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"The personal pattern at our home is called the "That I can muster the enthusiasm to run a mower over the tiny patch of weeds we call a yard every 3rd or 4th week in the summer to stave off the inevitable comments about whether or not that..." [
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favorited 4 times, recently by The Gooch, scrump, Divine_Wino, Rock Steady
10 days ago
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"...But, Surfurrus, according to these other MeFites, she was ASKING for it by getting into the car....
Ya know, I suppose it's possible Riccardo IS a domineering monster who torments his wife with constant mental and physical abuse. It's also..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by prettydrunk
2 weeks ago
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"I'll admit I picked up Sting's memoir off a bookshelf at a vacation house we rented this summer.
Yes, the pages strain to keep the ego from exploding outward and killing everyone within 3 square miles, but to his credit he's fairly upfront about..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by ten pounds of inedita
3 weeks ago
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"(dang slow typing)
Echoing the above, as someone who manages some pretty amazing Flash developers, I can say in the professional / commercial realm, pure animation, while still important, has become secondary to knowing ActionScript (Flash's..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by misha
4 weeks ago
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"Decadent and wonderful: peanut butter, honey and mashed banana spread onto a thick slice of challah bread, topped with another thick slice of challah, soaked in egg and fried in butter (low-medium heat, don't burn it!) as a stuffed French toast...." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by ifjuly
Last month
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"I've always loved the fact my alma mater leveraged a friendship 60 years ago and gets to use a Disney character as a mascot - While the agreement's been formalized for over 30 years , I relish the thought of a small team of Disney lawyers still..." [
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favorited 3 times, recently by zippy, Servo5678, cjorgensen
Last month
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"Yankees*, because both my parents' families (along with my wife's) are Yankee families, and have been since the 1930's.
The Giants...hmm, that's odd, my Dad prefers the Jets, but I find the less hardcore football fan in the tri-state area (of..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by edverb
Last month
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"In a purely aesthetic sense, you want people looking at the car, not at a potentially brightly colored spot on it -
I've never seen this on car adverts in the UK so perhaps the reasoning is unique to the US.
While many countries have..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by Lou Stuells, Ookseer
2 months ago
MeFi comment:
"Two men enter, one man leaves!
Two men enter, one man shorts hedge derivitives, wraps the collateral debt and sub-prime paper in some CSCs and EBSs, utilizing the cash flow to get an early ownership position in flying car company, steals the only..." [
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favorited 11 times, recently by ornate insect, wendell, PROD_TPSL, marble, claudius, five fresh fish, rodgerd, Poisonous People, zippy, Blazecock Pileon, yort
3 months ago
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"Read this on Sunday and laughed out loud - I agree with most of the criticisms above, it's just that I relish becoming (if blessed with a life so long) "that guy" - the old guy with no filter, no concerns about propriety, just form the..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by twins named Lugubrious and Salubrious
3 months ago
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"I, uh, went back to Monday and umm, wore that green sweater, instead of the khaki one....It's just that it fits a little better around the shoulders and I KNOW that, but I still...... I'm.. I'm not really utilizing the machine all that well, am I?..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by MikeKD
6 months ago
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"JPMorgan is buying Bear Stearns for a third of the price at which the troubled firm went public in 1985.
Yikes!
It's been swell guys, maybe I'll catch some of you at a "best tree bark to boil into soup" seminar......" [
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favorited 1 time, recently by strawdog
6 months ago
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"Baseball, it's ERA, OPS, WARP, PECOTA, CHONE, RARP, G/F, UZR.... Maybe that's the problem with baseball -- it attracts too many people with TI-81s and slide rules.
One of things I love about baseball is that this stuff is there for those who want..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by acid freaking on the kitty, rtha
7 months ago
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"The problem – amply illustrated by the article – is that the vast majority of baseball fans just don't know enough sport to make a fair judgement that baseball is any better than any other.
Hmmm. As an enthusiastic Arsenal supporter still sporting..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by rtha
7 months ago
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"Can't take the heat? Don't be a terrorist.
