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And the other shoe drops - Rubio's response to the contraception controversy is a bill that would let any employer deny birth control coverage i - Reagen Feb 9, 13:10 4
- Crap. I work for a christian scientist. -- nm - Random employee Feb 9, 13:20
- I read an article today about the "over my dead body" conservatives. Basically says "That's fine, I have time, and everyone younger agrees with me." -- nm - MDH Feb 9, 13:12 1
  - this only works if they stop recruiting -- nm - Beryllium Feb 9, 13:14
- blood transfusions, obviously -- nm - Roger More Feb 9, 13:11
WTF? Do lawmakers have nothing better to do? "Miss. bill would rename Gulf of Mexico as �Gulf of America�" -- (link) - decline Feb 9, 13:09 2
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- fuck you -- nm - Mexico Feb 9, 13:10
bummer - We didn't get ANY Bruce Springsteen tix. - Diva Feb 9, 13:08 2
- Did not realize you and Mel were big Coldplay fans. -- nm - Spawn - The Blood Feud God Feb 9, 13:09 1
  - not for us - for my office's department and our clients. -- nm - Diva Feb 9, 13:10
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- your mom (in law) plays that way. -- nm - Max Feb 9, 13:26
- yup. - znufrii Feb 9, 13:09 1
  - also - znufrii Feb 9, 13:09
- WTF. nm -- nm - groiny Feb 9, 13:08 1
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I need a name for my spaghetti sauce. It's flavor mixing on the stove and I just think I need a name for it: Go! -- nm - CQ: Giving Love To All Feb 9, 13:00 23
- Red Shit In A Jar. nm -- nm - groiny Feb 9, 13:11 2
  - *ding* If it ain't white, it ain't right. -- nm - Spawn - The Blood Feud God Feb 9, 13:14
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- Get Your Sauce Tight -- nm - con_carne Feb 9, 13:09 5
  - heh -- nm - Beaker Feb 9, 13:14
  - *gold star* -- nm - b. Feb 9, 13:14
  - yep. brilliant -- nm - CQ: Giving Love To All Feb 9, 13:12
  - winner -- nm - znufrii Feb 9, 13:11
  - this. -- nm - loosilu Feb 9, 13:11
- but, really call it All Gods Inn Pasta - Andie Feb 9, 13:09 1
  - beats Dongs All In -- nm - CQ: Giving Love To All Feb 9, 13:10
- Pinchy's Puree -- nm - con_carne Feb 9, 13:08
- To-MAY-to To-MAH-to Sauce -- nm - Andie Feb 9, 13:07
- Great Googly Moogly Sauce -- nm - Beryllium Feb 9, 13:06
- Manning Goo. - Mel Profit Feb 9, 13:06
- Spaghetti alla Amore, you love-giver, you. -- nm - b. Feb 9, 13:04
- tebow juice. -- nm - Don Homer Feb 9, 13:02
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- Rosecliff -- nm - TFox Feb 9, 13:01
- how about spaghetti sauce? -- nm - decline Feb 9, 13:00 3
  - I'm a stay at home dad, I got absolutely nothing going on. amuse me -- nm - CQ: Giving Love To All Feb 9, 13:02 2
    - add some chicken and call it Cock Quil sauce -- nm - zeitgeist Feb 9, 13:07
    - Chesty Santorino. -- nm - Diva Feb 9, 13:04
boston.com Love Letters - He Tells Little Lies and Stuff - Diva Feb 9, 12:54 18
- Fleetwood Mac references notwithstanding, that post is a lot more about her than him. -- nm - David Feb 9, 13:10
- HTF do you not know your wife is not on the pill? -- nm - Spawn - The Blood Feud God Feb 9, 13:05
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  - but she goes on to describe a moment where they DO have a big argument so keep reading. - Diva Feb 9, 13:03
- the lies thing at the start is not necessarily so, and it looks more like thinking as a symptom for the rest of what's happening. - b. Feb 9, 12:58
- that letter ended so differently than it started -- nm - Sultana of Swing Feb 9, 12:58 1
  - there's an awful lot going on here. -- nm - Diva Feb 9, 12:59
- little white lies are an absolute necessity. That being said, you have some bigger issues than that. I don't know where to begin -- nm - CQ: Giving Love To All Feb 9, 12:57
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  - Yes. She is not happy, he is not happy. She should be talking to him -- nm - amoxy Feb 9, 12:58
- that's a really longwinded to say "he doesn't love me; what should i do?" -- nm - TFox Feb 9, 12:57
- go to counseling or get a lawyer. -- nm - znufrii Feb 9, 12:56 6
  - also, a ridiculously misleading headline. - znufrii Feb 9, 12:57 5
    - i wrote that headline on my own because i didn't feel like leading w/ "We Have Marital Problems". -- nm - Diva Feb 9, 12:58 4
      - "We're basically Fucked, Right" doesn't really lure the reader in -- nm - CQ: Giving Love To All Feb 9, 12:59 2
        
