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"For you Lana, I will take the highway right into the Danger Z... Oh my God!" -- nm - Reagen Jan 18, 08:46
also, the other bit of the Manti story that isn't getting as much play is the other player who says he knew her independently... -- (link) - Andie Jan 18, 08:46 2
- yeah, that part just hurts my brain -- nm - ty97 Jan 18, 08:48 1
  - does this mean that the Deana chick was around Tuiasosopo and - Andie Jan 18, 08:51
Chris Christie calls the NRA's ad about Obama's children 'reprehensible' and 'wrong' -- (link) - ty97 Jan 18, 08:45 8
- good. It's disgusting. -- nm - loosilu Jan 18, 08:57
- Nah, most of the GOP were quietly incensed behind the scenes. Going after the families is a pretty large no-no. - Will Hunting Jan 18, 08:57
- a ton of celebrities have posted how awful it is as well. -- nm - Andie Jan 18, 08:49
- What ad? -- nm - Spawn Jan 18, 08:48 4
  - to wit: Obama is just another liberal hypocrite because his kids get armed guards at school, while he opposes them for everyone else. -- nm - znufrii Jan 18, 08:49
  - "Are Barrack Obama's children more important than yours?" -- nm - Andie Jan 18, 08:49 2
    - I have not seen it. -- nm - Spawn Jan 18, 08:49 1
      - me either, just heard about it. -- nm - Andie Jan 18, 08:51
A Lucky Two Percent of People Have a Gene for Stink-Free Armpits -- (link) - Mop (190 lbs) Jan 18, 08:45 4
- mop? -- nm - Spawn Jan 18, 08:45 3
  - here -- (link) - Spawn Jan 18, 08:46 [Backboard] 2
    - It pisses me off that ty97 has found my Smithsonian Magazine source and now trumps me with it! Get your own offbeat news! -- nm - Mop (190 lbs) Jan 18, 08:50 1
      - It may finally be time for you to fire him. -- nm - Spawn Jan 18, 08:51
Since when did Cappie start playing Forza 4? -- (link) - Shaun Jan 18, 08:35 [Image] 3
- Guys who make that design get banned all the time. "But I didn't put anything offensive in my storefront!" "How about that pedo design?" "Oh." -- nm - Max Jan 18, 08:37
- *SNORT!* - Mop (190 lbs) Jan 18, 08:37
- Audi? -- nm - Spawn Jan 18, 08:36
girls! I can't recommend ipsy.com enough - its a monthly subscription box with make up - Epiphany Jan 18, 08:29 2
- *squeee!!!* It's like Clinque Bonus every month! -- nm - Mop (190 lbs) Jan 18, 08:37 1
  - hush you! birchbox makes one for men - so get all metro'd up and go find a chick -- nm - Epiphany Jan 18, 08:43
While I didn't see it, I hear that Armstrong's interview with Oprah was a bust. He wouldn't talk about the doping. So what was the point? -- nm - Mop (190 lbs) Jan 18, 08:28 8
- Do you have a fever? It's *very* unlike you to post garbage about things you haven't seen/read. nm - Dignan Jan 18, 08:41 1
  - Objection, your honor! Hearsay! -- nm - Mop (190 lbs) Jan 18, 08:44
- And honestly, was Lance really the best choice to save those blue people from the destruction of their tree? -- nm - TFox Jan 18, 08:38
- He spelled out that he used EPO, transfusions, and testosterone, and repeatedly confirmed that he lied. -- nm - Max Jan 18, 08:36
- He admitted everything but wouldn't talk about the actions of others. -- nm - ryancoke Jan 18, 08:30
- i only saw clips, but it seemed like he did? -- nm - Andie Jan 18, 08:28 2
  - From what I heard on the radio... - Mop (190 lbs) Jan 18, 08:31 1
    - yeah, i think you need to watch some of the clips. -- nm - Andie Jan 18, 08:31
June weddings are WAY better than Fall weddings. -- nm - Strongbad Jan 18, 08:24 18
- *smack* - Will Hunting Jan 18, 08:27 3
  - *smack* - Strongbad Jan 18, 08:27 2
    - You're a Falcons/Tech fan, I understand 99% of the time, regular season is all that matters, but you can miss one afternoon game. - Will Hunting Jan 18, 08:30 1
      - it's not just me. its college football in the South. -- nm - Strongbad Jan 18, 08:32
- I love both for different reasons. -- nm - loosilu Jan 18, 08:27
- depends on the wedding, really. -- nm - znufrii Jan 18, 08:26
- I'm in favor of any wedding where it's not a humid 99 degrees outside. -- nm - Ender Jan 18, 08:26
- Then I guess I'd better ask her out quick, or we'll have to wait until next year. -- nm - Mop (190 lbs) Jan 18, 08:25 10
  - i hereby dub thee "Cappy Jr." -- nm - Andie Jan 18, 08:27
  - wait, aren't you going to elope in Vegas? -- nm - Strongbad Jan 18, 08:26 7
    - She's too pretty to elope. For her, I'll be Catholic for a day. -- nm - Mop (190 lbs) Jan 18, 08:32 6
      - Can I get two Post-of-the-Week submissions? -- nm - Mop (190 lbs) Jan 18, 08:33 5
        
