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I can always tell when my AR clerk is mad at me - amoxy Apr 24, 15:04 2
- Aren't you moved by the Lord's bass? -- nm - con_carne Apr 24, 15:07
- Creed! -- nm - Beaker Apr 24, 15:05
My friend Sandy. -- (link) - Ser Vermyn Apr 24, 15:02
So the old stereotype of Blonds are dumb, and Redheads are nuts. What are Brunettes? -- nm - Bacon Apr 24, 14:56 14
- Potentially desirable. nm - Dignan Apr 24, 15:12
- religion majors -- nm - pixitude Apr 24, 15:08
- Librarians -- nm - Walt_Disney Apr 24, 15:05
- Evil, the female default. -- nm - Reagen Apr 24, 15:02 2
  - Mmmm, Liz Hurley's Devil -- nm - zork Apr 24, 15:06
  - This -- nm - amoxy Apr 24, 15:05
- dddiiiirrrrttttyyyy -- nm - Remlik Apr 24, 15:01
- whores? -- nm - Beaker Apr 24, 15:01
- chemically independent -- nm - zeitgeist Apr 24, 15:00
- Sexy as all get out. -- nm - TWuG Apr 24, 14:58
- dependable? -- nm - loosilu Apr 24, 14:58
- Brunettes are, of course, evil -- nm - con_carne Apr 24, 14:58
- In charge. -- nm - Ser Vermyn Apr 24, 14:57
- Boring but solid. -- nm - Iron Spawn Apr 24, 14:57
Hackers turn side of MIT highrise into Tetris game. -- (link) - CovingtonCat Apr 24, 14:48 3
- by hackers you mean students, right? (or the article does right?) -- nm - tRuMaN, (not a knock off version) Apr 24, 14:49 2
  - hackers at MIT = pranksters. -- nm - loosilu Apr 24, 14:51 1
    - Yes, the traditional meaning, not the terrorist threat. -- nm - Beryllium Apr 24, 15:07
idiotic (former) co-worker story - tRuMaN, (not a knock off version) Apr 24, 14:48
Stephen King's full works, ranked. -- (link) - Ser Vermyn Apr 24, 14:45 1
- Swap Under the Dome with Christine or Tommyknockers, and it's a decent ranking. -- nm - Ser Vermyn Apr 24, 14:52
when i become ruler of the world, i am going to create a simple test - tRuMaN, (not a knock off version) Apr 24, 14:44 4
- is: name the Magnificent 7? one of them? -- nm - peglegpete Apr 24, 15:02
- are you or have you ever been my boss? -- nm - TruTest Apr 24, 14:45 2
  - i had a good boss at my previous employer, so that isnt an automatic fail question. -- nm - tRuMaN, (not a knock off version) Apr 24, 14:48 1
    - don't take any chances, that should be auto-fail -- nm - zork Apr 24, 14:51
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some things never change - me not liking those compass questions. - i.b. Apr 24, 14:41
would someone just tell her which tires to buy, for the love of mike?! -- nm - barnaby bear Apr 24, 14:40 5
- shut it, you. I'm waiting for them right now, and won't be stopping or a treat or you on my way back to work now. -- nm - i.b. Apr 24, 14:42 4
  - or = 4 x 2 -- nm - i.b. Apr 24, 14:44 3
    - 4 = for. -- nm - i.b. Apr 24, 14:44 2
      - sure, i'm the one with fluff between his ears -- nm - barnaby bear Apr 24, 14:45 1
        
        funny. -- nm - i.b. Apr 24, 14:46
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- not wearing pants and they wouldn't let you vote? -- nm - znufrii Apr 24, 14:39 1
  - Which is dumb because what guy *doesn't* push the buttons with his penis? -- nm - Iron Spawn Apr 24, 14:40
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Time to put on some pants and go vote! whoo hoo! -- nm - znufrii Apr 24, 14:31 8
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  - Vote for Santorum -- nm - amoxy Apr 24, 14:51
  - Today. -- nm - Krusty Apr 24, 14:45 3
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      - Not sure, I just know today is the republican primary. Heard it on the radio this morning. -- nm - Krusty Apr 24, 15:11
      - Didn't your receptionist remind you to vote? -- nm - Bacon Apr 24, 14:52
  - There is still time to turn this thing around!!! -- nm - Newt Gingrich Apr 24, 14:40
- Sorry to hear your local voting laws require pants. Racists. -- nm - Ser Vermyn Apr 24, 14:35
more Secret Service resignations and revocations of security clearances happening - zork Apr 24, 14:28 5
- What surprises me in this is just how quickly it seems to be getting resolved. - TWuG Apr 24, 14:58 2
  - oh there seem to be allegations hinting at a cover up, at least from a few political types - tRuMaN, (not a knock off version) Apr 24, 15:00 1
    - Yeah, that sounds like wishful thinking. - TWuG Apr 24, 15:12
- and worse - znufrii Apr 24, 14:30
- someone is going to end up in jail. Or should. -- nm - loosilu Apr 24, 14:30
Fox acquires spec "Cardiac" -- "a father who has six hours to find the criminals that have stolen a heart intended for his daughter�s transplant" -- nm - pixitude Apr 24, 14:28 10
- Hi. -- nm - Jack Bauer Apr 24, 15:04
- so it's Cranked. -- nm - Remlik Apr 24, 14:36 3
  - Or Taken for TV. -- nm - Subversive Apr 24, 14:42 2
    - Cranken? -- nm - Remlik Apr 24, 14:54 1
      - Tank -- nm - Bacon Apr 24, 14:55
- Wasn't there a movie where a Father held a hospital wing hostage to get a transplant for his kid? -- nm - Bacon Apr 24, 14:30 4
  - John Q (Denzel) -- nm - pixitude Apr 24, 14:31 3
    - Ah yeah that. Spoiler question. - Bacon Apr 24, 14:32 2
      - because - James Bond (aka Igor) Apr 24, 14:35 1
        
