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Colts player Dwight Freeny swindled out of 2.2 million -- (link) - Remlik Mar 28, 16:53 1
- He went in on a deal with Meg too? -- nm - Bacon Mar 28, 16:54
Yeah, for all my obsession with owning islands ... maybe I could be a resort developer as a next career. -- (link) - Beryllium Mar 28, 16:49
ST Lawyers: Meg pops on the board later and says WE WON! One of us has a heart attack and dies. Meg reveals she was kidding. - Dr.Vermin Mar 28, 16:40 8
- That depends who dies. Is it Pixie or someone we love like Andie? - Bacon Mar 28, 16:42 5
  - plZ!!!! not pixie!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! -- nm - jenbro si Mar 28, 17:10
  - Remember, I'm old. If I saw those numbers on our tickets someone else may have to claim the winnings :/ -- nm - MojaveMeg Mar 28, 16:50 3
    - mostly likely it would be your daughter who finds the body, and wonders what that is in your hands and realizes that she's your heir/next of kin -- nm - zeitgeist Mar 28, 18:33
    - I'll do it. (nm) - Will Hunting Mar 28, 16:51 1
      - No No No, I am from California, I can drive down and get the ticket, not a problem -- nm - amoxy Mar 28, 16:52
- L4's downgraded to L2's? -- nm - dogbert Mar 28, 16:41 1
  - *snicker* -- nm - amoxy Mar 28, 16:47
Who's taking the Online Jeopardy Test tonight? -- nm - Diva Mar 28, 16:27 1
- I planned to, except I need to meet my realtor at my place. - b. Mar 28, 16:28
Ah, just got back...had to go shopping :) PMB, yours was that mysterious deposit from Chicago, right? The initials didn't click for me :) -- nm - MojaveMeg Mar 28, 16:23 23
- oh sure, just exclude those of us that boycot paypal - dogbert Mar 28, 16:42 7
  - Enjoy going to work next week. *plans his 6 month vacation in Maui* -- nm - Bacon Mar 28, 16:44 6
    - I'd say you just made the top of the list of STers I mock after I win, but lets be honest, you're already there -- nm - dogbert Mar 28, 16:45 5
      - I am going to build a time machine and go back to that monorail stop in Vegas and make things right! - Bacon Mar 28, 16:46 4
        
        by setting things right you mean getting slapped by all 4 girls, right? - dogbert Mar 28, 16:50 3
        
        Dude, they were flirting with me. -- nm - Bacon Mar 28, 16:54 2
        
        you realise you are telling the one guy in the tram car that actually noticed this at the time, right? -- nm - dogbert Mar 28, 16:57 1
        
        Well I just wanted it to be known I choked and not that I bombed. -- nm - Bacon Mar 28, 17:01
- Are you still accepting? If so what do I need to know to participate? - TWuG Mar 28, 16:29 10
  - from earlier -- (link) - con_carne Mar 28, 16:32 [Backboard] 9
    - Thanks. Is everyone limited to $1? -- nm - TWuG Mar 28, 16:34 8
      - As many tickets as you like. Each $1 will be one share of the total. - MojaveMeg Mar 28, 16:36 7
        
        wow. -- nm - znufrii Mar 28, 16:45
        
        wow. nice :) -- nm - Diva Mar 28, 16:39
        
        Cool. Send as "gift"? -- nm - TWuG Mar 28, 16:37 4
        
        I don't know a great deal about Paypal - is that what's generally done? - MojaveMeg Mar 28, 16:41 2
        
        I figured it out. I sent as gift and was given the option to pay the fee. - TWuG Mar 28, 16:43
        
