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Remember Blade Runner from the Olympics, Oscar Pistorius? He's charged with killing his girlfriend -- (link) - ty97 Feb 14, 06:43 9
- how many girlfriends did this guy have? -- nm - decline Feb 14, 06:44 1
  - Sean Young and Darryl Hannah? -- nm - amoxy Feb 14, 06:46
- Remember when Beaker posted it about halfway down B1? -- nm - SHA Feb 14, 06:43 6
  - And reagen even further down the board -- nm - amoxy Feb 14, 06:44
  - It's Breaking News, how could already be broken?! -- nm - ty97 Feb 14, 06:44 4
    - Even ESPN has it on their site..... -- nm - Will Hunting Feb 14, 06:45
    - Soon it'll be a genocide. :) -- nm - Beryllium Feb 14, 06:45 2
      - He still won't have a leg to stand on at trial. -- nm - TWuG Feb 14, 06:46 1
        
        Kicks you in the knee for repeating your own joke -- nm - amoxy Feb 14, 06:47
NCAA new rule that would add ejection for illegal hit -- (link) - amoxy Feb 14, 06:42
If you're celebrating S.A.D. and enjoy musicals, Netflix has Company on streaming and would be a good choice. -- nm - nubby, Astro-lord Feb 14, 06:40 2
- such a good show - znufrii Feb 14, 06:42 1
  - Yeah. He's killer. -- nm - nubby, Astro-lord Feb 14, 06:45
So, this article is saying that the Nook is going to tank again this year but the second (third?) paragraph is messed up, no? - SHA Feb 14, 06:34 3
- I, for one would love a substantial drop of +230% -- nm - Will Hunting Feb 14, 06:44
- maybe substantial increase instead?...695m < 933m < 3 bil -- nm - budice Feb 14, 06:37
- sorry, link -- (link) - SHA Feb 14, 06:35
so, guess how many days, including today, my co-worker that i must cover for has missed since Christmas? - Candie Hearts Feb 14, 06:25 14
- 20 -- nm - znufrii Feb 14, 06:39
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- I miss Yoyo -- nm - ty97 Feb 14, 06:30 4
  - ditto on the YoYo. -- nm - Mel Profit Feb 14, 06:31
  - i should google her -- nm - Candie Hearts Feb 14, 06:31 2
    - you owe us closure. -- nm - Mel Profit Feb 14, 06:44
    - should have FB friended her when you had the chance -- nm - zork Feb 14, 06:31
- 25 -- nm - decline Feb 14, 06:29
- 8 -- nm - Mel Profit Feb 14, 06:29
- 312 and half day -- nm - SyrDragon Feb 14, 06:28
- 31.250 -- nm - budice Feb 14, 06:28 2
  - that is, in fact, the total number of days it was possible to work. today is the 16th day she has missed. she worked 15. -- nm - Candie Hearts Feb 14, 06:29 1
    - she's above .500 !!! -- nm - zork Feb 14, 06:30
- 19 -- nm - amoxy Feb 14, 06:27
Happy Valentine's Day: CDC Announces an 'Ongoing, Severe Epidemic' of STDs -- (link) - ty97 Feb 14, 06:13
*comes to hang out with one of the nicest people I've met - Meg* -- nm - Mel Profit Feb 14, 06:13
Die Hard 5 currently 13% fresh and the UK gets an edited kiddie friendly version too. I guess I know what I'm not seeing this weekend. -- nm - LMS Feb 14, 06:10
Dear Survivor (spoilers?) - oblique [218] Feb 14, 06:09 6
- spoils.... - budice Feb 14, 06:24 5
  - I thought it was a great episode. I had wanted (spoilers) - SHA Feb 14, 06:29 4
    - It was so obvious that the "fans" were mostly recruits as they broke so many rules right off the bat. - Jim Feb 14, 06:33 3
      - It was almost a lesson in what not to do -- nm - SHA Feb 14, 06:35 2
        
