MeFi comment:
"I confess to not recognizing a number of those plants and creatures, but I have to call foul on the oak tree. I can recognize an oak tree-- the leaves have big round lobes and it's got acorns on. A blurry photograph of a tree half a mile away,..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by RedEmma, infinitywaltz
6 days ago
MeFi comment:
"Every morning at the zoo, four dedicated workers start the day by carefully inflating the elephant." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Countess Elena
6 days ago
MeFi comment:
"A few weeks ago, I discovered that my car wouldn't start, so I phoned my boss and asked her if she wouldn't mind coming by and giving me a jump. While I was waiting for her to arrive, I pulled out the jumper cables and connected them to my car..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by Monochrome, vertigo25
8 days ago
MeFi comment:
"Can I have a Tesla Invention Factory?
No, on account of the death rays." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by starman
10 days ago
MeFi comment:
"**SPOILERS AHEAD**
In the end of The Dark Knight, Batman is on the run from the Gotham City police. He has to be, because he is a vigilante who operates outside the law, and therefore is breaking the law. He knows this, and Commissioner Gordon..." [
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favorited 4 times, recently by MikeKD, moonbiter, lord_wolf, verb
12 days ago
MeFi comment:
"Fashion is about having something of high quality that most others cannot afford.
Fixed. Since their target market is people who will buy a new whatever-it-is every season, why bother making something that will last longer?..." [
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favorited 3 times, recently by dejah420, aeschenkarnos, papafrita
2 weeks ago
MeFi comment:
"If you actually read the article, you'll see that Nekschot was perfectly aware that he was paraphrasing Monty Python. Back to the subject...
suspicion that he violated a Dutch law that forbids discrimination on the basis of race, religion or..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Lou Stuells
2 weeks ago
MeFi comment:
"I've never known that "nosh" could be slang for a blow job, but I'll put it aside as a Britishism. As a Yiddish expression, though, it's utterly incorrect without the indefinite article. Only a shameless goy would use the word as a general..." [
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favorited 3 times, recently by Kadin2048, mephron, mosk
2 weeks ago
MeFi comment:
"At least I can safely say that my wife and I didn't give any of our wedding party botulism on purpose!" [
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favorited 13 times, recently by bitter-girl.com, grandsham, madamjujujive, yoink, unixrat, These Premises Are Alarmed, marsha56, contessa, Abiezer, Blazecock Pileon, M.C. Lo-Carb!, DU, Phalene
2 weeks ago
MeFi comment:
"Incidentally, speaking as an editor, I make tiny corrections like this all the time. If a writer were to inform me that I was in the wrong and had botched up a colloquialism with which I was unfamiliar, I would apologize profusely and change it...." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Caduceus
2 weeks ago
MeFi comment:
"What makes homosexuality different than chess in their minds?
The buttfucking and cocksucking?
What an odd version of chess you must play
The queens we use would not excite you...." [
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favorited 20 times, recently by nev, ymgve, Pantengliopoli, Malor, Hicksu, agress, Lou Stuells, mykescipark, LiliaNic, etaoin, ST!NG, longsleeves, TheWhiteSkull, Cool Papa Bell, DevilsAdvocate, rodgerd, gladly, Blazecock Pileon, desuetude, CitizenD
2 weeks ago
MeFi comment:
"Honest question: How would an expert cryptologist go about determining that a particular passage is actually written in a very difficult code, and is not merely a random assortment of characters?..." [
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favorited 3 times, recently by papafrita, mduda, mai
3 weeks ago
MeFi comment:
"I am not a Catholic. I am not a Christian. I'm not even a monotheist. And yet I say with one-hundred-percent true belief and sincerity: Fred Rogers was a saint...." [
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favorited 21 times, recently by magstheaxe
3 weeks ago
MeFi comment:
"E. Paul Zehr seems to be a smart guy, but is he the World's Greatest Detective? I don't think so." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by EatTheWeak
3 weeks ago
Ask comment:
"For the record, it's not the simple fact of not being able to see an R-rated movie that crosses the line for me. My wife, for example, can't bear to see graphic depictions of violence. I understand this and accommodate her-- violence, even when..." [
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favorited 4 times, recently by BrotherCaine
Last month
MeFi comment:
"I recall listening to Diane Rehm interview Fred Rogers once upon a time. At one point she interrupted him and politely asked if he would mind being patient for a moment while they went to station identification. He agreed, of course, but that request..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by bitter-girl.com
Last month
MeFi comment:
"We know that John McCain spent five and a half years in the custody of the North Vietnamese, but do we really know exactly how his time was spent while there? It's obvious from the public record that he returned a changed man, promptly abandoning his..." [
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favorited 9 times, recently by jlbartosa, twins named Lugubrious and Salubrious, PareidoliaticBoy, Devils Rancher, FissionChips, Kraftmatic Adjustable Cheese, any major dude, WPW, stet
Last month
MeFi comment:
"People sure like saying 'non-zero' a lot.
