MeFi comment:
"Okay, here's the American Experience transcript that Herb Stempel's wikipedia article quotes several times. There's a lot of background in there, including the tidbit that Stempel took his big dive on the question "What motion picture won the..." [
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favorited 4 times, recently by Jahaza, Spatch, feloniousmonk, rigby51
4 weeks ago
MeFi comment:
"Oldest English-language joke in the book (courtesy of The Oxford Book of Humourous Prose):
There was in a certain town a widower who wooed a widow to have and wed her as his wife, and at last they were agreed and betrothed. And when a young woman,..." [
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favorited 4 times, recently by Stove, liza, malpractice, nasreddin
Last month
MeFi comment:
"And I think Pullman is a bit hard on Lewis; he's always banging on about how Susan is supposedly excluded from Narnia because she has become an adult woman, signified by her wearing stockings and lipstick...
That idea seems to get around. See..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by moxiedoll, bardic
2 months ago
MeTa comment:
"I know our mythic history, King Arthur's and Sir Caradoc's
I answer hard acrostics, I've a pretty taste for paradox." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Jofus
2 months ago
MeFi comment:
"Clearly the only way for fans to save Dollhouse is to send in tens of thousands of some random crap that they guess will be associated with the series in eight months. At the moment, I think they're wavering between ball bearings (3/16" if..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by bitter-girl.com
2 months ago
MeFi comment:
"Their "worst of season six" pick is the Urkel sketch? But... Urkel! Hey, everybody, it's Urkel! Look, Urkel! And so forth. Love!
Hey, there's a wikia...." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by JHarris
3 months ago
MeFi comment:
"flotson,
That wikipedia article (by a single author, no major edits) is kind of exactly what I'm referring to. "Many Native American tribes' term" is at first glance better than "the Native American term", but... name the..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by nasreddin
3 months ago
MeFi comment:
"He was also the one who swiped unattributed the Iroquois term "Turtle Island" and turned it into "the Native American word for Earth", as seen in various forms of soft-headed "how-eco-conscious-those-noble-savages-were"..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by nasreddin
3 months ago
Ask comment:
"PBS to the rescue... "Six contemporary comic artists, including Daniel Clowes and Chris Ware, talk about Hergé's influence, visual narratives and the art of cartooning...." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by doppleradar
3 months ago
MeFi comment:
"More ^
an hour to let them down wetting all myself always with some brandnew fad every other week such a long one I did I forgot my suede gloves on the seat behind
about 2 hours ago by mollyb from im
when I stood up and asked the girl where..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by Spatch, notyou
3 months ago
MeFi comment:
"How do you cope?
I repeat to myself "Posts don't have to contain multiple links or end with a discussion-sparking question". Then I yell something about not being a number, and club Gorrister with an icicle...." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by yoyoceramic
4 months ago
MeFi comment:
"Internet cafés are abundant and survive quite well on their own without "competition" from publicly funded institutions that are working outside their mandate.
Sweet god almighty, poor people exist. Public libraries were invented for..." [
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favorited 3 times, recently by The Gooch, donnagirl, bettafish
4 months ago
MeFi comment:
"These public libraries.... it's really never been about the books has it?
It's about the ideas. The modern library argument is that those also come over the internet, on DVD, in graphic novels... And then there are video games, which are a little..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by gillyflower
4 months ago
MeTa comment:
"I think there should be a "me too, but with the following caveats", and then there's a auto-generated drop-down list that covers all the points made by the OP and you can tick the individual items that you agree with/ disagree with and add..." [
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favorited 12 times, recently by WCityMike, phrontist, merelyglib, delmoi, sneakin, tehloki, bru, nasreddin, amethysts, misha, demagnetized, RokkitNite
4 months ago
MeTa comment:
"We should have done a hidden flash player, starting out on mute, taking 2 minutes to build up in volume to Rick Astley's Never Gonna Give You Up, but that seems meaner.
posted by mathowie
Eh, like a third of the sites on the internet are..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by sperose
4 months ago
MeFi comment:
"Morning guys! What's... oh.
Regarding hillbillies, Rep. Kern represents District 84, which is in the middle of Oklahoma City. Her constituency looks to be about a third the whiter-than-whitebread suburbs of Warr Acres and Bethany (which latter..." [
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favorited 3 times, recently by MikeKD, axon, kid ichorous
5 months ago
MeFi comment:
"Once upon a time, on an island far, far away, there was a native named Idiot Jed. Idiot Jed had bulging muscles, greasy hair, shining blue eyes, and was (secretly) not obsessed with logic puzzles. When anyone brought up a logic puzzle (which was..." [
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favorited 3 times, recently by sondrialiac, turaho, dorian
6 months ago
MeTa comment:
"Well, Metafilter's fratty days of LOLboobiez, pocket-rocket, and thinly-veiled-proposition jokes are certainly coming to a middle." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by cgc373
7 months ago
MeFi post:
Blonde girl kicks things!
favorited 57 times, recently by ilikecookies, deafmute, Tripps, Arasithil, Reto, finallymarki, dejah420, Coaticass, hecho de la basura, ewagoner, Wilder, Pecinpah, Rubythursday, Griffynn, Skybly, your mom, antiform, ooga_booga, Tehanu, es_de_bah, Rictic, longdaysjourney, graventy, mock, cerbous, AceRock, Rock Steady, juv3nal, Marla Singer, Richard Daly, gingerbeer, Robot Rowboat, thinman, zouhair, humannaire, opsin, poweredbybeard, Cyrano, merelyglib, Sand, MrMustard, Blazecock Pileon, Pants!, ShawnStruck, jpeacock, nicolin, Free word order!, hilatron, Balisong, Aversion Therapy, Eddie Mars, MrVisible, RussHy, Electrius, The Loch Ness Monster, Plinko, lampoil
7 months ago
MeTa comment:
"Well, the first one should be RIOTLand. Then RIOTWorld.