        spoils - budice Feb 14, 06:40 1
        
        Me, trying to win a million bucks. -- nm - volnelk Feb 14, 06:54
Dancing gorilla image on CT scan passed over by more than 80% of radiologists, study finds..... - Walt_Disney Feb 14, 06:02 1
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Guys, what was the extreme racing show that used to air on discovery called? Jaime says someone died filming it - Amanda Feb 14, 06:00 4
- EcoChallenge? It's the ancestor of Survivor. -- nm - Beryllium Feb 14, 06:41
- not sure but did we discuss that a few days ago a helicopter crashed while filming a discovery show and three people died? -- (link) - zork Feb 14, 06:05 2
  - Having a 'for your consideration -- nm - Candie Hearts Feb 14, 06:27 1
    - ... ad for "Flight" over that story seems unfortunate. -- nm - Candie Hearts Feb 14, 06:27
heh. Puritan Vaentines Day cards -- (link) - znufrii Feb 14, 05:57
i think we need love, hearts and flowers nicks today. -- nm - Candie Hearts Feb 14, 05:54 15
- amanda is pretty tall, she could be be "long stemmed amanda" -- nm - zork Feb 14, 06:09 1
  - All the ST chicks dig the smooth hobbit action -- nm - SHA Feb 14, 06:10
- Is mine not romantic enough already? -- nm - Roger More Feb 14, 06:01 12
  - only if you make the Os into hearts. - Candie Hearts Feb 14, 06:03 11
    - How about... -- nm - Roger More ------<--<--@ Feb 14, 06:33
    - Hmm...test it out -- nm - SyrDrag♥n Feb 14, 06:06 9
      - wonder if Bery has input scrubbers -- nm - SyrDrag"&heart;"n Feb 14, 06:15 8
        
        Guess I should give up on it - SyrDrag</b>"&heart;"<b>n Feb 14, 06:17 7
        
        I'm pretty sure he clamped down on that. I remember fondly the day on TT (was it TT?) where we found you could post with color codes -- nm - SHA Feb 14, 06:20 6
        
