I'd never put only "question" here. I don't call my dog "Dog" or write out a check "for money Dollars". When I call 911 and request a firetruck, they don't call me back and speak the words "a firetruck" and hang up. Why is it normal to congratulate someone by saying "congratulations"?
posted to Ask Metafilter by cmiller at 6:34 AM on May 4, 2008 (23 comments)

Here in sunny Florida, my two large dogs tend to wear my back lawn down to the dirt. Is there a grass that recovers easily?
posted to Ask Metafilter by cmiller at 12:25 PM on February 20, 2008 (6 comments)

How can I, a US citizen, be more informed about my lawmakers' decisions and whether they're doing a good job? I have an example that I wonder about intensely, today's Senate Intelligence Committee meeting.
posted to Ask Metafilter by cmiller at 6:35 PM on October 18, 2007 (4 comments)

I know that phone numbers can be moved from carrier to carrier, but I'm moving outside the country for a while. Can I "park" my fantastic mobile number and reclaim it when I return?
posted to Ask Metafilter by cmiller at 11:55 AM on June 21, 2007 (10 comments)

I live in a medium-sized city in the US. Where can I find cow milk that's not homogenized?
posted to Ask Metafilter by cmiller at 1:25 PM on January 19, 2007 (14 comments)

In the continuum of visible-light colors that makes a rainbow, we have red, orange, ... blue, indigo, and violet. But aestheticists tend to join the two ends together to make a "color wheel". They use this to predict pairs, trios, or quads of colors that are symmetrically placed in the wheel and therefore look nice or bad together. But, why does the continuum map to a circle at all?
posted to Ask Metafilter by cmiller at 1:04 PM on November 30, 2006 (21 comments)