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Pineapple? 🍍 Pineapple. music for skeletons seeks suggestions for the whole pineapple, and gets some great ideas. Grill / roast caramelization sounds delicious! [Update: Also, Pineapple.]

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Maybe one of the best things you'll ever read about how to think about cleaning / organizing in your home or personal space: I want to end the cycle of managing my living space. Yes, the whole thread. Fantastic advice abounds — well-done, mefites!!

Best Windows + Lovecraft mashup actual question and answer about cloning the C drive. Tell Me No Lies seeks the truth. gregr calls on the elder Gods to answer.

I really need something to cheer myself up tonight. What can I watch?

Braeburn is looking for quirky, unique, not gendered gift guides, preferably UK based, while egeanin is seeking gifts that teach the constellations, and nouvelle-personne wants to give the gift of Beeps and Boops for two siblings, 3 and 5, who LOVE interactive educational toys that talk or play music.. ❄️✨

Right person, right time, right place, right thread: Migrantology expertly answers a question about donating for legal aid to immigrants to California.

Your sock is hiding in the dryer outside of eyesight. JohnnyGunn tells a funny story about calling the library to find out the location of their missing sock in pablocake's Ask Me post about a phone hotline (instead of Google) for questions. It should come as no surprise to Mefites that in this, as in so many things, librarians are our heroes! (or, as Mournful Bagel Song puts it, "unearthly beings of pure knowledge")

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The question is simple, yet so important: What things make you happier when you do them? Community member Eyelash is asking and thankfully, MeFites are pouring in with answers!

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Got a random chatty question? Then hop over to HelpMe, an AskMetaFilter experiment for those idle questions floating around in your head!

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lianove3 recently came home to a suspicious Amazon package with no label and a threatening aura. Was it a bomb? What to do? Should the movie version of this thread star Brad Pitt and Morgan Freeman? Was it all worth it just for this pun? Find out in the comments!

US Canada border photo by Chris Connelly on Flickr

St. Peepsburg wondering about the days before crossing the US/Canada border became so painful, eh? People have answers and interesting anecdotes.

"suitcase food" by Krista on Flickr (cropped)

skycrashesdown would just like to enjoy a nice homemade slab of bread and is looking for recipes that will turn out a loaf "dense and packed full of fiber and different crunchy bits and with a chewy crust. Bread that would be served at a meal at Redwall."

Art by Eddi van W. on Flickr

Ask Me synchronicity ... 18 years later: In 2006, ninazer0 asked for help identifying three works of English Juvenile Historical Fiction, later finding the answer to one of the mystery texts. In 2024, tangerine asked about mid-century kids' historical fiction about the Hanseatic League, and paduasoy's suggestion was not the author OP was looking for, but it did resolve the earlier mystery. Then melisande added more info for the earlier question. Delightful!

oh to be 20 again..... by Beatnik Photos (cc by)

AskMetafilter recently turned 20 and various members stopped by to give a shout out! Here's to 20 more! How should we celebrate when AskMe turns 21?!