Post 77864 by SneakyArab deleted for the following reason: Go Jennifer, but this is pretty lowbrow news-of-the-weird stuff for a post. -- cortex
2008-12-31
Terminally Chillin
Post 77862 by maltorrance deleted for the following reason: I wish Patrick the best, but it appears you're basically promoting your friend's project here and that is not okay. -- cortex
Ahmedinajad sure does have tiny eyes
Post 77860 by parmanparman deleted for the following reason: I see what you're discussing in the thread, and you can have my double deletions when you pry them from my cold, dead hands. -- cortex
2008-12-29
You have not seen this version of "Single Ladies"
Post 77821 by tumbleweedjack deleted for the following reason: this is pretty much the same as last month's version though thank you, I can never get enough rump-shaking personally. -- jessamyn
But I don't live in a movie theater!
Post 77816 by dancinglamb deleted for the following reason: I think you were aiming for Ask Mefi. -- cortex
Wu-Tang Clan Geneaology Revealed
Post 77812 by jon_hansen deleted for the following reason: Area Mefite Unaware Just How Often Onion Linked Previously, Lack Of Awareness Not Held Against Him -- cortex
2008-12-28
2008-12-27
2008-12-26
Did Jane skip a lot of breakfests in her youth?
Post 77733 by Foci for Analysis deleted for the following reason: Source on this is sufficiently lacking in real meat that it's hard to see this turning into anything other than a generic argument about statistics and social science research. News-of-the-weird blips without context usually aren't great posts. -- cortex
2008-12-23
2008-12-22
Anti-Catholicism
Post 77662 by jason's_planet deleted for the following reason: gave it a chance to not become "another fuck-the-Pope trainwreck" but it didn't rally. Please don't do this here. You are more than welcome to get your own blog. Thanks. -- jessamyn
2008-12-21
A cure for Cancer... or false hope?
Post 77624 by flipyourwig deleted for the following reason: We had a post about Kanzius earlier this year. -- cortex
2008-12-20
Marijuana stash in school
Post 77614 by longsleeves deleted for the following reason: AP wire war/drug news of the snuh blip? -- cortex
A World Enslaved
Post 77603 by chunking express deleted for the following reason: And don't even get me started about how many metafilter posts about this there are compared to a thousand years ago. -- cortex
2008-12-19
Who throws a shoe... really?
Post 77570 by Mastercheddaar deleted for the following reason: really there's an open post about the shoe thing. -- jessamyn
2008-12-18
Is it Flash Friday, yet?
Post 77557 by Devils Rancher deleted for the following reason: One of these days, someone's gonna make a really awesome, post-worthy flash game about throwing shoes at heads of state, but this one isn't it anymore than that other one earlier was. -- cortex
Maybe you could do a better job?
Post 77554 by QueerAngel28 deleted for the following reason: this is a little light for a FPP about a topic that has a big open thread. -- jessamyn
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sugarplums?
Post 77537 by CheeseburgerBrown deleted for the following reason: Don't post links to anything you wrote. Pretty basic and hard-set rule -- mathowie
2008-12-17
2008-12-16
2008-12-15
Yogurt Box Cat
Post 77467 by dead cousin ted deleted for the following reason: Please phrase your doubles in the form of a question. -- cortex
Reading Microsoft .msg Files on a Mac
Post 77460 by Coherence Panda deleted for the following reason: This belongs in Ask MetaFilter. -- pb
2008-12-14
God help us.
