A lot of this depends on your build and appearance. if you are heavyset your options are different from they would be if you are more slight.

A heavy Lebowski fan with short hair and a beard could get a khaki vest, shooting glasses, and a bowling shirt and go as Walter Sobchak.

You could also "misunderstand" the theme and come as a Holy Rood Knight, a Knight from the court of Mary Queen of Scotts.
posted to Ask Metafilter by Megafly at 11:41 AM on October 10, 2008

On the other hand, It might just be that they can't award the prize to more than 3 individual and they wanted to credit the 2 for AIDS that made the greatest contributions to science with their discovery rather than just the "first"
posted to MetaFilter by Megafly at 5:27 PM on October 6, 2008

I will admit that when I saw the beer response I winced. but then I remembered that the SAT's have a reading comprehension section and that the majority of people don't get a perfect score on that section.
posted to MetaTalk by Megafly at 5:12 PM on September 28, 2008

IANAL Many health insurance companies have entire departments for just this sort of incident. In there eyes the real damages are to their bottom line. You may have an "equitable recovery" clause in your contract so that any money recovered goes toward the money they paid already.
posted to Ask Metafilter by Megafly at 9:31 AM on September 28, 2008

He did more time and was tortured worse than John McCain. McCain was actually in the act of attacking the country he was brutalized by.
posted to MetaFilter by Megafly at 3:25 PM on September 27, 2008

when do the Guru, the Hogun, and the Chiropractor certify your wine as biodynamic?
posted to MetaFilter by Megafly at 9:17 PM on September 17, 2008

I was confused by the "Snake Cake" line myself. I had it all reversed and offered my wife a cream filled little debbie snake cake for breakfast.
posted to MetaTalk by Megafly at 9:48 AM on September 14, 2008

That Desmond Tutu line made me Smile.
posted to MetaTalk by Megafly at 10:45 AM on September 7, 2008

I knew about Braunstein, but I hadn't read about B-Stein 4 it sounds like more fun.
posted to MetaFilter by Megafly at 11:05 PM on September 6, 2008

"So who invented (or at least brought into popular gaming culture) the d10, which is not a regular polyhedron? posted by Flunkie"

I still have some original D20s marked as D10s. When I started all D20s were labeled 0-9 and you just used 2 different colors of crayon to mark the numbers high and low. for a d10 you just ignored the colors.
posted to MetaFilter by Megafly at 10:32 AM on September 7, 2008

It seems to me that the best thing to be on the Titanic was a child. According to the chart, they had 100% survival .
posted to MetaFilter by Megafly at 9:53 AM on August 25, 2008

So, as sign in some tourist trap built in the 1930's is a priceless artifact for the ages but we bomb the living shit out of ruins in Mesopotamia that are from 4000 years ago?

Why do people hate Americans?
posted to MetaFilter by Megafly at 7:01 PM on August 22, 2008

James Randi, and Paul&Storm are on my "must kneel before" list. Otherwise, most any night I'll be hanging out with camp chairs in the "Smoking Con-Suite" on the Hyatt pool deck.
posted to MetaTalk by Megafly at 6:35 PM on August 21, 2008

I'm with Zardoz. Why can't he drive? did he get a DUI on his learners permit?
posted to MetaFilter by Megafly at 11:52 AM on August 15, 2008

I have been in IT for 12 years and never had entirely competent management chain. There is always somebody who is so old that he thinks ethernet is a new fangled flash in the pan, or who has an MBA from University of Pheonix online, but thinks he can establish network security policy, or started off in this business back when everybody had a secretary to type for him and everybody had an ashtray on their desk.

Is Bob real? it doesn't matter. Think of it like Not Always... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by Megafly at 11:10 AM on August 15, 2008

If you don't like the way the U.S. taxes your income, feel free to grab a Liberian passport. I understand you can live in Monrovia real cheap and they have minimal income taxes.
posted to MetaFilter by Megafly at 12:59 PM on August 11, 2008

"is there any advance warning when these things are planning to collapse? "

Consider yourself warned!! They are ALL going to collapse.......eventually
posted to MetaFilter by Megafly at 12:51 PM on August 11, 2008

A nearly perfect post.:
Title is nerdy reference?
Possibly obscure topic?
pop culture links
reason for more excitable elements to throw up their hands and generate controversy?
folks who don't read the whole thing think it's a spam thing.
folks who DO read it notice the 3000 White people thing.
some animal lovers disapprove of "working dogs"
posted to MetaFilter by Megafly at 12:43 PM on August 11, 2008

Seriously?!

