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Hm - 3 people in our NY office have resigned in the past week. -- nm - Diva Apr 14, 13:17 4
- Tsunami/earthquake coming? -- nm - Spawn Apr 14, 13:20
- I missed FuckedCompany.com. -- nm - lileve Apr 14, 13:19
- because the rent is too damn high! -- nm - con_carne Apr 14, 13:19 1
  - right? -- nm - Diva Apr 14, 13:38
hmm, trying to decide. my bluray player died, and I was going to get a second one. do I get a ps3 slim (say around $200) or do I get - tRuMaN Apr 14, 13:07 7
- I really enjoy my PS3 as a media hub. -- nm - Mop (212 lbs) Apr 14, 13:29
- The PS3 has netflix. Get that. -- nm - lileve Apr 14, 13:08
- cheap blu-ray + Roku -- nm - oblique Apr 14, 13:08 4
  - that is what I am leaning towards. - tRuMaN Apr 14, 13:08 3
    - There is a UPnP channel for Roku from third parties -- (link) - oblique Apr 14, 13:11 2
      - yeah, i was looking at mymedia right now, so a mention of that. - tRuMaN Apr 14, 13:13 1
        
        I like the Western Digital HDTV Live... plays everything, even 1080p x264 - stewie Apr 14, 13:19
STiF&S: Does the nubmer of views under a video on a YouTube page count the number of times it was played while embedded? - prayformojo Apr 14, 12:59 2
- I believe it does. When I posted the blizzard timelapse, the stats were counting views from Facebook embeds and other sites -- nm - oblique Apr 14, 13:05 1
  - aha. thank you very much. -- nm - prayformojo Apr 14, 13:05
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- You just have to hope they have it in stock. - Mop (212 lbs) Apr 14, 13:03 6
  - At lunch I saw a Cars Blu Ray pack that had two exclusive cars in it. One was a fire truck Mater that The Bub might kill for. -- nm - Spawn Apr 14, 13:06 5
    - "Might"? -- nm - Mop (212 lbs) Apr 14, 13:07 4
      - The might relates to if he will ever see it. The killing is a forgone conclusion. -- nm - Spawn Apr 14, 13:08 3
        
        *devises the perfect crime* -- nm - moles Apr 14, 13:09 2
        
        Yep. -- (link) - Mop (212 lbs) Apr 14, 13:11 [Image] 1
        
        the fact that it would be for a Mater toy is just icing on the murder cake - moles Apr 14, 13:13
- maybe, but I already have cars on bluray. I would just want the incredibles -- nm - tRuMaN Apr 14, 12:59 4
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    - meh, sounds like work. -- nm - tRuMaN Apr 14, 13:01 1
      - but I could get the deal then give away cars bluray to a friend with kids. - tRuMaN Apr 14, 13:01
    - obvs. -- nm - amanda jones Apr 14, 12:59
- "can't get enough of your kid pestering you to watch Cars for the millionth time? here's a couple free tickets to the new one!" -- nm - moles Apr 14, 12:59
I want a tshirt that says "I'd rather be hanging out with my car." 68.6 degrees. and me? office. -- nm - amanda jones Apr 14, 12:52
LYC the current state of Tunisia: Piles of trash line the streets, some as tall as me, because the cleaners have been striking. Massive trash fires at - Hotkiss Apr 14, 12:52 8
- why you aren't sticking photos of all this on flickr with a bunch of tags is beyond me. you'd get mega hits. -- nm - Andie Apr 14, 13:09
- is business otherwise back to normal? stores and schools open? -- nm - loosilu Apr 14, 12:55 1
  - Things have been normal since around January 20 -- nm - Hotkiss Apr 14, 12:57
- is your job over? are you just hanging out now? -- nm - amanda jones Apr 14, 12:53 4
  - I wish. I'm still working despite all my wishes that I wasn't with this perfect weather going on outside my window everyday. -- nm - Hotkiss Apr 14, 12:54 3
    - Perfect weather... and piles of burning trash. -- nm - Spawn Apr 14, 13:00 2
      - must make her homesick for Indiana -- nm - moles Apr 14, 13:00 1
        
        It's funny 'cause it's true. - Spawn Apr 14, 13:09
English dialect quiz: What is this woman saying, and where is she from? -- (link) - mara Apr 14, 12:48 3
- Huh. I guess I was close, but not close enough. - Mop (212 lbs) Apr 14, 13:02
- I'm bad at those. I would have guessed - loosilu Apr 14, 12:53
- My guess would be - con_carne Apr 14, 12:53
DC infamous Wone Murder house: I toured this house at an open house a few months ago. The dungeon has been replaced by a child's bedroom. -- (link) - MDH Apr 14, 12:44 1
- You'd think a house with a dungeon wouldn't be so hard to convict a murderer in -- nm - oblique Apr 14, 13:02
One of the "Walking with Dinosours" dinos goes to an elementary school in Australia to terrify the children. -- (link) - mara Apr 14, 12:43 [youtube] 11
- the raptah ate mah baby! -- nm - moles Apr 14, 12:47
- That was pretty much my reaction in the audience for it. -- nm - Amy Apr 14, 12:46 9
  - if they could just find a way to really hide the puppeteer's bottom half . . . - moles Apr 14, 12:48 8
    - You need to watch then. They still freak. -- nm - Spawn Apr 14, 12:55 7
      - For some reason I can't open it, is it on youtube? Anyone care to retry? -- nm - MDH Apr 14, 12:58
      - i did. they're still laughing way too much to be really scared -- nm - moles Apr 14, 12:56 5
        
