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Toddler LYC. My daughter (2 1/2) for two nights in a row now has taken off her diaper. On the first night she wet her clothes, the - HdnAgnda Jan 27, 09:03 5
- a diaper or pull-up? - prayformojo Jan 27, 09:07
- Logan has onesie pjs which means he would have to unzip to get to them? -- nm - Rorschach: 03/06/09!!! Jan 27, 09:06 2
  - Oh yeah, she unsnapped that top snappy button that covers the zipper and unzzzzzip. -- nm - HdnAgnda Jan 27, 09:06 1
    - Ack. No idea, then. - Rorschach: 03/06/09!!! Jan 27, 09:08
- For her to keep it on? She'll learn. It might take a week, but she'll learn. Let it be. -- nm - JaxSean Jan 27, 09:05
For kilbo, groiny and JaxSean -- (link) - con_carne Jan 27, 09:03 1
- frick. can't get to The Onion from work. -- nm - JaxSean Jan 27, 09:05
LYC: just found out one of my best friends got laid off yesterday. She spent 12 years at the same dotcom and survived the crash. -- nm - loosilu Jan 27, 09:03 1
- That sucks. :( -- nm - Jelly Jan 27, 09:04
i learned this today: the DC public school system apparently does not have buses for its students - prayformojo Jan 27, 09:00 10
- but, how far do students live from public schools in a city? most big cities have public schools in all neighbourhoods. -- nm - Andie Jan 27, 09:11
- Tokyo seems to be that way. Very bizzarre to see a tiny 6 or 7 year old girl on the train alone at rush hour -- nm - ty97 Jan 27, 09:06
- I think that is common in a lot of cities. -- nm - Don Homer Jan 27, 09:04 3
  - hadn't thought of this. does NYC have buses? -- nm - prayformojo Jan 27, 09:08 2
    - sure, there aren't many crosstown subways so buses do those routes. -- nm - loosilu Jan 27, 09:08 1
      - (wait, did you mean school buses?) -- nm - loosilu Jan 27, 09:11
- Even the Providence public school system (generally) uses public buses for the high school kids instead of school buses. -- nm - TFox Jan 27, 09:04
- never knew that either, but since it's a city, I guess they don't need them. -- nm - loosilu Jan 27, 09:02 2
  - Yeah, lets put a seven year old on a city bus. In DC, no less. -- nm - Rorschach: 03/06/09!!! Jan 27, 09:02 1
    - you haven't lived in a big city, have you? -- nm - loosilu Jan 27, 09:03
I'm a bit surprised I'm catching email flack from people who disagree with my annoyance Atlanta's Pride fesitival/parade was moved to Halloween. - Qale Jan 27, 08:59 9
- To me, it's a decision as to whether they want it at Piedmont or whether they want it in June - Strongbad Jan 27, 09:06
- I was pretty surprised to find out mardi gras is a gay thing in australia. - mafic Jan 27, 09:03 1
  - Don't even get me started on Australia. They're headed completely backwards down there. -- nm - Qale Jan 27, 09:04
- More people can dress up as "Gay" on that date? - JaxSean Jan 27, 09:01 3
  - I'm annoyed because if they were going to move it to October, they should have picked any other weekend than Halloween. It'd be like moving Easter to - Qale Jan 27, 09:02 2
    - Yeah, that does seem an odd date to pick. -- nm - JaxSean Jan 27, 09:03 1
      - Easter will be on April Fools day in 2018. LOL. -- nm - Qale Jan 27, 09:03
- Freak show!!! -- nm - Rorschach: 03/06/09!!! Jan 27, 09:00 1
  - It's apparently about money and the Pride Committee thinking they'll go bankrupt if they attempted a non-Peidmont Park pride again this year. - Qale Jan 27, 09:01
Shipping Today: something would be nice, dammit - Reagen Jan 27, 08:55 3
- it's being shipped via Air Canada. -- nm - loosilu Jan 27, 08:58
- Poor Canada. -- nm - Don Homer Jan 27, 08:56 1
  - Buncha hosers! -- nm - Shaun Jan 27, 08:58
ugh, the roads SUCK. -- nm - loosilu Jan 27, 08:54 6
- SN news a few boards back - Kim Manners died of Cancer on Sunday -- nm - Epiphany Jan 27, 08:55 5
