What is living in my yard and what do I do about it? [more inside]
posted by bodgy on Nov 5, 2009 - 12 answers

I cannot, for the life of me, figure out this person's name. She says it, right there in plain language, but I just can't catch it. Does the name sound familiar? I kinda think the last name is Gomez, but even that I'm not so sure of.
posted by ericc on Nov 4, 2009 - 11 answers

What might one see hiking in the woods at night that looks like glowing eyes? [more inside]
posted by weston on Oct 31, 2009 - 25 answers

Why did we go trick-or-treating the night before (or the night after) Halloween one year when I was a kid? [more inside]
posted by bondcliff on Oct 30, 2009 - 27 answers

Plateofbeaning Dark Corners the movie? Oddities, trivia and overanalysis for your amusement. Spoilers inside, I'm sure. [more inside]
posted by Iosephus on Oct 24, 2009 - 0 answers

My kid spent the night with his friend. The next day, thinking he's still at the friend's house, I get a phone call from the local grocery store. Seems my kid was shoplifting. Now, both of the mom's involved are angry with each other. [more inside]
posted by anonymous on Oct 19, 2009 - 39 answers

Way too far from Nogales - can anyone help me replace my stuffed frog on a motorcycle? [more inside]
posted by Pressed Rat on Oct 12, 2009 - 1 answer

So I was fiddling with commands in the python interpreter via the Terminal. I ran this basically, and was messing with the help system. fileHandle = open ( 'test.txt', 'w' ) ; fileHandle.write (' asdasd^3 '); fileHandle.close(); And all of a sudden this application opened. Python shell is it's name, it has no icon. WTF is going on?
posted by emptyinside on Sep 18, 2009 - 3 answers

How do I defend myself against a spiteful landlord? [more inside]
posted by anonymous on Sep 14, 2009 - 11 answers

Why, when I cut and paste original Word docs into my blog, does all this hidden html code (or something) show up? [more inside]
posted by nax on Sep 13, 2009 - 20 answers

Please help me unb0rk my cousin's router. [more inside]
posted by Decimask on Sep 3, 2009 - 6 answers

How can I count certain things in a range of cells in Excel that fall between two dates? [more inside]
posted by SansPoint on Sep 2, 2009 - 5 answers

Please help me save my beloved lemon tree! [more inside]
posted by Ljubljana on Aug 31, 2009 - 7 answers

Did I see a little girl holding an orangutang on the streets of downtown Arlington, VA in early June 2008? [more inside]
posted by fontophilic on Aug 18, 2009 - 5 answers

What is this story about someone literally scared to death? [more inside]
posted by ladypants on Aug 12, 2009 - 2 answers

What the hell is this? It's floating above all my windows, cannot be clicked, and is not any application in my dock or menu bar. Have you seen this before? [more inside]
posted by cellphone on Aug 11, 2009 - 18 answers

hotdogfilter - Why do BallPark Franks plump when you cook them? [more inside]
posted by Paleoindian on Aug 6, 2009 - 22 answers

My doctor recently prescribed some Librium for awful stomach cramps. It seems that it is making all my food and drink now taste just terrible, like it's all got nutrasweet in it. I know the simple answer here is "just stop taking it", but that's really not an option. The Google is useless on this, and I really miss drinking water that tastes like water, and not water with some awful chemical in it. I guess, long question short: Is this the medication causing this or do I have a brain tumor?
posted by reverendjim on Aug 5, 2009 - 5 answers

For reasons I don't (yet) fully understand, Care Credit has refused to extend me any credit whatsoever towards a year-long set of (embarrassing) medical procedures that will end up totalling in the neighborhood of $30,000 US. What viable alternatives to Care Credit exist for financing expensive and drawn-out medical procedures? [more inside]
posted by anonymous on Jul 15, 2009 - 9 answers

Everybody that I work with has become an insufferable asshole over the past few weeks. What is going on here? What can I do about it? [more inside]
posted by anonymous on Jul 8, 2009 - 39 answers

Why (in the hell) can I not bring a date to this wedding? [more inside]
posted by anonymous on Jun 26, 2009 - 93 answers

I'd like to buy some clothes online, but size charts are leading me astray. Is my measuring tape broken? [more inside]
posted by esmerelda_jenkins on Jun 11, 2009 - 16 answers

For the last ten years or so, I've had chronic pain and mild swelling in (what I think are) my parotids, the largest of the salivary glands. However, my docs beg to differ (sometimes with me and often with each other, it seems). Help me figure out what hurts. [more inside]
posted by blisskite triplicate on May 22, 2009 - 10 answers

Why does this bumble bee feel the need to protect my sidewalk from other flying insects? [more inside]
posted by cdmwebs on Apr 28, 2009 - 10 answers

This Wikipedia article (citing this interview) says that Horton Hears A Who! is an allegory for the post-WW2 Allied occupation of Japan. I don't get it. Could somebody explain how an elephant who is ridiculed because he hears tiny people on a speck has anything to do with the Allied occupation?
posted by obiwanwasabi on Apr 22, 2009 - 5 answers

