Is there a Sarah Palin VP Debate Drinking Game (tm) yet?

Yes, it's called "the rampant alcoholism in Alaska."
posted to MetaFilter by Sticherbeast at 4:28 PM on October 1, 2008

That Supreme Court video... she's a child who finds herself up in front of the class giving a book report on a book she has never cracked open.
posted to MetaFilter by Flunkie at 5:08 PM on October 1, 2008

What else was collected with such frenzy and bottomed out so suddenly?

Those of us with the courage to take the long view will be sitting pretty when the POG revival rolls around.
posted to Ask Metafilter by contraption at 9:28 AM on October 1, 2008

$700B government bailout because of Wall Street greed. Wars in multiple countries because of religious / political differences. America torn into red versus blue with nothing but hatred and disdain for each other.

Sometimes it's hard to remember that there are still nice things and good people in the world too... Thanks, Brandon (even if it is fake, it was what I needed tonight).
posted to MetaFilter by educatedslacker at 4:50 PM on September 28, 2008

Ah, and I thought I was the only one who came up with something to do besides seethe at the TV. Here are my rules:

Words or terms - Sips

- Debate Rhetoric-
Change - 1
War - 1
100 year war - 2
War: what is it good for? - 3
Economic meltdown - 2
Fundamentals are strong - 3
Whiners - CHUG
Terrorism - 1
Bin Laden -... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by seldom seen cid at 1:21 PM on September 26, 2008

It isn't fan fiction if you wrote the original.
posted to MetaFilter by Ironmouth at 7:10 AM on September 21, 2008

By law, the president can't fire Chris Cox, the SEC chief.

That's old thinking. That's why we need change. Mavericky change.
posted to MetaFilter by mazola at 1:16 PM on September 18, 2008

Skeleton watch.

No man alive can resist their siren call.
posted to Ask Metafilter by aramaic at 12:19 AM on September 20, 2008

I don't know if GS has the same solvency problems that Bear Stearns, Lehman Bros, Merrill Lynch, and holy fuck am I really typing this list?

GS has termed out most of its debt, so it's a bit of a different scenario than Lehman and even MS. I am not your portfolio manager. I am not long GS.

In its best years it was able to earn $15B+, but earning $15B on over one trillion of liabilities isn't much to write home about,... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by mullacc at 9:30 PM on September 18, 2008

I saw an adult movie once called Call Me When They Release the Dump.

Can't recommend it.
posted to MetaFilter by Astro Zombie at 11:27 AM on September 17, 2008

There actually have been a couple times I wanted to shout What the FUCK has anything got to do with Vietnam?
posted to MetaFilter by JaredSeth at 2:36 PM on September 14, 2008

What do Winnie the Pooh and Rupert the Bear have in common?

Their middle names.
posted to MetaFilter by netbros at 1:40 AM on September 13, 2008

Please, bitch, feel free to not bring it.

I'm staying at home as well. My wife's entire family has evacuated here, so there's no way we can leave town.

For what it's worth, where I'm at is unlikely to flood, though we will have terrible wind, rain and tornadoes. We're busy stockpiling supplies and making sure elderly relatives are taken care of. Tonight, just like during Katrina, I'll be at a local nursing home, moving... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by ColdChef at 3:09 PM on August 30, 2008

Five days away from the ones you love is far too long. Hello, everyone from the wasteland that was, until recently, my beautiful home. Despite what you’re NOT reading in the news, Louisiana is far from “okay.” Yes, New Orleans dodged another cannonball, but tonight, over one million Louisiana residents are sleeping for a fifth night with no electricity.

Today, the smart ones cleaned out their fridge and threw away hundreds of dollars of unfrozen and room temperature... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by ColdChef at 8:30 PM on September 4, 2008

I think of the stock market as a massive, expensive mosh pit.
posted to MetaFilter by RobotVoodooPower at 5:31 PM on September 10, 2008

Mayor Curley, I see where you are going with this...

911: "Is the baby breathing?"

Man: "No."

911: "I am sorry to hear that."

Man: "Yea, I was kind of depressed too, until I dressed him in a clown suit."

911: "Oh, that's a good one. Want to know how to keep the baby from falling down a manhole?... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by clearly at 11:27 AM on September 11, 2008

Needs a penis slide.
posted to MetaFilter by weapons-grade pandemonium at 11:45 AM on September 11, 2008

WHO ARE THE AD WIZARDS
posted to MetaFilter by DU at 5:31 PM on September 6, 2008

OPEN ON a deserted New Orleans street. On the side of the road sets a limousine with the hood open, steam pouring out. Bill Gates and a limo driver stand beside the car. Gates checks his watch and shakes his head.

Ian A.T.'s taxi turns the corner, and Gates frantically flags it down.

