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can we roll please so I can ask a question? -- nm - amanda hk Sep 5, 10:07
LA Times celebrates Canadian snacks. -- (link) - Mop (200 lbs) Sep 5, 09:57
Speculation that former Microsoftie, Nokia's first non-Finn CEO, and Canadian Stephen Elop is a top candidate for CEO at Microsoft. -- (link) - Mop (200 lbs) Sep 5, 09:55
Eagles wide receiver Riley Cooper and cornerback Cary Williams had to twice be separated by teammates after getting into a shoving match... - David Sep 5, 09:53 5
- IIRC, Williams got into fights lots of Ravens too. -- nm - Inigo Sep 5, 10:08
- Is Cary Williams...of a different heritage than Riley Cooper? -- nm - Spawn Sep 5, 10:03 3
  - Yes. That's why it's news. -- nm - David Sep 5, 10:07
  - Williams is a tool. He also mouthed off to Vick when Vick broke up the fight -- nm - decline Sep 5, 10:05 1
    - heh. I sort of dated a Carrie Williams that was similar. -- nm - Spawn Sep 5, 10:06
Why hello free unopened box of Topps football cards! Yes, I'd love to open every single one of your packs! -- nm - Jim Sep 5, 09:41 4
- open them on video cam like Qale did - it's so FUN watching! -- nm - JenBro Sep 5, 10:06
- I still get a visceral thrill from opening packs of trading cards. -- nm - David Sep 5, 09:50 1
  - I do as well. I've gotten so bad that I can get jazzed up about opening Nascar and/or UFC stuff... - Jim Sep 5, 10:07
- Why hello free unopened box of DC comics for Downtown Comics... -- nm - Spawn Sep 5, 09:43
*denies trade request* NO TRADE FOR YOU -- nm - Strongbad Sep 5, 09:36 1
- Your actions shall lead to war... -- nm - GLUCA Sep 5, 09:44
$40 million meth lab bust one of Ontario's largest ever -- (link) - Beaker Sep 5, 09:35
I was Summer Stalked most gloriously! Lucky Burger t-shirt, a hill country barbeque coozie, In the Heights program ( sweet) and emergency condoms - Epiphany Sep 5, 09:26 5
- :) -- nm - kelly Sep 5, 09:48
- Heh -- nm - amoxy Sep 5, 09:45
- :) -- nm - Diva Sep 5, 09:39
- LOLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL *love the IM convo* - so funny -- nm - JenBro Sep 5, 09:38
- That's great -- nm - prayformojo Sep 5, 09:27
John Green tackles the pop/soda/Coke debate (and 100 other regional slang terms). Right away, I think he got one wrong. - Mop (200 lbs) Sep 5, 09:24 [youtube] 1
- A wedge? Never heard anyone say that. -- nm - Krusty Sep 5, 09:54
ESPN's front page has a Sports Science video for... - David Sep 5, 09:23
Oh! Did you know there's a football game tonight? I hadn't heard. - Mop (200 lbs) Sep 5, 09:14 32
- Kim and I have to decide on the perfect takeout food for tonight's glorious festivities. -- nm - David Sep 5, 09:17 30
  - we're considering what to do on Sunday but haven't figured it out yet. I don't want pizza/wings/fried cheese or anything like that. -- nm - Diva Sep 5, 09:24 12
    - You don't want fried cheese? We can't be friends any longer. -- nm - David Sep 5, 09:26 11
      - my tummy is hurting these days and I don't want to give it any reason to keep doing that. -- nm - Diva Sep 5, 09:29 10
        
        Aww! You took me seriously *and* guilted me! Now I feel like John McCain should but doesn't. -- nm - David Sep 5, 09:30 7
        
        feel free to make tasty, healthy suggestions for Sunday in order to assuage your guilt. - Diva Sep 5, 09:33 6
        
        Deevs! how about a nice pasta primavera - but pick tummy friendly veggies for it - and a light white wine sauce -- nm - JenBro Sep 5, 09:41 2
        
        very good. thank you. :) -- nm - Diva Sep 5, 09:44 1
        
        but of course! tis the season for it with all the bounty of crops at our markets - sorry you had tummy troubles -- nm - JenBro Sep 5, 09:45
        
