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Earth's population expected to pass 7 billion sometime in the next several days... -- (link) - Don Homer Oct 27, 07:28 22
- i really didn't know we were that close, in my mind it was still 6-something. - Frankenstandie Oct 27, 07:36 9
  - am I nuts or do I remember being alive when it was just 3 or 4 billion? -- nm - Mel Profit Oct 27, 07:37 5
    - I hate being late to a thread. - psilotum Oct 27, 08:10
    - or? -- nm - 4,198,574,430 Oct 27, 07:42
    - I don't understand our choice here. -- nm - loosilu Oct 27, 07:40
    - It was 4.4 billion in 1980 -- nm - mara Oct 27, 07:39 1
      - Ok, that's what I thought. Thanks. -- nm - Mel Profit Oct 27, 07:41
  - I wonder where the most growth is happening. maybe India? -- nm - loosilu Oct 27, 07:36 2
    - Percentage-wise? Africa. Niger, Somalia, Ethiopia, etc. Number-wise? india. -- nm - Don Homer Oct 27, 07:37 1
      - Awesomeness-wise? Moi. -- nm - con_carne Oct 27, 07:39
- BBC has a nice little "what number were you" calculator. -- (link) - loosilu, 3,536,764,929 Oct 27, 07:33 10
  - 2,695,847,726th -- nm - 2 Geisty for my Zeit Oct 27, 12:02
  - 3,010,395,907th -- nm - GregW Oct 27, 08:31
  - nice -- nm - sycor killer 4,199,183,902nd Oct 27, 07:49
  - 3,700,647,677th -- nm - decline Oct 27, 07:44
  - 3,720,542,602nd -- nm - Capstern Oct 27, 07:41
  - 3,863,041,392nd! -- nm - LMS Oct 27, 07:40
  - Suckers! -- nm - 4,349,728,871st Oct 27, 07:38
  - nice -- nm - 4,198,574,430 Oct 27, 07:38
  - 4,225,883,955th -- nm - Will Hunting Oct 27, 07:37
  - 4,253,782,722nd! -- nm - Don Homer Oct 27, 07:35
- (some of these photos are rather sobering.) -- nm - Don Homer Oct 27, 07:32
Project Runway fans: Predict the winner. - loosilu Oct 27, 07:28 11
- Also, I miss the Models of the Runway show, and I hate the couch talk show. -- nm - mara Oct 27, 07:43
- Victor. Last week, I would have thought Anya. But not after the show last week. nm -- nm - Jim Oct 27, 07:33 7
  - It's gotta be Viktor. If it's Joshua I will personally go strangle that little girl in the video I posted. -- nm - mara Oct 27, 07:40 1
    - That's how I feel about Kimberly. I'd probably only drop kick a kitten if Joshua won. - Jim Oct 27, 07:44
  - that's who I meant. thank you. I think his collection has killer pieces. -- nm - loosilu Oct 27, 07:34 4
    - Honestly, I think this will be one of the worst final runways I've seen (I haven't seen every season, but a lot) - Jim Oct 27, 07:36 3
      - Well, there were some turkey final shows int he past, like LA. But none of them is a Christian Siriano this time. - loosilu Oct 27, 07:40 2
        
        It'll be interesting to see what kind of changes they make and all that. For instance, Anya... - Jim Oct 27, 07:42 1
        
