MeFi comment:
"After spilling off some cherry-flavored Kool-Aid that served as ballast, Couch got a push from the ground crew so he could clear light poles and soared over a coffee cart and across U.S. Highway 20 into a bright blue sky.
How did he get all that..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Monochrome
11 hours ago
MeFi comment:
"This a simply a small step in the right direction, which is to begin packaging our precious foodstuffs in space filling solids. This new jug more closely approximates a parallelepiped than the old design, thus permitting vertical stacking. But a..." [
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favorited 8 times, recently by muzzlecough, vsync, Korou, gac, kumazemi, BrotherCaine, mrzarquon, Artw
12 hours ago
MeFi comment:
"I posted "previously", because I'm a big Snafu fan myself, and wanted to put together a FFP about some time back.
Way back in about 1990, in the Dark Ages before the World Wide Web, I received a military video catalog that contained a..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Mblue
8 days ago
MeFi comment:
"For anyone who still doubts that these formations are made by board-and-rope "stompers", you can see in the photographs themselves how each wide band of flattened crop is actually composed of many adjacent small bands, each the width of the..." [
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favorited 4 times, recently by iamkimiam, thack3r, furtive, Panjandrum
10 days ago
MeFi comment:
"Hearing Carlin for the first time was certainly one of those rite-of-passage moments, equivalent to buying your first Led Zeppelin album or getting your driver's license. I remember my first exposure to Carlin through an early HBO broadcast in the..." [
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favorited 3 times, recently by Songdog, Richard Daly, pantufla
12 days ago
MeFi comment:
"Very cool! I remember once years ago my friend Dave and I playing with his strobe light and turntable. I think we were able to sync the flash rate of the strobe to the rotation of the LP so that we could more or less read the record label. Then we..." [
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favorited 13 times, recently by Artw, xthlc, Sys Rq, shmegegge, bonobothegreat, kcds, Your Time Machine Sucks, fearfulsymmetry, Goofyy, Pendragon, Blazecock Pileon, nthdegx, phrontist
12 days ago
MeFi comment:
"When I was in high school in the late 1970's I used to hang around with an older guy named Randy. He had a unique tattoo on the edge of his right hand. As with all tattoos, it had a story behind it.
When he got his draft notice for Vietnam he..." [
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favorited 3 times, recently by Alison, Greg Nog, crunch buttsteak
12 days ago
MeFi comment:
"I remember being told that if you hold two Nokia cell phones together while they are broadcasting that they will start to melt. This would have been somewhere in the late 1990's. The weird but true thing about this innocuous story is that the person..." [
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favorited 3 times, recently by tehloki, bunnytricks, jjwiseman
13 days ago
MeFi comment:
"In addition to mean dogs disrupting mail delivery, now we have to worry about clumps of tasty lettuce." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Jahaza
2 weeks ago
MeFi comment:
"Meh.
This business of comedian stealing from comedian is SOOO 20th century. I have discovered the new wave of joke theft, and I'm so proud of it I'll share my secret.
1. I surf Reddit for sensational posts about anomalous events or moral..." [
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favorited 3 times, recently by fizzix, phaedon, nasreddin
2 weeks ago
MeFi comment:
"This passage caught my eye:
Moulds were also made of these tool marks using special silicone dental ‘wax’ and these were examined at high magnification in a scanning electron microscope (SEM).
Some time back I had a conversation with a..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by eritain, dd42
2 weeks ago
MeFi comment:
"For some reason you find big basalt boulders in people's yards all over Seattle. I had about a dozen in my front yard which I never cared for. I underestimated how many strikes with a sledgehammer it would take to shatter them into pieces small..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by notsnot
2 weeks ago
MeFi comment:
"Heh, sorry about that...
These shirts are fantastic! Kudos on creating simple designs that express somewhat abstract notions. I've ordered two, Satan burying bones, and Flat Earth.
