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Lisa Ray on Top Chef Canada is quickly moving up my list. -- (link) - Reagen Apr 17, 21:26 5
- Star of I Can't Think Straight! -- nm - David Apr 17, 21:42
- I'd make all kinds of love to that. nm - Dignan Apr 17, 21:36 3
  - That picture doesn't even totally do her justice, either. - Reagen Apr 17, 21:38 1
    - I *said* all kinds. Jesus. nm - Dignan Apr 17, 21:45
  - puppy? -- nm - Iron Spawn Apr 17, 21:38
So this is the phone that I'm now thinking of getting. -- (link) - Qale Apr 17, 21:18 3
- I like it. I like touch only if it has a slide out qwerty -- nm - Bacon, via droid Apr 17, 21:19 2
  - The coverage map doesn't look all that attractive though. Meh. -- nm - Qale Apr 17, 21:42
  - I've almost got the entire amount in Amazon gift card balance, so it'd just be the per month. -- nm - Qale Apr 17, 21:22
OK, new cast list for Bones (no spoilers) - Beryllium Apr 17, 21:08 3
- Bones - spoilers - Beryllium Apr 17, 21:20 1
  - Bones - closed captioning spoilers (because I did NOT hear the line) - Beryllium Apr 17, 21:34
- Next week: "A rare disease turns Bones into a Toyota Camry and Booth must use her revolutionary Entune navigation system to find a killer." -- nm - Ender Apr 17, 21:16
Pop quiz: What kind of business is the following sentence describing? - ralph wiggum Apr 17, 21:07 25
- I'm stealing this -- nm - Beaker Apr 18, 04:21
- In case anyone is still awake after reading that generic snore fest, it was describing a bank. nm - ralph wiggum Apr 17, 21:23 1
  - it's like ... corporate-speak pablum -- nm - Beryllium Apr 17, 21:30
- Cupcakes! -- nm - Reagen Apr 17, 21:21
- Web Design -- nm - Bacon, via droid Apr 17, 21:17
- that's the business dilbert's pointy hair boss manages -- nm - zeitgeist Apr 17, 21:13
- Dear Michelle, -- nm - Dano Apr 17, 21:11
- dignan's online male escort service -- nm - pixitude Apr 17, 21:09 5
  - (Ramazon.com: Check out our Mother's Day specials.) nm - Dignan Apr 17, 21:16 4
    - (This is very funny.) nm - ralph wiggum Apr 17, 21:17 3
      - You just earned yourself a coupon, toots. nm - Dignan Apr 17, 21:24 2
        
        Just to be clear, where it says "Half off"--that's referring to the price, right? nm - ralph wiggum Apr 17, 21:26 1
        
