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Newsweek having trouble selling ads. -- (link) - mara Apr 12, 12:43 4
- Hasn't this been the problem for many magazines for, oh, the last 20 years? -- nm - Mop (212 lbs) Apr 12, 12:44 3
  - My marketing text book says no, a fact that surprised me as well. - con_carne Apr 12, 12:47
  - Newsweek is the only newsmagazine to lose advertising in the first quarter of this year. -- nm - mara Apr 12, 12:44 1
    - *wonders if there is a teabagger boycott or business conspiracy? -- nm - z's replacement droid Apr 12, 12:46
FYI-check with your satellite/cable/fios company. HBO and Cinemax are both having free weekends from 02/15-02/17. - Trish Apr 12, 12:41 4
- I miss HBO/Showtime in my hotel. I haven't seen the last 2 eps of Shameless or Pee Wee Herman on HBO! -- nm - MDH Apr 12, 12:45
- Not helping! -- nm - Spawn Apr 12, 12:43
- Oh duh. Those dates would actually be 04/15-04/17. -- nm - Trish Apr 12, 12:42 1
  - Ah, helping! -- nm - Spawn Apr 12, 12:43
What's the first NHL tiebreaker? - Will Hunting Apr 12, 12:33 5
- This is what NHL.com says: - David Apr 12, 12:36 4
  - Pens had a lot of shootout wins. -- nm - Fuzzy Apr 12, 12:38
  - According to what ESPN has, Philly has 44 ROW while Washington has 39. - David Apr 12, 12:37
  - Huh....so you can't tell the answer by the standings....fantastic - Will Hunting Apr 12, 12:37 1
    - I was noticing the same thing about goalie records a while back. - David Apr 12, 12:38
Flashmob at the Lincoln Memorial yesterday for equal pay day -- (link) - MDH Apr 12, 12:29 [youtube] 3
- Maybe they'd get to equal pay faster if they weren't taking time off to dance on the mall during a workday. -- nm - Ender Apr 12, 12:43
- Sam... get the tear gas. -- nm - Mop (212 lbs) Apr 12, 12:38
- Looks like a modified electric slide to me. -- nm - Strongbad Apr 12, 12:32
"Vultures are birds that eat dead animals." - The Bub Apr 12, 12:28 7
- He's a bright one. - Trish Apr 12, 12:37 3
  - I had this problem in 7th grade when I transfered from private to public schools. - sycor Apr 12, 12:42
  - Oh, I will. Happened to me, except back then I was called hyperactive. Which I used to my own benefit. - Spawn Apr 12, 12:40 1
    - I think it's totally ridiculous that schools would rather hold back the brightest kids in order to make it easier on the staff rather than teach them - Trish Apr 12, 12:48
- It was on his worksheet! And did you hear him say that Carolyn's grandma was going to die, and that EVERYONE is going to die? So help me, I found - Amy Apr 12, 12:33 2
  - Works for me, as we mention heaven in our prayers already. -- nm - Spawn Apr 12, 12:34 1
    - "Our lord who art in heaven please let Peyton Manning complete this play" - Remlik Apr 12, 12:44
can you hit me up with a recipe for grilled: 1)strawberries 2)peaches and/or 3)pineapple? Thanks! -- nm - prayformojo Apr 12, 12:28 24
- Strawberries go in foil. -- (link) - mara Apr 12, 12:42
- Take those three and add a blender. - David Apr 12, 12:39 6
  - ... then throw that mess out and just eat some fruit with no preps to ruin it. -- nm - Spawn Apr 12, 12:40 5
    - Bananas, strawberries and apples are the only three fruits I eat by themselves. -- nm - David Apr 12, 12:41 4
      - not grapes, pineapples, kiwis, pears ? -- nm - Danedukenuuk Apr 12, 12:44 2
        
