That headshot picked for that is just damn priceless.
posted to MetaFilter by pnevares at 9:04 AM on October 9, 2007

My mind was just blown. It makes sense too, which is again mind-blowing.
posted to MetaFilter by pnevares at 2:17 PM on September 29, 2006

Samus really needs to find her Long Beam. I mean seriously.
posted to MetaFilter by pnevares at 11:42 PM on September 29, 2003

Where is Republic of Congo?

*click*

No, that's Democratic Republic of Congo, try again

What?
posted to MetaFilter by pnevares at 12:49 PM on April 9, 2003

From the article above:
The story could grow if the United States were to get involved because it's conceivable that if Sale and Pelletier should have won gold, Americans Kyoko Ina and John Zimmerman could have won bronze, Brennan said.7

Ina and Zimmerman placed fifth overall, why would the silver medal team moving to gold move the US team up to third? Can someone explain this to me?
posted to MetaFilter by pnevares at 7:57 AM on February 13, 2002

This is how a company can make me feel good about buying their products. :-)
posted to MetaFilter by pnevares at 9:38 AM on January 18, 2002

I really liked Cake's Comfort Eagle. Really liked it. Oh, and Radiohead's Amnesiac.
posted to MetaFilter by pnevares at 10:24 AM on December 6, 2001

perhaps what ye be needing is a bit of this game, Reflections?

it's crazy mad fun with mirrors and prisms!
posted to MetaFilter by pnevares at 2:41 PM on November 30, 2001

It was something I didn't say.
posted to MetaFilter by pnevares at 3:33 PM on November 29, 2001

Just to clarify, unless there's some "Cult Of The grc.com Steve Gibson" doing this, the Steve Gibson on that list is the one who runs www.shacknews.com. Just check the comments (but for the love of God, don't click any of their links ;).
posted to MetaFilter by pnevares at 1:14 AM on November 23, 2001

Can someone tell me why people are so amazed by the JSF's vertical take-off ability? The harrier's had this for years (decades?), it's nothing new.
posted to MetaFilter by pnevares at 9:03 PM on October 26, 2001

I just had (a late) lunch at Chili's in Phoenix, there was a flyer there stating that all of their parent's restaurants, Chili's, Macaroni Grill, and On The Border, were donating 100% of profits today to the Red Cross.
posted to MetaFilter by pnevares at 3:59 PM on October 11, 2001

For those at work (like me), a warning: bradth27's link contains nudity.
posted to MetaFilter by pnevares at 3:53 PM on October 8, 2001

Hmm, I could have sworn I'd seen this on MeFi before, but I guess it was from somewhere else. No matter:

Shut out. :)

(yeah, it was a different link back then. that screenshot is almost 5 months old)
posted to MetaFilter by pnevares at 11:53 PM on October 4, 2001

jfc: It's from the seventies. Moving, but slightly innacurate now.
posted to MetaFilter by pnevares at 12:59 PM on September 12, 2001

jcterminal: Your GiantCommunistRobot reference fell on deaf ears.
posted to MetaFilter by pnevares at 9:06 PM on August 27, 2001

I wonder when this will be on my local PBS station. Brings back some great high school marching band memories :)
posted to MetaFilter by pnevares at 10:22 AM on July 30, 2001

It's a random picture, kafkaesque :) But I think I know the one you're talking about.

Marching band was intense, actually.
posted to MetaFilter by pnevares at 10:45 AM on July 30, 2001

mrbula: "Jenna Bush's Federally Protected Wetlands...etc". makes it all the more humor-ific :)
posted to MetaFilter by pnevares at 10:55 AM on July 26, 2001

Looks like it was hacked to me.
posted to MetaFilter by pnevares at 9:41 AM on July 23, 2001

lagado, that's how my mom always taught me (the "american" way), but i always wanted to do it the european way. i got a lot of flak for that...til i moved out.

:)
posted to MetaFilter by pnevares at 6:31 PM on July 19, 2001

wow, i can't believe my first post to mefi, ever, was on that thread :)
posted to MetaFilter by pnevares at 1:21 PM on July 19, 2001

Funny as well: The Grand List Of Console Role Playing Game Clichés. My favorite: "Wait! That Was A Load-Bearing Boss!"
posted to MetaFilter by pnevares at 11:32 AM on July 18, 2001

So .00898% of their 50,000 the firearms in their care were lost or stolen.

Actually revbrain, it's 8.98% percent. Quite a lot more. :)
posted to MetaFilter by pnevares at 8:59 PM on July 17, 2001

Okay, now I'm the moron. I blame it on my sister talking to me on the phone while I try to MeFi.

It's 0.898%.
posted to MetaFilter by pnevares at 9:00 PM on July 17, 2001

Smoove B? F that! I want more of the H-Dog!
posted to MetaFilter by pnevares at 8:15 PM on July 17, 2001

Happy Birthday! ...MeFi....

