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I really loved the final episode of Sherlock, I think it had the strongest story of the three. -- nm - LMS Jan 16, 04:07
Most popular pet names of 2011 -- (link) - CovingtonCat Jan 16, 03:30 3
- really, no Cody? seems half the dogs at the off leash area are named that or boedy - zeitgeist Jan 16, 12:22
- yeah! none of my pet names are there! -- nm - Andie Jan 16, 06:19
- and rex is king. -- nm - mafic Jan 16, 06:01
wake up -- nm - prayformojo Jan 16, 03:14
Unforgiven, you roped me in again! - Sourdough Stephen (with a sexy new iPad2) Jan 16, 02:08 2
- yeah I should have gone to bed half hour ago, but I'm watching Gordon Ramsey rip restaurants apart, Has he ever liked anything served to him 1st scene -- nm - zeitgeist Jan 16, 02:13 1
  - That would make for a short episode. -- nm - spamlet (iPhone) Jan 16, 03:59
I just can't seem to drink you off my mind -- nm - zeitgeist Jan 16, 01:53
I see them long hard times to come. -- nm - David Jan 16, 00:19
ok, *now* I'm caught up on person of interest. I had missed an episode. -- nm - Beryllium Jan 15, 23:36
"You have to take the safety off!" - David Jan 15, 23:18
Loosi, great news. extinct Galapagos tortoise is NOT extinct!! -- (link) - peglegpete Jan 15, 22:45 1
- Loosi, bad news, completely drug resistant TB found in India -- (link) - zeitgeist Jan 15, 22:49
anyone here use zappos.com? you might be one of the lucky 24 million customers whose accounts might have been hacked -- (link) - encyclopedia pixie Jan 15, 22:14 1
- Yep. Don't store a credit card there. Didn't get an email yet. -- nm - psilotum Jan 15, 22:28
Tomic! -- nm - Dano Jan 15, 21:54
OK, so I totally wiffed it on the Golden Globes. Give me the Readers Digest. -- nm - Mop Jan 15, 21:50 4
- probably sets up an "Artist" v. "Descendents" Oscar showdown -- nm - encyclopedia pixie Jan 15, 21:51 3
  - How was Gervais? -- nm - Mop Jan 15, 21:57 2
    - according to news reports, acerbic and funny, but not actually offensive. -- nm - loosi Jan 15, 22:03
    - invisible -- nm - encyclopedia pixie Jan 15, 22:00
boo, LA Times pic captioner: "Sofia Vergara's Vera Wang gown didn't rise to the occasion." -- nm - encyclopedia pixie Jan 15, 21:49 8
- Sofia Vergara does rise to my occasion -- nm - budice Jan 15, 22:49
- I couldn't disagree more with the LA Times Best and Worst. They put Tilda Swinton in the Best list, and Vergara and Bowen in the Worst list. -- nm - Mop Jan 15, 21:57 5
