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This is brilliant. Pizza cupcakes! -- (link) - Don Homer May 14, 13:01
pronunciation poll: sure ... shoe-er or shore? -- nm - zork May 14, 12:59 16
- Shore - which leads to the inclination to spell it 'shaw' -- nm - MojaveMeg May 14, 13:04
- Beach. -- nm - Dr.Vermin May 14, 13:02
- shore. it is one syllable! (i am amazed at how many one syllable words are pronounced with two.) -- nm - Andie May 14, 13:02
- Shore -- nm - Krusty May 14, 13:01 1
  - Maybe shaw sometimes. My accent can be thick sometimes. -- nm - Krusty May 14, 13:03
- the second -- nm - Spawn May 14, 13:01
- shore. -- nm - loosilu May 14, 13:01
- I forsee IPA symbols getting cracked out in the near future, and no one wants that. -- nm - Reagen May 14, 13:00 1
  - This one sure has a chocolatey aftertaste -- nm - Beryllium May 14, 13:02
- Shah - Beryllium May 14, 13:00
- the former. -- nm - TFox May 14, 13:00 1
  - *secret handshake* -- nm - zork May 14, 13:04
- shuhr -- nm - znufrii May 14, 13:00 3
  - this -- nm - spamlet May 14, 13:03
  - That's how I say it. -- nm - Kim Pine May 14, 13:02
  - There's mine. -- nm - Name Withheld By Request May 14, 13:00
ST Poll: (Barring unforeseen accidents, plane crashes or natural disasters) Do you think you'll live to see 100 years old? - Name Withheld By Request May 14, 12:57 16
- Nope. Turned 41 yesterday. I'm starting down the other side now. -- nm - Fuzzy May 14, 13:03 2
  - Belated Happy B-Day!!! -- nm - JenBro May 14, 13:04 1
    - what she said. -- nm - zork May 14, 13:06
- the women in my family *do* live pretty damn long lives. -- nm - Andie May 14, 13:03
- Probably not -- nm - amoxy May 14, 13:01
- Nope. -- nm - Krusty May 14, 13:01
- doubtful. -- nm - loosilu May 14, 13:01
- I doubt it. -- nm - Don Homer May 14, 13:01
- on my fathers side, grandmother turns 100 this year, grandfather died at 96, others made it to 99 or so. my mother was adopted so hard to tell there. -- nm - zork May 14, 13:01
- I fully plan on dying of exhaustion as soon as sex robots start mass production -- nm - con_carne May 14, 13:00
- Yes, providing that I can still outrun a hail of gunfire - prayformojo May 14, 13:00 1
  - Damn you, Marvin! -- nm - Reagen May 14, 13:01
- It's possible. my grandmother just turned 95 -- nm - decline May 14, 12:59
- good god, no. - znufrii May 14, 12:59
- No. -- nm - TFox May 14, 12:59
- maybe if there's some kind of breakthrough on asthma treatments. -- nm - Reagen May 14, 12:59
100 year old man decides to start exercising with his much younger wife.... -- (link) - Remlik May 14, 12:52 3
- anyone vertical at 100 looks great, but he looks particularly so. -- nm - Reagen May 14, 12:55
- ~O'Grady, he was 80, though his bride was just a pup. He died upon his honeymoon when she got his Irish up!~ - znufrii May 14, 12:54
- When he was 30, she was....oh.... -- nm - oblique May 14, 12:53
Why does a fellow committee member keep emailing with questions that can be easily answered on our website? - MojaveMeg May 14, 12:49
Hey? Doesn't HSX have the shop anymore? (for shirts, cups, etc.?) -- nm - JenBro May 14, 12:46 9
- Not since they laid everyone off IIRC. -- nm - MojaveMeg May 14, 12:50
- i still use the HSX mug Don Homer sent me as a stalker present years ago - prayformojo May 14, 12:49 4
  - I've got mine on my desk here at work too! I had two but gifted one to Meg last stalking :) -- nm - JenBro May 14, 13:00
  - Orange juice! -- nm - con_carne May 14, 12:51
  - I still use the money clip that DMac sent me. -- nm - Spawn May 14, 12:50
  - awww. -- nm - Don Homer May 14, 12:50
- Slickertalk appears to have one.. -- nm - Mel Profit May 14, 12:48 1
  - It's lame, though -- nm - Beryllium May 14, 13:01
- JenBro, nobody wants to wear orange. -- nm - Spawn May 14, 12:48
Woo hoo! Black Keys announce new West Coast tour dates - con_carne May 14, 12:45 2
- hacks! -- nm - Epiphany May 14, 12:51
- Closest is Fresno? - amoxy May 14, 12:46
River Song has been outted.... -- (link) - Remlik May 14, 12:44 8
- is there anything she won't do? -- nm - loosilu May 14, 12:52 1
  - Is this an invitation? -- nm - Dr.Vermin May 14, 13:03
- Is she going to hit on Amy? -- nm - amoxy May 14, 12:48 2
  - spoiler - Spawn May 14, 12:49 1
    - ~The Dalton Fam-i-ly...*snap**snap*~ -- nm - The Incredible Budice May 14, 12:50
- I'll be in my bunk. -- nm - znufrii May 14, 12:47 2
  - oh I bet she'd like Rose. -- nm - Remlik May 14, 12:48 1
    - River does not pay for hookers -- nm - peglegpete May 14, 12:50
SITWAP: "Should I Pujols or Cano?" - Krusty May 14, 12:44 [youtube]
I just found out that Heather's maternal great grandfather captained the Indiana University basketball team in 1912-13 -- nm - prayformojo May 14, 12:39 7
- Check out the dude in the middle. He means business and/or reaaallly doesn't like sitting for photos -- (link) - prayformojo May 14, 12:45 [Image] 4
  - I am comforted to discover that bad hair has been happening for a century now. -- nm - David May 14, 12:50
  - Little known fact: no fewer than three of those guys were serial killers. -- nm - Don Homer May 14, 12:47 2
    - And the dude in front with the crossed legs was the man who caught them. -- nm - Reagen May 14, 12:49 1
      - Heh. Yeah, one of Hoover's originals. -- nm - Don Homer May 14, 12:50
- That's pretty cool. (Though, winless in the conference that year?? :)) -- nm - Don Homer May 14, 12:42
- You mean my paternal great grandfather, Haynes Freeland? -- nm - Spawn May 14, 12:42
do schools even teach the difference between then and than anymore? -- (link) - zork May 14, 12:36 [Image] 27
- wound used to be pronounced like sound -- nm - zeitgeist May 14, 12:59 2
  - it still is - zork May 14, 13:02
  - And what about route? :) -- nm - MojaveMeg May 14, 13:00
- I once had a debate with a 3rd grade teacher over been and bin. He maintained they were both pronounce the same. I'll stick with - MojaveMeg May 14, 12:42 21
  - I pronouce them the same. :-) -- nm - Krusty May 14, 12:56 1
    - *pronounce* -- nm - Krusty May 14, 12:56
  - been should definitely be a homonyn of bean -- nm - zork May 14, 12:48
  - rhyming "been" with "teen"? rhyme "been" with "Ben". -- nm - TFox May 14, 12:47
  - That's just accents, though. -- nm - Reagen May 14, 12:46 4
    - I always took it for laziness - zork May 14, 12:51 3
      - not if you've only heard it pronounced one way. -- nm - loosilu May 14, 12:55 1
        