  - whoa. -- nm - loosilu Jan 27, 08:55 4
    - oh shit, that sucks. he was my favorite XF director. -- nm - loosilu Jan 27, 08:57 3
      - I recalled that - he is all over the behind the scenes footage on the SN discs - Epiphany Jan 27, 09:02
      - How do I know you are a geek? - con_carne Jan 27, 08:58 1
        
        :) I liked Bowman as well. -- nm - loosilu Jan 27, 09:00
I feel all left out that I don't have anything shipping today. -- nm - mafic Jan 27, 08:54
3 5-win streaks for ST players is pretty impressive -- nm - Strongbad Jan 27, 08:53 8
- ? -- nm - JaxSean Jan 27, 08:55 2
  - Streak for the Cash, game over at ESPN -- nm - Strongbad Jan 27, 08:58 1
    - So who's streaking? - JaxSean Jan 27, 09:00
- I have a 5 loss streak. There should be a special star. -- nm - TFox Jan 27, 08:53 4
  - There's a 20 loss streak on the leaderboard. -- nm - Reagen Jan 27, 08:54 3
    - statistically, isn't t that just as impressive as a 20 win streak? -- nm - pigby hearts the blart Jan 27, 09:05 2
      - Assuming all games are 50/50 picks, yes. -- nm - Strongbad Jan 27, 09:07
      - yes -- nm - TFox Jan 27, 09:05
Shipping today: The Duchess and The Visitor -- nm - Ender Jan 27, 08:53 3
- The Duchess trailer was false advertising since it leads you to think it's all about fashion. -- nm - Max Jan 27, 09:06
- I suggest playing The Duchess Drinking game (drink every time Kiera has a costume change). -- nm - LMS Jan 27, 08:54 1
  - heh. -- nm - kelly Jan 27, 08:55
best part of my weekend (toddler LYC): - prayformojo Jan 27, 08:52 2
- Mine (toddler LYC): - Rorschach: 03/06/09!!! Jan 27, 08:55 1
  - nice -- nm - prayformojo Jan 27, 09:01
Shipping today: Eagle Eye and Max Payne -- nm - decline Jan 27, 08:51
Shipping today: Eagle Eye -- nm - oblique Jan 27, 08:50
Shipping today: Absolutely nothing -- nm - con_carne Jan 27, 08:50 1
- Say it again. -- nm - emoticripple Jan 27, 08:51
Shipping today: American Teen and City of Ember. -- nm - JaxSean Jan 27, 08:49 5
- Shipping Today: Pride & Glory, DSM D1 - yesterday shipped: Mad Men D1 -- nm - Epiphany Jan 27, 08:52 1
  - Ohh, you got Pride & Glory, too? (That is #1 in my queue - 'very long wait') -- nm - kelly Jan 27, 08:55
- Shipping Today - The Air I Breathe, Fido -- nm - LMS Jan 27, 08:51
- I loved American Teen. -- nm - Amy Jan 27, 08:51 1
  - Cool. Now if it sucks I can blame Max *and* you. -- nm - JaxSean Jan 27, 08:51
Shipping today: Grindhouse: Planet Terror and Supernatural S1D2 -- nm - TFox Jan 27, 08:48 9
- Shipping today: Starter For Ten and My Best Friend's Girl. - kelly Jan 27, 08:51 4
  - Mmm, James MacAvoy and James Cordon -- nm - LMS Jan 27, 08:58
  - whoops - I got your Mad Men disc - sorry -- nm - Epiphany Jan 27, 08:53
  - Welcome to the throttle zone, Miss Engineer My Mailings For New Releases. - TFox Jan 27, 08:52
  - Haha. -- nm - Netflix F*ckers Jan 27, 08:52
- D2 is very, very good -- nm - Epiphany Jan 27, 08:51 2
  - SheFox is blasting through Supernatural. I'm going to watch an episode here and there, but not the whole thing like she's planning on. - TFox Jan 27, 08:54 1
    - S1 and S2 were my favorites, when they were dealing with all the urban legends -- nm - Strongbad Jan 27, 08:56
- hmm. -- nm - JaxSean Jan 27, 08:49
Marvel Studios gets slapped by $750 Million Lawsuit, defendant are Stan Lee and Avi Arad.... -- (link) - Remlik Jan 27, 08:44 2
- *me feels sick, worries it is somehow is about Watchman* -- nm - Rorschach: 03/06/09!!! Jan 27, 08:56
- Probably hoping to get paid to go away. Marvel owns the rights unless I am mistaken and Lee's new company would have no claim to them -- nm - Beaker Jan 27, 08:45
Forbes: The 25 Most Influential Liberals in the U.S. Media -- (link) - con_carne Jan 27, 08:43 11
