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I've always been a dog person. Always. Cats are bleh. - ty97 Jan 19, 12:38 4
- you've never had a cat, have you? -- nm - Andie Jan 19, 12:39 2
  - i was a big cat person as a kid but now i'm a dog - zork Jan 19, 12:42
  - never ever ever - ty97 Jan 19, 12:41
- I'd rather have a dog too. I hate having a cat. I mean, it's cool and all, but it's a cat -- nm - CQ Jan 19, 12:39
SITWAP: *kare signal* Rare dog breed having a resurgence of popularity. If you can pronounce the name. -- (link) - TaurusII Jan 19, 12:35 2
- oh, pretty dog -- nm - ty97 Jan 19, 12:37 1
  - Sounds like an active breed, too. -- nm - TaurusII Jan 19, 12:38
GB Packers signing Dom Capers as their D Coordinator -- nm - Beaker Jan 19, 12:34
Windsor man loses 150k to Nigerian Scam -- (link) - Reagen Jan 19, 12:30 12
- I feel very bad for him. And I just don't understand how this happens. -- nm - ty97 Jan 19, 12:40
- Wow - Todd Manning Jan 19, 12:35
- and most of the money was borrowed from relatives -- nm - zork Jan 19, 12:32 8
  - how, in this day and age... -- nm - Reagen Jan 19, 12:34 7
    - Personalizing it to his family name did the trick. Kinda sounded like he'd seen some scams on the net before but didn't believe those -- nm - zork Jan 19, 12:41
    - it's a hundred year old scam. it continues to work because lots of people are greedy....nm - x Jan 19, 12:38 1
      - just, it seems like literally buying snake oil now. - Reagen Jan 19, 12:39
    - word, totally my thought. Living under a rock maybe? -- nm - Beaker Jan 19, 12:35 3
      - Especially as he wasn't the only one who was suckered. His whole family was taken in -- nm - Roger More Jan 19, 12:36 2
        
        The family is just as ridiculous though. Buddy's 22. I know if I was asking for that kinda cake at 22 - hell, if I asked today! - my 'rents would... - Name Withheld By Request Jan 19, 12:40 1
        
        "What do you need 60,000 for?" "GOSH! Do I have to get the 3rd degree on everything?" -- nm - Reagen Jan 19, 12:41
- I knew there was something that I was going to link but forgot about. -- nm - zork Jan 19, 12:31
TT: QI me. What kind of facial products do I need. My forehead sheds skin like crazy, its like powedered with corn meal, do I need to put that blue - zeitgeist Jan 19, 12:26 10
- I'd go see a doctor for a prescription cream if I were you. -- nm - Loyola Jan 19, 12:31
- first of all - you need to exfoliate (get a facial scrub). secondly, you need a facial moisturizer. - Andie Jan 19, 12:29 4
  - Yeah but how come it's just his forehead that's shedding skin? -- nm - Loyola Jan 19, 12:32 3
    - someone's partner needs to shave their pubes? -- nm - zork Jan 19, 12:39
    - that's where its worse, or where I can see it better -- nm - zeitgeist Jan 19, 12:33 1
      - Drink a load of water for a week and see what happens. -- nm - Loyola Jan 19, 12:37
- aquaphor -- nm - CQ Jan 19, 12:28
- Aw man, I'm eatin' lunch over here -- nm - con_carne Jan 19, 12:27 1
  - is there coconut in your lunch? -- nm - ty97 Jan 19, 12:28
- zeitgeist == Lord Voldemort? -- nm - zork Jan 19, 12:26
RBS Market Capitalisation on Friday 16th January? 13.7 billion pounds - Loyola Jan 19, 12:23
Oh gosh no. It's snowing again! -- nm - lileve Jan 19, 12:19 8
- are you sure it's not zeitgeists' forehead? -- nm - oblique Jan 19, 12:29 2
  - test -- nm - FabioParme Jan 20, 11:54
  - shakes head to say no but nobody can see cause of the cloud of ash -- nm - zeitgeist Jan 19, 12:35
- looks like a tickertape parade outside and I already shoveled for more than 90 minutes this morning. -- nm - zork Jan 19, 12:21 4
  - We just finished shoveling from the storm last night. *sob* -- nm - lileve Jan 19, 12:22 3
    - 15 hours of shoveling? - Rorschach: 03/06/09!!! Jan 19, 12:25 1
      - No no no. -- nm - lileve Jan 19, 12:26
    - P.S. - lileve Jan 19, 12:24
~ some balls are held for charity, and some for fancy dress, but when they'r held for pleasure, they're the balls that i like best ~ -- nm - i'm not dead yet ! Jan 19, 12:16 4
- ~we've got the biggest balls of them all!~ -- nm - lileve Jan 19, 12:18 2
  - there's some weird woman on the subway here that sings out loud to tapes she made from the radio and hearing her sing that totally creeped me out. - zork Jan 19, 12:24 1
    - *chuckle* -- nm - lileve Jan 19, 12:41
- " and we're gonna have such a wonderful time... seafood cocktails, ... crabs.... crayfish... " -- nm - i'm not dead yet ! Jan 19, 12:17
What a country! - Yakov Smirnoff Jan 19, 12:07 7
- hell, four and a half years ago he couldn't get into his party convention - zork Jan 19, 12:10 6
  - Ummm...4 years ago, he gave the keynote address. - Will Hunting Jan 19, 12:14 5
    - Which makes me think that there's as good a chance as anything that we don't even "know" the name of the next Republican president yet. -- nm - Name Withheld By Request Jan 19, 12:26 2
      - certainly none of the yahoos from 08 have a short, barring disaster. -- nm - Reagen Jan 19, 12:29 1
        
