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Jerry Lawler rushed to hospital after chest pains and vomiting...is reportedly ok after tests. -- nm - Remlik Jan 6, 16:17 1
- Surely he wasn't still doing indie matches. -- nm - Qale Jan 6, 16:35
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Among this inventor's inventions were a solution for a shoe-related problem, a combination of 2 different vermin, and an answer for way, way too many - prayformojo Jan 6, 16:08 2
- Mr. Worchestershire? -- nm - TWuG Jan 6, 16:18
- Flint Lockwood. -- nm - Reagen Jan 6, 16:13
20 years ago today nancy kerrigan took a shot to the knee -- nm - Beaker Jan 6, 16:05
Interesting. My employer will pay up to $8 a day for your dinner, as long a you - tRuMaN doth do thinkith Jan 6, 15:43 12
- $8 buys a big dinner? - CovingtonCat Jan 6, 16:05 3
  - I thought the same thing ... Happy Meals for kids at the drive through are $4 or more - where does 8$ get an adult dinner but McD -- nm - JenBro Jan 6, 16:18 2
    - You could eat all day for that at Taco Bell. - Dr.Vermin Jan 6, 16:28 1
      - finger to nose = IM -- nm - JenBro Jan 6, 16:30
- If you remove your new boss's mask, will you find your old boss's face? - Mop (200 lbs) Jan 6, 16:02
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  - agreed, more like a lunch amount...low for that too really -- nm - Beaker Jan 6, 16:00 1
    - I would mostly agree -- nm - tRuMaN doth do thinkith Jan 6, 16:00
- do you have to provide a receipt? otherwise just claim the $8 whenever you hit the 10 hr mark -- nm - Beaker Jan 6, 15:45 1
  - Yes you do. -- nm - tRuMaN doth do thinkith Jan 6, 15:47
- get dinner and eat it for lunch the next day. -- nm - peggy ann mcamanda Jan 6, 15:44 1
  - It's a thought. Granted for 5 weeks straight I will be out of town for work, so all my meals are per diem anyways. -- nm - tRuMaN doth do thinkith Jan 6, 15:45
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- ah for the good old days when it was clear which half of the couple would not have any career aspirations and follow their mate blindly and happily - JenBro Jan 6, 16:21
Senate Confirms Yellen as Fed Chair -- (link) - ty97 Jan 6, 15:38 1
- "I SAID WE CONFIRMED YOU!" -- nm - Reagen Jan 6, 15:54
rare colonial document up for sale on 1/26 -- (link) - peglegpete Jan 6, 15:37
The thunderstorm and the adsl modem didn't get along, replacement on roiute -- nm - Karl_S Jan 6, 15:25
so, LYC (and like I care) ... on facebook a couple of people are upset w/ me because ... wait for it ! .... - i'm not dead yet ! Jan 6, 15:10 19
- Never tell (or even subtly imply) that a woman's feelings are wrong. -- nm - Dr.Vermin Jan 6, 16:02 1
  - Nods ... on facebook OR off - good advice here! :) -- nm - JenBro Jan 6, 16:23
- Does he not have that job in the summer? - Cuzzin Todd Jan 6, 15:16 3
  - well, i've said my piece on facebook and i'm moving on. she's just being whiny and i'm not going to waste any more time - i'm not dead yet ! Jan 6, 15:18
  - it's not over until someone is unfriended. -- nm - colin Jan 6, 15:17 1
    - then i look forward to their unfriending of me ;) -- nm - i'm not dead yet ! Jan 6, 15:18
- poor b@$tard, have mow the lawn all year round -- nm - zeitgeist Jan 6, 15:14 1
  - they can do one of those fancy gravel yards. -- nm - colin Jan 6, 15:15
- this is why i'm not on facebook.. i hate the way people act in that venue. -- nm - colin Jan 6, 15:13 6
  - The fact that more and more people are friending their moms and stuff is rendering people way more insipid -- nm - con_carne Jan 6, 15:24 5
    - (Not complaining, I just think that's funny. You could just hide the people you don't like. Done and done.) -- nm - con_carne Jan 6, 15:25
    - i know! i couldn't say "fuck" on there because my mom was lurking around... jeez. -- nm - colin Jan 6, 15:25 3
