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The 10 best beer names ever
Mikkeller rocks! I had their Beer Geek Breakfast - an oatmeal stout brewed with coffee. It absolutely blew me away!
"Breakfast is the most important meal of the day, many say, and if you are a beer geek there is no better way to start the day than with a powerful, complex morning stout. The unique mix of oats and coffee gives this beer large body and power, while the coffee, at the same time, creates a nice balance.... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by grateful
at 7:48 AM on May 16, 2008
AdamFlybot - I've heard of the impending hopocalypse, but not of the wheat threat. What depresses me even more in the state of American beer, though, is the ugly truth about stadium beer.
posted to MetaFilter by grateful
at 8:34 AM on May 16, 2008
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Google Transit
Yeah, no coverage for DC, but we do already have WMATA's Trip Planner. It's not a shiny new toy, or anything, but it seems to work just fine.
posted to MetaFilter by grateful
at 12:35 PM on April 8, 2008
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Shoplifting in reverse
Etymology
posted to MetaFilter by grateful
at 5:33 PM on January 14, 2008
i believe that grateful's etymology is incorrect. there's a story the shopdropper by alan nelson published in fantasy and science fiction january, 1955.
Yeah, Quinion addressed this on Monday, but hasn't updated his site yet:
"SHOPDROPPER Gerald Etkind pointed out an earlier use of this word, featured last week. It was the title of a tale by Alan Nelson that appeared in the Magazine of Fantasy and Science... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by grateful
at 11:33 AM on January 15, 2008
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Flashback
I feel that I should comment in this thread.
posted to MetaFilter by grateful
at 2:53 PM on May 24, 2007
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Etymologic!
8 out of 10. I didn't find my score until I hit 6 out of 7...
posted to MetaFilter by grateful
at 5:20 AM on May 5, 2007
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Frozen Indigo Angel
I hear they're counting down to something big in Taos. You guys wanna check it out? Lemme know when you find something....
posted to MetaFilter by grateful
at 5:38 AM on April 28, 2007
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A home away from home?
I'm pretty sure this means that we've seen all the way through the universe, and we're staring at the back side of the earth. Wonder how long it will be before we realize we've discovered ourselves...
posted to MetaFilter by grateful
at 6:48 PM on April 24, 2007
Shouldn't this mean that there are also others, maybe closer? That we just haven't looked in the right direction yet? Or they're on the other side of our sun or something?
I don't know - but we can check in 6 months...
posted to MetaFilter by grateful
at 4:43 PM on April 25, 2007
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When the World is Running Down
Uhhh. From the second link:
Members of The Police have so far refused to confirm rumors that the band is planning to reunite in 2007 for dates in Britain and the United States, with this year marking the 30th anniversary of the release of "Roxanne."
posted to MetaFilter by grateful
at 5:40 PM on January 30, 2007
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I guess we need a new mnemonic...
More planets? Lunacy!
We figured out everything we need to know about the solar system when we discovered Pluto in 1930. Anybody who suggests that we change should be drawn and quartered! Besides, adding planets would just feel wrong. Wrong, I tell you.
What is it with you people and this crazy system of trucks tubes?
posted to MetaFilter by grateful
at 12:02 PM on August 16, 2006
Phil Plait and his readers weigh in, too
posted to MetaFilter by grateful
at 12:07 PM on August 16, 2006
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Music is a-changin'
I think Milli Vanilli changed music more than The Strokes ever did/will.
No really.
posted to MetaFilter by grateful
at 12:18 PM on July 19, 2006
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All we are saying...
I also took McCarthy's Alternatives to Violence at the University level. The thing that struck me most about him is that his moral choices are quite consistent by design. He has a single approach to this world. I don't always agree with him, but I do respect him for that.
posted to MetaFilter by grateful
at 7:47 AM on March 9, 2006
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Cheney
Pops corn, pulls up chair.
posted to MetaFilter by grateful
at 10:37 AM on February 14, 2006
