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I still don't get it...but apparently my oldest's patrol made a Harlem Shake video on their cabin camping outing this weekend. -- (link) - Jim Mar 18, 12:33 [youtube]
ST Roll-a-Poll: Last thing you bought for more than $100 - oblique Mar 18, 12:31 20
- mom's bd dinner sat night, before that...a replacement tire -- nm - zeitgeist Mar 18, 12:52
- sneakers for $157 -- nm - Max Mar 18, 12:44
- Laptop -- nm - David Mar 18, 12:38
- Three day trip to New York the week before Christmas -- nm - Mr. Havens Mar 18, 12:38
- Bath tub. Last night. -- nm - Jim Mar 18, 12:36 1
  - What about the basement floor? - Spawn Mar 18, 12:38
- groceries. -- nm - Diva Mar 18, 12:36
- Concert tickets -- nm - con_carne Mar 18, 12:36
- My S3 last fall. -- nm - Krusty Mar 18, 12:36
- Plane ticket. -- nm - loosilu Mar 18, 12:35
- Hotel bill. -- nm - Andie Mar 18, 12:35
- ticket to the Santa Barbera wine festival in july -- nm - peglegpete Mar 18, 12:35
- as a single item, or a collective purchase, like groceries? -- nm - znufrii Mar 18, 12:33 2
  - pre-valentines day dinner -- nm - znufrii Mar 18, 12:37
  - He's talking single item, but it's scary that everyday stuff is more than $100 now. -- nm - CrankYanker Mar 18, 12:34
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- heh, groceries at Costco yesterday. -- nm - CrankYanker Mar 18, 12:33 1
  - and gas for two cars. -- nm - CrankYanker Mar 18, 12:34
- alcohol on saturday. -- nm - Don Homer Mar 18, 12:33
- Lego Architecture - Robie House -- nm - Jovian Mar 18, 12:33
It's sad that it takes lawmakers to force companies like Carnival Cruise Lines to act responsibly. I don't think it's an industry problem... - CrankYanker Mar 18, 12:31
New poll finds 58 percent of Americans now believe marriage should be legal for same-sex couples... -- (link) - Don Homer Mar 18, 12:28 1
- And to drive the point, we're arranging forced marriages for the other 42% -- nm - Max Mar 18, 12:44
ika.: 150+ messages since I looked saturday morning. oof. -- nm - b. Mar 18, 12:13 13
- i just click on ones from those i know mel warmachine dogbert priesty rincewind -- nm - zeitgeist Mar 18, 12:23
- if you're able to act as merchant there are some needs... - Mel Profit Mar 18, 12:16 10
  - ok, thanks! I've been buying when I see alliancemates show in my posts, or when I see someone asks and they're not a day away. -- nm - b. Mar 18, 12:22 1
    - Hess. peeves me. - b. Mar 18, 12:40
  - Wha de hell is dis??!!! -- nm - meems Mar 18, 12:18 7
    - I know meems. I know. It'll be over soon. -- nm - Mel Profit Mar 18, 12:19 6
      - I now see some of the reasons *not* to wait long to declare. - Spawn Mar 18, 12:21 5
        
        The brief duration of it benefited them greatly... - Mel Profit Mar 18, 12:27 4
        
        Yeah, WarMachine just had a rough 24 hours so probably has a skewed view right now. - Spawn Mar 18, 12:34 3
        
        I do the same thing... - Mel Profit Mar 18, 12:40 2
        
        with a armestist date i know i can burn 150m gold in 12 days instead of being budget conscience -- nm - zeitgeist Mar 18, 12:50
        
