From Romenesko's Obscure Store & Reading Room.

Dunno, this could've been it. But I paid five bucks to join, so maybe not. Maybe I just staggered in off the street.
posted to MetaTalk by scratch at 12:39 PM on April 24, 2006

If anyone's reading this, I still have the same problem on another terminal. I'm in IE, at work. Could it be a cookie issue, I wonder?
posted to MetaTalk by scratch at 10:32 AM on December 22, 2005

a three-paragraph puff piece that's not allowed to be either positive nor negative, merely descriptive.

But if it's a puff piece, then by definition it's positive.
posted to MetaTalk by scratch at 6:56 AM on December 8, 2005

That one about a bikini car wash or some such bunkum that was deleted almost immediately.
posted to MetaTalk by scratch at 7:43 AM on September 23, 2005

My contribution to the low participation was to remember the admonition that "wisecracks don't help people find answers"--and to remember it before I hit "post comment."
posted to MetaTalk by scratch at 9:06 AM on August 25, 2005

1. All my in-laws live in trailers and not one of them wears these A-shirts.

1a. As far as I know, none of them beat their wives.

2. Why is it called an "A-shirt," anyway? It doesn't look anything like the letter A.
posted to MetaTalk by scratch at 8:27 AM on August 9, 2005

OK, so: Here's what I see happening. OP objects to the term "wifebeater" used to describe a kind of men's undershirt. I assume it is because she (?) feels the term trivializes the problem of domestic abuse. She makes a perhaps overly terse post on MeTa about it. She is accused of being "politically correct," there is much arguation, hasty attempts to liken the term to other terms that are offensive to some, and then the thread pretty much devolves into name-calling and... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by scratch at 11:23 AM on August 9, 2005

Perhaps the questions that should move out are the one's with the easily-Googlable answers. tsk tsk

Seconded. I for one get really exasperated by questions about where to buy stuff, facrissake. I'd much rather read the chatty/personal problem questions than those.
posted to MetaTalk by scratch at 7:40 AM on July 27, 2005

I just wanna say, brownpau made me laugh for the first time in 7.5 hours. I have nothing further to add.
posted to MetaTalk by scratch at 1:26 PM on July 22, 2005

I notice, I care, and I pass judgment. I appreciate the self-checks, even as I wonder if anyone ever uses the spell checker. But pedantry is what I get paid for.
posted to MetaTalk by scratch at 7:42 AM on June 28, 2005

Speaking of unutterably tedious, I'm a goddamn copy editor. I rigidly enforce arbitrary rules that no one cares about. I also spend a lot of time dithering about whether to become a librarian.
posted to MetaTalk by scratch at 7:31 AM on March 14, 2005