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How can I learn to speak with a Transatlantic accent?
posted to Ask Metafilter by invitapriore
at 8:28 PM on June 15, 2008
(20 comments)
NURSE CHILD WANTED, OR TO ADOPT -- The Advertiser, a Widow with a little family of her own, and moderate allowance from her late husband's friends, would be glad to accept the charge of a young child. Age no object. If sickly would receive a parent's care. Terms, Fifteen Shillings a month; or would adopt entirely if under two months for the small sum of Twelve pounds. This kindly nineteenth-century advertisement had a hidden meaning. If a woman paid her adoption fee to a
baby farmer and handed over her infant, no one ever had to worry about that baby, ever again.
posted to MetaFilter by Countess Elena
at 4:23 PM on June 7, 2008
(38 comments)
Please Vote for Me (official site) is a documentary about Chinese third-graders electing a class monitor.
posted to MetaFilter by generalist
at 9:57 AM on June 1, 2008
(35 comments)
Help me find some good blogs about Toronto.
posted to Ask Metafilter by radiocontrolled
at 3:06 PM on May 19, 2008
(12 comments)
I am outside the US but would like to watch some online TV episodes from US networks websites. I have found many lists of US-based proxy servers online that I could try, but I am concerned about security -- would using such a proxy server make me more vulnerable to viruses, worms, spam, and/or other such things?
Many thanks.
posted to Ask Metafilter by leticia
at 9:59 AM on May 19, 2008
(7 comments)
Help me identify this pill.
posted to Ask Metafilter by Simon!
at 5:34 PM on May 13, 2008
(29 comments)
I'm terrible at having a job, and it's making my life unlivable. Help.
posted to Ask Metafilter by Anonymous
at 2:15 PM on April 30, 2008
(27 comments)
The Bicycle Tutor
For the past few months I've been producing weekly video tutorials that help people fix their own bikes. There are still hundreds of topics to cover. To make it easy for visitors to track new tutorials, I've included the option to
subscribe by email or
RSS.
I'm open to suggestions, and I'd be really happy to hear any feedback. Thank you!
posted to Projects by alxram
at 4:18 PM on April 4, 2008
How do you fake American?
posted to Ask Metafilter by lpsguy
at 6:43 AM on April 10, 2008
(67 comments)
An acquaintance who's a university professor on the hiring committee for his department cried 'sexism!' when 50% of the candidates who were asked back for interviews were women, when only 18% of the initial applicants for the position were women. I rebutted. Who's right?
posted to Ask Metafilter by cocoagirl
at 1:25 PM on March 24, 2008
(38 comments)
Old Movie Filter: This is the question I joined MeFi to ask. I remember seeing a movie, on actual reels, when I was about seven at school. It has haunted me for the last twenty-two years.
posted to Ask Metafilter by littlerobothead
at 1:27 PM on March 18, 2008
(18 comments)
I am bad with money. Help me get better.
posted to Ask Metafilter by tylermoody
at 9:06 PM on February 28, 2008
(19 comments)
Help me find some kid-friendly female-vocals rock music for my aspiring riot grrl.
posted to Ask Metafilter by DWRoelands
at 6:39 AM on February 26, 2008
(69 comments)
Swimmers: Can I expect to reap many benefits from swimming laps just once a week?
posted to Ask Metafilter by regicide is good for you
at 7:56 PM on February 24, 2008
(5 comments)
Just bought a new slow cooker. What are your favorite recipes?
posted to Ask Metafilter by MsMolly
at 8:12 AM on February 25, 2006
(22 comments)
My employee may or may not have a genuine psychological problem. How should I address this?
posted to Ask Metafilter by Joey Michaels
at 4:01 PM on February 8, 2008
(30 comments)
A short song in French complete with banjo and an electric chord organ, which thankfully only has a few keys so can be played by a chump like me.
posted to MeFi Music by ORthey
at 8:59 PM on February 23, 2007
(9 comments)
I recently dislocated my shoulder, and assumed music was out of the picture for a month or two. But I was getting pissed off at not playing, and discovered if I capoed everything up really high and didn't play anything too fancy, my arm could handle short bursts of pickin'. So I made a simple song, part French and part English.
posted to MeFi Music by ORthey
at 2:52 PM on May 6, 2007
(15 comments)
Tuned the guitar way down and added some banjo. This song does this thing where it equates "snake" with "girl." Like a metaphor, see. Also: it seems to play better through headphones (possibly because of the use of stereo). But maybe I just have bad speakers.
posted to MeFi Music by ORthey
at 6:52 PM on July 10, 2007
(6 comments)
Basically a song about a failed friendship, which as we all know is best done with several banjo tracks!
posted to MeFi Music by ORthey
at 7:35 PM on November 2, 2007
(10 comments)
A rough mix of a few languages and my dad's guitarone.
posted to MeFi Music by ORthey
at 6:38 PM on July 13, 2006
(11 comments)
Cowgirl campfire song, lead-in to a solo CD I did in February. Thanks to Eideteker for the file conversion.
posted to MeFi Music by Miko
at 7:23 PM on July 6, 2006
(15 comments)
A cover of ABBA's S.O.S by me (Brad Sucks) and my pal TheHipCola for an ABBA Fight we were involved in.
posted to MeFi Music by frenetic
at 11:18 AM on June 30, 2006
(11 comments)
A second pretty much complete song for the RPM Challenge.