        No, but you get to pick which half. nm - Dignan Apr 17, 21:37
- Blandness -- nm - Qale Apr 17, 21:09
- Bullshit. It is describing the bullshit business. -- nm - Beryllium Apr 17, 21:09 1
  - Also, it might be talking about downsizing staff in favour of automated business systems -- nm - Beryllium Apr 17, 21:11
- I dunno. Does it also create synergy by thinking outside the box? -- nm - Dr.Vermin Apr 17, 21:08 2
  - I'm pretty sure it leverages its synergies to optimize achievement. nm - ralph wiggum Apr 17, 21:10
  - while shifting paradigms in centres of excellence. -- nm - mafic Apr 17, 21:09
- could really be anything that has clients or customers. I'll assume marketing. -- nm - mafic Apr 17, 21:08
- All of them. -- nm - David Apr 17, 21:08 3
  - Winner. -- nm - Tim Apr 17, 21:20
  - Exactly. Talk about useless jargony bullshit. nm - ralph wiggum Apr 17, 21:09 1
    - Wait, David's posts or yours above? - Bacon, via droid Apr 17, 21:22
- Automated call center. -- nm - TWuG Apr 17, 21:08
Thanks for Turntablin'. I wonder if I could jazz up a version of Tonight, Tonight and use it as a closer at a club one day. -- nm - Qale Apr 17, 20:58 1
- It was fun! -- nm - Bacon Apr 17, 21:03
Is there any way to recall an email I sent from gmail? -- nm - Dano Apr 17, 20:54 11
- Okay, so that appears to be no. So a follow up scenario question. - Dano Apr 17, 21:01 5
  - I called my very male partner teacher for this practicum "Miss" in my introductory email. We got past it. -- nm - Reagen Apr 17, 21:22
  - It's a common mistake, Donny. - Dr.Vermin Apr 17, 21:10
  - Since you don't her, don't draw further attention and hope that if she notices, she is the understanding type. -- nm - David Apr 17, 21:08 1
    - Or what Pix said and if she's bitchy - ask her to forward it to Michelle :D -- nm - JenBro Apr 17, 21:13
  - not that i've ever done that a million times, but when i have, i just let it go - pixitude Apr 17, 21:03
- How close are you to the location it was sent to? -- nm - Iron Spawn Apr 17, 20:59
- Primer -- nm - pixitude Apr 17, 20:56 1
  - But I forgot to start the machine! -- nm - Dano Apr 17, 20:57
- (I don't have the undo send feature enabled) -- nm - Dano Apr 17, 20:56 1
  - email moves so fast that its probably there before your finger comes off the enter key -- nm - zeitgeist Apr 17, 20:58
limpet poll: if you could be half human/half animal, what would your animal half be? - pixitude Apr 17, 20:51 16
- Funkasaurus -- nm - David Apr 17, 21:16
- teleporter monkey -- nm - mud Apr 17, 21:15
- lemur, front -- nm - loosi Apr 17, 21:12
- no thanks. I have seen Dr. Moreau & Splice -- nm - peglegpete Apr 17, 21:11
- the other kind of mermaid, with the fish part on top and the lady part on the bottom. -- nm - mafic Apr 17, 20:59 3
  - Good thinking. Those seashell bras look like they'd pinch. -- nm - Reagen Apr 17, 21:34
  - "Did the water just get colder around here?" nm - ralph wiggum Apr 17, 21:01
  - mermanda -- nm - pixitude Apr 17, 21:01
- Yiff in hell! -- nm - Qale Apr 17, 20:59
- Is it wimpy to go with my zodiac sign? Horse - like Sagittarius -- nm - JenBro Apr 17, 20:55 2
  - I immediately thought bull. -- nm - Dr.Vermin Apr 17, 21:11 1
    - Really? I seem stubborn? -- nm - JenBro Apr 17, 21:15
- being able to fly would be cool but my luck I'd end up the the bottom half instead -- nm - zeitgeist Apr 17, 20:54 2
  - Don't crap on my car -- nm - Bacon Apr 17, 21:05 1
    - like you'd kick a duck's ass -- nm - zeitgeist Apr 17, 21:11
- If I am half bird can I fly? Golden Eagle -- nm - Bacon Apr 17, 20:53
Uh oh, is Glee really going to go there? -- nm - ceregon Apr 17, 20:39 2
- Yes, they are. I complained last board -- nm - Epiphany Apr 17, 20:42 1
  - People still watch Glee? -- nm - Cuzzin Todd Apr 17, 20:44
A 10 hr car ride feels like an eternity when you are listening to an infant wail through the majority of the trip. - kelly Apr 17, 20:29 22
- Yikes. Did he wake the kid up? nm - Dignan Apr 17, 20:44
- Our first car trip (3 hours) we made it about 20 minutes before pulling over in a Burger King parking lot. - psilotum Apr 17, 20:38 11
  - I felt bad; he clearly just wanted to be held. He was great during feeding breaks. - kelly Apr 17, 20:43 10
    - I know it's a hacky joke, but this is much funnier if I assume that you are talking about Will. nm - ralph wiggum Apr 17, 20:44 9
      - Well, Will was at home alone ... so I can totally sympathize with how torturous it would have been :( - Beryllium Apr 17, 21:14
      - L3 -- nm - JenBro Apr 17, 20:46
      - Again, if I was a less proud man... nm - Dignan Apr 17, 20:45
      - heh. dignan is a hack -- nm - pixitude Apr 17, 20:45 5
        
