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Huh, Vin Scully to miss tonight's opening game -- (link) - amoxy Apr 10, 13:10 4
- IIRC he had announced some weeks back that he'll be announcing a limited number of games this season -- nm - con_carne Apr 10, 13:12 3
  - He has been on a limited schedule for a while now it seems - amoxy Apr 10, 13:14 2
    - It would seem to be a good day to miss. Tense day with the beefed up security. -- nm - con_carne Apr 10, 13:15 1
      - Plus, he is a well known Castro suppoerter. -- nm - Iron Spawn: T minus 4 days Apr 10, 13:17
Oh my. What hath Pizza Hutt wrought? -- (link) - Beryllium Apr 10, 13:10 9
- Vomits in mouth -- nm - amoxy Apr 10, 13:22
- Right away my mind goes to: where do you get a hot dog that long? -- nm - Mop (198 lbs) Apr 10, 13:18 2
  - I want to know the same thing! -- nm - Megan Fox Apr 10, 13:19 1
    - Because Megan is such a slut? - Iron Spawn: T minus 4 days Apr 10, 13:21
- Gross! -- nm - Bacon Apr 10, 13:15
- Yeah, I don't think so. They did try stuffing pepperoni into the crusts before though. -- nm - Qale Apr 10, 13:14 2
  - Question: Do all PHs use conveyors? - Iron Spawn: T minus 4 days Apr 10, 13:16 1
    - Yes. It could have got stuck. -- nm - Qale Apr 10, 13:23
- also, Jabba the Hutt before makeup -- (link) - Beryllium Apr 10, 13:10 [Image]
Your latest Kickstarter hot property. Grimmy Fairy Tales animated series... with Lena Headey (TV's Sarah Connor) as lead voice talent. -- (link) - Mop (198 lbs) Apr 10, 13:08 2
- Crash Davis Approved! -- nm - Remlik Apr 10, 13:10
- I think it's TV's Cersei Lannister now. nm - Dignan Apr 10, 13:09
2.5 more years until ICD-10? Oh, that should be plenty of time. - TFox Apr 10, 13:06 3
- JIM! - Mel Profit Apr 10, 13:14 1
  - or am I thinking of 5010 transactions? -- nm - Mel Profit Apr 10, 13:14
- Flying cars! -- nm - Iron Spawn: T minus 4 days Apr 10, 13:07
Caine's Arcade little film will make you dust up -- (link) - Remlik Apr 10, 13:00 [youtube]
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- I think he's admitted it before. When the movie came out, they did that contest for a Springfield to host the premiere... - Mop (198 lbs) Apr 10, 13:02
- GO DUCKS!!!!!!!!!!! -- nm - Bacon Apr 10, 12:59 9
  - Ducks-adjacent. -- nm - Mop (198 lbs) Apr 10, 13:06 8
    - You realize that Eugene is immortalized in the Simpsons as "Shelbyville", yes? -- nm - Mop (198 lbs) Apr 10, 13:07 6
      - I never watched a single episode until I started dating Hotcakes. - Bacon Apr 10, 13:08 5
        
        Shelbyville is the stuck-up, uppity neighbor to Springfield. So, you know... spot on. -- nm - Mop (198 lbs) Apr 10, 13:09 4
        
        tell us how you really feel, Mop.... nm -- nm - groiny Apr 10, 13:17
        
        Springfield is conservative and Eugene is hippie town though -- nm - Bacon Apr 10, 13:10 2
        
        If it's possible for hippies to be wealthy and pretentious, Oregon has found that formula. See: Portland, Eugene, Corvallis, Bend... -- nm - Mop (198 lbs) Apr 10, 13:11 1
        
