MeFi comment:
"I refuse to like any movie that includes the phrase "honest to blog." What in flying fuck does that mean?" [
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favorited 1 time, recently by pxe2000
more than 12 hours ago
MeFi comment:
"To pass, there have to be no murders, no wars, no monsters run amok, no giant natural or manmade disasters, no unnatural deaths other than perhaps an everyday accident.
There goes my entire video collection.
Counterpoint to the Bechdel test:..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Artw
3 days ago
MeFi comment:
"I've always wanted to make a minute-long version of Gone With the Wind called "Gone With the Wind in 60 Seconds." The burning of Atlanta would be presented as a few seconds of a still photo of modern day Atlanta set on fire.
(This thing..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Korou
3 days ago
MeFi post:
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favorited 42 times, recently by johannahdeschanel, shavenwarthog, cobra_high_tigers, the cydonian, spiderskull, chairface, Thoth, tjenks, bz, papafrita, Cassilda, CaptApollo, astro38, fantabulous timewaster, bitslayer, surrendering monkey, tomcooke, kothar, jkaczor, garrett, nicolin, mystyk, Griffynn, OverlappingElvis, blindcarboncopy, neckro23, SteelyDuran, Dark Messiah, Optimus Chyme, robtf3, JHarris, musicinmybrain, ZenMasterThis, ErWenn, Kikkoman, lenny70, Laen, tomble, fleetmouse, a young man in spats, k8lin, Spacelegoman
7 days ago
MeFi comment:
"Neat idea, but I'm too anal about my privacy to ever do either side of this transaction." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by eclectist
2 weeks ago
MeFi comment:
".
Is it just me, or do a lot of really cool people seem to be kicking the bucket lately?
Heath Ledger, George Carlin, Stan Winston, Thomas Disch, Bernie Mac, Issac Hayes. It's been a bad year...." [
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favorited 4 times, recently by schyler523, deusdiabolus, miss-lapin, JHarris
3 weeks ago
MeFi comment:
"I always cringe a bit when I see that a well-known right-winger has died, because I know I'll get to see MetaFilter at its most gleefully sadistic.
These people are fucks, but that doesn't mean we have to lower ourselves to their level...." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by ninthart, Cool Papa Bell
Last month
MeTa comment:
"I fail to see how how criticizing another poster's response to a subject cries for Meta. Saying "Take it to MeTa" is not an escape technique for when someone disaproves of what you've said...." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by loiseau, The Light Fantastic
Last month
MeFi comment:
"I recently looked up "maven" on Wikipedia and was amused to find the following under "Usage":
In the computerized version of the game Scrabble, the computer player is named Maven.
In Final Fantasy X-2, the leader of the..." [
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favorited 3 times, recently by Dr-Baa, tehloki, crataegus
Last month
MeFi comment:
"Shyamalan is just Uwe Boll with a better cinematographer.
Bears repeating.
Also, I picked the ending of The Village after seeing the god damned trailer for the first time. Generic "period" setting + Shyamalan twist = OMFG IT'S MODERN..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Artw
2 months ago
MeFi comment:
"I really, really want to like Tyson, but I just find him incredibly irritating. He talks about interesting stuff in an interesting way, but there's something about him that just rubs me the wrong way. Nails on a chalkboard...." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by BaxterG4
2 months ago
MeFi comment:
"Also:
I’ve seen men in fur suits masturbating on stuffed animals. I’ve seen high heels stepping on snails. I’ve seen women farting on birthday cakes.
This sounds like a really screwed up alternate take of Rutger Hauer's monologue at the end of..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by bent back tulips, Blazecock Pileon
2 months ago
MeFi comment:
""It is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the Kingdom of Heaven."
-- WC Fields." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by lekvar
2 months ago
MeFi comment:
""Life membership of the Martin-Baker Tie Club is confined solely to persons who have ejected from an aircraft in an emergency using a Martin-Baker designed ejection seat, and thereby saved their life."
