Ask comment:
"Yeah. I didn't even make it to page 300. Now it sits on my floor, a tiny, expensive ottoman. Sometimes I do put my feet on it, and I think, "I paid thirty dollars for this mother." Then I look over at my copy of Cryptonomicon, and shout..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by badmoonrising
6 days ago
MeTa comment:
"Man, you know, I can't claim a perfect record or anything, but just because being an asshole is tolerated in MetaTalk doesn't mean that you should go out of your way...." [
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favorited 3 times, recently by kev23f, jammy, kittyprecious
2 weeks ago
MeFi comment:
"At the local air conditioning business where I once worked, some house tools had been stolen. A disgruntled employee was suspected – of which, unfortunately, there were many. Furious, the unpopular owner posted the following sign: “My tools had..." [
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favorited 4 times, recently by tehloki, Monochrome, Solon and Thanks, strawdog
3 weeks ago
MeTa comment:
"But forcing the most involved commenters into a ghetto of a crowded over-long barely-loadable thread just so that Matt can keep the horror of political opinion off the public marquee is a slap in the face.
Forcing! Ghetto! Slap in the face!..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by thivaia, deern the headlice
Last month
MeFi comment:
"No Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country for Old Men
YES" [
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favorited 16 times, recently by waraw, 912 Greens, Dormant Gorilla, grubi, self, Brainy, tehloki, penduluum, nasreddin, Korou, borborygmi, pyrex, jinjo, lekvar, kittens for breakfast, JHarris
Last month
Ask comment:
"Check out the many, many ways to prepare a Michelada. DO NOT UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES ATTEMPT TO DRINK THE "CHELADA" VARIATIONS OFFERED BY THE BIG AMERICAN BEER COMPANIES...." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by entropone
Last month
MeFi comment:
"Trying to influence the umpires' perceptions is the core of baseball.
It . . . is? Anyway, I'm kind of behind your lasers and robot ideas. To expand on these ideas, I would like to suggest a robot blowjob machine that brings me beers while also..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by diablo37
Last month
MeFi comment:
"ketchup
Two words: hot dogs. Three more words: cold dead hands.
Oh, cortex . . . I . . . why, man, why? You don't seem jabberingly insane in most other respects...." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Space Kitty
Last month
MeFi comment:
"Jesus, this is a terrible day. I really liked cortex, you know? This is like . . . I don't know. I'm struggling to come up with something as disappointing as learning about this . . . blasphemy. It's like--let's say--I finally got my chance to..." [
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favorited 4 times, recently by enkiwa, BrotherCaine, ten pounds of inedita, pjern
Last month
MeFi comment:
"When I was around four or so, I somehow managed to cajole my mother into buying me a box of Boo Berry cereal. Which I immediately devoured. The cereal part, anyway. Then I refused to drink the blue-tinted milk--a feature, that I apparently decided..." [
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favorited 3 times, recently by Senor Cardgage, Greg Nog, invitapriore
Last month
MeFi comment:
"Wait until Mick Jagger shows up, insists they're stealing the Stones' schtick, and scampers off with all their tour receipts." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by Senor Cardgage, mkultra
Last month
MeFi comment:
"This was my favorite part:
Just being in New York has made him feel better. Earlier that day, the man at the bodega gave him a free paper.
Sing! Sing to the rooftops!..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by dhammond
2 months ago
MeFi comment:
"the Metafilter thread on the Violet Blue affair is now longer than that provoked by 9/11.
Nice poke in the asshole there, jackass. Because clearly, more comments = more care! It's so tiring having 9/11 be the zombie metric for measuring against..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by LanTao, Blazecock Pileon
3 months ago
MeTa comment:
"*stands up, clears throat*
Man, FARK is always taking it in the dumper around here. I'll say it: I check out FARK pretty much daily. Sometimes they have good links. Sometimes they're shit. Just like some other site whose name eludes me right..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by lukemeister
3 months ago
MeTa comment:
"Huh, whenever I think about the word 'void'
For me:
Lloyd, Lloyd, all null and void,
Looking for the truth but trying to avoid, Lloyd
Dissed in the Malibu, not sure what to do
Every damn time...." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by ctmf
3 months ago
Ask comment:
"Do what my beloved neighborhood bar just did and infuse a batch of whiskey with them. (Method: put cherries and whiskey into suitable jar; wait a week or so.) Cherry-infused Manhattans are the best. As a bonus, you get the liquored-up cherries to..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by librarina
3 months ago
Ask comment:
"I always liked the half-court backwards basketball shot from the delightfully crappy Alien Resurrection if only for the trivia associated with it:
Sigourney Weaver made the behind-the-back half-court basketball shot successfully after two weeks of..." [
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favorited 4 times, recently by frecklefaerie, dirigibleman, Chuckles, Fiasco da Gama
3 months ago
MeFi comment:
"I guess I'm sort of bent, because I'm way more skeeved out by the idea of guys watching videos of women farting on birthday cakes." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by h00py, Reverend John
4 months ago
MeFi comment:
"The male rejection of adulthood is now the dominant attitude in Hollywood comedy.
