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Prescription swimming eyewear hacks please!
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at 3:33 AM on August 6, 2008
(11 comments)
[via MetaFilter Music] "This is a live recording of Royal Quiet Deluxe, my band from 1998. The track features manipulated drum machines and vocals, bass, and two chickens playing keyboards. The band was short-lived and a (very) minor local legend in Virginia in the late 1990s. This is our story."
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at 6:55 PM on August 2, 2008
(19 comments)
Fulfilling two of the Challenges for July: Wildcard (music you hate = techno) and Music (ripped off
James Bond Theme riff). Also, going for the trifecta, it's
a cappella (June's Style Challenge). And it's still July 31st in some parts of the world, so I think this should be allowed in the door.
posted to MeFi Music by not_on_display
at 10:40 PM on July 31, 2008
(13 comments)
MeFi Music Challenge, Lyrics Flavor. Toe-tappin' old-timey country happy blues.
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at 10:54 PM on June 29, 2008
(4 comments)
Good skateboarding parks in or around Cambridge MA, or less than a 20-minute drive therefrom? Whadda they have? Any good public places where skateboarding isn't frowned upon, with stairs, rails, curbs? For a 13-year-old who is at the basic level and wants a challenge.
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at 11:59 AM on June 18, 2008
(3 comments)
Pig lost! Boss say that it Grunk fault. Say Grunk forget about closing gate. Maybe boss right. Grunk not remember forgetting, but maybe Grunk just forget. Boss say Grunk go find pig, bring it back. Him say, if Grunk not bring back pig, not bring back Grunk either. Grunk like working at pig farm, so now Grunk need find pig.
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at 3:37 PM on June 17, 2008
(37 comments)
[NSFW]"The following program is in living color and has been rated X by the Vietnam academy of maggots. The purpose of this program is to bring vital news, information and hard acid rock to the first termers and non-re-enlistees in the Republic of Vietnam. Radio First Termer operates under no Air Force regulations or manuals. In the event of a vice squad raid this program will automatically self-destruct." Radio First Termer was a pirate radio show broadcast by "Dave Rabbit," an anonymous USAF sergeant, for 63 hours between January 1st and 21st, 1971, out of the back room of a brothel in Saigon, gracing the dial at 69 MHz and 690 AM.
Fearing reprisal from his superiors,
Dave Rabbit then shut
Radio First Termer down and, after returning to the States, went back to living a normal life. 34 years later, while helping his son on a homework assignment,
Dave came across old recordings of his show. He's since revived
his old persona via
podcast, and has also brought Radio First Termer back to the warzone--
to Baghdad, Iraq.
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at 6:13 PM on June 11, 2008
(11 comments)
It's so hot... so, so hot. So I'm looking for the best places in New England (specifically Boston-and-environs and Central Vermont) to go night-swimming and/or skinny-dipping.
posted to Ask Metafilter by not_on_display
at 3:55 PM on June 10, 2008
(12 comments)
NetClassixFilter: The next time you're standing clueless in the greeting cards section of your local drugstore franchise, you'll be wishing you'd visited the
Gallery of Unfortunate Greeting Cards instead. For all your holiday needs:
Valentine's Day, St. Patrick's Day, Easter, Weddings, 4th of July, Hallowe'
en, Birthdays, Thanksgiving, Christmas, and of course,
Washington's Birthday. [via Cap'n Wacky]
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at 8:33 PM on June 9, 2008
(18 comments)
Post-apocalyptic metal written by two 17-year-olds in 1987. Band name: HAMMERSCHLAG
posted to MeFi Music by not_on_display
at 6:00 AM on May 23, 2008
(7 comments)
In the mid-eighties, there was some "event" on television. It was a (crappy) movie, but embedded within it was a contest and/or puzzle.
posted to Ask Metafilter by not_on_display
at 11:31 PM on May 17, 2008
(5 comments)
MOST POPULAR PONY!! I want more functionality for sorting and filtering through the
Popular Favorites. I'd like to have a box that allows me to choose: "Most Popular [posts, comments] on [Green, Blue, Black, Grey,...] in the past [n] days." (e.g. so that I could see all the popular AskMe posts side by side, over a longer timeframe, and without them being mixed in with the FPP's; or so that I could view the most listened to tracks on MeMu; or, or, or.)
posted to MetaTalk by not_on_display
at 3:36 PM on May 17, 2008
(22 comments)
Garry McDonald, aka
Norman Gunston, aka the "
little aussie bleeder," may be well known out Australia way. For most Americans, however,
Norman G remains far, far down under the radar. But he's the forefather of the UK's
Ali G; he's Canadian
Nardwuar thee Human Serviette's nerdier dad; he's America's
Lazlo Toth (US) with a combover and a microphone; he's
Jiminy Glick's
Jack Sprat.
