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"Hey, if this goes, guess who's a legal resident of New York and could be appointed to her seat? Methinks it would be *fun* to see Bill in the Senate, in the faces of the dickheads who wanted his head ten years ago......." [
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favorited 5 times, recently by The Whelk, olya, seanmpuckett, mephron, jtron
25 minutes ago
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"Forgive my pedantry, but here's what's happening in those photos:
In a normal camera setup, the plan of focus is parallel to the plan of the sensor/film. (Note that really, the plan of focus is more like a sphere, but here we'll assume that we're..." [
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favorited 11 times, recently by claudius, Ostara, Tom-B, garrett, tickingclock, fantabulous timewaster, Durn Bronzefist, wolfewarrior, aGee, darkstar, DU
more than 12 hours ago
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""unseizing" it won't mean it runs; it just means it rotates. An engine seizes when one of either the main or rod bearings go dry, rotate in their journal, and jam up against the crank. Sometimes rotating the crank backwards will unwedge it,..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by floam
4 days ago
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"I don't mean to snark, really, but make sure you spell the name of the condition correctly in written correspondence with your professors. I had any number of community college students come in with "notes from their doctors" with things..." [
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favorited 3 times, recently by roomthreeseventeen, Maisie Jay, PhoBWanKenobi
4 days ago
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"If you're gonna drink weird shit for hipster points, drink something your grandpa actually drank - Olympia in a can, by god!" [
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favorited 1 time, recently by litlnemo
9 days ago
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"I heard this, and had to immediately call my grandparents (I'm blessed to still have them all) and tell them I love them." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Green Eyed Monster
13 days ago
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"As for her needing to be re-elected in Alaska, first: you'd have thought that losing to a dead guy, in red-state Missouri, would have kept Ashcroft from being taken seriously, but he was our AG for what, three four years?..." [
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favorited 3 times, recently by Servo5678, non sum qualis eram, pwnguin
3 weeks ago
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"I can't name a specific car, caddis, but I've seen many charts of cars that make the same mileage whether going 55 or 70.
What it comes down to, below the "magic" speed for an engine/gear combination, the brake-specific fuel..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by gjc
Last month
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"WHen my dad accused me of having been brainwashed by the liberals, I retorted, "no, it's just that you raised me well enough to think for myself...." [
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favorited 7 times, recently by anildash, purpletangerine, sian, scody, Chairboy, batmonkey, All.star
Last month
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"Keep them in a room at least two away from the bedroom for the first two weeks at night. That way you're less likely to hear the mewling. They still won't like it when they *are* able to get near the bedroom door, but they'll whine less...." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by By The Grace of God
Last month
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"Run. Hands-down the fastest weight loser.
If you're able to budget the time, exercise some before work, some at lunch, and some after work - at least 20 min.
Granted I was in great shape when I started this, but I went from 174 to 163 in 21..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Rafaelloello
Last month
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"Yeah, a critter helps - you have to care about something outside yourself. I've found, on days when my homeward commute makes me pray (heh) for the bombs to come and wipe out humanity, "Aw, but that would kill little Jack too!" and get..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by Green Eyed Monster, cowbellemoo
Last month
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"First time one of my high-school friends got rip-roaring drunk, he spouted trig identities and did calc - integrals, even - in his head.
Right up to a minute before he filled the hallway with puke.
And started playing slip'n'slide in..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by bokane
Last month
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"Who's close-minded? "Block these posts"? No, Matt will likely leave your post on here so we can openly mock you." [
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favorited 11 times, recently by The Ardship of Cambry, clearly, Hot Like Your 12V Wire, Slarty Bartfast, Hutch, miss tea, sdodd, JHarris, Pope Guilty, aeschenkarnos, bunnytricks
Last month
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"The surge won't work - Afghanistan is a Karst topography, for one." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by kcds
Last month
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"Oh, man, that Palin interview is priceless. At 2:30 when Couric rebuts her, it reminds me of the old lady I rent a garage from, when she tells me I didn't pay last month, even when I've got a receipt in hand, in her handwriting. Just repeat,..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by blueberry, ignignokt
Last month
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"ob: "I just watched Sarah Palin's interview with Katie Couric. Is it just me or does she sound like Frances McDormand's character in Fargo?"
