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JackDawson where are you? Livestream (great quality) of Madonna's intimate club concert in Paris -- (link) - MDH Jul 26, 14:20 [youtube]
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Wow, "Cloud Atlas" looks awesome. -- nm - MDH Jul 26, 14:16
This week you can add home theatre installer and travel agent to the list of my job duties... - Stephen Jul 26, 14:13 1
- perfect, book yourself a flight to seatac and come over and set up my mom's media center PC -- nm - zeitgeist Jul 26, 14:30
Food Poll - Rank Em 1-4: Chips, Crackers, Cookies, Candy -- nm - budice Jul 26, 14:13 7
- 1 4 2 3 -- nm - zeitgeist Jul 26, 14:24
- 2, 3, 1, 4 -- nm - tRuMaN Jul 26, 14:20
- 4,3,1,2 -- nm - mafic Jul 26, 14:15
- 3,4,2,1 -- nm - MojaveMeg Jul 26, 14:15
- 2,1,3,4 -- nm - amoxy Jul 26, 14:14
- 1, 4, 3, 2 -- nm - Stephen Jul 26, 14:14
- 2,4,1,3. nm -- nm - groiny Jul 26, 14:13
geneticists v. paleoanthropologists on the early history of mankind. -- (link) - znufrii Jul 26, 14:02 5
- Look out! They're bringing out the pocket protectors! -- nm - Mop (199 lbs) Jul 26, 14:26
- cool. -- nm - mafic Jul 26, 14:18
- I've always been on Team Interbreeding. - loosilu Jul 26, 14:18 1
  - Well, i guess we know what the next teen movie craze will be. -- nm - Beryllium Jul 26, 14:19
- Ooh, fun!! -- nm - MojaveMeg Jul 26, 14:15
Thirty years ago this week, a Hollywood star was decapitated while shooting a scene for a movie. -- (link) - mara Jul 26, 13:58 8
- They're going to remake it. The Twilight Zone. It killed three people when it was first made, and they are going to remake it. - Beryllium Jul 26, 14:17
- jennifer jason leigh's father -- nm - the human tater tot Jul 26, 14:13
- you would think that they would put a photo of the guy who the story is about in there somewhere. nm -- nm - groiny Jul 26, 14:07 1
  - *displays a picture of the Headless Horseman* -- nm - Fox News Jul 26, 14:14
- Jon-Erik Hexum mention! - Reagen Jul 26, 14:06 1
  - I *almost* bought an Omni Device at a convention. -- nm - Remlik Jul 26, 14:08
- holy Goose. Someone died on the set of Top Gun after the plane went into a flat spin. -- nm - Mel Profit Jul 26, 14:03 1
  - Gone Fishin' might be the worst movie someone has died for the sake of. -- nm - Reagen Jul 26, 14:14
okay, i've been pretty cool about this wedding dress fiasco, but i'm about to lose it. - Andie Jul 26, 13:53 28
- It just may never have gotten a scan at drop-off. -- nm - Mop (199 lbs) Jul 26, 14:27
- Whoa. - kelly Jul 26, 14:09
- ugh,that sucks -- nm - prayformojo Jul 26, 14:06
- whoa. -- nm - loosilu Jul 26, 14:01
- Naked wedding it is! -- nm - con_carne Jul 26, 14:01
- oh HELL no. I will punch someone in the bustle. -- nm - Max Jul 26, 14:00
- When is the big day? -- nm - pmb Jul 26, 14:00 4
  - Sept 15. Which is, according to our website, in 51 days. - Andie Jul 26, 14:04 3
    - No, you'll be fine. We'll hunt these people down if we need to. -- nm - pmb Jul 26, 14:10 2
      - i am tempted to use airmiles and go to miami and stand there and let her make me a dress and fly home with it. -- nm - Andie Jul 26, 14:12 1
        
