Tuesday, July 31, 2007

The White Stripes Brand has me shopping Target

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This post was 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.

posted by weathermachine

Stick `em up, copper!

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This post was deleted for the following reason: Posted recently, yo. No harm in hopping into that thread, though.

posted by jeversol

big fish eat the little ones, big fish eat the little ones -- not my problem, give me some

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This post was deleted for the following reason: We were just talking about this a couple weeks back.

posted by saulgoodman

Monday, July 30, 2007

Generation Chickenhawk

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This post was deleted for the following reason: Please see previous exhausting discussion on this topic.

posted by dejah420

Gonzales Piñata Party

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This post was 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.

posted by Emoskimo

They Come in Threes

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This post was 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"

posted by ed

Paris Hilton Loses Inheritance

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This post was deleted for the following reason: gossip rumor about an ultra-celeb is not a good post for MeFi

posted by rottytooth

Walking 1000 miles for charity

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This post was deleted for the following reason: A charity-stump for a guy you know is not a good idea for a Metafilter post.

posted by electriccynic

Zombie Kid Likes Turtles.

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This post was deleted for the following reason: I cannot tell you how pleased I am that this kid is from my home town, all else aside.

posted by Sticherbeast

Sunday, July 29, 2007

Human Brain Cloud -> word association

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This post was deleted for the following reason: Site seems to have been annihilated in our loving grasp.

posted by carsonb

Simpsonize me!

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This post was 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.

posted by grahamwell

Saturday, July 28, 2007

Suffer the children

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This post was 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?

posted by mattoxic

Program X

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This post was 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?

posted by homunculus

Friday, July 27, 2007

Adam Sandler - Secret

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This post was deleted for the following reason: Secret: this is a shockingly lousy Adam Sandler video from like two years ago.

posted by purephase

WMD

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This post was 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?

posted by chlorus

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

Deleted thread: 63299

This post was 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.

posted by adamvasco

Toldja

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This post was deleted for the following reason: Yeah, this is pretty much exactly the wrong way to put together a post, newsy or otherwise.

posted by squidfartz

Thursday, July 26, 2007

No End in Sight

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This post was deleted for the following reason: Just a trailer and a couple imdb comments? There's not much post here.

posted by spock

the purr of death

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This post was deleted for the following reason: Why is that cat hanging around this post like that?

posted by Sailormom

We just LOVE your show.

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This post was 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.

posted by Navelgazer

Rapture Ready

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This post was 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.

posted by Ty Webb

Death Cat of Rhode Island

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This post was deleted for the following reason: posted previously

posted by stupidsexyFlanders

Wednesday, July 25, 2007

I was acting on behalf of the president...

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This post was 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.

posted by delmoi

Han did shoot first

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This post was 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.

posted by Hollow

Big Lies: Israel and the Middle East

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This post was deleted for the following reason: yeah, not seeing any breakthrough reason why everyone should wade through a biased PDF paper.

posted by Defenestrator

Wall Street

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This post was deleted for the following reason: It's the coup that time didn't precisely forget after all as it turns out.

posted by four panels

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

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This post was deleted for the following reason: This is pretty dang thing and was covered in a recent, topical thread regardless.

posted by ItsaMario

Step 1: Intoxicate pig...

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This post was deleted for the following reason: Turns out we pretty much need to retire "when pigs fly" from the cliche bin.

posted by Pseudoephedrine

Tuesday, July 24, 2007

Doonesbury's War

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This post was deleted for the following reason: posted previously

posted by loquacious

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

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This post was deleted for the following reason: See recently.

posted by dejah420

Singing With (or without) Balls

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This post was deleted for the following reason: Let's just cut this short. (See also!)

posted by KevinSkomsvold

Learn from Hitler

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This post was 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.

posted by namagomi

there need be no prior notice

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This post was 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.

posted by McLir

Monday, July 23, 2007

Christmas in July?

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This post was 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.

posted by rasmusnor

Sunday, July 22, 2007

(The real) Pepsi Orange.

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This post was 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.

posted by ericbop

I can feel it in my waters

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This post was deleted for the following reason: previously

posted by strawberryviagra

Saturday, July 21, 2007

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

Deleted thread: 63129

This post was 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

posted by East Manitoba Regional Junior Kabaddi Champion '94

Friday, July 20, 2007

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

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This post was 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.

posted by orthogonality

President Cheney?

