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What the eff happened?? - The Digital Mariner Oct 23, 09:09 7
- First the earth cooled. And then the dinosaurs came, but they got too big and fat, so they all died and they turned into oil. And then the Arabs came - Spawn Oct 23, 09:15 1
  - I picked the wrong day to stop sniffin' hair. -- nm - mafic si Oct 23, 09:21
- What's up! Good to see you! - ty97 Oct 23, 09:12 2
  - I was just wondering where you got my username from to send the request? - The Digital Mariner Oct 23, 09:15 1
    - Another Bery tool (originally a kilbo tool) - The Tron poster rankings! -- (link) - ty97 Oct 23, 09:16
- This is Beryllium's pad. Come in and get comfortable. Mind the vomit. -- nm - Mop Oct 23, 09:12
- My apologies to ty97 for ignoring his friend request. I'm quitting HSX. No point prolonging the agony. -- nm - Mop Oct 23, 09:11
for maybe the 3rd time this year, i bought lunch at work instead of bringing it from home - prayformojo Oct 23, 09:09
Exhibit #175 that I'm gay: Cars don't really interest me. - ty97 Oct 23, 09:08 7
- I don't care much about them beyond knowing what I want someday. - znufrii Oct 23, 09:16
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  - I admit the redundancy of this exhibit. -- nm - ty97 Oct 23, 09:17
- hmmm... me neither. I drove my '91 pickup till it died (almost, probably had another 6 months or a year in it, but it wouldn't have survived a year - mafic Oct 23, 09:13 1
  - If I hadn't sold the car due to not needing one (with my current job) I would likely have driven the cruiser into the ground. - ty97 Oct 23, 09:15
- Wait a minute...IIRC, you were giddy like a school girl over the Cruiser when you got it. - Jim Oct 23, 09:10 1
  - yes, I was. But of all the cars in the universe, it's about the only one I found that I even cared to look at. -- nm - ty97 Oct 23, 09:11
Indy4 brought me around completely to the idea that if George Lucas has any involvement in green-lighting a script, that the movie is worth a pass now - Will Hunting Oct 23, 09:05 19
- I still think he's a good idea and producer. He just shouldn't script anything. -- nm - Remlik Oct 23, 09:10 3
  - He also should stop waiting decades before making a sequel. By that time, there's no way possible for the sequel to live up to the hype. - Jim Oct 23, 09:14 2
    - agreed. But I would love for the IM to happen though. -- nm - Remlik Oct 23, 09:15 1
      - Sorry...I get Natalie...you get Jar Jar. nm - Jim Oct 23, 09:17
- Did you hear what his original pitch was? -- (link) - Mop Oct 23, 09:09 1
  - What was wrong with the grail? That would have been cool. -- nm - amylicious Oct 23, 09:16
- and yet David liked it just fine - pixie fierce Oct 23, 09:07 12
  - Indeed I did. That last scene was adorable. -- nm - David Oct 23, 09:12 4
    - 2 hours to get 60 seconds of quality isn't a good return on investment. - Will Hunting Oct 23, 09:17 1
      - Oh, there is a lot of good in there. The diner scene, the chase it evokes, the snake vine. -- nm - David Oct 23, 09:18
    - it's like i don't even know you anymore -- nm - pixie fierce Oct 23, 09:15 1
      - Hi, Chris. I'm David. I'm the smart one with great taste. You're the one with arrested development and envy issues about better writers. -- nm - David Oct 23, 09:17
  - Overall, I didn't have a problem with it either. It just had a couple parts that, to me, were unfortunate. -- nm - Jim Oct 23, 09:08 2
    - I found on a second viewing on DVD when I hit "skip" to the next chapter right after he gets off that rocket-car-thing to go past the fridge scene... - Cuzzin Todd Oct 23, 09:11 1
      - The fridge and the vines were the 2 things that REALLY bothered me. - Jim Oct 23, 09:12
  - I think I counted 3 "Oh come on!" moments. - Will Hunting Oct 23, 09:08 2
    - You didn't consider the ending a joke? That was by far the worst part. -- nm - Don Homer Oct 23, 09:10 1
      - By that point, it was among the least ludicrous things in the movie. - Will Hunting Oct 23, 09:15
  - David = Butters now? -- nm - JaxSean Oct 23, 09:08
terrorism watch lists are keeping this country safe!!! -- (link) - znufrii Oct 23, 09:03 2
