MeFi comment:
"Be careful what you wish for - that's all I'll say. My wife and I were given a mandlebrot dinner set as a wedding present, and it's absolutely useless. You can't serve soup in a bowl with a finite surface area but infinite volume - our lobster..." [
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favorited 25 times, recently by kipmanley, lalochezia, gadavis, mrnutty, Iridic, justsomebodythatyouusedtoknow, tehloki, ~, Chunder, MythMaker, dirtynumbangelboy, myopicman, gamera, meinvt, reynaert, Talez, darkripper, signal, chrismear, elephantday, theCroft, xchmp, DreamerFi, Jimbob, jfrancis
2 weeks ago
MeFi comment:
"I don't quite understand what would have happened if he couldn't provide id to the cops. Is it illegal for a person to talk a walk without id in New Jersey?..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by etaoin
3 months ago
MeFi comment:
"FUN QUIZ!
How should this interesting Henry C. Mabuse sentence end ... ?
One of the clues I picked up over the years from studying the USA cattle mutilation mystery ...
(a) was how to make a woman achieve a satisfying sexual climax using..." [
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favorited 6 times, recently by Sutekh
3 months ago
MeFi comment:
""Logic"? WAAH WAAH BABY NEEDS HIS LOGIC BOTTLE! Pfft!
Basically, everyone agrees that your so-called "logic" died when Spock was rescued from that Genesis planet, proving that if you have pointy ears then we should all kidnap..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by straight
4 months ago
MeFi comment:
"This article is great!
As a Caucasian male in today’s society, I enjoy many invisible advantages (McIntosh, 1998).
It is well established that I have an extremely large penis, which I twirl with panache (Klienfurter, 2002). I am also extremly..." [
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favorited 3 times, recently by Iridic, Scattercat, phrontist
4 months ago
MeTa comment:
"Disgusting. Once again the MeFi Oligarchy appoints one of their cronies to a position of unlimited power in total secrecy, laughing in the face of necessary checks and making rude hand gestures at traditional balances.
And what do we know about..." [
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favorited 32 times, recently by koeselitz
4 months ago
MeFi comment:
"I hate kids just as much as anyone, but that doesn't mean they're not right sometimes
Oh really? Well I've only got two words for you: go fuck yourself.
Right ... that's actually three words. So try these two words on for size: bugfucker...." [
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favorited 36 times, recently by Dormant Gorilla
4 months ago
MeFi comment:
"My understanding is that sexual intercourse began in 1963, between the end of the Chatterley ban and the Beatles first LP." [
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favorited 11 times, recently by Jahaza, The Card Cheat, Wolof, UbuRoivas, webmutant, nebulawindphone, morganw, ricochet biscuit, klangklangston, Blazecock Pileon, moxiedoll
5 months ago
MeFi comment:
"Umm, Hello? Have none of you horrible, moronic fucking idiots ever read Isaac Azimov's Nightfall?
The only way our civilization can survive the awful horror of the naked heavens - pinning us into insignificance with the weight of their..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Netzapper
5 months ago
MeFi comment:
""Thanks, Sova; I'm sticking with my original skepticism"
This agglomeration of bizarre symbols constitutes the entire "languagehat text" - an artifact and mystery as old as time. Discovered in a dank corner of the ancient..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by grapefruitmoon
6 months ago
MeTa comment:
"Try this Cool MeFi Hack!
You will need:
- a pencil.
- some paper.
- some string.
- some sticky tape.
METHOD
1. Tie the string around the end of the pencil. If you have no experience of knots, ask an adult to help you.
2. With some..." [
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favorited 19 times, recently by brina, nebulawindphone
7 months ago
MeTa comment:
"I too have crossed blades with the one you know as languagehat - that cursed mongrel, that dog of malice! It was in a little town in Nuevo Leon, where the dry smell of poverty assaults the nostrils, and the only bar seethes continually with..." [
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favorited 22 times, recently by twins named Lugubrious and Salubrious, marble, ~, Sitegeist, JenMarie, gomichild, Penks, Wolof, deborah, painquale, gman, Zero Gravitas, goodnewsfortheinsane, kalimac, BrotherCaine, Abiezer, re.becca, Navelgazer, DreamerFi, nasreddin, grobstein, dirtynumbangelboy
8 months ago
MeFi comment:
"In their seminal paper
OK - it sounds pretty seminal. But my question here is: just how seminal is this paper?
I've seen a lot of "seminal" papers in my time - some were literally oozing seminality, some had only the faintest whiff..." [
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favorited 3 times, recently by Pallas Athena, NMcCoy, turgid dahlia
8 months ago
MeTa comment:
"I keep six honest serving-men
(They taught me all I knew);
Their names are What and Why and When
And How and Where and Who.
Your honest servants are so dull!
I dismiss them, and resume
With two new slaves I've just engaged:
Mrs. Whither and..." [
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favorited 3 times, recently by Iridic, everichon, Abiezer
9 months ago
MeFi comment:
"This isn't a post about Paul Keating the man, though I think he deserves one some time.