Post 77426 by the_very_hungry_caterpillar deleted for the following reason: Over the top presentation of non-story regarding song we've talked about at ridiculous length previously, with bonus "everybody go buy this thing" exhortation: not really a good post. -- cortex
2008-12-13
A new site about green building
Post 77401 by pubblicitae deleted for the following reason: Self-link by SEO marketer for the site, banned -- mathowie
2008-12-12
2008-12-11
A Disturbing Trend
Post 77362 by martinc6 deleted for the following reason: I have the only job in the world that puts a person in the position where they're required by professional obligation to utter this sentence: "These men-playing-with-Barbie sex videos are more just gross than interesting, and they're not being received well." -- cortex
The 2008 URLIES
Post 77341 by interweber deleted for the following reason: disclaimer: including a disclaimer that you're linking to your workplace doens't absolve you from the self-linky rule. Remember that box you checked??? -- jessamyn -- jessamyn
2008-12-10
Zimbabwe-style hyperinflation
Post 77314 by Rafaelloello deleted for the following reason: this is a messy crypitc post to one of those blogs that steals images and smushes them all together with limited context which you have also failed to provide making it an overall bad post for metafilter. -- jessamyn
How to Buy Your Girlfriend the Perfect Holiday Gift
Post 77310 by businessninja deleted for the following reason: Hey, you're the VP of Digital Marketing at a company that does marketing for Spike, and this crappy post features a video from Spike. That's such a weird coincidence. -- cortex
2008-12-08
2008-12-07
In Some Ways, Worse Than Bombing
Post 77224 by aliceinreality deleted for the following reason: The previous post covered this really well and the only thing new here is an op-ed. This is a bit more than semi-double, and the thread's kind of tanking in the mean time. -- cortex
2008-12-05
E = dance off
Post 77150 by Brandon Blatcher deleted for the following reason: *pirouettes* *mimes typing up a post* *pops, locks* -- cortex
Cool Fashion Photos
Post 77138 by perrylmadison deleted for the following reason: SEO spammer working for Conde Nast. So long you fuckface. -- mathowie
2008-12-04
2008-12-02
Worst. Sex. Ever.
Post 77037 by cmoj deleted for the following reason: Titania melted as Jorge took her, fiercely yet gently, into his arms. "Not again," she cried, "I have a hair appointment at two!" But her hungering eyes betrayed her, and they got naked and started doing it for like the third time that afternoon. -- cortex
2008-12-01
BushFilter
Post 77005 by Skeptic deleted for the following reason: I hate to shit in your cheerios, since you clearly put a lot of work into compiling this, but what you compiled is kind of an overwhelming pile of god knows what, much of which has gotten topical limelight on the front page previously. If there are as you say some surprising gems in there, maybe consider making a post focusing on those. -- cortex
2008-11-30
2008-11-29
2008-11-27
Out of Iraq. Check. Next...
Post 76908 by secondhand deleted for the following reason: this is a really weird ay to talk about what it seems like you want to talk about. -- jessamyn
2008-11-26
Does Obama read Metafilter?
Post 76886 by zerobyproxy deleted for the following reason: This is a terrible post. The front page is not your political blog. -- cortex
Thanksgiving Gifts for Lefties
Post 76877 by Bitter soylent deleted for the following reason: This is not a good post for metafilter -- vacapinta
2008-11-25
Change Marches Into the Hospital
Post 76873 by Glibpaxman deleted for the following reason: I don't think we need updates re: individual pages of change.org, it's kind of drilling down a bit far and a bit too frequently into a single site that's already been covered. -- cortex
Exactitudes
Post 76861 by divabat deleted for the following reason: deletion reason pretty much writes itself here -- cortex
Peter Schiff: Sometimes the bears are right and wrong
Post 76855 by stbalbach deleted for the following reason: We were just Schiffing it up a few days ago. Maybe add this to that thread as a comment? And yeah, the "Faux News" thing is a bit fark. -- cortex
2008-11-24
we will never accept the principal of forgiveness
Post 76837 by shothotbot deleted for the following reason: Yeah, registration-only content is pretty much a non-starter. -- cortex
2008-11-23
2008-11-22
Bruce Lee plays ping pong with nunchuck
Post 76798 by YoBananaBoy deleted for the following reason: Bruce Lee stand-in advertises Nokia phone? I'm not a hardcore OMG COMMERCIALISM guy, but this seems like it's pushing it awfully hard. -- cortex
2008-11-21
Is your money safe?
