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- I blame CrankYanker -- nm - CQ Jan 8, 15:58
Blog on the housing crash. 14 points on why it's a bad time to buy a house. Take home point... -- (link) - Mop Jan 8, 15:54 3
- Stay. In. Your. House. -- nm - nubby Jan 8, 15:55 1
  - We *SO* lucked out. Although I doubt I'm allowed to discuss the specifics, I can say that today we are renting. -- nm - Mop Jan 8, 15:57
- unless you think it has hit bottom. (I don't, though) -- nm - loosilu, not a team player Jan 8, 15:55
I'm finding it really effin cool that Andie was the skip of a curling team. Sexay! -- nm - CQ Jan 8, 15:54 7
- Great. Now I have to go looking for those "Women of Curling" calendars again. Why'd you have to bring this up? -- (link) - Mop Jan 8, 15:56 [Image]
- honestly, i thought it was so uncool i didn't TELL people. -- nm - Andie Jan 8, 15:55 5
  - You were before your time, a trend setter if you will. Curling is all the rage now. It's in my top 3 winter olympic sports -- nm - CQ Jan 8, 15:57 1
    - I just don't get it. I'm not going to mock it but I don't see the appeal. -- nm - krusty Jan 8, 16:00
  - I love watching curling on TV. It's the only Canadian sport I've gotten vaguely interested in -- nm - Roger More Jan 8, 15:56 2
    - Where do you watch curling? I've been wanting to see some curling on American TV for years. -- nm - Mop Jan 8, 15:58 1
      - I'm in Toronto :) -- nm - Roger More Jan 8, 15:58
The Vegas TTwiki page needs a code key. What does 0 mean? -- nm - Redmond on a BLT Thursday Jan 8, 15:53
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- Jokelexia!! -- nm - Redmond on a BLT Thursday Jan 8, 15:49
GASP! Mandy/Annie Vegas?! I must experience that! -- nm - ty97 Jan 8, 15:47 1
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wow,those fajitas were good. if I do say so myself :) -- nm - CQ Jan 8, 15:45
*sigh* log in at my ticket purchase time and everything is sold out. Looks like lots of Wait List lines for me. -- nm - Dano Jan 8, 15:45
I've been stalked! I have *no* idea who would send me The New Alaska Cookbook and Sarah Palin: A New Kind of Leader (she certainly is), but thank you! - Roger More Jan 8, 15:38 6
- It's not me, babe. I didn't stalk this year, don't live in Alaska and can't stand Palin. :) - Trish Jan 8, 15:39 5
  - (spoils) - Roger More Jan 8, 15:41 4
    - Smack me, I'm slow :) - Trish Jan 8, 15:43 3
      - Just think of me making Pepper-crusted salmon with King-crab infused mashed potatoes -- nm - Roger More Jan 8, 15:46 2
        
        Oh yum. - Trish Jan 8, 15:49 1
        
        So Amy Adams is playing him in the movie then? -- nm - Roger More Jan 8, 15:56
Little known fact: I was one of the first beta tests (first 1,000) of the first IM product: ICQ. -- nm - Mop Jan 8, 15:35 2
- Also, where I can find everyone's IM addresses in some central, convenient place that spambots won't find them? -- nm - Mop Jan 8, 15:36 1
  - Or, how 'bout you all just "buddy" me at raul.burriel -at- g-zizzle-mail. -- nm - Mop Jan 8, 15:38
I'll go to Vegas with anyone except BJ Davis, LAPD. And we can pretty much go any weekend, I just put down the top choices. -- nm - CrankYanker Jan 8, 15:34 3
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  - ST has renewed my interest in Vegas, I used to hate it. -- nm - CrankYanker Jan 8, 15:40 1
    - Jax = free entertainment -- nm - Redmond on a BLT Thursday Jan 8, 15:55
I figured out it is cheaper to buy underwear at CalvinKlein.com than to go to Macys...saved a bundle. -- nm - Stacy Jan 8, 15:32 10
- is anyone else weirded out that stacy and I have the same favorite skivs? -- nm - the last semester ever loves mandy lane Jan 8, 15:36 9
  - no we dont, I only wear guys underwear -- nm - Stacy Jan 8, 15:37 8
    - you're assuming that Mandy doesn't. -- nm - CrankYanker Jan 8, 15:37 7
      - well I donlt think she would know what to do with the fly -- nm - Stacy Jan 8, 15:40 6
        
        There's a girl purpose for the fly? -- nm - CrankYanker Jan 8, 15:43 5
        
        it's a lesbian secret -- nm - Stacy Jan 8, 15:44 4
        
        what? what? what? - CrankYanker Jan 8, 15:50 1
        
        some lesbians wear strap on dildos (like me) and dont want the straps to show, so I wear men's underwear over them...hence the need for the fly -- nm - Stacy Jan 8, 15:55
        
