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The Financial Moves You Should Make in December -- (link) - ty97 Dec 3, 06:11
Americans are bad at math and average at science, study shows... -- (link) - Don Homer Dec 3, 06:08
Whoa...so I won a fantasy game last night by .06 points. - Jim Dec 3, 06:02 4
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  - Well, it was an uphill climb, but I knew I could do it. -- nm - Jim Dec 3, 06:14 2
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    - U-S-A, U-S-A. Er, I mean J-I-M, J-I-M! -- nm - Was Bar Was Dec 3, 06:15
*catches nubby's eye from across the room* - oblique Dec 3, 05:58 2
- Bring it! - nubby Dec 3, 05:59 1
  - It's funny how confident I am week to week in my Astro team yet I'm squeaking into the playoffs while my FJS team seems a mess and I'm in 3rd -- nm - oblique Dec 3, 06:07
guys, I think I may be getting purple bumps. I *almost* have a headache, I'm really whiny, and I slept six hours last night and am still tired. - peggy ann mcamanda Dec 3, 05:43 3
- if you have both you will be on the news. excellent. -- nm - Andie Dec 3, 06:06
- Try lying down on your new couch. -- nm - Was Bar Was Dec 3, 05:48 1
  - maybe she's allergic the outgassing from the new couch -- nm - ruddy the red nosed zeitgeist Dec 3, 10:48
On the drive into work today, I told my wife the story of Nick Wiggums and the Word That Begins with U. Wow, she laughed hard at that -- nm - prayformojo Dec 3, 05:26 5
- I don't know this story. is there some sort of link? -- nm - peggy ann mcamanda Dec 3, 05:37 2
  - link -- (link) - ty97 Dec 3, 05:38 [Backboard] 1
    - thanks. I hadn't finished backboarding. -- nm - peggy ann mcamanda Dec 3, 05:40
- *sigh*. nm - ralph wiggum Dec 3, 05:31 1
  - From a vocabulary perspective, that's a pretty impressive pull for a 5 year old. Especially after already coming up with four U words. -- nm - Inigo Dec 3, 06:14
I think I just passed Dennis Quaid looking for his son. -- nm - Reagen Dec 3, 04:43 1
- Why were you looking for his son? -- nm - ty97 Dec 3, 04:58
My colleagues in comedy are doing a Laurel & Hardy film about when they toured Britain in '53. Who would you cast? -- nm - LMS Dec 3, 04:37 4
- laurie and james corden -- nm - Remlik Dec 3, 06:03
- Hugh Laurie and Robbie Coltrane. Although Laurie and Stephen Fry have already worked together, so maybe him instead. -- nm - landbeck Dec 3, 04:47 2
  - Hugh and Robbie have also worked together in Blackadder the Third. -- nm - LMS Dec 3, 05:00 1
    - Oh, the one with The Scottish Play. -- nm - Was Bar Was Dec 3, 06:03
Fun! My first round of the playoffs in Vampirates is a rematch of Week 13. -- nm - Strongbad Dec 3, 04:34 1
- I don't even know if either of my QB will play this week. Quick, to the waiver wire! - Was Bar Was Dec 3, 05:50
Walking dead spoils - Beryllium Dec 3, 01:16
So, the best computer hardware coming out next year is for... - David Dec 3, 00:47 1
- It's difficult to call it "the best", all the butterfly labs type stuff is single-purpose. That's not the point of computers. - Beryllium Dec 3, 00:48
So ... He had a video phone in his hand? That seems awkward. - Beryllium Dec 2, 23:59 1
- (a technology thing from early in the almost human episode) -- nm - Beryllium Dec 3, 00:44
burp! -- nm - the liioulu without crickets Dec 2, 22:19
SITWAP: Jim Johnson to the A's for Jemile Weeks -- (link) - Krusty Dec 2, 22:18 1
- Unless this is followed by "and the Orioles signed Robinson Cano to a contract..." Why? - Will Hunting Dec 3, 04:41
"Just say the word. And then ... heh ... say it again in French." -- nm - Beryllium Dec 2, 22:07
UCLA's Myles Jack won the Pac-12 Freshman Offensive *AND* Defensive Player of the Year -- (link) - Mop (200 lbs) Dec 2, 22:05 2
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- Amazing. -- nm - nubby Dec 3, 06:04
Barring any stat-corrections this will be my best FF weekend of the season, 6-1 - IrishStephen Dec 2, 21:42
Just watched video of the Paul Walker crash and now I see how the debris field got so big. Huge explosion -- nm - Bacon via Google Nexus 10 Dec 2, 21:36 1
- is that the security camera footage or something else? -- nm - Mop on Samsung Galaxy S3 Dec 2, 23:39
"Firefly"& "Homeland" fans, I shot an interview today with the lovely Morena Baccarin - howie Dec 2, 21:13 22
- She was *so* much more attractive in Firefly. -- nm - Strongbad Dec 3, 05:18 2
  - Another victim of cutting her hair short... -- nm - Ender Dec 3, 05:49
  - Was she naked in Firefly? Then I doubt it. -- nm - Jim Dec 3, 05:40
- if you want good questions to ask, tell us before the interview!!!! -- nm - peglegpete Dec 2, 21:43 6
  - Unfortunately I need to keep the questions on-project, so there is little room for other questions. - howie Dec 2, 21:52 5
    - But (I'm guessing on the movie here) one that the ST Whedon fans would have some interest in. - the wrong element, bad guy Dec 2, 22:07 3
      - You are correct. Rosenbaum was also in today. (nm) - howie Dec 2, 22:31 2
        
