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The Last Resort SEAL looks like a boy band reject. -- nm - Max Oct 11, 17:25
Ugh. You gotta score there. -- nm - Don Homer Oct 11, 17:21 1
- Done Homer Run!!! -- nm - Bacon Oct 11, 17:22
Dresden Files: Ghoul Goblin comic out now. Set between books 2 and 3. -- (link) - Beaker Oct 11, 17:18
My great uncle passed away overnight from a hear attack. - Karl_S Oct 11, 16:58 9
- Best wishes. -- nm - David Oct 11, 17:32
- Very sorry to hear. :( -- nm - Don Homer Oct 11, 17:21
- I'm so sorry. I'll keep you and your family in my thoughts. -- nm - Trish (free Pixie!) Oct 11, 17:19
- Sorry. How old was he? -- nm - Spawn Oct 11, 17:17 1
  - 78 -- nm - Karl_S Oct 11, 17:24
- sorry to hear that. -- nm - Jovian Oct 11, 17:17
- :( sorry for your loss -- nm - JenBro Oct 11, 17:15
- Sorry to hear. -- nm - The liioulu with a capital t Oct 11, 17:01
- so sorry -- nm - ceregon Oct 11, 16:58
Apartment fire started by a guy using a propane torch to burn the fur off a squirrel so he could eat it. -- (link) - mara Oct 11, 16:56 8
- he was supposed to save the fur. a few more squirrels, and he would have a fur collar start to a coat for his wife :(( -- nm - peglegpete Oct 11, 17:15 1
  - This is because the new versions of The Joy of Cooking no longer have the instructions for skinning a squirrel. -- nm - The liioulu with a capital t Oct 11, 17:28
- BLOWTORCH! -- nm - Dug the Dog Oct 11, 17:12
- Let it be known that *this* is what Education can prevent. It has that power. -- nm - Beryllium Oct 11, 17:08 4
  - I'm just like, if you don't know how to skin an animal, roadkill isn't for you. Is that so hard to understand? -- nm - mara Oct 11, 17:11 3
    - *but totally thinks Mara prefaced that thought with the word dumbass* - JenBro Oct 11, 17:12 2
      - Honestly, I can hear her saying more at the end of the thought. - Trish (free Pixie!) Oct 11, 17:21
      - Ha! -- nm - mara Oct 11, 17:18
giant eyeball washed up on the shore in Florida... -- (link) - Remlik Oct 11, 16:55
Zero Dark Thirty has my money when it gets released -- (link) - budice Oct 11, 16:47 [youtube] 2
- They should put it out before the election. OBAMA! -- nm - Mop (198 lbs) Oct 11, 17:02
- Yeah. Reading 'No Easy Day' right now, too. -- nm - Dr.Vermin Oct 11, 16:56
I've now been to 2 postseason games in my life and in both the other team has won the series that night. - Ender Oct 11, 16:47
Guys is Klingon blood purple? (Note: not creating.) thanks. -- nm - Amanda Oct 11, 16:45 10
- Also, pink. Also, red. -- (link) - mara Oct 11, 16:48 [youtube] 2
  - Yeah, it's kind of an open question. It was in STVI, but nowhere else. Technically you could probably spin the look of the TOS ones into some kind of.... - Ender Oct 11, 16:51 1
    - well the Klingons in the TOS era were infected with Augment DNA which made them more human looking.... - Remlik Oct 11, 16:54
- yes -- nm - Remlik Oct 11, 16:46 6
  - I would take the movie pepto bismol color as canon over episodes. -- nm - Max Oct 11, 16:55 2
    - I would actually consider tv more cannon than movies. - the wrong element, bad guy Oct 11, 17:15
    - yeah I would to, though I would darken it up a bit -- nm - Remlik Oct 11, 16:56
  - I kiss you fervently. -- nm - Amanda Oct 11, 16:47 2
    - it's a light purple almost pink kind of color here...video here - Remlik Oct 11, 16:49 [youtube]
    - I'd pay to witness. -- nm - budice Oct 11, 16:48
shine on you crazy diamond....planet believed to be largely made of diamond only 40 LY away -- (link) - zeitgeist Oct 11, 16:35 3
- interesting. and below it was the article about Jenny McCarthy and her drugs/lesbian evening on the beach with several Playboy playmates -- (link) - peglegpete Oct 11, 16:46 2
  - Jeez, all that came out in her book, 2 weeks ago. I've seen her on 3 different talk shows discussing it in the last 2 weeks. -- nm - Trish (free Pixie!) Oct 11, 17:18
  - mop? -- nm - Spawn Oct 11, 17:14
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- and Gloom -- nm - Rolling Stones Oct 11, 17:15
- that doesn't sound good, I mean its got a beat but I don't think I can dance to it - zeitgeist Oct 11, 16:35 1
  - Needs to be mashed up with some Afro Circus. -- nm - Dr.Vermin Oct 11, 16:39
