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for those that like Johnny Carson, American Masters on PBS has a special on him tonight -- nm - Remlik May 14, 13:41 1
- Thanks! -- nm - David May 14, 13:44
Circling back to the GoT discussion - The thing to remember about Circe, Dany, Catelyn et al is that Westeros is a tough place to be a woman - Reagen May 14, 13:40 10
- Westeros is a red state. -- nm - David May 14, 13:44 1
  - Specifically Kentucky. -- nm - Reagen May 14, 13:46
- Dany's essentially Circe (is *that* how it's spelled?) fifteen years younger. -- nm - Name Withheld By Request May 14, 13:43 6
  - I...do not agree, really. - Kim Pine May 14, 13:46
  - well without the spoiler... - Remlik May 14, 13:45 1
    - also Game of Thrones really should be subtitlted: A Series of Bad Decisions. -- nm - Remlik May 14, 13:46
  - Cersei, apparently. -- nm - Reagen May 14, 13:44 2
    - Ah. That's what I had seen, but I figured you had read the books and knew better. - Name Withheld By Request May 14, 13:45 1
      - I'm doing the audiobooks. -- nm - Reagen May 14, 13:45
- They haven't come a long way, baby -- nm - prayformojo May 14, 13:41
since we are talking (somewhat) about cars, i ask st - tRuMaN (insane, possibly) May 14, 13:37 9
- I absolutely adore my Escape. Truecar has those at $19,500. We just bought a CR-V. The base for the 2012 is $23,100. -- nm - David May 14, 13:47 1
  - You should also check Carmax. You can check by crossover there. -- nm - David May 14, 13:48
- have you thought of just getting a trailer hitch and a small utility trailer? or just one for day or two? - zeitgeist May 14, 13:42 1
  - technically, you are not supposed to haul anything with the tdi (diesel) in this car - tRuMaN (insane, possibly) May 14, 13:46
- I drove that Kia Soul; thing is tinier than it friggin looks. Shorter front to back then our Suzuki compact sedan is. -- nm - TFox May 14, 13:40 4
  - yeah, i havent looked at anything, so i dont know anything about the size of any cars - tRuMaN (insane, possibly) May 14, 13:42 2
    - the Hyundai Tucson and Kia Sportage aren't far off that price point either, new. - TFox May 14, 13:43 1
      - i am not opposed to used. - tRuMaN (insane, possibly) May 14, 13:46
  - and i hate rehyping the one we got to validate my own purchase, but I do love the Mazda CX-5, which is around $21k with the manual transmission. -- nm - TFox May 14, 13:42
WOW - I didn't realize I had bought PROME :) $23.57 - woo! -- nm - JenBro May 14, 13:37 2
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  - yeah yeah whatevs :) relatedly - my bond for VDONO has gone up 2,809.92% - JenBro May 14, 13:40
i like the New Yorker cover... -- (link) - Andie May 14, 13:34 2
- There's nothing sardonic about that -- nm - con_carne May 14, 13:44
- they are Greek columns, after all. -- nm - Reagen May 14, 13:42
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woot! Amy just called me from her new car! -- nm - Spawn May 14, 13:27 22
- what color? -- nm - JenBro May 14, 13:33 4
  - Red. -- nm - Spawn May 14, 13:35 3
    - nice :) I wonder which one Bub will like bestest? -- nm - JenBro May 14, 13:35 2
      - He wanted her to get a blue one, so that will probably mean mine. -- nm - Spawn May 14, 13:42 1
        
        speaking of blue - is his friend blue still around? -- nm - JenBro May 14, 13:43
- "so long, sucker!" -- nm - znufrii May 14, 13:32
- hopefully not an emergency call. - CrankYanker May 14, 13:28
- from her phone or from the wireless phone in the car? what'd she get? -- nm - Remlik May 14, 13:27 2
  - Did you know this about her? I *hate* buying cars. She *loves* it. - Spawn May 14, 13:35 1
    - good lord. she needs to buy my next car -- nm - Remlik May 14, 13:39
- what did she get? -- nm - tRuMaN (insane, possibly) May 14, 13:27
- what'd she get? -- nm - TFox May 14, 13:27 10
  - I believe, an Accent. - Spawn May 14, 13:28 9
    - cool. - TFox May 14, 13:30 1
      - Having a payment of $200 helps one enjoy a car. -- nm - Spawn May 14, 13:31
    - so are we polling on how many flat tires she's gonna have on this one? -- nm - Remlik May 14, 13:29 4
      - well if you would stop poking holes in her tires when spawn declines to spend time with you, she wouldnt have this problem as often. -- nm - tRuMaN (insane, possibly) May 14, 13:38 1
        
        she should know better. I let her have this past Saturday. -- nm - Remlik May 14, 13:46
      - I am hoping that curse has left her, as well. -- nm - Spawn May 14, 13:30 1
        
