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Newegg has a $60 60GB SSD after rebate -- (link) - oblique Sep 12, 11:22
Looking forward to Ringer, I hope SMG has something in this that will last. Love her -- nm - Capstern (42 Days) Sep 12, 11:14 2
- this is the one new show I'm looking forward to. -- nm - loosilu Sep 12, 11:15 1
  - I have a hard time seeing the premise be lasting but I hope so. Whitney looks funny but I find her standup funny -- nm - Capstern (42 Days) Sep 12, 11:16
The St. Louis Cardinals and right-hander Chris Carpenter have agreed on a two-year, $21 million contract extension -- nm - Beaker Sep 12, 11:12 9
- Fuck yeah!!! Now get Pujols and Berkman done!!!! -- nm - Jim Sep 12, 11:13 8
  - No love for Rufus? -- nm - David Sep 12, 11:14 7
    - if that's Furcal...I was just getting ready to post that they need to get him done as well. - Jim Sep 12, 11:16 6
      - No, Wainwright. -- nm - David Sep 12, 11:17 5
        
        Ah...I'm a dumbass. As far as I know, his options will be picked up despite the injury, so I think we have him locked for 2 more years. -- nm - Jim Sep 12, 11:17 4
        
        I thought the deal voided if he finished 2011 on the DL. Am I wrong? -- nm - David Sep 12, 11:21 3
        
        I think the Cardinals could void it or something like that. Everything I'm reading (with the Carpenter signing, it's a lot) says that the Cards 2012 - Jim Sep 12, 11:24 2
        
        Good, that's a relief. -- nm - David Sep 12, 11:26 1
        
        The talk right now is, with Wain-o healthy, we have Wainwright, Carpenter, Garcia, Westbrook and Lohse locked up for 2012 and Edwin Jackson pitching - Jim Sep 12, 11:27
Looking forward to the new 2 and a Half Men or is it going to be a horrible piece of roadkill (I personally thinl Lorrie can make anyone funny) -- nm - Capstern (42 Days) Sep 12, 11:09 2
- No better, no worse than before. - The Ruiner Sep 12, 11:11 1
  - I guess I like roadkill, it can really make me laugh but I think Lorrie is pretty awesome as creators go -- nm - Capstern (42 Days) Sep 12, 11:13
brand new season of HIMYM -- nm - Danedukenuuk Sep 12, 11:01
Surpassing the comments about the Earthquake, Buzzfeed has compiled "The 25 Most Un-American responses to 9/11" -- (link) - MDH Sep 12, 10:55 19
- 25 may not be written correctly. -- nm - David Sep 12, 11:10
- *flips the fuck out* -- nm - loosi SI Sep 12, 11:09 3
  - why am I flipping out? - loosilu Sep 12, 11:11 2
    - Because it is talking about 9/11. -- nm - The Ruiner Sep 12, 11:11 1
      - *splooge* -- nm - Rudy G. Sep 12, 11:12
- yikes, that's alot of dumb right there -- nm - Beaker Sep 12, 10:58 13
  - It's sort of shocking at how virulent and persistent the racism is. - Mel Profit Sep 12, 11:06 10
    - What's shocking to me is that there are so many people who, despite all the facts, still think Obama's a Muslim and not-American born. -- nm - Jim Sep 12, 11:13 4
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        *nods* -- nm - Don Homer Sep 12, 11:17
      - but Jim, his name is Barrack, Hussein...do they need to draw you a picture! -- nm - Beaker Sep 12, 11:14 1
        
        They can't. They had their crayons taken away for playing with their food at meal time. -- nm - TWuG Sep 12, 11:15
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      - only to those that would be receptive to it. - Mel Profit Sep 12, 11:09 3
        
