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Instead, Jessica actually solved approximately 60 suspicious deaths that occurred in her hometown of Cabot Cove, Maine. Oh, sure. 60 murders where there were bodies to find. When she wanted to be, Ms. Fletcher left no trace,… [more]
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MeFi comment - 7 months ago

I would like to dream of a world in which Hudson Hawk was a smash hit, giving Willis free rein to explore just to what extent we could handle his most bizarre comedic impulses. We need more movies where every single member of the cast just buys all… [more]
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MeFi comment - 7 months ago

I’m still very much a person who prefers cash (yes, yes, throw your stones, light your torches), but Costco is the one that got me. They hounded me about their executive membership for a while, escalating to directly calling me (in English, no less,… [more]
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MeFi comment - 7 months ago

(I'm sorry, I didn't intend for this to end up so long, or so involved) My father died 12 years ago, and in a very strange turn, I was actually home. I'd come back, bringing my wife and her parents so that everyone could meet each other. My dad… [more]
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MeFi comment - 7 months ago

I really don't remember Jessica Fletcher really being all that much on the make. Well, between murdering all those people, framing innocent bystanders, and acting all prim and proper about things, lets just say Ms. Fletcher worked up… [more]
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MeFi comment - 7 months ago

Not so much my food, but as a couple local Mefites can attest, I've been running an underground meat club* for the last couple of years after my restaurant closed. Enough former customers kept asking if they could still buy my homemade… [more]
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MetaTalk comment - 8 months ago

Feel good movies? I mean, how can you feel any better about things than Tim Curry as the dark lord? Yeah, that’s right: Legend. Or maybe your tastes run more towards shiny chrome utterly not period appropriate armor, a soundtrack that’s… [more]
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MeFi comment - 8 months ago

I first had pork rillettes about a decade ago, and I fell in love. Spread across a little hunk of crispy toasted french bread, it's like a little dollop of heaven. I mean, it's essentially pork butter. Now I make them every year for… [more]
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MeFi comment - 8 months ago

Everything Everywhere All At Once did not make me feel good. I absolutely loved it, but the mix of exhaustion from crying until I couldn’t anymore combined with the “I’m in this picture and I don’t like it” feeling have me waiting at… [more]
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MeFi comment - 8 months ago

I mostly teach returnees now, so I don't have many lessons where I need to get into pronunciation, but I used to do cutaway diagrams of the mouth and all that fun stuff. My whole spiel was getting them to think of successful athletes in very… [more]
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MeFi comment - 8 months ago

Fables: come for the kind of interesting take on some things. Maybe don’t stay for the racism, sexism, and generally moral scold atmosphere that begins to pervade the comic as it develops. It’s a damn shame because some of the stories are well… [more]
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MeFi comment - 8 months ago

Musical theater in general, with very, very few exceptions.I just don’t like the concept of it. I like, as best as possible, realist theater, where people don’t break into song to highlight plot points. The utter lack of narrative subtlety (ooh, a… [more]
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MetaTalk comment - 9 months ago

any portmanteau, I completely agree. Even down to the spray foam that was talked about in the book, I imagine that any tech that's significantly advanced from where we are now would be similar tech to what seems to be we are focusing on now: not ways… [more]
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MeFi comment - 9 months ago

“The sky above the port was the color of television, tuned to a dead channel.” To add onto the forty year old derail, but with a bit of local (dead television) color, I live in Chiba prefecture, and have lived in Chiba city for… [more]
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MeFi comment - 9 months ago

I've still never gotten around to this, but damn, I probably should. As far as subtitles and attention issues, I've found I struggle with the focus needed for subtitles more and more. That, and more often than not, movies and television have… [more]
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MeFi comment - 9 months ago

At my worst, I had to set up goals, things to stick around for. I made myself stay alive until I could see the Force Awakens (man, does it suck when your reason for sticking around is underwhelming). The thing about that, about the anchor to some… [more]
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Ask MeFi comment - 9 months ago

The thing that's affected me the most, I think, of the last three years of Covid, has been the sudden and stunning degree to which lives seemed to stop mattering. People I work with, people I know in daily life, let alone government officials,… [more]
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MeFi comment - 9 months ago

I’m still struggling to process this. Part of it is not realizing just how young he was until finding out he had passed. The original Wyatt family, the NXT run and, essentially, the unofficial trios division they brought with them onto the main… [more]
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MeFi comment - 9 months ago

This long, and no one has mentioned wombats? What other animal poops cubes? [more]
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Ask MeFi comment - 9 months ago

I can't begin to figure out how many times the local FOX affiliate used to show Buckaroo Banzai when I was a kid growing up in southwest Michigan (Channel 17!), but it was a lot. I watched it every time it was on, and I was way, way too… [more]
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MetaTalk comment - 9 months ago

No one is ugly. No one is really fat. Everyone is beautiful.
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MeFi post - 9 months ago

Pretty much the only thing we had in our corner when our parents passed (father in 2009, mother last year) is that my sister and I are very close, and there was never any chance of us fighting over anything, even had there actually been anything. We… [more]
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MeFi comment - 9 months ago

My first real "I'm an adult, and this pet is my responsibility" pet was named by my partner at the time. My second, though, currently imitating a loaf of bread covered in black fur in the middle of the floor behind me? I named her Gazpacho… [more]
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MetaTalk comment - 9 months ago

Thanks for all the responses, honestly, they helped me make the decision to go ahead with the laminectomy, and I'm going into the hospital next Monday, with surgery on Tuesday. This being Japan, I'll be there for a week to ten days, and hopefully all… [more]
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Ask MeFi comment - 10 months ago

