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I like the Google header today for Edith Head's birthday. -- nm - Paranormal Andivity Oct 28, 06:06
Samara is having an unbelievable fantasy season. - Krusty Oct 28, 06:03 9
- I have no idea how my team is 6-2. Staring at a 1st round loss, if I make it in. -- nm - Strongbad Oct 28, 06:39
- ML had a similar type of season going. Then he didn't. - Will Hunting Oct 28, 06:08 1
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- For the non-BFers, who does she have on her team? -- nm - Inigo Oct 28, 06:06 2
  - Team inside... - Krusty Oct 28, 06:15 1
    - Definitely a lot of talent there. Plus, she gets to cheer on a 'Skin. -- nm - Inigo Oct 28, 06:19
- It's a rarity that the #1 seed runs the table. - Strongbad Oct 28, 06:04 2
  - I was #1 last year, lost in 1st round - jack foley Oct 28, 06:53
  - She may have that rare season. Even if she does lose a game or two along the way she's clearly the favorite and the team to beat... again. - Krusty Oct 28, 06:06
SITWAP: Vermont one ups the gubmint and will introduce universal health care in 2017. Nice! -- (link) - Krusty Oct 28, 05:59
Fire-Eaters. The search for the hottest chili... -- (link) - Don Homer Oct 28, 05:54
Oh ML, poor poor ML. I guess the FF gods have smiled on me for once - kilbooooo Oct 28, 05:49 10
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- It looks like 3 of the 4 teams that were 2-5 will win so we will be even more packed in the middle of the standings. - Will Hunting Oct 28, 05:55 6
  - I think 7 wins guarantees a playoff spot. Six will get at least one in. -- nm - David Oct 28, 05:57 5
    - Since the 13game season in 2009, Astronauts has never had a team above .500 miss out. - Will Hunting Oct 28, 06:16
    - I think we had a 5-8 team make the playoffs in Vampirates last year. -- nm - Strongbad Oct 28, 06:01 3
      - Nope, the worst record was 8-5. In 2009 we had a 5-8 team make the playoffs. -- nm - Krusty Oct 28, 06:17 2
        