As I've been saying for a while now, "Oh, yah!..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by emelenjr
Last month
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"As far as they know, any accident occurred the exactly one time your friend used your car.
Alternately, the entire week your friend is using your car is "one time"...." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by mosk
2 months ago
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"godseyeview: " If you got a liberal arts degree it certainly didn't teach you anything about the principles of Liberty. In your mind there's a brick wall in the way. That is part of the double-think wall of the communist religion, but most..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Marisa Stole the Precious Thing
2 months ago
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"You need to let this die. Really. I wound up dating who had become my best friend, and it ruined both the friendship and the relationship. I missed her terribly for about a year, but reworked my social structure, found some new drinking buddies,..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by Devoidoid, blueberry
2 months ago
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"Your body is starving. 1200 calories isn't enough. Figure out your basic metabolism, based on your activity level (there's any number of calculators out there; take the geometric mean of them). Not counting running around and direct *exercise* but..." [
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favorited 4 times, recently by zaphod, mynameisluka, konolia, woebot
2 months ago
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"MADD has been more about "against drinking" for a long time. I remember going to a MADD sponsored lock-in 18 years ago where, before we were allowed to run around and have fun, we were corralled into one area to hear presentations on the..." [
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favorited 5 times, recently by kryptondog, Korou, twine42, dunkadunc, Lou Stuells
2 months ago
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"I did this any number of times when I worked by myself in an office every weekend, especially the 12 hr days. It was truly awful coffee, and it started me down the road to a lot of heartburn. However, I didn't just get a jolt, I didn't just shake -..." [
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favorited 3 times, recently by zippy
2 months ago
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"There's depressed, and then there's self-absorption. Wrap them up, have Olivia give them to her, and if she's so self-absorbed that she can't set a gracious example for your daughter, that's pretty shitty...." [
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favorited 17 times, recently by mynameismandab, blueberry, Mephisto, gjc, Ostara, Deathalicious, PhoBWanKenobi, Solomon, re.becca, idiomatika, arcticwoman, mitzyjalapeno, LunaticFringe, AlisonM, Venadium, Ookseer, aramaic
3 months ago
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"Do the semester at sea, for all us guys who had a dream in college, said "Oh, I'll just work for a year or two, and then quit and follow my dream" and then didn't.
I was gonna ride across the country. Or hike the AT. Or head down the..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by gursky, Beardman
3 months ago
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"I used to work for a company whose owner was..well, a certain well known corporate raider. At a plant opening, he was there with his wife. Nice looking gal for the plus-50 set. Then I saw her hands....oh, my god. Yeah, no hiding that...." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by MikeKD
3 months ago
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"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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favorited 1 time, recently by finite
3 months ago
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"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..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by lukemeister
3 months ago
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"Lotsa fruit. Luckily, it's in season. It'll fill you up. Warning: you'll also shit three times as often.
Also, drink 16 oz of water before you eat anything...." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Comrade_robot
3 months ago
MeFi comment:
"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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favorited 2 times, recently by dabitch, you're a kitty!
3 months ago
MeFi comment:
"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..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by greenie2600
3 months ago
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"I woke up five minutes before the fact, without provocation from my alarm clock, and went back to sleep. Suddenly the vibration started. I thought it was the wind, since our house kinda hums and hooms in heavy wind, but there wasn't the usual sound..." [
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favorited 3 times, recently by halonine, LobsterMitten, dyoneo
4 months ago
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"At the wine club and the book club, start hanging out with the people there that you like. There is absolutely no shame (with good people) in saying, hey, can I hang out with you folks more? Don't make dating your goal. That is a sure fire way to..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by chicainthecity
4 months ago
