MeFi comment:
"DU, I take umbrage with that. SciFi channel's movies are almost always single-word imperative exclamations, or portmanteaus like: Swarmed! or Volcanosaur! or Meteorsaurusswarm!...." [
more]
favorited 9 times, recently by Monochrome, kittens for breakfast, Lou Stuells, Nattie, miss-lapin, orrnyereg, six-or-six-thirty, bardic, DU
Yesterday
MeFi comment:
"Wasn't there a Bloodhound Gang episode where they kept getting a - - - . . . - - - signal, and the they wondered why someone was sending "Bear bear bear" in Spanish over and over, until one gang member figured out it was a distress call,..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Iamtherealme
3 weeks ago
MeFi comment:
"I spend my Monday morning drinking coffee
and walking through 100 Wet Nurse woodcuts,
trying to find the perfect desktop wallpaper.
Outside, I fail to notice the rain and wind
are blowing down the last pink of the myrtles.
(This is good,..." [
more]
favorited 1 time, recently by Jody Tresidder
3 weeks ago
MeFi comment:
"Great. Just great. Now I have to throw out my new New Yorker when it arrives. With a pair of tongs. And aaaaa-all the way into her brain." [
more]
favorited 1 time, recently by JHarris
Last month
MeFi post:
The Mike Wallace Interview(s)
favorited 30 times, recently by stbalbach, damo, paperpete, timsteil, McLir, ericost, andywolf, hadjiboy, rleamon, hot soup girl, noway, CheeseDigestsAll, LobsterMitten, JHarris, Heminator, frances1972, ronin21, sageleaf, Esoquo, CautionToTheWind, wierdo, weapons-grade pandemonium, shmegegge, dawson, jrb223, not_on_display, Gary, glycolized, phaedon, rhinny
Last month
Ask comment:
"A quick scan of the headlines of the LA Times from those decades brings up no mention of public appearances. It appears Lindbergh even declined his invitation to attend a state dinner given by President Nixon on August 13, 1969, at the Century Plaza..." [
more]
favorited 1 time, recently by np312
Last month
MeFi comment:
"When filling in the hole in the garden, they should bury a laminated note that starts, "So you've decided to put in a pond, have you?"" [
more]
favorited 15 times, recently by Pollomacho, Space Kitty, schyler523, DevilsAdvocate, fantabulous timewaster, Daddio, Lou Stuells, bertrandom, olya, EarBucket, moonbiter, msalt, ZachsMind, Rock Steady, five fresh fish
Last month
MeFi comment:
"V: Pray tell, how is it done?
L: Thou art delivering a dram direct
Unto thine lady's heart. Yet strong be her
Breast: thou must strike as with thine own dagger.
V: Must I stab her, so?
L: To strike..." [
more]
favorited 9 times, recently by Pope Guilty, shmegegge, limeonaire, schyler523, Navelgazer, juniper, amethysts, Cool Papa Bell, chuckdarwin
Last month
MeFi comment:
"What does all this stuff about flying saucers amount to? What can it mean? What is the truth? --Winston Churchill, July 1952.
To this day, whenever I enter a dark, unfamiliar room, and I'm fumbling along the near-hand wall to find the light switch..." [
more]
favorited 2 times, recently by low_horrible_immoral, gsteff
2 months ago
MeFi comment:
"CARL: "Where are your How-To books?"
BOOKSTORE CLERK: "Are you looking for something in particular?"
