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- Couldn't have happened to a nicer guy. -- nm - nubby May 29, 07:55
- Curt Schilling's career earnings from baseball contracts --- $114mil and change. The moral of the story: Don't listen to Phillies for money advice. -- nm - Will Hunting May 29, 07:52
- i also read that the state of RI appears to have set the price for the rights to the various games too high - tRuMaN ( not a monkey ) May 29, 07:52
- awww, poor guy. -- nm - Don Homer May 29, 07:50
US law firm Dewey & LeBoeuf has filed for bankruptcy (one of the largest law-firm failures in U.S. history) -- nm - Beaker May 29, 07:43 2
- Shia must be distraught. Maybe he'll punch a paparazzo. -- nm - nubby May 29, 07:48
- and a link -- (link) - Beaker May 29, 07:44
Canada is expelling all Syrian diplomats who are still in Ottawa and giving them five days to leave the country. -- (link) - Beaker May 29, 07:37 4
- I think Assad's days are numbered at this point. Killing kids was the tipping point. - Mel Profit May 29, 07:44 3
  - There's a hell of a movie in his story someday, I'm sure. - Reagen May 29, 07:46 2
    - From what I've read he is predictably malleable. - Mel Profit May 29, 07:50
    - and his wife as well -- nm - Beaker May 29, 07:46
Don't like the fact that our federal government seem locked in perpetual gridlock? blame it on the constitution -- (link) - znufrii May 29, 07:34 10
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  - it's not that simple though - znufrii May 29, 07:51 1
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- (Which was kind of the point of checks and balances to begin with...) -- nm - Ender May 29, 07:41 1
  - exactly. -- nm - znufrii May 29, 07:43
- Broad brush, but the US Constitution is fine. It's the electoral system that's the problem. - Roger More May 29, 07:41 4
  - And what defines the electoral system? hmmmm? -- nm - GregW May 29, 07:44 3
    - It's really the details of how the electoral system works that is the problem. (I don't believe these details are covered by the Constitution) - Roger More May 29, 07:48 2
      - that, and the whole decision of how electoral votes are distributed within a given state is left up to each state -- nm - znufrii May 29, 07:50 1
        
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Weekend entertainment ratings: TV: The Firm (C+), Don't Trust the B (B+), New Girl (B), Movies: Hugo (A), Potter 4 (A), Born to Be Wild (C+) - oblique May 29, 07:12 29
- Men in Black 3: B-, Secret World of Arrietty: B, Lillyhammer Season 1: B+, Scandal Season 1: B, Rubicon Season 1: A-. -- nm - David May 29, 07:52
- Boondocks Saints: B -- nm - Guigue May 29, 07:38 3
  - ^ this man is smart! nm -- nm - groiny May 29, 07:45 2
    - By the way, there was some news recently about Boondock Saints 3. Let me find a link. -- nm - Roger More May 29, 07:49 1
      - Here - Sean Patrick Flannery says the script is being written. -- (link) - Roger More May 29, 07:51
- MIB3: B, Chernobyl Diaries: D -- nm - Jovian May 29, 07:30
- MIB3 C- Mad Men "The Other Woman" A Season 2 Community A -- nm - amoxy May 29, 07:28
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- Avengers (A+), Mad Men (A- so far), cut the rope experiments (A- so far), x-men first class ... B+ or A-, not sure. I enjoyed it, though. -- nm - Beryllium May 29, 07:23 2
  - I love X-Men: First Class. - Kim Pine May 29, 07:24 1
    - I am shocked that a movie following X3 and Wolverine, with January Jones in the cast....could be that good. - Will Hunting May 29, 07:28
- MIB3 - B-. -- nm - pmb May 29, 07:22
- white collar season 2 : B+, stargate atlantis season 1 and 2, c+. -- nm - tRuMaN ( not a monkey ) May 29, 07:21 4
  - Dr Rodney McKay thinks you are dumb -- nm - Beaker May 29, 07:22 3
    - possibly, - tRuMaN ( not a monkey ) May 29, 07:34 2
      - but he's the one who will actually tell you you are dumb though :) -- nm - Beaker May 29, 07:35 1
        
