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mara house rules: Don't take the last beer out of the fridge without telling somebody. Don't give the dog people food. Turn on the ceiling fan when - mara Jan 12, 10:09 1
- Those dog people might bite ya -- nm - con_carne Jan 12, 10:11
oh, the redhead on 24 is *quite* the hottie. nm - Jovian Jan 12, 10:09 1
- while i am not quite the hottie, as of last night, i am definitely a redhead. i think i actually like it. -- nm - kare Jan 12, 10:11
CCC house Rules: No smoking inside; stay out of *my* chair; No you may not unblock FoxNews. -- nm - The Calico Cat Coalition Jan 12, 10:05 10
- i honestly can't think of any rules i have. -- nm - kare Jan 12, 10:09 2
  - I'm sure I *could* think of some, if I needed to. But they'd be more like "polite requests" than rules ... - Beryllium Jan 12, 10:10 1
    - oh, i thought of one! save two small and non-spicy pieces of your dinner for each of the unabashedly begging dogs. -- nm - kare Jan 12, 10:10
- you block fox news? Geez. I don't think I get it here, but if I did, I wouldn't waste my time blocking it. - Beryllium Jan 12, 10:08 3
  - You can't be too careful. - Dr.Vermin Jan 12, 10:11 1
    - Oh no...that wouldn't happen, if anything Mrs. CCC will be screaming at the tv - The Calico Cat Coalition Jan 12, 10:14
  - I did it cause I have a brother that will just turn it on and level it on...plus I hope one day the cable company will log the channels that get block - The Calico Cat Coalition Jan 12, 10:11
- Anyone who doesn't have a "no pooping on the floor" rule cannot be outraged when it happens to them. -- nm - Mop Jan 12, 10:07 2
  - I will assume from your lack of specificity that I can still poop on other non-traditional surfaces. -- nm - mafic Jan 12, 10:12
  - I have a 2 year old. I don't think I can make that rule quite yet. -- nm - Amy Jan 12, 10:08
LYC: I have now had my coffee and my crankiness level just went from a seven to a four - con_carne Jan 12, 10:03 1
- I'm wearing my "coffee levels critical" t-shirt -- nm - Beryllium Jan 12, 10:04
tRuMaN house rulz: - tRuMaN Jan 12, 10:03 3
- "don't run with scissors" *runs away giggling* -- nm - mafic Jan 12, 10:05 1
  - bah, run with scissors all your want, but you better clean up the blood before the ambulance takes you away. -- nm - tRuMaN Jan 12, 10:06
- Remember rule two: Just the tip, one thrust only. -- nm - truman si Jan 12, 10:04
From watching the play again, I'm pretty sure that second run in the end zone by Chris Johnson should have been a safety. -- nm - Inigo Jan 12, 10:01 3
- Yeah. When we watched it in slow-mo his knee hit before the ball crossed the goal line. -- nm - Dano Jan 12, 10:07 2
  - Yup, plus, the whole ball has to be on the other side of the goal line for it to not be a safety. -- nm - Inigo Jan 12, 10:10 1
    - The other thing was in the game the week before both Baltimore and Miami each got away with a delay of game penalty. -- nm - Dano Jan 12, 10:12
Tried to cash the TC's at the bank - they said Giamatti has to be there. I just don't get it. What's the purpose of TC's if the payee can't cash - CrankYanker Jan 12, 09:56 38
- I checked my bosses contacts for Paul's mobile number so you can ask him to come to the bank with you, got McCartney, but not Giamatti. -- nm - LMS Jan 12, 10:09
- TC or GC? -- nm - oblique Jan 12, 10:05
- The teller was misinformed: -- (link) - TWuG Jan 12, 10:03 1
  - except that the payee is some kind of financial or other institution (like a hotel reception) -- nm - Marcel Jan 12, 10:06
- did he make them payable to you? -- nm - kare Jan 12, 10:02 5
  - impossible - Marcel Jan 12, 10:04 4
    - no. there's a pay-to line. we're talking about traveler's checks, right? i missed the original post -- nm - kare Jan 12, 10:06 3
      - i doubt that. TCs are only payable to the owner -- nm - Marcel Jan 12, 10:09 1
        
        Incorrection alertness! -- (link) - TFox Jan 12, 10:11 [Image]
      - Paul Giamatti used Traveler's Checks to pay CY -- nm - Beryllium Jan 12, 10:09
- I told you the teller wouldn't know. You have to get in the line of the oldest teller. -- nm - Amy Jan 12, 10:02 9
  - Oldest male teller. -- nm - Beryllium Jan 12, 10:03 8
    - No way. There are way more female bank tellers. Don't pick the one token dude. -- nm - TFox Jan 12, 10:04 6
      - *shrug* I don't have data to support my position, and I don't really hold the position at all, but as long as we're discriminating by age, may as well - Beryllium Jan 12, 10:07 5
        
        i don't think it was discrimination. i think it was knowledge. traveler's checks used to be far more common. -- nm - kare Jan 12, 10:10 2
        