Phew - in a fever-induced dream state, I momentarily believed the fine folks at Homeland Security had the potential to make mistakes. Thank you kind sir, that tasty morsel of wingnuttia has disabused me..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by tehloki
7 months ago
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"Can I pop in to share my utmost pleasure in the "needle dragged across vinyl" sound that just washed across Boston. GIANTS!!!!!" [
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favorited 4 times, recently by AceRock, hal9k, Mach5, jonmc
8 months ago
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"I'm sorry - We can't control the subject of our nostalgia, the times and the places are not of our choosing. I still remember the day in 7th grade our cable company was scheduled to pick up MTV. I remember literally running home from school, and I..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by bugbread
8 months ago
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"No Starbucks I've ever seen has a community bulletin board where folks can post flyers announcing cool events in town.
I just placed a flyer advertising a kids concert benefiting my daughter's school at mine - how "cool" an event this..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by gregb1007
9 months ago
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"It's pretty interesting how most of the people who are arguing that spanking is always inappropriate do not appear to be parents. (I did say most, not all).
I'm a parent, perhaps not as experienced as some here (my oldest will be four in March)..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by The Light Fantastic
10 months ago
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"On preview: While I haven't done it, I've heard good things about the "fax attack" method of negotiation, in which you do it all by fax (not email, as most dealers don't take email seriously).
I had good results from that method using..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by man on the run
11 months ago
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"...was so littered with condoms...
I have to admit that, having seen plenty of used condoms before ever seeing one in its package, the first thing I blurted out (upon being shown one by a buddy) was "How the hell do they get them in there?..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by lohmannn
Last year
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"I would just reiterate that you may not need to reinvent the wheel. Even amongst larger, more corporate entities, the culture can vary dramatically, and the odds are very good you can find something in your field (with comensurate reward for your..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by gakiko
Last year
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"At Fenway, which ends beer sales after the 7th and forbids the sale of beer anywhere out in the seats (so no roaming beer man or woman, just a slog through an endless line in the concourse), when we needed a late game pick-me-up we'd head to the..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by staggernation
Last year
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"I think iikku2 was being sarcastic....
But you can call me a hater - KPT was a software version of prog rock, bloated, pretentious and dull. That they made it hard to use was an extra kick to the ribs after they'd pushed you to the floor..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by Blazecock Pileon, abulafa
Last year
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"I'm getting older and craving what was cool when I was young and cool... I'm only 31
I'll be 38 in a few weeks - most of what's flying around right now zooms over my head (and I'm ostensibly a web professional) and I can certainly sense that most..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by gen
Last year
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"America needs immigration, it does not need our current type of open-door immigration.
This doesn't really make sense - we have anything but an open door policy - it's one of the reasons situations like this exist.
The US has a legal..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by rollbiz
Last year
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"jalexei, I assume you're talking about permits to carry concealed. I don't think you'll find any states, including MA, where the majority of people are not allowed to buy a gun.
Nope. The 99% figure is for a simple permit to own. Massachusetts..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by larry_darrell
Last year
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"Our good friend's sister-in-law had a daughter this past spring with Trisomy 13. It's pretty rare for them to even make it to birth. In many ways, their course of action was considerably "easier" than the family in this article, if only..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by adamgreenfield
Last year
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"We were always planning on a family - we knew when the refrain of "in a couple of years we'll start" became an inside joke for us (given the multiple 2-year periods it ended up covering) coupled with the purchase of a condo. Our rental..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by brozek
Last year
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"I rushed out to buy XTC's Skylarking on the strength of "Dear God" and of course got a copy pressed before the song was added (originally a UK b-side, when it started getting airplay Warner Bros. forced them to put it on the album, dropping..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by runningdogofcapitalism
Last year
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"FWIW, my CT in-laws have grumbled about Lieberman since at-least Monica Lewinsky days, and they seem excited there's an alternative who isn't a Republican. It doesn't hurt that Ned seems like a decent, passionate fellow either.
I'm in CT probably..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by delmoi
Two years ago
