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ACC Coaches Shuffling: O'Brien and Tenuta might be headed to UVA, Friedgen to VT as OC -- nm - Strongbad Jan 3, 12:40
teen drugs parents so she can surf the web after the 10pm curfew -- (link) - peglegpete Jan 3, 12:39
Sometimes wish I understood my brain....like a switch flipped today and went from ok to just a random boiling rage inside - at nothing - Capstern Jan 3, 12:29 17
- caffeine? drinking so much coffee I often fly a coffin corner between maintenance dosage and toxic overdose -- nm - zeitgeist Jan 3, 12:42 1
  - I dont drink coffee or soda. I have a 72oz bubba keg drink water. - Capstern Jan 3, 12:43
- Stupid elephant knees!!! -- nm - Mop (189 lbs) Jan 3, 12:34 1
  - yes lying pachyderms -- nm - Capstern Jan 3, 12:37
- fun? -- nm - znufrii Jan 3, 12:33 6
  - Not so much. At 18 I saw a guy backhand his GF - I dont remember much of the fight..but I shattered his - Capstern Jan 3, 12:37 5
    - you should do yoga. - Andie Jan 3, 12:41 4
      - I have thought about it - and it will sound lame but being a big guy learning yoga is going to feel embarassing.... - Capstern Jan 3, 12:42 3
        
        shiatsu might be useful for that as well. -- nm - znufrii Jan 3, 12:44
        
        but you would be the only big guy in a room full of limber ladies...wait there's a problem with that? -- nm - zeitgeist Jan 3, 12:44 1
        
        groiny? :) -- nm - Capstern Jan 3, 12:45
- As long as you can direct the energy into accomplishing work, it can be good. Just stay off the highway. -- nm - GregW Jan 3, 12:32 1
  - I am lucky my drive is 3 miles -and yes Road rage is something I am suceptible to - well less here everyone is armed -- nm - Capstern Jan 3, 12:35
- *you* wish? -- nm - charlie Jan 3, 12:31 3
  - :P Its scary at times because when its bad I just want to break things - its random and rare but like a switch gets flipped -- nm - Capstern Jan 3, 12:32 2
    - to overload? -- nm - Bob Geldof Jan 3, 12:38 1
      - no clue - like all of my brain is firing at once -- nm - Capstern Jan 3, 12:39
Geithner Said to Plan Departure Before Debt Ceiling Deal -- (link) - Strongbad Jan 3, 12:28
upcoming poll: what, if anything, are you looking forward to in 2013? (going back to Austin, maybe getting health insurance again) -- nm - charlie Jan 3, 12:26 26
- Praying my MIL gets better. It's been a tough 12 months. -- nm - Strongbad Jan 3, 12:46
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- Having my family get past some significant health issues that have come up in the last 6 months. Haven't really mentioned it here, but in the last 6 - pmb Jan 3, 12:44 2
  - eeesh, that's a lot. good thoughts going forward. -- nm - Andie Jan 3, 12:46
