MeFi comment:
"Note to aspiring sci-fi writers: The best way to create a memorable opening line is to take a good opening line from general fiction and give it a sci-fi twist.
Examples:
Mother died today in the post-apocalyptic future.
It is a truth..." [
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favorited 18 times, recently by Rhaomi, hippugeek, inqb8tr, nicepersonality, hydrophonic, brundlefly, sheila t, Anderson_Localized, yoink, robocop is bleeding, penduluum, DU, bent back tulips, kuujjuarapik, grobstein, The Card Cheat, Atom Eyes, nasreddin
6 minutes ago
MeFi comment:
"This reminds me of that angry letter that was sent to Neil Armstrong after Apollo 11:
Just twelve words, Neil, that's all you had to remember. I even made one of them a contraction for you, otherwise it would have been thirteen.
I told you to..." [
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favorited 23 times, recently by jobby, Ritchie, cillit bang, halogen, meech, stenseng, bettafish, campheatwole, bumpkin, Atom Eyes, zylocomotion, Foci for Analysis, mothershock, Perplexity, uaudio, The Great Big Mulp, regicide is good for you, shmegegge, rusty, imperium, Anderson_Localized, Molesome, Edgewise
3 ¼ hours ago
Ask comment:
"Although it doesn't get to the level of individual picks, you might want to read this analysis of various stock market gurus." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by poq, reenum
4 days ago
MeFi comment:
"Can I stop raping myself and others with my abusive thoughts and actions?
Nice. I think all person problems are best thought of in terms of inappropriate and offensive metaphors.
"Can I stop my Nazi gambling problem from perpetrating a..." [
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favorited 13 times, recently by EatTheWeak, Sys Rq, Caduceus, greenie2600, quonsar, drjimmy11, Mayor West, Durn Bronzefist, Drastic, ifthe21stcentury, Senor Cardgage, TheOnlyCoolTim, Your Time Machine Sucks
6 days ago
MeTa comment:
"This thread sheds some light on the subject." [
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favorited 16 times, recently by triv, snofoam, Deathalicious, roofus, crossoverman, msconduct, brundlefly, turgid dahlia, Megafly, lord_wolf, Faint of Butt, Who_Am_I, ztdavis, Artw, Nick Verstayne, Horace Rumpole
7 days ago
Ask comment:
"This is a tough one, because as far as I know the kind of emotional support you're talking about doesn't really show up in too many films. There are probably a lot more examples of films that show the kind of situation you're in (lack of emotional..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by chicainthecity
8 days ago
MeTa comment:
"I'm starting to think that my dream of having a mod named Cooter will never become a reality." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by cashman
9 days ago
MeFi comment:
"he's criticizing Obama for taking money from Seth MacFarlane even though Family Guy Contains rape jokes
And for donating a grand total of $1000 to his campaign, too.
For a lot of people, rape is one of those topics that is never funny, which is..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by the other side, rigby51
9 days ago
MeFi comment:
"What are you seeing as the difference between 'intuitive' and 'usable'? I don't claim that they're the same, but the difference looks subtle to me.
For intuitive I mean "Oh, I know how to use this." For usable I mean "Wow, this is..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by tomboko
9 days ago
MeFi comment:
"let's stop discriminating against the poor and/or ugly while we're at it
The nice thing about being ugly is that nobody blames ugly people for being ugly. People do sometimes blame poor people for being poor though, it usually goes something like..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by garlic, rivenwanderer
10 days ago
MeFi comment:
"I've never understood what evidence, rationale, supporting argument, etc. the fat acceptance movement has used to counter the position that to be obese and overweight is to be unhealthy
From a medical perspective the most common argument I've seen..." [
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favorited 3 times, recently by Snyder, Hat Maui, HighTechUnderpants
10 days ago
MeFi comment:
"If you're an IndyMac customer, I really hope you've got less than 100k in there
Yeah, this is why FDIC insurance is super-awesome and everyone should make sure that all of their funds are protected. I tell people this in AskMe all the time and I..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by smackfu, Korou
13 days ago
MeFi comment:
"A anti-gay group files for a petition. Assume that the political climate is such that a successful demonstration by this group will dissuade lawmakers from passing some gay rights bill. Do you do your "fucking job" at that point?
