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- I would have split out NCAA into 1-A and other. -- nm - Don Homer Mar 5, 09:04 1
  - or at least into scholarship and non-scholarship. -- nm - Don Homer Mar 5, 09:06
okay.. here we go.. opinions... -- (link) - colin Mar 5, 08:56 15
- I love the outside and I love the structure/layout (what I can tell of it) inside. - ty97 Mar 5, 09:07
- Good enough! Buy it now! Or, you know, wait for just the right house to come along. -- nm - Mop (205 lbs) Mar 5, 09:03 2
  - thinking of just slapping an offer down. it'd be good money wise - give us extra cash to work on it. -- nm - colin Mar 5, 09:03 1
    - i really feel like you have to walk into a place and feel it. it doesn't mean the place has to be in good shape, it just has to sort to speak to you - Andie Mar 5, 09:06
- built in 1929????? -- nm - groiny Mar 5, 09:00 10
  - most houses in that part of town were built in the 20s and 30s. means nothing for quality, really. the house we're in now is from the teens. -- nm - colin Mar 5, 09:02 5
    - you see the comparable sales in that area? nm -- nm - groiny Mar 5, 09:03 4
      - those are not very indicative.. 5 miles away is another world. - colin Mar 5, 09:05 3
        
        I do not know the area, obvie, but it is a decent sized lot, and the house is bigger than mine. - groiny Mar 5, 09:06 2
        
        He's in the city, so 5 miles can mean a great deal of difference. Think Chicago Gold Coast vs 5 miles south into South Chicago. -- nm - ty97 Mar 5, 09:08
        
        Yeah 5 miles to n Houston in a straight line and you are already at the loop. -- nm - Qale as Folk Mar 5, 09:07
  - see, i love that. -- nm - Andie Mar 5, 09:01 3
    - I'm always incredulous that people like this sort of thing to the point of seeking it out - con_carne Mar 5, 09:05 2
      - you could have removed the big sink and made room for appliances... older houses have detail work and craftsmanship that new ones just don't. - Andie Mar 5, 09:07 1
        
        That would have been impossible actually - con_carne Mar 5, 09:14
I may not be able to visit the locations, but I have been enjoying the tweets from our film Bill. -- (link) - LMS Mar 5, 08:54
Which, of any, of these "12 stores that were essential to your childhood that don’t exist anymore" do you miss? -- (link) - prayformojo Mar 5, 08:53 12
- I remember when Woolworth's closed in my home town, that was kind of a big deal. -- nm - Max Mar 5, 09:07 1
  - If we're ignoring the article's suggestions, my answer is Service Merchandise. - David Mar 5, 09:08
- Ben Franklin, if it were on the list. -- nm - mara Mar 5, 09:06
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- none were essential, none are missed -- nm - peglegpete Mar 5, 09:03
- I really loved KB Toys growing up. -- nm - David Mar 5, 09:03
- generally speaking, I would say I miss the experience of music stores and movie rental stores. -- nm - Don Homer Mar 5, 09:02
- I miss Sam the Record Man (as a substitute for Tower Records) and Radio Shack -- nm - zork Mar 5, 08:56
- Also, I'd take Caldor over Ames. I did love Kay Bee as a kid, but loathed it as an adult. -- nm - ty97 Mar 5, 08:55
- Moviefone? How old is this author? -- nm - ty97 Mar 5, 08:55 2
  - Moviefone was it before the internet. We used to have a local video rental guy who stored all the VHS tapes in a van and delivered/picked up. -- nm - Max Mar 5, 09:03
  - Do you remember that Seinfeld clip? Press 1 for Yes -- nm - zork Mar 5, 08:57
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- The Laura Bush one doesn't fit with the rest. - Kelsey Marftinez Mar 5, 09:11
- I take the Lincoln quote as him just saying what he needed to get elected. -- nm - Inigo Mar 5, 09:04
- Some people reformed their lives, some were being pragmatic when they said these things, some were drunk, and some are just pedophiles. -- nm - Mop (205 lbs) Mar 5, 09:02
Oh COME ON! -- (link) - Mop (205 lbs) Mar 5, 08:51 2
- whoa whoa.. where's the trigger warning on this post? - colin Mar 5, 08:52 1
  - Warning: Reading this article may actually make you stupider. -- nm - Mop (205 lbs) Mar 5, 08:53
Inside the Underground World of LA's Home Recording Studios -- (link) - con_carne Mar 5, 08:48
Quebec on its way to an election. -- nm - Mop (205 lbs) Mar 5, 08:47
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This keeps cracking me up because it's so true ... -- (link) - zork Mar 5, 08:44 [Image] 1
- and here's a "caption this" pic -- (link) - zork Mar 5, 08:54 [Image]
The Astronauts UV group has standards. I will not add "Werewolf: The Beast Among Us" even if it is free - oblique Mar 5, 08:43 15
- that really was a crap list of choices you had, with many of the good ones already in our library. - groiny Mar 5, 08:48 1
  - I thought Radio was a decent add but yeah, most of them were retreads of the same free UV movies seen elsewhere -- nm - oblique Mar 5, 08:51
- I think Mop is a plant from Wal-Mart to manufacture a ST UV competition in number of titles -- nm - con_carne Mar 5, 08:44
- I was actually happy about Orgazmo. My copy got stolen years ago. - spamlet Mar 5, 08:44 10
  - Yeah, I watched it again last year and wondered what I had ever found funny about it. -- nm - David Mar 5, 08:48 5
    - "shave your balls?" -- nm - groiny Mar 5, 08:48 4
      - I think it's a movie designed for people 15-25. -- nm - David Mar 5, 08:50 3
        
