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'/~shut up and drive..'/~ has anyone ever used a car broker? - b! Feb 10, 21:49 9
- I live to do the crapola stuff. - Trish Feb 10, 21:58 3
  - i will pay you! - b! Feb 10, 22:06 2
    - Tell the first guy you don't want to deal with him and get somebody who can make the deal...saves a lot of wasted time... -- nm - BAD Feb 10, 22:11 1
      - y'all are good pep-talkers. thanks! re: this, - b! Feb 10, 22:21
- I would, one of the reasons i still buy saturns, keep in mind, there is very little you do that 'earns' as much per hour than outwaiting the salesmen - zeitgeist Feb 10, 21:57 2
  - thanks. as i said, though, i've been through it 3 times before (plus helped one of my sisters a few times). - b! Feb 10, 22:05 1
    - Just remember, dealing with that crap for a whole day saved you five thousand dollars, will anything you ever do 'earn' you that much? - zeitgeist Feb 10, 22:13
- no but i've broken a few myself -- nm - pigby Feb 10, 21:53 1
  - *rimshot* -- nm - b! Feb 10, 21:53
Walter Isaacson on the Daily Show last night was so hilarious. How clueless can a man be about the internet? - Mop Feb 10, 21:43 1
- the guy who invented email (he put the @ in the command) first proposed this back when the internet was just a couple pdp's - zeitgeist Feb 10, 22:11
Great episode of Idol tonight -- nm - Stacy Feb 10, 21:33 3
- Tomorrow's is going to suck balls. It's just another way to do the "elevator episode". - Mop Feb 10, 21:38 2
  - oh come on. it was *far* better then last weeks episodes. we saw at least half of the top 36 sing tonight -- nm - Jovian Feb 10, 21:45 1
    - L2 -- nm - Mop Feb 10, 21:48
My Xbox has been received and the repair is in progress! -- nm - Mop Feb 10, 21:30
NCIS - the villian they had tonight was one of the lamest ever -- nm - amoxy Feb 10, 21:30 2
- Almost as lame as the guy who killed someone to get a ring out of his stomach. -- nm - Diva Feb 11, 05:41
- spaghetti cat? - Beryllium Feb 10, 21:36
scientists discover fountain of mysterious space dust -- (link) - pigby Feb 10, 21:29 4
- How has humanity not been wiped out a million times over? -- nm - Mop Feb 10, 21:35 3
  - maybe we have - pigby Feb 10, 21:39 2
    - This is very Matrix. -- nm - Mop Feb 10, 21:50
    - whatever could we term such an enormous cycle of crunching and banging? -- nm - Beryllium Feb 10, 21:41
I missed the first half of Scrubs, where was JD? (spoils) - amoxy Feb 10, 21:27
also, apparently my dad's puggle went cuckoo for cocoa puffs watching the Westminster show on tv - pigby Feb 10, 21:26
Hey Remlik, gas rose up to $1.64 in Martinsville. -- nm - Spawn Feb 10, 21:11 4
- huh. I wonder why it's so low there compared to here. -- nm - Remlik Feb 10, 21:13 1
  - nobody can afford to buy because they have all been laid off? - zork Feb 10, 21:15
- jumps up 7 cents per litre here -- nm - Beryllium Feb 10, 21:13 1
  - er, jumped -- nm - Beryllium Feb 10, 21:13
opinions requested: the irs wants to give me a $7,500 tax credit because I bought a new house last year. it looks like I will have to pay it back in - dogbert183 Feb 10, 21:11 10
- I'm taking it and using it to pay off interest-carrying debt. - Cuzzin Todd Feb 10, 21:45
- loan it to me so I can pay off my credit cards :) - Stacy Feb 10, 21:32
- Take the money. :) -- nm - grammar Feb 10, 21:24
- I would take it and get rid of the pmi. That could save you a lot in the short term. -- nm - David Feb 10, 21:18 1
  - it wouldn't get me all the way there, but it would sure narrow the gap -- nm - dogbert183 Feb 10, 21:28
- as WaPo's money guru Michelle Singletary says, don't think of it as a tax credit but as a 15-year loan from the IRS -- (link) - pigby Feb 10, 21:17 4
  - and whether you even need it in the first place -- (link) - pigby Feb 10, 21:19 3
    - I'm guessing it's at a lower interest rate than his mortgage. -- nm - psilotum Feb 10, 21:24 2
      - extra debt at zero percent is still extra debt -- nm - pigby Feb 10, 21:26 1
        
