Big fish, little fish, cardboard box. Big fish, little fish, cardboard box....
posted to MetaFilter by PeterMcDermott at 2:08 AM on August 8, 2008

Are there any comps that are popularly thought to be definitive in the Acid House genre?

Pretty sure everyone used Ataris running Cubase that controlled their synths, samplers and romplers. I was a Mac person, so I didn't know anything about those lame-ass cheapo Ataris, but all the serious musos that I knew had them.

But never mind that. Lets get back to some of this.
posted to MetaFilter by PeterMcDermott at 2:13 AM on August 8, 2008

I meant compilation albums.. mixed or not.

Right. I have to say, I was struggling to figure out how you'd managed to do Home Recording on a Tandy TRS-80.

I've just fallen out of bed. What can I say?
posted to MetaFilter by PeterMcDermott at 2:52 AM on August 8, 2008

it took me a decade to get all the Art of Noise remixes and "Diversions."

It wasn't you that I promised my Frankie Say: Arm the Unemployed T-shirt to, was it?
posted to MetaFilter by PeterMcDermott at 7:59 AM on August 8, 2008

What? No 909? No 909 ? No 909 ? No 909090909? No One After 909?

In the comments on the second link, EggyChuffer makes a very insightful point.

But I can't quote it, because he uses the C-word.
posted to MetaFilter by PeterMcDermott at 8:10 AM on August 8, 2008

I love me some M.C. Hummus.

My my my the hunger hits me so hard,
But all that's in the cupboard is crackers and lard
So I'm off to the D-E-L-I
For some home-made hummus that I'll eat for tea
It feels good when you know you've scored,
Those mashed up chickpeas that were sent by the Lord
It's a food that's great, and it's known as such,
Hummus is a food, you can't... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by PeterMcDermott at 3:13 AM on August 8, 2008

In Russia, all your Star Wars Kids have been RickRolld.
posted to MetaFilter by PeterMcDermott at 5:41 AM on August 7, 2008

On the upside, the timeline includes Bubb Rubb... "The whistles go Whoooooooooooo, whooooooo!"

On the downside, Kenya was much better than Badger Badger or Bananaphone but it's completely missing.
posted to MetaFilter by PeterMcDermott at 8:34 AM on August 7, 2008

To be honest, I had some doubts because when I first came to the United States, I had this fear inside me about the way I was going to be treated.

Not so many beheadings of Iraqi citizens in the USA?
posted to MetaFilter by PeterMcDermott at 11:57 AM on August 6, 2008

And dude, her face could look seventeen again, but the hands of the ninety-seven year old crone will always give her away.
posted to MetaFilter by PeterMcDermott at 8:42 AM on August 6, 2008

"But how do you account for all the people who say they saw UFO's/Bigfoot"?

Kooks. Each and every one of them.
posted to MetaFilter by PeterMcDermott at 1:44 AM on August 6, 2008

Reality is spontaneous, and unique to each of us.

It's true! The Jews were responsible for 9/11, Iraq really did have weapons of Mass Destruction and George Bush has been a wonderful president.
posted to MetaFilter by PeterMcDermott at 4:01 AM on August 6, 2008

This has been my solution for dealing with UK airport security.

You *say* that, but we all know that the real reason is that Americans just can't afford to come here any more.
posted to MetaFilter by PeterMcDermott at 2:10 AM on August 6, 2008

Just what kind of biker bar was this?

One of the bikers was called StudAss. You figure it out.
posted to MetaFilter by PeterMcDermott at 2:07 AM on August 6, 2008

opiates create a physical addiction.

Repeated use of opiates produces tolerance -- the need for increasing doses to produce the same effect, and withdrawal syndrome if stopped abruptly. However, these characteristics aren't what we generally regard as addiction. People who become physically dependent on opiates due to pain tend *not* to suffer addiction and rarely have any problem stopping use when the source of the pain is alleviated.... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by PeterMcDermott at 6:18 PM on August 5, 2008

McCain encourages wife to enter topless beauty contest.

Perhaps she was hanging out with the bikers so she could make a new connection for Percoset?
posted to MetaFilter by PeterMcDermott at 10:08 AM on August 5, 2008

Bonus link: even Harvard students say they don't like Harvard.

That bonus link made me really wish I could come across that pair while they were on a canoing trip through the Appalachians.
posted to MetaFilter by PeterMcDermott at 7:49 AM on August 5, 2008

How can they not have money for gas, but have money for a wireless internet connection? Smells kinda fishy to me.

Still, if they want to make some money, I've got a fence that they can paint.
posted to MetaFilter by PeterMcDermott at 2:26 AM on August 5, 2008

I've had sex with 1492 more people than the average person in my age bracket.

So have I, but that's because I find my dates on mingers.com as opposed to mingle.com.
posted to MetaFilter by PeterMcDermott at 1:16 AM on August 5, 2008

Obsessive Compulsive Disorder is a terrible affliction to have.
posted to MetaFilter by PeterMcDermott at 10:02 AM on August 3, 2008

MeFi sure loves itself some fascism.

