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"Dibs on "Faster, Plutocrat..."" [
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favorited by jjwiseman on
September 5, 2008 7:59 AM
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"Dibs on "Faster, Plutocrat..."" [
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favorited by doctor_negative on
September 4, 2008 4:31 PM
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"Steel cut oats sound awesome!
They are, and so damned easy to make. Before you go to bed, bring a pot of 3.5 cups of water to a boil. Turn off the heat, add a cup of steel cut oats, cover and go to sleep. In the morning, you'll have almost 4 cups..." [
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favorited by flying kumquat on
September 2, 2008 4:47 PM
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"Steel cut oats sound awesome!
They are, and so damned easy to make. Before you go to bed, bring a pot of 3.5 cups of water to a boil. Turn off the heat, add a cup of steel cut oats, cover and go to sleep. In the morning, you'll have almost 4 cups..." [
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favorited by BrotherCaine on
September 2, 2008 2:37 AM
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"Steel cut oats sound awesome!
They are, and so damned easy to make. Before you go to bed, bring a pot of 3.5 cups of water to a boil. Turn off the heat, add a cup of steel cut oats, cover and go to sleep. In the morning, you'll have almost 4 cups..." [
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favorited by woebot on
September 1, 2008 10:58 PM
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"Steel cut oats sound awesome!
They are, and so damned easy to make. Before you go to bed, bring a pot of 3.5 cups of water to a boil. Turn off the heat, add a cup of steel cut oats, cover and go to sleep. In the morning, you'll have almost 4 cups..." [
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favorited by bingo on
September 1, 2008 6:59 PM
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"Steel cut oats sound awesome!
They are, and so damned easy to make. Before you go to bed, bring a pot of 3.5 cups of water to a boil. Turn off the heat, add a cup of steel cut oats, cover and go to sleep. In the morning, you'll have almost 4 cups..." [
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favorited by exlotuseater on
September 1, 2008 11:19 AM
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"Steel cut oats sound awesome!
They are, and so damned easy to make. Before you go to bed, bring a pot of 3.5 cups of water to a boil. Turn off the heat, add a cup of steel cut oats, cover and go to sleep. In the morning, you'll have almost 4 cups..." [
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favorited by ourobouros on
September 1, 2008 8:02 AM
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"Also, as someone who wears undershirts - and I assume you would want your undergarments to match - a black undershirt?
Wha? I'm a boxers guy, and I dare say it's never occurred to me to be concerned that my undershirt didn't match my shorts. Are..." [
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favorited by joelhunt on
August 19, 2008 1:24 PM
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"Oh, man. Ishmael is, indeed, a cult book. You're either crazy into it or it annoys the fuck out of you, and I'm in the latter camp." [
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favorited by ifjuly on
July 27, 2008 10:21 PM
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"Bonus pedantry: that B-like letter in Großes is an eszett, which as others have said, is an olde fashioned way of representing an sz or ss sound. See the Wikipedia link for a nice visual explication of how the ligature grew into what otherwise..." [
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favorited by JimN2TAW on
July 16, 2008 1:04 PM
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"I don't know where you are, but you might check with your local public library. In that those are considered to be definitive recordings, they are likely to also feature at the core of a good library's jazz collection. With the list in one browser..." [
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favorited by lukemeister on
July 8, 2008 7:33 PM
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"I don't know where you are, but you might check with your local public library. In that those are considered to be definitive recordings, they are likely to also feature at the core of a good library's jazz collection. With the list in one browser..." [
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favorited by GPF on
July 8, 2008 2:48 PM
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"Keen, good to know, fire&wings. In the future, I would direct you to the excellent This to That, an ancient web property that just keeps on keeping on. It is your guide to finding the right adhesive to stick A to B...." [
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favorited by whoda on
July 4, 2008 4:33 PM
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"Keen, good to know, fire&wings. In the future, I would direct you to the excellent This to That, an ancient web property that just keeps on keeping on. It is your guide to finding the right adhesive to stick A to B...." [
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favorited by bonobo on
July 4, 2008 12:53 PM
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"I take it your parents weren't divorced, eh? Or if so, one never moved far away... the only upside, as far as your daughter is concerned, is that if you live somewhere interesting and different, and she visits you, then she's somewhere interesting..." [
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favorited by marble on
June 28, 2008 12:34 AM
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"Now we know, and the other credit-card-ignorant will know too when they search!
