It's a Man's Life

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This post was deleted for the following reason: posted previously -- jessamyn

posted by John of Michigan

The Cock Mightier than the Dong

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This post was deleted for the following reason: It's a cute gotcha (see also Cupertino effect), but as post material this is really thin and it's kind of everywhere today already. -- cortex

posted by mrgrimm

Vote Republican, you'll get what you deserve.

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This post was deleted for the following reason: This went pretty badly last time. -- cortex

posted by schyler523

They listened!

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This post was deleted for the following reason: Previous thread is still open. Take it there. -- cortex

posted by trixare4kids

Edith Macefield and her house

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This post was deleted for the following reason: Edith previously -- cortex

posted by Surfin' Bird

Monty Python meets Star Trek

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posted by five fresh fish

micro

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This post was deleted for the following reason: hi, please make an effort to explain why this isn't just a "your favorite band sucks" sor tof post, really... I'm waiting... without context a single link youtube music video is a really bad post for metafilter -- jessamyn

posted by plexi

Hecklers might finally get the last word.

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This post was deleted for the following reason: You just posted this yesterday and fessed up to being friends with the dude. -- cortex

posted by weezy

Canadian and Australian comedy recommendations?

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This post was deleted for the following reason: Nuke, you seem to have aimed for the green but hit the blue. -- cortex

posted by NucleophilicAttack

I'd hook this to my e-meter

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This post was deleted for the following reason: Cute, but also kinda butt execution-wise; the post is predicated on an in-joke, which rarely goes well; and, gosh darn it, a lot of people seem to just hate it. I'd delete it. -- cortex

posted by not_on_display

Free speech?

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This post was deleted for the following reason: "I am friends with this comedian" is not an okay premise for a post. -- cortex

posted by weezy

In Space There Is Only Clicking

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This post was deleted for the following reason: So, this is, questions of lulz aside, basically a really shitty post on purpose? -- cortex

posted by Mister_A

Run Dino Run!

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This post was deleted for the following reason: Done Dino Done -- cortex

posted by schyler523

Flash Friday! - Impossible Quiz!

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This post was deleted for the following reason: posted previously -- mathowie

posted by pez_LPhiE

Ryanair and its very friendly skies

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This post was deleted for the following reason: Single link to an uber-FARKy post on Consumerist that the people there think sucks? -- cortex

posted by dov3

Supremes overturn DC gun law.

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This post was deleted for the following reason: Second post is the stronger one. Head over there. -- cortex

posted by aiq

Jack in the wine box

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This post was deleted for the following reason: Yup, Askme. -- cortex

posted by amelliferae

Robert Williams faces life in prison for the 44 individual charges against him, including rape, assault, robbery, attempted murder, arson, and kidnapp

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This post was deleted for the following reason: this is not a good post for metafilter. it's a tragic story but it's single link crimefilter piece. -- jessamyn

posted by dasheekeejones

Stop and smell the...

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This post was deleted for the following reason: As the owner of buttslol.com, I feel I share your feelings regarding stop signs that say "POOP", but there's not much there and people seem to not like this very much. Better luck next time around. -- cortex

posted by spamguy

Barry and Stuart

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This post was deleted for the following reason: "this just happens to be bad" -- jessamyn

posted by sluglicker

National Lampoon's Palestinian Vacation

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This post was deleted for the following reason: BABY DOUBLEROG -- cortex

posted by quonsar

Sucking it in for the man

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This post was deleted for the following reason: prett ymuch being discussed in this other thread -- jessamyn

posted by veedubya

Meet Kevin.

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This post was deleted for the following reason: Let's avoid a theme-post pileup if we can; throw this in the other thread, please. -- cortex

posted by allkindsoftime

Medieval Help Desk

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This post was deleted for the following reason: posted previously -- jessamyn

posted by Miko

Reduce, reuse, Teecycle

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This post was deleted for the following reason: self-link -- vacapinta

posted by lillitot

The Weather Underground documentary film

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This post was deleted for the following reason: This is a lot thinner of a post than the two previous one to which you linked yourself. Why is this a new post? -- cortex

posted by hortense

If I can, you can.

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This post was deleted for the following reason: this is more of an ad than a canning site. -- jessamyn

posted by sluglicker

Nice hippo.

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This post was deleted for the following reason: hippowned -- cortex

posted by SixteenTons

The Internet is for losers

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This post was deleted for the following reason: 500 word op-ed rant from 1994? I dunno if that's the best of the web in 2008 -- mathowie

posted by Surfin' Bird

The Big Picture

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This post was deleted for the following reason: double exposure -- cortex

posted by ztdavis

Did Bank of America Write the Housing Bailout Bill?

