MeFi comment:
"Shit. My colleagues are going to think I'm crazy tomorrow when I keep singing "PIPE WRENCH FIGHT (pipe.wrench.fight)" all day." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by bitter-girl.com
5 days ago
MeFi comment:
"THE WASTE LAND
I. THE BURIAL OF THE DEAD
APRIL IS THE CRUELLEST MONTH, BREEDING
LILACS OUT OF THE DEAD LAND, MIXING
MEMORY AND DESIRE, STIRRING
DULL ROOTS WITH SPRING RAIN.
WINTER KEPT US WARM, COVERING 5
EARTH IN..." [
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favorited 4 times, recently by Iridic
2 weeks ago
MeFi comment:
"nasreddin, you are correct. It is beyond fantastic. I scoop up every hardcover version I can at bookstores, and give them as gifts to people that deserve it...." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by dirty lies
2 weeks ago
MeTa comment:
"this thread : tl; dr.
I did however teach Jonathan Swift's "A Modest Proposal" today (with a great deal of relish) to a bunch of Freshmen, who had never read it before! AWESOME!..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by misha, lukemeister
4 weeks ago
Ask post:
I am not a conspiracy theorist, but. . .
favorited 9 times, recently by luckyveronica, ekstasis23, schyler523, zerobyproxy, Arthur Dent, lemonpillows, TochterAusElysium, drezdn, divabat
Last month
MeFi comment:
"It annoys me to see an ingredient list that looks like this: "WATER. HIGH FRUCTOSE CORN SYRUP. CITRIC ACID. PHOSPHORIC ACID. SUGAR ALCOHOLS (SORBITOL). ASPARTAME" &c.
They already have sugars IN there. Why add aspartame? It reads, to..." [
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favorited 13 times, recently by susanbeeswax, turgid dahlia, notashroom, mitzyjalapeno, misha, dong_resin, fullerine, tehloki, Ambrosia Voyeur, tyrantkitty, JHarris, batmonkey, [NOT HERMITOSIS-IST]
Last month
MeFi comment:
"The Chaos (by G. Nolst Trenité, a.k.a. "Charivarius"; 1870 - 1946)
Dearest creature in creation
Studying English pronunciation,
I will teach you in my verse
Sounds like corpse, corps, horse and worse
I will keep you, Susy, busy,..." [
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favorited 9 times, recently by snownoid, effwerd, ruby.aftermath, zonem, ersatz, goodnewsfortheinsane, roofus, majorsteel, Sys Rq
Last month
MeFi comment:
"Work "weltanshaung" into your paper = instant A.
and A+ if you spell it "weltanschauung."" [
more]
favorited 1 time, recently by DevilsAdvocate
2 months ago
MeTa comment:
"Plate of Beans (read: "red"). It wasn't a beanplate until after a few well-explained and supported answers, at which point people just started popping in and saying reed, red, reed, red, fish, cow, isaywhatiWANTandyoucan'tstopme, &c.,..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by evilcolonel
4 months ago
MeFi comment:
"I have the privilege of teaching First-year Composition, and I have to agree wholeheartedly with Dizzy's first comment, as well as the rest of them. The kids are alright. They just need a little help, perhaps, to view the world through some other..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by small_ruminant, regicide is good for you
4 months ago
Ask comment:
"Immersion therapy. Do some gravity bong hits and hang out on the stoop in front of your local police station. Say "hi" to the nice policemen/women...." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by metawabbit
5 months ago
MeFi comment:
"Soooo, wait. OJ gets acquitted, and this guy gets convicted?
BLACK IS WHITE. UP IS DOWN. CALIFORNIA IS FILLED WITH PEOPLE I WOULD TRUST ON A JURY." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by Asymptote, BrotherCaine
5 months ago
MeTa comment:
"I've always said . . . that the best folk music . . . comes from the Dutch. @ 1:08." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by humannaire
5 months ago
MeTa comment:
"Like when a friend of mine had her oldest cat die & everybody was all "oh, how sad; you must feel terrible" & i thought this was just pandering to her desire to wallow in pity & sadness, so I made light of it & said I hoped..." [
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favorited 11 times, recently by shmegegge, scrump, nasreddin, Pope Guilty, MLIS, The Light Fantastic, dosterm, pointystick, jtron, crossoverman, UbuRoivas
5 months ago
MeTa comment:
"any sycophantic faves for me? no?
shit
how about $10 bills in the mail? I'll buy something nice.
shitshit
okay." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by Locative, blacklite
5 months ago
MeFi comment:
"holy shit. And here I am thinking, "how the hell can an eagle kill a goat?!"
the more you know . . .
