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My favorite porn star: Ginger Lynn
posted to MetaTalk by chavenet at 9:02 AM on July 28, 2019

This Is Just To Say

I can't believe
we're 70 comments
into a post on
fruit

and no one's
taken time
to make
this joke yet

Forgive me
it was obvious
like a peach
or cold summer cherries
posted to MetaTalk by chavenet at 2:08 AM on May 31, 2019

MetaFilter: reads well with one hand and is reliably interesting in 20-minute chunks

(no, really!)
posted to MetaTalk by chavenet at 2:00 PM on May 18, 2019

I liked Susan Choi's Trust Exercise more than I expected.
posted to MetaTalk by chavenet at 10:20 AM on May 16, 2019

Nanukthedog: " Is Johnny Wallflower actually a selection of dogs and cats carefully stacked on eachother's shoulders and wearing clothes doing their best to impersonate a human? "

Eponyparanoid!
posted to MetaTalk by chavenet at 2:58 PM on April 21, 2019

Is something I would need to be a hardcore toter to get?
posted to MetaTalk by chavenet at 5:22 PM on April 19, 2019

theora55: "The Web is 30. MeFi is nearly 20. "

I'm older than the Web and MetaFilter put together!
posted to MetaTalk by chavenet at 6:42 AM on March 14, 2019

MetaFilter: Marmots had chewed the shit out of it but it was still workable.
posted to MetaTalk by chavenet at 4:26 AM on February 22, 2019

Car - commute - audiobooks

Listening to Manhattan Beach by Jennifer Egan now, before that it was Tara Westover’s wild memoir Educated.
posted to MetaTalk by chavenet at 2:26 PM on February 1, 2019

Right now it’s Chinese fountain pens, and things that are yellow.
posted to MetaTalk by chavenet at 10:54 AM on January 20, 2019

Happy New Year y'all!
posted to MetaTalk by chavenet at 5:11 PM on December 31, 2018

Throwaway Juicero joke? Really?!
posted to MetaTalk by chavenet at 1:37 PM on November 29, 2018

All I know is that if my folks were anywhere near MetaFilter that would be like industrial strength repellent spray to me.
posted to MetaTalk by chavenet at 9:08 AM on November 1, 2018

Maybe it's just my dirty mind, but MF alone says Mother Fucker to me.

I'd buy a Sexy MF badge.

Maybe purple background, like FanFare?
posted to MetaTalk by chavenet at 9:41 AM on October 24, 2018

betweenthebars: "and while it could be argued that Pastabagel's contribution is intended as satire"

It would be difficult, in my view, to argue anything else.
posted to MetaTalk by chavenet at 9:08 AM on October 11, 2018

It's good to draw. It's good to draw. It's good to draw.

I am participating in #Inktober2018 and enjoying it immensely, not only requiring myself to keep up, but also seeing all the lovely things being submitted.
posted to MetaTalk by chavenet at 9:51 AM on October 4, 2018

I have one of those Swatch watches launched with internet time. It also has a little animation of a dog peeing on a lamppost.
posted to MetaTalk by chavenet at 4:32 PM on September 26, 2018

MetaFilter: their stupid butts, made me happy
posted to MetaTalk by chavenet at 5:25 PM on September 22, 2018

Did anybody read those comments down there?
posted to MetaTalk by chavenet at 12:25 AM on September 23, 2018

1928: the full OED was republished in ten bound volumes tl;dr
posted to MetaTalk by chavenet at 2:40 AM on September 19, 2018

FIAMO!

(Favor It And Move On)
posted to MetaTalk by chavenet at 2:17 PM on September 17, 2018

I wonder, can the mods see how many times a day I click to see how many, er, bookmarks I have? Because that would be embarrassing.
posted to MetaTalk by chavenet at 9:15 AM on September 14, 2018

I think you should just read out MeFi user names.
posted to MetaTalk by chavenet at 1:18 PM on September 13, 2018

I just finished Richard Powers' "The Overstory" and have spent the past week looking at trees (as in, "have you ever really looked at a tree?"). I also enjoyed John Carreyrou's Bad Blood about the demise of Theranos, and I have more than once here recommended Lisa Halliday's Asymmetry, particularly affecting in the wake of Philip Roth's death.
posted to MetaTalk by chavenet at 2:17 PM on July 14, 2018

It’s like a potluck party, or a byob event. Bring what you like. What you do best. What you can afford. Don’t worry about pleasing the crowd. Beans are good. Also wine. All of us could use our horizons expanded. Or another helping of really good home cooking. This metaphor is creaking under its own weight but I think the point is clear.
posted to MetaTalk by chavenet at 2:05 PM on July 7, 2018

I can't wait for the riffing clinic
posted to MetaTalk by chavenet at 6:39 AM on July 3, 2018

> reductiondesign:
"MeFis Bean, surely"

Don't over think this now.
posted to MetaTalk by chavenet at 5:57 AM on June 14, 2018

I read it last month, but Lisa Halliday's Asymmetry is really, really good.
posted to MetaTalk by chavenet at 10:12 AM on June 8, 2018

Dirty South Martini
posted to MetaTalk by chavenet at 4:04 AM on May 27, 2018

I try to favorite a lot, but I definitely favorite anything that makes me laugh out loud.
posted to MetaTalk by chavenet at 2:56 PM on May 9, 2018

"You don't know me, but we live three blocks away!" :D

On MetaFilter we all live three blocks away.

