2009-01-05 22:18:17: Right about now, after shoveling about 15 inches of it off my deck, snow. The energy would be used to melt the remaining snow from wherever I wanted.
Or, if that's too simple, how about any lawyer who has previously advertised for class-action lawsuits on TV.
2008-12-31 16:28:11: I started to say "nothing, it's all about the kid", but we bought a whack of new furniture, a new dishwasher and two computers in the pre- and post-Christmas sales. We probably spent more this Christmas than any previous Christmas in our lives.
2008-09-30 16:15:50: BitterOldPunk: Why can’t I get just one kiss?
I guess it's something to do with luck.
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Darling you gotta let me know
Should I stay or should I go?
If you say that you are mine
I'll be here 'til the end of time
So you got to let know
Should I stay or should I go?
2008-09-25 19:11:30: Friends and I discussed this a while back. I settled on Ron Jeremy.
It's not that I'm a huge fan, or I expect him to bring a porn starlet and bang my wife, or anything like that. I just think that over a spaghetti dinner he'd bring a hell of ...
2008-09-19 19:21:29: Nope. I've made it a practice to not ask for big favours. Sure, I could help friends move when they ask, but that's about it.
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Well...there was this one time with a hooker and a little too much cocaine in a Las Vegas hotel room.............
2008-09-18 19:40:46: Into my early 20s, I pronounced genitalia "jen-EESH-lee-ah".
It's rather telling that no one had cause to correct me until then...
2008-09-13 08:42:50: Karla, in my pot-smoking happyface t-shirt, in my room, sleeping beside me. After a long chain of events of me being infatuated and her expressing interest (I see in hindsight).
I didn't have the guts. This has bothered me for well over a decade.
However, I do love my wife. I just ...
2008-09-02 22:51:11: When I was a kid, in the redneck culture I grew up in, it was ok to call the little licorice candy people "nigger babies". I think that would get you shot in most places now.
Candy cigarettes, as above.
As well, it was just fine for my mom to send us ...
2008-08-19 19:20:07: I can picture Batman physically throwing the moneychangers out of the temple, does that help?
There's parts (like that) where Jesus' role in the Bible was more than the ultra-passive vendor of happy dancing unicorn wishes. There's where I can see Jesus and Batman getting along just fine.
In comic-book-world however, I ...
2008-08-17 18:39:50: My older brother.
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Unless you mean something not so physically real. In that case, likely it would be Sasquatch. Or maybe the baby from the old shitty movie "It's Alive".
2008-08-08 17:44:00: Do rentals count?
If so, first week in the new apartment building I open up the big steel hallway door only to find a full SWAT team on the other side, right in front of my apartment. As it turns out, they were visiting the neighbours. The same neighbours who broke ...
2008-07-22 16:44:12: I think people are not reading the question thoroughly or thinking it out. There are things that you don't remember that your 10 year old self would think are important and there are things that are important to you now that some far future self would not even remember.
2008-07-13 15:25:48: Define unreasonable.
Maybe I'd declare that all mentally-handicapped people are a net loss to society and be killed.
Other than that, Mars is a new penal colony.
2008-07-06 07:39:33: My Side of the Mountain by Jean Craighead George.
Growing up, it was the book that made me love the outdoors. I'm now reading the trilogy, chapter by chapter, to my two year old daughter.
2008-07-04 16:38:49: Is this thing going to let me post this time?
It's swallowed two comments so far into the void.
My original question postulated "30 million dollars", and the software swallowed the dollar sign.
2008-07-02 22:24:50: BTW, the submission removed "$30" from before 'million'.
2008-08-22 22:41:22: Strip in front of friends: $10,000
Sex with a stranger (price is high here, assuming that my wife would know and not really approve): $50,000
Two years in solitary (I assume I'd still have books, newspapers, maybe a TV): $1,000,000
Eat dirt: $20 per tablespoon, I choose the dirt. Minimum 100 tablespoons.
2008-03-13 07:33:36: Because there is no God. (Apologies to believers, but I shouldn't sugar-coat my beliefs)
Life is not random, but there are enough contributory factors that we are unable to perceive, sometimes it seems that way. I've known people who always seem to do well and land on their feet, and those ...
2008-07-02 17:34:32: Surprisingly, as I really didn't and don't think of her much...Princess Di's death. I was in a Moxies restaurant and the waitress came to our table crying, just to tell us the news. I was such a strange thing for the waitress to do that it really stuck in my ...
2008-01-30 20:49:55: Personally, I'm all for a requirement to vote in federal elections. I know to some that means a loss of freedom, but I see it as a responsibility-payment for that freedom. Generally I fall far on the side of individual rights, but clearly the voter turnout is low enough in ...