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This post was deleted for the following reason: Rushed post plus telling us how you feel adds up to not really a great way to post to the front page. Maybe build in some proper context for what's going on, drop the editorializing, and try again tomorrow when you're not running out the door? -- cortex

posted by tgrundke

Jay Z is Brooklyn's nerdiest

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This post was deleted for the following reason: I am going to really put myself out there and knock the hustle-knocking. This is a hustle double-knock right here. In the future, please have any content at all in your posts. -- cortex

posted by Juggermatt

The Mike Wallace Interview

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This post was deleted for the following reason: Ain't no party like a Mike Wallace party cuz a Mike Wallace party don't stop -- cortex

posted by peacay

Cities of Color

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This post was deleted for the following reason: Earlier today. -- cortex

posted by homunculus

Erotic Electo Stimulation

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This post was deleted for the following reason: unless this is just LOLKINK... this is just sort of a single ink to something in a sex toy catalog. -- jessamyn

posted by jonson

Erotic Electo Stimulation

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This post was deleted for the following reason: unless this is just LOLKINK... this is just sort of a single ink to something in a sex toy catalog. -- jessamyn

posted by jonson

Mars photos.

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This post was deleted for the following reason: there's a mars therad with photos from yesterday, maybe post these there? -- jessamyn

posted by Deflagro

Oystermouth Railway

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This post was deleted for the following reason: this needs to be a little more linking to something cool on the web (one wikipedia link is not enough) and a little less editorializing about railways. railways are cool, you should make a better post about railways. -- jessamyn

posted by dollyknot

Ice On Mars

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This post was deleted for the following reason: more like martian twice -- cortex

posted by chuckdarwin

The Work of Byron Katie

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This post was deleted for the following reason: removed at poster's request -- mathowie

posted by The ____ of Justice

Website for "out-the-poor" prices of new cars

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This post was deleted for the following reason: So long Mr. Wang -- mathowie

posted by m94402

Earthquake Strips

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This post was deleted for the following reason: previously -- cortex

posted by bitmage

Six. Severed. Feet.

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This post was deleted for the following reason: This is the sort of updatefilter up with which we will not foot. -- cortex

posted by whatgorilla

Ephemera from Mom

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This post was deleted for the following reason: you never sometimes call, you never occasionally write... -- cortex

posted by OmieWise

The longest last time

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This post was deleted for the following reason: Link to a short blog entry is not generally great post material. -- cortex

posted by rodgerd

Because sometimes the Constitution is just one big, inconvenient headache.

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This post was deleted for the following reason: This is kinda crap, here. -- cortex

posted by Wet Spot

Commodities Bubble?

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This post was deleted for the following reason: God bless NPR and all that, but this is a single link to a very short writeup. Seems pretty thin. -- cortex

posted by bargainhunter

Endangered Species, Wildlife Conservation, Animal Habitats

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This post was deleted for the following reason: This pretty much reads like a WWF press release. Why is this a post? -- cortex

posted by netbros

And this time from a bank!

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This post was deleted for the following reason: You've kind of got a mix of scare-mongering and then somewhat-revoked scaremongering and then an AskMe question here. It's an interesting situation, but this post with this article isn't really a good way to make a front page post about it. -- cortex

posted by Imperfect

Not Chuck Norris-ist.

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This post was deleted for the following reason: Yet Another Norris Quote Thing, and pretty meh at that. Sorry, Chuck. -- cortex

posted by unSane

I call it “Executive Stress Relief.”

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This post was deleted for the following reason: thank you come again -- cortex

posted by desjardins

Dunhill Vacation News Hits 1.6 million Subscribers

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This post was deleted for the following reason: you are a bad man -- jessamyn

posted by mmkaos

A Week of Food Around the World

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This post was deleted for the following reason: I guess this is making the blog circuit again? -- cortex

posted by DarlingBri

Moments in American History, in a HEPA Filter

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This post was deleted for the following reason: uh, posting your pal's ebay auction is kind of a bad idea -- mathowie

posted by jcterminal

Best mobile phone ever made

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This post was deleted for the following reason: Too much ad copy. Too much life story. -- vacapinta

posted by daveyt

Opinions Are Like Assholes

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This post was deleted for the following reason: Not really a strong post. Probably best discussed in the existing metatalk thread. -- vacapinta

posted by Poolio

Gasp

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This post was deleted for the following reason: Seems to have switched since post time to phase II: COLLECT DEMOGRAPHIC DATA AND IDENTIFYING INFO. Yeesh. -- cortex

posted by armoured-ant

Various Identity Models

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This post was deleted for the following reason: this doesn't really make sense as a post for metafilter - four pdfs with very little context and some jargon that doesn't make sense. maybe flesh it out some and explain why you think it's neat stuff on the web. -- jessamyn

posted by sixcolors

Something New, Something Old...

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This post was deleted for the following reason: Which part of self-links being a bannable offense was unclear? -- cortex

posted by Helixxx

That new rainforest known as "Iowa"

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This post was deleted for the following reason: Missed it by a few minutes; go ahead and add this stuff to the other thread, though, it's nice extra background. -- cortex

posted by sararah

Hungry much?

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This post was deleted for the following reason: re-heated -- jessamyn

posted by allkindsoftime

Trevor Linden retires...

