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"You could totally do this. The only real problem would be balancing the "diving bell" so it submerged straight. Tie three cinderblocks to the trash can rim, spaced evenly apart, make sure the lines didn't get tangled, and the can would go..." [
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3 weeks ago
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"I managed a stand-up comedy club (big name place, you've heard of it) for two years during the "comedy boom" in the early 90s, so I'm fortunate enough to have seen every single top-notch comic several times over. I also saw hundreds of bad..." [
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"Tremendous irony: Lisa Kudrow and Mira Sorvino play dumb blondes in Romy and Michele's High School Reunion.
Kudrow has a degree in biology from Vassar. Sorvino graduated from Harvard magna cum laude in East Asian Studies, speaks fluent Mandarin..." [
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2 months ago
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""Without naming any names or giving away any identifying details, please tell me about a time in your working life when everything was falling to pieces. Tell me about the worst professional conflict and situation you've been in. What happened?..." [
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2 months ago
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"Should I learn to respect our difference of opinion
Opinion? In my opinion, pancakes are tasty. One doesn't have an opinion about the existence of things like atoms, gravity and molecules.
Run like hell. Besides what others have said, there's..." [
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2 months ago
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"The 10 Percent / 100 Percent Rule
If she seems to be crazy 10 percent of the time, she is 100 percent crazy and is not a valid choice for dating and/or relationships.
Many men will overlook signs of deep-seated neuroses, for various reasons (e...." [
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favorited 3 times, recently by kimota, UbuRoivas
5 months ago
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"Do another sleep study and see an ENT, too. If it's apnea, it'll be diagnosed. If it's a problem with allergies or your uvula, that can be dealt with via medication and/or surgery.
I love my cpap. It is Heaven's Crack Pipe...." [
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7 months ago
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"You guys are all off your rockers. I mean it. You really expect this to happen?
But to play along ... with what someone said above ... you need a community. With pervasive, shared, binding values. I'm not talking about a commune. I'm talking about..." [
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9 months ago
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"I always try to give them an answer that is completely obtuse to whatever is being offered. It stuns them just long enough for me to escape unharmed.
* Accepted Christ as your personal savior? No thanks, I already receive the Wall Street Journal...." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Frankieist
10 months ago
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Math + Vishnu = Really Fast Math
favorited 47 times, recently by antiform, Acetylene, houseofdanie, davemee, educatedslacker, ilikecookies, forwebsites, romakimmy, yohko, curbstop, mduda, lunachic, divabat, 517, dejah420, moira, mai, Mach3avelli, rtha, kimota, voltairemodern, jperkins, GlowWyrm, Many bubbles, oneirodynia, internet!Hannah, champthom, senor biggles, Ariadne, Skygazer, dsaelf, iamkimiam, yeloson, winston, limeonaire, exacta_perfecta, ewagoner, shelbaroo, horsemuth, i_am_a_Jedi, snowleopard, Phire, zouhair, nickyskye, bdragon, The Great Big Mulp, billyliberty
10 months ago
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"Reminds me of one night when I used to manage comedy clubs in SoCal. We had a bachelorette party sitting in the front few rows. They were having a good time, but were perhaps a little too noisy. The comic picked up on the vibe.
A bachelorette..." [
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10 months ago
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"The Universal Studios (Hollywood) secret:
Go into the main parking structure. Go all the way to the northwest corner. You will find a stairway. Take the stairway all the way down. And I mean, all the way down -- ignore any signs and keep going..." [
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11 months ago
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"My Jewish friends tell me their mothers and older women in the family have a manner of speaking called "third person invisible."
Two people will discuss a third person's shortcomings as if they weren't there, and if reminded of the..." [
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favorited 5 times, recently by eritain, andendau
Last year
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"Wow. That's a whole lot of Lowtax hate. Why?
I had the not-quite pleasure of working with Lowtax when he spent a few months famously working for GameSpy. I'm very happy that he's been so successful at what he does.
But the dude was a punk and..." [
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Last year
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"Every Sunday I make a fitness plan for the week...
What a great idea. Seriously, I've never heard of that concept, and I think it will really work for me. Heck, even I can make a checklist and follow that......" [
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favorited 1 time, recently by TheDukeofLancaster
Last year
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"The Notebooks of Lazarus Long
A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders,..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by danthony
Last year
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"Mine was terrible. The rocket spun out of control ten feet from the barrel.
The trick for me was cutting grooves in the PVC pipe for the fins, and angling the fins slightly so the rocket spun in flight like a rifle bullet. A golf range finder..." [
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Last year
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"I said this in another thread, but I'll repeat it here, because it bears repeating. While there may have been multiple asshats involved here, sometimes, an asshat is just an asshat. It's not always evidence that an asshat conspiracy is afoot...." [
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Last year
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"She ... swore that it's her and not me
... and she's right. It IS her and not you.
Dude, she's telling you she doesn't want to be in the relationship, but she's too cowardly and immature to actually tell you.
