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Laugh as much as you like:
I still think there's a certain intensely dramatic and lyrical redneck technique behind these country music song titles. I like a song title that says everything upfront. It's not as easy as you think, either.
[Via Bifurcated Rivets]
posted to MetaFilter by Carlos Quevedo
at 6:42 PM on June 9, 2003
(12 comments)
Don't ring 638-234-5837 whatever you do:
it's MetaFilter's phone number. Mine, I'm leasing to slippery old
KY Jelly: 004-GEL-1-FUN. All this because - so I'm told by a French friend - you backward Americans actually still have letters on your telephones, along with the rotary lever to crank it up. [
From LinkFilter.]
posted to MetaFilter by Carlos Quevedo
at 6:30 PM on June 2, 2003
(17 comments)
Screw Major Tom!
"
Oscar 1 was battery powered. Its signals lasted for about two weeks. The batteries were not rechargeable". Awww..... Here are the actual sounds of the first satellites. In fact, I may just become a MeFi musician just to sample them. So there.
posted to MetaFilter by Carlos Quevedo
at 8:02 AM on May 20, 2003
(8 comments)
My Luddite Bunny:
amazingly, no animal was harmed during the photographing of this nightmare. Repeat after me:
I will never let one of those reactionary hijos de remil putas a bunny into my house.
posted to MetaFilter by Carlos Quevedo
at 10:56 PM on May 13, 2003
(32 comments)
[Your message here]
Teehee! There can be no better spokesman for your particular passion or beef than
Al Sahaf, the brave, beloved ex-Minister of Information of Iraq. It detects what country you're posting from and presents its own commercials first, but it's worth browsing about (the Top for All Countries is the best place to start). [
Feels like a double post, smells like a double post, but apparently not. Flash req. Via Bifurcated Rivets.]
posted to MetaFilter by Carlos Quevedo
at 11:57 AM on May 9, 2003
(9 comments)
De Niro non disputandis est
or, in English,
don't fuck with Bobby De Niro. Which is what the English have been doing recently, naming
Al Pacino as the greatest movie star of all time.
Askmen.com is a little more appreciative but also brackets
Pacino with De Niro.
The American Film Institute [
pdf format] will be giving De Niro their 31st Lifetime Achievement Award on June 12 but - there they go again - he's merely described as "widely regarded as one of the most skillful actors of the last three decades". Is nothing sacred anymore? Who's the man [
read "of a certain age, experience and cojones"], after all? I mean, after
Jack Nicholson, of course. Now I'm all confused!
posted to MetaFilter by Carlos Quevedo
at 1:44 AM on May 8, 2003
(31 comments)
Guinness is Good for You:
Find the poster of your birth year; of the year you had your first glass of Guinness; of the year you swore off the stuff. Try to find a way to link to one of them. Despair. Pour another pint. It's all good. [
Flash req. "Argentina 1952" works for the login.]
posted to MetaFilter by Carlos Quevedo
at 4:27 PM on May 5, 2003
(22 comments)
We Have Cameras Magazines:
Why is
Maxim offering a
free, no-catches 2 years subscription to anyone who can be bothered to give them one of their spamsucker e-mail addresses? Hey, I hate Maxim but I'd take one if I lived in the U.S, if only to keep the postal service busy and ingratiate myself with my nephews. Will all magazines - at least the shittiest ones - be free in the future? Subscription rates, sales and advertising revenues keep falling and it seems the only bargaining chip magazines have left (to solicit advertisements) is circulation. And still new mags, like
Radar, keep popping up. Good thing? Bad thing? You tell me.
posted to MetaFilter by Carlos Quevedo
at 8:08 PM on April 25, 2003
(25 comments)
Gawker Stalker and The Elevator Chronicles:
I'm a sucker for genuine celebrity sightings (in my experience, they're true if they're thoroughly disappointing and boring) and
Gawker has been having a whale of a time with them. The unfolding
Elevator Saga (starring Anna Wintour, the editor of
Yank Vogue) and
Gawker Stalker are great fun, even for profound thinkers such as myself. [
My paltry celebrity sighting inside.]
posted to MetaFilter by Carlos Quevedo
at 7:05 PM on April 24, 2003
(47 comments)
Is the U.S. the last Western country where wild animals can be kept as pets?
Why? And why not? Although
this is definitely cute and
this is even cuter, it's just not the same. When I was young, several of my friends with ranches kept pumas. But no longer - it's now illegal in Argentina. Though I understand all the
problems, I fail to see
why,
in principle, it should be. If hunting them is - aargh! -
allowed and promoted, why not owning them? Does anyone know of any resources on the Net about buying and owning wild cats? Or indeed wild animals in general? I couldn't find
one to balance this post. Where do people get them? How do they know how to keep them? [
Though I did find a very amusing column about ferrets in Jeremy Clarke's column for today's Spectator...]
posted to MetaFilter by Carlos Quevedo
at 1:54 AM on April 18, 2003
(10 comments)
Yessir, you're my baby!
