"When it comes to sex, some female ducks have taken "no" to a new level. They have evolved vaginas with clockwise spirals that keep out the oppositely spiraled penises of undesirable males, scientists have discovered."
- April Buchheit
from iPhone
Sean, if only I knew. This was delivered directly to me fresh and hot.
- Akiva Moskovitz
Wow, whatever you do, don't google "Asian guys at beach licking" if you want to find the Flickr account for this. No, seriously. Just...don't. o.O
- tinypants - Hagitha of FF
changed my life forever...I will always go to the beach with a a few chubby buddies after porking myself up for those bosoms ~ and this image is most definitely going in the ol' spank bank
- sofarsoShawn
Remember ! I bring quality product to Friend Feed !:)
- Akiva Moskovitz
you know what would be funny: ok bear with me, if we blindfolded leather donut (you know the booby man) and...yeah fill in the blanks...something like this http://www.youtube.com/watch...
- sofarsoShawn
Sir, randomly linking to your FriendFeed from one of my posts is oh wait you'll never see this because you're blocked for spamming. Thanks anyway, kaghazrangy.
- Akiva Moskovitz
damn this picture just won't go away - you have forced me to hide it
- William Harryman
Akiva, wasn't that pic taken at your last BBQ?
- Paul
Every time I see this picture I smile. Their joy is infectious, like herpes.
- Sparky
Paul, I surely do wish I had a beach in my back yard!
- Akiva Moskovitz
Sparky, I'm going to have this blown up to poster-size and attaching it to the ceiling above our bed. That'll cause some infections!
- Akiva Moskovitz
makes me want to grow a rack and diddle with my own, know what I'm saying?
- sofarsoShawn
this. . . .this. . . ugh . . . so fucking wrong.
- Peter Ghosh
Akiva - you can put anything you want above our bed.
- Sparky
i've been trying to formulate a comment for this for days, but i just...can't.
- joey
I still want to know the motivation here. is this a gay marriage argument? or are we already pushing group social contracts on friendfeed?
- Noah David Simon
oh man this one keeps popping up on ma friendfeed,....must spread virus nao
- Chris Hofmann
I'm surprised no one's noticed old boy's red-framed glasses.
- Akiva Moskovitz
oh right... the glasses are so important when three asian men are licking his nipples and all the comments are by people who think gay marriage has something to do with equality... when it has everything to do with taking protections away from children. the red glass glasses.... um yeah. chicken and Oklahoma with milk
- Noah David Simon
Mark, you have uncovered the dark underbelly of humanity except in this case it isn't dark but is rather a pasty hue somewhere in the vicinity of undercooked flan.
- Akiva Moskovitz
This should be in the default noobie FF stream. Like the first thing anyone who signs up sees. If they stick around they're part of the family.
- Chrimmus Tad
Perhaps this can replace the kitty pic on the start page for non-members!
- Chris, Taskerrific Guy
I'm certain prop8 had nothing to do with Swine Flu
- Noah David Simon
I'm thinking that eventually, it will have been hidden by every user on FriendFeed. It'll be the most hidden post in FriendFeed history.
- Akiva Moskovitz
WHY WHY KEEP BRINGING BACK THE EYES THEY HURT ME
- Neal Jansons
from IM
Herpes (and this): the gifts that keep on giving.
- Sparky
I wonder if the FriendFeed guys see this and say to themselves, 'Well, this isn't exactly what we had in mind when we started started FriendFeed.'
- Akiva Moskovitz
I look at it and think, "Not again."
- Steven Perez
from IM
Just about the time you FF is getting some class .. Oh well we is what we is.
- Brent - Loving Life
I can't believe after all this time some diligent FF'er hasn't dug up the identities (I said "titties") of this bunch and invited them to join the service that made them famous. Mitchell Tsai, get to work!
- Sprague D
i think if you unlike and delete all your comments anna it'll go away, but hide in general would be nice too (this photo makes me smile every time it pops up so don't mind it)...
- mike "glemak" dunn
*sigh* This is never going away, is it? It's gonna end up like James Bond movies and Swedish meatballs - always existing in the same form. never diminshing, never forgotten. :( :( :(
- Steven Perez
from IM
It will go away, to be replaced with photoshops of the original. It's all part of the meme lifecycle.
- Sparky
I am too new on friendfeed to know anything about record comments.. I love gmail tho, puts all the comments in one threaded email and I can delete them all later in one shot or not if I choose..
- David Gross
from email
well we should aim to beat the record.. i mean jeez there are tons of things that could be said about this.. like.. does it taste like chicken?
- ed fry
I'm gonna have nightmares now. thanks ed. ;)
- Alejandro
ok, in Japanese: "an, an, soko dame!"
