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So some observations from week 1 of the NFL so far - eag Sep 9, 11:18 2
- you really can't tell anything from the first week. - groiny Sep 9, 11:26
- Dallas is going to start out okay and then choke as usual -- nm - Epiphany Sep 9, 11:23
Dear Prudence... - Don Homer Sep 9, 11:14 13
- Here is prudie's response... - Don Homer Sep 9, 11:19 4
  - prudie has lost her mind. A 6 year old is not going to grasp that kind of heavy conversation - Epiphany Sep 9, 11:21 2
    - You read my mind - eag Sep 9, 11:25 1
      - Plus I think he is in denial - eag Sep 9, 11:27
  - Very well said. -- nm - Inigo Sep 9, 11:21
- The mother shouldn't have introduced someone she's just being physical with to her son. - Inigo Sep 9, 11:18 3
  - Or, the mother is trying to use her kid to get him deeper into the relationship. - JaxSean Sep 9, 11:27
  - ^this and your im -- nm - Remlik Sep 9, 11:24
  - *nods* -- nm - Don Homer Sep 9, 11:19
- He shoplifted the pooty! -- nm - David Sep 9, 11:17
- he shouldn't be hanging around the kid if he doesn't care about the mother. -- nm - amanda hk Sep 9, 11:16 1
  - exactly. if its just physical with the mom, don't spend time around the kid. -- nm - decline Sep 9, 11:17
- ditto -- nm - Epiphany Sep 9, 11:15
Speaking of Now You See Me, I have a spare UV code for it if anybody here wants it. -- nm - David Sep 9, 11:11 2
- Oh me! Please! -- nm - Mop (200 lbs) Sep 9, 11:12 1
  - Okay, I'll msg you the code on FB. -- nm - David Sep 9, 11:14
I have another life-saving bracelet question! I just heard back from the woman who makes them. I wanted to see if the text I wanted on the bracelet - kelly Sep 9, 11:05 2
- this says it is -- (link) - decline Sep 9, 11:07
- I googled, mostly because of the pennsylvania cable network. -- (link) - amanda hk Sep 9, 11:06
any of the MyVegas players have any luck with Blackjack? - groiny Sep 9, 11:05 5
- That is actually my game. It is not as social, so I prefer poker but like at the end of the last rip when I was down a couple hundred bucks, I went to - Spawn Sep 9, 11:11
- I've had a few good runs, but they usually don't last for long. - znufrii Sep 9, 11:07 3
  - I was playing 3 hands at a time, and the dealer hit 9 blackjacks - groiny Sep 9, 11:08 2
    - yeah, I've never had it that bad. -- nm - znufrii Sep 9, 11:10 1
      - that ratio is damn near impossible to fathom. - groiny Sep 9, 11:11
How do you top twirking on VMA's?.....naked on a wrecking ball of course....NSFW -- (link) - CrankYanker Sep 9, 11:04 1
- Certainly not with a Vogue cover. -- (link) - Mop (200 lbs) Sep 9, 11:05
What's the word on the Eagles tonight? Chip Kelly is an unproven element. -- nm - Mop (200 lbs) Sep 9, 11:03 2
- The word on the Eagles tonight is that Chip Kelly is an unproven element. -- nm - Spawn Sep 9, 11:03 1
  - I'm really good at this. -- nm - Mop (200 lbs) Sep 9, 11:04
AJOLI to receive special Oscar for her humanitarian work -- (link) - con_carne Sep 9, 11:00
RIP Tuxedo Stan (the cat that ran for mayor of Halifax) -- (link) - Beaker Sep 9, 10:51 2
- Up the road, Mayor Stubbs isn't doing well either. -- (link) - Dr.Vermin Sep 9, 10:54 1
  - Reagen had a great bit about this the other day. -- (link) - David Sep 9, 11:13 [Backboard]
Shane Vereen is out 2-3 weeks. -- (link) - Inigo Sep 9, 10:50 5
- Good. I already had benched him for next week, anyway! -- nm - Spawn Sep 9, 11:00
- CRAP! I put in a waiver claim on him - eag Sep 9, 10:59
- someone staple the ball to Ridley's arm, please. -- nm - Mel Profit Sep 9, 10:57 1
  - Trade you for the seemingly butterarmed David Wilson. -- nm - Shaun Sep 9, 10:58
- the only thing more shocking is that I don't have him on any of my FF teams. -- nm - Beaker Sep 9, 10:52
Sports Illustrated falls for satire about Nick Saban visiting Texas... -- (link) - Don Homer Sep 9, 10:48 5
- (as does Strongbad) -- nm - Beaker Sep 9, 10:49 4
  - Posting a rumor does not imply that one believes it. -- nm - Strongbad Sep 9, 10:50 2
    - don't begrudge me my jokes! -- nm - Beaker Sep 9, 10:54
    - This also comfirms my long held belief that Paul Finebaum is garbage. -- nm - Strongbad Sep 9, 10:51
  - heh -- nm - Spawn Sep 9, 10:49
Carl Icahn dropping his takeover bid for Dell -- (link) - Beaker Sep 9, 10:45 4
- making a fortune on the run up stock price and now massive shorting -- nm - zeitgeist Sep 9, 13:35
- Which just means he's gearing up for a failed takeover of another company -- nm - Mr. Havens Sep 9, 10:48
- I thought he was dropping his resistance to the takeover by Michael Dell? -- nm - Beryllium Sep 9, 10:46 1
  - he's stil, against that, just doesn't think his alternative will get the votes -- nm - Beaker Sep 9, 10:47
Giants called in Joe McKnight and Braylon Edwards as well. - Spawn Sep 9, 10:45 4
- Go sign Michael Turner off the street. -- nm - Shaun Sep 9, 10:49 2
  - See B2 or 3. -- nm - Spawn Sep 9, 10:50
  - TEBOW! -- nm - Beaker Sep 9, 10:50
- I'm surprised Dwyer's name hasn't surfaced there yet. -- nm - Strongbad Sep 9, 10:45
Anyone getting a new IPhone tomorrow? -- (link) - Beaker Sep 9, 10:43 22
- We're thinking about it. If anybody is considering, you should set up the Amazon trade-in right now. - David Sep 9, 11:14 5
  - I got $260 via gazelle a couple of weeks ago with up to 10/15 to mail it in. -- nm - amanda hk Sep 9, 11:20 3
    - iphone 5? I don't think our 4s appraised for as much when I looked. -- nm - spamlet Sep 9, 11:21 2
      - 4s. -- nm - amanda hk Sep 9, 11:25 1
        
