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clever National Weather Service employees are clever -- (link) - znufrii Oct 7, 11:04 2
- "or we will turn hurricane season up to 11" -- nm - Max Oct 7, 11:10
- "Issued by NWS Anchorage AK" - Dr.Vermin Oct 7, 11:08
NFL Point Spreads: Biggest spread in recent memory was -24.5 (NE vs. PHI in 2007 - Strongbad Oct 7, 10:59 1
- NE was favored by 20+ 3 times in the 2nd half of the 2007 season. - Strongbad Oct 7, 11:00
ESPN: Vick will likely miss Week 6 start vs. Bucs. -- nm - Strongbad Oct 7, 10:58 3
- Something called Thad Lewis will be starting at QB for Buffalo against CIN. -- nm - Strongbad Oct 7, 11:02 2
  - Lewis, who spent the first five weeks of the season on the practice squad, will be signed to the active roster. -- nm - Strongbad Oct 7, 11:02 1
    - I'm sure the Bengals will find a way to lose. Beat Rodgers, lose to Hoyer, beat Brady, now here comes Lewis. -- nm - volnelk Oct 7, 11:16
Ella Grødem in some greenland fashion -- (link) - DaneDukeNuuk Oct 7, 10:57
Where is Pippy? Her annual Halloween parties need this - smoke-filled bubble making machine. -- (link) - Andie Oct 7, 10:52 1
- that looks cool -- nm - budice Oct 7, 10:53
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- I'm a big fan of Jonagold. Doubt it beats those. -- nm - spamlet Oct 7, 11:08
- Honeycrisp and pink ladies are where its at. -- nm - znufrii Oct 7, 11:00 3
  - add some Jazz to that list -- nm - zeitgeist Oct 7, 11:31
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  - BRAEBURN FO' LIFE MUTHAF*CKA -- nm - con_carne Oct 7, 11:01
- I believe it's getting into apple season generally, right -- nm - con_carne Oct 7, 10:53 9
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    - They brought back Honeycrisp at my grocery store. We can go back to DEFCON 5. -- nm - Inigo Oct 7, 11:00
    - Better than a Fuji? - oblique Oct 7, 10:59 6
      - Word. -- nm - Jim Oct 7, 11:04 1
        
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        I'm going to need to see your APR charts -- nm - oblique Oct 7, 11:01 2
        
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        Well, that explains why SweeTango is your #1. - the wrong element, bad guy Oct 7, 11:31
Wreck it Ralph (B). Cameos were good, but it was a little predictable. -- nm - Strongbad Oct 7, 10:46
Blast from the past: Zola Budd, now 47, bests a field of college runners in a 5K (nmbl) - Brian Oct 7, 10:45
Despite some optimistic steps, Mormon Leaders Reiterate Church's Opposition to Gay Marriage at LDS General Conference :-( - MDH Oct 7, 10:36 3
- They're in opposition to COFFEE! What were you expecting? -- nm - Ender Oct 7, 10:43 2
  - And yet they don't try to make coffee illegal; an individual just uses their faith to determine what he or she wants to do. Weird. -- nm - mara Oct 7, 10:47 1
    - coffee, or wild shaggalicious thumping bumping SEX? coffee or ...... -- nm - zeitgeist Oct 7, 10:51
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Native businesses and centers are benefiting from the National Park closures.... -- (link) - Meg Oct 7, 10:26
TV Premier PSA: Hart of Dixie, Beauty and the Beast -- nm - oblique Oct 7, 10:25
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- Clabo's suckiness surprises me. He played pretty well in Atlanta. -- nm - Strongbad Oct 7, 11:08
Sun Chips Sweet and Spicy BBQ: B - oblique Oct 7, 10:22 1
- (____________________|____________________) -- nm - Shaun Oct 7, 10:53
Three facts about the debt ceiling. (Point three would seem to be pretty important, if it's accurate.) -- (link) - mara Oct 7, 10:19 20
