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max news network: skeleton of girl confirms cannibalism at Jamestown -- (link) - charlie May 1, 08:36 2
- wait. max? - loosilu May 1, 08:38 1
  - but chud news is for Max. -- nm - mafic May 1, 08:38
I would have bet that Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje is taller than 6'2" -- (link) - zork May 1, 08:32 3
- When you're on your knees he looks much taller. -- nm - Krusty May 1, 08:35
- You C&Pd that name didn't you? ;) -- nm - Meg May 1, 08:34 1
  - well, duh -- nm - zork May 1, 08:36
new Falcons stadium could have vibrating seats -- (link) - charlie May 1, 08:32 3
- Damn it. I'm never coming back. -- nm - Falcons fan after spilling beer on himself again May 1, 08:39
- C'mon, tell me that's not housing a death ray. -- nm - Reagen May 1, 08:33
- the drawings I've seen are....something if they are to be believed -- nm - Beaker May 1, 08:32
Fine then *orders the GoT books from Amazon* - Beaker May 1, 08:30 7
- Be prepared. The books are full of detail. - TWuG May 1, 08:38 6
  - like 20 pages on the history of the meat and bread they are eating -- nm - Remlik May 1, 08:40
  - if anyone can drag themselves through Girl with the Dragon Tattoo - these books should be easy - Epiphany May 1, 08:39 4
    - "Here's three pages describing the amazing technical specs of her computer which are instantly outdated." -- nm - Reagen May 1, 08:41
    - how do you feel about lists of food and clothing? -- nm - mafic May 1, 08:39 2
      - I did my time with that back in the trashy historical sex novel days - Epiphany May 1, 08:41
      - Everyone jokes about that and I don't recall even noticing it in the books. - TWuG May 1, 08:41
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- whaaa? -- nm - loosilu May 1, 08:27 3
  - accessories after the fact -- nm - charlie May 1, 08:30
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    - ahhhh -- nm - loosilu May 1, 08:38
Breaking: Boston police arrest 3 more suspects in the Marathon bombings -- (link) - charlie May 1, 08:22 1
- THANK YOU JESUS! -- nm - CNN May 1, 08:28
Windows PC shipment growth rates (y/y)... -- (link) - Don Homer May 1, 08:21
Mel...RE: Outlook properties. - colin May 1, 08:20
Speaking of books, ML was deadon about the new Childs/Preston book Two Graves - spoilers - Beaker May 1, 08:19 7
- I don't even know if I'll read this one given what I've been hearing about it. Sad it used to be one of my favorite series -- nm - decline May 1, 08:22 5
  - Relic, Reliquary, Cabinet of Curiosities, Still Life With Crows were all faves of mine, the latest bunch have been...not good -- nm - Beaker May 1, 08:23 3
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      - Riptide (non-pendegast) is probably my favorite. Relic may be my favorite of the P. books -- nm - decline May 1, 08:27
      - Relic for me...I liked it so much I even like the movie (even though no Pendagrast) -- nm - Beaker May 1, 08:24
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- too bad that their best book was the first one -- nm - Beaker May 1, 08:21
ST poll - David inspired poll - one word of something you love enough to gush about -- nm - Epiphany May 1, 08:18 24
- delis -- nm - con_carne May 1, 08:33
- kimberlites! -- nm - mafic May 1, 08:32 1
  - those are a good sign! -- nm - zork May 1, 08:36
- Brody (nm) - JD May 1, 08:31
- Archaeology ;) -- nm - Meg May 1, 08:31
- SlackerTalk. -- nm - JaxSean May 1, 08:30 1
  - *promotes Jax to moderator* -- nm - Bery si May 1, 08:31
- HP! -- nm - amanda May 1, 08:28
- painting. -- nm - loosilu May 1, 08:27
- gambling -- nm - Epiphany May 1, 08:25 2
  - Is the new gun to collect old gambling debts? - Krusty May 1, 08:33 1
    - :) - Epiphany May 1, 08:35
- My wife and kids. -- nm - Jim May 1, 08:23 3
  - (family) -- nm - Beaker May 1, 08:26 2
    - (and I assumed this was a given for families :) ) -- nm - Beaker May 1, 08:26 1
      - Fine then. BLAIR2. nm - Jim May 1, 08:28
- Beer. -- nm - Shaun May 1, 08:20
- Habs -- nm - Beaker May 1, 08:19
- machado -- nm - Don Homer May 1, 08:19
- Baseball. -- nm - Krusty May 1, 08:19 3
  - And Brooklyn. - Krusty May 1, 08:21 2
    - Oh oh...and TEBOW. -- nm - krusty May 1, 08:26 1
      - :-) -- nm - Krusty May 1, 08:27
- "the" -- nm - TWuG May 1, 08:19
No, Kentucky, it is *not* an accident when you give a 5 year old a gun and then something horrible happens. - TWuG May 1, 08:13 5
- sad. -- nm - znufrii May 1, 08:24
- Yep. I was appalled when I saw that earlier. -- nm - zork May 1, 08:14
- If only the 2 year old had a gun to defend herself. -- nm - Don Homer May 1, 08:13 1
  - My first thought too. -- nm - volnelk May 1, 08:15
