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MeFi post:
Faceless People
Why do people link to headline pages and imagine the same headline will be there even an hour later?
posted to MetaFilter by A189Nut
at 11:17 AM on July 2, 2008
MeFi post:
"I was walking down the street; something caught my eye... and dragged it fifteen feet."
the horse raced past the barn fell
I don't get the ambiguity?
posted to MetaFilter by A189Nut
at 4:34 AM on June 30, 2008
Just clicked on the garden path link which says:
"The horse raced past the barn fell."
The reader usually starts to parse this as an ordinary active intransitive sentence, but stumbles when reaching the word "fell." At this point, the reader is forced to backtrack and look for other possible structures. It may take some rereading to realize that "raced past the barn" is in fact a reduced relative clause with a... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by A189Nut
at 4:38 AM on June 30, 2008
MeFi post:
Itchy McItchy
I got unhappy when I read that the doctor "shined" a light. And his shoes too presumably.
posted to MetaFilter by A189Nut
at 4:46 PM on June 25, 2008
MeFi post:
A Changing Neighborhood
Or is this evidence of the confusing and contradictory application of the term Climate Change?
posted to MetaFilter by A189Nut
at 4:40 PM on June 11, 2008
MeFi post:
Roy Scheider, RIP
75! So he was in his mid forties during his best years. Hope for us all yet. Bye and thanks Roy
posted to MetaFilter by A189Nut
at 1:09 PM on February 11, 2008
MeFi post:
Begging The Question
Does this mean all planes will be landing momentarily? Better jump off quick before they take off again.
posted to MetaFilter by A189Nut
at 12:21 PM on February 9, 2008
MeFi post:
Barry Morse has Died
I read elsewhere he was 90
posted to MetaFilter by A189Nut
at 4:45 AM on February 5, 2008
Communicated results on tape -more like toilet paper if I recall
posted to MetaFilter by A189Nut
at 11:50 AM on February 5, 2008
MeFi post:
Concorde on steroids
Just like HOTOL - never happen
posted to MetaFilter by A189Nut
at 4:27 AM on February 5, 2008
In fact it is the same guy as HOTOL and seems to be the daughter of SKYLON - the names are the best thing
posted to MetaFilter by A189Nut
at 4:29 AM on February 5, 2008
Full circle!
posted to MetaFilter by A189Nut
at 11:49 AM on February 5, 2008
MeFi post:
Yes, We Can.
Anything is better than 1988-2016 running
Bush
Clinton
Clinton
Bush
Bush
Clinton
Clinton
Anything at all
posted to MetaFilter by A189Nut
at 11:03 AM on February 2, 2008
Actually the words belong to Bob the Builder. Can we fix it? Yes we can.
posted to MetaFilter by A189Nut
at 12:06 PM on February 2, 2008
First two Kennedys, now an Eisenhower
posted to MetaFilter by A189Nut
at 12:08 PM on February 2, 2008
MeFi post:
"I understand there is also a cannon."
Let it stand. By the way, the green belt is being eroded and farmland has been going out of production in the UK for years - if he'd said it was a Golf Club clubhouse I bet he'd have been given permission
posted to MetaFilter by A189Nut
at 8:44 AM on January 25, 2008
Have any of you looked at the google maps link? Some of you seem to think he's built this in the middle of the Lake District. He's pretty much surrounded by urban sprawl, so the Green Belt/rural idyll argument is spoof.
posted to MetaFilter by A189Nut
at 12:23 PM on January 25, 2008
MeFi post:
Coventry Cathedral
Terror bombing? Apart from Africa it was the only front in the War the West (so yes, I know about the USSR) had until 1943 and in strategic terms until 1944. I guess we could have done nothing, given that the target-finding was so poor that accuracy could only be city wide. Would that satisfy? It's a stupid post hoc argument to claim differently of the allied bombing effort.
posted to MetaFilter by A189Nut
at 7:53 AM on January 19, 2008
MeFi post:
Tom Cruise Needs A Vacation
Best thing to do with Scis? Let them give you their pitch and then ask innocently "So it's a little like psychoanalysis then?"
posted to MetaFilter by A189Nut
at 2:28 PM on January 15, 2008