        On stage, they aren't as noticable. And the huge ones have some other walking mechanism. -- nm - Amy Apr 14, 12:57 3
        
        You are looking down on them, too. Plus there is fog. -- nm - Spawn Apr 14, 12:58 2
        
        you are easily duped - moles Apr 14, 13:01 1
        
        If I had admited that we really were in a time machine, maybe. - Spawn Apr 14, 13:04
        
        Not all. There are some silent ones that are terrified. Blonde hair blue shirt against the wall. There are some kids holding hands. -- nm - Spawn Apr 14, 12:57
10 walks thru your first 12 games feels like a lot. Right? -- nm - Name Withheld By Request Apr 14, 12:41
Crazy. -- (link) - Beryllium Apr 14, 12:37 [Image]
Rise of the Planet of the Apes? Does the planet rise? or do the apes? -- nm - ceregon Apr 14, 12:36 2
- Either way, the trailer looks like crap. -- nm - TWuG Apr 14, 12:37 1
  - Yeah, they just put fur on the machines from I Robot -- nm - ceregon Apr 14, 13:09
When we moved into our new library bookstore they ordered some new book carts...wanted them to be distinctive from the general carts in the library... - MojaveMeg Apr 14, 12:35
the commercial for that new series with Elijah Wood looks all kinds of kooky. -- nm - Diva Apr 14, 12:32 8
- it's either going to be brilliant or last less than a full episode. -- nm - Mel Profit Apr 14, 12:41
- which series is this? -- nm - sycor Apr 14, 12:40 2
  - Willard -- nm - Jovian Apr 14, 12:56 1
    - Wilfred -- nm - Big.Daddy.Vermin Apr 14, 12:59
- I'm ... intrigued. -- nm - JaxSean Apr 14, 12:32 3
  - agreed -- nm - Epiphany Apr 14, 12:38 2
    - I think you can find the original to stream somewhere. -- nm - Amy Apr 14, 12:42 1
      - woods has the prettiest eyes - I will look for this -- nm - Epiphany Apr 14, 12:43
so yeah. the bar closest my house? aggravated assault with knife. I' will stick with z. -- (link) - amanda jones Apr 14, 12:29 24
- Actually, I wasn't very aggravated. -- nm - The Assaulter Apr 14, 12:43
- I did laundry in a place where the Zebra killer shot someone, banked same branch that the SLA robbed - zeitgeist Apr 14, 12:38
- Something is in the air. Two of our maintenance men had a fist fight in the middle of an outdoor job a bit ago. -- nm - Spawn Apr 14, 12:38
- so there was also this sexual assault -- (link) - amanda jones Apr 14, 12:31
- the closest mcdonalds to my work? two stabbings in the past 72 hours. -- nm - Beryllium Apr 14, 12:30 19
  - Jumping in on this: House a block away home to "DC Wrestling club" aka a sex club which shut down after a drugged out guy fell down the steps and died -- nm - MDH Apr 14, 12:35
  - the place where the breastfeeding mom/stroller shipper will be staying - where the CraigsList Killer did his last vic. -- nm - Diva Apr 14, 12:33 16
    - Lauren lived in the complex building next door to his. -- nm - Mel Profit Apr 14, 12:43
    - weirdest ST competition EVER. -- nm - loosilu Apr 14, 12:33 14
      - what've you got? you know you want to win. -- nm - amanda jones Apr 14, 12:34 13
        
        i would always use the rest stop where they arrested the DC Sniper when i drove home to/from Baltimore -- nm - moles Apr 14, 12:37 7
        
        "use"... -- nm - Mel Profit Apr 14, 12:50 2
        
        not for sucking random dudes off in the toilet stall, if that's what you're implying sir - moles Apr 14, 12:51 1
        
        Did I say you were an elected Republican Official? -- nm - Mel Profit Apr 14, 13:09
        
        where is that? -- nm - loosilu Apr 14, 12:38 3
        
        I-70, Middletown -- nm - moles Apr 14, 12:40
        
        Between DC and Baltimore - decline Apr 14, 12:40 1
        
        apparently not. -- nm - loosilu Apr 14, 12:40
        
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        geesh -- nm - Epiphany Apr 14, 12:42
        
        dammit!!! -- nm - amanda jones Apr 14, 12:39
        
        Don't make me bring up the Robert Wone house... - MDH Apr 14, 12:38
        
        *shrug* nothing. -- nm - loosilu Apr 14, 12:34
  - Sheriff Big Mac is on the case -- nm - moles Apr 14, 12:31
Funny or Die beats Weird All to 2 million followers on Twitter, celebrates -- (link) - TWuG Apr 14, 12:28
so, Charlie Sheen has been told he can't smoke on stage in Toronto tonight. -- (link) - Andie Apr 14, 12:28 7
- so he's totally going to light up anyway right? -- nm - Epiphany Apr 14, 12:29 6
  - i'd be shocked if he didn't. the theatre will get fined if he does though. -- nm - Andie Apr 14, 12:30 5
    - I would think there is a clause in the contract. -- nm - Spawn Apr 14, 12:39 3
      - whose? the one charlie signed or the one the theatre signed? regardless, i bet he smokes and i bet the government charges the theatre. -- nm - Andie Apr 14, 12:41 2
        