CUT TO interior of Ian A.T.'s taxi.

GATES: The Ritz-Carlton, please.... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by Ian A.T. at 7:56 PM on September 6, 2008

If you're attacked by two clowns, go for the juggler.
posted to MetaFilter by netbros at 8:06 PM on September 6, 2008

So, yeah, good luck with that...

Easy. First AME Church. The First American Metafilter Empiricist Church. You could start a sub-denomination First AAE Church (AskMe).

Distinct legal existence - I'm sure Matt has that covered in some way.
Recognized creed and form of worship The creed: "Help me, oh hive mind". Form of worship - selecting of best answers, thanking the responders, expressing joy, delight and wonder at the... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by cashman at 8:40 AM on September 3, 2008

Oh my god, really?

Really?

Look, to be fair, I was halfway through a post last night on my own site about how ridiculous I though all the hard-right Freepers/Cornerites/etc. were harping about Palin. She was basically their new Fred Thompson. But I am seriously dumbfounded that they would have been this stupid.

Don’t get me wrong, on a PR level this is masterful for McCain. He’s killed all the... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by XQUZYPHYR at 8:10 AM on August 29, 2008

To really appreciate how the pill works, you have to know a little bit about hormones and feedback regulation.

In a normal menstrual cycle, without BCP, the first two weeks are characterized by a slow increase in the levels of Follicle Stimulating Hormone (FSH), which signals several eggs to start preparing for ovulation -- you actually burn through several hundred eggs each month, your body just picks one lucky winner to actually ovulate, the rest die.... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by i less than three nsima at 6:30 AM on August 22, 2008

It was an amazing thing..

I am at work, going about my normal business. A very busy sports night at a bar that puts the Huey Lewis into Sports, with games on nearly every television.. Only one television, stuck in a corner with no volume, was the Democratic National Convention airing, unfiltered footage from C-SPAN. There was a couple people looking at it, no one really paying much attention.. But when Obama came to the stage, a few people started reading the Closed... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by mediocre at 10:40 PM on August 28, 2008

>> If I don't want to target the blind market and I don't care that the blind can't do business with me, who are you to force me to do business with anyone? Especially, and most importantly, when doing so COSTS me more money.

> Sub in "Hispanic" for "blind" there and try that again.

The reason those scenarios are different is due to the costs associated with both. If I choose to bar Hispanics from my business I'm... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by christonabike at 9:52 PM on August 27, 2008

I believe asking them if they want to watch a movie in your room is traditional. Everybody knows that "watching a movie" alone in a dude's room is a dog whistle for casual sex.
posted to Ask Metafilter by Justinian at 3:11 PM on August 25, 2008

"Would you like to come back to the Casual Sex Cave? It's like the Batcave, only, well, you know."

At parties, I had decent luck with "Wanna make out?" and "Wanna touch my beard?" but the latter only works if you have a beard, I think.

I'll also give the caveat that I never managed to hook up with a girl without it turning into a relationship (which, y'know, I was cool with, but it doesn't sound like that's what you... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by klangklangston at 5:23 PM on August 25, 2008

I ran it through Google Translate and came up with this, "Hey notice how given the choice between dating and friendship I specifically excluded dating? And notice how in the e-mail that I specifically said that I only want to be friends with you? Yeah I know you noticed because you're a girl and you're not like guys where we kind of assume that anything but a rape whistle means no. But seriously, I might want to date you and I might want to have sex with you. Who knows, but right now I... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by geoff. at 12:32 PM on August 22, 2008

For guys, friendship only means no relationship, but it does not necessarily mean no sex.
posted to Ask Metafilter by randomstriker at 12:23 PM on August 22, 2008

Christfuckingly stupid, this.

Christfuckingstupid needs to be a word.
posted to MetaFilter by sourwookie at 2:16 AM on August 24, 2008

booticon, it actually activates the goggles.
posted to MetaTalk by cortex at 11:21 AM on August 22, 2008

This is a very difficult problem to explain to somebody with little programming experience. I'll try, but keep in mind that this is a bit of a simplification.

The issue at hand is not whether or not you can run 64-bit code. It's that the operating system needs to link the driver into the kernel. This means, that after linking the two objects, the computer sees the whole thing as essentially a single program. So, in a homogeneous world, you have a 32-bit kernel and... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by Netzapper at 4:24 PM on August 23, 2008

Proof positive that God hates a split infinitive.
posted to MetaFilter by felix betachat at 1:31 PM on August 3, 2008

Here's what I was going to write
You people are insane.
Not all of you, I guess, but some of you.
You know who you are.
You won't be happy until every Democrat running for office is completely unelectable, will you?