2007-12-29 22:13:42: In your discussion I believe that both participants could/would/should(?) equate 'believe' with 'have faith'.
Therefore I believe you need to define 'faith', and as far as I have been able to determine, in the religious context, 'faith' is defined as "accepting something as complete truth without requiring proof (or additional ...
2007-12-30 17:29:02: I also wonder if I’m taking the whole thing too literally. Maybe when theists — the rank and file of them — say “I believe in God,” they don’t have an exact meaning in mind. Maybe they mean something fuzzy, along the lines of “God is very important to me.”
I ...
2007-12-30 21:10:27: gaspode, I like your socks answer to this question. It makes the most sense of all.
2007-12-31 17:10:09: See, there's where I am different. I pride myself on being the same person on the web as I am in 'real life', especially since I don't make the distinction (being that with work and home I can easily spend 14-16 hours a day on the internet, there's no room ...
2007-12-28 20:32:08: Only if I could add that person as a second wife. My wife is sweet and wonderful and came into my marriage owing more than she was worth. Unfortunately, she's also said that I am in no way allowed to have a second wife, which pretty much screws up this ...
2007-12-28 20:27:49: Being that I'm a (very bad) Zen buddhist who was raised Anglican & Baptist & Pentecostal before rejecting the Judeo-Christian tradition entirely, I find it wholly bizarre to discuss the traditional concept of a soul. It's just a weird concept...if the soul is individual and continues to be after death, ...
2007-12-24 09:23:53: My vote would be vote advanced military technology. It's reduced the 'horrors of war' with high altitude bombing, long-range guided missiles, etc. such that war is now relatively clean. Veterans of WWI and WWII (and Korea, Vietnam, for that matter) understood afterwards how horrible war is whereas the overall impression ...
2007-12-24 11:59:57: A more interesting question is is it okay to use information gained through torture for civilian purposes?
Information, once gained, has no emotions attached in my opinion. Certainly every effort to stop unethical or immoral methods of gaining that information should be made, but once it exists, it should be put ...
2007-12-23 09:33:54: One week back, win the lottery, invest in stocks, have a much better week. Simple answer for this one.
If all that sort of thing was forbidden, I would travel 50 years to the future. I would either have a new found hope for humanity or come back home and prepare ...
2007-12-20 22:13:14: Right now there's nothing positive I can think of they could pay/give me to not see the next two years of my daughter's life. I could imagine they could threaten her life or my wife's life and drive me away for that length of time though.
2007-12-11 19:22:36: I would have a hell (pardon the pun) of a time believing any sort of second coming. If they were able to prove to me decisively that God exists of Jesus was not just a smart man, then I would wholeheartedly dedicate my life to following whatever proclamations came down ...
2007-12-07 18:11:22: Some of you are along the right path, but not thinking it through. If ants discovered fire, how long do you think they'd allow human houses to exist? We burn up their nest already. If the bees spread themselves out enough and hid their queens much better, we'd find ourselves ...
2007-12-04 17:04:19: Do not want what you don't have.
Do not complain about what you do have.
Do not have what you don't need.
Do not complain about others having what you do not want.
2007-12-02 10:21:18: "Recent comments" is useless in the format, since the 5 most recent are pretty much guaranteed to be in the current question.
Definitely go to a liquid layout. This is hard to read.
I would like more questions per day and a way to surf easily to questions with recent posts that ...
2007-12-02 12:52:34: are folks thinking they’d like mefi-like favorites where you’d be able to find the things you’ve favorited, specifically, or is this more a request in general for the digg/[this is good] notion of promoting questions/comments for general consumption?
I'd like favourites (perhaps a different name? The name taken from Internet Explorer ...
2007-12-01 10:31:52: As far as empirical testing goes, we have no evidence that the vacuum of space causes the death of humans.
I'll be outside. I'll be fine.
2007-12-01 15:10:43: Err...maybe I'm missing something, but what does the mass and gravitic effect of the earth have to do with it spinning?
2007-12-15 08:57:40: Even though I'm not First Nations, become a great leader of the Haida in the Queen Charlotte islands. Blockade Canadian forces, making it clear that this is a reaction to the abuse suffered by the F.N. people by the Canadian government to gain international sympathy. Offer to be the sanctuary ...
2007-12-27 12:38:45: It would take a long, long time before Coke and Pepsi's marketing efforts were completely gone, both visually and from the minds of people. A lot of people still equate the standard appearance of Santa Claus with Coke, nevermind polar bears and singing crowds ("I'd like to teach the world ...
2007-12-03 22:18:50: If this happened in Canada, there would be an outcry big enough that the 'winning' party would have to bow out of the election, and a few weeks later we'd have another election.
However, since we use paper ballots that are hand-counted by widely disparate individuals with full public oversight, the ...