MeTa comment:
"Ninth paragraph down they say "the Times" and I'll concede that it's not capitalized but it's still a pet peeve of mine. I shall further concede that I may have gone off half-cocked but I think that referring to the NYT as the Times is..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by The Ardship of Cambry
Yesterday
MeTa comment:
"I'm sure it doesn't happen often
Not since James Brown died playing a vibrating broom at rush hour." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by dejah420
Yesterday
MeTa comment:
"Sleeper cell." [
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favorited 13 times, recently by Dreama, koeselitz, oaf, orrnyereg, cashman, WinnipegDragon, kurtroehl, Fiasco da Gama, bettafish, finite, MLIS, misha, lukemeister
2 days ago
MeTa comment:
"Back alley meetup anyone? I've got a 64 of Old E and an iPhone carved out of a bar of soap!" [
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favorited 1 time, recently by PeterMcDermott
2 days ago
MeTa comment:
"I think I set a new world record in posting while insanely drunk.
You should read the set up to this comment at a minimum before taking that honor." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by cgc373
4 weeks ago
MeFi comment:
"I remember going to see the Truckers with a couple dozen other folks at the Tractor before they released Southern Rock Opera and got kinda popular*. This isn't hipper-than-thou bragging on account of I've got a point.
Most bands take energy from..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Senor Cardgage
4 weeks ago
MeTa comment:
"I think we should cut TtD a little slack as it appears that English is not his first language and he may be having a hard time expressing himself.
wait... what?..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by alltomorrowsparties
Last month
MeTa comment:
"When I was a child, I asked for blocks. Instead, my mother provided me with a reciprocating saw and some hardwood scraps. The gift of creativity and self-reliance was something she couldn't have purchased in any store. Sometimes, the greatest gift..." [
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favorited 9 times, recently by kmennie, Locative, gaspode, urbanwhaleshark, klangklangston, nebulawindphone, Blazecock Pileon, magicbus, jessamyn
Last month
MeTa comment:
"I think we should all just face the fact that this site belongs to the moderators, and we're only here to give them stuff to moderate.
Jesus christ, dude. Just start your own fucking metafilter and moderate it however you want and stop bitching..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by MaryDellamorte, The Light Fantastic
Last month
MeFi comment:
"They got nothing and emailed the ads to friends; from that point it snowballed
Hmm. Interesting choice of words." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by blueberry
Last month
MeTa comment:
"Sometimes I see a truck around town with and Obama/Hypnotoad sticker on it. It's pretty awesome. That's all." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by yarrow, shmegegge
2 months ago
MeFi comment:
"instead you'd rather post to Metafilter from the safety of your 9 to 5 job.
Screw you. I weed my garden with a flamethrower, raised a flock of ducks in my freakin' living room, and have a forge in my backyard that can fucking melt steel. *and* I..." [
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favorited 9 times, recently by Kadin2048, MythMaker, bh, fantabulous timewaster, bayliss, hellslinger, Skwirl, Science!, Space Kitty
2 months ago
MeTa comment:
"So sayeth David Allen Coe.
No. No he didn't. The entire point of the song Take this job and shove it is found in the line "When I get the nerve to say." The protagonist never quits his job, never tells off the boss with the flat-top..." [
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favorited 12 times, recently by notashroom, shinynewnick, empath, Skorgu, Optimus Chyme, Doofus Magoo, BrotherCaine, kuujjuarapik, Caduceus, scody, orthogonality, jonmc
2 months ago
MeFi post:
The Greatest Sideshow Video Ever Made.
favorited 10 times, recently by muymuy, NeonSurge, djwudi, Homemade Interossiter, Roach, robtf3, mannequito, krisak, Blazecock Pileon, lemonjel
2 months ago
Ask comment:
"The gardener Elliot Coleman would say that you are not suffering from an excess of grasshoppers, you have a deficiency of geese. A friend of mine keeps his vineyard (~3/4 acre) free of grasshoppers with the help of a single goose named theo. He eats..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by silkygreenbelly
3 months ago
MeFi comment:
"Valleywag's renaming of their post from something along the lines of "Boing Boing loses credibility" to Did the Internet's free-speech guardians try to hush up a girl-on-girl love affair is shitty
Fucking A. I had the vague impression..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by twins named Lugubrious and Salubrious
3 months ago
MeFi comment:
"—and all the way into her brain ...with a beehive!
