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well tarnation, after filling up the car this morning i reset trip odometer A instead of trip odometer B - prayformojo Oct 24, 04:45 1
- You IDIOT!! -- nm - mara Oct 24, 04:47
huh, OPEC is cutting production by 1.5 million barrels/day on november 1st. -- (link) - mafic Oct 24, 04:39 2
- That's a lighter cut than expected: Oil's down $5 this morning $62/barrel -- nm - budice Oct 24, 04:46
- duh -- nm - DaneDukeNuuk Oct 24, 04:42
yeah, so that 120 billion that we've "loaned" ti aig? it aint gonna be enough... - x Oct 24, 04:34
Dow furtures -548.00 -- nm - ty97 Oct 24, 04:00 5
- they shut down the futures market for awhile because it hit the max negative....nm - x Oct 24, 04:24 4
  - I'm pissed, PISSED, that because of a technicallity, it's not 850 already! (NM) - Marlowe Oct 24, 04:50
  - c-a-p-i-t-u-l-a-t-i-o-n -- nm - budice Oct 24, 04:42 1
    - you've been singing this song since about 10,500 on the dow...nm - x Oct 24, 04:46
  - fun times! - ty97 Oct 24, 04:27
so. remeber yesterday when i said that japan's nikkei index was down 78% from its high 19 years ago? - x Oct 24, 03:49 2
- This is just silliness -- nm - ty97 Oct 24, 04:01
- *blames the bilderberg group* -- nm - mafic Oct 24, 03:52
Nice to see Slacker Talk is already starting to roll 20 boards in one day... - secretslacker Oct 24, 02:42
Question about 9/11 - chalkline Oct 24, 02:12 11
- no. it wasn't like he just sat there after hearing of all 4 incidents. - b! Oct 24, 02:44 7
  - no just the one incident, He(bush) - chalkline Oct 24, 02:52 6
    - no live pictures until 12 hours later? are you on crack? it was *all over* the airwaves pretty much as soon as it happened. - mafic Oct 24, 03:37
    - if that was the only time bush has misspoken as president... oh wait. - b! Oct 24, 02:58 4
      - Did you know that bush is related by blood to everyone of the British Royal family, He's the 13th cousin 1 once removed from Prince Charles. - chalkline Oct 24, 03:36 3
        
        dick cheney and barack obama are eigth cousins, I bet obama totally knew about it too! -- nm - mafic Oct 24, 03:44 2
        
        200 years ago you kicked the British aristocracy out to create a democracy - chalkline Oct 24, 04:45 1
        
        1. they're 2. I'm canadian, and not even living in north america. -- nm - mafic Oct 24, 05:34
- I would think that planning an attack on a school where the President was reading would require a lot more advance planning and knowing his schedule.. -- nm - secretslacker Oct 24, 02:40 2
  - But should have the securityshould have moved him as a matter of protocall, that's there job. Is there one good reason why they did not - chalkline Oct 24, 02:46 1
    - They did... as soon as they realized it was an attack and not just a coincidental dual plane crash. -- nm - secretslacker Oct 24, 03:19
Yahoo projects my game with Spawn to have a score of 116.84-116.50. -- nm - nubby Oct 24, 00:53 1
- heh -- nm - Stacy Oct 24, 01:57
Kare gets way better facebook ads than I do, I went to her wall to wish her a happy bd, there's ads for the Shadowbox and the English Beat and some... - zeitgeist Oct 24, 00:48 1
- I do pretty well in the facebook ad department, gay stuff and electronica stuff. -- nm - Qale Oct 24, 00:53
How can I not Berymander when the selection includes a Boston Sucks cafepress site? -- nm - Qale Oct 24, 00:33 11
- i cannot figure out why i can -- nm - b! Oct 24, 00:34
- i cannot figure out why i can -- nm - b! Oct 24, 00:34 9
  - (sigh.) can't see the ads here. - b! Oct 24, 00:36 8
    - I'm using Safari now so no adblock, but you said you checked off those. - Qale Oct 24, 00:42 7
      - Hey, is there a way to block those flashy ads at HSX, I am so sick of that SAW ad where they bash some guy with a baseball bat, yuck - zeitgeist Oct 24, 00:52 1
        
        Firefox + AdBlock Plus will kill them dead. -- nm - Qale Oct 24, 00:55
      - :) - - b! Oct 24, 00:45 4
        
        You're using AOL? Well as the Mythbusters say... There's your problem! -- nm - Qale Oct 24, 00:52 3
        
        no and yes. i still have the standalone client, but my usual access is directly via IE and dsl. - b! Oct 24, 00:57 2
        