        After grapes, I got nothing. I should eat healthy and I want to eat healthy but healthy food tastes like pencil shavings. -- nm - David Sep 5, 09:34 2
        
        I finally found some healthy food I can eat. - Will Hunting Sep 5, 09:36
        
        hmm...grapes...:) -- nm - Diva Sep 5, 09:35
        
        Woman up! Add lots of sauce and you'll be fine. ;-) - Krusty Sep 5, 09:30
        
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  - Why have you forsaken me? -- nm - 5 Guys SI Sep 5, 09:23 8
    - Our local 5 guys closed last year, I wondered if they're beginning to fade away. -- nm - Strongbad Sep 5, 09:24 5
      - wouldn't surprise me if they overbuilt too quickly. it's fairly common in that food segment (i.e. boston market, krispy kreme etc)....nm - x Sep 5, 09:28 4
        
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        I'm waiting for WaWa to invade Georgia. Those things are taking over FL. -- nm - Strongbad Sep 5, 09:31
        
        Boston Market's over expansion was a mistake for the ages. - David Sep 5, 09:29 1
        
        yep. classic example of trying to build quick to raise revenues and stock price to please investors....nm - x Sep 5, 09:32
    - It's been four days. Don't get clingy. -- nm - David Sep 5, 09:23 1
      - What's more perfect than *me*? -- nm - 5 Guys SI Sep 5, 09:24
  - Crab Soup and Rocky Mountain Oysters. -- nm - Will Hunting Sep 5, 09:20 4
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      - Well, they could go for noodles to match Peyton's arm in the playoff game. -- nm - Will Hunting Sep 5, 09:31 2
        
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        Don't forget the puu puu platter to be represent the Broncos running backs and the Ravens WR's. -- nm - Will Hunting Sep 5, 09:37
  - quiche -- nm - decline Sep 5, 09:19
  - You'll get pizza. -- nm - Mop (200 lbs) Sep 5, 09:18 1
    - No, we won't. - David Sep 5, 09:21
- only 151 more days! -- nm - znufrii Sep 5, 09:15
haha, no late afternoon game on CBS Sunday (just two on Fox), although one is GB/SF -- nm - Beaker Sep 5, 09:11
CT's blog for day 6 is heelarious (esp the part about driving curvy Hwy 1) - I'm totally enjoying his trip vicariously through his blog. -- nm - JenBro Sep 5, 09:10
Do Europeans spend days and days ripping their CD collections to those hard drives in their cars that Americans don't care about? -- nm - Mop (200 lbs) Sep 5, 09:08 1
- Also: Do Europeans still have CD collections? -- nm - Mop (200 lbs) Sep 5, 09:18
For about $2500, you can get four of those Samsung TVs from Dell and build your own giant TV. - Mop (200 lbs) Sep 5, 09:07
I heard unconfirmed reports that if you have a VA hospital badge you can use that special staff line at the airport. Wonder if it is true. -- nm - James Bond (on phone) Sep 5, 09:04 5
- google has *one* result re: this -- (link) - amanda hk Sep 5, 09:06 1
  - interesting -- nm - James Bond (on phone) Sep 5, 09:17
- To get into the bathroom? To bypass the lines at the Starbucks? -- nm - Mop (200 lbs) Sep 5, 09:05 2
  - The first class, staff line to get past security. -- nm - James Bond (on phone) Sep 5, 09:13 1
    - Not as cool as the Starbucks line. -- nm - Mop (200 lbs) Sep 5, 09:14
I just don't find hugh jackman attractive. -- nm - amanda hk Sep 5, 08:59 12
- He is an anti-Brad Pitt. He does not define the role, the role defines him. - Spawn Sep 5, 09:24
- I think he is a good looking guy, but he doesn't ring my bells. -- nm - loosilu Sep 5, 09:20 1
  - agreed with this. I like the muscles the most -- nm - Epiphany Sep 5, 09:28
- Overruled. -- nm - Judgey Mop Sep 5, 09:04
- but you'd shag him anyway? -- nm - Don Homer Sep 5, 09:01
- He's never done anything for me. I can see what others see - ty97 Sep 5, 09:00 6
  - where do you stand on franco? -- nm - amanda hk Sep 5, 09:05 1
    - He was great in Now You See Me! -- nm - David Sep 5, 09:31
  - More Hugh for me. -- nm - Kim Pine Sep 5, 09:00 3
    - You'll have to fight Carrie for him...and she's pretty tenacious. -- nm - Jim Sep 5, 09:02 2
      - Poor Carrie wouldn't have a chance against Hydrocodone Kim. - David Sep 5, 09:27 1
        
