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BurgerTime World Tour is now available on the Wii Shop Channel -- nm - budice Feb 9, 17:43 1
- Hell yeah. -- nm - TFox Feb 9, 17:48
The L.A. teacher accused of sexual abuse of students was paid to resign by LAUSD to avoid firing him for cause. -- (link) - MojaveMeg Feb 9, 17:37
Northern Lights from Space -- (link) - Beaker Feb 9, 17:36
someone back me up that New Girl is definitely worth catching up on if you stopped at the first episode, especially if you like charming comedy. -- nm - Max Feb 9, 17:33 16
- it's made me actually laugh more than any other comedy this year. - b. Feb 9, 17:44
- Sorry, can't be done. -- nm - Spawn - The Blood Feud God Feb 9, 17:39
- The show would probably be better without Zooey. -- nm - Dano Feb 9, 17:34 13
  - I've watched seven episodes now and I'm kind of awe of how mediocre it is. - David Feb 9, 17:48 1
    - awesome. -- nm - b. Feb 9, 17:54
  - aw, I understand how she is annoying to some; but I think the show needs her to work as well as it does. -- nm - b. Feb 9, 17:45 2
    - Schmidt has actually become an amusing character. -- nm - Dano Feb 9, 17:50 1
      - it's probably primarily his stuff/things related to him that have made me laugh. - b. Feb 9, 17:52
  - Someone in the New Girl promo department needs to be kicked in the jimmy for trying to make "adorkable" happen. nm - ralph wiggum Feb 9, 17:45 3
    - See, words like that and suburgatory are new and hip. It appeals to the younger demographic. - David Feb 9, 17:49
    - for the record, i think you're super adorkable, ralph -- nm - pixitude Feb 9, 17:48
    - despite! despite!! -- nm - Max Feb 9, 17:47
  - yes, but the point is that it's still very very good *despite* her. -- nm - Max Feb 9, 17:35 3
    - this -- nm - Diva Feb 10, 04:08
    - *shoots Zooey first* -- nm - Han Solo Feb 9, 17:43 1
      - noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo -- nm - Beaker Feb 9, 17:48
Letter of apology to the HSX community from Oleg Max. -- (link) - MojaveMeg Feb 9, 17:31 2
- That's bogus if you ask me - ban him! -- nm - JenBro Feb 9, 19:46
- Wow -- nm - Epiphany Feb 9, 17:40
"Half of it's a laser tag arena." - Jovian Feb 9, 17:26
Free Pretzel at Auntie Anne�s on March 3 -- (link) - budice Feb 9, 17:25 1
- Thank you baby Jesus! -- nm - Epiphany Feb 9, 17:41
It's a crime that Contagian wasn't nominated for Original Score. -- nm - Dano Feb 9, 17:17 1
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Don't forget, Paul McCartney live concert streaming on iTunes in about 2 hours. -- nm - Mop (194 lbs) Feb 9, 17:12 2
- He got his star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame today... -- (link) - MojaveMeg Feb 9, 17:27
- Wow the Beatles have come a long way from when they were pissed about Apple's use of the word -- nm - Bacon Feb 9, 17:19
should I do both kinds of laundry tonight? I have time... -- nm - amanda jones Feb 9, 17:05 9
- You should go shopping for more boots. -- nm - Bacon Feb 9, 17:06 8
  - you are an evil man. -- nm - amanda jones Feb 9, 17:08 7
    - but ok. I will. why not?? -- nm - amanda jones Feb 9, 17:08 6
      - what about your lamp? -- nm - pixitude Feb 9, 17:09 5
        
        screw light. my feet have needs. -- nm - amanda jones Feb 9, 17:09 4
        
        Good girl! -- nm - Bacon Feb 9, 17:10 3
        
        But if she doesn't do laundry all she may have to wear is boots. - the liioulu with Feb 9, 17:29 2
        
        yeah, do you really want me to photo my closets for you? no chance. -- nm - amanda jones Feb 9, 17:32 1
        
