MeFi comment:
"He can fly a military jet. I can't. Can you? How about throw a strike in front of 50,000 fans from a major league mound in the wake of the worst terrorist attack ever on American soil?
Oh, FFS. What does either of these things have to do with..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by jonp72, vhsiv
more than 12 hours ago
MeFi comment:
"Dang, how do you know so much about mushrooms? I'm totally impressed. Horticulturalist? Botanist? Gardener?
I am a horticulturalist and garden designer, now studying to be a landscape architect. But the place I learned about mushrooms was by..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by nickyskye
2 days ago
MeFi comment:
"nickyskye, Orders come after Divisions; the two mushrooms are really not closely related at all. Even though they may be called "stink morels" the "morels" part is based on morphology of the fruiting body, and does not mean there..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by benzenedream, hattifattener
3 days ago
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"You may be able to find jasmine absolute flowers and distill them with highproof alcohol, but that likely a fiddley and more expensive way to go.
Just for clarification: an absolute is a perfumery term for what is basically a concentrated natural..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by annsunny
4 days ago
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"My only downside might have been not knowing how to treat women like princesses.
Don't do this. Women aren't characters out of fairy tales." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by blueberry
8 days ago
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"I've read your post, and your responses, and I still don't know exactly what you mean by "commitment". At any rate, whatever he understood it to mean, he doesn't want it, at least right now. Frankly though, it sounds like you're putting up..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by blueberry, mumstheword
8 days ago
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"The other consideration is that most of the leaf mold eventually is digested by microorganisms and released into the atmosphere as carbon dioxide.
Well, you don't have decomposition, and thereby compost, without releasing carbon. Carbon is..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by kuujjuarapik
9 days ago
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"Dude, you managed to read a lot of negativity into people who were responding in pretty reasonable ways. No one was putting you down in any of those responses- certainly not even on a global scale, let alone cosmic. If you feel people are reading you..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Solon and Thanks
10 days ago
MeTa comment:
"GERMAN ARMY ADVANCING STOP SUPPLIES LOW STOP PLEASE ADVISE
WNW TO CALAIS CHUNNEL TO FOLKESTONE STOP ADVISE CENTRAL FISH BAR AVOID CHUMMY CHIPIE" [
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favorited 1 time, recently by cortex
2 weeks ago
MeFi comment:
"Yeah, whatever, square. I'm gonna go hang out at the mall.
Since when do goths talk like Arthur Fonzarelli?" [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Jilder
2 weeks ago
MeFi comment:
"You know, you could have built a decent post by investigating some of the people mentioned in the NYT piece. Instead, you chose a WP link, a fluff article from 2006, a Flickr search, a lame website about Christian Goths, and a crappy..." [
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favorited 3 times, recently by erebora, Chuffy, jtron
2 weeks ago
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"Nice, librarianamy. Now I can do something with the leftover bits of cutesy fabric I'm anticipating. I'll probably pick up some stuff from Superbuzzy or Etsy's huge selection of Kawaii fabrics...." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by librarianamy
3 weeks ago
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""Starter pet" really rubs me the wrong way. It sounds disposable. Really, little creatures in cages can live as long, and are generally more maintenance, than the average dog or cat. A pet should be for the whole household, and the whole..." [
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favorited 4 times, recently by the Real Dan, rossination, srrh, sarcasticah
3 weeks ago
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""No," I replied, "you can create a graph that shows a 300% improvement."
And I cackled madly as a cloud of pure evil coalesced over my head, squeezing my fingers, pretending to myself that I was choking math to death with my..." [
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favorited 3 times, recently by jjwiseman, Shepherd, tehloki
Last month
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"For all I know, the media are yapping about how McCain closed the gap in the polls despite the Democratic convention and might be even leading now (although personally, I don't trust the polls and think they are one half skewed and the other half..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by Suparnova, Nattie
Last month
MeFi comment:
"I also think the pick reflects McCain's intense displeasure at being upstaged by anyone, particularly his VP choice.