- are they shure this was in Maryland not Alaska???? -- nm - DaneDukeNuuk Oct 23, 09:18
- Better safe than sorry. -- nm - Don Homer Oct 23, 09:08
Serious ? on car/truck commercials...How important is TV advertising to you in buying a car/truck? (1 not at all, 10 all that matters). -- nm - ceregon Oct 23, 08:59 27
- They're advertising to build name awareness anyway. - Callisto Oct 23, 09:11
- Rather a flwed way of questioning - most people are going to say "doesn't matter" when asked directly like that. - Cuzzin Todd Oct 23, 09:08
- it won't convince me to buy a certain car, but it might convince me not to. -- nm - mafic Oct 23, 09:07
- For my once in a decade car purchase? -- nm - amylicious Oct 23, 09:07
- Not at all. I'm a curious shopper when it comes to cars. - Mop Oct 23, 09:06 2
  - It takes us at least 6 months to decide on a car. -- nm - JaxSean Oct 23, 09:07 1
    - Yeah, Mop-wife is crazy that way. She finds something she likes and then she's "Do you want to buy it?" What, like today? -- nm - Mop Oct 23, 09:12
- 2. Very limited. -- nm - TaurusII Oct 23, 09:06
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  - you hussy. - ty97 Oct 23, 09:06
- I first saw my current car on a commercial that I thought was really cool - decline Oct 23, 09:05
- as in a dealership? none. I do like seeing new when new models of cars come out from manufacturers, though. -- nm - JaxSean Oct 23, 09:03
- none, but those Brooke Shields VW ads crack me the hell up -- nm - pixie fierce Oct 23, 09:02 2
  - Me too. Though I can't help but think they will be found to be horribly ineffective. - ty97 Oct 23, 09:03 1
    - Still better than the talking VW Bug with marginal celebrities. What the hell was that? -- nm - Mop Oct 23, 09:14
- It got me to go test drive one - then I decided I did not want it -- nm - Epiphany Oct 23, 09:02
- Consciously, I'm a 1. But all those commercials build awareness over time (whether I realize it or not) -- nm - ty97 Oct 23, 09:01 1
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- How about on ANY commercials? Unless they're advertising a specific item for a specific price...I don't think commercials mean anything to me. - Jim Oct 23, 09:01 5
  - I actively avoid 'falling for' marketing. But 2 ads succeeded on me recently - ty97 Oct 23, 09:03 4
    - Food commercials can be an exception. When a place has a new item...or when McDs starts advertising they have McRib again. - Jim Oct 23, 09:06
    - The HC steamer dinners are *really* good. -- nm - JaxSean Oct 23, 09:06 2
      - I've only had the General Tso's Chicken so far, but it is quite good. - ty97 Oct 23, 09:10 1
        
        that one is good. stay away from the faux beef ones, though. -- nm - JaxSean Oct 23, 09:17
- it helps with name recognition, getting your product known so it's in the list for consideration. -- nm - Danger Girl Oct 23, 09:01
- They can get me to look. I liked the Compass on tv, but when I saw it in person I knew it was a no go. -- nm - Spawn Oct 23, 09:01
- n/a -- nm - znufrii Oct 23, 09:00
i would know like to be known as . . . -- nm - pixie fierce Oct 23, 08:56 6
- What. - TaurusII Oct 23, 09:06
- ... -- nm - Hookers and Crack Oct 23, 08:58
- so. last. season. -- nm - amylicious Oct 23, 08:57
- *now* - pixie fierce Oct 23, 08:57 2
  - how about "hot pixie mess"? -- nm - Beryllium Oct 23, 08:58 1
    - holla at'cha boy! -- nm - JaxSean Oct 23, 08:58
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- So, they ran off Kevin O'Neal for nothing? -- nm - David Oct 23, 09:13
- Tom Tolbert will be lamenting on his radio show today -- nm - Hookers and Crack Oct 23, 09:02
- His teams cost me like $2500 in back to back to back NCAA pools. - Will Hunting Oct 23, 09:01 1
  - yeah, that's him alright. I attended HS in Tucson back in the glody days of Steve Kerr, Sean Elliott, Tom Tolbert, Kenny Lofton (yes the baseball one -- nm - mafic si Oct 23, 09:20
LIR Mafic, all I think the hair dryer moment means is this... - Epiphany Oct 23, 08:48 8
- sounds about right. next wednesday, the hunt is on. - mafic Oct 23, 08:54 4
  - go to her place!! But Wednesday is around the corner. -- nm - Epiphany Oct 23, 08:59 3
    - or string a hammock up on the beach. yeah. -- nm - Epiphany Oct 23, 08:59 2
