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Ole Miss fired Houston Nutt last week. Someone mentioned Peyton Manning as a candidate. PM: "Tell them I'm 0-10 as assistant coach." -- nm - nubby Nov 16, 14:20 2
- link -- (link) - nubby Nov 16, 14:21
- Old Miss busted a Nutt? -- nm - zork Nov 16, 14:21
anyone have any game recommendations? windows PC. he likes left 4 dead, umm... and that's all i can really think of. -- nm - kare Nov 16, 14:17 18
- Portal 2 is probably your best bet. - Dignan Nov 16, 14:26 2
  - (Also: Dykrim, while hugely controversial and wildly insensitive, is a lot of fun.) nm - Dignan Nov 16, 14:28
  - done! thanks to you and all. -- nm - kare Nov 16, 14:27
- Left 4 Dead 2 -- nm - Remlik Nov 16, 14:26
- I dunno about games, but this might be another direction you could look into ... -- (link) - Beryllium Nov 16, 14:24 1
  - omg! -- nm - kare Nov 16, 14:27
- If he likes Zombie games, I am pretty sure Dead Island is PC -- nm - amoxy Nov 16, 14:23
- Does he have a Steam account? All kinds of cool games that way -- nm - amoxy Nov 16, 14:19 4
  - not that i know of. he's not really much of a gamer. he'll play maybe 3 or 4 hours a month, if that. -- nm - kare Nov 16, 14:20
  - hard to wrap a downloaded game. -- nm - zork Nov 16, 14:19 2
    - you can gift on Steam, I just checked. -- nm - Reagen Nov 16, 14:22 1
      - sure, but I like to hand someone their gift and let them have the fun of unwrapping it. - zork Nov 16, 14:24
- (oh, sorry. "he" is my husband and i'm trying to find a game for an xmas gift.) -- nm - kare Nov 16, 14:17 5
  - I'm very much into Half Life 2 and the Portal series. Great graphics, lots of action, and they're *thinky* games. - Dr.Vermin Nov 16, 14:22
  - (I read that in the McRib newlywed's voice...I married a 14 year old) I'm thinking any new PC would be much faster than what you have now, so go to.. - zeitgeist Nov 16, 14:21 2
    - he's a computer geek and has super fast video cards, etc. -- nm - kare Nov 16, 14:22 1
      - my coworker says that this helps for Battlefield 3 -- nm - Beryllium Nov 16, 14:24
  - Oblivion Scrolls Assassin -- nm - zork Nov 16, 14:18
I hate how people are using graphics in email signatures now because it makes it hard to find ones that legitimately have attachments. -- nm - zork Nov 16, 14:12 2
- animated smiley faces, like I really need a winking blob cycling over and over again, (and those things are supposed to be notorious for planting - zeitgeist Nov 16, 14:18
- Could be worse, you could work for a boss who continually tries to d/l signature files and gets mad when he can't. - Stephen Nov 16, 14:17
What's got two thumbs and the new iPhone 4S? - Stephen Nov 16, 14:04 3
- Ask Siri. -- nm - mara Nov 16, 14:06 2
  - "Would you like to search the web for What's got Thimsen and an iPhone 4 ass?" - Stephen Nov 16, 14:15 1
    - Heh. -- nm - mara Nov 16, 14:15
I debated posting this several times today - it's equal parts cool and squicky -- (link) - Reagen Nov 16, 14:03 [flickr] 7