(never going anywhere again. I might end up as eagle-food. They could knock me down the goddamn STAIRS!)
I am crawling to my car..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by ColdChef
5 months ago
MeFi comment:
"I dunno, this one is up there. NSFW.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v68/j4m35/tm_4.jpg" [
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favorited 1 time, recently by shmegegge
6 months ago
MeFi comment:
""I loafe and invite my soul; I lean and loafe at my ease observing a spear of summer grass."
-Walt Whitman" [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Sailormom
7 months ago
MeFi comment:
"I often write on student's papers: "change dumb quotes to smart quotes when copying-and-pasting from the internet," and my students are like whoa. How did he know that?..." [
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favorited 18 times, recently by zsazsa, Monochrome, eritain, ColdChef, jlbartosa, davem, dabitch, Galvatron, the cydonian, davemee, dhartung, xthlc, flibbertigibbet, Edible Energy, tehloki, grouse, Spatch, lizzicide
7 months ago
MeFi comment:
"While we're having this most excellent discussion, I'll throw in a nugget of trivia that many of you probably already know, but which I only learned the other day and upon hearing, had a lightbulb moment:
The reason we call capital..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by dubold, liza
7 months ago
MeFi comment:
"The word, folks, is "betch", Seriously. Let me borrow that top!. Payback isn't a betch, anyway. It's a deck." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by ethnomethodologist
7 months ago
MeTa comment:
"THE THOUGHT OF WHAT AMERICA WOULD BE LIKE
IF THE CLASSICS HAD A WIDE CIRCULATION
TROUBLES MY SLEEP,
THE THOUGHT OF WHAT AMERICA,
THE THOUGHT OF WHAT AMERICA,THE THOUGHT OF WHAT AMERICA WOULD BE LIKE
IF THE CLASSICS HAD A WIDE..." [
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favorited 3 times, recently by tehloki, solipsophistocracy, nasreddin
7 months ago
MeTa comment:
"From now on, every time I post a question to AskMe, I'm going to try to make it as inflammatory and as offensive as possible.
Example:
Does anyone know where I can find Bubble Tea in New Paltz, NY or surrounding areas? I only ask because I..." [
more]
favorited 10 times, recently by pyramid termite, mygothlaundry, romakimmy, FelliniBlank, dawson, puke & cry, jeblis, misha, iconomy, Bernt Pancreas
7 months ago
MeFi comment:
"Here's the thing-- I think that I am primarily a descriptivist with respect to common usage, and I believe it is an inherent property of language to change, mutate and evolve. I do get annoyed when people think they are using a word or phrase..." [
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favorited 11 times, recently by tehloki, showbiz_liz, Miko, bettafish, BaxterG4, nicepersonality, rtha, Midnight Rambler, koeselitz, JHarris, nasreddin
8 months ago
MeFi comment:
"Last night I’m at a party, and I chat up this gorgeous blonde with dark smoky eye makeup, angular face, an hourglass figure and long legs. After a good session of banter and comfort building, she compliments me on my tie and pulls it towards her for..." [
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favorited 3 times, recently by klangklangston, No-sword, nasreddin
8 months ago
MeTa comment:
"Suppose you killed somebody...
How would you dispose of the body without getting caught? Would you dump it somewhere? Bury it in the backyard or basement? Dissolve it in lime? What? What would your master plan be that would allow you to get away..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by feloniousmonk
8 months ago
MeFi comment:
"At least they didn't call the bed the "Humbert Humbert." Now that would be creepy." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by grouse
8 months ago
MeFi comment:
"This is really a shame. I understand why people react this way, it's easy to be callous and laugh at another's death. It's whistling past the graveyard, man. But on another level, I understand this-- I took a lot of risks when I was 18 or so. I..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by mecran01, patr1ck
8 months ago
MeTa comment:
"For a moment there I thought it really had "roughly 8,000 favorites," and I freaked out a little. (What's the most favorited comment on MeFi?)
I don't think that sidebarring it is a tacit approval of the content so much as it got a lot..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Blazecock Pileon
8 months ago