And how is this pick going to bring the Evangelical Right, who already dislike McCain, back into the fold?
Sarah Palin thinks..." [
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favorited 3 times, recently by brujita, By The Grace of God, orthogonality
Last month
MeFi comment:
"You know, I think there's also a very good case to be made that this may motivate Hillary Clinton to work even harder to elect Barack Obama. There's absolutely no way that she would find the idea of a republican female president heartwarming. I think..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by showbiz_liz
Last month
MeFi comment:
"This is a really poor choice, IMO. Disgruntled PUMA's were going to vote for McCain anyway, and voters who wanted Clinton because of her history of "being a fighter" and a champion of women's rights are not going to be pleased with obvious..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by brassafrax, Dragonness
Last month
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"I like hiking the Coast Trail at Point Reyes to Bass Lake. It's best to take a floating thing of some sort, because it's a very steep drop off once you're in the water. I think it's about 6 miles there, which is perfect to get all hot and sweaty..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by vacapinta
Last month
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"If you check out AL, investigate their Cools = beige + peach + pink, and Pinks = beige + pink. The Everyday Minerals free samples that odi.et.amo mentioned is also worth checking out because you get a bunch of stuff for only the price of shipping...." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by chicainthecity
Last month
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"I agree with pretty much everything mudpuppie says. Regarding heirlooms, there are all different types from all over the world, so if you do your research you may find a short growing season, high acidity heirloom tomato.
No blossom end rot for me..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by electroboy
Last month
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"A building is a machine for living. A lot of modern architects, like Frank Lloyd Wright, haven't understood that.
It's odd to cop a line from Le Corbusier to knock modern architecture...." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Falconetti
Last month
MeFi comment:
"Wow, Metafilter, super cynical on the Olympics.
What? I didn't see any cynicism on this thread before your comment.
roll truck roll: there's a code of points for each skill, and the nine most difficult skills, plus the dismount, are what is..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by tehloki, roll truck roll
Last month
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"Your question confuses me. Lawns are much harder to take care of than plants, and use up more money and resources. If you just want your yard to look like a field, don't do anything, and all that stuff will eventually just grow and die and grow again..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by J-Garr, hecho de la basura
Last month
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"It depends. There are different certifying agents accredited by the USDA. However, agents like Oregon Tilth or CCOF also have their own, more restrictive standards. So you can buy things that are USDA certified organic, and you can buy things that..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by Miko, flamk
Last month
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"Don't go too crazy with the unfermented soy products. Soy can interfere with thyroid and immune function. Plus, I tend to agree with Forktine about "honest food"- why have a not-so-good fake dairy experience, when you can have a yummy tofu,..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by PhoBWanKenobi
Last month
MeFi comment:
"for comparison, some middle-class roofs. or is it 'rooves?'
Of course, you can just as easily grow things on middle class roofs as rich people's.
why isn't this done more often? High start-up costs? Not many people having roof access to their..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by madamjujujive
Last month
MeTa comment:
"We used to find a local bar to watch the Kerry/Bush debates and shout at the TV. Friends had a Simpson's night in their warehouse for years. Social TV watching is much more fun, IMO
Really, there should be bars that cater soley to TV watching of..." [
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favorited 3 times, recently by paisley henosis, dabitch, Rock Steady
Last month
MeFi comment:
"Of course, McCain cheated on the wife who worked tirelessly to get him back from the Hanoi Hilton. Cheated on and dumped for an heiress 20 years younger than him. I see no problems for Edwards a few years down the road if McCain can now run for..." [
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favorited 4 times, recently by oaf, electrasteph, George_Spiggott, wendell
Last month
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"His first wife's injuries occurred while he was a prisoner.
She was still on crutches when he returned, nearly four years after the accident.
He divorced his first wife
9 months after he had begun the affair. He got a marriage license while..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by electrasteph
Last month
MeFi comment:
"Thanks for the links, nickyskye. I particularly liked the Jack Nicholson article.