        Rar! -- nm - Kim Pine Sep 5, 09:29
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- Planet Schvitz -- nm - Dr.Vermin, oy vey Sep 5, 09:20
- Where's nubby? What would the gravity be on a planet 2.6 times Earth's size and 7 times Earth's weight? -- nm - TWuG Sep 5, 09:11 11
  - ok, an attempt at the formula - Beryllium Sep 5, 09:38 2
    - Yeah, it's 7/(2.6^2) times g. -- nm - nubby Sep 5, 10:17
    - I'm assuming, of course, that they mean earth's mass when the headline refers to weight -- nm - Beryllium Sep 5, 09:41
  - Not so bad, actually. About 0.9Gs. -- nm - Beryllium Sep 5, 09:12 6
    - Wouldn't it be greater than 1G if it's bigger than Earth? -- nm - Mop (200 lbs) Sep 5, 09:13 5
      - Yes and no - I didn't do the actual math, but it's a matter of density, not "size". -- nm - Beryllium Sep 5, 09:17 4
        
        All the javascript calculators I found for gravitational force are javascript, so they'd integer overflow if I put in earth's mass ... - Beryllium Sep 5, 09:21 2
        
        ooh, nevermind - Beryllium Sep 5, 09:23 1
        
        Just imagine a caret in the right place for scientific notation -- nm - Beryllium Sep 5, 09:23
        