- I have seen that before and it still freaks me out -- nm - amoxy Nov 16, 14:19
- Is that Mop's skull? -- (link) - Dr.Vermin Nov 16, 14:07 [Backboard] 2
  - ha, I said basically the same thing. -- nm - loosilu Nov 16, 14:11 1
    - Yes, I am a nice piece of work. -- nm - Mop (195 lbs) Nov 16, 14:19
- that's a nice piece of work. -- nm - loosilu Nov 16, 14:06
- loosi just orga... never mind. -- nm - zork Nov 16, 14:05 1
  - orga...nized a thank-you parade in Reagen's honor for posting the link? -- nm - nubby Nov 16, 14:25
my mom: "oh, jeff's mom is so excited! she's all 'eloise this' and 'eloise that' and she didn't even say anything negative about the name!" - kare Nov 16, 14:02 6
- I think there was an unspoken "'cause that bitch is judgy!" -- nm - mafic Nov 16, 14:04 2
  - Indeed. It's either this or the other interpretation, so I'll go with this one. :) -- nm - Beryllium Nov 16, 14:05 1
    - it's the other. she was talking about how great MIL is. -- nm - kare Nov 16, 14:06
- your mom is subtle, I think I like her -- nm - crash davis Nov 16, 14:03 2
  - "subtle." mm hmm. - kare Nov 16, 14:05 1
    - "I'm not knocking it, but listening very intently to hear if other relatives are. Don't worry, I'll report immediately to you." -- nm - crash davis Nov 16, 14:07
B2: There was a lot of controversy (at least on Fox news) about a muslim soccor team called the Jihad - zeitgeist Nov 16, 14:01 1
- you parenthetical is all I need to know about this "controversy" -- nm - znufrii Nov 16, 14:03
Germany to set up neo-Nazi registry after ten murders -- (link) - Danedukenuuk Nov 16, 13:55 2
- Someone's murdering neo-Nazis? -- nm - Mop (195 lbs) Nov 16, 14:09 1
  - Now is the time on Sprockets when you DIE -- nm - Dieter Morgan si Nov 16, 14:12
Pixie - will you be going to the same families this year for Thanksgiving or finding your stuffing fix elsewhere? -- nm - BroDuckJen Nov 16, 13:53
IIRC - wasn't it Groiny that liked Huskies (dog breed) - ? Ceregon's story about the Husky just made me think - GROINY!!! -- nm - BroDuckJen Nov 16, 13:52
Guigue inspired poll: Does your company close over Xmas and for how long: Yes noon on the 23rd - 8th -- nm - Karl_S Nov 16, 13:49 14
- markets are closed the 26th and 2nd -- nm - znufrii Nov 16, 14:04
- We're closed Dec. 24-26, and Dec. 31-Jan. 2. -- nm - mara Nov 16, 14:02
- Yep, I'm off Dec 16 to Jan 3 -- nm - ceregon Nov 16, 14:02
- We are closed 12/26 (Monday) since Christmas is a Sunday this year. -- nm - ty97 Nov 16, 14:01
- we are closed this year from 5pm on Dec 22 until Jan 2, *except for Dec 28th*. So annoying. -- nm - Andie Nov 16, 13:55 5
  - but you got Yom Kippur off and were paid, right? -- nm - zork Nov 16, 13:58 3
    - Yom Kippur was a *saturday* this year, so no. but I did get two days off, paid, for Rosh Hashanah. -- nm - Andie Nov 16, 14:00 2
      - ah right. so you *owe* them! -- nm - zork Nov 16, 14:02 1
        