        Three of those are the devil's flavors, but yes to grapes. -- nm - David Apr 12, 12:45 1
        
        mmmm fruits mango's baby :) -- nm - Danedukenuuk Apr 12, 12:46
      - Remove bananas and add peaches, and then you are correct. -- nm - Spawn Apr 12, 12:44
- If someone handed me strawberries and said "grill this", I'd ask if they were mad. But then I'd skew them on bamboo and give it a try. -- nm - Beryllium Apr 12, 12:37 2
  - *skewer -- nm - Beryllium Apr 12, 12:37 1
    - but won't they get warm? - Danedukenuuk Apr 12, 12:40
- peaches go well with salmon, in my bachelor days with only a mirowave, I'd poach the salmon and blender the peach, pour it over and serve - z's replacement droid Apr 12, 12:33
- put slices of pineapple on the grill for a few minutes, flip and serve -- nm - z's replacement droid Apr 12, 12:29
- grilled pineapple rings. yum. (the only thing i've ever done, other than slicing and grilling, is we brushed them with rum and honey once.) -- nm - Andie Apr 12, 12:29
- (1) slice pineapple (2) put on grill -- nm - Roger More Apr 12, 12:28 9
  - sprinkle on some cinnamon...that's pretty good. -- nm - Jim Apr 12, 12:33
  - moving the goalposts, but grilled mangoes are good. score with a criss-cross pattern and rub with brown sugar and chilli, then grill -- nm - Roger More Apr 12, 12:30 7
    - (I love that you say "moving the goalposts" here. would you like a minisnickers?) -- nm - amanda jones Apr 12, 12:32 3
      - it really belongs to con_carne -- nm - Roger More Apr 12, 12:34 2
        
        Me? Nah. - con_carne Apr 12, 12:39
        
        peanut chew? mini twix? brownie? -- nm - amanda jones Apr 12, 12:37
    - thank you - prayformojo Apr 12, 12:31
    - peaches are good grilled cut side down, then flip and put butter and brown sugar in the hole while you grill the outside. -- nm - Andie Apr 12, 12:31 1
      - (and, serve with vanilla ice cream. unless you are amanda.) -- nm - Andie Apr 12, 12:36
mmm, pi -- (link) - Beryllium Apr 12, 12:27 [Image]
Wow...the lottery thing: I'd definitely have to sit down and write down a plan. Some of it's real easy: - Jim Apr 12, 12:26 16
- Oh yeah...and I'd hire Van Halen to play my birthday party. -- nm - Jim Apr 12, 12:35 2
  - I changed my answer to U2 years ago (and added Foo Fighters recently) because Eddie is too weird to have into my party (makes me sad). -- nm - Spawn Apr 12, 12:36 1
    - Chickenfoot! You know that band would be a blast at a party. -- nm - Remlik Apr 12, 12:45
- Become a movie producer, buy a few homes (DC, Aruba, LA), let my parents retire - MDH Apr 12, 12:34
- I'd start my own post-production company, and work only on projects I really like - Guigue Apr 12, 12:32 1
  - I don't think I could stop working...but I wouldn't work here anymore. -- nm - Jim Apr 12, 12:33
- Depending on the amount won, hire security for my family and set up a trust to respond to requests for charity. -- nm - Fuzzy Apr 12, 12:31 4
  - A lot of people hire lawyers and incorporate then have the firm "win" the lottery. Name never gets announced. - MDH Apr 12, 12:33 3
    - can you incorp within the six months? -- nm - z's replacement droid Apr 12, 12:35 2
      - I think you have a year to claim your prize. Maybe it varies. -- nm - Fuzzy Apr 12, 12:40
      - I know it's been done with previous lottery winners so I would imagine yes. I bet you can get it handled really quickly. -- nm - MDH Apr 12, 12:38
- I'd want it to start working for me from Day 1, for sure -- nm - Beryllium Apr 12, 12:28
- hire a good financial planner -- nm - Strongbad Apr 12, 12:27
- college funds! -- nm - Andie Apr 12, 12:27 2
  - Dental plan! -- nm - Qale Apr 12, 12:38
  - Oh yeah...I'd have to worry about that if I quit my job. I always forget college. -- nm - Jim Apr 12, 12:27
First Orbit - the movie -- (link) - Danedukenuuk Apr 12, 12:23 [youtube]
the only MAJ-approved sub at JJ's is the gourmet veggie (add bacon, please), but if you put mayo on it, - amanda jones Apr 12, 12:21
it's FREE ice cream cone day at Ben & Jerry's -- nm - peglegpete Apr 12, 12:20 11
- if your B&J participates -- nm - moles Apr 12, 12:21 10
  - free BBJ? (I hate ice cream. I wish I could donate mine.) (last night at z, someone offered me his free beer. I declined.) -- nm - amanda jones Apr 12, 12:23 9
    - I always let it get half melted before I eat it. I hate the horrible pain I get in the middle of my chest when I take 2-3 bites totally frozen. - Trish Apr 12, 12:29 1
      - i get an ice-cream-headache-in-my-back. i still love it though. -- nm - Andie Apr 12, 12:30
    - You live in one of the finest ice cream areas in the country and you hate ice cream? This makes me sad. -- nm - Fuzzy Apr 12, 12:27 1
      - what do you mean, *finest*? ice cream is warm here? (note that I can eat some flavors of frozen yogurt, but not many. - amanda jones Apr 12, 12:32
    - but cones you don't have to eat it with the spoon -- nm - moles Apr 12, 12:24 1
      - it's like cold soup! it's so gross. -- nm - amanda jones Apr 12, 12:26
    - word. Too freezy. -- nm - The Bub Apr 12, 12:24 1
      - smart child. give him my (unfrozen) best. -- nm - amanda jones Apr 12, 12:25
    - you have made the Gods angry -- nm - CQ Apr 12, 12:23
I've got Bridezillas playing in the background on tv and I honestly don't know why the guys actually marry those bitches. -- nm - Trish Apr 12, 12:17 18
- By the way...you won B2. Congrats on that! :) -- nm - Jim Apr 12, 12:27
- Great show. I loved the girl who smashed the cake and threw it in her vendor's face. -- nm - Strongbad Apr 12, 12:26
- here's my question... who *agrees* to be on Bridezillas? I mean, really? -- nm - Andie Apr 12, 12:24 8
  - I always assumed the producers essentially pay a good chunk of the wedding by them appearing on it. -- nm - Name Withheld By Request Apr 12, 12:25 6
    - i highly doubt that actually. -- nm - Andie Apr 12, 12:26 5
      - a lot of the casting calls i see for these wedding reality shows they do offer. not sure about bridezillas though - moles Apr 12, 12:28 3
        