Why are one-way tickets so much more expensive than a round-trip ticket for airline travel? [more inside]
posted by snwod on Apr 21, 2009 - 6 answers

We live in Virginia, but my boyfriend's employer paid state taxes to DC instead of Virginia! Now what? [more inside]
posted by kerning on Apr 5, 2009 - 6 answers

Why is all this money going to industry and commerce, not the citizenry? [more inside]
posted by turgid dahlia on Mar 19, 2009 - 19 answers

Is my girlfriend's new Dell laptop possessed by some sort of demonic entity? [more inside]
posted by kbanas on Mar 16, 2009 - 31 answers

Is there a way to obtain the mugshot of a former inmate/current parolee in Franklin County (Columbus,) Ohio? [more inside]
posted by biggity on Mar 3, 2009 - 5 answers

Just moved into a new rental house in Hamilton, ON and I'm trying to get my DSL turned on, but oh boy. [more inside]
posted by the dief on Feb 27, 2009 - 12 answers

I have a problems connecting to my wireless network, on one computer only. Other networks work for this computer. Other computers work on this network. [more inside]
posted by johnofjack on Feb 20, 2009 - 7 answers

What in the hell is this? [more inside]
posted by allfortheBoss on Feb 15, 2009 - 24 answers

Seriously affecting my morning workouts: gas or acid reflux in the mornings, before anything is eaten and only water has been drunk. WTF? [more inside]
posted by You Should See the Other Guy on Feb 13, 2009 - 20 answers

Why has Google taken over my computer (and the mind and soul of my workplace printer)? [more inside]
posted by iced_borsch on Feb 4, 2009 - 3 answers

What the hell is going on in this video? [more inside]
posted by tylerfulltilt on Jan 28, 2009 - 5 answers

I got an automated call from a debt collection agency which told me to pay through eBay. Is this a scam? [more inside]
posted by ambulatorybird on Jan 7, 2009 - 9 answers

So, you all have been following my travails in Seattle living for a while now. In Craigslist, I thought I found the perfect room - furnished, nice roommate (who is also the landlord), clean, in a new house, and in a good location. But, the whole house smells like sweet, yeasty wheat bread, and my asthma is not amused. [more inside]
posted by spinifex23 on Dec 2, 2008 - 5 answers

Why hasn't another movie like "The 5th Element" been made since, well, "The 5th Element"? ("Because it sucks" is not an answer) [more inside]
posted by eurasian on Nov 27, 2008 - 25 answers

Is this viral? I got a strange book unexpectedly in the mail. [more inside]
posted by fcummins on Nov 12, 2008 - 45 answers

I could use a better, clearer explanation than I've found so far of: What is a mortgage-backed security, and how does it (in theory) work? What does a "cash injection" by the Fed literally mean? And when a bank "buys bad debt," does that literally mean it just buys the contract that said debt was written on & tries to chase it down itself? [more inside]
posted by scaryblackdeath on Sep 26, 2008 - 11 answers

So... I was doing some light reading on feline behavior tonight (yes, I'm a cat nerd)... Scroll to page 34. Look at the cute photo of a cat on a file cabinet. Read the caption underneath the photo. [more inside]
posted by grippycat on Aug 24, 2008 - 12 answers

What the deuce? Why can't I type in certain areas using XCode? [more inside]
posted by designbot on Jul 23, 2008 - 4 answers

How do I make Sharepoint usable? Less ugly? Am I missing something or is this really unintuitive? What is everyone else using? [more inside]
posted by geoff. on Jul 15, 2008 - 11 answers

What the hell just happened to me while I was stretching my back? [more inside]
posted by Cat Pie Hurts on Jul 2, 2008 - 17 answers

I recently have gotten a bunch of cell phone calls from non-phone numbers. WTF is going on? [more inside]
posted by Unicorn on the cob on Jul 2, 2008 - 13 answers

Why would eating a salad make me shaky and lightheaded? [more inside]
posted by Mavri on Jun 9, 2008 - 16 answers

Why is the only .arpa website about unicycles?
posted by East Manitoba Regional Junior Kabaddi Champion '94 on May 27, 2008 - 9 answers

I'm looking for something really freaky to put on the tv at the bar I work at; video imagery to really make some hipster indie rocker kids say wtf when they notice it playing in the background-"holy mountain" and svenmahers"alice" are my usual standbys, but I know you Mefites know just the thing to make a standard night watching post rock bands just a little stranger.what visuals would you use, remembering that the sound of the movie won't be heard--
posted by donabean on May 16, 2008 - 76 answers

Help me understand quit claim deeds, why they are so prevalent in this particular heavily-foreclosed-upon Washington state neighborhood I am researching, and some other fishy data I have uncovered. [more inside]
posted by croutonsupafreak on Apr 29, 2008 - 9 answers