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This post was deleted for the following reason: This is pretty thin content-wise as sportsfiltery posts go and also sort of weirdly chatty in presentation for an post to the front page. -- cortex

posted by Cosine

What's Russian for "viral"?

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This post was deleted for the following reason: *flips out* "ORIGINAL THREAD!" *throws chair* "STILL OPEN!!!" *chews scenery* -- cortex

posted by zardoz

Get Well Soon Cool Hand Luke

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This post was deleted for the following reason: this is not a good post for metafilter. -- jessamyn

posted by brookeb

Giving Back to Society

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This post was deleted for the following reason: Bingo. self-link. deleted. -- mathowie

posted by bingodude

"At Sport Clips, guys win"

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This post was deleted for the following reason: the sites being linked should be pretty interesting for a metafilter post. This site is pretty boring and not that interesting. -- mathowie

posted by celerystick

Spin the Black Circle

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This post was deleted for the following reason: previously -- mathowie

posted by leotrotsky

om nom nom nom

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

posted by yhbc

Closure in the Reiser case

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This post was deleted for the following reason: let's wait until he actually confesses instead of making a post about speculation beforehand. -- mathowie

posted by sdodd

Offense on a level seldom seen by man

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This post was deleted for the following reason: Deleted by request of poster -- vacapinta

posted by CuJoe

Robots, Remotes, Even Thumbs

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This post was deleted for the following reason: kinda spammy looking site that is less interesting than gizmodo or any of the thousands of other gadget blogs out there. -- mathowie

posted by netbros

Total British dead in Afghanistan reaches 100

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This post was deleted for the following reason: Not really a major news story having to do with the war, given we've done 1,000 war posts already in the past five years. -- mathowie

posted by Artw

Man jumps from plane with no parachute, dies

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This post was deleted for the following reason: It sucks that this guy died, but this a tiny little article about some guy dying. -- cortex

posted by james_cpi

Petard, Meet Hoist

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This post was deleted for the following reason: This is literally the same post as earlier plus wikipedia padding. -- cortex

posted by telstar

Broadcom co-founder's secret lair.

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This post was deleted for the following reason: this is not a good post for metafilter. -- jessamyn

posted by gman

Musings of a Metafilter Spammer

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This post was deleted for the following reason: This concludes our test. -- pb

posted by pb

SMUGGLER

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

posted by Smuggler

Crime wave

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This post was deleted for the following reason: posted previously -- jessamyn

posted by Artw

And Jessamyn wept...

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This post was deleted for the following reason: I am not weeping why you think I am. -- jessamyn

posted by matty

Spread Like Wildfire

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This post was deleted for the following reason: OLD MEDIA DISCOVERS THAT KIDS HAVE CELLPHONES, BIRTHDAY SUITS. This is really pretty danged lightweight for a post. -- cortex

posted by socalsamba

"Changes in my cervix throughout the month"

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This post was deleted for the following reason: let's go to metatalk and discuss SFW if we have to. this could have been a good post and it was derailed out of the gate. damnit. -- jessamyn

posted by pwb503

Out of my way!

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This post was deleted for the following reason: ugh, no -- cortex

posted by gman

Welcome to the Internet

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This post was deleted for the following reason: Is that database anything other than just some guy hosting other people's music? Because it kind of looks like that, which makes this a pretty weird post. -- cortex

posted by aftermarketradio

The Rolling Exhibition.

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This post was deleted for the following reason: Previously. -- cortex

posted by chunking express

Jim Goad having a brain tumor removed Thursday

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This post was deleted for the following reason: Not exactly what MeFi is for. -- mathowie

posted by unpoppy

Look ma, no controller!

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This post was deleted for the following reason: previously and previouserly -- cortex

posted by Hiding From Goro

Imagine fair use

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This post was deleted for the following reason: poster's request -- cortex

posted by finite

The Virtuous Life

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This post was deleted for the following reason: You're an (the?) administrator of the artofmanliness forums, and this is the second post you've made linking to the site. Completely not cool. -- cortex

posted by msaleem

belt tightening for the rich

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This post was deleted for the following reason: Not really the best post, even without the editorializing. -- vacapinta

posted by slyrabbit

Hypermiling.

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This post was deleted for the following reason: Hell, he's still running on the same tank of post a year and a half later. -- cortex

posted by gman

The Saltiest Dishes In America

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This post was deleted for the following reason: kinda awful ad-infested site, bad presentation of top 20 salty chain restaurant foods -- mathowie

posted by upick

Joe Arpaio Appreciation Station

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This post was deleted for the following reason: Joe Arpaio previously on mefi; the guy seems like an unaccountable douche, yes, but as a mefi post this is kind of a way into ranty grudgefilter the way you've put it together and not a great way to approach the subject. -- cortex

posted by Hiding From Goro

"APD says they will proceed with the citation against the photographer."

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This post was deleted for the following reason: this is just not a very good post for metafilter - the links are all over the place and it's hard to figure out what's going on. -- jessamyn

posted by metasonix