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Something called Missoni brought down Target's website -- (link) - CovingtonCat Sep 13, 09:24 5
- :) big name designer. -- nm - Andie Sep 13, 09:25
- Missoni is a fashion house who is doing a discount line for Target this season. -- nm - znufrii Sep 13, 09:25 3
  - this is not the ugly zig zag prints that are on that stupid commercial is it? -- nm - Epiphany Sep 13, 09:27 2
    - yes. -- nm - loosilu Sep 13, 09:30
    - *nods* -- nm - znufrii Sep 13, 09:27
ST List of the Day! Forbes' Top 5 Highest Paid Men in Entertainment. Go! - Strongbad Sep 13, 09:22 31
- George Clooney. -- nm - Andie Sep 13, 09:29 1
  - No. -- nm - Strongbad Sep 13, 09:30
- P. Diddy, 50 Cent -- nm - con_carne Sep 13, 09:29 1
  - No, No -- nm - Strongbad Sep 13, 09:30
- Michael Jackson. -- nm - Andie Sep 13, 09:29 1
  - No -- nm - Strongbad Sep 13, 09:29
- Please say the music one isn't the Beebs -- nm - prayformojo Sep 13, 09:28 1
  - No. -- nm - Strongbad Sep 13, 09:29
- Spielberg -- nm - con_carne Sep 13, 09:28 1
  - #3 -- nm - Strongbad Sep 13, 09:28
- Jay Z. Kanye -- nm - Andie Sep 13, 09:28 1
  - No, no -- nm - Strongbad Sep 13, 09:28
- Spielberg's got movies coming -- nm - Will Hunting Sep 13, 09:27 1
  - #3 -- nm - Strongbad Sep 13, 09:28
- Eminem? -- nm - prayformojo Sep 13, 09:27 1
  - No -- nm - Strongbad Sep 13, 09:28
- Mr. Pitt -- nm - con_carne Sep 13, 09:27 1
  - No. -- nm - Strongbad Sep 13, 09:27
- Michael Bay? (i'm having a hard time thinking of big-earning movie stars) -- nm - prayformojo Sep 13, 09:26 2
  - No. 3 of the remaining 4 are from Hollywood though. -- nm - Strongbad Sep 13, 09:27 1
    - (#4 is music) -- nm - Strongbad Sep 13, 09:28
- Chuck Lorre. Charlie Sheen. -- nm - Andie Sep 13, 09:26 1
  - No, no. -- nm - Strongbad Sep 13, 09:26
- Seacrest? (that's a reach but it wouldn't surprise me) -- nm - prayformojo Sep 13, 09:25 1
  - No. -- nm - Strongbad Sep 13, 09:25
- Dr. Phil? -- nm - prayformojo Sep 13, 09:25 1
  - #7, just missed Top 5. -- nm - Strongbad Sep 13, 09:25
- Simon Cowell -- nm - con_carne Sep 13, 09:24 1
  - #5 -- nm - Strongbad Sep 13, 09:24
- James Cameron. -- nm - loosilu Sep 13, 09:23 1
  - No. (I'm guessing it's since January, or the past 12 months) -- nm - Strongbad Sep 13, 09:23
Andie....you are right - Capstern (41 Days) Sep 13, 09:15 15
- Side question: Should I cancel my life insurance? And should I keep the policy on her for a little while? - Capstern (41 Days) Sep 13, 09:18 12
  - I'd keep it until the divorce is final. -- nm - sycor Sep 13, 09:21 11
    - Wold it be wierd to keep it even after that just in case, as she is a little nutty and it doesnt cost me much for half a mil coverage? -- nm - Capstern (41 Days) Sep 13, 09:23 10
      - you can buy life insurance on me if you like too. - groiny Sep 13, 09:28
      - "it doesn't cost me much" is a rational you use a lot. stop it. -- nm - loosilu Sep 13, 09:27 4
        
        imagine if he had all the money all those "it's only $50 a month, it's only $100 a month" cost him each month. -- nm - Andie Sep 13, 09:28 1
        
        It's only $550 a month ... *flush* -- nm - Beryllium Sep 13, 09:29
        
        Penny-foolish, pound-foolish. :) -- nm - Beryllium Sep 13, 09:28
        
        this -- nm - znufrii Sep 13, 09:27
      - Weird? No, never. -- nm - Detective Munch, si Sep 13, 09:24
      - why would you do that? -- nm - znufrii Sep 13, 09:24 2
        
        it would be so weird. practically like putting life insurance on some random person. cancel it. -- nm - Andie Sep 13, 09:25 1
        