        really, All Stars? that would be great. -- nm - loosilu Oct 27, 07:44
- after Mondo didn't win i decided i hate their winners. -- nm - Frankenstandie Oct 27, 07:29 1
  - he's doing ok now, apparently. -- nm - loosilu Oct 27, 07:31
Neil Gaiman interviews Terry Pratchett -- (link) - znufrii Oct 27, 07:24 2 1
- bookmarking for later, is it good? -- nm - loosilu Oct 27, 07:25 1
  - Enjoyable, as you would probably expect. :) -- nm - znufrii Oct 27, 07:27
American Horror Story last night - prayformojo Oct 27, 07:12 12
- the aspect I love about the weekly shows is *spoils* and I dont' know how they will be able to keep it up... - Epiphany Oct 27, 07:25 2
  - I wonder how they'll keep that up and not start jacking up the timeline. (spoils) - Jim Oct 27, 07:34 1
    - agreed -- nm - Epiphany Oct 27, 07:43
- The whole show isn't really scary for me. It's just really frickin' creepy. (spoils) - Jim Oct 27, 07:18 2
  - I would love to know (spoiler) - prayformojo Oct 27, 07:20 1
    - No shit. I'm sure we'll find out eventually. -- nm - Jim Oct 27, 07:22
- I am not reading this - I feel asleep but I will say: Sylar!! I love his work. - Epiphany Oct 27, 07:17 5
  - I've only seen those two things, but he was great. -- nm - loosilu Oct 27, 07:23
  - that was him? - Mel Profit Oct 27, 07:20 3
    - oh yes, I watched the first 15 min or so - I just like to see him work. - * bad acting spoils* - Epiphany Oct 27, 07:24 1
      - yeah, he was pretty bad. tried to figure out where i'd seen him before and decided that i didn't care to look it up -- nm - prayformojo Oct 27, 07:33
    - Yep -- nm - prayformojo Oct 27, 07:20
Nintendo to Report First-Ever Annual Loss -- (link) - budice Oct 27, 07:11
A Katy Perry earworm? I don't think I deserve that. - Mel Profit Oct 27, 07:01 34
- Do you really wanna say no? -- nm - con_carne Oct 27, 07:41
- Sounds like someone needs some Hot for Teacher. -- nm - loosilu Oct 27, 07:20 5
  - I'm currently going over my Anti-Ear Worm options. -- nm - Mel Profit Oct 27, 07:23 4
    - I have some higher great weapons. Super Trouper. -- nm - loosilu Oct 27, 07:24 3
      - I'm going to start with some 90s Gangsta Rap and see what that does. -- nm - Mel Profit Oct 27, 07:25 2
        
        ~gonna tear this mutha out.....~ nm -- nm - ghouly Oct 27, 07:29
        
        I might have to borrow it later. Now I have Super Trouper. -- nm - loosilu Oct 27, 07:26
- Mel, you are Hot and cold -- nm - amoxy Oct 27, 07:11
- I gave my class "The Hearse Song" as an earworm yesterday. -- nm - nubby Oct 27, 07:07 6
  - thankfully I don't know that one. Or at least don't know it by the title. -- nm - Mel Profit Oct 27, 07:16 5
    - */ The worms crawl in / The worms crawl out / The worms play pinochle in your snout /* -- nm - nubby Oct 27, 07:24 4
      - Oh good. I don't know that one. -- nm - Mel Profit Oct 27, 07:31 2
        
        classic summer camp song. -- nm - loosilu Oct 27, 07:31 1
        
        I went to summer camp once. once. -- nm - Mel Profit Oct 27, 07:32
      - ~and one little worm that isn't so shy / crawls into your ear and out your eye~ -- nm - loosilu Oct 27, 07:27
- oh..don't forget...~Baby you're a Firework!~ -- nm - budice Oct 27, 07:07 4
  - wait...no...what? Heather Morris didn't dance to that one! NO! STOP! -- nm - Mel Profit Oct 27, 07:09 1
    - ~dancing...crying...jazz hands over my head...singing~ -- nm - Mel Profit Oct 27, 07:12
  - ~shut up and put your money where your mouth is.....~ - ghouly Oct 27, 07:08 1
    - I actually don't mind either... - Mel Profit Oct 27, 07:24
- ~/You...make...me...feel like I'm living a teen...age...dream/~ -- nm - Jim Oct 27, 07:03 10
  - ~and don't ever look back~ nm -- nm - ghouly Oct 27, 07:03 9
    - I do like that her target audience thinks they have something to look back upon... - Mel Profit Oct 27, 07:15 8
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        having turned 40 makes me think of these things... - Mel Profit Oct 27, 07:29 5
        
