MeFi comment:
"Revealing your every motive just seems like justification for being a jerk, while gaining the moral high ground. "Well, it's the truth! how dare you get annoyed at my honesty!".
perhaps a worthwhile change would be radical honesty with..." [
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MeTa comment:
"What would be the worst way to begin an answer in Ask Metafilter?
Dear Jodie:
There is definitely a possibility that I will be killed in my attempt to answer your question. It is for this very reason that I am writing you this letter now...." [
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MeFi comment:
"It must be frustrating when the non-rigorous, undisciplined worldview joke you formed over the last 8 years half a bottle of bourbon based primarily on an emotional dislike of the President pop culture references and robot jokes is undone by events..." [
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MeFi comment:
"Wouldn't it be better to, say, have a subscription service where you can look up any reference material you want and download an electronic copy (possibly with some sort of DRM to enforce limited time of use, if they must) and do it all from your..." [
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MeFi comment:
"I will give he was articulated
He was consisting of segments held together by joints? Hey, me too!
jokes aside- I didn't agree with all of Mr. Buckley's viewpoints. I do think that his passing is yet another milestone on the road away from..." [
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MeFi comment:
"every christmas, instead of santa coming down the chimney, they are visited by a hookah-smoking caterpillar." [
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MeTa comment:
"Hecklers, ftw, are not to be confused with gadflies. Gadflies sting, as do hecklers, but it is a sting intended to move an ass, not attract attention to yourself.
You know, when i thought you were just being rude for the sake of rudeness, it was..." [
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MeTa comment:
"You know who does do a lot of political indoctrination of children? Hint: He wears a Speedo.
David Hasselhoff?" [
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MeTa comment:
"Oh, and speaking of Full House, did anyone else hear Bob Saget on Wait Wait Don't Tell Me this weekend? Hilarious!
I did. I laughed a lot, actually. Still amazes me he was the dad on Full House...." [
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MeFi comment:
"so this is an unattended aircraft - meaning, no crew. What is the 1000 lb payload that it's expected to carry? Purely sensor and communications gear?
First tireless buzzing robot dogs, now this. It's like they never heard of Skynet...." [
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MeFi comment:
"oncogenesis: There are five times as many comments in this silly thread as there are in the NSA/driftnet wiretapping thread next door.
perhaps because, given Spitzer's presentation of himself as watchdog, this is more surprising?
If Metafilter..." [
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MeFi comment:
"We use modified electric vehicles and can be anywhere on a given floor within eight and a half minutes.
and now I am picturing GOB Bluth as a security guard...." [
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MeFi comment:
"Er, so how can Vader lift up Obi-Wan's cloak with his lightsaber?
Or is this one of those times that a "wizard did it"?
That wizard's just a crazy old man. I don't think he exists anymore. He died about the same time as your father...." [
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MeFi comment:
"They all react the strongest against the thing that tempts them the most, like the old adage about hating in others what you hate about yourself.
So Metafilter is full of closeted Christians?..." [
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MeFi comment:
"BitingBeaver said: I know, in my heart of hearts that, knowing what I know now, if I had it to do over again I would have had that abortion.
whoa. that's some tough love right there...." [
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