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MeFi post:
Palin Around..
Well, I guess this could be a thinner post
pray tell, how?
posted to MetaFilter by dawson
at 10:36 AM on October 7, 2008
Ask post:
Does such a song even exisit?
Gosh, I think that maybe it is the Joel tune! That's the song I was trying to recall. I'll check with dad this evening. That Bee Gees song is an awesome one I'd forgotten. I''ll remind him of that one as well, as it could be what he's looking for.
posted to Ask Metafilter by dawson
at 11:50 AM on October 6, 2008
well thanks for the responses, regrettably none of these are the one, though there are good tries!
posted to Ask Metafilter by dawson
at 7:03 PM on October 6, 2008
MeFi post:
Burning Down The House
I just figured since anything goes the past several weeks, we need some balance. We're open-minded, right?
posted to MetaFilter by dawson
at 9:33 AM on September 29, 2008
Ask post:
any broth in brothel?
ditto. from the 'deep' South (US). maybe memail languagehat? I've lived and taught in a number of places and never heard different in any English dialect..
posted to Ask Metafilter by dawson
at 2:24 PM on September 26, 2008
MeTa post:
AskMe orthography
I think this is 'the internet from the 80's' type humor. One can find it in abundance on, say, the fark tube. Some people still find Bob Hope hilarious and jam to Jim Nabours.
posted to MetaTalk by dawson
at 2:26 PM on September 19, 2008
Nabors, even. May God and the prophet be with him.
posted to MetaTalk by dawson
at 2:31 PM on September 19, 2008
one more and I'll stop. Damn, Carol really was as hot as I used to think as a boy. Oh my. Let me be there in your night. Wink, wink.
posted to MetaTalk by dawson
at 2:34 PM on September 19, 2008
I thought JimN2 was being sarcastic and ironic, no? hench my non sequitor replies
posted to MetaTalk by dawson
at 3:20 PM on September 19, 2008
Frank Zappa said it first.
But I thought it was Václav Havel?
posted to MetaTalk by dawson
at 3:54 PM on September 19, 2008
this post is not a free pass to just post whatever the fuck flits thru yr demented minds...on topic people!!1one
posted to MetaTalk by dawson
at 7:58 PM on September 19, 2008
Ask post:
Japan autumn colours in early November?
Tohoku, Kanto, and Nikko should be, probably, showing autumn foliage. Kyoto is a favorite, but you will perhaps be 2-3 weeks early. Yakushima is more or less subtropical, but the cedar forests are very worth a visit if you can swing it.
posted to Ask Metafilter by dawson
at 1:44 AM on September 19, 2008
MeTa post:
Search and Destroy
I wish for this as well SV. I'd like to ask an anon question or two and be able to 'interact' with the repliers w/o mailing the mods or setting up a blind email addy. Also, I sometimes (often) would reply to a question if i could do so anonymously*. I suppose this is the price I pay for transparency what with using my real info and all?
*(Neither of which you are requesting, but this saves me from posting my own pony.)
I read that as strawberryvagina, and... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by dawson
at 11:42 PM on September 18, 2008
my secret question would be, not about penguin taxidermy, but rather consensual sex with dolphins, of either sex.
posted to MetaTalk by dawson
at 11:57 PM on September 18, 2008
needs more cowbell. my god ma'am. that's the page I was recalling with remorse. My memory was mercifully faint and the url long lost. now...where's that box of Kleenex?
posted to MetaTalk by dawson
at 12:13 AM on September 19, 2008
MeTa post:
Trisomy 21, General Information
Very excellent post. I uppose this is as good a place as I'll find here to post this (I elected to not post it in 'that' thread, pearls before swine and all that). A NYT piece by Harriet McBryde Johnson, who died earlier this year. It's a few years old, but it almost haunts me.
"At this stage of my life, he says, I am a person. However, as an infant, I wasn't. I, like all humans, was born without self-awareness. And eventually, assuming my brain finally gets so fried... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by dawson
at 7:56 PM on September 16, 2008
Harriet McBryde Johnson obit...
posted to MetaTalk by dawson
at 7:58 PM on September 16, 2008
Someone else posted that article in the fpp, dawson.
