MeFi comment:
"Turkeys are fucking incredible.
AWESOME TURKEY FACTS: They can fly up to 50 mph. They eat snakes. Females can reproduce asexually. They are smart as shit: in the presence of a predator (i.e., a human, because who is going to fuck with a turkey?)..." [
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favorited 34 times, recently by Solon and Thanks, katiecat, starzero, Squee, horsewithnoname, amarynth, scrump, supercrayon, Totally Zanzibarin' Ya, inqb8tr, sushiwiththejury, zarq, Silly Ashles, empyrean, Alvy Ampersand, unknowncommand, Cat Pie Hurts, ZaphodB, miss lynnster, CitrusFreak12, Mercaptan, everichon, perilous, phrontist, bluishorange, itchylick, urbanwhaleshark, sebastienbailard, chihiro, Rock Steady, gubo, mysterpigg, thehmsbeagle, tepidmonkey
2 weeks ago
Ask comment:
"Really, what you probably want to do is become a hobbyist. This is how I gained my initial skills in sysadminning. All industrial strength databases run on either 1) a variety of unix or 2) a mainframe. Unless you have several mil to drop on a..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by shelbaroo, ellF
Last month
MeFi comment:
"Dammit, I really wanted to read this. I guess I will favorite & come back later." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by sluglicker
Last month
MeFi comment:
"the Hebrew Bible ends with the disappearance of God -- a much more fitting, realistic ending, when you think about it.
This reminds me of one of the most excellent MeFi comments I have ever read...." [
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favorited 4 times, recently by bowline, Dillonlikescookies, Anything, squorch
2 months ago
MeFi comment:
"Not really eponysterical, unless you think of a homunculus literally squatting inside your head, manning a switchboard. Is that how people think of a homunculus? Maybe I am out of the loop on the modern perception of a homunculus...." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by FissionChips
2 months ago
MeFi comment:
"But now, yes, I'll enjoy those fireworks knowing that today we're a little bit better than we were yesterday.
This brings up a topic I often think about, in terms of progress, if you'll permit me to discourse a little bit... I always find it..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by smartyboots
2 months ago
MeFi comment:
"Addendum to my comment: maybe I should mention that my sister is in 9th grade, and that even 10 years ago when I myself was in 9th grade, having openly gay students would have caused some kind of major riot, fire, or small scale civil war in my..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by humannaire, yort
2 months ago
MeTa comment:
"I am not in favor of yet another neglected subsite that nobody ever looks at. "Music" is of a rather broader appeal (I think most would agree) and yet, it's kind of a running joke that no one goes there. Travel likewise. Jobs. Sorry, but I..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by loiseau
2 months ago
MeFi comment:
"I know a guy who was born in fucking Turnip Hole, PA (evidence that it really exists). If you get out in the boondocks, the names in this state are preposterous...." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by grobstein, liza
2 months ago
Ask comment:
"Ethnomusicologist Robert Garfias compiled some traditional Korean sanjo music on his site.
Katullus made a mefi post on the guy a while back." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Knigel
2 months ago
MeFi comment:
"I got $600 and saved it, along with my tax returns. I really can't believe the useless crap some people wasted theirs on, however... like, say, the one at the top of the page now:
"Bought season tickets, way up in the upper bowl, to the..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by Avenger, five fresh fish
3 months ago
MeFi comment:
""I don't think our troops ought to be used for what's called nation building."
Actually, he seems to be adhering to this one spectacularly...." [
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favorited 3 times, recently by griphus, wires, PROD_TPSL
3 months ago
Ask comment:
"Because word order is not important poets especially can really mess with the meaning of words.
Ovid is simply amazing at this; I finally began to enjoy Latin once I read Metamorphoses. One of these days I will have to go back to it...." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by soviet sleepover
3 months ago
MeFi comment:
"having children is not a rational decision
This is basically the root of all problems on the entire earth." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Kadin2048
4 months ago
MeFi comment:
"I would never make it as an eagle... I never would have thought of ripping the goats off the side of the mountain like a delicious, goaty hangnail from a gigantic craggy thumb...." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by notsnot
4 months ago
MeTa comment:
"The war.
To be more specific, I started lurking on metafilter in late 2001, while still in high school. My political opinions were generally a self-contradictory amalgam of neo-con rah-rah kill and Green Party atheist evangelistic liberalism. I..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Bora Horza Gobuchul
5 months ago
Ask comment:
"I don't know, it seems to have worked out pretty well for Benjamin Franklin." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by zippy
5 months ago
MeFi comment:
"but, then, I've never been in the same room with David Bowie, have I?