  - Tilda is avant garde, and I think I agree. can't agree with worst, though. -- nm - loosi Jan 15, 22:07
  - yeah, some of them were baffling -- nm - encyclopedia pixie Jan 15, 21:59 3
    - I'm a little disappointed Claire Danes can't fill out that dress of hers. -- nm - Mop Jan 15, 22:04 2
      - that's just her body type, -- nm - loosi Jan 15, 22:06
      - she's always been a stick -- nm - Remlik Jan 15, 22:06
- ha. I thought it was good, not as good as some in the past. -- nm - loosi Jan 15, 21:50
"Dad! 11 O'clock!" -- nm - David Jan 15, 21:45
My new favorite insane Facebook conspiracy theory: Mark Sanchez is actually an illegal immigrant. -- nm - nubby Jan 15, 21:43 3
- Him, and Mitt Romney. -- nm - Mop Jan 15, 21:49 1
  - If Mitt wins it, I am so going to protest and demand to see his birth certificate -- nm - zeitgeist Jan 15, 22:32
- he's stealing shitty quarterback jobs from real americans? -- nm - encyclopedia pixie Jan 15, 21:44
Does a cookies-n-cream root beer float count as a culinary experiment? :) -- nm - Beryllium Jan 15, 21:38 4
- when you're 12 -- nm - zeitgeist Jan 15, 22:51
- did you brew the root beer & churn the ice cream? -- nm - peglegpete Jan 15, 22:08 2
  - Nope! But the experimental part would be using something other than vanilla. -- nm - Beryllium Jan 15, 22:10 1
    - somehow, I know that you do not mean cookies & cream in cream soda. -- nm - peglegpete Jan 15, 22:13
lyc. So, this is weird. I have been trying to absorb it for a few days. apparently I have a learning/reading disability. - loosi Jan 15, 21:30 23
- A propos of nothing, but drug companies have to create disorders before the FDA will allow them to create medications for it. - Mop Jan 15, 22:21 2
  - restless leg is real. I have it... - Mel Profit Jan 16, 01:09
  - yeah, I know. doesn't seem as if meds help this one. -- nm - loosi Jan 15, 22:40
- How is that diagnosed? -- nm - James Bond (aka Igor) Jan 15, 22:19 2
  - we shall email. :) -- nm - loosi Jan 15, 22:40 1
    - Aw crap, where do I email you? - loosi Jan 15, 22:41
- That was mentioned today in my special skooling as something potheads have to deal with. - Qale Jan 15, 21:39 16
  - As in, the potheads are self-medicating because of it? -- nm - Beryllium Jan 15, 21:42 9
    - No, that prolonged users get tunnel-vision and have trouble focusing using certain functions. - Qale Jan 15, 21:55 8
      - huh,interesting. do you recall which functions? -- nm - loosi Jan 15, 21:55 7
        