        Or, in legal terms, "motive". :) -- nm - Beryllium Sep 13, 09:26
- Phase 2: Anger -- nm - oblique Sep 13, 09:18 1
  - yep. -- nm - loosilu Sep 13, 09:26
While I'm all for Bachmann taking Perry down a notch or two, using the HPV vaccine as her ammunition sickens me. -- (link) - Mop Sep 13, 09:06 3
- More like the decree that directly benefited a business friendly to him. - Will Hunting Sep 13, 09:13 1
  - agreed to both your post and IM - you said it better than me -- nm - Epiphany Sep 13, 09:28
- She's not wrong though - at least on this one thing - Epiphany Sep 13, 09:12
Book of Mormon being developed for the big screen -- (link) - znufrii Sep 13, 09:06 3
- Don't we have enough sci fi adaptations? -- nm - con_carne Sep 13, 09:14
- It'll do at least as well as The Producers. Maybe even Rent money! -- nm - Mop Sep 13, 09:07 1
  - But not Phantom of the Opera money. That's crazy. -- nm - Mop Sep 13, 09:09
three words I have written down on a post-it on my desk: "Cartel. Diamond. Kiss" - prayformojo Sep 13, 09:00 2
- *thwip* *thwip* *thwip* -- nm - bullets embedding in the wall above you Sep 13, 09:02
- Kay -- nm - loosilu Sep 13, 09:01
Excel Help: let's say you have a Pivot Table. and within said Pviot you want to sort things in order from Highest to lowest - Beaker Sep 13, 08:59 16
- I've done a ton of Excel work and never had to use a Pivot Table. Why do you use one? - muzungu psilotum Sep 13, 09:00 10
  - It allows you to slice and dice a large spreadsheet to get all kinds of information big and small - con_carne Sep 13, 09:08
  - It allows you to analyze a huge data table by aggregating various columns and performing calculations with the intersecting data -- nm - Beryllium Sep 13, 09:04 4
    - Like, let's say you have a raw data table of all your company sales/invoices over the past 5 years ... you could use a pivot table to divide it by - Beryllium Sep 13, 09:06 3
      - Hmmm. I used to work with data sets too big for Excel. Not sure if that would have helped in this case, because you could not import the data. - muzungu psilotum Sep 13, 09:09 2
        
        excel used to have a 65,000 row limit, that doesn't apply any more -- nm - Beryllium Sep 13, 09:10 1
        
        This was exactly my problem. - muzungu psilotum Sep 13, 09:11
  - OMG, it is the single greatest tool within excel IMO. nm -- nm - groiny Sep 13, 09:01 3
    - and counterintuitively, GETPIVOTDATA() is the worst function in all of Excel. - TFox Sep 13, 09:05 1
      - agreed -- nm - decline Sep 13, 09:06
    - agreed. - Mel Profit Sep 13, 09:04
- you should be able to right click inside of it, and select some grouping options. nm -- nm - groiny Sep 13, 09:00 4
  - yep, right click-> sort (in excel 2007) -- nm - decline Sep 13, 09:01 3
    - sadly it won't let me sort it the way I need too :( - Beaker Sep 13, 09:25 2
      - highlight it all, right click and do paste special, and values. - groiny Sep 13, 09:27 1
        