        True, but old tellers aren't necessarily experienced ones :) - Beryllium Jan 12, 10:12 1
        
        true. doesn't mean they've been a teller for 50 years. -- nm - kare Jan 12, 10:13
        
        There is a high incidence of "clueless hack" across all bank teller demographics. - TFox Jan 12, 10:09 1
        
        You just have to figure out which one might remember traveller's checks. -- nm - Amy Jan 12, 10:10
    - (I had. A bad. Experience.) -- nm - Beryllium Jan 12, 10:04
- Call Amex (or whomever the TC company was) and have them confirm. Do it right there in front of the teller or the bank manager. -- nm - Mop Jan 12, 10:01
- They want Paul Giamatti to be there when you cash the checks? That doesn't sound right. The whole TC system would be pointless. Doesn't he just have - HdnAgnda Jan 12, 09:59 1
  - He signed them twice. His part should be over with, I think, but I've never used TCs. - Beryllium Jan 12, 10:00
- I'm with znu. You don't go with the hotel concierge to the bank so he can deposit that TC you gave him. -- nm - Mop Jan 12, 09:59
- Which is annoying, because that means *nobody* has the money, except the bank. -- nm - Paul, today Jan 12, 09:58 1
  - *goes jovian on the teller* -- nm - CrankYanker Jan 12, 10:00
- he seems like the kind of guy who would go to the bank with you. -- nm - Mel Profit Jan 12, 09:58 5
  - he seems like the kind of guy who would go to the bank... just to tear them a new one. - Mop Jan 12, 10:00 2
    - and yet, I picture a "snapped" Giamatti as being very charming -- nm - Beryllium Jan 12, 10:01 1
      - (Of course, not to the person he has snapped on, but to an outside observer) -- nm - Beryllium Jan 12, 10:02
  - *laughing* he totally would and I would tape the conversation with the bank teller because it would be priceless. -- nm - CrankYanker Jan 12, 09:59
  - While this is true, I'd have a hard time approaching him for that. But then again, can't let him jump the fare. -- nm - Beryllium Jan 12, 09:59
- that sounds like bs to me. -- nm - znufrii Jan 12, 09:58 5
  - Yeah, I would talk with a manager. - Rorschach: 03/06/09 Jan 12, 09:59 2
    - the only thing I can think of is that the bank would want you to deposit them, so they can clear before releasing the funds. -- nm - znufrii Jan 12, 10:03 1
      - I could see that. -- nm - TFox Jan 12, 10:05
  - admittedly I don't know how they work, but I'm inclined to agree. I know hotels and restaurants take them, and clearly they don't have the guy that - mafic Jan 12, 09:59 1
    - Actually, you use your own so that is dif. -- nm - Rorschach: 03/06/09 Jan 12, 10:00
You know what, Google Ad Manager? Fuck you. - Mop Jan 12, 09:54
Diva and Mel House Rules: If you open it, you finish it. - Mel Profit Jan 12, 09:51 7
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- "You may have opened a box of 12 condoms, but ain't no way in hell you're using them all tonight." -- nm - TWuG Jan 12, 09:56
- Honey, we need to stop shopping at Costco. I can't stomach any more mayo. -- nm - Diva si Jan 12, 09:54
- what if it's cough medicine? -- nm - loosilu Jan 12, 09:53 1
  - then we don't really have to worry where anyone sleeps, do we? - Mel Profit Jan 12, 09:53
- Dr. Phil proclaimed, 'The way to achieve inner peace is to finish all the things you have started and have never finished.' - Rorschach: 03/06/09 Jan 12, 09:52
- Mel: "Is that the new bottle of tequila? You know the rules." -- nm - emotichanic Jan 12, 09:52
We haven't even talked about my mom. My mom freaks out if an unmarried couple is alone in the house. - loosilu Jan 12, 09:50 5
- did you have to wear a chastity belt? -- nm - kare Jan 12, 09:58 1
  - she messed me up enough that I did not need one. -- nm - loosilu Jan 12, 10:00
- That's 'cause she's a mom. -- nm - Mop Jan 12, 09:53
- She knows you too well. -- nm - Rorschach: 03/06/09 Jan 12, 09:51
- I think we should just go back to sewing unmarried people into big sacks. -- nm - mafic Jan 12, 09:51
A federal Grand Jury has been convened to review Roger Clemens testimony -- (link) - Beaker Jan 12, 09:49
LYC: I finally watched the two new Scrubs eps over the weekend. Very strong return. The second one especially hit it out of the park. (nm) - musubi Jan 12, 09:49 1
- The first was a long foul ball, but the second nailed it. -- nm - Rorschach: 03/06/09 Jan 12, 09:51
Hey kilbo, are you still in contact with Seth? Is he on Facebook or anything? -- nm - Mop Jan 12, 09:46 5
- Green? - oblique Jan 12, 09:48 4
  - Frak! He's online right now. Hadn't even noticed. -- nm - Mop Jan 12, 09:49 3