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- Guess. -- nm - Mop (189 lbs) Jan 3, 12:35 3
  - A deep, well-rounded relationship with a mature woman? -- nm - mara Jan 3, 12:37 1
    - "mature" makes it sound like 50+. Hello Demi Moore! -- nm - Mop (189 lbs) Jan 3, 13:06
  - is portland finally getting a chipotle? -- nm - charlie Jan 3, 12:35
- Being the father of a teenager - oblique2013 Jan 3, 12:30 1
  - It's what you look forward to, not dread. -- nm - pmb Jan 3, 12:31
- new job - paying down debt -- nm - Epiphany Jan 3, 12:29 3
  - i hate that "paying down debt" is just part of the monthly grind for me now - charlie Jan 3, 12:39 2
    - dude, wait until you have a mortgage -- nm - ceregon Jan 3, 12:40 1
      - if i ever get to the point that i can afford a mortgage, it will be a job that i won't have to worry - charlie Jan 3, 12:42
- Vacation in the Outer Banks (Corolla) in July. -- nm - TWuG Jan 3, 12:28 1
  - me too (Emerald Isle) -- nm - charlie Jan 3, 12:30
- being able to watch one of my fighters on tv -- nm - ceregon Jan 3, 12:28 1
  - Please let us know if/when this happens. -- nm - Strongbad Jan 3, 12:29
- to see if boss keeps his word about promotion and raise in Feb...paying off 2 old bills -- nm - Capstern Jan 3, 12:28
- uncertainty. -- nm - znufrii Jan 3, 12:27
- are you moving? -- nm - loosilu Jan 3, 12:27 1
  - film festival -- nm - charlie Jan 3, 12:27
- Jamaica and having some free time. Maybe. -- nm - Andie Jan 3, 12:26 2
  - and cup after cup of that tasty Keurig coffee -- nm - charlie Jan 3, 12:28 1
    - i have to hope i have bigger highlights than that. -- nm - Andie Jan 3, 12:29
"Hey, Boehner finally whipped 218 votes for something." -- nm - Tweet o' the Day Jan 3, 12:19
Viewers Can Choose Episode Ending in Real Time for 'Hawaii Five-0' on January 14 -- (link) - MDH Jan 3, 12:12 19
- amateurs -- (link) - The Broadway Cast of 'The Mystery of Edwin Drood' Jan 3, 12:27
- Alex O'laughlin takes acting lessons and becomes a real boy -- nm - Capstern Jan 3, 12:23
- "If you want Calculon to double-check his paperwork, press 2." -- nm - Grudem Jan 3, 12:16
- Thomas Magnum lands in a chopper and killes the hostage????? -- nm - DaneDukeNuuk Jan 3, 12:15
- ie, we filmed three endings, after you "vote" we just play one of those three -- nm - tRuMaN 24601 Jan 3, 12:14 13
  - The Joker kills Robin, but not really. -- nm - Mop (189 lbs) Jan 3, 12:21 2
    - he was dead for 20 plus years. -- nm - Remlik Jan 3, 12:37 1
      - well a little under 20 years -- nm - Remlik Jan 3, 12:38
  - of course, how else would they do it? -- nm - loosilu Jan 3, 12:15 9
    - Live? -- nm - Strongbad Jan 3, 12:22 5
      - too much work. -- nm - znufrii Jan 3, 12:33
      - sounds awesome but in practicality would likely be worse than improv comedy -- nm - zeitgeist Jan 3, 12:25 3
        
