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Kind of a cool wine bottle holder. -- (link) - mara Jan 10, 09:37 1
- I use something similar in my class. (nm) - nubby Jan 10, 09:41
Great statement at the commissioning of the USS George H.W. Bush aircraft carrier... "the last commanding officer of this ship has not yet been born" - CrankYanker Jan 10, 09:23
"Obama Says Stimulus Will Redound to Private Sector" - Redound? That's not a word! -- (link) - Mop Jan 10, 09:14 1
- heh. -- nm - G-Dub Jan 10, 09:19
Wooo, puppy's feet are finally clean after 2 months of yeast/infection issues from when we got him. - Will Hunting Jan 10, 09:12 4
- jeez with his feet and your nose I bet it was fun around your place -- nm - Remlik Jan 10, 09:23
- Oh boy, now comes leash training! -- nm - mara Jan 10, 09:22 2
  - Not needed. He is just about perfect on the leash. - Will Hunting Jan 10, 09:30 1
    - Wow, how excellent. It's so much fun to walk a well-bahaved dog. -- nm - mara Jan 10, 09:31
How the entire economics profession failed. -- (link) - mara Jan 10, 09:11
Consider Yourself -- (link) - amoxy Jan 10, 09:09 [youtube] 2
- Thank You Very Much -- (link) - Beaker Jan 10, 09:12 [youtube] 1
  - Puttin' on the Ritz -- (link) - mara Jan 10, 09:23 [youtube]
Titans, Chargers, Giants, Panthers -- nm - Beaker Jan 10, 08:57 5
- Word. Those are the four losers this weekend. -- nm - Spawn Jan 10, 08:59 4
  - Where's the "Who Releases the Watchmen?" nick? - HdnAgnda Jan 10, 09:04 2
    - Nikki Frinke says they are in heavy negotiations this weekend to clear it up. -- nm - Remlik Jan 10, 09:17
    - Come to think of it, this may be a good, short-term Cafe Press T. - HdnAgnda Jan 10, 09:11
  - Kid, your *face* is a loser. -- nm - nubby Jan 10, 09:03
Mara....former member of The Cars release Beatles tribute cd....songs played on the uke.... -- (link) - Remlik Jan 10, 08:48 17
- Former? If not this guy, and not Ocasik, and not the dead guy, then who's in "The New Cars"? Also, nice Ukulele Hero shirt. -- nm - Mop Jan 10, 09:15 4
  - Todd Rundgren, Elliott Easton, Greg Hawkes, Prairie Prince, Kasim Sultan - CovingtonCat Jan 10, 09:37
  - well the New Cars died a swift death a year or so ago I thought. -- nm - Remlik Jan 10, 09:16 2
    - We never did find the peron - or persons - involved in the death. What do you know about it? Maybe you should come to the station with us. -- nm - Mop Jan 10, 09:18 1
      - I was at the radio station at the time of death for that band. -- nm - Remlik Jan 10, 09:19
- mara? MARA? - Mel Profit Jan 10, 08:54 11
  - oops. Puts you on the list. -- nm - Remlik Jan 10, 09:01
  - We know very little of The Cars before Mara left and Ric Ocasek took over. But you may remember the small hit "Shhhhhh." -- nm - HdnAgnda Jan 10, 09:00 1
    - Hee! (Oh -- duh. That was probably Mel's joke too. I'm slow.) -- nm - mara Jan 10, 09:01
  - I could totally see you as a uke slinger. -- nm - Spawn Jan 10, 08:58 2
    - with the Fez and jacket. -- nm - Remlik Jan 10, 09:01 1
      - I wouldn't say no to that outfit. -- nm - Mel Profit Jan 10, 09:07
  - Plus I'm a Beatles fan. (I'm also a Cars fan, to an extent.) -- nm - mara Jan 10, 08:57 4
    - back off, sister. - Mel Profit Jan 10, 09:05 3
      - maybe you two could start a club? -- nm - Remlik Jan 10, 09:21 2
        
        I wanna be the front man with mystique. -- nm - Mel Profit Jan 10, 09:26 1
        
        while Mara is the music/creative genius behind the front man. -- nm - Remlik Jan 10, 09:28
The "surge" was announced two years ago today. -- nm - nubby Jan 10, 08:46 1
- ::puts on flight suit...:: -- nm - Dubya Jan 10, 08:57
