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is fembot still top of the ltd? -- nm - zeitgeist Apr 18, 12:02 2
- Someone named Grory - $17,634,363,117 Ahead if H-Mogul by $5b -- nm - Krusty Apr 18, 12:03 1
  - *of not if* -- nm - Krusty Apr 18, 12:05
doh! bar! -- nm - CQ: Pressure Checker Apr 18, 11:54
new Norah Jones is on this week's album preview -- (link) - con_carne Apr 18, 11:51
Survivor, Modern Fam, Biotch in 23, and Revenge (finally!) tonight. -- nm - Jovian Apr 18, 11:43 2
- you should watch Sons of Guns -- nm - peglegpete Apr 18, 12:01
- woohoo, Revenge! We're all caught up now! -- nm - oblique Apr 18, 11:53
Oh, and Karl Alzner, prepare to get your ass kicked. Milan gonna get him some -- nm - CQ: Pressure Checker Apr 18, 11:39
"Good jock my friends" I'm stealing this. -- nm - CQ: Pressure Checker Apr 18, 11:36
Barca v Chelsea. Who ya got? The EPL in me says I should root for Chelsea, but I just can't do it -- nm - CQ: Pressure Checker Apr 18, 11:31 9
- if Chelsea is good enough for Ballack, then I'll root for them - zork Apr 18, 11:36 1
  - I should say *was* -- nm - zork Apr 18, 11:36
- Barca -- nm - Krusty Apr 18, 11:35
- Chelsea might have shot their wad this weekend. I'm going with Barca. -- nm - znufrii Apr 18, 11:32 4
  - hotspurs have been playing like crap though. still, Barca will shred them. -- nm - CQ: Pressure Checker Apr 18, 11:34 3
    - didnt' realize it was their home leg, I might need to reconsider. -- nm - znufrii Apr 18, 11:48 2
      - I just don't want an all La Liga final. -- nm - CQ: Pressure Checker Apr 18, 11:48 1
        
        yeah, I'll pass. -- nm - znufrii Apr 18, 11:53
- Well Barca is a badass gladiator and Chelsea is a hot annoying Survivor contestant. Edge = Barca -- nm - Jovian Apr 18, 11:32
*bites into his first savannah smile* - CQ: Pressure Checker Apr 18, 11:21
Score 1 for Robert Van Nest (google vs oracle, round one, FIGHT) -- (link) - Beryllium Apr 18, 11:06 3
- That guy's marked for death, you know. -- nm - Mop (195 lbs) Apr 18, 11:36 1
  - nah, it's not like Ellison is in bed with the russians. -- nm - Beryllium Apr 18, 11:44
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- Not panic, but be very, very concerned - Stephen Apr 18, 11:46
- here is where ML offers me a boatload of people for him. - Mel Profit Apr 18, 11:15 1
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- isittimetopaniconlincecum.com - spamlet Apr 18, 11:07
- Hasn't his fastball dropped a bit each of the last couple of years? - Krusty Apr 18, 11:07 2
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    - I like him and I hope he does well. But I feel like his motion is doing damage to his arm. - Krusty Apr 18, 11:10
Thanks Pippy - Catitudes looks fun! :) -- nm - JenBro Apr 18, 10:57 2
- you are welcome - feel free to post all the cat stuff/photos you want - its not just photos, it can be questions - Epiphany Apr 18, 11:00 1
  - anyone who has a FB account can be a member - just let me know and I will add you -- nm - Epiphany Apr 18, 11:00
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- Sad way for her to go out. I wish it was on her terms. Either way she had an amazing career and is - Krusty Apr 18, 10:58 6
  - Who is saying it wasn't on her terms? I was under the impression she called the AD and asked for a meeting. -- nm - David Apr 18, 11:04 5
    - If she wasn't ill, there's next to no chance she asks for that meeting. - Will Hunting Apr 18, 11:07
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      - I am. I don't think she retires for a while if she's healthy. -- nm - Krusty Apr 18, 11:08 1
        