        He's a boy he'll try anything. -- nm - the liioulu with Feb 9, 17:37
So is anyone thinking of setting up a pro league? - J Feb 9, 16:51 2
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- You can't, to avoid collusion. - TFox Feb 9, 17:04
oo, first glimpses of Office 15 are ribbonless. nm but: -- (link) - b. Feb 9, 16:42 5
- I made the ribbon disappear from my Office and then found it frustrating to use. Took me forever to find the switch to re-enable. -- nm - Mop (194 lbs) Feb 9, 16:49 2
  - Google was a big winner with the start of the ribbons. so many times, I've ended up searching for how to do something.-- nm - b. Feb 9, 17:02
  - "... and then I found that my secretary, a silver-medal-winning olympic ribbon dancer, was unable to entertain me fully" -- nm - Beryllium Feb 9, 16:51
- and Google is testing a wireless home entertainment device/system. nm but: -- (link) - b. Feb 9, 16:45 1
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ST Poll: Related to below - How many weeks/days holiday do you get a year -- nm - Karl_S Feb 9, 16:41 18
- 15 holidays/12 sick days/17 vacation days -- nm - ceregon Feb 9, 17:43
- 10 public holidays, 20 vacation days, countless days in lieu for field time. I don't think I've used any vacation since I've been here. -- nm - mafic Feb 9, 17:41
- 10 holidays, 12 vacation, 6 sick days -- nm - znufrii Feb 9, 17:33
- 24 vacation, 12 sick, one personal, 13 holiday. -- nm - amanda jones Feb 9, 17:03
- I got 10 days vacation (15 after 5(?) years) 5 PTO days. My problem was scheduling vacation around the accounting schedule. - MojaveMeg Feb 9, 17:00
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- 12 holidays (9 scheduled and 3 floating), 4 weeks of vacation, 1 week of purchased vacation -- nm - Fuzzy Feb 9, 16:51
- I get three weeks vacation and 1 week sick. We can use our sick as vacation and vice verse -- nm - Bacon Feb 9, 16:49 1
  - Oh and 5 holidays off -- nm - Bacon Feb 9, 16:50
- really whatever I want, this is our slow time so I could take a month or two I'm sure -- nm - J Feb 9, 16:48
- 10 holiday days, and combined vacation/sick time that currently accruses for me at 7.7 hours every two weeks. - b. Feb 9, 16:48 1
  - ::does math:: those hours convert to ~5 weeks a year. never been close except car accident year. (whine ahead.) - b. Feb 9, 17:11
- 3 weeks -- nm - Beryllium Feb 9, 16:45
- 19 days -- nm - CovingtonCat Feb 9, 16:44
- As much as I need. -- nm - Spawn - The Blood Feud God Feb 9, 16:43
- um, yeah. months again -- nm - CQ: Giving Love To All Feb 9, 16:42
- 20 days of PTO (all inclusive) and we can buy at 70% salary a 5th week. -- nm - Will Hunting Feb 9, 16:42
- 4 weeks -- nm - Karl_S Feb 9, 16:41
ST Poll. In the last 10 years what is the longest amount of time off of work taken in a single vacation: Where Why? 3 weeks starting tomorrow - Bacon Feb 9, 16:25 29
- I think the first time I went to the south pacific, 6 weeks I believe. -- nm - mafic Feb 9, 17:45
- 5 days -- nm - ceregon Feb 9, 17:43
- I don't think I've ever done more than a week of actual vacation. -- nm - b. Feb 9, 17:12 1
  - (that'd be 5 days of work for me, too.) -- nm - b. Feb 9, 17:54
- maybe four days. not ever a whole week. I'm a long weekend kind of person. or an "early out every friday" kind of person. - amanda jones Feb 9, 17:04
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- 6 days for our recent trip t the Bahamas. We spent a week there and I took an extra day of vacation at home for the fun of it. -- nm - Fuzzy Feb 9, 16:49
- um, about 5 months or so just hanging out in FL being a beach bum and stuff. lots of stuff just for stuff's sake -- nm - CQ: Giving Love To All Feb 9, 16:36
- 3 weeks last Apr/May to go to Fraser Island. July/August this year 4 weeks for the Simpson Desert -- nm - Karl_S Feb 9, 16:36
- I think the Moroccan trip was about 10 days. Don't recall anything longer than that. -- nm - MojaveMeg Feb 9, 16:35 1
  - did you get the microfiche? -- nm - pixitude Feb 9, 16:39
- 6 weeks for Bub arrival, IIRC. -- nm - Spawn - The Blood Feud God Feb 9, 16:33 2
  - Was that pretty awesome? New baby and 6 weeks to enjoy him with no job distractions? -- nm - Bacon Feb 9, 16:48 1
    - Yeah, but I was chomping at the bit to go back (too much lack of control). - Spawn - The Blood Feud God Feb 9, 16:58
- actually taken? a week. involuntarily given? 14 months off -- nm - pixitude Feb 9, 16:32 1
  - How generous of them! (blech) -- nm - Beryllium Feb 9, 16:33
- one week. I get about 3 weeks a year or so. Last coupel of years all eaten up with surgeries. -- nm - Remlik Feb 9, 16:30 2
  - seriously dude, get a new travel agent -- nm - zeitgeist Feb 9, 16:32 1
    - I know. -- nm - Remlik Feb 9, 16:35
- 3 weeks sailing around the souther tip of South America -- nm - peglegpete Feb 9, 16:29 1
  - Also sounds fun!! -- nm - Bacon Feb 9, 16:47
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- Since I started working in 2000, my longest was 13 days for Vegas '06, a week for Vegas '08, another week for another staycation and then small trips -- nm - Will Hunting Feb 9, 16:28
- 2 or 3 weeks -- nm - Beryllium Feb 9, 16:28
- Three months - I went to travel around Europe, and had a heap of vacation saved up. -- nm - Roger More Feb 9, 16:28 2
  - That sounds like so much fun! -- nm - Bacon Feb 9, 16:28 1
    - Unsurprisingly, it was! -- nm - Roger More Feb 9, 16:32
- 2 weeks, next year we're taking 3 weeks though -- nm - J Feb 9, 16:28
- 1 Week -- nm - amoxy Feb 9, 16:27
FB friends: tell me who this guy looks like (nmblink) - ralph wiggum Feb 9, 16:24 4
- Ben Roethlisberger if he gave up! -- nm - Reagen Feb 9, 16:31
- Or DeadBunned -- nm - amoxy Feb 9, 16:29 2
  - Maybe it's just me, but I find the resemblance freaky. nm - ralph wiggum Feb 9, 16:30 1
    - Yeah, it is pretty close - amoxy Feb 9, 16:34
George Lucas Says Han Never Shot First -- (link) - amoxy Feb 9, 16:04 32
- he thinks jedi mind tricks work. every time he says it he waves his hand. -- nm - mafic Feb 9, 17:46
- asshole -- nm - Beaker Feb 9, 17:00
- And the pic in this article must be from a Indiana Jones Movie set -- nm - amoxy Feb 9, 16:54 1
  - Indiana Jones never shot that Arabic man with the sword. The Arabic man pulled out a Chinese throwing star and threw it first. -- nm - George Lucas Feb 9, 16:55
- what's the fuss? Hans had a gun on him, he clearly had a fear for his life and afaik legally allowed to defend himself - zeitgeist Feb 9, 16:50 5
  - You ... might be overthinking this one in the context of Lucas-logic. A man who had Teddy Ruxpin wannabes beat up on Stormtroopers becuase his kids - Will Hunting Feb 9, 16:51
  - ... I don't think that Han Solo had much concern for the legality of it. -- nm - Beryllium Feb 9, 16:51 3
    - Only a scoundrel would be like that. - Spawn - The Blood Feud God Feb 9, 17:06 2
      - No -- nm - Beryllium Feb 9, 17:07 1
        