Best of luck, mrbill!
posted to MetaTalk by chavenet at 5:56 AM on April 18, 2018

MetaFilter: Not horrible or anything, just a little weird.
posted to MetaTalk by chavenet at 6:33 AM on April 5, 2018

vo-fucking-te
posted to MetaTalk by chavenet at 3:43 AM on March 13, 2018

A really long time ago I mentioned something similar about a site called "Splice Today" which seemed to be poaching content hand over fist from MetaFilter. I'd like to mention today that, to their credit, they stopped that shit pretty much right away and nowadays aren't the world's worst aggregator for news & opinion. I didn't follow this evolution at all so I have no idea whether the place is under new ownership, or just grew out of it.
posted to MetaTalk by chavenet at 2:43 AM on March 8, 2018

Epostysterical!
posted to MetaTalk by chavenet at 11:06 PM on February 7, 2018

I can't get the script to load into Greasemonkey. Any script even. Am using FF Quantum ... is that the problem?
posted to MetaTalk by chavenet at 4:43 AM on January 4, 2018

p.s. just tried with Tampermonkey and a-ok, so THANKS!
posted to MetaTalk by chavenet at 4:46 AM on January 4, 2018

mandolin conspiracy: "People who build autoplay into their page design are incompetent web designers."

Or competently implementing something Sales believes is key to grabbing eyeballs.
posted to MetaTalk by chavenet at 1:45 PM on November 22, 2017

hippybear: "that would just be MeFilter

Oddly enough, still shortened to MeFi."

But of course that MeFi would be pronounced altogether differently.
posted to MetaTalk by chavenet at 9:13 AM on November 4, 2017

I'll drop in to complain about this FPP about the painter Gertrude Abercrombie, which does not mention the subject's surname anywhere in the FPP itself, just "Queen Gertrude," and adds confusion by mentioning another Gertrude (Stein), a complaint more succinctly made by maryr in the thread.
posted to MetaTalk by chavenet at 5:22 AM on October 17, 2017

My point here is that a vote for quidnunc kid is a vote for do-overs, because no-one is perfect (not on their first attempt, anyway).

Which is why I'm voting #2 quidnunc kid.
posted to MetaTalk by chavenet at 2:14 PM on October 4, 2017

So there was this man who asked his best friend for help.

He said, "Friend, I'm having an affair with the butcher's wife, so could you do me a favor? This afternoon, could you go to the butcher's and, as he's closing up, engage him in a deep conversation and keep him talking to you for and hour while I slip 'round to his house for a quick roll with his wife?"

The friend agreed, said he would be happy to help and would do his best.… [more]
posted to MetaTalk by chavenet at 1:08 PM on September 29, 2017

Joe in Australia: "Knock knock
Q: Who's there?
A: Europe.
Q: Europe who?
A: No, you're a poo!"

Related:

Q: If you're Russian in the kitchen, what are you in the bathroom?
A: European
posted to MetaTalk by chavenet at 2:47 AM on October 2, 2017

You can call your book "Poor Richard's Tickeyenac"
posted to MetaTalk by chavenet at 2:40 PM on September 25, 2017

cortex: "To the extent that people post and reload to see how many people liked their snarky comments, they are not generating revenue in the process but rather driving up server costs."

Damn. Now I can no longer use that as my excuse. ("No, I was just doing my part to increase MeFi's pageviews, not desperately reloading to see my favorites count.")
posted to MetaTalk by chavenet at 10:34 AM on September 12, 2017

Someone could do a Clint FPP before he dies. And get that out of our system. Again. Then send him off with a 21-. salute.
posted to MetaTalk by chavenet at 2:23 AM on September 10, 2017

Nobody helped me with Dutch Schultz's Last Words...
posted to MetaTalk by chavenet at 10:47 AM on September 1, 2017

Like this.
posted to MetaTalk by chavenet at 2:30 PM on August 24, 2017

MonkeyToes: "For $5, you can ask about ANYTHING once a week!"

Same as in town.
posted to MetaTalk by chavenet at 8:57 AM on July 26, 2017

Obrigado, mods!
posted to MetaTalk by chavenet at 4:27 PM on June 13, 2017