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Help me lesson plan. Name a retail business that isn't 'obvious' They are going to research them and I don't want them to be common knowledge. -- nm - volnelk Nov 12, 11:25 11
- Boston Market (not actually a market) Joann's (art/houseware/giftypoo) -- nm - Thanksgeisting Nov 12, 12:07
- Investments. Fidelity, Scottrade, E-trade -- nm - con_carne Nov 12, 11:30
- That's difficult to word. Like everyone knows what Best Buy offers, but not necessarily what Ross Stores does. -- nm - volnelk Nov 12, 11:30 1
  - I don't follow. Their slogan is Dress For Less, it's not exactly a mystery -- nm - con_carne Nov 12, 11:35
- crime scene cleanup.....nm - x Nov 12, 11:28 1
  - though i guess this is a service biz, not retail...nm - x Nov 12, 11:30
- or, if you want a company name vs product, i would go with like a large franchised lumber store or something - Andie Nov 12, 11:28
- Rice Hulls -- nm - amoxy Nov 12, 11:28
- *points at Remlik* -- nm - oblique Nov 12, 11:28
- Wildflower seeds -- (link) - TWuG Nov 12, 11:27
- Earthworms. -- (link) - Andie Nov 12, 11:26
I loe this bit of (old) gossip re: Emma Thompson, HBC and The Branagh - Diva Nov 12, 11:21 1
- loe = love (also - sitwap) -- nm - Diva Nov 12, 11:22
Since we're not on the subject, I'm rather surprised by the lack of cancellations of new TV shows. Most seem like crap to me -- nm - oblique Nov 12, 11:13 3
- I've actually thought this years crop of shows is a big improvement over recent years -- nm - decline Nov 12, 11:18 1
  - me too. i don't have time to watch all the stuff I want to watch. -- nm - Diva Nov 12, 11:22
- Related: Monday ratings -- (link) - Beaker Nov 12, 11:16
"Ed Reed goes on waivers. A team claiming him would owe him $412,000 plus $62,500 for each game he's active" -- nm - Beaker Nov 12, 11:12 1
- *wonders if he can help our secondary* nm -- nm - groiny Nov 12, 11:17
Bravo to Rep. Duckworth. - IrishStephen Nov 12, 11:08 1
- Yes. It was superb. -- nm - Beryllium Nov 12, 11:23
Dang. We missed 08:09:10 11/12/13 -- nm - con_carne Nov 12, 11:07 2
- ~It's 8:09:10 somewhere~ -- nm - Strongbad Nov 12, 11:22
- Unless... -- nm - con_carne Nov 12, 11:08
Yes, Lily Allen is back! -- (link) - MDH Nov 12, 11:07 [youtube] 14
- Sidenote: She's one of the reasons I want to have a british baby. I somehow need to make my child have that accent. -- nm - MDH Nov 12, 11:21 1
  - Mockney? -- nm - Roger More Nov 12, 11:28
- People are so going to use this song for the opposite purpose of what its message is -- nm - con_carne Nov 12, 11:18
- yay, who cares! -- nm - colin Nov 12, 11:13 4
  - Boo. She's very underrated in America. -- nm - MDH Nov 12, 11:18 3
    - I've heard plenty... but you and I never see eye to eye on music anyway. -- nm - colin Nov 12, 11:29
    - I have not heard enough of her to make a determination. - groiny Nov 12, 11:18 1
      - Smile is not indicative of her catalog. IMO -- nm - Epiphany Nov 12, 11:28
- 1. I love this song immediately. 2. Her hair and makeup are fierce and I think she was doing that ironically 3. Missed that girl madly - Epiphany Nov 12, 11:13 4
  - All of this. She's fantastic. -- nm - MDH Nov 12, 11:19 3
    - I can't get Youtube here anymore, what is the name of the song? -- nm - groiny Nov 12, 11:22 2
      - "Hard Out Here" but if you aren't familiar you need to understand her style, so listen to some old stuff. - MDH Nov 12, 11:25 1
        