        true, but really, wouldnt you rather - tRuMaN ( not a monkey ) May 29, 07:37
- Red: A- ; The Pacific episode 1: B+ ; Avengers (viewing #2): A+ ; portions of Band of Brothers marathon on Spike: A++ -- nm - Beaker May 29, 07:19
- Lion King B- The Avengers A+ -- nm - Bacon May 29, 07:18
- Let the Right One In : B, Let Me In : B. nm -- nm - groiny May 29, 07:18
- MIB3: B, Arietty: B+, Season 1 of Lilyhammer: A -- nm - Kim Pine May 29, 07:17 1
  - oh, and Game of Thrones: Blackwater - A -- nm - Kim Pine May 29, 07:21
- MIB3: B. M:I3: C. In Time: B. -- nm - JaxSean May 29, 07:16
- MiB3: B+; Crazy, Stupid Love: B; Being Elmo: A-; My basement flooding: F-. -- nm - Ender May 29, 07:16 4
  - Bummer on the basement. From Storms? -- nm - amoxy May 29, 07:27 1
    - Washing machine. The discharge hose came out of the sink it was draining into, and the washer got stuck in rinse mode for some reason. - Ender May 29, 07:38
  - I really liked Being Elmo. (spoiler) - JaxSean May 29, 07:17 1
    - *spoils* - Ender May 29, 07:18
- My Neighbor Totoro: A, Contraband: B-, The Grey: B- -- nm - MDH May 29, 07:14
~ We got more bounce in California than all yall combined. We got more bounce in California cause we like to party all the time~ -- nm - Epiphany May 29, 07:11
That's fine EMR folks...have your lil work meetings that involve into long social events... - Mel Profit May 29, 07:08
Signs TV is getting even worse: New *comedy series this fall about a prolific sperm donor and his entanglements with these new found children...(link) - Walt_Disney May 29, 07:03 7
- ER did it in their last season -- nm - Beaker May 29, 07:22
- The name of the show? Jizz Happens -- nm - Bacon May 29, 07:05 5
  - Nah...Breaking Wad. -- nm - bc/nc May 29, 07:11 4
    - Children of the porn -- nm - Beryllium May 29, 07:21 3
      - The Master deBater (we can make him a lawyer or something right :) ) -- nm - Beaker May 29, 07:24
      - How I Met Your POPsicle -- nm - Bacon May 29, 07:23 1
        
        Father Load. -- nm - loosilu May 29, 07:29
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- I'd love for this to be true. - Mel Profit May 29, 07:06 1
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we have people here for meetings, the receptionist just came by my desk grumbling. - Andie May 29, 06:47
oh lord, david is going to so hate this -- (link) - tRuMaN ( not a monkey ) May 29, 06:47 8
- Just for that I'll make sure to wear it in our games. Will make it easier for David to laser me in the back of the head -- nm - oblique May 29, 06:51 5
  - see, you really should have saved that clip and sent us all a link to it. - tRuMaN ( not a monkey ) May 29, 06:52 4
    - Are the renderings back online now that they moved things to Microsoft? Last time I tried that it didn't have that feature anymore - oblique May 29, 06:55 3
      - no idea, but i think you could send it via the game to your known halo friends. - tRuMaN ( not a monkey ) May 29, 06:56 2
        
        ah, that's right. I'll look on the console after I hook everything back up. We're having carpet installed today and everything is disassembled -- nm - oblique May 29, 06:58 1
        
        just a note, i believe if you have played any other game on the xbox but halo - tRuMaN ( not a monkey ) May 29, 07:00
- Perhaps. But I think Trish will be somewhat excited. -- nm - Beryllium May 29, 06:50 1
  - very true. if she can find acceptable patterns. -- nm - tRuMaN ( not a monkey ) May 29, 06:51
I think Bubba just asked me to screw around... -- nm - Mel Profit May 29, 06:41
i know that Mark Hamill does the voice of the Joker, but actually seeing him do the voice is sorta freaky -- (link) - tRuMaN ( not a monkey ) May 29, 06:38
Pew polls Europeans on which the hardest-working country in Europe. Everyone says Germany, except for Greeks who answered... - Roger More May 29, 06:20 20
- stuff like this really improves the confidence in the common currency - Danedukenuuk May 29, 06:45
- LYC: But these are the polls the bf works on. Look at the polls on "who is the most corrupt" -- nm - MDH May 29, 06:34 3
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    - He works at Pew, and analyzes data/ writes reports. -- nm - MDH May 29, 06:49
    - *splooge* -- nm - Don Homer May 29, 06:47
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    - Yep. It's also similar to the Tea Party's attitude towards taxes - why bother, it will be wasted on stuff we don't want + it's our patriotic duty! -- nm - Roger More May 29, 06:50 12
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        So many of America's founding myths are about tax and refusing to pay it. The Boston Tea Party, no taxation without representation, etc - Roger More May 29, 06:59 10
        
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        I don't mean myth as in "it didn't happen". What I mean is, every country has a romanticised view of its own history, and they are used as examples of - Roger More May 29, 07:17 1
        
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        i get that. i think every country's history is glorified and made slightly mythic. - Andie May 29, 07:08 5
        
        Yep. Even Canada (and Australia too) have myths about revolution being a dirty business that we don't really go in for. - Roger More May 29, 07:19
        
        The reverence for our "Founding Fathers" is annoying... - Mel Profit May 29, 07:14
        
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        But there's a lot of mythology about it. Was it a principled protest where they put on Mohawk costumes to affirm their connection to America? - Roger More May 29, 07:25 1
        