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        Don't be scared.. -- nm - Stacy Jan 8, 15:51
based on the answers to my poll below, we're total geeks. -- nm - Andie Jan 8, 15:29 16
- I was mostly too busy working (at a job) to be on any team. -- nm - loosilu, not a team player Jan 8, 15:47 2
  - you jjust didn't want it bad enough! heh, j/k -- nm - CQ Jan 8, 15:48 1
    - I didn't want it at all. -- nm - loosilu, not a team player Jan 8, 15:50
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  - I was student government president my senior year :) -- nm - Trish Jan 8, 15:34
- Except Krustylu. - nubby Jan 8, 15:30 10
  - wait I played sports too...softball, volleyball, basketball, and a few weeks on the football team :) -- nm - Stacy Jan 8, 15:47 6
    - I played more than baseball and volleyball but I wasn't the captain of the team. -- nm - krusty Jan 8, 15:50 5
      - oh me too - school volleyball team, basketball, i was a life guard, i just was never the *best* at anything, -- nm - Andie Jan 8, 15:53 1
        
        I took lifeguarding got a 98% on the physical and didnt have time to finish the written part due to my dyslexia so I failed the course :( -- nm - Stacy Jan 8, 15:58
      - lets just call it a draw then -- nm - Stacy Jan 8, 15:52 2
        
        :-) I wasn't trying to make it a competition. - krusty Jan 8, 15:59 1
        
        I was comnpetitive too, I was soo excited in volleyball when they made me a setter..It's too bad my dad took me off the football team :( -- nm - Stacy Jan 8, 16:06
  - It's pretty sad that I'm the muscle of this group. - krusty Jan 8, 15:38
  - and psilotum, apparently. -- nm - Andie Jan 8, 15:30 1
    - heh - psilotum Jan 8, 15:35
Strange Wilderness isn't the worst thing I've seen, but I'm kind of annoyed that *that* gets to be a movie. -- nm - Reagen Jan 8, 15:29 2
- Have you seen Eagle Eye or Wanted, yet? - Trish Jan 8, 15:38 1
  - it's not that it's bad, I mean, it is. It's that it doesn't even *try* to be a movie. -- nm - Reagen Jan 8, 15:57
"Economic stimulus is an imperative given the perilous state of the economy, even though the effectiveness of tax breaks to boost the economy is open - Loyola Jan 8, 15:24 5
- Well at least it wouldn't be any different than the past five years. -- nm - nubby Jan 8, 15:28 2
  - Crap, I should have run with "No change" -- nm - Hillary Jan 8, 15:35
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  - I actually get that but I think there has to be acknowledgment too that, no matter how unpalatable it may be, creating a tax code that may appear - Loyola Jan 8, 15:34
Jock poll: Were you ever the captain of a team (sports, mathletes, whatever.) -- nm - Andie Jan 8, 15:16 43
- I don't remember ever being *on* a team. -- nm - loosilu, not a team player Jan 8, 15:45
- Captain of the Football team and captain of the lacrosse team -- nm - CQ Jan 8, 15:42 10
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    - I was the quarterback. what? -- nm - CQ Jan 8, 15:49 2
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  - Looks you're the muscle now. -- nm - krusty Jan 8, 15:44 4
    - you''ve seen me. that's sad -- nm - CQ Jan 8, 15:47 3
      - I know, same goes for me. Though together we could probably take out - krusty Jan 8, 15:49 2
        
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        yeah! -- nm - CQ Jan 8, 15:50
  - student council v.p. also -- nm - CQ Jan 8, 15:43
- Touch football, hockey, numerous "fun" teams -- nm - Beaker Jan 8, 15:42 2
  - yes we did those in PE -- nm - Stacy Jan 8, 15:49
  - Touch football? -- nm - krusty Jan 8, 15:45
- nope, but I was President of a car club. -- nm - CrankYanker Jan 8, 15:35
- newspaper editor, that's about it -- nm - kare Jan 8, 15:30 1
  - I was Entertainment editor on mine,,,did movie, music, and concert reviews and an advice column. -- nm - Stacy Jan 8, 15:36
- Yes -- nm - Dano Jan 8, 15:29 2
  - should we guess what? i'll say.... Wrestling captain! -- nm - Andie Jan 8, 15:30 1
    - Incorrect (spoilers) - Dano Jan 8, 15:43
- Who wants to touch me. I was one of the head A.V. Geeks!! - Walt_Disney Jan 8, 15:25 2
  - Oh Walt I thought of a trend that you were asking about yesterday. I notice alot the last year the high number of subscription type newsletters on the - Loyola Jan 8, 15:28 1
    - Hmmm....I have not noticed a lot of the paid for ones but I think you are right about the subscription ones... - Walt_Disney Jan 8, 15:32
- grad school soccer team (The Smashed Tomatoes) -- nm - psilotum Jan 8, 15:24
- Speech and Debate team -- nm - Trish Jan 8, 15:24 2
  - why am I not surprised? - Remlik Jan 8, 15:31 1
    - Just shut up, you peanut headed monster! -- nm - Trish Jan 8, 15:42
- Baseball and volleyball before and during H.S. -- nm - krusty Jan 8, 15:23
- Band captain! *flex* -- nm - Strongbad Jan 8, 15:21 5
  - 1. What a shock! 2. "Band" and "flex"? -- nm - nubby Jan 8, 15:23 3
    - Hush, Physics nerd! -- nm - Strongbad Jan 8, 15:23 2
      - Don't make me break out my math trophies! -- nm - nubby Jan 8, 15:25 1
        