        really? i figured they paid for some stuff in order to give them a wow factor but the general wedding stuff was still on the couple/family. -- nm - Andie Apr 12, 12:29 2
        
        well i think it's often on the condition that the couple has the kind of ceremony that the producers need for their type of show -- nm - moles Apr 12, 12:31 1
        
        sure -- nm - Andie Apr 12, 12:31
      - The what pixie said. -- nm - Name Withheld By Request Apr 12, 12:26
  - attention whores -- nm - moles Apr 12, 12:25
- voodoo poonannay -- nm - tRuMaN Apr 12, 12:22
- size matters -- nm - Danedukenuuk Apr 12, 12:20
- because if they don't, those bitches would eat them -- nm - CQ Apr 12, 12:18
- If the dudes could see the show *before* they probably would not. -- nm - Spawn Apr 12, 12:18 3
  - I swear to God, if any one of them were a dictator of a small country, they'd be overthrown by their own army after they killed off a couple hundred - Trish Apr 12, 12:22 2
    - co-dependent -- nm - z's replacement droid Apr 12, 12:23
    - As for the last part, becuase the families are finally getting rid of them. -- nm - Spawn Apr 12, 12:23
speaking of winning the lottery, a buddy of mine won last week. I'm not sure if it was mega millions or the NY lottery, but he got 5/6. 100k -- nm - CQ Apr 12, 12:16 3
- last week here 6 of 7 number draw on $50M jackpot paid $6,323.30 (with bonus number $167k) and 5 of 6 number draw $7M jackpot paid $3,225.40 and $281k - zork Apr 12, 12:20 1
  - yeah, I think he said he had the bonus number -- nm - CQ Apr 12, 12:21
- I thought he was b.s.ing but no, it was confirmed. That's a nice way to start the summer -- nm - CQ Apr 12, 12:17
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- Did you see the new facebook lawsuit? Thoughts? -- nm - MDH Apr 12, 12:21 1
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- Winklevi! -- nm - David Apr 12, 12:20 1
  - And there is two of me! -- nm - Qale Apr 12, 12:28
- Hee! You should make that your facebook status. -- nm - Trish Apr 12, 12:16
i'm pretty sure if they had Jedi Academy when i was 7 and Darth Vader came out onstage, i would have lost my shit completely -- nm - moles Apr 12, 12:13 2
- Yeah, but I would have been tipped off by the fact that it was all so... peaceful when he did. - Spawn Apr 12, 12:15 1
  - you're older than me, dummy - moles Apr 12, 12:17
i have a co-worker who is SO friggin' sick today and she insisted she HAD to come in and work. she has not stopped coughing/blowing her nose all day. - Diva Apr 12, 12:10 12
- call in sick the rest of the week -- nm - z's replacement droid Apr 12, 12:22
- disgusting -- nm - Epiphany Apr 12, 12:19
- shut her in a conference room with a whole pile of paperwork -- nm - moles Apr 12, 12:17 2
  - then burn the papers. -- nm - loosilu Apr 12, 12:22
  - Exactly. When I come in sick, I quarantine myself. -- nm - Spawn Apr 12, 12:18
- the rest of the people there should go home -- nm - Danedukenuuk Apr 12, 12:17
- Keep using hand sanitizer right in front of her, plus put on a mask. - Trish Apr 12, 12:15 4
  - Spray her -- nm - Roger More Apr 12, 12:20 1
    - Cleansing white fire -- nm - prayformojo Apr 12, 12:24
  - that's true about the allergies. to be safe i did ask her to go home. twice. heh. -- nm - Diva Apr 12, 12:20
  - flesh mask? -- nm - tRuMaN Apr 12, 12:15
- Wow. You should have taken the day off! -- nm - Spawn Apr 12, 12:13
Just wandered in and too lazy to backboard... Canadians... Who's watching the debate tonight? -- nm - Name Withheld By Request Apr 12, 12:07 7
- I'll just read about on CBC tomorrow morning -- nm - Beaker Apr 12, 12:17
- GO LEAFS! -- nm - pixieee si Apr 12, 12:12 4
  - golfing -- nm - Beaker Apr 12, 12:17 3
    - your Habaneros better beat the Bruins is all i have to say -- nm - moles Apr 12, 12:18 2
      - they are the underdogs. -- nm - Beaker Apr 12, 12:20 1
        
