Is Get 27 available in the United States...and/or online? [more inside]
posted by gimonca on Oct 22, 2009 - 1 answer

I have a problem with hearing bass music vibrating through my windows and walls into my home. It literally echos through my every vein and makes me feel insane. Is this a sign of age? Is something wrong with me? [more inside]
posted by czechmate on Aug 29, 2009 - 21 answers

Half a day on a low-carb diet and I already feel like hurling. Advice? [more inside]
posted by kitcat on Jun 15, 2009 - 34 answers

I just installed Thunderbird and added my gmail account. Thunderbird only wants to "get" about 100 emails at a time. I have many thousands of emails. Is there any way to make Thunderbird get all of my emails in one go? I don't want to sit here pressing "get mail" indefinitely. [more inside]
posted by prefpara on Jun 9, 2009 - 6 answers

Looking to spend a romantic get-away weekend somewhere in Texas after the new year with my husband. Possibly January or February. We live in West Texas and would like to travel somewhere nearby and stay for a Saturday and Sunday. We do not drink, smoke, and will not be traveling or lodging with pets. [more inside]
posted by Snoogylips on Dec 7, 2007 - 9 answers

Alternatives to lynx, wget and get from the unix command line? [more inside]
posted by Null Pointer and the Exceptions on Jul 11, 2007 - 11 answers

I'm designing a webpage that will have a list of items and each item can be deleted. I was thinking to have the delete command be link to a URL that does the delete when called. But then I realized maybe that isn't safe since a spider following links might cause things to be deleted. What is the proper design for this type of thing?
posted by GregX3 on May 22, 2007 - 14 answers

80sTVShow/FantasyFilter: Sword and Sorcery. At the end of each episode (?), the image would freeze and covert to a painting of said image. That's all I remember. I was 7 or 8 at the time so this would make it around 1985 or so. So. Yeah. That's all you get. Go to it, Mefites. [more inside]
posted by ryecatcher on May 7, 2007 - 14 answers

Is it possible to set the action attribute of an HTML form, such that the method is POST, but the action includes GET variables? [more inside]
posted by Blazecock Pileon on Oct 26, 2006 - 8 answers

How do you get pregnant with a turkey baster? [more inside]
posted by BigBrownBear on Oct 20, 2006 - 19 answers

He was killed; he got (himself) killed. It was sold; it got sold (possibly out from under me). What sort of semantic difference does using forms of "get" versus "be" in passive constructions convey? [more inside]
posted by kenko on Sep 8, 2006 - 12 answers

MetaFilter landlords: Please help me aquire a lease... [more inside]
posted by cmonkey on Dec 7, 2005 - 11 answers

"Letters, we get letters"...I've seen that hack headline atop the reader mailbag section of too many publications. What's the origin?
posted by stupidsexyFlanders on May 14, 2004 - 6 answers