2007-07-31

The White Stripes Brand has me shopping Target

Post 63427 by weathermachine deleted for the following reason: You didn't actually link to something interesting or new, here, which should kind of be the point of making a post. -- cortex

Stick `em up, copper!

Post 63424 by jeversol deleted for the following reason: Posted recently, yo. No harm in hopping into that thread, though. -- cortex

2007-07-30

Generation Chickenhawk

Post 63408 by dejah420 deleted for the following reason: Please see previous exhausting discussion on this topic. -- cortex

Gonzales Piñata Party

Post 63397 by Emoskimo deleted for the following reason: This'd be fine as a comment update in this recent, open thread. Lazy fine-grained updatefilter is not a good use of the front page. -- cortex

Paris Hilton Loses Inheritance

Post 63391 by rottytooth deleted for the following reason: gossip rumor about an ultra-celeb is not a good post for MeFi -- mathowie

They Come in Threes

Post 63389 by ed deleted for the following reason: a third obit thread in one day is too much, especially when it's just a reach for a "they come in threes" -- mathowie

Walking 1000 miles for charity

Post 63378 by electriccynic deleted for the following reason: A charity-stump for a guy you know is not a good idea for a Metafilter post. -- cortex

2007-07-29

Zombie Kid Likes Turtles.

Post 63374 by Sticherbeast deleted for the following reason: I cannot tell you how pleased I am that this kid is from my home town, all else aside. -- cortex

Human Brain Cloud -> word association

Post 63369 by carsonb deleted for the following reason: Site seems to have been annihilated in our loving grasp. -- cortex

Simpsonize me!

Post 63367 by grahamwell deleted for the following reason: This isn't really new, it's really damned slow, it's straight-up marketing, the movie is out, and you linked to your own site. Any of these things might be problematic, but together they're just kind of awful. -- cortex

2007-07-28

Suffer the children

Post 63351 by mattoxic deleted for the following reason: Skaters grief old man, old man hollers at skaters, old man's employers blush. We need a post about this? -- cortex

2007-07-27

Program X

Post 63319 by homunculus deleted for the following reason: this is UpdateFilter crossed with conjecture from TPM. Seriously, is it possible to write about Gonzales WITHOUT linking to TPM? If not, why not go to TPM to talk about this? -- jessamyn

Adam Sandler - Secret

Post 63313 by purephase deleted for the following reason: Secret: this is a shockingly lousy Adam Sandler video from like two years ago. -- cortex

WMD

Post 63312 by chlorus deleted for the following reason: Hey, buddy, how would you like it if I came to where you work and rickrolled your office newsletter, huh? Huh? -- cortex

Let's try this again then......

Post 63299 by adamvasco deleted for the following reason: knock it off, please. Unless you really think that making a statement about a deleted post by making a response post to something that is still in MeTa is a good idea, please do not do this. thank you. -- jessamyn

2007-07-26

Toldja

Post 63298 by squidfartz deleted for the following reason: Yeah, this is pretty much exactly the wrong way to put together a post, newsy or otherwise. -- cortex

No End in Sight

Post 63289 by spock deleted for the following reason: Just a trailer and a couple imdb comments? There's not much post here. -- cortex

the purr of death

Post 63287 by Sailormom deleted for the following reason: Why is that cat hanging around this post like that? -- cortex

We just LOVE your show.

Post 63281 by Navelgazer deleted for the following reason: this is creepy and upsetting and if you had more to say about it maybe think about putting it in the post next time. -- jessamyn

Death Cat of Rhode Island

Post 63270 by stupidsexyFlanders deleted for the following reason: posted previously -- jessamyn

Rapture Ready

Post 63269 by Ty Webb deleted for the following reason: If your main purpose for making a post to an existing political blog is a "look at these assholes" please feel free to continue that discussion on the original political blog. -- jessamyn

2007-07-25

Han did shoot first

Post 63248 by Hollow deleted for the following reason: For such (as you've noted) well-trod ground, Lucas in a t-shirt really doesn't justify a new post. -- cortex

I was acting on behalf of the president...

Post 63247 by delmoi deleted for the following reason: This bears a dizzying resemblence to the last post that linked to TPM re: Gonzales being a dick under oath. This is not the knock-em-dead mefi political magic that folks have been defending. -- cortex

Big Lies: Israel and the Middle East

Post 63243 by Defenestrator deleted for the following reason: yeah, not seeing any breakthrough reason why everyone should wade through a biased PDF paper. -- mathowie

Wall Street

Post 63225 by four panels deleted for the following reason: It's the coup that time didn't precisely forget after all as it turns out. -- cortex

Democrat Robert Byrd Talking about Barbaric For Hours.....