Reagen, thanks for the info on CC registry cleaner. Over the past two days I did a disk cleanup, a defrag and DL'd CC and it worked well. It may be - HdnAgnda Jan 10, 08:39 8
- Is this CCleaner? This thing is great. It even has a better Add/remove Programs than Windows. Stuff listed there that Windows doesn't know about. -- nm - Mop Jan 10, 09:16
- what's this? -- nm - Mel Profit Jan 10, 09:11 3
  - Link-a-doo -- (link) - HdnAgnda Jan 10, 09:11 2
    - I remember this. I used to use it years ago. -- nm - Mel Profit Jan 10, 09:21
    - thanks -- nm - Mel Profit Jan 10, 09:13
- I run weekly and am surprised at how much junk it cleans up... -- nm - BAD Jan 10, 08:55 2
  - Same here, I love the program. -- nm - krusty Jan 10, 09:04 1
    - Yes, I may end up donating to this guy for his efforts. I like to recognize. -- nm - HdnAgnda Jan 10, 09:15
ALMOS starting on HBO right now. -- nm - Mel Profit Jan 10, 08:33 3
- Tiny Dancer scene on right now. -- nm - Mel Profit Jan 10, 09:32
- Abby from NCIS? - Mel Profit Jan 10, 08:51 1
  - and Danger from Million Dollar Baby. - Mel Profit Jan 10, 09:08
Surprise: Microsoft didn't put enough servers up to handle the Windows 7 Beta download demand - ty97 Jan 10, 08:23 4
- Glad I got it through technet on wed. -- nm - Scorpion Jan 10, 09:06
- As overly reviled as Vista has been, they probably didn't. - Cuzzin Todd Jan 10, 09:03 1
  - everyone loves free stuff! -- nm - ty97 Jan 10, 09:07
- I love that the Bittorrent news sites are all like "See, if they had used Bittorrent this wouldn't have happened" - oblique Jan 10, 08:24
Holy toledo. Nineteen-year-old babysitter does something supremely stupid and inexplicable (possibly not for the squeamish) and 5-month-old dies. -- (link) - mara Jan 10, 08:10 16
- Am I horrible because I want to know what she was watching? -- nm - Dano Jan 10, 08:22 3
  - Adventures in Babysitting. -- nm - nubby Jan 10, 08:34
  - Dore The Explorer. -- nm - Beaker Jan 10, 08:25
  - The Secret Life of the American Teenager -- nm - oblique Jan 10, 08:24
- So sad and I hope she gets the max sentence. -- nm - krusty Jan 10, 08:19 1
  - Death by digging? -- nm - oblique Jan 10, 08:20
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  - I agree -- nm - Sheep Jan 10, 10:25
  - IMO, life in jail is much worse than death. - krusty Jan 10, 09:14
  - So you didn't want your precious TV shows to be interrupted? Let's see how you like not watching anything at all for the rest of your life or having - Judge/jury Jan 10, 08:20 2
    - Didn't you see that all the prisions are complaining about the switch to digital TV? -- nm - oblique Jan 10, 08:25 1
      - Cry me a river. Appoint one Andy DuFresne in each one to make books a priority. -- nm - HdnAgnda Jan 10, 08:27
- Okay she is a complete idiot for placing the baby where she did but why in the hell... - HdnAgnda Jan 10, 08:16 3
  - This is what I can't fathom. Could she have just done it out of habit, without thinking? Jeebus. -- nm - mara Jan 10, 08:18 2
    - crazy. Maybe she thought the centrifugal force would lull the baby to sleep. You know, just like a car ride. -- nm - Max Jan 10, 08:23 1
      - OMG, I just remembered a trick for getting a baby to sleep. I think Landbeck mentioned it once. - mara Jan 10, 08:27
My wife and I began watching FNL Season 2 last night. 3 eps. There's a lot more eps on the DVD than I expected. We have to watch 15 in order to be - HdnAgnda Jan 10, 08:07
Man alive. Friday night's all right for fighting on ST, -- nm - emotichanic Jan 10, 07:46 2
- I can't find anything all that fighty on the backboards. -- nm - mara Jan 10, 08:04
- Shut up, stupidhead! - Subversive - daddy x 2 Jan 10, 07:51
