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What is a non-sensory organ that you could lose and still live? - prayformojo Sep 13, 11:56 18
- eye, ear, nose. -- nm - loosilu Sep 13, 11:59 2
  - F in reading comprehension -- nm - znufrii Sep 13, 12:02 1
    - brain! -- nm - loosilu Sep 13, 12:02
- ovaries, uterus. -- nm - Andie Sep 13, 11:58
- ovarary. -- nm - loosilu Sep 13, 11:57
- tonsils -- nm - Beryllium Sep 13, 11:57
- appendix -- nm - Beryllium Sep 13, 11:57 1
  - not an organ! ;P -- nm - loosilu Sep 13, 11:58
- spleen -- nm - znufrii Sep 13, 11:57
- Testicles -- nm - Will Hunting Sep 13, 11:57 3
  - almost a year now -- nm - moles Sep 13, 11:57 1
    - Who was your donor? -- nm - con_carne Sep 13, 11:58
  - But would you really want to? -- nm - Qale Sep 13, 11:57
- lung (just one of course) -- nm - Beryllium Sep 13, 11:57
- hyde says "heart" -- nm - moles Sep 13, 11:57
- one lung I think? -- nm - Max Sep 13, 11:57
- gallbladder -- nm - Andie Sep 13, 11:56 1
  - (also, i think pfm actually works for The Family Feud and we're his 'survey says!' people.) -- nm - Andie Sep 13, 11:57
Best Buy's earnings down 30% v. last year's same period - moles Sep 13, 11:56
Homeland sounds interesting. And I like most of the cast. -- nm - sycor Sep 13, 11:52
Ken Jennings has some great map-related trivia today. I can't even pick out the best one to post, they're all so good. -- (link) - mara Sep 13, 11:51 1
- try harder -- nm - prayformojo Sep 13, 11:52
dear god, who am i ? i just googled to find out when Two and Half Men premieres. - Andie Sep 13, 11:48 11
- Ashton is cool in my book. -- nm - Qale Sep 13, 11:58
- i don't know who you are - Danedukenuuk Sep 13, 11:52
- I'm watching the Charlie Sheen roast, so I am worse off me thinks -- nm - Go Ducks! via droid Sep 13, 11:51
- We are watching - at least the 1st one - I bet everyone in america tunes in. -- nm - Epiphany Sep 13, 11:50 2
  - and Canada - - Epiphany Sep 13, 11:50 1
    - ps: still no shirt. :( -- nm - Andie Sep 13, 11:52
- well? when does it? (I'll watch with you.) -- nm - HPV McGee Sep 13, 11:49 4
  - subscribe to my calendar and find out! -- (link) - Max Sep 13, 11:52
  - Mon Sept 19th. -- nm - Andie Sep 13, 11:49 2
    - rock on. someone remind me. I'm in. (I shouldn't be working late still.) -- nm - HPV McGee Sep 13, 11:50 1
      - reminder, Mon Sep 19th -- nm - budice Sep 13, 11:51
**BiggeST Loser PSA** Final weigh-in tomorrow (9/14). Standings will be reported as of end-of-day tomorrow.... - MojaveMeg Sep 13, 11:44 1
- as I read this post I am eating deep fried cheese sticks -- nm - Go Ducks! via droid Sep 13, 11:48
Dozens of Americans who claim to have been made ill by wi-fi and mobile phones have flocked to the town of Green Bank, West Virginia -- (link) - mara Sep 13, 11:42 4
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  - "We just need a CAT scan..." "AHHHH!" -- nm - Max Sep 13, 11:47 1
    - "I don't own any cats, just a dog" -- nm - Beaker Sep 13, 11:52
- Is that where they make the tinfoil hats? -- nm - pmb Sep 13, 11:44
I thought one of the great moments showing the narrowminded, "don't even consider any other ideas" moments from last night's debate was Herman Cain's - pmb Sep 13, 11:42 12
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  - a small part of me just wants them to get their way, just so they can see how f*cked up of a world it would be - znufrii Sep 13, 11:51 1
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  - I'd like to outlaw short men, while we're here, and watery beer. ok? -- nm - HPV McGee Sep 13, 11:51 3
    - and car horns, can we outlaw car horns? -- nm - Andie Sep 13, 11:52 2
      - but not goosing. *honk honk* -- nm - Max Sep 13, 11:53
      - the triplets are mad with power -- nm - moles Sep 13, 11:53
- likewise, I'll admit I have blinders on for this issue. Anybody who's been around the last 3 years and still calling for less regulation is an idiot - Max Sep 13, 11:45 4
  - I mean, how is that even a conversation? You'd have to be utterly mindless to believe less regulation is the answer. -- nm - David Sep 13, 11:56
  - I don't have blinders on and I agree - how can anyone say that with a straight face? - Epiphany Sep 13, 11:48
  - I think conservatives' comeback to this would be we need *even less* regulations. Clearly. -- nm - con_carne Sep 13, 11:48
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*continues to daydream about soft pretzels.* -- nm - HPV McGee Sep 13, 11:40 9
- I'd love one with some mustard right now. So good. -- nm - Krusty Sep 13, 11:55 2
  - mmmm, and sprinkled with chunky rock salt before baking, then the spicy mustard? mmm -- nm - Andie Sep 13, 11:56 1
    - Yup. Love 'em so much. I buy they box of them to make at home but I eat the whole thing in a day or two. - Krusty Sep 13, 11:58