- The actual link -- (link) - con_carne Jan 27, 08:45 10
  - I bet they wanted to put colbert on, but couldn't figure out how to classify him. -- nm - mafic Jan 27, 09:01 1
    - I suspect they believe Jon Stewart is a journalist while Colbert is more satire, like SNL -- nm - con_carne Jan 27, 09:06
  - First person I had heard of was #15 -- nm - Strongbad Jan 27, 08:55 1
    - Me too, almost. Lots of bloggers on there -- nm - con_carne Jan 27, 08:56
  - their definition seems to be "Anyone who didn't like Sarah Palin". -- nm - Reagen Jan 27, 08:53 1
    - McCain made the list? -- nm - mafic Jan 27, 08:56
  - Uh, Fred Hiatt doesn't belong anywhere near that list. -- nm - Don Homer Jan 27, 08:52 1
    - And Chris Matthews? -- nm - con_carne Jan 27, 08:53
  - Olberman didn't even make the list? -- nm - amoxy Jan 27, 08:50 1
    - Perhaps they dock points for self-righteousness -- nm - con_carne Jan 27, 08:52
~I feel like poker tonight, like poker tonight~ -- nm - Beaker Jan 27, 08:42
Speaking of travel...the Jax's are much more open to a Myrtle Beach -area ST gathering this year. - JaxSean Jan 27, 08:42 3
- "Swingtown" -- nm - pigby hearts the blart Jan 27, 08:43 2
  - ~come on and dance, come on and dance, you may not get another chance~ - Epiphany Jan 27, 08:46 1
    - heh, went to a Steve Miller concert, and some drunk guy kept yelling JET AIRLINER, in between every song when they finally played it, he was overjoyed -- nm - Beaker Jan 27, 08:48
Well my wife and I finally caught up on Friday Night Lights. Watched all of S2 in the last 2 weeks and I have one important question (spoils) - HdnAgnda Jan 27, 08:41 6
- I think they're trying to show us that she's serious now. by giving her hair that sucks. -- nm - loosilu Jan 27, 08:59
- It's terrible....she's such a beautiful woman and they ruin her with that. -- nm - Will Hunting Jan 27, 08:46
- It really doesn't look like a style a hs girl would choose. -- nm - Amy Jan 27, 08:44 2
  - *especially* since it's the same hair as her mom. -- nm - Reagen Jan 27, 09:03
  - I have more trouble accepting this than I do the idea that Rigg was a sophomore when this series began. Although, I completely know now what the - HdnAgnda Jan 27, 08:48
- My eyes didn't make it up to her head....what? -- nm - oblique Jan 27, 08:42
i love that all my dc facebook status updates are about the snow - pigby hearts the blart Jan 27, 08:41 1
- you know it's true. -- nm - loosilu Jan 27, 08:51
ty is going to Prague? *jealous* -- nm - Dano Jan 27, 08:32 12
- He needs a temporary ST nick like Tykova 97. -- nm - HdnAgnda Jan 27, 08:36
- They have the best Domino's pizza I hear -- nm - oblique Jan 27, 08:33 4
  - I haven't eaten Domino's Pizza* in over 10 years -- nm - ty97 Jan 27, 08:34 3
    - PRAUGE AND THE US AREN'T ON THE SAME CONTINENT! - oblique Jan 27, 08:39 2
      - I bet there's one in illinois or indiana. -- nm - mafic Jan 27, 08:41 1
        
        Oklahoma -- nm - mara Jan 27, 08:56
- I'm not. I'm just vacation-searching/pricing. It's someplace I really want to go. -- nm - ty97 Jan 27, 08:33 5
  - It's a really beautiful city... I'd love to go back there someday -- nm - secretslacker Jan 27, 08:38
  - It's one of those places that's very reasonable once you get there, but it's expensive to get there. -- nm - Dano Jan 27, 08:35 3
    - If you don't mind doing it in 2 steps, they have really cheap flight inside Europe. We travelled from Prague to Paris for like 30-40 euros. -- nm - Guigue Jan 27, 08:37 1
      - yeah, book a flight to london, then get a separate flight to prague on ryanair or easyjet. you'll almost certainly have to change airports, - mafic Jan 27, 08:39
    - Exactly. I have known people who have got stuck there. - Rorschach: 03/06/09!!! Jan 27, 08:36
