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st poll - when is the last time you willingly ate a raw hot dog? - Epiphany Jul 16, 06:51 6
- trick question, hot dogs are fully cooked, you are asking, when have you ate a cold one -- nm - zeitgeist Jul 16, 11:19
- never -- nm - JenBro Jul 16, 07:00
- i loved them when i was about 8. so, i think answer is probably, when i was 9. -- nm - Andie Jul 16, 06:56
- Who--what? -- nm - nubby Jul 16, 06:55
- this sounds more like a wednesday question, but the answer is : never -- nm - oblique Jul 16, 06:53
- Never. That sounds nasty. - Krusty Jul 16, 06:53
NYT: Romney VP announcement may come this week -- (link) - Reagen Jul 16, 06:51 3
- I wonder if they'll announce retroactively. -- nm - amanda Jul 16, 06:53 2
  - My favorite line from this weekend: "Rmoney's economic plan for the middle class: Work until you're 80, then retroactively retire at 65." -- nm - nubby Jul 16, 06:55 1
    - I love this -- nm - Epiphany Jul 16, 06:56
Ozzie Guillen calling someone "unprofessional" is heeeeelarious -- (link) - prayformojo Jul 16, 06:49
Seattle releases WR Mike Williams -- nm - Beaker Jul 16, 06:45 1
- Dammit...there goes the value of my Finest Rookie auto. DOH! -- nm - Jim Jul 16, 06:54
tRU - oblique Jul 16, 06:45
What was your favorite Pete Sampras holds the record for most weeks at #1 in the ATP moment? -- (link) - Dano Jul 16, 06:38 2
- the won where his reign ended because he was eaten by a shark at the beach - prayformojo Jul 16, 06:45 1
  - won=one -- nm - prayformojo Jul 16, 06:46
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- And actually, the address is staying, and will eventually be used as a webpage for the channel only. - nubby Jul 16, 06:46
- NBC News Digital is a new division led by Vivian Schiller, the NPR President that resigned last year. -- nm - nubby Jul 16, 06:44
- whoa -- nm - Epiphany Jul 16, 06:39
Hmm. Bought the Amazon Free App of the Day, got a $1 promotional credit towards MP3. Sadly... - oblique Jul 16, 06:30 6
- its manufacturered music for the masses - I'd like to belittle it but its very catchy - I sing along with it. - Epiphany Jul 16, 06:37
- Cher Lloyd! Cher Lloyd! -- nm - Dano Jul 16, 06:34 2
  - *makes female grunt* - oblique Jul 16, 06:35 1
    - Re: The IM - (...yet) -- nm - Dano Jul 16, 06:36
- And there's another incredibly catchy pop tune that is getting ragged on way too much. I'm old. -- nm - Jim Jul 16, 06:30 1
  - Now comes the fun part: Purchase at Amazon, add to iTunes, match with iTunes Match, voila! Now it's on every iPod -- nm - oblique Jul 16, 06:33
here is an article -- (link) - amanda Jul 16, 06:26 1
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Modern Rap: 4 out of the 5 songs were Eminem. -- nm - nubby Jul 16, 06:26
weekendinanutshell: win win: very good. arts festival: poor. buffalo trace bourbon: very good. duffy's onion rings: fair. sodastream tonic: fair. -- nm - amanda Jul 16, 06:22 20
- I'm so ashamed - I was a "quitter" yesterday. Stood 3.5 hours in line for Festival Movie tickets and then gave up when we realized it was easily - JenBro Jul 16, 06:40
- Sea Life Aquarium very good; Kitchen cleaning - poor -- nm - Epiphany Jul 16, 06:38
- birthday -- very good; driving range -- poor. -- nm - Will Hunting Jul 16, 06:37
- Roger Waters: pure awesome. -- nm - znufrii Jul 16, 06:33
- mine: Friday night attempt to drink wine and watch trashy tv - fail, because phone kept ringing. Saturday - win, morning coffee shop + book, ... - Andie Jul 16, 06:27
- My weekend in a nutshell: newly one-eyed dog in the cone of shame = not a lot of fun. -- nm - Jim Jul 16, 06:23 14
  - wait, what happened to the puppy? -- nm - Andie Jul 16, 06:30 9
    - Glaucoma in his left eye...got to the point where the eye had to be removed. - Jim Jul 16, 06:31 8
      - :( poor little guy ... hope it's all better quick! -- nm - JenBro Jul 16, 06:42
      - Awww. :-( I hope he recovers quickly and I'm so sorry he's going through this. Poor little guy. :-( -- nm - Krusty Jul 16, 06:39
      - are you going to get him a sexy black pirate patch ? -- nm - Andie Jul 16, 06:33 5
        
