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in other news, does anyone know anything about legal documentation? for ex,, if i write up a 'homemade' last will and testament, then have... - i'm not Undead yet ! Oct 22, 12:19 9
- there are several online will programs for about $50 you can use -- nm - peglegpete Oct 22, 12:27
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- There's some difference between a typed will vs hand written will, but I think as long as your signature is on it, it's legal. -- nm - Max Oct 22, 12:25 1
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- sure it would, - decline Oct 22, 12:23 1
  - and if you're dead, it won't matter very much to you either way if they do... :) -- nm - znufrii Oct 22, 12:23
- don't bother with notarizing -- nm - Howard Hughes Oct 22, 12:22
- Perhaps, but have you checked out LegalZoom? A will is $59. -- nm - psilotum Oct 22, 12:21
- Not sure. They could probably still argue you were crazy. -- nm - emoticripple Oct 22, 12:21
Stop saying aight. -- nm - David Oct 22, 12:19 10
- You mean it? -- nm - Max Oct 22, 12:23
- aight. -- nm - lileve Oct 22, 12:23
- Since Crash started watching The Wire every night, he talks like String and Avon Williams all the time. - Trish Oct 22, 12:21 6
  - but the good thing is he is finally watching this great series -- nm - peglegpete Oct 22, 12:27
  - Will you tell him to quit all this foolishness and get back to finding Big Foot - BAD Oct 22, 12:24 1
    - You need to road trip with him and let Mama and me video tape it for the History channel. - Trish Oct 22, 12:26
  - SHIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIT! (NM) - Marlowe Oct 22, 12:22 2
    - ShhhEEEEEeeeeeEEEEETTTTT! -- nm - Sen. Clay Davis Oct 22, 12:26 1
      - *giggle* I heard that one last night. Plus we had the lesbian love scene-not just the womanly parts were pilixated, they pixilated the entire effing - Trish Oct 22, 12:28
- Hi, Donkey! -- nm - Beryllium Oct 22, 12:19
I'm gonna take a nap. -- nm - CQ Oct 22, 12:19 1
- It's just the booze talkin - Epiphany Oct 22, 12:22
The ration of HSX-is-screwed to hump-day stuff is poorly lopsided. -- nm - JaxSean Oct 22, 12:18 6
- ::humps Jax's leg:: -- nm - Buzz Oct 22, 12:22
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- The new HSX appears to be broken for me. Wonderful. -- nm - Beryllium Oct 22, 12:19
- We are all being fucked. Isn't that good enough? (NM) - Marlowe Oct 22, 12:19 1
  - it's not so much that we're getting screwed over here... but at least they'd honor our requests for positioning -- nm - i'm not Undead yet ! Oct 22, 12:21
- *humps you til you turn Orange* - Epiphany Oct 22, 12:19
nmbLileve -- (link) - zork Oct 22, 12:18 [Backboard]
Lousy DJIA: -433. Still not as bad as HSX3.0. -- nm - emoticripple Oct 22, 12:16 5
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  - which will be great when my company 401(k) match comes at the end of the year, and we're still at or near the bottom. - znufrii Oct 22, 12:20 2
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      - that reminds me - znufrii Oct 22, 12:22
- 850, bey-bee! (NM) - Marlowe Oct 22, 12:18
Speaking of Macy's. I don't clothes shop often, but they seem to be having a great sale right now - con_carne Oct 22, 12:15 7
- yeah, great deals on suits, which is good because I need them. -- nm - loosilu Oct 22, 12:22
- Macy's *always* has a good sale going on. Damn Temptress. -- nm - Diva Oct 22, 12:18 4
  - I went in there for *socks* - con_carne Oct 22, 12:21 3
    - I used to only buy undewear and socks at Target -- it's all the same, right? - ty97 Oct 22, 12:26
    - I bet you can get those CK socks at TJ Maxx for less. I got mel some CK t-shirts there and they were 50% off the Macy's price. -- nm - Diva Oct 22, 12:23
    - *nods knowingly* -- nm - Diva Oct 22, 12:22
- Folks with kids...pick up next summer's clothes at Macy's now also. - Jim Oct 22, 12:17
As if that ass-kicking at the hands of the Evil Empire wasn't enough...Champ Bailey is now out 4-6 weeks. nm - Jim Oct 22, 12:15 1
- Oh...and Boss Bailey is done for the year. Not that he was that useful for us. -- nm - Jim Oct 22, 12:16
STNN: Western Kentucky University shooting. Campus on lock down. -- (link) - VMan Oct 22, 12:13 2
- Wow, that's my alma mater--we used to sneak in Pearce Ford Tower to be with the boys. - Trish Oct 22, 12:33
- this one semi hits close to home... i live like an hour from there... and i took classes there for like 3 semesters 'back in the day'... -- nm - i'm not Undead yet ! Oct 22, 12:15
Man, I knew from the beta that the site was going to be awkward, but I had hoped that they would have improved it more before launch. - Beryllium Oct 22, 12:10 17
- They, the owner I guess, ignored the audience and listened the consultants. -- nm - lileve Oct 22, 12:11 9
  - Management probably has an overarching plan to consolidate all of their Entertainment properties into one platform. - Beryllium Oct 22, 12:13 8
    - Your IM. I agree. -- nm - lileve Oct 22, 12:16
    - I don't think it can help but. It's like a four-headed woman, and all of the heads are ugly. -- nm - emoticripple Oct 22, 12:14 6
      - one head isn't ugly -- (link) - Beryllium Oct 22, 12:15 5
        
