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posted to MetaFilter Projects by Fiasco da Gama at 12:54 AM on July 30, 2013

I had been told, but had not realised, that North Dakota was very flat. Wow, it's really really flat.
posted to MetaFilter Projects by Fiasco da Gama at 7:54 PM on October 13, 2012

At first I thought it was a bit silly as I'm not really an RPG kind of person but then I imagined it if it were a poker machine and each paragraph were a $5 note and now I love it and hate it. I've just got to go to the ATM now and withdraw another 500 words, I can totally win it all back
posted to MetaFilter Projects by Fiasco da Gama at 5:16 PM on October 28, 2011

Are you unionised? I strongly encourage you to join your trade union. It's the way people like us get our rights.
posted to MetaFilter Projects by Fiasco da Gama at 3:52 AM on June 20, 2011

Satire breaks down when you get to "Asshole In Skinny Jeans". That's just about the most correct description I've ever heard of his early career.
posted to MetaFilter Projects by Fiasco da Gama at 9:26 PM on February 9, 2011

Have you seen the Girl With The Skeleton Hand?
posted to MetaFilter Projects by Fiasco da Gama at 3:47 PM on January 17, 2011

I'M IN UR LADY'S CHAMBER
CAPERIN NIMBLY
LASCIVIOUS PLEASINGS I HAZ THEM
posted to MetaFilter Projects by Fiasco da Gama at 8:57 PM on November 21, 2010

This is fantastic. Industrial co-ops are one of my on-again off-again fixations.

May I suggest for your library; Race Mathews' Jobs of Our Own: Building a Stakeholder Society in 1999 which was an Australian history of worker cooperatives, Christian socialism and mutualism? I think it's out of print, but there's a review here (PDF).

Race also has a bit of a monster library about mutuals and mutualism on his website.
posted to MetaFilter Projects by Fiasco da Gama at 3:47 PM on October 27, 2010

Any chance of an alternative hyperlink that isn't going to raise the eyebrows of my work IT department?
posted to MetaFilter Projects by Fiasco da Gama at 5:55 PM on August 31, 2010

Sweet.
posted to MetaFilter Projects by Fiasco da Gama at 8:18 PM on August 31, 2010

Damn that's a handsome shell-carrying bear.

Not to be a pain, but does Pernambuko get her/his proper attribution according to the licencing requirements of the image?
posted to MetaFilter Projects by Fiasco da Gama at 11:17 PM on August 16, 2010

Good cause, but...

Can collecting Ken Done be good?

I'm with peacay. No, it can't.
posted to MetaFilter Projects by Fiasco da Gama at 8:40 PM on August 1, 2010

This is really sweet. In the 'lovely' sense, not the 'choice brah sweet as' sense. And it's the lack of context that makes it so.

One comment on readability: in this one (and in some others) it's hard to immediately work out the sequence of captions—it's counterintuitive to read English when it seems to go right to left.
posted to MetaFilter Projects by Fiasco da Gama at 11:00 PM on July 25, 2010

This is delightfully juvenile.
posted to MetaFilter Projects by Fiasco da Gama at 4:57 PM on June 9, 2010

If there's one thing that never fails to cheer me up it's a baby turtle.
posted to MetaFilter Projects by Fiasco da Gama at 4:14 PM on May 31, 2010

OK I've submitted my entry.

I'd be really interested to see the rejected pile of suggested games (that could have had art done, but didn't).
posted to MetaFilter Projects by Fiasco da Gama at 4:34 PM on May 20, 2010

That's some good local history.
posted to MetaFilter Projects by Fiasco da Gama at 4:54 PM on March 15, 2010

We need more of these kinds of young women on ask.mefi.

Scovern said a “Hello Girl” had the instinct of Sherlock Holmes and the cunning of an expert in the dead letter department at the Post Office. He praised one operator who, through her extensive memory and ability to analyze voices, could detect “fraudulent use of the toll board exchange” and despite the many “rag chewings and some unpleasantness” proved a “valuable guardian of the company’s interests.”

Awesome.
posted to MetaFilter Projects by Fiasco da Gama at 10:44 PM on March 15, 2010

Metafilter: attempts to remove comments
posted to MetaFilter Projects by Fiasco da Gama at 4:53 PM on November 4, 2009

Metafilter: Meep
posted to MetaFilter Projects by Fiasco da Gama at 9:16 PM on November 12, 2009

Magnificent.

Rumsfeld: As I said,
it is from the people I've
talked to. The building?

And I don't know why
you got the contradiction.
I can't explain that.

posted to MetaFilter Projects by Fiasco da Gama at 9:54 PM on September 14, 2009

I especially like "Fanny Hill meets Lady Chatterley".
posted to MetaFilter Projects by Fiasco da Gama at 7:13 PM on March 15, 2009