I'm old enough to remember when unpublishing was known as book burning.
posted to MetaFilter by found missing at 12:55 PM on July 3, 2008

I'd tih it.
posted to MetaFilter by found missing at 10:42 AM on July 3, 2008

I'm on my way out the door so I can't read your links. I have pissed for the day.
posted to MetaFilter by found missing at 10:21 AM on June 21, 2008

But. that *is* a mousetrap.
posted to MetaFilter by found missing at 11:42 AM on June 20, 2008

What do you call immaculate conception that is against the woman's will?
posted to MetaFilter by found missing at 3:34 PM on June 19, 2008

And, what a soccer match it was.
posted to MetaFilter by found missing at 9:17 AM on June 18, 2008

me likey
posted to MetaFilter by found missing at 8:03 PM on May 27, 2008

Context is everything. I'd actually laugh if I opened up my morning paper and...
posted to MetaFilter by found missing at 11:12 AM on May 20, 2008

Enough is enough! I have had it with these motherfucking snakes on this motherfucking religion!
posted to MetaFilter by found missing at 10:40 AM on May 19, 2008

"At the Tambopata Reserve, Terry Erwin used a bug bomb to collect all the insects from a single leguminous tree in the rain forest. I identified the ants in his sample and found 43 species in 26 genera, approximately equal to the entire ant fauna of the British Isles." EO Wilson, The Diversity of Life, 1992

"By my estimate, between 1 and 10 million billion individuals [ants] are alive at any moment, all of them weighing, to the nearest order of magnitude,... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by found missing at 7:32 PM on May 16, 2008

That is language up with which I will not put. If you're going to make fun of good grammar, at least use good grammar.
posted to MetaFilter by found missing at 10:50 AM on May 12, 2008

An individual who has read the following statistic is more than twice as likely as someone who hasn't to be depressed:

The United States has less than 5 percent of the world's population, but it has a quarter of the world's prisoners?
posted to MetaFilter by found missing at 12:05 PM on May 11, 2008

this is over-egged in the extreme
posted to MetaFilter by found missing at 9:40 AM on May 5, 2008

According to this, I died last year. Which explains a lot.
posted to MetaFilter by found missing at 11:38 AM on May 4, 2008

I got kicked out of an AOL chatroom for having a virtual age of 13.
posted to MetaFilter by found missing at 6:09 PM on May 4, 2008

Would it be relevant to mention that the United States has less than 5 percent of the world's population, but it has a quarter of the world's prisoners?
posted to MetaFilter by found missing at 11:16 AM on May 2, 2008

It would have been easier to get over if Bush hadn't turned out to be a disaster.
posted to MetaFilter by found missing at 4:22 PM on April 25, 2008

I read in the paper today that PETA is offering a million-dollar prize for the first person to come up with a viable way to produce breasts in vitro.

These so-called test-tube breasts will be touchable without the social awkwardness of having to ask the bearer for permission.
posted to MetaFilter by found missing at 9:38 AM on April 23, 2008

You are? May I touch your comment?
posted to MetaFilter by found missing at 10:49 AM on April 23, 2008

great!
posted to MetaFilter by found missing at 8:49 AM on April 20, 2008

lolxtian
posted to MetaFilter by found missing at 1:42 PM on April 15, 2008

Christ, what an asshole.
Christ what an asshole.
posted to MetaFilter by found missing at 2:31 PM on April 15, 2008

This profligate bastard disgusts me. I would never want to be him. (But, I'd really like to be one of his friends.)
posted to MetaFilter by found missing at 10:57 AM on April 14, 2008

I love that walrus.
posted to MetaFilter by found missing at 1:00 PM on April 11, 2008

All I can see when I watch that is the hours and hours of training for each and every step that went into accomplishing the dance.

We're talking about Dancing with the Stars, right?
posted to MetaFilter by found missing at 1:47 PM on April 11, 2008

If someone finds a way to relate this to Rule 34, I don't want to know about it.

I'd hit it.
posted to MetaFilter by found missing at 2:48 PM on April 11, 2008

Some things on the internet actually *do* make me lol
posted to MetaFilter by found missing at 11:36 AM on April 10, 2008

i.e., I lol'd
posted to MetaFilter by found missing at 11:37 AM on April 10, 2008

This would be fun on LSD.
posted to MetaFilter by found missing at 12:49 PM on April 8, 2008

Is upscale plastic the same as cheap plastic? I'm so confused.
posted to MetaFilter by found missing at 1:03 PM on April 8, 2008

Is it respectful to write incoherently in obit threads?
posted to MetaFilter by found missing at 11:26 AM on April 6, 2008

One person's articulate is another person's incoherent.
posted to MetaFilter by found missing at 11:31 AM on April 6, 2008

I'm old enough to remember when humor was funny.
posted to MetaFilter by found missing at 7:52 PM on April 2, 2008

I have named one of them butterstick.
posted to MetaFilter by found missing at 2:47 PM on April 2, 2008

What pwally and others fail to recognize is that KevinSkomsvold is actually an elephant trained to make MeFi posts.
posted to MetaFilter by found missing at 6:04 PM on March 30, 2008

Speaking as a mon, this seems anti-mail to me.
posted to MetaFilter by found missing at 12:47 PM on March 30, 2008

Porn doesn't count.

That's a provocative statement to make on the internet.
posted to MetaFilter by found missing at 1:12 PM on March 30, 2008

It may shock some of you to learn that some people self-identifying as medical professionals are peripherally the former and dubiously the latter.
posted to MetaFilter by found missing at 5:01 PM on March 30, 2008

Discuss

I have to agree. It is the lead article.
posted to MetaFilter by found missing at 4:06 PM on March 29, 2008

Apparently you don't have any problems derailing a discussion.
posted to MetaFilter by found missing at 4:15 PM on March 29, 2008

Makes you wonder what else they might have told you that wasn't true.
posted to MetaFilter by found missing at 3:41 PM on March 23, 2008

You know who else benefited from advanced speech recognition technology? H ... oh, nevermind.

Stop it. You're hurting Metafilter.

Metafilter: Stop it. You're hurting Metafilter.
posted to MetaFilter by found missing at 3:10 PM on March 22, 2008

That Time Man of the Year article condemned Hitler in no uncertain terms. When you mention that as if it was approbation, you sound like a... Nazi?
posted to MetaFilter by found missing at 3:35 PM on March 22, 2008

Sukiari, with all due respect, you need to find new heroes.
posted to MetaFilter by found missing at 3:49 PM on March 22, 2008

And how fucking dare anyone make fun of Hitler, after all he’s been through! LEAVE ADOLF HITLER ALONE! NOW, I MEAN IT!
posted to MetaFilter by found missing at 4:02 PM on March 22, 2008

I see what you did there.
posted to MetaFilter by found missing at 8:29 PM on March 22, 2008

Maybe we don't need to care what Jim Cramer thinks about anything since he has a serious credibility problem.
posted to MetaFilter by found missing at 1:20 PM on March 21, 2008

As it turns out, I seem to have a taste for burnt coffee beans. Only $2 (or one share of Bear Stearns) for a medium-sized cup of delicious black coffee. Screw you, haters.
posted to MetaFilter by found missing at 11:20 AM on March 21, 2008

It's funny because they replaced her anus.
posted to MetaFilter by found missing at 2:50 PM on March 20, 2008

Entire religions have grown up around people with far less moral fiber.
posted to MetaFilter by found missing at 2:57 PM on March 19, 2008