MeTa comment:
"Thank you for your metatalk post! Your metatalk post is important to us! All of our vituperitive assholes are currently busy but your metatalk post has been placed in a queue and will be dealt with by the first available snide, arrogant harpy!..." [
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MeFi comment:
"Personally, I never write a single syllable on this website that I would now proudly say at the facial appendages of the person or persons whose eyeballs are intended to suck upon the syllabic glyphs first-mentioned.
Why, only the other day I..." [
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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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MeFi comment:
"The flowers are losing their scent
The buzz of bees is diminishing
The stock of the forest is spent
The banquet of fish is finishing
The glaciers are melting and dying
The frogs are all covered in mould
The birds have given up flying
The..." [
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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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MeFi comment:
"My pet peeve is when someone says "hack-hack-hack-pyow-hack-hack-pyow". I know potty-nosed monkey language is constantly evolving (or whatever the hell it is that languagehat claims) but I just think that it makes the caller sound stupid...." [
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MeTa comment:
"Dear Matt,
You've probably already seen my FPP about Bu$h's plans to harness some Mexican people to his chariot to pull him through the streets of Washington in celebration of his latest pseudo-triumph (it's not too late to sign my email petition..." [
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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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MeFi comment:
"Was it not the great Reuben Fine who said he'd rather have a pawn than a finger? That's why modern chess is so complex, because players can swap body parts for extra pieces.
I remember seeing Viswanathan Anand play a game where he was down two..." [
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MeFi comment:
"Co-incidentally, I actually have a life-sized rubber mother. And we do everything together!
I dress her up in a variety of clothes appropriate for a middle-aged matriarch, I take her out shopping with me, we go to the movies once a week, and -..." [
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MeFi comment:
"Surely the phenomenon of celebrity is now so ubitquitous that we could expect to be immune from its sullen spell when tragedy blights the spotlighted incumbent? No! - not when a callow youth, whose very profession is to inculcate empathy in his..." [
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MeFi comment:
"Friday Night with Günter Verheugen
The European Commissioner for Enterprise and Industry will delight audiences again in March with an exciting line up of Hollywood stars speaking about their ideas for economic progress through innovation and..." [
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MeTa comment:
"Capitalist swine! Your counter-revolutionary proposal is a foul rejection of the principle on which MeFi was founded: "from each according to his ability, to each according to her needs".
No, we'll have no "mall" here, thank..." [
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MeFi comment:
"Why leave Chelsea? I did not even want to come to Chelsea. Other managers have clubs, they have money, they have players. But not Mourinho. I do not know why. Maybe you can ask the press, maybe you can ask Uefa. Ask them: why does Mourinho not..." [
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MeFi comment:
"Hey Dick! What's happening?
- Oh, just dwelling on the purposelessness of existence in a chaotic and pitiless universe, Sam. You?
Thought I'd get Chris and Danny over for an arbitrary celebration of numerical change in the..." [
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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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MeFi comment:
"This is a great list - a GREAT list. One of the best lists I've read in a long time - and let me tell you, I've read a lot of fucking lists in my life. But without a doubt, this list has that rare combination of action, suspense and romance that I..." [
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MeFi comment:
"Actually Percy Bysshe Shelley was constructed by Byron out of body parts of dead poets and some left over Donne. The quick spark of electricity seeded the monster with vital power, but it was so, so lonley - so Byron made for it a terrible and..." [
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MeFi comment:
"Sontag's thesis is an excellent one, and rightly held up by all upright, right-thinking people as right. However, I'd sound one note of caution upon the bugle of philosophical analysis - does the argument go far enough?
Of course, photography is..." [
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MeFi comment:
"what's irony?
Metonymy, parataxis, similey and irony are the four master tropes - the most wondrous devices in all of literature! Let me tell you all about them, because you people sound like you could do with some education and they're really..." [
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