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MDH, how is Luciana's, "I'm Still Hot" doing? I hate it. HAATE IT. But this... this does make it better. -- (link) - Qale Oct 12, 12:44 [youtube]
RIP: Robert Galvin, long time Motorola CEO -- (link) - oblique Oct 12, 12:40
Ooh! iOS 5 is here. I guess I should plug my iPad into iTunes again. -- nm - Mop (198 lbs) Oct 12, 12:40 3
- Yes, so you never have to again! - oblique Oct 12, 12:40 2
  - wireless sync doesn't mean OTA upgrades, does it? -- nm - Beryllium Oct 12, 12:44 1
    - I think it does. -- nm - Mop (198 lbs) Oct 12, 12:51
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- :-) - Krusty Oct 12, 12:38
Both Homer Drew & wife recently diagnosed with cancer -- (link) - prayformojo Oct 12, 12:34
Wait, Anna Faris is hosting SNL this weekend? Yes! -- nm - MDH Oct 12, 12:32 1
- that.is.awesome. -- nm - Mel Profit Oct 12, 12:32
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*sigh* Superintendent of district sends yet *another* email about this Sears thing. Not as annoying as the multiple calls from the district robocall - oblique Oct 12, 12:25 1
- This right here is why I hate that schools are almost exclusively supported by local property taxes. - TWuG Oct 12, 12:31
oh, dudes! dudes! my toothbrush went belly up this morning. what's our electric toothbrush of choice these days? *which* sonicare?? -- nm - amanda jones Oct 12, 12:24 11
- people actually use electric toothbrushes? who knew? -- nm - TFox Oct 12, 12:37 1
  - sure, I do. -- nm - loosilu Oct 12, 12:37
- oral-b electric with the larger "floss" heads, they have these wedge shaped paddles that really squeegee the crud off - zeitgeist Oct 12, 12:28 3
  - this? -- (link) - amanda jones Oct 12, 12:31 2
    - that...but with these brush heads...much better than the normal ones -- (link) - zeitgeist Oct 12, 12:34 1
      - sorry wrong damn link...*this* is the floss head -- (link) - zeitgeist Oct 12, 13:25
- my dad always gives me brauns - moles Oct 12, 12:25 4
  - hmmm. can a girl get a model number? -- nm - amanda jones Oct 12, 12:25 3
    - i'm not sure which of these new ones is best -- (link) - moles Oct 12, 12:29
    - Jenny. 867-5309 -- nm - oblique Oct 12, 12:26 1
      - *kicks you in the balls* - con_carne Oct 12, 12:27
Figured out why my clothes are scalding hot when I take them out of the washer. Stupid installers connected the hot/cold lines wrong. -- nm - ceregon Oct 12, 12:23
Saga of leaked iPhone 4 sold to Gizmodo comes to anticlimactic end -- (link) - oblique Oct 12, 12:23
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  - Seems like that would happen and it would suck so very much. - Krusty Oct 12, 12:34 2
    - I don't think it's more interleague, it's just spread out. - the wrong element, bad guy Oct 12, 12:40 1
      - It would be constant and that would be awful. -- nm - Krusty Oct 12, 12:47
- Well, that's going to make it equally as hard to win the AL West! -- nm - TFox Oct 12, 12:27
- That's been the expectation for a while, me thought. -- nm - Will Hunting Oct 12, 12:25
~...if you have a heart then Gumby's a part of you...~ -- nm - Diva Oct 12, 12:20
RIM reporting backlog of messages causing slowness on system. No evidence of hacking -- nm - budice Oct 12, 12:18 7
- Mine has been silent for hous now, which I know isn't right. - Kim Pine Oct 12, 12:32
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  - The backlog having been caused by a core switch failure earlier. -- nm - mara Oct 12, 12:20 1
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  - Blackberry outage -- nm - budice Oct 12, 12:20 2
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      - So, you didn't get the BBM that I found out we're long lost brothers?? -- nm - con_carne Oct 12, 12:23
New analysis from the Congressional Research Service comparing tax rates of millionaires to middle class. -- (link) - mara Oct 12, 12:15
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- The big thing here is that the perpetrators claim to be Quds or directed by Quds. Yet the scheme was complete amateur hour. - TWuG Oct 12, 12:45
- We'll just get ol' Bushie to make a phone call or two. Oh George! -- nm - con_carne Oct 12, 12:25
- seems disproportional, as the plot was to blow up the Saudi ambassador, not a US target. - znufrii Oct 12, 12:23 11
  - In a DC restaurant with hundreds as collateral damage, plus the embasies - OAE Oct 12, 12:24 2
    - I can see that being cause for us to be really *really* pissed off, and it certainly being an act of war against our allies. - znufrii Oct 12, 12:38 1
      - a bomb on our sovereign territory, yes. -- nm - loosilu Oct 12, 12:41
  - in the US. -- nm - loosilu Oct 12, 12:24 7
    - hence my unsureness in the IM regarding issues of sovreignity - znufrii Oct 12, 12:31 6
      - Ont the grounds of the embassy would likely be an attack on the country of the embassy. - Mel Profit Oct 12, 12:38
      - Contrary to popular belief, embassies are not foreign soil. They are the sovereign territory of the host country. -- nm - loosilu Oct 12, 12:37 4
        