        or a shot, even. -- nm - Reagen Jan 19, 12:29
    - And the countdown to his presidency began. -- nm - Rorschach: 03/06/09!!! Jan 19, 12:18
    - err, yeah ... 8 years ago -- nm - zork Jan 19, 12:17
Unsure if this is a good deal or not, but Blu-ray Transformers 2-disc set for $16.99. -- (link) - JaxSean Jan 19, 12:06
Holy crap - there was a 40 car pileup a half hour away from me - 2 fatalities, numerous injuries so far. - kelly Jan 19, 12:04 10
- Disturbingly, this sounds like a typical rainy day in Southern California -- nm - con_carne Jan 19, 12:22
- Eeep! -- nm - TaurusII Jan 19, 12:20
- here -- (link) - Rorschach: 03/06/09!!! Jan 19, 12:14
- Up near Hagerstown? - Will Hunting Jan 19, 12:06 2
  - Myersville? -- nm - kelly Jan 19, 12:07
  - Myersville, close enough. Yeah, pretty uneven terrain for idiot drivers. -- nm - Will Hunting Jan 19, 12:07
- snow-related? Ouch :( -- nm - Beryllium Jan 19, 12:05 1
  - "at least partly to blame". -- (link) - kelly Jan 19, 12:06
- Oh my goodness. -- nm - lileve Jan 19, 12:05 1
  - My goodness too. -- nm - Loyola Jan 19, 12:05
average, not great Watchmen page on ebay currently at $12,851 and reserve not met -- nm - peglegpete Jan 19, 12:04
alright, well, I guess I'd better head out and buy some running gear. - Beryllium Jan 19, 12:00 2
- we had thought of paying for ... - zork Jan 19, 12:02 1
  - :) I'm going to enroll in a Clubsail program, I think ... $350 or something and then I can take a 20-foot boat out any time from now until april - Beryllium Jan 19, 12:03
Does Amazon have any other "daily specials" other than mp3, video game, and Gold Box? - JaxSean Jan 19, 11:55 2
- I like that you can even find Toblerone on Amazon -- (link) - Marcel Jan 19, 12:00 [Image] 1
  - Don't forget about Tuscan Milk. -- nm - Beryllium Jan 19, 12:01
Hmm. My gmail spam folder is down to 820. That's really low. I wonder what's going on -- nm - oblique Jan 19, 11:54 8
- They're sending them all to my work email. -- nm - TaurusII Jan 19, 12:19
- every sunday I empty my junk box, from a high of 2,200 in a week the first year they had the bulk box, to an average of 500-700 a week... - zeitgeist Jan 19, 12:05 2
  - I just let my empty out naturally with the 30 day retention so I notice when it dorps below 1000 usually -- nm - oblique Jan 19, 12:16 1
    - I wish I kept a record, it might have been interesting or informative -- nm - zeitgeist Jan 19, 12:27
- my yahoo spam is down to almost nothing, but gmail is still going strong. -- nm - Reagen Jan 19, 11:58
- 3021 in my Spam box. *empties* - JaxSean Jan 19, 11:58
- I thought the same thing yesterday. I have 14 spam. -- nm - CQ Jan 19, 11:56
- Didn't 2 major spammers get convicted and sent to jail? -- nm - lileve Jan 19, 11:55
I'm quite impressed with my boss today. We are closing the office from noon till 3pm tomorrow to go to her house - Andie Jan 19, 11:51 23
- Bow chicha wow wow. - David Jan 19, 12:08
- is aAex Trebek hosting it, like he is in your search for a new PM? -- nm - peglegpete Jan 19, 12:05 1
  - Alex -- nm - peglegpete Jan 19, 12:06
- It's so odd to me that Canadians would be so interested in our inauguration. -- nm - Dano Jan 19, 12:03 10
  - Could it possibly be that instead of attacking the rest of the world we may be making a return to leading? -- nm - Rorschach: 03/06/09!!! Jan 19, 12:36
  - Considering how heavily promoted it is here as a television event, some Canadians ought to watch it if they're getting a fraction of the amount ofhype -- nm - con_carne Jan 19, 12:24 1
    - it's going to be a global event to some extent. -- nm - Andie Jan 19, 12:25
  - i've never watched one before. It's all about Obama! -- nm - Andie Jan 19, 12:16
  - I think it's more about Obama than the inauguration. But Westminster-style politics doesn't have much in the way of spectacle -- nm - Roger More Jan 19, 12:06 4
    - *smites RogerMore with his mace* -- nm - Gentleman Usher of the Black Rod Jan 19, 12:08 2
      - that's ritual, not spectacle :) - Roger More Jan 19, 12:12 1
        
