Lime wedges are made to be squeezed with the fingers, with the other hand covering up...

That gets my vote, it's what I do.
posted to Ask Metafilter by gummi at 4:57 PM on October 10, 2007

... chain-munching Otter Pops and Net-surfing, for more than four uninterrupted hours ...

Who needs drugs for that? It's called "working from home".
posted to MetaFilter by Dillenger69 at 4:48 PM on April 9, 2007

At a family dinner the other day I found myself sitting next to my 8 month old nephew, and he swiped my corn on the cob - took it right off my plate. So yes, babies can rip off an ear. I wouldn't have believed it had I not seen it with my own eyes.
posted to Ask Metafilter by iconomy at 6:14 AM on February 21, 2007

It is not "ungrammatical," it is a form of the word anyway currently regarded (for the usual obscure set of reasons) as not standard. It is in the dictionary. And, as always when people are looking down on other people for their usage, I urge them to cure themselves of the habit, not only because it is bad for their psyche but because I double-damn guarantee you that if they give me access to a sufficiently large corpus of their speech and writing I will find... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by languagehat at 8:50 AM on February 9, 2007

Try here.
posted to Ask Metafilter by MadamM at 12:59 AM on January 30, 2007 marked best answer

Found this: NASDAQ froze for about 2.5 hours on 2000 February 18: Major Disruption at Nasdaq.
The widely watched Nasdaq composite index froze for roughly half an hour Friday morning, which Wall Street brokerage firms said significantly disrupted trading.

The snafu came less than 24 hours after the red-hot technology-heavy index grabbed worldwide headlines by surpassing the psychologically important 5,000 milestone at its close Thursday.... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by yz at 1:37 PM on January 26, 2007 marked best answer

I flew over 150k miles in 2006, with 50k or so of those and 30+ segments after the new restrictions were put into place. The enforcement varies from airport to airport - at La Guardia I've been asked to show my baggie of dangerous liquids (omg mascara!) to someone at a table prior to even entering the checkpoint area, but in Nashville I wasn't even asked to take the baggie out of my luggage. At O'Hare, LAX, and JFK it seems to vary from flight to flight.

The only... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by bedhead at 4:45 PM on January 14, 2007

They upset you all the time, and you choose not to react in order to protect their feelings. That is the sign of a sane, compassionate adult. But really there is nothing so bad about letting them be upset for a while. Safeguard your feelings (in an assertive, rational way) and let them figure it out. It's the only way some people can learn.

Don't think of it in big dramatic and final terms like cutting someone out of your life, or being cut out of theirs. Sometimes... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by hermitosis at 11:39 AM on January 10, 2007