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Brother Daniel, are you around? - David Aug 25, 18:42 2
- he's traveling tonight on a plane, look for those red tailights on the way to spain -- nm - zeitgeist Aug 25, 20:18
- Is he a star in the face of the sky? -- nm - Roger More Aug 25, 18:45
A-Gon with 3-run shot for the Dodgers -- nm - budice Aug 25, 18:27
Astronauts, Cavemen and Keepers, you have to set your keepers in Yahoo. - David Aug 25, 17:56 20
- It won't let me. - the wrong element, bad guy Aug 25, 18:25 4
  - We have to switch the setting in order to see who has named keepers. - David Aug 25, 18:45
  - David's got it taken care of for you. -- nm - Kim Pine Aug 25, 18:35 1
    - Thanks, David! -- nm - the wrong element, bad guy Aug 25, 18:42
  - You snoozed! -- nm - Spawn Aug 25, 18:31
- " You cannot choose keepers after the keeper deadline." tis what yahoo tells me -- nm - tRuMaN Aug 25, 18:11 2
  - Try again. (I was doing something.) -- nm - Kim Pine Aug 25, 18:11 1
    - done and done -- nm - tRuMaN Aug 25, 18:12
- Done as far as I can go; trades deny me the 5th one. -- nm - Will Hunting Aug 25, 18:03 8
  - FYI: Kelly has not posted keepers that we see. -- nm - David Aug 25, 18:06 3
    - Other Vampirates who do not appear to have declared keepers: Walt Disney, Samara, TFox. - David Aug 25, 18:08 2
      - Kelly will post hers on the boards in a short while; she's exercising here. - Will Hunting Aug 25, 18:14
      - Nuditarian in Cavemen has not set keepers. -- nm - David Aug 25, 18:10
  - I was able to set *two*. -- nm - Spawn Aug 25, 18:04 3
    - Kelly's got 2 as well iirc. -- nm - Will Hunting Aug 25, 18:22 2
      - ::raises a glass:: - Spawn Aug 25, 18:29 1
        
        She got Welker, Gronk and Sproles. - Will Hunting Aug 25, 18:32
- Do we have the ability to take care of the trades, or do you do that? -- nm - Spawn Aug 25, 18:00
- (Vampirates, not Keepers). -- nm - Kim Pine Aug 25, 17:57 1
  - I would throw them back, for sure. -- nm - Spawn Aug 25, 18:01
Hurricane Isaac: "Mitt Romney today called for the government to respond with a round of 'emergency tax cuts.'" -- (link) - GregW Aug 25, 17:49 1
- obama could do a whole comedy routine type campaign speach on that meme, (****) happened today so romney called for a tax break for rich people -- nm - zeitgeist Aug 25, 18:45
I am calling my mama for her birthday. The other siblings haven't. I WIN! -- nm - loosilu Aug 25, 17:46 2
- did any grandkids call, text or email her yet? -- nm - peglegpete Aug 25, 17:57
- Good job. How do you not (at least) call your mother on her birthday? - Spawn Aug 25, 17:48
according to my FB friends, Jim Cantore is in Tampa. they are so screwed. -- nm - loosilu Aug 25, 17:33 1
- *fist pump.....YES!!!! that would be so awesome, how will all those preachers explain god's wrath? -- nm - zeitgeist Aug 25, 17:46
Seen on a billboard just east of Pittsburgh: "Voting for Obama is like a chicken voting for Colonel Sanders" -- nm - CovingtonCat Aug 25, 17:18 3
- How many chickens would there be if they weren't tasty? Not as many. -- nm - Reagen Aug 25, 18:26
- That is an old one. I've heard it back in the 70s as "A working man voiting for the Republicans ..." -- nm - crash davis Aug 25, 17:20 1
  - It`s stupid. Make it stop -- nm - mud Aug 25, 17:59
Well, my crazy FF league draft was this morning...and holy sh*t was it crazy... - Stephen Aug 25, 17:16 2
- When you voted on a sitch to 12 teams max, how did the guy who took RG3 vote? - the wrong element, bad guy Aug 25, 17:30 1
  - He voted to make it a 12 team league. Also, it was also determined that since the vote failed, because it was a tie, it should have gone to a vote - Stephen Aug 25, 17:34
Visited the Johnstown Flood National Memorial today. - CovingtonCat Aug 25, 17:15
Classic Onion article about Neil Armstrong. -- (link) - loosilu Aug 25, 17:06
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- He was 8 for 10 according to ESPN. -- nm - Will Hunting Aug 25, 17:07
- Just to clarify, you and I are never trading again, okay? -- nm - Will Hunting Aug 25, 17:06 14
  - If only there had been prior indication that either player was an injury risk. -- nm - the wrong element, bad guy Aug 25, 17:51
  - "Trading with ML is like trading with the devil." -- nm - Spawn Aug 25, 17:19 11
    - You'd think he'd have a better team if this were true. -- nm - David Aug 25, 17:20 10
      - You mean a team that's been regular season #1 & #2 the last 2 years? - Will Hunting Aug 25, 17:52 8
        