All the Lonely People is a Pulitzer prize-winning article from The Oregonian about the asylum and the copper canisters. It's the first of this series about mental..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by nickyskye
2 months ago
MeFi post:
Library of Dust
favorited 11 times, recently by sluglicker, nickyskye, UbuRoivas, DevilsAdvocate, BinaryApe, agregoli, Palmcorder Yajna, orrnyereg, Shepherd, nicolin, ntartifex
2 months ago
MeTa comment:
"but you still do have some power over women. And regardless of your sexuality, you are arguing for things that simply are not possible without taking more power from women.
I'm really not seeing this. I'm a woman, and I can understand why it can..." [
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favorited 3 times, recently by quintessencesluglord, fishfucker, Miko
2 months ago
MeFi comment:
"California just recently "banned" trans fats as well. It's a situation in which city and state legislators (and the celebrity governor who doesn't much like governing anymore now that he's no longer soaring in the approval ratings,..." [
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favorited 3 times, recently by nooneyouknow, ltracey, Who_Am_I
2 months ago
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"Sorry if this sounds harsh, but I've read this thread all the way through, and I hear a lot of what you think he needs to do. You seem to have a rather rigid set of expectations, and I'm sure that in his depression, your boyfriend knows that he is..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by oogenesis
2 months ago
MeFi comment:
"Amtrak is not the rail system. And I don't think the U.S.'s expansion really relied on passenger railroads quite as much as freight.
Actually, in California it did, but not in the way most people expect. The Big Four (Stanford, Huntington, Crocker,..." [
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favorited 4 times, recently by skoosh, BrotherCaine, russilwvong, small_ruminant
2 months ago
MeTa comment:
"I see "boyzone" as being a less mean-spirited and more unconscious thing than out-and-out sexism and so if I have used that term, that's what I have meant. It's when a group of guys get together and start acting and talking like some young..." [
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favorited 25 times, recently by Kadin2048, Mick, papafrita, merelyglib, CunningLinguist, Ambrosia Voyeur, mygothlaundry, Deathalicious, afu, not_on_display, lonefrontranger, grobstein, thewalledcity, oaf, felix betachat, tomboko, h00py, Drastic, prefpara, amyms, sunshinesky, readery, nenequesadilla, batgrlHG, Nattie
2 months ago
MeFi post:
the quick brown fox
favorited 26 times, recently by nicolin, taff, papafrita, wander, shavenwarthog, phatkitten, Dean King, slyrabbit, Smart Dalek, mikespez, puckish, pyrex, ceri richard, nímwunnan, monkey!knife!fight!, Turtles all the way down, lisawin, Blazecock Pileon, Mr. Palomar, niles, thebestsophist, not.so.hip, Optimus Chyme, signal, Gary, fantabulous timewaster
2 months ago
MeTa comment:
"Hmm. If you had asked me if I had ever seen Wedding Crashers I would have said no, but now I remember being annoyed at the exact bit that Ambrosia Voyeur brings up. Thank heavens for that, otherwise I might have been unknowingly roped into seeing it..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Ambrosia Voyeur
2 months ago
MeFi comment:
"Another advantage is that Amtrak often goes to exactly where you are headed to instead of going to a big regional airport and then having to call for transportation/take a taxi/ride a bus to your final destination.
My boyfriend and I discussed..." [
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favorited 4 times, recently by Senor Cardgage, kalimac, BrotherCaine, milov
2 months ago
MeFi comment:
"I am left wondering how they got to the point of pretty much finishing their park before they were stopped. Didn't the neighbors notice the land being cleared? That's not something you can do sneakily. And yeah, it sucks that this has escalated to..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Lou Stuells
2 months ago
MeFi comment:
"If he were Bush, we'd all be yelling to high heaven, rightly so. No better if Obama does it.
And yet McCain entirely skipped the vote to campaign. Yet no one seems outraged about that...." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by chuckdarwin
2 months ago