      - Yeah. One by one, people are turning into old folks with good manners and no edgy tastes. -- nm - con_carne Jan 6, 15:29 2
        
        kinda of like ST.... -- nm - colin Jan 6, 15:31 1
        
        Oh snap! -- nm - con_carne Jan 6, 15:34
- Not everybody is always up on the national weather, even when it's record-breaking. People here can definitely be oblivious, for example -- nm - con_carne Jan 6, 15:12 3
  - my best friend moved from LA to outside of Chicago over the summer. I joked with his wife yesterday that - peglegpete Jan 6, 15:17
  - well, personally, regardless of her level of awareness to national weather, i think she's being really whiny -- nm - i'm not dead yet ! Jan 6, 15:15 1
    - Heh. -- nm - kelly Jan 6, 16:23
This is pretty incredible: Duke falls out of AP top 10 for 1st time since '07" -- (link) - prayformojo Jan 6, 15:10
So we're back to this. Tuesday night has at least 6 hours of tv I'm interested in. - Max Jan 6, 15:03 10
- Chuck 2.0 -- nm - Beaker Jan 6, 15:15
- brooklyn nine nine is mildly amusing....nm - x Jan 6, 15:08
- If it helps, Intelligence moves to Mondays next week. Plus it might suck so maybe you won't care after tomorrow. -- nm - Cuzzin Todd Jan 6, 15:06
- thank goodness i'm down to about bob's burgers and almost human... until louie starts up. -- nm - colin Jan 6, 15:06 6
  - I dunno what it was, but that last episode of Bob's Burgers was the 1st I actually enjoyed. -- nm - Qale Jan 6, 15:09 5
    - I can't watch as Archer's voice confuses me -- nm - Beaker Jan 6, 15:15 1
      - watch Jon Benjamin has a van - it'll put to bed any images of his voice associated with Archer.. - colin Jan 6, 15:16
    - it's a funny show! -- nm - colin Jan 6, 15:09 2
      - I've only seen it a few times but it is amusing. Though it took me too long to make the ARcher connection. - Cuzzin Todd Jan 6, 15:20
      - That one's plot was a lot more coherent. -- nm - Qale Jan 6, 15:16
STIS - I bought some mp3's on amazon and it used to download easily into my itunes. Now it wants me to download the amazon cloud player onto my - pmb Jan 6, 15:03 11
- Ok, I figured it out. The interface is different, but it still works. -- nm - pmb Jan 6, 15:25
- At the bottom of that pop up window that asks to install the Cloud Player it says X No Thanks, Just download my MP3s instead. THEN you go and import. -- nm - Qale Jan 6, 15:20
- I still download them from the cloud, then the new files auto-import to iTunes. I'm not sure what's changed. -- nm - JaxSean Jan 6, 15:15
- this is why I stopped getting MP3's at Amazon -- nm - i'm not dead yet ! Jan 6, 15:10
- you can use the online interface still. the mp3 store is still a little weird and segregated. -- nm - colin Jan 6, 15:07 6
  - Yeah, but I want to put it in my itunes so I can put it on my ipod. -- nm - pmb Jan 6, 15:08 5
    - you can't just download the files from the web interface into your itunes folder? -- nm - colin Jan 6, 15:09 4
      - I used to be able to. The amazon downloader just put it there. Now it's telling me it will go into Cloud Player for PC (which looks like their - pmb Jan 6, 15:16 3
        
        There should be a selection to just keep using the downloaded instead of getting the cloud player - JD Jan 6, 15:20 1
        
        i LOVE my "the cloud" to "my butt" filter i'm running. - colin Jan 6, 15:26
        
        yeah. i wasn't too thrilled with it. -- nm - colin Jan 6, 15:17
Windows folks.. I highly recommend running f.lux. It color adjusts your display to match time of day and is quit soothing. -- (link) - colin Jan 6, 14:59 2
- I just started using it last week and I love it. I had to adjust it so it fades the color more gradually but it's much nicer to look at in the - Krusty Jan 6, 15:02 1
  - yeah, the sudden drop at 5 or 6 is a little weird. 20 minutes was way too fast. -- nm - colin Jan 6, 15:04