        Didn't some hotel get fined when Sean Penn smoked during a TIFF press conference? -- nm - Dano Apr 14, 12:45 1
        
        yep. -- nm - Andie Apr 14, 12:45
    - Winning. -- nm - Beryllium Apr 14, 12:31
OK, Suggest-a-name Crowdsourcing again: Please come up with a name that is in the following format: - prayformojo Apr 14, 12:28 31
- Di Pai Gow -- nm - con_carne Apr 14, 12:42
- Donna Dealer -- nm - Andie Apr 14, 12:39
- Polly Passline. -- nm - pmb Apr 14, 12:38
- Evelyn Odds -- nm - Amy Apr 14, 12:38
- Domino Domino -- nm - Beryllium Apr 14, 12:36
- Sally Solitaire, Susie "Cray Eights" Uno, Jill Jackpot -- nm - TWuG Apr 14, 12:36
- Mayra Flush -- nm - con_carne Apr 14, 12:35 1
  - Tanya Turn? -- nm - Beryllium Apr 14, 12:36
- Gregina House-Alwayswins -- nm - Beryllium Apr 14, 12:35
- Kiki Keno -- nm - Amy Apr 14, 12:35
- Holly Hitme. -- nm - pmb Apr 14, 12:34
- If you mean *only* gambling, you are using i.e. correctly -- nm - Beryllium Apr 14, 12:33
- Debby Doubledown. -- nm - pmb Apr 14, 12:33 2
  - Randy River? (not many women named Randy, I guess. Randine Rivers. :) ) -- nm - Beryllium Apr 14, 12:34 1
    - Flo River -- nm - JaxSean Apr 14, 12:35
- Anita Chance -- nm - JaxSean Apr 14, 12:33 1
  - I knew a girl named Anita Dickerson - sycor Apr 14, 12:35
- Bippy Bingo -- nm - ceregon Apr 14, 12:33
- (names don't have to begin with same letter, though it is catchier) -- nm - prayformojo Apr 14, 12:32
- Lynn Ginn -- nm - zeitgeist Apr 14, 12:31 1
  - Romy Rummy. -- nm - loosilu Apr 14, 12:32
- Peggy Parlay. -- nm - JaxSean Apr 14, 12:31
- Steven Stud -- nm - znufrii Apr 14, 12:30 2
  - "female first name" -- nm - moles Apr 14, 12:31 1
    - yeah, you want to make something of it? - znufrii Apr 14, 12:31
- Penny Poker, Sally Slots, Lenya Lottery -- nm - moles Apr 14, 12:30 1
  - Penny Slots! -- nm - loosilu Apr 14, 12:32
- Cathy Craps. -- nm - loosilu Apr 14, 12:29 2
  - These are also in the running for "Worst Hooker Names Ever." -- nm - JaxSean Apr 14, 12:32 1
    - Flo Flush. yeah, I see your point. -- nm - loosilu Apr 14, 12:36
- Crystal Craps, Betty Blackjack, -- nm - Epiphany Apr 14, 12:29
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"Welcome to The Chew, I'm Whoopi Goldberg." "RAAAR." -- nm - con_carne Apr 14, 12:24
speaking of susan g. komen, a *cement mixer* painted pink with an SGK ribbon drove by my bus stop. - amanda jones Apr 14, 12:24 9
- I remember seeing a "Toe Truck" in Seattle, a long time ago... - znufrii Apr 14, 12:37
- "Son, boobs are like cement trucks: when they're full, they're they're mesmerizing to watch go 'round." -- nm - JaxSean Apr 14, 12:29 1
  - And, oddly, both contain bags of sand. -- nm - TWuG Apr 14, 12:37
- I wonder if Mary Kay is turning over in grave? -- nm - Epiphany Apr 14, 12:28
- Dreamworks :) -- nm - peglegpete Apr 14, 12:27
- So, what are you saying about the proper role of women? ;) -- nm - con_carne Apr 14, 12:25 3
  - it's a dumb color for a construction truck. low visibility. gets dirty easily! -- nm - amanda jones Apr 14, 12:32 2
    - Plus, it's transgendered construction worker propaganda! -- nm - JaxSean Apr 14, 12:34
    - There used to be ones in NYC that where white with multi-color polka-dots. -- nm - lileve Apr 14, 12:34
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- Hey you, I'm in last place. No whining till I start whining. -- nm - Will Hunting Apr 14, 13:20
It puts the neon pink polish on the nails or it gets the hose again. -- nm - Qale Apr 14, 12:21

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