MeFi comment:
"Sometimes kids won't believe the truth anyway. True story. I'm in a taxi with my niece, who is five, and my sister (her mother).
Niece: Were there dinosaurs when you were little?
Me: No the dinosaurs were all gone a long time before that.
N:..." [
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favorited 79 times, recently by jobby, Laura_J
3 ½ hours ago
MeFi comment:
"Taking something that isn't yours? That is theft. Deal with it. Yeah, fine, that's not the highly legalistic definition.
dnab: The problem is that theft is a legal concept, so to say "yeah, that's not the legal definition" sort of..." [
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favorited 30 times, recently by mrgrimm, Akeem, dansdata, tiny crocodile, Bromius, lizzicide, spiderwire, artifarce, contraption, schyler523, tomcooke, Manjusri, kosher_jenny, secretary bird, ukdanae, litlnemo, perilous, Monochrome, Kraftmatic Adjustable Cheese, mrzarquon, The corpse in the library, dyoneo, wendell, SpacemanStix, Crabby Appleton, Kat Allison, fantabulous timewaster, xthlc, Faint of Butt, Popular Ethics
6 days ago
MeFi comment:
"bonaldi: It's interesting that you raise that. Again, we have two separate conversations going on here (or anyway, some of us do), the question of what the law says and the question of what people can might colloquially say, so let me try to get at..." [
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favorited 14 times, recently by rokusan, drdevice, kev23f, tiny crocodile, lizzicide, spiderwire, artifarce, bookish, Manjusri, sparkletone, Shepherd, Monochrome, sculpin, bonaldi
7 days ago
MeFi comment:
"Everyone wants to BE Batman.
No one, however, is willing to BECOME Batman.
Everybody wants to go to heaven. Nobody wants to die." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by rokusan
9 days ago
MeFi comment:
"The law is a collection of opinions, interpreted by people with opinions, and enforced by people with opinions and guns.
posted by regicide is good for you at 12:19 PM on July 3 [+] [!]
Eponyserious...." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by twins named Lugubrious and Salubrious
11 days ago
MeFi comment:
"I grow old . . . I grow old . . .
I shall see my user name in bold.
Shall I post here in the blue? Do I dare to try the green?
I shall call out posters in the gray, and face the scorn of jessamyn.
I have felt the mer-mods scowling at my..." [
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favorited 9 times, recently by theora55, The corpse in the library, bicyclefish, Meghamora, enn, naoko, anifinder, smartyboots, lukemeister
11 days ago
MeFi comment:
"If this 'gospel of Judas' paints Judy in a good light, well duh. It's his side of the story. Naturally he's gonna err on the side of "i'm not an asshole"ness. However, it obviously wasn't him. He hung himself from a tree. He didn't stop and..." [
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favorited 11 times, recently by KingoftheWhales, merelyglib, RussHy, turaho, prosthezis, Sangermaine, christonabike, jtron, ursus_comiter, twins named Lugubrious and Salubrious, rodgerd
2 weeks ago
Ask comment:
"And what's wrong with NAS -- again just in the interest of providing a better answer? Notably something like the ReadyNAS Duo?" [
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favorited 2 times, recently by thewalledcity, gjc
2 weeks ago
MeFi comment:
"I wonder, Bellman, if this has ever been put through a legal accounting?
That, Popular Ethics, is the 64,000 multi-billion dollar question. Do the copyright laws actually "promote the progress of science and useful arts", as they are..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by ads, Popular Ethics
2 weeks ago
MeFi comment:
"Has anyone considered that the author might have been using daimon in it most obvious translation: daemon? Let me just check ps -aux here . . .
launchd, kextd, netinfod, syslogd, configd, coreaudiod, memberd, securityd, notifyd, distnoted (what..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Zero Gravitas
2 weeks ago
MeFi comment:
"He dismisses as libelous electioneering claims that he ate pygmies during his years as a rebel leader.
"Can you spare some change to help me get something to eat?"
"Sorry, I'm a little short myself...." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by J.R. Benedict
4 weeks ago
MeFi comment:
"Crapmatic: You're missing what is, in my view, the best website on the internet for kids that age and the only one I actually pay for because my kids enjoy it so much (though the free version is fine), Up To Ten. You want the Boowa and Kwala section..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Mamapotomus
4 weeks ago
MeFi comment:
"Do people claim IP on jokes now? Geez.
posted by tybeet at 1:14 PM on June 20 [+] [!]
Actually, this is a pretty fascinating topic for IP lawyers, and University of Virgina Law Professors Chris Sprigman and Dotan Oliar have written an..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by Smart Dalek, jtron
Last month
MeFi comment:
"Truthfully she shoulda looked at this dialogue, turned to Night and said, "you gotta be kidding me right? Where's the real script? This is a joke, right?"