Post 76769 by up in the old hotel deleted for the following reason: deleted at poster's request -- mathowie
Gratuitous use of the word 'Butt'
Post 76768 by coachfortner deleted for the following reason: Tiny news-of-the-weird reports really aren't good post material. -- cortex
...a BAWN-guh!
Post 76764 by not_on_display deleted for the following reason: I think this might be the fabled line in the sand, right here. -- cortex
Gobble Gobble!!
Post 76758 by spirit72 deleted for the following reason: double your palin, double your something other than fun -- cortex
2008-11-20
Line Rider
Post 76737 by St. Alia of the Bunnies deleted for the following reason: Been covered a lot previously, though it's nice that they added undo. -- cortex
Americans were sold a bad bill of goods.
Post 76733 by shockingbluamp deleted for the following reason: Surely there is coverage of the transition available that is better and more meaty than two short articles, and a better way to present it. -- cortex
2008-11-19
A little to the left, I can't see it there.
Post 76709 by spacewrench deleted for the following reason: I don't get it -- this is an ad for a magazine with a few links to porn magazines. Is there content here, or is it my ZOMG BLIND SPOT??? -- jessamyn
Big Three CEOs Flew Private Jets to Plead for Public Funds (ABC News)
Post 76695 by bondgirl53001 deleted for the following reason: this is sort of a single link newsy "look at these assholes" post, yes? -- jessamyn
2008-11-18
Modern Pirates
Post 76651 by up in the old hotel deleted for the following reason: Ye might append yer post as a comment to yon recent postie, arrr. -- cortex
2008-11-17
2008-11-16
Letter from a black girl: I love you guys.
Post 76603 by desjardins deleted for the following reason: I don't think "possibly trolling black pro-white racist garners paradoxical responses on white power site" is interesting enough by itself to cross the let's-link-to-Stormfront threshold. -- cortex
Free sheets with bulk orders.
Post 76589 by christopherious deleted for the following reason: you're reading a bit much into it, eh? -- mathowie
2008-11-15
Privacy no more!
Post 76576 by shockingbluamp deleted for the following reason: Beaten by a few minutes on the first link; go ahead and add the second one as a comment to your predescessor. -- cortex
2008-11-14
"So Much of His Brain is Damaged"
Post 76548 by eccnineten deleted for the following reason: I'm sorry to hear about this, but links to google searches do not make for good posts. If you want to go through those results and find some actual good content and try again tomorrow, that'd be a-okay with us, but this isn't the way to do it right here. -- cortex
2008-11-13
Some assembly may be required
Post 76512 by Autarky deleted for the following reason: This did get first-comment treatment just recently in this related thread, so I think we're essentially in double territory here. -- cortex
Real Estate Only Goes UP!
Post 76502 by Marisa Stole the Precious Thing deleted for the following reason: down with this sort of thing. -- jessamyn
Female Bodybuilders
Post 76501 by jim in austin deleted for the following reason: There's probably a good way to make a post about female bodybuilders, but this really isn't it. -- cortex
2008-11-11
I saw it on the T-V, it must be true
Post 76459 by Glibpaxman deleted for the following reason: great post but we saw it about two weeks ago. -- jessamyn
2008-11-09
2008-11-08
your most imaginative metaphor for the Bush years and Obama's election
Post 76358 by Broadside Affront deleted for the following reason: This doesn't really fit into metafilter anywhere -- mathowie
2008-11-07
Obama on Flickr, 11-04-08
Post 76330 by timeistight deleted for the following reason: Yeah, this is probably not really needing its own post. Nice pictures, though. -- cortex
2008-11-06
Congratulations, you've got the job
Post 76313 by salishsea deleted for the following reason: See very recent change.gov thread. -- cortex
Lame ducks are thought to have been bred from one strain of alcohol abusing ducks that drink and swim/or fly.
