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The last time CO2 levels were this high was around 3 million years ago, during the Pliocene. -- (link) - mara Apr 15, 12:15 1
- Ha, the Earth is only 6,000 years old DUMBASS -- nm - Tea Party Apr 15, 12:16
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- I wouldn't but in writing anything that could be evidence you are less than whatever about her physicall disability that the firm is not accomodating -- nm - z's replacement droid Apr 15, 12:54
- is that a direct quote? The word jumble might indicate she's not entirely symptom-free. -- nm - Beryllium Apr 15, 12:17
- she checked out AMA? -- nm - amanda jones Apr 15, 12:14
Today in baseball: Jackie Robinson fueled integration in baseball by breaking the color barrier April 15, 1947 -- nm - Beaker Apr 15, 12:13 2
- colour -- nm - Beaker Apr 15, 12:13 1
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A timely article from Smithsonian: When Did Girls Start Wearing Pink? -- (link) - TWuG Apr 15, 12:11 1
- Interesting. -- nm - JaxSean Apr 15, 12:15
Stephen, I'm sorry to hear about your father, who will be in our prayers. - David Apr 15, 12:09
Titanic sinking to be tweeted in real time -- (link) - Beaker Apr 15, 12:09 1
- You can follow Titanic on Twitter using the hashtag #ns_mma. -- nm - Beaker Apr 15, 12:09
*pets his copy of Harry Potter 7.1 Watching it tomorrow!* -- nm - Beaker Apr 15, 12:06
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- Um, er, I got a letter from my sister--but typed and printed. And Logan gets mail all the time. But sending? -- nm - Amy Apr 15, 12:14 2
  - "Dear The Bub: Congratulations! You've been pre-approved for a Lightning McQueen VISA Card" -- nm - Bastard Credit Card Company Apr 15, 12:15 1
    - No, the bitches. - Spawn Apr 15, 12:18
- I don't recall ever having done this, but maybe -- nm - Beryllium Apr 15, 12:12
- An actual letter? It's been a while. I did submit an obituary request to a library in Wisconsin via snail mail last month -- nm - oblique Apr 15, 12:10
- taxes, last week? -- nm - znufrii Apr 15, 12:10 2
  - you include a letter with your taxes? that's such a nice personal touch. -- nm - Andie Apr 15, 12:10 1
    - Dear Uncle Sam, - Spawn Apr 15, 12:11
- An actual letter and not a thank you or birthday card? Probably 20 years. -- nm - TWuG Apr 15, 12:07 3
  - i'm trying to bring back the thank you card. - Andie Apr 15, 12:08 2
    - "I'm bringing it back." -- nm - Randall Graves Apr 15, 12:10 1
      - *taking* -- nm - Spawn Apr 15, 12:10
- every Christmas I include a letter to my cousins in Ireland. I haven't seen them in ages, but it's how we keep track of each other -- nm - CQ Apr 15, 12:07 8
  - same letter to all cousins? I would say that doesn't count. -- nm - amanda jones Apr 15, 12:09 6
    - it's hand written! -- nm - CQ Apr 15, 12:09 5
      - but photocopied? -- nm - amanda jones Apr 15, 12:10 4
        
        Well, it *is* a newsLETTER. -- nm - Spawn Apr 15, 12:12
        
        no, basically the same letter, but individualized to 2 different people. can I get some credit here? heh -- nm - CQ Apr 15, 12:12 2
        
        yes. but it's in a card. so ... (yeah I give it to you.) -- nm - amanda jones Apr 15, 12:12 1
        
