MeFi comment:
"A few anecdotes and quotes from a surprisingly respectful Fark thread.
Dave Letterman on Paul Newman's V8 Volvo:
"So I'm aware of the fact Paul is more excited about this than I am. He calls me up from time to time and he says, "Have..." [
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favorited 13 times, recently by jvers, MidAtlantic, Scram, hadjiboy, freshwater_pr0n, Richat, Duke999R, null terminated, phatkitten, miss-lapin, o2b, bardic, strawdog
4 days ago
MeFi comment:
"Mapguy - Holy crap. That's a real goddamned article? Like he's serious? Honest to god dead pan serious?
From the article -
In his 12 years as a law school professor, Obama failed to publish a single item, an oddity in the world of academia,..." [
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favorited 13 times, recently by MikeKD, J-Garr, chuckdarwin, peacheater, shitcock, tehloki, flamk, maryh, benzenedream, dejah420, Servo5678, Missiles K. Monster, Mr Bunnsy
4 days ago
MeFi comment:
"Come back with a real nordic style nationalization and we'll talk.
This chicken shit money trough for those that caused the problem in the first place is unacceptable.
I can't imagine anyone will hold strong, but I could just be a cynic...." [
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favorited 4 times, recently by George_Spiggott, orthogonality, dejah420, enn
8 days ago
MeFi comment:
"There was a conference call with SIFMA last night. SIFMA is a securities industry group.
The call was from the Treasury Department to give a briefing on the bailout and how it will be used, given directly to the trade group. There were..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by benzenedream, blasdelf
8 days ago
MeFi comment:
"Ignoring that it is a revolving door to buy the crappiest crap in crapville at whatever price they choose.
Ignore the fact that the motherfuckers who screwed this up get their bonuses and paulson has threatened to block anything that cuts their..." [
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favorited 32 times, recently by MikeKD, effwerd, redfisch, bardic, graymouser, Balisong, rzklkng, Marla Singer, afx114, toastchee, snofoam, mek, Megami, dopeypanda, vhsiv, kscottz, xthlc, milarepa, the biscuit man, gen, aeschenkarnos, lupus_yonderboy, symbioid, spiderwire, oozy rat in a sanitary zoo, ornate insect, RussHy, dbiedny, yertledaturtle, any major dude, manguero, Korou
2 weeks ago
MeFi comment:
"Not nationalized, they just proved that the best way to solve any financial hiccups in the market is with a little hard work, some elbow grease and 1.2 trillion dollars...." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by zippy, bonaldi
2 weeks ago
MeFi comment:
"How many people died?
Ike has passed into memory and nobody seems to realize how fucking huge it really was, or that it simply leveled a huge portion of coastal SE texas and LA.
Fucked up stuff...." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by dejah420
2 weeks ago
MeFi comment:
"Normal people are usually very boring in their day to day life.
Even really evil normal people.
Hitler probably had boring email too." [
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favorited 3 times, recently by pipco, sotalia, pomegranate
2 weeks ago
MeFi comment:
"It looks like they just did some shots and posted to 4chan or wherever. No full dump.
That's sorta depressing. I was hoping for a huge sweeping expose of corruption and gossip.
No idea why, but it would be interesting to watch...." [
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favorited 5 times, recently by Korou, aeschenkarnos, contessa, sebastienbailard, sperose
2 weeks ago
MeFi comment:
"An organization Obama was involved with at one time was involved in some sort of voter fraud.
An organization that John McCain is still actively involved in is directly responsible for war crimes, geneva convention violations, false cassus belli,..." [
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favorited 4 times, recently by chara, shiu mai baby, five fresh fish, madamjujujive
3 weeks ago
MeFi comment:
"Less about blame, more about what this really means..
So today -
Lehman - Kaput
AIG - Dying
Merril - Sold themselves off
BOA - Buying as much poison as it can using loans from the fed
WAMU - very sick
Where does this go?
EURO go up?..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by koeselitz
3 weeks ago
MeFi comment:
"My wife had a sony prs-505 as our first e-ink reader.
We've been using ebooks as our primary book reading device for 4 years or so. I had a reb1200 and she had an ebookwise 1100.
The prs-505 was a birthday present for her.
It was amazing...." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by you
3 weeks ago
MeFi comment:
"Late in the thread, but my 2 cents.
The Palin angle is scary as shit. She's a believe. Believer, capital B. That scares the everlasting shit out of me.
Point blank, if she were to come to power, I believe she'd be on-par with a wide variety of..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by Mental Wimp, sotonohito
3 weeks ago
MeFi comment:
"New Rule -
Do not powergame our constitution.
It is not there to be min/maxed.
Thank you and enjoy the ride." [
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favorited 3 times, recently by zippy
4 weeks ago
MeFi comment:
"In the future, those who are rich will have superpowers bestowed by the powers of genetics.
