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BDays: Dita Von Teese (39), Hillary Duff (24), Mira Sorvino (44), Carré Otis (43), Naomi Watts (43), Moon Unit Zappa (44) -- nm - budice Sep 28, 06:36 2
- I think none of them are hot. naomi watts used to be. maybe moon is like, unusual looking. -- nm - amanda jones Sep 28, 06:40 1
  - Mira Sorvino is pretty good looking...till she speaks. The voice is horrible. -- nm - Jim Sep 28, 06:42
I will say, the new Timeline Profile feature of Facebook is insidious. It goes all the way back to your birth and suggests you add pictures to events - oblique Sep 28, 06:31 3
- do I have this yet? does everyone? -- nm - amanda jones Sep 28, 06:41 2
  - I have it because of the developer account I made for the Boxoffice game. I don't think everyone has it yet -- nm - oblique Sep 28, 06:41
  - I don't -- nm - Guigue Sep 28, 06:41
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- Bonus reference to Lloyd Braun. George Costanza would be furious. -- nm - Was Bar Was Sep 28, 06:35
- that show was easily the most fun at first when they were just winging it...nm - x Sep 28, 06:33
uk foreign secretary hague on the euro: it's a "monument to collective folly" and a "burning building without exits"....nm - x Sep 28, 06:27 3
- ...meanwhile Vladimir Putin hunts deer -- nm - budice Sep 28, 06:29
- I overheard two trader on the train last night marveling over the fact that the Euro hasn't collapsed yet - znufrii Sep 28, 06:28 1
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Nancy Grace has denied the ni slip saying it's a pasty and that "I have been judged guilty without a trial�" karma. -- (link) - MDH Sep 28, 06:23 1
- heh -- nm - TFox Sep 28, 06:32
NFL: The Titans worked out five WRs Tuesday _ David Clowney, Craig Davis, Mardy Gilyard, Johnnie Lee Higgins and Tiquan Underwood...umm who? -- nm - budice Sep 28, 06:20 2
- I'm thinking I should drive down to Nashville and try out. -- nm - Was Bar Was Sep 28, 06:24
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Ruiner - just got pick'm sheet - should I bother to scan and email it? -- nm - JenBro Sep 28, 06:19
312.50 Hockey Draft: Dragon Lizards are up!!! -- nm - Walt_Disney Sep 28, 06:19
Tonight's starters for Baseballpocalypse: Jon Lester, David Price, Tim Hudson, Chris Carpenter. - TFox Sep 28, 06:17 32
- Does Jose Canseco still pitch? -- nm - budice Sep 28, 06:20
- ~...one of these things is not like the other...~ -- nm - Diva Sep 28, 06:19
- I'm going to turn the 6th inning over to the guy in Section 189, Seat G. -- nm - Joe Girardi Sep 28, 06:19 19
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    - Fantastic. We can work with that. Remember, take as long as you need in the bullpen, wear out that arm, if you can throw a strike, I'm concerned. - Joe Girardi Sep 28, 06:26
  - Tony and Mike talked about this on PTI yesterday. If I am the Yanks I DO NOT want to face the Rays in the playoffs. - Beaker Sep 28, 06:20 16
    - *adds Tony and Mike to the morons parade* If you're the Yanks, you don't worry about the ALCS given that you're going to face either the single - Will Hunting Sep 28, 06:23 14
      - uh-huh. Girardi should pitch the laundry lady. -- nm - Diva Sep 28, 06:25 1
        
        She's the 7th inning. -- nm - Will Hunting Sep 28, 06:33
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        That he gets to set up his team while helping to screw over the Sox....just a bonus. -- nm - Will Hunting Sep 28, 06:25 10
        
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        Yep, and of course we know how this actually goes... the bullpen for the Yanks shuts out the Rays, the Sox win 13-0 and the entire September collapse - Will Hunting Sep 28, 06:29 7
        
        i honestly don't even know how i would feel about a miracle Sox run to a title right now. - TFox Sep 28, 06:32 6
        
