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i am trying to decide if it is worth the effort to write to my local fox channel and complain, they advertised about a Thanksgiving cooking for - tRuMaN Nov 7, 11:55 2
- There are people with soy allergies. There's technically no such thing as a gluten allergy. -- nm - Dr.Vermin Nov 7, 11:58
- Go Jovian on them. - Spawnfall Nov 7, 11:57
The NOM-targeted Supreme Court judge in Iowa survived. -- nm - ty97 Nov 7, 11:54 2
- But Giffords' replacement in Arizona is losing. -- nm - Mop (195 lbs) Nov 7, 11:58
- Everything's coming up gay! -- nm - Will Hunting Nov 7, 11:56
For cable news networks, prelims say CNN barely beat out Fox. MSNBC way behind -- nm - ty97 Nov 7, 11:50 12
- Twitter is abuzz about Diane Sawyer seemingly drunk? -- (link) - zeitgeist Nov 7, 11:55
- I watched CBS because they had good VA coverage. -- nm - loosilu Nov 7, 11:55
- do you have a link? -- nm - prayformoJaws Nov 7, 11:55 1
  - From B2. -- (link) - Mop (195 lbs) Nov 7, 11:56 [Backboard]
- I stayed with NBC most of the night. Never thought to check out MSNBC. -- nm - Krusty Nov 7, 11:52 4
  - NBC and MSNBC were basically the exact same. Chuck Todd on both. Same smartboard. Same graphics. Different people talking. I chose Brian Williams -- nm - volnelk Nov 7, 11:56
  - Yeah. Whenever it's a live news event, I go straight to "7-0-3" on the remote. NBC. It's the only channel I have memorized. -- nm - Mop (195 lbs) Nov 7, 11:54
  - I wasn't able to stream any of the cables, but NBC was available so I watched Brian and company -- nm - ty97 Nov 7, 11:54 1
    - That's a nice looking family. -- nm - Brian Williams Nov 7, 11:55
- NBC probably won overall though -- nm - ty97 Nov 7, 11:52
- MSNBC was just a panel. Nobody gives a crap about talking heads - show us the graphics. -- nm - Max Nov 7, 11:52
- PBS was snooze laden borefest -- nm - zeitgeist Nov 7, 11:51
This is the most awesome thing from that Rove article. - Will Hunting Nov 7, 11:49 1
- Can you imagine the levels of freak going down amongst those statisticians when they heard that Kelly - and a camera - were on their way? -- nm - Mop (195 lbs) Nov 7, 11:51
kilbo when I went to bed last night the pension thing was barely losing. - ty97 Nov 7, 11:47
~ Heeyyyy Holo Lady ~ Flagnum Style! -- nm - Beryllium Nov 7, 11:46 6
- "Frag'em Style" -- nm - Mop (195 lbs) Nov 7, 11:47
- Related sidenote: Why does today's penny arcade representation of Cortana look like it has testes? -- nm - Beryllium Nov 7, 11:46 4
  - Uhm... lips. -- nm - Mop (195 lbs) Nov 7, 11:48 3
    - It really doesn't look like HoloCamelToe -- nm - Beryllium Nov 7, 11:48 2
      - "Hey Gabe, your representation of female genitalia sucks. Work on it." -- nm - Mop (195 lbs) Nov 7, 11:50 1
        
        Dongles. -- nm - Spawnfall Nov 7, 11:57
I'm lazy. When does the lame duck start? -- nm - spamlet (iPhone) Nov 7, 11:44 6
- 11-15 -- nm - mara Nov 7, 11:55 4
  - Wait, no, sorry. -- nm - mara Nov 7, 11:57 3
    - the 13th -- nm - mara Nov 7, 11:58 2
      - "The Congressional schedule for this lame duck session is remarkably abbreviated. The House and Senate are both slated to next meet on Tuesday, Novemb - mara Nov 7, 11:59 1
        