        I have been loving 40s. -- nm - loosilu Oct 27, 07:30 4
        
        So far it's great. -- nm - Mel Profit Oct 27, 07:34 3
        
        I'll let you know in a week.... - ghouly Oct 27, 07:35 2
        
        jokes aside, your due from a good stretch. - Mel Profit Oct 27, 07:38 1
        
        from = for. - Mel Profit Oct 27, 07:38
        
        Grandpa Mel. Did you know he wears an onion on his belt? - Beryllium Oct 27, 07:29
- Oh, F*** YOU! - Will Hunting Oct 27, 07:02 2
  - actually...I just figured out what makes it better. - Mel Profit Oct 27, 07:04
  - ~crying and dancing~ -- nm - Mel Profit Oct 27, 07:03
*puts on Dow 12,000 hat* - znufrii Oct 27, 06:58 1
- I think Amazon played it smart by intro-ing the Kindle Fire, then posting results which included the R&D costs for it. -- nm - budice Oct 27, 06:59
Joining Netflix and Redbox, add Blockbuster rentals to the 28-day wait window for Warner Bros movies... -- (link) - Don Homer Oct 27, 06:52 2
- do amazon and the apple movie rental store ahve delays? -- nm - amanda romney Oct 27, 06:56 1
  - There's delays, unless you want to pay a premium. Most 99cent rental operations have delays now -- nm - budice Oct 27, 06:58
OMG, this weekly conference call I'm on has been the exact same call for the past month just the same issues over and over. They are making zero progress. Arghh! -- nm - Ender Oct 27, 06:49
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- Yeah, Theo became their Prez of Operations or some title above GM. -- nm - Will Hunting Oct 27, 06:47 3
  - Theo is the P.O.O. nm -- nm - ghouly Oct 27, 07:04 1
    - *laughing* -- nm - Will Hunting Oct 27, 07:05
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A source has indicated that LeBron James, Carmelo Anthony & Chris Paul have each pulled out of a scheduled world exhibition tour featuring NBA players - Evil Beaker Oct 27, 06:45 6
- Floyd Mayweather was acquitted of misdemeanor harassment in a Las Vegas court yesterday - Evil Beaker Oct 27, 06:46 5
  - that's hilarious. -- nm - Mel Profit Oct 27, 07:03
  - nice -- nm - znufrii Oct 27, 06:59
  - Awesome. -- nm - MDH Oct 27, 06:56
  - L4. -- nm - Will Hunting Oct 27, 06:48 1
    - I love the Grantland morning sports news breakdown -- nm - Evil Beaker Oct 27, 06:57
who here is watching beavis and butthead tonight? I need to know if it, like, works. -- nm - amanda romney Oct 27, 06:42 3
- I'll be dvr'ing it. I hope it still works... - Stephen Oct 27, 07:10
- It's DVRd, doubt I'll see it tonight though -- nm - MDH Oct 27, 06:48
- Thanks for the reminder. I'm going to dvr it. -- nm - lileve Oct 27, 06:43
Not the Onion, or Chappelle's show despite the similarities: The Players Ball is coming to DC next month -- (link) - MDH Oct 27, 06:35
TV PSA #2: Chuck premiers tomorrow night! I checked and this time I'm right! Final season! -- nm - TWuG Oct 27, 06:33
" River Pai Gow is a bitch" -- nm - Epiphany Oct 27, 06:32 2
- Strip Pai Gow....Where the back definitely beats the front -- nm - budice Oct 27, 06:36
- *rawr* -- nm - znufrii Oct 27, 06:33
TV PSA: Halloween episodes of the NBC comedies, Person of Interest, The Mentalist, World Series -- nm - Evil Beaker Oct 27, 06:31 3
- Halloween episode of World Series should be fun. -- nm - loosilu Oct 27, 07:23
- Final episode of Hidden, Southland and Californication for me. Need to watch final episode of The Fades too (Remlik have you been watching?) -- nm - LMS Oct 27, 06:37 1
  - Final Project Runway here. -- nm - loosilu Oct 27, 07:25
10 arrested in $1 billion railroad pension fraud scheme -- (link) - znufrii Oct 27, 06:10
Lost in the primary nuttiness of Survivor last night was one of the more nauseating things I've seen on a reality show (spoils) - prayformojo Oct 27, 06:10 4
- The one thing I'll say on this (spoils) - Jim Oct 27, 06:49
- Non-spoiler observation (but I'll keep it in the message just in case) - Guigue Oct 27, 06:29 1
  - Spoilers - Beryllium Oct 27, 06:35
- spoils - CovingtonCat Oct 27, 06:17
Our film We Need to Talk About Kevin won best picture at the London Film Festival last night, which is great. - LMS Oct 27, 06:04 23
- Woot -- nm - Capstern Oct 27, 07:35
- Yay!! Excellent. -- nm - MojaveMeg Oct 27, 07:28
- Don Flipping Homer! -- nm - loosilu Oct 27, 07:28
- Congrats! -- nm - Stephen Oct 27, 07:18
- Congrats! That's awesome! -- nm - Krusty Oct 27, 07:12
- awesome -- nm - decline Oct 27, 07:03
- Winning! -- nm - Mel Profit Oct 27, 07:01
- Nice!! -- nm - kelly Oct 27, 06:47
- Congratulations -- nm - lileve Oct 27, 06:46
- Congrats! -- nm - Evil Beaker Oct 27, 06:39
- WTG...."From Oscar Award Winnder LMS comes...Police Academy 9: Mission to Mars" -- nm - budice Oct 27, 06:37
- Yaaaay!!! -- nm - colin Oct 27, 06:28
- yay! -- nm - Divali Oct 27, 06:24
- great -- nm - Danedukenuuk Oct 27, 06:20
- Very cool! -- nm - Don Homer Oct 27, 06:18
- awesome! -- nm - Epiphany Oct 27, 06:17
- Woot! -- nm - TWuG Oct 27, 06:09
- Congratulations! -- nm - prayformojo Oct 27, 06:08
- nice! -- nm - znufrii Oct 27, 06:05 4
  - Thanks. I saw Jerusalem last night, it was bloody marvelous. -- nm - LMS Oct 27, 06:35 3
    - wasn't it, though? Loved the ending especially. -- nm - znufrii Oct 27, 06:36 2
      - For a 3 hour play the time rushed by. I overheard that some of the cultural references were changed for the US production. -- nm - LMS Oct 27, 06:45 1
        