I suggest that you take this opportunity to add some credit-card, AMEX, extended warranty, etc.-related tags to the question, to help the credit-card-ignorant find it,..." [
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favorited by lizzicide on
June 27, 2008 10:17 AM
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"Now we know, and the other credit-card-ignorant will know too when they search!
I suggest that you take this opportunity to add some credit-card, AMEX, extended warranty, etc.-related tags to the question, to help the credit-card-ignorant find it,..." [
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favorited by sparrows on
June 26, 2008 7:19 AM
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"I'm looking for traditional (melodic) music sung by singers with non-traditional singing voices.
I know it sounds like you don't want Björk, but her early Gling-Gló album may be the exception. It's quirky Björk vocal goodness applied to solidly..." [
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favorited by gyusan on
June 22, 2008 3:30 PM
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"There are a lot more sociological factors that go into your question than just "aged 20 - 28." I'm sure that in certain circles it's quite common and in others not so much. When I was twenty-something, pot and booze were par for the course,..." [
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favorited by Metroid Baby on
June 11, 2008 7:50 PM
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"how can I figure these questions out on my own?
Identifont and WhatTheFont are the resources referred to in the FAQ." [
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favorited by Eringatang on
June 11, 2008 11:22 AM
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"Thanks, but no, really, I couldn't possibly. It sounds positively ass." [
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favorited by docpops on
June 10, 2008 8:48 PM
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"The bulk aisle is your friend, seriously, if you have a local store that has one. All sorts of grains, pastas, nuts, cereals, and spices that don't generally come in store-brand format. Spices in particular can be about 1000% cheaper bought a few..." [
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favorited by invisible ink on
June 9, 2008 11:52 PM
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"Seconding polyglot. I don't know from antipodean sockets, but my first thought, given that it's bedroom/livingroom, was that perhaps it was to allow you to put a stack of LPs on the living room turntable and then casually move the action from the..." [
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favorited by thejoshu on
June 7, 2008 8:58 AM
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"Standardized containerization has pretty much made that position redundant, Eideteker." [
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favorited by dmd on
June 6, 2008 2:37 PM
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"Standardized containerization has pretty much made that position redundant, Eideteker." [
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favorited by hattifattener on
June 5, 2008 10:08 PM
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"Where can we get a lot of lead (or something heavier) on the cheap?
The only thing heavier than lead which is also not radioactive — I assume that would be a deal breaker for you — is bismuth. (Bismuth is technically radioactive, but its half..." [
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favorited by wfrgms on
June 1, 2008 9:13 PM
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"Don't sweat it. You don't look like a gift grabbing leech, you look like someone who's rushing full-on into adulthood and is sharing the good news. In an earlier generation, a baby shower invitation would be expected within the year, for the hat..." [
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favorited by DevilsAdvocate on
May 29, 2008 9:48 AM
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"Don't sweat it. You don't look like a gift grabbing leech, you look like someone who's rushing full-on into adulthood and is sharing the good news. In an earlier generation, a baby shower invitation would be expected within the year, for the hat..." [
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favorited by fantabulous timewaster on
May 28, 2008 11:15 AM
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"So do you want this to be hortatory, in a literal "Get off my lawn!" sense, or more motto-like, like "My sward is without child" ?" [
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favorited by Richard Daly on
May 24, 2008 4:08 PM
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"Oh, you said OR in your title. Well really, with such broad tastes I would encourage you to check out the askmes that use the Portland tag, since this comes up fairly often. I collected the most useful-seeming threads for a previous question. Here it..." [
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favorited by hulahulagirl on
May 23, 2008 11:28 AM
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"Why is this anonymous?
Because they're essentially saying, "My electronic house doesn't have any locks on the doors." If the OP's MeFi user profile features a Real Name and accurate ICBM co-ords, well, they might not feel very..." [
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favorited by limeonaire on
May 19, 2008 5:34 PM
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"Has your bike been checked out by a mechanic? It looks shiny and nice in the picture, but that doesn't mean it's safe. If you bought it from a shop, they should've adjusted the seat height for you, so I'm guessing not. If not, consider taking it in..." [
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favorited by chicainthecity on
May 19, 2008 1:27 PM
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"Why: The Flash plugin for MacOS X is, frankly, crap. You're not alone.