        I cannot since it didn't pertain to me. I get to bring home the book after finishing tomorrow, if I remember, I'll post it then. -- nm - Qale Jan 15, 22:00 6
        
        short term memory :)) -- nm - peglegpete Jan 15, 22:01 5
        
        Nice. - Qale Jan 15, 22:04
        
        that is the one that kills me, fwiw. Apparently I have very bad "working memory". I'm very weirded out, and yet it makes much sense. -- nm - loosi Jan 15, 22:04 3
        
        i'm dreadful with people & faces -- nm - peglegpete Jan 15, 22:07 2
        
        I recognize faces all the time but can't place them, nor their names. So I nod politely to a lot of people I may not even know. - Mop Jan 15, 22:24
        
        face memory is yet another thing. I'm totally fine with that. -- nm - loosi Jan 15, 22:08
  - lol. just to be clear, I am not a pothead. :) -- nm - loosi Jan 15, 21:39 5
    - Eh. I ain't judgin' either way. -- nm - Qale Jan 15, 21:53 2
      - it's good, some of my best friends are potheads. I just can't do that. -- nm - loosi Jan 15, 21:54 1
        
        It's not my vice of choice either. -- nm - Qale Jan 15, 21:56
    - Is it similar to ADHD? Or something completely different? -- nm - Flavorize Jan 15, 21:41 1
      - there are some components in common. Executives functions are affected in ADHD. apparently I just have trouble with some specific functions. -- nm - loosi Jan 15, 21:49
"Whoa. Whoa. Whoa. Which sister?" -- nm - David Jan 15, 21:25 2
- Heh. Poor Julie. nm - ralph wiggum Jan 15, 21:26 1
  - The quote works even better since Joey won tonight. -- nm - David Jan 15, 21:30
I would have sworn that Chronicle was already released - like, 3 years ago -- nm - prayformojo Jan 15, 21:23 2
- Yes, but now it's *found footage*. -- nm - Reagen Jan 15, 21:33
- It was. Push. (2009) -- nm - Qale Jan 15, 21:25
Lyc - tRu Pad Jan 15, 21:23 2
- G'nighty night Tru - don't -- nm - JenBro Jan 15, 21:26 1
  - Hee - don't let the bed bugs bite :) -- nm - JenBro Jan 15, 21:26
Football broke my Simpsons recording :( - Beryllium Jan 15, 21:21 4
- Yes, but then THAT is countered by the fact that you're still watching Simpsons when it's looooooooooong past being any good. -- nm - Qale Jan 15, 21:26 3
  - It's like you want to be in timeout. Four hours. -- nm - David Jan 15, 21:28 2
    - It should have ended with the movie. Clean break. -- nm - Qale Jan 15, 21:30 1
      - 12 hours for the unexpected recent heel turn. -- nm - David Jan 15, 21:32
The SF Chron web site has a story on Peter Dinklage reference to a mugged dwarf, next to the photo was a (+) View Larger Image - zeitgeist Jan 15, 21:18
do these look like a couple of swingers to you? -- (link) - encyclopedia pixie Jan 15, 21:17
Happy Birthday, Mel! -- nm - JaxSean Jan 15, 21:16 12
- yaayyyyy!!!! - Diva Jan 16, 05:32
- thanks everybody and pixie, -- nm - Mel Profit Jan 15, 23:59
- The toes knows!! -- nm - peglegpete Jan 15, 21:26
- Happy birthday to Mel, you live in a zoo, and - tRu Pad Jan 15, 21:24
- happy goddamn birthday!!! -- nm - loosi Jan 15, 21:23
- Happy Birthday! -- nm - James Bond (aka Igor) Jan 15, 21:23
- He'll spend the entire day Tebowing. -- nm - David Jan 15, 21:21
- word, -- nm - Danedukenuuk Jan 15, 21:20
- *presses play on the boombox* -- nm - pixie in a slave leia costume Jan 15, 21:20
- Happy Birthday! -- nm - Flavorize Jan 15, 21:19
- Happy B-Day indeed. -- nm - JenBro Jan 15, 21:19
- Happy birthday, mister! -- nm - prayformojo Jan 15, 21:17
Emily Deschanel looks like Roberta Muldoon next to Zooey -- (link) - encyclopedia pixie Jan 15, 21:13 3
- relatedly, I think jessica alba has a liver problem. -- (link) - mafic Jan 15, 21:36
- ok.... I SWEAR zooey was identified as RObin Tunney (from the Mentalist) on another site. they are dead ringers. -- nm - loosi Jan 15, 21:25
- Between the mascara and the bangs, Zooey must be constantly walking into things. -- nm - Reagen Jan 15, 21:15
Wasted -- nm - JenBro Jan 15, 21:12 13
- cosmos? -- nm - loosi Jan 15, 21:24 5
  - No - I hit enter key too soon - so which dresses did you like? -- nm - JenBro Jan 15, 21:30 4
    - straight off ... Angelina (*rare* red lipstick), Emma Stone, Charlize THeron. Dislike: Meryl Streep, Lea Michelle, Kate Winslet. -- nm - loosi Jan 15, 21:36 3
      - Yep - I also really liked Salma's dress and disliked Reese' -- nm - JenBro Jan 15, 21:41 2
        
