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whoa. WHOA! you can grow honey on a tree? I want that tree! -- nm - amanda jones Oct 11, 13:43 2
- you have to suckle it. -- nm - loosilu Oct 11, 13:45
- The Bub calls it a honey tree, it's a honey tree. -- nm - Ducky Momo Oct 11, 13:44
Reading the Stephen Garcia story...he had 5 suspensions? For a kid who sucked....that seems like a lot. - Will Hunting Oct 11, 13:41 1
- He is a living folk song. His drinking and womanizing has made him the most (in)famous player in the SEC over the past few years. - David Oct 11, 13:44
Guess what week it is -- (link) - con_carne Oct 11, 13:39 2
- Coming Out Day?!! - Epiphany Oct 11, 13:43 1
  - (Everyone try to act surprised about Pippy.) -- nm - David Oct 11, 13:44
Crash Davis Alert: Dragon Age The Redemption episode 1 is up... -- (link) - Remlik Oct 11, 13:39 [youtube]
Just had a chance to watch the Avengers teaser/trailer....meh. - Will Hunting Oct 11, 13:38 2
- Bonus points for using one of my favorite NIN songs, though. - JaxSean Oct 11, 13:44
- Well, as the movie is not opening quite yet, I expect there to be a couple more. - Ducky Momo Oct 11, 13:41
Dear Glee: Rachel Berry does not need a solo every week. She just doesn't. -- nm - Diva Oct 11, 13:34 17
- I don't care who sings the stupid songs, just don't kill me with 100% show tunes every week. - Chest Rockwell Oct 11, 13:39 5
  - 100% agree - and I have loved some of show tunes - but come on - a whole show of them? no thankie -- nm - Epiphany Oct 11, 13:44 1
    - Mercedes sang 'Spotlight'! -- nm - Diva Oct 11, 13:52
  - You could have stopped at the comma. -- nm - Ducky Momo Oct 11, 13:44
  - This is my thing as well... - Mel Profit Oct 11, 13:42 1
    - They did 'Fix You' at the end! -- nm - Diva Oct 11, 13:45
- you could have ended that right after the "r" in "every". -- nm - loosilu Oct 11, 13:36
- i actually wonder if it's in Lea Michelle's contract that she gets one. -- nm - Andie Oct 11, 13:36 1
  - this is who I meant actually. - Mel Profit Oct 11, 13:37
- I don't like to bash the show around this crowd but they really need to tone her down. -- nm - Mel Profit Oct 11, 13:36 2
  - And they don't all need to autotuned. -- nm - the liioulu with cds Oct 11, 13:38 1
    - I think Britney, Finn and Mike Chang might need to be supported. - Diva Oct 11, 13:48
- Yes she does. Its the only consistent factor in our show. -- nm - Glee Producers Oct 11, 13:35 3
  - Britney S. Pierce. - Mel Profit Oct 11, 13:36 2
    - boiling down your IM - crash davis Oct 11, 13:38 1
      - ditzy Britney is pretty funny. - Mel Profit Oct 11, 13:41
- She doesn't. She's not even the best. -- nm - the liioulu with cds Oct 11, 13:35
Love baby Love - ty97 Oct 11, 13:33 1
- ahhhhh -- nm - Ducky Momo Oct 11, 13:42
Mel Alert---The Rock to be at Raw in Boston - Remlik Oct 11, 13:29 8
- They're going to have 4 PPVs in 9 weeks? With the current writers, I don't think they could have 4 quality shows in 9 weeks - Will Hunting Oct 11, 13:35
- it's the Raw before the Survivor Series PPV. you gotta go. -- nm - Remlik Oct 11, 13:31
- Uh Oh. -- nm - Mel Profit Oct 11, 13:30 5
  - Can you smell it already? -- nm - Epiphany Oct 11, 13:32 4
    - I kinda can. really. -- nm - Mel Profit Oct 11, 13:37 2
      - Drakkar Bomb would actually be a great finishing move for the tag team of Axe and Iroc, known as Jersey Shore. -- nm - TFox Oct 11, 13:38 1
        
