2008-04-30
2 Real Prices of Gas
Post 71275 by yoyoceramic deleted for the following reason: two gas price charts are pretty thin gruel -- jessamyn
2008-04-29
Giant squid comes out of ice
Post 71243 by chuckdarwin deleted for the following reason: it's squid vs squid around here this week! -- jessamyn
2008-04-28
The Beginning. Only the Cunning Will See the End.
Post 71233 by Dave Faris deleted for the following reason: DAMMIT FRITOLAY WHY YOU GOT TO BE ALL LIKE "OOH YOU LIKED MYST WHY DON'T YOU SIGN UP FOR A SPOOKY MAILING LIST" FOR CRYIN' OUT LOUD -- cortex
Soldier's father exposes deplorable conditions at Fort Bragg
Post 71225 by shawnwasson deleted for the following reason: You just posted something hosted on the website of your own radio show. -- cortex
“Throw Some (Canon in) D'sâ€
Post 71208 by matthewstopheles deleted for the following reason: There's some at the very least not exactly kosher friend-of-friend stuff going on with this post. -- cortex
GTA IV!!!
Post 71204 by auralcoral deleted for the following reason: If you love this game so much you should maybe compose a more excellent post about it? -- jessamyn
2008-04-27
Four Years in New Zealand
Post 71189 by chuckdarwin deleted for the following reason: I hear they're going to call the video game "Bilbo Bobble" -- cortex
Ridiculously pregnant
Post 71188 by Brandon Blatcher deleted for the following reason: Yeah, this is all ripped straight from someone's recent book. Funny, but not really cool. -- cortex
2008-04-26
2008-04-25
You've been a naughty spock drawing
Post 71152 by arnold deleted for the following reason: I really love this site, but we did just see it a few days ago. -- cortex
Once Again
Post 71131 by Capt Jingo deleted for the following reason: Jesus, why not just splash around some gasoline and light a match? -- cortex
2008-04-24
2008-04-23
Good old fashioned Eugenics
Post 71092 by Mr.Encyclopedia deleted for the following reason: Kind of a stinkbomb, here. -- cortex
Darth Vader is an Antijedite.
Post 71085 by It's Raining Florence Henderson deleted for the following reason: empire struck previously -- jessamyn
2008-04-22
Is god imaginary?
Post 71072 by oxford blue deleted for the following reason: thanks for the wendell tag, that really made this all go a lot easier. -- jessamyn
But Mommy, where do boobies come from?
Post 71063 by Megami deleted for the following reason: I have seen this previously, and it freaked me out, is there a book for that? -- jessamyn
Did John McCain cover up his complicity with his North Vietnamese captors?
Post 71055 by QuietDesperation deleted for the following reason: I'm sure there are good ways to look into what's up with McCain but one Counterpunch link is really not a great way to do politicsfilter here. -- jessamyn
2008-04-21
2008-04-18
Darwin 2008
Post 70958 by chuckdarwin deleted for the following reason: Contrary to previous theories, 70958 actually descended from 61212, not 70913. -- cortex
An Earthquake Rocks the Midwest
Post 70957 by sixcolors deleted for the following reason: Yup, we heard about it. Local non-catastrophic earthquake news probably isn't really front-page stuff, though. -- cortex
...and they use real cream and butter
Post 70950 by Tablecrumbs deleted for the following reason: Cheap eats at culinary school restaurants are pretty great, but this is awfully thin on content for a post to the front page. -- cortex
Student Suspended When Dad Calls Him From Iraq.
Post 70942 by caveat empress deleted for the following reason: please don't do this here. -- jessamyn
2008-04-17
Foreclosures In Texas Are Down
Post 70937 by Brent Mitchell deleted for the following reason: Not really an interesting post. -- mathowie
Most Hated Song in the World
Post 70910 by Pater Aletheias deleted for the following reason: freakin top 40 radio its like i they can't go two hours without playing stairway and this -- cortex
2008-04-16
2008-04-15
Your guide to becoming a Taco Bell Hero
Post 70849 by porn in the woods deleted for the following reason: The post builds this up but it's really pretty standard training materials, no insidery dirt to be found. -- mathowie
Boy oh boy.