I can't quite shake the feeling that we're going to look back on Mumford & Sons the same way we look at DMB. -- nm - Reagen Oct 11, 16:29 8
- You think they are going to have that many more hits? - Spawn Oct 11, 17:15 1
  - That many more? I hought DMB only recorded one song. -- nm - the wrong element, bad guy Oct 11, 17:22
- You take that back! -- nm - spamlet (iPhone) Oct 11, 16:52
- are they going to let loose a load of excrement from their bus onto an unsuspecting boat below? -- nm - Beryllium Oct 11, 16:42 1
  - Every time I hear the name of DMB that's what I immediately think of. -- nm - The liioulu with a capital t Oct 11, 16:43
- M&S has a banjo. Your argument is invalid. -- nm - Dr.Vermin Oct 11, 16:39
- as the mellenials age out, break up with SO's they will begin to realize those songs weren't what they thought when they'rere humping like rabbits 2'm -- nm - zeitgeist Oct 11, 16:38
- Please no -- nm - J Oct 11, 16:35
That was fun....someone just poked his head in the bookstore and pointed out it was raining. And me with 5 carts of books outside in the walkway...... - MojaveMeg Oct 11, 16:18 7
- you probably used more in paper towels than the books will sell for -- nm - zork Oct 11, 16:21 3
  - PAPER TOWELS...THEY ARE MADE OF BOOOOOOOKSSSSSSS -- nm - Charlton Heston Oct 11, 16:29
  - You've seen my clearance carts? :) -- nm - MojaveMeg Oct 11, 16:29 1
    - there's a reason they call them 'pulps' -- nm - zeitgeist Oct 11, 16:30
- He couldn't drag a cart in and then warn you? ;) -- nm - The liioulu with a capital t Oct 11, 16:20 2
  - Oh, he and another man did help get them to the door. Now my aisles are full of carts...and people - MojaveMeg Oct 11, 16:28 1
    - Let's hope the second time around sticks... -- nm - BAD Oct 11, 16:31
Survivor spoilers - Dano Oct 11, 16:06 1
- spoiler - The liioulu with a capital t Oct 11, 16:20
Jim Lee and Scot Snyder will be doing Superman:Man of Steel comic.... - Remlik Oct 11, 16:00 3
- link -- (link) - Remlik Oct 11, 16:02
- Adaptation of the movie, or a 3rd Superman title? -- nm - Mop on Mac Pro Oct 11, 16:02 1
  - 3rd title. -- nm - Remlik Oct 11, 16:04
Sgt Major Basil Plumley, veteran of WWII, Korea, and Vietnam, dies at 92 (nmbl) - Brian Oct 11, 15:59
Mila Kunis in talks to star in 50 Shades of Grey movie. Dammit. - Dr.Vermin Oct 11, 15:44 2
- She was standing in line behind me at the Obama fundraiser the Foos played. She is pretty in person, but really, really short. I didn't realize it - jnine Oct 11, 16:00 1
  - lots of eyeliner? did you notice ... - zork Oct 11, 16:12
So I am now doing an away emergency medicine rotation at a large private hospital (meaning you get charged $$$ for everything). The other day we had - James Bond (aka Igor) Oct 11, 15:40
Does anyone here speak Italian or French? Or both? Are they really this similar? -- (link) - Dr.Vermin Oct 11, 15:34 7
- I speak Spanish and French, so I can muddle my way through Italian and Portuguese. -- nm - Mop (198 lbs) Oct 11, 17:04
- Yes and no. -- nm - The liioulu with a capital t Oct 11, 16:22
- Spanish is more similar in pronounciation, but French is more alike in the written word. -- nm - jnine Oct 11, 16:03
- I speak some of both. They are very similar in grammar and vocab, and both descended from the same language. - Roger More Oct 11, 15:55
- I always though Spanish felt closer to French, but yeah all three are pretty close - Guigue Oct 11, 15:44 1
  - Agreed. -- nm - Spawn Oct 11, 16:04
- I suppose that's plausible when looking at the written languages, which removes the question of pronunciation, inflexion, and accent. -- nm - mara Oct 11, 15:39
Ball one, ball two, strike three. - David Oct 11, 15:23
The downside of renting to students and helping them get through school...whenever they want to go to grad school I'm the go to proofreader. - ceregon Oct 11, 15:00 14
- He is only applying to 12 schools? That is pretty ballsy. Most people apply to 25+ - James Bond (aka Igor) Oct 11, 15:08 13
  - I don't know anyone who applied to more than 5. I only applied to one. -- nm - Max Oct 11, 15:15 5
    - (non-med) -- nm - Max Oct 11, 15:15 4
      - I am referring to med schools. Grad schools are much easier since there are so many of them. -- nm - James Bond (aka Igor) Oct 11, 15:16 3
        