        I believe that is correct. It was still *very* English, however. -- nm - znufrii Oct 27, 06:54
Toronto's Mayor: "The Embarrassment that just keeps giving. Verbally abuses 911 operators, when he called about a famous CBC comedienne at his house. - Frankenstandie Oct 27, 05:57 2
- I posted his quote down below :) -- nm - Evil Beaker Oct 27, 06:16 1
  - oh, excellent, excellent, he's national news. -- nm - Frankenstandie Oct 27, 06:16
The wife of the jacktard who set all his animals free wants the rescued animals back from the Columbus Zoo. And they have no legal recourse to refuse. - TWuG Oct 27, 05:55 2
- CWAA. -- nm - mara Oct 27, 06:50 1
  - Had to look that one up. :-) -- nm - TWuG Oct 27, 07:14
Exxon profit rises 41 percent, shares rise -- (link) - budice Oct 27, 05:52 1
- class warfare!! -- nm - Epiphany Oct 27, 06:19
Third quarter GDP rose 2.5 percent... -- (link) - Don Homer Oct 27, 05:49
Remember yesterday? -- nm - prayformojo Oct 27, 05:48
Australia unveils world's largest gold coin in Perth -- (link) - Danedukenuuk Oct 27, 05:14 1
- Suck it, Canada! -- nm - Roger More Oct 27, 05:27
�You � bitches! Don�t you f--king know? I�m Rob f--king Ford, the mayor of this city!� -- (link) - Evil Beaker Oct 27, 05:12 6
- they should run the 911 call and that picture of him on CBC.ca. yecch. -- nm - Divali Oct 27, 06:21 4
  - i hated him before he won and he's done *nothing* but continue to be even more of an ass now that he's the mayor. - Frankenstandie Oct 27, 06:23 3
    - I'f he was from the States he'd probably be running for President and leading the polls. -- nm - Divali Oct 27, 06:26 2
      - "Fuck you, he's the goddam Mayor." *puffs on cigarette* -- nm - Ford Spokesperson Oct 27, 06:28 1
        
        this -- nm - Divali Oct 27, 06:28
- yikes. -- nm - Don Homer Oct 27, 05:12
FiveThirtyEight looks at Herman Cain, Outlier - concluding there is no way to tell how he'll do going forward, but remarkable how he's done in polling -- (link) - Don Homer Oct 27, 05:09 1
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