        start with " F You" and end with " Everything is Wonderful". She's snarky with a beautiful voice -- nm - Epiphany Nov 12, 11:27
- Ugh, autotune. -- nm - Ender Nov 12, 11:10
Marlon Byrd has reached a two-year, $16 million deal with the Philadelphia Phillies, a source confirmed Tuesday. -- nm - Beaker Nov 12, 11:00 9
- Talk about a guy helping himself out. Anyone could've had him at the dealine for a fungo bat. -- nm - volnelk Nov 12, 11:07
- yeah, heard this on the radio at lunch - stupid -- nm - decline Nov 12, 11:01 7
  - I dunno, 8 million per year is not really all that bad. nm -- nm - groiny Nov 12, 11:07 6
    - he made about $700K this year and granted his numbers were much better than 2012, but he's still going to be a 37 yo outfielder -- nm - decline Nov 12, 11:12 3
      - I would be curious if they were bidding against someone on him. - groiny Nov 12, 11:15 2
        
        true, and I'll eat my words if his bat performs - if we can get 20+ hr's out of him I guess I'll be happy -- nm - decline Nov 12, 11:17 1
        
        I think you can get a .270 average and 20 homers out of him easy. nm -- nm - groiny Nov 12, 11:20
    - agreed. -- nm - CQ Nov 12, 11:08 1
      - I mean, it is more than I would pay him, but it is not crazy either. - groiny Nov 12, 11:11
Action #309 [JFK] cover is in auction. it came out the week he was assasinated -- (link) - peglegpete Nov 12, 10:56 3
- I thought that got pulled from Auction as the artist had donated to the JFK Museum and it wound up in someone else's hands -- nm - Remlik Nov 12, 11:03 1
  - Curt never owned it/got it back fromDC -- nm - peglegpete Nov 12, 11:54
- huh, interesting -- nm - Beaker Nov 12, 10:58
Old ladies at the Wichita State game -- (link) - prayformojo Nov 12, 10:49
No, Delta, I don't want to fly NYC-Chicago via Detroit both ways. -- nm - ty97 Nov 12, 10:47 3
- "Scenic" Detroit -- nm - oblique Nov 12, 10:48
- detroit really, really needs your traveling dollars. nm -- nm - groiny Nov 12, 10:48 1
  - Aren't they giving away houses these days to people that fly through there? -- nm - Strongbad Nov 12, 10:52
nmb David - Strongbad Nov 12, 10:29
I'm eating hearty cheeseburger soup for lunch.. it's not quite as gross as I thought it would be, but it's pretty bad. -- nm - colin Nov 12, 10:29 8
- I've got chicken corn soup from the korean sammich joint downstairs. it's really good. -- nm - Diva Nov 12, 10:51
- Still better than unenthusiastic cheeseburger soup -- nm - con_carne Nov 12, 10:38
- But at least it's hearty. -- nm - mara Nov 12, 10:33 4
  - 400 calories and it's not cheesy delicious. -- nm - colin Nov 12, 10:40 3
    - gotta be better than East Side Mario's Italian Wedding soup with too much parsley or onion or something. - zork Nov 12, 10:43 2
      - Or the chicken fried steak at the Cook County slammer -- nm - Elwood Nov 12, 10:45 1
        
        "The tall one wants white bread, toasted, dry, with nothin' on it ... And the other one wants four whole fried chickens and a Coke." -- nm - zork Nov 12, 10:51
- *vomits* nm -- nm - groiny Nov 12, 10:32
I'm watching the final two episodes of Breaking Bad tonight - prayformojo Nov 12, 10:11 3
- Also, I'm surprised how unspoiled I am about any of this series - I haven't really known anything about the show beyond the reference to - prayformojo Nov 12, 10:24
- So you just saw (spoilers) - amoxy Nov 12, 10:14
- *jealous* -- nm - Spawn Nov 12, 10:12
I have 3 UV codes that I am not going to use, if anyone wants one or all of them.... - groiny Nov 12, 10:09 35
- Where are we getting codes from? -- nm - Krusty Nov 12, 10:38 10
  - I went through a slew of DVD's that I bought over the weekend - groiny Nov 12, 10:39 1
    - Good deal. -- nm - Krusty Nov 12, 10:55
  - Like, where can I purchase some at a good price? -- nm - Krusty Nov 12, 10:38 7
    - Thanks everyone! -- nm - Krusty Nov 12, 10:54
    - Here's one site. -- (link) - Ender Nov 12, 10:42
    - Start here....and drop into the rabbit hole -- (link) - J Nov 12, 10:40
    - ebay, family video are the two sources I've used most -- nm - oblique Nov 12, 10:39 2
      - There are forums at cheapassgamer.com as well. Most of us (sans David) have used someone over there in the past. - spamlet Nov 12, 10:40 1
        
