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Racism pushed me down the stairs! -- nm - prayformojo Jan 24, 17:21 1
- but love's gonna bust me out -- nm - encyclopedia pixie Jan 24, 17:21
How can they call Man on a Ledge unpredictable when they give away the entire movie in the commercials? -- nm - Beaker Jan 24, 17:19 2
- You mean? - Bacon Jan 24, 17:32
- ...or do they??? -- nm - Max Jan 24, 17:20
"At over $400 billion, Apple is now worth more than Greece" - David Jan 24, 17:15 7
- And not true. $400B would be Greece's annual output, not the value of its assets -- nm - Roger More Jan 24, 17:33
- with over 2.49 in my pocket, so am I -- nm - Beaker Jan 24, 17:19
- it's been noted -- (link) - encyclopedia pixie Jan 24, 17:16 [Backboard] 4
  - When I was at home for Christmas, my dad mentioned that he had just looked at an old portfolio and saw his then broker had bought Apple for him at $14 - jnine Jan 24, 17:35
  - And also by you, apparently. -- nm - David Jan 24, 17:19 2
    - take me off killfile and you'll instantly be 200% more up to date on things -- nm - encyclopedia pixie Jan 24, 17:20 1
      - I'm such a sucker I even read your FB posts. -- nm - David Jan 24, 17:22
Prince Fielder taking BP in a Tigers uniform -- (link) - nubby Jan 24, 17:03 2
- Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra! -- nm - encyclopedia pixie Jan 24, 17:15
- I'd have to re-read but I'm pretty sure this was mentioned in Moneyball. - David Jan 24, 17:05
oh $hit...i think we have termites...i was doing a major office clean, pulled the couch out, the molding at the floor was peeling back,,,yikes - zeitgeist Jan 24, 16:58 4
- We've had them...subterraneum termites are the worst; they eat into the foundation boards. - CrankYanker Jan 24, 17:25 1
  - what did it cost to treat? -- nm - zeitgeist Jan 24, 18:05
- They have termites in the Northwest? I didn't know that. - the liioulu with due book Jan 24, 17:12
- was Michael Keaton a guest recently? -- nm - peglegpete Jan 24, 17:00
Aaaaaand I fell in the full bathtub. -- nm - TFox Jan 24, 16:56 18
- smooth move, ex lax. -- nm - kelly Jan 24, 17:25 2
  - Has there ever been a good comeback for this? -- nm - prayformojo Jan 24, 17:32
  - heh -- nm - Beaker Jan 24, 17:29
- Using an emoticon, what did your face look like when you were falling? -- nm - Max Jan 24, 17:17 1
  - :^0 -- nm - TFox Jan 24, 17:24
- hope SheFox didn't feed you after midnight too -- nm - encyclopedia pixie Jan 24, 17:17
- My sister did this when she was younger, the bath was empty. She came away fine the bath was cracked -- nm - Karl_S Jan 24, 17:08
- Oh noooo are you ok? -- nm - JenBro Jan 24, 17:03
- "Oh Tommy please tell me you got that!" -- nm - nubby Jan 24, 17:00
- Did you break a hip? -- nm - David Jan 24, 16:59 6
  - I got my hips wet. And amused the shit out of SheFox. -- nm - TFox Jan 24, 17:04 5
    - *shakes head sadly* poor Jacen and Sam - not only is dad slip sliding on cheeseburger grease, he's splashing their precious tub bath water all over . -- nm - JenBro Jan 24, 17:23 1
      - And tainting it with dad ass, don't forget. - TFox Jan 24, 17:25
    - Your work there is done. -- nm - the liioulu with due book Jan 24, 17:11 1
      - Except for having to fix the bathtub, of course. :) -- nm - Beryllium Jan 24, 17:12
    - Look, honey! I got us matching traction! -- nm - David Jan 24, 17:05
- go buy some of those rubber strips to help your footing at Lowes -- nm - peglegpete Jan 24, 16:57 1
  - But first... get to the ER! -- nm - Mop (196 lbs) Jan 24, 16:58
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Check out my stapler or I'll set fire to the building. -- (link) - Cuzzin Todd Jan 24, 16:48 4
- I've been looking at your stuff daily; but if you threaten, I may stop. so ha! -- nm - b. Jan 24, 16:50 2
  - I know. That would be junk, not stuff. - Cuzzin Todd Jan 24, 16:51 1
    - Have you ever noticed that everyone else's stuff is "sh*t," but your sh*t is "stuff?" -- nm - George Carlin Jan 24, 16:54
- No...I 'm cold and could use the warmth. -- nm - the liioulu with due book Jan 24, 16:49
Hey, look at that. My Congressman is skipping the SOTU. -- nm - nubby Jan 24, 16:43 7
- So's one of my senators. - the liioulu with due book Jan 24, 16:45 1
  - Yeah, that's quite a story. -- nm - nubby Jan 24, 16:57
- I enjoyed your post to the governor yesterday. -- nm - David Jan 24, 16:44 4
  - I enjoy tilting at windmills. -- nm - nubby Jan 24, 16:50 3
    - Why are you the type of dirtbag who is against job creation? -- nm - David Jan 24, 16:53 2
      - Because lazy* people deserve to have hard-working** people pay for their subsistence! (nm) - nubby Jan 24, 16:55 1
        