        The others are spot on but I don't think of Bend as hippie -- nm - Bacon Apr 10, 13:12
    - Close enough -- nm - Bacon Apr 10, 13:06
- ::watches Nielson numbers plummet:: -- nm - Iron Spawn: T minus 4 days Apr 10, 12:58
Something under the floor is making the floor vibrate which is making my chair vibrate. :) -- nm - lileve Apr 10, 12:56 1
- Keep telling your coworkers that. -- nm - Iron Spawn: T minus 4 days Apr 10, 12:56
Today's chapter in someone using my email to sign up for things is Vudu. This company is horrible for two reasons. - Qale Apr 10, 12:52
Holy crap, Obama's tweeting like mad this afternoon. -- nm - Mop (198 lbs) Apr 10, 12:51 5
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  - Surely you're not implying that Barack himself isn't pinning recipes on Pinterest! -- nm - Mop (198 lbs) Apr 10, 12:55
  - You don't mean to say that Michelle isn't the one writing me all those e-mails?!?!?!?!?!?! -- nm - TFox Apr 10, 12:53 2
    - Oddly, some of those "Lose Weight Fast!!" emails *are* from her. nm - Dignan Apr 10, 12:58
    - You? no. - Iron Spawn: T minus 4 days Apr 10, 12:54
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- hooray for small sample sizes! -- nm - znufrii Apr 10, 12:55
- and the Braves are on pace for 0-162. -- nm - Strongbad Apr 10, 12:53 7
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    - Stanford pitcher Appell? is the name I'm most familiar with. -- nm - Will Hunting Apr 10, 12:56 4
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        Here -- (link) - Will Hunting Apr 10, 13:14 2
        
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        MLB has a draft projection that has a kid from my high school going to Detroit at #27 this year. - Will Hunting Apr 10, 13:19
    - Tim Tebow. -- nm - Sanchez Apr 10, 12:56
- and only 158 games from being 4-158 -- nm - zork Apr 10, 12:51 1
  - that's far less likely. -- nm - TFox Apr 10, 12:52
- i highly doubt it - prayformojo Apr 10, 12:50
Someone on FB just posted this old school Ricardo Montalban car commercial ("soft Corinthian leather"). - con_carne Apr 10, 12:44 [youtube] 4
- "Corinth is famous for its leather!" -- nm - znufrii Apr 10, 13:16
- I love that commercial. - Krusty Apr 10, 13:15
- oh, it was funny at the time. -- nm - loosilu Apr 10, 12:49
- American Express..Don't leave home without it. -- nm - Karl Malden Apr 10, 12:49
Big Hill just contributed to her own mem -- (link) - Remlik Apr 10, 12:43 8
- I have no idea what this means. - Mel Profit Apr 10, 12:56 2
  - Yeah, I'm kinda torn as to whether I want my SECSTATE that fluent in txt speak. - Dr.Vermin Apr 10, 13:00 1
    - HUSH! -- nm - Cappie Apr 10, 13:01
- This is okay, but memes start running their course when they rely on self endorsements. -- nm - con con carne Apr 10, 12:55
- nice. :) -- nm - znufrii Apr 10, 12:53
- scrunchie time! I like her sense of humour - zork Apr 10, 12:50
- Love it. -- nm - Dr.Vermin Apr 10, 12:48
- meme that is. -- nm - Remlik Apr 10, 12:44
Wow, didn't really expect that today. (Santorum) -- nm - Strongbad Apr 10, 12:41 2
- His choices were to continue to go Full Nutbag to appease a fringe element in a hopeless bid for national office or remain viable nationally. - Mel Profit Apr 10, 12:44
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my wife cracked me up at the end of B2. -- nm - Mel Profit Apr 10, 12:25
wapo chat for jenbro: how to speak squirrel -- (link) - pixitude Apr 10, 12:25 1
- *makes new hunting call product* -- nm - Duck Dynasty family Apr 10, 12:31
After giving upon going after websites with SOPA, now they want to go after internet users with CISPA. -- (link) - GregW Apr 10, 12:21 18
- Netflix does not support CISPA. Facebook does. -- (link) - Mop (198 lbs) Apr 10, 13:00
- Is your rep on the list of sponsors? -- (link) - Dr.Vermin Apr 10, 12:26 16
  - Oh hells naw. That would so not fly in my district. -- nm - con_carne Apr 10, 12:49
  - Yep. -- nm - Will Hunting Apr 10, 12:46 2
    - We share a rep now. -- nm - MDH Apr 10, 12:50 1
      - Enjoy your new guy, hope he remembers theres a large district out here for him to represent. - Will Hunting Apr 10, 12:58
  - No, for once Wally Herger is doing the right thing -- nm - amoxy Apr 10, 12:43
  - No, but Gingrey is and the line between him & Price is about 5 minutes from me. -- nm - Strongbad Apr 10, 12:40
  - Yes -- nm - ty97 Apr 10, 12:40 1
    - Oh, honey. -- nm - Iron Spawn: T minus 4 days Apr 10, 12:40
  - No. We are not *that* crazy. -- nm - Iron Spawn: T minus 4 days Apr 10, 12:39
  - No, but I sent the email anyway. -- nm - GregW Apr 10, 12:33
  - No, because that would take actual effort. He's the Clarence Thomas of Congress. - spamlet Apr 10, 12:31
  - Nope -- nm - znufrii Apr 10, 12:29 1
    - and not even for a little bit after I move until we get redistricted back into the 13th - znufrii Apr 10, 12:54
  - My new rep: yes. (Old one before gerrymandering, no) -- nm - MDH Apr 10, 12:28 1
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  - No. -- nm - Don Homer Apr 10, 12:27
"Troublingly, my best theory was that Mark Zuckerberg stood to inherit a trillion dollars from his eccentric uncle, but only if he could spend a... - Don Homer Apr 10, 12:20 8
- The exif data on the images? -- nm - lileve Apr 10, 13:13
- heh -- nm - Andie Apr 10, 12:24
- I stopped reading at "Facebook has always been the world�s largest photo sharing service." Always...really? -- nm - oblique Apr 10, 12:22 4
  - This is what evil does. -- nm - Iron Spawn: T minus 4 days Apr 10, 12:30
  - Since time immemorial! -- nm - Beryllium Apr 10, 12:24
  - I assume it's supposed to be "has become the..." -- nm - Don Homer Apr 10, 12:24
  - Hotmail! -- nm - con_carne Apr 10, 12:23
- None of the above pictures -- nm - zork Apr 10, 12:22
Your online resource for surviving the zombie apocalypse -- (link) - znufrii Apr 10, 12:16 7
- Two gun stores and an REI on the way to the harbor. Route mapped! -- nm - Dr.Vermin Apr 10, 12:20 4
  - question for me is, do I hop on the highway and go north into the mountains, or head east over to the old naval station? -- nm - znufrii Apr 10, 12:23 3
    - north. I'd rather deal with the rednecks and biker gangs than people from Philly - decline Apr 10, 12:25 2
      - yeah, but if we can stock up at Willow Grove first... -- nm - znufrii Apr 10, 12:28 1
        
