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A Dry Sense of Humor?
favorited 17 times, recently by ifjuly, nickyskye, handabear, pedmands, pearl228, melorama, thelongcon, Rc, LobsterMitten, brautigan, divabat, Brittanie, purplesludge, hannahq, smich, mnsc, Afroblanco
2 weeks ago
MeFi comment:
"My favorite (Winner: Romance*):
Bill swore the affair had ended, but Louise knew he was lying, after discovering Tupperware containers under the seat of his car, which were not the off-brand containers that she bought to save money, but authentic,..." [
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favorited 4 times, recently by JHarris, tehloki, fixedgear, nasreddin
3 weeks ago
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"Would it really be impossible for boys to do the balance beam?
Not impossible, but after a few competitions, the boys wouldn't be boys anymore." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by Melismata, ShawnString
3 weeks ago
MeFi comment:
"I haven't RTFA'd, and I don't have any particular expertise in war and empire and the historic ebb and flow of cultural dominance, but screw it, I'm just gonna chime in and say the core lesson is "don't overreach" and the takeaway is..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by darkstar
Last month
MeFi comment:
"Pastabagel: Natural Gas?
From the details coming out of Ashgabat in Turkmenistan and Moscow over the weekend, it is apparent that the great game over Caspian energy has taken a dramatic turn. In the geopolitics of energy security, nothing like..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Student of Man
Last month
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"The pre-pee flush to avoid splash back is reasonable behavior.
The pre-pee behavior I don't understand is spitting into the urinal before letting fly...." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by ekstasis23
Last month
MeFi comment:
""... and you cut down two, then two again, and then a high one straight overhead, then miss a fast one straight and low to the right, then they come whistling back, passing faster than you can load and shoot, you brown a bunch to get cripples..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by vronsky
Last month
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"Or. To take your writing in an even more formal direction, try wrapping your head around the Figures of Speech collected here.
Parallelism is a good place to start...." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by milarepa
2 months ago
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"Ditto airing it. Or, you know, drink a few glasses - the taste might grow on you.
Or. Buy an expensive bottle of wine you know you like. Drink that first, then, when your palate doesn't know any better and you have dulled your ability to give a..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by nooneyouknow
2 months ago
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"Since leaving isn't an option, you can ask for more money.
Or you can start angling for a promotion.
Or you can ask for more work (overtime).
Or you can moonlight...." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by cior
3 months ago
MeFi comment:
"Has anybody tried to use Twitter as fiction? As in -- broadcasting the thoughts and activities of a fictional person?
"Zounds, my feet are killing me today. Off to the Oracle to find out who my father is once and for all."
"Damn...." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by limeonaire
4 months ago
MeFi comment:
"Let me take a stab at this one, carsonb:
"I want to buy the world a Coke and keep it company."
If I were a brand manager, and a twitterer, I'd twitter my brand. And since this is the Internet, if I can think of it, somebody else has..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Robin Kestrel
4 months ago
MeFi comment:
"A better idea is to chain him to the seat in complete darkness, with his head forced back and nutrients dripped into his mouth to keep him alive. And he stays like that for a few decades. Every so often a light turns on so he can see the mirrored..." [
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favorited 14 times, recently by papafrita, axon, scody, dhartung, blue_beetle, jtron, BrotherCaine, Brocktoon, RedEmma, whir, dirtynumbangelboy, Viomeda, EarBucket, me & my monkey
4 months ago
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"My Gramma's Austrian boyfriend (of forty-odd years) taught himself English with a dictionary and a newspaper subscription. He didn't always get things right, particularly when using idioms.
For example, one afternoon he wanted to teach me how to..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by flatluigi, h00py
5 months ago
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"I did this 20 years ago with a friend and a borrowed VW Bus. We packed an ice chest full of sandwiches and ice and beer and filled four sparklett's type bottles full of water. We'd been using the van for some light construction, so the tools came..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by notsnot, olecranon
5 months ago
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"Well, in Word 2003 it's:
View --> Header and Footer --> Page Setup --> Layout Tab --> Check "Different First Page".
That window will also let you monkey around with different Headers for first pages of new sections (ie,..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by catburger
5 months ago
MeFi comment:
"It was all downhill after the band left IRS Records. And I sometimes have doubts about Document." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by litlnemo
5 months ago
MeFi comment:
"I'm not actually sure people would follow Bush's orders to strike Iran if it came to that. Look at the declassification of the Iran NIE, which basically blew up all the arguments for a strike. It didn't happen because Bush wanted it to happen.
As..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by bowline
5 months ago
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"The first thing I tell my students is start with a character. Then give him something he wants (money, respect of his peers, a campfire) and keep it from him for as long as you can.