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This post was deleted for the following reason: Yeah, pretty much everybody knows about this. Consolation prize: commentary from the 2002 edition.

posted by orbis23

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

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This post was 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.

posted by elpapacito

Old guard Maverick off to happy hunting ground

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This post was deleted for the following reason: self link banned

posted by priyatam

It's No Go

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This post was deleted for the following reason: With your good graces, EMRJKC94, this is a prescient double.

posted by East Manitoba Regional Junior Kabaddi Champion '94

Thursday, July 19, 2007

Hedwig dies

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This post was deleted for the following reason: Hoax or not, give a crap about HP or not: this is pretty much a completely bullshit move, reklaw.

posted by reklaw

Wednesday, July 18, 2007

Ship of fools

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This post was deleted for the following reason: seen it.

posted by homunculus

A reporter goes on a cruise with the National Review

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This post was deleted for the following reason: 63048 goes on a cruise with the Deleted Doublepost Tribune

posted by JHarris

The World's Most Hated Car

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This post was 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.

posted by PeteNicely

The Most Dangerous Video on the Internets

Deleted thread: 63036

This post was deleted for the following reason: Tin. Foil. Hat. Sign. My. Petition.

posted by msquare

Neocon echo chamber cruiselines

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This post was deleted for the following reason: How is this not just a LOLNEOCONZ pileon. Also: alternet, really?

posted by daHIFI

LOL PRE-XTIANS

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This post was deleted for the following reason: give a wicca a break man

posted by bardic

Tuesday, July 17, 2007

Game, game, game, and again game.

Deleted thread: 63016

This post was deleted for the following reason: THE ONLY WAY TO WIN IS NOT TO REPLAY

posted by rollbiz

D'Oh!

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This post was deleted for the following reason: Check it out, I'm doing some deletion magic up in this thing.

posted by chuckdarwin

Monday, July 16, 2007

IRENE: Digital imaging preserves recorded sounds

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This post was deleted for the following reason: still on the front page.

posted by turtlegirl

Balls

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This post was deleted for the following reason: up in the sky, it's... it's... previously posted

posted by Tommy Gnosis

Sunday, July 15, 2007

Presidential Simulacrum

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This post was deleted for the following reason: "George W. Bush does not exist" does exist.

posted by Baby_Balrog

Friday, July 13, 2007

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

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This post was deleted for the following reason: this is stil a screed. fortunately there is already a MeTa thread for discussing it.

posted by loquax

LNS: Even Better than the Capitolist

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This post was deleted for the following reason: Last Night's Posts

posted by awesomebrad

Brits, badgers and Basra

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This post was deleted for the following reason: categorically DENIED oh buuuuuuuurn

posted by sparky

militantly in the closet

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This post was deleted for the following reason: Wingers, wingnuts, wikipedia, wikipedia. I'm not sure where the quality content is supposed to be, here.

posted by nickyskye

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

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This post was deleted for the following reason: this is what it sounds like / when doubles die

posted by The Deej

Throw Away Your Wig

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

posted by Defenestrator

Gobs of state run fun

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This post was deleted for the following reason: This is about four years old, and, more damningly, from Saturday Night Live.

posted by mattoxic

Without law and order our nation cannot survive

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This post was deleted for the following reason: broken video link - also MeFi is not your go-to resource for outing snuff films, for future reference.

posted by orthogonality

Thursday, July 12, 2007

You're full of it.

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This post was deleted for the following reason: In your defense, there's a pretty tremendous amount of space between this post and 54360.

posted by Brandon Blatcher

PSAs get a makeover.

Deleted thread: 62868

This post was deleted for the following reason: B - O - O - K spells book. Yay.

posted by spec80

Don't Say The Z Word!

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This post was deleted for the following reason: rrnnngngnaarrr zombie double poooooost

posted by fallenposters

New PSP, same as the old PSP

Deleted thread: 62855

This post was deleted for the following reason: this is a wikipedia link and a product review link and is not a great post for metafilter.

posted by SharQ

Wednesday, July 11, 2007

Get your Gmail IMAPped and tagged

Deleted thread: 62831

This post was deleted for the following reason: Try reposting this on AskMe -- the blue isn't the place to ask for email configuration tips.

posted by electriccynic

these things are technically innovations

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This post was deleted for the following reason: This is just a brief, complainy post on Alison's blog; not really a good post.

posted by mrbula

Just 10 More Days...

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This post was deleted for the following reason: 62822

posted by Navelgazer

Tuesday, July 10, 2007

So do you think this constitutes medical malpractise?