- starting to hear lie #4: There aren't enough votes to pass a clean CR so there's no reason to vote on it. -- nm - Max Oct 7, 11:09
- straight up, it sounds partisan ... not that I disagree with what's said -- nm - budice Oct 7, 10:39
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  - are they able to keep the shutdown going but still raise the debt ceiling? - Reagen Oct 7, 10:38 6
    - Figures that Reagan would be the one asking this -- nm - Beryllium Oct 7, 11:04
    - more likely that he tries to combine the two into a single bill. - znufrii Oct 7, 10:53 1
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    - I could just as easily imagine Boehner refusing, knowing Obama will invoke the Constitution, so that the GOP can attack O for circumventing Congress. -- nm - Max Oct 7, 10:50
    - Provided the Senate agrees and Obama signs? I think so. -- nm - Strongbad Oct 7, 10:41
    - Sure, they are two issues that have been melded together. - spamlet Oct 7, 10:39
  - I don't. -- nm - Strongbad Oct 7, 10:36
  - the same idiotcy that accepts trickle down/voodoo economics will not accept there are consequences from not paying bills (all that 'faith' in the ... - zeitgeist Oct 7, 10:31
- " when it comes to fighting with Obama they’re just lab monkeys with cocaine" -- nm - David Oct 7, 10:27
- Have you had any questions about why you are open during the shutdown? - prayformojo Oct 7, 10:21 6
  - There's probably a big sign outside her work with the city or county on it -- nm - con_carne Oct 7, 10:32 4
    - Actually, we removed the word "county" from our name several years ago! No "city" either. Just the city and county names themselves. -- nm - mara Oct 7, 10:37 2
      - that's what I meant -- nm - con_carne Oct 7, 10:40 1
        
        Oh, duh, yeah -- re-reading, that's what you said. -- nm - mara Oct 7, 10:41
    - still -- nm - prayformojo Oct 7, 10:35
  - I'm aware of one person asking *if* we were open, but I haven't heard of anyone asking why. -- nm - mara Oct 7, 10:22
Friends are cool. Buddy was out tuna fishing yesterday and caught a couple 60lb yellowtails. Tuna steaks for my b-day dinner! -- nm - CQ Oct 7, 10:09 2
- nice. I've been trying to get a salmon from the Credit River near me but haven't landed one yet. BTW, happy birthday! - zork Oct 7, 10:22
- That sound amazing. -- nm - Andie Oct 7, 10:20
DoJ says Amber Alert program was never offline due to the shutdown, just the webpage was taken down. -- (link) - znufrii Oct 7, 10:07
can we talk about the spotify game? I think they killed it for us. I just looked up elvis, and the number one song has 2 million whatevers and the - all the boys love mandy lane Oct 7, 10:06 7
- Did they lose a bunch of 90s songs? I tried to play one of my old playlists and almost nothing showed up as playable. - spamlet Oct 7, 10:10 6
  - I found their catalogs to be very similar, really. (I haven't noticed 90s stuff. I'm in a recent girl pop phase. - all the boys love mandy lane Oct 7, 10:13 5
    - Paramore, Fifth Harmony? :) - oblique Oct 7, 10:18
    - It's one of my old iTunes playlists, so I own all the musics but just didn't download them to my phone. - spamlet Oct 7, 10:16 3
      - Yeah, it's stuff like Beastie Boys, Green Day, and Hole. I'm not even looking for obscure stuff! -- nm - spamlet Oct 7, 10:28 1
        
        Just looked up GD and it's there, but won't link up to the playlist. - spamlet Oct 7, 10:30
      - I only have like maybe 10 out of 1200 or so that show up unplayable. nm -- nm - groiny Oct 7, 10:21