        I remember ER's live episode being pretty bad. -- nm - Strongbad Jan 3, 12:28 2
        
        I was less than impressed overall with the 30 Rock live episode I saw. -- nm - znufrii Jan 3, 12:35
        
        I'm pretty sure they had a script, they didn't get suggestions between commercials and ...go -- nm - zeitgeist Jan 3, 12:35
    - Scott Caan will do improve based on recommendations of call in peeps -- nm - Epiphany Jan 3, 12:21
    - time travel? -- nm - DaneDukeNuuk Jan 3, 12:21
    - magic -- nm - tRuMaN 24601 Jan 3, 12:20
- kill Kono -- nm - peglegpete Jan 3, 12:13
Welp, my 2yo MacBook Pro won't recognize my hard disk. - nubby, Astro-lord Jan 3, 12:08 6
- my Sony Vaio just quit. four years old. -- nm - loosilu Jan 3, 12:16
- seems fair..apple has a 2year warranty policy -- nm - DaneDukeNuuk Jan 3, 12:16
- heh heh. hard. boned. -- nm - spamlet Jan 3, 12:12
- But Apple products always work. At least that's what everyone tells me. - pmb Jan 3, 12:12 1
  - *charges you $312.50 for entering* -- nm - oblique2013 Jan 3, 12:17
- any Time Machine? -- nm - charlie Jan 3, 12:10
Neat. New species of insect discovered by scientist browsing Flickr -- (link) - oblique2013 Jan 3, 12:07 3
- I *AM* working! -- nm - Scientist browsing the internet Jan 3, 12:22
- that's fantastic. -- nm - loosilu Jan 3, 12:08 1
  - what she said :) -- nm - peglegpete Jan 3, 12:10
elephants do not have four knees. who made up that crap? -- nm - loosilu Jan 3, 12:06 11
- It is because of dumb people. -- (link) - Spawn Jan 3, 12:19 3
  - this is what happens when people have no access to elephants. -- nm - loosilu Jan 3, 12:22 2
    - I do not want to live in a world where I have no access to elephants. -- nm - Spawn Jan 3, 12:39 1
      - *petitions the White House website for an emergency No Access to Elephants law* -- nm - charlie Jan 3, 12:42
- Yup, I think it was a bullshit animal trivia email that circulated. The Straight Dope message board cites it in 2002. -- (link) - mara Jan 3, 12:12 3
  - that doesn't sound like something capstern would fall for -- nm - charlie Jan 3, 12:22 1
    - ik,r? -- nm - mara Jan 3, 12:28
  - some of those things are true, but not the knees. -- nm - loosilu Jan 3, 12:15
- ? -- nm - Winter Wonderlandie Jan 3, 12:11 2
  - cappie's trivia on b2. it's bullshit. they have two knees like every other quadruped. -- (link) - loosilu Jan 3, 12:12 [Backboard] 1
    - just reposted what the had as a question on a trivia night....failed fact checking by Dark Loosi -- nm - Capstern Jan 3, 12:21
"According To Exit Polls, Nobody Will Make The Baseball Hall Of Fame" come on Biggio, Bagwell, and Piazza! -- (link) - MDH Jan 3, 12:04
happy birthday love to John Paul Jones & Stephen Stills!, and today 1/13 is my neice's 13th bd too - zeitgeist Jan 3, 12:03 3
- FKM -- nm - Spawn Jan 3, 12:39
- John Paul Jones! - loosilu Jan 3, 12:04 1
  - with Robert Stack? -- nm - peglegpete Jan 3, 12:08
SI.com is reporting that ESPN has signed Ray Lewis to a multi-year deal with the network. -- nm - Strongbad Jan 3, 12:03 3
- Yeah, he will be strating on Monday. Nice. -- nm - Spawn Jan 3, 12:20
- (expected to have a role on MNF) -- nm - Strongbad Jan 3, 12:04 1
  - The Hell! -- nm - Grudem Jan 3, 12:05
speaking of Gilligan's Island poll: what unrepresented minority or other class of people should have been on the S.S. Minnow? -- nm - charlie Jan 3, 12:00 9
- any sort of minority (bonus if not a caricature). a skilled tradesman. -- nm - zork Jan 3, 12:09 1
  - they needed someone like Link from the Mod Squad to call bullshit on all the dumbass plans for trying to get off the island that the honkies dreamt up -- nm - charlie Jan 3, 12:11
- Chris Elliott as the cabin boy -- nm - Beaker Jan 3, 12:02
- someone smart who knew how to fix a hole in a boat -- nm - peglegpete Jan 3, 12:02 3
  - but they were too busy making coconut radios! -- nm - Andie Jan 3, 12:03 2
    - And trying to have sex with Ginger and Maryann -- nm - eag Jan 3, 12:04 1
      - the girls were willing, but the guys were the problem -- nm - zork Jan 3, 12:06
- Black bartender. -- nm - Mop (189 lbs) Jan 3, 12:00 1
  - Too bad Issac was misused on The Love Boat -- nm - eag Jan 3, 12:02
LYC: New television series I'm gonna check out. Continuum, Ripper Street, The Americans, Spies of Warsaw, and Cult -- nm - CQ draped in tinsel Jan 3, 11:58 5