- Rick Cogley
You can't close this thread. A lot of people say that this place is a Scoble-fest but, truly, it is this thread that is at the very heart of FriendFeed.
- Akiva Moskovitz
I'm officially going to proclaim that this is the FF equivalent of Goatse or FFoatse if you will. Lets all refer to it as that from this point forward.
- Mark Krynsky
Sparky has left 57 comments. The rest of you are slacking. Hop to it!
- Christopher Harley
Chrisitan just walked by and said "It's too early in the morning for Japanese titty licking." It's NEVER too early for Japanese titty licking.
- Haggis (Sean Loyless)
THIS is the first thing I see here this morning?
- l0ckergn0me
Chris, you just woke up? C'mon, man! It's 10:30!
- Akiva Moskovitz
I knew he would break eventually - it's fitting that it's on this thread *now to find out how to hide a thread once you've commented....*
- WorldofHiglet
As much as I am loathe to bump this post, I have to do it to say, You, sir, are a master. Well played, sir. Well played. This is why I take every opportunity to say, in my next life, I want to be Akiva. I've already called it! Don't anybody go getting any more ideas.
- ♥patricia♥
I, for one, refuse to "bump" posts...it's very unseemly...
- Live4Emma (L4S)
I wish FF-search allowed to do GROUP BY -aggregations so I could COUNT(*) who are the biggest *bump*ers. :)
- Jemm
Makes me laugh everytime I see it. Such a happy yet silly scene by the sea.
- Toby Graham
There is nothing silly about it. This is serious business.
- Sparky
The more I see this, the more I like it. Not for the ironic nipple-licking, but because these kids are genuinely enjoying themselves. :) Carry on.
- felicious
This photo looks so much better in iPhone 3.0!#!~
- Akiva Moskovitz
Seriously dude. What do I have to do to get rid of this disgusting picture!? Doh! Now I've just pushed it back to the top... yuck, I'm so sickened.
- Jason Nunnelley
I love this image, because I have no clue why it's happening. Randomness FTW!!
- Jimminy Fuller
from twhirl
I'm just thinking of all the new folks coming to friend feed and see this and wonder just what the hell did I get into anyway? And why in Gods name can't I spell Friend correctly the first time - GRRRRRR
- Brent - Loving Life
Can't believe I never hit 'like' on this! Consider the situation rectumfied.
- Bec Rowe @d0tski
Oops! I hope I didn't just bump this up again... ;-)
- Sprague D
It's just so refreshing to see genuine juvenile humour at work. These kids are no different from any other, I think it's a great happy image, given all the other shite happening in this world on a daily basis. For those that are too pompous and prudish, 'up yours with brass knobs'
- ImJustCreative
Wow. 666. Nice! Actually, the reason Asashoryu is getting a divorce ( http://ff.im/4T0UA ), is because he wants to spend time with this lot.
- Rick Cogley
To this day, the pic still comes back. Just like Herpes. :D
- Danny Minick
Although unlike herpes this photo is fun to share with friends.
- Sparky
I would rather go to http://woot.com and buy the Acer Aspire One for $259.99, I do not care that it is a refurb.. but what would I do with two laptops? Maybe #hive knows? hmm..
- David Gross
from email
What's this? A real question in this thread? Two extra laptops? Make them fancy digital photo frames.
- Jordan Hofker
Reason #696 why the Internet can grant you immortality. ;-)
- darnell
from BuddyFeed
I can't believe this thing is still floating around Friendfeed. These poor guys... ha ha ha
- Bradley Farless
@SeanMcGee sorry about the spam, this thread is sorta spammy.. I get the messages in email perfect for replying with any message because it then gets posted on twitter and facebook.. I do not do it all the time, look at my other posts in this stream..
- David Gross
from email
Lactating, males last resort to save ourselves, now that they can create sperm in labs.
- Jimminy Fuller
This is the thread that never ends, yes it goes on and on my friend. Some people started feeding it, not knowing what it was, and they'll continue feeding it forever just because...This is the thread that never ends, yes it goes on and on my friend. Some people started feeding it, not knowing what it was, and they'll continue feeding it forever just because...This is the thread that...
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- David Gross
from email
I have 89 :( emails since july 10th.. that includes the ones I sent.
- David Gross
from email
gmail comes in handy, it keeps all the email in conversations, 100 messages at a time but because the subject " :( " it will not filter out so they dont go to inbox.
- David Gross
from email
*THOUGHT FOR THE DAY...* Women are like phones: They like to be held, talked to, and touched often. But push the wrong button and your ass is disconnected.
- David Gross
from email
all this oral stuff is just begging the question of when do they start with the money shots?