        ST could write a WWE show easily. We'd have the ratings up in no time. -- nm - Mel Profit Oct 11, 13:44
    - *sniff* That ain't greens. -- nm - Diva Oct 11, 13:33
Best Impressionist EVAR! (and thanks to everyone I missed on B2) -- (link) - TWuG Oct 11, 13:28 [youtube] 1 1
- "WILL YOU TURN OFF THAT STUPID HIP-HOP! IT'S 4 IN THE MORNING!" - Remlik Oct 11, 13:30
That's a cool little house, but the lack of privacy around the property would concern me. Also, what's up with the door placement in the master bath? - Stephen Oct 11, 13:26
I think I could write nerdcore, but I sure can't rap it. -- nm - crash davis Oct 11, 13:26 6
- Writers typicall make more money that the artists performing the piece unless it's the artist who wrote it. -- nm - lileve Oct 11, 13:38
- Then again, neither could that rapper that was linked to. -- nm - Ender Oct 11, 13:27 2
  - but he was a lawyer! -- nm - Remlik Oct 11, 13:31 1
    - "This one goes out to all the publishers out there. - crash davis Oct 11, 13:35
- you would fit right in! -- nm - TFox Oct 11, 13:27 1
  - *throws up in bathroom before heading on to Downtown Comics' stage* -- nm - crash davis Oct 11, 13:30
POLL, what are the top ten towns in the US with the best average credit scores of its citizens? (theres a surprise mixed in the list) go -- nm - zeitgeist Oct 11, 13:23 31
- How is that a poll and not a quiz? - Reagen Oct 11, 13:27 2
  - poll: should it be a quiz? -- nm - loosilu Oct 11, 13:32
  - Say it. sAy it. - Ducky Momo Oct 11, 13:29
- I forgot Fort Pierre, South Dakota and Emporia, Kansas. -- nm - TFox Oct 11, 13:27
- San Fran? -- nm - samara Oct 11, 13:25 1
  - #ding #5 -- nm - zeitgeist Oct 11, 13:26
- Salt Lake City. -- nm - loosilu Oct 11, 13:25 1
  - no -- nm - zeitgeist Oct 11, 13:28
- Conshohocken, PA -- nm - znufrii Oct 11, 13:25
- Austin. San Jose. -- nm - ty97 Oct 11, 13:25
- towns? that's so random. uh, powell, wyoming. (WTF?) -- nm - amanda jones Oct 11, 13:24 8
  - Gatlinburg, TN! Poughkeepsie, NY! Lincoln, NH! -- nm - TFox Oct 11, 13:26 7
    - see?? (how've you been? no snarky email lately because I've been working. maybe tonight we'll get lucky.) -- nm - amanda jones Oct 11, 13:27 6
      - (i hurt my neck watching tv somehow, and live in mortal fear of waking my half-demon-baby. otherwise, i'm cool.) -- nm - TFox Oct 11, 13:29 5
        
        I am laughing with you that you call the child half demon baby -- nm - Epiphany Oct 11, 13:32 2
        
        I could keep a frickin boa constrictor in that crib and I couldn't tiptoe to bed any quieter. - TFox Oct 11, 13:35 1
        
        Ugh..babies! better be glad God made em so cute! -- nm - Epiphany Oct 11, 13:42
        
        (my friend's wife pulled her hamstring watching TV. I have no idea how this can happen, but apparently it's not uncommon. I hope you feel better. - amanda jones Oct 11, 13:30 1
        
        (my dad threw his back out using the Nintendo Power Pad when we were kids, but compared to sitting in a recliner, it's like a triathalon.) -- nm - TFox Oct 11, 13:32
- oh, and we can also do the bottom 10 too -- nm - zeitgeist Oct 11, 13:23 11
  - or you can just post the lists. -- nm - znufrii Oct 11, 13:28 6
    - heh. take it from the king! -- nm - TFox Oct 11, 13:29 1
      - when it's too obscure, even for *me*, then you know it's a problem... :) -- nm - znufrii Oct 11, 13:30
    - *fine* -- (link) - zeitgeist Oct 11, 13:29 3
      - Wausau, WI is even funnier than my fake guesses. -- nm - TFox Oct 11, 13:31 2
        