        *things rich people say* -- nm - the liioulu with due book Jan 24, 16:57
Heh. The gallery that has the life-like versions of Beavis and Butthead is less than four blocks from my work -- nm - con_carne Jan 24, 16:38 1
- Buy them for me and I will call us even. -- nm - Spawn - Blood Feud God Jan 24, 16:54
It be Mighty Windy up here -- but we still have power... - Old Antarctic Explorer Jan 24, 16:28 2
- Dead calm here for the time being, but it's supposed to hit 80km/h tonight. -- nm - Beryllium Jan 24, 16:28 1
  - ... and the sky has changed colour three times in ten minutes, so something's coming :) -- nm - Beryllium Jan 24, 16:32
Take that, Jyrik Gauldurson! -- nm - Reagen Jan 24, 16:23
the actress who plays Little Red Riding Hood on OUAT looks like a cross between Alanis M. and a healthy Amy Winehouse. -- nm - Diva Jan 24, 16:15
mitts 2 year tax return ... 500 pages -- nm - zeitgeist Jan 24, 16:05 5
- No doubt. Those 138 Cayman Island funds alone would take hundreds of pages. -- nm - GregW Jan 24, 17:01
- Job creator! - Dr.Vermin Jan 24, 16:10 1
  - You betcha -- nm - Offshore Bankers Jan 24, 16:14
- Not surprising and indicative only of a complicated return with lots of documentation. -- nm - TWuG Jan 24, 16:06 1
  - Also explains why IRS agents are so grumpy. :) -- nm - Beryllium Jan 24, 16:24
Yo Soy Fiesta! -- nm - Gronk Jan 24, 16:01
Robopocalypse was meh. I give it a C. Next up, Final Impact - Jovian Jan 24, 15:59
Living Social deals offers me...haircut and brazilian blowout... -- nm - zeitgeist Jan 24, 15:40 1
- Sadly not as obscene as one would hope. -- nm - Mop (196 lbs) Jan 24, 15:47
God I love instagram. -- nm - busmanda Jan 24, 15:14 4
- Any nudity!?! -- nm - Spawn - Blood Feud God Jan 24, 15:24 3
  - If you move your eyes side to side quickly you can see right through the knit pattern. -- nm - Max Jan 24, 15:25 2
    - "but the cake always gets in the way of the nipple" -- nm - ... Jan 24, 15:27 1
      - thats not a nip, its a carrot nub -- nm - zeitgeist Jan 24, 15:33
"If you were to try to watch every video that was uploaded to YouTube in the last week and a half, it would take 100 years." -- nm - npr factoids Jan 24, 15:13 6
- How about just the ones featuring cute cats? -- nm - Cuzzin Todd Jan 24, 16:46
- *watches the 10-hour versions of Nyan Cat* -- nm - znufrii Jan 24, 15:22
- washes their tubes out with a bar of SOPA -- nm - zeitgeist Jan 24, 15:22
- I guess that explains Google's need for cash. #bandwidth -- nm - Name Withheld By Request Jan 24, 15:14
- Sh*t NPR reporters say... -- nm - Dr.Vermin Jan 24, 15:14
- So many cats... -- nm - con_carne Jan 24, 15:14
I'm 68.3% sure that my next car will be a Chevy Volt. - nubby Jan 24, 15:09 9
- We're trying! -- nm - GM Jan 24, 16:30
- If I had a garage where I could plug it in, I would seriously consider it for my next purchase. - spamlet Jan 24, 15:40 2
  - me as well. the way I (don't) drive, it'd be perfect for me. (if they came in convertible.) -- nm - amanda jones Jan 24, 16:12 1
    - Is VW putting the hybrid in the NNB? - spamlet (iPhone) Jan 24, 16:37
- remember YMMV? Battery life when new might get you where you need to go, in a couple years? Half that? -- nm - zeitgeist Jan 24, 15:36