      - I though you were suggesting a strink bikini or a banana hammock. - ty97 Oct 23, 09:01 1
        
        well, the budgie smugglers are all the rage here. -- nm - mafic Oct 23, 09:08
- *stares at left hand*...*adds eyes, nose, lipstick and carpet for hair* -- nm - mafic si Oct 23, 08:49 2
  - you know what hairy palms are a sign of, right? -- nm - mafic Oct 23, 08:52 1
    - Hey! Don't do that on my sofa either! -- nm - sheila Oct 23, 08:57
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- hah! like we need anyone to cover the South! -- nm - NYTimes Oct 23, 08:58
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- I don't buy it as a real job listing. (Or at least an unaltered one.) -- nm - Cuzzin Todd Oct 23, 08:52
- *questions authenticity* - ty97 Oct 23, 08:51
- "stripper" -- nm - what loosi saw Oct 23, 08:47
Huh, that Woot is actually wicked cool. Binoculars with an imbedded digital camera? -- (link) - TFox Oct 23, 08:46 5
- Those Binoculars have a funny shape...and looks pretty heavy -- nm - Hookers and Crack Oct 23, 09:01
- the Peeping Tom 300! -- nm - con_carne Oct 23, 08:47 3
  - "now with nightvision" -- nm - amylicious Oct 23, 09:00
  - Fewer features than the Peeping Tom 350, but software-upgradeable. -- nm - Beryllium Oct 23, 08:52
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I'm so relieved they didn't accept our offer on the house. - Mop Oct 23, 08:44 8
- From what I've heard, with foreclosures still rampant, we likely have not hit bottom. Nationally, anyway. -- nm - con_carne Oct 23, 08:46 7
  - We were late to the bubble 'round here, and we'll be late coming out. Still, I hate our rental house. - Mop Oct 23, 08:54
  - The county we are moving to in FL is desparately searcing for the bottom. - ty97 Oct 23, 08:53 2
    - why are you guys leaving TX for FL? -- nm - Diva Oct 23, 09:18
    - they got TX housing prices in FL now - it is quite amazing. -- nm - Epiphany Oct 23, 09:01
  - I was recently kind of wishing I'd waited just a bit longer to buy, but then figured in 5-10 years it's not really going to matter all that much. -- nm - Cuzzin Todd Oct 23, 08:49 2
    - Did the Midwest have a big bubble/boom, or was the more relegated to the coasts? - ty97 Oct 23, 09:00 1
      - Everyone had a bubble. Some, more than others. In my neck of the woods, prices went up markedly, just not crazily. -- nm - Mop Oct 23, 09:01
I think I was just in a Vaudevill Skit... - Mel Profit Oct 23, 08:43 3
- Or, you could be a vampire -- nm - con_carne Oct 23, 08:44
- (muahahaha.) -- nm - Bacon Egg and Cheese Sandwich Oct 23, 08:44 1
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Fed says commercial paper - a key short-term borrowing tool - fell sharply last week, marking 6 straight weeks of declines. - ty97 Oct 23, 08:41
Re B2: Halloween is my favorite horror movie of all time, followed closely by The Shining. nm - Jovian Oct 23, 08:41 13
- I'd really have to think about this. Maybe Texas Chainsaw, just because it is so unbelievably effective. -- nm - TFox Oct 23, 08:42 12
  - are we thinking the remake of Friday 13th is going to be any good? trailer is decent - Epiphany Oct 23, 08:53 2
    - yea, I have a lot of hope for this remake. Lots of the horror remakes have been great imo. - Jovian Oct 23, 08:55 1
      - I agree on the latter two, but I wasn't sold on the Texas Chainsaw remake. - TFox Oct 23, 08:58
  - Texas Chainsaw is fantastic and probably ranks on my top five horror flicks. - Jovian Oct 23, 08:49 5
    - oh and I gotta say, The Descent ranks pretty damn high too for such a recent release. nm - Jovian Oct 23, 08:56 1
      - For recent ones, I give Devil's Rejects and May high scores as well. -- nm - TFox Oct 23, 08:59
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      - This makes baby Spawn cry. -- nm - Spawn Oct 23, 08:55 1
        
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  - Such a stupid ending. - Will Hunting Oct 23, 08:47 1
    - yea true, but *everything* up to that point is just terrifying. nm - Jovian Oct 23, 08:50
  - *adds the original to my queue* - con_carne Oct 23, 08:43
The whole robe thing is a travashamockery. I put it on so that Logan doesn't see me naked, but at his height... - Amy Oct 23, 08:41 3