        have a few drinks and watch it. - groiny Mar 5, 08:51 2
        
        See, the thing about that is... -- nm - David Mar 5, 08:51 1
        
        That's what I'm worried about. -- nm - spamlet Mar 5, 09:05
  - shame you will not be around to enjoy it, sancho. nm -- nm - groiny Mar 5, 08:45 3
    - to the orgazmobile! What? My Buick Century! - spamlet Mar 5, 09:04
    - As a test I went into my UV settings and enabled "Block unrated content" and it worked and should be for my own user - oblique Mar 5, 08:53 1
      - your son would dig Orgazmo, bring the whole choir home to watch it! -- nm - groiny Mar 5, 08:54
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I would have gotten skunked on this. Is Larry Brown currently coaching basketball? If so, where? -- nm - prayformojo Mar 5, 08:40 6
- SMU. Duh. -- nm - Spawn Lord Mar 5, 08:41 1
  - Wikipedia is an easy source for this kind of information. It's like the back of a baseball card. -- nm - Mop (205 lbs) Mar 5, 08:52
- Spoilerish but wrong - David Mar 5, 08:41 3
  - You're right and you're wrong (spoils) - prayformojo Mar 5, 08:42 2
    - They keep getting in the top 25 (the only reaosn I knew). -- nm - Spawn Lord Mar 5, 08:42 1
      - Yup. Ranked team for the first time in like forever -- nm - JD Mar 5, 08:53
I am 100% caught up on the current season of Vampire Diaries. I NEED NEW EPISODES!!! -- nm - David Mar 5, 08:40 3
- there is a comic book series! -- nm - Remlik Mar 5, 08:44 2
  - Like you have comic books to sell. -- nm - David Mar 5, 08:47 1
    - He can't even get shipments!! - Epiphany Mar 5, 11:07
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- The question for the West going forward is really... - Mel Profit Mar 5, 08:53
- Not mentioned: All their capacity for making and refining is gone. Completely shut down. -- (link) - TWuG Mar 5, 08:42
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- Buyers who open it will thereafter see the world through lens flare, with no answer to the mystery question "Why the hell?" -- nm - Max Mar 5, 08:26
- he seems to be having a lot of fun branching out into other media areas. I have S. at home but haven't started it yet -- nm - decline Mar 5, 08:25
crap. another cool house went up yesterday and already has a contract today. we're going to have to contract sight unseen. -- nm - colin Mar 5, 08:18 23
- I assume you have a pre-approval on a loan already? - groiny Mar 5, 08:30 9
  - yep, we're set. still have a short sale offer in, but that's unlikely since we didn't go cash in hand. -- nm - colin Mar 5, 08:35 8
    - also, back when I worked there, the banks usually had listings of properties as well. - groiny Mar 5, 08:37
    - here, there are hundreds of listings of foreclosed properties posted weekly in the newspapers.... - groiny Mar 5, 08:36 6
      - nope, houses are going as soon as they're available. we're competing with investors, that's the issue. - colin Mar 5, 08:43 5
        
        yeah, that is a problem for you. Seriously, try to call one of the big banks. - groiny Mar 5, 08:47 4
        
        i've got a feeler out to freddie mac's foreclosure department. guy was really nice, but hasn't had anything for me yet. -- nm - colin Mar 5, 08:50 3
        