Post 70841 by three blind mice deleted for the following reason: Man, being coy about gossipy election posting doesn't actually make it better. -- cortex
2008-04-13
"Times Square was the happening place. Big date. Hop in a taxi. And go see 'Night Train' at the Globe Theater."
Post 70801 by goodnewsfortheinsane deleted for the following reason: Color photographs from Metafilter during the Previous Thread. -- cortex
Jam Session
Post 70788 by ludwig_van deleted for the following reason: ha ha ludwig_van's Sharper Image catalog showed up late -- cortex
2008-04-12
Gore and Carter to endorse Obama?
Post 70778 by donaldekelly deleted for the following reason: If this does happen, that'll be news, but right now this appears to be rumorfilter from unnamed sources, and "from digg" isn't really much help there. -- cortex
Politics is a continuation of war by other means
Post 70757 by misteraitch deleted for the following reason: nice post, but posted previously -- jessamyn
2008-04-11
Do you diss every night of the summer school?
Post 70754 by Frankieist deleted for the following reason: I think at a certain point we find ourselves straddling the line between neat stupid weird and merely stupid stupid weird, and this seems sort of on the wrong side of that line. -- cortex
The Weird Uncle of Invention
Post 70742 by louche mustachio deleted for the following reason: When you get Gizmo wet, he multiplies. -- cortex
Dick Cheney's Fly-Fishing Vacation
Post 70735 by webhund deleted for the following reason: We kind of covered this already in Ask MeFi yesterday -- mathowie
"I was working in the lab... LATE one night..."
Post 70729 by Bathtub Bobsled deleted for the following reason: this is a good collection of links but it's the subject of a post still being discussed on the front page and probably needs to go there -- jessamyn
2008-04-10
The Bastardization of Dr. Seuss
Post 70707 by jbrosowsky deleted for the following reason: I would come up with some sort of Dr. Suess presentation here but I'm kind of too annoyed at you for the stupid self-link so I'll just ban you instead. Something something red. -- cortex
2008-04-09
A safer alternative?
Post 70681 by auralcoral deleted for the following reason: You have formatted your post as a zingy gotcha attack on the thing you're posting about. Not a great idea. -- cortex
Uwe Boll responds to online petition
Post 70674 by alby deleted for the following reason: I'm looking forward to his production of Uwe Boll Petition Post 3: The Deletening. -- cortex
2008-04-08
metafilter: right between boingboing and treehugger
Post 70650 by [son] QUAALUDE deleted for the following reason: this post was voted #2 on the alltime best posts to already be in metatalk instead -- cortex
Suffer the little children to come unto me
Post 70640 by mullingitover deleted for the following reason: seriously, this is already going so terribly badly that I don't see much of a reason for it to continue. what is there to "discuss" about child rape and how lousy it is? -- jessamyn
2008-04-07
2008-04-06
2008-04-05
2008-04-04
Should Assholes be Let Off the Hook?
Post 70540 by five fresh fish deleted for the following reason: save the editorializing for YOB please. -- jessamyn
2008-04-03
2008-04-02
International Dialects of English Archive
Post 70462 by ozomatli deleted for the following reason: posted previously (and I put better tags on the earlier post) -- jessamyn
2008-04-01
And I thought that I might get a date out of the deal. Sheesh.
Post 70436 by caveat empress deleted for the following reason: Mentioning this in one of the existing April Fools posts would be fine; a great big hard-sell post to the front page really isn't necessary at this point. -- cortex
The Art of Memetics: Pirate Edition
Post 70430 by metameme deleted for the following reason: Uh, I'm willing to hear you out if there's actually extenuating circumstances here, but your registration email matches one of the folks who wrote the foreward for the damn book. The part where this isn't a self-link is pretty unclear to me. -- cortex
What we have is a problem of talking about race.
Post 70410 by three blind mice deleted for the following reason: Dobbs is a creep, and that was exactly the wrong idiom for him to trot out under the circumstances, but this is more of a Ha ha! live TV gaffe than anything; we've heard worse from better and this is just an argument waiting to happen. -- cortex
1.21 gigawatts ?!?
Post 70409 by scblackman deleted for the following reason: If it's a mild one-linker April Fools thing, we're probably better off just sticking it in the April Fools Roundup post from yesterday. In this case, someone did, in fact. -- cortex