        Is the Sportsmen Act an act to declare cheerleading a sport so safety rules apply? -- nm - Max Nov 7, 12:00
- i wonder if they will get an AMT fix worked out before 1-1-13. -- nm - tRuMaN Nov 7, 11:44
I just woke up and realized it wasn't all a dream. What an awesomely gay election day. -- nm - ty97 Nov 7, 11:42
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- Awesome! Take video. -- nm - Krusty Nov 7, 11:45
- frozen tundra of dawsons scalp -- nm - budice Nov 7, 11:44
Groiny - when you do the painting of the walls - consider magnetic paint beneath the colored paint - it's "Magic" then - Casino JenBro Nov 7, 11:41 4
- Oh, that sounds awesome! -- nm - Mop (195 lbs) Nov 7, 11:46
- and then, when she gets braces, hilarity ensues... -- nm - decline Nov 7, 11:43
- decent idea, thanks. nm -- nm - groiny Nov 7, 11:42 1
  - oh well ... glad it could make the cut ;) -- nm - Casino JenBro Nov 7, 11:43
psa: be happy folks...it is hump day and obama won -- nm - budice Nov 7, 11:40 2
- sadly, I get no benefit from either of those occurances. nm -- nm - groiny Nov 7, 11:40 1
  - Obamacare will pay for your new knees, which should help with the former. -- nm - Max Nov 7, 11:42
So something like this but with different colours; -- (link) - Loyola Nov 7, 11:33 14
- I really dislike the chair rails, because the walls are not level, and they never connect right - groiny Nov 7, 11:36 13
  - Every house I've ever owned has had textured walls and I hate it. -- nm - Mop (195 lbs) Nov 7, 11:46 4
    - that stuff is the ultimate evil. -- nm - loosilu Nov 7, 11:47
    - I rejected a few houses because of them. Would never own one. -- nm - Spawnfall Nov 7, 11:47 2
      - I don't think there's one in this town without it. -- nm - Mop (195 lbs) Nov 7, 11:48 1
        
        Weird. It is a good way to hide sloppy workmanship. There are only a few around here with it. - Spawnfall Nov 7, 11:52
  - If it were me, I would paint the walls stone gray. Painting lines like bricks (in darker gray) optional. -- nm - loosilu Nov 7, 11:42 6
    - aka The Amy. -- nm - Spawnfall Nov 7, 11:42 5
      - did she do this? cool! -- nm - loosilu Nov 7, 11:43 4
        
        Bub's room before he was born. - Spawnfall Nov 7, 11:46 3
        
        very nice. I did my friends' kids' room as an alien planet. it's pretty sweet. -- nm - loosilu Nov 7, 11:47 2
        
        Oh, you paint? -- nm - Spawnfall Nov 7, 11:48 1
        
        ha ha. here's the gallery. My friends were gutsy enough to let me do the deep blue ceiling. -- (link) - loosilu Nov 7, 11:50 [flickr]
  - Ok no worries. -- nm - Loyola Nov 7, 11:39
Other than a quiz about the person, give me ideas for activities for an afternoon birthday party for a 90 year old. - Moneypandie Nov 7, 11:33 21
- "This is YOUR LIFE" (sorry - this post made me think of that show) -- nm - Casino JenBro Nov 7, 11:42
- singing strip-o-gram -- nm - budice Nov 7, 11:39
- graveyard tour? nm -- nm - groiny Nov 7, 11:36 5
  - pfft, she walks a mile every day. and goes to her fitness dance class every morning. -- nm - Moneypandie Nov 7, 11:37 4
    - KINECT!!! (do they have a "granny" level?) -- nm - Casino JenBro Nov 7, 11:43
    - Dance-off ! -- nm - decline Nov 7, 11:40 2
      - [hereby blocks Jovian from replying] -- nm - Spawnfall Nov 7, 11:42
      - pants off, dance off! nm -- nm - groiny Nov 7, 11:41
- How about radio or tv from the 30s-50s? -- nm - Max Nov 7, 11:36 12
  - oh, right, music will be WWII era stuff. -- nm - Moneypandie Nov 7, 11:37 11
    - 40s style appetizers? I have whole cookbooks of these and they are easy to find online. -- nm - loosilu Nov 7, 11:39 3
      - i would love this - but it's being catered by the place it is in. -- nm - Moneypandie Nov 7, 11:40 2
        
        gotcha. how about bingo? -- nm - loosilu Nov 7, 11:42 1
        
        oh, maybe. nice. -- nm - Moneypandie Nov 7, 11:43
    - American Horror Story: Asylum murder mystery theme party! -- nm - Max Nov 7, 11:38 6
      - I was going to suggest poisoning one of the cupcakes and having a giant game of russian roulette. - Loyola Nov 7, 11:41
      - perfecf! -- nm - Moneypandie Nov 7, 11:39 4
        