        Agreed. Had actually planned to leave the area last night but crashed hurs earlier than normal and woke up to find... chaos. -- nm - Spawn Mar 18, 12:46
- War! Huh. -- nm - Spawn Mar 18, 12:13
Surprising turnaround: Lilo has accepted a guilty plea to one of the charges against her. -- (link) - Mop (190 lbs) Mar 18, 12:11 1
- See? Told you all that was why she had to go to that concert! -- nm - Spawn Mar 18, 12:13
Game of Thrones/Princess Bride mash-up. -- (link) - TWuG Mar 18, 12:09 [youtube] 2
- spoils - prayformojo Mar 18, 12:12 1
  - spoils - TWuG Mar 18, 12:13
32 things theatre school doesn't tell you, but should. -- (link) - znufrii Mar 18, 12:09 14
- I like $5 a lot. -- nm - Jim Mar 18, 12:39 2
  - I meant #5. I mean, I love $5 too...but that's not relevant. -- nm - Jim Mar 18, 12:40 1
    - that's grouped with a bunch of the others in my mind under the label "Don't be a dick" -- nm - znufrii Mar 18, 12:41
- Ok, one more, what is #22 talking about? -- nm - GregW Mar 18, 12:27 3
  - don't know. -- nm - Diva Mar 18, 12:31
  - don't know. - znufrii Mar 18, 12:30 1
    - If I had to guess he's probably referring to a headshot, and people trying to touch it up too much so that it doesn't look like them? -- nm - znufrii Mar 18, 12:32
- What does "off book" mean? I know I could look it up, but I figure many of you already know. -- nm - GregW Mar 18, 12:24 3
  - memorizing your lines -- nm - znufrii Mar 18, 12:26
  - it means you know all your lines and blocking without looking at the script or your notes. -- nm - Diva Mar 18, 12:25
  - without a script -- nm - Andie Mar 18, 12:25
- "You need to see a lot more daylight." -- nm - Max Mar 18, 12:20
- I love the last one. We had a pastor giving a talk at our retreat this weekend who said if you can see yourself doing anything else, then don't be one - oblique Mar 18, 12:15 1
  - yeah, I've come across that one several times. - znufrii Mar 18, 12:20
Lohan judge and attorneys reach a plea deal = 90 locked rehab, 30 days community labor, and 18 months psychotherapy. -- nm - CrankYanker Mar 18, 12:07 15
- oh her way into court someone threw glitter at her. this is why they hate us. -- nm - Diva Mar 18, 12:17 1
  - I thought I saw something....haha, that really is pathetic. -- nm - CrankYanker Mar 18, 12:26
- which will be merged into a new reality show: Big Brother Celebrity Rehab -- nm - peglegpete Mar 18, 12:15
- Celebrities get off so easy. -- nm - Krusty Mar 18, 12:15 1
  - I would just narrow that down to "pretty blonde girls get off so easy". -- nm - CrankYanker Mar 18, 12:28
- She just needs a drill sergeant as a body man who won't let her get away with any shit, including missing appointments just from sleeping while sober. -- nm - Max Mar 18, 12:10 7
  - it would have to a totally gay one cause she's probably a viking at sexual manipulation -- nm - zeitgeist Mar 18, 12:15 1
    - man I feel sorry for any dude who falls for her current seduction skills. - Max Mar 18, 12:17
  - she needs a parent. really. -- nm - amanda Mar 18, 12:11 4
    - She needs a baby -- nm - CQ Mar 18, 12:12
    - a parent who's a drill sergeant. I insist on this point. -- nm - Max Mar 18, 12:12 2
      - yep, she already has two parents that are worthless. -- nm - CrankYanker Mar 18, 12:26 1
        
