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I really fancy the current woot shirt. Anyone bought one of those before? Are they of reasonable quality? - celedhrymandias Oct 19, 22:05 4
- I've bought 7 shirt.woot's. They're all very good quality. - JaxSean Oct 19, 22:08 2
  - are any glow in the dark? (I've bought 4 for me, and one gift, I believe) - psilotum Oct 19, 22:20 1
    - no. -- nm - JaxSean Oct 19, 22:21
- I have a lot of woot shirts. Most of them are great quality, although my favourite one so far ... has a bit of crackling in the print. - Beryllium Oct 19, 22:07
i frequently want to use the phrase "Life is arb" in real life, but only you get it. -- nm - Die Incognito Oct 19, 21:58 1
- bookies, bankers, lawyers and brokers should get it, or at least have a vague idea -- nm - zeitgeist Oct 19, 22:28
With a $150 million, forget about 30-minute promos. Obama can buy walk-ons on some of TV's most popular shows. - Mop Oct 19, 21:33 9
- What happens to all of the money if he doesn't spend it all come November 4th? - JaxSean Oct 19, 22:04 6
  - Spread it around. -- nm - Qale Oct 19, 22:17
  - they can do different things with it -- (link) - cabin pixie Oct 19, 22:12 3
    - interesting. - JaxSean Oct 19, 22:18 2
      - yeah, the dem congressional committees want him to guarantee a loan to pump some last-minute money into the borderline races -- nm - cabin pixie Oct 19, 22:19 1
        
        He might help Hillary to pay her debt off Id think -- nm - eag Oct 19, 22:23
  - amazing victory party -- nm - ty97 Oct 19, 22:07
- "What we've got on our hands here ..." *puts on sunglasses* "... is a wild moose chase." - Barackio Cane Oct 19, 21:53
- He should just buy all the prime time and run TDS and couric's palin interview, oh and msnbc's segments over and over again. - zeitgeist Oct 19, 21:38
Nice. Touching Evil on UHD. -- nm - Todd Manning Oct 19, 21:32
u bastard, I keyed a whole article only to get an err page cause my cookie/login expired and lost it all, wtf. -- nm - arrrrrrgh Oct 19, 21:22 1
- who me? -- nm - Beryllium Oct 19, 21:49
Happy Birthday, Beryllium!!! *buys him a slackertalk t-shirt* -- nm - JaxSean Oct 19, 21:13 12
- Bery Bery Happy Birthday! -- nm - Die Incognito Oct 19, 22:00
- Thanks :) -- nm - Beryllium Oct 19, 21:42 5
  - (still a few hours away in this timezone ... but at least I can say I started sailing when I was "26" instead of "27" :)) -- nm - Beryllium Oct 19, 21:42 4
    - ow many times do you get to go sailing? -- nm - BAD Oct 19, 21:57 3
      - three six-hour classes. :-) next one is saturday the 25th, and another one on Nov 8th. - Beryllium Oct 19, 21:58 2
        
        I don't think they let any boats out in rough weather...I know around here they have red flag warnings. - BAD Oct 19, 22:03 1
        