        winner winner chicken dinner! Awesome thanks -- nm - Beaker Sep 13, 09:30
Poll: name emerging that is making you happy today. - kelly Sep 13, 08:54 22
- being able to sleep with blankets again. and upcoming vacation (way way way overdue). -- nm - Andie Sep 13, 09:24
- I am .5 lbs from break past a point I havent been at since 1 year post GB surgery and about 35.5 lbs from - Capstern (41 Days) Sep 13, 09:16
- Work-related, I have managed to clarify a ton of my duties, and am convinced of their usefulness to the company -- nm - con_carne Sep 13, 09:11 1
  - (and to my job security) -- nm - con_carne Sep 13, 09:12
- Spoonbread Festival this weekend will have *free* hot air balloon rides (tethered, weather permitting). - CovingtonCat Sep 13, 09:10
- My A/R clerk came back to work -- nm - amoxy Sep 13, 09:08
- I woke up alive. New Day = Fresh Slate. I can do this again. -- nm - OAE Sep 13, 09:07
- Cooler weather this morning -- nm - Beryllium Sep 13, 09:05
- Our Disney on Ice tickets arrived in the office today. -- nm - TFox Sep 13, 09:04
- This week's social calendar is shaping up with some very cool stuff. - Mel Profit Sep 13, 09:04 4
  - Force them to win, please. -- nm - TFox Sep 13, 09:06 2
    - Cheer louder, dammit! -- nm - Mop Sep 13, 09:09
    - I hate that I have to muzzle Bleacher Seat Mel. - Mel Profit Sep 13, 09:08
  - Apparently someone in one of my classes used to work for the Sox, babysitting the players' kids. -- nm - Reagen Sep 13, 09:05
- Very nice. For me it's getting new computer speakers. Yay, sound on my computer. -- nm - Krusty Sep 13, 09:01
- Franklin -- nm - muzungu psilotum Sep 13, 09:01
- my defense of the Caveman Championship started on a high note! -- nm - Beaker Sep 13, 09:00
- my kitchen is freshly clean. -- nm - loosilu Sep 13, 08:58
- I'm so looking forward to going in to work at noon and hearing about the bedbug-sniffing dog that was brought into the library this morning! -- nm - mara Sep 13, 08:58
- cooler weather is emerging in a few days - Epiphany Sep 13, 08:58
- (something) - kelly Sep 13, 08:57 1
  - thanks, I was scratching my head. -- nm - loosilu Sep 13, 08:57
mel, i haven't looked at the data released today by the census myself, but it must have some broken out by income.... - x Sep 13, 08:49 4
- Someone will let me know when it's officially the Gilded Age II, right? -- nm - Reagen Sep 13, 08:55 1
  - We're gonna party like it's 1890! (nm) - Today's GOP Sep 13, 08:57
- Interesting. And I figure you know where I'm going with that question. - Mel Profit Sep 13, 08:53 1
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Bystanders lift burning car off of wrecked biker (video) -- (link) - mara Sep 13, 08:44 22
- Another story says "The man, 21, was rushed to a hospital where, police say, he's in stable condition with broken bones and minor burns." -- nm - Beryllium Sep 13, 09:23
- OMG, that's amazing. No Mormon jokes today. -- nm - Mop (196 lbs) Sep 13, 08:57 1
  - I'm already excited about you relinking it to us in 2 weeks! :) -- nm - Guigue Sep 13, 08:59
- the end of that is kind of funny - Reagen Sep 13, 08:52 9
  - That was a cop standing over him at the end, talking into a shoulder radio -- nm - Beryllium Sep 13, 09:02 1
    - Yep, I figured he was directing things at that point. -- nm - MojaveMeg Sep 13, 09:09
  - It's like everyone collectively just realized they were next to a car that looked like it was about to explode. - Mel Profit Sep 13, 08:57
  - He looks hurt. Let's get out of here. -- nm - Mop (196 lbs) Sep 13, 08:57 2
    - Yeah, you don't want to mess with a possible spinal injury. I imagine they're waiting for EMTs. -- nm - mara Sep 13, 08:59 1
      - I imagine they were arriving or that at least someone managed to make sure he was still breathing - Guigue Sep 13, 09:00
  - Um, fellas? Maybe get me, oh, I dunno, maybe more than 3 feet away from all this flaming wreckage, k? -- nm - Passed out Guy Sep 13, 08:55
  - yeah, they did not show you him burning to a crisp when the car exploded. nm -- nm - groiny Sep 13, 08:55
  - LUNCH! -- nm - oblique Sep 13, 08:54
- Those people really rock - Guigue Sep 13, 08:49 4
  - Also, I saw a similar crash once where people were stuck in a car flipped on its side - Guigue Sep 13, 08:53 2
    - I once saw a bunch of drunk Cubs fans move a car so we could get out of the Taco Bell parking lot - oblique Sep 13, 08:54 1
      - Otherwise you would have had to live off tacos for the rest of your life -- nm - Guigue Sep 13, 09:02
  - Saw it here on the morning news (NBC) - amazing! -- nm - MojaveMeg Sep 13, 08:50
- Bystanders that spring into action aren't very good at bystanding -- nm - con_carne Sep 13, 08:45 3
  - They bystanded some! Enough to qualify as bystanders! -- nm - mara Sep 13, 08:46 2
    - Then Zooey Deschanel sprung into action. Mark Wahlberg just stood back like an asshole, though. -- nm - Reagen Sep 13, 08:47 1
      - *snork* -- nm - oblique Sep 13, 08:47
how to troll a dating website.... -- (link) - Remlik Sep 13, 08:43
not sure if Americans would have heard of this, but the story of the missing 3 year old being returned is pretty much the resolution parents must - Andie Sep 13, 08:41 16
- wow - that is a happy resolution - glad he was able to return him -- nm - Epiphany Sep 13, 08:46
- But Micheal Moore proved that no Canadians lock their doors. *sarcasm* -- nm - lileve Sep 13, 08:45 9
  - We do at night but not during the day. -- nm - Shaun Sep 13, 08:46 8
    - my mom only started after my dad died and she was home alone. - Andie Sep 13, 08:47 7
      - I figure anyone who would break in would sort of turn around and leave where confronted with an 85lb Doberman. -- nm - Shaun Sep 13, 08:48
      - I have accidentally left my door not just unlocked, but wide open during the day while I was at work. -- nm - Reagen Sep 13, 08:48 5
        