- Noah David Simon
I just use this image as a way to announce crap. no one really pays attention to my feed... except my enemies. so when I have something important to say I tell the Asian Titty lickers. it is my strong belief that this thread needs it's very own domain name. something like http://xrl.us/TittyLickers
- Noah David Simon
You know, every time this pops up, since FF hides the middle of the comments of which there are 804 or so, I see Akiva say "I'm sorry." at the top. It makes me wonder about how some things are just not possible to apologize for!
- Rick Cogley
wow, I can't believe tomorrow is Friday :o) no, wait, somewhere in the world it's ALREADY Friday :o)
- David Gross
from email
Thanks Rick, thats what I thought.. does that mean I can start with the #followfriday on twitter or do I have to wait till it is Friday here in NJ? would be funny to post it from this post LOL all my friendfeed goes to twitter..
- David Gross
from email
David - yeah, you can get an early start.
- Rick Cogley
Rick, I am not good at lists or #followfriday but there are lotsa good people in this thread.
- David Gross
from email
the thing that strikes me about this (aside from the obvious) is after seeing this thing pop up like 35-40 times since March its just occurred to me that I don't have any (guy) friends that a) would lick my nipples b) would lick my nipples for a photograph. Maybe I should get out more...
- J. Abdul-Qahhar
I'm a little scared that I've this has gotten more than 800 comments and almost 200 likes over nearly five months and I still haven't clicked "Hide."
- Scott of Two Countries
It's just a bit of fun. I mean watching how many comment, not the picture content (although I suspect that is all that was too!)
- Ian May
Allright, you guys ready to shoot "mirth and girth"?
- Rick Cogley
For the life of me, I'll never understand the emotion people have around this picture for or against. There's no nudity at all, not even implied nudity. Less dude nudity than a beer commercial or cigarette ad, yet there are people who really really really hate this picture.
- Matthew DeVries
I found a way to get a Tit Theme, and it involves this picture.
- Jimminy Fuller
Hahahaha! It's like a telethon. And after Joey Bishop goes off stage, they flash this picture on the screen. "Won't you think of the CHILDREN?"
- Spidra Webster
It's been a while, hope the magnetism still prevails...
- Aaman (Clone of FF)
I just had to bump this once more... gives me a whole new excuse to go look at Phoebe again!
- Mark "DerBingle" J
Hmmm, where do you think they're from? My guess is Japan...
- sofarsoShawn
The bumping algorithm includes things like novel people posting to it, in addition to thread age, and rapidity of comments. If the same 3 people are talking in a thread, it quits bumping because it's obviously a closed tea party.
- Matthew DeVries
I forgot, also you're a very handsome guy(saw the wedding images), I don't understand why you don't like to share your face. Rochelle is a lucky lady.
- Jimminy Fuller
Jimminy, it's an irrational phobia. No different than people who are afraid of heights, spiders, clowns, or Canada.
- Akiva Moskovitz
Akiva, now I'm LMAO at the fear of Canada. People are actually afraid of Canada, or just the fact they don't know if they're British or French?
- Jimminy Fuller
I don't think even Canadians know that difference.
- Akiva Moskovitz
If Friendfeed had sound .. this thread would be all licks and slurps
- Mattb4rd
Sorry Akiva, I think it was the display picture.. I have known male and female Akivas.. Oh and by the way guys I am not afraid of Canada LOL will be there this weekend.. Dave Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach<http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes...> - "Even a stopped clock is right twice a day."
- David Gross
from email
I popped the 666 cherry and I will get 1000 also.
- Jimminy Fuller
If it gets to 1000 will Akiva lock it so it can sink from our feeds forever? Please?!?
- WorldofHiglet
I think locking this post would be un-FriendFeedian.
- Jason Huebel
This is the immortal post everyone who uses the service must see it so WoH it just wouldn't be good to lock it.
- Jimminy Fuller
Not everyone see's it, only the people with true class do.
- Sparky
It keeps on going and going and going....
- David Gross
from email
In the Hall of Great Posts at the FriendFeed museum, this shall be hung high on the wall with pride.
- Johnny Worthington
I'M THE ROCK AND ROLL CLOWN.. AND I LIKE COCAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAINE
- Haggis (Sean Loyless)
*Wispering to Murderface* "Seriously man, I do... A LOT of cocaine."
- Matt Stoddard
It is now September 1st, and this has not reached 1000 comments. I am sorely disappointed. Yet, for some reason, I am uplifted by the smile of this young man, who was fortunate enough to have such great friends that fateful day on the beach.
- Josh Haley
Quick let's add some comments... Gee that guy on the far left is not really getting into the swing of things is he?