Well heck, I'd "give him one". Look at those fucking jowls - that's some SEXY MOTHERFUCKING GRAVITAS right there.
Basically, If coveting an..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Fiasco da Gama
9 months ago
MeFi comment:
"I have no need for no-knead bread: I like to knead. I need to squeeze
bread with my hands, and even knees, or with my head. And any other breed
of bread that needs no kneading is not pleasing. If fact, if no-knead bread
I spy or even breath, I..." [
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favorited 5 times, recently by painquale, beandip, mecran01, bonehead, Ella Fynoe
10 months ago
MeFi comment:
""Banality of evil" - ? Pfft! That tired and shop-worn hypothesis is so "last century" - !
Nowadays, all the cool kids are devotees of the theory of the bananality of evil: they all hold that evil has a thick, yellow skin and..." [
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favorited 16 times, recently by shmurley
11 months ago
MeFi comment:
"Have we had a link to yer man's colonoscopy yet, or do we feel we're doing a good enough job of getting as far as possible up his arse already?
Listen buddy - you really need to take a reality check, and stop posting crap like this.
Just try to..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Tiresias
Last year
MeTa comment:
"Hello? Is not the clue in the name? This user is THINKING. Dude's name is not Meposts, Mecomments, Me-asks-mefi, Me-rocks-out, or Mejobs-it-up. Dude is like, THINKING. Most of you people never had a goddamn thought in your lives that you didn't..." [
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favorited 42 times, recently by Soulbee, spinturtle, Caduceus, sephira, nfg, msittig, koeselitz, oaf, cgomez, papafrita, tenderman kingsaver, RussHy, MythMaker, Sk4n, spaltavian, teleri025, lunit, pixlboi, jmnugent, BozoBurgerBonanza, roofus, Hat Maui, Kronos_to_Earth, The Ardship of Cambry, finite, Heretic, juliplease, misha, GalaxieFiveHundred, hal9k, painquale, weebil, ambrosia, gomichild, Confess, Fletch, violette, languagehat, Lemurrhea, melissa may, BrotherCaine, iconomy, lukemeister
Last year
MeTa comment:
"Personally I want to know why the fuck my MeFi membership is now only worth $1.20.
I honestly didn't realise when I made my initial investment that MeFi was carrying so many sub-prime users...." [
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favorited 19 times, recently by cgomez, madamjujujive, seawallrunner, lizzicide, RussHy, Alvy Ampersand, schyler523, drezdn, Slack-a-gogo, krautland, Ostara, xorry, cjorgensen, sbutler, iguanapolitico, iamabot, M.C. Lo-Carb!, timeistight, bonaldi
Last year
MeFi comment:
"I saw Ms. Hynde (accompanied by another guitarist, whose name I do not wish to recall) play a benefit for Save the Rhino in London, a couple months back, and she was by far the best thing on the stage (the MC, in particular, was terrible). Bill..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by lattiboy, Smart Dalek
Last year
MeFi comment:
"Piffle! When one magnifies the very words of the culprit, bleated out in his own defence, one sees other, more fanciful sentences, sprouting off each letter, in all directions!
To whit – looked at under higher resolutions, the upper left hand..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by lalochezia, ~
Last year
MeTa comment:
"Dear AskMe,
I've been in my current job now for almost 8 years, and I really feel that other people don't respect my work. [MORE INSIDE]
I made a lot of changes when I came in, and really tried to push through some radical approaches to things...." [
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favorited 5 times, recently by WCityMike, Solon and Thanks, matildaben, jb, mygothlaundry
Last year
MeFi comment:
"I actually had a problem very similar to the issue under discussion. I've got these two friends, Russ and George, who were always fighting with one another. Russ was a big guy, so he would usually win when it came to blows, and George was always..." [
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favorited 3 times, recently by axon, Pope Guilty, nasreddin
Last year
MeFi comment:
"Oh, blast it, twoleftfeet! You're really a good chap - I guess I've just jolly well gone and thrown it. Do accept my apologies for getting all stuffy, old boy.
To tell the truth, Abigail and I have been having some troubles of late - she caught..." [
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favorited 3 times, recently by eritain, ~, atrazine
Last year
MeTa comment:
"Q: Will I win $30,000,000 in the lottery tomorrow? Please only post positive answers.
Q: I need to write a PhD thesis in molecular chemistry from scratch by 8.00 am tomorrow. Only HELPFUL answers, please!
Q: I'm looking for you personally to..." [
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favorited 9 times, recently by nonmerci, goshling, alicetiara, gsteff, theclaw, Sidhedevil, middleclasstool, Solon and Thanks, jamesonandwater
Last year
MeFi comment:
"Oh yes, twoleftfeet - "busy meditating on the vast panoply of visual delights that comes with infinite iteration of quaternions," you claim.
But we all saw you ACTUALLY contemplating her ample bosom over the cheese course.