Threatening to kill a living breathing citizen of the United States isn't as bad as torturing a non-sentient, stupid farm animal?

So Meat is murder, and Veal is Abu Ghareb?

I just don't understand the way some radical animal rights nut jobs think.
posted to MetaTalk by Megafly at 12:18 PM on July 31, 2008

Women also buy bathing suits that can't be submerged and pay good money to have somebody NOT clip their fingernails for them.

They waste thousands straightening curly hair, lengthening short hair, bleaching dark hair, darkening blond hair, and curling straight hair.

Just go to the grocery or drug store. thinking rationally, how many feet of shelf are taken up with completely unnecessary stuff?
posted to MetaFilter by Megafly at 8:54 AM on July 31, 2008

Now Identity thieves can find out, for free, your mother's maiden name, the city where your father was born and probably 2/3 of the questions your bank asks you on it's website.
posted to MetaFilter by Megafly at 5:49 PM on July 27, 2008

My name is NOT dude. My name is NOT buddy.We are not hanging out in your frat house or Opium den. I am "Mr. Megafly" or you can call me by my nickname "Sir".
posted to Ask Metafilter by Megafly at 4:47 PM on July 24, 2008

uh, if you mean the first book with chapters that the majority of American children read? The Holy Bible. probably the KJV
posted to Ask Metafilter by Megafly at 4:37 PM on July 24, 2008

In my market it is pretty standard to just tear out the carpet and charge the outgoing tenant. I guess in Atlanta the carpet installers bribe better than the carpet cleaners.
posted to Ask Metafilter by Megafly at 4:05 PM on July 24, 2008

Absorbine is actually sold as a Linament for sore muscles and joints. Most everybody just uses it on misquito bites.
posted to Ask Metafilter by Megafly at 2:30 PM on July 24, 2008

does you school have a lot of fat people? do you want to exclude them?

apparently, you have people who CHOSE not to wear larger shirts But larger people CANNOT wear smaller shirts.
posted to Ask Metafilter by Megafly at 2:26 PM on July 24, 2008

My user number is a discount phone provider in the UK
posted to MetaTalk by Megafly at 12:06 AM on July 20, 2008

Why is the weight of the Blotter used to calculate the charges in an LSD case?

they should chemically analyse the cocaine or crack and charge you by the number of molecules of the prohibited drug found in your posession. That could include blood tests for people who are just really jumpy.

basic chemistry and math tells us the expected number of cocain Molecules and we would have a consistent policy.
posted to MetaFilter by Megafly at 12:07 PM on July 16, 2008

perhaps a Mefi in Italy could help you? If the wholesaler doesn't import it, your stateside options are limited.
posted to Ask Metafilter by Megafly at 1:26 PM on July 13, 2008

Weird Al IS the Weird Al of rap
posted to MetaFilter by Megafly at 8:36 AM on July 13, 2008

Actually Conan O'Brian has done a high school graduation. Stuyvesant class of '06 had that honor. Google video
posted to MetaFilter by Megafly at 4:00 PM on July 10, 2008

I'm not sure how many of you are confused, but they didn't build a baseball field. They aren't playing baseball. They can't play wiffleball on a baseball or softball diamond.

A Wiffleball field is absolutely tiny compared to even a little league diamond.

you could probably fit their entire feild in the infield of a baseball diamond.
posted to MetaFilter by Megafly at 3:05 PM on July 10, 2008

23-Skidoo
posted to MetaTalk by Megafly at 4:26 PM on July 2, 2008

If you are Camping rather than RVing or Backpacking you might want a good chair. having a comfy chair to relax by the fire makes all the difference. you can get a cheapie almost anywhere but I recommend getting a quality one. I love my MaxxDaddy I use it all the time because it works just as well in non camping portable seating settings. Smaller people might not need such a throne, but you will probably be spending hours by the fire and sitting on a log is not very nice.... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by Megafly at 10:24 AM on June 29, 2008

This is why read MeTa.
If you watch the Trentm%ller and Chinese MC Hammer back to back it opens a portal to Chin-mark where all the canned hams come with free vegetarian spring rolls.
posted to MetaTalk by Megafly at 9:00 AM on June 29, 2008