        I had a tough choice on keepers. He had a desperate choice. - David Aug 25, 17:55 7
        
        Wait, who's team are we talking? You have 6...maybe 7 keepers. ML and I had something approaching 9-10 options - Will Hunting Aug 25, 18:02 6
        
        ML was so stacked with keepers, he traded for (at least) one. - the wrong element, bad guy Aug 25, 18:32 1
        
        Since it's AP, I'm not ruling anything out but if he comes back at near 100% this soon, it's medical marvel. -- nm - David Aug 25, 18:43
        
        He's keeping a RB coming off an ACL tear (i.e. no burst), a hopes and dreams WR and a RB with a broken collarbone. - David Aug 25, 18:07 2
        
        Hey! Those are the same running backs I kept. - Kim Pine Aug 25, 18:36 1
        
        Uh oh. -- nm - Spawn Aug 25, 18:41
        
        He *could* be. - Spawn Aug 25, 18:05
      - He is a regular season *machine*. - Spawn Aug 25, 17:23
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Heh, my discussion on twitter with NWBR seems to be polite and civil. This is good. -- nm - Beryllium Aug 25, 17:00
Someone sent me a message in txtspk correcting a previous txtspk message. - Inigo Aug 25, 16:58 4
- I would've sent a sarcastic message back, that they probably wouldn't have understood. -- nm - mafic Aug 25, 17:07
- Sry bt tht, wnt hppn agn. -- nm - nubby Aug 25, 16:59 2
  - Nah it'd be "Sry mybad" -- nm - Qale Aug 25, 17:36 1
    - I have seen "smybad" for it, as well. -- nm - Spawn Aug 25, 18:15
As someom -- nm - Spawn Aug 25, 16:55 1
- As someone that watched the game, I see a QB controversy forming in Washington. - Spawn Aug 25, 16:56
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- They've had horrible luck on the o-line the past few years. -- nm - Inigo Aug 25, 16:59
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- We had it last night. -- nm - spamlet Aug 25, 16:50 1
  - word -- nm - Spawn Aug 25, 16:56
I went all the way to Canada and all I got was this lousy cold. - Fuzzy Aug 25, 16:46
One of my favorite bits "I walked on the moon!" by Brian Regan -- (link) - Inigo Aug 25, 16:17 [youtube] 3
- Thanks for linking! -- nm - JenBro Aug 25, 19:21
- Eddie Izzard: "You've got to say something. You can't get out onto the moon and say 'Oh, it's all sticky!'" -- (link) - Max Aug 25, 18:55 [youtube]
- I love bits -- nm - JEGAR Aug 25, 16:29
Future news two hours from now: RG3 and Andrew Luck both out for the season after tearing their ACLs in the same game. -- nm - David Aug 25, 16:07 3
- Wait, if this game is already playing, why isn't the NFL Network airing it until 7:30? - Portal 2 dude Aug 25, 16:11 2
  - Becuase it's the only preseason game that can actually have a storyline that anyone cares about. - Will Hunting Aug 25, 17:08
  - the game started 4:00, nearly four hours ago. -- nm - Spawn Aug 25, 16:48
Oh no, what am I going to do without the first useless day of the GOP convention on Monday! - spamlet (iPhone) Aug 25, 15:53
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- again? -- nm - Spawn Aug 25, 16:57
- Neil from the Young Ones? How sad, he was my favorite. -- nm - Roger More Aug 25, 16:25
- Sorkin could not possibly be more timely with his send up of the farce that poses as journalism. -- nm - Fuzzy Aug 25, 15:54