- Why? He doesn't know the difference. - JaxSean Oct 23, 08:43 2
  - Sean, GET OUT OF THAT TREE! -- nm - Mop Oct 23, 08:47 1
    - *puts away the PeepingTom 300* -- nm - JaxSean Oct 23, 08:57
SITWAP: Government Printing Office outsources manufacture of new RFID passports -- (link) - TaurusII Oct 23, 08:41
Greenspan says crisis will have big impact -- (link) - znufrii Oct 23, 08:40 7
- Dow, still in love with Greenspan, drops to -100 -- nm - ty97 Oct 23, 08:41 6
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    - Buffett not interested? -- nm - ty97 Oct 23, 08:44 4
      - The billions of dollars he throws around would end if he went into public service - Will Hunting Oct 23, 08:49 2
        
        But they'd have more reason to show us pictures of him and his BFF Chase Daniel. - ty97 Oct 23, 08:55 1
        
        No, cuz we'd get T Boone Pickens and his BFF Colt McCoy. -- nm - Will Hunting Oct 23, 09:02
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"He dresses like a clown!!!" -- nm - Batman Superman Team Up Video Oct 23, 08:39
emot, it appears if you accept a friend request, that person is added to your friend list as well. -- nm - ty97 Oct 23, 08:39 3
- Got it, thanks. Now to figure out how the new site could possibly let us interact better than TT . . . -- nm - emoticripple Oct 23, 08:40 2
  - It takes at least three clicks to accept a friend. So they've still got some work to do -- nm - Roger More Oct 23, 08:41 1
    - definitely need some AJAX implemented on that screen. - JaxSean Oct 23, 08:45
Comics today: Angel and X-Factor -- nm - Beaker Oct 23, 08:39
Crap. Seve Ballesteros' brain tumor was malignent. - Will Hunting Oct 23, 08:39 1
- Oof. Awful. -- nm - TFox Oct 23, 08:43
oh, eff me - I saw Remlik took the which action hero are you and he got Batman. I answered the quiz honestly and got Obi Wan-Kenobi. -- nm - crash davis Oct 23, 08:39 5
- I also got Batman. -- nm - loosilu Oct 23, 08:45
- description inside - crash davis Oct 23, 08:39 3
  - That's right, love, cherish, honor and obey. -- nm - Trish SI Oct 23, 08:40 2
    - I knew that joke would be made, I just didn't think you'd be the first. -- nm - crash davis Oct 23, 08:41 1
      - THat's cause Kelly's training is finally kicking in. -- nm - Remlik Oct 23, 09:09
So the biggest change is how quickly you can get your port off the ground, and it fundamentally changes stuff like YTD races. - TFox Oct 23, 08:38 4
- yeah, but it already isn't really the same. sometimes I yearn for the days when the bond system first changed to the 50k limit. - mafic Oct 23, 08:44
- It makes secretstalker's contest a little wonky, though. Anyone know how to reset? -- nm - emoticripple Oct 23, 08:39 2
  - Well, honestly, that is secretstalker's problem. -- nm - TFox Oct 23, 08:40 1
    - It's a problem for anybody chasin that paper, yo! I'm trying to get paid up in here, and I don't feel like spamming to do it. -- nm - emoticripple Oct 23, 08:43
Man, the lasagna my wife made two days ago is so good. Having some leftovers for lunch. It is one of the foods that gets better after a day or two. -- nm - HdnAgnda Oct 23, 08:37 3
- Even the store bought Michelanlengos was better last night than tuesday night -- nm - Hookers and Crack Oct 23, 09:03
- Seems a lot of pasta type food does. -- nm - Spawn Oct 23, 08:42 1
  - And pizza, to an extent -- nm - con_carne Oct 23, 08:46
ugh. - znufrii Oct 23, 08:35
ST is a mystery! -- nm - mafic Oct 23, 08:35 7
- Little "Lost In Translation" in Aussieland? -- nm - budice Oct 23, 08:38
- Is ST going to teach us how to pick up girls? -- nm - Mop Oct 23, 08:37 2
  - did I miss a new episode of that? -- nm - loosilu Oct 23, 08:37 1
    - Apparently, I've missed the whole season so far. I'll watch it at lunch time. -- nm - Mop Oct 23, 08:41
- Wrapped in a fortune cookie. -- nm - Spawn Oct 23, 08:35 1
  - With whipped cream on its nipples. -- nm - TaurusII Oct 23, 08:39
- ~Not what i seeeeems to be~ -- nm - Ronnie James Dio SI Oct 23, 08:35
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- *splurt* -- nm - Spawn Oct 23, 08:35

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