        I don't mean biological parents, obs. I mean actual parents. -- nm - amanda Mar 18, 12:27
- This time she'll learn her lesson! -- nm - spamlet (iPhone) Mar 18, 12:09 1
  - Yeah, she'll be fine after this. Phew -- nm - CQ Mar 18, 12:12
Olympus Has Fallen would have made a good Die Hard movie. We can use a good Die Hard movie. -- nm - Mop (190 lbs) Mar 18, 11:58 3
- There hasn't been a good Die Hard movie since the Clinton administration. Why start now? -- nm - Mr. Havens Mar 18, 12:00 2
  - The one with Samuel Jackson has not held up well for me at all - con_carne Mar 18, 12:03 1
    - It was cool until the Water Jug puzzle. -- nm - Strongbad Mar 18, 12:10
I am ready for Spring -- nm - ty97 Mar 18, 11:58 1
- 4-8 inches tonight. I am so over it. I am so over it I've stopped making "I'm getting six to eight inches tonight" jokes. -- nm - amanda Mar 18, 12:18
Question for ST parents and parental milestone of sorts.....how quickly did you kids learn to walk down the stairs by themselves?..... - Walt_Disney Mar 18, 11:56 7
- I really don't remember, but probably not much after they learned to walk. -- nm - Inigo Mar 18, 12:19
- Silly Walt Disney. Only the St parents whose kids did this relatively early are going to answer this poll. -- nm - con_carne Mar 18, 12:16
- IIRC Bub could do it around 1.75 years but we did not *let* him do it for quite a while after that. -- nm - Spawn Mar 18, 12:12
- Pinch probably started doing this at about 2? maybe a little bit before. Can't really remember. -- nm - CQ Mar 18, 12:03 1
  - Actually, I'm thinking maybe it was a little after he was 2. -- nm - CQ Mar 18, 12:04
- I'm sorry to say I have reached the point where I no longer remember when my kids did any milestone related things - oblique Mar 18, 11:56 1
  - Word. -- nm - Jim Mar 18, 12:18
Free album! Woo! Wait... Free *DAVE MATTHEWS* album... -- (link) - Mop (190 lbs) Mar 18, 11:55 2
- That's what happens when you release seven studio albums and one hundred fourteen live albums -- nm - Mr. Havens Mar 18, 12:00 1
  - if you don't do it, the fans will do it anyway -- nm - zeitgeist Mar 18, 12:11
I was thinking, about the halo perfections, almost perfections - Truman Mar 18, 11:53
WANT!!! -- (link) - znufrii Mar 18, 11:50
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WaPo going paywall this summer. -- (link) - spamlet (iPhone) Mar 18, 11:50 8
- I'm amazed WaPo did not learned the lessons from every other news organization that tried to put their info behind a paywall - Mr. Havens Mar 18, 12:02 5
  - I want quality reporting and that costs money. How are they going to pay their reporters if the papers aren't selling and online ads aren't enough? - Krusty Mar 18, 12:23 1
    - Quality reporting does cost money. No disagreement there, but paywalls for dailies do not work except for the largest and most-trusted sources - Mr. Havens Mar 18, 12:37
  - seems to be working well enough for NYTimes this time around -- nm - znufrii Mar 18, 12:03 2
    - Apparently not -- (link) - Mr. Havens Mar 18, 12:20
    - It's working well for a lot of organizations (included a couple of properties in mine). - Kim Pine Mar 18, 12:10
- For now, at least, it won't affect me b/c I subscribe to the print edition, but I dislike this a lot -- nm - prayformojo Mar 18, 11:54 1
  - my paper wants extra for full online access...fyi, i stopped consumer reports because of this, i couldn't even use their search function so i wouldn't - zeitgeist Mar 18, 12:07
I brought in a floor fan in my office because it's quieter than my HVAC vent and I just need to move air, not change the temp. The fan points - Max Mar 18, 11:49 3
- This is why we can't have fan things. -- nm - Spawn Mar 18, 12:16
- I loved this scene in Final Destination 18 -- nm - prayformojo Mar 18, 11:55 1
  - "whoa, that was close." and then I sat on my letter opener. -- nm - Max Mar 18, 12:09
The 60 Minutes piece on the guy who invented Twitter and Space last night was interesting - prayformojo Mar 18, 11:48
#lessismore -- nm - Qale Mar 18, 11:46
"Illegal buttock enhancements potentially deadly, Toronto police warn" -- (link) - Andie Mar 18, 11:43 2
- ~Got it going on like Donkey Kong and whoo whee shut my mouth, slap your grandma~ -- nm - CQ Mar 18, 11:47 1
