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Apple is now the most valuable public company of all time. - David Aug 20, 10:09 1
- poor Facebook, Zynga and Groupon. -- nm - Beaker Aug 20, 10:10
Oh, those wacky wacky New York Giants -- nm - prayformojo Aug 20, 10:00
Corollary poll: Let's say you get to spend a *platonic* weekend with a celebrity. who do you pick? -- nm - loosilu Aug 20, 09:58 21
- Bill Clinton. [nm] - Mel Profit Aug 20, 10:08
- AD Rock. I've dreamed about spending time shooting hoops and listening to music with him and the other boys. -- nm - Krusty Aug 20, 10:07
- Charlie Sheen -- nm - Jovian Aug 20, 10:06
- I'm going to pick Clooney for this because of Lake Como, and he has the hottest male friends. -- nm - loosilu Aug 20, 10:04
- Still RD, Jr. for me! - miffed67 Aug 20, 10:03
- Can I get two? Simon Pegg and Nick Frost. -- nm - Beryllium Aug 20, 10:02 1
  - no you greedy bastard! nm -- nm - groiny Aug 20, 10:03
- David Letterman. -- nm - GregW Aug 20, 10:02
- Clooney -- nm - JD Aug 20, 10:01
- Trent Reznor. -- nm - JaxSean Aug 20, 10:00
- Ryan Reynolds. nm -- nm - groiny Aug 20, 09:59 10
  - Word. Cause if you could score a couple of his scraps, you'd probably be doing ok. -- nm - Jim Aug 20, 10:00 9
    - That's why you go with Clooney then. -- nm - Mel Profit Aug 20, 10:01 8
      - You can't go wrong with either one...but like groin...I think Reynolds would be more fun to hang with. -- nm - Jim Aug 20, 10:05 1
        
        it is like a kegger vs a martini party, I think. nm -- nm - groiny Aug 20, 10:06
      - I think I would have a better time with Reynolds though. nm -- nm - groiny Aug 20, 10:03 1
        
        only if you don't like jet setting to the best parties in the best locations in the world. -- nm - Mel Profit Aug 20, 10:07
      - plus you get to stay at Lake Como. -- nm - loosilu Aug 20, 10:03 3
        
        Oooo, I'd almost take Clooney for that alone! :) -- nm - miffed67 Aug 20, 10:04 2
        
        you know the parties there must be insane. -- nm - loosilu Aug 20, 10:04 1
        
        I KNOW, right? Wow, if those walls could talk..... -- nm - miffed67 Aug 20, 10:05
B2: Get "caught" making out with another girl on the couch -- nm - Strongbad Aug 20, 09:58
Speaking of celebs getting married, there are still no reports that Brangelina got hitched, but Justin and Jessica may have done it this weekend. -- (link) - loosilu Aug 20, 09:56
Zhang Ziyi poll : You have enough money to buy a weekend with any celebrity. Who you got? - groiny Aug 20, 09:50 38
- Kellie Pickler -- nm - Jovian Aug 20, 10:04 5
  - *blank stare* - groiny Aug 20, 10:05 4
    - naw, it'd be Kate B. But I Kellie is definitely top 5 for me. I just dont see her saying no to *anything* -- nm - Jovian Aug 20, 10:06 2
      - only because she would never understand the question. nm -- nm - groiny Aug 20, 10:07 1
        
