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"is "independant" a euphemism for "uptight control freak who allways gets her way and insists she is always right on every issue"?" [
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"McCormick ground Chipotle Chile is your friend. It can be found in most grocery stores.
It is quite hot, but but adds nice flavor and heat AND doesn't require much cooking in time.
So, make a big batch of mildest chili then heat up a serving..." [
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"If you want to use some sort of bean to thicken stews you should note that they can require a lot more cooking than the other ingredients.
I personally don't like quickly cooked beans because of their grainy texture. But if you cook them long..." [
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11 months ago
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"Floydd: It's interesting that Steve Jobs still seems to think that a phone number is associated with a place.
Actually in American English, a phone number is conceived of as standing for the location of a telephone. In the US a number takes the..." [
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"The actual abstract of the paper says:Throught history and across cultures, humans have created music using pitch intervals that divide octaves into the 12 tones of the chromatic scale. Why these specific intervals in music are preferred, however, is..." [
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"The Church of the Subgenious is a for-profit religion and may be similar to what you are trying to achieve.
Praise Bob.
"The less you understand Slack the more it understands you!..." [
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"Here is a still open Ask MeFi thread where it is never really resolved that the asker is infested with Trichomycosis Axillaris." [
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"While cats are not particularly bright, I think they have a built in Theory of Mind - if they see some animal interested in something, they think there may be some advantage to be interested in that too. I once knew an unaffectionate cat, that when..." [
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"Baked Cheese GritsPrepare grits on the thick side (less water), at least 6 servings worth. Add cheese and cheap canned mushroom bits while still hot and stir to melt and distribute. Spread 1/2" thick in pan and after cooled somewhat, refrigerate..." [
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"Here is a list of sardines from a Chow Hound tasteoff
Angelo Parodi Sardine Portoghesi allolio di olivo Portugal/Italy - $1.99
Albo Sardines in Olive oil Spain - $4.99
King Oscar Sardines Mediterranean style Norway, packed in Poland - $2...." [
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"From The Complete Cook...and, with General Directions for Making Wines. Sanderson, J. M., 186427. Bacon is good when the fat is almost transparent and of a delicate transparent pink tinge. The lean should adhere to the bone, be of a good colour, and..." [
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"I you have an infected root, then tapping on the tooth normallyl causes pain." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by zymurgy
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"alms says Drive-e-mocion.
I think devices like that (that display text to the driver behind you) are illegal because they can be a distraction to the following driver. (Just imagine flashing the message “Fuck you and the piece of shit you seem to..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by IndigoRain
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"tell her to pee in the sink. Pee doesn't need a toilet bowl full of water to help it go down the pipes." [
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"ertain - 10 lines could never give an intelligible overview of any of the more modern theories. As a general term they are sometimes referred to as Unification Grammars. I was going to point you to a good online linguistics paper that uses..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by eritain
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"I think it really doesn't matter if the program works or not.
As we are coming to see with many of the Right-Wing/Republican programs their point is not to achieve anything other than help Republicans win elections.
The message to the voters..." [
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"get like a 10" ring (or loop of heavy wire) and stretch a stocking (or 1 leg of a panty hose over it).
Use that to trawl through pond water. You will concentrate your collection of small bugs/crustaceans that way...." [
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"Spinach is high in oxalic acid. Do you get a similar reaction from any of these foods?Foods that are edible, but that still contain significant concentrations of oxalic acid include - in decreasing order - star fruit (carambola), black pepper,..." [
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"Phd or MA.? I have a friend who started to get a MA in psych but then left the program. He said it was only training to give and score psych tests to school kids...." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by man on the run
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"use this mantra: "The better is the enemy of the good".
This is for people who can do a good job at something but they prevent themselves from doing so because they think they can do an even better job...." [
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"Sure sounds like the accepted upper crust version of Tourette's which is generally referred to as "voluble and eccentric."
In milder versions every upper class family would have at least some relative that would spout off "what..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by sluglicker, sutel
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""How doth human language evolve?".
What a stupid question. "doth" is "Archaic. A third person singular present tense of do".
So this question really is "How does language evolve"?. Lots of mechanisms for..." [
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"MindHacks (PDF) claims that people's obsession with the coffee ritual (everything has to be done with the same things in the same order every day) is due to caffine's addictive properties and the addiction messing with your brain to make things seem..." [
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"Another nasty invasive eat-everything frog is the African Clawed Frog. I've seen some in a fish tank that had eaten the eyes off much larger goldfish. In So-Cal there have been water reservoirs that had outlet grates so-clogged with their bodies that..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Powerful Religious Baby
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"This article seems like typical WSJ hand wringing by overblowing a story.
The Fairfax County Public Library system responds.
One should note that they have around 25 branches, so they might want to optimize what the space in individual branches..." [
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"This might not turn out well. Say a hormonal patch is developed that is fairly effective at preventing male fetuses from turning out gay. I bet one effect on some of the treated would be that it hyper-masculinizes them. The grow up to be physically..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by jamjam, Goofyy
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"Riverbend: Why make things worse by insisting on Saddam's execution now? Who gains if they hang Saddam? Iran, naturally, but who else? There is a real fear that this execution will be the final blow that will shatter Iraq. Some Sunni and Shia tribes..." [
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"carbon-monoxide is flammable, so you would have to have so much that there wasn't enough oxygen left in the air to burn the fule and CO.
In fact before natural gas was common, gas was produced from coal and CO was a major component of that gas...." [
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"the base to a Tube Radio Northern Electric Company Loop Antenna 1920 (not a very good picture and none better).
Is your device about 15" tall? The reason you would want to have a detachable handle is so you can swing the antenna around and..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by Agamenticus, thebrokedown
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"Write in pencil on paper with bad handwriting and mispellings (the idea is to avoid worreis about grammar, spelling, and well crafted sentences which can take up a lot of fiddle time on a compuiter).
Plow through the whole paper trying to put down..." [
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"#jessamyn: I call it security theater which I think describes all the players in the weird little tableau.
Actually security theater was coined by Bruce Schneier to describe conspicious security measures which have little real security effect..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by By The Grace of God
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"A lot of so-called humor (especially topical) is not really funny. Instead it tries to marginalize, belittle, show up, and especially call to attention something that the teller hates and/or fears.
For example, if you are working a crowd that..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by rzklkng
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"Of course Pachelbel's Canon doesn't work when it is mapped to the Bohlen-Pierce scale. A good mapping assumes there is some deep homomorphism (e.g. there are 2nd order natural transformation) involved between the two scales and I don't think that is..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by weston, bouncebounce
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"#http://example.com/ceilingcat.gif.: if there was a hacker-safe way to turn on inline images
A hacker safe methods for images is just to only allow those that contain no search parameters (i.e. the stuff after a "?").
Sure some sites..." [
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"#taosbat: The families I've known who were into plastics were working poor
When I lived on Long Island I had a friend whose parents had a plastic covered living room. The father was a higher up in the NYC FBI. Then again they were allways..." [
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"I feel it might be purely gramatical
consists of N[plur]
consists in V+ing" [
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"What about the slime mold beetles in the genus Agathidium: A. bushi, A. cheneyi, and A. rumsfeldi?
Christened by two former Cornell entomologists" [
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favorited 1 time, recently by owhydididoit
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"#delmoi: Keep in mind that the northern ice caps are floating in water, so that if they melt the global ocean level will not rise,
Melting of Floating Ice Will Raise Sea LevelNoerdlinger demonstrates that melt water from sea ice and floating ice..." [
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