Post 76305 by cjorgensen deleted for the following reason: A little less dada and a little more good links next time, please. -- cortex
Sen. Smith concedes
Post 76294 by oneironaut deleted for the following reason: If we're going to have a post about the implications of a near supermajority Democratic senate, it ought to have some meat to it on the subject; an oregonlive link as an excuse to talk is not really the way to go with this. -- cortex
2008-11-05
Bill Bishop on the Origins of Red and Blue America
Post 76289 by Ridonkulous deleted for the following reason: Sorry Andrew, no poptech links when you run poptech. -- mathowie
This is Show Business
Post 76288 by sluglicker deleted for the following reason: Maybe add this to the Nader/Vidal thread three doors down? -- cortex
Chalk one more up for the Dems
Post 76282 by mcstayinskool deleted for the following reason: I'm personally stoked about this too, but we really can't go crazy with the line-item election posts. -- cortex
Prop. 8 lawsuit
Post 76270 by nospecialfx deleted for the following reason: With another Prop 8 thread this morning, this should probably be added to that as a comment rather than doubling up. -- cortex
RIP Jimmy Carl Black
Post 76267 by Guy_Inamonkeysuit deleted for the following reason: He's already been honored by the coveted James Brown Medal of Duplication. -- cortex
2008-11-04
They're Already Drunk In Ireland
Post 76257 by hillabeans deleted for the following reason: a single blog post? kinda thin. -- mathowie
but what if the worst happens...
Post 76253 by chelseagirl deleted for the following reason: with results just beginning to come in, let's hold off until things get more official. -- mathowie
Other things today
Post 76237 by csteelatgburg deleted for the following reason: Wikipedia links don't really make for great post material. -- cortex
2008-11-03
2008-11-02
the area round the chicken's mouth turns blue/green, and i think that indicates that it's a transvestite chicken? i'm not sure.
Post 76199 by 31d1 deleted for the following reason: [a blobbish-shaped rabbit man points to you excitededly and leaps up and down; suddenly, the floor gives out beneath him and he falls through. There is a comical splatter. You investigate, to find that his entrails have spread into the shape of the word "double". A frog ribbits, and the rabbit man's severed head laughs childishly.] -- cortex
2008-11-01
One radio call can change the world for McCain.
Post 76175 by waitingtoderail deleted for the following reason: there's already a nyuk nyuk Palin thread today. -- jessamyn
2008-10-31
What's really behind the current decline in gas prices?
Post 76154 by PetBoogaloo deleted for the following reason: yeah, a single link to a book club isn't quite enough meat for a post, sorry. -- mathowie
Assembler - fun flash game
Post 76150 by ObscureReferenceMan deleted for the following reason: This was linked in the first comment of this other flash game post a few posts down. -- cortex
Boo.
Post 76143 by East Manitoba Regional Junior Kabaddi Champion '94 deleted for the following reason: knock it off. -- jessamyn
Cute costume overload
Post 76140 by weapons-grade pandemonium deleted for the following reason: This is proof that something that'd could make an adorable photo can also make an incredibly dull video. -- cortex
2008-10-30
Mountain View and Hollywood want you and your friends to vote.
Post 76119 by Toekneesan deleted for the following reason: these have been around for a while and mentioned on mefi before -- mathowie
Diebold Accidentally Leaks Results Of 08 Election
Post 76111 by bonobothegreat deleted for the following reason: eh, given it's a single link to youtube and a single link to The Onion, it's got to be something substantial and good to stay, and this is just mildly amusuing. -- mathowie
Roll up roll up....your free regime de la terreur
Post 76095 by numberstation deleted for the following reason: The image is unreadable. The magazine is not a good mefi post by itself either. -- vacapinta
2008-10-29
Welcome to Morrowind. Bring guns.
