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Gopher Hole Museum
These very well may be the lost missing link twixt cave paintings and LOLCATS.
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at 6:15 PM on June 25, 2008
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Where to go?
I visited some years ago, flew into Glascow and rented a car and drove north. There are great little towns all the way up the loch before you hit Inverness that should suit your needs and wants. About halfway up (this was a long time ago, my details are sketchy, sorry) was a rocking little town called Fort William. Further east in the Grampians there was a wee town called...Pitlochry, I think, that had a great pub and a great little distillery, the smallest I think, where they make the Edradour.... [more]
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at 9:08 PM on June 18, 2008
MeFi post:
Yellow sign on the line which is dotted
I made a succesful library use roll when i read this post, then i lost 2d10 san, went nuts, and gahhhrhghaaarh aaaaaghh rathan ia i acthulhu fhthaghen ia
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at 12:42 AM on May 11, 2008
.....glagh gurrrrrrurt th eblacl goat of the woods and her thousaaaaaannd young oh craistssseh bkugh blug...
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at 1:05 AM on May 11, 2008
MeFi post:
Waits for Nonsequitors
Wait...Tom waits is real?
I kid.
Pescajamba, everybody!
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at 9:48 PM on May 7, 2008
I believe that's PEHDTSCKJMBA
yeah, i'm doin it now and its good. I'm not weird or anything about it. I don't tie myself up first.
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at 10:47 PM on May 7, 2008
MeFi post:
He's joined Lucy in the sky...
Darn, I missed an awesome thread. Thanks Doc, your problem child made this problem child's time at Umass tolerable, and yet terrible.
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at 5:52 AM on April 30, 2008
MeFi post:
Sitting Out Earth Day
Peak.Oil. Baby.
Rising prices -> food riots -> border wars -> robot and/or zombie apocolypse.
Think of it as invisible inflation that trickles down to the poor and converts instantly to misery and chaos.
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at 12:23 AM on April 23, 2008
MeFi post:
Think SCA, only more specific
The Higgins Armory was the easily the coolest weekend trip when I was a kid growing up around Wormtown. Nice to see it on the blue.
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at 9:34 PM on April 14, 2008
MeFi post:
Charlton Heston dead at 84
Which is awesome, because it shifts the standard of being a better person from what you do and believe to your adherence to a set of social conventions; it becomes more important to give the appearance of decency than to be decent.
Controling one's impulse to speak ill of the dead, tamping down that impulse to unleash one's hate, is probably decent practice.
We can't blame Heston for the bad gun laws and gun... [more]
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at 1:44 AM on April 6, 2008
MeFi post:
What the frak?
I have a buddy coming over to watch tonight, this will come in handy. Thanks!
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at 6:03 PM on April 4, 2008
MeTa post:
Are snarky one-liners being deleted in the Blue?
As to the "get off my lawn" jokes and such, they are to a substaintial degree metafilter's lawn.
Now, maybe we do not all need to get off it, but maybe we should not all stand on it at the same time?
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at 10:37 PM on March 31, 2008
MeFi post:
Best Story Ever
This thread was a nice way to end the day, and happyhippo should report to Section Alpha at the Ad Hoc Psyops Think Tank post haste. Or later today. Whatever is easier.
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at 10:21 PM on March 31, 2008
MeFi post:
The Empire Strikes Back
Obviously the drunk Vader caused the camera crew some inconvenience, and is prepared to compensate them. Shall he say the sum of one million American dollars?
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at 7:16 PM on March 30, 2008
MeFi post:
Where's my parachute?
PEAK OIL BABY!!!!
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at 8:32 PM on March 16, 2008
It's about a systemic mis-valuation of a whole litany of securities and financial instruments that consequently can't be hedged nor their risk evaluated in any meaningful way, and the likelihood of a credit/liquidity crunch as a result.
PEAK MIS-VALUATION, BABY!!!!!!
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at 8:49 PM on March 16, 2008
TOKYO (Reuters) - Oil jumped to a record above $111 a barrel on Monday, as a surprise weekend cut in the Federal Reserve discount rate and the fire sale of stricken U.S. investment bank Bear Stearns sent the dollar to all-time lows.
THIS IS GOING TO BE FRACKING AWESOME.
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at 8:53 PM on March 16, 2008
Okay, correct me if I am wrong, but the Bear Sterns thing is a de facto bank failure, right?
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at 9:11 PM on March 16, 2008
Yeah spiderskull, I got carried away there. I enjoy the idea of a worldwide collapse.
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at 9:22 PM on March 16, 2008
What is winding up? What is Guernsey Law?
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Investment company Carlyle Capital Corp said on Sunday its shareholders have voted unanimously in favor of a compulsory winding up.
The company said it will now start winding up and sell its remaining assets under Guernsey law.
Peak winding up, baby?
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at 9:34 PM on March 16, 2008
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MetaFilter History
Portobello mushrooms. Free Orange Juice. Givewell (rather recently). Quoting SCIENCE. I have't been here that long either, but those stick out, and some members seem to always talk about missing something called the image tag.
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at 12:14 PM on March 16, 2008
Ye gods...i just reread most of the orange juice coupon thread. It holds up. Someone freeze it in carbonite and send it to NASA or something.
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at 6:22 PM on March 16, 2008
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Keep my happy hour from becoming sad.
Depending on the size of the bar and the time of day/night you want to do this, you may want to pop in there and work something out before hand. But then again, it does not sound like you want to pay for all the drinks. Are you most concerned with space for everyone, or cost?
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at 1:47 PM on March 15, 2008
In that case, I'd choose a bar with ample seating space and just get there early to grab at least one large-ish table. And try to choose a bar that does not get slammed at the time you'll be there. What day of the week? That could be the key. If you're planing this for a friday at say, 8 pm, best to go in a few days beforehand and talk with someone. But if it is a monday or tuesday at 5:30 or so, the plan as it is in your head should work just fine.
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at 4:12 PM on March 15, 2008
MeFi post:
RIP William F. Buckley, Jr.
His sailing books are great reads, and for whatever reason, I choose to remember him for the best of what he was, not the worst.
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at 6:33 PM on February 27, 2008
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Separate checks, please
nthing the complexity/time consumption. Even with the POS systems that make it easy to split a check, or use multiple credit cards, it takes you off the floor and away from your tables for longer than you want to be. At 9:30 on a busy night, you want to print, drop, settle, and close your checks as quickly as possible and turn those tables. Losing a few seconds can start a chain reaction; next thing you know you've been triple sat, you've got wine to open on another table, an order to take on... [more]
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at 4:51 PM on February 25, 2008
Heh. Going to a table in even a one star straunt here in the city and asking about method of payment at the beginning of service could be grounds for termination. And even when you order by seat, which you most often do so the runners or another server can serve without "auctioning off" food, even with the best, most state-of-the-art POS systems, it still takes a server longer to process those checks. Someone above mentioned timing and flow, and the seperate check thing is easily in... [more]
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at 6:14 PM on February 26, 2008
