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Before the year is out it's worth giving a belated Metafilter sendoff to Thomas Scot Halpin, who died in February, his place in history secure as one of the great
substitutes of all time, alongside
Earl Morrall,
Mr. Bergstrom, and tofu.
posted to MetaFilter by stupidsexyFlanders
at 7:39 AM on July 25, 2008
(11 comments)
"I wanted to ask for survival tips in case I am unexpectedly transported to a random location in Europe (say for instance current France/Benelux/Germany) in the year 1000 AD (plus or minus 200 years). I assume that such transportation would leave me with what I am wearing, what I know, and nothing else. Any advice would help."
How to rock the Middle Ages with your bad 2008 self.
posted to MetaFilter by stupidsexyFlanders
at 9:22 AM on June 11, 2008
(233 comments)
Finally,
one central point of aggregation for the complaints of white people. So this solves that problem -- now, who's going to make a mayonnaise jar with a mouth wide enough to make it easy to scrape out the last bits? GOSH!
posted to MetaFilter by stupidsexyFlanders
at 10:12 AM on January 23, 2008
(67 comments)
He once stopped a school bus on a busy interstate because he “needed a hug” from the kids inside. He’s been known to strap weapons to his chest and leg that he has no authority to carry or conceal, then wear them in public. He once bulldozed an elderly woman’s house, promising to build her a better one. He then forgot to build it. He recruited a team of kids to torch a row of dilapidated shotgun houses, without clearance or first turning off the utilities.
Meet The Worst Mayor In America.
posted to MetaFilter by stupidsexyFlanders
at 11:57 AM on October 23, 2007
(82 comments)
Brookings Institution analysts Michael O'Hanlon and Kenneth Pollack last week called for another "
six months or so" in Iraq.
The month before, "
This is a decisive phase," a member of Petraeus' staff told [Joe Klein] and began to laugh. "...It's always a decisive phase. But this time, I guess you'd have to say, it actually is."
"Pinky swear?" Klein held out a soft, pink, gullible digit expectantly. "Pinky swear!" the aide responded, shrugging.
You people will believe anything.
posted to MetaFilter by stupidsexyFlanders
at 1:41 PM on August 8, 2007
(41 comments)
Sir Paul McCartney is quoted a few posts below as having warned John Lennon against making fun of Paul's drug use. The rest of us, luckily, are free to point and laugh. This
Paul McCartney Drug Timeline should help you get started!
posted to MetaFilter by stupidsexyFlanders
at 12:32 PM on January 4, 2007
(60 comments)
GooGhoul! Search tool for hayrides, festivals, haunted houses and other Halloweeny things in your zip code.
posted to MetaFilter by stupidsexyFlanders
at 4:34 PM on October 21, 2005
(4 comments)
Fundable.org. Bringing together buyers and buyers and buyers and buyers and buyers and buyers and buyers and sellers.
posted to MetaFilter by stupidsexyFlanders
at 7:02 AM on May 12, 2005
(14 comments)
Feedpalooza. This gentleman offers to scrape any website (at his discretion) to provide you the custom feed you want. For instance, I wanted a simple black box on my site with the real-time number of coalition casualties in Iraq. I pointed him to
this site. He scraped the one number and provided
this feed. Brilliant.
posted to MetaFilter by stupidsexyFlanders
at 10:26 AM on February 18, 2005
(15 comments)
Hey, no crying in baseball! Who would you like the Red Sox to win it for?
A Sox fanboard thread dedicates the hoped-for, possibly imminent World Series championship to loved ones living and dead. NSFW, if your employer frowns on tears streaming down your cheeks.
posted to MetaFilter by stupidsexyFlanders
at 12:16 PM on October 27, 2004
(28 comments)
Emmett Till's murder case
has been reopened, nearly fifty years after the killers' acquittal. Don't I mean
alleged killers? No, the cretins
happily confessed all to a national newsweekly after their trial. A thousand details here, and a couple more in the subsequent
letters to the editor, that will forever kill any nostalgia you might have for the "old days."
posted to MetaFilter by stupidsexyFlanders
at 11:56 AM on May 14, 2004
(8 comments)
Welcome to
"Ask the White House" -- an online interactive forum where you can submit questions to Bush administration officials. Currently taking questions:
NASCAR's Michael Waltrip.
Pandering doesn't get any more naked than this, does it? (Via
TPM)
posted to MetaFilter by stupidsexyFlanders
at 1:01 PM on February 25, 2004
(33 comments)
Forget the Super Bowl. In Philadelphia all eyes are on the Wing Bowl, where 20,000 (often) drunk (mostly) men filed into the Wachovia Center beginning shortly after dawn this morning, a workday, to ogle thong-clad Wingettes and cheer on the eaters. This year's winner:
Sonya Thomas, a 105 lb. woman, who knocked off 2-1 favorite and four-peat reigning champ
El Wingador by gobbling 167 buffalo wings in 34 minutes.
The event is huge. Miss Thomas
is not.
posted to MetaFilter by stupidsexyFlanders
at 9:16 AM on January 30, 2004
(16 comments)
"
Sweat-hogging" -- seeking out plus-size women for romantic encounters characterized by a remarkably virulent brand of hatred, cruelty, objectification and, it seems, not a little self-loathing. And I use the word "romantic" loosely.
Anybody ever run across this pathology before?
(via Romanesko)
posted to MetaFilter by stupidsexyFlanders
at 1:33 PM on October 2, 2003
(45 comments)
Honey, phone's for you....
it's the Barbi Twins! Almost-celebrities will talk to you or a loved one on the phone for $1 a second (30 sec. increments). So, so awesome, I don't know where to start. I'm just glad Epstein from Welcome Back Kotter is available!
posted to MetaFilter by stupidsexyFlanders
at 6:57 AM on August 1, 2003
(42 comments)
"
The Day The Clown Cried." Even unfinished, the breathtaking scope of it's...
awfulness has for thirty years
both attracted and repelled would-be producers and distributors. (
script, zipped Word doc) Just the concept is startling, like some kind of hellish Sad Lib -- Jerry Lewis plays a clown in Auschwitz who leads children to the gas chambers. Harry Shearer, one of the few to see the film: "You are rarely in the presence of a perfect object. This was a perfect object. This movie is so drastically wrong, its pathos and its comedy are so wildly misplaced, that you could not, in your fantasy of what it might be like, improve on what it really is. 'Oh my God!' -- that's all you can say." Can this movie ever be made?
posted to MetaFilter by stupidsexyFlanders
at 12:18 PM on July 16, 2003
(39 comments)
If you liked the lyrics on Dylan's
last album, you'll probably also like the
Japanese gangster novel he lifted
some of them from. Verdict: Not guilty, on grounds of prior artistic achievement.
(Long article in today's WSJ not linked because the old WSJ free-linkification doesn't work anymore!!?)
posted to MetaFilter by stupidsexyFlanders
at 11:07 AM on July 8, 2003
(42 comments)
Heisenberg's uncertainty principle may be
hindering DC sniper investigation. An interesting, albeit unanswerable, question: Is the sniper responding specifically to feedback from the media -- or are the examples in the linked article "cherry-picking" to make the point? Also, apparently the art of "profiling" as practiced by TV expert commentators can very effectively destroy any profile investigators may have constructed on the guy. Think before you post to this thread: the sniper could be a Metafilter reader.
posted to MetaFilter by stupidsexyFlanders
at 1:47 PM on October 22, 2002
(53 comments)