        She definitely would have coached as long as she was physically able, just like Paterno and Bowden. - David Apr 18, 11:13
      - Okay, I thought somebody was saying she got pushed out. -- nm - David Apr 18, 11:07
David, what platforms can you play Ultraviolet on? I know Walmart gives you your Ultraviolet copies through Vudu. Does that mean UV on PS3? - Mop (195 lbs) Apr 18, 10:52 3
- Flixster is the primary. I haven't done any UV through Vudu, so I'm not the best person to ask. - David Apr 18, 10:57 2
  - That weird Movie Trivia app and rating site that used to be on Facebook? That Flixster? -- nm - con_carne Apr 18, 11:37 1
    - That was my first thought when I saw that UV was using Flixster. Yeah, I'm pretty sure it's the same, but repurposed. - Mop (195 lbs) Apr 18, 11:46
WTF, Sweden? -- (link) - znufrii Apr 18, 10:51
Of my 5 1st round picks, I took 4 SEC guys. -- nm - Strongbad Apr 18, 10:47 5
- Clever boy. Why draft amateurs? -- nm - David Apr 18, 10:49 4
  - Cuz in most instances, those are who play college sports. - Will Hunting Apr 18, 11:08 2
    - You're so funny. -- nm - David Apr 18, 12:04
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  - Stupid Ravens fan took Stephen Hill, so I went with Reuben Randle. -- nm - Strongbad Apr 18, 10:50
There's money in the banana stand. -- nm - kelly Apr 18, 10:46 2
- Illusions, Michael! Tricks are what a whore does for money... or cocaine. -- nm - Roger More Apr 18, 10:52
- Heh. :-) -- (link) - Krusty Apr 18, 10:50 [youtube]
Groiny...one episode of AD isn't really enough. I don't think it's a show that you can catch one episode - Krusty Apr 18, 10:46 14
- Germany bro has randomly gotten into AD, with his current GF. I'm pleased. -- nm - con_carne Apr 18, 11:40 1
  - Nice! One of us. One of us. :-) -- nm - Krusty Apr 18, 11:59
- The first few episodes are shaky, but there's a stretch in season two that is simply the best sitcom writing in history. nm - Dignan Apr 18, 10:56
- AD takes the callback and turns it into an art form. - Beryllium Apr 18, 10:47 7
  - Alternately, it runs the same jokes into the ground. -- nm - David Apr 18, 11:05 2
    - ~ mister eff! ~ -- nm - Beryllium Apr 18, 11:06 1
      - *laughing* -- nm - kelly Apr 18, 11:10
  - Yup. I think it's so well made and the callback jokes can be genius at times. -- nm - Krusty Apr 18, 10:48 3
    - I'm hoping to see Buster's chicken dance this season. -- nm - Roger More Apr 18, 11:21 1
      - "Has anyone in this family ever SEEN a chicken?" -- nm - Beryllium Apr 18, 11:22
    - My favorite bit, I think, is - kelly Apr 18, 11:05
- could be. nm -- nm - groiny Apr 18, 10:46 2
  - I'm not trying to push the show either. - Krusty Apr 18, 10:47 1
    - It did not grab me, and I did not like the actors enough to look past it. nm -- nm - groiny Apr 18, 10:49
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Well, I'm still worth 498M on HSX so I've got that going for me :) -- nm - oblique Apr 18, 10:41 40
- Just under 6.7B. August will make an even 10 years playing. -- nm - GregW Apr 18, 11:33
- 53 million. how do you tell when you were last on? -- nm - zork Apr 18, 11:32 1
  - own 7 stocks and 2 bonds. only one is positive (was +500.00 but just updated to +1500.00) -- nm - zork Apr 18, 11:38
- I haven't signed in for years -- nm - Beryllium Apr 18, 11:27 1
  - I do it every 6 months or so or when everybody else on here does it :0 -- nm - eag Apr 18, 11:28
- I'll hit $5 Billion in the next couple of weeks. -- nm - pmb Apr 18, 11:09
- 1.9b -- nm - Capstern Apr 18, 11:08
- 2,583,000,000 or so. -- nm - Will Hunting Apr 18, 11:05 1
  - Rank is 250, I was around 100 when I quit. -- nm - Will Hunting Apr 18, 11:18
- I have $1.2 billion or so. I'll make a trade here and there but like CQ it's mostly bond trades. -- nm - Krusty Apr 18, 11:00 1
  - Just checked and it's $1.1b -- nm - Krusty Apr 18, 11:05
- $1.64B, down to #591 rank. I was low 400s at one point. -- nm - Don Homer Apr 18, 10:59 3
  - 456 AndieH 1998-03-27 95,092.14% 1,903,842,816 - Andie Apr 18, 11:17 2
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    - i LOVE that it has 'Member Since" now. -- nm - Andie Apr 18, 11:17
- i'm less than 100G away from 2 Billion, i should play and hit 2, shouldn't i? -- nm - Andie Apr 18, 10:58 7
  - I'm going to clean out my port and go shopping. nm - Dignan Apr 18, 11:00 1
    - Im starting to do that probably will finish later -- nm - eag Apr 18, 11:09
  - I think I would. -- nm - Krusty Apr 18, 11:00 4
    - oh, look, i own Avengers, nice. (i'm actually amazed at how many stocks i still have that haven't delisted.) -- nm - Andie Apr 18, 11:10 3
      - I had 3 stooges too also with Avengers -- nm - eag Apr 18, 11:10 2
        
        yeah, i also have 2 Stooges, and the only Starbonds i had were Josh Brolin (score) and Sarah Jessica Parker. Why those 2, why? -- nm - Andie Apr 18, 11:12 1
        