        put it on the board, yes! -- nm - CQ Apr 15, 12:13
  - er, I include a letter in the Christmas card I send them -- nm - CQ Apr 15, 12:07
- 20 seconds ago. - Spawn Apr 15, 12:06 1
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- monday. (I can't talk to or email my dad. he gets letters.) (also do not count signed leases or agreements. I sent one of those last week.) - amanda jones Apr 15, 12:06
- Can't remember. -- nm - loosilu Apr 15, 12:05
- Years. -- nm - JaxSean Apr 15, 12:05
- does a 'card for no reason' count? if so then last month. -- nm - Andie Apr 15, 12:04
- I think it was all the way back when I wrote texx in jail. -- nm - David Apr 15, 12:04 1
  - I'd forgotten that - it was probably mine too. -- nm - MojaveMeg Apr 15, 12:16
- a looooong time -- nm - Beaker Apr 15, 12:04
Charlie Sheen asks fans to do a bipolar awareness walk with him in Toronto -- (link) - Beaker Apr 15, 12:02 4
- that's random. -- nm - loosilu Apr 15, 12:04 1
  - Just as he did not smoke, not really. -- nm - Spawn Apr 15, 12:06
- i could, theoretically, do this.... -- nm - Andie Apr 15, 12:04
- Bi-winning awareness walk. -- nm - Spawn Apr 15, 12:03
Here's a movie trivia question (no googling!) - prayformojo Apr 15, 12:02 4
- White Noise -- nm - Beaker Apr 15, 12:15
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  - correctamundo -- nm - prayformojo Apr 15, 12:16 1
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Red Sox sign Gonzalez to 7-year, $154 million deal -- nm - Beaker Apr 15, 12:00 9
- Buenos dias, Gonzales -- nm - Alan Shepard Apr 15, 12:02
- Elian? -- nm - peglegpete Apr 15, 12:01
- WOW!!! That's like 14 years and over $300mil...in one day! -- nm - Jim Apr 15, 12:01 6
  - i.e. a Pujols -- nm - David Apr 15, 12:03 2
    - Lots of talk about what this means for the Pujols deal around here. - Jim Apr 15, 12:09 1
      - Having now watched that 60 Minutes special, Pujols does act like he feels like St. Louis took advantage of him last contract. - David Apr 15, 12:11
  - I can stil get that mail back you know. - Beaker Apr 15, 12:02 2
    - heh -- nm - Jim Apr 15, 12:08
    - He may not be able to first anymore, but damn it, baseball is still his! -- nm - Spawn Apr 15, 12:04
7/10 on Debts and Accounts -- nm - prayformojo Apr 15, 11:56 1
- I got 10, but my answer on #10 was a pure guess. - David Apr 15, 12:02
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- I heart the candy bit -- nm - Beryllium Apr 15, 11:53
~I'm not looking for no strings, your not looking for no ring, if your ready for this fling - then meet me in the back~ - Epiphany Apr 15, 11:47
I found this remarkable sentence while reading a story about Gabby Gifford's recovery. - nubby Apr 15, 11:43 3
- I have heard this as well. -- nm - con_carne Apr 15, 11:59
- that's been the talk. - znufrii Apr 15, 11:50
- Is Kyl retiring? -- nm - TWuG Apr 15, 11:45
The Will and Kate movie - so awful it will probably be a huge hit/cult classic: - Andie Apr 15, 11:42 16
- *Both* the graphic novels are horrible. -- (link) - Amy Apr 15, 11:48 10
  - god, i love this kind of stuff, -- nm - Andie Apr 15, 11:52 9
    - 2 nationals channels here both sends freakting 6 houers live from that baptising.....i think i can do without for a week now! -- nm - Danedukenuuk Apr 15, 11:58 7
      - it's the super-cheesy, ridiculous, stuff i love. -- nm - Andie Apr 15, 12:05
      - Wills was such a cute baby and toddler. -- nm - loosilu Apr 15, 12:03 5
        
        and now we all just look at photos of him to critique KM's wardrobe or to see PHG hanging out in the background. -- nm - amanda jones Apr 15, 12:13 1
        
        poor guy has the Windsor men's curse. Harry is still a Spencer (lucky for him). -- nm - loosilu Apr 15, 12:17
        
        well Josephine and Vincent were not the expected royal names -- nm - Danedukenuuk Apr 15, 12:05 2
        
        oh, you mean the Danish monarchs? -- nm - loosilu Apr 15, 12:06 1
        
        yep baptising yesterday -- nm - Danedukenuuk Apr 15, 12:07
    - click "slideshow" -- nm - Amy Apr 15, 11:52
- Does anyone remember the TV movies about Princess Di? There were at least two in the US. - loosilu Apr 15, 11:43 4
  - apparently there's a new novel out this month that takes on the 'what if Diana didn't die but faked her own death and went to live as an average woman - Andie Apr 15, 11:45 2
    - makes note to find epub of this drivel and read aloud on slow sundays at z. -- nm - amanda jones Apr 15, 12:10
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  - (about her courtship and marriage, not her death, I think there were movies about that too) -- nm - loosilu Apr 15, 11:44
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- He wanted to do something with all the funny parts of his recent movies, which he clearly cut. -- nm - con_carne Apr 15, 11:45
- "The Cabin Fever Project" -- nm - TFox Apr 15, 11:40
Remember the "not intended to be a factual statement" statement? Well.... it wasn't intended to be factual either. -- (link) - mara Apr 15, 11:36 1
- Is pixie at it again? -- nm - Spawn Apr 15, 11:37
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Ok, so I owe $5 to the Lent jar, but those Chick-fil-a were darned good! -- nm - Stephen Apr 15, 11:33
double bonus hax chat: how to deal with her friend who thinks she would get more dates if she just ran with an "uglier" crowd of people - moles Apr 15, 11:31 11
- "Fat, ugly and bitchy is no way to go through life, girlie." -- nm - Dean Wormer Apr 15, 11:47
- Be blunt. "Guys think you're a cold fish and a bit of a bitch. Lighten up, show some interest." - TWuG Apr 15, 11:43
- I think you should say "this has less to do with the way you look than the way you act" She's your friend. Tell her she acts weird around guys. -- nm - Amy Apr 15, 11:42
- tell her to aim lower. nm -- nm - groiny Apr 15, 11:40 1
  - Lower.... lower.... lower... RIGHT THERE. -- nm - groiny SI #44 Apr 15, 11:42
- She should just start dating her cute GFs. -- nm - Spawn Apr 15, 11:36
- "Maybe you just need to get prettier." -- nm - Ender Apr 15, 11:36
- "get over it, show more cleavage...and would it kill you to blow a couple of these guys? They may ask you out after that." -- nm - Jim Apr 15, 11:34
- "why do you think your friends hang out with you" -- nm - Beaker Apr 15, 11:34 2
  - *nice* -- nm - loosilu Apr 15, 11:41
  - the mirror of delution is highly portable -- nm - Danedukenuuk Apr 15, 11:36
Jeez. ABC burning off episodes of Happy Endings already? -- (link) - JaxSean Apr 15, 11:28 27
- Sweet Elisha really shouldn't have run that gypsy woman off the road back in 2005 -- nm - prayformojo Apr 15, 11:36 11
  - (I really like her. She seems like she'd be fun to hang out with.) - JaxSean Apr 15, 11:48 7
    - I was sure after The Girl Next Door she was gonna be the It Girl -- nm - prayformojo Apr 15, 11:51 6
      - For me she sure as hell was. -- nm - Spawn Apr 15, 11:57
      - She seemed like such perfect casting for My Sassy Girl. -- nm - David Apr 15, 11:56
      - me too. maybe if she had shown boobs she would have been. -- nm - sycor Apr 15, 11:51 3
        