        We're pretty sheltered around here, so I don't expect extreme wind will be an issue. Just rain. -- nm - Beryllium Oct 19, 22:08
- Happy birthday, Bery-man! -- nm - Mop Oct 19, 21:36
- Happy Birthday, Captain!! *packs pixie off to be Bery's cabin boy* -- nm - ReluctantCynic Oct 19, 21:17 3
  - these pipes are clean! -- nm - cabin pixie Oct 19, 21:23 2
    - Man, oh man, I hate those fancy lads! -- nm - Beryllium Oct 19, 21:48 1
      - wanna buy a monkey?! -- nm - cabin pixie Oct 19, 21:54
Microbe Kombat is the new flash game up at Kongregate. (linky) -- (link) - ReluctantCynic Oct 19, 21:09
"... but shit, I'll take game seven in the championship series" - matt garza Oct 19, 21:00
nubby is a mean professor -- nm - ReluctantCynic Oct 19, 20:56 2
- ST's Jerry Hathaway -- nm - simple pixie Oct 19, 20:58
- bad jokes -- nm - dogbert183 Oct 19, 20:58
So, what odds could you have gotten in March on the Rays winning the Workd Series? -- nm - Dano Oct 19, 20:51 11
- ask doggie - simple pixie Oct 19, 20:52 10
  - 150/1 in march, 50/1 on may 16th -- nm - dogbert183 Oct 19, 20:54 9
    - I'm rooting for the Rays only because of your ticket. -- nm - Mel Profit Oct 19, 21:00 6
      - sweet! I don't think we have any philly fans here, so with the exception of pixie trying to jinx me I think everyone here will be backing me. - dogbert183 Oct 19, 21:01 5
        
        well i wasn't trying to jinx you per se - simple pixie Oct 19, 21:05 3
        
        oh I know it wasn't personal. it was really tough not to jump in and tell you to shut it. I figure when a team is ahead it fair game for anything... - dogbert183 Oct 19, 21:09 2
        
        it's never stopped trish - simple pixie Oct 19, 21:12 1
        
        I had to try to ignore you. if I commented on it, then it would give power to what you were saying. - dogbert183 Oct 19, 21:17
        
        I got your back, too. -- nm - ReluctantCynic Oct 19, 21:05
    - wait, you did buy a ticket on the World Series, right? not the Workd Series?? -- nm - simple pixie Oct 19, 20:55 1
      - *looks at ticket*... dammit! stupid typo fingers! -- nm - dogbert183 Oct 19, 20:56
Congrats Rays. Makes the Series watchable. -- nm - Spawn Oct 19, 20:43 8
- as long as the Philies get their asses whipped, it would be watchable no matter who they played -- nm - simple pixie Oct 19, 20:45 6
  - *confused* - nubby Oct 19, 20:51
  - crap nubby, pixie's on our side now -- nm - dogbert183 Oct 19, 20:48
  - See, as a Toronto fan, I concur. - -- the Joe Carter nm Oct 19, 20:48 3
    - Except it just means yet another team that will be consistently better than the Jays. -- nm - Name Withheld By Request Oct 19, 20:49 2
      - In the division. -- nm - Name Withheld By Request Oct 19, 20:50 1
        