        there is obvs tons of stuff going on here. if i may address one portion of it though - - Diva Feb 9, 13:02 1
        
        yeah, that's some funny stuff right there. Their communication skills are fantastical -- nm - CQ: Giving Love To All Feb 9, 13:04
      - ah, apologies, thought it was the one that came with the article -- nm - znufrii Feb 9, 12:58
I blame b - eag Feb 9, 12:53
LYC - major cheating bust overnight on that other board. - MojaveMeg Feb 9, 12:47 16
- That is about the only way I can move up anymore. #23 now. -- nm - GregW Feb 9, 13:26
- Hey, you're cited in a Special News Report! -- (link) - ty97 Feb 9, 13:03
- not me -- nm - zeitgeist Feb 9, 12:53
- I don't even know who that person is. I actually made a couple of trades this week though! - ty97 Feb 9, 12:52 4
  - I made some last week. hee -- nm - CQ: Giving Love To All Feb 9, 12:53
  - me, too. super bowl ads made me log-in. -- nm - b. Feb 9, 12:53
  - me too! (I have a bill in cash almost.) -- nm - the amanda nones Feb 9, 12:53 1
    - I need to clean bonds, but it's so **#*@#$*@ slow. -- nm - ty97 Feb 9, 12:58
- When is Shades gonna learn - eag Feb 9, 12:51
- Who got nailed? -- nm - TWuG Feb 9, 12:49 3
  - He's been really high profile in recent years -- (link) - MojaveMeg Feb 9, 12:54 2
    - Thanks. -- nm - TWuG Feb 9, 12:57 1
      - Ka-chow! -- nm - Spawn - The Blood Feud God Feb 9, 12:57
- who? -- nm - TFox Feb 9, 12:49
- Richard Cordray is serious as a heart attack -- nm - pixitude Feb 9, 12:49
- WHOA. -- nm - the amanda nones Feb 9, 12:48
oh,and I forgot I actually do have a reason to drink tonight - znufrii Feb 9, 12:40 11
- it's dark? -- nm - Danedukenuuk Feb 9, 12:47 1
  - psst, your ika towns are inactive -- nm - zeitgeist Feb 9, 12:54
- I sick (again). I'll need a couple of hot-toddies to make it through the night I think -- nm - decline Feb 9, 12:44
- I *really* need to do laundry and I wouldn't mind watching rocky 2 and I should vacuum and I have shoes to put away - the amanda nones Feb 9, 12:43 6
  - Right? I think I only have one clean pair of underwear left, and those are the ones with the worn out elastic. - ty97 Feb 9, 12:47 3
    - ha ha. I have hundreds of pairs of skivs. I couldn't run out if I tried. -- nm - the amanda nones Feb 9, 12:48 2
      - Perhaps I need to go underwear shopping -- nm - ty97 Feb 9, 12:48 1
        
        I have three different classifications of skivs, and a full crate of each. you never know. - the amanda nones Feb 9, 12:53
  - could do -- nm - Max Feb 9, 12:44 1
    - I 100% have to do laundry, though. like, if I don't do laundry - the amanda nones Feb 9, 12:45
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- you. go find out where Yahoo FBB is. - TFox Feb 9, 12:43 1
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it's a good thing words are reusable. -- nm - b. Feb 9, 12:34 21
- Posolutely. - Dr.Vermin Feb 9, 12:37 1
  - I'm not all the way to the descriptivist side of the argument, but I'm a lot of the way there - Reagen Feb 9, 12:46
- sadly though, that fact has limited our desire to create new words -- nm - tRuMaN Feb 9, 12:36 18
  - this may be the wrongest thing you have ever said. -- nm - loosilu Feb 9, 13:11
  - Really? There are so many new words and new uses for old words arising yearly. English is fantastically dynamic. - TWuG Feb 9, 12:48 3
    - Pseudo-related: in reading David Copperfield, I found in the first chapter how Dickens wrote "*headtilt*" back in the day: - TFox Feb 9, 12:55
    - I was gonna say, English words routinely have ten or twenty synonyms. - con_carne Feb 9, 12:54
    - 'And yet, oh and yet, all of us spend our days saying the same things to each other, time after weary time, living by clichaic, learned response:' - znufrii Feb 9, 12:51
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  - *nodding* -- nm - TFox Feb 9, 12:41
  - Which is why the OED is so concise and fits in your pocket. -- nm - Reagen Feb 9, 12:40 6
    - I was just thinking of the press releases every year re: new words being added wherever. -- nm - b. Feb 9, 12:43 5
      - neologisms. - Reagen Feb 9, 12:44 4
        
