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MeFi post:
Hatecrimes
So the kids were *locked* in the house while the adults partied until dawn?
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at 12:35 PM on August 8, 2008
MeFi post:
Paris = Hot, McCain=Old Guy
Saw that last night. We all knew that she knew exactly what she was doing with her image all along, but...pitch perfect in both nodding at and departing from her image.
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at 7:04 AM on August 6, 2008
MeFi post:
Doesn't everyone exaggerate the size of Lake Ontario?
It's cool and all, I guess, while he's talking policy, but that was one of my standard parlor tricks - on a bar etch-a-sketch - about five years ago. Drunk.
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at 8:34 AM on August 5, 2008
jsacvimbi:
"All continents, all countries, all capitals..."
I drew a quick Mercator-style map of the world, with the Prime Meridian and Equator, in class one day to teach the students about the Cartesian Coordinate System. Unfortuately, most of the students couldn't even pick out the continents.
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at 8:54 AM on August 5, 2008
MeFi post:
Danieal Kelly
spiderskull: "What disappoints me about something like this is that it's going to give the general populace more reason to fuel the stereotype that all government employees are inefficient and lazy."
Unfortunately, that's so true, when the real thought in their minds should be "this is what happens when you farm out a general-welfare function of government to a private company - the company makes a profit, and the general welfare is not... [more]
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at 12:25 PM on August 2, 2008
MeFi post:
Moniker La Winski
I had a student...Precious Johnson. Yeah, reports were that she was pretty skanky, too.
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at 10:41 AM on July 24, 2008
MeFi post:
Art Deco
My whole neighborhood is late Art Deco style, and the next one over has plenty of Streamline Moderne (never knew it had a name!) apartment buildings. Thank you for the ah-mazing! post.
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at 7:28 AM on July 22, 2008
MeFi post:
Justice postponed?
Good. Fuck him.
And Dee Xtrovert - my god, to be able to write that for *us* schmucks? That took the strength of a thousand men.
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at 7:29 PM on July 21, 2008
MeFi post:
Proof & The Pro-Family Pudding
Christ, what an asshole.
(sorry, had to be said...however, the bigger this gets, and the more this prick is marginalized, the better. He's had my parents in his snake-dancer trance for about ten years now, and if given the opportunity, I'd not hesitate to punch him in the nuts.)
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at 10:24 AM on July 21, 2008
MeFi post:
C is for Cookie that's good enough for me
I have to agree with DU...those cookies *look* awful, like the time I forgot to put the second cup of flour in the dough. Cookies should not be flattened by gravity like that, to look like birdshit.
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at 6:06 AM on July 16, 2008
MeFi post:
Pickens Plan
Pickens is the cocksucker that bet a million dollars that no-one could disprove the Swift Boat Shitheads for Truth claims...then when Kerry did, he reneged. Fuck him.
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at 11:14 AM on July 10, 2008
MeFi post:
Death of a Pig
Man, that's hard to watch. Looks a whole lot more humane than the giant factory slaughterhouses where the workers are worth about the same as one whole animal, though.
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at 6:32 AM on July 9, 2008
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Gone, like a train...
I work on a dead-end road on the far side of some 55 MPH tracks, and (there goes another one) really don't mind waiting when trains delay my getting away from the office. I used to design railcar parts, and it's fun to see and think, hey, there's one of my valves, and a skid, and there's one of those 200 plastic pellet cars from '99 that had the crease in the sidewall but the AAR said was ok....
Plus, diesel-electric locomotives are just such sexy brutes...
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at 7:20 AM on June 30, 2008
MeFi post:
George Carlin Dead at 71
I still love to hear it, said with obvious glee - "Ferrrr-berger!"
His timing was always impeccable, and considering the shit we're all gonna taste in the next couple months, he showed that timing once again.
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at 6:14 AM on June 23, 2008
MeFi post:
Blue Collar Babies
What is it in the water that's making 18-year-old girls act like 12-year-old girls?
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at 2:22 PM on June 19, 2008
MeFi post:
What's the problem with Yale?
I went to a school that bills itself as "the Harvard of the Midwest". The 4.0 GPA Mechanical Engineering students couldn't change their own oil, and thought I should "just drive on it" when the u-joints in my car's driveshaft started to come apart. But I lost all respect when the chancellor raised tuition prices, not to pay for better education, but to be on par with the next school on the "best-of" list.
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at 11:00 AM on June 18, 2008
MeFi post:
I've Been Everywhere, Man
Anyone not putting "staycation" in derision-quotes needs to be shot, burned, drawn, and quartered. Oh, and pissed on. What a truly awful faux-word.
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at 10:02 AM on June 12, 2008
MeFi post:
Bye Bye Blackboard
I prefer blackboards, if for no other reason than the ability to make lines of various weight.
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at 8:34 AM on June 12, 2008
MeFi post:
An Affair to Remember
"...and it's not even clean!" Holy shit, that son needs to be massaged with a brick to the head.
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at 8:52 AM on June 11, 2008
MeFi post:
beardo
Jessamyn, some of us guys can *only* grow that kind of 'stache. It's kind of a "reverse hitler". Also, the stupid Mexican at the beginning of Tombstone has one.
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at 7:35 PM on May 27, 2008
MeFi post:
What's in yer lunchbox?
Ah, you saw them last night, too, huh? Were you the guy who shushed me and my drunk friend?
Great show, great band. They were great when I first saw them ten years ago. Even better now.
posted to MetaFilter by notsnot
at 10:59 AM on May 24, 2008
I saw your pic in your profile. Well, the part of it.
posted to MetaFilter by notsnot
at 11:07 AM on May 24, 2008
...and uh, you struck me as a Mefi sort of person.
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at 11:08 AM on May 24, 2008
MeFi post:
Earthquake lights
Interesting, though chimaera brings up an interesting point. Those don't look like any sundogs or polarizing effects to me, though.
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at 11:42 AM on May 20, 2008
MeFi post:
3 to 10 classroom hours
In sixth grade, Sister Maurice taught us evolution. And biology. And geology. And,
"The kingdom of the Animals Whose phyla number ten,
Can easily be mastered by quiet study in your den.
Each animal in Nature is classified for you,
This system of Taxonomy you can easily persue." etc.
Later in the day, she would teach us Genesis. And that the spirit of the stories was more important than the letter.... [more]
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at 6:52 AM on May 20, 2008
MeFi post:
The Dirtbombs
I was planning on hating them when I saw them at Twangfest the other year. I was so, so wrong. The double CD didn't leave my 5-disk changer until some three months later.
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at 5:32 PM on May 19, 2008
MeFi post:
Serpent Handling Practice and History
Holy cow, jonmc. Your mention of Euell Gibbons sparked a long-dormant image in my mind from a mid-70's MAD magazine. It was a "secrets of famous people" article, and had GLoria Steinem waitin' tables in a truckstop, John Paul Getty cashing a Social Security Check, Kissinger reading "how to work on your charming German accent" and Ralph Nader polishing his Corvair. Since the magazine in question had come out around the time I was born, I wasn't able to place some of the... [more]
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at 10:25 AM on May 19, 2008
MeFi post:
The 10 best beer names ever
Yeah, Arrogant Bastard - and the screed on the bottle - is great (if you like your beer hoppy).
About once a year, I drive to Utah (from St. Louis) and pick up a couple cases of Polygamy Porter. It really hits the spot; plus, everyone to whom I give a bottle (can't hoard it!) 'bout falls down laughing at the bottle.
posted to MetaFilter by notsnot
at 7:22 AM on May 16, 2008
