MeFi comment:
""These sleazy banker types came up to us and asked if they could join our table," Heather recalls. At first she told them to get lost, but she relented after the men ordered a cheese plate and some nice wine. One of the guys took a seat..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by limeonaire, MLIS
15 minutes ago
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"2) Abortion is my litmus test. If you don't pass that with me, I won't bother to look at anything else, period.
posted by konolia at 4:28 PM on August 31
Why didn't your Republican President and your Republican Congress and your..." [
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favorited 39 times, recently by Lou Stuells, minifigs, cavalier, BrotherCaine, Coatlicue, blueberry, Navelgazer, quin, mystyk, Who_Am_I, Faint of Butt, clearly, padraigin, kosher_jenny, splatta, ooga_booga, kuujjuarapik, malaprohibita, zardoz, TheOnlyCoolTim, Mick, avocet, May Kasahara, showbiz_liz, AceRock, lostburner, iamkimiam, Hlewagast, zarah, Rhaomi, AsYouKnow Bob, the dief, glycolized, sheila t, lisa g, EarBucket, cashman, milarepa, scody
2 days ago
MeFi comment:
"That was a surprisingly classy ad from McCain. It's too bad our collective appetite for partisan snark and mudslinging can't let the rest of the campaign season progress at that level permanently.
posted by Dave Faris at 9:53 PM on August 28
It..." [
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favorited 13 times, recently by tehloki, chiababe, May Kasahara, peacheater, Mick, shiu mai baby, synecdoche, DU, Blazecock Pileon, Pope Guilty, bardic, C.Batt, bryanzera
9 days ago
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"An older religious man who marries a younger woman open to religion is without fail a man who is looking to control his wife through the brand of religion that he gets to introduce to her. He was hoping that you would be a gullible, easily..." [
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favorited 3 times, recently by Coatlicue, giraffe, blueberry
9 days ago
MeFi comment:
"The diary Confessions of A Teach for America Member seemed interesting, though I'm a bit skeptical of some of it.
posted by TheophileEscargot at 1:31 AM on August 28
You're right to be skeptical because it's one hundred percent bullshit.
My..." [
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9 days ago
MeFi comment:
"Some people read McCarthy and Murakami and Roth and Eggers and Rushdie and yes D. F. Wallace and the ever-hated S. King and Calvino and Eco and Updike and sometimes even People magazine and Ecclesiastes all in the same day and also manage not to get..." [
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2 weeks ago
MeTa comment:
"Phil, all this bullying is just an elaborate masque to point out the Folly of Fools. You see, one fine afternoon we were all reading Épître à l'Auteur du Livre des Trois Imposteurs and languagehat noted, deliciously, that it would be marvelous to..." [
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favorited 57 times, recently by Haruspex
2 weeks ago
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"The worst thing that has ever happened to a French person as a result of anti-French behavior in America is being called a cheese-eating surrendermonkey. The worst thing that has happened to an American as a result of anti-American behavior is..." [
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favorited 3 times, recently by Mayor Curley, shavenwarthog, Phalene
3 weeks ago
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"FDR entered Columbia Law School in 1905, but dropped out (never to graduate) in 1907 because he had passed the New York State Bar exam.
Kennedy graduated cum laude from Harvard with a degree in international affairs.
Gandhi was by all accounts..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by Solon and Thanks, the_bone
3 weeks ago
MeFi comment:
"since we beat up on people who do it here (spammers were just one example), why is it okay elsewhere?
posted by dirtynumbangelboy at 1:59 AM on August 15
No one gets mad at spammers here because they're "breaking the TOS"; people get..." [
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3 weeks ago
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""Optimize to File Size" is the key phrase here. I've used it for years to optimize GIFs to be under a certain number of KB, and there's no reason it won't work just as well with your larger photographs. Photoshop is your best choice for..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by blueberry
3 weeks ago
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"For the love of Christ, stay away from MG and his wife, shut down your journal, and stay away from posting the details of your life on the internet for at least a year. Problem solved...." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by blueberry
3 weeks ago
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"Yes, and we could have a thread about this in which the evident fact of violence perpetrated in the name of Judaism would be the very topic of the discussion, and yet if some knucklehead started talking about how Judaism was a shambling undead horror..." [
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3 weeks ago
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Police raid mayor's house, shoot dogs, recommend land war in Asia.