Death-row inmate asks for but is denied mental health treatment, so he does something drastic. (Not for the squeamish.) -- (link) - mara Jan 10, 07:45 1
- I can't believe he didn't have extensive mental health treatment before this, considering what he had done before. - kelly Jan 10, 07:49
17 whoppers and I will be out of FB friends -- nm - Marcel Jan 10, 07:40
Dexter marries his sister?!? (no, this is not an episode spoiler!) -- (link) - JaxSean Jan 10, 05:50 6
- I guess he sees something more in her than what I saw as a completely annoying person from season 1. Guess she was a good actress in that respect. -- nm - HdnAgnda Jan 10, 08:06
- This is better than his actual sister playing his TV wife. Would make the on-screen jamming awkward. -- nm - TFox Jan 10, 07:29 3
  - To hell with the fake screwing, imagine the real kissing! - Spawn Jan 10, 07:53 2
    - I always wonder when actors say those scenes are all technical, are just part of the job, and mean *nothing* - Dano Jan 10, 08:25 1
      - Of course, didn't Arrested Development play with this idea? -- nm - Dano Jan 10, 08:27
- Well, he is a mad scientist, and she's kind of cute in an Olive Oyl kind of way. -- nm - secretslacker Jan 10, 07:00
Sony becomes the jealous ex-girlfriend: "what does she have that I don't?!?" -- (link) - JaxSean Jan 10, 05:47 2
- Yikes! That table comparing the 3 consoles is retarded. - Guigue Jan 10, 06:46 1
  - Also, you can get a hard drive for the 360 for much less than what they're saying. Besides, the games available matter as much as the price. - krusty Jan 10, 06:53
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- outstanding -- nm - Remlik Jan 10, 08:22
- We, uh, have no idea what happened to the money. It must have gone down with the pirate ship. yeah, that's the ticket. -- nm - the crew Jan 10, 07:49
- I love this. -- nm - Mel Profit Jan 10, 07:34
Haze for the PS3, $16.99 Shipped. -- (link) - JaxSean Jan 10, 05:26
Today's Amazon mp3 special: Elvis Costello's classic debut, My Aim is True. Today's price: $1.99. -- (link) - JaxSean Jan 10, 05:15 2
- Great album... great deal! This was a no-brainer. -- nm - secretslacker Jan 10, 06:59
- Also, Zoids Assault for the XBox 360 is $19.98 deal of the day. -- (link) - JaxSean Jan 10, 05:28
PSA: Gran Torino is about a 50-point long. -- (link) - Jelly Jan 10, 05:00 10
- Crazy. A movie about CEAST getting mad at people for standing on his lawn? - Cuzzin Todd Jan 10, 08:01
- Looks like it's the only one I got right. I really didn't think the others would be longs. - krusty Jan 10, 06:58 5
  - I've seen more commercials for BRDWR than I would have liked. But there are some Boston locales in it so that may be the reason. - Diva Jan 10, 07:06 2
    - Strange, I watch ESPN a lot and I don't remember seeing a single one. - krusty Jan 10, 07:15 1
      - I saw these ads a lot during NBA stuff. -- nm - Diva Jan 10, 11:27
  - Me neither... but I went long anyway. Never underestimate the stupidity of the American public. - secretslacker Jan 10, 07:00 1
    - The stupidity of Americans have cost me plenty of H$ over the years. - krusty Jan 10, 07:24
- Gran Torino C+ - Loyola Jan 10, 05:58
- In the ST spirit of letting go of the past, I no longer play HSX. -- nm - Spawn Jan 10, 05:54
- gah. If he's right, I shorted everything else and that's going to hurt. -- nm - JaxSean Jan 10, 05:05
What can you get for $50 billion? - CovingtonCat Jan 10, 04:53
Cincinnati Freedom passes on. -- (link) - CovingtonCat Jan 10, 04:19 1
- ....to a $3.99 meal deal near you. - JaxSean Jan 10, 05:24
It's kinda depressing that I'm never drunk enough to fail my mail goggles. -- nm - psilotum Jan 10, 01:20