        A long time friend of mine finally finally finally ditched AOL. - Qale Oct 24, 01:00 1
        
        I saw the ads and I'm on AOL -- nm - Stacy Oct 24, 01:54
zeitgeist you really did not need to invite all the hsx twitters here on the announcement board on hsx -- nm - Stacy Oct 23, 23:56 6
- why? -- nm - zeitgeist Oct 24, 00:09 5
  - maybe ?I'm being pessimistic but I could see the crap gonig on on the boards and blogs over at hsx going on here and from what I gathered from people - Stacy Oct 24, 00:16 4
    - you mean what we post here has meaning? if we don't have new players then st will eventually fade as we drift to other persuits and sites or grow old - zeitgeist Oct 24, 00:38 3
      - *deletes Stacy* *evil laugh* -- nm - Bery si Oct 24, 01:35 1
        
        ha! -- nm - Stacy Oct 24, 01:55
      - You bring up some great points. I forgot he can delete the trolls :) -- nm - Stacy Oct 24, 00:45
Anti-Gay Marriage proponents threaten to 'out' businesses that support the cause or refuse to contribute to the ban too (blackmail? extortion?) - zeitgeist Oct 23, 23:49 2
- I heard about this on the news tonight too, thanks for the additional info -- nm - Stacy Oct 24, 00:02
- i saw that on the news tonight. they make me sick. - b! Oct 23, 23:58
Right, well, looks like I have some new features to roll out for SlackerTalk, but I don't want to put them live right now because it's bedtime - Beryllium Oct 23, 23:48 1
- If I wake up tomorrow and find Slacker Talk orange and a social networking site, I'm going to kill you. -- nm - Qale Oct 24, 00:30
qale I'm now smoozing under my fund but it is adding the total from my own port to the total on the fund....weird. -- nm - Stacy Oct 23, 23:40
"For his next directing effort, Steven Soderbergh is plotting a 3-D live-action rock �n� roll musical about Cleopatra." - Jihad the Prophet Oct 23, 23:30 8
- Is this guy deliberately trying to commit career suicide? -- nm - secretslacker Oct 24, 02:41
- *taps out* -- nm - 20th Century Fox Oct 23, 23:46
- Dear Steven: You don't want to play all your Get Out of Jail Cards at once. -- nm - Reagen Oct 23, 23:44
- SASHA FIERCE!] -- nm - budice Oct 23, 23:33
- starring Paris Hilton, the cleopatra of our times? -- nm - Beryllium Oct 23, 23:31 3
  - Catherine Zeta-Jones, who still remembers the first time she met Cleopatra. - Jihad the Prophet Oct 23, 23:35 2
    - Cher -- nm - zeitgeist Oct 23, 23:53
    - ha! - b! Oct 23, 23:39
Night crew treat. Be one of the first to test my Boxoffice prediction game on Facebook -- (link) - kilboooo Oct 23, 23:19 7
- what do you do after the link, it says to log on to facebook and i do and then nothing -- nm - Gwaahjo Oct 24, 00:26 2
  - got it, i don't really like allowing all that kind of access tho *shrug* -- nm - Gwaahjo Oct 24, 00:29 1
    - Allowing access on Facebook basically means diddly. - Qale Oct 24, 00:44
- Ooooooh. I like it. -- nm - Qale Oct 24, 00:26
- does not work for me -- nm - Stacy Oct 23, 23:25 1
  - me, neither. -- nm - psilotum Oct 23, 23:55
- Very nice -- nm - budice Oct 23, 23:21
nice, bery! -- nm - b! Oct 23, 23:18
TDS Takes "real americans" on a tour of the other america to see real jews, gays sodomites -- nm - zeitgeist Oct 23, 23:17 1
- it was funny but... - Mel Profit Oct 24, 04:59
So BOG and Steve Mason both say near 40 for High School Musical. Could be a real interesting weekend. -- nm - Qale Oct 23, 23:12 4
- Put me down for $55 million. -- nm - Jihad the Prophet Oct 23, 23:25
- if it wasnt a sequel my fund could invest in it -- nm - Stacy Oct 23, 23:20 1
  - Which Fund do you run? And I think an argument that it's not technically a sequel could hold some water. - Qale Oct 24, 00:32
- priced for a 50m weekend -- nm - zeitgeist Oct 23, 23:20
“Getting biz-zay with me is like a game of Tetris: Deliberate and methodical until the pace picks up, I lose my cool, and it ends in disappointment. - psilotum Oct 23, 23:12 3
- shirt.woot -- nm - psilotum Oct 23, 23:16 1
  - ah, I'll have to find out why those characters glitched. -- nm - Beryllium Oct 24, 00:05
- where the heck did you quote that from? -- nm - Beryllium Oct 23, 23:13
Bery, I'll slack, thanks. -- nm - psilotum Oct 23, 23:08 1
- word -- nm - Stacy Oct 23, 23:16
fyi you do NOT need to type in www to get to hsx it does it for you -- nm - Stacy Oct 23, 23:02 10
- Took 'em long enough to fix it -- nm - Beryllium Oct 23, 23:07 4
  - (... he says, while attempting to work on a timezone fix) -- nm - Beryllium Oct 23, 23:08 3
    - whats wrong with it staying on pacific? It's easier -- nm - Stacy Oct 23, 23:17 2
      - People want it to be in their own time zone. -- nm - Beryllium Oct 23, 23:31 1
        
