MeFi comment:
"John Milton, whose metre still shines
Told how, midst prelapsian vines
Eve ate the fruit
And God gave them the boot
But the Devil got all the best lines...." [
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favorited 28 times, recently by dirty lies
more than 12 hours ago
MeFi comment:
"You don't do, you don't do, you don't do
Ted's found someone else he can screw
I feel like a Jew
On a Dachau choo-choo
Got it, Daddy? I'm looking at you...." [
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favorited 26 times, recently by dirty lies
more than 12 hours ago
MeFi comment:
"This note on the fridge is to say
That those ripe plums that you put away
Well, I ate them last night
They tasted all right
Plus I slept with your sister. M'kay?..." [
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favorited 42 times, recently by dirty lies, ruelle, Deathalicious
more than 12 hours ago
Ask comment:
"I have the same problem and I'm fifteen years older than you. The solution as everyone else says, is cardio. I restarted commuting by bike two months ago and am now up to between 17 and 25 miles a day depending on which route I take.
That works..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by idiomatika
4 days ago
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"Superfeet are amazing. I use the green ones. They last forever, through many pairs of shoes. I use them mostly in sport shoes, cycling and snowboarding in particular...." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by sondrialiac
4 days ago
MeFi comment:
"Every time I read a description of a drug trip I feel the same way as I do when someone describes a crazy dream they had and expects me to be amazed by how crazy it was.
NEWSFLASH: IT WAS A DREAM. THEY'RE SUPPOSED TO BE CRAZY.
Next time I get..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Phalene
5 days ago
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"Healthy relationships are just, better.
They happen. You'll know, because you feeling bad, or the other person feeling bad, will not be a fundamental mode of the relationship. You'll feel good most of the time with that person and they will feel..." [
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favorited 3 times, recently by timoni, chicainthecity
8 days ago
Ask comment:
"A lioness and a sow were talking.
The sow said: I, a pig, have many piglets in a litter. But you, a lioness, have only one cub. Do you not feel ashamed?
The lioness replied: only one. But a lion.
(from Aesop)..." [
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favorited 23 times, recently by ST!NG
2 weeks ago
MeFi comment:
"This is arguably a good deal. If AIG failed it would have triggerd insanity in the markets. Not just CDSs and counterpart bullshit, but everything from corporate liability insurance to your car insurance. The terms of the loan are horrible for AIG..." [
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favorited 50 times, recently by manguero, jlbartosa, wires, finite, tehloki, Jubal Kessler, agress, kryptondog, merelyglib, davejay, Jody Tresidder, msali, oaf, escher, dejah420, OolooKitty, nakedcodemonkey, shitcock, zippy, Hot Like Your 12V Wire, PROD_TPSL, ChuqD, Chinese Jet Pilot, tippiedog, keevinl, graventy, oozy rat in a sanitary zoo, Balisong, Civil_Disobedient, kamelhoecker, magstheaxe, phatkitten, mr vino, cazoo, Drastic, RussHy, acro, like_neon, yoga, Thorzdad, lalochezia, fatehunter, snwod, aeschenkarnos, ShawnStruck, brundlefly, washburn, matty, peacheater, furtive
2 weeks ago
Ask comment:
"Whoah, you know what's safe RIGHT NOW? Nothing except cash, gummint treasuries, and FDIC insured bank accounts. And I'm not so sure about the last two.
MM accounts are breaking the buck as we speak, with redemptions stymied for seven days. There..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Asparagirl
2 weeks ago
Ask post:
Buy low, sell high. And?
favorited 27 times, recently by nihraguk, thesonofmorgoth, kenliu, DB Cooper, doppleradar, MzB, kittyprecious, boba, drezdn, tdischino, cschneid, mistsandrain, yohko, NormandyJack, inigo2, vers, mhh5, tickingclock, |n$eCur3, Big Fat Tycoon, sockster, P.o.B., Fins, entropic, jclovebrew, JohnnyGunn, procrastination
2 weeks ago
Ask comment:
"I've not heard anything remotely like that. The amounts of money involved in the bank collapses are many orders of magnitude greater than UAUA's market cap, which is under $2bn. The whole episode was corrected in 30 minutes. The plunge certainly..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by anildash
2 weeks ago
Ask comment:
"Context: I'm a professional screenwriter. I wrote the movie SYLVIA. The following works for me. I'm not saying it will work for anything else.
Start with three sentences representing the beginning, middle and end of your story.
Boy meets girl...." [
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favorited 18 times, recently by protorp, 2oh1
3 weeks ago
Ask comment:
"Okay, I am actually a working screenwriter with a produced feature. I write this from my hotel in LA having just got back from dinner with my agent...
