MeFi comment:
"whipping out the Niemöller
I will now start using this phrase in ordinary conversation as much as possible:
"Sorry, but when he Godwinned me, I was forced to whip out the Niemöller."
"Invictus, Schminvictus. Pardon me while..." [
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favorited 14 times, recently by dejah420, Fiberoptic Zebroid and The Hypnagogic Jerks, sidesh0w, bitter-girl.com, MikeKD, Chunder, lalochezia, cruelfate, everichon, dabitch, imperium, lukemeister, Rock Steady, lysistrata
4 days ago
Ask comment:
"The one most important thing? After all the bullshit and frustration and worry, after bankers throwing around phrases like "give or take a thousand dollars" as you breathe into a bag, after stupid counteroffer haggling, after finding out..." [
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favorited 6 times, recently by lizzicide
12 days ago
Ask comment:
"IANArepresentative case, but I was a nerdy girls with a healthy interest in casual passionate sex in my 20s and 30s, and here are what I see as the key problems in your case:
1. Online advertising has killed all the joy of casual hook-ups. Good..." [
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favorited 10 times, recently by vbfg
Last month
MeFi comment:
"Is it wrong that my first thought was he's not sufficiently... aroused?
He's Just Not That Into You™, Cheetos.
My thought exactly. They may still have a deep spiritual bond and a commitment to staying together for the kids, but the passion is..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by liza
Last month
MeFi comment:
"Verizon refusing to host the alt* hierarchy is the same as Safeway not carrying Vienna Sausages anymore.
First they came for the pickled ring bologna, but I did not partake of the pickled ring bologna because it repeated on me . . ...." [
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favorited 4 times, recently by evilcolonel, rusty, Divine_Wino, Rock Steady
Last month
MeFi comment:
"In hindsight, I shoulda realized Elton was gay BEFORE he married Olivia Newton John.
I don't know what kind of brain-damaging huff-drug would cause such a hallucination, but I might want some...." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by roger ackroyd
Last month
MeFi comment:
"I like 'more pigs' cause it's funny and is real words
Me three. I was way bummed when they changed the name of our campus Center for Teaching, Learning, and Faculty Development (CTLFD) to something simpler because we had to stop calling it..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Smart Dalek
Last month
MeFi comment:
"If you can't carry a tune without pitch correction, you have no business calling yourself a professional singer. might be Bob Dylan, Leonard Cohen, Kimya Dawson, John Darnielle, Roscoe Holcomb, Cole Porter, Tim Bracy & Shannon McArdle, Johnny..." [
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favorited 3 times, recently by chillmost, sourwookie, saulgoodman
Last month
MeFi comment:
"What I miss about real typing are the carriage returns -- the lovely crank sound on a manual, and even on an electric typewriter you got that satisfying whiz-thunk when you hit the Return key. You really knew you had written a line. And don't get..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by kittens for breakfast, amyms
Last month
MeFi comment:
"This is a vast improvement on the prickshaw." [
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favorited 17 times, recently by showbiz_liz, Divine_Wino, decagon, Jpfed, George_Spiggott, Countess Elena, hal9k, Lou Stuells, HighTechUnderpants, Cucurbit, Pollomacho, doobiedoo, weapons-grade pandemonium, Floydd, koeselitz, everichon, ornate insect
Last month
MeFi comment:
"Michigan and Florida knew the rules. Michigan and Florida knew they were breaking the rules. Michigan and Florida knew there were consequences to breaking the rules. Michigan and Florida broke the rules. Michigan and Florida suffered the consequences...." [
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favorited 3 times, recently by liza, Sparx, teleri025
Last month
MeFi comment:
"There are Lifelock commercials on basic cable channels as well -- TNT, USA, etc. They show up during the day a bit less frequently than Freecreditreport.com, the crazylikeafox "own your own business" scams, and the various bogus weightloss..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Monochrome
Last month
MeFi comment:
"One day in the Metro in France
I fell into some kind of trance
I thought people's noses
Were pansies and roses
Or that's how they looked at first glance...." [
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favorited 15 times, recently by prefpara, ErWenn
Last month
MeFi comment:
"OK, I totally don't get this -- I mean, maybe as a party trick, but why would I want to ruin deliciously, wonderfully tart, sour things by making them sugary sweet? Yuck. I dunno, the US seems like the last place where we need more sweets or more..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by tehloki, not_on_display
Last month
MeFi comment:
"I can think of no better, more patriotic use for my tax dollars than Operation Hurf Durf Legume Eaters." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by finite, arto
Last month
MeFi comment:
"I'm positive that the FBI is spending a precisely equal amount of tax dollars to infiltrate Denver-area NRA chapters and talk-radio fanclubs to gather info on potentially disruptive Democratic convention protesters...." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Pope Guilty
Last month
Ask comment:
"Yeah, you do want to avoid the pre-move declaration. If I were moving to, say, Fairbanks, and a good friend who already lived there made this sort of confession beforehand, I would neurotically start to think, "Oh geez, now if I move there, am..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by macinchik, HighTechUnderpants
Last month
MeFi comment:
"So I'm a volume and a half into A la récherche, and I'm. Pissed. Off. Not at the book, at all the people who sold me this total bill of goods for decades about Proust being "daunting" and "dense" and "intimidating"..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by nasreddin, dyoneo
Last month
MeFi comment:
"Then I looked down and found a box of Chick tracts lying there in the middle of the jungle...