        Thanks. -- nm - Krusty Nov 12, 10:55
    - ask David, he is the expert. nm -- nm - groiny Nov 12, 10:39
- Are they in our library? -- nm - spamlet Nov 12, 10:10 22
  - did anyone do that google doc or something to be able to update? -- nm - groiny Nov 12, 10:18
  - the 2 are, but I am not going to poison our library with Rock of Ages. nm -- nm - groiny Nov 12, 10:11 20
    - I knew DK was because I had all three films (still haven't watched any). Wasn't sure about the others. -- nm - spamlet Nov 12, 10:26 1
      - yeah, I checked that first. - groiny Nov 12, 10:27
    - it is bad enough someone poisoned our library with Wrong Turn 2. nm -- nm - groiny Nov 12, 10:12 17
      - library? -- nm - Remlik Nov 12, 10:15 14
        
        there is a sharing feature for up to 6 users to share their libraries. - groiny Nov 12, 10:17 13
        
        My son thanks you for whoever owns "The Producers" on our group. He very much enjoyed that -- nm - oblique Nov 12, 10:32 2
        
        That was one of my freebies. - spamlet Nov 12, 10:33
        
        not me, for sure. - groiny Nov 12, 10:33
        
        It can be dangerous though. I recently had to defend my owning Sucker Punch to my brother's girlfriend. -- nm - Ender Nov 12, 10:29 2
        
        easily defendable. - groiny Nov 12, 10:32
        
        Just tell her it's a long form music video by Zack Snyder's all-girl band. -- nm - Was Bar Was Nov 12, 10:31
        
        Yeah, and we did not want Remlik to know, remember? -- nm - Spawn Nov 12, 10:19 6
        
        son of bitch. -- nm - Remlik Nov 12, 10:21 5
        
        maybe if you were nicer to people, Remlik...... nm -- nm - groiny Nov 12, 10:23 4
        
        this is just encouraging me to shoot you more in COD -- nm - Remlik Nov 12, 10:33 3
        
        I smell a challenge. nm -- nm - groiny Nov 12, 10:34 2
        
        not really, just keep walking in front of me like usual - Remlik Nov 12, 10:49 1
        
        I know. - groiny Nov 12, 10:51
      - There's a really good chance Wrong Turn 2 was one of the freebies given out for signing up somewhere. - Will Hunting Nov 12, 10:15 1
        