World Music +

Goofy Dance+

X

=
profit

(he figured out X was sponsorship from Stride Gum)
posted to MetaFilter by Megafly at 6:02 PM on June 27, 2008

let me demonstrate my psychic powers.
If some of you had your way and banned guns across the US, you would have thousands of mogadishus and ramadis starring whatever mercenaries or federal agents you sent out to collect those illegal weapons.
You have no idea of the thousands of rounds of armor piercing high velocity rifle rounds that are floating around the cities and towns of this nation. (just about any decent rifle can go through most body armor)
posted to MetaFilter by Megafly at 4:28 PM on June 26, 2008

Is Sexual orientation a protected class in Colorado or the U.S. as a whole?

I though only some states on the coasts have those laws.
posted to MetaFilter by Megafly at 10:46 AM on June 20, 2008

Seo Next Teusday!
posted to MetaTalk by Megafly at 6:28 PM on June 16, 2008

Coal plants release radiation into the air that you breath in the form of Thorium, Radium, and nearly every other radioactive isotope and element. if you were to count on one hand the number of people accidentally killed by reactors designed after 1965 you would have 5 fingers left. Incompetence and bureaucracy were needed to even make the incredibly dangerous RBMK design of Chernobyl explode.
Solution, don't put incompetent bureaucrats in charge of nuclear plants. Have... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by Megafly at 6:34 PM on June 13, 2008

RTFA. If baseball is so hard for poor people then why are so many Dominicans playing? (not to mention Mexicans, Panamanians, Puerto Ricans, etc there was even an Afghan in the 90's) Perhaps the real problem is rural vs urban?
posted to MetaFilter by Megafly at 5:44 PM on June 13, 2008

If I have the compass from my car and my solar powered watch I would invent longitude and be the only person who can navigate across worlds oceans.

When you look at the huge amount of money that successful ocean voyages earned, you could live pretty well off them.

BTW, my French is bad, and my spanish is worse, but, both are probably enough to convince somebody you speak a little bit of latin.
posted to MetaFilter by Megafly at 3:05 PM on June 11, 2008

How could they not have Jim F'ing Brown punching an alien from Mars Attacks
posted to MetaFilter by Megafly at 12:04 PM on June 7, 2008

I'm proud that my one and only FPP didn't get deleted and, in fact, got favorited by Morrigan. It didn't get deleted, and somebody liked it. That is my small victory.
posted to MetaTalk by Megafly at 11:35 AM on May 23, 2008

My mother was treated in the same room as one of the victims. I'm glad she didn't draw the black Queen.
posted to MetaFilter by Megafly at 10:48 AM on May 20, 2008

Can somebody convince me in the comments why this isn't a worthless link to some Ultimate fighting bullshit?
posted to MetaFilter by Megafly at 10:36 AM on May 8, 2008

We put Jim Lovell in orbit around the moon in less time than it has taken the Bush whitehouse to figure out it's email backups.

From the day Kennedy challenged the nation at Rice University, to the December 1968 Apollo 8 Lunar orbit was approximately 7 years and 3 months. In that Time Bush hasn't accomplished a single God damned thing. Kennedy and LBJ and fought a bloody war, held off the Russians and still fucking got things done!!
posted to MetaFilter by Megafly at 6:03 PM on April 30, 2008

I Bet ASavage wishes he had the chance to bid on 5 or 6 to use for his little TV program.
posted to MetaFilter by Megafly at 1:10 PM on April 29, 2008

"you're looking over the majority of your country and plotting a reckoning." A Reckoning against those who say that an atheist can't be a patriot be definition? A Reckoning with those who say that the tolerance of some of my best friends and my wife's mere existence causes hurricanes and terrorist bombing. A reckoning with those who would give those most dangerous and unstable 10% power because they tell them what they want to hear? Why would I want a reckoning with those fine folks?
posted to MetaFilter by Megafly at 12:57 PM on April 28, 2008

Just to nitpick on thing: (like a nitpicking white person) (as if that characterization isn't racism in and of itself)
I wish I had an ethnic name to use as an excuse for all the times my resume was dumped in the slushpile. Resumes get rejected. That's why you send out so many of them.
posted to MetaFilter by Megafly at 10:38 AM on April 24, 2008