Please, oh please, let this NOT become the new global "porn in the woods...." [
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favorited 3 times, recently by captnkurt, pxe2000, Servo5678
Last month
Ask comment:
"I'll second Robert Benchley and add S. J. Perelman. There's something absurdly, subversively whimsical (rather than ha-ha knee-slapping horselaugh) about them that is in the same ballpark as the Handey vibe...." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by chicainthecity
Last month
MeFi comment:
"There once was a girl from Shallott
Who loved her some Sir Lancelot,
Snuffed it in a canoe
As her mirror broke in two;
Then quoth Lance, "For a corpse, she's teh hawt...." [
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favorited 11 times, recently by landedjentry
2 months ago
MeFi comment:
"*breathing into bag*
I love my job, I love my job, I love my job, I love my job, I promise I will never again say I hate my job, I love my job, I love my job...." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by nax
2 months ago
MeFi comment:
"Good on you, California, and please sprinkle some of your pixie dust on my increasingly shameful state." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by blucevalo
2 months ago
MeFi comment:
"This could have greatly improved so many earlier works of literature:
"Call me Maurice Bullen"
"James Castagna, James Castagna, wherefore art thou James Castagna?"
"It was many and many a year ago
In a kingdom by..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by fvw, [NOT HERMITOSIS-IST]
2 months ago
MeTa comment:
"What major league player do you think your MetaFilter persona resembles?
Mario Mendoza." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Kattullus
2 months ago
MeTa comment:
"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..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by limeonaire
2 months ago
MeFi comment:
"If this group of little pishers (who, I'm convinced, all talk in creepy Peter Lorre voices) wanted to touch boobies, I just don't get why they didn't just stroll around in public at a crowded con wearing giant buttons that said:
I WOULD LIKE TO..." [
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favorited 5 times, recently by Pope Guilty, Countess Elena, Joh, Hicksu, Hildegarde
3 months ago
Ask comment:
"Let me just echo number9dream and DarlingBri by saying that you can kiss, snog, cuddle, grope, pet, and makeout all you want, solely for its own sake, and stop whenever you want to, without being "prude" or a "cocktease" or..." [
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favorited 8 times, recently by Ladysin, lalochezia, hyperfascinated, DarlingBri, Salamandrous, winna, ifjuly, catburger
3 months ago
MeFi comment:
"I want to see that walrus doing "Thriller" with Jennifer Garner and Mark Ruffalo." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by tyrantkitty
3 months ago
MeFi comment:
"I always wanted to congratulate Heston for making the gayest movie in history, Ben Hur.
Spoken like a person who's never seen Spartacus." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by John Kenneth Fisher
3 months ago
MeTa comment:
"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..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Malor
3 months ago
MeFi comment:
"Ah, I was just lunching at the local diner today. I had the meatloaf, and my pal had the exquisite salmon patties platter. And when she had the temerity to say, "Yes, I'm done; you can take that," in reply to the server's query, I said,..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by hadjiboy
3 months ago
MeTa comment:
"Congratulations, Krrlson, you've discovered that people are people.
. . . no matter how small." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by konolia
4 months ago
MeTa comment:
"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...." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by regicide is good for you
4 months ago
MeFi comment:
"Many non-Americans find American exceptionalism tiresome, not to mention utter bullshit.
Granted, and so do many Americans. However, it's only fair to acknowledge that the exceptionalist riff has been an inextricable part of English-speaking..." [
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favorited 4 times, recently by fishmasta, nooneyouknow, Henry C. Mabuse, orthogonality
4 months ago
