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LYC: The baby hawks that were born on a ledge at NYU have flown away and are gone. :-( - Krusty Jun 5, 07:22 2
- they were yummy. nm -- nm - homeless dude Jun 5, 07:23 1
  - We have them rounded up and sent away to avoid these incidents. - Krusty Jun 5, 07:28
tru, you are up in CC, if you can do it from work.... nm -- nm - groiny Jun 5, 07:14 5
- thanks, i just got to work - tRuMaN (CPA, also crazy) Jun 5, 07:19 4
  - did you blow a tranny? nm -- nm - groiny Jun 5, 07:21 3
    - that seems like a loaded question, but alas no - tRuMaN (CPA, also crazy) Jun 5, 07:23 2
      - well, that is good news at least. nm -- nm - groiny Jun 5, 07:24 1
        
        we all cant have tranny problems like you, sorry. - tRuMaN (CPA, also crazy) Jun 5, 07:25
Grace Jones is 64 and performed at the Queen's jubilee, while hula hooping the entire time. -- (link) - MDH Jun 5, 07:04
Are Southwest flights expensive right now? Considering a semi-spontaneous Vegas trip late-summer and - Don Homer Jun 5, 06:51 9
- does Alegant fly anywhere near you? They've been great for our trips to Florida and they are out of Vegas -- nm - Beaker Jun 5, 07:17 2
  - allegiant air rather -- nm - Beaker Jun 5, 07:18 1
    - Nope. Thanks for the tip though. -- nm - Don Homer Jun 5, 07:26
- Yeah, we're trying to do a long weekend at the end of August and everywhere is stupid expensive. - spamlet Jun 5, 07:05 1
  - it sucks -- nm - Don Homer Jun 5, 07:22
- Pippy and I just talked about this other day, on average for me (esp. out of DC) Southwest has been $100+ more expensive than any other airline. -- nm - MDH Jun 5, 07:02
- they have been more expensive for a while - they let bags fly free but seem to include the charge in their fare prices - Epiphany Jun 5, 06:59
- not so much.. it's been stupid expensive lately. my wife is trying to head up to vegas with me next week, but i don't think it'll happen. - colin Jun 5, 06:54
- all flights are pretty expensive right now I think -- nm - decline Jun 5, 06:52
Not to jinx it, but I think we're buying this tonight. -- (link) - colin Jun 5, 06:29 17
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- how does the table convert to a bed? -- nm - zork Jun 5, 07:03 6
  - ours you remove the table top and then remove the supports below; then the table top lays down flat on the seat and the cushions pull out as the - Beaker Jun 5, 07:11 1
    - Yep. We have 2 king sized pull out beds and our table area folds down to make a double bed. - Jim Jun 5, 07:23
  - You push all the stuff off of it and throw her on the table. Haven't you watched a movie before? -- nm - spamlet Jun 5, 07:09 2
    - The Accused? nm -- nm - groiny Jun 5, 07:10 1
      - postman always rings twice -- nm - zeitgeist Jun 5, 09:34
  - you remove the top, and use it as a base, and a rollout mattress covers it. nm -- nm - groiny Jun 5, 07:04
- That's what I'm talking about. Very nice. We got a popup like 18 months ago. LOVE it!! Good for you! -- nm - Jim Jun 5, 06:48 7
  - 1700 lbs to tow? I won't even know it's there! Do you go camping a lot now? - colin Jun 5, 06:54 6
    - As much as our schedule allows. We also do Scouts with our kids...and they don't allow campers. DOH!!! - Jim Jun 5, 06:56 5
      - you have A/C, while camping? - groiny Jun 5, 07:04 4
        
        Damn right I do. I am not sleeping outside when it's 100 degrees out. I'll stay in my camper where it's a nice 72. - Jim Jun 5, 07:22
        
        I went camping for the first time a few weeks ago, I like this version better. -- nm - MDH Jun 5, 07:07 1
        
