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Anger can make a man verbose
Dear Giles:
Thank you for your letter. I have to confess at the outset that my removal of the indefinite article 'a' before the word 'nosh' was entirely accidental. I certainly didn't mean to cause any offense, as I do honestly respect your writing and look forward to editing your weekly column.
Of course that's a joke. I have absolutely no respect for you. Not a drop. The truth, and this is an unassailable Platonic truth, the... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by Pastabagel
at 8:07 AM on July 24, 2008
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Whackity schmackity doo, kids!
Class of 2008, I was born the son of industrialist Ambrose Osborn in Hartford, Connecticut. Although I was a brilliant student in the fields of science, my alcoholic father lost control of his company, and turned on his family. Traumatized, I killed the family dog, considering it another mouth to feed.
In college, I studied chemistry and electrical engineering, and met my sweetheart Emily, got married, and eventually had a son, Harry. I co-founded a major firm with Dr.... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by ND¢
at 10:53 AM on July 10, 2008
MeFi post:
Real men drive these
Antidepressants in my water supply and estrogenic compounds in my food is depriving me of the turbo-fueled Detroit iron that was my birthright!
posted to MetaFilter by ardgedee
at 6:23 AM on April 23, 2008
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And They Would've Gotten Away With It If Not For That Meddling German Kid
This smells fishy. From slashdot comments:
Let’s see. We begin with the original source of data, “telescopic observations.” Good, but perhaps a bit, shall we say, lacking in nine-digit precision. Then we add the element of a bright schoolboy (always a favorite in the papers) doing something big and being validated (instantly!) by “NASA” (not a person, but apparently the entire agency). Oh, and “NASA” told “ESA”, but we still don’t have the identity... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by splice
at 2:49 AM on April 16, 2008
I woke up that morning and wondered why we had decided to have kids.
We had known - everyone had known. We'd known since, arguably - sometime in the early aughts. It was then that the calculations had started - the first guesses about the probabilities that an asteroid asteroid of Apo's size might strike our planet. It would be the first time in the recorded history of human life that it would happen, so in some sense our rather primitive understanding of what was really... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by allkindsoftime
at 6:26 AM on April 16, 2008
MeFi post:
Worst Practices in Corporate Video
Thus did this tiny film company, scorned by their collossus, but left with his delicate linens did air them for all to see, and thus were they snapped up by the curious, the spiteful and the diligent alike.
And so we all shared a laugh.
On a distant rooftop, Bob Kolody and I sat in lawn chairs, and we watched as, in the tradition of this fine country that we know and love, in spite of laws, courts, truth and justice, the collossus squashed this... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by Uther Bentrazor
at 10:26 AM on April 9, 2008
MeFi post:
GODKILLER
The whiskey and shit-looking substance makes me think this might be an oblique GG Allin homage.
posted to MetaFilter by jammer
at 10:53 PM on April 2, 2008
MeFi post:
He turned ALL of his cheeks, repeatedly
“Hello, babies. Welcome to Earth. It’s hot in the summer and cold in the winter. It’s round and wet and crowded. At the outside, babies, you’ve got about a hundred years here. There’s only one rule that I know of, babies — ‘God damn it, you’ve got to be kind.’ ” —Kurt Vonnegut, God Bless You Mister Rosewater, or Pearls Before Swine
posted to MetaFilter by Toekneesan
at 10:45 AM on March 28, 2008
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enough to kill a small horse
The photo-mat guy wouldn't have looked twice at these because it is clearly not porn.
The really sad part is these people thought they were 'cool'. All they did was conform 90% to the norms of the times. Members only jacket? Check, Mini Mullet? Check. Duran Duran poster? Check. Coke? Check. Furniture? Furniture?
posted to MetaFilter by Gungho
at 6:12 AM on March 28, 2008
MeFi post:
Meta Meta Meta
The wife just caught me looking at the Michael Musto shoot, now she's got questions.
posted to MetaFilter by mattoxic
at 10:46 AM on March 5, 2008
MeFi post:
Minimalist Sky Diving
This would have been enhanced if one of his co-parachutists did the offer-handshake-thumb-nose joke before finally holding on.
posted to MetaFilter by Abiezer
at 5:37 PM on March 3, 2008
MeFi post:
RIP William F. Buckley, Jr.
Say what you will about the man, but he was opposed to the war in Iraq, he was critical of the current Bush administration, he favored the legalization of marijuana, and he had more brains in his little pinkie toe than almost all of you goons put together.
posted to MetaFilter by Dave Faris
at 10:56 AM on February 27, 2008
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The Tragedy of Britney Spears
To alter a well-worn proverb, "you can take the trash out of the trailer park, but you can't take the trailer park out of the trash". A subliterate nation thrills to exclusive pictures of a pill-popping gussied up Louisiana shitkicker exiting Rite-Aid, and Jesus weeps. Was there a parallel in the fall of Rome? Did the decadent, debased citizens of the crumbling Empire follow the every move of some opium-eating hick actress from the provinces as the Barbarians stormed the gates and... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by DecemberBoy
at 1:16 AM on February 26, 2008
I didn't do anything to her. Her fans didn't do anything to her. It was mostly her own doing. Whatever her hardships, they were surmountable with her money, (a kind of) talent and (to many if not all) good looks. She had a better chance than most ever get. There is no tragedy of Britney Spears.
"Tragedy" originally referred to story about a noble person undone by a character defect or outside forces that could not be overcome. While I have... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by spaltavian
at 1:41 AM on February 26, 2008
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Jasure, Rundy Noomun's looggege-a bork bork
Yeah, go ahead and laugh until one of these nail-hard little mother fuckers comes bustin' out of your Louis Vuitton screamin', "BOO YAH."
posted to MetaFilter by The Straightener
at 10:10 AM on January 31, 2008
Remember to have your dwarves and midgets spayed and neutered and declawed and circumcised and baptized and placed on a treadmill to see if they can fly!
posted to MetaFilter by Mister_A
at 10:11 AM on January 31, 2008
“If someone did this type of post about overweight people, women, people with down's syndrome, blacks, hispanics”
If overweight folks or people with down’s syndrome were organizing into thematic gangs and coming up with unique ways to rob folks, or being exploited into doing it, I think that’d be a valid post.
posted to MetaFilter by Smedleyman
at 11:12 AM on January 31, 2008
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Oral history: The Monica Lewinsky scandal ten years on
Here's the thing, though. Bill Clinton has been accused of repeatedly using his position(s) of power to either have sex with or to attempt to have sex with a number of women. Women whose lives were ruined because they brought accusations against him. Professors at the college where I work who engage in this behavior are reviled and forced to resign. But with Bill Clinton, it's "only a blowjob." I'm not completely against men having sex with women who may or may be their wives -... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by billysumday
at 10:31 AM on January 15, 2008
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