- Travis Koger
Travis... bear in mind that we don't know what "main chubby guy's" right hand is doing, or where it's doing whatever it's doing...
- Mark "DerBingle" J
BUT WE CAN INFER WHAT "MAIN CHUBBY GUY'S" HANDS ARE DOING. BOTH OF THEM.
- Sparky
@Mark, of interest (well not really) is the location of Front Left guy's left hand.
- Travis Koger
The photo of Akiva in the jacuzzi with the Texas A&M cheerleaders would be so much more popular. Now if only someone would post it.
- Christopher Harley
Noooooooooooooooooooooo! Posted March 1st and we are still enduring the wrath! "Akiva's posts, now with more staying power than ever before!"
- Nicholas Kreidberg
YAY! OVER 1000 COMMENTS BLAAAARGBLBLLB
- Josh Haley
It feels like Groundhog Day whenever I see this.
- Andru Edwards
Except that unlike Groundhog Day this is AWESOME!
- Sparky
This thread was how I discovered Akiva. ROFL... Y.M.C.A.! BUMP BUMP BUMP BUMP! GAZE AT IT! DON'T LOOK AWAY! >:O I SED DON'T LOOK AWAY!!! ... ^_^
- Danny Minick
You have nothing to fear - I never look away.
- Sparky
On Fark, there was this one thread, that just kept growing and growing. On Fark, it was a single page per thread. And you could post images and gif inline. Well the thread wouldn't die, people just kept posting. I forget which one it was. Anyway, it got so monsterous, that few people going to read/post to it per day (which was only a handfull) accounted for 1/3 of the server load of the site. They eventually had to cull that thread.
- Matthew DeVries
I think everyone who has participated in this thread has 'culled' themselves privately.
- Akiva Moskovitz
What with all the copycat images this has inspired I hope our muse continues to stick around and not get lost in the shuffle of so many knockoffs.
- Sparky
SHUT UP SPARKY!!!!!!!!!!!!1111111!!!!
- Andru Edwards
I refuse to shut up about the glory that is this thread. REFUSE.
- Sparky
Yes, Vezquex, I'm jealous of those guys, it is warm there, nothing like a warm beatch..
- David Gross
from email
Yes, Sparky, they do not know how good they have it there frolicking on the beach while we freeze up here.. Hard to believe it is only 49 degrees, feels like 29.. I bet it's at least 85 degrees on that beach.
- David Gross
from email
Anyone who doesn't appreciate this thread is clearly not developing a FriendFeed iPhone client because this is a great stress test case. (It crashes BuddyFeed, by the way.)
- Akiva Moskovitz
from iPhone
Also it exercises the crap out of your thumb trying to scroll down to the bottom of it.
- Akiva Moskovitz
from iPhone
Do you need to appreciate the pic in order to appreciate the thread?
- Travis Koger
If I un-collapse this thread, will it break my computer?
- Eivind
Every time this thread gets a bumped, god kills a kitten
- Matthew DeVries
Matthew, you may have given some people more reason to keep bumping this thread.
- Victor Ganata
How does it give you thumb exercise? Whatever you're doing, why don't you either use the keyboard or switch to Linux so you can middle-click the scrollbar to jump to where you want? :P
- Tanath
actually this thread does not bother me because I get it in email and gmail groups them and starts new thread after every 100 comments. I have it autoarchived so I do not have to see on phone lol and just see when I look at my ffeed label in gmail.
- David Gross
from email
disgusting? HOW DARE YOU, SIR! That is j-love! and it's beautiful (in it's own way.. a way that shouldn't be seen in public)
- Kyle Johnson
this is probably the most popular feed of 2009 in FF. lol.
- Bora Mesut PALAS
I think the one where Robert Scoble gave away money easily beats this one, but this post has staying power. ;-)
- Jason Huebel
I think that Chinese at FF post was a marriage proposal thing. They were all trying to bump the guy's photo so that it would be the first thing his girlfriend would see when she logged onto FF.
- Kamilah Gill
On the first day of Christmas my true love gave to me, 1 salty beach, 2 pairs of glasses, 3 lords a licking, 4 chubby men, 5 santa hats(O_o), 6 rolls of fat, 7 ????, and 8 moobs to view.
- Jimminy Fuller
Hey, I'd be willing to let random guys suck on my nipples if it meant I'd lose all my extra weight. *waits for wiseass random guys to suggest it DOES mean that*
- Spidra Webster
נתתי לו למצוץ את הפטמות שלי, אם לתת להם לשחק על החוף. לפחות לא כל כך קר על החוף.
- David Gross
from email
Philippine volcano on verge of eruption as lava spills down mountain... but villagers are refusing to leave | Mail Online - http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news...