Post 63221 by ItsaMario deleted for the following reason: This is pretty dang thing and was covered in a recent, topical thread regardless. -- cortex

Step 1: Intoxicate pig...

Post 63216 by Pseudoephedrine deleted for the following reason: Turns out we pretty much need to retire "when pigs fly" from the cliche bin. -- cortex

2007-07-24

Doonesbury's War

Post 63198 by loquacious deleted for the following reason: posted previously -- jessamyn

Executive Ordering - When armed revolution just won't do.

Post 63196 by dejah420 deleted for the following reason: See recently. -- cortex

Singing With (or without) Balls

Post 63195 by KevinSkomsvold deleted for the following reason: Let's just cut this short. (See also!) -- cortex

Learn from Hitler

Post 63185 by namagomi deleted for the following reason: You know who else was a lot like Hitler? Seriously, this is just about the worst way to post about something like this. -- cortex

2007-07-23

Post 63181 by McLir deleted for the following reason: there are existing thread currently talking about this very thing. Every "look at these assholes" press release doesn't need its own MeFi post. -- jessamyn

Christmas in July?

Post 63170 by rasmusnor deleted for the following reason: "Today All Things Christmas is a part of the Company InternetKom ApS", which matches rasmusnor's email. Not cool, fella. -- cortex

2007-07-22

(The real) Pepsi Orange.

Post 63147 by ericbop deleted for the following reason: this isn't really a great post for metafilter. 1. it's sort of a done to death joke on the pepsi blue thing 2. it's a link to a pepsi website 3. given that, there could be ways to make a decent post about this, but this isn't it. -- jessamyn

I can feel it in my waters

Post 63140 by strawberryviagra deleted for the following reason: previously -- jessamyn

2007-07-21

I guess it's lucky we don't torture then!

Post 63129 by East Manitoba Regional Junior Kabaddi Champion '94 deleted for the following reason: SLBOE. That's single link blog op-ed. If the point of your political MeFi post is basically "look at these assholes" then it's probably not a good MeFi post. Feel free to make more of an effort to link to something you found on the web that is likely to encourage decent discussion that most people may not have seen before -- jessamyn

2007-07-20

If you can't be ABOVE the law, BE the Law.

Post 63114 by orthogonality deleted for the following reason: this is one of those post-post trainwrecks we were talking about in Meta just today.... If your political post, loosely paraphrased is just "look at these assholes" it is probably not a good post for metafilter. -- jessamyn

President Cheney?

Post 63101 by orbis23 deleted for the following reason: Yeah, pretty much everybody knows about this. Consolation prize: commentary from the 2002 edition. -- cortex

Dude, you either support teh troops or out of Delta Psi Kappa Yotta

Post 63095 by elpapacito deleted for the following reason: This is just seven unsurprising, axegrindy minutes of "point and laugh at the stupid college students". Yuck. Take it to Kos. -- cortex

2007-07-19

Old guard Maverick off to happy hunting ground

Post 63082 by priyatam deleted for the following reason: self link banned -- jessamyn

It's No Go

Post 63073 by East Manitoba Regional Junior Kabaddi Champion '94 deleted for the following reason: With your good graces, EMRJKC94, this is a prescient double. -- cortex

Hedwig dies.

Post 63058 by reklaw deleted for the following reason: Hoax or not, give a crap about HP or not: this is pretty much a completely bullshit move, reklaw. -- cortex

2007-07-18

Ship of fools

Post 63051 by homunculus deleted for the following reason: seen it. -- jessamyn

A reporter goes on a cruise with the National Review

Post 63048 by JHarris deleted for the following reason: 63048 goes on a cruise with the Deleted Doublepost Tribune -- cortex

The World's Most Hated Car

Post 63046 by PeteNicely deleted for the following reason: Heavy-handed editorializing, a ranty blog post, and pledge-stumping re: something we have talked about a lot. Not really good front page material. -- cortex

The Most Dangerous Video on the Internets

Post 63036 by msquare deleted for the following reason: Tin. Foil. Hat. Sign. My. Petition. -- jessamyn

Neocon echo chamber cruiselines

Post 63033 by daHIFI deleted for the following reason: How is this not just a LOLNEOCONZ pileon. Also: alternet, really? -- jessamyn

LOL PRE-XTIANS

Post 63022 by bardic deleted for the following reason: give a wicca a break man -- cortex

2007-07-17

Game, game, game, and again game.