        Makes me realize what a breeze it was at Cal State. Admittedly it was a less competitive field......but it - Meg Oct 11, 15:24
        
        depends what you're studying. If you're specialized there might be only a handful. -- nm - loosilu Oct 11, 15:21 1
        
        and in some fields, it's not worth getting a post-grad degree unless it's from one of only a few places - zork Oct 11, 16:24
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  - really? most of my pre-med students weren't applying to that many. -- nm - loosilu Oct 11, 15:12 1
    - *shrug* Times have changed. -- nm - James Bond (aka Igor) Oct 11, 15:15
  - really? 25!?! no wonder they get so freaked out...when i went for my mba i only applied to 5 schools, got into 4 -- nm - ceregon Oct 11, 15:09
  - Blah, you said 10, not 12. -- nm - James Bond (aka Igor) Oct 11, 15:08 1
    - well, he's already accepted so all's he looking for is a better party school, chico or santa cruz -- nm - zeitgeist Oct 11, 15:10
BL2 players: just saw this pop up on a torrent site: "Premiere Club DLC and Mechromancer Addon" for the Xbox. Is that new? - GregW Oct 11, 14:57 4
- both were a free dlc for those who pre-ordered (regardless of system). if you didnt preorder - tRuMaN Oct 11, 14:58 3
  - Will Tuesday's download take players above level 50? -- nm - David Oct 11, 15:24 2
    - it didn't say in the piece I read about it, did you hit 50 yet? -- nm - J Oct 11, 16:18 1
      - Yeah, I'm at Hero's Pass on Vault Hunter mode. - David Oct 11, 17:32
hmmm....Byran Lee O'malley (Scott Pilgrim) will be doing some stuff for Marvel Comics...Young Avengers. -- nm - Remlik Oct 11, 14:55 9
- totally ignoring the fact several characters got their powers after they became adults -- nm - peglegpete Oct 11, 15:37 2
  - Those aren't young versions of The Avengers. - the wrong element, bad guy Oct 11, 16:00 1
    - AH! -- nm - peglegpete Oct 11, 16:24
- link -- (link) - Remlik Oct 11, 14:57 5
  - Uhm. Hulkling's groping someone's boob right on the cover of that comic. -- nm - Mop (198 lbs) Oct 11, 15:26 1
    - Probably his boyfriend's. -- nm - the wrong element, bad guy Oct 11, 16:04
  - Is he going to be doing more than that variant cover? - the wrong element, bad guy Oct 11, 15:24 2
    - No. He did this for a friend. -- nm - Kim Pine Oct 11, 16:22
    - I don't think so. *BUT* I suspect they may get him to do a small story somewhere down the line. -- nm - Remlik Oct 11, 15:38
Loosi, will it be safe to go to the brew festival next weekend? -- (link) - peglegpete Oct 11, 14:50 2
- not at this rate. still nuking. -- nm - loosilu Oct 11, 14:51 1
  - some choice, nuking or puking... - zeitgeist Oct 11, 15:16
The end of that 'Frisco game was more dramatic than it needed to be. -- nm - budice Oct 11, 14:45
notdead/pacrat: try booting to a linux live disc to read that drive. That's likely what that place will charge you to try. -- nm - zork Oct 11, 14:44 2