- That sounds like a symptom. -- nm - Dr.Johnny Vermin Sep 13, 11:51
- Jalapeno one with cheese dip sauce - Epiphany Sep 13, 11:49
- either a cinnamon or pizza one for sure -- nm - budice Sep 13, 11:48
- "salty" -- nm - Max Sep 13, 11:42
- paging dr. freud - moles Sep 13, 11:42 1
  - I just haven't had one in over two weeks. they're my go-to "stop on the way home" snack. I miss them. -- nm - HPV McGee Sep 13, 11:48
untrivial indignation of the day: i specifically told the dry cleaners "no crease" on my slacks (they've done it before). so what do they do? - moles Sep 13, 11:35 3
- sue them for 35,000,000 for messing with your serenity, peace of mind, your chi. now you will have go to New Mexico to have navajo shamen do a week - zeitgeist Sep 13, 11:51
- if this is the most you have to worry about... - sycor Sep 13, 11:39
- No means yes. -- nm - Don Homer Sep 13, 11:36
My favorite part of this item about YA editors and book agents trying to "strighten" gay characters is actually about open relationships: - mara Sep 13, 11:35 1
- *forwards to my friend who runs a fiction writer's blog* -- nm - znufrii Sep 13, 11:38
In Focus: Vladimir Putin, Action Man... -- (link) - Don Homer Sep 13, 11:34 9
- He looks powerful and intimidating...until 26. -- nm - Max Sep 13, 12:02
- The last photo confirms what we are all thinking ... there is no Putin, there is only ... - Beryllium Sep 13, 11:57
- sheeeeiiitttt....Crash Davis does half that stuff before breakfast. -- nm - Remlik Sep 13, 11:54 1
  - *and* he bakes a cake for Trish, *and* gets caught up on Gossip Girl -- nm - con_carne Sep 13, 11:57
- The A-Team theme was playing in my mind as I scrolled throught hat -- nm - con_carne Sep 13, 11:45
- Utah police have identified Putin as one of the people who lifted a burning car off an unconscious motorist. -- nm - Mop (196 lbs) Sep 13, 11:39
- 19 is so ridiculously funny -- nm - Guigue Sep 13, 11:38 1
  - Almost all of them are awesome. -- nm - Don Homer Sep 13, 11:40
- heh. "12 Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin attempts to bend a frying pan with his bare hands during his visit to the summer camp ..." -- nm - Don Homer Sep 13, 11:38
what is st using/recommending for a list of new show/premier/start-up dates? -- nm - tRuMaN Sep 13, 11:32 1
- I posted this one a couple weeks ago -- (link) - Beaker Sep 13, 11:35 [Backboard]
OMG she found a car. She got off her status horse and found something - Capstern (41 Days) Sep 13, 11:31 6
- see? she is not helpless. -- nm - loosilu Sep 13, 11:49 1
  - I bet it all goes downhill when she tries to cut her own steak -- nm - Go Ducks! via droid Sep 13, 11:54
- She can actually survive without you!!! - Go Ducks! via droid Sep 13, 11:43
- isn't she the one with the VW tattoo? am I mis-recalling? so an audi was all wrong for her anyway. -- nm - HPV McGee Sep 13, 11:38 1
  - Wow that memory of yours is scary. -- nm - Capstern (41 Days) Sep 13, 12:31
- well, there you go. -- nm - znufrii Sep 13, 11:32
This Team Dems! and Team GOP! stuff (everywhere) is going to make me take a bowsaw to my own face before next November. -- nm - TFox Sep 13, 11:25 3
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  - Go ahead, throw away your vote! (nm) - musubi Sep 13, 11:27 1
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Perry admits being taken aback by audience cheers for the hypothetical death of an uninsured person. -- (link) - mara Sep 13, 11:24 23
- I'd like to see someone in the next debate ask the candidates if the law requiring emergency rooms to treat people regardless of ability to pay - Brian Sep 13, 11:32
- If Perry had A. A nutsack and B. Debating skills he should have taken them to task right then and there. Show you're a leader. - Remlik Sep 13, 11:32 1
  - ...and now, here's when to jump out of the discussion with opponent and moderator and just yell at the audience. - remlik si, Debate Coach Sep 13, 11:56
- the seats around an operating room 'theatre' should be volunteer jurors who 'thumbs up/down' emergency patients based on cost and coverage -- nm - zeitgeist Sep 13, 11:26 4
  - wait, is that a "Save" or "Kill"? -- nm - Dr. Gladiator Sep 13, 11:28
  - make them fight for the right to be saved! -- nm - Beaker Sep 13, 11:27 1
    - two men enter, one liver leaves -- nm - zeitgeist Sep 13, 11:28
  - aka "death panels" :) -- nm - znufrii Sep 13, 11:27
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  - Isn't Perry the one that said environmental scientists skew the data to make global warming look real for political purposes? -- nm - Max Sep 13, 11:31 5
    - [swaps "funding" for "political"] - Dr.Johnny Vermin Sep 13, 11:49
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    - that's a totally different kind of scientist, though. -- nm - TFox Sep 13, 11:32 2
      - altogether. -- nm - Max Sep 13, 11:33 1
        
