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Sarah Palin as McCain's running-mate
I'll take that action, fourcheesemac.
posted to MetaFilter by MrMoonPie
at 12:26 PM on September 4, 2008
You know what, I freely confess I don't know all there is to know about why we went to war only that we have been told it was to keep us from having terrorist strikes here at home.
I assume you're planning on becoming better informed before hitting the polling place in November.
posted to MetaFilter by MrMoonPie
at 12:56 PM on September 4, 2008
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Bigger than a breadbox.
Our house is 1000 square feet, and we do, indeed, have to watch the clutter. I do keep things at my mom's house--those scrapbooks and old photos and Grandma's secretary that I don't have room for. It constrains our hobbies; I'd love to have a table saw, but there's no room. The work bench is outside. We've gotten rid of tons of books (dunno, maybe literally tons). I mean, why do we really need books that we've already read and won't read again, when I work in a library and we have the internet?... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by MrMoonPie
at 9:32 AM on September 1, 2008
MeFi post:
Cramp Free
You can't fool me. The photographer put all those bananas there.
Are you suggesting that these bananas are plants?
posted to MetaFilter by MrMoonPie
at 9:47 AM on August 29, 2008
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Door Cat
Soooo, the pillowcase with a hole in it in the video sells for $400? Seriously?
posted to MetaFilter by MrMoonPie
at 8:48 AM on August 27, 2008
MeFi post:
It tastes like burning
Penrose sausages are my nominee. Nothing like a hot pickled sausage on a hot summer day, poolside, preferably.
And I've always thought Necco wafers tasted like Tums.
posted to MetaFilter by MrMoonPie
at 10:27 AM on August 26, 2008
Eideteker, do you still enjoy tucking into a nice, hot plate of beans?
posted to MetaFilter by MrMoonPie
at 11:27 AM on August 26, 2008
Cheerios [...] the smell of those oaty death-rings could turn my stomach from fifteen yards away
My baby daughter ate so many Cheerios that her poo smelled like them. I can't eat them without thinking about dirty diapers.
posted to MetaFilter by MrMoonPie
at 12:14 PM on August 26, 2008
MeFi post:
Appliance internals
Gah. This reminds me of the last time I tried to fix the stand mixer. Tried, and failed. brittnybadger, why must you mock me?
posted to MetaFilter by MrMoonPie
at 1:10 PM on August 21, 2008
You know, zengargoyle, when I took apart our stove, I made a video of the process so I could remember how to put it back together. It worked quite well, actually!
posted to MetaFilter by MrMoonPie
at 1:17 PM on August 21, 2008
MeFi post:
God-like powers, at last
I had problems with two, also--note that you can just skip a level, if you feel like it. And your orbit doesn't have to be stable, just stable enough to run out the clock.
posted to MetaFilter by MrMoonPie
at 12:57 PM on August 15, 2008
MeFi post:
Middle Eastern Body Art
Am I the only guy here who does mehndi (on himself)? Chicks dig it, or, at least, the kind of chicks who I want to dig it, dig it. I don't have any at the moment, but you can see some on my ankle here.
posted to MetaFilter by MrMoonPie
at 8:40 AM on August 14, 2008
MeFi post:
Hey, That's Mine!
Who really reads those alt.weeklies, other than guys looking for 'massages'?
I met my wife via one.
posted to MetaFilter by MrMoonPie
at 1:04 PM on August 7, 2008
MeFi post:
Rolex watches for Allied POWs
My dad was always a conservative guy, and was strongly against any displays of his ever-increasing wealth. But, as with most of us, there had always been a few things he wanted. For his 55th birthday, he bought himself a suit of armor, a nice one, ordered from England, fully articulated and decorated and wearable (though I don't think he ever did put it on). Then, for his 60th birthday, he got himself a Rolex, one of the more conservative ones, but, yeah, a big gold Rolex.... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by MrMoonPie
at 7:48 AM on August 1, 2008
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Gomphotheres, megafauna, and anachronistic fruits
Rambutans may look imposing, but the spiky parts aren't hard and prickly, more fuzzy-like. Yummy.
posted to MetaFilter by MrMoonPie
at 11:46 AM on July 31, 2008
Rambutan is, indeed, similar to lychee in flavor and consistency. Longan is similar to both. Asian markets carry them in season.
posted to MetaFilter by MrMoonPie
at 11:54 AM on July 31, 2008
Loudmax, may I introduce you to the coprolite.
posted to MetaFilter by MrMoonPie
at 12:09 PM on July 31, 2008
MeFi post:
Professor Obama's final
Compare the America of 1956-57, where being an intellectual could make one a television star.