        I hope so. I always felt bad for here when that happened -- nm - Remlik May 14, 13:31
    - hyundia? -- nm - tRuMaN (insane, possibly) May 14, 13:29 1
      - Yeah, traded in her Sonata. -- nm - Spawn May 14, 13:30
I will not post that I expect to live to 100 years old because *that* will be the day I get hit by a truck. -- nm - CrankYanker May 14, 13:26 3
- driven by a non-professional truck driver. -- nm - Mel Profit May 14, 13:29 2
  - L3 -- nm - JenBro May 14, 13:33 1
    - driven by a hollywood tartlet while she's texting -- nm - zeitgeist May 14, 14:25
Review has to wait as I'm having to deal with Google blacklisting my novel website as hosting malware, but Avengers is either an A or A-. -- nm - Qale May 14, 13:22 12
- I always knew you were the smart one on your site. -- nm - Spawn May 14, 13:32
- stop hosting malware. duh :) -- nm - oblique May 14, 13:26 1
  - But it hacks their bank information, then secretly downloads a copy of each of my novels, that's all! -- nm - Qale May 14, 13:31
- Are you on WP? I just got a note that our church website on WP has been hackerized. -- nm - spamlet May 14, 13:25 3
  - It is WP. Fortunately qatfm doesn't seem affected. It doesn't matter. It just made me realize I'm blowing a lot of cash needlessly. - Qale May 14, 13:30 2
    - I ended up using Weebly for my wife's site after Microsoft Small Business stuff shut down - oblique May 14, 13:33 1
      - Yeah, something like that sounds about right. I'm a long way from when I needed the freedom of my own host. At least for my book stuff. - Qale May 14, 13:38
- you sure you saw the superhero film and not the Uma Thurman one right? - Remlik May 14, 13:24 3
  - (spoiler) - Qale May 14, 13:32 2
    - Really? Hmm. - Spawn May 14, 13:33 1
      - (spoiler) - Qale May 14, 13:39
- Nice! C&P, maybe? -- nm - Dr.Vermin May 14, 13:23
MH people (in case you didnt know yet) new charm avaialble to get parts for the boat and parts for a new trap - still no idea on scraps -- nm - Capstern May 14, 13:22
George Lucas gives up on movie studio and decides to use his land for low-income housing. Eff-you neighbors! -- (link) - CrankYanker May 14, 13:21 4
- that area is full of hostile to any thing NIMBY, there was an article about the 75th ann of the golden gate bridge and all the oh hell no editorials - zeitgeist May 14, 14:28
- cool. -- nm - Don Homer May 14, 13:22
- heh, love that move. -- nm - Beaker May 14, 13:22
- Mop? -- nm - Spawn May 14, 13:22
So, I found something I like way better than Amazon Cloud Player for my phone: AudioGalaxy. - TFox May 14, 13:18
nothing like going fishing and having massive fish just jump right in your boat -- (link) - Beaker May 14, 13:15 2
- they were prolly trying to escape the ASIAN carp! -- nm - JenBro May 14, 13:22
- Yep. Nothing like it. -- nm - Quint May 14, 13:16
I'm surprised by the life expectency pesimisim on B2. But there's hope! - Name Withheld By Request May 14, 13:12 37
- Not I. I got till 2026. Then that's it. - Jovian May 14, 13:22 6
  - why so specific? -- nm - Andie May 14, 13:22 5
    - dreamt it a couple of times. nm - Jovian May 14, 13:26 3
      - when i was 17 i had some very very very real and vivid dreams about dying at 18. - Andie May 14, 13:28 2
        
        yea I know. its tough to shake though. I've dreamt the same specific date - Jovian May 14, 13:33
        
        Yeah, I used to dream I would die before I turned 30. - Spawn May 14, 13:29
    - He took that test. -- nm - Spawn May 14, 13:23
- Plugging my geneology info into Ancestry.com, I'm delighted to find a lot of ancestors who made it to the triple digits. - Dr.Vermin May 14, 13:16
- based on family history, I won't get to 90. it's just common sense. -- nm - loosilu May 14, 13:14 1
  - and I certainly expect life expectancy to flatline sometime soon, probably below 100. -- nm - loosilu May 14, 13:15
- ok - don't everyone laugh and fall off their chairs at once right ... but I kind of hope we don't get to the "live forever" thing because I sort of - JenBro May 14, 13:14 23
  - Semi-tangent, have you ever read Replay? - Spawn May 14, 13:21 3
    - no ... is it a good one? -- nm - JenBro May 14, 13:35 2
      - well, he loves it so.... :) -- nm - Andie May 14, 13:36 1
        
        good point - silly question on my part -- nm - JenBro May 14, 13:55
  - I like the idea of non-linear reincarnation myself, your future life might take place before your present one. - znufrii May 14, 13:18 15
    - sadly, this might not even break your top ten biggest loads of rubbish you've posted - zork May 14, 13:47
    - only you would decide that reincarnation needed to get headier. -- nm - TFox May 14, 13:22 2
      - Ha! -- nm - Krusty May 14, 13:29
      - *snork* -- nm - Spawn May 14, 13:24
    - YES ... it's why I believe so much in Karma I think ... :) - JenBro May 14, 13:21
    - If you come back as a Unicorn I am putting you in my circus. -- nm - Bacon May 14, 13:19
    - [wish I'd gotten high before reading that IM] - Dr.Vermin May 14, 13:19
    - So what you are saying is, I might have slept with myself? - Spawn May 14, 13:19 7
      - "Would you f*ck me? I'd f*ck me." -- nm - Don Homer May 14, 13:21
      - And both of you were disappointed -- nm - amoxy May 14, 13:21 3
        
