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MeTa post:
A Dude's Perspective
Does anyone recognize the song playing at the end of that NPR piece?
The song right at the end is a cover of the Stones' "Dead Flowers," and it sure sounds like Townes Van Zandt singing it, but I'm not sure about that.
posted to MetaTalk by FelliniBlank
at 3:23 PM on May 30, 2008
MeTa post:
But I was just here!
You mean that whenever you re-click a thread, MetaFilter doesn't lay out fresh new guest towels and send you a big fruit basket? Huh, figured that was a standard feature.
Ooooo, mango!
posted to MetaTalk by FelliniBlank
at 7:16 PM on May 2, 2008
MeTa post:
We, have, like...commas
What major league player do you think your MetaFilter persona resembles?
Mario Mendoza.
posted to MetaTalk by FelliniBlank
at 6:15 PM on May 1, 2008
I can't believe you maniacs aren't fighting over who gets to be Bill Lee.
posted to MetaTalk by FelliniBlank
at 11:21 AM on May 2, 2008
MeTa post:
[This is meh]
Pie. Pie and foursquare. Now yer talkin' -- only it has to be apple pie with a slice of cheese melted on top, and you have to use the regulation red rubber foursquare ball.
posted to MetaTalk by FelliniBlank
at 4:36 PM on May 1, 2008
MeTa post:
Print Stylesheet for Mefi?
languagehat: And the first rule is: no two-letter zipcode abbreviations.
OK, consider me spooked out. Just last night as I was tucking myself into bed, I was musing nostalgically and inexplicably over the old three- and four-letter state abbreviations: "Ou sont les Ill., Cal., Mich., Fla. d'antan?"
posted to MetaTalk by FelliniBlank
at 4:20 PM on April 29, 2008
MeTa post:
Is the contact form bugged out?
They're selling postcards of the banning
They're painting the Pepsi blue
The parameters are full of exceptions
And cortex is here too
There goes the blind moderator
They've got him in a trance
One hand is tied to the pitchfork
A fish is in his pants
And the riot squad they're restless
They need somewhere to go
As mathowie and jessamyn look out tonight
From Metafilter Row
posted to MetaTalk by FelliniBlank
at 8:24 AM on April 20, 2008
MeTa post:
Not funny.
The quality of the FPP notwithstanding, I'm not sure why a somewhat chaotic comment thread is necessarily a problem of nightmarish dimensions. I mean, back when we had the massive sexism MeTa discussions, the point was raised repeatedly that when the fucking puerile "gimme gimme sweater puppy funbags" brigade shows up in threads, then not only do they need to be flagged with extreme prejudice, but the Mefites who object to their bullshit need to call them on the carpet about it right... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by FelliniBlank
at 5:03 PM on April 17, 2008
MeTa post:
Paging Dr. ColdChef.
I loved bagelboy until I learned he was in the habit of keeping pie in the, eek, fridge. But if you warm up a slab and melt a slice of cheddar over the top of it, all is forgiven.
posted to MetaTalk by FelliniBlank
at 5:47 AM on April 16, 2008
MeTa post:
From the green to the blue!
What's the big hurry? Some of us were born to FPP, some have FPPing thrust upon us, and the rest of us should just leave well enough alone. Hadjiboy and madamjujujive, for example, are in the first group. I'm in the last. Not everyone needs to post in order for MeFi to be a vibrant community, and in fact, I wish more people resisted the temptation. More /= better.
posted to MetaTalk by FelliniBlank
at 6:59 PM on April 15, 2008
MeTa post:
Look, Ma, I'm full of piss and vinegar
Jesus, it'd save so much time if we could just have a standardized "Mad Lib" type fill-in-the-blank template on hand to use for the MeTa post that inevitably ensues when yet another unreflecting premature eulogization obitfilter FPP inevitably turns into yet another battle for the between the "you may not speak ill of the dead" and "you must speak ill of the dead" contingents.
posted to MetaTalk by FelliniBlank
at 1:04 PM on April 6, 2008
There have been at least a few instances where the second post is kept and the first crappy one is deep-sixed. And by god, when I'm elected Empress, I'll blast every successive Me First! obitfilter post with my DeathRay Sceptre until a decent one shows up.
*proffers can to collect Audacity of Hope spare change*
posted to MetaTalk by FelliniBlank
at 1:19 PM on April 6, 2008
MeTa post:
where the heck is metamail?