- Continuum was good. It is a bit much to buy into the story, but the gorgeous leads take the edge off. -- nm - GregW Jan 3, 12:28
- also Bates Motel -- nm - Jovian Jan 3, 12:05
- Kevin Bacon's new serial killer one looks interesting -- nm - Beaker Jan 3, 11:59 2
  - The Following. (it looks very good) -- nm - decline Jan 3, 12:00 1
    - oh, yeah. I think I forgot to add that one. thanks -- nm - CQ draped in tinsel Jan 3, 12:01
ST Poll: Have you ever seen the Harlem Globetrotters play live? On TV? -- nm - Beaker Jan 3, 11:58 27
- Yes, back in the 70s. It was a laugh riot. This was before Magic and Dr. J, so the play was mind-blowing. -- nm - GregW Jan 3, 12:30
- both ways -- nm - crash davis Jan 3, 12:23 3
  - plus when I was a kid I saw them solve a crime with Scooby Doo -- nm - crash davis Jan 3, 12:24 2
    - did you? or did Fred, Velma, and Daphne do all the crime solving as usual?? -- nm - charlie Jan 3, 12:36 1
      - Crash was too busy eating Scooby Snacks -- nm - zork Jan 3, 12:40
- saw them live twice. -- nm - Diva Jan 3, 12:23
- We saw them pre-child. We're taking the kid now. -- nm - spamlet Jan 3, 12:13
- yes - also saw 4 Okland Raiders (way back) play Donkey Basketball in my high school -- nm - Capstern Jan 3, 12:07 1
  - Art Shell (when he was a player) playing basketball on the back of a Donkey was AWESOME -- nm - Capstern Jan 3, 12:10
- Live as a kid, and again maybe 5-6 years ago. -- nm - TFox Jan 3, 12:06
- About a dozen times live -- nm - eag Jan 3, 12:05 1
  - Half dozen i mean -- nm - eag Jan 3, 12:05
- on tv all the time when I was a kid. -- nm - loosilu Jan 3, 12:04
- I think I saw them live once. My elementary school used to give out free tickets, if I remember correctly. -- nm - kelly Jan 3, 12:04
- never live, a few times on tv as a kids. -- nm - znufrii Jan 3, 12:04
- live twice (once as a kid, once in my early twenties), several times on tv. I also remember the cartoon show they had on Sat. mornings -- nm - zork Jan 3, 12:03
- Yep, twice live, the Curly Neal edition. -- nm - MDH Jan 3, 12:02
- On Wide World of Sports, I guess. -- nm - Mop (189 lbs) Jan 3, 12:01
- On tv multiple times....never got to see them live, but would love to have seen the classic version - Will Hunting Jan 3, 12:01 3
  - Curly O'Neal, it was hella great as a kid -- nm - Beaker Jan 3, 12:01 2
    - Yeap, Curly O'Neal was the ringleader the first few times I saw him, I guess Meadowlark was retired by then. -- nm - Will Hunting Jan 3, 12:06 1
      - things i didn't know until now: Curly Neal's real name is Fred -- nm - charlie Jan 3, 12:13
- yes, live about 35 years ago -- nm - peglegpete Jan 3, 12:00
- i think both. they came to our hometown once when i was in H.S. -- nm - charlie Jan 3, 11:59
- live, a couple of times -- nm - prayformojo Jan 3, 11:59
- yes (in Florida when I was around 9ish, so it was their most famous players) and yes (I miss them playing on TV) -- nm - Beaker Jan 3, 11:59
- On tv yes, Gilligan's Island -- nm - CQ draped in tinsel Jan 3, 11:59
LIR: truman: The callouts are easy to remedy. Everyone prints these -- (link) - oblique2013 Jan 3, 11:57 10
- Damn. Haven is *hot*. -- nm - Spawn Jan 3, 12:21
- interesting. those seem to be the same as those mlg guys where using - tRuMaN 24601 Jan 3, 12:07 6
  - Yeah, they were less specific on Haven also. "Blue road", "Top center", etc. -- nm - oblique2013 Jan 3, 12:09 5
    - which is fine, its more important that people understand an area - tRuMaN 24601 Jan 3, 12:20 4
      - with their jetpacking, it seemed the assumption was that you'd be airborne heading to an area and thus able to spot enemies quickly vs - oblique2013 Jan 3, 12:24 3
        
        this is why i love the jetpack in 4v4 slayer. - tRuMaN 24601 Jan 3, 12:27 2
        
        right now i have 5 loadouts (is that the max?) - tRuMaN 24601 Jan 3, 12:42
        
        I'm tempted to redesign my big team loadout with regeneration shield and just resign myself to full DEF play -- nm - oblique2013 Jan 3, 12:29
- That's pretty cool, but are these names official or arbitrary? I see some missing landmarks. -- nm - Mop (189 lbs) Jan 3, 12:00 1
  - It doesn't really matter. You can call them A, B and C as long as everyone knows what they mean -- nm - oblique2013 Jan 3, 12:02
Bazinga! -- nm - peglegpete Jan 3, 11:57 1
- now a kind of bubblebee -- nm - Beaker Jan 3, 11:57

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