What to do about it: I find it helps to allow video to load completely rather than to stream. At least, I like to think it does. Other than that, hope that Adobe will release a..." [
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favorited by matteo on
May 16, 2008 2:29 AM
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"Ach, it looks like one of my favorite recipe finds has vanished from the internets. Fortunately, I have an old food-stained printout to crib from. I don't recall its origin, but the author calls it a Porra, while acknowledging that it's more like a..." [
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favorited by Wilder on
May 13, 2008 3:38 PM
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"Ach, it looks like one of my favorite recipe finds has vanished from the internets. Fortunately, I have an old food-stained printout to crib from. I don't recall its origin, but the author calls it a Porra, while acknowledging that it's more like a..." [
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favorited by MonkeyToes on
May 13, 2008 11:52 AM
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"Architectural Salvage is also in Portland, Maine. The ReBuilding Center is in Portland, Ore. and has better prices, but it's still not by-the-pound, and isn't primarily metal stuff. Of course, if you're familiar with Scrap, then... oh, yes, I see..." [
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favorited by hulahulagirl on
May 13, 2008 11:47 AM
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"Obviously without knowing your numbers and your market it's very hard to say. When I ran Google Ads on a blog of mine to see how they worked, my experience mirrored jeffamaphone's, both in terms of hits and payout. Not impressive numbers for traffic..." [
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favorited by salvia on
May 5, 2008 9:34 AM
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"Yes, Before Stonewall and The Celluloid Closet. Netflix, conveniently, has a Gay and Lesbian category, so you can start filling your queue from there. Rent A Touch of Pink if you like Cary Grant and/or Kyle McLaughlin or have a Desi thing.
Learn..." [
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favorited by kuppajava on
May 4, 2008 10:33 PM
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"Bah. AskMe isn't just a resource for the asker, it's an archive of answers to problems that we all may face at some time. It's like one of those big data sets that people pull together for creating expert systems or teaching AIs (please, expert..." [
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favorited by iconomy on
May 3, 2008 2:51 PM
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"Bah. AskMe isn't just a resource for the asker, it's an archive of answers to problems that we all may face at some time. It's like one of those big data sets that people pull together for creating expert systems or teaching AIs (please, expert..." [
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favorited by dawson on
May 3, 2008 2:34 PM
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"Bah. AskMe isn't just a resource for the asker, it's an archive of answers to problems that we all may face at some time. It's like one of those big data sets that people pull together for creating expert systems or teaching AIs (please, expert..." [
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favorited by taz on
May 3, 2008 2:30 PM
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"We fill them with cat poo from scooping the litterbox, but if you have neither cats nor dogs, nor wish to use them for your own trash, some grocery stores have collection points out front where they accept them for recycling (mine does).
But as..." [
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favorited by lioness on
April 30, 2008 10:22 AM
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"I would imagine that this happens to almost everyone with a blog, to a greater or lesser extent. Information-seeking in the wrong place, that is. On several occasions I've blogged about a food product of some kind, only to have some ass show up and..." [
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favorited by Monochrome on
April 27, 2008 9:30 PM
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"When were you last clean-shaven? I've got a beard that hasn't come completely off for about fifteen years. I would not be shaving it, not because I cherish it so, but just because it's part of who I am. Shaving would be like bleaching myself blond..." [
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favorited by hulahulagirl on
April 24, 2008 12:51 PM
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"At my most recent employer, I'm pretty sure that a clear distinction was drawn between education and conferences. The former was specifically certification- or degree-oriented stuff, while the latter was, you know, the normal conference thing,..." [
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favorited by Scram on
April 23, 2008 11:11 PM
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"I haven't been paying close attention to the question of hittability in comments of late ... would it be too soon for a "Hello, My Name is: Cooter" shirt?..." [
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favorited by goodnewsfortheinsane on
April 23, 2008 9:08 PM
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"When were you last clean-shaven? I've got a beard that hasn't come completely off for about fifteen years. I would not be shaving it, not because I cherish it so, but just because it's part of who I am. Shaving would be like bleaching myself blond..." [
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favorited by Jpfed on
April 23, 2008 6:27 PM
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"I haven't been paying close attention to the question of hittability in comments of late ... would it be too soon for a "Hello, My Name is: Cooter" shirt?..." [
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April 23, 2008 6:01 PM