- the only answer is to arm the 4 year olds. -- nm - Beaker May 1, 08:13
If I may brag for a second, just got this email: - Jim May 1, 08:11 8
- nice! -- nm - JenBro May 1, 09:39
- woot! -- nm - Epiphany May 1, 08:17
- that's good to hear! -- nm - Don Homer May 1, 08:17
- So nice when people take the time to tell you the good things and not just the bad. -- nm - Meg May 1, 08:16 1
  - Exactly what I was thinking. I hear plenty about when the boys screw up. Nice to get an email like this. -- nm - Jim May 1, 08:20
- Awesome! - Krusty May 1, 08:14
- so they'll let you into the fourth grade finally! -- nm - zork May 1, 08:13
- niiiiiiiiice -- nm - prayformojo May 1, 08:12
Gammer PSA: I bought Tomb Raider with that PS3 deal for 30 bucks. It's quite the excellent game -- nm - decline May 1, 08:11 5
- Where's this at? The NewEgg one for $33? -- nm - JaxSean May 1, 08:31 2
  - via the PSN store. -- nm - Shaun May 1, 08:37 1
    - hmm -- nm - JaxSean May 1, 09:11
- Duh. -- nm - Shaun May 1, 08:25
- gammer? Gamer :) -- nm - decline May 1, 08:12
Do the ST ladies like Kit Harington? -- (link) - zork May 1, 08:09 6
- he looks kind of like a straight Orlando Bloom. - loosilu May 1, 08:10 2
  - buwhaa!! I'd be down with that.. Love me some John Snow - Epiphany May 1, 08:19 1
    - The journalist with the brightly colours socks and ties, I've worked with him on Coriolanus. -- nm - LMS May 1, 08:22
- Sounds like the name of a character from another bad Michael Bay movie. -- nm - Don Homer May 1, 08:09 2
  - his character name on GoT is worse -- nm - zork May 1, 08:11 1
    - Give him a break, he's a bastard. -- nm - volnelk May 1, 08:15
Good lord. I'm getting tired of every goddamn thing in my life snowballing lately. - prayformojo May 1, 08:03 5
- *sending good thoughts* I hope it's nothing serious. -- nm - Krusty May 1, 08:15
- (hope all is well). speaking of snowballs, has anyone ever had one with marshmallow topping? - Don Homer May 1, 08:08 3
  - *starts the pron camera* -- nm - zork May 1, 08:11
  - you are saying you like snowball? nm -- nm - groiny May 1, 08:11 1
    - I imagine they are called different things in different areas of the country. "snow cones" -- nm - Don Homer May 1, 08:15
Received our first scholarship application - student's main interest is forensic osteology. This can be used in archaeology but - Meg May 1, 08:03
ANyone catch NCIS last night? spoils - loosilu May 1, 07:59 4
- much better than the last episode -- nm - Beaker May 1, 08:00 3
  - Yup. A solid episode on the heels of a terrible one. -- nm - David, Halo Legend May 1, 08:01 1
    - I completely disagree - I loved the last one. -- nm - loosilu May 1, 08:02
  - It's called laying pipe: set-up significant plot events, donchaknow -- nm - OAE -- aka Old Antarctic Explorer May 1, 08:01
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- Sure, but when you factor in that 75% of those Ks were recorded against the Astros...... - prayformojo May 1, 08:08
- Time to lower the mound. -- nm - David, Halo Legend May 1, 08:07
- Nolan Ryan circa 1973 wishes he could time travel to now and play. -- nm - Don Homer May 1, 07:59
Last rhinos in Mozambique killed by poachers -- (link) - amoxy May 1, 07:55 1
- Horrible. -- nm - Krusty May 1, 07:58
that thing is huge!! -- nm - Diva May 1, 07:53 2
- Look at the size of that thing. -- nm - Luke May 1, 07:54 1
  - What the hell is that? -- nm - Steve Martin, Bill Murray May 1, 08:03
We have "This Day In History" again, so when do Buddy posts and Simpsons Trivia come back? -- nm - zork May 1, 07:53
Has anyone read Stephen King's "11/22/63"? Started reading it the other night on ipad. It's pretty good so far (about 1/8 of the way done). -- nm - Don Homer May 1, 07:52 42
- last week, actually. I commented to a girl at work that I hadn't read anything of his in years, she loaned it to me. enjoyable. much more than under - mafic May 1, 08:34 1
  - good grief this appears to be the " sleeper" King novel -- nm - Epiphany May 1, 08:37
- Yeah, read it a few months ago. -- nm - Ender May 1, 08:08
- I love me some King but I just wasn't interested in the subject matter but if yall say its good... -- nm - Epiphany May 1, 08:02 1
  - It's very solid. I really liked it a lot. Doesn't take long to hook you. -- nm - Jim May 1, 08:06
- King is old and tired. Joe Hill is the new hotness. - David, Halo Legend May 1, 07:56 29 1
  - but he does have " daddy issues" heh. - Epiphany May 1, 08:03
  - What kind of books does he write? - Krusty May 1, 08:01 27
    - There's a chapter in Horns that is probably my favorite chapter ever written - prayformojo May 1, 08:09 4
      - well..which one? -- nm - Epiphany May 1, 08:09 3
        