        (Oh, and f your a with w's p.) nm - Dignan Apr 17, 20:50 1
        
        Hey! Don't go passing my p around like a communal doobie. nm - ralph wiggum Apr 17, 20:51
        
        Really, I should have realized the well was dry after the fourth time I made this joke. nm - Dignan Apr 17, 20:46 2
        
        don't beat yourself up too badly, buddy -- nm - pixitude Apr 17, 20:50
        
        Bad things, bad people, etc., etc., etc. nm - ralph wiggum Apr 17, 20:49
- Fear of this is why we haven't travelled much, even though it would probably be fine (our trips would be 3-5 hours, not ten) -- nm - Beryllium Apr 17, 20:35 5
  - The trip was supposed to be 7 hrs, but add in a few feeding breaks and a lot of traffic... -- nm - kelly Apr 17, 20:49 1
    - Yeah, makes sense. Hopefully he gets better at it (I'm sure he will) -- nm - Beryllium Apr 17, 20:59
  - If you all go just be sure your smart phone has a car charger. - Iron Spawn Apr 17, 20:36 2
    - maybe I should consider an ipad for a trip like that ... I don't want to have him deleting stuff on my iphone. :) - Beryllium Apr 17, 20:39
    - Cat charger - What I read Apr 17, 20:39
- A 10 hour car ride with a crying baby for you, is still better than a 1 hour flight with us :) -- nm - Bacon Apr 17, 20:34 1
  - Eh. I woulda have been able to hold him if we flew. - kelly Apr 17, 20:46
- Awww poor Nathan :( - way to hang in there Mom Kelly! -- nm - JenBro Apr 17, 20:33
I agree with you Bacon on b2 about this place as a whole -- nm - eag Apr 17, 20:28 2
- Did you just call me an a-hole? -- nm - Dano Apr 17, 20:28 1
  - Not tonight - eag Apr 17, 20:30
Well, at least I don't have to worry about the playoffs while I'm gone. - spamlet (iPhone) Apr 17, 20:25 4
- are you coming to australia? it's +12 from eastern US to western australia. +14 to the eastern states. - mafic Apr 17, 20:29 3
  - Yeah, Sydney. - spamlet (iPhone) Apr 17, 20:31 2
    - I always forget about daylight saving time. right now it's +15 from you to Sydney, +14 from eastern, - mafic Apr 17, 20:35
    - Wait, Sydney is east, not west, so that makes sense now. -- nm - spamlet (iPhone) Apr 17, 20:32
Cleaned my desk so I can work from home; totally forgot to take a Before photo :( -- nm - Beryllium Apr 17, 19:59 1
- erph, now I'm amped to get into some stuff - but my input interfaces are going to be too annoying until the batteries have charged. heh. -- nm - Beryllium Apr 17, 20:02
I guess Betemit didn't like groiny knocking his defensive abilities. -- nm - the wrong element, bad guy Apr 17, 19:58 3
- He's still just pissed the Sox let him leave. -- nm - spamlet (iPhone) Apr 17, 20:23
- Of course the Orioles would have a top 3 offense. It only makes sense. - Will Hunting Apr 17, 20:04 1
  - I think your IM is probably close to reality. - the wrong element, bad guy Apr 17, 20:15
LIR Jen Bro, that damn cat needs to mind it's own business! - Epiphany Apr 17, 19:57 18
- Jenbro would fit in nicely at Catitude -- nm - Bacon Apr 17, 20:22 14
  - I added her -- nm - Epiphany Apr 17, 20:37 1
    - Yay! -- nm - Bacon, via droid Apr 17, 21:16
  - Speaking of cats, how's your cat doin' with dad these days? -- nm - Groiny si Apr 17, 20:28 11
    - Sfek - I erased that - but then didn't post right away and it snuck back! Sneaky auto nic -- nm - JenBro Apr 17, 20:31 8
      - My Dad talks about the cat like it's a kid of his. "oh the cat did this, oh the cat did that" - Bacon Apr 17, 20:32 7
        
