The love goat (February 2025 goat nominations)
4February, the month of love. Also the when a groundhog determines the length of winter and when we determine how superb an owl really is.
It also means that @PhysAssist’s month of goatdom is coming to a close, and it’s time for a new goat of the month – so nominate away!
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I’m surprised the background image isn’t showing because it’s spectacularly lovely and fitting:
Yes!
Please release me, let me go…
/youtube Please release me…
@PhysAssist but you have done such a good job!!!
@PhysAssist @tinamarie1974 can we nominate them again?
@pakopako @PhysAssist @tinamarie1974 In the past, the community didn’t rule that prior goats are ineligible. However, the consensus was that such would only happen if there were no new/viable candidates.
(All along, the goats have been the community’s choice. If a day comes in which there would be no goat at all, then that’s that too. Over the years, we’ve moved from just blaming to also unblaming too, from scapegoating to sharegoating.)
@tinamarie1974
Thanks to your perfidy…
@PhysAssist
Hey @narfcake , who hasn’t been a scapegoat yet?
@Wollyhop Any mehmber who isn’t on this list:
https://meh.com/forum/topics/calendar-of-the-scapegoat
Speaking of which …
gulp
@narfcake @Wollyhop
I think the technical term for this would be"
“hoist with his own petard”
https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hoist_with_his_own_petard
@narfcake @Wollyhop can’t believe it was 4.5 years ago now that I was to blame for everything. Time flies when you’re no longer to.blame.
@narfcake @OnionSoup @Wollyhop
I hope to know that sweet feeling soon!
Ok. So… officially throwing @Wollyhop
under the busname in the hat.
Welcome future ruminant.
@chienfou
As the current goat, I second that [e]motion…
@chienfou @PhysAssist If I do get scapegoated, I will send you all a pic so you can make and burn effigies of me.
@chienfou @PhysAssist I will also cast a vote for @Wollyhop if only to divert attention away from implied suggestions regarding my candidacy from @ybmuG and @Kyeh in the old Kelly Clarkson thread.
@chienfou @ItalianScallion @PhysAssist @Wollyhop @ybmuG Heh, I’d forgotten about that - thanks for the reminder.
@chienfou Well, he practically volunteered, although he’s being all coy about it …
@chienfou @Kyeh I assure you that I did not volunteer. You know, it’s the old: if nominated, I will not run; if elected I will not serve, blah, blah, blah.
@chienfou @ItalianScallion No, I meant Wallyhop. Although the more you protest and demur, the more it makes you a viable candidate.
@chienfou @Kyeh Oh, and “goat” means Greatest Of All Time, like Tom Brady, right?
@chienfou @ItalianScallion
Some people choose to look at it that way …
@chienfou @ItalianScallion @Kyeh @Wollyhop @ybmuG
Second the [e]motion for @ItalianScallion as well!
Given @ItalianScallion’s transparent reminding me of a threat I had forgotten, I think that earns an official nomination
@ybmuG See above.
@ItalianScallion we’ve had ghost goats before. Doesn’t mean you can’t be blamed. There’s no requirement to accept either the nomination or the election.
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
@ItalianScallion @ybmuG I posted a death certificated signed with meh forgery signatures and still got elected. Back in them ol’ days failure to accept and perform was seriously frowned upon. Of course if you do that you will be blamed anyway.
@ybmuG Seriously though, should I be elected it would be unethical and I would not be a true Mehtriot if I were to refuse to serve the Mehtizenry. I’m sure @Wollyhop would agree.
I vote for @ItalianScallion .
(Anything to get them away from me…)
@Wollyhop Hey, that’s my tactic!
@ItalianScallion DIBS
@ItalianScallion @Wollyhop
sorry… you voted in the wrong precinct.
@chienfou And don’t tell me, let me guess… by the time @Wollyhop and I get to the correct precinct, the polls will be closed. Voter suppression!!