        seems like half of them were from that state -- nm - zeitgeist Oct 11, 13:33 1
        
        Don't worry their governor is working on changing that. -- nm - the liioulu with cds Oct 11, 13:34
  - Detroit -- nm - CovingtonCat Oct 11, 13:26
  - NY, Boston -- nm - ty97 Oct 11, 13:25
  - i'm not guessing unless we can also poll the middle 20. -- nm - TFox Oct 11, 13:24 1
    - I only want to guess a random sampling from 1 to 100 -- nm - oblique Oct 11, 13:24
On the flip side: I thought the outside of that house looked way to "George and Martha would live here and have a cherry tree" - ty97 Oct 11, 13:14 35
- *note: i would love a cherry tree.* -- nm - Andie Oct 11, 13:19 29
  - sash has cherry, apple, pear, and peach. we make fruit stuffing in fall and spring that is just magical. -- nm - amanda jones Oct 11, 13:20 28
    - lots ot work to keep them pruned, once they get wild and huge you can't make them small again, squirrels get all our cherries and walnuts, I mean ALL -- nm - zeitgeist Oct 11, 13:26
    - when i have a house there *will* be fruit trees. i mean, you want trees anyway right? why not fruit trees? -- nm - Andie Oct 11, 13:22 24
      - heaven forbid you're too busy one season to harvest... -- nm - znufrii Oct 11, 13:24 2
        
        watching rats drunk from eating fermenting apples is....weird -- nm - zeitgeist Oct 11, 13:30 1
        
        *get stuck in a tree* -- nm - drunk elk Oct 11, 13:32
      - "Damnit, Mr. Andie! Go outside and pick up all that damn fruit that's lying in the yard!" -- nm - oblique Oct 11, 13:23 14
        
        *shrug*. people i know with fruit trees invite friends over in season and tell them to go nuts. fruit for everyone! -- nm - Andie Oct 11, 13:24 13
        
        Millions of peaches peaches for me. Millions of peaches peaches for free. Millions of peaches peaches for me. Millions of peaches peaches for free. - Ducky Momo Oct 11, 13:30
        
        people are such haters. we have a great time harvesting sash's fruit. you can drink while you do it! -- nm - amanda jones Oct 11, 13:28 10
        
        I'm not saying I wouldn't do it, it's just a lot of work. -- nm - znufrii Oct 11, 13:31 7
        
        (says the guy who scoffed at the people who quit farm work after six hours.) -- nm - TFox Oct 11, 13:33 3
        
        If I was getting paid for it? different story. -- nm - znufrii Oct 11, 13:34 2
        
        "will work for food." - Andie Oct 11, 13:35 1
        
        :P -- nm - znufrii Oct 11, 13:35
        
        sure, it's also tons of free, healthy, organic food, in your yard. what else are you doing with your time? watching tv? it's not a year long thing. -- nm - Andie Oct 11, 13:32 2
        
        our apples and cherries were always full of bugs. We would have had to spray them to make them edible. -- nm - loosilu Oct 11, 13:35
        
        considering the neglect suffered by our yard this summer, I think I need something a little lower-maintenance. :) -- nm - znufrii Oct 11, 13:33
        
        Like many things, I like enjoying them when someone else has them (dogs, kids, fruit) - oblique Oct 11, 13:29 1
        
        this. -- nm - loosilu Oct 11, 13:30
        
        You didn't say anything about nut trees -- nm - oblique Oct 11, 13:25
      - because they are dirty and buggy and smelly? - decline Oct 11, 13:23 5
        
        This. - Ducky Momo Oct 11, 13:27
        
        flowering in spring? fruit in fall? (yes, you have to pick up the fallen fruit.) -- nm - Andie Oct 11, 13:23 3
        
        I spent my childhood picking up rotten buggy apples. I'll pass. -- nm - loosilu Oct 11, 13:26 2
        