Somebody please GreaseMonkey an envelope icon gigantifier.
What Sys Rq said. For the love of god, some of us are well into our presbyopic years, so embiggening that freakin' microscopic envelope would be greatly appreciated.
posted to MetaTalk by FelliniBlank
at 5:54 PM on March 30, 2008
MeTa post:
Use someone else's words
I'm glad you brought this up as a point for discussion because it quietly bugs me (and probably plenty of pedantic academics like me who are all persnickety about ethical use of source material) every time I see it. Maybe this thread will serve as a reminder to people to exercise a little care and not just copy-paste quotation-chunks without some basic quote indicator.
posted to MetaTalk by FelliniBlank
at 9:22 AM on March 28, 2008
MeTa post:
Mefi Made Me See The Light!
Mundane? Mundane? My friend, you'll get my mashed potatoes only if you wrest them from my cold, dead, sticky hands.
posted to MetaTalk by FelliniBlank
at 6:32 AM on March 23, 2008
Congratulations, Krrlson, you've discovered that people are people.
. . . no matter how small.
posted to MetaTalk by FelliniBlank
at 12:53 PM on March 23, 2008
But seriously, if I had had any sudden MeFi-inspired epiphanies about major values or viewpoints, I would tend to distrust them. I'm old; on most issues I care about, I've considered all the major rational and ethical arguments already, and there probably aren't going to be too many new ones -- although incremental additions of empirical info and anecdata [love that word] on various sides certainly help me to see new perspectives in a way that is probably shifting my views. Sort of like plate... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by FelliniBlank
at 1:04 PM on March 23, 2008
MeTa post:
Mefimail -- the other, better metatalk
Yeah, but what if we want to arbitrarily run up a trainwreck thread to a thousand comments? This is not a feature of Mefimail.
Yes, but I have a feeling garlic's MeMailbox capacity is currently being stress-tested, so there's that.
posted to MetaTalk by FelliniBlank
at 2:41 PM on March 18, 2008
Agar is also a popular crossword puzzle word, as are ort, stoa and eft. I'm just sayin'. Plus a word for an Indonesian canoe that I misremember at present.
posted to MetaTalk by FelliniBlank
at 4:37 PM on March 18, 2008
Proa.
Thank you -- that was going to keep me awake half the night.
posted to MetaTalk by FelliniBlank
at 5:09 PM on March 18, 2008
I got thrown out of a Ren Faire for wearing a suit of MeFimail. They said it wasn't "period."
Coincidentally, I got thrown out of a Ren Faire for having my . . . oh, nevermind.
posted to MetaTalk by FelliniBlank
at 6:28 PM on March 18, 2008
Damn skippy. There may be a pop quiz any minute, and that's 25% of your grade.
posted to MetaTalk by FelliniBlank
at 9:36 PM on March 18, 2008
MeTa post:
It's hard to be a mod.
Wait a sec. I've been consigned to this godforsaken hellhole lived in this delightful state for 16+ years, and no one bothered to inform me until now that there iit includes an actual tuba museum a mere 2 hours and 9 minutes (if you drive the speed limit, pffft) away? And people from such exotic locales as Vermont can just merrily traipse on over to said museum while we poor Michigander suckers are stuck going to our stupid mundane boring pointless jobs? Well, I never.... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by FelliniBlank
at 6:22 PM on March 18, 2008
MeTa post:
Should we FPP the Obama speech?
I just keep thinking, when was the last time any candidate for president got up in front of the cameras and just told the straight truth, and kept telling it for half an hour?
You said it, brother. Ever since I voted in my first Presidential election in (god help me) 1980, I have been whinily repeating this mantra: "Just for once, I just want to hear some candidate stand up and tell us the fucking facts and speak the fucking truth about any... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by FelliniBlank
at 3:37 PM on March 18, 2008
MeTa post:
Sans quoi?
I've been following her story on AskMe for a while because it won my sympathy
This is why that thread should be deleted regardless of whether sansgras is for real or not: AskMe is not for storytelling or constructing one's very own snowflaky telenovela; it's for asking and answering specific questions. Sometimes extended narrative is required in order to provide context, but all too often, it's just attention whoring logorrhea.
posted to MetaTalk by FelliniBlank
at 3:34 PM on March 10, 2008
MeTa post:
1 + 1 = 0
This is hilarious. MeFi, the self-proclaimed home of lefty atheist recyclying freakazoid off-the-grid Dan Savage alternaculture, gets one whiff of consenting grown adults choosing to form interpersonal and domestic arrangements with non-Ward-and-June dimensions, and blammo! the joint morphs into a Southern Baptist Convention picnic.
posted to MetaTalk by FelliniBlank
at 3:02 PM on March 7, 2008
Inside this one circle is the sum total of humanity. They're all having various kinds of sex.
