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"I spent a summer playing guitar in Boston subway stations when I was a teenager. The MBTA has changed since those days and I've been told the laws are different today; but back then, the city would issue a permit to anyone for a small fee. The MBTA..." [
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"When my nephew was very young, he was overheard on a baby monitor asking his newborn brother, "Tell me what God looks like. I'm starting to forget...." [
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3 months ago
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"Yes, you should still be able to find parking at Alewife by noontime. Alewife's garage has three floors, if I recall; and in my experience, the roof rarely fills completely. That's where I usually park -- especially in the wintertime, because the sun..." [
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3 months ago
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"Quoting Guitar Player, January 1999:It is deified as the perfect evocation of a blues-rock guitar solo by practically everyone--the notable exception being the cat who actually played it.
"I've always had `Crossroads' held up as, like, one of..." [
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3 months ago
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"Since you asked about books, I'll mention that I've heard very good things about Relationship Rescue by Dr. Phil. I don't own it, and I can't personally recommend it; but I have friends who do personally recommend it, and your situation seems to..." [
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4 months ago
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"Life is biology, and biology is chemical. When you got married, I hope you didn't expect that you would spend a half-century with your husband without ever falling in love with anyone else. I'm sure you've heard that courage is not the absence of..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by kimota, theredpen
4 months ago
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"Just be honest. Bring a couple samples of your writing. Tell them you don't have the experience, but you have the knowledge and you can do the job. Play up your strengths, but don't hide your weaknesses. They are what they are. Admit them and explain..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by easy_being_green
6 months ago
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"delmoi: Why is this any of our business?
I'm not inclined to disagree, but I have to say: You can look down your nose at this post, or you can drop 10 comments into the thread. You can't do both...." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by poweredbybeard, leftcoastbob
7 months ago
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"Charles Biddle's daughter Stephanie is a Canadian singer with a terrific voice who often sings in French." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by mimi
7 months ago
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"I don't like posts about, "Hey, let's make fun of this guy!"
On the other hand, I did read Afroblanco's link. I had read one of the Cerebus TPBs years ago, but I didn't really know anything about Sim before reading this interview. Here..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by Richard Daly, bugbread
8 months ago
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"the guy is paranoid and jumping to conclusions
The joke's on you. I've been bugging his phone since November." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by grobstein
8 months ago
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"I wonder what he can do to make me trust him.
Nothing. Trust is a verb. He can't compel your trust any more than you can compel his fidelity.
Somebody said the way courage works is, first you do the thing you're afraid of, and then afterward,..." [
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favorited 4 times, recently by sondrialiac, lynda, beth, forforf
10 months ago
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"I'm not sure what I can do to help you here.
Matt should ban him, and he ought to.
Meatbomb was right: He got banned for less than has happened around here lately. I submit that if a new user hand-scavenged a MetaFilter spam list, you'd ban him..." [
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favorited 14 times, recently by tehloki, crabintheocean, scrump, theiconoclast31, Dreamghost, jonson, arcticwoman, shmegegge, blueberry, tristeza, RussHy, null terminated, Arch_Stanton, enn
10 months ago
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"Maybe I should reconsider and do something with a girl I don't like so I get some experience. ... The problem is that I'm not sure if it is right to pretend I care about someone just to get practice...Do the first thing. Don't do the second...." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by FissionChips
Last year
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"Hot oil is really good at killing things... Germs are no stronger than crusaders.
Ha. No kidding.
Julia Child and Jacques Pépin were on camera together once, preparing chicken for the oven.CHILD: I have washed this chicken with hot water. And..." [
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favorited 15 times, recently by Adelwolf, oaf, tsmo, longdaysjourney, sperose, soplerfo, davar, mkultra, ambrosia, briank, amyms, smackfu, feloniousmonk, gomichild, solid-one-love
Last year
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"People in these threads can make all sorts of claims about rights, all of which are irrelevant -- in the real world, if you're an asshole, you might get clocked.
Yes, except that in the real world, the type of person who will vociferously object..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by nixerman
Last year
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"I think it would be a very good thing if the mods would delete chudmonkey's name...
Agreed — and attempting to Googlebomb somebody's name ought to warrant an immediate, lifetime ban...." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by solid-one-love, DevilsAdvocate
Last year
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"get a life. take a few deep breaths and get over it.
Huh? Nobody is ranting profanely, and nobody posted on CraigsList for Wendell to be punched in the face at a meet-up. Several folks simply agreed that what he did wasn't cool — that it was worse..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by MrMustard
Last year
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"people he cares about are going to jail for their beliefs.
Nobody's going to jail for their beliefs. They're going to jail for what they did.
I agree with EB. I don't believe for a second that we'd see a significant contingent defending these..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Catch
Last year
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"My wife and I struggled mightily about whether to keep her or give her up, but we knew that...a dog who has bitten will not be adopted out. So rather than send her to her death we have kept her and been super-super-super careful in monitoring her..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by gimonca
Last year
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"There's no reason to think that single mothers can't do a good job raising children.
Sure there is. It's difficult. The harder something is to accomplish, the fewer people will succeed. And no, the reason it's difficult is not "government..." [
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favorited 4 times, recently by tehloki, BrotherCaine, lord_wolf, damn dirty ape
Last year
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"the politics of free expression include property destruction.