        excellent articles, thanks. I'll sleep on it a couple days, but knowing that it's intrest free over 15 years now it's got me interested (reason inside - dogbert183 Feb 10, 21:35
Hmm, Frozen River was not at all what I thought it was going to be. - kelly Feb 10, 21:10 2
- what did you think it was going to be? -- nm - pigby Feb 10, 21:10 1
  - Good. :) - kelly Feb 10, 21:14
I'd like this job, please. -- (link) - Mop Feb 10, 21:09
Parker is just killing me tonight on Leverage (and Mentalist is just as good as Psych, they're just different) - Trish Feb 10, 21:05 2
- yep, in addition to Lauren Holly, tonight's Leverage guest stars Quark and Data and was directed by Riker -- nm - crash davis Feb 10, 21:10 1
  - *giggles* - pigby Feb 10, 21:11
Now, I'm going to lie down to watch tv, but I'm going to try really hard so that as soon as my head hits the pillow I don't f-- - nubby, 15 minutes ago Feb 10, 21:04
hey Ted from Scrubs really does have an Acapella Group.... -- (link) - Remlik Feb 10, 21:03 2
- and he has a Beatles group! -- (link) - Remlik Feb 10, 21:07
- peons, assemble! -- nm - pigby Feb 10, 21:04
and your Westminster Dog Show winner is . . . (grab a hankie) -- (link) - pigby Feb 10, 21:00 5
- i didn't agree - zork Feb 10, 21:07 2
  - Tiger Woods can't win em all - pigby Feb 10, 21:09 1
    - first time I ever saw a dog walk on water - zork Feb 10, 21:12
- aww! -- nm - b! Feb 10, 21:05 1
  - *rubs eyes* it's just dust! -- nm - pigby Feb 10, 21:06
my favorite link title in a while: "Click here to nuke Ohio" -- nm - pigby Feb 10, 20:56
the five rules of a Steven Seagal movie -- (link) - pigby Feb 10, 20:47 1
- unwritten rule #6 (JCVD spoils) - Beryllium Feb 10, 21:02
Twitter fact of the night: single moms are the best candidates for threesomes. -- nm - David Feb 10, 20:42 10
- we already know they're women of loose morals. -- nm - stereotyping mafic Feb 10, 20:59 2
  - We gotta get you out of that damn place, pretty soon you'll be yelling Oi Oi Oi, kickboxing for blood, drinking Fosters, and chewing on kangaroo - Trish Feb 10, 21:54
  - of loosi's morals? -- nm - zork Feb 10, 21:02
- not stated is that they are probably mostly MMF - zork Feb 10, 20:59 2
  - actually your probably wrong, mothers represent a huge group wanting to try FF, which is why many gay women have kids and have been married -- nm - Stacy Feb 10, 21:09 1
    - nah, that's what college is for ;-) - zork Feb 10, 21:10
- That's kinda sad. Sounds to me like in desperation to "find a man", they're willing to do stuff they wouldn't otherwise do. -- nm - Mop Feb 10, 20:48 1
  - not really to find a man, but they are more open to explore. -- nm - Stacy Feb 10, 20:55
- Single moms. Why didn't somebody tell me this before? (the About a Boy nt.) -- nm - Qale Feb 10, 20:47
- I'm listening -- nm - Stacy Feb 10, 20:43
For your entertainment, gruesome sports injuries. -- (link) - Mop Feb 10, 20:37 2
- and this one -- (link) - zork Feb 10, 20:43 [youtube]
- pfft. that's nothing -- (link) - zork Feb 10, 20:43 [youtube]
Current total number of films watched (including short films) watched since September: 523 -- nm - Dano Feb 10, 20:36 8
- when you say short films, does that include all those 15 second porn clips - zork Feb 10, 21:00
- Only 520 to go to catch up... -- nm - JaxSean Feb 10, 20:55 2
  - +3 for me. -- nm - b! Feb 10, 20:58
  - get crack a lackin -- nm - pigby Feb 10, 20:56
- Wow. I might be at a tenth of that. -- nm - Jelly Feb 10, 20:47
- popeye forearms -- nm - Max Feb 10, 20:39 1
  - L4.25 -- nm - zork Feb 10, 20:47
- Bridget Dano? -- nm - pigby Feb 10, 20:38
Brown/Rhianna fight started over a text message Brown got from another girl. -- (link) - Mop Feb 10, 20:33 1
- I knew it was her fault. She obviously didn't know her place. -- nm - jnine Feb 10, 20:34
which is the only MLB team that has not signed any free agent to a major league contract this off-season? - zork Feb 10, 20:27 4