        SFW> -- nm - emoticripple Oct 22, 12:16 4
        
        ? -- nm - emoticripple Oct 22, 12:16 3
        
        Bery posted this last night - it's a sports trading game like HSX is a movies trading game... and it's on HSX's old IP address -- nm - Roger More Oct 22, 12:17 1
        
        I think Jax was the one who found it -- nm - Beryllium Oct 22, 12:18
        
        yes. Sports Stock Exchange, presented by Hollywood Stock Exchange. -- nm - Beryllium Oct 22, 12:17
- "The page you are trying to view cannot be shown because it uses an invalid or unsupported form of compression." -- nm - Beryllium Oct 22, 12:11
- Clusterfu@k . . . *whispers* by Cantor Fitzgerald. -- nm - emoticripple Oct 22, 12:11 5
  - L3 - comedy gold -- nm - Epiphany Oct 22, 12:12 4
    - Like You Care ... by Loosilu -- nm - zork Oct 22, 12:16 3
      - Who, by the way, will be #1 if she continues to post in the clusterfuck.. (NM) - Marlowe Oct 22, 12:21 1
        
        that would be interesting since I'm not number 1 now. -- nm - loosilu Oct 22, 12:25
      - It stinks! -- nm - Jim SI Oct 22, 12:20
It's breaking down like a wounded water buffalo. -- nm - emoticripple Oct 22, 12:09 2
- just as well, I have to pickup MrsCY at the train station. -- nm - CrankYanker Oct 22, 12:11 1
  - Hope all proves to be well. -- nm - emoticripple Oct 22, 12:11
and now HSX doesn't accept my login. -- nm - CrankYanker Oct 22, 12:09 2
- i was in the middle of making a blog post about what i liked about the new system, and why we should give it some time, when the site went down and - colin Oct 22, 12:14 1
  - Happened to me twice. You have to copy everything before you click post, as they seem to have about a 30% success rate. -- nm - emoticripple Oct 22, 12:18
the silly thing about hsx, is that it doesn't look like you can just dynamically arrange - tRuMaN Oct 22, 12:05 2
- I really regret not stressing to D.Mac (or whoever his boss is) how much I liked the HSX 2.0 version. - Inigo Oct 22, 12:11 1
  - I think DMac was kind of powerless in this. -- nm - Spawn Oct 22, 12:25
i'm going home for the day. - tRuMaN Oct 22, 12:05 5
- "This, too, shall pass." - ReluctantCynic Oct 22, 12:09
- I know it sucks but it will get better. -- nm - lileve Oct 22, 12:09
- keep your head up! -- nm - Remlik Oct 22, 12:07
- Strength and Honor - Epiphany Oct 22, 12:06
- keep in good spirits -- nm - CQ Oct 22, 12:06
sean, we have "modules" instead of semesters. two mods per sem -- we take the equivalent of a semester's work every seven weeks. - dracula loves mandy lane Oct 22, 12:04 5
- Oh. We had something like that. I think it was 4 weeks, and 3 rounds per semester. - psilotum Oct 22, 12:12
- I did that in vet school, but they call them quarters. -- nm - loosilu Oct 22, 12:09
- I've just always heard those called "short terms" or "condensed terms," I guess. -- nm - JaxSean Oct 22, 12:08
