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Wow. I hadn't seen McCarthy getting hit in the head yesterday until just now - prayformojo Sep 6, 20:29 5
- I will never watch it. -- nm - David Sep 6, 20:36
- Was it the Communists? -- nm - Bacon via droid Sep 6, 20:30
- Jenny? What happened? -- nm - Spawn Sep 6, 20:30 2
  - She didn't get immunized from getting hit in the head. -- nm - Dano Sep 6, 20:30 1
    - yes she did. just after she started dating Jim Carrey -- nm - peglegpete Sep 6, 20:34
Just from the trailer I think Anna Karenina is one of the Best Cinematography Oscar nominees. -- (link) - Dano Sep 6, 20:28 [youtube]
For those following along at home: 52,757 tweets per minute. -- nm - nubby Sep 6, 20:28 3
- What was Clinton? -- nm - David Sep 6, 20:36 1
  - I'm trying to remeber what I heard on the radio today. I think Clinton was around 24k and Michelle around 28k. -- nm - TWuG Sep 6, 20:39
- Romney was, what, 19,000 or so? -- nm - TWuG Sep 6, 20:30
I wonder if some of those people on TDS last night were thinking, "Hey, Sam Bee! I'm gonna be on television!" -- nm - Reagen Sep 6, 20:28 2
- it was more than a little bit gotcha. -- nm - loosi at home Sep 6, 20:30 1
  - I don't really agree. that was pretty unforced. -- nm - Reagen Sep 6, 20:31
"For a black president *not* to get hit by an asteroid? That's a success!" -- nm - Larry David Sep 6, 20:18
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So, are we still getting out of Afghanistan or no? -- nm - Qale Sep 6, 20:11 16
- 2014. -- nm - nubby Sep 6, 20:12 15
  - January 1st 2014? I'd be totally cool if they started drawing down like yesterday. -- nm - Qale Sep 6, 20:18 14
    - Well, we need to give the enemy plenty of time to prepare for our withdrawl. -- nm - nubby Sep 6, 20:18 13
      - How about we suddenly withdraw, then, like later on, randomly pick a date and go SURPRISE! and come back to finish whatever it is we need to when they - Qale Sep 6, 20:21 9
        
        We can go back into Iraq and say, we forgot to do some more things! - Bacon via droid Sep 6, 20:27 8
        
        Well you know, we import most of our oil from our enemies. - Qale Sep 6, 20:30 7
        
        Mexico is number 1 -- nm - Bacon via droid Sep 6, 20:32 6
        
        dum dum. no its canada, has been for a long time -- nm - tRuMaN Sep 6, 20:35 1
        
        on the next season of ice road trucker -- nm - zeitgeist Sep 6, 20:36
        
        no, we're your #1 dealer. -- nm - Reagen Sep 6, 20:34 3
        
        That had to change recently then. since when? -- nm - Bacon via droid Sep 6, 20:35 2
        
        latin america as a whole provies more than canada, but mexico does not. been that way for at east 5 years -- nm - tRuMaN Sep 6, 20:38 1
        
        npr story (also +d in the original message) -- (link) - tRuMaN Sep 6, 20:38
      - Osama Bin Ladin won't be preparing for our withdrawl -John Kerry - Bacon via droid Sep 6, 20:20 2
        
        Bin Laden is dead, GM is alive! -- nm - Spawn Sep 6, 20:22 1
        
        It is? - Strongbad Sep 7, 04:28
that was a speech. -- nm - znufrii Sep 6, 20:09
The great thing about a speech from someone currently in power is you get to hear how great things are for 30 minutes - Guigue Sep 6, 20:08 20
- you must have been watching someone else's speech because that's not what I heard. -- nm - znufrii Sep 6, 20:27
- except i dont think it was a speech about how great things are for 30 mins. maybe 10-15 of those mins, but not 30 - tRuMaN Sep 6, 20:24 6
  - the im came off a bit stronger than i intended. i was distracted by a cat who was attempting to use my leg as a claw sharpening device -- nm - tRuMaN Sep 6, 20:26 5
    - The thing, I was not critiquing. I was saying how great it felt to hear something positive - Guigue Sep 6, 20:35
    - Have your cat claw the sewer pipe!! Two birds one stone -- nm - Bacon via droid Sep 6, 20:28 3
      - look ruffige boy, go back to your happy place tv. on 9-12-11 i had to have the - tRuMaN Sep 6, 20:30 2
        