"A rumbling volcano in the Philippines was on the verge of a major eruption today – but thousands of villagers living on its slopes are refusing to leave their homes. Already, 40,000 people have fled the no-go zone around Mount Mayon, which oozed crimson lava during eerie scenes captured last night. But around 3,000 residents, mostly farmers, remain – with some even returning after being evacuated up to three times by authorities."
- bob
from Bookmarklet
My baby sister just became a mommy for the third time at 1:26am PT. Logan Anthony weighed in at 7lbs. 10oz. -- a whopper compared to his older sibs, Izen and Maya Joi, who, at birth, each weighed 4lbs. 2oz. and 4lbs. 12oz. respectively.
"Taylor Pugh has been suspended from pre-kindergarten because he likes his hair a little on the floppy side. The four-year-old sat with a teacher's aide in a suburban Dallas school library Wednesday while his friends played and studied together in a classroom. "They kicked me out that place," said Taylor, who prefers the nickname Tater Tot. "I miss my friends." Taylor's locks — long on the front and sides, covering his earlobes and shirt collar — violate the school district's dress code. He has been punished with in-school suspension since late last month. His parents say the boy plans to eventually cut his hair and donate it to a charity that makes wigs for cancer patients. And they are not happy with the district's rules."
- April Buchheit
from iPhone
If long hair is not distracting on a girl why would it be on a boy?
- Rachel Lea Fox
"The district is known for standing tough on its dress code. Earlier this year, a seventh-grader in the district was sent home for wearing black skinny pants. His parents chose to home-school him."
- Gabe
My whole school district would've been expelled long ago if we went there.
- Itachi
"Earlier this year, a seventh-grader in the district was sent home for wearing black skinny pants. His parents chose to home-school him." Who would choose to home-school their kid because of that?
- Alex
Maybe it's more that the school district is clearly so unreasonable that the black skinny pants was just the last straw.
- Andrew C
Since when did hair become clothing? When I was in elementary school, we were not allowed to wear shorts, even though it was sometimes quite hot and there was no air conditioning. However, girls could wear skirts. One day when I was in 5th grade, about 5-10 6th grade boys brought skirts to school and changed into them. They got into trouble, but mostly because they were parading around...
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- Robert Felty
i should warn my friend in Richardson near Dallas. Her 3-yr old has longer hair than that.
- Daisy
uhhh now I feel like Bawls, but of course they don't sell it here anymore :-( Buh
- Rasmus Lauridsen
Oh, man. I went through a fairly significant Bawls phase. Take that as you will.
- Akiva Moskovitz
most of what I drink comes from tap or kettle.... cold water, or, hot water, to make tea. Also coffee.
- Ian May
I think they are too. I find blue glass facinating
- Melanie Reed
but why? Perhaps because it is relatively uncommon?
- Ian May
Not sure. It amazes the child in me. I find it stirs delight.:)
- Melanie Reed
Ian May: There's Blue Bottle Coffee out of San Francisco. They make tasty coffee, I find.
- April Buchheit
While at Fox Run winery in the finger lakes, we asked about their blue bottle for Arctic Fox wine. They said the wine sold 8% better in blue bottles than in green or clear. We bought 4 or 5 bottles.
- Kevin Fox
Blue is the color reflected by most large bodies of water. It is the color reflected in the sky. It is the shade of many eyes. I think it produces the most delight of all the crayons. And can be worn as apparel by almost anyone and still look good. Rather than feeling green with envy or having the yellow streak of cowardice, or being red with anger, blue puts you in that reflective though melancholy state of mind, which of the four seems a better color to be in. Blue has a lot of things going for it. :)
- Melanie Reed
what's that blue curacao stuff taste like anyway? and how do you pronounce the name?
- Morgan Haley
It's very sweet and sickly to my taste, but I don't have a sweet tooth.
- Ian May
I think curaçao is pronounced "koo-rah-saow" (feel free to correct me, fellow FFers)
- April Buchheit
from iPhone
I've had a bottle of that. Good stuff.
- Mark Krynsky
"Astronomers have spotted the most Earth-like planet to date, a massive ocean world that probably has an atmosphere and — though it’s highly unlikely — may support life. And it needs a better name. For now, GJ 1214b is tagged according to standard exoplanetary nomenclature: the technical name of the star it orbits, plus a letter to signify the order of its discovery. (The letter “a” is reserved for the star itself.) It’s a name only a committee could love, and hardly appropriate to the discovery’s emotional resonance. “We’ve been finding exciting planets for 50 years, and we’re still calling them by these terrible catalog names,” said David Charbonneau, a Harvard University astronomer who helped discover GJ 1214b, but doesn’t even have a nickname for it. “I have three young daughters, and I think they might be inspired by a better name.” To help David out, we’re asking you to submit your own names for this watery super-Earth. Jump in!"
