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"My Canadian ex husband couldn't order food in Georgia without pointing to items on a menu. There are plenty of people for whom accents are difficult. I agree that overdubbing sucks, but making sure people are understood is a good thing, yes?..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by DevilsAdvocate
5 days ago
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"Not a recipe, but a presentation suggestion: Depending on how formal your wedding is, every large party I host, I set up a cupcake "bar" and it seems to be the biggest hit.
A beautifully arranged stack of unfrosted cupcakes of various..." [
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favorited 6 times, recently by Ms. Next, featherboa, AceRock, slenderloris, wsquared, chara
7 days ago
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"So, I can only speak from my own experience, but I am not the prettiest girl in any group, but I often played the outsider role in my 20s when I tolerated such things.
I like immature boy things - video games, D&D, etc. My attempts at small..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Sidhedevil
8 days ago
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"A therapist I went to for a while told me to tell my mother, "I understand that you want to discuss (my ex). But discussing (my ex) doesn't make it better. It makes me want to avoid talking to you. And I like talking to you. So, if you discuss..." [
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favorited 8 times, recently by fan_of_all_things_small, Robert Angelo, DevilsAdvocate, amarynth, giraffe, needs more cowbell, bigbigdog, misozaki
10 days ago
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"I think I wrote this question on Ask 3.5 years ago almost exactly.
I had never lived alone in my entire life and with split custody of my kid, I suddenly had half the week empty.
Here's what didn't work for me:
Leaving the TV on for the noise..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by chicainthecity
10 days ago
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"Received via email by someone who wasn't going to pay the $5, but I'll put it here for posterity: The fantastic verbose thesaurus at U Chicago." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by chefscotticus
10 days ago
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"Being engaged for us was the day it went from "some day" to "when?" and "where?"
As an insecure girl, it was knowing that us not being married wasn't about him being unsure about me, it was figuring out a cool place..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by ifjuly
13 days ago
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"I love that my husband proposed at home. I can't walk by a certain spot in our kitchen without smiling. There were candles lit and dinner cooking and I had a glass of wine in my hand. But we're pretty domestic people...." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by ifjuly, melissam
13 days ago
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"Every little girl has that phase. I gave my daughter unicorns and pegasus toys when she was that age. They're very compatible with princesses (the skipper to the princess's gilligan so to speak), but they're not. And they were enjoyed long after as..." [
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favorited 3 times, recently by nuclear_soup, meindee, piedmont
2 weeks ago
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"Everyone who says Chicago is walkable hasn't tried to carry groceries a few blocks in the winter - even with the L." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by yoyobates
2 weeks ago
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"Everyone is different, so, as always YMMV. But, when I had my kid, I wanted everyone just to get the hell out. I wanted to crawl in and nest with the kid. "Helpers" really just wanted to see the baby, play with the baby. If someone had paid..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by rodgerd
2 weeks ago
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"I've only heard it as an accidental alert, as in, "We can't put 'Better Tasting' on the can! That's an accidental alert to people who've never tried it. Let's go with, 'New, full-bodied recipe' if we can squeeze that in the character count...." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by WCityMike, pitseleh
Last month
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"One step better is the place that advertises "Fresh" Seafood, leading to grammar snobs like me being very concerned about the quotes and why they're there.
As someone who's written for shelf-stable salsa and beer, be more afraid of..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by nicepersonality
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"Open Me. I'm a dog. by Art Speigelman. Awesome book.
(I'd second The Stinky Cheese Man as well.)" [
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favorited 1 time, recently by frenetic
Last month
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"I likely notice the details of people more than most. As I walk down the street, I make eye contact with almost everyone. (I love how some people, when faced with genuine human eye contact turn their eyes down, like a submissive dog and some get all..." [
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favorited 3 times, recently by woebot, bobber, iamkimiam
Last month
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"Well, I'm looking for something to contradict that bias, I guess is what should be obvious. Someone to say "I had a problem, and the HOA was right on top of it and things worked great".
I, oh wait, no. When I bought my first house (in a..." [
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favorited 6 times, recently by Monochrome, JHarris, Kid Charlemagne, nasreddin, sebastienbailard, mwhybark
Last month
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"Metafilter is all hipsters.
Metafilter is all elitists.
I can't wait to tell all the folks at work that I am not a geeky nerdgirl who can't dress. I am an elite hipster. Suck it, fashionistas!
Or is this one of those "the higher your user..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Wilder
Last month
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"Wait, I see a lot of the same posts on Boing Boing and MetaFilter. Does that mean that if someone FPPs a $1000 steampunk keyboard and we constantly slather about Little Brother, we magically become news?..." [
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favorited 5 times, recently by dabitch, brina, arcticwoman, flatluigi, loquacious
Last month
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"My pediatrician said no screen time before age 5, an hour a day from 5-10, but she didn't cite anyone.
That was a little stricter than we ended up being. We do an hour a day (all screens combined), but let our 8-year-old bank it so she can see..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by notsnot
2 months ago
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"My hometown sends the message that red states don't exist, that Thinkgeek clothing is business casual, that pot stank is a perfectly acceptable cologne and that this is the center of the friggin' universe.
In other words, San Francisco is Never..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by twins named Lugubrious and Salubrious, spaceman_spiff
2 months ago
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"As I work in the writing department of a fairly well-known agency, the cover letters we get are often... awe inspiring.
