Is there a specific word for those rolling, pull-down gates that cover up storefronts in old-school cities (Brooklyn, Barcelona) at night? Here's a picture of the kind of gates I mean. [more inside]
posted by jcruelty on Nov 9, 2009 - 28 answers

I need a synonym for 'indebted' that begins with E. [more inside]
posted by Lemurrhea on Jun 18, 2009 - 20 answers

Many adjectives used to describe overweight men in a nonoffensive manner can also be used to describe muscular men (i.e. stout, beefy, etc.). What are some adjectives that describe, with a positive or neutral connotation, the state of being both male and overweight, but that are not used (or at least not commonly used) to describe muscular men as well? [more inside]
posted by WCityMike on Oct 10, 2007 - 52 answers

I need famous people whose last names are synonyms of "goodbye." [more inside]
posted by matkline on Nov 11, 2006 - 32 answers

A database by any other name ... [more inside]
posted by Araucaria on Mar 6, 2006 - 5 answers

I'm playing (oracle) DBA for a day over the next two weeks and need to create public synonyms for all tables in a schema. How would I go about doing so? [more inside]
posted by furtive on Jul 27, 2005 - 7 answers