Poor folks, zilch. They will have to convince a wheelchair bound superman to supply genetic material if they ever want to pass the screening and fly into..." [
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favorited 4 times, recently by thebigdeadwaltz, tehloki, troy, phrontist
Last month
MeFi comment:
"I'm unsure if I have a television.
I have some computers and a projector. I also own 2 television USB sticks.
But one is made by Kowlon and has never received a channel properly. IT was very cheap and purchased from Maplin. It's sort of the..." [
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favorited 4 times, recently by vira, BigCalm, sebastienbailard, ewkpates
Last month
MeFi post:
Lifestyles of the Rich and Flavorless.
favorited 16 times, recently by nudar, cribcage, slogger, kableh, jkaczor, zippy, lisawin, gummi, M.C. Lo-Carb!, dbiedny, Haruspex, acro, Venadium, box, logicpunk, mrgrimm
Last month
MeFi comment:
"Expat here, not that wealthy, but If I understand correctly, the US is the only country in the world with a double taxation setup.
It's a bullshit setup. I pay full taxes for the country I work in, plus (over a sizeable deduction), full taxes in..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by chuckdarwin, A dead Quaker
Last month
MeFi comment:
"Or, as a gentleman from the slashdot thread says:
"All of those people should go on the no fly list"" [
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favorited 9 times, recently by msbrauer, zippy, AsYouKnow Bob, etaoin, perilous, davemee, WPW, LastOfHisKind, Reverend John
2 months ago
MeFi comment:
"Is destroying the very fabric of the ideals and meaning of the United States of America an impeachable offense?
Just curious. I don't want to get t-shirts made until I get clarification...." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by grobstein
2 months ago
MeFi comment:
"At times, I question the choice of having the fuckups run the country.
I suspect they might not be doing a quality job.
On a serious note, 33k applicants. Are any of these accepted? If they are, the program needs to stop immediately. If I..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Skwirl
2 months ago
MeFi comment:
"I get my coffee in a bright blue bag. I think it is french roast, but I am not sure as the package is in Finnish.
I buy the blue one even though its coffee can burn through most organic materials and etch glass if it sustains prolonged exposure...." [
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favorited 4 times, recently by duende, Mr Stickfigure, Ella Fynoe, morganw
2 months ago
MeFi comment:
"Goddammit. Don't make me buy a stupid vacuum compressor thing to make cookies.
I've wanted good cookies for the past few days. Although I consider myself a cookie master, now you have thrown down the gauntlet of awesome. I have no choice, but I..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by liza
2 months ago
MeFi comment:
"Europe is a big place. Where are we talking about? Italy? Greece? Turkey?
Not to split hairs, but why in gods name would Iran shoot missiles at southern Europe?
FROM HELLS HEART I STRIKE AT THEE SARDINIA!..." [
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favorited 5 times, recently by Garak, Phalene, longdaysjourney, Snyder, mek
2 months ago
MeFi comment:
"Poisonous snakes and fish shimmering in the creeks.
Poisonous Snakes in the creek... Tough fucking country..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by scody
2 months ago
MeFi comment:
"I think carbon sequestration is like the containment field in ghostbusters.
Fine in theory until dickless shuts off the power grid.
then BAM!
Human sacrifice, dogs and cats living together... mass hysteria!..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by ZachsMind
3 months ago
MeFi comment:
"Even if you don't like seals, generally, species extinction is an indicator that maybe, somewhere, somehow, somewhy, something is a mite amiss.
And that something might potentially be important or require some alteration of behaviour soon...." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by Abiezer, ghost of a past number
4 months ago
MeFi comment:
"I am not convinced that web pages should ever need to scroll sideways.
If that was how god meant the internet to be navigated, I would have a scroll nipple, not a scroll wheel...." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Caduceus
4 months ago
MeFi comment:
"Herm. So I've gotten the belt tightening thing done, no car, limited lifestyle.
But I'm in finland. i don't think we grow anything here except for potatos and some trees. We have the ocean but I think it's all gummed up or something.
How will I..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by kcds
4 months ago
MeFi comment:
"So first, the mistakes -
Pong - The pong he showed was in colour. The original pong was black and white. There wasn't an atari 2500, save for a prototype in 1981. I think that's a 2600 version of pong though.
Pac Man - was not the 2600..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by Pope Guilty, damn dirty ape
4 months ago
MeFi comment:
"Don't think so. He just runs off from prison. And that one hostage situation." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by quin
4 months ago
MeFi post:
Vappu - The more you know.
favorited 22 times, recently by seawallrunner, Squid Voltaire, daravida, OutlawedYeomen, limeonaire, beandip, Sailormom, sir_rubixalot, Knicke, Flipping_Hades_Terwilliger, cazoo, schyler523, sandraregina, rongorongo, Slap Factory
5 months ago
MeFi comment:
"Avenger - I specifically said "Internet Funny".
That's different than normal funny." [
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5 months ago