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This post was deleted for the following reason: Basically asking for an opinion poll about a news article probably isn't a good idea.

posted by Wilder

Monday, July 09, 2007

Personifying the Wind

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This post was deleted for the following reason: cgc373 blew it

posted by cgc373

This just in, men like big-breasted blonde women

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This post was deleted for the following reason: posted previously.

posted by chuckdarwin

_ _ _ _ _ _

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This post was deleted for the following reason: other than completely not making any goddam sense this is a pretty good post

posted by nthdegx

Microsoft Paint and a little time and effort

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This post was deleted for the following reason: I wrote this deletion reason with a Microsoft Notepad.

posted by konolia

Sunday, July 08, 2007

Butterfly Kisses - International Female Girl love Collective

Deleted thread: 62749

This post was 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.

posted by IronWolve

The Natives

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This post was deleted for the following reason: pretty much done previously

posted by hadjiboy

Saturday, July 07, 2007

babies and doggies in teleporting Bumbos

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This post was deleted for the following reason: i culpaed your mother's mea

posted by madamjujujive

Friday, July 06, 2007

It was on the news this mroing

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This post was deleted for the following reason: This is kind of inside baseball; maybe take it to Metatalk.

posted by brownpau

Orboxin'

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This post was deleted for the following reason: Shades of Sisyphus

posted by revmitcz

I Remember Love

Deleted thread: 62699

This post was deleted for the following reason: So this is sort of just a crappy blog, it seems like. Not great FPP material.

posted by christina

What he said

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This post was deleted for the following reason: Olbie is tenacious, I'll give him that.

posted by mattoxic

the most dangerous roads in the world

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This post was deleted for the following reason: "Roads? Where we're going, we don't need already had roads." [sound of flying DeLorean]

posted by konolia

Thursday, July 05, 2007

Luxury is Part of Performance

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This post was deleted for the following reason: This'd probably be just fine as comment in the aforementioned dunkin donuts post.

posted by jeremy b

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

Deleted thread: 62665

This post was deleted for the following reason: I'm reusing this deletion reason from that time when that dude posted a link to his band.

posted by Pope Guilty

Don't Know Much About History

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This post was deleted for the following reason: Halberstammer

posted by kirkaracha

How Costco became the Anti-Walmart

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This post was deleted for the following reason: a couple years old (repost?) that blocks most users

posted by chunking express

Japanese algorithm dance

Deleted thread: 62647

This post was deleted for the following reason: We've seen Pythagoras Switch once and twice before.

posted by Listener

Wednesday, July 04, 2007

Olbermann VS Bush

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This post was 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!

posted by Zinger

Man eats 66 hotdogs in 12 minutes.

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This post was deleted for the following reason: hurf durf double poster

posted by Second Account For Making Jokey Comments

Be American says a Canadian

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This post was deleted for the following reason: grind grind grind grind.

posted by orthogonality

Developers (x4)

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This post was deleted for the following reason: Sweating to the oldies. Dude, this is like six years old.

posted by Blazecock Pileon

Judge, Judy, and Executioner

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This post was deleted for the following reason: I think you meant to post this to the 2pm Saturday slot on your local network affiliate station.

posted by John of Michigan

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

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This post was deleted for the following reason: Ha! Blind people are hilarious!

posted by zardoz

Pardon moi?

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This post was deleted for the following reason: there is a pardoning thread open already.

posted by Hat Maui

Tuesday, July 03, 2007

Now I'm going to hell for sure

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This post was deleted for the following reason: lolxians post - not needed, not worth it.

posted by mock

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

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This post was deleted for the following reason: This is a doub-- a fucking double.

posted by Cool Papa Bell

come see a robot rickshaw driver

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This post was deleted for the following reason: Double, Will Robinson!

posted by of strange foe

A Harsh Punishment For Mr. Libby

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This post was deleted for the following reason: posted previously.

posted by hermitosis

One brave weegie

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This post was deleted for the following reason: server unavailable, link ununderstandable. effort: please make more next time.

posted by the cuban

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

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This post was deleted for the following reason: this is an LOLFURRIEZ encyclopedia dramatica article.

posted by metasonix

Monday, July 02, 2007

Royal Bastards

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This post was deleted for the following reason: These bastards don't really have much on their webpage.

posted by gottabefunky

The President Commutes on a Scooter

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This post was deleted for the following reason: Admin Commutes Front Page Term ofDouble Post.

posted by mctsonic

Carlyle makes an offer to Virgin

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This post was deleted for the following reason: Well, this is going really badly; Mr Zero gets his wish.

posted by Mr_Zero

lotsandlotsofcars

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This post was deleted for the following reason: Goodbye, Norma Jean.

posted by mattoxic

ǝpoɔıun ɥʇıʍ unɟ

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This post was deleted for the following reason: sdoo

posted by chrisamiller

Sunday, July 01, 2007

The Face of Age

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This post was deleted for the following reason: Faces of (double) posts.

posted by of strange foe

Dread Og pwnz

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This post was deleted for the following reason: crappymysterious

posted by hama7

I Believe Collectibles

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This post was deleted for the following reason: Wow. Just wow.

posted by believe