        is this the movie he's been shooting in indiana? -- nm - Remlik Dec 2, 22:43 1
        
        yeah. They mentioned Indiana, Rosenbaum's and home town, nm - howie Dec 2, 22:51
    - alas -- nm - peglegpete Dec 2, 22:04
- nice -- nm - Remlik Dec 2, 21:25
- I'll be in my bunk -- nm - budice Dec 2, 21:22
- I hate that actor roughly equivalent to how much I love that actress. - David Dec 2, 21:14 9
  - you mean #TeamLogan -- nm - Remlik Dec 2, 21:26 8
    - I think you have the wrong show. #TeamGilmore -- nm - David Dec 2, 21:29 7
      - #TeamLukeDeservesSomeoneLessFlakeyThanLorelai -- nm - Mop (200 lbs) Dec 2, 22:06 2
        
        blasphemy -- nm - Andie Dec 3, 06:21
        
        24 hours. -- nm - David Dec 3, 00:47
      - #TeamHuntzberger! -- nm - Remlik Dec 2, 21:33 3
        
        #TeamDean (who are you people?) -- nm - Andie Dec 3, 06:22
        
        Ah! I stand corrected. - David Dec 2, 21:34 1
        
        gotcha. -- nm - Remlik Dec 2, 21:46
I love that University of Washington fans see Sarkisian's quitting as a positive for the program. - David Dec 2, 21:08 2
- Good riddance! That guy who inherited a 0-12 program is awful! -- nm - Strongbad Dec 3, 05:12
- Sarkisian is among the state's highest paid employees . . . - OAE -- Antarctica, Old Explorer Dec 3, 04:00
How we Played With Power, the Nintendo Power story. -- (link) - Qale Dec 2, 20:56
random poll ... name a story / book that's never been made into a movie but should be / that you'd love to see on the big screen -- nm - i'm not dead yet ! Dec 2, 20:53 39
- House of Leaves. Never going to happen. Perhaps the innermost story. -- nm - Was Bar Was Dec 3, 05:53
- Ok, I really like the suggestion of a Wrinkle in Time...but mine is easily the Dark Tower. -- nm - Jim Dec 3, 05:41
- Starship Troopers... - Mel Profit Dec 3, 05:08 1
  - as usual, the 1st movie was the best out of what they did, but yeah, I read the book a couple of years ago and - i'm not dead yet ! Dec 3, 07:45
- The Dragonlance Chronicles needs to get the LOTR treatment. -- nm - spamlet Dec 3, 04:56 1
  - I'd love to see that too. I'm surprised no one is working on these. (is anyone working on these?) -- nm - Mel Profit Dec 3, 05:08
- Without Remorse -- nm - Beaker Dec 3, 03:59
- Tigana -- nm - Jovian Dec 2, 23:01
- the Nate Heller detective series by Max Allan Collins. my same answer the last time this was asked :) -- nm - peglegpete Dec 2, 21:46
- This poll comes up every few years, and my answer remains the same: A Spell for Chameleon (and the whole Xanth series). -- nm - JaxSean Dec 2, 21:45
- Replay. But keep Julia Roberts the hell away - Reagen Dec 2, 21:13 5
  - I think she's busy trying to go back in time to star in Groundhog Day. -- nm - Roger More Dec 2, 21:17
  - I actually have this blocked out as a series. Every season would be a lifetime. -- nm - David Dec 2, 21:14 3
    - You sir, are a genius. Genius, I say! nm - ralph wiggum Dec 2, 21:47
    - You could have tremendous fun with the nostalgia aspect. -- nm - Reagen Dec 2, 21:15 1
      - The advertising would be glorious. - David Dec 2, 21:19
- Riftwar Saga by Raymond Feist -- nm - Remlik Dec 2, 21:12
- Posted it the other day: Transmetropolitan. - Name Withheld By Request Dec 2, 21:10 2
  - Oh yeah, and movies two thru a dozen of the Darryl Zero series. -- nm - Name Withheld By Request Dec 2, 21:11 1
    - Wait, there are Zero Effect books? -- nm - Beryllium Dec 2, 21:41
- A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius, which is probably unfilmable. -- nm - Tim Dec 2, 21:07 6
  - In a different life, Eggers could pull this off. -- nm - OAE -- Antarctica, Old Explorer Dec 3, 04:01
  - Also, anything by Chuck Klosterman, fiction or non, though it would be 85% voiceover. -- nm - Tim Dec 2, 21:09 4
    - Get someone to fix the stupid ending of Downtown Owl, though. -- nm - Reagen Dec 2, 21:11 3
      - It's like he went "crap, gotta wrap it up. Okay, rocks fall, everyone dies." -- nm - Tim Dec 2, 21:18 2
        