        I am sure it was. nm -- nm - groiny Nov 12, 10:17
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caution: Deer Crossing -- (link) - peglegpete Nov 12, 10:07 [youtube] 1
- still funny. -- nm - znufrii Nov 12, 10:09
The poster for Maleficent looks pretty much spot on. -- (link) - volnelk Nov 12, 10:04
Rob Ford bobblehead dolls are being sold at city hall with proceeds to United Way. Hundreds line up. -- (link) - zork Nov 12, 10:01 9
- also today, a judge will decide whether he will view the "crack video" as part of an on-going case -- (link) - zork Nov 12, 10:46
- That's going to look so stupid in a few years -- nm - con_carne Nov 12, 10:35 3
  - it *looks* stupid now (as do all bobblehead pretty much) but this one (esp. autographed) might be worth something because of the timing of its release -- nm - zork Nov 12, 10:42 2
    - If I meant that because it was a bobblehead, I would not have said "in a few years" -- nm - con_carne Nov 12, 10:44 1
      - Oh, I know, especially if it's one proudly on display at some Ford Nation person's house. The rest of us ... - zork Nov 12, 10:48
- Attention Andie's secret stalker! -- nm - Roger More Nov 12, 10:31
- He looks so... fit. -- nm - Spawn Nov 12, 10:03
- want -- nm - Beaker Nov 12, 10:02 1
  - Propably a good investment too -- nm - zork Nov 12, 10:16
TV PSA: Person of Interest, SHIELD, Brooklyn 99, Supernatural, NCIS -- nm - Beaker Nov 12, 10:01 4
- Don't forget the trainwreck - amoxy Nov 12, 10:14 3
  - what the hell are they even doing to that show? ugh -- nm - Epiphany Nov 12, 10:44 2
    - i'm hearing it's running off the rails these days. -- nm - Diva Nov 12, 10:50 1
      - at this point, we are missing the rails and the train - Epiphany Nov 12, 10:54
we're watching wahlburgers, right? -- (link) - peggy ann mcamanda Nov 12, 10:01 2
- *Starts writing his "Is that Marky Mark's new hamburger restaurant?" joke...* Wait... that's actually what it is? Crap. -- nm - Ender Nov 12, 10:03 1
  - heh -- nm - znufrii Nov 12, 10:24
ST Poll: Do I NYE in NYC or Chicago? - ty97 Nov 12, 10:00 5
- I vote for Vienna -- nm - OAE -- Antarctica, Old Explorer Nov 12, 10:58
- NYC, but only if you promise not to go anywhere near Times Square. -- nm - znufrii Nov 12, 10:03 2
  - umm...so I can't go home? -- nm - ty97 Nov 12, 10:11 1
    - Chicago it is -- nm - con_carne Nov 12, 10:24
- come back to NYC. -- nm - peggy ann mcamanda Nov 12, 10:01
dammit, my post in the climate change thread got LIR'd -- nm - zork Nov 12, 09:59
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- still slogging through 1775 and 61 hours jack reacher -- nm - Thanksgeisting Nov 12, 12:11
- a naked singularity: a novel by sergio de la pava....nm - x Nov 12, 11:06
- aside: Shyamalan is making Pines into a series for 2014 (with Matt Dillon) -- nm - decline Nov 12, 10:42 2
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    - are you liking the series ? -- nm - decline Nov 12, 10:46
- I have the first of that series on my list to read. I'm reading The Blight of Muirwood by Jeff Wheeler -- nm - decline Nov 12, 10:40
- Guns,Germs,and Steel and The Solitary House by Lynn Shepherd -- nm - CQ Nov 12, 10:26
- David and Goliath by Gladwell. -- nm - loosilu Nov 12, 10:03
- Stormfront (A Virgil Flowers book). Next: Divergent -- nm - oblique Nov 12, 10:01 1
  - love me some John Sandford -- nm - Beaker Nov 12, 10:02
- The Shining. -- nm - Ender Nov 12, 10:01 3
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    - It occurred to me about halfway through it that my memory of Dick Hallorann's fate is really just Willy getting axed in the back in THOH V. -- nm - Ender Nov 12, 10:14 1
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- Red Storm Rising....good lord is this thing a monster. - Will Hunting Nov 12, 10:00 2
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    - That subplot is just really getting going for me and doesn't bother me at all. The incessant yammering about - Will Hunting Nov 12, 10:08
- rereading a bunch of Louis L'Amour short story collections (just finished A Wanted Man by Lee Child: B) -- nm - Beaker Nov 12, 10:00
- Double Down -- nm - ty97 Nov 12, 09:59 3
  - Just got mine today. How is out? -- nm - spamlet Nov 12, 10:09 1
    - I'm only about 25% through but it reads chattily and swiftly. - ty97 Nov 12, 10:20
  - Same. -- nm - David Nov 12, 10:06
God*damn*it, Archer! -- (link) - znufrii Nov 12, 09:57 1
- Love it -- nm - amoxy Nov 12, 10:08

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