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Insert Karate Stereotype Here
via Not Always Right | Funny & Stupid Customer Quotes by admin on February 15, 2008
Customer: “Miss, do you serve Chinese food at this restaurant?”Me: “Um…no, we serve mainly bar food, hamburgers and that sort of thing.”Customer, irritated and skeptical, points at one of the servers: “Yeah, but he’s Chinese.”Related:…And We Wonder Why Everyone Hates Us
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Nonsensical Hypotheticals
via Not Always Right | Funny & Stupid Customer Quotes by admin on February 17, 2008
(Customer has pulled up the the drive-thru after ordering a coffee.)Customer: “Can you add the cream and sugar for me?”Me: “It’s against policy to do that to prevent contamination.”Customer: “Well, what if I had no arms?”Me:*dumb founded*Customer: “If I spill the cream as I’m adding it while driving, I’m going to sue you!”Me: “Sir, you’re in a parking lot. You can pull...
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It was the best of MeFi. It was the worst of MeFi.
via MetaTalk by amyms on February 17, 2008
If you were showing the MetaFilter Universe (including the main page, Ask, Talk, Projects, Music, everything) to someone for the first time, what threads would you choose as examples of MeFi at its best and at its worst?
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Problem Exists Between Chair And Keyboard
via Not Always Right | Funny & Stupid Customer Quotes by admin on February 22, 2008
(I had just started a new IT job for a large school district and was not expecting the level of stupidity I would be dealing with on a regular basis. Within my first 3 weeks, I receive a phone call from a school.)Clerk: “Hi, I am trying to use this new system on these computers and I attempting to make my account. My Principal got me started but now I am stuck.”Me: “What seems to be the...
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Stupid Game Show Answers - Run from the Dumb
via YouTube Subscriptions' Videos by rss@youtube.com (stupidgsa) on February 24, 2008
... thing you own* Match Game - Batman and Robin* Family Fortunes - Something you take from hotels as a souvenir* To Tell the Truth - Birds* Win Ben Stein's Money - What did Ben Franklin attach to his kite?* Family Feud - An animal whose legs are on a restaurant menu Author: stupidgsa Keywords: stupidgameshowanswersnewlywedfamilyfeudfortuneswinbenstein'smoneydumb Added: February 23, 2008
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Origamic Architecture: Stunning Sculptures Cut Out of Paper
via Neatorama by Alex on February 24, 2008
In the Japanese paperfolding art of origami, cutting the paper is frowned upon. But in 1981, Masahiro Chatani, professor of Architecture at Tokyo Institute of Technology proved that papercutting could indeed produce stunning pieces of art.Along with his colleague Keiko Nakazawa, Chatani developed Origamic Architecture, a variation of kirigami (itself a variation of origami where cuts were...
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Morning Glories
via Neatorama by Miss Cellania on February 24, 2008
(YouTube link)So that’s how they do it! This video shows how morning glories find and twine around any support they can. One frame was shot every ten minutes. Link -via Arbroath
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When "FireDogs" And "Geeks" Don't Know What's Wrong, You Pay [Undercover]
via Consumerist by Meg Marco on February 25, 2008
Channel 10 out of Columbus, Ohio recently conducted a sting operation in which they equipped themselves with an easily repaired laptop and took it to Geek Squad, FireDog and Micro Center to see who could figure out what was wrong. The station's IT guy changed one settling in the BIOS. "This is definitely something you can find out while you're doing your diagnostics or troubleshooting,"...
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Jonathan Coulton performs "Still Alive" in Rock Band
via Waxy.org Links by (author unknown) on February 26, 2008
backed by Merlin Mann, Leo Laporte, and Veronica Belmont; it's a geekgasm
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