        not exactly -- (link) - zork Jan 19, 12:16
    - qualifier: I haven't been in Canada for an inauguration before -- nm - Roger More Jan 19, 12:07
  - yeah, it's amazing that people in other countries are interested in things outside their borders ;-) -- nm - zork Jan 19, 12:05
- Hey, complete change of subject, but did you ever have that foot de-ionization? -- nm - Roger More Jan 19, 12:01 2
  - I *did*! the 'detoxification' aspect is complete BS..... (more inside) - Andie Jan 19, 12:19 1
    - heh - that's funny. I had an idea it was BS but the posters look so unappealing, I just had to know more -- nm - Roger More Jan 19, 12:23
- isn't it before noon? -- nm - Marcel Jan 19, 12:01 2
  - 11:56 EST -- nm - Rorschach: 03/06/09!!! Jan 19, 12:23 1
    - really? good to know. (i thought the *actual* inauguration was 1-2:30, no?) -- nm - Andie Jan 19, 12:30
- We're setting up a big screen in one of the theatres for everyone to watch, but it's really just so we don't crash the server streaming it. -- nm - emoticripple Jan 19, 11:59
- Huh. I guess I'll be at work with good ol' NPR -- nm - con_carne Jan 19, 11:57
- That is pretty cool. -- nm - JaxSean Jan 19, 11:54
CNN has all the inagural addresses either to read or in latter years to view -- (link) - eag Jan 19, 11:51 1
- And the New Yorker had a neat article last week on their evolution. -- (link) - emoticripple, znu v2 Jan 19, 12:04
That adjust hurt -- nm - CQ Jan 19, 11:47 2
- MLK Day is always always always long. -- nm - nubby Jan 19, 12:14
- At least I don't have to change my Mall Cop short. -- nm - JaxSean Jan 19, 11:51
he can't rap and he can't walk on stage either ... -- (link) - zork Jan 19, 11:47 [youtube] 4
- I hope this is some sort of Borat put-on. -- nm - Reagen Jan 19, 11:50 1
  - not that he'd look any better in that bathing suit - zork Jan 19, 12:04
- He must be on drugs or drinking too much, again. -- nm - lileve Jan 19, 11:48 1
  - or if you beleive the comments a joke for a new movie. *shrugs* - lileve Jan 19, 11:49
I never did read Watchmen and have been meaning to buy a reprint but found an original in a box at home over the weekend. Seems that ... - zork Jan 19, 11:45 4
- First print of the trade, or the original single issues? TPB won't be worth more than cover, probably, but I'd hang on to singles until March. - emoticripple Jan 19, 11:47
- Neat. Don't wait until when the movie hype dies down. -- nm - lileve Jan 19, 11:47
- $5. it has been reprinted to death -- nm - peglegpete Jan 19, 11:46 1
  - the real value is that I can read it without shelling out for a reprint. - zork Jan 19, 11:49
The CDC said to report it to my county health org, which I did. It's not that big a deal for a healthy adult. But stay away from... - ceregon Jan 19, 11:42 3
- Off topic, but this made me think of you........ -- (link) - MojaveMeg Jan 19, 11:52 [Image] 2
  - very cute! -- nm - zork Jan 19, 12:11
  - Thanks! Yeah corgis! -- nm - ceregon Jan 19, 12:03
Lou Dobbs is basically the liberal equivalent of Sean Hannity. A modicum of knowledge overwhelmed by bloviation and self-importance. -- nm - TWuG Jan 19, 11:39 7
- I wouldn't call him a liberal per se. he's a pretty self-important isolationist imo. - Will Hunting Jan 19, 12:05
- Except he is not liberal...not at all. He's his own brand of crazy. -- nm - The Calico Cat Coalition Jan 19, 11:45 1
  - He *claims* to be an Independent. He's a liberal. -- nm - TWuG Jan 19, 12:06
- I love me some Lou Dobbs. -- nm - Beaker Jan 19, 11:41 1
  - He's funny to watch. But I'm laughing AT him, not with him. -- nm - TWuG Jan 19, 11:42
- so he's like the technophobe version of John C. Dvorak? -- nm - Beryllium Jan 19, 11:41
- That is why I avoid them both. - Rorschach: 03/06/09!!! Jan 19, 11:41
JPHOE is the new MROUR. -- nm - Rorschach: 03/06/09!!! Jan 19, 11:34 6
- SCARR is the new SMART. -- nm - emoticripple Jan 19, 11:37 4
  - It's annoying that there's no search box on the left side anymore to figure out who you guys are talking about... -- nm - Guigue Jan 19, 11:38 3
    - I made a Firefox search bar addon to do that -- (link) - Beryllium Jan 19, 11:39 2
      - oh, looks like it doesn't do starbonds. Oops. -- nm - Beryllium Jan 19, 11:40 1
        