        When I win the lottery I want a Class B camper-van - but til then I'll make do with my tent :) -- nm - MojaveMeg Jun 5, 07:23
        
        this -- nm - znufrii Jun 5, 07:04
- cool! -- nm - Andie Jun 5, 06:30
Montreal Canadiens hire Michel Therrien as new head coach -- (link) - zork Jun 5, 06:24 1
- "new" as he was already their coach once -- nm - Beaker Jun 5, 06:37
Canadian PS3 PSA: 320GB Modern Warfare 3 bundle at Walmart.ca for $199. -- (link) - Shaun Jun 5, 06:19
not showing here yet but 6.7 earthquake in Argentina -- nm - zork Jun 5, 06:15 1
- err, here (should show up soon) -- (link) - zork Jun 5, 06:17
happy "fundamental law" day - Danedukenuuk Jun 5, 05:28
Great golf story --- Casey Martin, the guy who won the right to ride a cart becuase of leg issues; won his US Open qualifier yesterday. -- (link) - Will Hunting Jun 5, 05:15 1
- that is indeed awesome -- nm - Beaker Jun 5, 05:20
PS3 game report from E3 -- (link) - bc/nc Jun 5, 05:13
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- I'm still waiting for our local kid to live up to his billing. Betances may never end up a starting pitcher. - Krusty Jun 5, 06:44 4
  - Sometimes it just doesn't happen. A kid I played in school went 2nd/3rd round to the Mets as a LHP and never made it past A-ball. - spamlet Jun 5, 07:08 3
    - The odds of someone getting to the majors is tiny, something like only 10% of minor leaguers see the big show for more than a cup of coffee. - Krusty Jun 5, 07:11 2
      - I just Googled the guy. He's an assistant with the University of Illinois and did have arm troubles. - spamlet Jun 5, 07:14 1
        
        Damn, that sucks. So close yet so far. :-( - Krusty Jun 5, 07:26
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  - Hrmm, my high school kid is #87 there....hope he didn't cost himself by not signing out of HS. - Will Hunting Jun 5, 06:00
Week 1 at the WSOP (World Series of Poker) -- (link) - Beaker Jun 5, 04:39
Per yesterday's discussions: Washington Nationals selected Lucas Giolito at No. 16 -- nm - Beaker Jun 5, 04:30 1
- Yeah. I was choked. Most had him falling to the Jays at #17 when he got by the Mets. -- nm - Name Withheld By Request Jun 5, 07:06
June 5, 1968 � U.S. presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy is shot at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles, California by Palestinian Sirhan Sirhan. - Beaker Jun 5, 03:36 5
- 1977 � The Apple II, one of the first personal computers, goes on sale. -- nm - Beaker Jun 5, 03:37 4
  - 1989 � The Unknown Rebel halts the progress of a column of advancing tanks for over half an hour after the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989. -- nm - Beaker Jun 5, 03:37 3
    - 2004? -- nm - nubby Jun 5, 05:31 2
      - dork -- nm - spamlet Jun 5, 06:07
      - rip Ronald Reagan -- nm - Jovian Jun 5, 05:51
2012 UEFA EURO Pool -- (no soccer knowledge required) - zork Jun 4, 23:49 5
- email who exactly -- nm - Karl_S Jun 5, 02:04 4
  - point 7 -- nm - Beaker Jun 5, 04:22 3
    - there are too address there -- nm - Karl_S Jun 5, 05:37 2
      - (spoils) - znufrii Jun 5, 05:42 1
        