She is not a unique snowflake...." [
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favorited 4 times, recently by jlbartosa, blueberry, wfrgms, Aidan Kehoe
Last year
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"yeah, I've noticed in previous Duke threads various conservative-types on this site confusing us "liberals"' desire to see our justice system function fairly with a desire to see the Duke principals sent away regardless of their guilt...." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by bugbread, Riki tiki
Last year
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"I saw that the whale was likely killed on a subsistence hunt by Alaska Natives, which I suppose there is some solace in.
With all due respect, I find no solace here. The whale was carved up with chainsaw. If you can afford a chainsaw and the..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Benjy
Last year
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"Add a button. "Flag this post as 'Silly.'" With a sufficient number of "Silly" flags set, a Silly Critical Mass, the post is automatically hidden from view for those people that have set "Don't show me silly shit" in..." [
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favorited 8 times, recently by slimepuppy, delmoi, scrump, nitsuj, dabitch, ambrosia, RussHy, mediareport
Last year
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"He insisted that this display of muscle was a powerful deterrent and helped reduce everyday petty crime as well. I highly doubt that part.
Broken windows theory
Malcolm Gladwell on New York City crime and the broken windows..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by sueinnyc
Last year
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"Now to frogan, I don't believe that softball is unbalanced
Baseball has been played at a major-league level for more than 100 years. In that time, strategy has not changed significantly, and neither has the nature of the day-to-day, routine plays...." [
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favorited 7 times, recently by thatweirdguy2, Justinian, grapefruit, turaho, mckenney, tehloki, Mayor Curley
Last year
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"Softball is an inherently unbalanced sport because of several factors, including:
* The pitching circle is placed significantly closer to the plate than a baseball rubber.
* The ball is softer than a baseball, obviously.
* The bat is not tapered..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by languagehat
Last year
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"Crews almost always surrendered...
... except when they didn't. And then they were all drowned or sold into slavery.
... and pirates rarely sacked towns.
... except when they did. And then the towns burned to the ground and the women were..." [
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Last year
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"but, especially in our cushy lives that permit us to post to MeFi instead of roaming the plains hunting for tonight's meal, do the calories used for hair growth really cost us much?
You're kinda falling into a trap that many people fall for -- the..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by agregoli
Last year
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"it may create a pretty cutthroat, corrupt and unpleasant society in which to live, as China is finding out. Western-style corporatist "free" markets already do so.
Your position seems to be that the freer the market, the worse off the..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Kwantsar
Last year
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"The scary part is that game theory was what our government was depending on to save us all from nuclear annihilation at the hands of the Soviets.
Actually, game theory is what saved us.
A point is, in that when it comes to game theory and..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by reventlov
Last year
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"I used to be easily grossed out by things ... I was always being tricked ... I wasn't happy ... I decided to do something about it.
So, rather than, say, finding a new group of friends that have advanced past high-school grossouts, you..." [
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favorited 6 times, recently by RussHy, milov, scrump, deborah, dreamsign, Phire
Last year
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"Ditto on the Civic. Toyota Corolla from the same era will be fine, too. If either of the two-year, five-year choices are a Civic/Corolla, take it." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by ilsa
Last year
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"By contrast, the Democrats shut down the government in the fall of 1991(or was it 1990?) when Bush/41 was in office, and they ended up winning the presidency in 1992.
And I'd argue that the Dems didn't "win" that presidency at all -- it..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by Heywood Mogroot, amberglow
Last year
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"It wasn't that long ago that Sheehan was all rah-rah for Hugo Chavez. Today, I read that Chavez is shutting down television stations that are critical for his regime.
The day after Memorial Day, I'm still very thankful for Casey Sheehan's..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by konolia
Last year
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"CHATFILTER! CHATFILTER! BURN THE HOBBITSES!
Lighten up, people." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by RussHy
Last year
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"Do you people ever get tired of reinforcing the image of mefites as pedantic assholes?
I was wondering the same about you, refusing to consider the possibility that you're running off half-cocked and angrily denouncing anyone that would suggest..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by mphuie
Last year
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"Africa is all sorts of fucked up because of colonialism
I'd point at garden-variety tribalism and thuggery before we start blaming the British, Belgians, etc. I don't see rebels in India threatening to kill all the tigers. And in that country, the..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by damn dirty ape, infini
Last year
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"Hello, I will be your contrarian voice today.
It's impossible to argue with the suggestions here that you should volunteer your time, energy, etc, to help those that are less fortunate. All good stuff.
But are you really convinced that the..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by Jess the Mess, jayder
Last year
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"Anyone else impressed with how calm, cool and collected the pilot and the air traffic control guys are throughout the whole thing? Makes me happy..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Blazecock Pileon
Last year
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Music like the Silversun Pickups' Lazy Eye
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Last year
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"I've enjoyed my time here...meeting a lot of you, but I simply find this community's rules too restrictive
CHATFILTER!
CHAAAAATFILTER!
DELETE IT!
Can't! Flag! It! Fast! Enough!
BURN THE HOBBITSESSSS!
Smell that? That's sarcasm...." [
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