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First short from a friend's new web series -- (link) - znufrii Oct 26, 18:55 [youtube]
God, I love Happy Endings. -- nm - Dano Oct 26, 18:35 1
- Me too! -- nm - Gronk SI Oct 26, 18:50
ancient aliens has gotten so out of control, it's glorious. Even the ancient astronaut theorists are laughing at themselves -- nm - The Legend of CQ Hollow Oct 26, 18:32 2
- Brad Meltzer is barely into season 2 and scrapping for ideas... -- nm - Mel Profit Oct 26, 18:36 1
  - I attacked and pillaged about 5 different VNE cities. THE_ONE sent a message, "why u attack me?" so I pillaged him again -- nm - The Legend of CQ Hollow Oct 26, 18:52
Survivor spoils question - prayformojo Oct 26, 18:31 3
- Only if (spoils) - Jim Oct 26, 18:47 2
  - yeah, that's right. thx, survivor analyst -- nm - prayformojo Oct 26, 18:49 1
    - No problem. It's what I do. :) -- nm - Jim Oct 26, 18:50
10 real locations that will help you survive a zombie outbreak.... -- (link) - Remlik Oct 26, 18:31 1
- I want that Lighthouse -- nm - mud Oct 26, 18:46
I think my IQ drops a little bit after every Jack and Jill trailer I see. - kelly Oct 26, 18:29
what? modern family is a rerun. hmph. -- nm - Andie Oct 26, 18:02 4
- why can't you just be happy with what you have? -- nm - dignan in absentia Oct 26, 18:10
- Much of the shows went to reruns so they wouldn't compete with the WS. -- nm - the liioulu without delicata squash Oct 26, 18:06 2
  - Reason #46 why I hate baseball. -- nm - psychor killer Oct 26, 18:24 1
    - Do you hate Christmas for the same reason? -- nm - the liioulu without delicata squash Oct 26, 18:26
Survivor spoilers - David Oct 26, 17:57 2
- Also... (spoils) - Jim Oct 26, 18:56
- spoils - Jim Oct 26, 18:50
Survivor spoilers - Evil Beaker Oct 26, 17:50 2
- if his thinking is that - stewie Oct 26, 18:02
- spoilers - the wrong element, bad guy Oct 26, 17:55
I really want some of Ty's candy corn. - Bacon Oct 26, 17:48 2
- I'm eating some candy corn right now. It's yummy. -- nm - psychor killer Oct 26, 18:24
- don't look it up in the urban dictionary -- nm - No Geist before its Zeit Oct 26, 18:22
So ... Kieran's getting spots that seem like chickenpox, despite his vaccination against it. Not cool. -- nm - Beryllium Oct 26, 17:43 13
- It's not 100% but when you do get Chicken Pox it's much much milder. Be glad he got the vaccine -- nm - Bacon Oct 26, 17:48 5
  - Yesterday, it was merely the worst diaper rash he'd ever had, so I have no idea what's going on. -- nm - Beryllium Oct 26, 17:54 3
    - fifth disease? - kare Oct 26, 18:05 1
      - He had sixth (roseola) early last week, allegedly -- nm - Beryllium Oct 26, 18:11
    - Ask Siri what it is -- nm - Bacon Oct 26, 17:55
  - yup, makes it even less likely he will get it when he gets older too -- nm - Evil Beaker Oct 26, 17:50
- they can vaccinate against chickenpox? - poxie Oct 26, 17:45 6
  - Yep. Not sure how recently it was developed, but it is strongly encouraged because chicken pox can reemerge in adults as shingles. -- nm - TWuG Oct 26, 17:48 3
    - There's also a shingles vaccine now. My doc gave me one earlier this year. -- nm - MojaveMeg Oct 26, 18:07 1
      - Wow, I had no idea. Thanks for posting this. More info here: -- (link) - mara Oct 26, 18:52
    - Well...the vaccine hasn't been all that great. Unless you get boosters you can get chicken pox as an adult. - the liioulu without delicata squash Oct 26, 17:52
  - There is a varicella vaccine, yes. We'll know anecdotally in a few minutes if it's shit or not ... -- nm - Beryllium Oct 26, 17:47 1
