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Okay, another week in JenBro's pick'em is gonna come down to total MNF score. What do you all predict will be that total score? -- nm - The Ruiner Oct 24, 08:45 4
- 38 -- nm - Ghost Hunting Oct 24, 08:47 3
  - Oh, she posted it already? -- nm - The Ruiner Oct 24, 08:51 2
    - No, that's my guess. -- nm - Ghost Hunting Oct 24, 08:52 1
      - Wow. That was my guess. The other guy has 54. -- nm - The Ruiner Oct 24, 08:53
Jealous poll - i wanted bink beds as a kid - never got them - did anyone else? - JenBro Oct 24, 08:40 32
- you would have had so much more space for activities. -- nm - Diva Oct 24, 08:51
- We had them, so I don't think I wanted them -- nm - con_carnage Oct 24, 08:50
- I had bunk beds. Loved them. -- nm - ty97 Oct 24, 08:49
- Never as a kid, but one of the Rehoboth houses I stay at has them now -- nm - MDH Oct 24, 08:46 5
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    - OMG not like that! - MDH Oct 24, 08:53 1
      - This is quite common for straight summer share houses too. -- nm - Diva Oct 24, 09:05
    - *laughing* -- nm - Diva Oct 24, 08:49
    - My thought, exactly. -- nm - The Ruiner Oct 24, 08:48
- Not exactly. But we had loft-type beds, built into the wall. - Dr.Vermin Oct 24, 08:44
- I wanted one as well but didn't get it. - Krusty Oct 24, 08:44
- well, as an only, I did not need them, but my dad did build me a bed on stilts - ghouly Oct 24, 08:43 4
  - heh. I would tucl blankets under the edges of the top mattress and the bottom bunk would be my space ship. -- nm - The Ruiner Oct 24, 08:48 2
    - you do this when we are playing Halo now. nm -- nm - ghouly Oct 24, 08:48 1
      - *no comment* -- nm - The Ruiner Oct 24, 08:51
  - They found a way to bottle and sell that now -- nm - Beryllium Oct 24, 08:46
- sure did - znufrii Oct 24, 08:42
- Of course I did. -- nm - The Ruiner Oct 24, 08:42
- mesa brother and me had bunk beds. no idea what a bink bed is, sounds dirty, i bet groiny has one. -- nm - tRuMaN Oct 24, 08:41
- I did, and they weren't all that. Although, it was fun to kick my brother in the top bunk. -- nm - loosilu Oct 24, 08:41 10
  - for those who had them: Ever fall off the top bunk in the middle of the night? OOF! -- nm - loosilu Oct 24, 08:44 9
    - Nope. But I had nobody on the bottom bunk trying to knock me off. -- nm - The Ruiner Oct 24, 08:46 5
      - oh, you can't. the kicking is just to annoy. -- nm - loosilu Oct 24, 08:46 4
        
        I have told the story of the night my sister came in and slept on the top bunk, and she was shaking the bed to scare me and it collapsed on me, right? -- nm - The Ruiner Oct 24, 08:50 3
        
        ~this is how we do it~ -- nm - Mel Profit Oct 24, 08:52
        
        no, but yikes. -- nm - loosilu Oct 24, 08:50 1
        
        My parents came in and I was yelling, "GET OF ME, SISSY!!!" - The Ruiner Oct 24, 08:52
    - a kid in my 6th grade class (Brock Tompkins!) fell out and broke *both* his wrists. Both. -- nm - Andie Oct 24, 08:44
    - my college roommate did so while having sex. broken jaw. awkward? yes. awkward. -- nm - amanda jones Oct 24, 08:44 1
      - some kid in college got way drunk, went to bed, fell off, and (really gross) - loosilu Oct 24, 08:45
- yeah, i thought they were cool. a friend of mine had them, i loved staying there. -- nm - Andie Oct 24, 08:41
- Bink! (I miss bink( -- nm - prayformojo Oct 24, 08:41
sitwap: someone built the tower of Orthanc and the battle of the ents out of legos, its like 7ft tall. -- (link) - tRuMaN Oct 24, 08:37 [flickr] 9
- as impressive is that build is, this is so much better, Decaying Victorian home built from legos -- (link) - tRuMaN Oct 24, 08:41 7
  - tRuMaN must have just discovered Brothers Brick. -- nm - Mop (198 lbs) Oct 24, 08:42 6
    - Did you see that Dinosaur sets are coming back next year! T-Rex! -- (link) - TWuG Oct 24, 08:44 4
      - yup -- nm - tRuMaN Oct 24, 08:47
      - Yeah, cool. But I'm baffled by their Lego City/Police/Forest Ranger series. -- nm - Mop (198 lbs) Oct 24, 08:47 2
        