        of course, once we move to Conshy, we'll be a short hop from King of Prussia, so can get supplies there - znufrii Apr 10, 12:35
- Speaking of... hey pegleg and ceregon: we drove by the Zombie Apocalypse Survival Store in Vegas back in March, but didn't go in. Cool? -- nm - Dr.Vermin Apr 10, 12:17 1
  - Haven't been there. Actually never heard of it until now. I'll definitely go next trip. -- nm - ceregon Apr 10, 12:27
Marvel Comics to have a gay marriage in Astonishing X-men #51 (Northstar getting married) and will have heavy press coverage.... -- (link) - Remlik Apr 10, 12:13 51
- WOOOOOOOOOOO-HOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!! -- nm - the Rawhide Kid Apr 10, 12:52
- Havoc is going to be *jealous*... -- nm - TFox Apr 10, 12:36 1
  - he's married to Polaris! -- nm - Remlik Apr 10, 12:41
- And will rename the comic "The Fabulous X-Men". -- nm - pmb Apr 10, 12:36
- Comic question for you - MDH Apr 10, 12:20 9
  - you live in DC right? find a local shop and preorder it there... - Remlik Apr 10, 12:29 3
    - Haha, I just looked them up. Big Planet is 2 blocks away from my apt. Thanks! -- nm - MDH Apr 10, 12:33
    - dang, the old pusherman brushoff. that's cold, mdh -- nm - pixitude Apr 10, 12:30 1
      - heh....I would gladly take his money! -- nm - Remlik Apr 10, 12:34
  - Additional question: -- nm - MDH Apr 10, 12:26 4
    - just paypal him a couple thou -- nm - pixitude Apr 10, 12:27
    - SFEK: Sorry for all of the questions - MDH Apr 10, 12:27 2
      - checking -- nm - Remlik Apr 10, 12:42 1
        
