totally serious question: "what is a 'stan,' as the term is used by blog fruitflies?"

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or, if you prefer, a "rap stan."

― Ray Cummings (skateboardr), Monday, 18 December 2006 16:22 (seventeen years ago) link

I'm wonderin why, I got out of bed at all.

― M Grout (Mark Grout), Monday, 18 December 2006 16:23 (seventeen years ago) link

it refers to famous comic book magnate stan lee

― violent j (sandboxhulkington), Monday, 18 December 2006 16:25 (seventeen years ago) link

It's a tribute to the renowned British artist Stan Spencer, after whom I named my pioneering music blog which I started way back in 1972, when technology was so primitive I had to write the articles using Etch-A-Sketch.

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Monday, 18 December 2006 16:25 (seventeen years ago) link

I always figured it had something to do with Eminem's "Stan," but the few responses here make it clear that I'm even more off base than I thought I was. Nu-ILM = INFORMATIVE AND UN-SARCASTIC YAY

― Ray Cummings (skateboardr), Monday, 18 December 2006 16:28 (seventeen years ago) link

It's a reference to the suffix in the names of several Central Asian countries.

(xpost yeah, Eminem, although I don't think it really became a standard hip hop insult until Nas used it in "Ether" ("You a fan, a phony, a fake, a pussy, a Stan"))

― Al (Alex In Baltimore), Monday, 18 December 2006 16:31 (seventeen years ago) link

Fuck all my jokes got used up

― jw (ex machina), Monday, 18 December 2006 16:32 (seventeen years ago) link

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/1/13/Flat_stanley.jpg/250px-Flat_stanley.jpg

― and what (ooo), Monday, 18 December 2006 16:33 (seventeen years ago) link

"the 'ukstan' sort of countries" (Jeremy Clarkson).

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Monday, 18 December 2006 16:33 (seventeen years ago) link

Ethan wins

― Ray Cummings (skateboardr), Monday, 18 December 2006 16:36 (seventeen years ago) link

It refers to former Burnley manager Stan Ternent.

― Dom Passantino (DomPassantino), Monday, 18 December 2006 16:37 (seventeen years ago) link

It is a tribute to the astringent yet eclectic approach to post-war jazz piano purveyed by British jazz legend Stan Tracey.

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Monday, 18 December 2006 16:40 (seventeen years ago) link

It is an accusation that one where pants similiar to those of Stan "MC Hammer" Burrell.

― Rodney picks up his saxophone and dooms the white power structure (Rodney J. Gre, Monday, 18 December 2006 16:44 (seventeen years ago) link

The 'Sekolah Tinggi Akuntansi Negara' or STAN (State College of Accountancy) is a Indonesian Ministry of Finance/Departement of Treasury-owned college in Tangerang, Indonesia. STAN has six specialties: accounting, tax administration, appraiser, customs, budgeting/governmental treasury, and administration of gov receivable & auction.

― Dom Passantino (DomPassantino), Monday, 18 December 2006 16:44 (seventeen years ago) link

It's a reference to the nation's favourite wifebeater and dogging enthusiast Stan Collymore.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Monday, 18 December 2006 16:45 (seventeen years ago) link

we're just gonna keep goin with this one

― violent j (sandboxhulkington), Monday, 18 December 2006 16:47 (seventeen years ago) link

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stan and deliver

― deej (deej), Monday, 18 December 2006 16:58 (seventeen years ago) link

make benefit glorious nation of rap stans

― Al (Alex In Baltimore), Monday, 18 December 2006 17:01 (seventeen years ago) link

more like crapistan, amirite

― violent j (sandboxhulkington), Monday, 18 December 2006 17:02 (seventeen years ago) link

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― Al (Alex In Baltimore), Monday, 18 December 2006 17:05 (seventeen years ago) link

Hurricane Stan was the eighteenth named tropical storm and eleventh hurricane of the 2005 Atlantic hurricane season. It was also the sixth of seven tropical cyclones (three hurricanes, two of them major, three tropical storms and one tropical depression) to make landfall in Mexico. Stan was a relatively weak storm that only briefly reached hurricane status. It was embedded in a larger non-tropical system of rainstorms that dropped torrential rains in the Central American countries of Guatemala and El Salvador and in southern Mexico, causing flooding and mudslides that led to at least 1,662 and possibly up to 2,000 deaths; Stan is estimated to be directly responsible for 80 of these.

― max (maxreax), Monday, 18 December 2006 17:07 (seventeen years ago) link

Stan! was born in Brooklyn, NY and raised in the Long Island town of Wantagh. He played a lot of tennis, read a whole lot of comic books, and dabbled here and there with both writing and cartooning. Stan! might not have been an exemplary student, but he went through the Levittown educational system without getting any of his classmates or teachers to ever threaten him with bodily harm (and hey ... what more can you ask from a public education?). He graduated from Gen. Douglas MacArthur H.S. in the spring of 1982.

― max (maxreax), Monday, 18 December 2006 17:08 (seventeen years ago) link

Stan and Jan Berenstain started drawing together when they met in Miss Sweeny’s drawing class on the first day of art school at Philadelphia Museum School of Industrial Art (now called The University of the Arts) in 1941.

They both lived in West Philadelphia but on different sides of the line that dictated school assignments, or they might have met much earlier. Both Stan and Jan enjoyed school. They liked to read. They like sports, but, most of all, they loved to draw.

― max (maxreax), Monday, 18 December 2006 17:09 (seventeen years ago) link

???

OMG, it's worse than a Ned? :-(((

― StanM (StanM), Monday, 18 December 2006 17:10 (seventeen years ago) link

In "Gold Digger" why does Kanye West say "We want stan stan"?