        I'm all over those sets! Bears! Molded brick pattern bricks! 1x1 round tiles (flat top)! Lots of cool stuff in 2012. The Batcave looks fun, too! -- nm - TWuG Oct 24, 08:51 1
        
        dont forgot hillbilly minifigs -- nm - tRuMaN Oct 24, 08:52
    - no, just catching up since i am actually in the office today. - tRuMaN Oct 24, 08:42
- "Good luck finding that ring, Frodo Baggins!" -- nm - prayformojo Oct 24, 08:38
the Jack Layton stuff just hit plaid. -- (link) - Evil Beaker Oct 24, 08:34 8
- She sounds like Canada's answer to Yoko Ono. - Beryllium Oct 24, 08:41
- Takeaway message: Keifer is Tommy Douglas's grandson? Does Keifer show any of his granddad's (or his dad's, for that matter) left leanings? -- nm - Mop (198 lbs) Oct 24, 08:37 3
  - did you really not know that? -- nm - Andie Oct 24, 08:40 2
    - Nope. I know his dad, of course, and had a vague idea who his mom was, but didn't know his mom was Tom Douglas's daughter. - Mop (198 lbs) Oct 24, 08:41 1
      - you've been away too long. -- nm - Andie Oct 24, 08:41
- enh, that's one person's thing. i'm okay with that, -- nm - Andie Oct 24, 08:37
- No shit: I had a dream this morning, and he was in it. So weird. -- nm - Beryllium Oct 24, 08:36 1
  - St. Peter finally retired and turned over the book to Jack, 'eh? -- nm - Mop (198 lbs) Oct 24, 08:40
Fox's list of upcoming anthem singers: Stweie from Family Guy, the "she bangs" dude from American Idol a few seasons ago and the cast of Glee if it 7 - Evil Beaker Oct 24, 08:25 1
- William Hung? Will he be accompanied by The Hung Jury? -- nm - Beryllium Oct 24, 08:32
What's the worst book you've ever read? - Ghost Hunting Oct 24, 08:24 29
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- Surprised no one mentioned "Gideon's Sword" -- nm - MDH Oct 24, 08:43
- I Am Charlotte Simmons, maybe. -- nm - Kim Pine dressed in a Ramona Flowers costume Oct 24, 08:42
- Frankly, one of the later Dexter novels. So disappointingly terrible. -- nm - Beryllium Oct 24, 08:33
- I hated Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man. -- nm - Ender Oct 24, 08:32
- I'd only say Magic's Pawn by Mercedes Lackey because it made me so upset I didn't finish it nor the rest of the series. -- nm - Qale Oct 24, 08:30
- The Association by Bentley Little was atrociously bad. Mark Twain was torture. -- nm - ty97 Oct 24, 08:28 9
  - Add Mark Twain to my "favorite authors" list. - Kim Pine dressed in a Ramona Flowers costume Oct 24, 08:39
  - Mark Twain? have you read Tom Sawyer? -- nm - Andie Oct 24, 08:31 7
    - Unfortunately my HS English teacher forced me too. Huck Finn as well. - ty97 Oct 24, 08:33 6
      - I liked Tom Sawyer, hated Huck Finn mainly cuz of the timing we had to read them. - Ghost Hunting Oct 24, 08:53
      - dude. -- nm - Diva Oct 24, 08:50
      - Wow, did I ever read this post wrong. -- nm - The Ruiner Oct 24, 08:37 1
        