        I thought you were doing the camera this time -- nm - Bacon via droid Sep 6, 20:35 1
        
        has to be cleaned out first supposedly. - tRuMaN Sep 6, 20:36
- even if it's not true - Bacon via droid Sep 6, 20:10 11
  - Disagree. He told no lies. -- nm - Spawn Sep 6, 20:14 6
    - Unless he's going to enact a policy that makes it so every veteran has housing and a job, he did. -- nm - Inigo Sep 6, 20:17 4
      - Wow, you heard words that my broadcast lacked, I guess. His WHite House has been working and will contiue to work for vets. -- nm - Spawn Sep 6, 20:27 3
        
        He does seem to be very good for veterans. - Inigo Sep 6, 20:35 1
        
        I'm not 100%, but I think he said they *should* not have to come back without a job or a home -- nm - Guigue Sep 6, 20:38
        
        Maybe he's able to see that Obama that we can't? :-) -- nm - TWuG Sep 6, 20:34
    - I am making a comment about the above post of "how great it is" I didn't watch. my comment is only about that - Bacon via droid Sep 6, 20:16
  - All I know is I felt like shit after the other guy talked - Guigue Sep 6, 20:13 3
    - My advice is to only watch positive television -- nm - Bacon via droid Sep 6, 20:14 2
      - That's not bad advice - Guigue Sep 6, 20:14 1
        