No, they don't. You describe yourself as a libertarian, but it's the libertarians who famously preach that your right to swing your fist stops at my nose. Your right to expression does..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by niles
Last year
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"I fully expect amberglow to declare there's no such thing as terrorism.
He just did: People didn't stop selling cars... Companies didn't stop making them... Real terror would have caused any or all of those people and companies to change their..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by the christopher hundreds
Last year
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"I side with the so-called terrorists here.
Because FBI Director Mueller isn't articulate? Um, okay.
...whenever I read about an abortion clinic bombing, it's usually carried out by pro life activists, not terrorists.
First of all: "Oh,..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by the christopher hundreds
Last year
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"Neither does the US. He was sentenced to 13 years.
And I'm pretty sure having their buildings and automobiles set on fire isn't "the freedom [anyone] claim[s] to cherish so much." So I'm not sure what you're talking about, there...." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Arch_Stanton
Last year
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"I want to make it clear to people that there is nothing you can do to help someone.
That's simply not true. And if you are indeed, as you wrote, "20 years old with not even one relationship under [your] belt," then perhaps you ought to..." [
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favorited 4 times, recently by limeonaire, IndigoRain, theantikitty, edgeways
Last year
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"I don't know if I can deal with this for too much longer.
Since the "Get out NOW!!" side has been sufficiently covered, I'll play Devil's advocate and suggest that what you're feeling is probably shared, at some stage, by everybody who..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by limeonaire, IndigoRain
Last year
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"Stop shopping @ Hot Topic
That bears repeating. Seriously, dude: You're 29 years old." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by melorama
Last year
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"The site would be better without them.
I agree, and I'd add that the site would be better without comments like "Brian Bigot" or "We'll explain the bits that are too hard for you."
I know that sometimes, it's difficult to..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by brundlefly, orthogonality
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"Do I break up with him? Do I give him a second chance?
You're the only person who can answer. And I know that sounds cliched, but the point is that some people leave, and make it work; some people leave, and regret leaving; some people stay, and..." [
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favorited 4 times, recently by rndm, Phire
Last year
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"what kind of person volunteers his time and then asks to be paid for it?
He didn't ask. They offered. A couple of times, apparently.
What kind of person turns down an offer of payment for already-completed work from a presidential campaign that..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by amberglow
Last year
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"They've made me afraid of my audience, afraid of my craft...
Daisey's melodrama is embarrassing and unbefitting a guy whose act seems to rely on comedy. He could have joked, he could have laughed it off — instead, he sits stunned for a few moments..." [
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favorited 3 times, recently by picaro, eritain, craniac
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"This game isn't "hard," it's stupid. Instead of actually finding some creative way to make it difficult, the programmer just leaned on the old "level boss" trick of requiring multiple shots to destroy — except he applied it to..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by algreer
Last year
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"I guess I missed the memo where Alec Baldwin berating his daughter is actually any of your fucking business. Which is kind of funny for me to bring up since I posted the news here.
"Kind of" funny? Dude, I just sprayed milk out my nose..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by jayder, nickyskye
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"Every so often, these questions reveal the character of their authors. The fact that you're even asking this question, the fact that you'd comment about his "low self-esteem"...you're a kid. You don't yet understand relationships, and you..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by whitneykitty
Last year
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"But I think "please don't recklessly, provocatively shit in threads" is a widely regarded Pretty Good Notion here...
You keep dodging the point, Cortex. You're criticizing the comment, but nobody's defending it. Most people are saying,..." [
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favorited 3 times, recently by found missing, justgary, amberglow
Last year
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"(IANAL.) He's got a fair point. I wouldn't worry about him being able to make it in a court of law; but sure, theoretically, if he could somehow demonstrate that your site caused books to remain unsold, then he could convince a judge to hear the case...." [
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favorited 3 times, recently by hoverboards don't work on water, Ookseer, Blazecock Pileon
Last year
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"I know people who think oral sex is flirting...
Oh, for Christ's sake. You probably know people who think inhaling oxygen constitutes eating, but we don't generally acknowledge the lunatic rantings of psychotics. Intelligent people can disagree,..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by crinklebat
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"She sees this man twice a week, as he teaches a craft class that she is in on one day, and my kids on another day. I don't want to ask her to stop going, because she really enjoys it, and I know she would resent me forever.That's ridiculous.
You..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Danila
Last year
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"It's not pronounced "pie," you douchebags. It's "pee."
Aw, go beg a question." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Plutor
Last year
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"Today, it is fashionable to equate Ahmadinejad with Hitler...
Maybe it's because I don't watch cable news, but I've never heard that comparison." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by tehloki, Jimbob
Last year
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"if some story can't survive when spoiled...
This clumsy logic always appears during spoiler discussions, and I'd love it if that stopped. It's a bankrupt response to a straw-man argument. Nobody ever claims that a good story "can't..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by DevilsAdvocate
Last year
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"I can't offer advice, but I thought you might appreciate some hope: This happened to me, twice.
When I was in high school, I bought my girlfriend a nice ring. We were driving one night, in the middle of an argument, when she rolled down her window..." [
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