- "it's some dude from the 60s named Neil" *quickly Googles* "screw it, close enough" -- nm - spamlet (iPhone) Aug 25, 15:45
I wonder what Michael Collins thinks about the moon...if i'm reading Wiki right, the one guy out of the first 3 who didn't step foot there - Will Hunting Aug 25, 15:19 20
- It's like driving cross country to Wally World only to find out that the park is closed. -- nm - Dano Aug 25, 18:13 1
  - *kidnaps John Candy* -- nm - Will Hunting Aug 25, 18:23
- he got hosed, was scheduled to fly later but the budget was slashed, (what do we need more rocks for?) -- nm - zeitgeist Aug 25, 16:42 2
  - some of the others were, but collins wasn't. -- nm - mafic Aug 25, 16:47 1
    - Yeah, wiki had him retiring in 70 -- nm - Will Hunting Aug 25, 17:10
- the only thing that might suck is that *everyone* knows Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin. not a lot of people know the third guy. -- nm - mafic Aug 25, 15:54 3
  - Well, Neil because he was first, and Buzz because he's a shameless self-promoter. -- nm - Roger More Aug 25, 16:30 2
    - ... And because his name is Buzz -- nm - Beryllium Aug 25, 16:34 1
      - His name was Edwin. He legally changed it to Buzz. Self-promotion! -- nm - Roger More Aug 25, 18:43
- you can't rob the bank without a getaway driver -- nm - CQ Aug 25, 15:43
- "Holy shit, I'm in fucking *space*!" -- nm - Reagen Aug 25, 15:31 1
  - "SPAAAAAAAAAAAACE!" -- nm - Portal 2 dude Aug 25, 16:08
- That was the gig. He signed up for it, he was okay with it. -- nm - rollo Aug 25, 15:28 4
  - also it was the perfect vantage point to relaunch his clandestine war on the British. -- nm - Reagen Aug 25, 15:33 1
    - Heh this made me laugh. - Stephen Aug 25, 16:07
  - Yeah, I think the knowledge that you're one of less than two dozen people to travel that far from Earth and that close to the Moon is pretty - TWuG Aug 25, 15:31 1
    - I think this. Sure they would have liked to have been done there. but that wasn't the job. -- nm - Remlik Aug 25, 15:49
- if he was upset, he would have left them on the moon :) -- nm - peglegpete Aug 25, 15:27 2
  - "Guys, I'm bored. I'm heading home." -- nm - TWuG Aug 25, 15:29 1
    - guys, got a booty call, gotta go -- nm - zeitgeist Aug 25, 16:41
Really late to the party, but The Community video game episode at the end of last year is a special kind of inspired. -- nm - Will Hunting Aug 25, 15:16 2
- and it was the episode that Chevy walked out on. Wouldn't do the final shot. -- nm - Remlik Aug 25, 16:11
- "I guess there's no hug button" - amoxy Aug 25, 15:38
Does that mean there's only three left that have walked on the moon? - spamlet (iPhone) Aug 25, 15:07 16
- where you at truman when he spoke? - tRuMaN Aug 25, 15:31 13
  - No. It must have been the year before I got there. -- nm - spamlet (iPhone) Aug 25, 15:43 12
    - hmm, mce note - tRuMaN Aug 25, 15:54 11
      - I used it but it was really jittery when I tried to watch it. I just dump it back to avi right now. - spamlet (iPhone) Aug 25, 16:02 10
        
        i had it encode two shows in the high qulaity mp4, - tRuMaN Aug 25, 16:07 9
        
        I use a program called Plato Conversion that does a stellar job converting formats. nice quality to. -- nm - Remlik Aug 25, 16:33 1
        