favorited 13 times, recently by parudox, every_one_needs_a_hug_sometimes, longdaysjourney, notashroom, box, agregoli, BrotherCaine, Orb, ShawnStruck, bjtitus, mhaw, Phalene, Rykey
3 weeks ago
MeFi comment:
"I hate it when assholes abuse the system that is put in place to protect innocent people from evil or conniving landlords, because it makes it that much easier for people like Cool Papa Bell to take it as a sign that the system must be changed to..." [
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favorited 3 times, recently by Dreamghost, rtha, yort
3 weeks ago
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"Get better, then charge more. To be honest, your question about graphic design in February make me think that you are not ready to be trusted with people's projects. Because if you're charging a reasonable rate, then you're going to lose bids to..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by Dean King, phytage
4 weeks ago
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"Look, man, I am not trying to be snarky or mean or defend my profession from hot up-and-coming enthusiasts, but I can say that judging by your responses and clarifications, at this point you are not ready to even man the counter at Kinko's, let alone..." [
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favorited 7 times, recently by Heretic, greenie2600
4 weeks ago
MeFi comment:
"Granted, scammers don't contribute anything useful to society. But I've never understood this mentality of feeling sorry for fools and demonizing those who do the obvious thing: simply going after easy money.
posted by wastelands at 11:33 AM on..." [
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favorited 3 times, recently by orthogonality, nickyskye, Countess Elena
4 weeks ago
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"Okay, so here's how it goes... yes, you can do design on a PC but most serious designers are Mac based. The programs you need for print design will be Illustrator (for vector/line images), Photoshop (for pixelated/photo images) and either InDesign..." [
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favorited 8 times, recently by greenie2600
4 weeks ago
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"Great work by Teall and Flux; funny as hell. I know some of you think it a shame that Emmerich "bought" his taste, but that's what professionals are for. We don't expect people to be their own lawyers. Anyway, there are more samples at..." [
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Last month
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"The best thing I can think of is to give them very specific instructions that are impossible - or almost impossible - to fuck up. You be the art director and make them the production artists - draw very specific comps with the layout, indicate the..." [
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Last month
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"Other hospitals are more aggressive, routinely sending uninsured immigrants, both legal and illegal, back to their homelands. One Tucson hospital even tried to fly an American citizen, a sick baby whose parents were illegal immigrants, to Mexico last..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by liza
Last month
MeFi comment:
"Why the hell didn't this girl's family surrender her to the state if they couldn't be bothered to take adequate care of her?
posted by orange swan at 12:03 PM on August 2
Because then they can't cash her social security check.
I hope that the..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by orrnyereg, every_one_needs_a_hug_sometimes
Last month
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"The total absence of any known motive on the part of Ivins is troubling.
It was probably just a big-ass check from Karl Rove & Company." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by electrasteph
Last month
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"I'm still reading the grand jury report. It is astonishing. The incompetence of the DHS employees (and those of MultiEthnic) would be sufficient to get you terminated in about, oh, three hours at your average privately-owned business. How is it..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Dreama
Last month
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"As a designer, it's hard not to agree with Draplin, who is a great and talented guy. But a lot of the fault lies with the consumer, who balks at the idea of paying professional prices for professional work, and with the small business owner who will..." [
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favorited 9 times, recently by cruelfate, twiki, paddysat, Shepherd, MegoSteve, Goblindegook, Kikkoman, Thorzdad, stumcg
Last month
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"At meetings, activists would later say, Sapone advocated taking illegal or violent action to advance the movement. She befriended a 33-year-old activist named Fran Trutt, who in November 1988 would be arrested for planting a remote-controlled pipe..." [
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Last month
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"Most of us long time CM riders make a point of calling any yahoos out for confrontational behaviour
posted by regicide is good for you at 6:24 PM on July 29
And some, like caddis, revel in it. Congratulations, caddis. You know that asshole in..." [
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favorited 15 times, recently by oreonax, inqb8tr, fixedgear, bitterpants, scrump, ObscureReferenceMan, spaltavian, oaf, thewittyname, dirtdirt, aeschenkarnos, geekyguy, jonmc, doctor_negative, pyrex
Last month
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"What a ridiculous law that only real estate agents can get a finder's fee. I hate those sort of laws that were clearly written by, promoted by and enacted by (via proxy legislators) some business interest that wants to turn their occupation into a..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by box
Last month
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"Nobody will ever convince me that Obama didn't think his note would be read, or even published.