        Mathcounts? *flex* -- nm - Strongbad Jan 8, 15:25
  - This one time in band camp... -- nm - Strongbad SI Jan 8, 15:23
- backgammon team. -- nm - Remlik Jan 8, 15:20
- JV softball -- nm - Stacy Jan 8, 15:19
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  - sure. mine is embarrassing... - Andie Jan 8, 15:20 2
    - That meant you were responsible for obtaining the post curling beer, right? -- nm - Trish Jan 8, 15:44
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- Yep. -- nm - Loyola Jan 8, 15:17
- Yeah, math team and quiz bowl team in high school. -- nm - nubby Jan 8, 15:17
yay my first time on the internets today! - Jovian Jan 8, 15:16 1
- I like this post. -- nm - Loyola Jan 8, 15:18
Is there a legal definition of what constitutes "windfall profits"? -- nm - Loyola Jan 8, 15:15 1
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Oh now NUBBY wants me back on Facebook...I need to think about this -- nm - amoxy Jan 8, 15:10 3
- Yay! -- nm - nubby Jan 8, 15:16
- make him change his IM status to "loves me some amoxy" -- nm - the last semester ever loves mandy lane Jan 8, 15:12
- Bygones! -- nm - nubby Jan 8, 15:12
Speaking of Vegas, this may be another off year for me - amoxy Jan 8, 15:08 8
- This economic downturn SUCKS. -- nm - nubby Jan 8, 15:10 7
  - But I'm hoping that means good deals for rooms and such. -- nm - Cuzzin Todd Jan 8, 15:49
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    - *bets it all and walks away from the table* -- nm - Strongbad Jan 8, 15:19 3
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        Like, say, INSANELY FAST DRUNK BINGO. -- nm - nubby Jan 8, 15:22 1
        
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    - I'll give it all to znu and he'll double it in an hour at roulette. -- nm - nubby Jan 8, 15:15
Amoxy FTP. - Will Hunting Jan 8, 15:05
Bygones! -- nm - nubby Jan 8, 15:05 11
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  - If you'd even come. - nubby Jan 8, 15:10 9
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      - I think too many people hate us for us to go with the group. we should do some serious math before we commit. -- nm - the last semester ever loves mandy lane Jan 8, 15:18 7
        
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        I mean that so many people actively dislike me that going might kind of... piss off a collective. I would rather go with people who like me. - the last semester ever loves mandy lane Jan 8, 15:24 5
        
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        I don't want to make anyone uncomfortable. there are those who might think my presence rains on a parade. - the last semester ever loves mandy lane Jan 8, 15:27 3
        
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        well, now that we're talking about parties, I think my party is on 5/9. this trip is like... sister bonding (read: drinking) after we're both - the last semester ever loves mandy lane Jan 8, 15:32 1
        
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I've got all these AIM addresses from back when all of you worked at The Trades. Then you all abandoned me. No, no abandonment issues there. -- nm - Mop Jan 8, 15:03 9
- I got all these AIM addresses back when I use to be a AOL chat whore, and now I get nothing, I feel so used *cry* -- nm - Applebee's Jan 8, 15:06 6
  - *NOW* you feel used?! -- nm - nubby Jan 8, 15:09 4
    - net really -- nm - Stacy Jan 8, 15:10 3
      - not really -- nm - Stacy Jan 8, 15:10 2
        
        It was better as net really - amoxy Jan 8, 15:11 1
        
        heh :) -- nm - Stacy Jan 8, 15:16
  - sfan -- nm - Stacy Jan 8, 15:07
- My support group meets on Mondays. -- nm - D.Mac Jan 8, 15:06
- I use gTalk exclusively now. -- nm - nubby Jan 8, 15:05

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