  - Lord have mercy, how she even get them britches on! -- nm - con_carne Mar 18, 12:06
Buster Olney reporting that Halladay's fastball was clocked at 82 last Tuesday and 84 yesterday. - David Mar 18, 11:42 12
- At this rate of increase he'll be throwing at 116 mph by June! All is well! -- nm - pmb Mar 18, 11:56
- Well, guess the Phils get out from that contract this year. -- nm - Will Hunting Mar 18, 11:50
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  - Everyone should be mocked for taking pitchers as early as they did in that league. - the wrong element, bad guy Mar 18, 11:59
- Sorry, Dawson. ;-) -- nm - Krusty Mar 18, 11:46 5
  - Well, even without that he took him too early. - the wrong element, bad guy Mar 18, 11:52 4
    - *tips the cap* - TFox Mar 18, 11:58 2
      - Your reasoning is similar to why I took a pitcher soon afterwards. - the wrong element, bad guy Mar 18, 12:24
      - I like my pitching staff without being too heavily invested. - Will Hunting Mar 18, 12:13
    - He did reach too early for him but he was quite drunk. :-) -- nm - Krusty Mar 18, 11:56
- He left yesterday's game after 1 inning. - the wrong element, bad guy Mar 18, 11:45 1
  - That's what a Philly coach just said but stomach issues don't affect the fastball like that. -- nm - David Mar 18, 11:47
#mopisdumb. ? -- nm - Truman Mar 18, 11:40
Is 'sitting on the Monster' what I think it its? -- nm - David Mar 18, 11:40 7
- Monstah. -- nm - Mel Profit Mar 18, 12:00
- it's green. -- nm - loosilu Mar 18, 11:43 1
  - So....kinda diseased? -- nm - Will Hunting Mar 18, 11:50
- Depends, what do you think it is? - Will Hunting Mar 18, 11:42 1
  - that's less expensive. -- nm - TFox Mar 18, 11:45
- Do you think it's like taking the Browns to the Super Bowl? -- nm - Mr. Havens Mar 18, 11:41
- *pleasedon'tbeaSybianpleasedon'tbeaSybian* -- nm - TWuG Mar 18, 11:41
ST Poll: Give us your 1st round big upset! Davidson over Marquette -- nm - Strongbad Mar 18, 11:39 4
- I did my Blindfold Brackets over at WSJ and wound up with Davidson in the Elite 8. - Kim Pine Mar 18, 12:12 2
  - I have them losing to Miami -- nm - Strongbad Mar 18, 12:17
  - Ha! -- nm - Krusty Mar 18, 12:16
- Montana over Syracuse -- nm - CQ Mar 18, 11:44
wow - so Season 6 for Mad Men starts April 7th ... wasn't the shows creator saying 6 would be the last? - JenBro Mar 18, 11:39 7
- 7, IIRC -- nm - Roger More Mar 18, 11:43
- It ain't over until Jon Hamm lands a sweet movie franchise like Die Hard or... uhm... -- nm - Mr. Havens Mar 18, 11:40 1
  - Aquaman -- nm - Max Mar 18, 11:52
- they will back up truck loads of cash for everyone - cut more time in for commericals ( again) and away we go to another season - Epiphany Mar 18, 11:40 3
  - what are the ratings like these days? -- nm - Andie Mar 18, 11:41 1
    - I'm not sure. someone must know. You'd think it's have a natural end cycle - seriously how many clients and ladies can *spoil* *spoil* over? - Epiphany Mar 18, 11:44
  - It's time for "The Kraft Macaroni and Cheese Hour" on AMC, presented by the Emmy-winning show "Mad Men" -- nm - Mr. Havens Mar 18, 11:41
Soon you won't be able to complain about all those dorks using hashtags on Facebook. -- (link) - Mop (190 lbs) Mar 18, 11:39 14
- to me it feels like they're just copying twitter. get your own thing, yo! -- nm - amanda Mar 18, 11:56 2
  - we had hashtags before those things ever existed ... in a manner of speaking. #hsx on Freenode. -- nm - Beryllium Mar 18, 11:57 1
    - (I mean, I think it was on Undernet and EFNet before freenode. But I own the Freenode one. -- nm - Beryllium Mar 18, 11:57
- #twitterwillbeAIMintwoyears -- nm - Mr. Havens Mar 18, 11:54
- #iamtoolazytoimplementhashtags -- nm - Beryllium Mar 18, 11:51
- #hashtag -- nm - CQ Mar 18, 11:47
- It would be okay if the hashtags were not part of the actual status, and transformed in tags at the bottom of the post instead -- nm - Guigue Mar 18, 11:47
- #facebookwillbemyspacein2years -- nm - Strongbad Mar 18, 11:44
- #facebookiskillingme -- nm - Epiphany Mar 18, 11:42
- *complains about it anyay* -- nm - znufrii Mar 18, 11:40
- #copycat -- nm - David Mar 18, 11:40
- Wrong - prayformojo Mar 18, 11:40
- @#F**kingDumb. -- nm - Will Hunting Mar 18, 11:40
- *sigh* -- nm - Mop (190 lbs) Mar 18, 11:39

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