CARL: "Anything by Edgar Allan Poe...." [
more]
favorited 1 time, recently by Kadin2048
2 months ago
MeFi comment:
"I think the most screwed-up thing in Star Blazers was when that crewman revealed he was in a roller coaster accident as a kid, and all his limbs were actually prosthetics, which turned out to be BOMBS! he could configure to blow himself up and get..." [
more]
favorited 1 time, recently by thebellafonte
3 months ago
MeFi comment:
"That was good fun, and pretty. I knew it was the Samorost guy as soon as it loaded. Samorost 1 and 2 still set the bar for "juvenile" timewasters...." [
more]
favorited 1 time, recently by Faux Real
4 months ago
MeFi comment:
"Still unanswered: Why does the rain fall from up above? Why do fools fall in love?" [
more]
favorited 2 times, recently by Jpfed, Robson
4 months ago
MeFi comment:
"The Good Life? They're nothing but a couple of reactionary stereotypes confirming the myth that everyone in England is a lovable, middle class eccentric, and I! Hate! Them!..." [
more]
favorited 3 times, recently by Lentrohamsanin, Jimbob, Artw
4 months ago
Ask comment:
"Blueberries for Sal? Oh, yeah! And Millions of Cats, and Tikki Tikki Tembo, and The Story of Ping!" [
more]
favorited 1 time, recently by kidsleepy
5 months ago
MeFi comment:
"Then, of course, there's St. Ermintrude, Patron of Unrequited Love and Returned Love Letters. Ermintrude, Benedictine and mystic poet, was born near Split, Yugoslavia, in 1493 or '94; died, Hacker-Pschorr, Germany, 1519. Her short life was one of..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by moonbird
5 months ago
MeFi comment:
"***IF YOU DON'T HAVE MOJO NIXON
THEN YOUR SOLAR SYSTEM COULD USE SOME FIXIN'***" [
more]
favorited 19 times, recently by marginaliana, sparkletone, Dreama, tehloki, pompomtom, kimota, davejay, not_on_display, jjwiseman, Blazecock Pileon, myopicman, horsemuth, birdherder, trondant, mykescipark, Mamapotomus, neustile, SBMike, Dr-Baa
5 months ago
MeFi comment:
"In just sixty years, we've gone from saving folk on wire, to burning metal on water. (Really an amazing story. Music + Math = Awesomeness!)" [
more]
favorited 1 time, recently by not_on_display
5 months ago
MeFi comment:
"O, my bang'd head! That little anvil-headed man is going to bug me worse than Herodotus' flying snakes. If anyone reads Greek, the Friends of Herculaneum Society has a link to P-Herc, an indexed database of early 19th-century facsimiles of..." [
more]
favorited 2 times, recently by Henry C. Mabuse, wreckingball
5 months ago
MeTa comment:
"You were sooooo gonna get an incoherent, ranting MeMail if there was no podcast this weekend. Thank you thank you!" [
more]
favorited 1 time, recently by Riverine
6 months ago
MeFi comment:
"Spanish Steps, schmeps. You put a recovery system at the bottom with a conveyor to the top, and you've got a fantastic tourist draw. Or Slinkys! What would ten thousand Slinkys descending sound like?..." [
more]
favorited 2 times, recently by romakimmy, misha
6 months ago
MeFi comment:
"It was *Luke*, for crying out loud. Luke's the one that yells, "I got it!", not Han. Han replies, "That's great, kid. Don't get cocky." Dumbasses...." [
more]
favorited 10 times, recently by litlnemo, perilous, the other side, Joe Invisible, EarBucket, Curry, bullitt 5, The Bellman, bugbread, Tbola
6 months ago
MeFi comment:
"Odds recently lowered to 1-in-28, which is only about a 3.6% chance of impact. Hardly enough for Mars to start throwing little green Bruce Willises and Ben Afflecks at the problem. Still, how can you not root for the rock? C'mon, rock!..." [
more]
favorited 7 times, recently by adustum, EndsOfInvention, bristolcat, Reto, poweredbybeard, tehloki, mr.curmudgeon
6 months ago
MeFi comment:
"This would make a nice parable, à la Abbott's Flatland, wherein our intrepid hero, A. Watch, visits the respective lands of Sundials, Pendulums, and Two-, Three- and Four-Handed Clocks, briefly expounds on the sacred mystery surrounding the..." [
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favorited 4 times, recently by Stove, Kid Charlemagne, topynate, XMLicious
6 months ago
Ask comment:
"An image of "The Fist" air freshener, on (surprisingly) Lily Tomlin's website. Smell that fist!" [
more]
favorited 1 time, recently by suitcase
7 months ago
MeFi comment:
"I have a sneaking suspicion that some of those photographs were taken at Geiger's place, corner of Laverne Terrace and Crest Drive. [This is good.]" [
more]
favorited 2 times, recently by whir, Guy Smiley
8 months ago
Ask comment:
"From this Northern Ontario UFO Research and Study page:
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (AP) - The United States Navy says it is mystified by a metal sphere found by a family here.
"There's certainly something odd about it," CPO Chris Berninger..." [
more]
favorited 1 time, recently by cocoagirl
8 months ago
MeTa comment:
"To everyone's chagrin, the plane remains motionless, but the conveyor belt takes off. (Can't wait for this episode!)" [
more]
favorited 2 times, recently by koeselitz, tylermoody
8 months ago
MeFi comment:
"The sequel to this film shows the part where you finally get out of bed to feed the cat, and the little bugger manages to get between your legs on the way down the stairs, turning you into a human toboggan with no brakes that can only be stopped by a..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by phatkitten
9 months ago
MeFi comment:
"my motherfucker is so cool, when he goes to bed, sheep count him. i wondered where i knew that guy from. the radio essays are [good]." [
more]
favorited 1 time, recently by blacklite
9 months ago
MeFi comment:
"It is well documented that Baudelaire believed the carriage return lever to be an instrument of the bourgeoisie. These are pretty, even beautiful translations, but I think some essential function is lost in this form...." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by From Bklyn
Last year