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        You haven't watched them play, Jack. They look *awful*. - TFox Sep 28, 06:38 4
        
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        I've been watching. I can't believe how bad they are right now. And it's not just pitching. - Diva Sep 28, 06:40 2
        
        it's totally in their heads. - Mel Profit Sep 28, 06:43 1
        
        nmbmel - Diva Sep 28, 06:46
        
        *warming up* -- nm - Diva's Zombie Grandma Sep 28, 06:26
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- So you're saying there's a chance? -- nm - Mel Profit Sep 28, 06:18 9
  - here's a question you don't want the answer to: if there's a one game playoff, guess who's turn in the rotation it is? - TFox Sep 28, 06:21 8
    - spoil me. -- nm - Mel Profit Sep 28, 06:28 7
      - Wakey-Wakey! -- nm - TFox Sep 28, 06:30 6
        
        I was prepared to monkey toss my cube but I'm merely meh. - Mel Profit Sep 28, 06:36 5
        
        Maybe you haven -- (link) - TFox Sep 28, 06:40 4
        
        't seen this, but show me the gem he threw in there. - TFox Sep 28, 06:40 3
        
        if it were anyone but a knuckleballer I'd have already ripped down the "walls" of my cube. - Mel Profit Sep 28, 06:41 2
        
        i don't even think they'd let him throw it. i don't know who they'd start. probably Lackey again. - TFox Sep 28, 06:42 1
        
        Lackey scares me more somehow. -- nm - Mel Profit Sep 28, 06:43
LYC: Today is The Idol's birthday. He's considering buying a 2011 Sonata or a Prius (based on his Facebook) - oblique Sep 28, 06:17 1
- marriage did that boy some good! -- nm - Epiphany Sep 28, 06:21
It shouldn't bother me that Chris Carpenter hasn't won in Houston since 2005...right? - Jim Sep 28, 06:16 2
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- "Good odds," said a defiant Tony La Russa, "but I've overcome good odds before." -- nm - Beaker Sep 28, 06:34
Amazon presser to announce new tablet "Kindle Fire" -- (link) - budice Sep 28, 06:13 7
- Oh damn, Frie is actually BB Playbook in disguise.. -- (link) - budice Sep 28, 06:16 6
  - Do we really another tablet is what I'm wondering - Guigue Sep 28, 06:43
  - 7" (supposedly a 10" will come next year) -- nm - TFox Sep 28, 06:19
  - just as the article says, I expect this first generation to be just so so and that gen 2 next year will be the one to get -- nm - decline Sep 28, 06:19 1
    - that's crazy talk! we have to buy the first thing immediately, or else we risk being left behind!.....nm - x Sep 28, 06:21
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  - Fire even -- nm - budice Sep 28, 06:17
Did anyone catch this ESPN doc "Catching Hell: The Foul Treatment of Steve Bartman." last night. I have to see if this will be on again, -- (link) - bc/nc Sep 28, 06:09 4
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  - At the same time? The two huge 03 stories happened within a day of each other iirc - Will Hunting Sep 28, 06:33
- parts of it. -- nm - Diva Sep 28, 06:15
- I saw parts of it. It also looked at Bill Buckner a bit! I'm certain it will be on again. -- nm - Don Homer Sep 28, 06:10
Tempting. - znufrii Sep 28, 06:09 9
- since none* of us have seen it, yet you have, i suspect you may be in the best position to answer your own question. -- nm - TFox Sep 28, 06:11 5
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    - whose fucking side are you on?!?! -- nm - TFox Sep 28, 06:21 3
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        of course I'm not going to do whatever you say. did you think I was actually asking for advice? -- nm - znufrii Sep 28, 06:27 1
        