        jokes aside, that does suck -- nm - zork Nov 16, 14:14
  - You have to go in 1 day out of 10? Wow. -- nm - mara Nov 16, 13:57
- 23rd to the 10th, but there'll be like three people in the office that last week. -- nm - mafic Nov 16, 13:52 1
  - The last week we're open, that is. -- nm - mafic Nov 16, 13:53
- I am off from the 22nd, returning on the 2nd. They pushed NYD back to the 30th so I might be working on Bowl Day. -- nm - Will Hunting Nov 16, 13:50
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(Oblivion is on sale today at Steam for $5.) nm - Dignan Nov 16, 13:38 28
- Maybe I'm biased, but Skyrim is what all of my students are talking about lately. - nubby Nov 16, 13:42 15
  - My slacker roommate is so into Skyrim he hasn't gone to class since it came out. -- nm - ceregon Nov 16, 13:44 14
    - You should call his parents. -- nm - amanda, bus Nov 16, 13:50 13
      - Is skipping class to play video games a "call the parents" offense? Hmmmm... -- nm - Jim Nov 16, 13:52 12
        
        My son asked jokingly if he could stay home the day he got the game. I said "Sure!" - amoxy Nov 16, 13:57 7
        
        Ya know...all you have to do it take the power cord. It's way easier to carry than all that other stuff. :) -- nm - Jim Nov 16, 13:58 6
        
        Dude, he would find a power cord -- nm - amoxy Nov 16, 14:03 4
        
        do you know how hard it was for me to find one when mine got fried??? nm -- nm - Vulgar Professional Nov 16, 14:04 3
        
        Yep and there are 3 different versions - eag Nov 16, 14:08 1
        
        Not amazon it was Ebay -- nm - eag Nov 16, 14:09
        
        on release days, they are all being used. -- nm - zork Nov 16, 14:06
        
        *removes the hard drive from the 360 and leaves with that* -- nm - Will Hunting Nov 16, 13:59
        
        Nope. Unless he's putting himself in physical danger, I'm not going to call. - ceregon Nov 16, 13:56 3
        
        Assuming he grinds enough to level up, he should be cool then. -- nm - TFox Nov 16, 13:59 2
        
        "Hello? Yes, it's ceregon. I'm afraid Johnny isn't doing enough blocking and is falling behind on that skill. You need to come get him." -- nm - Reagen Nov 16, 14:01 1
        
        The only time I actually called (they call me though) was to tell them his grades fell below a 3.0 and he was losing the good student discount. - ceregon Nov 16, 14:04
- budget, like, a couple hundred hours. -- nm - Reagen Nov 16, 13:38 11
  - I've already found that Dkyrim has purposely done away with a lot of the skill grinding that Obliviion had -- nm - crash davis Nov 16, 13:42 9
    - FYI: you are inactive on .org and .com. -- nm - Beaker Nov 16, 13:43 1
      - okay, thanks -- nm - crash davis Nov 16, 13:43
    - that is Skyrim, not Dkryim -- nm - crash davis Nov 16, 13:42 6
      - Dykrim is a...very different game. nm - Dignan Nov 16, 13:43 5
        
        yeah, a bit too NSFW to discuss here -- nm - crash davis Nov 16, 13:45 3
        
        "You meet a potential partner at a club. How many days do you wait before moving in together? Choose a number between one and five" nm - Dignan Nov 16, 13:48 2
        
        "is that a d20 game?" "no, that's way too many d's." -- nm - TFox Nov 16, 13:56
        
        Laughing. -- nm - amanda, bus Nov 16, 13:51
        
        But also on sale for $5 down by the old bridge in town. -- nm - nubby Nov 16, 13:45
  - For the price of two McRibs. I mean, shop around... nm - Dignan Nov 16, 13:40
Yikes! My standards/jazz vocals Pandora station is experiencing show tune creep! - con_carne Nov 16, 13:37 3
- Kind of surprised you knew it was a show tune. It was written for a pretty obscure musical. -- nm - mara Nov 16, 13:49 1
  - Well, it sounds very much like one. - con_carne Nov 16, 14:03
- ummm...a lot of standards were originally show tunes and vice versa. -- nm - znufrii Nov 16, 13:46
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- "Maybe the Vikings will win the next one." *sobs harder* -- nm - Reagen Nov 16, 13:37
whoa, one of my little gold stocks is up 44% today on a takeover bid - ceregon Nov 16, 13:31
Mel, I'm still trying to find my Juan. - ty97 Nov 16, 13:29
SC Gov Nikki Haley is telling Occupy Columbia to get off her lawn. - nubby Nov 16, 13:29 1
- Smithers, release the hounds. -- nm - Max Nov 16, 13:34
NWBR: It's not 4 additionnal days, it 4 days including Christmas and New Year - Guigue Nov 16, 13:26 2
- Okay, I get you. You're referring to your stat days during that time only. Not vacation time. - Name Withheld By Request Nov 16, 13:30 1
  - a couple of years ago my company was forced by the global office to make everybody take seven unpaid days off. not everybody at the same time and we.. - zork Nov 16, 13:42
Seriously, putting anyone above Gretzky is madness. The man has more assists than anyone else has points. - mafic Nov 16, 13:24 13
- None of the "era" arguments against Gretzky fly, simply because a rising tide floats all boats. - Mop (195 lbs) Nov 16, 14:08
- the northern version of dismissing Babe Ruth? -- nm - crash davis Nov 16, 13:32
- i don't know many canadian athleets - Danedukenuuk Nov 16, 13:29
- In an era when such stars as Jimmy Carson, Rob Brown and Dan Quinn were getting 50-60As per season... - Name Withheld By Request Nov 16, 13:29 7
  - If we were talking small amounts, I might agree with you, but a thousand more points than anyone, ever? -- nm - mafic Nov 16, 13:35
  - He was getting 70 assists a year at 36yrs old in the neutral zone trap days of the mid-late 90's. -- nm - Will Hunting Nov 16, 13:31
  - neither have anything remotely close to his rink vision - Reagen Nov 16, 13:30 4
    - I still get goosebumps thinking about one pass I saw him do. some sort of backwards spinarama thing from his side of the red line (remember those?)... - zork Nov 16, 13:45
    - Nor an exhibitionist daughter on Twitter. nm - Dignan Nov 16, 13:43 2
      - an oft-overlooked intangible. -- nm - Reagen Nov 16, 13:47 1
        
