MeFi comment:
"lumensimus: "Jobs', not Job's."
Its Jobs's. The Elements of Style, chapter 2: "Form the possessive singular of nouns with 's. Follow this rule whatever the final consonant...." [
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favorited 17 times, recently by sindas, hapticactionnetwork, LucretiusJones, zixyer, snsranch, tehloki, Ryvar, treepour, Korou, Tennyson D'San, oozy rat in a sanitary zoo, shmegegge, bonaldi, papafrita, DU, Nattie, freebird
7 days ago
MeFi comment:
"Related: Electoral-vote.com, which has a lot of experience with blogging elections. And fivethirtyeight.com, run by a well-respected sabermetrician." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by matteo, DU
9 days ago
MeFi comment:
"Mister_A: "So this is bad, right? Seriously, can someone dumb it down a bit for me?"
What's your gmail address? I'll send you an explanation...." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by yonation, freebird
10 days ago
MeTa comment:
"Every time AdBlock comes up, I have to say it:
Axiom: You love many web sites.
Axiom: Some web sites have ads.
Axiom: Some web sites with ads only survive through advertising revenue.
Conclusion: Blocking ads will most likely hurt some web..." [
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favorited 4 times, recently by IndigoRain, jamjam, middleclasstool, netbros
11 days ago
MeTa comment:
"blue_beetle: "Sounds like all comments should be in their own IFRAME"
GRAGHRgagrarAGHAH
*asplodes*" [
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favorited 1 time, recently by George_Spiggott
12 days ago
MeFi comment:
"In Brighton, my friend Esme Jones, 38, who has just had a baby, spent a precious night out with her husband, a film editor, and said she kept nagging him to talk. "If I'd been with you or another girlfriend, even if we'd seen each other earlier..." [
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favorited 9 times, recently by HighTechUnderpants, Durn Bronzefist, MythMaker, Navelgazer, kuujjuarapik, The Light Fantastic, gorgor_balabala, davejay, Science!
2 weeks ago
MeTa comment:
"cortex: "In the i-almost-miss-the-img-tag category: Plutor's banner ad."
Not only am I humbled and shocked by being selected for this honor (oh, and let's not forget disgusted by cortex's taste), but the new favorites it attracted..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by goodnewsfortheinsane
2 weeks ago
MeTa comment:
"Eideteker: "Also, for a brief period yesterday, my favorite count stood at 1337. That was pretty awesome."
I just un-favorited this comment. You're welcome...." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by starzero
2 weeks ago
MeFi comment:
"When did Slashdot become so eyeball-gougingly ugly? It always looked like it was designed by techies (which it was). But now it looks like it was designed by techies who hate me and want me to cry...." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by bonaldi
3 weeks ago
MeFi comment:
"uncleozzy: "Every time he put that apron on, his unit came out of his pants, dangling just inches from unsuspecting families."
Whether it was in his pants or out of his pants, wasn't it always dangling just inches from unsuspecting..." [
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favorited 4 times, recently by imperium, fixedgear, MikeKD, Pope Guilty
3 weeks ago
MeFi comment:
"Benjy: "Dude was 25."
Teenagerness knows no age limit." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Artw
3 weeks ago
MeFi comment:
"The phrase "flip-flop" and all reasonable synonyms thereof should be entirely banned from political discourse. To imply that it's wrong to change your mind when circumstances change is offensive. In fact, one could easily argue that an..." [
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favorited 20 times, recently by frenetic, Solon and Thanks, boo_radley, Tehanu, longsleeves, scrump, East Manitoba Regional Junior Kabaddi Champion '94, snofoam, jtron, JDHarper, Big_B, askmehow, Ludi, Who_Am_I, ltracey, mosk, rokusan, quin, Monochrome, mmahaffie
Last month
MeTa comment:
"THE JOKE IS "Metafilter is pretty much guaranteed to have the internet's largest population of MetaFilthy users". CUE THE LAFF TRACK." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by roll truck roll
Last month
Ask comment:
"Good answers, considering a lot of these are movies I've never heard of. The Chosen I haven't seen since elementary school, maybe I'd get more out of it now.
My wife's going to freak out at ten movies in a row from Netflix with spooky Jews. I'm..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by badmoonrising
Last month
MeFi comment:
"edgeways: "alternatively my friend's 3 year old kid just blows my mind, he can name off all the common birds in this area by their calls, and has an ever increasing grasp of most of the plants at his eye level."
Ah, so the problem isn't..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by spacewaitress
Last month
MeTa comment:
"Good point. Can we remove the favorites counts from profile pages? They're popularity contesty. They reinforce karma-whoring and hasten our slide towards Diggitude...." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by iamkimiam
Last month
MeTa comment:
"When I hit http://ask.metafilter.com - it tells me "welcome back" with another username...
Is it "Kotter"? Maybe you're mistaking a question about the Sweathogs with an actual greeting?..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by BeerFilter
Last month
MeTa comment:
"It's like ordering a porterhouse steak and an Arby's hamburger for lunch. No one will be angry, but they will be confused and dismayed." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by IndigoRain
Last month
MeFi comment:
"yoink: "When Gore had appointed moderate liberals to the Supreme Court (just sit back and dream on who, believably, would take Roberts and Alito's places, and what that would have mean for American jurisprudence in the coming decades), but..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by Blazecock Pileon, nasreddin
Last month
MeTa comment:
"boo_radley: "plutor: where do you live that arby's sells hamburgers? that confuses and dismays me more than anything else in this thread."
I'm not an Arby's expert. I'm also not a Uclue expert. You can see my metaphor was planned..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by roll truck roll
Last month
MeFi comment:
"not_on_display: "This OK GO thing is getting out of hand."
You mean indie-produced music videos on Internet web sharing sites? If it's the democratization of music videos that you think is a bad thing, I'm pretty sure that this video,..." [
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favorited 5 times, recently by miss lynnster, Parannoyed, oneirodynia, Tehanu, DU
2 months ago
MeTa comment:
"EXCLUSIVE: MATHOWIE AND THE MEFITES will be going on a seventeen city tour to promote the release of The Rise and Fall of the Ban Hammer, the long-awaited followup to their triple-platinum 2006 album Snarq. Dates for shows including New York,..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by empath, Rock Steady
2 months ago
MeTa comment:
"Dear ______ (username),
Your post on _______ (plural noun) was ______ (adjective) and makes it clear that you have a ______ (adjective) ______ (body part). Your continuing obsession with the ______ (expletive) ______ (adverb) ______ (adjective)..." [
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favorited 15 times, recently by theredpen, shiu mai baby, BrotherFeldspar, bingo, allkindsoftime, Caduceus, rockhopper, scrump, tehloki, josher71, shmegegge, lukemeister, schyler523, iamkimiam, Artw
2 months ago
MeFi comment:
"loquacious: "And this is why baseball is pretty much unwatchable these days. A bunch of duffers treating it like a serious game of golf. It's stickball, you noobs. It's supposed to be an action sport, not a genteel game of billiards...." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by desuetude, klangklangston
2 months ago
MeTa comment:
"This idea would prevent us from ever linking to Flickr or to the websites for the NY Times, The Guardian, The Globe and Mail, LA Times, or any other print publication, no matter how free the content on their websites are. MetaFilter also takes..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by BrotherCaine
2 months ago
MeFi comment:
"Crazy Mac zealots have standards have to rationalize that their OS is Right because they're stuck with it. Linux users who are grateful for what the free software community can be bothered to give them end up stuck in the shitpile that is the Linux..." [
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favorited 3 times, recently by tehloki, JHarris, octothorpe
2 months ago
