MeFi comment:
"I grew up in the 1980s, and was sent to a Jewish private school until 9th grade. Like every other American student of the '80s, I was victimized by well-meaning and earnest adults wanting to warn me about whatever it was the Reagan administration was..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by brain cloud
2 days ago
MeFi comment:
"iviken's link was relevant to me. I'm a friend and political ally of Captain Morgan, and I like to know who he's consorting with." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by blueberry
2 days ago
MeFi comment:
"Damn. The man was a cultural touchstone. The world is going to sound just a little bit different from now on.
." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by davidmsc
3 days 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 23 times, recently by chrominance, funkiwan
5 days ago
MeFi comment:
"I haven't followed the link to RTFA yet, but I will say that, flippant though it may sound, clearly's answer is the most correct one. Monkeys still exist because they have yet to go extinct. Any line of thought attempting to determine the..." [
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favorited 9 times, recently by Sys Rq, tehloki, dejah420, agress, Blazecock Pileon, aeschenkarnos, Durn Bronzefist, dabitch, clearly
11 days ago
MeFi comment:
"flapjax at midnite, I think you mean that everybody's got something to hide 'cept for MeFite #17339." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Sidhedevil
11 days ago
MeFi comment:
"My view is that if you spell his name "Barak" (see above) you have no real standing to criticize him.
How about Baraka?" [
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favorited 1 time, recently by erpava
13 days ago
MeFi comment:
"redsparkler is right about the proper speed for reading comics. You see, comics, when done right, combine text and pictures in a way that conveys information differently from text or pictures alone. Some people don't get this. When comics creators..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by gc, doctor_negative
13 days ago
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
Last month
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
Last month
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
Last month
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
Last month
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
Last month
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
Last month
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
Last month
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
Last month
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
Last month
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
Last month
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
Last month
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
Last month
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
Last month
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
Last month
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
2 months ago
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
2 months ago
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
2 months ago
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
2 months ago
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
2 months ago