        Article 1, Subsection B: Nominating one's own post for POW invalidates that post for POW consideration. -- nm - ty97 Jan 18, 08:34 4
        
        That's a technicality! I didn't nominate that post. I could have been talking about *any* post! -- nm - Mop (190 lbs) Jan 18, 08:36 2
        
        Sorry, judge's rulings are final -- nm - ty97 Jan 18, 08:40 1
        
        The Canadian Supreme Court says you should consider my post anyway. -- nm - Mop (190 lbs) Jan 18, 08:41
        
        *ding* -- nm - Spawn Jan 18, 08:35
  - *smack* nm -- nm - groiny Jan 18, 08:26
3d 20h, 54 challenges, 1.35 K/D -- nm - David Jan 18, 08:24
Andie -- on Buzztime Trivia (NTN) ... you can search their player archive if you set up -- I don't think we'd ever get a 'group' - Will Hunting Jan 18, 08:24
Have you heard about Spanish long distance runner Iván Fernández Anaya? - Mop on Mac Pro Jan 18, 08:22 6
- that's total crap. -- nm - Andie Jan 18, 08:26 2
  - (that the guy let him do it.) -- nm - Andie Jan 18, 08:30 1
    - If it was an American running strutting around with the flag over his head, maybe. -- nm - Mop (190 lbs) Jan 18, 08:31
- I would say that knowing where the finish line is is an extremely important part of racing. -- nm - Reagen Jan 18, 08:25 2
  - and since when when runners cross the line, just fucking STOP. - groiny Jan 18, 08:25 1
    - I like how the guy is like, "Thanks, but you're kind of a total sucker." -- nm - Reagen Jan 18, 08:26
She's an online mystery. Can't find anything about her. Also, it occurs to me... - Mop on Mac Pro Jan 18, 08:20 8
- How long is she there for? Why not start with "wow, (name) you were an intern here before?" -- nm - James Bond (on phone) Jan 18, 08:31 7
  - She's apparently been there, going on 3 years! I didn't realize she left her student job here (in my dept.) so long ago. - Mop (190 lbs) Jan 18, 08:39 6
    - How was it you saw her? Can you cause a similar event? -- nm - Spawn Jan 18, 08:50
    - Are you adverse to emailing her? I assume you all have some kind of internal email - oblique [223] Jan 18, 08:44 4
      - I thought ST would frown on that approach. -- nm - Mop (190 lbs) Jan 18, 08:45 3
        
        i would. that would be staggeringly out of the blue for her i think. - Andie Jan 18, 08:48
        
        yes. out of the blue? DO NOT EMAIL HER UNTIL YOU HAVE MADE CONTACT IN ANOTHER WAY. hello stalker. -- nm - amanda Jan 18, 08:48 1
        