        I knew I remembered one. -- nm - Strongbad Oct 28, 06:19 1
        
        Yup. :-) -- nm - Krusty Oct 28, 06:20
- Good lord. I just looked at my FJS team where I had to start someone who wasn't playing. 170 points? - kilbooooo Oct 28, 05:50 1
  - And every one of my starters not named Harry Douglas (tee hee!) underperformed predictions. -- nm - Was Bar Was Oct 28, 05:59
Dolphins OL Mike Pouncey subponead by grand jury in Hernandez' trial -- (link) - Strongbad Oct 28, 05:30
Lost 'Return of the Jedi' footage discovered on laserdisc... -- (link) - Don Homer Oct 28, 05:20
On Spirit Airlines headed home. Already racked up $370 in fees. -- nm - colin Oct 28, 05:09 1
- That's on top of the cost of the flight? That's insane! For what? -- nm - Krusty Oct 28, 06:18
Favourite Lou Reed song - Pale Blue Eyes -- nm - LMS Oct 28, 04:44 1
- Great one. :'-( -- nm - Krusty Oct 28, 06:20
CBS: Benghazi was a planned, sophisticated attack by al Qaeda against a barely protected American outpost -- (link) - Strongbad Oct 28, 04:25
CDC: "We've reached the end of antibiotics" -- (link) - Strongbad Oct 28, 04:22
Get ready for the tax on gasoline to be replaced by VMT user fees -- (link) - Strongbad Oct 28, 04:20 4
- Yup, we've built too much road and have no way to pay for it. a new revenue source that can constantly be adjusted upward will be the next step -- nm - spamlet Oct 28, 06:23
- This is an idea that has been discussed up here too. -- nm - Walt_Disney Oct 28, 05:52
- I understand why this will happen, but I wonder what impact it could have on consumer selection of fuel efficient vehicles -- nm - ty97 Oct 28, 05:51 1
  - This would not change the fact that fuel efficient vehicles still require less gas - Strongbad Oct 28, 06:01
"What's Working in the Marketplace: The Data Services Hub," was the headline of a blog issued Saturday by Secretary Kathleen Sebelius - Strongbad Oct 28, 04:11
Horrific traffic accident in L.A. today. Tanker loaded with crude oil crashed and burned... -- (link) - Meg Oct 27, 23:05
Having Tom Noonan as the Stewmaker on the Blacklist last week was great. - Mop (200 lbs) Oct 27, 22:35 3
- Hey, that name is familiar. - Heisenbery Oct 27, 22:49 2
  - I thought it was from Malcolm in the Middle. -- nm - Mop (200 lbs) Oct 27, 23:15 1
    - Seems out of place for a breaking bad prequel, dontcha think? - Heisenbery Oct 27, 23:16
Hee, funny kitty. Mojo's feeling around the edge of the monitor looking for the cursor I've hidden off the edge of the screen. -- nm - Meg Oct 27, 22:10 1
- Bring it back, you devil woman! -- nm - Mojo Oct 28, 05:53
The lack of baseball talk on ST is refreshing. -- nm - Mop (200 lbs) Oct 27, 21:54 2
- Commie bastard! -- nm - Krusty Oct 28, 05:27
- So how's the killfile working for you? ;-) -- nm - Heisenbery Oct 27, 22:45
lol. D-listed had a much better title for their Paris dressed as Miley entry: What the Hell Kind Of GD Fame Whore Inception Is This? -- nm - ♠Spawn♠ Oct 27, 21:53 1
- its halloween, its her costume, makes sense to me -- nm - the ghost and ms zeit Oct 27, 22:26
The new Google Doodle celebrates the little costume maker from the Incredibles. -- nm - Mop (200 lbs) Oct 27, 21:33 2
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  - Yes. E Mode. -- nm - Max Oct 27, 22:11
walking Dead Spoiler - amoxy Oct 27, 21:21 13
- Marilyn Manson is a horrible, horrible Talking Dead guest. - groiny Oct 27, 21:35 9
  - Marilyn Manson is a horrible, horrible guest. -- nm - ♠Spawn♠ Oct 27, 21:37 4
    - well, he ruined rose mcgowen for me - the ghost and ms zeit Oct 27, 22:35
    - I have heard him before, and he has some interesting points / theories on stuff. - groiny Oct 27, 21:38 2
      - He once did. - ♠Spawn♠ Oct 27, 21:39 1
        
        He sounded totally stoned out of his gourd. Also, he drove me nuts waving his mic around. Jack Osborne was a gazillion times better guest. - Trish Oct 27, 22:22
  - I watched the later showing of TDS and missed Talking Dead - amoxy Oct 27, 21:36 3
    - spoils - groiny Oct 27, 21:37 2
      - He had point - but they required back story & way too much explanation ... like a stoners view on things. -- nm - JenBro Oct 27, 21:50 1
        
        Exactly. I've been in way too many conversations like that (waaaay in the past) not to recognize one when I hear it. -- nm - Trish Oct 27, 22:25
- Was there really any doubt? -- nm - ♠Spawn♠ Oct 27, 21:25 2
  - spoilers - amoxy Oct 27, 21:26 1
    - Agreed. That arch has been quite something. -- nm - ♠Spawn♠ Oct 27, 21:27
Ugh. -- nm - ty97 Oct 27, 20:58
well, ayt least we've progressed from fielding errors deciding games to boneheaded baserunning... -- nm - znufrii Oct 27, 20:54 3
- This behavior won't fly when they make it to the majors. -- nm - Mop (200 lbs) Oct 27, 21:52
- we've been living and dying with rookies all year. tonight we died. ugh -- nm - Jim Oct 27, 20:59 1
  - I mean, as a Red Sox fan, I'll take it any way we can get it, but as a fan of well-played baseball... - znufrii Oct 27, 21:00
Back-to-back first-ever endings for World Series games. -- nm - nubby Oct 27, 20:53 16
- we need a pitcher to throw so hard, he breaks his own arm. -- nm - Ancient Alien Theorist Oct 27, 21:13 5
  - Yeah, no. That's not something I EVER want to see again. -- nm - Stephen Oct 27, 21:27 3
    - Exactly. Even wi -- nm - JD Oct 27, 21:30 2
      - SFEK. With the separation of watching on TV that was one of the most heartbreaking things I ever saw as a Giants fan -- nm - JD Oct 27, 21:31 1
        