Does the space cold make your nipples go pointy, Bowie?
Do you use your pointy nipples as telescopic antennae to transmit data back to Earth?
Bet you do, you freaky old..." [
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favorited 3 times, recently by wires, Lentrohamsanin, drjimmy11
6 months ago
MeFi comment:
"What the sandwich really needs is to be battered and deep-fried whole, covered in chocolate, and then placed inside of a chicken, which is inside of a duck, which is in turn inside of a turkey. Then the entire conglomeration is covered in bacon,..." [
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favorited 12 times, recently by Snyder, dirtynumbangelboy, tehloki, wires, LeeJay, mosk, halonine, Songdog, lattiboy, loquacious, Poolio, Senor Cardgage
6 months ago
MeFi comment:
"loquacious, I had a MegaMeat McCube once, but a single sesame seed had strayed from an erstwhile bun and corrupted it completely. My advice for the true gastronomic thrill-seeker is to find the nearest Hardee's (arrive in disguise), head to the..." [
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favorited 7 times, recently by snoktruix, lumensimus, tehloki, jdotglenn, ao4047, xthlc, Rock Steady
6 months ago
MeFi comment:
"Side dish 1: a bacon-crust pizza, with Snickers bars as a topping. Also deep-fried (like they do in Scotland)
Side dish 2: a Shoofly pie. Only a madman would add anything to this.
Served with a glass of gravy...." [
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favorited 3 times, recently by dirtynumbangelboy, tehloki, Songdog
6 months ago
MeFi comment:
"Since we're on the topic of dream logic, I have taken to saying "obama obama obama" kind of like those people say "no whammy no whammy no whammy" on that stupid game show. This makes no sense...." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by Nattie, Dizzy
6 months ago
MeTa comment:
"stavros, I actually scrolled down after the first few sentences to see if EB had returned." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by panamax
6 months ago
MeFi comment:
"I always thought the Iraq war figure came up because it's a great example of opportunity cost. We could have fixed "America's crumbling infrastructure," been half-way through switching to alternative energy sources (thus negating the need..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by Benny Andajetz, Optimus Chyme
6 months ago
MeFi comment:
"After high school or so, I got a little sick of constant sarcasm. Now I just try to be honest about my aggressive, negative outlook. Smirking and biting off half-laughs all day can't be good for your facial musculature anyways...." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by tehloki, sondrialiac
6 months ago
MeFi comment:
"Postroad isn't trolling, nor is he a pro-torture numbskull. He is being what is known as "facetious" in the real world, or, on the internet, "confusing...." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by mai
6 months ago
MeFi comment:
"Aside from the terrible interface and pedestrian photography, Cleveland doesn't even look that dead. It looks like every other East Coast city I've been to: dirty, ill-kept, no one lives downtown...." [
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favorited 3 times, recently by AsYouKnow Bob, tehloki, KokuRyu
7 months ago
MeFi comment:
"yes, I'm a little late on this, but not as late as you, presumably
Wrong again.
But seriously, this was a really cool move on their part. I think you will probably get a lot of flak for this post, however, as soon as someone cooler than me..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by sillygwailo
7 months ago
MeFi comment:
"I'm Sushi K and I'm here to say
I like to rap in a different way
Look out Number One in every city
Sushi K rap has all most pretty
Something like that? sorry for the pure..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by m3thod4, Jon Mitchell
7 months ago
Ask comment:
"Seconding the IBM Thinkpad. I have one for work; I dropped it down a three-story fire escape. It might even work *better* now than it did before its little adventure...." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by tylermoody, olya
7 months ago
MeFi comment:
"Supposing people see a child fall into a well - they all have a heart-mind that is shocked and sympathetic.
What does it mean that I laughed as soon as I read "see a child fall into a well"? My evolution must be broke...." [
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favorited 4 times, recently by TochterAusElysium, facetious, tehloki, Kadin2048
7 months ago
MeFi comment:
"Yeah, I don't see this working after a few months/years when people are used to it. I live in Pennsylvania, notorious for its murderously unclear road signage, nonsensical motorway configurations, terrible surface quality, and sudden unpredictable..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by drstupid, PareidoliaticBoy
8 months ago
MeFi comment:
"Sendmail is the one true MTA. Anything else is a piece of crap garbage, and I hate you and your whole family if you use it." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by finite
9 months ago
MeFi comment:
"Back in high school we were all obsessed with the idea of Charlie & The Chocolate Factory being some kind of allegory of Dante's Inferno... kind of like The Natural is an allegory for the King Arthur stuff. I haven't seen the movie in a while, so..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by agregoli
9 months ago