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- A play? If so - answer is yes - they are always different - if you enjoyed it the first time why not go again? -- nm - JenBro Sep 28, 06:10 2
  - If tickets weren't so expensive it would be an easy choice -- nm - znufrii Sep 28, 06:26
  - Oh - and guess who is procrastinating on organizing her office - yup - me. -- nm - JenBro Sep 28, 06:14
Woohoo. Amazon's App of the Day is Cut the Rope. *great* game from iOS. Glad I didn't buy it the other day -- nm - oblique Sep 28, 06:07
Can Herman Cain deliver an upset? -- (link) - Don Homer Sep 28, 06:04 5
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  - The GOP's Great Black Hope. -- nm - TWuG Sep 28, 06:07
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- No. Next question? -- nm - znufrii Sep 28, 06:04 1
  - Hahaha. -- nm - MDH Sep 28, 06:11
Bear Grylls Jacket now on Amazon Gold Box! omg! -- (link) - budice Sep 28, 06:04
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- Did they cancel his suspension? -- nm - Flavorize Sep 28, 05:53 4
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    - that should work out OK with the bye weeks starting the week after -- nm - Beaker Sep 28, 06:06 1
      - elaboration: as I have him but not Benson -- nm - Beaker Sep 28, 06:22
    - Crap, I thought they were hearing his appeal today. *Shoves in Mark Ingram -- nm - Flavorize Sep 28, 05:57
Florida primary now expected to be in late January. -- (link) - mara Sep 28, 05:46 3
- Didn't they get penalized with # of delegates by both parties for doing something like this last time? Idiots. -- nm - Don Homer Sep 28, 05:50 2
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    - I'm trying to spot the Machiavellian twist on this but I haven't had tea yet and all I'm coming up with is 'dumb'. -- nm - Diva Sep 28, 06:23
Crap - computers are down at work - this NEVER happens - now I'm going to have to "organize" my office I guess. I hate when this happens. -- nm - JenBro Sep 28, 05:44
I have the most shocking gossip known to man, and I can't tell *anyone.* this actually may kill me. -- nm - amanda jones Sep 28, 05:40 10
- ST isn't just anyone -'save yourself and tell us. -- nm - JenBro Sep 28, 06:12
- I hate when that happens. I will tell random strangers just to tell *someone* -- nm - Epiphany Sep 28, 06:12 5
  - I just told charlie (with whom I work) (not his real name). he pretended to be shocked - amanda jones Sep 28, 06:39 1
    - like we know the same people. tell us already...use fake names -- nm - Beaker Sep 28, 06:39
  - or tell Capstern to just come here and tell us himself. :) -- nm - TFox Sep 28, 06:14 2
    - I never have to worry about that - he can't keep his secrets to himself, hell, he'd beat me too it! - Epiphany Sep 28, 06:18
    - Or tell Mop and then we won't really know about it for a few weeks -- nm - oblique Sep 28, 06:14
- OMG, congrats!! -- nm - Don Homer Sep 28, 05:44 1
  - it's not me, but.... (OMG. I seriously may burst.) -- nm - amanda jones Sep 28, 06:14
- Oh, come on. You can tell us. It won't leave these four browser window borders. -- nm - nubby Sep 28, 05:42
german finance minister on the us's suggestion to boost the efsf to $2 trillion: "a stupid idea" - x Sep 28, 05:31 3
- Print more money -- nm - budice Sep 28, 05:33 1
  - good luck selling a european common bank on that one....nm - x Sep 28, 05:37
- good for the Germans -- nm - Beaker Sep 28, 05:33
Thing I learned today: Abduction was a Black List script. -- nm - Dano Sep 28, 05:26 8
- this? -- (link) - amanda jones Sep 28, 05:35 1
  - Yes -- nm - Dano Sep 28, 05:51
- What does this mean? I've seen that phrase several times recently. -- nm - amanda Sep 28, 05:27 5
  - Wiki reference..generally universally banned or untouchable work -- (link) - budice Sep 28, 05:36 4