Here's what Sean can't say, but I can.
"I haven't got anything against illegal immigrants, and would like to make things better for them.
I even support those liberal... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by Richard Daly at 7:39 PM on July 16, 2008

Call me when someone does this with O Brother Where Art Thou quotes.
posted to MetaFilter by konolia at 12:38 PM on July 23, 2008

Here's a true story about how awesome Pixar is.

As some of you know, when the trailer first came out, my girlfriend, Courtney, burst into tears at the trailer. She was emabrrassed but somewhat amused by this, as so she made a video of herself watching the trailer on her computer, knowing she would start crying every time that little robot said his own name.

After a few months, she started to get trickles of emails from people at Pixar who said... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by Astro Zombie at 12:18 PM on July 1, 2008

While this is a strong password, it's hardly memorable.

Best advice I have received is to use a pneumonic expression: "I have 7 sisters and 0 brothers," yields Ih7sa0b, which is also a strong password!

It's just easier to remember an expression rather than a string/sequence of symbols. If you can use special characters, you can create some really fun expressions: "I can eat greater than 1 slice of pizza!" yields Ice>1sop!,... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by quanta and qualia at 5:58 PM on July 20, 2008

Holy christ, people, where is the outrage?!?

I mean, Infocom basically tells their core group of fans to fuck right off with the announcement of Zork II -- I mean, a fucking wizard, what is that shit, talk about playbalance issues -- and the grue AI totally blows compared to the original. And what, a 30-hour playtime? Come on, Infocom, you can do so much better!

And did you check out the booth for... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by mark242 at 9:31 PM on July 16, 2008

I admire this woman's strength and her writing ability. But even though I'm a large man, I usually find myself without words when looking at the viewpoint of "fat acceptance," which this woman espouses and believes; it never made much sense to me. Making fun of overweight people is very societally acceptable and is very widespread in our popular culture, and it shouldn't be; were "fat acceptance" confined merely to a sort of "pride" movement to... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by WCityMike at 1:49 PM on July 14, 2008

I'd say you're both kind of retarded because YOU'RE ARGUING ABOUT A LEMONHEAD CAR.
posted to MetaTalk by dhammond at 7:06 PM on July 11, 2008

*tosses period in air with knife, spins around and catches it in toque blanche*
posted to MetaFilter by TedW at 5:14 AM on July 13, 2008

It would help to know: do you have blue fur?
posted to Ask Metafilter by prefpara at 11:45 AM on June 10, 2008 marked best answer

Buncha cowardly dudes in that office, there.

Because the smart thing to do would have been to risk being beat over the head with a fucking CRT screen to save some fucking TPS reports.
posted to MetaFilter by eyeballkid at 5:38 PM on June 3, 2008

It's the past tense. Read lirke the color.

This is wrong, and you should try not to state your personal usage as a Fact About the World. It's an imperative, pronounced /rid/; you can clearly see the development of usage from this OED entry:

9. a. To adopt, give, or exhibit as a reading in a particular passage. Hence, to substitute or understand for (what is said or written).
1659 HAMMOND... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by languagehat at 5:57 PM on May 29, 2008

I would never have seen it if I didn't make a point of occasionally seeing what bullshit they're shoveling to the masses.

How unpleasant. Couldn't you employ a lower class person to do that for you and report back?
posted to MetaFilter by Armitage Shanks at 2:00 PM on May 28, 2008

Sit down with him privately, hold his hand, and with a very serious demeanor say, "Our relationship has progressed to the point where we need to take the next big step."
posted to Ask Metafilter by weapons-grade pandemonium at 12:18 PM on May 5, 2008 marked best answer

I actually wondered if perhaps my neighbors next door were having freakishly athletic, yet totally silent, sex.
posted to MetaTalk by aramaic at 5:36 AM on April 18, 2008

Huh. I'm a graduate student working on this project. In fact, I spent most of January and half of February at the South Pole working on the SPT camera.

First things first: why the South Pole? It turns out that its elevation, temperature, and atmospheric stability conspire to make it an ideal place to do millimeter-wavelength astronomy. But it's obviously not the most accessible place in the world: South Pole Station's ice runway is only open for business from about... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by hal incandenza at 1:58 AM on March 31, 2008

I thought MTV had banned all videos years ago.
posted to MetaFilter by null terminated at 11:38 PM on March 8, 2008

mathowie: You enter a large, blue room. There is a door to the left leading to a green room and a door to the right leading to a gray room. The room is full of trolls.

jessmyn: Again with the fucking trolls! I whip out my +1 Banhammer.

cortex: Good thinking. Trolls take double damage from banhammers.

mathowie: The trolls flee into the gray room, as is their trollish custom.

cortex: I search for... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by Parasite Unseen at 1:43 PM on March 4, 2008