        I'm gonna give it a go. He probably won't wear it, but it's worth a try, right? -- nm - Jim Jul 16, 06:34 4
        
        "Did you try staples?" -- nm - TWuG Jul 16, 06:36 3
        
        Hmmm...and he still has a bunch of pain pills...maybe now is the time. -- nm - Jim Jul 16, 06:40 2
        
        dogs on drugs are heelarious - Epiphany Jul 16, 06:42 1
        
        heh ... leave it to you Pippy to see the silver lining here :) hahahahaha -- nm - JenBro Jul 16, 06:43
  - I'm sorry. you're wrong. the ratings system is: excellent, very good, good, fair, poor. please re-rate. -- nm - amanda Jul 16, 06:24 3
    - So first you're gonna stick your nose where it doesn't belong...THEN you're gonna make me re-rate my weekend??? lol - Jim Jul 16, 06:29 2
      - look, I'll tell you how to feel and how to express it, mister mister. you will post as *I* dictate and you will like it! - amanda Jul 16, 06:30 1
        
        Hell, yeah!!! nm - Jim Jul 16, 06:32
~Give em hell, turn their heads, gonna live life til we're dead....there goes the Fighter~ - Epiphany Jul 16, 06:11
groiny, re bwhatever - tRuMaN Jul 16, 06:02 38
- sincere here - you guys can come play mousehunt any time :) -- nm - JenBro Jul 16, 06:43
- ygm, fyi. If fun = win + competitive, then I think my fun ratio would be about the same as my K/D ratio: negative. Maybe that's just because I'm the - oblique Jul 16, 06:11 3
  - honestly, i do wish there was a way to do that (the private group) - tRuMaN Jul 16, 06:12 2
    - My long distance is free with viatalk or my cell. I could use my bluetooth headset and just mute the party when we want to talk - oblique Jul 16, 06:22
    - Maybe we should play some Rumble Pit for a while :) -- nm - oblique Jul 16, 06:14
- man I am so glad I don't game anymore. everyone is so focused on winning. it's unsettling. -- nm - amanda Jul 16, 06:07 13
  - I'll just stick to minecraft -- nm - znufrii Jul 16, 06:43
  - It's why I love single player RPGs. -- nm - Jelly Jul 16, 06:10 2
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      - I lost my level 30+ wizard last week in Dialbo 3 hardcore. I managed to get another one up to 30+ and beat diablo in less than a week in public games - oblique Jul 16, 06:20
  - If they argue so much...why don't they form different teams and play against each other so when they get upset they can shoot each other? -- nm - Jim Jul 16, 06:09 8
    - Serious answer --- becuase custom games don't give you points. - Will Hunting Jul 16, 06:26
    - they need to kick the crap out of each other in tekken tag tournament! -- nm - amanda Jul 16, 06:12 4
      - " FINISH HIM" -- nm - Epiphany Jul 16, 06:14 3
        
        PANDA WINS! - oblique Jul 16, 06:14 1
        
        god I love tekken tag tournament. jonathan's older daughter bought it recently and she and her friends will play when I'm there - amanda Jul 16, 06:19
        
        !!! -- nm - amanda Jul 16, 06:14
    - is there an 'every man for themselves' setting? -- nm - Andie Jul 16, 06:09 1
      - Yes. Rumble Pit -- nm - oblique Jul 16, 06:11
- Can I just say that this whole topic/discussion has me chuckling a little as I picture - Jim Jul 16, 06:07 18
  - yeah, you are right. - tRuMaN Jul 16, 06:10 17
    - Oh, you'd rather me be helpful? Would you really? Cause I can be helpful...if you want. -- nm - Jim Jul 16, 06:17 2
      - honestly, yes - tRuMaN Jul 16, 06:39 1
        