        You're useless Bery. - Loyola Jan 19, 12:05
- the partner on The Beast is the new Joaquin Phoenix. -- nm - Reagen Jan 19, 11:34
Punch it! -- nm - oblique Jan 19, 11:31
hmm, what movie to watch. - tRuMaN Jan 19, 11:31 20
- hb!.....nm - x Jan 19, 12:36
- I actually enjoyed Eagle Eye. It wasn't great, but it was entertaining enough. -- nm - Roger More Jan 19, 12:02
- Eagle Eye. -- nm - JaxSean Jan 19, 11:38
- No good old classic pron in your collection to watch? -- nm - eag Jan 19, 11:37 1
  - "I love having all these old porno mags. It's like masturbating in a time machine." -- nm - con_carne Jan 19, 11:42
- Birthday Girl. - Rorschach: 03/06/09!!! Jan 19, 11:34
- I've heard Eagle Eye is a huge bucket o' suck, but I'm guessing it's probably better than the Clone Wars dvd. -- nm - kelly Jan 19, 11:33
- something else something else!! -- nm - Beaker Jan 19, 11:33
- something else! something else! -- nm - chanting crowd Jan 19, 11:33 8
  - 7 seconds. -- nm - Beaker Jan 19, 11:33 7
    - Yeah but a whole crowd beat you by 7 seconds. -- nm - Rorschach: 03/06/09!!! Jan 19, 11:35 6
      - one of my claims to fame is that I started a whole stadium chanting "bullshit" at an outdoor concert (40,000+) - zork Jan 19, 11:59 5
        
        No, *I* started the chant. -- nm - Rorschach: 03/06/09!!! Jan 19, 12:16 4
        
        name the city and stadium then :-p -- nm - zork Jan 19, 12:18 3
        
        All of them. - Rorschach: 03/06/09!!! Jan 19, 12:22 2
        
        heh. you win. - zork Jan 19, 12:26 1
        
        *ack* - Rorschach: 03/06/09!!! Jan 19, 12:31
- Do you have a wall and some paint lying around? I'd say go for that. -- nm - emoticripple Jan 19, 11:33
- um, of those spectacular choices, I'd choose Eagle Eye. -- nm - Beryllium Jan 19, 11:32
- Eagle Eye. I haven't seen that yet. -- nm - oblique Jan 19, 11:31

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