- Merry Xmas FFeeders - AJ
from Bookmarklet
oh no, dan, sorry to hear that. the same thing happened last week to a girl at my dance studio - and her rent money was in the bag that was stolen. she's been looking for a part-time job to earn this month's rent back, but in the meantime ppl at the studio took up a secret santa collection for her. i think sometimes ppl do shitty things (like steal, argh) so that others can rise up and show how much they care about fighting the shitty. but it still sucks to get your stuff stolen. sorry.
- Felicia Yue
"A live body and a dead body contain the same number of particles. Structurally, there's no discernible difference. Life and death are unquantifiable abstracts. Why should I be concerned?" - http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki...
I have to admit that I haven't read it cover to cover. I think at this point the shock and awe from seeing the effects from the movie has well worn off that I can focus on the story.
- April Buchheit
from iPhone
The book rewards repeated readings. When I was a young'un, I actually skipped over all the supplementary material at the end, and I barely got what the point of the pirate comic was.
- Andrew C
As an early teen when I first read the graphic novel, I was pretty floored. I remember it differently, I liked Dr. Manhattan much more in the novel.
- Mark Essel
I agree with Taggar -- I enjoyed both, but the movie only met expectations after reading the graphic novel. And the novel has a whole other interleaved story line which is really interesting in that format.
- Michael Leggett
Still pondering whether to see the movie, having looked at the panels of the graphic novel over and over years ago. Many things of the comic book are plays right within the medium of the comic (like symmetric page layouts etc.) and the panels are made for slow studying to delve into the references and puzzles, which takes time. To get an idea, take a look at the annotated Watchmen, e.g....
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- Philipp Lenssen
Love both Cary Elwes and Mel Brooks, but I have to say I felt this one was kind of weak. There were bits, like the "men in tights" number, that were kind of funny, but it felt like the beginning of a bad slide for Brooks. I think "Dracula, Dead and Loving It" was probably the only one that was worse.
- Joel Webber
"Ohh master Robin you've lost your arms! ....but you grew some nice boobs."
- Joe Pierce
No he was the best Dread Pirate Roberts ever.
- Santa CW™
"Marissa Mayer, the gorgeous Google-ite who makes the world searchable for the likes of us, was married on Saturday on San Francisco’s Treasure Island to the entrepreneur Zack Bogue. Mayer, who in her office life favors sheaths and cardigans from Oscar de la Renta and Carolina Herrera, wore for her wedding a dress by Naeem Khan with a bodice crocheted and embroidered in snowflake lace. Her veil was Herrera; her shoes a Mary Jane by Stuart Weitzman with a blue crystal design on the instep; and she carried a bouquet of holly berries."
- April Buchheit
from Bookmarklet
Double post--sorry guys. The first time I tried to post this was via email and when I saw that it didn't show up on FF (even after waiting some time), I posted the picture a second time directly, which took instantaneously.
- April Buchheit
"There was a time when idealistic folksingers such as myself believed that Reality TV was a programming vogue that would peak and recede, leaving only its hardiest show-offs. Instead, it has metastized like toxic mold, filling every nook and opening new crannies. Idiocracy, Mike Judge's satire about a future society too dumb to wipe itself, now...
"looks like a prescient documentary." -James Wilcott, "I'm a Culture Critic...Get Me Out of Here!" Vanity Fair, December 2009
- April Buchheit
from iPhone
my friend molly just gave me a king size quilt that she made over a few months. She and I have been very close for the last 5 years or so, and I cried when I saw it. It was SO much work.. and I always coveted the quilts she made for others... it was truly epic.
- Jenna Bilotta
In terms of material goods for the gift itself and not solely the thought behind it...quite possibly my DLSR camera. It has opened up a new world to me. I've received lovely extravagant gifts from my fiance (like a computer) which was very useful, but it was and improvement over what was already part of my life. This was a surprise gift that showed that someone trusted my creativity and it's something that has allowed me to document my life where I was limited before.
- joey
50 yardline tickets to the Notre Dame-Ohio State game (it was the first time they had played in 50 years)
- RAPatton
from iPhone
oh yeah. I got kidnapped to the amalfi coast (italy) the day of my 30th birthday by my boyfriend. I didn't know where we were going until we got to DC. I had to cancel my meetings at work with a phone call from the DC airport. :) He packed for me and everything!
- Jenna Bilotta
It's a tossup between my first bike and sled. Probably the bike, although the sled was more fun right away with several feet of snow on the ground at Christmas.