    - I told you, the only way you will know. -- nm - Rorschach: 03/06/09 Jan 12, 09:54
    - ...and I've just pulled Seth into my circle of hell. Expect some friend requests. -- nm - Mop Jan 12, 09:52
    - Digsby saves the day! -- nm - oblique Jan 12, 09:51
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- If a couple staying at our house wants to stay in the same bed, that's fine by me. - Inigo Jan 12, 09:53 1
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- My parents were different roomers. My grandma let us sleep in the same room. Go figure. -- nm - oblique Jan 12, 09:47
LMS re: In the Loop - secretslacker Jan 12, 09:45 2
- I can imagine stretching a 30 min show into a feature would be difficult. - LMS Jan 12, 09:52 1
  - Yeah, it definitely reminded me of Christopher Guest or The Office... -- nm - secretslacker Jan 12, 09:58
Seriously Sci fi? The same Underworld trailer in front of everything! - Amy Jan 12, 09:44 2
- bunch of pansies -- nm - Harry Dresden Jan 12, 09:45 1
  - Funny on a couple levels! -- nm - Rorschach: 03/06/09 Jan 12, 09:48
*flips off the winner of the award* - Will Hunting Jan 12, 09:42 4
- Did this happen? Who to whom? -- nm - emotichanic Jan 12, 09:50 2
  - GG spoils - Will Hunting Jan 12, 09:54 1
    - Ha! Missed that, thanks. -- nm - emotichanic Jan 12, 10:01
- We had two drunk brawlers take the stage. - Rorschach: 03/06/09 Jan 12, 09:43
Okay, so that fat g. count does seem excessive. I think it must be a misprint. Thanks, guys! -- nm - kelly Jan 12, 09:42 1
- ask. Better safe than sorry -- nm - Beaker Jan 12, 09:43
I think one of my favorite GG moments was the eye-roll from bastion of good taste Sandra Bullock to the Ritchie crack. -- nm - emotichanic Jan 12, 09:41 12
- are you saynig she doesn't have good taste? I always thought Sandy was pretty classy. did I miss something? -- nm - loosilu Jan 12, 09:52 1
  - She's known for telling her share of dirty jokes. -- nm - Dr.Vermin Jan 12, 10:01
- It just wasn't very funny. -- nm - ty97 Jan 12, 09:47 5
  - It was better than the Charlie Sheen joke -- nm - Roger More Jan 12, 09:50 3
    - I should clarify: He wasn't very funny -- nm - ty97 Jan 12, 09:54
    - Yeah, that was a little dated. He led with self-deprecation, though, which I thought gave him a little license for a couple of shivs. -- nm - emotichanic Jan 12, 09:51 1
      - To be honest, I was in the other room. I heard a British voice cracking bad jokes and my first thought was thought was "Is Russell Brand presenting?" -- nm - Roger More Jan 12, 09:52
  - Good joke, wrong crowd. -- nm - Rorschach: 03/06/09 Jan 12, 09:49
- I didn't hear the setup. I just looked up when I heard the booing. Spoil me? -- nm - Dr.Vermin Jan 12, 09:45 1
  - sorry, I found it on B2. -- nm - Dr.Vermin Jan 12, 09:46
- Salma Hayek was staring daggers. -- nm - Reagen Jan 12, 09:42 1
  - She was definitely not impressed. But wtf does he care? I think it's good to have an ego-popper among the Hollywood elite. Like Lear's fool. -- nm - emotichanic Jan 12, 09:49
I'm not liking how Windows 7 groups the Quick Launch bar with the open apps. Not liking it at all. -- nm - Mop Jan 12, 09:41 2
- You don't like a Mac then, do you? :) -- nm - oblique Jan 12, 09:44 1
  - Not very fond of the concept, no. I like to know which apps are running, and which are not. -- nm - Mop Jan 12, 09:45
LIR: Jax. Kids do *not* sleep in the same bed during sleepovers at my house. No boy/girl room sleeping either -- nm - oblique Jan 12, 09:41 16
- Currently, only the boy cousins are ever sleeping over, and sometimes we let lil miss ccc sleep in the family room with them...they are 7 no biggie - The Calico Cat Coalition Jan 12, 09:48 7
  - We have boy and girl cousins and we don't worry about any of that. We let them stay up until all hours...so they pretty much sleep where they drop. - Jim Jan 12, 10:05 1
    - So far, all cousins are uniform sets...all boys in one family, all girls in another...only-child girls for the rest - The Calico Cat Coalition Jan 12, 10:09
  - We have 2 boy cousins but we have 1 of each so it's not a big deal for the 2 boys to sleep in the boy room. Kinda figured it was easier to set the - oblique Jan 12, 09:49
  - cousins are dangerous. -- nm - loosilu Jan 12, 09:49 3
    - *sigh* yeah, but lil miss ccc is the trouble maker...couple years back she was determined to get at least one of the boys to show her his penis - The Calico Cat Coalition Jan 12, 09:56 2
      - you need to change sleeping arrangements now, I think. -- nm - loosilu Jan 12, 09:57 1
        