- Angels? -- nm - Dano Feb 10, 20:49 3
  - no -- nm - zork Feb 10, 20:49 2
    - The obvious guess should have been Toronto. -- nm - Dano Feb 10, 20:52 1
      - ding. the closest has been signing some old japanese pitcher to a minor league one - zork Feb 10, 20:55
Still laughing hard about Burnt-Butt Amy got the giggles -- nm - Redmond Feb 10, 20:23
a supposedly a good source for hockey data -- (link) - zork Feb 10, 20:22
from a creative exec at William Morris: coverage on four of the Oscar-nominated scripts before they became films. "Benjamin Button" - pigby Feb 10, 20:18 6
- Whoever digests the scripts into these is effing awesome. -- nm - Beryllium Feb 10, 21:49
- "Doubt" (with spoilers) - pigby Feb 10, 20:18 4
  - "Milk" - pigby Feb 10, 20:18 3
    - spoilers -- nm - Stacy Feb 10, 20:53
    - "In Bruges" - pigby Feb 10, 20:19 1
      - ^-- major spoilers, of course ... heheh -- nm - Beryllium Feb 10, 20:39
Honestly, if everything Obama tries fails to stimulate the economy, what do Republicans have to offer in 2 years? In 4 years? What's the message? -- nm - Mop Feb 10, 20:15 4
- The nitpic everything the demos have done even though they are just cleaning up the rep's mess - zeitgeist Feb 10, 20:40
- RMN 2012 -- nm - peglegpete Feb 10, 20:31
- It's the illegals' fault? -- nm - nubby Feb 10, 20:18
- "Vote for Change!!" -- nm - Dick Cheney Feb 10, 20:18
Why doesn't the clock go this fast when I am at work? -- nm - lileve Feb 10, 20:14
ST tax people - Where do "royalties" get added on the 1040? Are they considered dividends? - CrankYanker Feb 10, 20:10 3
- and *you* have trouble coming up with stuff for your '25 things we don't know about you' -- nm - zeitgeist Feb 10, 20:43
- It's a little known fact that CY co-wrote Let It Be. Lennon-McCartney-Yanker. -- nm - Mop Feb 10, 20:16
- Line 17 -- nm - mara Feb 10, 20:11
I had a run of bad luck in 97-98 - zeitgeist Feb 10, 20:06 6
- Did you owe? Why didn't you get a permit? -- nm - kelly Feb 10, 21:16 1
  - I checked into it, a. they didn't have a permit for what i was doing, if they were to create one, any disabled vetern with a polaroid button machine.. - zeitgeist Feb 10, 22:01
- frickin aholes I bet you could go back down to city hall during the marriages and get away with it. -- nm - Stacy Feb 10, 20:19 3
  - The market is SOOOOO much different now, I used to shoot medium format and print to slides, project to a wall frame and sell 24x30 canvas portraits - zeitgeist Feb 10, 20:32 2
    - This is what i used to do -- (link) - zeitgeist Feb 10, 20:34 [flickr] 1
      - and... -- (link) - zeitgeist Feb 10, 20:35 [flickr]
We could make dolls in the images of all the STers. Call them slacker Talk Dolls, or STD's for short. - Redmond Feb 10, 19:57 23
- I have a camera? -- nm - JaxSean Feb 10, 20:32
- I've been thinking about this for a long time, haven't you? -- nm - Mop Feb 10, 20:14 1
  - OK, that made no sense. -- nm - Mop Feb 10, 20:15
- I propose, that for scientific testing purposes, we breed a type of STer even smaller than the normal STer. We can call them 'Shetland STers.' -- nm - Max Feb 10, 20:11 3
  - breeding on ST sounds dangerous -- nm - Stacy Feb 10, 20:14 1
    - Psst. I think some of them have already started. -- nm - Qale Feb 10, 20:14
  - Just call it Mel -- nm - Redmond Feb 10, 20:12
- somehow, asking "who has an extra Redmond STD?" feels a bit wonky :) -- nm - peglegpete Feb 10, 20:07 1
  - I use protection -- nm - Redmond Feb 10, 20:09
- maybe you should go back to reading the dude handbook? -- nm - Stacy Feb 10, 19:59
- million dollar idea: collect them like Beanie Babies - pigby Feb 10, 19:58 12
  - Archaeologist Meg, with optional Jeep Wrangler and camping gear. -- nm - MojaveMeg Feb 10, 20:03 5
    - With helper Remlik and his sun head burns red in sun feature. -- nm - Redmond Feb 10, 20:08 4
      - With Amoxy and Guy Hiking Pals! -- nm - Remlik Feb 10, 20:11 3
        