How To Tell If A 'Business Opportunity' Is A Multi-Level Marketing Scheme -- (link) - con_carne Jan 27, 08:27 6
- if they're trying to buy your dirty underwear -- nm - dogbert183 Jan 27, 08:30 1
  - Phase 3 is profit! -- nm - Cuzzin Todd Jan 27, 08:31
- 1. Is it referred to as a "Business Opportunity"? -- nm - znufrii Jan 27, 08:29 3
  - But, you must act now -- nm - con_carne Jan 27, 08:29 2
    - Bit that just makes good business sense. - Rorschach: 03/06/09!!! Jan 27, 08:31
    - My daughter (6) is now in the mode of wanting everything she sees for sale on a TV commercial "But dad, it organizers our closet for only $19.95!" - oblique Jan 27, 08:31
Layoffs, War, Economic Collapse I can handle. The "Once couple" breaking up may push me over the edge into depression. -- nm - Dano Jan 27, 08:26 1
- If you're teetering, listen to the Once soundtrack. - ty97 Jan 27, 08:27
LIR - frequent flyers - it may be different in North America, where there's (gasp) competition between airlines. I always had problems with Qantas. -- nm - Roger More Jan 27, 08:25 1
- you don't have to use them on flights, though. - Reagen Jan 27, 08:26
erm, mafic, who's paying for the flight, you or the employer? - ty97 Jan 27, 08:22 10
- frequent flyer miles is paying for the trip (but they're mine). - mafic Jan 27, 08:27 4
  - Can you look up the plane's seating chart--to see how much more room you are getting? - Amy Jan 27, 08:38 2
    - I just did, and oh. my. god. it's a 777-300 for the long flight with fancy-ass 'executive first' class. - mafic Jan 27, 08:46 1
      - *ding* Now it's worth it. -- nm - Amy Jan 27, 08:50
  - if it's 75K for coach and 100K for business, I definitely go business. - ty97 Jan 27, 08:29
- Didn't he say 1/3 more? -- nm - Rorschach: 03/06/09!!! Jan 27, 08:25 4
  - he said miles. I was guessing he meant he would earn 1/3 more miles (class-of-service-bonus) but maybe it's an award ticket? - ty97 Jan 27, 08:26 3
    - me actually paying cash monies for business class is unlikely. - mafic Jan 27, 08:31 1
      - agreed -- nm - ty97 Jan 27, 08:32
    - Opp, my bad. -- nm - Rorschach: 03/06/09!!! Jan 27, 08:27
Consumerist: How Do I Use My Circuit City Extended Warranty Now? -- (link) - con_carne Jan 27, 08:22 1
- Just wait until they have to write: How Do I Use My Ford Warranty Now? -- nm - Rorschach: 03/06/09!!! Jan 27, 08:23
fun with the Stimulus bill. p. 53: NASA gets $400 million for "Science" -- nm - znufrii Jan 27, 08:21 1
- Better than groceries. -- nm - Rorschach: 03/06/09!!! Jan 27, 08:21
Anyone taking the soccer games for espn's streak game? - Gwaahjo Jan 27, 08:20 4
- ASTON VILLA!! -- nm - Strongbad Jan 27, 08:51
- I took the 3 goals or more option since Man. U. has a lot of fire power. First time I'm taking the 3 or more choice. -- nm - krusty Jan 27, 08:23 2
  - that was my gut, but they don't really score that much on the road! -- nm - Gwaahjo Jan 27, 08:24 1
    - I didn't know that but I'm going to stick with my pick. Not sure why now. :-) -- nm - krusty Jan 27, 08:27
LIR - My high school's girls team won a game 117-1. -- (link) - pmb Jan 27, 08:20 [Backboard] 2
- you were on it, weren't you? *writes script for the ringer 2* - mafic Jan 27, 08:23
- *fires coach* -- nm - Rorschach: 03/06/09!!! Jan 27, 08:22
speaking of theme songs, some band has a song called "F*ck You Lucy". -- nm - loosilu Jan 27, 08:18 1
- */ Brian / Top marks for not tryin' / So kind of you to bless us with your effortlessness /* -- nm - nubby Jan 27, 08:26
*escapes B2 with a sheet* -- nm - oblique Jan 27, 08:17 2
- we're gonna need a bigger sheet. -- nm - loosilu Jan 27, 08:18
- *unties the sheet* -- nm - znufrii Jan 27, 08:17

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