What? People who ejected and died..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by sebastienbailard, tachikaze
2 months ago
MeFi comment:
"I wish Arafat had worn capri pants or crocs or gymshorts that say things like "Juicy!" on them. I could really do without those." [
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favorited 14 times, recently by MikeKD, Hot Like Your 12V Wire, cass, where u at dawg, violette, arcticwoman, hal9k, agenais, JDHarper, lukemeister, lord_wolf, grabbingsand, ltracey, Blazecock Pileon
3 months ago
MeFi comment:
"I wish I could favorite that comment more than once, billyfleetwood." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by wires
3 months ago
MeFi comment:
"Very cool.
Actually, this is a viral campaign for the new Indiana Jones movie
It'd be awesome if some shipping company were to replace the package tracking feature on their website with a montage of old cargo planes flying, superimposed with an..." [
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favorited 3 times, recently by teraflop, Songdog, nax
3 months ago
MeFi comment:
"Anyone else finding it odd that the download page is built with Flash?" [
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favorited 1 time, recently by rokusan
3 months ago
MeFi comment:
"Great stuff. I particularly like the Seed Conference site." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by dobbs
3 months ago
MeTa comment:
"Wasn't MetaFilter featured in a Sunday Peanuts strip back in the early 80's? The one with the Big Bite-Eating Modem?
And I could swear I saw a Matthaughey reference in "Family Circus" circa '78 or '79--- you know, the one where little..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Rock Steady
4 months ago
MeFi comment:
"It’s become a fairly common refrain, hasn’t it? The right does something offensive, the left gets mad when there are no consequences, time elapses, and the right, annoyed by lingering resentment, tells the left to “get over it.”
Bears repeating...." [
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favorited 3 times, recently by Navelgazer, perilous, JHarris
4 months ago
MeFi comment:
"Reminds me of a project a friend of mine was working on. He was going to send rollers and ink around the country so people could duplicate the New Orleans high-water mark in buildings in their towns. Personal stuff intervened, so he never finished it...." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by eustatic
4 months ago
MeFi comment:
"[digression]
A few years back, the Times-Picayune printed an article about a new fad where plastic surgeons were throwing Botox parties. Swanky, black-tie affairs where people would get botox injections. Best headline ever: "Chardonnay and a..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Pope Guilty
4 months ago
MeFi comment:
"They are enemies of fun.
Well put.
*sits on whoopie cushion*" [
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favorited 1 time, recently by skyper
4 months ago
MeFi comment:
"I disagree with Ebert on most things (including Starship Troopers), but he 's an entertaining writer, and I loved his description of Pearl Harbor:
"Pearl Harbor" is a two-hour movie squeezed into three hours, about how on Dec. 7, 1941, the..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by flibbertigibbet
5 months ago
MeFi comment:
"In my mind, the badges of success would be an ISBN number and a copy in the Library of Congress.
Sorry, but I think those are poor badges of success. Hell, Dan Brown can get them...." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by papafrita, Smart Dalek
5 months ago
MeFi comment:
"I'd be more interested if they caught the guy who inspired the Leonard Smalls in Raising Arizona." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by SmileyChewtrain
5 months ago
MeFi comment:
"shit bindings.
Not knowing that "bindings" is a skiing term, I read this as some strange sort of exclamation.
"Well, shit bindings! Don't that beat all?..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by aerotive
6 months ago
MeFi comment:
"item writes "...the rich kid from your junior year of high school who's parents were rich enough to buy him his own video camera & editing equipment."
No, that would be M. Night Shyamalan. Other than that, I pretty much agree with..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by blueberry
6 months ago
MeFi comment:
"In 2004, a court in San Francisco rejected a conservative group’s challenge to a statute allowing gay marriage because the operative phrases were separated incorrectly by a semicolon instead of by the proper conjunction.
Fucking A...." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by MikeKD, tehloki
6 months ago