        This. No one here says been like it rhymes with teen. -- nm - Krusty May 14, 12:57
      - I wouldn't call it that - if you take a linguistics course, they talk about why things shift, and it's many many reasons - Reagen May 14, 12:54
  - Was that over here? Rhyming "been" with "teen" strikes me as particularly British. -- nm - Ender May 14, 12:44 9
    - i hear both here. i would say rhymes-with-teen is more proper, but rhymes-with-tin is probably common-usage. -- nm - Andie May 14, 12:49 3
      - more - i think we would use the 'bean' version with 'i have been'... and we use the 'bin' version with 'i've bin...'. -- nm - Andie May 14, 12:51 1
        
        heh. Exactly. -- nm - Reagen May 14, 12:55
      - It sort of depends on where it is in the sentence. In the middle : "bin". At the end: "bean". -- nm - Reagen May 14, 12:50
    - I'm sure it is. I just wasn't aware of the U.S. variant before daughter hit 3rd grade :) -- nm - MojaveMeg May 14, 12:45 4
      - oooHHHHhhhhh.... I visualized you having the debate *as* a third grader. -- nm - Spawn May 14, 12:46 3
        
        Same here. -- nm - Ender May 14, 12:48 2
        
        Heh, sorry. No, he'd marked her down for using the British variant and I challenged him on it...lost :( -- nm - MojaveMeg May 14, 12:53 1
        
        Ahh...I'm with you then. It's how she heard the word pronounced by you and it's not wrong. - Krusty May 14, 13:00
  - Wait, they are not? -- nm - Spawn May 14, 12:44
  - Yeah, I have to side with the teacher in this case. ;) -- nm - Don Homer May 14, 12:43
- Dude. - Starving Kids in Africa May 14, 12:38 1
  - I meant to trip like that, Mr. Carson -- nm - Brooke Shields May 14, 12:39
First world problems: I hate when someone posts an actually blurry photo on Facebook, because I sit there waiting endlessly for it to become clear. -- nm - Inigo May 14, 12:35 2
- Yeah, I posted this to the ST Facebook group in Nov. -- (link) - Dr.Vermin May 14, 12:36
- word -- nm - Starving Kids in Africa May 14, 12:36
Hey? Did anyone see "The Lucky One" - I still want to see it - and am debating leaving work 15 minutes early today to catch a 5 pm showing before it - JenBro May 14, 12:30 7
- I saw it. Save your money. - kelly May 14, 12:52
- It's not. I love me some bad romance movies (and obv. Efron) and it's really not good. - MDH May 14, 12:32 5
  - (sigh) really? dang ... I am so bummed to hear this :( -- nm - JenBro May 14, 12:34 4
    - I was pretty disappointed. Here was my original post: -- (link) - MDH May 14, 12:38 [Backboard] 3
      - *kicks dirt* dang it ... but thanks - saved me wasting prolly $15. -- nm - JenBro May 14, 12:39 2
        