Post 76077 by Foci for Analysis deleted for the following reason: This is pretty darned thin. Do not make posts during a Mentats crash, plz. -- cortex
One man's poison is another woman's meat
Post 76076 by theManRoom deleted for the following reason: Just because it happened in Canada doesn't make it not a crappy attention-getting op-ed. -- cortex
2008-10-28
Obama's Loss Traced To Matthew Haughey
Post 76049 by East Manitoba Regional Junior Kabaddi Champion '94 deleted for the following reason: It's cute, but also pretty darned thin for a post. -- cortex
A series of syllogistic tubes
Post 76036 by twoleftfeet deleted for the following reason: This is just a series of unrelated news links, none of which are strong enough to stand on their own. -- vacapinta
2008-10-27
A Huge Piece of Dried Tofu crushes the Hang Seng
Post 76027 by Rafaelloello deleted for the following reason: This is a real mess. Please try to aim for more than "here's some financial news article" -- if there's something specific and interesting here, aim for that and build your post around it. -- cortex
Geman police hunting for muppet
Post 76015 by YurikoKinje deleted for the following reason: This is pretty thin. And I'm enrolling dersins in rehab, because he's been reading too many deletion reasons. -- cortex
2008-10-26
2008-10-25
A near-complete, species-level phylogeny of extant mammals
Post 75975 by carter deleted for the following reason: It's not a double post, it's just convergent evolution in action. -- cortex
Portable Film Festival
Post 75973 by Effigy2000 deleted for the following reason: still portable after all these years weeks -- cortex
Punchy but relaxed
Post 75957 by twoleftfeet deleted for the following reason: Smash Shack is bordering on interesting -- though there's not a whole lot of web content on that front, even -- but this post is not so great on the whole and OH GOD TEN MORE DAYS TEN MORE DAYS TEN MORE DAYS -- cortex
2008-10-24
2008-10-23
Chicken or Maverick...
Post 75893 by Toekneesan deleted for the following reason: this is sort of turning into minutia American election filter here and maybe needs to go into an open election post? -- jessamyn
2008-10-22
Impossible Mission
Post 75889 by benzenedream deleted for the following reason: creepy racist fetish stuff, sorry. -- mathowie
My head hurts
Post 75877 by tallthinone deleted for the following reason: There doesn't seem to be any post here. A collection of unnoteworthy corporate stuff is not interesting just because of a common word; where there's the there? -- cortex
Orson Scott Card on the American Media and the Bush derangement syndrome.
Post 75867 by fox_terrier_guy deleted for the following reason: "Orson Scott Card holds forth!" threads tend to go pretty damn badly around here, and a read through this op-ed suggests this isn't going to be the exception to that rule. -- cortex
2008-10-21
Lee Atwater's Political Legacy
Post 75853 by radiofreewalsh deleted for the following reason: Dude, you're the senior producer for Word of Mouth. This is extremely not okay. -- cortex
2008-10-20
The Things He Carried - Jeffrey Goldberg - The Atlantic
Post 75802 by East Manitoba Regional Junior Kabaddi Champion '94 deleted for the following reason: Sir, I'm going to have to ask you to step out of the line. -- cortex
A Maverick And A Gentleman
Post 75795 by jason's_planet deleted for the following reason: On a bad day, this would be a really good way to get banned. -- cortex
Project Censored as censors?
Post 75790 by internationalfeel deleted for the following reason: Metafilter is not an editorial stump, and (a) this post is selling itself pretty hard and (b) you're moderating your own thread way too aggressively. There may be a way to make a good post about this, but this isn't it. -- cortex
2008-10-19
2008-10-17
2008-10-16
Al Smith Dinner 2008
Post 75718 by XQUZYPHYR deleted for the following reason: It was a close match, but I'm awarding it to the other post on points. Good fight, gentlemen. -- cortex
Google Getting Hijacked
Post 75695 by lubujackson deleted for the following reason: If this is a post worth making, there's got to be a way to do it without linking to stuff that's suffering from a redirects hijack. -- cortex
Blossom Goodchild was wrong. It was a shock.l. (SLYT)
Post 75686 by shockingbluamp deleted for the following reason: Probably better inside the current open post -- vacapinta
2008-10-15
Swept Away
Post 75674 by fearfulsymmetry deleted for the following reason: Desperately Seeking Deletin' -- cortex
2008-10-14
2008-10-12
Massive Die-off Conspiracy Filter?