- Cristo
Probably the trip to Antarctica, though there may be a recency bias there. Also, I'd have to say 'college'. Thanks Mom!
- Kevin Fox
The chance to prove to others that I'm not a quitter. After terminal illness kicked me out of my career path I received college paid in full for journalism.
- H0llywoodWh0re
My mother-in-law donated a kidney to me so I could live.
- Travis B. Hartwell
You can't top pure unselfish giving like that Travis. Glad you're with us to share. =)
- Junebug (aka Sarah Jill)
Thanks everyone! I'm glad to be here too. It's amazing. I'm coming up on my 6 month new-kidney birthday.
- Travis B. Hartwell
My first iPhone, in '07. It was even better than I'd anticipated. Runner-up was the experience of standing in line at the Apple Store this past June with my daughter, on my birthday, for the upgrade. There aren't a lot of things she and I can really share in our somewhat difficult relationship - we don't exactly speak the same language despite having somewhat similar interests. But that was a great morning and a great birthday for us, ages 19 and 49. (Hers is June 24...)
- MaryB, BrandingBroadOfFF
My dog. Otto was a gift from Mom, and he's the love of my life :)
- Archangel ωαřмaiden
I got nothing on Travis. He wins... All Hail the King! (and his cool Mother in Law)
- Morgan Haley
Updates to the FriendFeed platform, including favicons for fed services.
- Matthew DeVries
Simon and Garfunkel's Greatest Hits. May sound lame, but at 11 I was in heaven.
- Jen (SquirrelGirl)
and Bill is a very close second place!!! Not much beats a good steak and a bj
- Morgan Haley
Can't think of one - not that I can't narrow it down, but because I am the best gift giver EVER. :P
- Mona Nomura
from iPhone
I remember getting my first computer. A 286. Compudyne, I think. Without that, I wouldn't be here right now. If I recieved anything else that year, I couldn't tell you what. I was too busy installing a bootleg copy of LogoWriter and learning how to make the computer do stuff using machine code.
- Rahsheen ™, Coach Rah
My NES and my first bike. I can remember those two gifts like it just happened to me yesterday.
- Chieze Okoye
One Christmas eve, Andrew and I realized we hadn't bought each other presents yet. We went to a store and independently picked out gifts. Turns out we each got the same Lego set. I like the warm fuzzy feeling of knowing we have such compatible tastes (plus having 2x the legos)
- Lexi Baugher
from iPhone
Do you and our beautiful babies count, Paul? Thanks for making them so adorable, by the way. :)
- April Buchheit
from iPhone
I think my Acer netbook last year. My BlackBerry this year runs a very close second. When I dig a little deeper though, the original NES that my siblings and I got from one of our grandmothers back in the 80s did have us all pretty ecstatic.
- Kamilah Gill
Are you trying to say that love doesn't make you happy? (Oh, April sad!)
- April Buchheit
Last year Kris took me to NYC to see the Yankees and Red Sox at old Yankee stadium. That was probably the most epic birthday gift I've ever received.
- Bren -- feeling merry
from iPhone
I made a 1,000 cranes as a wedding gift for my best friend. She still talks about how much she loves it. It took a long time, but was worth it when I saw the look on her face when she opened it.
- Georgia Diehl
My childhood dog would be #1, but my best nonliving gift would be my Tivo. Best invention ever and still going strong after 5 years!
- Shannon Jiménez
And for me, my daughter of course. It does also help that she's just so damn cute! BEST GIFT EVER!
- Georgia Diehl
When I graduated from high school my dad gave me $1,000 cash as a gift. I had never seen so much money in my life. I was overwhelmed with possibilities and gratitude. I had a big party for the entire graduating class, and I bought a 35 mm camera to replace the one that had been stolen from me.
- Call me Bronco
Honestly I'm not sure, I can't remember anything. All the things that I really liked getting it, I gave it to myself. But I vividly remember the presents I loved the most to give. :)
- Olivia Lovag
I think the best was a night at a comedy club in Harvard Square. The comedienne was so funny that I had to stop twice and just close my eyes and breath deeply, to survive. Also playing a large factor was that it was the first birthday present I ever got from a girlfriend.
- Jorg Brown
By contrast, I think the best present I ever *gave* was tickets to a Broncos game in December. My brother & my dad went, and it was cold, and the game was a long string of disappointments, with fans streaming out of the stadium during the fourth quarter because Denver was two touchdowns behind. Why was it such a good present? Because Elway was QB, and he won the game.
- Jorg Brown
Sigourney Weaver, with a chuckle, says she will never grow tired of space travel. “I’m always up for going to another planet,” the three-time Oscar nominee said. “Outer space has been good to me.” This is the 30th anniversary of Weaver’s career breakthrough with her role as Ellen Ripley in the first “Alien” film. But far [...]