        yes -- nm - Remlik Apr 10, 12:42
- "...some retailers are already saving the date and are hosting special wedding events in their stores� " - Diva Apr 10, 12:17 11
  - "I mean, no, Spawn isn't his *real* name. And it's only a mock marriage!" nm - PusherMan Apr 10, 12:19 2
    - in Indiana, two wives is like strict orthodox -- nm - pixitude Apr 10, 12:20 1
      - well Southren Indiana for sure. -- nm - Remlik Apr 10, 12:23
  - we're trying to get the writer to do an instore. She lives in Bloomington -- nm - Remlik Apr 10, 12:18 7
    - ::promises not to call VP about doing this:: -- nm - Iron Spawn: T minus 4 days Apr 10, 12:25 1
      - if you did that. - Remlik Apr 10, 12:41
    - ooh...hope you get it/her. -- nm - Diva Apr 10, 12:20
    - nothing brings a woman running like the prospect of hundreds of single nerds looking to get hitched -- nm - pixitude Apr 10, 12:19 1
      - "yer purty!" -- nm - Don Homer Apr 10, 12:20
    - That would be a real boon. - Epiphany Apr 10, 12:19 1
      - she alternates between living in China and Bloomington so it's tough to get her.... -- nm - Remlik Apr 10, 12:23
- Northstar and Thor? Interesting. nm - Dignan Apr 10, 12:16
- "And the comic books is where gay marriage belongs." -- nm - con_carne Apr 10, 12:16
- Wolverine and Cyclops. mazel tov -- nm - pixitude Apr 10, 12:15
- Man I thought Ace and Gary would get married first -- nm - Capstern Apr 10, 12:15
- I thought Northstar was (spoiler?) - sycor Apr 10, 12:14 16
  - spoil - Iron Spawn: T minus 4 days Apr 10, 12:15 15
    - oh ok -- nm - sycor Apr 10, 12:15 14
      - he did die in the 616 world (regular Marvel) and in two alternate realites in the space of one month of publishing. -- nm - Remlik Apr 10, 12:17 13
        
        How many different realities does Marvel comics have? - amoxy Apr 10, 12:28 9
        
        Well 2 main ones. The Ultimate Line and the regular universe.... - Remlik Apr 10, 12:30 8
        
        Three right now, though. -- nm - Iron Spawn: T minus 4 days Apr 10, 12:31 7
        
        3? Ultimate...616 and the Movie Universe? -- nm - Remlik Apr 10, 12:45 6
        
        Age of -- nm - Iron Spawn: T minus 4 days Apr 10, 12:52 5
        
        Gotcha. Well see how long that series lasts...liked 1st 2 issues. -- nm - Remlik Apr 10, 12:55 4
        
        The current crap in X-force, maybe? - Iron Spawn: T minus 4 days Apr 10, 12:57 3
        
        that was a *great* storyline. Really well done and flew off the shelves...the followup storyline not so much -- nm - Remlik Apr 10, 13:14 1
        
        Agreed. -- nm - Iron Spawn: T minus 4 days Apr 10, 13:19
        
        (I know, not really. Just had to bitch about it.) -- nm - Iron Spawn: T minus 4 days Apr 10, 12:59
        
        If anyone wants to chart why comics have kinda lost me, the above sentence is a good summation. -- nm - Will Hunting Apr 10, 12:24 2
        
        that's a failure of the local shop. If you don't want to follow all the side stuff you don't have to.... - Remlik Apr 10, 13:15
        
        *nods* -- nm - Don Homer Apr 10, 12:34
- I figured that was going there with the recent issue. -- nm - Iron Spawn: T minus 4 days Apr 10, 12:14 3
  - You and Remlik should do the mock wedding thing -- nm - oblique Apr 10, 12:15 2
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    - only if he does Mudatholn and Rebel Race this year. -- nm - Remlik Apr 10, 12:15
Top Ten Reasons... oh... *In*fidelity... never mind. -- nm - Newt Apr 10, 12:13 1
- Newt can not even post right. That goes below the first. -- nm - Iron Spawn: T minus 4 days Apr 10, 12:13
*names Newt the Minister of Infidelity* -- nm - Beaker Apr 10, 12:12 2
- Secretary of Belligerent Bomb Throwing -- nm - con_carne Apr 10, 12:14
- I was gonna say Adulters so close -- nm - eag t-18 Apr 10, 12:13

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