        this of course is true for all actresses -- nm - Beaker Apr 15, 11:53 2
        
        yes but more so true for that particular movie -- nm - Epiphany Apr 15, 11:54 1
        
        Yup. -- nm - JaxSean Apr 15, 12:04
  - The cougar coalition has all the power. Everyone knows this. - David Apr 15, 11:42 2
    - she did receive the greatest fatherly advice ever though from Jack - Beaker Apr 15, 11:54
    - We all look back and laugh now, but it seemed perfectly organic at... - prayformojo Apr 15, 11:51
- When did that show start? Never heard of it. -- nm - Spawn Apr 15, 11:35 5
  - It just premiered this week after Modern Family. -- nm - Ender Apr 15, 11:36 4
    - Started with a wedding? -- nm - Spawn Apr 15, 11:37 3
      - (sort of spoiler) - Andie Apr 15, 11:38
      - Yeah, but they didn't go through with it. -- nm - Ender Apr 15, 11:38 1
        
        Yeah, I think it cut off with Flash Forward dude sitting there. -- nm - Spawn Apr 15, 11:39
- I find that hard to believe, the HE/MF-rerun 10PM combo last week actually got better ratings than the show it was replacing. -- nm - Ender Apr 15, 11:34
- i sort of liked it. (i was going to post that i want to be called "Andrea, pronounced Undrrea") -- nm - Andie Apr 15, 11:30 7
  - I thought the second one was much better than the first. -- nm - Ender Apr 15, 11:34 5
    - i never like pilots, really. they are just to set up the premise. -- nm - Andie Apr 15, 11:38 4
      - *cries* -- nm - moles Apr 15, 11:39 3
        
        Like they would ever let you near a plane. -- nm - Spawn Apr 15, 11:41
        
        come on, you know it's true. -- nm - Andie Apr 15, 11:41 1
        
        more than you know - moles Apr 15, 11:43
  - "Boop!" -- nm - JaxSean Apr 15, 11:31
things i find odd. i just had to speak to the Wall Street Journal about something and they mentioned they've already printed their papers to April 19 - Andie Apr 15, 11:25 5
- either you have confidence in your employers or not -- nm - Danedukenuuk Apr 15, 11:31
- omg! -- nm - mara Apr 15, 11:26
- Don't they do the features way ahead, and just do the news parts that day? -- nm - Amy Apr 15, 11:25 2
  - oh, i'm sure that's true, it just amused me. -- nm - Andie Apr 15, 11:28
  - Don't forget those little pencilly drawings of Warren Buffett. Wouldn't want an artist to rush those... ;) -- nm - con_carne Apr 15, 11:27
I just got a work email (external vendor) from someone named Fulbert. -- nm - JaxSean Apr 15, 11:18 2
- Fullbert is dogbert's porn name. -- nm - Mel Profit Apr 15, 11:24 1
  - Red Rocket! -- nm - JaxSean Apr 15, 11:26
I know burritos -- nm - con_carne Apr 15, 11:18 4
- bastards stopped making my spicy chicken soft tacos. - groiny Apr 15, 11:21 3
  - I tried that once. Wasn't bad... -- nm - con_carne Apr 15, 11:25
  - But, they have green chile sauce packets now. That's a plus. - JaxSean Apr 15, 11:25
  - I think they just cut you off. -- nm - Spawn Apr 15, 11:21
Happy DC Emancipation Day! -- nm - loosilu Apr 15, 11:18
First! -- nmbA - Spawn Apr 15, 11:15

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