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Old dangerous playground equipment.
We climbed up a metal tube that was meant to be a fire escape on an old school building. It was unbelievably hot and miserable, but a kid-type triumph.
posted to MetaFilter by Cranberry
at 3:16 PM on July 21, 2008
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Yip yip yip yip yip yip yip yip uh-huh uh-huh uh-huh
"Do you know who else had the yips? Charles Barkley.
posted by ardgedee "
Poor Charles may never get over trying to play with, and being laughed at by, Michael Jordan. His golf yips may be permanent. Charles swing is a demonstration of "how not to do it".
posted to MetaFilter by Cranberry
at 10:56 AM on July 19, 2008
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The amazing comic book adventure of Brent Rinehart
Difference between Rhodes Scholar and Roads Scholar? Rhodes Scholar can spell. That and maybe a bit less paranoia about good old boys being out to get him. Did it ever occur to a certain Roads Scholar that he might just be insufferable?
posted to MetaFilter by Cranberry
at 10:19 AM on July 19, 2008
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how I'll dream fast asleep
Will anyone ever see that the unwelcome one in SE Portland that was Molotov cocktailed will be closed? This little news item is way down here.
posted to MetaFilter by Cranberry
at 11:27 PM on July 18, 2008
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Happy Birthday Metafilter!
I made a lovely birthday cake but a bunch of crazy Frenchmen broke in and took it away to give to the poor who had no bread.
posted to MetaFilter by Cranberry
at 12:06 PM on July 14, 2008
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RED WORM TIME is begin.
"2. A plant gives a babie" Well, at last I get the straight unvarnished truth. No more of that stork nonsense.
posted to MetaFilter by Cranberry
at 4:20 PM on July 5, 2008
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Just a Spoonful of Ducats
If one is paid for his/her physical or mental labor during life, why not for what is left after death, especially if a transplant could benefit another person? On the surface it seem more reasonable than the waste of entombment or cremation. If the surgeon and the hospital are paid, why not the donor?
Anyone need a live appendix or a couple of tonsils? I will entertain any reasonable offer.
posted to MetaFilter by Cranberry
at 10:58 AM on June 30, 2008
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the tail wagging the dog
Why did Bobby Kennedy write about brother John's birthday present in January, when John's birthday was in May?
posted to MetaFilter by Cranberry
at 11:37 AM on June 29, 2008
MeFi post:
George Carlin Dead at 71
"I wonder if your soul is resting on top of a building somewhere now after being flung there by another Frisbeetarian...."posted by Lynsey
Interesting to speculate on which building - Empire State? Graumann's Chinese? Congress? Weather Bureau?
posted to MetaFilter by Cranberry
at 11:47 PM on June 22, 2008
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Even homemade Daleks EXTERMINATE!
No thread about daleks is complete without the image that someone here made of a dalek with mathowie peeking out of it. I am unable to find it and link to it, but perhaps the original artist will.
posted to MetaFilter by Cranberry
at 9:48 AM on June 20, 2008
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copyrite more like copyrong
Your comment is a good start on a full-length novel, ZachsMind . When you finish and publish it, will you copyright it?
posted to MetaFilter by Cranberry
at 10:50 PM on June 19, 2008
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Birthrate Ballyhoo
Sounds ideal, Mr_Zero. if the robots are properly respectful of our elderly crotchets and have warm hands.
posted to MetaFilter by Cranberry
at 2:43 PM on June 16, 2008
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Farm life in 1910
If anyone had any doubt that blowing up stuff is a guy thing, this thread removes that doubt.
posted to MetaFilter by Cranberry
at 2:01 PM on June 16, 2008
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Steampunk recumbent.
FOr one delicious moment, I hoped that "the cool kids have moved onto cocopunk. posted by damn dirty ape at 9:13 AM on June 16" meant that someone had crafted a socially progressive, even green reason for ingesting chocolate.
posted to MetaFilter by Cranberry
at 1:26 PM on June 16, 2008
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HeroWorship Filter
"Look at the faces of the people in those photographs and compare them to any taken at your typical evangelical rally."
Mob psychology works wherever there are lots of people, regardless of whether the point is support, validation or a lynching.
posted to MetaFilter by Cranberry
at 1:48 PM on June 9, 2008
Note to galamud: Suggest you look into Christmas.
posted to MetaFilter by Cranberry
at 3:06 PM on June 9, 2008
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Spock is Greek?
"He has to risk his life leading an away team every now and then just to break up the monotony and keep from eating his phaser." posted by Sys Rq
Does this sound like a leader we all know who goes away to meetups, interviews etc. now and then?
posted to MetaFilter by Cranberry
at 1:22 PM on June 9, 2008
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Stealth bomber crash
*passes hat* Let's buy the fly boys a new toy.
posted to MetaFilter by Cranberry
at 12:05 PM on June 6, 2008
Our plane will be named the MetaFlier and have bunny with a pancake painted on it
posted to MetaFilter by Cranberry
at 12:06 PM on June 6, 2008
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"I like to see black words on white paper rolling up in front of my gaze."
There is a typewriter somewhere in the house - it is probably pretty dusty.
As noted above, the typewriter offers no distractions such as the internet, but it does keep you busy retyping and trying to control the mess of carbon paper. Then there is the mixed blessing of Wite-Out...
I remember the green screen computer with yellow type, also the black screen. I clearly remember losing all the pricing in my catalog more than once. On a previous machine, I actually saw the... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by Cranberry
at 12:33 AM on June 6, 2008
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"But once we were in, it was, like, fuck it."
Those of you who are not affected can be philosophical. We have no outgoing email again today. Use my gmail, Yahoo! or Comcast web mail? Sure, but my 734 item address book is in OE. And I have notices to send.
Call in? Did that yesterday and just spent another 20 minutes on the phone with Comcast.
posted to MetaFilter by Cranberry
at 11:57 AM on May 31, 2008
Enlighten me, The Only Cool Tim. How would Russian hackers empty my bank account which is not online and has nothing to do with Comcast?
posted to MetaFilter by Cranberry
at 1:17 PM on May 31, 2008
So the FDIC would have to reimburse me, but my email would still work?
posted to MetaFilter by Cranberry
at 1:33 PM on May 31, 2008
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For the birders
Great pictures although I would not have recognized the UK robin as the same bird that visits our feeders.
posted to MetaFilter by Cranberry
at 12:10 AM on May 31, 2008
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Keeping it simple, voluntarily
I have no intention of giving up AC when the temperature has been near 100°! Thanks to all who want to live on nuts and berries = more electricity for me.
/Typical American
posted to MetaFilter by Cranberry
at 12:35 PM on May 19, 2008
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What am I, chopped liver?
Let's make a deal. People will quit force feeding geese if geese will quit pooping all over golf courses and eating farmers' emerging crops.
posted to MetaFilter by Cranberry
at 4:32 PM on May 14, 2008