Here are two good books:
John Gardner: The Art of Fiction:..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by dhruva
5 months ago
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"IANAP
I think the "spontaneously" in your definition is the point of difference. Spreading out, without cause, is a quality of energy.
Your high pressure example is better than your rock example.
Fill your bathtub with hot water...." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Laura_J
7 months ago
MeFi comment:
"Yawn -- I don't get it.
Well, you aren't expected to. You don't have the balls for it." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by hexxed
7 months ago
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"I can haul a month worth of groceries or enough guns for a small military unit.
I wanna party with you, drezdn.
And by "party" I mean "prosper in the post-apocalypse."
OP: How about a Honda Element? If you get the AWD..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by GaelFC
7 months ago
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"If nothing else, it'll be a good joke that you have experience shoveling bullshit.
Heh. The resume practically writes itself: "Shoveled bullshit in a multilingual setting...." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by electric water kettle
7 months ago
MeFi comment:
"Once on the bus ride to the local Junior College I was then attending, a day or so after my roommate and I had decided to buzz our locks almost all the way off, tennis ball style, for no good reason except that the doggie clippers were sitting RIGHT..." [
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favorited 3 times, recently by RedEmma, rossination, From Bklyn
8 months ago
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"Seconding crickets.
I apologize in advance for this, but I think there should also be consequences for parents who buy kids $250.00 glasses and then expect the kid to suffer the consequences of mishandling them. Kids ruin stuff. Plan for it ahead..." [
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favorited 16 times, recently by ekstasis23, beth, peacheater, puffmoike, the christopher hundreds, jvilter, dhoe, sexymofo, brain cloud, idiomatika, cior, smoakes, misha, samthemander, Your Time Machine Sucks, peep
8 months ago
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"The Perdue OWL is a pretty handy online resource: Verb Tense chart with simple explanations of each tense and their use." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by jquinby
11 months ago
MeFi comment:
"while the rest all go to work for a "new" company called Bluewater, or Monday Security, or Blackwater-In-A-Fake-Moustache, Ltd. or something.
I was thinking the new company would be called "Whitewashwater", but yeah...." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by tehloki, Pope Guilty
11 months ago
MeFi comment:
"Unfortunately, they're eating drunken Serbs.
Don't blame the bears, poor dumb brutes. Drunken Serb flesh is sweeter, thanks in part to the pickling in beer brine, but its true sweetness results from the rich marbling of working class values...." [
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favorited 3 times, recently by dtp, thatswherebatslive, Pollomacho
Last year
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"Take the money. Keep your video editing skills sharp (maybe your current employer could help with freelance editing jobs -- he doesn't have to try to find your skillset, and you get to keep your skillset). Then keep your eyes open for a position in..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by mckenney
Last year
MeFi comment:
"(We also slaughtered cattle and then made them into hamburgers, which we then barbecued and ate. Craziest course I've taken yet.)
"Craziest ... yet?" Animal Science 307: Meats sounds like "Craziest ever."
If you somehow..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Anything
Last year
MeFi comment:
"Metafilter: you'll regret it.
On Pat Tillman the Screaming Boss: He may or may not have been a crappy leader and that may or may not have had something to do with him getting killed. I seconded the suggestion because it seemed more plausible than..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by spiderwire, EatTheWeak
Last year
MeFi comment:
"Also, and I realize there's no direct comparison in terms of cruelty and freewill and etc, but there is a kind of equivalence between what M Vick does for a living (compete in a violent sport) and what that makes him in that context, in the eyes of..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by anarcation
Last year
MeFi comment:
"What did those 15 of 19 hijackers want -- American troops out of Saudi Arabia. What did they get? American Troops out of Saudi Arabia.
What do these 50% of foreign Jihadis want? American troops out of Iraq and the local Shiite majority out of..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by tehloki, amberglow
Last year
MeFi comment:
"I counted to 1000 once. There was a stop watch and a tape recorder. It took about twenty minutes. A little less.
Tension built all the way through the 900s, my "one thousand" looming larger with every passing numeral. I imagined how..." [
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favorited 6 times, recently by milov, SBMike, shmegegge, Songdog, Many bubbles, puddpunk
Last year
MeFi comment:
"The author fallacy. That one's from 1915.
The New Critics (in the 1940s) called it the intentional fallacy.
So if the idea is fashionable bullshit, it's also old fashioned bullshit...." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by erikharmon
Last year
MeFi comment:
"From what I gathered, the only "evidence" that the public can judge for itself is that these things are supposedly so sophisticated that they can only be built in Iran. I call bullshit.
So, before the war, according to the administration..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by notyou
Last year