        It's ok...it's an open room right outside the other bedrooms...plus it's only when a hurricane comes - The Calico Cat Coalition Jan 12, 10:01
- No gaying around in kiblo's house! -- nm - Mop Jan 12, 09:46 1
  - ty97 can sleep on my couch -- nm - oblique Jan 12, 09:47
- So if your daughter had a queen size bed, and 5 (girl)friends were sleeping over, she'd sleep in the queen bed and the rest on the floor? -- nm - JaxSean Jan 12, 09:42 5
  - My daughter had a sleep over where they all tried to sleep on a queen bed with a queen air mattress laid next to it. Chaos. -- nm - TWuG Jan 12, 09:45
  - I'd probably opt for all to sleep on the floor then (but she doesn't have a queen sized bed) -- nm - oblique Jan 12, 09:44 1
    - that would've weirded me out to end, as a kid, if an adult hadn't allowed me to sleep in the same bed as girlfriends - kare Jan 12, 09:53
  - My guess: they'd all be in sleeping bags in the living room. (nm) - musubi Jan 12, 09:44 1
    - With padlocks on them! -- nm - Rorschach: 03/06/09 Jan 12, 09:50
I'm just sayin', I'd prefer the floor to a pull-out couch. - musubi Jan 12, 09:37 6
- my personal rule: Unless we're being attacked by nukes and I'm in a bomb shelter, I don't sleep on the floor. -- nm - loosilu Jan 12, 09:40 5
  - From the way you've described your apartment, I don't think the roaches would even sleep on your floor. -- nm - Max Jan 12, 09:50
  - Sleep in the fridge, you'll be safe there. -- nm - Will Hunting Jan 12, 09:44 1
    - Word. -- nm - Handle edited by Spoiler Patrol Jan 12, 09:53
  - Nukes = hide under a wooden desk. ;-) because kindling will protect you from a firefuck. -- nm - CrankYanker Jan 12, 09:43
  - Elitist. - musubi Jan 12, 09:43
fwiw, i think worrying about what the kids will think is silly (they're kids, they don't worry about grown-up relationship legalities), but, if they - Andie Jan 12, 09:37 10
- As much as I think worrying about the couple in the bed is silly, if she's concerned about what the kids think, I don't blame her. - musubi Jan 12, 09:42 2
  - *ding* - Rorschach: 03/06/09 Jan 12, 09:45 1
    - oh, i get that, and like i said, it's her house. i just think she shouldn't say it's about the kids, and she shouldn't expect the couple - El Fandie Jan 12, 09:54
- I agree with all of this. by the way, the 4 year old has already asked if this couple is married. so I guess they think about it somewhat? -- nm - loosilu Jan 12, 09:39 6
  - Kids know a lot more than some people think and if you don't show them respect and honor then they grow up without it. -- nm - CrankYanker Jan 12, 09:41
  - i think if the 4 year old asked, mommy and daddy are talking about married vs unmarried couples. -- nm - Andie Jan 12, 09:40 4
    - ah yes. Kids, the spoilers of private conversations. :) -- nm - Beryllium Jan 12, 09:41 2
      - I think kids pick up a lot more than adults give them credit for. The four year old also picked up - loosilu Jan 12, 09:43 1
        
        omg! he knew that an unmarried couple was pregnant?!! oh, he'll surely go down the wrong path now. ;) -- nm - kare Jan 12, 10:05
    - could very well be. -- nm - loosilu Jan 12, 09:41

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