        *high five* great minds. -- nm - Andie Jan 18, 08:48
sitwap: casting for the Zombieland tv show is under way -- (link) - Remlik Fontaine Jan 18, 08:19
In a nutshell, my understanding of North Africa/West Africa issues involved her. - loosilu Jan 18, 08:14
Hypothesis: Musubi is Lennay Kekua. Consider these facts: - Andie Jan 18, 08:11 4
- Has anyone ever seen Lennay and Balloon Boy in the same place? - zork Jan 18, 08:22
- And we've never seen the two of them in the same room... -- nm - Ender Jan 18, 08:18 1
  - see? THIS is investigative reporting. I'll just accept my Pulitzer right now, thank you. -- nm - Andie Jan 18, 08:20
- check the spelling in her tweets. - groiny Jan 18, 08:12
Mother arrested after her 7-year-old son brings gun to school -- (link) - znufrii Jan 18, 08:04
new RHAP on manti te'o! -- nm - amanda Jan 18, 08:04
Ika.com: attack under way at the usual spot -- nm - Beaker Jan 18, 08:03 5
- WarMachine is forged and will be there in a couple rounds. -- nm - Spawn Jan 18, 08:04 4
  - let me know if you need back-up. -- nm - Mel Profit Jan 18, 08:26 3
    - Oh, the Imperium has him seriously outnumbered (so no worries), it is just that he is forged so moving forged troops in to counter. -- nm - Spawn Jan 18, 08:33 2
      - They are either very dumb at this point or we're being set up. - Mel Profit Jan 18, 08:37 1
        
        Since they can't multi-attack, I think they're content to chip away at us a bit at a time. nm - Dignan Jan 18, 08:43
A man in [this US state] bit off his girlfriend's thumb during a fight while they were driving to work -- (link) - ty97 Jan 18, 08:01
The face behind Lennay Kekua appears to be Diane O'Meara, a marketing executive in Los Angeles. -- (link) - ty97 Jan 18, 07:58 28
- Woohoo! I love momentum! -- nm - Mop on Mac Pro Jan 18, 08:20
- I flipping *love* this story. -- nm - amanda Jan 18, 08:06 7
  - ditto. - Mel Profit Jan 18, 08:36 2
    - I thought this was explained yesterday. - Dignan Jan 18, 08:45
    - do you think that implies that he's gay? -- nm - amanda Jan 18, 08:39
  - it just keeps on giving. -- nm - Andie Jan 18, 08:09 3
    - I haven't read any of the stories because nobody seemed to know what happened. Are the details firm enough now to start on it? -- nm - zork Jan 18, 08:12 2
      - There are a ton of unknowns still, and probably will be for a while, but there are some facts. Read the Deadspin article. -- nm - ty97 Jan 18, 08:15 1
        
        yeah, you have to read that. -- nm - Andie Jan 18, 08:17
- a marketing executive you say....do they represent Te'o by any chance? -- nm - Beaker Jan 18, 08:00
- they published her name? they didn't previously, i'm not sure that's cool. -- nm - Andie Jan 18, 08:00 17
  - in the original article she was quoted as saying an old friend had asked her for a picture with a sign and she'd - Andie Jan 18, 08:01 16
    - I'm going with 60/40 odds she's part of it. -- nm - ty97 Jan 18, 08:02 15
      - I'd put it higher. For this to be a hoax on him it needed a chick. -- nm - Mel Profit Jan 18, 08:39
      - that sounds about right. -- nm - Andie Jan 18, 08:04 13
        
        For my money, I'm saying it all comes back to Ronaiah Tuiasosopo. He set it all up. The only issue is whether Te'o knew or didn't. -- nm - volnelk Jan 18, 08:14 12
        
        (I was *convinced* last night that "spell his name" would be a q at trivia.) -- nm - amanda Jan 18, 08:19 1
        
        oh, that would have been a good one. -- nm - Andie Jan 18, 08:20
        
        I have RT at 99.99999% odds of involvement, MT at 70% (down from 90%) and picture girl at 60%. - ty97 Jan 18, 08:17 9
        
        jz, via IM (he's an ND fan, so...) - amanda Jan 18, 08:28 8
        
        That's stretchier than Stretch Armstrong (imho) -- nm - ty97 Jan 18, 08:33 1
        
        I should c&p you via email the whole conv. it's pretty out there. -- nm - amanda Jan 18, 08:34
        
        and now he's talking about the polynesian mafia. what? (he must be high.) -- nm - amanda Jan 18, 08:30 5
        
