MeFi comment:
"The pitcher doesn't need to commit. The batter does. It's fairly clear from the official rules. Nowhere in the section on pitchers, which is extensive, does it say anything about which hand they're pitching with. OTOH, in the section on batters,..." [
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13 days ago
MeFi post:
Teach the Controversy
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2 weeks ago
MeFi post:
NYC in Black and White (mostly)
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2 weeks ago
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"Damp Gingerbread is the absolute best gingerbread recipe ever (I got it out of a Laurie Colwin cookbook, originally, I think, but this is the same recipe I use). It fills the house with a smell that feels warm and comfortable and delicious, and it..." [
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Last month
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"Yep, your sister-in-law is self-centered, self-important, and generally obnoxious. If you're in a relationship with someone that's significant enough that you took her with you to an overnight family gathering, and she went willingly, then the two..." [
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favorited 3 times, recently by Ladysin, sixcolors, tachikaze
Last month
MeTa comment:
"My apologies to all those who think I ought to have posted this to the blue. I figure there'd be at least as many people who, if I had, would've complained that I ought to have posted to the gray.
Metafilter: Damned if you do, and damned if you..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by wafaa
Last month
MeTa comment:
"I love it, but shouldn't it really be:
The Watergate Hotel
It is pitch black. You are likely to be eaten by agnew.
>_" [
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favorited 1 time, recently by not_on_display
Last month
MeFi comment:
"I always have a hard time telling a fastball from a slider, so I doubt I'll do well on this." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by grubi
2 months ago
MeFi post:
How Not to Run for Congress
favorited 10 times, recently by notashroom, yeloson, cotterpin, cytherea, worldswalker, Large Marge, misha, afflatus, DevilsAdvocate, desjardins
2 months ago
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"Perhaps you could send him a link to this page, and note that your client's name is not on the list. Suggest that suing Google would be the most reasonable way to get their results changed and, besides, they've got much deeper pockets than your..." [
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3 months ago
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"According to this page, JFK's maternal grandmother, Mary Josephine Hannon, died in 1964, and so was alive when he was inaugurated in 1961." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by the christopher hundreds
3 months ago
MeFi comment:
"Ah hah! Found one! Search on this page for "escalator." It says, about Jackson Hole, "its [sic] home to the only escalator (its broken) in WY...." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by A dead Quaker
3 months ago
MeFi comment:
"I think Jeff Atwood already had the definition of geek covered with "writes a programming blog."" [
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3 months ago
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"The "death" of the Terminator (the good one, of course) at the end of Terminator 2: Judgment Day by being lowered into a pit of molten steel would probably work...." [
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4 months ago
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"I can't believe I just thought of this, but Roy Batty's death in Blade Runner has to be included:I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack
ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched c-beams glitter in the dark near Tannhauser Gate...." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by nicolas léonard sadi carnot, misha
4 months ago
MeFi comment:
"I approach this problem from a different angle. Suppose the visitor had said "I see 100 blue-eyed people." Obviously, all the brown-eyed people would already know that and sleep well, and all the blue-eyed people, knowing that they can..." [
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favorited 8 times, recently by Kraftmatic Adjustable Cheese, tickingclock, tehloki, flatluigi, bitslayer, moonmilk, Jpfed, Llama-Lime
4 months ago
MeFi comment:
"Some good info on the corner-tearing can be found here. An excerpt:When it came to the draft, however, there was a reversal in usual discriminatory policy. Draft boards were comprised entirely of white men. Although there were no specific..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by batmonkey
4 months ago
MeFi post:
Sesame Street video archive
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4 months ago
MeFi post:
How to draw The Face
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5 months ago
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"Here's how you can do it technologically, without involving another person:
1. Create a disposable e-mail account using TrashMail or something similar. TrashMail is good because it can be set to forward to your real e-mail account a certain..." [
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favorited 4 times, recently by zadermatermorts
6 months ago
MeTa comment:
"I'm trying to imagine a bushfilter. It keeps away things that don't fit through a hedgerow.
If there's a bustle in your hedgerow, don't be alarmed now...." [
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favorited 2 times
6 months ago
MeTa comment:
"It doesn't matter how much I like Rena Sopher
If you really liked her, one would think you could spell her last name correctly." [
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6 months ago
MeTa comment:
"Well-intentioned advice, gratefully received, can cause great harm if it is wrong.
You're right, it can. Virtually anything can cause harm. Doctors cause harm, and sometimes great harm, every now and then, but I would never advise people to..." [
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6 months ago
MeFi comment:
"What do we do, arrest everybody that starts chanting?
No, just arrest some of them, and the rest will scatter pretty quickly. Repeat as many times as necessary until the behavior stops, and then put a few cops near that area at halftime at each..." [
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7 months ago
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"The Epicurious recipe for Fusilli with Gorgonzola and Walnut Sauce is really good. Rich, but good, and definitely different." [
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7 months ago
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"what we need to find here is an archaic, and preferably Shakespearean, language
I'm thinking it's more along the lines of how Yoda might program." [
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7 months ago
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"Wear a Darth Vader mask and go as Dorothy Vader." [
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8 months ago
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"Yes, it is unfortunate that you accidentally posted a blank question, when you probably had something you genuinely wanted to ask. And it is very much unfortunate that you now have to wait two weeks to be able to try again...." [
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favorited 1 time
8 months ago
MeFi comment:
"“Underground” is the only word in the English language that begins and ends with the letters “und.”
How about "underfund?"" [
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8 months ago
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"Sorry--meant to link to this. (The other link is for Macs.)" [
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8 months ago
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"I have to ask: WTF is up with the stepsister-in-law? So she's a lesbian. Does that somehow remove the responsibility of parenthood from her? Someone--your husband, her father, someone--needs to talk some sense into this woman. Discovering one's..." [
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8 months ago