        Character Map to the rescue -- nm - SyrDrag♥n Feb 14, 06:24 5
        
        ....or not - SyrDrag♥n Feb 14, 06:26 4
        
        give it up and use SyrDrag<3n -- nm - zork Feb 14, 06:28 2
        
        dammit, now I can't use z<3rk -- nm - zork Feb 14, 06:29 1
        
        nah you go ahead -- nm - SyrDragon Feb 14, 06:35
        
        You can't beat Berry -- nm - SHA Feb 14, 06:28
LIR: the other one that Prince was banging was Sheena Easton. She must have been able to really rock in bed considering she was doing 1000 sit ups a - zork Feb 14, 05:52
I like the new Malwarebytes program icon. It looks Cylon-ish -- nm - prayformojo Feb 14, 05:52
Will Ferrell kicks out ShaQ, from the Staples Center, during a game -- (link) - Flavorize Feb 14, 05:25 1
- But he allows *this*!?! -- (link) - Spawn Feb 14, 05:39
Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway to buy Heinz for $28B -- nm - budice Feb 14, 05:11 2
- John Kerry probably just became the richest man in government -- nm - decline Feb 14, 06:24 1
  - If Theresa lets him have her purse to hold. -- nm - Will Hunting Feb 14, 06:45
Olympian Oscar Pistorius (South African sprinter with no legs) charged with girlfriend's murder -- (link) - Beaker Feb 14, 04:02 4
- dang - wha? -- nm - Diva Feb 14, 05:48
- Wow -- nm - Will Hunting Feb 14, 04:48 2
  - Sadly, he's not going to have a leg to stand on in court. -- nm - TWuG Feb 14, 05:02 1
    - Bah dump-dump -- nm - zork Feb 14, 05:38
In 2010, Ministry did a cover of AC/DC's Thunderstruck -- (link) - con_carne Feb 14, 03:17 [youtube]
Dream if you can a courtyard An ocean of violets in bloom Animals strike curious poses They feel the heat The heat between me and you -- nm - zeitgeist Feb 14, 01:24
Yeah, both Letterman and Fallon went with the same Marco Rubio bottled water sight gag -- nm - con_carne Feb 14, 00:39 2
- and stewart (but that was obvious) -- nm - Beryllium Feb 14, 00:41 1
  - Colbert kinda milked it too and then doubled down on the Spanish language repeat via computer translator -- nm - zeitgeist Feb 14, 00:53
hmm, CSI was too-be-continued on CSI:NY, but I don't record CSI:NY and it's apparently not available to stream in Canada. Good job, idiots. -- nm - Beryllium Feb 14, 00:33 2
- You call them idiots, but who's the one watching CSI? -- nm - Roger More Feb 14, 06:00 1
  - They're idiots for botching the upsell. CBS, that is. -- nm - Beryllium Feb 14, 06:43
Time to cash in. NBC4 to air one-hour Dorner special on Thursday night -- (link) - con_carne Feb 14, 00:24
So that happened. Red band trailer for Danny Boyle's Trance -- (link) - con_carne Feb 14, 00:18 [youtube]
wow, ken tucker leaving EW after 20+ years, too. - b! Feb 13, 23:49 2
- oh, I'd forgotten I'd heard bout this - both took buyouts as part of Time Inc.'s 6% global reduction, per ad week. - b! Feb 13, 23:56 1
  - a member of one of my writers groups used to work there at some point - charlie Feb 13, 23:59
i'm officially starting the Love Actually curse: the Prime Minister's secretary (Martine McCutcheon) declares bankruptcy -- (link) - charlie Feb 13, 23:27 1
- ~...the trouble with love is...~ -- nm - Oscar Pistorious si Feb 14, 06:03
Oscar Pistorius in police custody after shooting, killing, girlfriend -- (link) - Reagen Feb 13, 23:04 2
- whoa. -- nm - loosi at home Feb 14, 05:47
- yikes, how awful, mistake or not. :(. - -- nm - b! Feb 13, 23:13
Heh. An outsourcing firm from India just tried to drum up business from me. - Beryllium Feb 13, 22:39 2
- it's a fish-out-of-water story when a Canadian IT guru has his job sent to Bangalore. this fall in "Curry Favors" -- nm - charlie Feb 13, 22:44 1
  - Naw, there'd be no point in outsourcing my job. That would end up as a nightmare scenario. I need to outsource my *hobbies*. :) -- nm - Beryllium Feb 13, 22:46
So apparently Valentines Day isn't allowed to be celebrated in Islam? - Stephen, Signing his NLI to play for ST Feb 13, 22:27 6
- I saw something yesterday on tv about some dorks in northern india slapping out single guys on dates but the authorities are rounding them up -- nm - zork Feb 14, 06:49
- Assuming that it's true, I kind of see their point given the religious origin of it. -- nm - Reagen Feb 13, 22:32 4
  - It's from a FB group called ummat-e-rasool - Stephen, Signing his NLI to play for ST Feb 13, 22:40 2
    - looks like it may be a Shia organization based in Pakistan - more like a regular church org. than anything militant. - b! Feb 13, 23:12 1
      - not that we'd agree with the org. about everything. here's a piece re: a gathering of groups last yer. nm but: -- (link) - b! Feb 13, 23:18
  - Which means you can put Valentines Day activities in schools on the clock. -- nm - Name Withheld By Request Feb 13, 22:37
top chef - first 10 min. spoiler. - b! Feb 13, 22:14 3
- Yeah, that was odd. -- nm - David Feb 13, 22:23
- out of nowhere..the whole episode tonight is very good -- nm - peglegpete Feb 13, 22:14 1
  - interesting, thanks! and good! :) - -- nm - b! Feb 13, 22:21
But why would you go for zero money just to get extra points? - Stephen, Signing his NLI to play for ST Feb 13, 22:03 16
- $10M wouldn't be enough for me to do that. not claustrophobic; but no way. -- nm - b! Feb 13, 22:19 2
  - you won't be alone. we got this -- nm - barnaby bear Feb 13, 22:23 1
    - you were born to travel, dude; and watching videos isn't the same. -- nm - b! Feb 13, 22:26
- You get to take the extras with you. And the only way it would work is if you usethe extra points on the stock option. -- nm - tl Feb 13, 22:19
- Who would waste points on the gun? -- nm - Bacon via droid Feb 13, 22:09 8
  - The people who pick Barry Bonds. - the wrong element, bad guy Feb 13, 22:13 6
    - sex with him is 11 points less than with the young girl -- nm - peglegpete Feb 13, 22:16 5
      - big, I mean BIG muscular dude, it might not be sex with him as sex with you (I am aint prepped to be a bottom) -- nm - zeitgeist Feb 13, 22:19 4
        
        if I am in there 10 years and paying, I decide who does what. -- nm - peglegpete Feb 13, 22:23 3
        