        At my grandfather's 90th it was mostly standing around drinking tea. - Max Nov 7, 11:41 3
        
        yeah, i want it to be a *bit* more than standing around. i know it will be mostly that though. -- nm - Moneypandie Nov 7, 11:42 2
        
        For my great-grandmother's 100th she took a hot air balloon ride and was the first woman to join the local (Grange?) -- nm - Max Nov 7, 11:43 1
        
        see, THAT is awesome. -- nm - Moneypandie Nov 7, 11:44
No Aaron Rodgers this week? I might as well concede now. -- nm - Was Bar Was Nov 7, 11:33
Hobbit tix now on sale at Fandango. -- nm - David Nov 7, 11:31 2
- This will definitely be the next movie I see in the theatres. -- nm - Stephen, No. 3 with a bullet! Nov 7, 11:32 1
  - ditto -- nm - Beakraker Nov 7, 11:33
Jesus, New York? What time is it there? Where'd the sun go? -- (link) - Mop (195 lbs) Nov 7, 11:30 7
- someone let Athena out of the box, didn't they? -- nm - znufrii Nov 7, 11:39 2
  - I hate you. - Krusty Nov 7, 11:41 1
    - On it's face, it's absurd. But upon deeper examination, it's better than "The storm of 2012". "The October one?" "No, no. November." -- nm - Mop (195 lbs) Nov 7, 11:53
- The next round of storms just got here a few hours ago. It's snowing! -- nm - Krusty Nov 7, 11:39 2
  - I tuned into the webcam to see snow. Looks more like rain right now. -- nm - Mop (195 lbs) Nov 7, 11:42 1
    - It's a mix but mostly rain. I like snow but it's too early for snow. -- nm - Krusty Nov 7, 11:45
- DOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM!!! -- nm - Chuck Norris Nov 7, 11:38
people on the South Shore are starting to lose power here. shite. -- nm - Deev Another Day Nov 7, 11:29 5
- just now getting lunch break - is this the snow storm I heard might happen out East? power lines coming down from weight of ice? -- nm - Casino JenBro Nov 7, 11:32 4
  - nmbl -- (link) - mara Nov 7, 11:35 1
    - hah - I was JUST watching this same video clip Mara :) decided to go looking while I waited for a reply. -- nm - Casino JenBro Nov 7, 11:36
  - I'm not sure they're predicting much ice. -- nm - mara Nov 7, 11:35 1
    - I sure hope not ... ice can really complicate things. -- nm - Casino JenBro Nov 7, 11:36
9 counties in Florida still haven't counted absentee ballots. Any idea what they mean by 'Federal Absentee'? -- (link) - GregW Nov 7, 11:25 8
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  - So they can only vote for federal offices? -- nm - GregW Nov 7, 11:31 1
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- Military and American's overseas. -- nm - Krusty Nov 7, 11:27 3
  - with no residency in any state, I think. -- nm - loosilu Nov 7, 11:29 1
    - Yes. I didn't mean people on vacation. :-) - Krusty Nov 7, 11:44
  - No apostrophe. :-( -- nm - Krusty Nov 7, 11:29
- I think the court ordered them to give provisional ballots to those without ID when they stayed that law -- nm - zeitgeist Nov 7, 11:27
Funny note from Grantland podcast. In Timecop (1994), the 'future' was 2004. In Escape from New York, it was 1997. I'd say we are doing pretty well. - volnelk Nov 7, 11:25 3
- skynet turned out to be google chrome -- nm - zeitgeist Nov 7, 11:54
- Jaws 19 comes out in 3 years -- (link) - volnelk Nov 7, 11:28
- Blade Runner is 2019. 7 years for Atari to make a comeback! -- nm - Reagen Nov 7, 11:27
Watching a review of Halo 4, I saw a player pick up a flag, carry it in one hand, and a handgun in the other. - Mop (195 lbs) Nov 7, 11:25 12
- there is already a term for killing people with that gun - tRuMaN Nov 7, 11:30 5
  - the review makes notes that winning is based on score (obviously) and not kills but it doesn't say if anything other than a kill adds to your team - Master Kilbo Nov 7, 11:42 4
    - as far as i know, each kill is worth 10 pts. the games are 60 kills or 80 kills, or whatever - tRuMaN Nov 7, 11:44 3
      - I wonder why the shift to "points" then if it's only translating kills to points -- nm - Master Kilbo Nov 7, 11:45 2
        