        Oh she'd eventually understand..."Oh thats where you wanted to put it!" - Jovian Aug 20, 10:08
    - Jovian is why we can't have nice things. -- nm - JaxSean Aug 20, 10:06
- Scarlett Johansson -- nm - Krusty Aug 20, 10:01
- Charlize -- nm - JD Aug 20, 10:00 1
  - I get the impression she would be... aggressive. -- nm - Reagen Aug 20, 10:04
- Scarlett. -- nm - Reagen Aug 20, 09:58 3
  - The Glades cast a woman who looks like a slightly younger ScarJo ... - Beryllium Aug 20, 09:59 2
    - Would Debi Mazar be an older ScarJo? -- nm - SyrDragon Aug 20, 10:06 1
      - *vomits* - groiny Aug 20, 10:06
- Gemma Arterton -- nm - Bacon Aug 20, 09:57 2
  - nice late round draft choice., nm -- nm - groiny Aug 20, 09:58 1
    - It was a coin flip with her and Kate Beckinsale - Bacon Aug 20, 09:59
- Clive Owen. -- nm - kelly Aug 20, 09:56
- Cloony (duh) -- nm - JenBro Aug 20, 09:55 2
  - Clooney's a good one because he'll buy you a dress and take you out. -- nm - loosilu Aug 20, 09:57 1
    - *gaze* -- nm - Richard Gere Aug 20, 09:59
- Anne Hathaway. -- nm - spamlet Aug 20, 09:54
- Before or after Jennifer's married? - JaxSean Aug 20, 09:54
- Can I have more than one? - miffed67 Aug 20, 09:52 2
  - no, you greedy bastard! nm -- nm - groiny Aug 20, 09:54 1
    - Awwww *pouts* - miffed67 Aug 20, 09:54
- a weekend? wow, that's a lot tougher than a night. I'd have to talk to them. let's say Ewan McGregor. - loosilu Aug 20, 09:52 2
  - (you spend the whole weekend in bed with them!) -- nm - kelly Aug 20, 09:56 1
    - oh, then definitely him. -- nm - loosilu Aug 20, 09:57
- I would think less of anyone who accepted the offer, so I would end up choosing no one -- nm - Beryllium Aug 20, 09:51 5
  - Then you could just give the money to me. -- nm - JaxSean Aug 20, 09:56 2
    - I think I'll keep it and buy an island. - Beryllium Aug 20, 09:57 1
      - *thinks less of you* -- nm - JaxSean Aug 20, 09:58
  - C'mon. Expand the field. So then who would you want to grudge, er, spend the weekend with -- nm - JD Aug 20, 09:55 1
    - grudge? like The Grudge? like Sarah Michelle Gellar? hmmmm -- nm - Beryllium Aug 20, 09:56
- James Cameron -- nm - ceregon Aug 20, 09:51 3
  - (You may have missed the point of the poll, although I admit I nearly did too) -- nm - Beryllium Aug 20, 09:51 2
    - No, I think he understood. -- nm - Mel Profit Aug 20, 09:56 1
      - uh-huh. nm -- nm - groiny Aug 20, 09:58
The other year was 2006. (The Rangers axed Buck that year) (nm) - musubi Aug 20, 09:48
Score! Friend/Co-worker went for candy - I asked for starburst & said what ever they have - I got Favereds! Woo! -- nm - JenBro Aug 20, 09:47 1
- Ermagherd! Sterberst! -- nm - Dr.Vermin Aug 20, 09:51
Also, I blame Jesse Pinkman for my Funyuns craving. - Jovian Aug 20, 09:47
I also just learned I have a 50-year old cousin. - kelly Aug 20, 09:45 4
- what does that mean, opened their records? how did you find out? -- nm - loosilu Aug 20, 09:47 3
  - She contacted my aunt (as my uncle, her dad, is deceased.) - kelly Aug 20, 09:48 2
    - wow. -- nm - loosilu Aug 20, 09:49 1
      - Opening the records means that any child adopted in RI can access their birth parents' names, their original birth certificate, etc. - kelly Aug 20, 09:52
"Is Lucy Liu going to play Huck Finn?" - just made snort and choke up my Snapple. lolol -- nm - Jovian Aug 20, 09:42 5
- I'm interested in watching what I assume will be a crime against literature, and a trainwreck, on the off chance it isn't. -- nm - Beryllium Aug 20, 09:44 1
  - Seems CBS tried this in '87 - SyrDragon Aug 20, 10:10
- I'm missing something ::puppy head-tilt:: - SyrDragon Aug 20, 09:44 2
  - Look up the synopsis of the new TV show "Elementary" -- nm - Beryllium Aug 20, 09:44 1
    - Wha?!? E gads! (spoils) - SyrDragon Aug 20, 09:57
My mother and brother are going skydiving tonight. I told my mother "I'm jealous! I always wanted to go skydiving." - kelly Aug 20, 09:40 45
- I don't know that I'd trust the Bjorn that much. -- nm - Reagen Aug 20, 09:51
- My Mom, Sister, and Hotcakes are planning a skydiving trip. - Bacon Aug 20, 09:50
- I totally want to - after my kids are grown and out of the house. - JaxSean Aug 20, 09:48 5
  - You're in way more danger of death/mayhem driving back and forth to the airfield than from the skydiving. -- nm - landbeck Aug 20, 09:49 4
    - I think my wife would be more pissed saying "my husband decided he wanted to jump out of an airplane" than "he died on the way to work." -- nm - JaxSean Aug 20, 09:56
    - especially in New England. -- nm - loosilu Aug 20, 09:50 1
      - ::ding:: -- nm - SyrDragon Aug 20, 09:56
    - But if I don't go skydiving, I won't be on that dangerous road to the airport. -- nm - Will Hunting Aug 20, 09:50
- I would not with a small child -- nm - Bacon Aug 20, 09:48 3
  - spoiler: He's not going to be strapped on. -- nm - loosilu Aug 20, 09:49 1
    - *wheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee* -- nm - Nathan Aug 20, 09:49
  - if I had one -- nm - Bacon Aug 20, 09:48
- As long as you have a sitter, why not? It's fun (and safer than almost anything else you'll do). -- nm - landbeck Aug 20, 09:43 14
  - I never heard of anyone dying in a skydiving accident while sitting on their couch. -- nm - Will Hunting Aug 20, 09:44 13
    - Hmm. Sitting on a couch that is being pushed out of the back of an airplane... -- nm - landbeck Aug 20, 09:46 5
      - *couch rolls over and lands on you* -- nm - Will Hunting Aug 20, 09:47 4
        
        If you gotta go, it might as well be at terminal velocity on a comfrotable divan. -- nm - landbeck Aug 20, 09:48 3
        
        "Momma always said TV on the couch would be the death of me." -- nm - Beryllium Aug 20, 09:50 2
        