grrrr. can't fall back asleep! I wonder if I should even try at this point, considering I have to be up for work in 2 hrs. -- nm - kelly Jan 10, 00:57 16
- even more grrrrrr - looks like OT for today was cancelled *after* I left for the day yesterday. - kelly Jan 10, 04:43 2
  - I'd be pissed they didn't call me. -- nm - JaxSean Jan 10, 05:06 1
    - Yeah, I wasn't pleased. But - it just meant I went to the gym at 8AM rather than noon, and at least now I can go to the dog's vet appt this morning. -- nm - kelly Jan 10, 06:20
- This is how my mother used to sing me to sleep, and now how I sing my son to sleep. - psilotum Jan 10, 01:02 7
  - This is how my mother used to sing me to sleep. - Loyola Jan 10, 02:13 1
    - Oh yeah. Kids will laugh till they cry when they hear those words. -- nm - psilotum Jan 10, 02:16
  - Can I imagine that Captain von Trapp is singing this to me instead? - kelly Jan 10, 01:09 4
    - what *is* it about Capt. von Trapp? - Mel Profit Jan 10, 01:59 2
      - I'm not really sure. - kelly Jan 10, 07:42
      - I still think he's hot. I watch The Sound of Music gazebo scene whenever it's on. -- nm - mara Jan 10, 07:25
    - Whatever works. -- nm - psilotum Jan 10, 01:13
- Have some decaf mint tea, low light, and rest with the puppy. - ReluctantCynic Jan 10, 01:01 4
  - Actually, it's kinda nice when east coasters get insomnia. -- nm - psilotum Jan 10, 01:14
  - that's similar to what i've been doing lately. at least you'll feel warm inside and get some rest, if not full sleep. (and psi.: awww.) -- nm - b! Jan 10, 01:06 2
    - :) He loves singing, too. It will (almost) always calm him down when he's upset. -- nm - psilotum Jan 10, 01:08 1
      - i remember being really little and having a full-on cry stop when i heard music on tv or radio. not sure if singing did the trick... :) - -- nm - b! Jan 10, 01:37
One of my best friends from grad school, for his birthday, his wife is flying in the whole crew for a weekend of DnD. - psilotum Jan 10, 00:12 4
- Sounds like you need some new dice. - ReluctantCynic Jan 10, 00:33 3
  - No, the dice are fine. - psilotum Jan 10, 00:40 2
    - What? - ReluctantCynic Jan 10, 00:49 1
      - Actually... - psilotum Jan 10, 00:58
Just watched Get Smart. It was originally a TV series, right? - psilotum Jan 9, 23:56 10
- Well, eventually they did get married and have babies. -- nm - Ender Jan 10, 08:21
- not Moonlighting level tension or anything - pigby Jan 10, 00:00 6
  - I hated that point in Moonlighting where ... (linky) - ReluctantCynic Jan 10, 00:06 3
    - (many, many, MANY more spoilers) - ReluctantCynic Jan 10, 00:11 1
      - Taming of the Shrew episode was terrific. -- nm - Remlik Jan 10, 08:23
    - linky? -- nm - psilotum Jan 10, 00:08
  - Somehow I don't think I've ever seen an episode. -- nm - psilotum Jan 10, 00:04 1
    - it still hold up pretty well. Mel Brooks & Buck Henry -- nm - pigby Jan 10, 00:07
- gee, how did you guess? -- nm - Beryllium Jan 9, 23:58 1
  - I'm quicker than a snail. -- nm - psilotum Jan 9, 23:59
time for bed ... *queues up some BT downloads* ... my PVR wasn't told to record Flashpoint this evening (oops) -- nm - Beryllium Jan 9, 23:39
My anaconda don't want none unless you got buns, hun -- nm - oblique Jan 9, 23:35 3
- LA face and an Oakland booty. -- nm - psilotum Jan 9, 23:55
- VALID -- nm - ty97 Jan 9, 23:45
- ~Drink my beer and smoke my weed~ / ~But my good friends is all i need~ / ~Pass out at three, wake up at ten~ / ~Go out to eat then do it again~ - ReluctantCynic Jan 9, 23:43

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