        hmm, my 16GB just appraised for $180. -- nm - spamlet Sep 9, 11:29
  - Apple has their own in store program too, fwiw. -- nm - Don Homer Sep 9, 11:17
- Nope, we're not due for a bit yet. -- nm - spamlet Sep 9, 10:47
- I'd betcha that if you break down sales of smartphones to individual models, iPhone is still #1 - Mr. Havens Sep 9, 10:47 3
  - indeed. the 85% of smart phone owners are wrong! -- nm - Reagen Sep 9, 10:53 1
    - But aren't 74% of quoted statistics just made up? -- nm - Cuzzin Todd Sep 9, 11:01
  - And I would rather have any of the 36 different models than any Apple product. So? -- nm - Spawn Sep 9, 10:52
- It likely won't be available until the 20th, so nobody. -- nm - Don Homer Sep 9, 10:45
- Tomorrow no, but tomorrow will decide whether I look at the iPhone 5S or that new Lumina with the 41MP camera for my wife. Her upgrade is due. -- nm - oblique Sep 9, 10:44 7
  - Does she use gmail? Windows Mobile still breaks gmail threading. - spamlet Sep 9, 10:50 2
    - She's all Outlook.com (custom domain) and Skydrive for her stuff -- nm - oblique Sep 9, 11:01 1
      - Oh, then go for it! - spamlet Sep 9, 11:03
  - pretty drastic differences in OS and user experience. -- nm - Don Homer Sep 9, 10:50
  - 41 mp is crazy excessive. what are you taking, shots for a billboard? -- nm - Reagen Sep 9, 10:48 2
    - And pretty useless without a nice lens to match - con_carne Sep 9, 11:04 1
      - My understanding of it is that it's more of a "giga" picture type process. It has like 5 or 6 lenses in it IIRC -- nm - oblique Sep 9, 11:09
- Pfft. Maybe my grandma. -- nm - Mop (200 lbs) Sep 9, 10:44
- No. Contract isn't up until July. -- nm - Beryllium Sep 9, 10:43
blind people can now get fun permits in Iowa. -- (link) - Reagen Sep 9, 10:28 27
- Why do you need a permit for a gun in Iowa? That's anti-American! -- nm - Mop (200 lbs) Sep 9, 11:12 2
  - Texas changed the law and now instead of 10 hours of Concealed Handgun license instruction. You need 4 - Epiphany Sep 9, 11:15 1
    - 10 hours seems a tad high. nm -- nm - groiny Sep 9, 11:16
- f*ck yeah! -- nm - Don Homer Sep 9, 10:35
- Like anyone can have fun in Iowa. -- nm - Roger More Sep 9, 10:30 17
  - Shhhhh... they are blind. -- nm - Spawn Sep 9, 10:37 1
    - they can see fine when it rains outside. - groiny Sep 9, 10:39
  - "tis a terrible place." - Mel Profit Sep 9, 10:32 14
    - I was born there...I remember it being insanely hot and insanely cold during summer and winter -- nm - Remlik Sep 9, 10:41 3
      - is the whole state bald? -- nm - groiny Sep 9, 10:42 2
        
