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Quote me a song lyric about Peter Weller's PhD, why don't you? Let's all look expectantly at cortex now
posted to MeFi by prize bull octorok at 3:13 PM on December 29, 2014

I do pronounce the L in almond. It's not very strong, but it's there. What. Dude, the word is pronounced ALL-MUND. Or is this one of those Oregon hick things? Cortex, back me up.
posted to Ask MeFi by peep at 3:54 PM on July 6, 2010

Since you've already made your appointment with your PCP, I think you should ask him for a referral to the doctor who is treating your neck problem or another doctor who specializes in Chiari malformation, because I believe there is at least a chance that's causing the back pain. Specifically, it could be causing the formation or progression of a syrinxA syrinx results when a watery, protective ... faces depends on the less-sensitive object recognition system.which is at the very bottom of the cortex where the cortex curves back around toward the ...
posted to Ask MeFi by jamjam at 12:49 AM on November 21, 2013

Stay the fuck in line, mefites, stay the fuck in line. posted by cortex at 7:21 PM on November 4 [7 favorites -] [!] 2 hours later >> Ok.. I hope you all are nice and drunk... STAY THE FUCK IN LINE the musical
posted to MeFi by xorry at 5:40 PM on November 4, 2008

Also: these are cortex's cats. No, really.
posted to MeFi by mathowie at 12:27 AM on July 14, 2011

the best flier I have ever seen on a telephone pole My favorite is still cortex's.
posted to MeFi by davidjmcgee at 9:23 AM on June 20, 2012

The same house where my mother took me into the backyard and said, “Listen to me. I have friends who have left their husbands' amygdalas. I have seen it on the other side. It is not better on the other side. Try hard. Try hard realize the capabilities of the frontal cortex are finite before you give up.” I tried so hard subsume ethics in material explanations.
posted to MeFi by bdc34 at 11:30 AM on April 7, 2014

Here's a clip: [quicktime more like crashtime amirite —cortex] video clip
posted to MetaTalk by mathowie at 9:40 PM on May 8, 2011

cortex: sending mofos to Guatemala Bay since 2007.
posted to MetaTalk by villanelles at dawn at 8:32 PM on November 12, 2011

Cortex: these comments mean nothing without a picture of your new haircut.
posted to MetaTalk by kate blank at 1:44 PM on January 6, 2012

The first alert to danger is a sudden sound. Evolution, in its wisdom, connects our ears to our brain stem, which (if necessary) can send emergency signals throughout our bodies via the sympathetic nervous system. This is way faster than having the auditory cortex decode and recognize the sound. The brain stem makes a very fast and simple check- is the volume and bandwidth of this sound high ...
posted to Ask MeFi by a snickering nuthatch at 2:52 PM on January 12, 2010

The idea that the mod's careful curation of posts is preventing anyone "speaking truth to power" is a ridiculous conspiracy theory. We all know that a number of users here are responsible for certain threads being extremely difficult for the mods to manage. So too, I know some of you are thinking that maybe the "difficult users" I've mentioned are the MODS THEMSELVES - ... go deeper than all of that? I'm just saying, we've never actually seen Ismail Haniyah and cortex in the same room together. Or Benjamin Netanyahu ...
posted to MetaTalk by the quidnunc kid at 7:25 AM on March 11, 2013

Oh the Nope Cortex. It's a great reflex, and I was brought up to have it "The minute someone hits you, walk out the door". My mother looked at him once and knew, but no matter her warnings I couldn't hear her. Because as so many have already described, the gaslighting is insidious. You lose privacy, cut off friends, change your world and your entire way of being and you believe this ...
posted to MeFi by dabitch at 11:56 AM on April 7, 2014

Maureen Dowd tries bourbon for the first time. Drinks the whole bottle on her own, starts puking, calls for more alcohol legislation. Maureen Dowd tries loose leaf tobacco for the first time. Puts five pouches worth in her mouth, gets nauseated, starts shivering, sees ghosts at the edge of her vision, sees her mother waiting for her, gets the shakes, falls asleep, has a good nap, calls for more ... little narrow-minded column, gets called out for it in MetaTalk, flames out, like hardcore, like cortex writes her a stern little note, asks her to ...
posted to MeFi by saucy_knave at 12:51 PM on June 4, 2014

This is what happens when cortex shaves his head. Mass chaos. Cats marrying dogs. DNS servers going the way of the Dodo.
posted to MetaTalk by mathowie at 5:33 PM on January 7, 2012

cortex: "My very specific confusion with the word came from heading over to Worcester, MA for college from Portland, OR, unfamiliar entirely with the British usage as well as the New England usage but having grown up with the star of our local zoo being a big old Asian elephant named Packy." Am I the only one for whom the first meaning of 'packy' that pops in my head is "fake ...
posted to MetaTalk by FlyingMonkey at 3:30 PM on July 5, 2012

I asked cortex and he said the safe word is 'hit me with a pig slapper," but that just gets you hit with a pig slapper.
posted to MetaTalk by Mister_A at 2:04 PM on January 28, 2013

Happy Birthday Cortex, we all got together and got you this big box of bad faith. Hope you like it.
posted to MetaTalk by lrobertjones at 10:11 AM on April 26, 2013

You could always make Metafilter a religion and then it´s tax exempt. Cortex can wear his wizard robe and pointed hat. I think we have a few ordained members around who could advise here and we have Meatbomb as the astral mod already.
posted to MetaTalk by adamvasco at 10:05 AM on May 23, 2014

desjardins: " Okay, who wants a buddy cop movie with cortex and jessamyn?" THE MOD SQUAD
posted to MetaTalk by zarq at 12:37 PM on May 29, 2014