        I did not know that. - znufrii Oct 12, 12:40 1
        
        See article 22. Local law enforcement forswears the right to enter. Diplomats are protected. That's all. The ground is not transmuted into - loosilu Oct 12, 12:42
        
        I sit corrected again! -- nm - Mel Profit Oct 12, 12:38 1
        
        There are restrictions, such as law enforcement cannot enter the grounds without permission. -- nm - loosilu Oct 12, 12:39
- I can't get links to work right now (I think it's an issue here, not with st) - but isn't something like that how clinton's order to take out the - b. Oct 12, 12:17 1
  - Pretty much. -- nm - Will Hunting Oct 12, 12:19
- "Previously, on Breaking Saud..." -- nm - Reagen Oct 12, 12:16
- except when it's done by using drones???? -- nm - Danedukenuuk Oct 12, 12:16
- So...you're saying to buy as much gasoline as possible today? - Will Hunting Oct 12, 12:15
Incidentally, I checked another sportsbook and they have the Chargers at a more reasonable 1/3.6 for the division. -- nm - Reagen Oct 12, 12:08 3
- So what are the Packers odds? And the Lions, while we're at it. -- nm - mara Oct 12, 12:12 2
  - Packers about 1/3, Lions about 2/1. -- nm - Reagen Oct 12, 12:14 1
    - Thanks. -- nm - mara Oct 12, 12:21
has meg seduced the hot bee exterminator dude yet? -- nm - moles Oct 12, 12:05 18
- Nah, he was too hot and sweaty after he came out of the attic ;) -- (link) - MojaveMeg Oct 12, 12:08 [flickr] 17 1
  - he found schatzee and her new duck? -- nm - ceregon Oct 12, 12:27 1
    - Heh. -- nm - MojaveMeg Oct 12, 12:28
  - Yum! -- nm - con_carne Oct 12, 12:26
  - besides, you don't want to explain to any future beaus that you ended a relationship with a guy known as the "exterminator" -- nm - zeitgeist Oct 12, 12:25
  - wow. -- nm - Diva Oct 12, 12:24
  - Wow -- nm - amoxy Oct 12, 12:24
  - Dang! -- nm - mara Oct 12, 12:21
  - Jeebus! I'm glad you're okay and didn't get stung. How long will it take to get your house back to normal? -- nm - Krusty Oct 12, 12:18 4
    - I never really saw or heard the bees while the hive was active. Right now there's a hole in my bedroom wall about 18" square. I'm hoping the - MojaveMeg Oct 12, 12:22 3
      - That's just crazy. -- nm - Krusty Oct 12, 12:26
      - "i've got a hole you can patch, stud" -- nm - moles Oct 12, 12:23 1
        
        L4 -- nm - amoxy Oct 12, 12:24
  - you're known as The Crippler among the 35+ crowd, aren't you. -- nm - Mel Profit Oct 12, 12:10
  - you're lucky to be alive! -- nm - TFox Oct 12, 12:10
  - wow. so what happens to all that honey. (also! poor bees! i hate killing them.) -- nm - Andie Oct 12, 12:09 2
    - It was tempting but pretty much contaminated. Bug spray and rats. -- nm - MojaveMeg Oct 12, 12:11 1
      - delicious bug spray and rats! - Andie Oct 12, 12:12
Interesting...Universal Drops �Tower Heist� Early VOD Experiment in Response to Theater Boycotts -- (link) - budice Oct 12, 12:04
can I just reply "These are the rules we live by" to an investment banker who won't take no for an answer? -- nm - znufrii Oct 12, 12:01 1
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Poll: count the number of ways in which you regularly communicate with other STers. Like: Here, email, FB, Twitter, IKO, Halo, WWF, phone, bed, text, - Andie Oct 12, 12:01 61
- Just here, and SS pkgs/notes: that is all. -- nm - OAE Oct 12, 12:24
- Here, turntable, FB. - con_carne Oct 12, 12:18
- Here, FB ,Ika ,Xbox Live ,Email, Phone,WWF -- nm - eag Oct 12, 12:12
- noone uses G+????? :) -- nm - Danedukenuuk Oct 12, 12:09 16
  - I posted a picture of the tablet to Colin on G+ because it was easiest -- nm - oblique Oct 12, 12:16
  - I didn't include it or twitter or bed, because I don't actually interact with anyone there, really. -- nm - b. Oct 12, 12:10 13
    - bed? wait, if we jam people, is that communicating? -- nm - amanda jones Oct 12, 12:11 12
      - It sends a pretty clear message. -- nm - Max Oct 12, 12:15 1
        