Yes...." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by anansi
2 weeks ago
MeFi comment:
"Isn't that what we're really talking about when we speak about "white yuppies" and gentrification -- racism and classism from both sides?
The problem with the reverse racism argument is that more is going on here than just prejudice...." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by sondrialiac, rockhopper
2 weeks ago
MeFi comment:
"No one told me there would be unremitting noise every Saturday for the rest of my life
If this is really true I think the people selling the properties might have technically committed fraud. I'm not a lawyer but as far as I know if something..." [
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favorited 3 times, recently by vsync, JHarris, konolia
2 weeks ago
MeFi comment:
"So is it that Mao has realized how tasteless and lame it is that he puts his face on all the money?
He gets flack for this kind of stuff all the time, but he's actually a pretty cool guy. I knew him through a friend in college, and he was kind of..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by ornate insect
2 weeks ago
MeTa comment:
"Look, MetaFilter, I like you. Like! I like you! There's a lotta things about me you don't know anything about, MetaFilter. Things you wouldn't understand. Things you couldn't understand. Things you shouldn't understand. You don't wanna get mixed up..." [
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favorited 4 times, recently by Dormant Gorilla, Popular Ethics, bonobo, Slarty Bartfast
2 weeks ago
Ask comment:
"First of all, show up to class. That will reduce the amount of studying you need to do, and there will be things that you'll miss forever because they are not mentioned anywhere other than the lectures.
As far as studying, the first step is to do..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by murtagh
3 weeks ago
Ask comment:
"Somebody might say "Hey how ya doing?" and I'll reply, mumbled "good morning"-- and its 3pm. Or I'll say something unintelligible to myself.
For common phrases like this, pick a few standard responses that work in any situation..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by carbide
4 weeks ago
MeFi comment:
"Water vaporware" [
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favorited 13 times, recently by tehloki, nicepersonality, Westringia F., MythMaker, bergeycm, Dillonlikescookies, DU, phrontist, M.C. Lo-Carb!, Reverend John, twine42, octothorpe, Blazecock Pileon
4 weeks ago
MeFi comment:
"The true pleasure of reading is in the content, not the delivery device
I think the delivery device is important though.
A magazine is light, it doesn't get hot, it doesn't have a docking station, I can use it wherever I want (such as the beach)..." [
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favorited 7 times, recently by yoHighness, miss tea, Kato, gruchall, brundlefly, Miko, ShawnStruck
Last month
MeTa comment:
"if you want to know what God thinks of favorites, just look at the people he gives them to
As we all know, God left the site back around Christmas of '05. In a blasphemous show of hubris, mathowie declared God to be little more than a "war3z..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by msconduct, kittens for breakfast
Last month
MeFi comment:
"I didn't realize how ignorant everyone here is. Listen up people: 99% of all medical conditions are psychosomatic. Nobody is born with things like diabetes, they just get it into their heads that they don't have enough insulin, which causes all of..." [
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favorited 3 times, recently by tehloki, JHarris, Pope Guilty
Last month
MeTa comment:
"the thing to do would be to make the calls, and then write an update on the wall under the original note
Yes, this kind of thing happens very often. For example, someone might decide to write "Kevin Rules" on a bathroom wall. Someone..." [
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favorited 10 times, recently by JaredSeth, flatluigi, srrh, Solon and Thanks, juv3nal, lysistrata, Metroid Baby, Blazecock Pileon, shmegegge, lukemeister
Last month
MeTa comment:
"I'm still convinced that DTMF really stands for "Dial Tone, Motherfucker!". Dual-tone multi-frequency sounds made-up." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by quin, danb
Last month
MeFi comment:
"Huey Lewis is earth-shattering
You like Huey Lewis and the News?