        "We have assets in the area. Please ensure that you don't have any rice on the premises, or ... things could get messy." -- nm - Beryllium Jul 26, 14:12
- i vowed to never have a Bridezilla melt down, but fedex is about to face my SERIOUS wrath. -- nm - Andie Jul 26, 13:59 8
  - it's justified. git 'em. -- nm - Mel Profit Jul 26, 14:03
  - The thing is, one can create a shipping label online and not take the item for drop off, which is a way "exists but not picked up" could happen - Max Jul 26, 14:01 3
    - yep. -- nm - loosilu Jul 26, 14:11
    - i just left a message with the designer. it's not even a shop, it a dressmaker making her own designs. she's in a house. -- nm - Andie Jul 26, 14:03
    - this -- nm - Diva Jul 26, 14:03
  - This is months from when you ordered it, right? You're well past the Bridezilla windown and well into Righteous Consumer Anger. -- nm - Reagen Jul 26, 14:01 2
    - I ordered it in March. March. I was supposed to have it end of May or early June. -- nm - Andie Jul 26, 14:05 1
      - Then unleash the fookin' fury. -- nm - Reagen Jul 26, 14:10
- What crap. -- nm - mara Jul 26, 13:59
- *goes postal... -- nm - zeitgeist Jul 26, 13:56
- rampage -- nm - znufrii Jul 26, 13:55
- check Jax's house. nm -- nm - groiny Jul 26, 13:55
- Time to go all Liam Neeson on them. -- nm - Reagen Jul 26, 13:54 2
  - "I have a particular set of skills *pause* no, sewing isn't one of them." -- nm - Mel Profit Jul 26, 13:55 1
    - "I should warn you - I am very, very lucky. Are you? Do you *feel* lucky?" -- nm - Beryllium Jul 26, 14:21
- OFFS. -- nm - The Dark Spawn Jul 26, 13:54
Men's soccer Olympic spoilers for Senegal/Great Britain - David Jul 26, 13:51
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- a 32% increase in revenue doesn't justify a PE of 70 -- nm - ceregon Jul 26, 13:51
Baseball Hall of Fame: still really neat. -- nm - Tim on iPhone Jul 26, 13:47 2
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  - Dad enjoyed that one. -- nm - Tim on iPhone Jul 26, 13:53
wait, toejam and earl re-make/release? - tRuMaN Jul 26, 13:44
Wow. This person partially blew off 3 fingers and his thumb in a fire work accident on the 4th. -- nm - sycor Jul 26, 13:43
after digging the last of 16 new transit tunnels deep under NYC, the last of 7 tunnel boring machines is retired. -- (link) - znufrii Jul 26, 13:43 7
- off to live the rest of its life on Bora Bora. -- nm - Max Jul 26, 13:48 2
  - with the pensions NYCTransit employees get (not to mention all the overtime) I wouldn't be surprised at all. -- nm - znufrii Jul 26, 13:49 1
    - I'll bet there is a rest home in Boring OR -- nm - zeitgeist Jul 26, 14:28
- Tell me more -- nm - Danny Ocean Jul 26, 13:47
- what a boring machine. -- nm - loosilu Jul 26, 13:46
- Not very exciting -- nm - amoxy Jul 26, 13:44 1
  - heh! -- nm - ty97 Jul 26, 13:46
Could you give up the internet for one year? Tech writer is doing so. -- (link) - Andie Jul 26, 13:42 21
- I used to give it up for months at a time when doing work on small field projects, found I didn -- nm - mafic Jul 26, 14:13 1
  - sfek, really miss it after the first week or two. biggest problem would be keeping in touch with all the people who rely on it. -- nm - mafic Jul 26, 14:13
- Nope. - Stephen Jul 26, 13:57
- No. -- nm - Mop (199 lbs) Jul 26, 13:50
- That would seem to put a tech writer out of a job. -- nm - pmb Jul 26, 13:48 5
  - If you read he is hand writing blog posts that the company puts up for him. -- nm - The Dark Spawn Jul 26, 13:49 4
    - job review: he just mails it in -- nm - zeitgeist Jul 26, 13:52 3
      - Actually, it would be hilarious if they fired him on day 365. -- nm - The Dark Spawn Jul 26, 13:53 2
        
        via email. -- nm - Mel Profit Jul 26, 13:54 1
        
        Make that day 1! -- nm - The Dark Spawn Jul 26, 13:55
- must be nice for him, not to have to work. -- nm - znufrii Jul 26, 13:48
- no way. I do to much business. -- nm - Remlik Jul 26, 13:47
- I suppose I could if I had a good enough reason to. Can't imagine a good enough reason, though. -- nm - mara Jul 26, 13:47 1
  - 1 million dollars? -- nm - sycor Jul 26, 13:51
- If it was the right month, I would have a *chance* for one month. -- nm - The Dark Spawn Jul 26, 13:46 1
  - I used to do a week every February with the kids. Did that for 3-4 years - amoxy Jul 26, 14:09
- Why would you? It's incredibly useful. -- nm - ceregon Jul 26, 13:46
- no -- nm - The Dark Spawn Jul 26, 13:46
- I need it for work, so no. -- nm - sycor Jul 26, 13:45
- I'd be fired in a day -- nm - oblique Jul 26, 13:44 1
  - and good luck finding a new one without the internet -- nm - ceregon Jul 26, 13:46
The shooter very well could have been a government hire, seeing as how he got the hair color the opposite of what it was supposed to be. -- nm - The Dark Spawn Jul 26, 13:40 4
- are you saying the government shouldn't preferentially hire ginger Americans? -- nm - loosilu Jul 26, 13:40 3
  - heh. I am saying the government can't even get green right. -- nm - The Dark Spawn Jul 26, 13:42 2
    - They see so little of it...all they know is red :/ -- nm - MojaveMeg Jul 26, 13:54 1 1
      - *snork* -- nm - The Dark Spawn Jul 26, 13:55
Mel, I think the best way to counter his crazy conspiracy theory is with a crazier one of your own that makes him look like he's falling for The Man. -- nm - Reagen Jul 26, 13:34 25
- normally I think I'd be up to the challenge but this is a guy who last week posted a link about... - Mel Profit Jul 26, 13:43 15
  - He linked it with some indication that he believed it? Or just linked it? -- nm - mara Jul 26, 13:49
  - How exactly do you know this person? This is beyond the bounds of "normal" crazy. - pmb Jul 26, 13:46 12
    - HS...he was always one of the "weird kids" but even for that group he was pretty out there. - Mel Profit Jul 26, 13:51 1
      - Poor Japan. - pmb Jul 26, 13:54
    - that's a *stellar* idea. -- nm - Remlik Jul 26, 13:48 9
      - The DeLorean Motor Company was a front for a government time travel operation!! -- nm - pmb Jul 26, 13:50 8
        