        "we won't be seeing each other anymore" -- nm - moles Oct 12, 12:17
      - there's far more information encoded in dude-spunk than is typically exchanged over small talk. - TFox Oct 12, 12:13 1
        
        99% of the time -- nm - oblique Oct 12, 12:19
      - yes. even if you don't talk or use ASL. -- nm - b. Oct 12, 12:12 6
        
        I'm laughing because I'm taking ASL as euphemism for "feel up." -- nm - amanda jones Oct 12, 12:22
        
        i find that using ASL enhances the mood -- nm - moles Oct 12, 12:20 4
        
        this made me make an extremely dirty connection. ack. -- nm - b. Oct 12, 12:22 3
        
        This subthread about doin' it has just become filthy! -- nm - Reagen Oct 12, 12:23 2
        
        *filthy* -- nm - b. Oct 12, 12:26 1
        
        ~Hands b a brillo pad ~ - eag Oct 12, 12:35
      - the language of love! -- nm - Andie Oct 12, 12:12
  - Fetch+. -- nm - TFox Oct 12, 12:09
- ok, now what? -- nm - peglegpete Oct 12, 12:08 6
  - she must be developing a new marketing strategy to bring in new blood -- nm - Hotkiss Oct 12, 12:09 5
    - i'm developing my own social networking system that will replace *everything!* -- nm - Andie Oct 12, 12:10 4
      - "She put 'An Andrea Hazard Production' on the front page?" "She put it on EVERY page." -- nm - Name Withheld by Request Oct 12, 12:23 3
        
        Hazard Productions is awesome. -- nm - Mel Profit Oct 12, 12:32 2
        
        officially i am Haphazard Productions, actually. -- nm - Andie Oct 12, 12:34 1
        
        I sit corrected. That's even better! - Mel Profit Oct 12, 12:35
- Here, text, email, FB, Twitter, phone and sometimes in person and mostly just Dawson. -- nm - Krusty Oct 12, 12:07 1
  - Xbox as well. I don't play wwf with STers since I'm lazy and forget to play for days. -- nm - Krusty Oct 12, 12:09
- Here, email, twitter, gtalk, text, craigslist personal section "wetwork" -- nm - budice Oct 12, 12:07
- regularly? 1. irregularly, 5-7 or so. -- nm - b. Oct 12, 12:07 1
  - oh + 1 for irregularly for in-person. -- nm - b. Oct 12, 12:07
- hardly ever outside of st, some fb...but even when meg and were meeting for dinner I couldn't get ahold of her on the phone - zeitgeist Oct 12, 12:05 1
  - I so rarely turn it on I forget even when I'm expecting a call :/ -- nm - MojaveMeg Oct 12, 12:10
- Here, Gmail, FB. -- nm - MojaveMeg Oct 12, 12:05
- here, e-mail, GChat, FB, probably in that order. everything else is very rare. -- nm - TFox Oct 12, 12:05 4
  - oh, and very occasionally over drinks. but just the awesome ones. -- nm - TFox Oct 12, 12:05 3
    - so that's why we never got together... -- nm - amanda jones Oct 12, 12:11 1
      - time to step your awesome game up. -- nm - TFox Oct 12, 12:12
    - Oh yes, that too. -- nm - MojaveMeg Oct 12, 12:08
- Mostly just here -- nm - znufrii Oct 12, 12:04 11
  - you never see Jack in person? -- nm - Andie Oct 12, 12:04 10
    - "mostly", and not really, especially since I don't live in the city anymore. -- nm - znufrii Oct 12, 12:17
    - I miss jack. I feel so bad about matt. he's just so young and cute and gay. -- nm - amanda jones Oct 12, 12:12
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      - false -- nm - znufrii Oct 12, 12:18 6
        
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        the best part is, once we realized it wasn't actually a taco bell we didn't eat there after all. - znufrii Oct 12, 12:24 4
        
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        31 mpg is hardly "gas-guzzling", mind you. -- nm - znufrii Oct 12, 12:32 2
        
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        haven't had it in ages, thanks! -- nm - znufrii Oct 12, 12:35
- With Diva it is... - Mel Profit Oct 12, 12:03 1
  - Right...and some of you in person. -- nm - Mel Profit Oct 12, 12:08
- Only here regularly. I've only emailed maybe 4 STers and it isn't a regular thing - sycor Oct 12, 12:03
- Astral projection. (nice skirt today) -- nm - Dr.Vermin Oct 12, 12:03
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- telepathy. -- nm - Reagen Oct 12, 12:02 1
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- here, email, facebook, text message, phone (rarely) -- nm - moles Oct 12, 12:02
- Here, email, FB, Twitter, Snail Mail, Text, Phone -- nm - amoxy Oct 12, 12:02
*burp* -- nm - sycor Oct 12, 12:00

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