        That hair... it freezes and burns off!!! -- nm - Spawn Sep 9, 10:42 1
        
        I wouldn't be surprised. -- nm - Remlik Sep 9, 10:43
    - It all looks the same to me. -- nm - Blind Iowanian Sep 9, 10:35 5
      - and now you are armed! good times, good times -- nm - Beaker Sep 9, 10:41 3
        
        "Iowa: The only state where semi-automatics - and being very quiet - might give criminals a chance." -- nm - JaxSean Sep 9, 10:53 2
        
        "I "saw" Blinf Fury with Rutger Hauer 15 times and he only used a sword, now give me my gun dammit" -- nm - Beaker Sep 9, 10:55 1
        
        (related: I still use "cake and pie" when something should be easy to do) -- nm - Beaker Sep 9, 10:56
      - Ah. -- nm - Spawn Sep 9, 10:37
    - there is a reason no one has ever been there. nm -- nm - groiny Sep 9, 10:33 3
      - let's not go there... -- nm - Mel Profit Sep 9, 10:34 2
        
        Please don't, your kind ain't welcome. - Cuzzin Todd Sep 9, 10:51 1
        
        a blind sniper trying to shoot a midget would be comedy gold. nm -- nm - groiny Sep 9, 10:52
- No fun for you. Come back 1 year -- nm - oblique Sep 9, 10:29
- what, you think they should be bored just because they can't see? -- nm - amanda hk Sep 9, 10:29 1
  - *snicker* -- nm - oblique Sep 9, 10:29
- fun? gun. -- nm - Reagen Sep 9, 10:29 1
  - same thing, really... -- nm - znufrii Sep 9, 10:29
Bery, you got me curious about flounder vs founder. -- (link) - mara Sep 9, 10:23 3
- So there's no such thing as "foundering" - good to know. Thanks for looking into it :) -- nm - Beryllium Sep 9, 10:40 2
  - No, there's still "foundering." -- nm - mara Sep 9, 10:42 1
    - It's a verb, so all the verb forms exist for it. -- nm - mara Sep 9, 10:43
Decide my fence -- (link) - znufrii Sep 9, 10:15 11
- get the one that encloses your yard. -- nm - OAE SI Sep 9, 10:31 2
  - Heh. -- nm - kelly Sep 9, 11:22
  - L4 -- nm - mara Sep 9, 10:33
- Good Lord, no! -- nm - Mop (200 lbs) Sep 9, 10:26
- I'm on the fence about this issue -- nm - Beaker Sep 9, 10:16 1
  - *hits you with the Punstick* -- nm - znufrii Sep 9, 10:24
- or -- (link) - znufrii Sep 9, 10:15 4
  - Better. -- nm - Mop (200 lbs) Sep 9, 10:26 1
    - we'd put trim on it too, wouldn't just be bare lattice. -- nm - znufrii Sep 9, 10:41
  - What are you trying to do? -- nm - Ender Sep 9, 10:21 1
    - it's to hide the one car garage at the back of our yard - znufrii Sep 9, 10:23
College Football Rumor of the Day: Nick Saban to Texas. -- nm - Strongbad Sep 9, 10:11 3
- Doubtful. Why would he do that? Unless they give him $20 million or something. -- nm - volnelk Sep 9, 10:42 1
  - If anyone could pull that off, it would be UT. -- nm - Strongbad Sep 9, 10:46
- Lane Kiffin to Starbucks? -- nm - Beaker Sep 9, 10:14
Remember when a Starbucks across the street from another Starbucks was just a joke? - Ender Sep 9, 10:11 18