        This is for the windows DVr. They have a certain plugin to encode the recordings to remove commercials. -- nm - spamlet (iPad) Aug 25, 18:54
        
        Plex handles the avi files just fine. The only thing is that it appears to lose the show summary. - spamlet (iPhone) Aug 25, 16:12 1
        
        in the options, you can set the max width - tRuMaN Aug 25, 16:21
        
        ok the results are - tRuMaN Aug 25, 16:11 4
        
        Ok, I'm going to try again. -- nm - spamlet (iPhone) Aug 25, 16:17 3
        
        Well, I would if I could get logmein to work. -- nm - spamlet Aug 25, 16:51 2
        
        also - tRuMaN Aug 25, 16:56 1
        
        Yeah, I will set it up once the season starts but I don't have a real reason to right now. -- nm - spamlet Aug 25, 17:00
- Not sure where your source was working from. There's 8 left. -- nm - Reagen Aug 25, 15:14 1
  - Ok. Probably just faulty memory. -- nm - spamlet (iPhone) Aug 25, 15:23
A Colts safety! - Spawn Aug 25, 15:01
Matt Smith and Kieran Gillian arrived at the Dr. Who premiere in these cars -- (link) - Remlik Aug 25, 14:56 1
- Kieran?? -- nm - peglegpete Aug 25, 15:01
My wife was totally like, "Did you hear Lance Armstrong died?" -- nm - rollo Aug 25, 14:54 3
- @GSElevator: Wrong Armstrong, God. - spamlet (iPhone) Aug 25, 15:04
- tell her it was Neil Young -- nm - Remlik Aug 25, 14:54 1
  - Didn't he have all his records pulled? ;) -- nm - the liiouu Aug 25, 14:56
The Red Sox payroll for 2013 has dropped from 107m in commitments to 47mil in commitments. - Will Hunting Aug 25, 14:48 11
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  - Someone will....and the Red Sox have zero excuses to get outbid on him. -- nm - Will Hunting Aug 25, 16:29 2
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      - Maybe they won't, but can you imagine gutting your team in that market and then not using the money? -- nm - Will Hunting Aug 25, 17:11
- Effen Red Sox...Assholes -- nm - amoxy Aug 25, 15:39 1
  - Would you rather the Dodgers have about 70mil in payroll to pick up legitimate free agents? - Will Hunting Aug 25, 15:48
- Meanwhile, back at the Cubs..... - the liioulu with Aug 25, 14:51 2
  - Don't worry...your GM is the guy who gave those $300mil in contracts the Red Sox just begged out of 20 months later. -- nm - Will Hunting Aug 25, 14:53 1
    - I know. -- nm - the liioulu with Aug 25, 14:55
- I hope they can resign Jacoby now. -- nm - CQ Aug 25, 14:48 1
  - If you're him, are you eager to do so? - Will Hunting Aug 25, 14:52
wrongelement from B2: I've gone to almost every Ravens home game since 1996. - Inigo Aug 25, 14:44 1
- Maybe your daughter is the good luck charm. - the wrong element, bad guy Aug 25, 15:07
so there's another argument for civilians not carrying guns in public. cops are trained to use them, and they still managed to wound nine bystanders. - mafic Aug 25, 14:38
Damn. -- nm - Spawn Aug 25, 14:25
YDKJ taunts fans to write a 4-6 page essay on why they should add goats to the game as if they won't actually write them. -- nm - Qale Aug 25, 14:19
"Real" life Sleeping Beauty(ies). -- (link) - Spawn Aug 25, 14:08

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