        I just put other and you now have more money... -- nm - J Mar 28, 16:42
        
        I just put "Other" -- nm - con_carne Mar 28, 16:40
- That would likely be me. - pmb Mar 28, 16:28 1
  - That's right, you held the other 99,990 back to win it all yourself - Will Hunting Mar 28, 16:36
- "shopping" = The Elephant Man's bones -- nm - pixitude Mar 28, 16:24
- the one for $100,000? who else would it be? -- nm - znufrii Mar 28, 16:23
chickens coming home to roost for business groups which supported the GOP in 2010 -- (link) - znufrii Mar 28, 16:16 10
- I'd trot out the schadenfreude, but this will suck for everyone. -- nm - TWuG Mar 28, 16:38
- Several big companies - Boeing in particular - rely on the Import Export Bank -- nm - Roger More Mar 28, 16:32 6
  - Also, free speech be damned. Allowing the Association of General Contractors to make political contributions is asking for trouble. -- nm - Roger More Mar 28, 16:36 1
    - At least they're smaller businesses. If the big companies are allowed to do it, then you can't stop any other business from doing it. -- nm - the liioulu with Mar 28, 16:38
  - They can survive in the Free Market. -- nm - the liioulu with Mar 28, 16:33 3
    - A lot of Boeing customers can't get financing. A Vietnamese airline, for example, won't be able to order $5 billion of aircraft because they don't - Roger More Mar 28, 16:52 2
      - BTW I meant that sarcastically. - the liioulu with Mar 28, 17:02
      - yup. -- nm - Diva Mar 28, 16:53
- But all those tax cuts for the rich they won't let expire were supposed to take care of that. -- nm - the liioulu with Mar 28, 16:31
- Oof -- nm - amoxy Mar 28, 16:24
Here we go. I could do a lot with this ... -- (link) - Beryllium Mar 28, 16:13 2
- i mean, it's tsunami proof ... it's huge ... I'd get to say "spared no expense" a lot ... -- nm - Beryllium Mar 28, 16:32
- google maps -- (link) - Beryllium Mar 28, 16:16
So, that JetBlue pilot from yesterday? arrested and charged with interfering with a flight crew -- (link) - znufrii Mar 28, 16:03 1
- easiest off ever for insanity? - b. Mar 28, 16:07
Iffin I was in the lottery, I'd get my dream walker... - BAD Mar 28, 15:59 4
- hee. - b. Mar 28, 16:00 3
  - with all the money from the win, you should look into hovercraft technology :)) -- nm - peglegpete Mar 28, 16:18 2
    - You can't do a burn out with a hover craft... -- nm - BAD Mar 28, 16:21 1
      - yet -- nm - peglegpete Mar 28, 16:23
ABC doing a story on the dangers of office lottery pools. -- nm - Dano Mar 28, 15:57 7
- Meg ripped us all off and moved to Switzerland!! -- nm - Bacon Mar 28, 16:23 2
  - Oh, just getting ready for the follow up episode, when Online Lottery Pools Go Bad -- nm - Bacon Mar 28, 16:25 1
    - "online lottery pools" - oo, now there's an idea for a website. - b. Mar 28, 16:27
- "That's a pretty stupid thing to do during flu season." -- nm - Max Mar 28, 16:22
- "money fucks things up.... [points] here, too!" -- nm - Dr.Vermin Mar 28, 16:01
- "You invited Eric. I thought Eric gave you the creeps." -- nm - con_carne Mar 28, 16:01
- this, of course, is *completely* different; so shh. -- nm - b. Mar 28, 16:01
UK politician claims his mother is really a 9-ft green alien with eight fingers -- (link) - pixitude Mar 28, 15:57 1
- If he's in the House of Lords, that's just expected. -- nm - Roger More Mar 28, 16:09
I'm buying a Rolls Royce Phantom and hiring Prince to play at a party in my new house. -- (link) - CrankYanker Mar 28, 15:52
You know, there's only so many times in your life you can actually say "this might be the best or worst decision of my life" - spamlet (iPhone) Mar 28, 15:44 3
- so, so true -- nm - ceregon Mar 28, 17:24
- the trick, i've found, is having the wisdom to know which ones are which - pixitude Mar 28, 15:51 1
  - I think we just found the real writer behind some ecards -- nm - Beryllium Mar 28, 15:52
The 10 Most Baffling Moments In Lois Lane And Superman�s Love Life -- (link) - tRuMaN, de-brained Mar 28, 15:43
i propose that if st wins the lottery, we should have bi-annual meetings - tRuMaN, de-brained Mar 28, 15:42 5
- set up a fund that pays for it. -- nm - Remlik Mar 28, 16:02
- Isn't bi-annual, twice a year not every two years -- nm - Karl_S Mar 28, 15:43 3
  - nope, twice a year is semi-annual. -- nm - znufrii Mar 28, 15:43 2
    - a memory aid is that 1976 was the US bicentennial. -- nm - zork Mar 28, 15:46 1
      - Huh. Well, that's easier to remember than "bi means two, not twice." - Dr.Vermin Mar 28, 15:55
GO TFC, GO !!! -- nm - zork Mar 28, 15:40 2
- HELL YA! but it'll be a tough go for them, no captain and back up goalie -- nm - J Mar 28, 16:42
- LYC: I nearly won 4 tickets to the game. Got on the radio but didn't know the answer to the question. - zork Mar 28, 15:42
I'm in, Thanks Meg for taking the lead on this. -- nm - Todd Manning Mar 28, 15:40
you won. what charity is on top of your list? I would set up a scholarship or 2 at the Joe Kubert School -- nm - peglegpete Mar 28, 15:38 10