Later, he fights a yeti." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by Artw, Jilder
3 months ago
MeFi comment:
"Everyone's all happy about this bear getting saved, but nobody cares about Bear Stearns.
That's because at least this bear shat in the woods. It helped cover up the smell wall street left...." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by twins named Lugubrious and Salubrious
3 months ago
Ask comment:
"Nature's Avenger is an organic herbicide made from citrus oil. It's certified organic and loses it's herbicidal properties in about four hours. The way it works is by breaking down the waxy coating on plants that helps them retain moisture. The plant..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by GardenGal
3 months ago
MeTa comment:
"The London Mayor Thread is one of my favorite threads. It was great because I learned a shitload ablout local London politics by eavesdropping on a conversation that I never would have heard otherwise. Local posts can be great if they're, you know,..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by whir
3 months ago
MeTa comment:
"Fuck. Good luck Ms. Macefield, whereever you are. Seattle is better for the likes of you.
And if someone wants to put their money where my mouth is, I'm happy to donate if I don't get laid off on thursday. Tearing the house down and erecting..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Slarty Bartfast
3 months ago
MeFi comment:
"American soldiers herded the detainees into holding pens of razor-sharp concertina wire, the kind that's used to corral livestock.
That's fucking insane. No-one would ever use concertina wire for livestock. Livestock are valuable and you don't..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by tinatiga
3 months ago
MeTa comment:
"Oh shit, do you know what this means? It means that, in 2008, the part of Ralph Nader will be played by Hillary Clinton. I. Fucking. Love. It." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Blazecock Pileon
4 months ago
MeFi comment:
"Wow. That CNN interview. Jimmy Kimmel was a condescending prick,...
Wait. Full-fucking-stop. I don't watch CNN and haven't for years but the only way I can parse this sentence is that Jimmy Fucking Kimmel is now pretending to be a fucking..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by limeonaire
4 months ago
MeFi comment:
"Women should taste their own menstrual blood to reconcile themselves to their bodies, declared Germaine Greer in the seminal feminist text of the 1970s.
Wow, "seminal" is *so* not the word I would have chosen there. Patriarchisterical!..." [
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favorited 5 times, recently by Baldons, Locative, Reverend John, beandip, Artw
5 months ago
Ask comment:
"Soergel wrote a great paper difference between a taxonomy and an ontology. Essentially, a standard taxonomy/thesaurus/controlled vocabulary has only three relationships, "broader term", "narrower term," and "related term...." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by susanbeeswax
5 months ago
MeFi comment:
"Not too surprising really, after all you never hear people complaining about how the piano ruined music either.
Actually, people argue for hours about the ramifications of piano tuning on Western music. I have some extremely strong feeling on the..." [
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favorited 5 times, recently by acid freaking on the kitty, Sitegeist, wires, humannaire, Ludi
5 months ago
MeFi comment:
"Man, who'd have thought we'd see the day where a cephalopod enthusiast put his foot in his mouth?" [
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favorited 1 time, recently by marble
6 months ago
MeFi comment:
"An elderly woman has been arrested and charged with fraud after she tried to sell a large corundum stone for $20 million, passing it off as a giant hunk of ruby crystal,
Corundum and ruby are the same..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by koeselitz
8 months ago
MeFi comment:
"Apropos of very little, my final presentation in Management of Information Organizations consisted of a version of 'El Paso' performed on the ukulele and lyrically adapted to tell, instead of a tale of love and death in the old west, the story of..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by kimota, gubo
8 months ago
Ask comment:
"Babysit or bring them food. If you can't babysit, offer to hold the baby so they can engage in such luxurious as excretion or basic hygiene." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by mosk
10 months ago
MeFi comment:
"It's like throwing salt over your shoulder when you spill it. Pointless, but who does it hurt?
That's why I buried several bags of salt in the garden prior to putting my house up for sale. What could it hurt?..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by stavrogin
10 months ago