My favorite: "I eat stress for breakfast and pull from the toilet poetry of the gods." No, we went with the other..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by twins named Lugubrious and Salubrious
2 months ago
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"My dad had lots of "great" stories. To this day, I find myself pissed off that he was incapable of saying "I don't know." And I'll occasionally find that things I thought to be true without a doubt are urban legends or just plain..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Elsa
2 months ago
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"If I had known they were "gems" I wouldn't have wanted any of the Guitar Hero games. Gems? I've already got GemFighter, thank you very much.
Ick and double ick...." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by marble
2 months ago
MeFi comment:
"It's hard to have good words for what an amazing storyteller he was when his words were so amazing in their own right. Two of my favorites from "The Past Didn't Go Anywhere":
Folk music is boring. "Black fall, the die doe, blow ye..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by susanbeeswax, RedEmma
2 months ago
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"For an informed decision on the hypoallergenic cat front - I wouldn't recommend a sphynx.
I got a rescue sphyx (a retired show cat, so he was very hairless).
He didn't have fur. He was an awesome cat personalitywise. But you know how pet foods..." [
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favorited 5 times, recently by Scram, Space Kitty, jessamyn, crabintheocean, sondrialiac
2 months ago
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"A guy I like and JUST MET didn't show up for my birthday party? Whatever. The same guy who's performance I blew off? Super whatever.
Reading your question, it sounds like you're really not that into her until the point that she was ignoring you...." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by wondermouse
2 months ago
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"To be honest, it doesn't sound like a scam - at least given my experience with home buying and getting bait and switched on apartments because the landlord wants to be nice to the current tenant (and likely has to be given the renters rights in the..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by loiseau
2 months ago
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"All you need is Timbaland, this data and the manual and you're all set to be a superstar." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by chime
2 months ago
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"We're in a more traditional firm than most and if anyone shows up in a suit for anything (except maybe a strategist position), there's the whole "cultural fit" discussion or there's a perception that the person is too eager/hungry/desperate...." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by hulahulagirl, cmoj
2 months ago
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Replacing my favorite thesaurus now that it's more "efficient"?
favorited 23 times, recently by misozaki, dances_with_sneetches, Skyanth, whiskey point, zouhair, apartment dweller, ifjuly, Elsa, dizziest, zepheria, Arthur Dent, bahama mama, mimo, buka, phatkitten, azure_swing, ml98tu, prefpara, Greg Nog, sacre_bleu, kryptos, romakimmy, JimN2TAW
2 months ago
MeFi comment:
"There is no other place that I knew with certainty I could get a Justin Timberlake doll to build a SOUTHLAND TALES action figure set. Or cans of OK Cola to be a Dan Clowes completist. Or an ancient pocket watch made in my father-in-law's home town...." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by missrachael, jjwiseman
2 months ago
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"What a great opportunity to teach your child that you can love and appreciate people who have different beliefs.
My daughter is eight. I'm very honest with her about what I believe is right, wrong, means, etc. and she gets exposed to lots of..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by streetdreams
3 months ago
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"I want to see all this violence and prostitution everyone talks about. Unfortunately my copy just locks up – after I've been suckered into bowling politely with a nice girl.
Stupid, buggy rockstar games...." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by crinklebat
3 months ago
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"King peppermints. Any chocolate bars.
Although being in California in the land of pathetic doughnuts, I'd kill for a box of Timbits. But they likely won't last long enough...." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by nimsey lou
3 months ago
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"Leave. Just leave.
My father once smacked me for getting straight As because, if I got good grades, I couldn't possibly be his natural child. If you want to trade rebelling against your parents to get an education stories, my email's in my profile...." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by fan_of_all_things_small
3 months ago
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"No.
If you loved her, you would have gone out of your way to be together, even despite the getting your life in order.
Either she's not into you at all. Or worse, she was into you, waited for you to get it together and delayed her options and..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by blueberry
3 months ago
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"If everyone else I know is any indication, have your 30 crisis in a few months. Go through a breakup in which you realize your previous ideal has no bearing on where you want your life to be, consider changing careers, move to a new city, stop giving..." [
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favorited 4 times, recently by logicpunk, jejune, meerkatty, ignignokt
3 months ago
MeFi comment:
"I don't mean to be pedantic, but Gore's on the board of Apple. It has to be Keynote, right?
Don't start giving PowerPoint any positive press. Unless you're trying to make the brand a generic.
Does Gore actually want to be involved at the White..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by cjorgensen
3 months ago
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"And on the same direction as nebulawindphone, the first time I logged into my local ddial and realized I could converse with people, that people cared what I had to say and that boys could possibly like me, I was totally hooked.
It made me more..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by xpix, jbroome
4 months ago
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"I'm a namer.
For generating good names, reading things out of my field, and out of marketing in general, helps me a lot, particularly the kind of random Wikipedia wandering where I end up knowing all about the history and making of tequila or..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by prophetsearcher
4 months ago
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"So, if copy is your deal 45moore45 is right. Start with the Copy Workshop Workbook (It's awesome and full of exercises that will help you build a portfolio. A class at a portfolio school might also help.
Now, I've been a copywriter and taught it,..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Wolfster
4 months ago
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"The photo galleries of the John Hughes stars have proved one thing to me. I was right in junior high - Cameron Fry *is* hotter than Ferris Bueller." [
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favorited 3 times, recently by LeeJay, desjardins, pointystick
4 months ago
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"With new topics, I'd like to call myself open minded, but sometimes, I'm wishy washy until something's set in stone. And a lot of times, I am afraid to voice my real opinion at the sake of offending someone in real life, but MetaFilter is full of..." [
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4 months ago