- good choice :) -- nm - peglegpete Jan 24, 15:11
- You and Spawn should drag race. -- nm - Max Jan 24, 15:10 2
  - isn't that a bit unfair, since Spawn is always in drag? :) -- nm - peglegpete Jan 24, 15:11 1
    - I know I don't want to see either in a dress. -- nm - the liioulu with due book Jan 24, 15:14
57.6 million people watched the Giants/49ers game. - David Jan 24, 15:06 7
- I am not one of them -- nm - peglegpete Jan 24, 15:10 3
  - This shocks me. -- nm - kelly Jan 24, 15:35 2
    - Turner Classics was running a Clara Bow marathon -- nm - encyclopedia pixie Jan 24, 16:15 1
      - *snort!* -- nm - Diva Jan 24, 16:16
- more people will watch the SAG awards than the Pro Bowl! -- nm - Max Jan 24, 15:09
- But will it outstrip numbers for the Super Bowl? - the liioulu with due book Jan 24, 15:08
- 48.7 million for Patriots/Ravens. 70 million were watching the OT of 49ers/Giants. -- nm - David Jan 24, 15:07
catch the 6:11, or finish what I'm doing? note: I have to go all the way home and then walk all the way back downtown, so I am time tight, but just a - the amanda nones Jan 24, 15:04 3
- Catch it. -- nm - the liioulu with due book Jan 24, 15:05 2
  - I did both. That was unexpected. -- nm - busmanda Jan 24, 15:15 1
    - Don't you love when a plan comes together. -- nm - the liioulu with due book Jan 24, 15:31
*#$!! - I knew I should have found a way to lay a bet that Demian Bichir would be nominated. -- nm - the liioulu with due book Jan 24, 15:03
Tidbit from Twitter: Apple has $97B in cash, which is more than all the casinos in Las Vegas combined have generated over the past 8 years. - Name Withheld By Request Jan 24, 14:58 4
- their cash audits must be cra-zy -- nm - Beaker Jan 24, 15:18 1
  - Do they just keep it in a great big money vault, like Uncle Scrooge? -- nm - Mop (196 lbs) Jan 24, 16:59
- Can I have a raise? -- nm - Chinese Factory Worker Jan 24, 14:59 1
  - We'd be happy to raise you to a higher floor. Plenty of great places to jump from. -- nm - Apple Jan 24, 15:05
lyc. I love that my classes don't start until 7pm this semester, instead of 6:30. -- nm - znufrii Jan 24, 14:51
And... I own a Rav 4. Financing delivered a better rate than we thought we were going to get. -- nm - Name Withheld By Request Jan 24, 14:48 3
- what rate? god, you are so bad at details today. put a quarter in the "incomplete information" jar. -- nm - the amanda nones Jan 24, 14:50 2
  - 4.99%, 72 months. - Name Withheld By Request Jan 24, 15:01
  - give it a week, and Bery will be able to get me out of debt, fast! nm -- nm - groiny Jan 24, 14:51
Are there any NFL players without a single tattoo? -- nm - nubby Jan 24, 14:46 21
- At least half of the Colts. -- nm - Spawn - Blood Feud God Jan 24, 16:15
- Single tattoo? Just one may be hard to find. - the liioulu with due book Jan 24, 15:05 1
  - You're right, the unicorn on the inner thigh wouldn't show. - CrankYanker Jan 24, 16:30
- most of them... - colin Jan 24, 14:51 16
  - Example? -- nm - nubby Jan 24, 14:53 15
    - *picks randomly* Falcons Center Todd McClure - colin Jan 24, 14:57 7
      - ("Hi, I'm Falcons center Todd McClure. You may remember me from such games as ATL/CAR I, 2011, or ATL/CAR II, 2011." -- nm - nubby Jan 24, 15:30 1
        