        Go see Avengers. -- nm - Spawn May 14, 12:49 1
        
        I will be seeing it for the 2nd time this Sunday at the IMAX in Grand Rapids ... 3D !!! -- nm - JenBro May 14, 13:04
(Did Ashley Judd FIND HER SON?) nm - Dignan May 14, 12:29 1
- They should've blown up Sean Bean at the end of every episode. -- nm - Reagen May 14, 12:56
st poll: Pink Power Ranger (original) vs Kaylee (serenity). - tRuMaN (insane, possibly) May 14, 12:23 1
- PPP wasn't as hot as I remember at 13. - spamlet May 14, 12:27
further to our past BMI conversation - waist-to-height ratio shown to be much better measure of health: -- (link) - Andie May 14, 12:21 10
- *checks; is still fat* -- nm - TFox May 14, 12:48
- "Also see: Hoarding to be labelled a metal illness in manual used by Canadian doctors" - Spawn May 14, 12:30 4
  - Tonight on Action News 5 "Heroclix and the people obsessed with them" -- nm - Remlik May 14, 12:43 3
    - Very. Very. Metal -- nm - Vivian May 14, 12:44 2
      - you're so Neil. -- nm - Remlik May 14, 12:45 1
        
        Vegetable rights and peace! -- nm - Spawn May 14, 12:47
- My BMI is fine, but waist to height would be quite a bit better. -- nm - Kim Pine May 14, 12:29
- Well, I love that. I'm pretty tired of BMI telling me I'm obese. -- nm - Dr.Vermin May 14, 12:28 1
  - Yeah, after reading that, I am going to go have a snack. - Spawn May 14, 12:30
- We Talls rule!!! -- nm - Spawn May 14, 12:28
For the ST homebrewers, the Brooklyn Brewery has an "Ask A Brewer" feature and they're soliciting questions on their FB page. -- (link) - Krusty May 14, 12:20 5
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  - I'll make sure I take it today. - Krusty May 14, 12:28
- nice! -- nm - loosilu May 14, 12:24
- nice, will check it out when I get home later this week. - znufrii May 14, 12:22 1
  - You need to put it on your speed dial. - Spawn May 14, 12:29
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I just wrote a very honest sentence on a professional development form, without thinking... - Mel Profit May 14, 12:19 3
- While I might swap 'secure' for 'maximize', I think that's fine. - Dr.Vermin May 14, 12:21 2
  - Nice. -- nm - mara May 14, 12:22
  - that actually works and doesn't sound like... - Mel Profit May 14, 12:21
you people are surprised that Pippy picked a fit group with moves over a robot? -- nm - zork May 14, 12:18 3
- let me see if I can explain why she's wrong... - Mel Profit May 14, 12:20 2
  - but do they have cute outfits? -- nm - Epiphany May 14, 12:55 1
    - you're such a girl. -- nm - Mel Profit May 14, 12:57
Yay! -- nm - JenBro May 14, 12:16 14
- Scorcese is coming? -- nm - peglegpete May 14, 12:18 13
  - no word yet ... I'm betting he's going to be unavailable for being on location someplace - JenBro May 14, 12:22 12
    - If you get him you have to get him to come here. - Mel Profit May 14, 12:25 11
      - by "here" you mean to post on ST? I hadn't thought of that - but sure! That would be KEWL! -- nm - JenBro May 14, 12:28 10
        
        I doubt you'd find a more ardent and appreciative group. - Mel Profit May 14, 12:30 9
        
        :D wouldn't it be fun to have him answer some poll questions? like what were HIS favorite Scorcese moments? heh -- nm - JenBro May 14, 12:31 8
        
        the lead up to Scorcese Day would be tremendous. - Mel Profit May 14, 12:33 7
        
        LOL @ "Scorcese Day" - that would be so incredibly awesome wouldn't it? you just never know - he might find it very interesting - I mean - ST is a - JenBro May 14, 12:35 6
        
        You'd see some of our Lost Ones come back too. - Mel Profit May 14, 12:37 5
        
        bah. they'd only come back for William Shatner day here on ST. -- nm - Remlik May 14, 12:46
        
        now THAT would be the awesomenessest for sure! - JenBro May 14, 12:40 1
        
        I'm picturing the awsomenessness of that -- nm - zork May 14, 12:42
        
        we at least have to get him a t-shirt or hat. - Mel Profit May 14, 12:40 1
        
        I have one of those key chain thingys that has the multiple colored lights in the cone :) -- nm - JenBro May 14, 12:41

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