        (At least, not this decade) -- nm - Beryllium Feb 9, 17:07
- And that is why he paid the bartender for the mess. - Spawn - The Blood Feud God Feb 9, 16:44
- Bull. You can clearly see in the new version that they digitally altered Han's position when Greedo shoots - Guigue Feb 9, 16:40
- Becuase he's a completely out of touch person who's been insulated from reality for far too long. - Will Hunting Feb 9, 16:34
- he's also erased Trotsky from the films. -- nm - Reagen Feb 9, 16:32
- Best. Troll. EVER. - Beryllium Feb 9, 16:16 1
  - ~Here eat more ice cream Mister Lucas, let's raise that bad cholesterol~ - Bacon Feb 9, 16:18
- I really hate Lucas for this shit. He made a movie that was a huge part of my childhood, but has done - TWuG Feb 9, 16:10 14
  - I am simply waiting for him to die off so the powers that be that want to make even more money will give us what we want. -- nm - Bacon Feb 9, 16:11 13
    - I have the original unfutzedwith versions on laserdisc but my inner geek is too bruised by his antics - TWuG Feb 9, 16:15 12
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        it wasn't on DVD until after the SEs. so yeah. -- nm - Reagen Feb 9, 16:27
        
        The ones I remember are CGI animals in the background, CGI landscape shots, celebrations on multiple planets when the Empire is defeated -- nm - Roger More Feb 9, 16:27 8
        
        and walking on jabba's tail -- nm - Beryllium Feb 9, 16:56 4
        
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        One of the new scenes in the Special Editions of the original, yes -- nm - Beryllium Feb 9, 17:08 2
        
        I liked that scene and the improvements in the special effects -- nm - amoxy Feb 9, 17:29 1
        
        dtm -- nm - Beaker Feb 9, 17:30
        
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        And pretty much every big explosion is redone -- nm - con_carne Feb 9, 16:56 1
        
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      - I have the originals in letterbox on DVD. I have been getting by with those. ~Nub Nub, Nub Nub~ -- nm - Bacon Feb 9, 16:17
- He thinks it's funny. He knows, but he is pulling our chains. He's a big dickhead. -- nm - Bacon Feb 9, 16:10
"What I decided to do is create an army of Davids. And you will be a part of that army." -- (link) - Herman Cain Feb 9, 15:54 4
- Hey, finally an army whose ass even we can whoop! -- nm - France Feb 9, 15:57 1
  - "Even Millhouse is scoring off of me." -- nm - David Feb 9, 16:07
- An Army of 5 paragraph Posters? - amoxy Feb 9, 15:55
- truman? -- nm - Spawn - Blood Feud Legend Feb 9, 15:55
Yahoo's take on the $100 pro league is kind of bs. -- nm - TFox Feb 9, 15:54 2
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  - pig? -- nm - Spawn - The Blood Feud God Feb 9, 16:47
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- *lobbies for 7* - Will Hunting Feb 9, 16:45
The one time there's an accounting joke and I miss it. - spamlet Feb 9, 15:51
*climbs up onto a roof in LA* - con_carne Feb 9, 15:49 1
- talked down with an offer of burgers -- nm - zeitgeist Feb 9, 16:35
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- Dingers is auction, correct? Signed up in both. -- nm - Will Hunting Feb 9, 16:29 3
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    - Well, Dingers I think is imperative to be auction cuz there's too high a premium on draft order....the other, snake is fine imo. -- nm - Will Hunting Feb 9, 16:35 1
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- Oof. -- nm - Mop (194 lbs) Feb 9, 15:47

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