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        and actually no, I doubt even then... - Mel Profit Sep 12, 11:10 1
        
        this -- nm - The Ruiner Sep 12, 11:12
  - They did "select all, find and replace, 'communist', 'muslim', replace all", I think -- nm - Beryllium Sep 12, 11:00
  - the picture for #15 is....something... -- nm - znufrii Sep 12, 11:00
Now that Yahoo has fixed. In BF I need a meager 45 points from Brady, Lloyd, and J. Ford plus whatever Bush does - oblique Sep 12, 10:48
Go Rafa, beat Novak! -- nm - prayformojo Sep 12, 10:44
Quite a cottage industry spring up of getting Legos to kick ass. -- (link) - Mop (196 lbs) Sep 12, 10:41 2
- Those are so totally inappropriate.....and yet, so cool. (nm) - musubi Sep 12, 10:53
- perhaps they should be called LEVO - Danedukenuuk Sep 12, 10:50
me, to a coworker: I'm thinking of buying a pair of brown sweaterboots. co-worker: who's *encouraging* you on this?? - HPV McGee Sep 12, 10:37 10
- what would you think of a dude who wore sweatershoes? -- nm - moles Sep 12, 11:05 3
  - same as I would think of a dude wearing a skirt: why are you wearing chick clothes? -- nm - HPV McGee Sep 12, 11:20 2
    - but they're dude shoes. just with sweater tops -- nm - moles Sep 12, 11:21 1
      - yeahno. -- nm - HPV McGee Sep 12, 11:23
- What is a sweaterboot? (nm) - musubi Sep 12, 10:38 5
  - link -- (link) - HPV McGee Sep 12, 10:42 [flickr] 2
    - Now I have a Thunder Kiss '65 earworm -- nm - con_carne Sep 12, 10:48 1
      - Lucky. -- nm - David Sep 12, 11:11
  - Don't encourage her. -- nm - The Ruiner Sep 12, 10:39
  - it's a sweater knitted from parts of boots. - TFox Sep 12, 10:38
A dog balancing treats on his nose -- (link) - mara Sep 12, 10:34 [youtube] 4
- That's the BEST! Thanks Mara -- nm - JenBro Sep 12, 11:14 3
  - unsurprisingly, cats can't balance anything on their noses -- nm - moles Sep 12, 11:16 2
    - They don't make treats that s -- nm - JenBro Sep 12, 11:32 1
      - Small! -- nm - JenBro Sep 12, 11:33
scrabs are broken on my phone yet again. I think one of you should log into facebook as me, tell me what letters I have, and we can on-board co-scrab - HPV McGee Sep 12, 10:31
calvin borel seemed mostly pretty nice when i talked to him at saratoga.......nm - x Sep 12, 10:31
Rob Lowe was very nice. When I was a young girl, I got some.... interesting pictures with him. -- nm - newbie Sep 12, 10:26
Jim, I think a lot of that is for the most part, athletes sign on their way in and out of the office...whereas you don't meet actors/esses at the set. - Will Hunting Sep 12, 10:26 30
- And lets be honest a lot of athletes won't be recognized out of uniform. - musubi Sep 12, 10:30 28
  - Dikembe Mutombo was in my French class in college, and trust me, you'd recognize him. -- nm - loosilu Sep 12, 10:53 2
    - Well, he's a 7'2" ugly-assed human being....the odds he blends in are slim and none -- nm - Will Hunting Sep 12, 10:54 1
      - his voice is incredibly loud and booming. and he is also a very outgoing and nice guy. -- nm - loosilu Sep 12, 10:55
  - when Roy Halladay bought me a drink at the bar, he looked familiar, and I knew he played baseball - MDH Sep 12, 10:33 19
    - I'd consider myself on the higher end of baseball fandom, but if I saw Roy Halladay in street clothes at a bar, there is vitruatlly no chance - musubi Sep 12, 10:35 1
      - Nats were playing the Phils. Somehow I knew I'd seen his face. -- nm - MDH Sep 12, 10:40
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      - Yes, "Nellie's Sports Bar." -- (link) - MDH Sep 12, 10:34 15
        
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        Wait, you guys have your own sports? -- nm - The Ruiner Sep 12, 10:39 11
        
        just basebal. -- nm - loosilu Sep 12, 10:49 2
        
        C'mon, this is a BIG DEAL! -- nm - Will Hunting Sep 12, 10:52 1
        
        At least Qale and RC should be excited! -- nm - loosilu Sep 12, 10:54
        
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        Cleveland beat DC out to host the "2014 Gay Games" -- (link) - MDH Sep 12, 10:41 6
        