“Smokey, this is not ‘Nam. This is bagels. There are rules. You cut that into 8 slices, and you’re entering a world of pain.” [more]
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MeFi comment - 10 months ago

/through bulging cheeks smeared with blue and yellow frosting: Cake? What cake? It was gone when I got here! [more]
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MetaTalk comment - 10 months ago

Damn. I just checked, and I missed the start of my fifteenth year here by a day. Glad to have this place around. It’s done me a world of good. To more and better for all. [more]
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MetaTalk comment - 10 months ago

What I'd really, really like to see Secret Base cover is the ridiculous number of quarterbacks the Bears started during the Brett Favre/Aaron Rodgers years. Many of the names (Peter Tom Willis, Henry Burris, MOSES MORENO?!) are seared into my brain… [more]
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MeFi comment - 10 months ago

Jorge Luis Borges poem Limits had a couple different versions, wondering about what things he had done for the last time without realizing it. It haunts me, the shortest version most of all: Limits There is a line in Verlaine I shall not recall… [more]
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Ask MeFi comment - 10 months ago

Maybe it’s all some galaxy-brained ploy Musk came up with and no one has the guts to tell him it won’t work: “see, guys, if we change the name, all the debts and contracts are with Twitter, not with the new company, so we can just… [more]
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MeFi comment - 10 months ago

Spinal stenosis, back surgery options, least shitty choice?
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Ask MeFi post - 10 months ago

Just to clarify, this is actually the second opinion. My regular doctor at the spine clinic suggested laminectomy, but had me meet with a doctor from the nearby university hospital. That doctor said that a laminectomy wouldn't work, and that fusion… [more]
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Ask MeFi comment - 10 months ago

Lord, I miss the warm fuzzy bit at the end of local news. Good stuff. [more]
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MeFi comment - 10 months ago

a nice, inexpensive local beer with an attachment to its city and a very nice logo and a history kensington314, exactly. This is what we've lost (not losing, that ship has sailed), the idea that not everything has to be everywhere. Growth… [more]
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MeFi comment - 10 months ago

Anchor Brewing was San Francisco by Patrick Roth, for Defector. The category on their site for the article is Capital, and goddamn, there's a cavalcade of shitty news under that link. Roth takes a pretty solid swing at the Chronicle for basically… [more]
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MeFi comment - 10 months ago

My heart desires BLOOD That seems totally norm...(hand to earpiece) Oh... *other people's blood." Uh... [more]
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MetaTalk comment - 10 months ago

I wept openly during Up at least four times, mostly during the opening, but also throughout the rest of the film. Incredibles gets me, in the same moment ("I'm not strong enough...") as others here. I realize I haven't really see a lot of… [more]
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MeFi comment - 10 months ago

> I'd be interested in what people think of the quality of this response. If nothing else, the bullet points and summary show a serious lack of ability to give more than the utmost surface response and analysis. We, all of us, are… [more]
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MeFi comment - 10 months ago

Staff member Lin Codega posted a comment from the staff of io9. (Still Twitter, sorry) [more]
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MeFi comment - 10 months ago

I'm grateful that I came of age before the internet, before Peterson, before YouTube, because goddamn, I would have been sucked right into some of this shit. I look back and see in teenage me the same frustrations voiced by people choosing to call… [more]
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MeFi comment - 10 months ago

At a meetup a while back, Dave gave us all bookmarks with the Ukyio-e Heroes, and it's something I treasure, lil chibi Ryu throwing a fireball at chibi Chun-li, who is yawning while holding out a marshmallow on a stick. It's adorable. I know… [more]
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MeFi comment - 10 months ago

I'm terrified of heights, especially heights I can fall from (roller coasters, no problem). It's gotten worse with age, and I would never be able to get up to the top of the platform now, but I did jump when I was in my early teens. There was a… [more]
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MeFi comment - 10 months ago

Is it OK to use ChatGPT to generate drafts of documents like these, which don’t make a claim to creative “genius”? The head of my department is currently, gleefully talking about his use of ChatGPT to do things like this for him, and… [more]
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MeFi comment - 11 months ago

I loved the AAA little map booklet. Also, Euchre. That's what we did. A lot of Euchre. I've probably mentioned this here before, but I absolutely loved taking the train from Kalamazoo to Chicago to visit family, or to Ann Arbor to visit friends… [more]
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MeFi comment - 11 months ago

I know exactly what's inside: it's exactly whatever it is that your heart most desires, and once you get it from the safe, it will be everything you've ever wanted for about five minutes. You'll put it somewhere, and almost immediately forget you… [more]
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MetaTalk comment - 11 months ago

"my own personal comment: lmao, it's fucking dogshit"
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MeFi post - 11 months ago

I was at the doctor's office a lot as a kid, and I saw a lot of Highlights. Reading this article, I started to realize how much, how very much I wanted to be Gallant, not that I really ever made it. And yeah, I beat myself up about… [more]
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MeFi comment - 11 months ago

Adding automated spinning blades to a workplace staffed by people making minimum wage? Sure, why not? I wonder about the level of automation, and when these machines inevitably break down in the middle of a lunch rush, will the company have trained… [more]
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MeFi comment - 11 months ago

I was more thinking of cross-contamination of pork products, but would be curious to hear from folks who do observe more strictly. On the kosher thing (can't speak to halal, I don't know enough about it), at least for some values of… [more]
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MeFi comment - 11 months ago

I find that sometimes you can hone in on what something wants to be called by thinking about what it wouldn't want to be called: Droppy McFallsOfftheTableaLot Spill Magnet Smokey Exhibit A Mr. Bendy Insert Load Letter [more]
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Ask MeFi comment - 11 months ago

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