        Different games have different kill points. In Regicide, whoever has the lead is the king and is worth 25, others are worth 10. -- nm - volnelk Nov 7, 11:54
        
        me no know. though wasnt this the same measure in reach? - tRuMaN Nov 7, 11:49
- Yeah, you can assassinate people actually using the flag. -- nm - volnelk Nov 7, 11:25
- My son was all "We *HAVE* to play capture the flag". He's dying to assassinate someone with it -- nm - Master Kilbo Nov 7, 11:25 1
  - you can always create a custom game and such for that as well -- nm - tRuMaN Nov 7, 11:54
- Sweet. -- nm - Spawnfall Nov 7, 11:25 2
  - Watch the Rev3 review. -- (link) - Mop (195 lbs) Nov 7, 11:26 [youtube] 1
    - Niiiice. As I said, installed last night. I did set my armor color and call sign but that was it. - Spawnfall Nov 7, 11:39
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- I didn't think there was any chance at 6pm last night of that happening much less a while back. - Will Hunting Nov 7, 11:44
- No, no, they've just made it *that much harder* for the Dems to keep the Senate in 2018. -- nm - Reagen Nov 7, 11:29
- Yeah! Lets get rid of all those RINO's!!!1!! -- nm - Tea Party Nov 7, 11:25
if you play halo 4, you might want to make sure you are signed up for xbox live rewards - tRuMaN Nov 7, 11:24
It would have been nice is my attorney's office had said "court is cancelled" instead of "you don't need to go" which made it sound like it was a - sycor Nov 7, 11:23 1
- Well, they were not incorrect. - Spawnfall Nov 7, 11:24
Jason Bay and the Mets part ways. - groiny Nov 7, 11:21
This is kind of cool. The AMC by us has remodeled to an all-suite theatre. -- (link) - spamlet Nov 7, 11:21 9
- Ours just remodeled with recliner seats two weeks ago. I saw Flight in them. The new-seat smell was a little off-putting. - Max Nov 7, 11:26 3
  - I went to that theater once (oddly to see a Denzel movie too), it was awful. -- nm - MDH Nov 7, 11:28 1
    - When I showed up in DC in 96, they were doing so much business they were selling tickets from the Metro tunnel level window, and the upstairs - Max Nov 7, 11:32
  - I don't think your IM is the case here. It's usually pretty full. - spamlet Nov 7, 11:27
- I want one of these so badly. -- nm - ThunderProfit Nov 7, 11:23 1
  - We should do another STL meetup and rent one of the screens. -- nm - spamlet Nov 7, 11:24
- Great for jamming. -- nm - Spawnfall Nov 7, 11:22 1
  - don't you go to movies with Remlik??? - groiny Nov 7, 11:23
- they have one in kc. i have never been -- nm - tRuMaN Nov 7, 11:22
I'm worried about that band named "We're Gonna Break Up". -- nm - Reagen Nov 7, 11:21 2
- Their first single is not bad. "Love Story" -- nm - Spawnfall Nov 7, 11:22
- They should do a cover of Taylor Swift. -- nm - loosilu Nov 7, 11:21
The Room That Shall Not Be Named -- nm - David Nov 7, 11:20
LIR: groiny. Mirror is cool for sure, I like the idea of the wall "rail" to divide the room horizontally and paint below. We did the same kind -- (link) - Master Kilbo Nov 7, 11:20 2
- Saw a neat idea from google where you take a snowy owl of any kind and put it in an old birdcage in the room. Easily hung from a ceiling hook -- nm - Master Kilbo Nov 7, 11:24 1
  - Also, you should definitely get some old fat lady painting and hang it on the door to her room -- nm - Master Kilbo Nov 7, 11:28
If Obama is elected president again, by this time next year I will either be dead or in jail. -- nm - Ted Nugent Nov 7, 11:19 2
- So if he's not in jail by April sometime, will he feel obligated to kill himself? -- nm - mara Nov 7, 11:25
- Waits for it. -- nm - Spawnfall Nov 7, 11:19
I read these people so you don't have to. Shorter Jonah Goldberg: - Reagen Nov 7, 11:19
Tammy Baldwin's victory speech -- (link) - znufrii Nov 7, 11:19
the $35 xbox live cards seem to be sold out -- nm - tRuMaN Nov 7, 11:16

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