Post 63016 by rollbiz deleted for the following reason: THE ONLY WAY TO WIN IS NOT TO REPLAY -- cortex

D'Oh!

Post 63003 by chuckdarwin deleted for the following reason: Check it out, I'm doing some deletion magic up in this thing. -- cortex

2007-07-16

IRENE: Digital imaging preserves recorded sounds

Post 62982 by turtlegirl deleted for the following reason: still on the front page. -- jessamyn

Balls

Post 62977 by Tommy Gnosis deleted for the following reason: up in the sky, it's... it's... previously posted -- mathowie

2007-07-15

Presidential Simulacrum

Post 62955 by Baby_Balrog deleted for the following reason: "George W. Bush does not exist" does exist. -- cortex

2007-07-13

I say to every honorable member of the Fatah movement that he should be happy that we got rid of the plague

Post 62913 by loquax deleted for the following reason: this is stil a screed. fortunately there is already a MeTa thread for discussing it. -- jessamyn

LNS: Even Better than the Capitolist

Post 62907 by awesomebrad deleted for the following reason: Last Night's Posts -- cortex

Brits, badgers and Basra

Post 62905 by sparky deleted for the following reason: categorically DENIED oh buuuuuuuurn -- cortex

militantly in the closet

Post 62903 by nickyskye deleted for the following reason: Wingers, wingnuts, wikipedia, wikipedia. I'm not sure where the quality content is supposed to be, here. -- cortex

Oh no!!!! Prince will destroy the music bidniss!

Post 62898 by The Deej deleted for the following reason: this is what it sounds like / when doubles die -- cortex

Throw Away Your Wig

Post 62892 by Defenestrator deleted for the following reason: This is just a press-release-as-news blurb and a pharma-camper prospectus. Not a great post. -- cortex

2007-07-12

Gobs of state run fun

Post 62888 by mattoxic deleted for the following reason: This is about four years old, and, more damningly, from Saturday Night Live. -- cortex
Post 62886 by orthogonality deleted for the following reason: broken video link - also MeFi is not your go-to resource for outing snuff films, for future reference. -- jessamyn

You're full of it.

Post 62875 by Brandon Blatcher deleted for the following reason: In your defense, there's a pretty tremendous amount of space between this post and 54360. -- cortex

PSAs get a makeover.

Post 62868 by spec80 deleted for the following reason: B - O - O - K spells book. Yay. -- jessamyn

Don't Say The Z Word!

Post 62861 by fallenposters deleted for the following reason: rrnnngngnaarrr zombie double poooooost -- cortex

New PSP, same as the old PSP

Post 62855 by SharQ deleted for the following reason: this is a wikipedia link and a product review link and is not a great post for metafilter. -- jessamyn

2007-07-11

Get your Gmail IMAPped and tagged

Post 62831 by electriccynic deleted for the following reason: Try reposting this on AskMe -- the blue isn't the place to ask for email configuration tips. -- cortex

2007-07-10

these things are technically innovations

Post 62828 by mrbula deleted for the following reason: This is just a brief, complainy post on Alison's blog; not really a good post. -- cortex

Just 10 More Days...

Post 62822 by Navelgazer deleted for the following reason: we do not need a potter update every day, please put this in the open thread -- jessamyn

So do you think this constitutes medical malpractise?

Post 62811 by Wilder deleted for the following reason: Basically asking for an opinion poll about a news article probably isn't a good idea. -- cortex

2007-07-09

Personifying the Wind

Post 62787 by cgc373 deleted for the following reason: cgc373 blew it -- cortex

This just in, men like big-breasted blonde women

Post 62780 by chuckdarwin deleted for the following reason: posted previously. -- jessamyn

_ _ _ _ _ _

Post 62768 by nthdegx deleted for the following reason: other than completely not making any goddam sense this is a pretty good post -- cortex

Microsoft Paint and a little time and effort

Post 62767 by konolia deleted for the following reason: I wrote this deletion reason with a Microsoft Notepad. -- cortex

2007-07-08

Butterfly Kisses - International Female Girl love Collective

Post 62749 by IronWolve deleted for the following reason: this is the sort of thing that gets people fired from work en masse, the site's come a long way since this was decent FPP material. there's metatalk for debate on the subject. -- jessamyn

The Natives

Post 62739 by hadjiboy deleted for the following reason: pretty much done previously -- jessamyn

2007-07-07

babies and doggies in teleporting Bumbos

Post 62734 by madamjujujive deleted for the following reason: i culpaed your mother's mea -- cortex