        Why 2014? - TFox Sep 12, 10:43 3
        
        That's the first year that Elf hunting will be a recognized sport -- nm - Beaker Sep 12, 10:56
        
        "This is so different from rhythmic gymnastics." (nm) - musubi Sep 12, 10:47
        
        Haha. -- nm - MDH Sep 12, 10:44
        
        The Onion? -- nm - The Ruiner Sep 12, 10:42
        
        "Why do I feel like I'm the only one excited about this?" -- nm - TFox Sep 12, 10:42
        
        Please, no one watches sports at night there. This weekend they had collegiate wrestling and diving on. - MDH Sep 12, 10:39 1
        
        Wait - why was Roy Halladay buying you a drink? Just making friends at Nellie's? - Diva Sep 12, 10:45
  - "that guy's tall." NBAer. "that guy's fat." NFLer. "That guy just said thanks for the Coca-Cola Coke." Nascar'er. -- nm - Will Hunting Sep 12, 10:31
  - I didn't recognize Jason Giambi in my ice cream shop until a customer pointed him out to me. -- nm - znufrii Sep 12, 10:31 3
    - the six year old's head on the enormous body didn't even tip you off? -- nm - TFox Sep 12, 10:32 2
      - to be fair, I was likely distracted by hanging out on TT at the time -- nm - znufrii Sep 12, 10:34
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- I guess that makes sense. -- nm - Jim Sep 12, 10:27
LYC: Teemu Selane seemed geniunely surprised that I recognized him at the airport baggage claim. - musubi Sep 12, 10:25
Christina Hendricks can sign my Firefly box any day -- nm - prayformojo Sep 12, 10:24
ST Poll: Who was the rudest (or least nice, whatever) celebrity you have ever met? -- nm - MDH Sep 12, 10:24 38
- Edward Jay Epstein (minor author but was my JD Salinger) as a wedding client and.was.a.total.client.from.hell...geez what a jerk -- nm - zeitgeist Sep 13, 00:08
- Kareem Abdul Jabbar. - Elvis Sep 12, 11:05 3
  - you try dragging Walton up and down the court all night -- nm - moles Sep 12, 11:15 1
    - YSMM -- nm - The Ruiner Sep 12, 11:16
  - Wow. -- nm - Don Homer Sep 12, 11:13
- Erenst Bognine - but only because I recognized him for Airwolf first and took me a bit to remember Escape from NY and old war movie titles -- nm - Capstern (42 Days) Sep 12, 10:58 1
  - yeah, that was probably it -- nm - moles Sep 12, 10:59
- I don't think I've met a rude celeb, but second hand, I heard Ian McKellan was an ass to fans. -- nm - loosilu Sep 12, 10:55
- Milli Vanilli (sp?) refused to let anyone take pictures because it would steal their soul or somthing - oblique Sep 12, 10:49
- the father andretti is a *hoser.* everyone says he's super super nice, but man. *hoser.* -- nm - HPV McGee Sep 12, 10:35
- Mark McGwire and Jason Giambi, Cheesecake Factory, Inner Harber of Baltimore, late 90's - samara Sep 12, 10:34 5
  - err..."Harbor". -- nm - samara Sep 12, 10:38
  - Well, they needed to go younger because older women would know a roid-dick wasn't the normal. - Will Hunting Sep 12, 10:36 3
    - roids shrink the nutsack, not the branch. nm -- nm - groiny Sep 12, 10:37 2
      - um...no. -- nm - Epiphany Sep 12, 11:01
      - McGwire was physically humongous, I didn't even know who Giambi was at the time. -- nm - samara Sep 12, 10:44
- LYC: I'm curious. Why would you want to know this and not 'who's the nicest celebrity youve met'? - OAE Sep 12, 10:32 3
  - no comment. -- nm - HPV McGee Sep 12, 10:35
  - Missing a poll at the top of B2 is apparently also possible. -- nm - con_carne Sep 12, 10:35
  - yeah, the backboard was way way back there, but its there. -- nm - TFox Sep 12, 10:32
- Chris Cooper wasn't mean per se, he just seemed very uniterested - MDH Sep 12, 10:29
- Randy Orton --- cursed out a family on his way to the locker room prior to an event after he nearly ran over the kid. - Will Hunting Sep 12, 10:28 5
  - I assume he's a wrestler? The John Cena article I read made him seem awesome. - MDH Sep 12, 10:30 4
    - Orton's the anti-Cena...he's a genuine prick...whereas Cena is one of the most likable people in the business. -- nm - Will Hunting Sep 12, 10:32 2
      - All I know about Cena is that he's a wrestler/actor. But he gets major props for me if he's this nice. -- nm - MDH Sep 12, 10:34 1
        