- Archaeological Conservancy - of course :) -- nm - MojaveMeg Mar 28, 16:20 1
  - *idea* if we win, I suggest we all chip-in and sponsor a scholarship in your name. :) - -- nm - b. Mar 28, 16:21
- Church camp and Wonderland Camp Foundation scholarships. -- nm - spamlet (iPhone) Mar 28, 15:45 2
  - Yeah, the camp i'm on the board for would get a foundation for operating costs. -- nm - TFox Mar 28, 15:48
  - And an Imelda May benefit concert after her baby. - spamlet (iPhone) Mar 28, 15:47
- our Church, food bank, cancer and MS charities -- nm - Beaker Mar 28, 15:43
- Either a Cancer or Asthma chariity -- nm - Karl_S Mar 28, 15:42
- starting up my arts commune/arts education outreach program -- nm - znufrii Mar 28, 15:41
- Hero Initiative. CBLDF. And a local AIDS charity -- nm - Remlik Mar 28, 15:39 1
  - oh and I'd throw a concert with Concrete Blonde, Garbage, with Rush and Iron Maiden. -- nm - Remlik Mar 28, 15:42
the nice thing about my job, is that i know of 3 local charities that - tRuMaN, de-brained Mar 28, 15:33 2
- I'd be thinking of Kid's Help Phone, Children's Wish Foundation, and some animal ones. -- nm - zork Mar 28, 15:35 1
  - there is a local free children's clinic here - tRuMaN, de-brained Mar 28, 15:37
st, we now get rumors about the Orbis (i.e. ps4) -- (link) - tRuMaN, de-brained Mar 28, 15:31 4
- Sony is like Krusty the Clown. "Good buzz? Is that even possible?" -- nm - David Mar 28, 15:36 3
  - i dont know. if that stats hold, it would be about 2x more powerful than either the - tRuMaN, de-brained Mar 28, 15:38 2
    - If I can't borrow games from friends or buy used game, I'm not getting the console, period. I know they dislike that don't make as much money from me - Guigue Mar 28, 15:47 1
      - And I think that this is the feeling of a good 60% of videogame players. -- nm - David Mar 28, 16:00
I'm actually shocked that nobody said Shawshank for first movie on an ST screen -- nm - zork Mar 28, 15:27 19
- Pirates of the Caribbean -- Black Pearl. -- nm - Will Hunting Mar 28, 16:13
- One of the most irritating movies I've ever seen. -- nm - the liioulu with Mar 28, 16:12 2
  - even for you this is pretty stupid -- nm - pixitude Mar 28, 16:17 1
    - you bit, haha. -- nm - b. Mar 28, 16:20
- cause we know the 1st movie on an ST screen would Star Trek 2. -- nm - Remlik Mar 28, 16:05
- Or Serenity??? Where am I? -- nm - Dr.Vermin Mar 28, 15:56
- Hey, let's watch somebody get raped then crawl through prison sewage! -- nm - David Mar 28, 15:37 4
  - spoilers! -- nm - TFox Mar 28, 15:39
  - "The Kickspit Underground Rock Festival EXPERIENCE!" -- nm - Beryllium Mar 28, 15:39
  - then we can watch the original "I Spit On Your Grave"! nm -- nm - groiny Mar 28, 15:38
  - then live in luxury on the beach - zork Mar 28, 15:38
- since I was in Shashank, that voided me. but we still need some Donald Duck cartoons -- nm - peglegpete Mar 28, 15:34 1
  - Shawshank -- nm - peglegpete Mar 28, 15:34
- this might have a shot at making it through the selection process. - Mel Profit Mar 28, 15:29 2
  - I'd pay everyone's fare to watch it on the beach in Ziuatanejo -- nm - zork Mar 28, 15:32 1
    - ::changes answer:: rape, schmape, let's go! -- nm - b. Mar 28, 15:33
- princess bride is just a wee bit more positive throughout. - b. Mar 28, 15:29 2
  - Shawskank is more applicable I think... - Mel Profit Mar 28, 15:31 1
    - exactly, the breakout/escape/triumph metaphor would feel so good. Plus, seeing Rita on the big screen, even for a moment, has to be experienced. -- nm - zork Mar 28, 15:33
I used my Kroger discount card points for the first time filling up my truck. Paid only $3.20/gal for 33.5 gallons. - GregW Mar 28, 15:27
i could write a list but i'm not putting anything about this new job in writing if at all possible -- nm - pixitude Mar 28, 15:21 1
- Having to get information from territorial-minded people -- nm - con_carne Mar 28, 15:29
I'd buy a Batmobile from The Dark Knight and go leave tire marks in Spawn's yard! -- nm - Remlik Mar 28, 15:20 5
- that's NOT a Batmobile :)) -- nm - George Barris Mar 28, 15:21 4
  - yeah. IT'S AWESOMER! -- nm - Remlik Mar 28, 15:23 3
    - it has a Captain's Chair! -- nm - loosilu Mar 28, 15:25 2
      - hell yes I'd have a Next Gen chair actually. with Sisko's Desk for office -- nm - Remlik Mar 28, 15:34
      - so does the Enterprise :) -- nm - peglegpete Mar 28, 15:33
We all realize that Meg has zero intention of actually buying tickets with the money we've sent in, right? - prayformojo Mar 28, 15:17 10
- its ok, mel is onto her. - tRuMaN, de-brained Mar 28, 15:25 4
  - I see her for the low down dirty con-artist, hoodie wearin', wanton destroyer of property and dreams, thug maniac criminal mastermind... - Mel Profit Mar 28, 15:28 3
    - btw, I love the education thing you posted about on the backboards - zork Mar 28, 15:30 2
      - me, too. - b. Mar 28, 15:32 1
        