        If earth had the same mass, but a wider radius, gravity would be lower. This planet is wider & heavier. - Beryllium Sep 5, 09:20
  - "Heavy." -- nm - Don Homer Sep 5, 09:11
- Call Tim Curry, we've found Earth 2! -- nm - Strongbad Sep 5, 09:06 2
  - Woo! Tim Curry and Earth 2 reference in a single post. Winner! -- nm - Mop (200 lbs) Sep 5, 09:11
  - roar -- nm - Grendlers Sep 5, 09:10
- "More unusual discoveries include a planet that is as airy as Styrofoam, and another that rains glass" -- nm - decline Sep 5, 08:57 3
  - glass rain would kind of suck...nm - x Sep 5, 09:13 1
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  - *waits patiently for the planet that rains boobs and vaginas* -- nm - Beaker Sep 5, 09:13
- Awesome -- nm - Snooki Sep 5, 08:57
- *starts to pack, rewatches Gravity trailer, freaks out, unpacks* -- nm - Was Bar Was Sep 5, 08:55
Elizabeth Berkley's agent should sue the person who took this cast photo -- (link) - ty97 Sep 5, 08:51 5
- I *hate* that bill nye is doing this. -- nm - amanda hk Sep 5, 08:52 4
  - Somewhat expected from a dude whose moniker rhymes, though -- nm - con_carne Sep 5, 08:55
  - I think I get it. He hasn't been high profile in ..... forever. This is his chance to re-launch his science brand. -- nm - ty97 Sep 5, 08:53 1
    - "Let's talk about the science of dance!" <eliminated first> -- nm - Beryllium Sep 5, 09:10
  - It's kinda love/hate for me. I'm happy he gets to hang out with hot women, although I suspect he could do that without doing this show. -- nm - Mop (200 lbs) Sep 5, 08:53
An oral history of Napster (nmbl) - Brian Sep 5, 08:50 3
- *sues you* -- nm - Lars Ulrich Sep 5, 09:06
- *immediately think of Stanford girl* -- nm - Don Homer Sep 5, 09:01
- TLDR. -- nm - Mop (200 lbs) Sep 5, 08:52
Seems to me that if Robin Thicke's wife is into his philandering, then he's not cheating, she's enabling. -- nm - Mop (200 lbs) Sep 5, 08:45 12
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  - OMG, yes. I think I need to turn Judgey Mop into a brand. -- nm - Mop (200 lbs) Sep 5, 08:56
- Seems to me that if they are both okay with it,then it's not philandering or enabling. - ty97 Sep 5, 08:47 6
  - this. and honestly given how most celebrity marriages end up it might be the only way one could last -- nm - Beaker Sep 5, 08:59
  - Think about how Jesus views this ty. JESUS. Then you can get back to how God is cool. - Shaun Sep 5, 08:57
  - totally. i don't get the arm waving over this sort of thing at all....nm - x Sep 5, 08:55
  - the gossip mags/blogs/sites all sound kinda prudish and jealous on this one. -- nm - Diva Sep 5, 08:51 1
    - Those effin' blurred lines! -- nm - Spawn Sep 5, 09:18
  - exactly -- nm - decline Sep 5, 08:49
- See below. - Spawn Sep 5, 08:47 1
  - Yeah, that should have gone under Beaker's post. -- nm - Mop (200 lbs) Sep 5, 08:47
- Maybe they're into polyamoryism. -- nm - Don Homer Sep 5, 08:46
Major League Baseball Game Delayed by Annoying Camera Phone User -- (link) - Mop (200 lbs) Sep 5, 08:42
David from B2: I believe so, but it's not confirmed. - Inigo Sep 5, 08:30 2
- first thing is to let your lawyer know everything new. he may try to file an injunction or whatever to stop the move-in until everyone has examined -- nm - zork Sep 5, 10:00
- I was in a meeting earlier so couldn't post (or email) so freely. once nicky moves in, couldn't you just stop by and force a meet? - amanda hk Sep 5, 08:46
You've got to be a special kind of asshole to divert a charity relief flight hours out of its way so it can deliver some diamond mining equipment. -- (link) - znufrii Sep 5, 08:28
Robin Thicke is a Big D--- ... and Other Horror Stories From This Week's Tabloids -- (link) - Beaker Sep 5, 08:26 2
- Snooki: "I'm a closet nerd. I love anything sci-fi related and I'm obsessed with learning about astronomy." - amoxy Sep 5, 08:50
- I had read that he has an open marriage. -- nm - Spawn Sep 5, 08:37
If you think Manziel's a prick, here's all the evidence you'll ever need. Can't believe someone would have the gall to do this during a game -- (link) - prayformojo Sep 5, 08:25 7
- SI just threw under ESPN for falling for that. -- nm - ty97 Sep 5, 08:45 1
  - I don't think they fell for it, they just attributed it to the wrong source - prayformojo Sep 5, 08:48
- I was never a big TO fan, but I loved his similar stunt. -- nm - Was Bar Was Sep 5, 08:42
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- I am hoping you read the part that said it was completely fake... - Shaun Sep 5, 08:31 2
  - IRREFUTABLE! -- nm - mafic Sep 5, 08:35
  - the hell you say! -- nm - prayformojo Sep 5, 08:33
Spawn: has anyone else come forward to play? Cause I will likely be working tonight and haven't rejoined the League yet... -- nm - Beaker Sep 5, 08:23 1
- Yeah, they got somoene this morning. No worries. -- nm - Spawn Sep 5, 08:37
LIR: Wayne Rooney's head wound. yikes. -- (link) - znufrii Sep 5, 08:19 5
- that's just a flesh wound. -- nm - Diva Sep 5, 08:42
- i doubted him some, i admit....nm - x Sep 5, 08:24
- What a faker. -- nm - Mop (200 lbs) Sep 5, 08:22
- he's sitting out because of that little scratch? -- nm - decline Sep 5, 08:22
- Nobody cares about soccer. -- nm - Shaun Sep 5, 08:21
Butt fumble! -- nm - Shaun Sep 5, 08:18

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