Well, except for the ones who aren't, for one reason or another. And of course, openly admitting one's enjoyment of longterm elective 100% celibacy garners completely accepting and non-judgmental reactions, lemmetellya.
posted to MetaTalk by FelliniBlank
at 3:21 PM on March 7, 2008
That's either hell on earth or total bliss. I'm not sure which.
Neither, really, it's just regular life, just another permutation within your big non-Venn diagram.
For instance, I don't eat brussels sprouts either. I mean, I've had them in the past, they're not totally unpleasant, I'm not anti-brussels sprouts, I don't go out of my way to avoid them, and I'm thrilled that other people enjoy them.... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by FelliniBlank
at 3:40 PM on March 7, 2008
Sperm-slurping? Jizz-hoovering?
posted to MetaTalk by FelliniBlank
at 7:12 PM on March 7, 2008
"Lev, bubbi, so shoot my throat full of your hot salty schmeer already."
posted to MetaTalk by FelliniBlank
at 7:25 PM on March 7, 2008
The word "cum" is just plain icky whereas "come" is matter-of-fact.
posted to MetaTalk by FelliniBlank
at 1:38 PM on March 8, 2008
MeTa post:
Reply link inline w/ comments?
I have to grade midterm exams, so I'll be spending part of the weekend suffering. And as God is my witness, I'm going to make you all suffer with me, unless you'll accept a shiny new dime to grade the exams for me instead.
posted to MetaTalk by FelliniBlank
at 6:45 PM on March 7, 2008
MeTa post:
They left when?
*sigh* I miss Johnny Ladykiller and his fedora. I wonder how they're doing. Has anybody gotten a postcard or seen him around craigslist or anything?
posted to MetaTalk by FelliniBlank
at 6:36 PM on March 3, 2008
MeTa post:
Can't tell who said what
it also resolves the poster of responsibility
Quoted because, well, it's funny.
posted to MetaTalk by FelliniBlank
at 1:19 PM on February 23, 2008
To recap: Woman killed by torrent of falling cows. Quoth Languagehat, "Peter Tosh."
posted to MetaTalk by FelliniBlank
at 4:28 AM on February 24, 2008
MeTa post:
FPPs posts that are conclusive should be based on evidence.
You have to love that this complaint about "materially changing conclusions" and lack of "intellectual rigor" and questionable "factoids" is in reference to an FPP on the subject of economic and fiscal prognostication. Next we'll be objecting to the lack of scientific method in phrenology and Ouija board threads.
posted to MetaTalk by FelliniBlank
at 6:16 AM on January 31, 2008
Sorry, Mutant -- fish, barrel, I keed. Although to the ig'nant layperson, it can be perplexing to see knowledgeable folk look at all the same arcane information and disagree significantly about where things are headed.
posted to MetaTalk by FelliniBlank
at 7:16 AM on January 31, 2008
MeTa post:
LOLMORMONS
As ND¢ noted in the Ledger MeTa thread, these instances are a function of crappy single-link BreakingDeathNewsObitFilter posts in general -- although obviously the religious angle makes it worse here. If people would take a few fucking minutes (or days) to assemble a thorough set of links with multiple, varying assessments of the corpse's life and legacy, then at least the mean-spirited quips would be drowned out by actual comments. But no, it's all about rushing to be FIRSTGHOUL! or express... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by FelliniBlank
at 10:15 AM on January 30, 2008
And yeah, I know the Hinckley post has a few links, but it's still basically a one-liner announcement and nothing more.
posted to MetaTalk by FelliniBlank
at 10:18 AM on January 30, 2008
The problem with those analogies is that Muslims do not define themselves as Christians but as something different, and Christians don't define themselves as Jews.
Mormons do define themselves as Christians; it's outsiders from older denominations (many of which were also considered unChristian or heretical by the Christian establishment in their own infancies) who label LDS as non-Christian.
posted to MetaTalk by FelliniBlank
at 10:32 AM on January 30, 2008