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  - No, being anti-vaccination is a minority view, which deserves little merit, let alone headline space -- nm - con_carne Sep 13, 11:31 4
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      - No. Yours are the posts I look at daily. I avoid Politico. They bore me. -- nm - con_carne Sep 13, 11:54
    - well, when a Presidential candidate has one of those, then yes, that's what headline space was designed for. -- nm - TFox Sep 13, 11:32 1
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  - Well, not *really* standing with the science, but yeah, compared to Bachman, I'd definitely side with Perry on this issue. (nm) - musubi Sep 13, 11:29
- "i was hoping they would be louder" -- nm - moles Sep 13, 11:25
- "What kind of bloodthirsty heathens are you? I'm done. I'm moving to Canada. Screw all y'all." -- nm - Beryllium Sep 13, 11:25
clocking in at +14.4% growth for 2010, the fastest growing metro in the us: elizabethtown, kentucky....nm - x Sep 13, 11:22 6
- Cameron Crowe wins again! -- nm - David Sep 13, 11:42
- Mags Bennett was holding the town's economy under her thumb. (nm) - Raylan Givens Sep 13, 11:26
- is there a new assembly line factory nearby? boeing? BMW? (both have opened in the south to avoid unions, hard to believe the US has cheaper workers - zeitgeist Sep 13, 11:24 3
  - well, you have to offset cheaper labor costs with increased transportation costs if you build offshore. - znufrii Sep 13, 11:26 2
    - technically, wouldn't building BMW's in the US be off shoring for them? -- nm - zeitgeist Sep 13, 11:28 1
      - unless they're being shipped to Germany, no. -- nm - znufrii Sep 13, 11:29
is mandy watching coop's new daytime show? - moles Sep 13, 11:22 9
- does he have one? I'm so woefully out of touch. (are you watching ringer? did you quit teen mom? (I miss chelsea.) -- nm - HPV McGee Sep 13, 11:24 5
  - i still Teen Mom. i won't be Ringering. -- nm - moles Sep 13, 11:25 4
    - what are you picking up? (is this stalkerish?) -- nm - HPV McGee Sep 13, 11:26 3
      - we were talking about this in group saturday. nothing really looks pickupabble -- nm - moles Sep 13, 11:27 2
        