I love this pic of Micucci -- (link) - Todd Manning Oct 7, 10:04 4
- I'm glad she's not back on BBT. I found her scenes really painful to watch. -- nm - zork Oct 7, 10:34 1
  - Disagree. I miss her. -- nm - Strongbad Oct 7, 11:09
- my coochie??? -- nm - groiny Oct 7, 10:05 1
  - Well, her one-woman show was called Playin' With Micucci. -- nm - the wrong element, bad guy Oct 7, 10:08
Tell me more about this Trashy Courtney. -- nm - Todd Manning Oct 7, 10:03 1
- with pics -- nm - decline Oct 7, 10:03
Okay, here's the situation.... - Name Withheld By Request Oct 7, 10:01 30
- $500 sounds cool, can always solicit a second or third opinion -- nm - budice Oct 7, 10:45
- I'm with the group...I say take the $500. -- nm - Jim Oct 7, 10:22 1
  - and make sure that any future contracts do not limit areas that are covered. -- nm - zork Oct 7, 10:25
- You asked them to come closer to the kitchen value. They did. I would accept the $500. - loyola Oct 7, 10:21 5
  - heh -- nm - zork Oct 7, 10:24
  - And new windows, I'm sure. -- nm - Name Withheld By Request Oct 7, 10:22 3
    - They'd probably settle for your old crappy windows -- nm - oblique Oct 7, 10:25 2
      - Oh, we used to dream of having windows in our shoebox in the middle of the road. -- nm - the Four Yorkshiremen Oct 7, 10:29
      - I dunno, they're drafty as hell and get wicked condensation. - Name Withheld By Request Oct 7, 10:29
- gouge through it so that they can do the lift and re-glue -- nm - zork Oct 7, 10:20 1
  - Flooring guy says that's a bad call. They glue this stuff down so well nowadays, he says lifting really chews up the existing floor. -- nm - Name Withheld By Request Oct 7, 10:23
- remind them of the power of a complaint on Yelp or angie's list -- nm - zeitgeist Oct 7, 10:16
- Call Meg? -- nm - prayformojo Oct 7, 10:14 1
  - she don't do windows -- nm - zeitgeist Oct 7, 10:17
- Frankly, I would feel lucky about getting the $500. That's generous of them. -- nm - David Oct 7, 10:12 2
  - agreed, especially if they said they are not liable in the first place. nm -- nm - groiny Oct 7, 10:18 1
    - They weren't liable for wall damage like stucco, finishings, that kinda thing. Their waiver didn't include flooring (somewhat surprisingly, I say). -- nm - Name Withheld By Request Oct 7, 10:20
- My parents went away on a week's vacation. (sorry couldn't resist) -- nm - Was Bar Was Oct 7, 10:08
- Could you live with the scratches and not replace the flooring? -- nm - spamlet Oct 7, 10:08 2
  - I could. Mrs. L is a little sadder about that option. That's why this is important to her. -- nm - Name Withheld By Request Oct 7, 10:23 1
    - big a nice throw rug...b) cover the vinyl with pergo...I did our kitchen for a couple hundred bucks -- nm - zeitgeist Oct 7, 10:49
- I say take the $500 and pocket it. - znufrii Oct 7, 10:06 7
  - I wanted to leave it for a bit not to sway the outcome of the thread, but yeah, that's my feeling. Mrs. L thought I might be a little to easy going... - Name Withheld By Request Oct 7, 10:21 1
    - you're lucky that you've had the floors that long without any damage to them before this -- nm - zork Oct 7, 10:31
  - That's sure as hell what I would do. -- nm - Dr.Vermin Oct 7, 10:19
  - this. -- nm - decline Oct 7, 10:08
  - i bet if you took a picture and went to Home Depot they could even show you a way to 'fill' the nicks to keep it from - Andie Oct 7, 10:07 2
    - Actually, the guy who quoted it already gave us the "What to do" (clear nail polish). We'd be at least three years from replacement anyhow. - Name Withheld By Request Oct 7, 10:19