Cool. I'm glad it was posted. I figured I'd simply be called the 'resident concern troll' again, but it's nice someone had the balls to dissent.
posted to MetaTalk by dawson
at 8:35 PM on September 16, 2008
It seems I'm not 'hip to the convention' as per usual, if this doesn't belong in MeTa, where does it belong? We can now post directly to the sidebar? You want it buried in the original post where we would never see it? Seems that Jess had no problem with this post, so why all the condescending sneers? Is this your website? You made these rules? I didn't really know there were rules so much in MeTa. I can't help but think that some have been...well, flummoxed, and want to censor what they can't... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by dawson
at 9:51 PM on September 16, 2008
two thoughts:
Our late, apparently universally liked, DFW was 'flawed', as am I. Not physically, but emotionally/mentally/spiritually whatever. Many artists are, as are many auto mechanics and roofers. People who don't think that sucking another breath is really worth it. People who are no 'whole'. I gather than quite a few here (by their own admissions, I'm not making guesses or cracking wise) have serious depression along with other DSM-IV brain chemical glitches. This is the... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by dawson
at 10:49 AM on September 17, 2008
MeFi post:
φαινομαι
great title indeed... as one of the few brilliant enough (ok, honest enough) to call bullshit on 'man made' (how sexist!) global warming I'm warmed to see such a cool post on the blue.
posted to MetaFilter by dawson
at 5:13 PM on September 16, 2008
Ask post:
Go away, nightmares!
Not much here, but diet, esp eating just before sleeping, and drugs, prescription ones in particular, often cause what might be more accurately termed night terrors. The good news is that it's treatable.
posted to Ask Metafilter by dawson
at 8:21 AM on September 16, 2008
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Should vegetarians eat marine creatures?
I personally find Michael Pollen more rational and consistent than Singer, who seems to me a very polarizing activist. However, as noted above, this is a very personal decision. One of my best freinds forever, and also one of my sisters-in-law are vegetarian who eat seafood. The friend, perhaps once a week, the sister-in-law, daily. If one is vegetarian for moral reasons, I find eating seafood an inconsistency. I don't however, argue the point, as I myself am perhaps inconsistent in some areas.... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by dawson
at 3:54 AM on September 16, 2008
MeFi post:
RIP, DFW
"The truth will set you free. But not until it is finished with you." ~DFW
posted to MetaFilter by dawson
at 8:40 PM on September 13, 2008
Ask post:
Super fiber bean? 32g per cup?
how does a smaller bean have more skin? I realize a larger bean has more meat, but is not the skin that covers that meat equal, in ratio, to that on the smaller bean? In a 1/2 cup of beans would not the amount of skin be more or less the same?
posted to Ask Metafilter by dawson
at 7:51 PM on September 11, 2008
mhuckaba , I also have no idea and didn't mean to throw yr question off track. That just kinda flummoxed me. And I thought there were at least two good answers above, but perhaps I misunderstand the question.
Thanks pompomtom, I accept your reply, but am no closer to understanding why it is so. Anyway, this is muhuckaba's baby.
posted to Ask Metafilter by dawson
at 9:11 PM on September 11, 2008
MeFi post:
Sarah Palin as McCain's running-mate
Daddy-O, I was responding to another poster, I guess I missed yr question, which is a good one. I'll answer and mail you later this evening. I've had a few gin and tonics and don't want to attempt it now.
Wow, HaloMan, that is impressive for real, nearly 4500 hundred comments between yr two.
delmoi, I think you misunderstood me and if you think I meant why you say you think I meant, I understand yr anger. However, my statement was not meant to be anti-American or lutz.... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by dawson
at 12:41 AM on September 10, 2008
and in honor of the 'lipstick kerfuffle', a golden oldie...Barack flips Hilliary off, or was it an itc ...huh?
posted to MetaFilter by dawson
at 1:05 AM on September 10, 2008
some of us warned, earlier in this thread to not be petty. now folks are (rightly) upset about a few 'dirty' bits re Obama, but you'd have to be on drugs to deny that dirty, filthy mud-slinging is what most of this thread has been about. Not Obama, he rebuked it in certain terms and plead for it to stop. but no, people had to just keep digging and being all, well...
a "...hallucinatory hurricane in the leftist blogosphere, which unleashed a grotesquely lurid series of... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by dawson
at 8:54 AM on September 10, 2008
Citation?
not using preview sucks for me. And 5 minute load times.
Yes, it's Paglia, as I noted before. Salon, the publishing arm of the John Birch Society run by Karl Rove.
posted to MetaFilter by dawson
at 9:19 AM on September 10, 2008
And we have entered the Twilight Zone at long last...
posted to MetaFilter by dawson
at 7:14 PM on September 10, 2008
'I am a liberal, but I'm blown away by Sarah Palin'
My liberal friends were outraged when rumours about Barack Obama attending a Madrassa or being a Muslim surfaced on the internet, but all week they have been gleefully trading emails of Sarah Palin distortions.
There was the doctored picture of her carrying a rifle, wearing a stars-and-stripes bikini while a man in the background drank Schlitz beer. Or dopey quotes about God, creationism and... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by dawson
at 8:52 AM on September 11, 2008
Keep this up, guys, and major backlash is sure to follow. Sarah Palin may be no Hillary Clinton, but if she faces the same sort of sexism that Hillary did, she may yet capture many of her supporters. ~Susan Estrich
posted to MetaFilter by dawson
at 9:50 AM on September 11, 2008