By..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by ~
Last year
MeFi comment:
"I'm selling advertising space in my McDONALDS - I'M LOVING IT! MeFi comments now, and I find that it's a great way to A diamond is forever - DeBeers open up new revenue streams that support my webcontent Friends don’t let friends drive drunk. A..." [
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favorited 15 times, recently by tehloki, zippy, sgt.serenity, Kimothy, marble, liza, SeanMac, Ryvar, meech, Pope Guilty
Last year
MeFi comment:
"Thanks for spoiling this for everyone. How the fuck can I watch this movie now that I know that the "Boy in the Striped Pajamas" is actually - A GIRL!?
Yes, 12 year-old Polly Pooperstrasse runs away from home to join the circus. But..." [
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favorited 9 times, recently by Dr.Pill, FatherDagon
Last year
MeFi comment:
"Large Hadron Collider too small, say experts
Controversy broke out in the scientific world today, with rival experts shooting opposing arguments out of their mouths at 99.99999% of the speed of light and around a circular path the size of Provence..." [
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favorited 16 times
Last year
MeFi comment:
"I think that anyone who believes in an imaginary being, no matter what its name is, should be labeled mentally ill.
It's hardly radical to state what a left-wing, anti-religious place MeFi is - it's actually the reason I stopped coming here. But,..." [
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favorited 5 times
Last year
MeFi comment:
"Temporary autism is but one small step away from a range of recreational diseases for fun and profit.
"I was planning a trip to India, and really wanted the full native experience. And the money I made begging meant that my temporary leprosy..." [
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favorited 23 times
Last year
MeFi comment:
"Barack Obama and John McCain. Two men of God. Two brothers in His sight. But now, brother is pitted against brother. And this November, God has to choose one - and only one - to be his representative on Earth. Both have asked for His blessing -..." [
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favorited 9 times
Last year
MeTa comment:
"I'd like this comment to be "anonymised", because I'm typing it while fucking a goat. Thanks." [
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favorited 9 times
Last year
MeFi comment:
"Highly relevant post, especially when America still celebrates a holiday called "Make Martin Luther King Day".
Why you people want to disband your glorious republic and make a racist german guy your King has always been a mystery to me -..." [
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favorited 6 times
Last year
MeFi comment:
"ON YOUR SPECIAL DAY
"You've worked so darn hard
For such a long time!
And now that you've "made it"
I'm sure you'll do fine!
Your ticket's got no chance in Hell
Without my participation -
Still - congratulations on..." [
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favorited 1 time
Last year
MeFi comment:
"Top 10 Greatest Greats in the Universe!
Celebrating 13.7 billion years of Golden Galactic Greatness!
Brought to you by the Universe Appreciation Society.
It's Your Universe - Appreciate It!
10. Red spot.
9. Attractor.
8. Silence.
7...." [
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favorited 7 times
Last year
MeFi comment:
"we'll know she recognizes herself in the mirror
Just to add my thoughts on this mirror topic: it's actually been quite a while since I recognised myself in the mirror. As far as I recall, I'm a strapping young lad of 18 years old, with a song in..." [
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favorited 8 times
Last year
MeFi comment:
"No, that's not right ... his paintings are shit too. OK, I think that means that the inconsistency here must be between Hitler, who was a complete jerk in every department, and me - obviously some kind of world's ultimate genius or something...." [
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favorited 1 time
Last year
MeFi comment:
"I have mixed feelings about Burroughs.
It IS disconcerting when we are faced with such a dichotomy between a person's art and their life, hj03. I personally find it quite troubling in the case of Hitler, who was a TERRIBLE artist, but otherwise a..." [
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favorited 1 time
Last year
MeFi comment:
"What a moran. Accurately replicating even the smallest trace of an human being - created in God's image and endowed with complex rationality - is simply impossible for sinful fools such as we...." [
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favorited 1 time
Last year
MeFi comment:
"MINUTES OF GALACTIC BOARD MEETING
1. Update on takeover of Milky Way by Andromeda galaxy. Staffing issues discussed, agreed that this was a good chance to get rid of embarrasingly-named Uranus. Memo entitled "We're firing Uranus" to..." [
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favorited 4 times
Last year
MeTa comment:
"cosmis osmo, you are asking why your questions suck: if you get any good answers here then it's obvious you don't need any advice about asking questions and you're wasting our time. But if you don't get any relevant answers here, then you've wasted..." [
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favorited 2 times
Last year
MeFi comment:
"I'm actually working on a similar scheme, "the Open Source Child-Hugging project". Parents are encouraged to wear one of our freely distributed T-shirts - one kind reads: "Yes, Please Hug My Child!" and I'm working on getting the..." [
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favorited 1 time
Last year
MeFi comment:
"Well I welcome any and all research into the sham athiest science of "Darwinism", and I'm glad that people are finally starting to recognise that the intelligent design of toxic plants, malaria, leprosy, flesh-eating bacteria and ravenous..." [
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favorited 5 times
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