Except, of course, for the non-zero percentage of the population who don't.
In any case, I'm boring, I was born boring, and I'll die boring. Feel free to ask me for any information you may want or need,..." [
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favorited 6 times, recently by twins named Lugubrious and Salubrious, Durn Bronzefist, Green Eyed Monster, BrotherFeldspar, gorgor_balabala, octothorpe
Last month
MeFi comment:
"This is food that is meant to be eaten at 2 AM while blind, stinking drunk. The meat, potatoes, flour and grease will sit in your stomach, sop up the excess alcohol and allow you to stagger home. If you are complaining about the aesthetics, flavor or..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by The Light Fantastic
Last month
MeFi comment:
"Sad, yes, but Newman is also 83 years old, and that's a good run by anyone's standards. I'll raise a glass of salad dressing in his honor." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Meatbomb
Last month
MeFi comment:
"Okay, cross out racist and just call the comment ignorant.
You're back-pedaling, but we can let that slide.
It's unfair to cherry-pick isolated cultural practices like the ones linked to in OP and portray them as yet another example of Africa's..." [
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favorited 9 times, recently by Who_Am_I, arcticwoman, Dormant Gorilla, ruelle, demon666, whoaali, aeschenkarnos, Sangermaine, Inspector.Gadget
Last month
MeTa comment:
"[ ] in the wagon of a travelin' show
[ ] one mornin' when the sun didn't shine" [
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favorited 1 time, recently by RussHy
Last month
MeFi comment:
"I was a smart kid-- too smart for my own good, in many ways-- and almost always got good grades. But one thing that I distinctly remember is how much I loathed being praised for my effort. I hated getting a report card in grade school and seeing an..." [
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favorited 6 times, recently by olya
2 months ago
MeFi comment:
"Point 1: If the artistic statement of a piece of static, visual art lies in its creation rather than its final form, is it still visual art? Has it become performance art, or the remnants of an act of performance art? Or is it something else entirely?..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by nola
2 months ago
MeFi comment:
"Obscenity is the crutch of the inarticulate motherfucker." [
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favorited 20 times, recently by imperium, pots, tehloki, chiababe, milov, wzcx, vsync, Hot Like Your 12V Wire, phatkitten, sperose, ao4047, mr. strange, cashman, Drastic, Sys Rq, TheOnlyCoolTim, grouse, blixco, Reverend John, sexymofo
2 months ago
MeFi comment:
"Would you ever mix lemon sorbet into a glass of Guinness?
Sure, why the hell not? I don't need any magic fruits to make me try weird combinations of food...." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by not_on_display
2 months ago
Ask comment:
"An old man sits down in the confessional at the church, and says, "Forgive me, Father, for I have sinned."
The priest says, "Tell me of your sins, my son."
The old man says, "Well, Father, I'm 90 years old; I've been..." [
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favorited 21 times, recently by h00py, motdiem2
2 months ago