        agreed on both. Reese rarely misfires, but this did. -- nm - loosi Jan 15, 21:56
        
        reese looked like jake's girlfriend when she wakes up the morning after with farmer ted in the back seat of the rolls -- nm - encyclopedia pixie Jan 15, 21:42
- Sfek trip McD's was closed - fresco tacos -- nm - JenBro Jan 15, 21:13 6
  - wha? drive thru is supposed to be open till like 1am -- nm - encyclopedia pixie Jan 15, 21:14 2
    - Pixie, pixie, pixie - tRu Pad Jan 15, 21:25 1
      - I can tell neither of you have been to Northern Michigan! -- nm - JenBro Jan 15, 21:29
  - Darnit cat quit making me mess up! Anyway - taco frescos were not a good substitute - but Jim ate some and is all happy lovie kitty now :) -- nm - JenBro Jan 15, 21:14 2
    - cats = the perfect scapegoat -- nm - encyclopedia pixie Jan 15, 21:14 1
      - Heh - I haven't blamed her before but that was legit - she thought I still had taco beef :) -- nm - JenBro Jan 15, 21:20
Lea Michele is . . . Gozer? -- (link) - encyclopedia pixie Jan 15, 21:06 5
- HA! love the im -- nm - Remlik Jan 15, 22:04
- I am so tired of her. -- nm - loosi Jan 15, 21:26
- I've gotten so that I loathe her on Glee, I hated her on Watch What Happens Live, I cringed when she was on Jimmy Fallon - Trish Jan 15, 21:12 1
  - Agreed. Her character is completely unlikable, and she brings this "I'm so talented" aura around in RL (she TRIES way to hard in interviews too). -- nm - Flavorize Jan 15, 21:35
- Let's show this prehistoric bitch how we do things downtown -- nm - prayformojo Jan 15, 21:12
So are 3/4 acting categories for the Oscars pretty much locked in? - Dano Jan 15, 20:57 1
- i'll wait till the SAGs to call Best Actress -- nm - encyclopedia pixie Jan 15, 20:58
Napoleon Dynamite. Had to turn it off -- nm - amoxy Jan 15, 20:40 14
- this is my least favorite/worst movie ever -- nm - MDH Jan 15, 21:14
- That's how I felt about most of the movie. -- nm - tRu Pad Jan 15, 20:47 12
  - Most overhyped movie ever. - Sourdough Stephen (with a sexy new iPad2) Jan 15, 21:12 1
    - Yes. nm - ralph wiggum Jan 15, 21:13
  - I've always identified more with the nerds but even I wanted to give the lot of them Swirlies. -- nm - Mel Profit Jan 15, 20:53 9
    - It's not even about nerds. It's about assholes. -- nm - TFox Jan 15, 21:11 1
      - this is much more correct. assholes. -- nm - Mel Profit Jan 16, 00:00
    - Sometimes I think you people are soulless grumps. -- nm - Trish Jan 15, 21:06 6
      - Well, I may play one of those two in real life -- nm - tRu Pad Jan 15, 21:22
      - I'd have chewed off an arm like a fox in a leg trap if I'd been held in the theatre. -- nm - Reagen Jan 15, 21:13
      - The movie was quirky and fun...the cartoon was just gross -- nm - amoxy Jan 15, 21:10
      - Sometimes? Do you have pixie on killifile or something? nm - ralph wiggum Jan 15, 21:07 2
        
        Pixie amuses me just often enough that I can't cut the cord. -- nm - Trish Jan 15, 21:15
        
        wiggum, please - encyclopedia pixie Jan 15, 21:09
Steve Buscemi is growing less weird looking as he gets older -- nm - zeitgeist Jan 15, 20:38
I still have a massive crush on Becky Slater. - David Jan 15, 20:36
i hate it when the only options i seem to find for myself or spending more $ or - tRuMaN Jan 15, 20:27 2
- I saw a roku with a USB port for an external hard drive or thumb drive. - psilotum Jan 15, 20:49 1
  - Yeah, but that wouldn't work for me - tRu Pad Jan 15, 20:58
I'm kind of rather envious of you loosi. You could have counted the highlights on one hand. -- nm - Qale Jan 15, 20:23 1
- red carpet photos are online ... I'm happy. :) -- nm - loosi Jan 15, 20:56
heh, processing some photos ... half done friday's. Eep. -- (link) - Beryllium Jan 15, 20:22 [flickr]
the new new beetle's wheelbase is .9 inches longer than the old new beetle wheelbase. my needs, VW. *my* needs. -- nm - happy new jones Jan 15, 20:21 2
- mini cooper, all the cool, none of the bloat -- nm - zeitgeist Jan 15, 20:28
- cause your parking space is .9 inches shorter? -- nm - encyclopedia pixie Jan 15, 20:25
"Tilda Swinton doesn't go to bed at night; she silently walks into the ocean." -- nm - somebody posted this on Hollywood Elsewhere Jan 15, 20:11 6
- Golden -- nm - Epiphany Jan 15, 20:27
- Stellar. nm - Dignan Jan 15, 20:13 4
  - she's a sea lion(ess)? -- nm - Beryllium Jan 15, 20:17 3
    - technically that would make her a sea cow. -- nm - mafic Jan 15, 21:38
    - She's a free spirit, a force of nature, a nymph, one of mythology's lesser deities. -- nm - Trish Jan 15, 20:41
    - As much as anything, sure. nm - Dignan Jan 15, 20:18

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