        We should guess. (spoils) - JaxSean May 1, 08:10 2
        
        I"m guessing *spoils* - Epiphany May 1, 08:16 1
        
        It was the Cherry Bomb chapter -- nm - prayformojo May 1, 08:21
    - Thanks everyone. I appreciate all the replies. Looks like I have a new author to check out. -- nm - Krusty May 1, 08:07
    - Decent scary stuff. Better than his dad, too. - TWuG May 1, 08:05
    - Creepy ones just like his dad. - David, Halo Legend May 1, 08:05 4
      - I'll check his stuff out. Thanks! -- nm - Krusty May 1, 08:09
      - * insert my usual whining about wanting to see the pilot for Locke/Key -- nm - Epiphany May 1, 08:07
      - Ooh, he has a new book? I didn't know this. -- nm - JaxSean May 1, 08:06 1
        
        see bellow \/ -- nm - decline May 1, 08:08
    - (He's King's son.) -- nm - Reagen May 1, 08:02 6
      - What kind of messed up guy names their kid "Joe King"? -- nm - Ender May 1, 08:12 1
        
        Ha! -- nm - Krusty May 1, 08:20
      - imagine how creepy of a childhood he must have had. I can just imagine SK waking him up in the middle of the night holding a giant knife "Joe, do you - Don Homer May 1, 08:07 1
        
        King has a fantastic story involving Joe and the writing of Gerald's Game. -- nm - Jim May 1, 08:10
      - He could have gone rogue and wrote romance novels. ;-) -- nm - Krusty May 1, 08:06 1
        
        well, his mom (Tabitha King) does write more normal fiction -- nm - decline May 1, 08:13
    - Horror. Horns is very good but Heart Shaped Box is downright creepy -- nm - Beaker May 1, 08:02 4
      - but he's got a unique voice that is not the same as SK's. A few chapters into NOS4A2 and so far it is excellent -- nm - decline May 1, 08:05 1
        
        I am 10% done. I don't want to get too far ahead of Kim. -- nm - David, Halo Legend May 1, 08:06
      - I'm going to promote the collection of short stories - very good. 21st Century Ghosts -- nm - Epiphany May 1, 08:03 1
        
        I still shudder when I think about The Cape -- nm - prayformojo May 1, 08:26
    - David gushes. - groiny May 1, 08:01 2
      - I don't understand people who don't love things. -- nm - David, Halo Legend May 1, 08:05 1
        
        I love this. -- nm - loosilu May 1, 08:37
- Yes, I did. I liked it a lot. More than anything in a while, it really made me question what I would do in the same situation. -- nm - Jim May 1, 07:53 6
  - It's off to a good start, I haven't read many of his books in recent years but can easily see it being my fave of his in quite some time. -- nm - Don Homer May 1, 08:04 3
    - It's up there for me. Be sure to post up as you get more into it. Interested to see your thoughts as you go through. -- nm - Jim May 1, 08:15 2
      - will do. the last thing I read last night was... (spoiler) - Don Homer May 1, 08:16 1
        
        Nicey nice. I like the time in Derry, because King (book spoils) - Jim May 1, 08:22
  - The Third Bullet by Stephen Hunter sounds a little similar (about the JFK killing and has alot of theories around it) - Beaker May 1, 07:55 1
    - I love the detail that was put into the King book. I felt like I know what it was like to live at that time. - Jim May 1, 08:03
A different take on the war in Syria (more from the Govt's side of things it reads like) -- (link) - Beaker May 1, 07:51 1
- (either way you look at it, it sounds like Hell on earth for both sides of the conflict...& especially for those on neither side caught in the middle) -- nm - Beaker May 1, 07:52

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