- Shevonne
Not a week goes by that I don't miss Kozmo. I remember early on getting them to bring me one box of Junior Mints just because it was so crazy that they actually would. I used Kozmo so much that all of the delivery guys knew me.
- Akiva Moskovitz
The first DVD I ever rented from Netflix was the documentary about Kozmo. Totally forgot about that until now.
- Akiva Moskovitz
Akiva, that's pretty Meta. No, it's New Wave Meta or something.
- Micah Wittman
April, see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... . I used Kozmo to order single bags of Pepperidge Farm cookies when I was hungry late at night. I think they charged less for the cookies than the local Safeway.
- Gary Burd
Even though I don't have a job or own a business, I occasionally feel the need to have a "business" card. There are times when I'm getting acquainted with someone and need to share my contact information and a business card is the fastest and least awkward way of sharing that information. What do you guys think?
Totally! I adore business cards. Sometimes I make up reasons to need and therefore make them. Such as we have business cards for our home haunted house. I think I've used 10 of them. But I LOVE them. And in a pinch they double as a person calling card!
- Rachel Lea Fox
Find a letterpress shop; they'll be able to make you great calling cards that cannot be equaled by regular offset printing.
- Clayton Wheeler
Further to what Clayton wrote, if you can find a print shop that still does real engraving, try getting engraved cards - raised ink lettering, using a classic typeface such as Copperplate Gothic
- Victor Panlilio
April, the goal here is to make Paul envious with the understated elegance of your card. :-)
- Kevin Fox
There is nothing wrong with having cards, in fact it's rather smart. Which is why I started printing "friendship cards" for my daughter when she was about 12. I like to include a photo on cards, because if someone can't remember who you are from the info on the card, the photo may jog their memory. Put your info on one side and a nice photo on the reverse. They are also good for giving to friends and family when you move, and they will not only have your new info, but a nice photo for their wallet, too.
- April Russo (app103)
I think cards are a great idea, too; i also think "American Psycho" was a very funny film.
- T. Brent, technopeasant
I say go for it. A woman I play tennis with has Tennis Sub cards. You can find her any morning of the week at our club, subbing in games. I seriously think she saves a fortune in court time that way - pays her $300 annual dues, then not a dime more! (And I think the cards run her $10/a thousand . . .)
- MaryB, BrandingBroadOfFF
These days I have people Tweet/Facebook or Bump! / contxt (for non iPhone owners) me. moo cards are so 2008 ;)
- Mona Nomura
from iPhone
What's old is new. Yes, as many have mentioned, the idea of a "calling card" harkens all the way back to slightly before ante-bellum South (at least in this country) During the 50's and slightly beyond the practice was part of a students' high school graduation purchases.
- Melanie Reed
Gabe, do you like horizontal with or without graph paper lines though?
- Cristo
I vote for horizontal also. Easier to read when in a stack with other business cards or in a card holder or Rolodex.
- Jeff P. Henderson
Do people keep rolodexes anymore? When I worked as an admin, I remember spending an eternity scanning some exec's business cards and that was more than a decade ago.
- April Buchheit
I also vote for horizontal (landscape). I made my business cards with LaTeX, and printed them out on our laser printer.
- Robert Felty
i just updated my calling card and decided on the "portrait" view. i haven't regretted it a bit. it often results in additional conversation when i pass the card and i think that helps folks remember me.
- MikeAmundsen
I'll be the contrarian. I much prefer vertical, I write small and I can fit lists and notes that way better. It mirrors the orientation of a regular piece of paper, just smaller.
- LogEx
Add a QR code...started using those recently for exchanging card info and super handy
- Tomas Remotigue
Don't thank me yet. Tomas might reply that he's using a competing app. :-)
- Bruce Lewis
from fftogo
Heh, the snapmyinfo userbase is still pretty tiny, so I'm sure he rolled his own. :) Edit: <plug my own stuff> the basic difference is being able to share with those *without* barcode scanners as well as those with. </plug my own stuff>
- mikepk
"My son got a special package in the mail today… It’s a replica of the stuffed tiger Hobbes from the Calvin & Hobbes comic strip. This is meant to be the stuffed version of Hobbes, as opposed to the anthropomorphic tiger from Calvin’s point of view. Bill Watterson, the comic’s creator, has refused the use of Calvin and Hobbes in merchandising of any sort and thus there are no authorized reproductions in existence. This one was custom made overseas specifically for me as a gift for my son. And maybe it’s just me, but I think he looks a little like Calvin when he carries it around."
- April Buchheit
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