        It's ingrained in my memory. I'll never not be able to see it in my head. -- nm - Stephen Oct 27, 22:02
  - Eff you, man. -- nm - Dave Dravecky Oct 27, 21:16
- The last time a postseason game ended on a baserunning play: 1936 -- nm - nubby Oct 27, 21:00
- Spoiler: Game 5 will end on a bunt inside-the-park home run. - nubby Oct 27, 20:57 8
  - Game 7: extra-inning balk. -- nm - Reagen Oct 27, 21:02 7
    - Game 6: No hitter and still loses the game on an unearned run -- nm - budice Oct 27, 21:04 6
      - Game 8 (because, why not?): game ends on a triple play, untouched by any fielder -- nm - znufrii Oct 27, 21:08 5
        
        (from three baserunners called out for passing on the basepaths) -- nm - Reagen Oct 27, 21:10 4
        
        not quite - znufrii Oct 27, 21:14 3
        
        he'd have to be off the base - Reagen Oct 27, 21:17 2
        
        right. -- nm - znufrii Oct 27, 21:20 1
        
        with credit to George Will -- (link) - znufrii Oct 27, 21:21
what a wang. nm -- nm - groiny Oct 27, 20:52 2
- Dropoff your dry cleaning in the 6th...pick it up in the 9th -- nm - budice Oct 27, 21:01
- It's certainly one way to pitch around Beltran. -- nm - Jelly Oct 27, 20:53
Whoo...looking at that train I'm taking to Kansas in December. Couple of days later and the price goes up about $350!! - Meg Oct 27, 20:48
Gdansk: city of long things. -- nm - Reagen Oct 27, 20:46
Damn! Fricken Falcons cost me a likely perfect Pick 'Em weekend! - Stephen Oct 27, 20:31
This morning I actually benched RG3 (7.30 fp) and started Dalton (44.25 fp). Then I talked myself out of it. - Trish Oct 27, 20:21 2
- Should have listened to us, Missie - Chris Collinsworth/Bob Costas Oct 27, 20:31 1
  - Dirty bastards! - Trish Oct 27, 22:28
I think tonight is my last "Masters of Sex," it's just too slow. -- nm - MDH Oct 27, 20:17 1
- I said that last week. I am sorry to hear they are still making a great subject , BORING!!!! -- nm - Ancient Alien Theorist Oct 27, 20:28
I make for a thinner, younger, better looking Mad-Eye Moody. -- (link) - Mop (200 lbs) Oct 27, 20:16
only 30 seconds into Much Ado About Nothing I want to quit. -- nm - Max Oct 27, 20:04 6
- I really hate you for even posting that. -- nm - David Oct 27, 20:11 5
  - plus I'm watching it on a Netflix disc. -- nm - Max Oct 27, 20:13 4
    - I almost watched that tonight. On Netflix disc. -- nm - nubby Oct 27, 20:54 2
      - Riki Lindhome is a hot minx though, and Fillion is really funny. -- nm - Max Oct 27, 21:25 1
        