        didn't really play well outside the United States -- nm - pixitude Apr 24, 14:43
30 things a woman should have and know by the time she's 30. ST ladies agree? -- (link) - Bacon Apr 24, 14:25 18
- have learned to ignore crap like that. -- nm - lileve Apr 24, 17:35
- We have literally reached the pinnacle of society if crap like this is what women are supposed to be worried about - con_carne Apr 24, 14:56 1
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- Wow, this cries out for a dude version. Have: a scar with a great story behind it. Know: how to bleed a brake line. Etc. -- nm - Ser Vermyn Apr 24, 14:33 10
  - cook a steak medium rare. -- nm - znufrii Apr 24, 14:39
  - This is a family board, so I will not add to the list, but agreed. -- nm - Iron Spawn Apr 24, 14:36 3
    - When did this become a family board? Where was I when that happened? -- nm - Newt Gingrich Apr 24, 14:40 2
      - banging your mistress? -- nm - Epiphany Apr 24, 14:41
      - Bacon above -- nm - Bacon Apr 24, 14:41
  - Okay, I can get behind that version. Though the first example should be a sex conquest. -- nm - Bacon Apr 24, 14:35 3
    - Have: a hooker story. - Ser Vermyn Apr 24, 14:47 2
      - I have no hooker stories. Just stripper stories. -- nm - Bacon Apr 24, 14:52
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  - that's more interesting. this chick list is boring boring boring. -- nm - loosilu Apr 24, 14:35
- mostly inoffensive. -- nm - loosilu Apr 24, 14:29 2
  - and none of it very difficult. -- nm - loosilu Apr 24, 14:29 1
    - agree on both -- nm - Epiphany Apr 24, 14:40
good god, i just had to use someone else's blackberry. that was the least intuitive device i've ever used. -- nm - Andie Apr 24, 14:22 29
- I find Blackberries easier to use than iPhones. iPhones are not as intuitve for certain applications. -- nm - Walt_Disney Apr 24, 15:08
- Maple syrup. RiM. Is it Canadian Self-Hating Day? -- nm - con_carne Apr 24, 14:33 21
  - did a Canadian disparage maple syrup? i would be *shocked*. -- nm - Andie Apr 24, 14:33 20
    - *raises hand* I didn't speak up before, but I will now: Maple and Bacon are both horribly overdone, to the point of being disgusting. - Beryllium Apr 24, 15:09
    - ahem. -- (link) - loosilu Apr 24, 14:34 [Backboard] 18
      - I don't think ST has a stronger maple fan than him, so that's not a knock on it. - i.b. Apr 24, 14:37 1
        
        I'm quieter about it, but I'm a huge maple fan -- nm - zork Apr 24, 14:44
      - that's a funny definition of disparage. -- nm - Reagen Apr 24, 14:35 15
        
        it's all I had. -- nm - loosilu Apr 24, 14:36 14
        
        Well to be fair ST ran with it as a Canadian bash anyway. -- nm - Bacon Apr 24, 14:37 13
        
        we take what we can get. - Epiphany Apr 24, 14:41 12
        
        I think foreigners would be shocked (or maybe not) how little the average American thinks about how our politics affect the rest of the world. -- nm - loosilu Apr 24, 14:42 11
        
        Well, there's 'affected by' and then there's 'more interesting'. -- nm - Ser Vermyn Apr 24, 14:57
        
        I've previously said here and off-board that Europe could slide into the ocean and it wouldn't affect many americans lives whatsoever - zork Apr 24, 14:49 7
        
        What is Europe? -- nm - Bacon Apr 24, 14:53 6
        
        my friends and I had some good laughs when we went down to Texas some years back. - zork Apr 24, 15:01 4
        
        I've met people that thought AK was an island, down by Hawaii. Thanks to maps with the little boxes. -- nm - Ser Vermyn Apr 24, 15:04 3
        
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        at least they've looked at a map at least once in their lives, unlike those poor African orphans -- nm - zork Apr 24, 15:05
        