Okay, I feel bad about spoiling this, but didn't MetaFilter's 2nd birthday pass months ago?
posted to MetaFilter by pnevares at 11:34 PM on July 13, 2001

anapestic: YHBT.
posted to MetaFilter by pnevares at 2:32 PM on July 10, 2001

suprfli: Reuters believes it, though who knows really? :)
posted to MetaFilter by pnevares at 10:00 AM on June 26, 2001

Pong? Hey, they're not even playing the game!

WALLHACK!
posted to MetaFilter by pnevares at 11:44 AM on June 25, 2001

I thought that you were charged interest based on the average balance for the month. So, even if you pay it off, you still carried an average balance and get charged interest. If all of them don't do this, they soon will I think.

none of the credit cards i've seen charge interest for your balance for the month. the interest only starts accrueing if you don't pay the full balance off when you get the bill.
posted to MetaFilter by pnevares at 11:23 AM on June 20, 2001

Lawful Good? I've always thought of myself as Neutral Good. Ah well, no more "kind of" raping and "sort of" pillaging for me.
posted to MetaFilter by pnevares at 12:41 PM on June 18, 2001

So what's with the double post 3 minutes later? :)
posted to MetaFilter by pnevares at 9:44 PM on June 17, 2001

I suppose this is the ultimate example of form over function.

Quite the opposite, actually.
posted to MetaFilter by pnevares at 11:26 AM on June 16, 2001

I can't help but laught at the picture taken in "East Los Angeles, California" :)

Great link, thanks.
posted to MetaFilter by pnevares at 9:30 AM on June 15, 2001

heh, i don't know what's up with you guys. this is my first time playing, and i got a birdie on the 17th. :)

StrengthCoach is also pretty fun, especially if you have people you can compare your score to.
posted to MetaFilter by pnevares at 4:39 PM on June 14, 2001

frykitty: the snarky comments have always been there :)
posted to MetaFilter by pnevares at 2:53 PM on June 14, 2001

www.clownpenis.fart?
posted to MetaFilter by pnevares at 1:31 PM on June 14, 2001

I agree, jpoulos. Although, I don't know if it's ever been officially spelled or anything, has it? :)

In other news, The Simpsons are coming to DVD. About damn time!
posted to MetaFilter by pnevares at 9:26 AM on June 14, 2001

A transcript from a Matt Groening interview with Loaded magazine has this:

Very good.

"No, I mean Doh! really. That's my car; somebody is breaking into my car. [He leaves, and returns two minutes later] OK. Oh, er `Doh!', I wrote it in the script as `annoyed grunt', and that's how it's written in all the scripts."

I hope that's the writer taking liberties with the spelling, though, and not Groening's... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by pnevares at 9:53 AM on June 14, 2001

Ah, Skot's link does it for me. Thanks.
posted to MetaFilter by pnevares at 10:17 AM on June 14, 2001

jcterminal: of course, with the link to MeFi on that page, it only takes two clicks to get to the end of the internet :(
posted to MetaFilter by pnevares at 8:29 PM on June 12, 2001

john: it's too late, bro!
posted to MetaFilter by pnevares at 8:47 PM on June 12, 2001

"on the wing"? i haven't heard that one before.
posted to MetaFilter by pnevares at 2:27 PM on June 12, 2001

john: it's sorta been discussed before.
posted to MetaFilter by pnevares at 2:26 PM on June 12, 2001

The pics are back, and this is certainly not the first site to have been MeFi'd. :)
posted to MetaFilter by pnevares at 12:27 PM on June 11, 2001

a friend of mine was reading Shakespeare's The Tempest in high school, and read the ending passage to me once. i really haven't forgotten it since, i think this would be my choice:

Now my charms are all o'erthrown,
And what strength I have's mine own,
Which is most faint: now, 'tis true,
I must be here confined by you,
Or sent to Naples. Let me not,
Since I have my dukedom got
And pardon'd the... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by pnevares at 10:53 AM on June 11, 2001

That "virgin" link refers to itself as "Canada's Definitive Satirical Magazine".

The Onion Up North?
posted to MetaFilter by pnevares at 4:57 PM on June 7, 2001

I don't understand your question. I guess you're referring to this excerpt:

Would you want a ranking of the top 25 interesting stories? If so, good news. In a weird way, the NY Times is now doing this, ranking the 25 by the frequency that people e-mail the stories to each other.

Aren't people e-mailing these stories to each other because they're interesting?
posted to MetaFilter by pnevares at 4:11 PM on June 6, 2001

baylink: I wanna know what they padded Angie's boobs with. Lara's at least a 34DD.

in this GameSpy interview they asked:

Q We want to talk to you about the costume. You have a beautiful body, but there was some enhancement there, right?

A Yeah. I’m a 36C, in the movie she’s a 36D, and in the game she’s a 36DD, so yes, there was some padding.

A very poignant question indeed ;)... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by pnevares at 11:18 AM on June 6, 2001