        Next it's the Orioles' t... yeah, I can't get that out with a straight face. -- nm - Reagen Oct 19, 20:57
- ... and profitable -- nm - dogbert183 Oct 19, 20:44
4 more! -- nm - dogbert183 Oct 19, 20:43
sorry sawx fans. they gave it a good run -- nm - simple pixie Oct 19, 20:42
Pedroia has serial killer eyes. -- nm - Reagen Oct 19, 20:42
I just saw knee socks bouncing on the Rays dugout. Why isn't the camera finding out who's wearing them? - Name Withheld By Request Oct 19, 20:41 1
- thanks! -- nm - dogbert183 Oct 19, 20:57
DEVIL RAYS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! SUCK IT PIXIE! -- nm - dogbert183 Oct 19, 20:41
RAYS WIN!!! RAYS WIN!!! -- nm - nubby Oct 19, 20:40
Cowbells should be banned in all indoor stadia. -- nm - nubby Oct 19, 20:39
do it for kelly, tek -- nm - simple pixie Oct 19, 20:37
don't choke now Rays...you have 3 outs to go. -- nm - Mel Profit Oct 19, 20:28 4
- glad that's over. - Mel Profit Oct 19, 20:42 1
  - I couldn't agree more. at work people have been giving me crap the last couple of days saying "uh-oh, the rays are choking" and making jokes. I was - dogbert183 Oct 19, 20:48
- They ain't us. -- nm - Yankees Oct 19, 20:35 1
  - *waves* -- nm - Mets Oct 19, 20:37
I think I should sign up for the introductory calculus course at MIT or Cal-Berkley open courses. -- nm - ReluctantCynic Oct 19, 20:27 6
- Because you hate yourself? -- nm - Mop Oct 19, 21:38
- muh muh muh math makes me . . . angry - simple pixie Oct 19, 20:34 4
  - If you really wanted to prove that you were smarter than me, you'd take prof. nubby's midterm like I did. -- nm - ReluctantCynic Oct 19, 20:38 3
    - my test paper would just end up on a page like this -- (link) - simple pixie Oct 19, 20:40 2
      - Batman! - Spawn Oct 19, 20:47
      - That's hilarious ... - ReluctantCynic Oct 19, 20:45
PRICE!!!!!!!!!! I Believe! -- nm - dogbert183 Oct 19, 20:21 4
- I can fly? -- nm - Cuzzin Todd Oct 19, 20:23 3
  - I believe in $3.17 gas - dogbert183 Oct 19, 20:43 2
    - That's so 3 weeks ago. - Cuzzin Todd Oct 19, 20:53 1
      - L3 -- nm - dogbert183 Oct 19, 20:56
PRICE!! -- nm - nubby Oct 19, 20:20 1
- IS RIGHT!! -- nm - Cuzzin Todd Oct 19, 20:21
Airliner had near miss with UFO -- (link) - DaneDukeNuuk Oct 19, 20:01 3
- i wonder if the news sites on the aliens' homeworld have similar stories about their UFO's near misses with "primitive flying machines" -- nm - chris Oct 19, 20:03 2
  - "Oh it was horrible I tells ya. The creatures were pink and wide eyed and scary looking. And their machine...Nothing but belching out smoke!" -- nm - Kodos SI Oct 19, 20:17 1
    - HOAX!!! -- nm - Martian snopes.com Oct 19, 20:36
Game delayed over Koran phrases -- (link) - DaneDukeNuuk Oct 19, 19:56
shake it off, Bartlett. coulda happened to anyone. just because your other errors gave them two games, doesn't mean a thing now -- nm - chris Oct 19, 19:56
Heh. A cover letter for an applicant says how honored he would be to be a part of Washington and Lee University. - nubby Oct 19, 19:54 1
- When did you take a job with Washington and Lee? - ReluctantCynic Oct 19, 20:21
GARZA!!!!!!!!!!! -- nm - dogbert183 Oct 19, 19:53
I believe! -- nm - dogbert183 Oct 19, 19:49 2
- The children are our future? -- nm - Cuzzin Todd Oct 19, 19:53 1
  - "Oswald acted alone?" -- nm - Name Withheld By Request Oct 19, 20:21
I am sad that I cant watch Entourage or True Blood tonight. Or at all. - Jovian Oct 19, 19:47 10
- Torrents....nuff said -- nm - J Oct 19, 19:49 7
  - Except HBO is notorious for busting people. -- nm - the wrong element, bad guy Oct 19, 20:00 4
    - Nobody uses Peer Guardian around here? -- nm - Mop Oct 19, 21:02
    - well...don't get caught :P -- nm - J Oct 19, 20:09 1
      - They get you on your uploading. Set your uploading to as low as it can go. -- nm - nubby Oct 19, 20:13
    - *waves* - nubby Oct 19, 20:01