        ta -- nm - Karl_S Jun 5, 06:17
Looks like "marriage equality' will be on the WA state ballot (this is a petition against cause you know, what's next marrying your horse?) - zeitgeist Jun 4, 23:32 1
- I love lamp! -- nm - Epiphany Jun 5, 05:44
Highlight of my day? Tank of gas for under $4/gallon - still cost me over $60 :/ - MojaveMeg Jun 4, 22:39 5
- 'course, I also figured my budget for our trip in August. Gas will probably be somewhere north of $400.... - MojaveMeg Jun 4, 23:08 4
  - We are going to central Australia in a few months, Gas is going to cost up to about $4/L in some places -- nm - Karl_S Jun 4, 23:21 3
    - Ooh. where are you headed? -- nm - MojaveMeg Jun 4, 23:28 1
      - Simpson desert, Ularu, still at work but did you get my email? -- nm - Karl_S Jun 5, 00:26
    - (o) (that's the screamer from that famous norwiegen painting...$16 (approx) a gallon, it might be worth while buying a small tank on a trailer to tow - zeitgeist Jun 4, 23:26
Hatfields and McCoys, or McNultys and Bunks? -- nm - Beryllium Jun 4, 22:37 3
- eh ... McNultys it is (after a half hour of McCoys) -- nm - Beryllium Jun 4, 22:56 2
  - there were several characters called bunks, its either your partner, or back on the old HLOTS, one of the gangster queen's sons was known as Bunk - zeitgeist Jun 4, 23:24 1
    - Detective William "Bunk" Moreland. -- nm - Beryllium Jun 5, 06:38
I don't think it was posted today but former presidential hopeful Herman Cain will be replacing radio talk show host Neil Boortz in syndication in '13 -- (link) - Qale Jun 4, 21:54 4
- I'll be sorry to see Boortz go. -- nm - Ender Jun 4, 22:03 3
  - I obviously didn't agree with many of his views, but more than most. Cain is a joke and won't last a year. -- nm - Qale Jun 4, 22:06 2
    - Cain might be a political clown, but he might be entertaining, and that's what Palin and Rush make their living on -- nm - zeitgeist Jun 4, 22:37 1
      - Extrapolating from a single data point, but he certainly seemed skilled enough at the job the one time I heard him a few years ago before the prez run -- nm - Was Bar Was Jun 5, 06:19
Veep has quitely become a solid show. - Reagen Jun 4, 21:45 5
- yep. though I hate Gary. -- nm - Remlik Jun 4, 21:49 4
  - I just love to hate on Jonah, aka: Dick Cake. Last night, "total POTAL meltdown" had me cracking up. -- nm - Trish Jun 4, 21:56
  - He and Sue are the only competant people! -- nm - Reagen Jun 4, 21:55 2
    - yeah he is...but he's also so exaggerated at times that I just can't stand him...like a couple of episodes ago... - Remlik Jun 4, 22:08
    - Quick, what's her shoe size -- nm - Trish Jun 4, 21:56
I 've got to thank Jax with his help on Summer Stalker. He's responsible for the link above. -- nm - the liioulu with a tablet Jun 4, 21:36
Tyrion Lannister gave a commencement speech -- (link) - Remlik Jun 4, 21:21 1
- So I guess he's not such an angry little elf after all. -- nm - Trish Jun 4, 21:39
My father in law passed away this morning - amoxy Jun 4, 20:33 25
- sorry amoxy. nm -- nm - groiny Jun 5, 06:45
- i'm very sorry. -- nm - Andie Jun 5, 06:32
- My condolences. -- nm - spamlet Jun 5, 06:11
- sorry to hear -- nm - Danedukenuuk Jun 5, 05:29
- very sorry -- nm - Beaker Jun 5, 04:46
- *raises a glass in toast to your father in law* My condolences, my friend. -- nm - JaxSean Jun 4, 21:24
- So sorry for your loss. -- nm - znufrii Jun 4, 21:12
- :( sorry for your loss -- nm - JenBro Jun 4, 21:09
- So sorry my friend :( -- nm - MojaveMeg Jun 4, 21:09
- *hugs* - Trish Jun 4, 21:06
- My thoughts are with you and your family -- nm - MDH Jun 4, 21:02
- sorry to hear that, amoxy ... how old was he? -- nm - i'm not dead yet ! Jun 4, 20:59 1
  - 77 I think -- nm - amoxy Jun 4, 21:16
- Far too much death in our ST extended family lately. That's truly sad. -- nm - Qale Jun 4, 20:55
- I'm sorry, Andy. my deepest condolences. -- nm - loosilu Jun 4, 20:51
- My condolences. -- nm - nubby Jun 4, 20:46 3
