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This is just the IKEA "Orbo", as one can plainly see from the assembly sheet. You can rest it on the Norbo.
posted to MetaFilter by chavenet at 9:44 AM on December 16, 2009

Clearly hanging upside down drains all the color from your shirt.
posted to MetaFilter by chavenet at 9:10 AM on December 16, 2009

My sine is the base line.
posted to MetaFilter by chavenet at 3:38 AM on December 16, 2009

Obviously the answer to the national ... debt is to increase everyone in NYC's income to >$32 million by the year 2020.

A-and it's fun to see LA say "hair ... raising."
posted to MetaFilter by chavenet at 2:42 AM on December 16, 2009

Am I too late for waffles?
posted to MetaFilter by chavenet at 6:37 AM on December 15, 2009

Is this the duckface thread? ;-$
posted to MetaFilter by chavenet at 6:34 AM on December 15, 2009

Metafilter: does not have 1) beer 2) socks 3) a huge printer (like 20+ inches huge) 4) a million dollars
posted to MetaFilter by chavenet at 8:14 AM on December 11, 2009

Hip stirs, 2045.
posted to MetaFilter by chavenet at 10:58 AM on December 4, 2009

It seems proper to have called in SWAT. What more special weapon than a Lego sidearm?
posted to MetaFilter by chavenet at 9:31 AM on December 4, 2009

On rereading the blog, it occurs to me that even scarier would be the SWAT team busting in on a session of Modern Warfare 2. To the gameplayer, I mean.
posted to MetaFilter by chavenet at 9:34 AM on December 4, 2009

a Hand in the Hokey Pokey

I can think of a whole nother meaning for this phrase that has nothing to do with Catholics, the Latin mass, sponge toffee, World War II, or the British Isles (though I suppose it might help with the wife of 74 years...)

and....


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posted to MetaFilter by chavenet at 7:05 AM on December 4, 2009

Just never say anything worth listening to. Simple!
posted to MetaFilter by chavenet at 10:55 AM on December 3, 2009

Is this something I would have to be standing still to appreciate?
posted to MetaFilter by chavenet at 10:24 AM on December 3, 2009

Metafilter: an elaborate hoax.
posted to MetaFilter by chavenet at 1:56 PM on December 2, 2009

> "God wants them to focus on helping the rich and powerful, instead of the poor and helpless."

I can see how this would be a highly attractive message to politicians everywhere.
posted to MetaFilter by chavenet at 5:55 AM on December 2, 2009

The creator of Freenet responds.

"I was a little surprised that it did focus almost exclusively on the negatives implications..."

Not, then, a regular reader of newspaper articles about the Internets.
posted to MetaFilter by chavenet at 9:54 AM on November 27, 2009

>...the Guardian is a UK paper, so they use the [sic] to indicate that the American spelling comes from the original source rather than being a typo on their part.

Yes, because The Grauniad is well known for never committing typos...

/derail
posted to MetaFilter by chavenet at 2:02 PM on November 27, 2009

Oooh, FBI got to read Oui magazine. It's the xxx files...
posted to MetaFilter by chavenet at 7:17 AM on November 3, 2009

new cattle mutilation story; note how the AP just lets ufonut rattle on...
posted to MetaFilter by chavenet at 3:25 PM on November 26, 2009

Kattallus wrote: for some people, knowing that someone somewhere is enjoying something they don't, is an intolerable affront.

...And vice-versa, natch.
posted to MetaFilter by chavenet at 11:44 AM on November 26, 2009

2001-09-11 08:50:50 Skytel [003252015] D ALPHA BOMB DETINATED IN WORLD TRADE CTR. PLS GET BACK TO MIKE BRADY W/A QUICK ASSESSMENT OF YOUR AREAS AND CONTACT US IF ANYTHING IS NEEDED AT 212-647-2345

It's the story, of a man named Brady...
posted to MetaFilter by chavenet at 5:59 AM on November 25, 2009

Focusing the potency of all this is how so many of the messages are just life going on:

2001-09-11 08:53:44 Metrocall [0958398] D ALPHA Did you turn the iron off? Melissa
posted to MetaFilter by chavenet at 6:05 AM on November 25, 2009

2001-09-11 09:06:40 Skytel [004543325] D ALPHA Tom, I hope it wasn't you and Scott that crashed into the World Trade Center! -ml
posted to MetaFilter by chavenet at 6:25 AM on November 25, 2009

2001-09-11 09:08:25 Arch [0918092] D ALPHA FYI - The world trade center was just hit by a plane. It looks like

2001-09-11 09:08:26 Metrocall [1902852] B ALPHA Take your meds.
posted to MetaFilter by chavenet at 6:27 AM on November 25, 2009