2007-07-06

It was on the news this mroing

Post 62713 by brownpau deleted for the following reason: This is kind of inside baseball; maybe take it to Metatalk. -- cortex

Orboxin'

Post 62704 by revmitcz deleted for the following reason: Shades of Sisyphus -- cortex

I Remember Love

Post 62699 by christina deleted for the following reason: So this is sort of just a crappy blog, it seems like. Not great FPP material. -- cortex

2007-07-05

What he said

Post 62685 by mattoxic deleted for the following reason: Olbie is tenacious, I'll give him that. -- cortex

the most dangerous roads in the world

Post 62678 by konolia deleted for the following reason: "Roads? Where we're going, we don't need already had roads." [sound of flying DeLorean] -- cortex
Post 62671 by jeremy b deleted for the following reason: This'd probably be just fine as comment in the aforementioned dunkin donuts post. -- cortex

Reduce, Reuse, Reanimate... wait, what?

Post 62665 by Pope Guilty deleted for the following reason: I'm reusing this deletion reason from that time when that dude posted a link to his band. -- cortex

Don't Know Much About History

Post 62661 by kirkaracha deleted for the following reason: Halberstammer -- cortex

How Costco became the Anti-Walmart

Post 62657 by chunking express deleted for the following reason: a couple years old (repost?) that blocks most users -- mathowie

2007-07-04

Japanese algorithm dance

Post 62647 by Listener deleted for the following reason: We've seen Pythagoras Switch once and twice before. -- cortex

Olbermann VS Bush

Post 62645 by Zinger deleted for the following reason: There's a pardon thread this'd fit in, so let's leave the incremental LibbyFilter to talkingpointsmemo; CitrusFreak12 reads too many deletions reasons; spiderwire gets a sympathy hug; happy fourth of july! -- cortex

Man eats 66 hotdogs in 12 minutes.

Post 62643 by Second Account For Making Jokey Comments deleted for the following reason: hurf durf double poster -- cortex
Post 62634 by orthogonality deleted for the following reason: grind grind grind grind. -- jessamyn

Developers (x4)

Post 62630 by Blazecock Pileon deleted for the following reason: Sweating to the oldies. Dude, this is like six years old. -- cortex

Judge, Judy, and Executioner

Post 62626 by John of Michigan deleted for the following reason: I think you meant to post this to the 2pm Saturday slot on your local network affiliate station. -- cortex

Will scare the crap out of the jury...at no extra charge!

Post 62621 by zardoz deleted for the following reason: Ha! Blind people are hilarious! -- cortex

2007-07-03

Pardon moi?

Post 62614 by Hat Maui deleted for the following reason: there is a pardoning thread open already. -- jessamyn

Now I'm going to hell for sure

Post 62610 by mock deleted for the following reason: lolxians post - not needed, not worth it. -- jessamyn

I'm So Proud of You Motherf%$#@!&

Post 62609 by Cool Papa Bell deleted for the following reason: This is a doub-- a fucking double. -- cortex

come see a robot rickshaw driver

Post 62606 by of strange foe deleted for the following reason: Double, Will Robinson! -- cortex

A Harsh Punishment For Mr. Libby

Post 62594 by hermitosis deleted for the following reason: posted previously. -- jessamyn

One brave weegie

Post 62592 by the cuban deleted for the following reason: server unavailable, link ununderstandable. effort: please make more next time. -- jessamyn

2007-07-02

More drama from the world of furry art....

Post 62585 by metasonix deleted for the following reason: this is an LOLFURRIEZ encyclopedia dramatica article. -- jessamyn

Royal Bastards

Post 62576 by gottabefunky deleted for the following reason: These bastards don't really have much on their webpage. -- cortex

The President Commutes on a Scooter

Post 62574 by mctsonic deleted for the following reason: Admin Commutes Front Page Term ofDouble Post. -- cortex

Carlyle makes an offer to Virgin

Post 62568 by Mr_Zero deleted for the following reason: Well, this is going really badly; Mr Zero gets his wish. -- cortex

lotsandlotsofcars

Post 62560 by mattoxic deleted for the following reason: Goodbye, Norma Jean. -- cortex

ǝpoɔıun ɥʇıʍ unɟ

Post 62553 by chrisamiller deleted for the following reason: sdoo -- cortex

2007-07-01

The Face of Age

Post 62546 by of strange foe deleted for the following reason: Faces of (double) posts. -- cortex

Dread Og pwnz

Post 62544 by hama7 deleted for the following reason: crappymysterious -- jessamyn

I Believe Collectibles

Post 62532 by believe deleted for the following reason: Wow. Just wow. -- mathowie