        He should be a much bigger star than he is. - ♠Spawn♠ Oct 27, 21:30
    - I'm telling Keith Olbermann about you. -- nm - David Oct 27, 20:17
Everywhere I look, I'm seeing Tom Quinn's face. Too much mi-5. -- nm - Heisenbery Oct 27, 20:03 2
- oh fun stuff -- nm - loosi at home Oct 27, 20:46
- he and Keely Hawes. she's all over the place as well. -- nm - Remlik Oct 27, 20:09
Hi everyone. Not around much, but for those of you not connected on facebook, we're pleased to announce we're pregnant with our 4th and final baby! - Subversive Oct 27, 19:53 30
- congrats ! -- nm - Paranormal Andivity Oct 28, 06:07
- Congrats!!! -- nm - Walt_Disney Oct 28, 05:47
- Saw that. Congrats! The real question was how long she had asked you to do it. -- nm - spamlet Oct 28, 05:03
- congrats and best wishes! -- nm - Don Homer Oct 28, 04:33
- so it wasn't a nick in time?...congrats... -- nm - the ghost and ms zeit Oct 27, 22:41
- Nice, congrats! -- nm - Max Oct 27, 21:58
- 4th timss a charm! Err ... Wait ... anyhoo - YAY! -- nm - JenBro Oct 27, 21:51
- Congrats! If your wife will get a csection they can do the tubal ligation at that time. No need for snip snip -- nm - James Bond (on phone) Oct 27, 21:44 1
  - isn't that way more invasive surgery? -- nm - Paranormal Andivity Oct 28, 06:07
- Congrats! -- nm - Stephen Oct 27, 21:28
- lol. Congrats! -- nm - ♠Spawn♠ Oct 27, 21:26
- bravo! -- nm - znufrii Oct 27, 20:55
- congrats man. nm -- nm - groiny Oct 27, 20:49
- Don Homer! -- nm - loosi at home Oct 27, 20:47
- Congratulations! -- nm - TWuG Oct 27, 20:29
- congrats, and PLEASE, let us name him or her :) -- nm - Ancient Alien Theorist Oct 27, 20:29
- Way to impregnate, dude! (Instead of a vasectomy, you should see if you can sell your strong little swimmers). :) -- nm - Trish Oct 27, 20:23
- Congrats! -- nm - Mop (200 lbs) Oct 27, 20:15
- Congrats! -- nm - ty97 Oct 27, 20:09
- sometimes I really think you should've bought that church. -- nm - Reagen Oct 27, 20:06 1
  - Hah, awesome. - Subversive Oct 27, 20:08
- Just saw that on FB...Congrats!! -- nm - Meg Oct 27, 20:04
- Congrats :) -- nm - Heisenbery Oct 27, 20:03
- Congratulations!! -- nm - Bacon Oct 27, 20:01
- Fantastic! -- nm - David Oct 27, 20:00
- wow. cheers! -- nm - mud♪ Oct 27, 19:57
- Just saw that - huge congrats!! -- nm - kelly Oct 27, 19:57
- Congrats! -- nm - amoxy Oct 27, 19:57
- well done and congrats! -- nm - Remlik Oct 27, 19:56
- Congratulations! -- nm - prayformojo Oct 27, 19:54
That 50/53 stat for Green Bay is hard to believe -- nm - prayformojo Oct 27, 19:47 2
- just through attrition you'd think they'd have to sign some free agents. -- nm - Reagen Oct 27, 19:50
- That was surprising -- nm - amoxy Oct 27, 19:48
My cat missed me over the weekend. He is now sitting on my lap, drooling on the keyboard -- nm - amoxy Oct 27, 19:45
Mel and Spawn... -- (link) - Remlik Oct 27, 19:31 [youtube] 3
- that's unexpected and cool... - Mel Profit Oct 28, 04:53 1
  - Oh and lest anyone think Mike isn't one of the best guitar players around. -- nm - Mel Profit Oct 28, 04:55
- sweet (and Baba O' Reilly, too) -- nm - mud♪ Oct 27, 19:39
Ugh -- nm - ty97 Oct 27, 19:24
It would probably be worth mentioning the holding that let Rodgers run for those 14 yards. -- nm - Reagen Oct 27, 19:17
Yeah, The Good Wife is my favorite show this season. -- nm - Dano Oct 27, 19:16 13
- I only started watching it this season, and have regretted I didn't watch it from the start. It has a decidedly different feel from anything else on - prayformojo Oct 27, 19:37 5
  - You can watch earlier seasons on Amazon Prime. -- nm - David Oct 27, 19:38 4
    - sweet -- nm - prayformojo Oct 27, 19:40
    - Was it always tonally this way? I ignored it before because I considered it just as that "politician cheats on his wife" show. -- nm - Dano Oct 27, 19:40 2
      - In a way, they have always been building to tonight's episode. - David Oct 27, 19:44 1
        
        all that, and I love how season three ended with that - mud♪ Oct 27, 19:54
- It has been *amazing*. Tonight's is the best they have ever done. - David Oct 27, 19:36 1
  - Tonight was definitely in best episode from any show this year territory. -- nm - Dano Oct 27, 19:42
- I'm binge watching Parks and Rec via amazon, think I will do this show next -- nm - Remlik Oct 27, 19:18 4
  - I don't know at all about the early seasons and I watched less than half the episodes last season, but this season has been on fire. -- nm - Dano Oct 27, 19:25 3
    - Season one is fantastic. -- nm - David Oct 27, 19:37
    - the first couple of sessions were fantastic. I thought the end of last season was horrid so in glad it's back on track. -- nm - spamlet Oct 27, 19:29 1
      - I don't know how "soapy" it was in the early season. It might be soapier now but I'm loving it. -- nm - Dano Oct 27, 19:37

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