- I always wished that all my classes could have been "immersion" style - Reagen Oct 22, 12:07
- Ay, caramba! -- nm - TaurusII Oct 22, 12:05
LYC: Dow -380, with an hour to go. -- nm - TaurusII Oct 22, 12:04
looks like there may be multiple versions of Chinese Democracy on sale....different track listings at different outlets? -- nm - Remlik Oct 22, 12:02 3
- This whole release is my own giant game of Whack-A-Mole -- nm - Axl Rose SI Oct 22, 12:04 2
  - And the inflate sales of the cd. -- nm - Remlik Oct 22, 12:05 1
    - and oddly my Ipod has played 4 GNR songs from the new cd today. hmmm. -- nm - Remlik Oct 22, 12:07
SITWAP: *snork* "Darth Vader demands an explanation" -- (link) - TaurusII Oct 22, 12:01 1
- No! he wants and "explaination" which I guess it's a refurbishment of his Star Destroyer to remove physical obstacles for disabled stormstroopers. -- nm - celedhrymandias Oct 22, 12:06
Gallup poll: Obama 51% McCain 42% -- nm - Inigo Oct 22, 11:58 7
- HSX3.0 -20% -- nm - Beryllium Oct 22, 12:02 1
  - That seems gravely overstated. I question their methodology. -- nm - emoticripple Oct 22, 12:05
- Bah. Link here -- (link) - Inigo Oct 22, 11:59
- and in fairness, an AP poll has them within 1. - Reagen Oct 22, 11:59 3
  - Yup, but Zogby is lockstep with Gallup right now. -- nm - Inigo Oct 22, 12:03
  - if it looks like an outlier, and smells like an outlier, it's probably an outlier. -- nm - znufrii Oct 22, 12:00 1
    - (that goes for the +1 as well as the +14) -- nm - znufrii Oct 22, 12:00
~just what you need to feel make feel better, just what you need to make you feeelll~ -- nm - Dr. Tarr and Professor Feather Oct 22, 11:58
Miss Teen Lousiana looses crown 11 days before her reign ends. over $46 restaurant bill & 2 grams of pot - peglegpete Oct 22, 11:57
Oops, I flagged a topic on NewHSX as Offensive for using the C-word in an image ... and it disappeared. I didn't mean for it to disappear! -- nm - Beryllium Oct 22, 11:57 2
- I flagged the HSX minute video as offensive for being the S-word. -- nm - emoticripple Oct 22, 12:10
- But it needed to disappear. Good job! -- nm - CovingtonCat Oct 22, 12:00
LIR: JackDawson, you're right -- I didn't explain that post very well. I short-handed it. - ReluctantCynic Oct 22, 11:55 10
- Waitaminnit - Dillard's isn't that exclusive... -- nm - Diva Oct 22, 12:01 6
  - Neither is Saks, honestly. -- nm - loosilu Oct 22, 12:05
  - Oh ... okay. Scratch that. I confused them with the fancy-schmancy department store chain out of Dallas. -- nm - ReluctantCynic Oct 22, 12:04 4
    - I was just being facetious. Don't pay any attention to me. -- nm - Diva Oct 22, 12:15
    - Needless Markup? -- nm - ty97 Oct 22, 12:06 2
      - No ... uhm ... oh, hell, I can't remember the name of it. I think Macy's might've bought them out a few years ago. - ReluctantCynic Oct 22, 12:15 1
        