Perhaps you saw Norman long ago in a segment on USA Network's
Night Flight variety
show.
[bonus: many many youtubes of Night Flight segments, courtesy of this awesome website.] But I bet you didn't know he released a
KIckaSS single (among
others), jammed with
Frank Zappa, and was at the right place and time
to upstage a piece of Australian History. Not bad for someone whom
Keith Moon dumped his drink on and called a "great pooftah."
posted to MetaFilter by not_on_display
at 3:21 PM on May 4, 2008
(21 comments)
Eeeek! Bit in the ass by a tick! How did I get bit? Will I be OK?
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at 2:06 PM on March 31, 2008
(16 comments)
[NSFW, except in the can] The Barn Owl Fart -
A familiarity with owl calls is helpful in identifying this fart. Almost any morning if you get up just before daybreak you can hear one of these birds talking to himself. It's a sort of a crazy laugh, particularly the way it ends. If you hear a fart that has about eight notes in it, ending on a couple of down notes, and it sounds maniacal, you have heard the rare Barn Owl Fart.
posted to MetaFilter by not_on_display
at 5:34 AM on March 10, 2008
(15 comments)
An instrumental composed in an electronic music suite. And I barely knew what the fuck I was doing.
posted to MeFi Music by not_on_display
at 10:41 PM on March 4, 2008
(1 comment)
I'd like to see a place where users can submit FPP requests to the general MeFi populace, and where users can respond at their will to said requests.
posted to MetaTalk by not_on_display
at 9:15 PM on March 3, 2008
(58 comments)
"Let us say that you have raveled in a sweet, long kiss. Suddenly, you see your loved one's eyes close as though in a moment of weariness. Gently detach your lips from hers and raise them up to her closed eyelids. Drop a kisslet first on one eyelid and then on the other. Feel the rolling orb quiver under your lips. Then, when you have done this, run your lips down along the line of her nose, stopping at odd times to purse them into a tiny kiss. When you reach the wrinkle of her nostrils, bury your lips deeply into the curve and kiss little niblets into first one and then the other. If her eyes still are closed, repeat the process. But return to the lips."
-- from
"The Art of Kissing" by Hugh Morris (1936).
Revised and expanded in 1991 by William Cane.
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at 6:48 PM on March 3, 2008
(39 comments)
Lo-fi jangly short atonal pop.
posted to MeFi Music by not_on_display
at 11:35 AM on February 24, 2008
(3 comments)
More 4-track clearance. This time, it's a happy, bouncy ditty from 1993: two guitars, some whistling and happily mumbled lyrics. Recorded probably with Fleetwood Mac's
Tusk on the brain, with all knobs turned up to eleven.
posted to MeFi Music by not_on_display
at 4:32 PM on February 21, 2008
(4 comments)
More from my 4-track dump onto the PC. Lyrics written very loosely and improvised on the spot; it is about a 6-year old falling in love with the bearded lady midget at the fair, and running away. The song has an anxious, circus-gone-wrong aura to it. It was recorded on 1/26/94 in my bedroom, in the middle of the night so that my roommates wouldn't hear it.
posted to MeFi Music by not_on_display
at 4:21 PM on February 20, 2008
(1 comment)
I recently unearthed my 4-track tapes from 1993. (I'm still searching for the ones from 1988.) This was one of my favorites on this particular tape. Guitar by me, AM Radio via the electromagnetic spectrum. It was recorded and mixed in less than an hour. I'll throw in the tape hiss for free.
posted to MeFi Music by not_on_display
at 11:42 PM on February 11, 2008
(3 comments)
