have decided that people need a little bit of an extra nudge to leave some comments, at least this one day a year.
I plan to celebrate by leaving a few comments around on blogs where I tend to lurk. (Actually, first I plan to celebrate by getting up, engaging in some sorts of personal hygiene rituals, getting dressed, getting Phoebe dressed and off to daycare, doing some work, commuting, having a meeting, doing some more work, commuting again, and maybe having a festive holiday scone. Because I think every holiday needs a tradition of baked goods. And I don’t think scones are taken.) By the end of the day, I hope to work myself up to leaving at least a quick “hello” on a few blogs.
And I’d love it if you’d join me in this celebration. You could start right here, by leaving me a scone. Or a comment, since they are less likely to get crumbs on my laptop.
I know that it can be hard to come up with just the right comment to leave, so I thought I’d offer up a few possibilities for some quick-and-easy, down-and-dirty, alpha-and-numeric comments that are ready-to-wear. It’s easy to convey lots of meaning with just a few keystrokes. Just refer to the handy chart below.
| comment | translation |
| yo | Great post! |
| yoyo | You rock! |
| yoyoyo | You rock. Like someone in a rocking chair. Knitting socks. That don’t match. |
| oy | Your corniness pains me. Please stop. |
| oyo | This is meaningless |
| 3752 | I think you may have miscalculated |
| 555 | That color isn’t the most flattering for you. |
| 12 | I would like to sing you an aria. |
| 9 | This post was one of the most poignantly written, beautifully crafted, impassioned things I have read in many long years. I was moved. I cried. I wept. I did an interpretive dance. |
| pants | alejna, you are cracked |
| squid | this was a disturbing, but strangely compelling post |
| dude | all of the above |
collecting tokens 
Dude! Since a trackback isn’t actually a comment, I thought I’d start things off properly by saying a few words. And those were them.
Great idea!
4242
By the way, I hope your congratulatory remarks weren’t a mere exercise of de-lurkification…
I trust they weren’t. Thanks for the lovely words.
Dude!
Seriously, though, I like your blog and, from here on out, I will employ your comment code table and maybe even add a few of my own.
Dude!
So happy to know that the scone I just downed was a Celebratory! Holiday! Scone!
Comment: OYE!
Translation: Listen up, lovers!
Not that I have anything to say, I just wanted you to listen up. Also, I don’t think I was lurking to begin with, so I can’t really de-lurk. But that’s just a technicality, right?
Dude- I love scones.
Now. must. find. scone.
Oh, and I like the idea of delurking. But why the ‘Mofo’?
azahar-
Some fine words, indeed. And thanks for trackback, too. Dude.
Jangari-
4242 to you, too! And of course my comments weren’t mere delurkification.
rimarama-
Thanks, dude! Your blog looks like fun, too. And any help building up the table of comments would be great.
magpie-
I’m glad you had a celebratory scone. Mmm, scones. And dude to you, too!
patient boy-
Oye right back at ya. I’m not entirely sure on the technicalities and qualifications of lurking, but I’m sure you can delurk if you want to.
KC-
Dude. Scones rock. Except when they are hard as rocks. As for the “mofo” bit, I don’t really know the whys. I don’t know if this bit from one of the originators gives any insight:
Oh, I forgot to use one of the suggested shorthand comments.
Um… Pants.
KC, MoFo is a contraction of moth…. um, for a highly contemptible person.
9
Oh, sorry. Wrong post.
12
(I am actually gearing up to start rehearsals – next week – for my first every opera, and I am very very very nervous about it. And I’m just in the chorus!)
a scone with fresh berries for you.
and a new pair of pants.
OK, OK: squid, 9 (sort of) and definitely pants.
Hi! You delurked at my place, and now here I am delurking at your place. There’s a nice circularity to that. Um, nice to meet you. I’ve been lurking :-)
Yoyo. According to this logic, Jen thinks the world of all of us–or not.
Jangari-
I did like your “4242,” though. But I suppose “pants” is fitting.
Sage-
Yes, it was probably elsewhere. But was it a good interpretive dance?
maypole-
Ooh, an opera. And thank you for the one-digit aria.
jen-
Yummy! Thanks. And I can use those pants.
Gregory-
You are too kind (sort of).
mimi-
That is some nice circularity. I had no idea you were lurking, too. So nice to meet you!
Mad-
Yoyo, too! I’m not sure whether Jen uses the exact same chart. Though I believe that dude does mean many things to her.