I like the goatse-pucker effect (SFW!) with the five-yen coin.
posted to MetaFilter by chavenet at 4:00 AM on November 23, 2009

I promise to use it to detect swine flu in my far-flung horses.
posted to MetaFilter by chavenet at 9:55 AM on November 20, 2009

DU, I owe you a Coke.
posted to MetaFilter by chavenet at 9:55 AM on November 20, 2009

What would your bathtub look like if it had a ring?
posted to MetaFilter by chavenet at 9:03 AM on November 20, 2009

It's a pity; seems to me the Pledge should be taken as a hopeful, wishful prose poem. This, this is what it should be like. Okay, so the republic isn't like that ... but we should aspire it to be so. You're pledging allegiance to a good thing, to a flag that's a symbol of a republic, still only a notional one, that is indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Sure, the "under God" stuff rubs folks the wrong way these days (what… [more]
posted to MetaFilter by chavenet at 1:44 PM on November 16, 2009

How could you forget Frankie's "Born to Run"?
posted to MetaFilter by chavenet at 2:09 AM on November 16, 2009

They should start to say "meeep." Then they wouldn't be breaking the rules, and as an added bonus, "meeep" isn't a four-letter word.

(p.s. when I was in high school we would set a specific minute in which all would accidentally drop our books on the floor. Only for substitute teachers, natch. Mass "Meeping" seems positively calming by comparison.)
posted to MetaFilter by chavenet at 2:36 AM on November 13, 2009

"Ice cream from Uranus." (cue hysterical giggles)
posted to MetaFilter by chavenet at 10:27 AM on November 12, 2009

At lunch today someone said "What better figure of rock solid stability than the German National Goalkeeper."

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posted to MetaFilter by chavenet at 12:13 PM on November 11, 2009

"Everyday Chemistry" is not a bad name for an album. And "The Beatles" is actually a pretty good name for a band. Very clever.
posted to MetaFilter by chavenet at 4:25 PM on November 9, 2009

That Beeb is made for Walken.
posted to MetaFilter by chavenet at 2:53 PM on October 31, 2009

Eponys-tragical.
posted to MetaFilter by chavenet at 11:40 AM on October 30, 2009

So is Darges Max Aue?
posted to MetaFilter by chavenet at 9:06 AM on October 30, 2009

What's up with the "Racial" logo on the cervical cap in Picture 7?
posted to MetaFilter by chavenet at 9:32 AM on October 29, 2009

"As for Ammiano, a professional comic in addition to being a liberal Democrat, he's playing it straight on this one:..."

Stay classy, SF Chron!
posted to MetaFilter by chavenet at 3:33 PM on October 28, 2009

Has anyone noticed that this professional arm wrestler has one real skinny arm?
posted to MetaFilter by chavenet at 2:49 PM on October 27, 2009

What they're goofing on, as if you didn't know...

Much less funny, natch.

e.g. "Female student is the preferred term, coed OK to describe a school. #APStyle"

zzzzzz.
posted to MetaFilter by chavenet at 4:23 PM on October 23, 2009

Is this something I would have to believe that TV is real to understand?
posted to MetaFilter by chavenet at 2:41 PM on October 23, 2009

See-Goat!
posted to MetaFilter by chavenet at 1:54 PM on October 22, 2009

Maybe they should use a more visible clown?
posted to MetaFilter by chavenet at 4:04 PM on October 20, 2009

CGI jumps the shark:

“Look at the gill-like membrane on the side of the mouth, its transmission of light, all the secondary color saturation on the tongue, and that maxilla bone. I love what you did with the translucence on the teeth, and the way the quadrate bone racks the teeth forward. It’s a sharky thing. As wacky as this creature is, it looks completely real. Maybe I’m getting high on my own supply.”
posted to MetaFilter by chavenet at 5:37 AM on October 20, 2009

Mos' funny! Also this:

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posted to MetaFilter by chavenet at 3:14 PM on October 18, 2009

Like someone said earlier, losing an election to them is like an overthrow of government. It simply cannot be legit.

Goes for both sides of the aisle, amirite?
posted to MetaFilter by chavenet at 9:56 AM on October 18, 2009

"It's the prize for not being George W. Bush" --Sky News commentator.
posted to MetaFilter by chavenet at 2:17 AM on October 9, 2009

A-also, this is going to complicate the timetable for invading Iran...
posted to MetaFilter by chavenet at 2:56 AM on October 9, 2009

Or he could send Professor Irwin Corey to make the speech...
posted to MetaFilter by chavenet at 3:51 AM on October 9, 2009