ST Poll inspired by somethingin a post below ... which is more -- a f*ck ton or a sh*t ton? - i'm not dead yet ! Jan 6, 14:46 7
- for one thing...linguistically its a shitload -- nm - zeitgeist Jan 6, 15:13
- a shit ton is actually measurable. It's a ton of shit. What exactly is a f*ck ton? 2000 f*cks and probably half are a drunken mess so a shit ton is - CQ Jan 6, 14:54
- Una cachimbada -- nm - con_carne Jan 6, 14:53
- I think because F*ck is still the more intense word...a F*ckton is more. -- nm - Mel Profit Jan 6, 14:47 3
  - Ah, the Internet. You can't just have "a ton" of something anymore. Also, food can't just be good - con_carne Jan 6, 15:03
  - agreed. a fuck ton is a fuck ton more than a shit ton...nm - x Jan 6, 14:52
  - "F*ckton" is a suburb of Minneapolis. "F*ck ton" is a unit of measurement. -- nm - Cuzzin Todd Jan 6, 14:50
The Colts signed Deion Branch? - Mel Profit Jan 6, 14:45
5 ESPN voters don't think the greatest hitting catcher of all time is a Hall of Famer? WTF? -- nm - Will Hunting Jan 6, 14:40 4
- Pudge Rodriguez? -- nm - CQ Jan 6, 14:58
- Thurmon Munson? -- nm - peglegpete Jan 6, 14:43 2
  - He wasn't even the best hitting catcher in the 1970's. C'mon, Johnny Bench! -- nm - Will Hunting Jan 6, 14:48 1
    - I suppose those last 2 months of the 1979 season he didn't play, wouldn't matter :( -- nm - peglegpete Jan 6, 14:53
More College Football Stats: If Auburn wins tonight, they will be the first team in 30 years to begin unranked and win the Natl Championship - Strongbad Jan 6, 14:30
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- Must be nice. -- nm - Spawn Jan 6, 14:30
BCS quiz: Name last nonSEC team to win championship? -- nm - budice Jan 6, 14:28 2
- Texas over USC in the Rose Bowl. -- nm - Will Hunting Jan 6, 14:37
- Texas over USC in the Vince Young game? -- nm - David Jan 6, 14:28
I do wonder what someone from 1963 would think if they woke up in America today. - David Jan 6, 14:26 36
- Checks my stock portfolio....PanAm TWA IBM Sears USSteel AT&T (the original before SoBell took them over and used their name) GM American Motors -- nm - zeitgeist Jan 6, 21:40
- If you press this button, someone in the world will die. You won't know who they are... but my National Security Advisor will have a dossier on them. -- nm - Barack Obama Jan 6, 16:11
- "The only robots I see are on the radio." -- nm - con_carne Jan 6, 15:51
- Our last three Presidents were casual drug users? Groovy, the hippies actually won! -- nm - Roger More Jan 6, 15:33
- "How quickly can you get me to Colorado?" -- nm - the wrong element, bad guy Jan 6, 15:06
- my comic books are worth a fortune!!!!!!!!!!!!!! -- nm - peglegpete Jan 6, 15:06
- not much with cars? did you drive any 1960's cars growing up? the mechanics sucked compared to how idiot proof most are now -- nm - peglegpete Jan 6, 15:03 3
  - Transportation progress has been incremental, not revolutionary. -- nm - David Jan 6, 15:15
  - c'mon, a slant 6 would go like 200,000 miles and you could fix it with duct tape and baling wire.....nm - x Jan 6, 15:07 1
    - But then your average minivan has ~the same hp as a 1963 mustang. -- nm - Reagen Jan 6, 15:15
- How the F did we ever survive without PFM? -- nm - prayformojo Jan 6, 15:02
- "how am I still alive?" -- nm - colin Jan 6, 15:00 2
  - What year do you think it is? -- nm - David Jan 6, 15:02 1
    - i was assuming 50 year coma. -- nm - colin Jan 6, 15:05
- "because if you think Mick Jagger is going to be out there *Jagger Dance* at age 40..." -- nm - Mel Profit Jan 6, 14:47 1
  - How old are we really? -- nm - David Jan 6, 14:51
- That's what my mom always says. Amazed we still haven't figured out traffic. -- nm - Dr.Vermin Jan 6, 14:46
- They'd be locked in a room for 2 weeks after finding all the porn online. - JaxSean Jan 6, 14:46 1