        you had a strange childhood -- nm - zeitgeist Oct 11, 13:32 1
        
        is this Act Shocked at Random Statements Day? -- nm - loosilu Oct 11, 13:33
    - oh yummy! - znufrii Oct 11, 13:22
    - [still not fat] -- nm - Ducky Momo Oct 11, 13:21
- From other things you've said, I think you just don't like traditional/colonial style. Which is fine. Lots of people like it, though. -- nm - loosilu Oct 11, 13:18 3
  - Maybe that's it. I like some classic architecture, but not architecture that reminds me of the Revolutionary War. -- nm - ty97 Oct 11, 13:26 2
    - ps. I've been to George Washington's house (Mount Vernon) and it's way better. :) -- nm - loosilu Oct 11, 13:27 1
      - I've been to one of his houses (in Orange County, NY) and I was whelmed - ty97 Oct 11, 13:28
- who wouldn't want a hippo house?! -- nm - TFox Oct 11, 13:15
FBI/DEA have foiled a terrorist plot to bomb 2 embassies in DC -- (link) - MDH Oct 11, 13:13 2
- huh. I've seen the Saudi one, it's pretty heavily guarded. Israel must be as well (but I don't think I've seen it). -- nm - loosilu Oct 11, 13:15 1
  - *exactly* -- nm - Israel Oct 11, 13:35
Thumbs up for the new Evanescence CD. In addition to the single, the songs Sick and Oceans are first faves. - CovingtonCat Oct 11, 13:13 13
- I picked this up at lunch - only been able to listen to the 1st track - the radio single. -- nm - Epiphany Oct 11, 13:20 4
  - Did you get the CD with the DVD & 4 bonus songs? - CovingtonCat Oct 11, 13:24 3
    - I did not, cause I am a cheap ass beotch - I wanted the $ 9.99 version. And I should know better - every Maroon 5 bonus song - I have loved. - Epiphany Oct 11, 13:31 2
      - Oof. It's 11.99 at amazon for the bonus version (50 cents a song - a bargain!) -- nm - CovingtonCat Oct 11, 13:34 1
        
        Oof is right. -- nm - Epiphany Oct 11, 13:36
- So, who is in the band these days? -- nm - Ducky Momo Oct 11, 13:14 7
  - Filter -- nm - Epiphany Oct 11, 13:21 1
    - You mean Nine Inch Nails -- nm - David Oct 11, 13:42
  - Amy Lee, Terry Balsamo, Tim McCord, Troy McLawhorn and Will Hunt - prayformojo Oct 11, 13:16 4
    - This kinda sums up the whole thing. - David Oct 11, 13:19 2
      - there's video of Ben Moody and Kelly Clarkson teepeeing Amy's house -- nm - Remlik Oct 11, 13:26
      - Yeah, that was my point. -- nm - Ducky Momo Oct 11, 13:20
    - And what... damn your IM. -- nm - Ducky Momo Oct 11, 13:17
poll: Metro station stripper names, wherever you happen to live. -- nm - loosilu Oct 11, 13:11 15
- Dyckman? - Krusty Oct 11, 13:25
- Van Dorn -- nm - samara Oct 11, 13:21
- LMS is not online, so from London: Shepherd's Bush. -- nm - loosilu Oct 11, 13:19 1
  - also: Colliers Wood, Clapham Common, and (giggle) Cockfosters. - loosilu Oct 11, 13:21
- Queen Lane? - znufrii Oct 11, 13:17
- Vermont Beverly. Also, the gold line has a station called Maravilla. - con_carne Oct 11, 13:16
- Prev mentioned F-S is my favorite, but within DC "Columbia Heights" or male stripper "Foggy Bottom" -- nm - MDH Oct 11, 13:15 2
  - "Ballston?" - con_carne Oct 11, 13:20 1
    - it's very Common -- nm - moles Oct 11, 13:26
- pardee center? (you say it almost like party.) -- nm - amanda jones Oct 11, 13:14
- Mount Baker? - psilotum Oct 11, 13:13
- I will go with Crystal City. -- nm - loosilu Oct 11, 13:12 2
  - and Foggy Bottom. -- nm - loosilu Oct 11, 13:14 1
    - Back Bay -- nm - lileve Oct 11, 13:15
- hot kiss -- nm - The Ruiner Oct 11, 13:12
I always chase my Ambiens with Nyquil. nm - Jovian Oct 11, 13:11 3
- ~ In a world of pure imagination... ~ -- nm - TFox Oct 11, 13:12 1
  - *hugs* -- nm - Ducky Momo Oct 11, 13:13
- Just to be sure. -- nm - The Ruiner Oct 11, 13:12
Yay Denmark? -- nm - con_carne Oct 11, 13:11 1
- i love when we play against Portugal - Danedukenuuk Oct 11, 13:13
BUY THIS!!! -- nm - The Ruiner Oct 11, 13:10 2
- Sends in someone to look it over first. - the liioulu with cds Oct 11, 13:11 1
  - PAYS THEM OFF! -- nm - The Ruiner Oct 11, 13:11

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