    - yup. $20, tops. -- nm - znufrii Oct 7, 10:10
- i think i would take the $500. you *might* get them up a bit with a lot of back and forth etc, but maybe not and i am not sure it would be worth the - Andie Oct 7, 10:04
How is it 1 o'\ clock already? - znufrii Oct 7, 10:01
Thanks, decline. Looks like I need this: -- (link) - Dr.Vermin Oct 7, 10:00 1
- 'that has been proven to last 1,000 years ' - I wonder how they proved that? - decline Oct 7, 10:02
My friend Andy got a bone bruise on his knee, in the most ridiculous way EVER. Guess what it is. - loosilu Oct 7, 09:58 22
- OK it's been long enough. Answer inside. - loosilu Oct 7, 10:11 7
  - CQ was right! -- nm - Roger More Oct 7, 10:13
  - wow - znufrii Oct 7, 10:11 5
    - I can't figure it out. something about a leg stretch gone wrong. -- nm - loosilu Oct 7, 10:19
    - happy ending and he fell off the table -- nm - decline Oct 7, 10:13 3
      - That's an unhappy ending. -- nm - JaxSean Oct 7, 10:21 1
        
        Well, a happy ending plus an epilogue. -- nm - mara Oct 7, 10:46
      - ah. -- nm - znufrii Oct 7, 10:13
- Got excited while watching "Gravity" -- nm - amoxy Oct 7, 10:08
- Arrow -- nm - con_carne Oct 7, 10:07
- brushing his teeth -- nm - Todd Manning Oct 7, 10:05
- had a panic attack going into an MRI machine and tried to get up at the last second and banged his knee on the machine. -- nm - Andie Oct 7, 10:05
- getting done on the knee to propose with a ring and everything -- nm - zeitgeist Oct 7, 10:02 2
  - *down* not done, though after blowing a knee getting down I supposed he'd be done -- nm - zeitgeist Oct 7, 10:02
  - that would be awesome,. but no. -- nm - loosilu Oct 7, 10:02
- "sex." -- nm - JaxSean Oct 7, 10:01
- BJ -- nm - CQ Oct 7, 10:00
- was trying to use his iPhone in the shower, through a plastic bag. it slipped and he tried to grab it and banged his knee hard on the side of the tub -- nm - Andie Oct 7, 09:59 1
  - nice! no one's near it yet. -- nm - loosilu Oct 7, 10:01
- Ice Pick to the knee. -- nm - JaxSean Oct 7, 09:59
- doc hitting it with that rubber hammer thingy -- nm - JenBro Oct 7, 09:59 1
  - this is not it, but it is the warmest so far. -- nm - loosilu Oct 7, 10:02
I think we've had enough butter churning for one day, if you know what I mean - prayformojo Oct 7, 09:54
I just lied to IT to get them to upgrade my itunes so I could listen to bangerz. -- nm - all the boys love mandy lane Oct 7, 09:53 1
- "I'll totally go out with you on Friday" - oblique Oct 7, 10:13
of course ty got it. -- nm - loosilu Oct 7, 09:53
"Shoes or boots?" "I don't want to go." - well, so much for that strategy of dealing with toddlers. -- nm - Beryllium Oct 7, 09:51 1
- yeah, Pinch is there too. That choice option works for only so long, I guess -- nm - CQ Oct 7, 09:54
The children have decided what they want to be for Halloween. It's gonna be Yo Gabba Gabba spectacular! -- nm - CQ Oct 7, 09:51 6
- Top Chef is the only reason I know what this is. -- nm - Strongbad Oct 7, 10:45
- you gotta be the tall one eyed orange one -- nm - JenBro Oct 7, 09:56
- who is gonna be the big red dildo? -- nm - groiny Oct 7, 09:56 3
  - I'm Muno, Mrs. CQ is Foofa. Finch is Brobee, Grinch is Plex, and Oliver is DJ Lance Rock. -- nm - CQ Oct 7, 10:00 1
    - I don't even know what that means -- nm - oblique Oct 7, 10:26
  - haaaaaaa ... you're terrible! -- nm - JenBro Oct 7, 09:57
Bring on the advising -- nm - ty97 Oct 7, 09:50 2
- And the judgment -- nm - con_carne Oct 7, 09:52 1
  - But mostly the judgment. -- nm - spamlet Oct 7, 09:52

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