        I still had Emma Watson till like 10 minutes ago -- nm - eag Apr 18, 11:14
- can someone see if I still have an account on there? - groiny Apr 18, 10:52 5
  - yeah, you're like 4M from 1B -- nm - oblique Apr 18, 10:54
  - yes you do -- nm - Epiphany Apr 18, 10:53 1
    - my password does not work, I guess I should email them to fix it. - groiny Apr 18, 10:54
  - $3.3M shy of being a billionaire -- (link) - Roger More Apr 18, 10:53 1
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- 700M. I still own 20 stocks somehow. -- nm - decline Apr 18, 10:51
- Im a little south of 1.1 billion -- nm - eag Apr 18, 10:51
- I stopped after hitting 1B, but I still trade here and there. mostly Starbonds now. less involvement. I still hate the way openers are done -- nm - CQ: Pressure Checker Apr 18, 10:48
- Did they ever institute that rule that you had to trade every month or lose x% of your port? -- nm - Beaker Apr 18, 10:47 1
  - No. -- nm - Roger More Apr 18, 10:54
- I'm up to 1.65B, but like I said, I use HSX to teach my classes. They love it. -- nm - volnelk Apr 18, 10:47
- I just passed spawn this week. Made H$10m yesterday and didn't move up a spot! -- nm - spamlet Apr 18, 10:45 3
  - Is there an option to sell all of your stocks at once? nm - Dignan Apr 18, 10:46 2
    - Nope, you have to go step by step. It took me about 10 hours -- nm - Will Hunting Apr 18, 11:15
    - I don't think so. It took me forever to clean out the bonds I had when I started playing again. -- nm - spamlet Apr 18, 10:49
- I went back in Monday night, bought 6 stocks (for the first time since 2006) and made $1mil overnight! -- nm - CrankYanker Apr 18, 10:45
Remlik: any word on America's Got Powers? Good? -- nm - Beaker Apr 18, 10:41 1
- it's ok. I'm not a huge fan of Jonathan Ross by the art is nice by Hitch -- nm - Remlik Apr 18, 10:46
interesting group amoxy is turntabling with... - groiny Apr 18, 10:39
Joey, since we won last night, I'll be pissed and confused if we get swept. -- nm - David Apr 18, 10:38 5
- And Spamlet, Roku still doesn't work with Flixster movies, only trailers. - David Apr 18, 10:40 4
  - It looks like I can go via Vudu to my Xbox. Is it all basically the same? Or do two studios back one and Sony is only likes Sony stuff, etc... -- nm - spamlet Apr 18, 10:45 3
    - Everyone is in with Ultraviolet, but it's not a very well supported service yet. - David Apr 18, 10:48 2
      - Isn't WM using it for their disk to digital service? - spamlet Apr 18, 10:51 1
        
        They are, yes. The problem is that we don't know where they will stand in 2016. - David Apr 18, 10:55
All six seasons of Lost are now available on Netflix streaming (Canada). nm - Dignan Apr 18, 10:38
Justified season 3 finale spoilers - David Apr 18, 10:37 3
- that was season 3? thought it was just 2nd -- nm - zeitgeist Apr 18, 10:57 1
  - Season 1 was Boyd's dad. Season 2 was Mags. Season 3 is Quarles. -- nm - David Apr 18, 11:01
- I figured the last sentence had to be the way it happened. -- nm - Mel Profit Apr 18, 10:38
"Phoenix Coyotes forward Raffi Torres has been suspended indefinitely, pending an in-person hearing on Friday" -- nm - Beaker Apr 18, 10:37 2
- The conversation will go as follows. Colin Campbell: WTF?! Torres: *shrug* -- nm - Mop (195 lbs) Apr 18, 10:44 1
  - Then Brendan Shanahan jumps in and kicks Campbell in the junk and takes his job back. -- nm - spamlet Apr 18, 10:46
Sports teams want my shit paper! -- nm - Bacon, via droid Apr 18, 10:37
"all that matters is two stood against many...so grant me one request, grant me Revenge!" - Beaker Apr 18, 10:34
wtf, Wisconsin? -- (link) - znufrii Apr 18, 10:33
We should *definitely* pick a day once or twice a year and go back to the HSX boards and hang out for the day. - Ser Vermyn Apr 18, 10:31 14
- What date did HSX go orange? -- nm - Roger More Apr 18, 11:13
- i would do this. -- nm - Andie Apr 18, 10:41
- I wonder if Spawn and I are still scribbled there -- nm - Bacon, via droid Apr 18, 10:38 10
  - why'd you guys get banned? -- nm - JenBro Apr 18, 10:48 7
    - they were making out in public. -- nm - Andie Apr 18, 10:50
    - do you really have to ask? nm -- nm - groiny Apr 18, 10:49 5
      - what ... language? -- nm - JenBro Apr 18, 10:52 4
        
        likely douchebaggery. nm -- nm - groiny Apr 18, 10:53 3
        
        that covers a lot of ground :) I was just asking 'cause I like hearing stories - that's all :) -- nm - JenBro Apr 18, 10:57 2
        
        Inside D.Mac's head. -- (link) - Ser Vermyn Apr 18, 11:55 [Image]
        
        the battle lines there are much more clearly drawn. - groiny Apr 18, 11:12
  - I was banned in 2008, but no longer...as of Monday night. -- nm - CrankYanker Apr 18, 10:46
  - IIRC you tested it once and found you weren't -- nm - Roger More Apr 18, 10:41
- Heh. -- (link) - Beryllium Apr 18, 10:31

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