Fancy ears will be able to pick out my attempt at learning to play the Cuatro that was hand-delivered to my front door from the awesome and amazing
Micayetoca in Venezuela.
posted to MeFi Music by chococat
at 2:28 PM on February 23, 2007
(40 comments)
Written last year for the sole purpose of having an easy, super-poppy song to learn to play the crappy used drum kit I had just bought in Kensington Market.
This song wanted to go in a Beatle-y direction, but sadly I think it came out sounding more like The Oneders.
It is what it is.
posted to MeFi Music by chococat
at 2:16 PM on July 7, 2006
(22 comments)
Acoustic version of a previous entry.
posted to MeFi Music by robotot
at 1:33 AM on January 31, 2008
(9 comments)
How can I encourage my talkative boss to stick to a meeting agenda?
posted to Ask Metafilter by katala
at 3:24 AM on January 16, 2008
(17 comments)
Since I seem to be hurtling towards old maidhood, I’d like enjoy the ride as much as possible. It irritates me that single women are so often portrayed as sadsacks just marking time until they can get married, or as being eaten up with bitterness and neuroses because they never found a man. So, I’m looking for positive role models and inspiration. What examples of fabulous freewheeling women can you think of in fiction, movies and real life?
posted to Ask Metafilter by orange swan
at 9:36 AM on January 9, 2008
(55 comments)
How do you avoid chef's stomach?
posted to Ask Metafilter by oflinkey
at 11:01 AM on January 4, 2008
(31 comments)
What's your favorite music to exercise to?
posted to Ask Metafilter by barjo
at 7:37 AM on March 18, 2005
(36 comments)
I don't seem to get very excited or enthusiatic or joyful or amazed about anything any more. How do I get that "exuberant enjoyment of life" feeling, or does it just wear off as you get older?
posted to Ask Metafilter by janecr
at 7:54 AM on June 3, 2006
(26 comments)
Please to recommend novels that could function as survival manuals.
posted to Ask Metafilter by thehmsbeagle
at 5:11 PM on December 13, 2007
(62 comments)
Help me find a specific type of time travel novel.
posted to Ask Metafilter by OpinioNate
at 5:02 PM on December 10, 2007
(20 comments)
Looking for female hiphop and rap artists to listen to.
posted to Ask Metafilter by es_de_bah
at 8:40 PM on December 10, 2007
(37 comments)
After months of research, we've finally discovered
the film that was shown the night my theatre opened in 1919. The question is, how would I go about finding out if there are existing prints of this movie available?
posted to Ask Metafilter by Newbornstranger
at 11:26 AM on December 9, 2007
(11 comments)
What on earth is going on in children's heads?
I have no memory of being a child, and certainly none of what sort of things I thought about when I was a kid. As an adult, I see kids do inexplicable things and wonder just how the heck they thought to say/do such strange things; and I see kids witness/experience things that they have no framework whatsoever for understanding.
What goes on in a kid's brain? Is it noise, is it long ponderings, is it blank, is it confused, etc. Any idea what "it sounds like" inside there?
posted to Ask Metafilter by five fresh fish
at 1:39 PM on December 1, 2004
(62 comments)
I recently had a major epiphany. The kind that has resulted in a rather radical shift in how I live and the choices I make each day: "You don't own the stuff-- the stuff owns you." Sure, you might think it facile or cliche, but since this new framework suddenly, deeply and firmly established itself in my noggin, I have stopped buying stuff all the time (like I used to) and I have been relentlessly getting rid of all the crap I had accumulated over 15 years. My question is what major epiphany have you had most recently and how has it changed your life?
posted to Ask Metafilter by wtfwjd?
at 6:25 PM on January 14, 2005
(57 comments)
Besides the standard answers (births, graduations, weddings, etc.), can you pinpoint a happiest single moment of your life? What was it?
posted to Ask Metafilter by Jaybo
at 9:35 AM on December 21, 2004
(52 comments)
Life-altering experiences. Can you point to a single experience in your life, as a child, which you can define as having contributed to the person you are today? (+)
posted to Ask Metafilter by jeremias
at 4:41 AM on February 2, 2005
(216 comments)
Science fiction rap, Mefi references
posted to MeFi Music by Rock The Word
at 7:56 PM on November 29, 2007
(3 comments)
