MeTa post: Your Favorite Attitude Toward Sentimental Stories Sucks

I want to call out this comment for awesome work. My mum taught me to give credit where it's due.
Bitches.
posted to MetaTalk by Fiasco da Gama at 4:24 PM on September 29, 2008

My comment was one of the first of the haters' pile-on. I suppose I should explain myself.
That particular unique snowflake was bad. Jesus-beach-footsteps are fine, if treacly, so is Beaches and Jonathan Livingstone Seagull, I suppose, if that particular kind of thing floats your boat. I've got nothing against those unique snowflakes. The cab ride story was different. Not as a matter of taste, it was bad in a toxic, virulent... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by Fiasco da Gama at 5:43 PM on September 30, 2008

MeTa post: What's in a name?

So there I was, rounding the Cape in sight of the African coast, the wind port astern, blowing a nasty seven knots onto the rocky shore. My crew, the mutinous dogs, had me locked in the great cabin, the light wood splintering under the force of cutlass strokes.
I remembered then the brace of charged pistols I kept dry in a tarpaulin sack under the chart box. Capricious fate! I might not live to see the Azores, but surely I'd face my death a commander, even if a gloriously failed one.... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by Fiasco da Gama at 9:49 PM on August 26, 2008

MeTa post: left angle-bracket i right angle-bracket Popular Favorites left angle-bracket forward slash i right angle-bracket

Double or single quotation marks are a common solution to this problem.
Alternatively, blockquotes.
posted to MetaTalk by Fiasco da Gama at 10:29 PM on August 25, 2008

Yes, I know, should have been clearer, and support this pony.
posted to MetaTalk by Fiasco da Gama at 11:54 PM on August 25, 2008

MeTa post: Amazed at no FPP on McCain's epic gaff

You don't drink XXXX out of desperation, uburoivas. You drink it out of a cut-off plastic 2L milk bottle, held around your neck by string.
posted to MetaTalk by Fiasco da Gama at 11:53 PM on August 21, 2008

MeTa post: Metafavouriteness?

Thanks all.
I had read the FAQ explanation and was curious about the semantic reasons for favouriting---not just what and how, but why. As it happens I do enjoy a bit of snark, for some perverse reason the more so when I'm the target. I can see I've found the site for me.
...
And isn't the international symbol for anus (*)?
posted to MetaTalk by Fiasco da Gama at 2:58 PM on March 24, 2008