True, and nobody will ever convince you that Senator Obama isn't a puppy-kicking Muslim who hates women and wants to turn America into a radioactive..." [
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favorited 19 times, recently by gt2, redfisch, Dreama, picea, scrump, Reverend John, mitzyjalapeno, Mayor West, magstheaxe, minifigs, lumensimus, newdaddy, LittleMissCranky, Rhaomi
Last month
MeFi comment:
"MetaMan, if Hillary is so great, and Hillary is supporting Senator Obama, why not follow her lead? Clearly, you trust her judgment. Why are you second-guessing her now?..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by Reverend John, Blazecock Pileon
Last month
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"No screaming 'fire' in a movie theater. Got it. Personally I wish similar laws would be made about car alarms cuz DAMN I'm tired of hearing those things go off at three in the morning for no good reason. No my neighbor's radio doesn't get robbed..." [
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favorited 3 times, recently by Shepherd
Last month
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"She's not supporting Obama because she thinks he's a viable candidate. She does want to defeat McCain.
These two sentences contradict each other. Can you understand that?
That said, the silence from the Obama's peanut gallery on his many..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Pope Guilty
Last month
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"You owe for the car. No question about it. You should have taken care of all of that yourself before you left. Having her get an estimate and deal with the b.s. involved was selfish and rude.
You don't want the furniture. If you do, you..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by blueberry
Last month
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"they really do have a proliferation within the site
No, actually, they don't. Unless you're a Sunday school teacher, MeFi is way cleaner than real life. So do you have any evidence of this "proliferation" of filth?..." [
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"Going by the rest of your reply, maybe we all overreacted. Maybe you do actually care about your co-workers, and you just adopted a shitty, arsehole attitude when explaining your relationship to them in ask.mefi. I'm willing to call it either way -..." [
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Last month
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"Dana Carvey doesn't make me laugh. Let's be honest. If you call yourself a comedian, you kinda have to make me laugh for me to take you seriously. I'm sorry to hear he's had "medical issues" in recent years. I'm not gonna start laughing cuz..." [
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Last month
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""Skinheads from Maine" features the worst New England accents on TV since "Larry, Darryl and Darryl" from Newhart.
You of all people should know that an over-the-top, "bad" accent is funnier than a joyless, boring,..." [
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Last month
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"From the story about the NOPD cop brandishing a gun without cause, with children around:
"At that point one of the witnesses called 911, but several people said the responding officer spoke privately with the angry woman, then said loudly as..." [
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Last month
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"Right, cause that story totally proves that. Except, uh, it doesn't.
posted by wildcrdj at 5:15 PM on July 17
You're absolutely right. What proves it is that law enforcement officers, especially local police, are never arrested by their fellow..." [
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Last month
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"He's not alone: the American people will have potentially fatal asshole problems until January 2009." [
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favorited 32 times
Last month
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"He would purposely say hurtful things to me like, "well, my friends probably hate you because you're (____)"
Jesus, that alone is grounds for kicking him to the curb. Also, yes, he probably cheated on you. DTMFA.
Oh, and..." [
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"His body was found by police on 5 July, who said his death was not suspicious.
A spokesman for the coroner said: "As far as we know nobody else was involved. There's nothing suspicious about the death."
A Hampshire Constabulary..." [
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Last month
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"Thank you all; of course I know the right answer, but I am too much of a coward for that.
A man does the right thing even when it is difficult. Are you a man or a boy?..." [
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