        My darkhorse theory is that...... - volnelk Jan 18, 08:33 3
        
        that's a pretty common theory. -- nm - Andie Jan 18, 08:34
        
        we covered this as soon as the story hit. -- nm - amanda Jan 18, 08:34 1
        
        makes sense to me. -- nm - volnelk Jan 18, 08:34
        
        my musubi theory isn't so crazy now, is it!? -- nm - Andie Jan 18, 08:33
Did I mention..."Justified" had me with a "Big Lebowski" reference last episode. - Mel Profit Jan 18, 07:57 5
- can you tell me what it was? AND...!!! *spoils* - Epiphany Jan 18, 08:26 3
  - I'm totally blanking suddenly. I saw it referenced earlier and remember laughing about it. Google was no help. -- nm - Mel Profit Jan 18, 08:40
  - spoils.... - Remlik Fontaine Jan 18, 08:35 1
    - agreed - I liked his spiel about how crew at the beginning of the episode - also - the cliff hanger - yikes. -- nm - Epiphany Jan 18, 08:45
- Big Lebowski reference on Cougar Town this week. -- nm - Mop (190 lbs) Jan 18, 08:25
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- That's it folks. I've made someone happy this week. The rest of you can enter the happiness lottery for next week. -- nm - ty97 Jan 18, 08:00
not only would I have done it for the fly, I think I'm going to put one there myself. -- nm - amanda Jan 18, 07:45 2
- true fly story! - Andie Jan 18, 07:47 1
  - word to your moral of the story -- nm - Beaker Jan 18, 07:51
Any one interested in a reg. season hockey pool? - J Jan 18, 07:45 2
- how does it work? nm -- nm - groiny Jan 18, 07:45 1
  - check this link -- (link) - J Jan 18, 07:47
So...Lance, Te'o...who's the third going to got caught up in a huge lie/make believe story? -- nm - Beaker Jan 18, 07:43 17
- Chipper Jones has never eaten at Hooters. -- nm - David Jan 18, 08:08 5
  - also he really does know how to put together a basketball hoop. -- nm - Reagen Jan 18, 08:26
  - gotta love how he dumped his wife for another chick upon retirement -- nm - budice Jan 18, 08:21 3
    - She filed for divorce in the first month of the season. - David Jan 18, 08:35 1
      - see, I know nothing about any of this up here. nm -- nm - groiny Jan 18, 08:38
    - well, yeah, he has more time to devote, and needs a newer, sleeker model. nm -- nm - groiny Jan 18, 08:24
- Tebow: Not a virgin. -- nm - loosilu Jan 18, 08:00 2
  - Wait, people believe that one? -- nm - Spawn Jan 18, 08:02 1
    - There are people who believed Lance. -- nm - loosilu Jan 18, 08:19
- Mike DAntoni and his coaching. -- nm - budice Jan 18, 07:57
- Steve Nash is really a chick -- nm - Epiphany Jan 18, 07:51 3
  - Kat Von Dee used to be a dude. -- nm - Spawn Jan 18, 07:52 2
    - she looks it. I'm still buying her make up though -- nm - Epiphany Jan 18, 08:27
    - ups my gay number to 5. nm -- nm - groiny Jan 18, 07:56
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- Tiger's seeking a podium spot by re-popping the question to Elin. -- nm - Will Hunting Jan 18, 07:44
- Some famous golfer -- nm - ty97 Jan 18, 07:43
Znufrii, the Versa has a lot of room inside it. - Will Hunting Jan 18, 07:43 3
- We had a 2007 Versa. Tonnes of space. -- nm - Shaun Jan 18, 07:50
- huh. - znufrii Jan 18, 07:45
- I had a versa as a rental and was shocked at how well it handled. I drive german and actually almost *liked* the versa. - amanda Jan 18, 07:44
B! -- nm - nubby, Astro-lord Jan 18, 07:41
B2: znu, check out the Hyundai Elantra too, we liked our Accent and Sonata when we bought there - Beaker Jan 18, 07:41 7
- I sort of covet the Sonata. I don't know why. - TFox Jan 18, 07:45 1
  - people always compared it to the look of a Jaguar (I'm not a car guy, so I just smiled and nodded politely) - Beaker Jan 18, 07:47
- Interior space classifies the Versa as mid-sized.. and you can't argue with the price! -- nm - colin Jan 18, 07:43 4
  - Kia are priced cheap too I think -- nm - Beaker Jan 18, 07:44 3
    - *inexpensive.* argh! where's linguo? -- nm - amanda Jan 18, 07:45 2
      - -ly. -- nm - Reagen Jan 18, 07:47 1
        
        when amanda called for someone to be Linguo permanently, I was going to suggest a GreaseMonkey script to just rename your posts. -- nm - zork Jan 18, 08:03

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