    - i think that what dano is citing is something completely different -- nm - prayformojo Sep 28, 05:43 2
      - true...i knows -- nm - budice Sep 28, 05:56
      - To be fair, after what Lautner did in this movie, maybe it shoulda been treated under Budice's link. -- nm - Will Hunting Sep 28, 05:45
    - nevermind, you got it -- nm - budice Sep 28, 05:36
so by july 11 when solyndra got that last $3 million a few weeks before they went belly up, they had already technically defaulted on loans in 2010... - x Sep 28, 05:22 1
- to me this isn't a "difficult choice": continue to loan taxpayer money to a company that has defaulted on previous loans or make it close?....nm - x Sep 28, 05:25
It does not shock me in the least that Colin Campbell would shit the bed and not give Simmonds any penalty for dropping the homophobic curse on Avery - Beaker Sep 28, 05:06 2
- Campbell's still in charge of some discipline? I thought Shanahan had taken that over -- nm - Will Hunting Sep 28, 05:06 1
  - Shanny's been doing more of the hit stuff (and there has been a ton so far). Colin stepped in in this case -- nm - Beaker Sep 28, 05:09
Wow, the Sox almost blew that game still. jeez. -- nm - Will Hunting Sep 28, 04:37 3
- It's a scary time to be a Sox fan. - Jelly Sep 28, 05:09 2
  - If they're going to collapse at least the Sox will have taken it down to the wire and made it exciting.. - Mel Profit Sep 28, 06:18 1
    - yeah, it really aint like it used to be....nm - x Sep 28, 06:29
Disney you are up in the 312.50 hockey draft -- nm - Beaker Sep 28, 04:36
Don't mess with cheeseheads -- (link) - CovingtonCat Sep 28, 03:24
hey, mr. schuster has a superman lunch box - moles Sep 27, 23:54 1
- Glee is becoming yesterday's news -- nm - budice Sep 28, 04:32
Roger Waters is singing with Foo Fighters on Jimmy Fallon tonight. - Trish Sep 27, 23:42 5
- that's probably good enough for them to get into the rock n roll hall of fame - moles Sep 27, 23:55
- Oh, and Joseph Gordon Levitt does a great Axl Rose singing Lady GaGa. - Trish Sep 27, 23:46
- did he berate them into breaking up too? -- nm - moles Sep 27, 23:45 2
  - Naw. I doubt he'd do that anyway. - Trish Sep 27, 23:52 1
    - Roger's a much calmer person now (according to himself). -- nm - bc/nc Sep 28, 04:58
Whoever wrote the bumper to Game of Thrones on our local cable channel really needs to consider a new career. - ralph wiggum Sep 27, 22:41 7
- fave comment.."GoT is a bunch of people doing it doggiestyle making their dogs feel inadequte" -- nm - budice Sep 28, 04:31
- there is no middle ground! - mafic Sep 28, 00:18
- Back to SoA's music for a moment, I think the best use of music ever was the cover of Dylan's "Forever Young" done by Audra Mae-S01Ep12 (spoils) - Trish Sep 27, 23:41 1
  - I'd add the cover of Young's "Hey Hey, My My" by Battleme for consideration. Finally finished S3! - Stephen Sep 28, 00:45
- it's a deadly game of cat and mouse -- nm - moles Sep 27, 22:43
- What? It's a story of medieval corporate espianoge, innit? -- nm - Reagen Sep 27, 22:42 1
  - More importantly, get the fucking catch phrase right. It's "you win or you die", asshats. nm - ralph wiggum Sep 27, 22:49
I agree with howie. Cut it with the bangs, ladies. -- nm - Reagen Sep 27, 22:26 1
- ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! -- nm - ladies Sep 27, 22:27
Ya know, Danny Trejo might be the nicest person in the world, but when I see him in a movie or on TV he scares the shit out of me. - Trish Sep 27, 22:23 1
- true that - he is religious or something in real life -- nm - Epiphany Sep 28, 06:22
We're all in this together. -- nm - David Sep 27, 22:18 1
- We're all in it alone. -- nm - Lily Tomlin si Sep 28, 06:17

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