Sir Alec Guiness (reading): " . . . until he turned to evil . . . turned to..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by Pallas Athena, captnkurt
Last month
MeFi comment:
"And let's pretend I spelled "apologies" that way because it's funny in context because I forgot the extra "n" in Guinness, not because I can't type. Or spell. Or whatever...." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by h00py
Last month
MeFi comment:
"okay, that's three comments, now make with the spam post already, livesports! don't keep us in suspense.
posted by Hat Maui at 6:46 AM on June 18 [1 favorite -] Favorite added! [!]
Seriously. There should be a way to flag users for shit like this,..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by dmd
Last month
MeFi comment:
"No, it's not. Censorship is when a government does it. Verizon refusing to host the alt* hierarchy is the same as Safeway not carrying Vienna Sausages anymore.
posted by dirtynumbangelboy at 10:51 PM on June 12 [+] [!]
I'm usually right with you,..." [
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favorited 10 times, recently by jlbartosa, MikeKD, iminurmefi, Aversion Therapy, bookish, dirigibleman, theclaw, lumensimus, Richard Daly, chinese_fashion
Last month
MeFi comment:
"We have a few Nigerian dwarves also and I agree completely.
My Dear Friend,
Greetings! I know this mail may come to you as a surprise, I am Barrister Mussa Issah the President/Head of the esteemed and revered Nigerian Lollipop Guild and..." [
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favorited 3 times, recently by nebulawindphone, ColdChef, buggzzee23
Last month
MeFi comment:
"As usual the LA Times has buried the lede:
Only those who knew to type in the name of a subdirectory could see the content on the site, which also included some of Kozinski's essays and legal writings as well as music files and personal photos...." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by rzklkng
Last month
MeFi comment:
"There is no such RPG, empath. If there were, information about it would not be available at your security clearance level." [
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favorited 4 times, recently by darksasami
Last month
MeFi comment:
"Dr-Baa is not aware of the enormous popularity of Hamburglar/Grimace slash fiction, I guess." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by ...possums
Last month
MeFi comment:
"As a human being, the most remarkable thing about watching the birth of my sons was watching the birth of my sons. As a lawyer, the most remarkable thing (in both cases, I don't have twins) was that the hospital started hanging tags off their limbs..." [
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favorited 3 times, recently by vytae, miss-lapin, Greg Nog
Last month
MeFi comment:
"For those of us who admire, respect and maybe even adore (a little) Obama; for those of us who have spent 25 years or so waiting for a politician we can actually support instead of holding our noses and voting for; for those of us who bring our..." [
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favorited 4 times, recently by Telf, fourcheesemac, Blazecock Pileon, Ynoxas
Last month
MeFi comment:
"davidmsc: I don't think anyone is suggesting that only racists could fail to fall in love with Obama or that you are a racist because you don't intend to vote for him (at least, I wasn't suggesting that). There are lots of perfectly intelligent,..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by mdn, Your Time Machine Sucks
Last month
MeFi comment:
"He could cure this and all of his other alleged electoral problems by picking a strong, woman VP who is popular with hard-working, white Americans (the "dunkin' donuts set", not the "Starbucks set") and who ALSO happens to be a..." [
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favorited 12 times, recently by skoosh, flatluigi, schyler523, wemayfreeze, vegetableagony, Lentrohamsanin, Gary, kcds, drezdn, Blazecock Pileon, lord_wolf, DU
Last month
MeTa comment:
"In future, can't all linguistic AskMes just be rerouted to lh's MeFiMail and be done?
No, because sometimes (albeit very rarely) he's wrong and when that happens he can be a gigantic asshole about it. He's a very smart guy who knows a lot about..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by climalene, nthdegx
Last month
MeFi comment:
"You aren't getting the best performance out of your wine unless the rim and stem of your glass is gold-plated.
posted by DU at 8:36 AM on May 30 [+] [!]
You know nothing about wine, DU. True Oenophiles use a special green magic marker on the rim..." [
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favorited 4 times, recently by bunnytricks, contessa, jal0021, nasreddin
Last month
MeTa comment:
"Welcome aboard all you minorities... you can become oppressors too.
Pot, let me introduce you to kettle over here. You two *might* have something in common!
So you're saying that this is the pot calling the kettle white?..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by jamjam
Last month
MeTa comment:
"I'd never heard of the hellban before, but it's brilliant. Think of the potential for gaslighting! You wouldn't even have to implement it, mods, just drop in and mention that it's been implemented. Then we could start ignoring the trolls and they..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by emelenjr
Last month
MeFi comment:
"Yeah ... that's the school where we learn how to cockfight!
Ssshhh!!
posted by Blazecock Pileon at 5:55 PM on May 23 [1 favorite +] [!]
Dude, setting it on fire is totally cheating...." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Blazecock Pileon
2 months ago
MeFi comment:
"Valleywag links the 24 source videos that inspired Weezer.
That's what I call overthinking a plate of pork and beans." [
more]
favorited 1 time, recently by EatTheWeak
2 months ago
MeFi comment:
"However, If I weren't so horny, I wouldn't even date.
posted by autodidact at 11:43 AM on May 20 [+] [!]
Epony . . . oh no, wait, that's auto-something else...." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by rokusan
2 months ago