        I need something with US Government Moon Bases. That was a big one a few months ago with his links. - Mel Profit Jul 26, 13:53 7
        
        i.e. Transformers Dark Side of the Moon -- nm - Stephen Jul 26, 13:59
        
        Iron Sky comes out this week. -- nm - Reagen Jul 26, 13:57 1
        
        I could totally work that one. -- nm - Mel Profit Jul 26, 13:59
        
        Or you could go the other way with Capricorn 1. -- nm - pmb Jul 26, 13:54 3
        
        I like this. Or "1999". -- nm - Mel Profit Jul 26, 13:55 2
        
        this should give you some good fodder.... - Remlik Jul 26, 14:01 1
        
        ST is evil. -- nm - Mel Profit Jul 26, 14:22
  - write down what he says and re-write it as hollywood script 'treatments' I smell a comeback for schwartzenegger -- nm - zeitgeist Jul 26, 13:46
- Mel, tell him Romney hired him to get the story off Bain Capital/Romney's Income Tax Returns -- nm - amoxy Jul 26, 13:42
- yeah, like NRA funded him as to increase gun sales. -- nm - tRuMaN Jul 26, 13:40 5
  - he's wildly pro-gun which surprised me. - Mel Profit Jul 26, 13:46 2
    - (This is someone who needs a visit from the safety net of society) -- nm - Beryllium Jul 26, 13:46 1
      - If only we had one. -- nm - mara Jul 26, 13:53
  - Nice! -- nm - mara Jul 26, 13:45 1
    - or even more zany - tRuMaN Jul 26, 13:49
- Clearly, Obama's avian overlords blessed him with the technology to build the aurora supersoldier ... -- nm - Beryllium Jul 26, 13:39 1
  - ... under the guise of Operation ORTHANC -- nm - Beryllium Jul 26, 13:45
9 Twizzlers = 1 Double Stack - oblique Jul 26, 13:32
kilbo! don't let the tradegripers get you down - you keep on keeping on -- nm - crash davis Jul 26, 13:28 17
- word -- nm - The Dark Spawn Jul 26, 13:49
- *holds up shiny Brandon Lloyd* - oblique Jul 26, 13:30
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  - Well, for the first time in I don't know how many years of playing all my keepers are arguable Top 5 in their positions - oblique Jul 26, 13:37
- I fully expect Matt Forte to have a monster year. - groiny Jul 26, 13:29 12
  - This is the most excited I've been about a bears team in a while. And they've had some pretty decent teams in the last 5-10 years. - pmb Jul 26, 13:33 9
    - As a Niners Fan, I am nervous. I don't like being the frontrunner - amoxy Jul 26, 13:46
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      - Brain Donors! -- nm - Inigo Jul 26, 13:41
      - Be careful, you'll put someone's eye out with those things. -- nm - pmb Jul 26, 13:40 1
        
        Maybe it was him ringing your doorbell from afar. -- nm - Inigo Jul 26, 13:41
      - I wonder if Bob Costas recalls that as the highlight of his career. -- nm - Reagen Jul 26, 13:38
      - tru's boss is ML? nm -- nm - groiny Jul 26, 13:36
      - *snort!* -- nm - Diva Jul 26, 13:36
    - they finally have most of the pieces addressed. Age and injury are a concern - groiny Jul 26, 13:35
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  - he just might -- nm - crash davis Jul 26, 13:30
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- I have zero idea what "an adjusted basis" means. They loss 8 cents per share. -- nm - spamlet Jul 26, 13:29 7
  - isn't that what happens when you slip your CPA firm a few million to make this shit look good? -- nm - zeitgeist Jul 26, 13:44
  - after one time instances of accounting gimmicks - tRuMaN Jul 26, 13:33
  - "Excluding one-time items, Facebook earned $295 million, 12 cents a share. " - decline Jul 26, 13:31 4
    - There are legitimate one time items, but they usually wouldn't apply to Facebook. - spamlet Jul 26, 13:34 3
      - Costs of the IPO would probably be a meaningful one. -- nm - pmb Jul 26, 13:35 2
        
        Didn't think of that. -- nm - spamlet Jul 26, 13:42
        
        after a quick look at the 8k this is pretty much it -- nm - decline Jul 26, 13:38
"Great, now even Boris is getting shots in on me" -- (link) - Reagen Jul 26, 13:28

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