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Happy weekend, everyone! For today's Metatalktails, I'd like to ask about intruders in your home. Not the criminal kind, but those items that have ended up in your household inventory — but you have no idea where they came from. [more inside]
posted by taz on Dec 10, 2022 - 60 comments

Hello, dear friends. For this week's Metatalktail Hour, I'd like to ask you about the personal, tiny, enduring, inscrutable, seemingly insoluble mysteries that have haunted you. What small, unexplained episode from your own experience still leaves you scratching your head? [more inside]
posted by taz on May 7, 2022 - 49 comments

I swear this isn't a humblebrag. I'm perplexed. [more inside]
posted by MiraK on Mar 24, 2018 - 34 comments

If anyone needed evidence of the utility of the MeFi Hive Mind, I submit for evidence this truly awesome question and its answers from AskMe. Good job, everyone!
posted by Chocolate Pickle on Jan 20, 2014 - 164 comments

Attention: A classic AskMe Mystery Thread is emerging and it is wonderful
posted by The Whelk on Nov 4, 2013 - 151 comments

What do lights in the sky, the Chelyabinsk meteor, a flood in South Dakota in 1972, a Cowboy Church, and potato scabies all have in common? [more inside]
posted by carsonb on May 31, 2013 - 43 comments

Idea for the The Great Mystery Box of MeFi [more inside]
posted by RolandOfEld on Dec 7, 2011 - 109 comments

The Phantom Gifter strikes again. [more inside]
posted by jonmc on Dec 7, 2011 - 43 comments

Follow-up to post about mystery shoe-clad feet washing up on shore in the Pacific Northwest: The majority have been identified as belonging to aquatic suicides (e.g. bridge jumpers). [more inside]
posted by Halloween Jack on Oct 24, 2011 - 8 comments

Thank You Very Much. [more inside]
posted by jonmc on Dec 7, 2010 - 42 comments

MeFi's own headspace has been nominated for an Edgar Award in the Best Young Adult category for her first novel Shadowed Summer. The Edgar Allan Poe Awards (popularly called the Edgars), are presented every year by the Mystery Writers of America. They honor the best in mystery fiction, non-fiction, television, film, and theater published or produced in the previous year.
posted by netbros on Jan 19, 2010 - 43 comments

Wired just posted this article, which is their coverage of the Mystery on Fifth Ave apartment remodel (posted here). They included pictures of a few more of the puzzles, including this cipher. [more inside]
posted by Who_Am_I on May 6, 2009 - 19 comments

Earnest Opinion. [more inside]
posted by moxiedoll on Jun 12, 2008 - 149 comments

Occasionally links without any real description are posted to the front page. It would be nice if any user could add a short description that would appear when you moused over the link, so users don't have to click on eight different links to find out what a post is about. [more inside]
posted by craniac on Sep 26, 2007 - 54 comments

So, um, who sent out the mysterious "PLEASE ENJOY" MefiSwap CDs?
posted by goodnewsfortheinsane on May 18, 2007 - 59 comments

Could one of these maybe get side-barred? It's not the easiest thing to search for, and it's been asked twice within a 7 day period...
posted by niles on Dec 5, 2006 - 175 comments

The mystery is solved! The longest AsMeFi thread in history finally yields an answer, after six weeks!
posted by Steven C. Den Beste on Nov 15, 2006 - 4 comments

Ok, you freaks. WTF is up with the elephants?
posted by loquacious on Oct 8, 2006 - 361 comments

Can we get some closure on this "mystery nautical apparatus" AskMe thread? I'm dying to know what this thing is. Did any of the commenters get an answer from their emails to the Galway port people?
posted by Brian James on May 7, 2006 - 14 comments

Why can't some people see the link in this thread? I've looked at the source, and it looks fine to me.
posted by crunchland on Oct 6, 2003 - 23 comments

Huh? Here's this week's top ten referrals from my station's counter:

1. no referral
2. metafilter.com/mefi/2238
3. google.com/search
4. ask.com/main/followup.asp
5. askjeeves.com/main/followup.asp
6. metafilter.com/mefi/2238/
7. yahoo.com/bin/query
8. real.com/music/
9. altavista.com/sites/search/web
10. yahoo.com/bin/search

I've had people click on my show from my user page or comments, or even someone else's comment linking my show, but a no comment post from a year and four months before I found this place? And I can't see it having anything to do with any other show in the station, either, though some there do lurk here. What is up with that? Any clues?

posted by y2karl on May 30, 2002 - 16 comments

Groan.
posted by rcade on May 27, 2001 - 2 comments