MeFi comment:
"It's comforting to know that she is open to being Senator Obama's running mate, should he ask. I am open to being Salma Hayek's husband, should she ask. And I am also open to having my chief job duties changed to tasting ice cream and taking naps and..." [
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MeFi comment:
"Q: How can I help deal with the financial crisis?
Your selflessness brings a tear to my eye. Here some simple things everyone can do:
1. Obviously, you should take the day off of work or school. Country first!
2. If you happen to live in New..." [
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Ask comment:
"This is a little URL trick.
You would normally send this URL to them:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ml2Ae2SIXac
Replace the "watch?v=" with "v/" and send this one:
http://www.youtube.com/v/ml2Ae2SIXac
It gives a video..." [
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MeFi comment:
"Dear Secretary Paulson,
It is with a heavy heart that I inform you I am unable to get rid of some Troubled Assets and I am requesting your assistance with this matter under your proposed authority to purchase Troubled Assets.
The list of..." [
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MeTa comment:
"Oh my god... the person who favorited a comment is single... do they like me?... what if I post another comment and they do not like it?... I know, today I will post a comment in all lowercase, to show I'm casual, not uptight, just normal, right? But..." [
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MeFi comment:
"What's the big deal? Doesn't Google already know all of our health problems from our search history?
what's with all these red spots on my arms should i get scared?
my foot hurts so bad after a car ran over it last night
gimme some..." [
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MeTa comment:
"The obvious solution is that for every change Matt makes or argument on MetaTalk, Metafilter should just split in two: one for people who agree and one for people who disagree. Orthodox Metafilter (orthodox.ask.metafilter.com) for 7 day Ask posting..." [
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MeFi comment:
"Welcome to Economy! Economy! is the massively-multiplayer live-action role-playing game of chance. The object of Economy! is really quite simple: you want to win. You win by making Things, selling Things, and then buying Things.
Starting the..." [
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MeFi comment:
"In my job, I've noticed that non-native speakers of English often struggle with the metaphor-heavy finance and macroeconomics vocabulary. As in the video, for example, a "soft economy" is not soft like pillow, which is good. It is soft like..." [
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Ask comment:
"This may be less useful in the Age of Facebook, since it has become very easy to find out how stupid most people are, but this is how I managed to wake up for early classes:
1. Get to class on time once.
2. Find someone in class on whom to have a..." [
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Ask comment:
"Remember that the cost to trade is not zero. There is both fees and time/opportunity cost of capital.
If the price is 1.8, to bet that she will not be president you need to commit $9.82 for the $10 contract. But you pay $0.05 if you are a..." [
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MeTa comment:
"He sold a "laptop" to an angry guy and when he received the 10 pound box of gravel, they found him and made him eat all of the gravel." [
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MeTa comment:
"I think MetaTalk posts should be submitted with MetaTalk Post Requisition Form 1001-A, "Application for the Public Airing of Grievances Against Another User"
Date:
Your username:
Which user(s) are you are complaining about?
(If you..." [
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MeFi comment:
"What is with the HDR stuff? The first link looks like Thomas Kincaid went off of Zoloft." [
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MeTa comment:
"Metafilter's levees have not yet breeched, but poo is 'sloshing' over the sides and the levees are obviously struggling to contain the wrath of Media Hurricane Sarah, the strongest named media storm of the general election media season so far...." [
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