        And for having the most consecutive starts of any player in Atlanta Falcons history! -- nm - David Jan 24, 15:37
      - Hmm. Didn't mean to broadly generalize, but watching the NE/BAL game the other night, I didn't see one. -- nm - nubby Jan 24, 14:59 4
        
        ida know, i don't think tattoos really mean anything about the person though.. - colin Jan 24, 15:02 3
        
        No, surely not. Just seems that it's the "in" thing to do these days. - nubby Jan 24, 15:04 2
        
        There's no I in team, nubby -- nm - con_carne Jan 24, 15:13
        
        i'm just tired of seeing crappy tattoos.. c'mon, invest in that! -- nm - colin Jan 24, 15:05
    - Cam Newton -- (link) - rollo Jan 24, 14:56 6
      - Are these temporary tattoos then? -- (link) - nubby Jan 24, 15:02 3
        
        Hmmmm. Maybe he didn't take the owner's advice? -- nm - rollo Jan 24, 15:04 2
        
        (Though that doesn't really look like him.) -- nm - nubby Jan 24, 15:04 1
        
        Hmmmm. I agree, that's not him. No idea who it is, probably a model. -- nm - rollo Jan 24, 15:20
      - Wow, no kiddin'. -- nm - nubby Jan 24, 14:58
      - His is Ink Free - amoxy Jan 24, 14:58
- kickers. nm -- nm - groiny Jan 24, 14:47
"Republicans in Congress today accused the Park Service of picking sides in an ideological fight re: Occupy by not enforcing the rules..." - Max Jan 24, 14:37
JD Drew has been in the league for 14 years? Huh -- (link) - amoxy Jan 24, 14:33 8
- Truth is, he was offered a contract and sprained his wrist trying to sign it. -- nm - spamlet Jan 24, 15:42
- It was hard to overlook that passion he showed for life. -- nm - Will Hunting Jan 24, 15:23
- I'm sure he'll be as excited about retiring or returning for another season as...eating some bland toast. -- nm - Mel Profit Jan 24, 14:47
- *puts a dollar in the ST Jar for reading the comments* - Diva Jan 24, 14:40 3
  - seriously, Bery should put up a PayPal button or something for that... -- nm - znufrii Jan 24, 14:43 1
    - this amuses me so much. -- nm - the amanda nones Jan 24, 14:48
  - there are crack smokers everywhere. nm -- nm - groiny Jan 24, 14:42
- yeah, but he has only actually played about 10 or so. nm -- nm - groiny Jan 24, 14:34
*advertises Jason Statham wall calendar to Pippy* -- nm - con_carne Jan 24, 14:29 1
- whoa whoa. I want that too. -- nm - the amanda nones Jan 24, 14:31
summer's here and the time is right foe dancing in the streets -- nm - peglegpete Jan 24, 14:25 3
- all we need is music, sweet music -- nm - zeitgeist Jan 24, 15:25 1
  - there'll be music everywhere -- nm - Old Antarctic Explorer Jan 24, 15:49
- *wiggles* -- nm - con_carne in a bouffant Jan 24, 14:26

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