― Dom Passantino (DomPassantino), Monday, 18 December 2006 17:11 (seventeen years ago) link

Stanmikitasdiner.gif

(seriously, though, thanks for clearing that up, Al)

― Ray Cummings (skateboardr), Monday, 18 December 2006 17:13 (seventeen years ago) link

JOEK:):):)

― Confounded (Confounded), Monday, 18 December 2006 17:27 (seventeen years ago) link

http://www.allthingsyank.com/uhf15/stanleybw.jpg

― JordanC (JordanC), Monday, 18 December 2006 17:58 (seventeen years ago) link

who is stan?

-- lexpretend (lexusjee...), December 18th, 2006 1:32 AM. (later)

Stan Boardman, Liverpool comedian.

-- Raw Patrick (rawsweate...), December 18th, 2006 9:21 AM. (later)

― Raw Patrick (Raw Patrick), Monday, 18 December 2006 18:01 (seventeen years ago) link

http://www.baseballcardproject.com/Topps/R/1975/161.jpg

― nathan explosion (natepatrin), Monday, 18 December 2006 18:03 (seventeen years ago) link

"stan" is short for "stanza"

― has been plagued with problems since its erection in 1978 (nklshs), Monday, 18 December 2006 18:18 (seventeen years ago) link

Which again is short for Costanza. George.

― ailsa_xx (ailsa_xx), Monday, 18 December 2006 18:18 (seventeen years ago) link

JOEK:):):)

― Confounded (Confounded), Wednesday, 20 December 2006 11:42 (seventeen years ago) link

So what's a fruitfly?

― Whiney G. Weingarten (whineyg), Wednesday, 20 December 2006 18:27 (seventeen years ago) link

haha yeah I always meant to say, isn't 'fruitfly' a more obscure term than 'stan'? i'm not sure who originated it, but some of the more popular rap bloggers tend to refer to the people who leave hundreds of inarticulate comments on their posts as fruitflies.

― Al (Alex In Baltimore), Wednesday, 20 December 2006 18:30 (seventeen years ago) link

Do you guys not speak English or do you have some kind of animal-species autism???

― nabisco (nabisco), Wednesday, 20 December 2006 19:13 (seventeen years ago) link

give me a fruitfly over a gadfly anyday!

― M@tt He1ges0n (Matt Helgeson), Wednesday, 20 December 2006 19:18 (seventeen years ago) link

A fruitfly is a straight female woman who enjoys the company/friendship of gay men. in case that was a serious question.

― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 20 December 2006 19:29 (seventeen years ago) link

nabisco, knowing what a species of animal is /= knowing what it signifies to refer to a person as that species of aminal

― Al (Alex In Baltimore), Wednesday, 20 December 2006 19:31 (seventeen years ago) link

no fruitfly, no credibility

― M@tt He1ges0n (Matt Helgeson), Wednesday, 20 December 2006 19:35 (seventeen years ago) link

Haha okay Al but animal metaphors as descriptions of human behavior = one of the first and most basic examples of figurative language and not incredibly hard to figure out, in this case, which is why I didn't ask if you knew what a fruitfly was (you could look that up), I asked if y'all had some weird species-behavior autism that prevented you from intuitively figuring out what fruitfly-related qualities are being referenced here. I mean, it's not a stretch, or anything. It's like if a really fat guy walked past and someone said "omg that guy is a whale" and someone said "wait, what's a 'whale?' I'm not familiar with that term."

― nabisco (nabisco), Wednesday, 20 December 2006 19:46 (seventeen years ago) link

nitsuh = owl

― and what (ooo), Wednesday, 20 December 2006 19:48 (seventeen years ago) link

i wasn't familiar w/fruitfly either for what it's worth.

― M@tt He1ges0n (Matt Helgeson), Wednesday, 20 December 2006 19:50 (seventeen years ago) link

so it's American for 'fag-hag' then...

― I am the best lyrocost since Dylan (Scourage), Wednesday, 20 December 2006 19:54 (seventeen years ago) link

OMG NO YOU PEOPLE IT MEANS "FRUITFLY"

IT IS A BASIC ANIMAL METAPHOR, NOT SOME KIND OF SPECIALIZED SLANG

― nabisco (nabisco), Wednesday, 20 December 2006 19:57 (seventeen years ago) link

i thought we had fag hag too! but i thought fag meant cigarette in the uk??

i remember i was out to dinner w/all these people from eidos in london once and i asked if i could "bum a cigarette" to much laughter.

― M@tt He1ges0n (Matt Helgeson), Wednesday, 20 December 2006 19:58 (seventeen years ago) link

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― M.V. (M.V.), Wednesday, 20 December 2006 19:59 (seventeen years ago) link

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― M.V. (M.V.), Wednesday, 20 December 2006 20:02 (seventeen years ago) link

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― M@tt He1ges0n (Matt Helgeson), Wednesday, 20 December 2006 20:08 (seventeen years ago) link

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― M@tt He1ges0n (Matt Helgeson), Wednesday, 20 December 2006 20:09 (seventeen years ago) link

hahaha this thread is going to make nabisco develop Scanner-like powers

― Jesus Dan (dan perry), Wednesday, 20 December 2006 20:20 (seventeen years ago) link

i remember i was out to dinner w/all these people from eidos in london once and i asked if i could "bum a cigarette" to much laughter.

Bumming a fag would have been much funnier. If you were out for dinner with Beavis.

― ailsa_xx (ailsa_xx), Wednesday, 20 December 2006 20:22 (seventeen years ago) link

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