        Oh, it's tangible. With a capital tang, if you get my subtle drift. nm - Dignan Nov 16, 13:50
- Also: Gretzky, Howe, Orr, Lemieux, Bossy. -- nm - mafic Nov 16, 13:28 1
  - Bossy would be an interesting case if his back had held out - Reagen Nov 16, 13:29
I've only seen weapons like these in my war games. Real Call of Duty sh!#. -- nm - crash davis Nov 16, 13:23
DC Police have found a new way to catch bicycle thieves. -- (link) - MDH Nov 16, 13:23
pixie - asking Carrie Fisher about SWvsST is like getting Shatner's opinion, except less awesome -- nm - crash davis Nov 16, 13:23
"This salad tastes like douche." -- nm - Burt's Mom Nov 16, 13:23
What news from The Front!? -- nm - Mel Profit Nov 16, 13:21 11
- All Quiet -- nm - Danedukenuuk Nov 16, 13:23 1
  - maybe he meant the eastern front? -- nm - BroDuckJen Nov 16, 13:28
- I'm currently wreaking havoc on the sea unknown since the days of Walter Raleigh. -- nm - Reagen Nov 16, 13:22 8
  - I look forward to perusing CRs tonight. -- nm - Mel Profit Nov 16, 13:25
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    - boning the Queen? - Reagen Nov 16, 13:24 4
      - lay back and think of England. -- nm - loosilu Nov 16, 13:35
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        (That was actually the English - I wonder if it was the way they did things back then) -- nm - Roger More Nov 16, 13:42
      - if I were you, I'd aim for the Duchess of Cambridge instead -- nm - crash davis Nov 16, 13:27
    - "We're going to need a bigger tower" -- nm - crash davis Nov 16, 13:24
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- you are such a Green Bay fanboy -- nm - crash davis Nov 16, 13:21 4
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    - If I say Roger's season won't last at this level, would that make me a reluctant cynic? -- nm - crash davis Nov 16, 13:26 2
      - there'd have to be something in there about Oregon. -- nm - Reagen Nov 16, 13:27 1
        
        Wisconsin, Illinois's Oregon -- nm - crash davis Nov 16, 13:30
Caps lock is how I feel inside. All the time. -- nm - David Nov 16, 13:19 7
- DAMNIT KIM. - TFox Nov 16, 13:48 2
  - :) -- nm - con_carne Nov 16, 14:05
  - it's alternately very funny and very sweet. good stuff. -- nm - Diva Nov 16, 13:49
- We need to develop this into a show with Bill Murray doing voice overs -- nm - con_carne Nov 16, 13:23 1
  - "No, really, Bill, Stephen Soderberg is writing it" -- nm - Reagen Nov 16, 13:24
- OMG -- nm - Danedukenuuk Nov 16, 13:21
- "You talk the same way about the UPS man." "That guy is a bitch." -- nm - Reagen Nov 16, 13:21

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