        you're watching HE, right? -- nm - HPV McGee Sep 13, 11:31 1
        
        ummm . . . -- nm - moles Sep 13, 11:34
- Is it on at 4pm? Anderson Cooper 3:60 -- nm - Max Sep 13, 11:23 2
  - hah. cute. -- nm - Beryllium Sep 13, 11:27
  - no, he's trying to occupy the Oprah vacuum. "Anderson" - moles Sep 13, 11:26
Jerry Jones: Romo "outstanding" vs. Jets -- (link) - Strongbad Sep 13, 11:22 7
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  - Dez Bryant did also. -- nm - Strongbad Sep 13, 11:28
  - To be fair, that second TD to Austin wasn't picking anything apart, it should have been a incomplete or INT. - musubi Sep 13, 11:27 2
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      - Chad Henne FTW! -- nm - Will Hunting Sep 13, 11:42
- i liked the trending topic on twitter: #qbsbetterthanromo (Uncle Rico!) -- nm - moles Sep 13, 11:23 1
  - Now I have a mental picture of Tony Romo saying "Who's better than Romo?" - Strongbad Sep 13, 11:25
Every breath you take, every move you make, every bond you break, every step you take, I'll be watching you -- nm - zeitgeist Sep 13, 11:21 1
- us too. -- nm - the Dream Police Sep 13, 11:24
wow, unconscious paralegal is back today - moles Sep 13, 11:21 12
- Seizure? Or OD? Give her a piece of chocolate, slap on the back, and a nod -- nm - Flavorize Sep 13, 11:23
- wearing a girdle, isn't she? -- nm - prayformojo Sep 13, 11:22
- it didn't kill 'her' so maybe she's stronger -- nm - zeitgeist Sep 13, 11:22 7
  - (because she's not actually a 'her', so let's finger-quote it.) -- nm - TFox Sep 13, 11:23 6
    - ftr it is a woman -- nm - moles Sep 13, 11:24 4
      - i 'know'. -- nm - TFox Sep 13, 11:24 3
        
        sure "you" do -- nm - mara Sep 13, 11:25 2
        
        you'll have to 'take' my word for it. -- nm - TFox Sep 13, 11:26 1
        
        this "thread" is making me "thirsty" -- nm - Beryllium Sep 13, 11:27
    - TFox is "right" -- nm - con_carne Sep 13, 11:23
- Tell her you are jonesing. -- nm - The Ruiner Sep 13, 11:22
- she took some drugs and was fine -- nm - Beaker Sep 13, 11:22
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- the way it's described on B2, seems to me the reasonable expectation at issue is not one of privacy... - znufrii Sep 13, 11:23
- *tokes* That's just like, my opinion man -- nm - Judge Ginsberg Sep 13, 11:21
REB2 Remlik. - The Ruiner Sep 13, 11:20
private eyes, they're watching you *clap clap* -- nm - Morgan Freeman Sep 13, 11:19 4
- I like my Hall & Oates with gravitas -- nm - con_carne Sep 13, 11:22
- was this meant for your step-granddaughter? -- nm - Beaker Sep 13, 11:20
- Morgan Freeman is god and is seeing what you're doing right now. -- nm - Max Sep 13, 11:20 1
  - he really likes Hall & Oates! -- nm - moles Sep 13, 11:20

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