        Guy needs detachable boots and suitcases full of granola. The Hoover Dam group needs Amy with mom wipes -- nm - Redmond Feb 10, 20:14
        
        Burned-Butt Amy with special Hoover Dam playset -- nm - pigby Feb 10, 20:12 1
        
        L4 I forgot about her red ass -- nm - Redmond Feb 10, 20:16
  - i want a pigby alley cardboard home set for my Pigby -- nm - Redmond Feb 10, 20:01
  - Trade them! Collect them all! Amaze your friends! -- nm - mara Feb 10, 20:00 4
    - *puts his limited edition Diggie the Dignan up on ebay* -- nm - pigby Feb 10, 20:01 3
      - They make Valintine marshmellow Peeps. As if Easter wasn't bad enough -- nm - Redmond Feb 10, 20:04 2
        
        blah! stupid autofill erased my Dogbert with amputation kit and losing Devilrays ticket -- nm - Redmond Feb 10, 20:05
        
        *Valentine* -- nm - Stacy Feb 10, 20:05
The ST started group on FB called Re-Elect Barack Obama now has 100 members. -- nm - Stacy Feb 10, 19:56 2
- actually, my non-ST friend started it -- nm - pigby Feb 10, 19:59 1
  - oh cool -- nm - Stacy Feb 10, 20:00
previously on The Bachelor . . . -- nm - pigby Feb 10, 19:54
CY, you're welcome here anytime -- nm - peglegpete Feb 10, 19:47 7
- last time I had this much bad luck in such a short span of time was 1980, so I've been fortunate. -- nm - CrankYanker Feb 10, 19:53 5
  - hang in there dad -- nm - Missy Manners Feb 10, 19:59
  - hey, that's the last time we had a recession this bad too . . . -- nm - pigby Feb 10, 19:54 3
    - Dominos - lost my job, car was repo'd, fiance left me....all in December. -- nm - CrankYanker Feb 10, 19:55 2
      - Hope things pick up for you soon.. -- nm - MojaveMeg Feb 10, 19:56 1
        
        thanks Mom.... nothing that little Patron can't cure. ;-) -- nm - CrankYanker Feb 10, 19:57
- you can check out any time you like but you can never leave -- nm - zork Feb 10, 19:49
Jovian, don't miss the rehab episode. -- nm - mara Feb 10, 19:47 3
- ahh that would be episode the 12-Step Job then I presume. Last weeks. Alright thanks, I'm going to watch in order and wait for the trek episode. nm - Jovian Feb 10, 19:53 2
  - (technically it doesn't matter since TNT has been airing them out of order anyway) -- nm - pigby Feb 10, 19:56 1
    - to be fair, though, I only detected one certain instance of an out-of-order airing -- nm - Beryllium Feb 10, 21:46
that scottish deerhound moves with a beautiful grace for such a big dog -- nm - zork Feb 10, 19:46
In the morning, please don't say you love me, cause I'll only kick you out of the bed -- nm - zeitgeist Feb 10, 19:46

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