        it's not like she's going to Chanel boutique. -- nm - loosilu Oct 22, 12:23
- it's especially ironic considering that they tried to smear Michelle Obama with a lobster and caviar dinner at the Waldorf - Reagen Oct 22, 11:58
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  - I think it's a news story 'cause it's something people can identify with very, very easily. - ReluctantCynic Oct 22, 12:00
Also, I got rip roaring drunk last night. I mean stupid ass drunk. Not falling down or acting a major fool, but just seriously in my own zone -- nm - CQ Oct 22, 11:55 3
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- *leaves 10 minute voicemail regarding Daisuke Matsuzaka's awesomeness* -- nm - CQ si Oct 22, 11:58 1
  - heh -- nm - CQ Oct 22, 11:59
the stations I work at got the new GNR song this morning. -- nm - Remlik Oct 22, 11:53 6
- upon 3 listens, I like it. - ty97 Oct 22, 11:54 1
  - Stupid work. I got a phone call while it was playing -- nm - con_carne Oct 22, 11:55
- can't listen at work. you like it? -- nm - loosilu Oct 22, 11:53 3
  - not really. I've heard a couple of the others that I like better. I told one of my PD's that Axl now sounds like an Axl impersonator.... - Remlik Oct 22, 11:56 2
    - have you seen him? He looks like one too. -- nm - loosilu Oct 22, 12:01
    - Yes, I agree. I almost wanted the music to continue for a while longer with him singing. - ty97 Oct 22, 11:59
Ultimately, I'm all in favor of whatever triviality eats into another news cycle. -- nm - Mel Profit Oct 22, 11:52 7
- *tackles you* -- nm - tim mie si Oct 22, 11:55
- "First down!" - Reagen Oct 22, 11:54 1
  - That'll move the chains -- nm - rollo Oct 22, 11:55
- *can't wait for November 5th* -- nm - JaxSean Oct 22, 11:54
- *spends 150m on clothes* Happy now? Happy?? -- nm - Diva Oct 22, 11:53 2
  - one question... - Mel Profit Oct 22, 12:41
  - one question... - Mel Profit Oct 22, 12:34
XBoxers, what do you think of this top ten game list? -- (link) - Inigo Oct 22, 11:52 4
- On their list, I've played Orange Box and GTA 4--they're both quite good. We just got Bioshock so I don't know about that one yet. - Trish Oct 22, 12:04 2
  - Yeah, the site mainly serves teenage male gamers. -- nm - Inigo Oct 22, 12:13
  - I want to get lost odessy. -- nm - tRuMaN Oct 22, 12:06
- looks good. I've played the top 6 and they are quite good. -- nm - Remlik Oct 22, 11:55
No, JackDawson, thank you. Would've never occurred to me to donate if you hadn't brought it up. - znufrii Oct 22, 11:50 16
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  - Can I still buy a "Men on a Mission" calendar? -- nm - ReluctantCynic Oct 22, 11:56 2
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      - But ... but ... *dramatic sigh* ... okay. WhatEVer ... . -- nm - ReluctantCynic Oct 22, 12:04
  - I'm still pissed that I'm going to have to miss it. Oh well... - znufrii Oct 22, 11:55 4
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      - I'm not the one who should be ashamed, I'm just an innocent victim of circumstance. -- nm - znufrii Oct 22, 11:56 2
        
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        I'm going to tell her you said that... - znufrii Oct 22, 11:59
- I considered it, but I just put him down as 'referrer' -- nm - ty97 Oct 22, 11:52
- Anyone have mental brillo for imagining a bizarre threesome??? - con_carne Oct 22, 11:52 5
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    - that reminds me, I need to send an email to my brothers who live in CA about it. -- nm - znufrii Oct 22, 12:02 2
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        It's on my list of things to do. -- nm - znufrii Oct 22, 12:11
    - You are preaching to the choir, mah man -- nm - con_carne Oct 22, 12:00
[An error occurred while processing this epic design fail] -- nm - emoticripple Oct 22, 11:50
I keep showing up right before the boards roll. Bery needs to code to prevent this. -- nm - David Oct 22, 11:50 8
- any other recommendations along side Pandora's Box? -- nm - Epiphany Oct 22, 12:01 2
  - One a quarter is plenty. -- nm - David Oct 22, 12:04 1
    - *shakes fist at the sky* -- nm - Epiphany Oct 22, 12:08
- Hi, David. How's it going? Nice post you've made, there. I help keep things running around here. Say hi to your mother for me, aight? -- nm - Mark Wahlberg si Oct 22, 11:55 3
  - The Happening sucked and you were the worst part of it. -- nm - David Oct 22, 12:01 2
    - What?? nooOOOooo! -- nm - Marky Oct 22, 12:22
    - It still got better ratings than HSX3.0. Just like my show, Entourage. I'm a producer on that. Say hi to your mother for me, aight? -- nm - Mark Wahlberg si Oct 22, 12:04
- *blocks David's IP* -- nm - bery SI Oct 22, 11:52
STIB: does anybody have a PC version of Max Payne lying around? -- nm - colin Oct 22, 11:49
Real Americans post on B1! -- nm - znufrii Oct 22, 11:49
You all fail -- nm - con_carne Oct 22, 11:49 1
- B2 was my second epic fail of the the day. -- nm - ReluctantCynic Oct 22, 11:57

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