- and I can get one of these on the cheap .... where? :) -- nm - i'm not Undead yet ! Oct 11, 15:09 1
  - still there? you can download for free. just google linux live ... - zork Oct 11, 16:17
If Andie doesn't go for the massage tonight, I'll kick a puppy or something. -- nm - zork Oct 11, 14:42 1
- That will not help her relax. -- nm - The liioulu with a capital t Oct 11, 16:24
if its wrong for me to start up all sorts of web stuff, killing our dismal internet connection at work - tRuMaN Oct 11, 14:33 3
- speedtest.net ... heheh -- nm - Beryllium Oct 11, 14:34 2
  - 1.15mbs down. .35mbs up. i think i get better 3g speeds than that. -- nm - tRuMaN Oct 11, 14:53 1
    - Theoretically it maxes out the connection while testing. So test and test again. *finger to nose*. -- nm - Beryllium Oct 11, 15:08
Only 2 of my FB friends like Biden, only one likes Ryan. -- nm - Roger More Oct 11, 14:32 3
- 3 Biden, 15 Ryan. - Dr.Vermin Oct 11, 14:35 2
  - It's the abs. -- nm - jnine Oct 11, 14:56 1
    - who wants to date a guy who will meet you where there is public transit? -- nm - zeitgeist Oct 11, 15:13
My Little Pony comic presells 90,000 copies. Sells more than Uncanny X-men -- nm - Remlik Oct 11, 14:30 13
- How many copies did you get for znu? -- nm - Spawn Oct 11, 17:19
- link -- (link) - Remlik Oct 11, 14:31 11
  - must be a lot of bronys out there -- nm - ceregon Oct 11, 14:32 10
    - WHAT?! No! Shut up! You are! -- nm - Mop (198 lbs) Oct 11, 15:19
    - Kill 'em with fire! -- nm - Qale Oct 11, 14:53
    - 5000 plus showed up at a convention in Jersey -- nm - Remlik Oct 11, 14:41 5
      - the island off the coast of England or the state? - Jovian Oct 11, 14:43 4
        
        he means they were all wearing knit fabrics. -- nm - loosilu Oct 11, 14:44 3
        
        lol. I was hoping that it was the Jersey off the coast of England. Because that shit is embarrasing as all hell. -- nm - Jovian Oct 11, 14:45 2
        
        Like New Jersey. -- nm - Roger More Oct 11, 14:49 1
        
        werd. thank god I'm not from there. though I visit a lot. -- nm - Remlik Oct 11, 14:50
    - there's nothing wrong with being a My Little Brony -- nm - i'm not Undead yet ! Oct 11, 14:35 1
      - Yes, yes there is. -- nm - spamlet Oct 11, 14:40
bang bang -- nm - zeitgeist Oct 11, 14:24
woot. The Neighbors adjusted up to a 2.0 in the final numbers for last night. - Jovian Oct 11, 14:24 2
- I didn't see last night's yet. Is the quality holding / still rising? -- nm - Dr.Vermin Oct 11, 14:25 1
  - 2nd episode was stellar. Havent seen the 3rd yet. But heard it was even better. -- nm - Jovian Oct 11, 14:26
I am out of here! Mini Vacation to Tahoe...Cya on Monday -- nm - amoxy Oct 11, 14:23 1
- Have a great time! -- nm - Stephen Oct 11, 14:23
People! Against! Goodness! And Normalcy! -- nm - Reagen Oct 11, 14:22

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