- I do enjoy that they feel the need to have a store locator on their site -- (link) - con_carne Sep 9, 10:54 1
  - Well, they are Starbucks customers, so... -- nm - Roger More Sep 9, 11:06
- That was like 1996. Starbucks has grown something like 138,647,173.84% since then - Mr. Havens Sep 9, 10:43
- Theyre on every street corner in California -- nm - budice Sep 9, 10:43 1
  - Nah. Coffee Bean started here, there's a lot of those -- nm - con_carne Sep 9, 10:47
- No. I've only ever seen it in person. -- nm - Beryllium Sep 9, 10:41
- These two Starbucks are near me -- (link) - ty97 Sep 9, 10:34 1
  - do you stop their on your way to see Pam Jenkins, Psychic Medium? -- nm - decline Sep 9, 10:36
- it's so you don't have to go into the mall. it makes sense for traffic. -- nm - amanda hk Sep 9, 10:29 1
  - Or you have too many bags from shopping to carry your drink. -- nm - Spawn Sep 9, 10:41
- My first time in Vancouver, I took a photo of the Starbucks across the road from inside a Starbucks -- nm - Roger More Sep 9, 10:22
- Back home there were 3 Time Horton's at the same intersection. -- nm - ajrimmer Sep 9, 10:19 4
  - Why not four?! Slackers! ;-) -- nm - Beryllium Sep 9, 10:48 1
    - If there was space they totally would have. -- nm - ajrimmer Sep 9, 10:57
  - Well, that's just common sense! -- nm - Mop (200 lbs) Sep 9, 10:26
  - crazy canadians. nm -- nm - groiny Sep 9, 10:20
- there's a mall in downtown Portland that's had two locations since I was in high school. 1st and 3rd floors -- nm - znufrii Sep 9, 10:16
- The mall near me has had this same set-up for years. -- nm - Cuzzin Todd Sep 9, 10:13
There should be a service that restocks your fridge just before you get home from vacation. - Cuzzin Todd Sep 9, 10:07
What it's like to take a shower with my client.........NSFW NSFW NSFW NSFW NSFW -- (link) - CrankYanker Sep 9, 10:03
Riddick: B - Jovian Sep 9, 10:02 7
- Only time i've seen this woman is on Big Bang Theory and each time, I'm more convinced nerds have awful taste in women. - Will Hunting Sep 9, 10:04 6
  - I've always described her as mannish. -- nm - Mop (200 lbs) Sep 9, 10:24
  - she's sexy -- nm - Jovian Sep 9, 10:18 1
    - Not worth it laddie - con_carne Sep 9, 10:51
  - Yeah but she was on this show... -- nm - con_carne Sep 9, 10:14
  - I don't find her "hot," but her character on Battlestar Galactica had a sexiness about her. -- nm - JaxSean Sep 9, 10:08
  - She is a bit odd in that sometimes she can be very hot but most of the time she isn't. - David Sep 9, 10:05
"Ten Days in a Mad House". Undercover in a women's insane asylum, on an island, in 1887... -- (link) - Don Homer Sep 9, 10:01
And you'd had a letter, And you'd had a letter, And you'd had a letter, And you'd had a letter... -- nm - nubby Sep 9, 09:59
Fire in the Hole Bitch! -- nm - amoxy Sep 9, 09:53 2
- ??? -- nm - Boyd Crowder Sep 9, 09:54 1
  - Thank you and have an A-1 Day -- nm - amoxy Sep 9, 10:00

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