        Yeah, his charity work makes it hard to hate him, but then he hogs the television and it becomes easy again. -- nm - Will Hunting Sep 12, 10:35
    - everything I've ever read about Cena says he is as nice as the day is long. -- nm - Beaker Sep 12, 10:30
- Lee Greenwood -- nm - Epiphany Sep 12, 10:26
- Paul O'Neill - I went from a fan of his to despising him. -- nm - Krusty Sep 12, 10:26
- I've never met a rude or not nice celebrity. - Kim Pine Sep 12, 10:26
- Danny Ainge, Robert Parish and Cedric Maxwell. -- nm - Mel Profit Sep 12, 10:25 7
  - but we'll forgive those guys anything!....nm - x Sep 12, 10:32 3
    - It took another championship before I really got over it. - Mel Profit Sep 12, 10:35 2
      - heh. generally, i do expect athletes to be douchebags....nm - x Sep 12, 10:39 1
        
        If brady gives me another SB I'll forgive the waterslide pictures. - Mel Profit Sep 12, 10:47
  - Haha, Cedric Maxwell. This answer is great. - MDH Sep 12, 10:26 2
    - he was more tricksy than rude... - Mel Profit Sep 12, 10:34 1
      - and I saw him last year at Macy's. I gave him a stinkeye I am sure he remembered then what he did that 25years before. -- nm - Mel Profit Sep 12, 10:48
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- Though, I'm sure Sonia Sotormoyor (or whatevertheeff) can still grocery shop in relative peace and so on. -- nm - TFox Sep 12, 10:26 2
  - Yeah, but you *know* Ruth Bader Ginsberg probably has all sorts of groupies. (nm) - musubi Sep 12, 10:28 1
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- there's an important distinction to be made in the discussion of celebrity, between those who are famous for reaching the top of their field - znufrii Sep 12, 10:25 2
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    - just wait until I become famous for my earthshaking dissertation on "Celebrity Worship as Social Dysfunction" -- nm - znufrii Sep 12, 10:33
- And let's be honest, highly successful engineers get laid at all the conventions :) -- nm - Will Hunting Sep 12, 10:24 2
  - "You built what bridge?!.... I'm in room 304." -- nm - TFox Sep 12, 10:27 1
    - "Wanna test out the fluid dynamics problem I've been working on?" -- nm - Will Hunting Sep 12, 10:29
the screen door slams. Mary's dress waves -- nm - peglegpete Sep 12, 10:23 2
- like a vision she dances across the porch as the radio plays -- nm - JenBro Sep 12, 10:25
- multy played that song Saturday. Love it -- nm - Beaker Sep 12, 10:24
I haven't really met any celebs...but checking luggage last year next to Bill Walton was pretty cool - Will Hunting Sep 12, 10:22 5
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  - No, but I had trouble walking soon afterwards. - Will Hunting Sep 12, 10:24 3
    - Too easy. (nm) - musubi Sep 12, 10:27 2
      - I didn't even think this one through. Dammit. -- nm - Will Hunting Sep 12, 10:30 1
        
        That's what she said. -- nm - The Ruiner Sep 12, 10:32
No!!! -- nm - The Ruiner Sep 12, 10:22 1
- I only report the news as I break it. -- nm - Jim Nance Sep 12, 10:23

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