    - (also, my bus was super-late today, so I am still ~20 minutes from home ... I'd normally be there already.) -- nm - Beryllium Oct 26, 17:48
I'm pretty bored, guys. Our computers are down so not even Muzak is working. Price scanners are offline so I can't even shop. - amanda, on the floor Oct 26, 17:43 8
- So, how are you posting here? ;) question no. 1 -- nm - the liioulu without delicata squash Oct 26, 17:57 3
  - iPhone. -- nm - amanda, on the floor Oct 26, 18:13 1
    - Aahh. Got no more questions. -- nm - the liioulu without delicata squash Oct 26, 18:19
  - Ooops, no. 2. -- nm - the liioulu without delicata squash Oct 26, 17:58
- Calendaring is down so I can't even request a bunch of days off! - amanda, on the floor Oct 26, 17:55
- has the fashion selection in the men's department improved any? - poxie Oct 26, 17:45 1
  - Oh hell naw. -- nm - amanda, on the floor Oct 26, 18:12
- Well, it sounds like you got the divine intervention you sought earlier. Sort of. -- nm - Beryllium Oct 26, 17:44
Siri, will the Cards win Game 6? C'mon, tell me what I wanna hear -- nm - Jim si Oct 26, 17:41 2
- "Game 6 has been postponed by rain." -- nm - David Oct 26, 17:43
- If the answer is "If LaRussa pulls his head out of his ass", I'll buy an iPhone. -- nm - TFox Oct 26, 17:42
Siri, will it be sunny and warm tomorrow in Orlando? -- nm - Jovian Oct 26, 17:30 1
- High of 88, low of 70, partly cloudy. She provides the five day forecast. -- nm - David Oct 26, 17:34
Siri, are you thinking with portals? -- nm - Beryllium Oct 26, 17:26 1
- "We were talking about you, not me." -- nm - David Oct 26, 17:33
MDH, you still around? - Jim Oct 26, 17:24 1
- MDH is taking a dump -- nm - Siri Oct 26, 17:33
Survivor spoils - Jovian Oct 26, 17:23 2
- spoils - the wrong element, bad guy Oct 26, 17:25 1
  - Spoils - - the liioulu without delicata squash Oct 26, 17:40
Good evening. Home with 1,200 miles on the clock since Friday. Beer open..... :) -- nm - MojaveMeg Oct 26, 17:19 2
- thats a lot of driving for an extended weekend -- nm - zeitgeist Oct 26, 17:25 1
  - Well it was almost 500 miles each way to our base camp in Utah...then a lot of driving around when we got there - a lot of it on dirt roads. -- nm - MojaveMeg Oct 26, 17:31
Is Siri up on current events. Can you ask it if Steve Jobs is alive, or Kadaffi? -- nm - Bacon Oct 26, 17:12 2
- A) "Apple doesn't tell me everything, you know." B) Doesn't understand but searches the web, which produces the appropriate information. -- nm - David Oct 26, 17:14 1
  - Interesting -- nm - Bacon Oct 26, 17:14
I am so over Coach. - Jovian Oct 26, 17:03 2
- He's gone from irritating to skeezy. -- nm - the liioulu without delicata squash Oct 26, 17:41
- Craig Nelson is a poor man's Tim Allen -- nm - poxie Oct 26, 17:05
FDA issues warning about black licorice. -- (link) - CovingtonCat Oct 26, 17:02 15
- Its worth the risks -- nm - Karl_S Oct 26, 18:29 1
  - ^5 -- nm - kelly Oct 26, 18:31
- weird. -- nm - kare Oct 26, 17:52 3
  - they're just trying to save the world from the evil of black licorice -- nm - poxie Oct 26, 17:55 2
    - cool. more for me! -- nm - kare Oct 26, 18:20
    - Finally! Even a blind squirrel knows that black licorice is a poison, poison nut. nm - ralph wiggum Oct 26, 17:58
- I'll take the risk. - kelly Oct 26, 17:45
- I have no impulse control when it comes to Twizzlers. They should put a warning on those. - Mop (197 lbs) Oct 26, 17:08 5
  - luckily they don't make them in black -- nm - poxie Oct 26, 17:11 4
    - they don't? -- nm - kelly Oct 26, 17:43 3
      - They do. The Twizzlers site lists it. -- nm - TWuG Oct 26, 17:46 2
        