Yeah, but even then, one had to be a good-looking, smooth intellectual. Little, awkward geeks like Herb Stempel were just as reviled then as they are now.
posted to MetaFilter by MrMoonPie
at 5:16 AM on July 30, 2008
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Mead Day 2008
The only meads I've liked have been dry ones. For some reason, most folks make it too damned sweet for me. I've been a home beer and winemaker for 20 years, and I've never been able to understand why folks make it so sweet. I know it's not a technological issue--I've had dry meads, and one, with wormwood, was truly fantastic, so I know it's possible. It can be almost champagne like when fermented to dryness. Otherwise, yeah, ick.
posted to MetaFilter by MrMoonPie
at 7:15 AM on July 28, 2008
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Old dangerous playground equipment.
My childhood park had a freakin' train. We found out how to crawl all up inside it, hanging out in the (pee-smelling) firebox, crawling up to the (working, swinging) bell, falling off the back of the coal tender. There was a real tank (!) and a jet plane there, too, but I never could figure out how to get inside those.
posted to MetaFilter by MrMoonPie
at 1:56 PM on July 21, 2008
We used to have a couple "Witch's Hats". I don't see those on that page. It's a tall metal pole with a metal cup just sitting on top, with four chains down to a couple of concentric rings suspended at the bottom. You'd get some kids together, grab the ring (above your head), and run - and it'd get going and spin around with you hanging off.
I found one of those just a few years ago, at an old summer camp I was visiting. Tore the crap out of my knee on... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by MrMoonPie
at 2:15 PM on July 21, 2008
There was a rocket slide and those cage-swing things at my childhood park, too. And a big, stinky lake and polluted creek. Man, those were the days. The new playground equipment there is nice, but not as fun as the good, old stuff. The train is still there, but behind a fence--I wonder if anyone ever scales it?
posted to MetaFilter by MrMoonPie
at 7:24 AM on July 22, 2008
MeFi post:
Duke Nukem Trilogy
Uh, were there any actual details about the games in that trailer? Even screenshots?
posted to MetaFilter by MrMoonPie
at 9:14 AM on July 18, 2008
MeFi post:
Caring Too Much
What if she signed on before the same-sex partnerships were legal?Then she's free to go find another job. She has a right to hold whatever beliefs she chooses. Acting on those beliefs, in a civil service capacity, is not, however, her right.
I work at a library. quonsar calls up, wants help finding court cases about what he feels are unfair government incursions into individuals' religious practices. My office is staffed exclusively by bleeding-heart... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by MrMoonPie
at 7:53 AM on July 11, 2008
So, how do you feel about the state employee who resigned rather than see that the flag was at half-mast for Jesse Helms?
I believe he should have been fired.
posted to MetaFilter by MrMoonPie
at 8:34 AM on July 11, 2008
...except some fundamentalist left-wing Americans on metafilter who believe that a better outcome would be to force this woman to conduct the same-sex ceremonies precisely to punish her for not approving of them!
Who is saying that, standbythree? Force? As punishment? Who is saying that?
posted to MetaFilter by MrMoonPie
at 12:55 PM on July 11, 2008
Nobody has said it, but it's clear that some believe it. Since you have suggested that rather than having her beliefs accomodated, she should have "found another job", I assume that you are one of them.
Finding another job = punitive enslavement. Gotcha.
posted to MetaFilter by MrMoonPie
at 1:24 PM on July 11, 2008
MeFi post:
America's Pastime
I really can't imagine having the sense of entitlement you'd need to commandeer public space the way these kids did.This has to be parody. Seriously--you really can't imagine? They're kids. Kids do stuff like this. Kids everywhere, rich kids, poor kids, in America, and elsewhere. Always have, always will. Anywhere there are kids, you'll see makeshift soccer fields, or bike paths, or basketball goals set up at the end of cul-de-sacs. We dammed streams, shot... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by MrMoonPie
at 9:12 AM on July 10, 2008
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Nearer to thee....
From what I've read, Mother Theresa had considerably more money than she needed to do the work she was doing.
posted to MetaFilter by MrMoonPie
at 10:34 AM on July 7, 2008
that seems a little... lazy
Almost as if religion is acting as some sort of, I don't know, call it an opiate.
posted to MetaFilter by MrMoonPie
at 8:39 AM on July 10, 2008