        Here is as helpful as I can be: - Jim Jul 16, 06:49
    - may i suggest something, sincerely? - Andie Jul 16, 06:12 13
      - It's all about perspective. A lot of people outside ST would tell us to not let "that internet message board" get us upset. - Inigo Jul 16, 06:37 2
        
        just for the record - i am not dismissing being concerned with the relationship part of this issue - Andie Jul 16, 06:40
        
        look, y'all know nothing about all of this, so just back off. seriously. -- nm - amanda Jul 16, 06:39
      - you know, i have never really understood why people get so pissed at others (like say loosilu) when they decide to jump into a thread. - tRuMaN Jul 16, 06:15 9
        
        all right. - Andie Jul 16, 06:17 7
        
        let me say this - tRuMaN Jul 16, 06:55 6
        
        see this post:. - Andie Jul 16, 07:00 [Backboard] 5
        
        my post on this board was a response to something groiny posted about over the weekend - tRuMaN Jul 16, 07:03 4
        
        i am referring to your inital post about quitting. -- nm - Andie Jul 16, 07:05 3
        
        ok, - tRuMaN Jul 16, 07:11 2
        
        so, seriously asking - why not try for a shift in perspective about how you play rather than quitting? - Andie Jul 16, 07:14 1
        
        because - tRuMaN Jul 16, 07:18
        
        what did I do exactly? what are you calling me out for? I posted. it's a public board. I'm allowed to comment. - amanda Jul 16, 06:16
While waiting for the return of Game of Thrones I've been making do with The Hollow Crown which has one hell of a cast. -- (link) - LMS Jul 16, 06:01 [youtube]
Lee Westwood's caddie makes stools out of old golfbags (pic) -- (link) - budice Jul 16, 05:08 [Image] 1
- You said stool -- nm - oblique Jul 16, 06:26
"You know, I can forseee a lot of possible outcomes to this thing, and not a single one of them invoves Miller time." -- nm - amoxy Jul 16, 05:03 2
- great season opener. - Breaking Bad spoilers - Beaker Jul 16, 05:34
- Romney says the strangest things when trying to relate. -- nm - TWuG Jul 16, 05:18
North Korea's army chief relieved of all duties (Speculation healthy-looking chief was 'purged' amid claim of illness) -- (link) - Beaker Jul 16, 04:52 1
- There's an old sayingthat wealth never survives the third generation. I think the same will be true of this dictatorship. - TWuG Jul 16, 04:59
I wish I could drive to work today. -- nm - amanda Jul 16, 04:11
July 16, 1935 � The world's first parking meter is installed in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. -- nm - Beaker Jul 16, 03:46 3
- 1941 � Joe DiMaggio hits safely for the 56th consecutive game, a streak that still stands as a MLB record. -- nm - Beaker Jul 16, 03:46 2
  - 1999: John F. Kennedy, Jr., piloting a Piper Saratoga aircraft, dies when his plane crashes into the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Martha's Vineyard - Beaker Jul 16, 03:47 1
    - That was today? Wow. -- nm - miffed67 Jul 16, 06:15
All I could see was the rain Something grabbed a hold of me honey Felt to me, honey like a ball and chain -- nm - zeitgeist Jul 16, 02:02
McCain saw over 20 years of Romney tax returns when he vetted him...then he picked Sarah Palin -- nm - Twitter delivers again Jul 16, 00:28
Breaking Bad spoils - Beryllium Jul 16, 00:28 5
- opening was a bit disorienting - zeitgeist Jul 16, 00:33 4
  - spoils - Beryllium Jul 16, 00:35 3
    - Spoils - amoxy Jul 16, 05:29 1
      - spoiler - nubby Jul 16, 05:43
    - Yeah, I'm not a fan of that. -- nm - nubby Jul 16, 05:18
spoiler question.... - zeitgeist Jul 15, 22:50 2
- (spoils) - Beryllium Jul 16, 00:28 1
  - hell yeah, certainly could have... - zeitgeist Jul 16, 00:34
The Rock twittered that he is attached to the Lobo (DC COmics) movie by Joel Silver -- nm - Remlik Jul 15, 22:11 1