Wait, I'm confused. Who are the fascists here? The illegally parking cops, or the self-appointed vigilantes?
posted to MetaFilter by PeterMcDermott at 10:33 AM on August 3, 2008

So trying to hold public servants accountable for their actions merits a brutal beating.

Trying to hold public servants accountable for their actions is just fine and dandy. It's his lack of civility that merits the brutal beating.
posted to MetaFilter by PeterMcDermott at 1:06 PM on August 3, 2008

You're a capitalist lackey running dog, cmonkey. You won't be mocking Pope Guilty and Jimmy Justice when the police state is issuing *you* with an unwarranted parking ticket!
posted to MetaFilter by PeterMcDermott at 3:57 PM on August 3, 2008

This "Jimmy Justice" guy doesn't give them his name but it's not like they can't use some detective work to find out who this guy is, right?

I'm guessing that's why he's targetting women. The cops that this guy is targetting are the people who issue parking tickets, work the sanitation beat, making sure restaurants aren't leaving their garbage out at the wrong time, etc. They're cops in name only. They don't do the kind of high status work... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by PeterMcDermott at 12:43 AM on August 5, 2008

These look dorky as hell, but the cost is right

I'd call 'em Steampunk eyeglasses, advertise them on BoingBoing and knock them out at $500 a pair.
posted to MetaFilter by PeterMcDermott at 9:24 PM on August 4, 2008

I must have started reading too early to remember The One.

Yeah, I don't remember The One either. If I had to guess, it would probably be something by either A A Milne or Richmal Compton, as I know that the bookshelf in my bedroom as a child was filled up with the complete works of both authors -- through request rather than imposition.
posted to MetaFilter by PeterMcDermott at 7:29 AM on August 4, 2008

I taught myself how to read at 2 1/2 with The Cat in the Hat

I taught myself how to read as well, apparently, though I was a little older than you. I completely freaked out my family when I began reading, unprompted, at the age of 3. Initially, they assumed that I'd just memorized words from TV commercials, but they soon figured out that I'd grasped it and could read stuff I'd never seen before.

I think it happened simply by... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by PeterMcDermott at 9:11 PM on August 4, 2008

we're still sitting in front of our computers when we probably ought to be going outside and talking to real people who live next door

What we should be doing and what we are doing are two different things. Regardless of what we *should* be doing, what we are doing is sitting in front of our computers and having the conversations that we used to have with a couple of neighbours, with thousands and thousands of people from all over the world.... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by PeterMcDermott at 5:57 AM on August 4, 2008

When I saw it was a 58 minute video (and the Library of Congress) I figured "BORRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR-ing". Boy was I wrong.

That was precisely my original response to it, spock. Normally, I avoid this stuff like the plague. Normally, it's either outdated by the time it appears, or so banal as to not be worthy of my attention. So I wouldn't normally bother even clicking on a link like this, and I'm not at all sure why I did. However, once I... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by PeterMcDermott at 7:47 AM on August 4, 2008

I can't see the difference between the "profound" insight Wesch touches upon here - and, say, a trashy interview from the weekend's UK Daily Mail when the ex-wife of a UK celebrity moaned about the physical stress she suffered during the nasty break up with her ex-husband!

I don't know where that quote came from, Jodi Tresidder. It wasn't in any of the clips that I watched, and at first glance, it sounds like your archetypal new age... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by PeterMcDermott at 7:57 AM on August 4, 2008

sadly I didn't see anything in his timeline about the comments on youtube

It's the section on The Anonymity of Watching YouTube.
posted to MetaFilter by PeterMcDermott at 10:23 AM on August 4, 2008

It was this Hank Wangford series that first turned me on to Country Music. Until then, I just regarded it as music for old people.

My own Louvins favourite: I don't believe you've met my baby.

And from the same show, Hank Wangford and Billy Bragg cover Gram Parsons.
posted to MetaFilter by PeterMcDermott at 11:24 PM on August 2, 2008

Satan is real.

In my opinion, the Louvins best stuff is their overtly fundamentalist Gospel material -- the Satan is Real album in particular, but also their covers of various hymns. The Louvins were sinners -- Charlie in particular, was a rotten nasty drunk, yet came from a culture that regarded drinking as sinful. Ira was married three times and tried to kill his wife by strangling her. (Their cut of Knoxville Girl obviously had real resonance for... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by PeterMcDermott at 11:42 PM on August 2, 2008

Also, it's in threads like this that I miss the comments of realcountrymusic.
posted to MetaFilter by PeterMcDermott at 11:47 PM on August 2, 2008

Here's a clip on the Louvin's gospel roots from a BBC documentary on White Gospel music.
posted to MetaFilter by PeterMcDermott at 12:13 AM on August 3, 2008

Over on CBEB's blog, you can listen to an MP3 of them performing the classic Don't Let Them Take The Bible Out Of Our Schoolroom.