  - Thanks. I am laughing like you were laughing last week -- nm - amoxy Jun 4, 20:51 2
    - My hugs are no laughing matter -- nm - Bacon via Droid Jun 4, 20:54 1
      - that's what my pharmacist said. -- nm - loosilu Jun 4, 20:55
- So sorry to hear. My condolences. -- nm - the liioulu with a tablet Jun 4, 20:45
- Big hugs, we know he meant a lot to you -- nm - Epiphany Jun 4, 20:45
- I am sorry for you & the family -- nm - peglegpete Jun 4, 20:42
- Hugs -- nm - Bacon via Droid Jun 4, 20:42
- I'm very sorry to hear this. :-( -- nm - TWuG Jun 4, 20:35
- Oh, I'm so sorry. *hug* -- nm - kelly Jun 4, 20:34
PFM: It's funny you say you don't know Theon's sister's name. In the book it's Asha, in the show it's Yara. - TWuG Jun 4, 20:26 3
- Oh, thank you. We just watched her debut episode last night and I was quite confused. -- nm - Dr.Vermin Jun 4, 20:59
- I just referred to her as "bitch face". Crash always knew who I was referring to. -- nm - Trish Jun 4, 20:31 1
  - Haa -- nm - epiphany Jun 4, 20:46
Before you came into my life I missed you so bad. -- nm - Dano Jun 4, 20:15
Damn, we just had 2 thunderstorms with hail and 50mph wind gusts and now we're about to have another. This is a hell of a front, 93 today, 59 tomorrow - Trish Jun 4, 20:14 11
- Update: the air force base up the road registered a 64mph wind gust an hour ago. I bet that's what knocked out dtv for a minute or so. - Trish Jun 4, 21:44
- Ouch -- nm - Jammed Uzi Jun 4, 21:21
- wow, whiplash@ -- nm - loosilu Jun 4, 21:00
- What is this "rain" you speak of? -- nm - Truman Jun 4, 20:58 2
  - We were really low on snow this winter, but I think it's rained every weekend since the end of March. - Trish Jun 4, 21:17 1
    - Nmb trish - Truman Jun 4, 21:58
- Yes very cool on the back of it. We just cracked 60 today -- nm - Bacon via Droid Jun 4, 20:26 3
  - The weather map made it look like you needed to build an ark. -- nm - Trish Jun 4, 20:30 2
    - Yeah, .25 of an inch in the last hour alone. Heavy showers rolling though. Sounds like you need it for the fire danger though -- nm - Bacon via Droid Jun 4, 20:41 1
      - I hate red flag warning days. They just suck all the moisture out of you, I feel like the crypt keeper. - Trish Jun 4, 21:10
- Weather isn't stable here yet either - still need to do flower boxes :( -- nm - JenBro Jun 4, 20:16
Oh, I forgot The Witcher 2 was on 360 now. Will have to check that out. -- nm - Tim, forgotten Mets fan Jun 4, 20:08
Cole just got rocked. -- nm - Remlik Jun 4, 20:02
DIRECTV's teaser for their new show, Hit & Miss (about a transgender assassin) -- (link) - Dano Jun 4, 19:57 [youtube] 1
- Uhm...uhm...uhm... -- nm - the liioulu with a tablet Jun 4, 20:48
Westbrook unreal -- nm - budice Jun 4, 19:57
Build a better Baldwin. -- nm - Trish Jun 4, 19:57 11
- Adam -- nm - peglegpete Jun 4, 20:18
- I know Billy was rhe one that modeled, but when Anderson Cooper had that show called the Mole - - JenBro Jun 4, 20:09 7
  - Yep - here it is - and I think the religious zealot stuff came later? -- (link) - JenBro Jun 4, 20:15 3
    - Billy and Stephen were in "I'm a Celebrity Get Me Out of Here" and one of them totally lost it and just quit. - Trish Jun 4, 20:29 2
      - There's something wrong with Stephen Baldwin's face. Backpfeifengesicht. -- nm - Beryllium Jun 4, 21:12
      - Back in 2002 on the mole he was a playful prankster - I could see the family ego getting the better of him. -- nm - JenBro Jun 4, 20:31
  - Stephen is the religious zealot one -- nm - Epiphany Jun 4, 20:11 2
    - He lives here. His wife has substance abuse issues and they get into the news a few times a year. -- nm - Bacon via Droid Jun 4, 20:13 1
      - How unfortunate -- nm - Epiphany Jun 4, 21:59
- Start with Alec's hair. -- nm - Dano Jun 4, 19:58 1
  - Heh, I didn't recogize him the first time I saw a Rock of Ages commercial. -- nm - Trish Jun 4, 20:06

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