- And in May D.Mac treated it as an unsubstantiated rumor :) -- nm - MojaveMeg Jul 15, 22:29
The real important thing about Breaking Bad - they fixed the title card! - Reagen Jul 15, 22:01 3
- You are as a-r as my cat. -- nm - Trish Jul 15, 23:41 2
  - I dunno, I think even Neil DeGrasse Tyson would side with Reagen on this one. - Beryllium Jul 15, 23:44 1
    - About a year ago he pointed out to Jon Stewart that the earth was rotating backwards. - Trish Jul 16, 02:53
Now there's a tech.woot. -- (link) - JaxSean Jul 15, 22:01
The last ten minutes of The Newsroom was exhilarating. - Other David Jul 15, 21:53 2
- There was a moment there when Sorkin remembers it is HBO and he celebrated that fact a lot. -- nm - Fuzzy Jul 15, 22:09 1
  - Yup. -- nm - Other David Jul 15, 22:10
Here's an ST crowd sourcing request. What do you call those things... - Mop Jul 15, 21:36 11
- Light chaser -- nm - Fuzzy Jul 15, 22:15 1
  - You must have seen these a million times at WDW. Is that really what they call them? -- nm - Mop Jul 15, 22:19
- Tilt-a-whirl? -- nm - JaxSean Jul 15, 21:48 1
  - Or Round-Up? Or Gravitron? -- (link) - JaxSean Jul 15, 21:51
- parents -- nm - peglegpete Jul 15, 21:43
- light-up spinning wands? nm but: -- (link) - b!i.p. Jul 15, 21:42 3
  - Programmable LED spinner seems like a shockingly simple name. -- (link) - Mop Jul 15, 22:15 2
    - I'd have called 'em chazzwuzzers! -- nm - Reagen Jul 15, 22:21 1
      - Wiggle woggles. -- nm - Mop Jul 15, 22:22
- led strobe - psilotum Jul 15, 21:41
- Ouija boards. nm - ralph wiggum Jul 15, 21:40
Mop, yes, that Paisley Cave story hit the news last week. More ammunition for the "pre-Clovis" debate. - MojaveMeg Jul 15, 21:32 2
- I've had a class with Loren. He's great. -- nm - Mop Jul 15, 21:34 1
  - I'm not familiar with him or Jenkins, but this is definitely a ground-breaking study. - MojaveMeg Jul 15, 21:47
Loosi, here's another - Fuzzy Jul 15, 21:26
Wigs, YGM. -- nm - David Jul 15, 21:16 3
- Threadjack: I've been considering reviving F&H... wait, keep reading... as a variant in which... - nubby Jul 15, 21:18 2
  - I'm in. nm - ralph wiggum Jul 15, 21:43
  - (spoils) - Beryllium Jul 15, 21:20
Get the middle song wrong, you're dead. -- nm - nubby Jul 15, 21:15 15
- I need to play this. I'd own you guys. Are there genres? Current pop? 80s? Rock? -- nm - Mop Jul 15, 21:40 10
  - I just figured-out what y'all are talking about. I'd give you a run, but this story makes me a little leery. - b!i.p. Jul 15, 21:51 7
    - Yay! This quarter's "Draw Something"! Remember that? -- nm - Mop Jul 15, 22:22 1
      - I still have 3 games going. One is in the 280s, the other two upper hundreds. -- nm - JaxSean Jul 15, 22:27
    - I don't think there's a comment/chat option in the android version I'm playing. - JaxSean Jul 15, 21:54 4
      - I don't have one either. I'm on ipad -- nm - Epiphany Jul 15, 21:59 2
        
        ok, good, maybe I'll try it sometime then. thanks! - b!i.p. Jul 15, 22:04 1
        
        It's a music lovers dream. :) -- nm - Epiphany Jul 15, 22:06
      - (that article is just weird.) -- nm - JaxSean Jul 15, 21:55
  - Yes all of those. TFox is mopping the floor with us in Modern Rap & Classic Rap -- nm - Epiphany Jul 15, 21:51 1
    - Yeah, I'd cede that category to him. Not an accomplishment I'd crow about. -- nm - Mop Jul 15, 22:21
- I haven't quite figured out the points system. - JaxSean Jul 15, 21:18 3
  - All I know: 100 for getting the song right, plus a massive time bonus. - nubby Jul 15, 21:19 2
    - Yes the third song can kill you. Also, if both of you get all four right, the fifth can be massive even if you are .1 second behind - amoxy Jul 15, 21:23 1
      - Okay, this makes a bit more sense. I couldn't figure out why I was winning or losing some of these matches when it seemed it should go the other way. -- nm - kelly Jul 15, 21:31

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