If it's right to allow liquor in most counties
On the newstand see the sinful pictures there
If it's right for moving pictures of corruption
Dear God how can we say it's wrong for prayer
Don't let them take the Bible out of our school rooms
Don't let them close the door of your childs... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by PeterMcDermott at 9:53 AM on August 3, 2008

I have no explanation for it, but a wage penalty effect has been observed — due to smoking — by the World Bank, Health Canada and the US Bureau of Labor Statistics, among other government and NGOs.

My guess is that it's the 'fuck you' effect.

There's a significant non-zero cost to keeping sick smokers alive, through medical treatment and research. Until those dead smokers are dead, money is spent on keeping them... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by PeterMcDermott at 12:38 AM on August 3, 2008

While mountain climbers pay for their rescue operations, and motorcyclists pay with their lives (literally, if sadly),

Well, the ones that die do. Those that are maimed and disabled surely lose work and incur massive health care costs while alive as well. It doesn't seem unreasonable that those people should also pay higher taxes in exactly the same way that we smokers do to offset those costs.

I await the day... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by PeterMcDermott at 4:46 AM on August 3, 2008

Welcome to trench level social work! Even most social workers don't want to do it.

Sidebar!
posted to MetaFilter by PeterMcDermott at 12:52 AM on August 3, 2008

All the news that's fit to print.

I'm 60lb over weight, and I'll be damned if I'm reading *any* news from a paper that prints the word 'fit' anywhere in it's strapline.

Rush Limbaugh and Bill O'Reilly both look like men who've got a fatal coronary in their very near future, so I'll continue getting my news and analysis from other morons like myself.
posted to MetaFilter by PeterMcDermott at 8:02 AM on August 2, 2008

Are you really asking "Which sex toy would Jesus use?"

Yes, but only with the Christian right's stamp of approval. After all, we wouldn't want them thinking that we've fallen foul of the problem that has no name, would we?

FWIW, my money is on a french tickler that resembles a crown of thorns.
posted to MetaFilter by PeterMcDermott at 5:37 PM on August 1, 2008

Oh, I do. Particularly when it's the kind of sex that gets them BANISHED to SATAN'S DOMINION!
posted to MetaFilter by PeterMcDermott at 2:18 AM on August 2, 2008

Hipsters are so last year. All the cool kids have already moved on to become Beatniks.
posted to MetaFilter by PeterMcDermott at 2:11 AM on August 2, 2008

There are no other black fruits

Blackcurrants are pretty black.
posted to MetaFilter by PeterMcDermott at 8:38 PM on August 1, 2008

The fact that it is common is exactly the point. Very common.

Not to mention the fact that almost all British children used to learn a nursery rhyme/method of fortune telling that was predicated on the number of magpies spotted.

One for sorrow,
Two for joy,
Three for a girl,
Four for a boy,
Five for silver,
Six for gold,
Seven for a secret never to be... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by PeterMcDermott at 8:45 PM on August 1, 2008

Dear Brits, our robin will kick that little thing's ass.

If it weren't for the American Robin, the European Robins would all be speaking German by now.

I understand the species name given to the American Robin was actually given to honour the American tourist in Europe.
posted to MetaFilter by PeterMcDermott at 8:54 PM on August 1, 2008

Those Segway owners are a strange bunch, aren't they? They seem to be hating on this because it only goes 3 miles an hour, as opposed to their Segway's blistering 12 miles per hour.

I mean, if you want speed, why wouldn't you just buy a motor scooter? A little Chinese 50 cc two stroke would cost about the fifth of a Segway, move around five times faster and let you carry a passenger on the back seat.
posted to MetaFilter by PeterMcDermott at 8:23 PM on August 1, 2008

I've no recollection of the Rock Opera, but I remember the Alan Aldridge book. It was one of those quintessentially 70's things that people used to have around to look at when they'd dropped acid.
posted to MetaFilter by PeterMcDermott at 5:24 AM on August 1, 2008

Easily fixed: Don't go to the USA. No big loss.

I *do* consider it a loss. I love the USA, I used to visit several times a year and I have many close friends there.

However, I haven't been since January 2002 and I don't forsee myself returning in the forseeable future. I used to think I might go back again after the regime had changed.

Now, I'm not so sure of that.
posted to MetaFilter by PeterMcDermott at 5:16 AM on August 1, 2008

Obviously, Rolex was counting on the Germans winning - which in 1942 seemed like a safe bet.

This is precisely the opposite to what the article claims:

It meant that Wilsdorf, himself a German, was betting on an allied victory. By early 1943, this was a risk worth taking. The tide of war had turned: the Russians were on the offensive after routing the Germans at Stalingrad; German and Italian armies were being driven out of North Africa.
posted to MetaFilter by PeterMcDermott at 3:00 AM on August 1, 2008