If I remember my Bertrand Russell correctly, some creationists..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by Popular Ethics, interrobang
2 weeks ago
MeFi comment:
"Somewhat like the JFK assassination, the Patterson-Gimlin film of an alleged Bigfoot has received an enormous amount of analysis, in print, on TV, and on the Internet. As an amateur, I've spent time myself analysing various elements of the..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by the Real Dan
2 weeks ago
MeFi comment:
"Yeah, despite how people romanticize rock music of the late 1960's, it's instructive to get a more objective overview. I like to study the ads in old magazines. Sometimes you find ads for record clubs like Columbia House or whatnot that feature..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by blucevalo, wfrgms
2 weeks ago
MeFi comment:
"This can only result in tragedy. Just look at the genocide that followed Jello Biafra's public exhortation to "kill, kill, kill, kill, kill the poor tonight"...." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by Reverend John, nasreddin
2 weeks ago
MeFi comment:
"I met Alexey at a Christmas party some years ago, and gave him a small model of the Gyrobifastigium. I suggested that he could make a three dimensional version of Tetris using space filling solids. He seemed intrigued, but sent me an e-mail later to..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by JHarris
3 weeks ago
MeFi comment:
"NO WAY MUSIC IS BETTER LOUDER HAVE YOU HEARD ASHLEE'S NEW ALBUM IT TOTALLY ROCKS I LIKE RED BULL TOO YOU CAN SEE WHY BRITNEY LOVES IT SO MUCH IT TOTALLY GIVES YOU A BUZZ AUTOTUNE MAKES IT BETTER TOO IT'S REALLY ABOUT THE BEAT ANYWAY HEY I HEARD BOY..." [
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favorited 18 times, recently by tehloki, ukdanae, palmcorder_yajna, limeonaire, Senor Cardgage, parhamr, gen, Mayor West, jlbartosa, bluefish, Inspector.Gadget, jimmythefish, Richard Daly, glycolized, kittens for breakfast, nosila, tommasz, dmd
3 weeks ago
MeFi comment:
"In 1993 or so we were performing in the Netherlands when we were approached by a woman who wanted to "audition" to be in our troupe. Jim Rose told her as politely as he could that we already had all the performers we needed. But this woman..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Slarty Bartfast
3 weeks ago
MeFi comment:
"Here in the Rainier Valley in South Seattle where I live various artists periodically recreate Burden's "Shoot" art piece. Many choose to push the artistic envelope with the use of the 9mm parabellum round instead of Burden's puny .22...." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by sebastienbailard
3 weeks ago
MeFi comment:
"So I'm sitting there eating bland pizza at a Chuck E. Cheese and watching the surreal animatronic show. In between the musical numbers the characters deliver jokes and puns worthy of Highlights or maybe Reader's Digest.
I swear to God, out of..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by TheOnlyCoolTim
4 weeks ago
Ask post:
Remember the Samsonite Gorilla?
favorited 18 times, recently by mia_farrow, parilous, flod logic, owhydididoit, meadowlands, winston, Xere, limeonaire, Beardman, re.becca, rottytooth, CunningLinguist, davidstandaford, jammy, phatkitten, Mael Oui, venividivici, Jasper Friendly Bear
Last month
MeFi comment:
"Some years ago I was at my dentist's office having a bridge put in. They injected a local anesthetic, but they also offered me additional nitrous oxide as it was a bit of an involved process. I said yes. I didn't think I was particularly high from..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Artw
Last month
MeFi post:
Polyhedral Maps
favorited 26 times, recently by skyscraper, desjardins, garrett, nicolin, protorp, beniamino, LobsterMitten, dhruva, signal, johnjreiser, jkaczor, Henrik, jjb, P.o.B., Artw, Sys Rq, jjwiseman, JiBB, mismatched, seawallrunner, owhydididoit, Xoder, deric, adoarns, farishta, andywolf
Last month
MeFi comment:
"What's the deal with the library paper towel dispenser in the "Too Sexy" video? First they take away the card catalogs, then the microfiche readers, then everyone stops whispering, and now libraries have paper towel dispensers. Am I the..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by spaceman_spiff
Last month
MeFi comment:
"When I first saw this video on Break.com or whatever, I suspected it was fake because the oven door was missing the metal screen. This often disrupts efforts to photograph the contents of microwave ovens. There is enough cool stuff you can do with a..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by pyrex, DU
Last month
MeFi post:
Anatomical Photography
favorited 12 times, recently by BobsterLobster, iamkimiam, hell toupee, Ariadne, Cassilda, bobobox, hilatron, theperfectcrime, StopMakingSense, phrontist, Bookhouse, KoobieKitten
Last month
Ask comment:
"If you like the sideshow theme in Geek Love, you might like Nightmare Alley." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Scram
Last month
MeFi comment:
"I'm glad the mission control guys wore blue shirts. 'Cause if they wore red shirts..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by gimonca
Last month
MeFi comment:
"I'm thankful there are helpful trade groups that provide us with unbiased information..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by owhydididoit
Last month
MeFi comment:
""Humbug" is a great word if you don't want to say "bullshit"...
I'm not sure I can think of a modern equivalent to Barnum. I'd like to say pranksters like Joey Skaggs, but Skaggs always had to adopt a different persona to pull..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by owhydididoit
Last month
MeFi comment:
"They are vulnerable to some pest control poisons — Mr. Rasberry uses products containing the chemicals fipronil and chlorfenapyr
Mr. Tube uses WD-40 and butane...." [
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favorited 4 times, recently by perilous, tehloki, mosk, jfuller
Last month
MeFi comment:
"This takes me back to the golden days before the World Wide Web. You see, our sideshow rider included things like clear glass light bulbs, meal worms, crickets, a cucumber, and a can of ravioli. These were actually used in our act, and were not..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by chronic sublime, mecran01
Last month
MeFi comment:
"Seattle has yet to produce a fitting memorial to Kurt Cobain. Being that money is tight, I propose that we simply re-title existing structures and places as "memorials". I propose that the Space Needle be re-named the "Cobain..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Hello Dad, I'm in Jail
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