Maybe even a EuroRIOT.
And then Tokyo RIOTLand, which will consist entirely of boarding the monorail at rush hour...." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by RussHy, jonmc
7 months ago
Ask comment:
"Most of Studio Ghibli's stuff is not suitable for 3-year-olds. Trust me, I've known parents that saw Totoro and grabbed the next Miyazaki on the shelf - bad things happened, man. Even Kiki's is a little borderline, less because of violence and..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by sentient
7 months ago
MeFi comment:
"It's Oklahoma's cookie now, ya 47-th admitted, horny-toad-worshipping, Gadsen-purchasing noobs. Whadda you gonna do, huh? New Mexico gonna cry?" [
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favorited 1 time, recently by kylefreund
7 months ago
MeFi comment:
"So the essential US Govt rule is Steal it and its yours forever?
Agreed, and Poland needs to give back Upper Silesia right godamn now.
Here's a more detailed article about the state of the Lakota Sioux government and constitution. In particular,..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by misha
8 months ago
MeFi comment:
"Here's the original statement of intent, from 1997. At that point, they were basing their case on "the 1868 Fort Laramie Treaty", which closed the Lakota Territory to white settlement. And then there was a gold rush, the government broke..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by misha
8 months ago
MeFi comment:
"It doesn't say "overdoing it is bad for your health", it says to avoid processed meats, soda, dietary supplements, and "even small amounts of alcohol".
I mean, you get the "Sensational New Cancer Discovery" thing,..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by marble
9 months ago
MeFi comment:
"And here's our blog author on how our taxes pay for stinkin' funny-talking immigrants to come over and take our jobs. Did we research this at all, edgeways?..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by papafrita
10 months ago
MeFi comment:
"The Muppet Wiki has an entire section on the "Bert & Ernie" myth, I'm pleased to note." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by mai
10 months ago
Ask comment:
"I've plugged them before on the green, but there's my favorite distributorfor local smokehouse jerkys from across the Southwest. (I'm surprised they don't have Jiggs' - have to ask about that.)..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by melorama
10 months ago
MeFi comment:
"Man, this guy is so goddamn cute, I want to take him home and punch him. Footnote #3:
According to a study by the Corporate Library, the median total compensation, including salary, bonus, stock grants, and the exercise of stock options, of..." [
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favorited 4 times, recently by axon, longdaysjourney, Blazecock Pileon, bonaldi
10 months ago
MeFi comment:
"Kirth, your first link denounces your second link as "a researcher whose delusions of paranoia seem nearly limitless"." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by zixyer, salvia
10 months ago
Ask comment:
"There was this lady biology major I was trying to impress, back in the nineties. She was kind of a pioneering otaku, and used to have us over for bootleg fan-subbed anime. Her source would throw in a free little fan-made music video at the end of..." [
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favorited 3 times, recently by LobsterMitten, Jofus, spaceman_spiff
11 months ago
MeTa comment:
"And, yeah, even with Vagina Monologue kerfluffles and batshit alterna-weeklys and such, it still manages to be up-to-date by including a ton of latter-day fanwankery - "What if Moriarty was a fanficcer” because he borrowed sources, that’s..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by misha
11 months ago
MeFi comment:
"This is from 9 years ago, but it's still a great account - American pro Janice Kim spots the world-champion go program 25 stones, wins." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by jiawen
Last year
MeFi comment:
"Tellurian's already there, but the head-asplodingly detailed wiki should cover all your Vidilectrix-related needs. [spoilers]" [
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favorited 1 time, recently by davemee
Last year
MeFi comment:
"Clearly what we have going here is some kind of magical realism. My theory is that it's Vincente Fox, soaring above his people by his own force of ancient will before returning to squat in his palace, an aged monster seamed by time but still canny,..." [
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favorited 9 times, recently by scrump, Mercaptan, the cydonian, bunnytricks, stackmonster, fillsthepews, StrikeTheViol, Pope Guilty, BitterOldPunk
Last year
Ask comment:
"[few] = lamda*x*(not(large^C(abs(x))))
Cite. (Paper is primarily dedicated to distinguishing usage of "few" from "a few", but defining "few" is considered a necessary prerequisite. Apologies for the low-tech..." [
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favorited 3 times, recently by cobra_high_tigers, gleuschk, benign
Last year
Ask comment:
"Well, here's this, if it helps. No state songs or TMBG:
Lynard Skynard: Sweet Home Alabama
John Denver: Alaska and Me
Public Enemy: By The Time I Get To Arizona
Bruce Springsteen: Mary, Queen of Arkansas
Red Hot Chili Peppers:..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by frecklefaerie, fiTs
Last year