        thanks. maybe someday I'll get to do something like that. -- nm - Mel Profit Mar 28, 15:33
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- she's already checked in at the Costa Rica Hilton on Foursquare -- nm - pixitude Mar 28, 15:20 3
  - we just paid for a cute little dog to have gold caps... -- nm - Mel Profit Mar 28, 15:24 2
    - and a massage. -- nm - loosilu Mar 28, 15:25 1
      - and a professional insulin injector -- nm - zork Mar 28, 15:29
Over/under on how much PMB just sent: $100,000. -- nm - David Mar 28, 15:16 6
- Whoa! Where did this 100K come from? -- nm - Meg si Mar 28, 15:21
- I hope so - it'll up our odds a *pause*.. oh, teeny fraction. -- nm - b. Mar 28, 15:20
- Hope you suckers all enjoy your .0003% shares. - pmb Mar 28, 15:18 1
  - no problem, it's more money than I've got now -- nm - zork Mar 28, 15:28
- That'll really decrease everybody's share. :-( -- nm - mara Mar 28, 15:17
- 2 -- nm - tRuMaN, de-brained Mar 28, 15:16
Mini-Cooper or Dodge Challenger nm - Jovian Mar 28, 15:15 1
- "or"? -- nm - znufrii Mar 28, 15:24
'/~dream a little dream..'/~ - b. Mar 28, 15:15
so, education related news ... had to dig up my old ACT scores to see if i needed to take PRAXIS tests as part of getting teacher certified ... - i'm not dead yet ! Mar 28, 15:14 1
- i am still amused by my act scores (lyc) - tRuMaN, de-brained Mar 28, 15:16

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