        If you're deciding that sex with Bonds is a good idea, I question your decision making. - the wrong element, bad guy Feb 13, 22:28 2
        
        no, I was more amused how many more points the girl is -- nm - peglegpete Feb 13, 22:37
        
        well there's a sentence that's never been uttered before. -- nm - Reagen Feb 13, 22:30
  - to have a way out. -- nm - Reagen Feb 13, 22:10
- You have no life and this is better than the alternative ? -- nm - Meg Feb 13, 22:06
- You are stuck in the basement for 10 years no matter what, somebody might want that extra stuff - amoxy Feb 13, 22:06 1
  - Ah, ok. -- nm - Stephen, Signing his NLI to play for ST Feb 13, 22:12
From Kat Dennings twitter - Remlik Feb 13, 22:02 1
- hmmm... -- nm - Diva Feb 14, 06:45
Amoxy info is vague I'd hate to get a beautiful 18 harpy knocked up the 1 time,and she never touches me again and I am stuck with her for 10 years - peglegpete Feb 13, 22:02 2 1
- I would hate to be stuck with a guy that uses the word harpy -- nm - Baco Feb 13, 22:04 1
  - Didn't quite get all of that name deleted before I hit enter -- nm - 18 year old Feb 13, 22:05
consider the source - it's more of an insight into the way Boston idiots think. -- nm - Reagen Feb 13, 21:56 15
- I'm afraid to ask... -- nm - Mel Profit Feb 14, 03:44
- Hey, is a skate injuring a player a criminal offense if intentional? -- nm - David Feb 13, 21:59 13
  - it would depend on the eagerness of the prosecutor, but I can think of at least three guys brought up on criminal charges for on-ice stuff. -- nm - Reagen Feb 13, 22:02 12
    - Mcsorely, the from behind neck slam that broke the neck, and eh -- nm - Will Hunting Feb 14, 04:47 2
      - Dino Ciccarelli. -- nm - Reagen Feb 14, 05:55 1
        
        Yeah, I kept thinking Al Iafrate - Will Hunting Feb 14, 06:01
    - I haven't seen the Karlsson play yet but I know that dude has a reputation. -- nm - David Feb 13, 22:04 8
      - It's here (no gore) -- (link) - Reagen Feb 13, 22:08 7
        
        That looks like a stomp, but I could see it being unintentional...kind of. -- nm - David Feb 13, 22:13 6
        
        I think he's trying to get some leverage going into the boards with his leg - Reagen Feb 13, 22:17 5
        
        It's a hockey play and that's the problem. The league loses its stars to protect the likes of the Cookes. -- nm - Name Withheld By Request Feb 13, 22:21 4
        
        Shanny gives him... 3? -- nm - Reagen Feb 13, 22:26 3
        
        I'm betting zero based on what I've seen tonight. The way he was trying to pin EK to the boards is how they teach it. -- nm - Name Withheld By Request Feb 13, 22:35 2
        
        I suppose I'm going with cynicism for the optics of it. -- nm - Reagen Feb 13, 22:37 1
        
        Yeah, the TSN panel essentially said that the way EK's leg turned is why Cooke's leg slid up. -- nm - Name Withheld By Request Feb 13, 22:38
Liioulu,....and an iPad that is programmed with every recipe on the planet (iPad for recipe use only) -- nm - peglegpete Feb 13, 21:55 1
- Extra point for access to books and movies? -- nm - tl Feb 13, 21:59
a 52" tv is TOO SMALL -- nm - peglegpete Feb 13, 21:53 5
- Our tvs are 42 inch and just fine -- nm - Bacon via Droid Feb 13, 21:55 4
  - you're not stuck in a basement for a few years :) yet -- nm - peglegpete Feb 13, 21:56 1
    - This 1BD condo is smaller than a basement -- nm - Bacon via Droid Feb 13, 21:58
  - What is this - a TV for AUNTS?!?! -- nm - Beryllium Feb 13, 21:56 1
    - Uncles too. -- nm - tl Feb 13, 22:23

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