        size matters not -- nm - moles Apr 12, 12:21
- There's a debate tonight? Hmm. I dunno, I might - I only have a limited amount of time to dedicate to pompous windbags, though. -- nm - Beryllium Apr 12, 12:10
an apartment in paris would be cool -- nm - zeitgeist replacement droid Apr 12, 12:06 17
- List the places you would live if you were rich. - Mop (212 lbs) Apr 12, 12:16 12
  - I'd settle for a big-ass tour bus with a driver and housekeeper and the option to stop anywhere and everywhere the mood takes me. -- nm - MojaveMeg Apr 12, 12:29
  - places I would *live*? i would have a house here, a cottage in northern ontario, and a flat in London. -- nm - Andie Apr 12, 12:28 1
    - London Ontario? Think bigger! ;-) -- nm - Beryllium Apr 12, 12:28
  - I would buy and refurbish an English manor house and have horses and dogs and adopt a bunch of kids. -- nm - Amy Apr 12, 12:27 3
    - Stacy could come work for you! -- nm - Mop (212 lbs) Apr 12, 12:42
    - Scotland. We could have an aprtment in London for airport access. And I guess one in America, Carolina maybe for this end of the trips. -- nm - Spawn Apr 12, 12:32
    - . . . to take care of the house, horses, and dogs -- nm - moles Apr 12, 12:29
  - Montana, Arizona -- nm - Vassili Borodin Apr 12, 12:27
  - cheyenne. victoria, bc. sasha's backyard. somewhere warm-ish but not warm. astoria. I think that's all. -- nm - amanda jones Apr 12, 12:24
  - no southwest estate with a Grand Canyon type view?? -- nm - peglegpete Apr 12, 12:21
  - The Wynn, the Bellagio, the Venetian, the MGM Grand and the Mandalay Bay. -- nm - Will Hunting Apr 12, 12:20 1
    - I like the way the man thinks. -- nm - Name Withheld By Request Apr 12, 12:26
- with a patisserie downstairs -- nm - peglegpete Apr 12, 12:11
- Chateu in the Rhone Valley -- nm - Danedukenuuk Apr 12, 12:10
- For me to poop on. -- nm - Spawn Apr 12, 12:10 1
  - darn closards -- nm - Danedukenuuk Apr 12, 12:11
13 -- nm - peglegpete Apr 12, 12:05 1
- jealous -- nm - michael jackson (thrillin zombie) Apr 12, 12:07

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