        exactly! "My editor says this is done." -- nm - Reagen Dec 2, 21:19 1
        
        Huh, it was optioned by Adam Scott (from Parks and Rec) over a year ago, but nothing has come of it yet. -- nm - Tim Dec 2, 21:23
- What went wrong with the Republican Party over the past 20 years. -- nm - David Dec 2, 21:07 4
  - and yet so successfully achieved their goals. - Mel Profit Dec 3, 05:07
  - They already made Game Change. And W. -- nm - Roger More Dec 2, 21:09 2
    - That's not big picture enough. I want to see an examination of how a political party got led down the wrong path on pretty much... - David Dec 2, 21:12 1
      - I think you'd have to go back further, like 50 years or so, and begin with the civil rights and feminism movements -- nm - Roger More Dec 2, 21:22
- The HAB Theory, and Fountains of Paradise. -- nm - Max Dec 2, 21:07
- Sandman -- nm - the liioulu without crickets Dec 2, 21:05
- The Harry Bosch series is about to have that issue corrected -- nm - ruddy the red nosed zeitgeist Dec 2, 21:01
- Outlander -- nm - Epiphany Dec 2, 20:59
- for me, i think i'd go with ... - i'm not dead yet ! Dec 2, 20:55 2
  - that second one would be hallucinatory. -- nm - Reagen Dec 2, 20:55 1
    - well, you know ... they can do the whole CGI thing like Gollum ... - i'm not dead yet ! Dec 2, 20:59
Were there any blow your mind cyber monday deals anyone saw or purchased today? -- nm - Bacon Dec 2, 20:38 3
- Tillicum Indian island dinner tour (take a ferry to their reservation, have cedar planked salmon and a show kinda like a hawaiian hula dance with.. - ruddy the red nosed zeitgeist Dec 2, 20:56 2
  - This sounds interesting for sure -- nm - Bacon via Google Nexus 10 Dec 2, 21:17
  - REI had 30% off your highest priced item so combined with clearance sale prices, you could get half off a $2,000 carbon fiber bike -- nm - ruddy the red nosed zeitgeist Dec 2, 20:58
got, this season of HIMYM is just a bunch of shrieking harpies. -- nm - Max Dec 2, 20:32
Hmm. According to the local news report, the speed of the car involved in Paul Walker's accident/death was not "excessive". - elf kelly Dec 2, 20:28 19
- Interesting to me that when this happened -- the span of a few hours last Saturday evening. . . - OAE -- Antarctica, Old Explorer Dec 3, 04:04
- not sure the source, but on the radio they said there was some issues with the steering, and a fluid leak may have contributed to the fire. -- nm - JaxSean Dec 2, 21:47
- The CNN story says the sign on the pole that was hit was for a 45 MPH limit, but doesn't say it was determined - TWuG Dec 2, 21:08
- tell me where there is a posted 15m speed limit, its 20m even in school zones -- nm - ruddy the red nosed zeitgeist Dec 2, 21:00 6
  - 25mph here for school zones. Either AZ or UT (somewhere I was this summer) is 15mph. -- nm - Meg Dec 2, 21:11