I think their undisputed masterpiece is "Hip to be Square", a song so catchy, most people probably don't listen to the lyrics. But they should, because it's not just..." [
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favorited 12 times, recently by tehloki, sascha, numinous, Who_Am_I, mai, gorgor_balabala, chugg, Baby_Balrog, crickets, FelliniBlank, Kimothy, adamdschneider
Last month
Ask comment:
"I actually wrote a little Windows app that does this for my own personal use. The app just has one window with a textbox, and when you enter in some text and click submit, it adds it as a new line in a file with this format:
Thu Feb 21 2008 07:32..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by amtho
Last month
MeFi comment:
"Four linguists were sharing a compartment on a train on their way to an international conference on sound symbolism. One was English, one Spanish, one French and the fourth German. They got into a discussion on whose language was the most eloquent..." [
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favorited 20 times, recently by sparkletone
Last month
MeTa comment:
"There are plenty of others who are either too lazy or too afraid to try it themselves.
It's mostly fear in my case. True story:
When I wrote my one and only FPP, it was a dark and stormy night (not unlike tonight). Every so often I would hear..." [
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favorited 5 times, recently by mynameisluka, h00py, Nattie, ShawnStruck, lukemeister
Last month
Ask comment:
"Well, there are some unofficial "replacements" for Oink. Waffles.fm and What.cd both seem to have comic sections, but I'm not sure if either of them have anything rivaling what Oink had...." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by phearlez
Last month
MeTa comment:
"I guess like a matrix where one axis is thread length (number of total responses) and the other is number of OP responses (or alternately, word count instead of responses), and the "winner" being the one that's furthest out on both axes...." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by agropyron
Last month
MeFi comment:
"I sincerely hope that this does not become the new standard in computing. Currently, when people say "So you're a Computer Programmer, what's that like?", I used to give them a long boring explanation and they would say "Oh,..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by nasreddin
Last month
Ask comment:
"I don't want to tackle a learning curve on an obselete or soon-to-be-obsolete language. There's Delphi...
Some people might disagree with me but I think Delphi's time has passed. It was always kind of a niche language to begin with, and from what..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by bertrandom
Last month
Projects comment:
"Works for everyone as long as you're not running Windows
So everybody except that pesky 90%? It would be trivially easy to write something like your client in .NET, and I could probably hack something together if you want to let Windows people join the party." [
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favorited 3 times, recently by desjardins, 31d1, fixedgear
Last month
MeTa comment:
"The problem, as I saw it, was his answer came with a reprimand for another user who answered differently. One's answer should stand alone. Let the OP decide and mark best answers.
I don't agree with this at all. I'm not advocating starting flame..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by nthdegx
Last month
MeTa comment:
"So given that that advice wasn't solicited, and given the paternalistic tone of the response, how am I supposed to react?
Just ignore them. Replying back to answer that you don't like with an insult never helps anything. If you think the answer..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by dabitch, utsutsu
Last month
MeFi comment:
"the distinction between Ad Hominem and Name-Calling is what, exactly, besides those asshat color choices?
I think in his definition, Ad Hominem has to explicitly state a characteristic of the person and suggest that the characteristic makes them..." [
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favorited 2 times
2 months ago
MeFi comment:
"Why is everyone better than me at every single game on the Internet?
I could handle it when everyone beat my average typing speed in the typing race game, or when everyone killed more zombies than me, or when everyone was able to get to level 27..." [
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favorited 3 times
2 months ago
MeFi comment:
"And here I thought that the earthquake was caused by shifting tectonic plates, the train crash was due to shoddy safety standards, the Tibet riots were the result of years of oppression, and the torch protests were fueled by the growing anti-China..." [
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favorited 6 times
2 months ago
