Update from Yale. Verdict: Hoax.
posted to MetaFilter by fuzzbean at 3:30 PM on April 17, 2008

3rding madpercolator. Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark was and is amazingly awesome. I still remember the illustrations for the Wendigo one.
posted to MetaFilter by fuzzbean at 7:31 PM on March 19, 2008

I thought site changes referred to changing the position of the needle for his insulin pump.
posted to MetaFilter by fuzzbean at 2:19 PM on March 6, 2008

I was just listening to this on NPR on the way home...nice timing!
posted to MetaFilter by fuzzbean at 1:08 PM on February 7, 2008

Well, fuck. Not that I didn't know about MRSA already, but in addition to all the scary stuff everyone else has to worry about, I've got a full packload of antibiotic allergies which mean that I'm screwed if I ever get properly sick.

I deal with this by avoiding the doctor like the plague. I...guess it helps?
posted to MetaFilter by fuzzbean at 9:16 AM on October 18, 2007

I miss beignets. Nothing, not even funnel cakes, compare to a good heaping pile of fresh beignets.

/Louisiana memories
posted to MetaFilter by fuzzbean at 1:21 PM on October 11, 2007

Oh goodness.

I grew up with this movie. My siblings and I would regularly sing, "It's ever so jolly just being a frog" in the car. And make jokes about popovers when someone was being particularly obstreperous.

I've been searching periodically for it to come out on DVD rather than video, but this is good enough.

Thanks for finding this glorious piece of my childhood.

(P.S. We had the Mary Martin Peter Pan too.)
posted to MetaFilter by fuzzbean at 5:57 PM on September 30, 2007

Thanks for the post! I sent it to all of my librarian and librarian-wannabe friends. And kept trying to see if I could spot any that I knew...no such luck.
posted to MetaFilter by fuzzbean at 9:54 AM on August 28, 2007

DU: Doesn't work for me either. It just feels like I'm rubbing my nose with crossed fingers. I even tried closing my eyes.

I probably look terribly silly right now. *rubrubrub*

(And yeah, cool links!)
posted to MetaFilter by fuzzbean at 11:46 AM on August 13, 2007

Some of these are really gorgeous. Thanks for posting.
posted to MetaFilter by fuzzbean at 9:25 PM on July 9, 2007

Mushrooms? Or ALIENS?! I would link to a fulltext but my googlefu fails me.
posted to MetaFilter by fuzzbean at 8:04 PM on June 12, 2007

Jerry Falwell and Jack Chick get very cross.
posted to MetaFilter by fuzzbean at 7:59 PM on June 12, 2007

Wow. I'm tearing up right now.

Thank you for posting this.
posted to MetaFilter by fuzzbean at 8:47 PM on June 4, 2007

Curses. Now I really want some Watergate Salad.
posted to MetaFilter by fuzzbean at 12:21 PM on March 23, 2007

PotEoA - Why is that man holding a plastic bag in his right hand?

No. Wait. Don't answer that.

Please don't answer that.
posted to MetaFilter by fuzzbean at 8:32 AM on January 2, 2006

It's the changing the meaning of science that blows my mind. Way to give reality the finger, guys.

Also, check this response from Janet Waugh (quoted in article) to the FSM theory:

Thanks for your comments about the Flying Spaghetti Monster and all the supporters who have sent their support to members of the Kansas Board of Education. I am supporting the recommendations of the science committee and am currently in the... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by fuzzbean at 6:03 PM on November 8, 2005

I interviewed a woman for a journalism class once. She had spent a great deal of time as a journalist in apartheid and post-apartheid South Africa. She is now the head of a non-profit agency in the Northeast. I asked her if she saw any parallels between the situation in apartheid South Africa and in America today. She looked at my tape recorder, said "I don't want to answer that question," and nodded vigorously.

Just FYI.
posted to MetaFilter by fuzzbean at 4:01 PM on December 30, 2004