        I am avoiding both sides and muting the ads so I don't let it change my mood. I am a frustrated American and both parties are to blame - Bacon via droid Sep 6, 20:18
The Rmoney/Ryan response is strange. - nubby Sep 6, 20:07 7
- there is a second paragraph to his response, which was issued before the president had even finished speaking -- (link) - tRuMaN Sep 6, 20:32 1
  - possibly a better link -- (link) - tRuMaN Sep 6, 20:33
- Where did you get that from? -- nm - amoxy Sep 6, 20:28
- totally nonspecific. could have been written yesterday, or a month ago. -- nm - Reagen Sep 6, 20:10 2
  - *ding* -- nm - Spawn Sep 6, 20:29
  - agreed -- nm - tRuMaN Sep 6, 20:28
- denial is strong in those two -- nm - ceregon Sep 6, 20:08
We take care of our own is a brilliant lyric to use in parting. -- nm - David Sep 6, 20:06
I guess Sasha was giving Michelle some lip during the speech.... -- (link) - Remlik Sep 6, 20:05 [Image] 1
- Sassy!!! -- nm - nubby Sep 6, 20:06
GO BALLOONS! -- nm - Remlik Sep 6, 20:05 3
- and there's the reason it's inside, you ever tried to do a bolloon drop outside> -- nm - mafic Sep 6, 20:14 2
  - balloon, question mark, whatever. -- nm - mafic Sep 6, 20:14 1
    - only with water in the balloons. -- nm - Remlik Sep 6, 20:15
Well, he understands clock management better than Clinton. -- nm - David Sep 6, 20:05 1
- Well, it is easier to give a State of the Union, which is what he did. -- nm - Spawn Sep 6, 20:31
Holy Crap...I am ready to run through walls for him -- nm - amoxy Sep 6, 20:04
He's using that hand extension tip he learned from watching Leverage. -- nm - Max Sep 6, 20:03 1
- Hey, that move overthrew a dictator! - David Sep 6, 20:05
get up off your ass and vote. -- nm - Remlik Sep 6, 20:03 1
- If as many registered Democrats voted as registered Republicans, it would be a landslide. -- (link) - nubby Sep 6, 20:04
"They give me hope." -- nm - mara Sep 6, 20:00
Was that Will of Will and Grace? -- nm - David Sep 6, 20:00 2
- yes -- nm - Remlik Sep 6, 20:00 1
  - After watching Perception, I want him in a bad way -- nm - Epiphany Sep 6, 20:34
Only you can prevent forest fires! -- nm - TWuG Sep 6, 19:58
wow, old Shelley Long really liked that point. -- nm - Max Sep 6, 19:58 1
- that, or she was stabbing invisible birds. -- nm - Reagen Sep 6, 20:00
"You did that." -- nm - mara Sep 6, 19:56 2
- The perfect answer to "You didn't build that." -- nm - nubby Sep 6, 19:57 1
  - Yup. Give some writer a gold star. -- nm - ty97 Sep 6, 19:58
GAYS -- nm - MDH Sep 6, 19:54 11
- He's getting behind the gays! -- nm - Max Sep 6, 19:58 2
  - is he at least giving reach-arounds? -- nm - zork Sep 6, 20:02 1
    - He better have the goddam courtesy. -- nm - TWuG Sep 6, 20:06
- It's bizarre to hear gays mentioned in a positive light at a Concention - ty97 Sep 6, 19:57 1
  - and God getting booed -- nm - Bacon via droid Sep 6, 19:58
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  - Gaga message aside "She's not me" is a great song -- nm - MDH Sep 6, 20:03
  - choose your master! -- nm - Reagen Sep 6, 19:59 2
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      - Heh. -- nm - David Sep 6, 20:04
- YOUR ALL GAY!!!! -- nm - Epiphany Sep 6, 19:56
That's a killer sound bite. -- nm - David Sep 6, 19:54
"And not just you. A lot of my constituents. I put the hammer to farms in Concord, Salem, Laconia, and Pelham. You guys got rogered but good." - President Bartlet Sep 6, 19:51 2
- Toby can stay. Everyone else is fired. -- nm - David Sep 6, 19:53
- lyc: Martin Sheen pronounced Concord wrong. I never got over that. -- nm - loosi at home Sep 6, 19:52
Ender wins B2. -- nm - kelly Sep 6, 19:50 2
- First thing a Republican has won this week. -- nm - Will Hunting Sep 6, 19:51 1
  - Bam! -- nm - nubby Sep 6, 19:55
nation building right here at home. -- nm - Reagen Sep 6, 19:47
"It's time to do some nation-building right here at home." -- nm - mara Sep 6, 19:47
He's ramping it up now -- nm - MDH Sep 6, 19:47
At the end of the show they are talking about ways to prevent the coming ice age. Putting black soot on the ice to melt it. Nuking the ice to break - Bacon Sep 6, 19:42 6
- even in the '70s there were more papers about warming than cooling. -- (link) - mafic Sep 6, 19:50 5
  - Don't try to rewrite history, I just watched a television show hosted by Spock! -- nm - Bacon via droid Sep 6, 19:56 1
    - I'd never question Spock! -- nm - mafic Sep 6, 19:57
  - did you guys get In Search Of? It was the prototype of all the questionable pseudoscience shows on cable. -- nm - loosi at home Sep 6, 19:51 2
    - sometimes. I also remember going to feature length "docu" on bigfoot at a theatre. funny story ... - zork Sep 6, 20:00 1
      - Funny IM hah -- nm - Bacon via droid Sep 6, 20:28
JF, him not having to throw the ball is worth about twenty less errors -- nm - Will Hunting Sep 6, 19:41 1
- It wasn't just that, as his fielding seemed to be erratic as well. - the wrong element, bad guy Sep 6, 19:45
what'd I miss? what'd I miss? -- nm - amanda Sep 6, 19:41 2
- energy and outsourcing -- nm - Max Sep 6, 19:42 1
  - But enough about ST, what about the speech? -- nm - nubby Sep 6, 19:43
The online coverage is slammed -- nm - amoxy Sep 6, 19:36 1
- Also, I clicked his Facebook link for contributions about 2 minutes ago and it hasn't opened yet. -- nm - mara Sep 6, 19:40
Screw politics: I'm either good season tickets in the Friends Zone, or something is happening with this girl I've been liking for a while -- nm - Guigue Sep 6, 19:35 32
- No such thing as good seats in the friend zone' -- nm - Stephen, Shaking Down The Thunder! Sep 6, 19:37 19
  - Only if you sneak into the friends with b enefits zone. alcohol helps this to happen -- nm - Bacon via droid Sep 6, 19:58 18
    - if you're truly in the FZ, you will NEVER be in the FWB zone. -- nm - loosi at home Sep 6, 20:00 17
      - It happens. She has a break up, you guys hang out, have a few pops, boom boom boom, in the morning it's all blamed on booze -- nm - Bacon via droid Sep 6, 20:03 2
        