Post 75607 by schyler523 deleted for the following reason: The cabal threatened to take away my macbook if I didn't delete this weird lol?conspiracy post. -- cortex
2008-10-11
http://www.aluka.org
Post 75589 by Taksi Putra deleted for the following reason: This was a problem the first time you did it, too. Do not do this. -- cortex
Matt Haughey for President!
Post 75581 by feelinglistless deleted for the following reason: no way dude Matt's an arab terrorist and shit -- cortex
2008-10-10
Abandon Ship!
Post 75558 by Pseudology deleted for the following reason: pretty thin local news post. maybe ok if you rounded up a handful of other industries affected by the wall st. slippage -- mathowie
2008-10-08
http://www.aluka.org/
Post 75504 by Taksi Putra deleted for the following reason: You need to slow down a bit when you're thinking about posting, maybe. -- cortex
2008-10-07
Uncomfortably Totalitarian Commercials
Post 75471 by MiguelCardoso deleted for the following reason: oh migs, it is so wonderful to see you here again. that said, this is sort of an over-the-top OMG sort of note to come back on and perhaps you'd prefer a few drinks over in metatalk instead? -- jessamyn
2008-10-06
2008-10-05
The People All Call Her Alaska
Post 75412 by sloweducation deleted for the following reason: we can't really do a Palin post per day here. Possibly add this to one of the many many Palin threads already opened? -- jessamyn
The Angry Police Captain.
Post 75405 by beaucoupkevin deleted for the following reason: um, yeah, kinda just got yourself banned right there -- mathowie
Velocirapture...clever girl...
Post 75404 by Queen of Spreadable Fats deleted for the following reason: there must be an open Palin thread this can go in, no? -- jessamyn
2008-10-04
2008-10-03
Slick Willie and the Subprimes
Post 75364 by ZenMasterThis deleted for the following reason: Yes, we've seen this op-ed from a week ago before. -- mathowie
McCain-Palin Myths
Post 75354 by sloweducation deleted for the following reason: pretty thin political post we've seen dozens of times before -- mathowie
2008-10-02
2008-10-01
Brokeresurection
Post 75322 by jaduncan deleted for the following reason: Open thread on congressional bailout hooah. -- cortex
Green Party Candidate Claims 5,000 Prisoners Executed
Post 75318 by VicNebulous deleted for the following reason: As is, this is really really thin. Maybe a post if some substantial coverage comes out of this? -- cortex
We Deserve It Dividend
Post 75305 by Man with Lantern deleted for the following reason: A single link to Snopes is pretty much never going to be a good post. -- cortex
a little mouse
Post 75293 by February28 deleted for the following reason: this is a bit too subtle for banned books week, some background and other info would have helped. -- mathowie
2008-09-30
Documented History of the Bubble
Post 75263 by Rafaelloello deleted for the following reason: this was already pretty sketch the last time it was posted and it's not any better just because it's being hosted someplace else -- maybe this can go over to politicalfilter but we've already got a housing crisis post or two here. -- jessamyn
2008-09-29
Height (by xkcd)
Post 75258 by Effigy2000 deleted for the following reason: Maybe we can link to the Onion next, and cap it off with a link to the front page of CNN. After letting the audience scream and applaud for five minutes, we'll give 'em what they want with a McSweeney's/Zombo.com medley encore. -- cortex
Chalkerrific.
Post 75257 by Lutoslawski deleted for the following reason: kind of been done before dozens of times on MeFi -- mathowie
2008-09-28
Tell the short shite to pick Palin!
Post 75232 by dash_slot- deleted for the following reason: I'm not sure what this adds to the downfall posts we've already seen and I sort of agree with this "These sorts of gags are a subtle way to humanize Hitler and the Nazis while ignoring the utterly inhuman acts of cruelty and murder they perpetrated." -- jessamyn
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