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August 24, 2007 8:37 AM

I have no idea what these people are talking about, but incredible answers like these are what makes me love AskMe.
posted by loiseau to MetaFilter-Related at 8:37 AM (31 comments total)

* make me love
posted by loiseau at 8:38 AM on August 24, 2007

If caution live frogs isn't my neuroscientist, who is?
posted by grouse at 8:39 AM on August 24, 2007

Extra props to andrew cooke for being a good sport about a (deleted, ftw!) initial misreading.
posted by cortex (staff) at 8:43 AM on August 24, 2007

Yeah, who's your neuroscientist? You like that excitatory post-synaptic potential? Unnh... call me Ramon y Cajal.
posted by solipsophistocracy at 8:47 AM on August 24, 2007 [2 favorites]

Squid Giant Axon!
posted by exogenous at 8:48 AM on August 24, 2007

If neuroscientists aren't spammers then ban me right n
posted by iconomy at 8:48 AM on August 24, 2007 [1 favorite]

I'm glad that there's a positive MeTa post for a change.

Positive? Huh!? Who's got me up here? Huh?

crickets...
posted by Jofus at 8:50 AM on August 24, 2007

I love threads like that, because they're invariably born out of curiosity, as opposed to designed for solving some mundane problem.

"If I, like, had a right hand transplant from a left-handed donor, would I lose the ability to write?"
"What lies at the centre of the universe?"
"What lies at the centre of the internet?"
"How much wood would a woodchuck chuck if, erm, hahaha I dropped my keys hahahaha."
"Okay, now I got the munchies. What should I eat?"
posted by goodnewsfortheinsane at 9:06 AM on August 24, 2007

Big wup. It's not brain surgery rocket science.
posted by It's Raining Florence Henderson at 9:07 AM on August 24, 2007 [1 favorite]

Yay! This totally deserved a positive callout. I shares your sentiments.

Now I just need some magnets to help my brain understand the thread.
posted by tiny crocodile at 9:24 AM on August 24, 2007

I too like the curiosity threads the most like when someone asks about an apparent conundrum in physics or astronomy. Or even something biological or chemical. Or historical. Or a literature question. Or anything other than 'How do I unscrew this particular brand of lightbulb'
posted by vacapinta at 9:41 AM on August 24, 2007

EVERY TIME YOU HOLD A MAGNET TO YOUR BRAIN A KITTEN MASTURBATES
posted by quonsar at 9:41 AM on August 24, 2007

How about some Magnetic Health Underwear?

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posted by weapons-grade pandemonium at 9:44 AM on August 24, 2007

wgp, that makes complete sense after reading that comic sans thread.
posted by misha at 9:51 AM on August 24, 2007

Hi! I'm YOUR neuroscientist. Now please insert this magnet into YOUR BRAIN!
posted by blue_beetle at 10:01 AM on August 24, 2007

Gee, thanks, blue_beetle. Now I'm bi-polar.
posted by It's Raining Florence Henderson at 10:06 AM on August 24, 2007

Heh.
posted by cortex (staff) at 10:07 AM on August 24, 2007

Inserting shit into your brain is old school, unless it's a magnetic pulse.
posted by solipsophistocracy at 10:16 AM on August 24, 2007

i told u i was dipole
posted by cortex (staff) at 10:17 AM on August 24, 2007

Dear AskMe, At my neuroscientist's suggestion, I've inserted magnets into my brain. Everything seems fine except that I now keep having cutlery stick to my forehead. Should I dye my hair to compliment the metal, or the wooden handles?
posted by quin at 10:21 AM on August 24, 2007

Have to use that PhD for something.
posted by smackfu at 10:29 AM on August 24, 2007

My head hurts.
posted by miss lynnster at 10:51 AM on August 24, 2007

Inserting shit into your brain is old school, unless it's a magnetic pulse.

I read that as "magnetic pube" - pubes make everything funny.
posted by tristeza at 11:02 AM on August 24, 2007 [1 favorite]

Except bloody marys.
posted by punilux at 12:53 PM on August 24, 2007 [4 favorites]

Magnetic Fields?
posted by Pronoiac at 3:40 PM on August 24, 2007

Ok, I made my answer, which is both funny and scientific (though dumbed-down). Favorite away!
posted by Eideteker at 4:48 PM on August 24, 2007

Eideteker: You're saying the brain is not a truck?
posted by Pronoiac at 5:24 PM on August 24, 2007

Now is a good time to compare and contrast AskMe to Yahoo answers.
posted by Rhomboid at 5:32 PM on August 24, 2007 [1 favorite]

From above link:

Best Answer - Chosen By Voters

mail me ur address and all details i would love to show u practically
posted by philomathoholic at 6:52 PM on August 24, 2007

I have no idea how these CATs got their people wedged into scanners, or why.
posted by Arthur "Two Sheds" Jackson at 10:04 PM on August 24, 2007

And this thread is an example of what makes me love MeTa.




Sometimes.
posted by loiseau at 11:30 PM on August 26, 2007