Eeeeewwwwww.... Is this the end of masculinity as we know it? In a word:
yes. And I don't mean maybe.
Not that this would ever happen in a hot-blooded Latin country, mind you. Not safe for you workers - get back to work! [
Via Linkfilter.]
posted to MetaFilter by Carlos Quevedo
at 8:26 AM on April 14, 2003
(9 comments)
Coffee, our nan?
Is this "Would you like some more coffee, Grandmother?" or Kofi Annan? Oh and mathowie - are you sure the Irish
Haughey is pronounced
Howie? [
Check out Charles Haughey for the proper way.] Thank you, Voice of America, for teaching us how to pronounce those pesky foreigners' names. And shame on you,
BBC Pronouncing Unit, for not being
online! [
This last link requires Real Audio but is really worth listening to if you have anything against stuck-up English twits.]
posted to MetaFilter by Carlos Quevedo
at 6:44 PM on April 12, 2003
(16 comments)
Ough!* I pronounce the English language unpronounceable:
Arriba! Arriba! Arriba!
Speedy Gonzales here. When will you make up your minds and stop
making fun of pestering us poor foreigners? I mean, it's not as if you yourselves can agree on how to pronounce almost anything... [
*As in "plough". Not as in through, , thought, thorough, thought, hiccough, lough or enough already!]
posted to MetaFilter by Carlos Quevedo
at 5:23 AM on April 11, 2003
(84 comments)
Geography Humiliation Central:
Too many damned What a wonderful diversity of countries! A very
annoying stringent set of tests, designed to
expose showcase our
ignorance knowledge of the political geography of the world we live in. Whether it's
Africa,
Asia or even
Europe,
South America or the
United States, I seem to know
only the really big ones them all. In fact, I've never been so
ashamed proud in my life.
posted to MetaFilter by Carlos Quevedo
at 9:06 AM on April 9, 2003
(51 comments)
Women of Our Time:
Great photographs; great photographers; a great collection. The commentary and the presentation do them proud. From the National Portrait Gallery. [Via
Portage.]
posted to MetaFilter by Carlos Quevedo
at 10:20 AM on March 23, 2003
(4 comments)
Busker Dü:
You're short of money. You're not afraid to make a fool of yourself. You have no pride. You have a musical instrument to abuse. Well - that, apparently, is easy. At least if you're a Guardian journalist. But what else can a feller do these days to drum up that old "Buddy, Can You Spare A Dime?" spirit?
posted to MetaFilter by Carlos Quevedo
at 1:55 AM on February 26, 2003
(12 comments)
Make Love Not War - Again?
The anti-war movement has all the best slogans. And quite rightly too. Which doesn't mean they're not still rehashed, unimaginative and lame. "Don't attack Iraq"? "Make tea, not war"? Don't make me laugh. What's the best you've come across, if at all? And why are the hawks so lacking in the most basic sense of humor?
posted to MetaFilter by Carlos Quevedo
at 7:31 AM on February 23, 2003
(127 comments)
Take this life and shove it:
So goodbye then,
Johnny PayCheck. Even the very British and conservative
Daily Telegraph honoured you today with an affectionate
obituary [
Reg. required: full text inside.] I wonder how many unrepentant rebel-singin', cocaine-sniffin', bar-brawlin', hard-drinkin', good-lovin', corn-munchin' musicians there are left. And whether any of the young 'uns today will be able to keep up, livin' the life, as long as you did. Even though you too eventually succumbed to preaching against drink and drugs. I suspect most of the new generation will become health freaks by the time they hit forty and that you, Sir, were one of a dying breed.
posted to MetaFilter by Carlos Quevedo
at 1:44 AM on February 21, 2003
(1 comment)
Baby, It's Cold Outside:
Perhaps it's unethical - well, it's certainly incestuous - to draw your attention to one of
madamjujujive's great links on
quonsar's brilliant
Meepzorp blog ("
Where, thank the Lord, it is always Friday" -
Christian Science Monitor, 18.12.76). But what about linking two?
Bouncing Baby and
Gulp are two great Flash pieces that address the question of nurture; motherhood; the oral nature of pleasure; the ontology of fuzzy gratification; the metaphysics of the transition from womb to nipple and other meretricious bullshit justifications for fun.
posted to MetaFilter by Carlos Quevedo
at 8:52 AM on February 7, 2003
(3 comments)
Monumentae Rumsfeldiana:
A soundbite
competition for future tombstone use. [
But should a British state-owned corporation like the BBC make official fun of an senior American government minister? Real Audio req. ]
posted to MetaFilter by Carlos Quevedo
at 8:09 PM on December 22, 2002
(9 comments)