        I thought it was just me. -- nm - loosilu Oct 24, 08:37
      - heh. i reread them both this year as they were part of the 100 books preloaded on my e-reader. -- nm - Andie Oct 24, 08:34
      - I can see the teacher made an inedible mark. -- nm - Beryllium Oct 24, 08:34
- This probably wouldn't be my final answer for "worst" but i really hated "The Pearl" in 10th grade or so. -- nm - Don Homer Oct 24, 08:27
- The sequel to The Alienist, though Ender's Game reaaaaaalllly rubbed me the wrong way -- nm - prayformojo Oct 24, 08:26 2
  - The Alienist sucked, too. -- nm - Kim Pine dressed in a Ramona Flowers costume Oct 24, 08:39 1
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- Timeline was pretty bad, and the movie was somehow worse. -- nm - Strongbad Oct 24, 08:25 3
  - Who wrote that? -- nm - Ghost Hunting Oct 24, 08:26 1
    - Crichton -- nm - Evil Beaker Oct 24, 08:26
  - *nodding* -- nm - Mel Profit Oct 24, 08:26
- so alt WWII fiction... - Mel Profit Oct 24, 08:25
- anything by Jeff Long...great premise for horror stuff but he never ever follows through -- nm - Remlik Oct 24, 08:25
- Scorpion's Gate by Richard Clarke comes to mind -- nm - con_carnage Oct 24, 08:25
- cheap throwaway: Left Behind series. astonishingly bad. for a "good" book: one of the dreadful victorians. I think Silas Marner. -- nm - loosilu Oct 24, 08:25 1
  - no, Ethan Frome. (which is after Victorian, but close enough) -- nm - loosilu Oct 24, 08:27
for mandy, writers I like. Not the mass market ones for the most part. I like Alasdair Gray, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Salman Rushdie, Kazuo Ishiguro. - loosilu Oct 24, 08:21 2
- Margaret Atwood is another. -- nm - loosilu Oct 24, 08:23 1
  - also Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett. None of these are what I'd call "favorite", but I like them a lot. I think I have never found my favorite. -- nm - loosilu Oct 24, 08:29
ST Pawn Stars Poll -- If you had an authenticated relic of a saint in your possession, would you try and sell it, or would you give it to the Church? - znufrii Oct 24, 08:20 29
- Sell it in a heartbeat. -- nm - Krusty Oct 24, 08:43
- I doubt the church would want the Virgin Mary's dildo that I have in my possession. nm -- nm - ghouly Oct 24, 08:31 18
  - ok, that might be the sickest thing you've posted. - Mel Profit Oct 24, 08:34 17
    - dude, just because she was a virgin, does not mean she could not get her freak on. nm -- nm - ghouly Oct 24, 08:37 3
      - as long as she didn't try to get through airport security. -- nm - loosilu Oct 24, 08:37 2
        
        if she wanted to hide it, she coudl jam it up her donkey's ass. nm -- nm - ghouly Oct 24, 08:41 1
        
        a donkey *is* an ass. -- nm - loosilu Oct 24, 08:43
    - is it a bad sign that I didn't even blink? -- nm - loosilu Oct 24, 08:35 11
      - you better blink. - Mel Profit Oct 24, 08:36 10
        
        it's as if you never saw the first Exorcist. -- nm - loosilu Oct 24, 08:36 9
        
        funny, I just saw the last 10 mins again last night. - Mel Profit Oct 24, 08:44 8
        
        I have a special place in my heart for it and Exorcist 3. -- nm - loosilu Oct 24, 08:46 7
        
        The 3rd, as we've said, is not a bad movie. - Mel Profit Oct 24, 08:48 3
        
        for sure that scene. also the confession. but the one you said, hell yes. - loosilu Oct 24, 08:50 2
        
        the confession! ugh. -- nm - Mel Profit Oct 24, 08:52 1
        
        my skin crawls just thinking about it. there's that one moment when it turns. -- nm - loosilu Oct 24, 08:52
        
        There's a scene in III that freaked me out badly, and I knew exactly where in Leavey it was filmed...it was years before i could walk past that spot -- nm - prayformojo Oct 24, 08:48 2
        
        did you see it get filmed? I was there when they did a shot with Dahlgren in the background. I can spot it now, it's when the priest is having lunch - loosilu Oct 24, 08:49
        
