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The Breakfast Manifesto
For a while, Second Cup here in Canada was offering the "Red Eye", a cup of strong coffee with two shots of espresso and a shot of mocha. After drinking that, my heart started going a mile a minute. It's not on the menu anymore, but I suspect you could still order it.
posted to MetaFilter by LN
at 10:49 AM on July 22, 2008
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Canadian Brass
Going through my degree in music, I always hung out with the brass players. The Canadian Brass were everybody's heroes.
posted to MetaFilter by LN
at 6:27 AM on July 4, 2008
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"He makes Gozer look like little Mary Sunshine."
Ah, my childhood Saturday afternoon guilty pleasure!
Egon: I have a plan.
Peter: No electric shocks, Egon.
Egeon: OK, I have another plan.
posted to MetaFilter by LN
at 6:02 AM on June 25, 2008
Uncleozzy, almost all the original voice actors were superb in this. My favourite was Frank Welker, formerly of Scooby-doo fame, the voice of about 14 Decepticons as well as Ray Stantz, Slimer and assorted monsters on RGB, and subsequently the voice of every animal known in animation creation, including Santa's Little Helper, Abu the Monkey, Curious George, Dexter's lab monkey, etc., etc., etc.
posted to MetaFilter by LN
at 6:14 AM on June 25, 2008
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Soup, stew, broth, and stock
As a data point (and because I don't see it mentioned), I was always told that one should process a chicken or turkey carcass within a few hours of the meat being carved and served. To leave it overnight in the fridge before boiling it makes the stock taste flat (not to mention it's safer from the point of view of bacteria).
posted to MetaFilter by LN
at 8:32 AM on May 22, 2008
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Go to Your Room
I'm the eldest child in my family...by about five minutes. Reading these kinds of generalizations gets me down.
posted to MetaFilter by LN
at 9:07 AM on May 5, 2008
I think I'm with Miss Lynnster on this one: my family is apparently not normal, according to this study. C'mon MissL! Let's wreck that curve!
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at 10:11 AM on May 5, 2008
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it tore me up every time I heard her drawl
55% Dixie, but a Canadian. Bizarre. I'd love to see something similar to this for Canadians. For example, I was taught that the proper pronounciation for "couch" is "chesterfield".
The Ottawa Valley accent has nearly vanished
GuyZero, drop in to see me next time you're in Ottawa, and I'll introduce you to some people who speak with a strongly Valley accent. It's not dead.
posted to MetaFilter by LN
at 11:48 AM on May 2, 2008
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Jules Verne Illustrations
That spcae ship interior looks a lot like the rocket from Wallace and Gromit's "Grand Day Out".
posted to MetaFilter by LN
at 9:06 AM on April 10, 2008
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Guaranteed laughs
Small quibble - the word association one won't play unless you're in the US.
posted to MetaFilter by LN
at 8:40 AM on April 10, 2008
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Lies I've told my three year old recently.
When I was small, we used to have this little plastic dancing santa decoration that would get put on display at Christmas time. Santa had one foot perpetually in the air. My Dad used to tell me that when I left the house, Santa would put his foot down, but would lift it back up again when I came back in. I would apparently step out of the door, then rush back in, to see if I could catch him. I resolved there and then that I would try not to tell ridiculous lies to little children.... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by LN
at 12:51 PM on April 9, 2008
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Voyageur: Canada's Guitar
I know one of the guys who played it on Canada Day in 2006 (from the group, Finest Kind). He says it's no hell as a musical instrument. I'm happy to think of it as primarily symbolic, rather than musical.
Link goes to an mp3.
posted to MetaFilter by LN
at 9:49 AM on March 25, 2008
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DAMMIT!
The poor, poor violinist. I practically winced when I read this. So much for his career!
posted to MetaFilter by LN
at 1:42 PM on February 13, 2008
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Path of the Cloud Demon through the city of St. Louis
'fluid" is an old euphemism for electricity, probably an intentional pun on "current". Check out this 1891 article from the New York Times about execution by electric chair at Sing-Sing prison, wherein "fluid" is used to refer to electricity, so that the writer doesn't use the word "current" twice in the space of two sentences.
On preview, what languagehat said.... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by LN
at 1:37 PM on February 13, 2008
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Rose Azure, meet Celestino Pink.
My sister dresses her one-year old baby girl in pink, simply because the kid looks like a boy if you dress her in blue. She's sick to death of people coming up to her and saying, "oh, what a cute boy", and having to say, "Thanks! Her name's Sabrina."
posted to MetaFilter by LN
at 5:41 AM on February 13, 2008
klangklangston, I'm talking totally out of my arse here, but it wouldn't surprise me in the slightest to find out that the gnder/colour switch sometime in the early 20th century was as a result of commerce and marketing.
Some business somewhere, probably in the states, decided that blue was a boy's colour because blue denim pants and coveralls were the outfit of choice for occupations requiring hard physical labour, such as gold rush miner (the origin of levis, after... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by LN
at 11:27 AM on February 13, 2008
whoops. Gender/colour switch.
posted to MetaFilter by LN
at 11:28 AM on February 13, 2008
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Beautiful rules for immaculate hearts
To quote Igor Stravinsky: "The more constraints one imposes, the more one frees one's self. And the arbitrariness of the constraint serves only to obtain precision of execution."
posted to MetaFilter by LN
at 6:55 AM on January 30, 2008
There's another saying, which I've heard in reference to Johann Sebastian Bach, which posits that you need to know what the rules are before you can break them effectively.
In all arts, you need to know what the basic rules of making that art are before you can understand what something new and original looks or sounds like. As a neophyte, the artist emulates people that he or she considers to be tops in their field. You exhibit discipline by working hard to understand... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by LN
at 11:36 AM on January 30, 2008
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How tired are you?
Geez, my score was 358. I'm apparently an exhausted little SLEEPY HEAD.
posted to MetaFilter by LN
at 8:14 AM on January 16, 2008
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Where do they all belong?
It's really sad that the last people to step forward were her family members.
posted to MetaFilter by LN
at 1:34 PM on January 10, 2008
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I have not failed. I have just found ten thousand ways that won’t work.
I grew up in a family of scientists and teachers, so I was raised on a steady diet of "do the best you can do at that time", and "if you don't understand, ask questions until you do!". In school, I was that annoying kid in the class with her hand up asking questions.
Then I got to the working world, and the first steady job I took, I was informed that my work was not acceptable because the manager had to send it back for corrections. It was made... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by LN
at 5:30 AM on November 30, 2007
Thanks, Smart Dalek. Metafilter spazzed out on me this morning as I was posting this.
posted to MetaFilter by LN
at 12:56 PM on November 30, 2007
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Actual, actual, actual vampires
Wow, this brings back memories. Nosferatu was the very first horror movie I ever watched. I was only six, so my mother covered my eyes at the really scary scenes. I still remember the vampires' googly eyes as he gloats over his victim, after creeping up the stairs and making the kill.
Gost Bless Elwy Yost and TVO's "Saturday Night at the Movies"!
posted to MetaFilter by LN
at 1:40 PM on October 26, 2007
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Getting behind the virtual velvet rope.
Eh, I've got a membership with i'minlikewithyou, and it's no hell.
Think bidding on a person based on a question they ask, like "if you were going to a Renfaire, what would you dress up as?". Your bid also allows you to answer their question. Once the bidding is over, the asker then gets to pick who they want to contact from the top five bidders.
I get the impression it's really just a popularity contest, made concrete by the number... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by LN
at 6:01 AM on August 29, 2007