        (To say nothing of sniglets) -- nm - Reagen Feb 9, 12:51 3
        
        I have used furnidents ever since I first heard it in the 80s. -- nm - TWuG Feb 9, 12:55 2
        
        what is this? -- nm - the amanda nones Feb 9, 12:58 1
        
        the indentations that are left in carpet when you move furniture. -- nm - b. Feb 9, 13:00
  - I'm making a case for 'ponderings'. - Dr.Vermin Feb 9, 12:40 1
    - sorry to break it to you, but (google hit count spoiler) - b. Feb 9, 12:44
  - nuh-uh. I make my own up all the time. -- nm - b. Feb 9, 12:39
  - That's preposterdiculous. -- nm - znu si Feb 9, 12:37
Bruce Lee's one inch punch -- (link) - marcel Feb 9, 12:32 [youtube]
LIR to ML's poll: because it's Mrs.Vermin's birthday! -- nm - Dr.Vermin Feb 9, 12:30 2
- happy day to her! (and belated happy bdays to budice - yesterday - and mus. and darcy the other day!) -- nm - b. Feb 9, 12:32
- Happy Birthday Ms. Vermin -- nm - Sultana of Swing Feb 9, 12:31
oh, amanda, i know why. different time zones. and it will depend how close we each are the edges of our zone. - Andie Feb 9, 12:30 18
- and in summer the further north you go the later the sun set is -- nm - Karl_S Feb 9, 12:47
- Summer 2010 in Indiana was weird as I was far western side of the time zone...it was still really light out at 10pm -- nm - Will Hunting Feb 9, 12:32 3
  - A couple years ago Pearl Jam played an outdoor show here in July. They were on their second set and Eddie says between songs: - Reagen Feb 9, 12:58 1
    - I'd totally love that. Challenge a band to play until the sun goes down and then stick them in Northern Canada. - Mel Profit Feb 9, 13:02
  - they need all the help telling time there as possible -- nm - pixitude Feb 9, 12:46
- I thought Toronto was eastern time zone (i.e. same as NYC)? -- nm - Don Homer Feb 9, 12:30 1
  - yeah, it is. i was thinking PA must be one later (like Chicago) -- nm - Andie Feb 9, 12:31
- we're in the same time zone, dolly! -- nm - the amanda nones Feb 9, 12:30 10
  - this reminds me of something (mom/kitties share.) - b. Feb 9, 12:52
  - right. and you are west. the sun is messed up! -- nm - Andie Feb 9, 12:31 8
    - Isn't mandy is east of Toronto, not west? -- nm - Roger More Feb 9, 12:41 3
      - is she? i guess that's possible. to the map! -- nm - Andie Feb 9, 12:42 2
        
        yep, I just looked. You're slightly west. -- nm - Don Homer Feb 9, 12:42 1
        
        SO off the way i see it in my head (thanks though!) -- nm - Andie Feb 9, 12:49
    - Can this friendship be saved??? -- nm - con_carne Feb 9, 12:32 2
      - hee -- nm - Andie Feb 9, 12:42
      - I love this post. -- nm - the amanda nones Feb 9, 12:39
    - hypothesizing: elevation? -- nm - TFox Feb 9, 12:31
That sound is golden - Will Hunting Feb 9, 12:29 10
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  - What is "why the Fox family no longer has a home phone", Alex? - TFox Feb 9, 12:36 5
    - Do Not Call List is awesome. -- nm - Spawn - The Blood Feud God Feb 9, 12:39 4
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        Uhm, we have been through a few with it. Zero calls. - Spawn - The Blood Feud God Feb 9, 12:41 2
        
        Wish we could get on a Do Not Mail List, though. -- nm - Spawn - The Blood Feud God Feb 9, 12:43 1
        
        Yep -- how many ridiculous pre-quals does 1 person need to shred. -- nm - Will Hunting Feb 9, 12:44
- 5.....4.....3.....2.....1..... -- nm - tRuMaN Feb 9, 12:29
- *dog barks, baby cries, gunshot, dog stops barking, baby still crying* -- nm - TFox Feb 9, 12:29 1
  - Murphy shoots back -- nm - Sultana of Swing Feb 9, 12:30
John Williams turned 80 yesterday. This link shows him conducting a few of his more famous scores... -- (link) - Don Homer Feb 9, 12:28 1
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- Hans Gruber -- nm - Bacon via droid Feb 9, 12:42

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