        Are people *really* ever disappointed with sex? -- nm - Spawn May 14, 13:23 2
        
        Sure -- nm - amoxy May 14, 13:24
        
        Republicans are -- nm - Bacon May 14, 13:24
      - LOL -- nm - JenBro May 14, 13:20
      - yup. -- nm - znufrii May 14, 13:19
  - I was a 16th century Prussian Farmer -- nm - amoxy May 14, 13:16
  - i can't; this chair has armrests. -- nm - TFox May 14, 13:15
  - If you live forever, who cares about being reincarnated? -- nm - Spawn May 14, 13:15
- "When math makes people think dumb stuff." -- nm - TFox May 14, 13:14 2
  - Hehehehehe.... Figured some folks would get a chuckle out of that. That said, we've added decades in the last 100 years. - Name Withheld By Request May 14, 13:15
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fer sure -- nm - prayformojo May 14, 13:11
MH LYC - somethings up on the boards - I just got an "interlocking hull fragment) -- nm - JenBro May 14, 13:09 1
- soft serve charms available! -- nm - JenBro May 14, 13:19
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y'all is crazy, Rihanna is gorgeous. nm -- nm - groiny May 14, 13:07
Wow - so any HSX Merchandise we have is kind of a "collectors" item then right? - JenBro May 14, 13:07 21
- i have a baseball hat and a mug. -- nm - Andie May 14, 13:11 1
  - I liked the first hat I got. Hated the second one, though. -- nm - Spawn May 14, 13:12
- I have a messenger bag, hat, mug, monitor mirror and possibly one or two other things. -- nm - TWuG May 14, 13:11
- heh. I got a big box of free stuff from DMac for running the COMIC Fund. - Spawn May 14, 13:09 17
  - Never got anything for bringing KIDS funds to delist, multiple times. *shrug* -- nm - Qale May 14, 13:23 1
    - see! -- nm - Remlik May 14, 13:24
  - I got nothing when I ran it. -- nm - Remlik May 14, 13:10 11
    - Remlik=Charlie Brown of Fund Managers -- nm - amoxy May 14, 13:17 6
      - and I ran it better, faster and smarter than hippy ever did. -- nm - Remlik May 14, 13:21 4
        
        Did you take it to 312.50? - Spawn May 14, 13:21 3
        
        In the rules alloted to me I worked that fund better than you. - Remlik May 14, 13:23 2
        
        That is why you failed. - Spawn May 14, 13:25 1
        
        bah. tricksy you are. -- nm - Remlik May 14, 13:29
      - at least Charlie Brown got a rock... -- nm - znufrii May 14, 13:18
    - maybe you should have updated the mailing address. -- nm - loosilu May 14, 13:16
    - It's "Spawn" ... you know ... the "guys wanna be him and girls wanna be with him" guy ... he gets EVERYTHING! - JenBro May 14, 13:13
    - V1, baby!!! -- nm - Spawn May 14, 13:11 1
      - There were DC shoes in there, now that I think about it. -- nm - Spawn May 14, 13:17
  - ruiner! - zork May 14, 13:10 1
    - Spawn get your own gig! -- nm - Diva SI May 14, 13:11
  - SWEET!!! -- nm - JenBro May 14, 13:09
MLB Poll (fill in the blank): Josh Hamilton's sudden power surge is due to ___ ? -- nm - The Incredible Budice May 14, 13:05 16
- testosterone doping -- nm - stewie May 14, 13:18
- Roids -- nm - Bacon May 14, 13:13
- did he break the mlb record for most homers in a week? -- nm - tRuMaN (insane, possibly) May 14, 13:13 1
  - Nope. Fell one short of tying the record of 10 in a week. -- nm - Krusty May 14, 13:23
- does not matter, he will miss a month or more to injury by July 15th. nm -- nm - groiny May 14, 13:09
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- Four Loko -- nm - Epiphany May 14, 13:07
- lightning? -- nm - zork May 14, 13:07
- unmitigated rage over his sobriety -- nm - decline May 14, 13:06 1
  - "and this one is for the vodka" *smash* "and this one is for the threesome I could have had with those skanks" *smash* -- nm - Beaker May 14, 13:19
- a talented guy getting lucky. -- nm - TFox May 14, 13:06 5
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  - Linsanity!!! -- nm - Spawn May 14, 13:16
  - Yup. It will statistically even out over time. -- nm - pmb May 14, 13:14
  - Yeah, one of the Jays beat writers found a stretch in 2011 where Bautista hit the same number of dingers in only four more games. - Name Withheld By Request May 14, 13:13 1
    - And Pujols will start hitting some HR's -- nm - amoxy May 14, 13:14
"You're too good to think people who disagree with you are your enemy. " -- (link) - Dr.Vermin May 14, 13:03 1
- (Unless they go to Georgetown.) *NM* - Ender May 14, 13:06

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