        *pictures a TV whistling through the air* -- nm - landbeck Aug 20, 09:53 1
        
        It occurs to me that terminal velocity on a couch would be different than for a human ... - Beryllium Aug 20, 09:55
    - I've heard of people's skin fusing to their couch cushions, though -- nm - Beryllium Aug 20, 09:46 3
      - Ban leather couches! -- nm - Will Hunting Aug 20, 09:46 2
        
        Hmm! I never did find out what fabric was involved in those stories. I just assumed cloth of some kind. -- nm - Beryllium Aug 20, 09:47 1
        
        I think cloth. -- nm - loosilu Aug 20, 09:48
    - on the other hand, I've heard of plenty of people dying on their couch. -- nm - loosilu Aug 20, 09:45 2
      - Ban couches! -- nm - Will Hunting Aug 20, 09:46 1
        
        exactly! I'm starting to warm up to the skydiving idea. -- nm - loosilu Aug 20, 09:46
- I'll pass. -- nm - loosilu Aug 20, 09:43
- Eff no. - Will Hunting Aug 20, 09:43 3
  - word. -- nm - spamlet Aug 20, 09:45
  - Slipping those surly bonds, my friend. -- nm - landbeck Aug 20, 09:44 1
    - Yep, I did that when the plane took off. I'll refasten the bonds when the plane lands. I see no reason to short-circuit the process. -- nm - Will Hunting Aug 20, 09:45
- I'm generally a no on this, and *certainly* a no with a young kid in the picture. -- nm - Beryllium Aug 20, 09:43 1
  - ^-- and there are several other activities I'd say this for. Whitewater rafting, for example. - Beryllium Aug 20, 09:45
- Not for me -- nm - SyrDragon Aug 20, 09:42
- Not with a six month old - prayformojo Aug 20, 09:42 3
  - It was what I had planned on doing on my 30th birthday. - kelly Aug 20, 09:44 2
    - I think I'm with Becky. -- nm - loosilu Aug 20, 09:47
    - Don't put off fun things! Be the cool Mom. -- nm - landbeck Aug 20, 09:45
- No chance. Never. -- nm - Krusty Aug 20, 09:42
- No - but only 'cause I'm chicken of heights :) you should totally do it! -- nm - JenBro Aug 20, 09:41
- honestly, probably not. -- nm - Andie Aug 20, 09:41
- hell no -- nm - Don Homer Aug 20, 09:41
- if God meant for me to jump out of an airplane he would have given me wings, or an inflatable raft ala Temple of Doom -- nm - Beaker Aug 20, 09:41
- Stay on the ground - decline Aug 20, 09:41
" And if that doesn't work, six simple words: "I'm not gay, but I'll learn." " -- nm - Beaker Aug 20, 09:37
Here's some Survivor new cast videos, if you want to check 'em out. -- (link) - Jim Aug 20, 09:36
Survivor poll - Futon Critic email says 3 prior cast members who were medi-vac'd are back - who you got? -- nm - JenBro Aug 20, 09:35 10
- Ill say: - Jovian Aug 20, 09:40
- I'm gonna say: - Jim Aug 20, 09:36 7
  - What? You mean not... - Roger More Aug 20, 09:39 3
    - Nope, nope and nope. :) -- nm - Jim Aug 20, 09:40 2
      - I don't think I could handle yet another season with James. -- nm - Roger More Aug 20, 09:42 1
        
        It would be better than more ELR or Colton. -- nm - the wrong element, bad guy Aug 20, 09:53
  - Hey, that was my answer! -- nm - Kim Pine Aug 20, 09:37 2
    - heh heh...it's like you know. :) -- nm - Jim Aug 20, 09:38 1
      - Spoils - maybe? - JenBro Aug 20, 09:40
- we know the dude who fell into the fire for sure, right? nm -- nm - groiny Aug 20, 09:36
"I dunno, I got a guy on the other line about a set of whitewalls...." nm -- nm - groiny Aug 20, 09:35 1
- "Aww christ, at least you coulda said you were from the Yankees." -- nm - Will Hunting Aug 20, 09:37
I take back what I said on B2. You know who killed Tony Scott? - Spawn Aug 20, 09:34 2
- Why would he care what people thought of his brother's movie? heh -- nm - Beryllium Aug 20, 09:38 1
  - He was exec producer on it and the sequel. -- nm - Spawn Aug 20, 09:39
MLB Poll: What is the most surprising team outcomes this year in your opinion? Good and bad? - Will Hunting Aug 20, 09:33 6
- O's and probably the Phillies. - the wrong element, bad guy Aug 20, 09:50
- Good: Orioles. Bad: Red Sox. - spamlet Aug 20, 09:47
- Good: Pennsylvania teams performance Bad: Rockies (nm) - musubi Aug 20, 09:46
- Bad - Boston. Good - Pittsburgh -- nm - Beaker Aug 20, 09:37
- Good: Pirates Bad: Angels -- nm - Krusty Aug 20, 09:35
- Orioles for sure, with that pitching staff. - groiny Aug 20, 09:34

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