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wake up st. wake up now! -- nm - tRuMaN ( not a monkey ) May 29, 06:12 3
- What are we gonna tell your mama? What are we gonna tell your pa? What are we gonna tell our friends when they say ooh-la-la...? - Ender May 29, 06:15
- *yawn* - znufrii May 29, 06:15 1
  - posts! - tRuMaN ( not a monkey ) May 29, 06:28
male celebrity birhday FMK edition: Rupert Everett, Noel Gallagher & Daniel Tosh -- nm - Epiphany May 29, 06:03 5
- MKF. no other choice. -- nm - loosilu May 29, 07:30
- I'm watching this list carefully, if anyone chooses anything but K for Gallagher you're in trouble. -- nm - Mel Profit May 29, 06:42
- MKK -- nm - MDH May 29, 06:35
- MKF -- nm - Epiphany May 29, 06:28
- MKF -- nm - Andie May 29, 06:05
Sounds like a great idea until you need to breathe... -- (link) - oblique May 29, 05:42
why cant i win the lottery and just be independently wealthy? - tRuMaN ( not a monkey ) May 29, 05:41
NFL: Lions DT Nick Fairley could be looking at a multi-game suspension for his 2 arrests this offseason. -- nm - Strongbad May 29, 05:06 3
- what a moron -- nm - Beaker May 29, 05:15
- Patriots RB Shane Vereen has been getting most of the snaps as #1 RB. -- nm - Strongbad May 29, 05:07 1
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Birthday MFK: Mel B (37), Annette Benning (54), LaToya Jackson (56) -- nm - Strongbad May 29, 05:04 5
- FMK -- nm - Epiphany May 29, 07:11
- seppuku. -- nm - spamlet (iPhone) May 29, 05:21 1
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- FMK -- nm - Beaker May 29, 05:08 1
  - this. -- nm - JaxSean May 29, 05:23
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Lefty has joined a group hoping to buy the San Diego Padres. -- (link) - Strongbad May 29, 04:37
Newly discovered malware most lethal cyberweapon to date. (Flame worm more sophisticated, damaging than Stuxnet) -- (link) - Beaker May 29, 04:34
The Celtics just got another Technical Foul... -- nm - Beaker May 29, 04:26
May 29, 1453 � Fall of Constantinople: Ottoman armies under Sultan Mehmed II Fatih captures Constantinople after a 53-day siege, - Beaker May 29, 04:17 6
- So that's why Constantinople got the works! -- nm - Was Bar Was May 29, 06:16
- 1790 � Rhode Island becomes the last of the original United States' colonies to ratify the Constitution and is admitted as the 13th U.S. state. -- nm - Beaker May 29, 04:18 4
  - 1848 � Wisconsin is admitted as the 30th U.S. state. -- nm - Beaker May 29, 04:18 3
    - 1945 � First combat mission of the Consolidated B-32 Dominator heavy bomber. -- nm - Beaker May 29, 04:19 2
      - 1953 � Edmund Hillary and Sherpa Tenzing Norgay become the first people to reach the summit of Mount Everest, on Tenzing Norgay's (adopted) 39th birth -- nm - Beaker May 29, 04:19 1
        
        Forgot to mention that Saturday was the 25th Anniversary of "Larry Bird Stole the Ball". - Mel Profit May 29, 06:48
"Oh Maria! Oh Maria! How I long to be with you!" -- nm - Strongbad May 29, 04:09
When does Meg get back from Holiday? -- nm - Karl_S May 29, 00:46 1
- Friday ? -- nm - MojaveMeg May 29, 05:52
Avengers spoilers - Beryllium May 28, 22:21 3
- Which appears to have completely slipped by the MPAA. - LMS May 29, 07:12
- I don't get the hatey for him as the villain. I thought he was great. -- nm - Beaker May 29, 05:10 1
  - me too - most excellent - thought he was better in Avengers than Thor - Epiphany May 29, 05:44
This scene with the neighbor's kid is *amazingly* awkward. (re: Mad Men season 1 episode 4) -- nm - Beryllium May 28, 22:03 1
- (That kid is Matthew Weiner's son.) -- nm - kelly May 29, 06:03
sad: a childhood friend of mine just lost her daughter, a week after she (the daughter) graduated from Yale. NMBL) - howie May 28, 21:35 2
- So young...what a shame. Sad for her family. -- nm - kelly May 28, 22:05
- seems graduation (hs or coll) are dangerous times for youth in cars, more so than any other -- nm - zeitgeist May 28, 21:52
"Just so you know Jeff, you are creating six different timelines" -- nm - amoxy May 28, 21:21 1
- very clever episode. -- nm - Remlik May 28, 21:29
lir Jen, I got my balls signed!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! - peglegpete May 28, 21:21 2
- very cool -- nm - Beaker May 29, 04:32
- Sweet! -- nm - JenBro May 29, 01:53
I was working in the pediatric ER today. There was a mother who was super adamant about having plastic surgery fix the laceration on her daughter. - James Bond (aka Igor) May 28, 21:11 2
- I don't blame her, honestly. - kelly May 28, 21:17 1
  - I certainly would want an experienced plastic surgeon too but that is simply not who she will get. The nurses tried to explain it to her but she - James Bond (aka Igor) May 28, 21:23
Hand-Foot-Mouth -- nm - James Bond (aka Igor) May 28, 21:10 1
- Knees and toes... -- nm - Mop May 28, 22:50

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