  - *slams laptop shut and backs out of the room* -- nm - Ichabod Crane Jan 6, 14:49
- what do you mean we don't have a moon base? -- nm - Remlik Jan 6, 14:44 1
  - Though in 1963, Mercury is just wrapping up so the goal of being on the moon by the end of the decade can be debated either way -- nm - JD Jan 6, 14:57
- A black what? -- nm - Will Hunting Jan 6, 14:38 2
  - trying to think if this would be more disconcerting for them or gay marriage -- nm - Jovian Jan 6, 14:40
  - heh -- nm - JaxSean Jan 6, 14:38
- "Where are the flying cars" "What's with all the faggots" "What's a World Trade Center?" -- nm - ty97 Jan 6, 14:37 3
  - "What do you mean you don't have a cigarette? None of you?" -- nm - Max Jan 6, 14:38 2
    - heh...nm - x Jan 6, 14:53
    - "An electric cig only? WHAT!?" -- nm - Jovian Jan 6, 14:39
- "Ronald Reagan?? The actor?!!" -- nm - Max Jan 6, 14:34 1
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- Not to mention the social aspects as the Civil Rights act is a year away and here we are with a number of states with same sex marriage - JD Jan 6, 14:29
- "holy crap, pro athletes get paid HOW MUCH????"....nm - guy from 1963 Jan 6, 14:28 3
  - Don't forget: What is JFK up to these days? -- nm - David Jan 6, 14:32 2
    - His son looks so adorable at the funeral. Did he grow up to be President? -- nm - Roger More Jan 6, 15:30 1
      - Oof. -- nm - David Jan 6, 15:35
- wait...a Castro still controls Cuba? WTF?! -- nm - Beaker Jan 6, 14:27
LYC: Also in my mail were 3 ConEd utility bills, all for the same period, all for different amounts. And my new insurance card....twice. -- nm - ty97 Jan 6, 14:24 1
- Tangent: When I picked up my Colts ticket at Will Call, there was another MD with tickets waiting. -- nm - Spawn Jan 6, 14:33
Everything's coming up David: 58% of Americans own a VCR, 38% a tablet (not including e-readers), 73% have home wife -- (link) - ty97 Jan 6, 14:20 14
- what the hell is a home wife. -- nm - colin Jan 6, 15:11
- so many of us need that 'home wife' . . . -- nm - OAE -- Antarctica, Old Explorer Jan 6, 14:33
- *victory lap* -- nm - David Jan 6, 14:27
- I know some people say it's a large enough sample, but of 1030 people? - JaxSean Jan 6, 14:26 5
  - In a population the size of the US, that sample size gives a +/- 3% interval wiith 95% confidence - Reagen Jan 6, 14:51 2
    - *eyes glaze over*....nm - x Jan 6, 14:54 1
      - he already said he "knew" that! - Reagen Jan 6, 14:58
  - even the Jags has more fans than that -- nm - budice Jan 6, 14:28 1
    - Barely -- nm - JaxSean Jan 6, 14:34
- laserdisc? -- nm - budice Jan 6, 14:23
- I have all of those. More than one of some. -- nm - Spawn Jan 6, 14:21 2
  - Polygamist! -- nm - Krusty Jan 6, 14:38
  - There's at least 5 tablets in my house. -- nm - Mop (200 lbs) Jan 6, 14:23
- I'd like a home wife. -- nm - Mop (200 lbs) Jan 6, 14:20
This is the size of the Amazon box that comes to David's house -- (link) - Remlik Jan 6, 14:17 [Image] 1
- *snort* -- nm - Mop (200 lbs) Jan 6, 14:21
BCS Game: Take Auburn and the points, and go with the over. -- nm - Strongbad Jan 6, 14:17 3
- FSU 38, Auburn 24. -- nm - Will Hunting Jan 6, 14:38
- NNL stats: Auburns Defense is worst BCS team alowing 5.9yrds per play...Fla St offense is best BCS tm ever at 7.8yds per play -- nm - budice Jan 6, 14:21 1
  - Missouri's rushing defense stats were epic a month ago at this time. -- nm - David Jan 6, 14:28
Can they have another episode about sexbots? -- nm - Spawn Jan 6, 14:16
you ask for a f*ck ton of mayo on your cheeseburger? Smashburger will *give* you a f*ck ton of mayo on your cheeseburger -- (link) - znufrii Jan 6, 14:14 2
- Mayo should be banned! -- nm - Krusty Jan 6, 14:39
- No PICS?????????? -- nm - Strongbad Jan 6, 14:16

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