        That's what happens when they're your only company :) Then when you get among real people you can't shut up.... - MojaveMeg Apr 17, 20:41 5
        
        Well yeah but Schatzee's half human - like Don Knotts as a fish in that one movie ... -- nm - JenBro Apr 17, 20:45 3
        
        The Incredible Mr. Limpet - pixitude Apr 17, 20:46 2
        
        I'm Google lazy :( -- nm - JenBro Apr 17, 20:54
        
        Jenbro makes a bad lady fish -- nm - Bacon Apr 17, 20:47
        
        We know!! - STers Apr 17, 20:44
        
        You are doing the right thing - clearly - still I'm sure kitty misses you as well :). Cool for dad to have a pal :D -- nm - JenBro Apr 17, 20:37
    - No they won't be in a threesome with you Groiny -- nm - Bacon Apr 17, 20:30 1
      - LOL - he's gonna lambaste me tomorrow right - JenBro Apr 17, 20:35
- Hahahahhahahahah so that recent picture where he looks so disgusted? Bwahahahahahbahaha - JenBro Apr 17, 20:15 2
  - He always looks like that. Yes, the merriment when we meet will be glorious -- nm - Epiphany Apr 17, 20:31 1
    - Always? Really? In a word I'd call it disdain - utter disdain - not unlike how I imagine some ST peeps faces at their work places when they vent. :) - JenBro Apr 17, 20:43
Thus far, Bobby Valentine is the John Carter of Red Sox managers. -- nm - David Apr 17, 19:52 10
- it dawned on me a few hours ago when I was watching the game... - Mel Profit Apr 17, 19:53 9
  - "How's your groin?" -- nm - Iron Spawn Apr 17, 20:03 4
    - No means no *zips up* -- nm - Groiny si Apr 17, 20:16 2
      - Yeah, like Groiny ever says no. -- nm - spamlet (iPhone) Apr 17, 20:32 1
        
        Ding! -- nm - Bacon Apr 17, 20:33
    - even for professional sports that has to be a delicate topic to broach. -- nm - Mel Profit Apr 17, 20:07
  - He's an awful human being, as disingenuous as a person can be. - David Apr 17, 19:58 1
    - I think a lot of us who were on the fence had our minds made up the other day with Youk-Gate. - Mel Profit Apr 17, 20:02
  - Douchenozzle. Hee. - subversive Apr 17, 19:55 1
    - I stole it from someone here who used it a few days ago. I like it a lot. -- nm - Mel Profit Apr 17, 19:58
so what are we watching to replace Justified? -- nm - zeitgeist Apr 17, 19:52 10
- I have the first season of The Shield on DVD. I've heard good things. -- nm - Krusty Apr 17, 20:55 1
  - oh hell yes. -- nm - Remlik Apr 17, 21:07
- I'm about to introduce myself to Walter White. I've been looking forward to meeting him for some time now. -- nm - David Apr 17, 19:59 4
  - Hell yeah! (The first season is a little bit uneven, but after that.....) nm - ralph wiggum Apr 17, 20:02 2
    - I remember back when it started, ST was ripping into the quality of the acting and writing in Season 1 ... and (major current season spoilers!) - Beryllium Apr 17, 20:04
    - yep. once it gets cooking.... -- nm - Remlik Apr 17, 20:02
  - Remember to bring a strawberry milkshake for him. - Beryllium Apr 17, 19:59
- We just started The Walking Dead, won't take long to get caught up. - subversive Apr 17, 19:56
- Nothing, I'm so bored -- nm - Epiphany Apr 17, 19:54
- Talented people on YouTube. -- nm - Dr.Vermin Apr 17, 19:54
went to the doctor and said it hurts when I do this, he said.... - zeitgeist Apr 17, 19:51
"Yes! YES! Victor! He was ma boyfrend!!!" -- nm - Mel Profit Apr 17, 19:51

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