  - Well, I don't know. I don't live there. I'm just repeating what the local news said. -- nm - elf kelly Dec 2, 21:01 4
    - if you go to the street view of where it happened, there's a yellow (so not enforced, just reccommended) 15MPH sign. -- nm - Reagen Dec 2, 21:08 1
      - Here -- (link) - Reagen Dec 2, 21:11
    - http://apps.dmv.ca.gov/pubs/hdbk/speed_limits .htm -- (link) - elf kelly Dec 2, 21:02 1
      - The same page mentions blind intersections and alleys (which I realize doesn't apply in this case) have 15mph limits as well. -- nm - elf kelly Dec 2, 21:04
- NO freaking way is that accurate. The debris field was 100 yards -- nm - Bacon Dec 2, 20:34 3
  - no see, if it compressed space-time around it, it could appear to be travelling faster than the speed of light, while technically not moving at all. -- nm - mafic Dec 2, 20:39
  - depending on how hi a curb and the angle, it is possible -- nm - peglegpete Dec 2, 20:35 1
    - I guess if the car went airborne and there was maybe an explosion caused blowing more debris out - Bacon Dec 2, 20:37
- not sure if I believe that -- nm - Epiphany Dec 2, 20:33 3
  - I'm not sure I do either, but if it's true, that's horrible. - elf kelly Dec 2, 20:41 2
    - If it's true I will retract some of the blame I gave the guy for putting lives in danger for driving reckless. - Bacon Dec 2, 20:45 1
      - ......... -- nm - elf kelly Dec 2, 21:00
- Weird that it seemed to cause so much damage, then. -- nm - Beryllium Dec 2, 20:29
Kiva team members....b! joined the team on my invite, so we both had bonus money plus her investment. We should be within about $150 of goal. - Meg Dec 2, 20:23 4
- I've just made a couple -- nm - Roger More Dec 2, 21:08
- I have one maybe two more loans to give -- nm - amoxy Dec 2, 20:32
- I'm all loaned out. -- nm - Remlik Dec 2, 20:25 1
  - The Collector has come for his dues. -- nm - Beryllium Dec 2, 20:27
And Autodraft keeps hope alive for another drive! - David Dec 2, 20:22 6
- And no interception. - nubby Dec 2, 20:24 4
  - McCown is coming up. That was a shockingly close finish. -- nm - David Dec 2, 20:36 3
    - Never a doubt. -- nm - nubby Dec 2, 20:39 2
      - In response to nubby's post: "His low on the season is 16." He will get about 12. -- nm -- Spawn Dec 1, 21:52 - Spawn Dec 2, 21:41
      - Uh huh. -- nm - David Dec 2, 20:44
- *throws INT for 12 yards* -- nm - Drew Brees Dec 2, 20:24
Evening ST night shift -- nm - eag Dec 2, 20:19 2
- Got any weed? - amoxy Dec 2, 20:41
- hello - Epiphany Dec 2, 20:33
Robert Kirkman discusses the mid season finale and future for The Walking Dead (spoilers and future spoilers) -- (link) - amoxy Dec 2, 20:16
It's Fun to Eat at the rYe MCA Burger. (nm) - Tim Dec 2, 20:16
What would Pixie say? -- nm - Bacon Dec 2, 20:13 1
- "Wa-pa-pa-pa-pa-bite me." -- nm - Beryllium Dec 2, 20:14

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