        the reason a guy is in the FZ is because she has already decided she isn't gonna sleep with him. he will never be in the FWB zone if he is truly in - dogbert Sep 6, 20:09 1
        
        thank you! -- nm - loosi at home Sep 6, 20:11
      - Please. Two drinks and a thoughtful gift puts anybody in play. -- nm - David Sep 6, 20:02 13
        
        this is the kind of thinking that allows girls to keep guys in the FZ. "someday, somehow I will have a shot" -- nm - dogbert Sep 6, 20:11
        
        honey, if you are TRULY in the FZ, no amount of alcohol or diamonds will do it. -- nm - loosi at home Sep 6, 20:04 11
        
        "The world is a much more interesting place than that, Dana." -- nm - David Sep 6, 20:11
        
        You are mixing up making them your sig othber from the FZ and having a night of booze driven sex. -- nm - Bacon via droid Sep 6, 20:05 9
        
        I'm really, really not. FZ means I don't want to have sex with you. If I wanted to have sex with you, - loosi at home Sep 6, 20:09 8
        
        My experience is different than yours. It happens -- nm - Bacon via droid Sep 6, 20:11 7
        
        then you were not in the FZ. -- nm - loosi at home Sep 6, 20:12 6
        
        So you guys just have different definitions of a Friend Zone. Solved! Woohoo! -- nm - Guigue Sep 6, 20:14 5
        
        Laughing. nm - ralph wiggum Sep 6, 20:17 4
        
        Solved! -- nm - Bacon via droid Sep 6, 20:19 3
        
        I refuse to believe there isn't one objective truth here. I'm sure if we knuckle down and keep talking, we can find it. nm - ralph wiggum Sep 6, 20:20 2
        
        I know you're joking, but there actually is. - dogbert Sep 6, 20:32 1
        
        There isn't, because there isn't an actual place called the Friend Zone - Guigue Sep 6, 20:37
- Four more dates! Four more dates! -- nm - nubby Sep 6, 19:36 10
  - We'll have to both agree that Jerusalem is the capital of Israel first though... -- nm - Guigue Sep 6, 19:37 9
    - What are the competing capitals? Bethleham, Haifa, Tel Aviv? -- nm - Beryllium Sep 6, 19:40 8
      - I bet those places see a lot of Haboobs -- nm - Bacon Sep 6, 19:47
      - I think the legislature meets in Jerusalem. -- nm - mara Sep 6, 19:46
      - (It seems to be a bizarre point of contention for me ... so I'm curious. :)) -- nm - Beryllium Sep 6, 19:41 5
        
        Uh, I'll ask her. Jeez Bery, we haven't reached that point in our relationship yet... -- nm - Guigue Sep 6, 19:46 3
        
        wait, what happened to the girl who went to Hawaii with you? -- nm - loosi at home Sep 6, 19:49 1
        
        She's an old friend, nothing ever happened. (And that was like 3 years ago! :)) -- nm - Guigue Sep 6, 19:54
        
        heh, sorry, I wasn't paying attention to how the thread started, just to the strange DNC critique from earlier this week -- nm - Beryllium Sep 6, 19:49
        
        Just Tel Aviv. (Bethlehem is on the West Bank, and I don't believe it's a holy site in Judaism either) -- nm - Roger More Sep 6, 19:42
- *getting good season tickets -- nm - Guigue Sep 6, 19:35
Got a cold? Ha! -- nm - ty97 Sep 6, 19:33
Project Runway spoiler for next week - peglegpete Sep 6, 19:32
Who's the blonde bouffant they keep showing? -- nm - Max Sep 6, 19:32 4
- under 25? tall? Australian? -- nm - loosi at home Sep 6, 19:45
- Classy first, Max. Classy first. -- nm - Spawn Sep 6, 19:44
- Bill's next conquest -- nm - Will Hunting Sep 6, 19:33
- no really, I'm paying attention to the substance. I didn't mean for this to be the subject of the board. -- nm - Max Sep 6, 19:33

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