Here is how to get into screenwriting. It worked for me and it worked for every screenwriter I..." [
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favorited 24 times, recently by MythMaker, luckyveronica
3 weeks ago
MeFi comment:
"As a self-identifying hetero (YMMV) I'd find a surprisingly large tranche of the images attractive if it wasn't for the irruptive facial hair, which screws up even the 'most feminine' end of the spectrum...." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by lupus_yonderboy
Last month
Ask comment:
"I'm having a hard time understanding
(a) why you feel they all need to belong to the same catergory;
(b) how 'groupings' is similar to 'notes' and 'tasks'
If I was developing an OOP system which featured these entities I'm not sure they..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by nicole.hilder
Last month
MeFi comment:
"I ordered up "What you fear seeing most when you look in the mirror". Can't WAIT!!!" [
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favorited 1 time, recently by cjorgensen
Last month
MeFi comment:
"I've loved that book for years. When we built a house a couple of years ago, we used vernacular architecture as the basis. In particular, we based it on an old farmhouse we'd lived in which had a fantastic floor layout which had evolved over several..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by BrotherCaine
Last month
Ask comment:
"There is no way to reset a keychain password.
However you don't have to reinstall.
Go to your home folder, find the Library folder and drag the Library>Keychains folder to the trash.
Restart the computer and a new keychain will be created..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by blueberry
Last month
MeFi comment:
"He snuck in her bedroom, the tw*t,
And soon wished he hadn't. For *t
Produced a discovery
From which no recovery:
A box full of Celia's sh*t." [
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favorited 5 times, recently by marginaliana
Last month
MeFi comment:
"It's been proven that if you are not told by the "expert" in the white coat and the MRI machine that "there is something wrong with you" that you will not have any pain.
QUOTING..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by merelyglib, nosila
Last month
MeFi post:
Once in a lifetime
favorited 13 times, recently by manguero, jkaczor, rongorongo, mecran01, Tulipdog, Substrata, Hat Maui, nicolin, artaxerxes, ntartifex, andraste, benzenedream, infini
Last month
MeFi comment:
"Ten bottles, one fell with a crash!
One more, and another! Smash! Smash!
Five, four, three, two, one!
And finally none.
Darn, I could have returned them for cash!*
*Offer valid in..." [
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favorited 5 times, recently by pocketfluff
Last month
MeFi comment:
"My six year old son announced yesterday that he was a vegetarian. "But I don't eat all my vegetables", he added quickly.
This is in contrast to my friend Greg's twins. Greg's a vegeterian and his wife's a meat eater. They decided the..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by Caduceus
Last month
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"By the way, the triangle approximation works very well. However the mass of the person riding the line has a large effect on the sag... steel wire doesn't stretch much under load but the geometry means that even a very small stretch translates to a..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Greg Nog
2 months ago
MeFi comment:
"You did it by not putting anything into link text
Thanks. Should I file that under bug or feature?" [
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favorited 1 time, recently by humannaire
2 months ago
MeFi post:
Nexis Nexus
favorited 12 times, recently by monkeystronghold, East Manitoba Regional Junior Kabaddi Champion '94, BrotherCaine, longdaysjourney, desjardins, maryh, kid ichorous, rottytooth, iamkimiam, Blazecock Pileon, procrastination, horsewithnoname
2 months ago
MeFi comment:
"Yeah, just to be clear, suspension of disbelief basically means, okay, I will accept a crazy premise SO LONG AS everything that proceeds from the premise is believable GIVEN THE PREMISE.
In a movie, the audience will swallow one big fish. This is..." [
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favorited 73 times, recently by Comrade_robot, Fiberoptic Zebroid and The Hypnagogic Jerks, bigbigdog, ColdChef, miss-lapin, RussHy, like_neon, jlbartosa, secretary bird, omegar, Paragon
3 months ago
MeFi comment:
"I guess as a screenwriter who spends every day dreaming this kind of shite up it shouldn't be too surprising, but I 'got' sixth sense with a few mnutes and spent the rest of the movie choking on my popcorn trying not to point out the (to me)..." [
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favorited 22 times, recently by Fiberoptic Zebroid and The Hypnagogic Jerks
3 months ago
Ask comment:
"Send letters to all their neighbours apologizing for the amount of noise they make during sex." [
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favorited 12 times, recently by SlyBevel, BrotherCaine, carbide, suedehead, zardoz, Countess Elena, ImproviseOrDie, lalochezia, Inspector.Gadget, ceri richard, shinynewnick, jamaro
3 months ago
Ask comment:
"I am not aware of any scam that could be perpetrated by someone possessing your phone number, even if that person possesses a distinct Indian accent." [
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favorited 14 times, recently by bkudria, loiseau, brina, Mrmuhnrmuh, ceri richard, Xoder, modernnomad, Comrade_robot, peacheater, minus zero, schwa, Perplexity, kaydo, grouse
3 months ago
Ask comment:
"So you just have to figure out how many Chelsea Clinton's your wife is worth, multiply up the cows and goats, and convert to camels.
I tried Googling
(20 cows + 40 goats) in camels
but sadly it didn't work.
(I had about 5% expectation..." [
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favorited 3 times, recently by Dillonlikescookies
3 months ago
MeFi comment:
"The title reminds me of poor Joseph Heller's second book, Something Happened.
One of the best American novels I've ever read." [
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favorited 3 times
3 months ago
MeFi comment:
"This PUA shit freaks me out but I do have to share the only PUA 'trick' that I have ever seen work for someone in a completely consistent way. A friend of mine (I use the term loosely) who was of at best average looks and one of the less charismatic..." [
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favorited 3 times
3 months ago