        There are people who contact the Austrian embassy to ask about going to Austria to see kangaroos. -- nm - loosilu Apr 24, 15:05
        
        a theme park with quaint towns. -- nm - loosilu Apr 24, 15:00
        
        oh, we aren't shocked. -- nm - Andie Apr 24, 14:44 1
        
        it shocks *me*. -- nm - loosilu Apr 24, 14:48
- I got mine from my old job, and was allowed to keep it when I left. - groiny Apr 24, 14:30 1
  - just trying to send an email was like "and now how do i SEND it?" -- nm - Andie Apr 24, 14:31
- the one I had a few years ago I absolutely loved. the keyboard was excellent. crappy for websurfing though. - loosilu Apr 24, 14:26
- (to send a filthy obscene fake text) -- nm - pixitude Apr 24, 14:25
- they're horrid. I was so happy when I got to exchange mine for a Galaxy. - Kim Pine Apr 24, 14:24
- Yeah, they are all kinds of awful. -- nm - Iron Spawn Apr 24, 14:23
somebody read the fine print about Google Drive -- (link) - marcel Apr 24, 14:20 15
- My understanding of the explanation for that is so Google - TWuG Apr 24, 15:17
- It's worded to make it sound like they're going to do something with it that you aren't already allowing. -- nm - Qale Apr 24, 14:51
- Whoa. And considering every photo taken on your Android is uploaded automatically... -- nm - Iron Spawn Apr 24, 14:23 8
  - that would be so wrong. -- nm - Andie Apr 24, 14:41
  - I was reading that Google thinks things like Facebook are horrible for internet freedom. - Bacon Apr 24, 14:28 6
    - by the way, the same rules for content are buried in the facebook stuff. - tRuMaN, (not a knock off version) Apr 24, 14:42 4
      - That is true, but I cannot be searched at least by people outside of my profile restrictions. - Bacon Apr 24, 14:49 3
        
        you can be, but your stuff is hidden. but that doesnt mean that facebook isnt taking your stuff and using it - tRuMaN, (not a knock off version) Apr 24, 14:51 2
        
        Will you stop trying to prove Spawn right? I can't stand it anymore -- nm - Bacon Apr 24, 14:54 1
        
        sorry, sometimes even a blind man sees things correctly -- nm - tRuMaN, (not a knock off version) Apr 24, 14:57
    - Pretty much takes away the need for a future employer to ask for your username and password since they would be able to google your account - Bacon Apr 24, 14:29
- you realize thats true of gmail, most email, all of the online cloud hosting, amazon cloud services, and tons of other things right? -- nm - tRuMaN, (not a knock off version) Apr 24, 14:22 2
  - See above. -- nm - Iron Spawn Apr 24, 14:23 1
    - see what above? -- nm - tRuMaN, (not a knock off version) Apr 24, 14:43
- because you can't read Google? -- nm - Bacon Apr 24, 14:21
lir zeitgeist - I gave them a 'throw away' phone number. I can block incoming calls and if they get too much, I can change the number. -- nm - CrankYanker Apr 24, 14:16
zork, because it's a prion disease, some very very very small percentage of cattle will develop it spontaneously. -- nm - Reagen Apr 24, 14:15 4
- Well, that's comforting. :) -- nm - Ser Vermyn Apr 24, 14:24
- I was arguing from the point of view of those who have to see an evidence chain - zork Apr 24, 14:24 1
  - if only science worked that way. -- nm - loosilu Apr 24, 14:31
- *stops surfing cow pron* -- nm - Groiny si Apr 24, 14:16
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- Comrade, I wear size 14s. If I did that, the podium would shatter into splinters. - Reagen Apr 24, 14:16
Juneau is closer to Seattle than it is to Anchorage. -- nm - Ser Vermyn Apr 24, 14:13 16
- Who learned about Juneau from reading The Mystery at Devils Paw? -- nm - zork Apr 24, 14:30 4
  - You really are Sgt. Davis. -- nm - Reagen Apr 24, 14:35 3
    - I don't know this reference -- nm - zork Apr 24, 14:42 2
      - Corner Gas - Reagen Apr 24, 15:01 1
        
        d'uh! the sergeant rank is so ridiculous that I forget about it all the time. -- nm - zork Apr 24, 15:04
- I enjoyed both Jueau and Skagway. -- nm - MojaveMeg Apr 24, 14:28
- Juneau:Seattle:Anchorage::Tyrannosaurus Rex:Man:Stegasaurus -- nm - Dano Apr 24, 14:17 2
  - Geographically! Not just "seems like". :) -- nm - Ser Vermyn Apr 24, 14:24 1
    - ... and Dano's post was geologically accurate -- nm - Beryllium Apr 24, 14:25
- But you can't see Russia from your house. -- nm - CrankYanker Apr 24, 14:17
- I could live in Juneau. I need lot's of green trees, hiking and fishing - bacon Apr 24, 14:15 5
  - in the summer? probably 20 hours - zork Apr 24, 14:25 4
    - Ah, I was wondering if it rained a lot in the Summer. -- nm - Bacon Apr 24, 14:31 2
      - Yep. I think there's a lot of actual rainforest around there. -- nm - Ser Vermyn Apr 24, 14:59 1
        
        the BC coast is classified as temperate rainforest IIRC, so Juneau should be too. -- nm - zork Apr 24, 15:03
    - Yeah, about 6.5 hours in December to 18 hours in June. Not as extreme as up here. -- nm - Ser Vermyn Apr 24, 14:29

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