        *points to my IM* that one? -- nm - Mel Profit Oct 24, 08:48
    - stoy = stop -- nm - Mel Profit Oct 24, 08:35
- *laughing* - Mel Profit Oct 24, 08:24
- I'd keep it and then will it to the Vatican after my passing. -- nm - Epiphany Oct 24, 08:22
- I don't believe any of them are real, authenticated or not. I'd keep it. -- nm - loosilu Oct 24, 08:22
- I would build a shrine around it, and then try to set myself up as the leader of a cult -- nm - con_carnage Oct 24, 08:21 1
  - *subscribes to your newsletter* -- nm - Evil Beaker Oct 24, 08:21
- save it for the Apocalypse -- nm - Evil Beaker Oct 24, 08:21
- Sell it. Given their bottom line; it's wrong that only one of us will profit. -- nm - Ghost Hunting Oct 24, 08:20 1
  - word. -- nm - amanda jones Oct 24, 08:23
- sell it to the church. -- nm - tRuMaN Oct 24, 08:20
STIS: Suppose you are using software, and you turn on two settings at the same time that are incompatible. The software is supposed to prevent you - loosilu Oct 24, 08:18 6
- Circumvent? -- nm - GregW Oct 24, 08:57
- self-protect? -- nm - znufrii Oct 24, 08:31 3
  - there should be one word. -- nm - loosilu Oct 24, 08:42 2
    - the only other term that comes to mind is interlocking, but I'm not sure that's the one you're looking for. -- nm - znufrii Oct 24, 08:43 1
      - nope. -- nm - loosilu Oct 24, 08:45
- cockblock -- nm - Don Homer Oct 24, 08:30
i wish i had the talent to paint my boring pumpkin like this -- (link) - tRuMaN Oct 24, 08:18 [flickr]
LIR - Amanda - you did not ask me - but yes you should read 20th Century Ghosts - there are some real gems in there - Epiphany Oct 24, 08:17 6
- somewhat from b2 since you are a Rice fan. It's obvious that The Vampire Armand influenced me. - Qale Oct 24, 08:19 4
  - I could see that about you. And I adore, adored!! Belinda. - Epiphany Oct 24, 08:21 3
    - I don't think my attempt at writing vampires went as well as I'd liked. It's not bad, it's just not immersed in lore enough. - Qale Oct 24, 08:26 2
      - I like them all. Being an Author must be extremely difficult -- nm - Epiphany Oct 24, 08:34 1
        
        I like my indie status. I don't think I'd want to become popular. I have no idea what I should write this year. Maybe that. -- nm - Qale Oct 24, 08:38
- Yes, it's a great book of short stories. -- nm - Kim Pine dressed in a Ramona Flowers costume Oct 24, 08:18
The final one is #6 Glee (267K) and here is the full list -- (link) - MDH Oct 24, 08:16
amanda - Tina was interesting in a 'female look behind the scenes at the politics of SNL way.' it was a super-fast read. - Andie Oct 24, 08:15
So, coming into the weekend, Insidious (1.5M budget, 92M box office) was the most profitable film of 2011. Paranormal Activity 3 has a chance to beat - prayformojo Oct 24, 08:15 2
- Horror fans are such masochists. -- nm - Qale Oct 24, 08:16 1
  - As proven by MBFGW. -- nm - The Ruiner Oct 24, 08:43
B2 Beaker: Family Guy #7 265K -- nm - MDH Oct 24, 08:14 9
- what are weekly tv ratings like these days? do the costliest spots align mostly to most-watched shows? -- nm - amanda jones Oct 24, 08:17 7
  - The align with the 18-49 Demo, some of which are highly watched (AI, NFL, etc) but it's that demo that does the business. -- nm - MDH Oct 24, 08:17 6
    - it's why NCIS doesn't pull the most. It's one of the most watched, but the demo scews older so less per commecial -- nm - Evil Beaker Oct 24, 08:19 5
      - you can tell from who they hire as guest stars. -- nm - loosilu Oct 24, 08:27
      - Exactly. -- nm - MDH Oct 24, 08:20
      - and why the CW continues to have a station. They have crap overall ratings but scew young which advertisers love -- nm - Evil Beaker Oct 24, 08:20 2
        
        Skew. -- nm - Beryllium Oct 24, 08:35 1
        
        skew you! (thanks, it didn't look right to me) -- nm - Evil Beaker Oct 24, 08:36
- wow, not bad for a cancelled show at one point. -- nm - Evil Beaker Oct 24, 08:15
DO YOU WANT ANTS!? -- nm - Evil Beaker Oct 24, 08:13 2
- not really related - they put grasshoppers in a Halloween Chopped basket - Epiphany Oct 24, 08:23
- Guest......"wait, are you shitting me?" -- nm - Ghost Hunting Oct 24, 08:19

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