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Is this an April Fool's joke, or not? The New York...

Is this an April Fool's joke, or not? The New York Times (reg. req.) appears to think that it isn't, but it's on this list of online April Fool's jokes.

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Super Hard AskMe Challenge! A few years ago, when ...

Super Hard AskMe Challenge! A few years ago, when listening to the low end of the radio dial late one night, I heard an arrangement of all four movements of Rimsky-Korsakov's Scheherezade, performed...

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I'm going to Churrascaria Plataforma in NYC in a c...

I'm going to Churrascaria Plataforma in NYC in a couple of weeks, an all-you-can-eat Brazilian restaurant that encourages gastronomic excess. What are strategies I can employ to help me consume more...

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Suppose that you're at a party, or wandering down ...

Suppose that you're at a party, or wandering down the street in a small town, or in your local coffee shop, and you run across someone you've briefly met before several months ago, but whose name you...

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PhilosophyFilter--I have a question about the work...

PhilosophyFilter--I have a question about the work of Michael Dummett, specifically his book Truth and the Past. [more inside]

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Since I started this AskMe thread about the game o...

Since I started this AskMe thread about the game of go a couple of weeks ago, I've taught myself the basics, and I've just opened an account on the Dragon Go Server. Are there any other MeFites around...

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Since Metafilter meetups seem to be all the rage t...

Since Metafilter meetups seem to be all the rage these days--is anyone interested in a New Jersey-area meetup?

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Thread 52028 (on Twin Peaks) is broken at the bott...

Thread 52028 (on Twin Peaks) is broken at the bottom--if I recall correctly, it's broken in the same way that the thread about the Ross sisters was broken a couple of days ago.

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Should major plot developments in serialized works...

Should major plot developments in serialized works of fiction be considered FPP-worthy? If so, when? (Consider: 1, 2, 3)

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Update to this FPP by kirkaracha from 2007, "...

Update to this FPP by kirkaracha from 2007, "The Invisible Manuscript": Ralph Ellison's unfinished second novel, Three Days Before the Shooting..., was finally published today by The Modern...

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