        yeah. - kelly Oct 26, 17:50
        
        i've never seen black twizzlers - poxie Oct 26, 17:47
- "glycyrrhizin" - some biochemist is screwing with us. -- nm - Reagen Oct 26, 17:04 1
  - Just whatever you do, *do not* say it backwards -- nm - prayformojo Oct 26, 17:46
"Siri on which Alternate Earth did Batman get beat by Superman?" -- nm - Remlik Oct 26, 16:50 8
- "All of them." -- nm - Mop (197 lbs) Oct 26, 17:09
- "During the Sacrifice arc" -- nm - David Oct 26, 16:54 6
  - Siri, are you a Marvel or a DC? -- nm - Reagen Oct 26, 17:01 5
    - "We were talking about you, not me." -- nm - David Oct 26, 17:04 4
      - Siri, do you know Eliza? -- nm - Reagen Oct 26, 17:07 3
        
        "Eliza is my good friend. She was a brilliant psychiatrist, but she's retired now." - David Oct 26, 17:08 2
        
        Yes, actually -- (link) - Reagen Oct 26, 17:10 1
        
        I can't get her to understand the word GLaDOS. She keeps spelling it Gladdice. -- nm - David Oct 26, 17:12
Siri, are Apple's Products very overpriced? -- nm - Bacon Oct 26, 16:48 7
- This sends me to the Apple store. Clever girl. -- nm - David Oct 26, 16:55 1
  - Heh. -- nm - Bacon Oct 26, 16:56
- Siri, who should i start or bench on my fantasy football team this week? -- nm - poxie Oct 26, 16:53 2
  - This takes you to fantasysharks.com. -- nm - David Oct 26, 16:58
  - You are very mean -- nm - Siri Oct 26, 16:55
- Hmmm... I'll let you know later this evening, after I crack open my brand new 13" Macbook Air. -- nm - Mop (197 lbs) Oct 26, 16:50 1
  - You wasted your money! -- nm - Siri on a 17" Droid with $$$ to spare Oct 26, 16:53
So, tell me (Siri? Are you listening?): What percentage of the time does the chicken pox vaccine fail to prevent chicken pox? -- nm - Beryllium Oct 26, 16:45 3
- "It's 7:47 PM." - David Oct 26, 16:47
- Your Face of the time -- nm - Siri Oct 26, 16:46 1
  - It's funny because it's got "Si" built right into the name. -- nm - Beryllium Oct 26, 16:46
Spawn(or anyone else), if you care I've figured out two of those three Riddler trophies from earlier. - the wrong element, bad guy Oct 26, 16:44 1
- The second. - The Ruiner Oct 26, 16:57
"Oh, you mean this $6.6 Billion." -- nm - con_carne Oct 26, 16:42 8
- How do we give another country 6.6 billion when we are in debt ourselves? - Bacon Oct 26, 16:45 6
  - Siri, what about that? -- nm - poxie Oct 26, 17:06 1
    - Links to Guardian.co.uk article about countries propping up the US financially. -- nm - David Oct 26, 17:07
  - It was Iraqi money. Assets had been frozen and were released once the new government was in place. - TWuG Oct 26, 16:58 3
    - Good to know. They paid us for all the military support we gave them right? -- nm - Bacon Oct 26, 16:59 2
      - My guess is they kept that to pay for all the infrastructure damage we caused while helping them. -- nm - TWuG Oct 26, 17:01
      - Sure, with the 6.6 billion that 'went missing' - Beryllium Oct 26, 17:00
- Yeah....bringing our total to 16.6b in bricks of cash given. - Will Hunting Oct 26, 16:43
Are we still pimping out things to vote for? Here is my niece's entry for a poster design for Jack's Mannequin. (Voting it through Facebook/Twitter) -- (link) - Dano Oct 26, 16:38 2
- I like that design a lot -- nm - prayformojo Oct 26, 16:42 1
  - It's very cute -- nm - con_carne Oct 26, 16:43
World Series cancelled tonight by rain. game 6 tomorrow -- nm - peglegpete Oct 26, 16:38 3
- Would game 7 be on Friday, bumping Fringe? - the wrong element, bad guy Oct 26, 16:47
- Another reason football is better -- nm - Bacon Oct 26, 16:38
- Did you hear that game 6 of the World Series has been postponed? -- nm - Mop (197 lbs) Oct 26, 16:38
and David, as we've established, that takes some doing. -- nm - Reagen Oct 26, 16:36 1
- I wonder what that Jason guy ruining my name is up to. -- nm - David Oct 26, 16:38
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- Did you see this video of the 7 timelines in Community? Posted only twice! -- (link) - Mop (197 lbs) Oct 26, 16:37 [youtube]
Thus far, I am damned impressed with Siri. I expect it to exponentially increase my productivity. -- nm - David Oct 26, 16:34 15
- Have you started building your privacy aps? -- nm - The Ruiner Oct 26, 17:00
- wait till it starts dating the Tivo collective -- nm - Remlik Oct 26, 16:45
- Start feeding it Infinity Trivia and see when it taps out -- nm - prayformojo Oct 26, 16:38 2
  - Better yet, ask it what the square root of love is - prayformojo Oct 26, 16:43 1
    - After performing a google search, it did get the answer on the first page of results. -- nm - David Oct 26, 16:46
- You people are pissing me off! - Stephen Oct 26, 16:37 4
  - My brother pre-ordered weeks ago; still waiting. -- nm - TFox Oct 26, 16:39
  - I ordered from Sprint.com on Friday night. I had the device on Monday at lunch. -- nm - David Oct 26, 16:38 2
    - Damn. AT&T's website says "will be delivered in 3 - 4 weeks" - Stephen Oct 26, 16:40 1
      - Yeah, I got the 64, which costs twice as much but is always in stock. -- nm - David Oct 26, 16:43
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  - Set a reminder to talk smack to Blood Feud when I win the league this year. -- nm - David Oct 26, 16:36 3
    - Delusion --- a false belief or opinion: -- nm - Siri Oct 26, 16:41
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    - *snap* *dzizit* *smoke* -- nm - Reagen Oct 26, 16:37
Actually, I think Pippy's daughter (though she is infrequent vistor) is the youngest -- nm - amoxy Oct 26, 16:32 1
- Roo is in school with my eldest niece :) -- nm - peglegpete Oct 26, 16:38
Don't go to the Stanford, Notre Dame game Stephen. You will only cry if you do -- nm - Bacon Oct 26, 16:31 2
- Pffft only a frontrunner would even think about not going to a game because their team might not win. -- nm - Stephen Oct 26, 16:41 1
  - The word "might" is a little optimistic. Let's use the word, "Can't". - Bacon Oct 26, 16:44

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