        that would be sweet -- nm - Stacy Oct 23, 23:39
- most browsers will do that automatically if the non-www version isn't found. -- nm - mafic Oct 23, 23:06 3
  - the problem was, the non-www version was being found alright - it was just configured wrong and throwing a PHP error -- nm - Beryllium Oct 23, 23:08
  - you don't even need the .com on a mac - pixie fierce Oct 23, 23:08 1
    - i can now type just "hsx" on my PC and it works - Gwaahjo Oct 23, 23:10
- Yeah that got fixed I think on day 2 of the hostage crisis. -- nm - Qale Oct 23, 23:05
ST Poll: Bob the Builder vs. Joe the Plumber...Who would win? - amoxy Oct 23, 22:59 2
- Society. (nm) - Jihad the Prophet Oct 23, 23:06
- "Let's build an erection!" -- nm - Qale Oct 23, 23:02
Sham-Wow! -- nm - amoxy Oct 23, 22:54
Moss, Owens, White, and Bryant - start 3 -- nm - Gwaahjo Oct 23, 22:38 2
- Moss, White and Bryant...TB is tough and Brad Johnson is bad - amoxy Oct 23, 22:40 1
  - this is what i was thinking.. so hard to bench TO tho -- nm - Gwaahjo Oct 23, 22:46
I love how you can't tell if a Movie Fund is holding something long or short. -- nm - Qale Oct 23, 22:34 3
- oh crap, that was my best cheat sheet, can you see how much they made off the stock since they got it, that can give a clue, (but too much time involv -- nm - zeitgeist Oct 23, 22:38 2
  - Yes you can still see how much they've made/lost on a security. I *sigh* posted a blog entry detailing what KIDS Fund has short vs long. - Qale Oct 23, 22:44 1
    - And since I'm using the KIDS Fund port to do the *sigh* blogging and poking around I'm earning it *sigh* schmooze dollars. - Qale Oct 23, 22:47
I'm finding renewed enjoyment of Oblivion playing it as if I were The Punisher. -- nm - celedhrymandias Oct 23, 22:25 4
- Now I only need an RPG with great violence potential *plus* guns. -- nm - celedhrymandias Oct 23, 22:26 3
  - fallout 3! - mafic Oct 23, 22:38 1
    - oh they do. Will be the first perk I pick! nm - Jovian Oct 23, 22:40
  - 6 days. nm - Jovian Oct 23, 22:32
Imperioli has improved considerably with Life on Mars -- nm - budice Oct 23, 22:08 2
- he's great. -- nm - Mel Profit Oct 24, 04:53
- I didn't even know he was in it until I saw the promo just now. I might have to check it out. -- nm - Beryllium Oct 23, 22:11
Christy Hemme is no Trish Stratus. - Jihad the Prophet Oct 23, 22:06 1
- (But that finisher is pretty limber.) -- nm - Jihad the Prophet Oct 23, 22:10
I'm ifnding that SNL on Thursday is better than SNL on Saturdays lately -- nm - Stacy Oct 23, 21:58 4
- Other than the opening, that was crap -- nm - amoxy Oct 23, 22:28 2
  - oh come on, you had to have laughed at the mocking of the CNN magic map -- nm - Jovian Oct 23, 22:33 1
    - Ehh -- nm - amoxy Oct 23, 22:42
- *finding* -- nm - Stacy Oct 23, 22:02
Woo! Evidently Kevin McKidd (Rome, Journeyman) did so well on the premiere of Grey's, he starts as a full time doc next week. -- nm - Trish Oct 23, 21:53 2
- spoilery. - b! Oct 23, 23:25
- Yup, and the season has been awesome so far. -- nm - budice Oct 23, 21:56
ST help - Television show about a law firm, one of the partners does cocaine in his office and screws girls on his desk; the other partner has a - CrankYanker Oct 23, 21:52 4
- Nevermind, I got it! Huff !! -- nm - CrankYanker Oct 23, 21:56
- Pixie Practice -- nm - pixie fierce Oct 23, 21:54
- LA law? I have no idea. -- nm - mafic Oct 23, 21:53 1
  - I think it was on cable. -- nm - CrankYanker Oct 23, 21:53