  - okay, dumb question, I am sure as I have heard it mentioned 10 billion times on TT, but never needed to pay mind. till now... - Jovian Oct 19, 19:50 1
    - find and dl bittorrent 6.1.1 then maybe read a wiki on how it works - J Oct 19, 19:53
- iTunes (pay per episode) -- nm - chris Oct 19, 19:48 1
  - iTunes is never the answer. -- nm - Qale Oct 19, 20:54
congratulations Tampa Bay Rays, your 2008 AL Champs - chris Oct 19, 19:45 3
- ya, no one has ever said that before and been completely disappointed -- nm - J Oct 19, 19:50
- you intentional jinxer you. nm - Jovian Oct 19, 19:47 1
  - in. the. bag. -- nm - chris Oct 19, 19:48
AYBAR!!!!!!!!!!! - dogbert183 Oct 19, 19:42
AYBAR!!! -- nm - nubby Oct 19, 19:41
Holy crap, those Simpsons voting machines are real and in West Virginia! -- (link) - JaxSean Oct 19, 19:37
I love how Jonny Gomes always looks like a drunk fan. -- nm - nubby Oct 19, 19:36
still chuckling at Tim's post - zork Oct 19, 19:33 [Backboard]
somebody's got a birthday coming up - chris Oct 19, 19:28 4
- We should hire a clown. -- nm - Dano Oct 19, 19:30 3
  - and buy a big ice cream cake from DQ -- nm - chris Oct 19, 19:46 2
    - catered by KFC - zork Oct 19, 19:57 1
      - Y'all are just being mean! -- nm - Trish Oct 19, 23:42
spoilerish question follow up from last board concerning tonight's TAR.... - i'm not Undead yet ! Oct 19, 19:27
Gotta go to a funeral tomorrow...hates funerals -- nm - BAD Oct 19, 19:27 3
- Sorry man. But look on the bright side... - Cuzzin Todd Oct 19, 19:35 2
  - Wife of best friends for over 30 years... -- nm - BAD Oct 19, 19:53
  - need help with that? -- nm - dogbert SI Oct 19, 19:36
Cris Collinsworth sounds like GOB Bluth. - nubby Oct 19, 19:26
YES!!!! I believe! -- nm - dogbert183 Oct 19, 19:17
Boom. -- nm - nubby Oct 19, 19:17
LYC: Bioshock is kind of freaking me out. -- nm - Cuzzin Todd Oct 19, 19:15 1
- Ha, ya it freaked me out a bit at certain times too -- nm - J Oct 19, 19:18
Sweet Entourage cameo (spoiler) - secretslacker Oct 19, 19:04 2
- good at playing bad -- nm - Epiphany Oct 19, 19:39
- A donkey? -- nm - nubby Oct 19, 19:37
Well Obama is certainly spending money in Georgia again. -- nm - Dano Oct 19, 18:59 9
- I would think McCain would stop throwing ad money around here (IA is pretty damn blue this time around) but I'd be wrong. - Cuzzin Todd Oct 19, 19:09 8
  - I think in Georgia it may also have something to do with the Senate race which has gotten surprisingly close. -- nm - Dano Oct 19, 19:29 7
    - the Obama fundraising seems to be at a point now where they could just buy every last available piece of airtime for the next two weeks - chris Oct 19, 19:32 6
      - Hi, I'm Barack Obama and I just wanted to say that I like Cheerios. -- nm - Dano Oct 19, 19:38 2
        
        I'd have him give the weather forcasts and local news updates. -- nm - Mel Profit Oct 19, 20:08
        
        They're going to have to start enforcing Equal Time soon. -- nm - nubby Oct 19, 19:39
      - I think there was a report today that that's pretty much already happened. -- nm - nubby Oct 19, 19:33 2
        
        We are getting not one, but two commercials during every break now. -- nm - Spawn Oct 19, 20:45 1
        
        At what point does the show become the commercial, and the obama ad become the show? -- nm - Beryllium Oct 19, 22:11
Zorn! -- nm - Stewie Oct 19, 18:57 2
- You ra..... oh, never mind -- nm - zork Oct 19, 19:31
- Thanks Stewie. I knew I had a good week! -- nm - Beaker Oct 19, 18:58
Dallas Cowboys safety Roy Williams fractured his right forearm for the second time this season and is out at least 6 weeks -- nm - Stewie Oct 19, 18:56 1
- Oh wow. We're going to hear an insane amount about this on draft weekend now. -- nm - Name Withheld By Request Oct 19, 18:59
Woo! -- nm - nubby Oct 19, 18:55

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