Do you know the answers to these questions:
- Can someone help me find the comic strip that featured someone being visited by a genie and offered three wishes? He wishes for a hamster wheel.
- Can anyone locate a picture of Green Boots Cave? The one on Everest.
- Do you remember a show - around the time of the A Team, Knight Rider, Street Hawk etc.. This guy, was an astronaut… The sun’s radiation got through his visor He used to get really angry, could run fast but his head almost exploded and would pulsate?
Or, what about this one:
- What’s the name of certain book about an ancient king who discovers the secret to immortality, lives for hundreds of years, and now owns a fragrance shop in Paris?
Someone does, and the place you’re most likely to find them is Ask Metafilter, affectionately known as AskMeFi.
These people don’t just know the answer, they know the answer quickly. Just take a look at those three questions I asked. It took a mere twenty minutes for someone to answer my search for the hamster wheel - Who Needs Any More Wishes. Someone had pointed me in the direction of Green Boots Cave in just twenty-one minutes.
Name This Short Run TV Flop - It Had An Exploding Head…I Think took a bit longer, but two-and-a-quarter hours is still impressive, and someone had ventured a guess in fifteen minutes!
That last one about the book? ONE MINUTE!
I believe there is a one-off payment - 5 dollars or so - to become a member of the MetaFilter community, and a little bit of time needs to elapse between each question you ask, so it’s best to save it for those really niggly ones. But, the satisfaction of having your questions answered so rapidly is worth it. Not only that, but you will often get additional interesting comments related to your question, thoughtful discussion, or amusing links.
Ask MetaFilter - querying the hive mind indeed.
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