        I used to accidentally leave my garage door open all the time. busy alley, skis, bikes, all kinds of crap in there. nothing ever disappeared. -- nm - mafic Sep 13, 08:58
        
        toronto is (well, it was worse when one guy got caught a couple years ago) terrible for bikes being stolen. - Andie Sep 13, 08:52 2
        
        there was one like this outside the starbucks near my place in vancouver that just slowly turned to rust over the course of about three years. - mafic Sep 13, 09:00 1
        
        I've seen a couple get swallowed by trees. -- nm - Reagen Sep 13, 09:04
        
        what, did you grow up on a fa... oh. -- nm - TFox Sep 13, 08:49
- that's a great ending, but something about this seriously doesn't add up. - prayformojo Sep 13, 08:44 4
  - he actually called and told the police to go there after he'd left (the family wasn't there, they were staying with friends). -- nm - Andie Sep 13, 08:46 3
    - but, unless he knew the family wouldn't be home, that's really risky - prayformojo Sep 13, 08:48 2
      - i think it what known (all over the news) that the family wasn't there. and, like they said in the article, it's unprecedented, so why would they be - Andie Sep 13, 08:50 1
        
        man, Canadian crime is *weird* -- nm - prayformojo Sep 13, 08:51
st poll: Anyone got plans to go their Fair this year? County? State? Craft? whatcha got? -- nm - Epiphany Sep 13, 08:40 27
- The Fair -- (link) - muzungu psilotum Sep 13, 09:13
- I'm pretty sure I'll be away for the perth royal show this year (October 1-8). -- nm - mafic Sep 13, 09:06
- after missing a few years, we are going to the Texas State Fair -- nm - Epiphany Sep 13, 08:59
- tempted by cheap trick at the big e....nm - x Sep 13, 08:50
- we've been to the renaissance fair at some point in the last 5 years - prayformojo Sep 13, 08:50
- Nope. Didn't even know we had one. No advertising about it in the city. - Krusty Sep 13, 08:47 4
  - The LAC fair TV ads are pretty amusing, and targeted specifically to city folk as a way to do something different -- nm - con_carne Sep 13, 08:52 1
    - I remember ads for the Westchester County fair which did the same thing. - Krusty Sep 13, 08:54
  - for county fairs, you have to go to Long Island and upstate. -- (link) - loosilu Sep 13, 08:49
  - All states have one. It's an agricultural fair. -- nm - loosilu Sep 13, 08:48
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  - the boroughs of NYC do not. -- nm - loosilu Sep 13, 08:48 4
    - Not true, there's a Queens county fair this weekend. I didn't know it either. - Krusty Sep 13, 08:49 3
      - huh, it's not listed on the sites I found. -- nm - loosilu Sep 13, 08:49 2
        
        After looking at it closer it's actually in L.I. Floral Park to be exact and that's not Queens at all. - Krusty Sep 13, 08:50 1
        
        yeah, I figured. -- nm - loosilu Sep 13, 08:51
- County. Will be my first county fair experience. - con_carne Sep 13, 08:43 8
  - you need to eat something deep fried, and something on a stick. -- nm - loosilu Sep 13, 08:45 7
    - I am open to suggestions. - con_carne Sep 13, 08:46 6
      - Fried oreos. CHeesecake on a stick. Corn dogs. Fried dough. -- nm - loosilu Sep 13, 08:50 4
        
        Excellent. I will eat some weird sh*t. I am not afraid. -- nm - con_carne Sep 13, 08:52 3
        
        here's a list of fried foods at the TX state fair this year (hey Pippy, report back!) -- (link) - loosilu Sep 13, 09:01 2
        
        I kiss your face!! I'm printing this for our refrig - I've already called SM and described them - Epiphany Sep 13, 09:19
        
        Hm. I'm now more excited! -- nm - con_carne Sep 13, 09:14
      - cheese on a stick - think grilled cheese. -- nm - Epiphany Sep 13, 08:47
- too late for county. Probably not going to Stae. -- nm - loosilu Sep 13, 08:42
- i skipped the CNE this year (Canadian National Exhibition), sort of like a giant state fair. -- nm - Andie Sep 13, 08:42
Juggernaut! You know your team performed well when the other guy has Brady, Welker and the Bears D and loses by almost 29 points. - Shaun Sep 13, 08:38 1
- rough first week, reminds me of the season I almost quit fantasy football for good. nm -- nm - groiny Sep 13, 08:46
Dog-lovers with nothing better to do - you might enjoy following these folk on FB. -- (link) - MojaveMeg Sep 13, 08:37
Eighties Al Sharpton straight pimpin' -- nm - con_carne Sep 13, 08:35 1
- He feels good. -- nm - Mel Profit Sep 13, 08:35
You should have asked me for it, how coud I say no -- nm - ty97 Sep 13, 08:34

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