It is perhaps worth pointing out that as we speak the number one movie in America right now is Sex and the City...." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by XMLicious
4 months ago
MeTa comment:
"I came to this thread wondering who Mark Askee was and what we had asked him.
"Are you the guy with gingivitis?"" [
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favorited 1 time, recently by shmegegge
4 months ago
Ask comment:
"Jesus, there isn't even an argument here. There really is nothing to recommend Lewiston. It's a dull, featureless nothing of a town, and it quite literally stinks if you get close enough to Potlach...." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by hulahulagirl
4 months ago
Ask comment:
"Maybe not quite what you're looking for, but hey.
since feeling is first
since feeling is first
who pays any attention
to the syntax of things
will never wholly kiss you;
wholly to be a fool
while Spring is in the world
my blood..." [
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favorited 3 times, recently by zerbinetta
4 months ago
MeTa comment:
". . . our greatest defining tool. Yet, the metaphors we evolve to expand the potential of language can themselves only be made to refer back to the language which created them. An infinite loop emerges in most definition.
Cortex? Hey, buddy, stay..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by jtron
5 months ago
MeTa comment:
"Do the cats' brains explode?
What happens to a cat defurred?" [
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favorited 12 times, recently by grobstein, misha, amyms, amethysts, tyrantkitty, Maias, madamjujujive, jessamyn, lemuria, limeonaire, Viomeda, sculpin
5 months ago
MeTa comment:
"I think that we can all agree that only ADHD-afflicted debt-ridden single-mom stripper-lawyers are the only people who get to say anything in that thread, or this one, or, frankly, anywhere...." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by ikkyu2
5 months ago
MeTa comment:
"I'm probably a bad person, but the original question just seemed like another fine entry in what I like to think of as AskMe performance art. Anonymous poster creates absurd question framed with the most ludicrous possible circumstances; madness..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by The Bellman
5 months ago
Ask comment:
"Are you thinking of "Bart Vs. Australia"?
Ward: Hello. Now, everything is all set for Bart's apology. Mr. Conover will meet you at the parliament house at three p.m. Questions?
Bart: Yeah, do the toilets go backwards in here?..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Pope Guilty
5 months ago
MeTa comment:
"I don't quite get what's going on here but we haven't warned stinkycheese about anything.
Which makes languagehat's assertions in the thread rather puzzling. I'm not interested in going to bat for stinkycheese (there's a sentence I didn't..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by the other side, The Bellman
5 months ago
MeTa comment:
"a walk in the woods
It is because of Metafilter that right here I immediately thought "in order to find porn."" [
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favorited 12 times, recently by thejanna, lhall, thisjax, Iamtherealme, porn in the woods, tehloki, louche mustachio, flatluigi, confusionball, LeeJay, ook, stet
6 months ago
MeTa comment:
"It would be sort of awesome if on your birthday, MeFi would redirect you to this." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by tizzie
6 months ago
MeFi comment:
"No, the most compelling argument is that it's in the Constitution and if you start ignoring the bits that you don't much like, why shouldn't I or George Bush or James Dobson start ignoring the bits that they don't much like.
I have terrible news..." [
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favorited 8 times, recently by tehloki, lupus_yonderboy, Sangermaine, griphus, axon, JHarris, Blazecock Pileon, binturong
6 months ago
MeTa comment:
"No, I guess not, but it's tiresome. It's dull, it's overwritten, and best of all, it's homeworkfilter. As an added bonus, you've got the whole "we're not really talking about genuine misogyny if we all agree ahead of time to pretend to be..." [
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favorited 3 times, recently by ifjuly, anildash, timeistight
6 months ago
MeTa comment:
"Nah, he isn't funny because he died of cancer that he got from smoking cigarettes (products he had no genuine use for,) that were marketed to him, and that he bought and used and defended as some kind of icnoclastic "stick-it-to-the-man"..." [
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favorited 7 times, recently by Iamtherealme, h00py, stavrosthewonderchicken, bluishorange, flatluigi, enn, Blazecock Pileon
6 months ago
MeFi comment:
"Man, it's gotta sting when you get told you're just not quite fit to enter Newark." [
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favorited 11 times, recently by saturnine, lalochezia, msali, huskerdont, Caduceus, sperose, MythMaker, ekstasis23, abulafa, Smart Dalek, sidereal
6 months ago
MeTa comment:
"My favorite--by which I mean "most confusing"-- example of Colin Farrell's acting "business" is at the very end of this clip from Minority Report. To express his displeasure that Tom Cruise is getting away from him, he grits his..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by LobsterMitten
6 months ago
Ask comment:
"Seconding Bruges, one of my favorite cities. Bonus: unlike Brussels, everyone in Bruges speaks English. Climb the bell tower, see the Michelangelo Pieta at the Church of Our Lady, take the Straffe Hendrik brewery tour, fuck around with the swans..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by jkaczor
6 months ago