Obama should comment on the Palin wardrobe story: "I have some extra campaign money - I can donate some to Sarah Palin's wardrobe crisis." -- nm - Die Incognito Oct 23, 21:50
Regarding Secret Invasion 7 (I wish this was spoilerish...) - celedhrymandias Oct 23, 21:46
Smallville question from tonight (spoilers, I guess) - Jihad the Prophet Oct 23, 21:31 2
- Spoiler answer - Trish Oct 24, 01:24
- he's secretly Jesus? -- nm - mafic Oct 23, 21:52
palinized! bwah-ha! -- nm - dogbert183 Oct 23, 21:26
Gut checks? No? Okay, going to sleep then -- nm - secretslacker Oct 23, 21:22 9
- hey, i asked this the other day, but what were some of your favorite movies from this year? - Gwaahjo Oct 23, 21:48
- I don't care anymore :( -- nm - peglegpete Oct 23, 21:32 2
  - Awww... poor petey bummed that he can't get free money from posting? :) -- nm - secretslacker Oct 23, 21:35 1
    - no. you're dating, and i'm not :( -- nm - peglegpete Oct 23, 22:06
- Gut check: site will still be orange and unusable tomorrow. No trades planned. :) -- nm - Beryllium Oct 23, 21:22 4
  - Has anyone thought that maybe it's just orange for October/Halloween? - secretslacker Oct 23, 21:23 3
    - no, I think those are the colors, isn't orange the new pink? -- nm - zeitgeist Oct 23, 21:58 1
      - SALMON!!! -- nm - Beryllium Oct 23, 22:16
    - oh gawd. oh gawd. please no!!!!!! -- nm - Beryllium Oct 23, 21:24
Mel, Jon Stewart's little Thriller move last night cracked me the hell up. - Reagen Oct 23, 21:20 2
- it looks like fun but must be impossible to pull off well. -- nm - Mel Profit Oct 23, 21:46
- this saturday is Thrill the World (world's biggest Thriller dance) -- (link) - pixie fierce Oct 23, 21:22
LYC: Pseudo-date went pretty well.. we definitely have more chemistry than the last one. - secretslacker Oct 23, 21:19 1
- ANd my Facebook/Twitter status about my cough wasn't kidding... I haven't stopped coughing all day -- nm - secretslacker Oct 23, 21:20
Boo! -- nm - Beryllium Oct 23, 21:17 8
- +2 Qale Points. -- nm - Qale Oct 23, 21:59
- *panics* bats scare me! -- nm - mafic Oct 23, 21:41
- Hiss! -- nm - Mop Oct 23, 21:24
- BATS! -- nm - Cuzzin Todd Oct 23, 21:22 4
  - they're not flying. i was told there would be flying -- nm - pixie fierce Oct 23, 21:43 2
    - they're in flight. that should count for something. -- nm - mafic Oct 23, 22:21 1
      - one of them is hollow! I will not stand for holobats! -- nm - pixie feirce si Oct 23, 22:22
  - Yes! Bats!! -- nm - Beryllium Oct 23, 21:24
Michelle "HUAC" Bachmann now trailing by 3 -- (link) - Reagen Oct 23, 21:16 6
- It's so rare that political career suicide doesn't involve sex, drugs or alcohol. -- nm - Jihad the Prophet Oct 23, 21:34 1
  - it really is spectacular to witness. -- nm - Mel Profit Oct 23, 21:39
- i love that the NRCC flat out yanked her funding two days after Hardball -- nm - pixie fierce Oct 23, 21:31
- She's the one who said that stuff about investigating anti-Americans in Congress? She's actually in Congress herself? -- nm - Mop Oct 23, 21:23 2
  - Not for long. -- nm - BB Oct 23, 21:29 1
    - Ironically, baseless witch hunts pesecuting innocent people are actually an American tradition. -- nm - Mop Oct 23, 21:38
"It squeaks when she bangs it thats what she said" -- nm - Die Incognito Oct 23, 21:16
HD DVD clearance at Fry's. Starting at $2.99. Many at $8.99. 236 items. -- (link) - Mop Oct 23, 21:16 1
- Unlike at Deepdiscount, most of these items seem to actually be in stock. DD cancelled by Ocean's 11 trilogy order! -- nm - Mop Oct 23, 21:29

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