        try B of A, they likely have a shit ton of them. nm -- nm - groiny Mar 5, 08:52 2
        
        good tip, i will. -- nm - colin Mar 5, 08:53 1
        
        wells fargo too, i'd imagine -- nm - colin Mar 5, 08:54
- Why not...rent a room in a motel or something until you're not doing this sight unseen? -- nm - Will Hunting Mar 5, 08:22 8
  - we're renting month to month, so no issue. it's just that where we're trying to buy, things go so freakin fast. -- nm - colin Mar 5, 08:24 7
    - Yeah, but what's a better option? Eyes on a house, or buying internationally blindly? -- nm - Will Hunting Mar 5, 08:29 2
      - Never mind, so many major life changes on the table, got confused -- nm - Will Hunting Mar 5, 08:31 1
        
        sorry, yeah, we're all over the place right now :) -- nm - colin Mar 5, 08:51
    - well, yeah, since you are getting great value in most cases, they will go fast. nm -- nm - groiny Mar 5, 08:27 3
      - Why not go straight to the builder and contract to have a house built? -- nm - TWuG Mar 5, 08:30 2
        
        pretty sure those would be more expensive than a foreclosure property. nm -- nm - groiny Mar 5, 08:31 1
        
        Ah. I misunderstood what you meant by another house "going up." -- nm - TWuG Mar 5, 08:40
- In Ireland? -- nm - Spawn Lord Mar 5, 08:21 3
  - excellent point - should colin be looking to buy a house at the same time he's looking to move to the UK? -- nm - Andie Mar 5, 08:23 2
    - yes. moving is not certain, we still have lots of options. but Qale is living with us and a friend of ours will take over the rest of the space in - colin Mar 5, 08:26
    - My dejavu just tingled. -- nm - Spawn Lord Mar 5, 08:23
No Buffalo Bills games in Toronto this year. -- nm - Reagen Mar 5, 08:17 1
- well. i can't say i'm upset about it, but it does mean we have to change the 'bills-mas' christmas thing we do with my aunt, uncle and cousins. -- nm - Andie Mar 5, 08:22
This reminds me of what happened when I called to cancel my subscription to the Washington Post a few weeks ago (Hi Kim....) - prayformojo Mar 5, 08:11 8
- Yes, most revenue for newspapers comes from advertising, not subscriptions. - Kim Pine Mar 5, 08:17 4
  - The advertising rates at my former employer are the reason that paper is in the condition it's in now. - Kelsey Marftinez Mar 5, 08:43 1
    - wow, that's an insane price. -- nm - Don Homer Mar 5, 08:45
  - Thanks, that's interesting. I wonder for how long that's been true - prayformojo Mar 5, 08:18 1
    - I do know that we're actually trying to put more focus on circulation as a revenue stream. - Kim Pine Mar 5, 08:19
- I called to cancel back in the fall, when I was fed up with their editorials (plus don't read it enough). And they also offered me ~75% off for 12 - Don Homer Mar 5, 08:15
- As I have said, I pad for Maxim through 2012. I still get it. -- nm - Spawn Lord Mar 5, 08:13 1
  - I never ordered Maxim and they started sending it to me about 3 or 4 months ago. - pmb Mar 5, 08:17
Wow, the entire St. Louis team is being traded to New York! - Reagen Mar 5, 08:10 3
- Who wouldn't want to trade their captain in a playoff race? -- nm - the King of Argentina Mar 5, 08:14
- No you're thinking of Kid New York. He fought out of Philly. - prayformojo Mar 5, 08:13 1
  - Never bet on the white guy. -- nm - David Mar 5, 08:16
spamlet, I have filed papers to have you removed from our library..... - groiny Mar 5, 08:04
mafic - especially since as of right now they're in it. -- nm - Reagen Mar 5, 08:02 3
- It's kind of a baffling "ah well, screw it!" I can see it with the Canucks. They were probably sliding out anyway, and Lack has been good, - the King of Argentina Mar 5, 08:05 1
  - maybe they're getting someone significant back. -- nm - Reagen Mar 5, 08:18
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Ways & Means meeting on the "IRS Scandal" went crazy today. Finally someone called out the GOP for wasting time. -- (link) - MDH Mar 5, 07:57 2
- Crap. You do not throw down with Elijah Cummings. He's not the kind who's going to back down from a fight. -- nm - Mop (205 lbs) Mar 5, 08:45
- Nonsense. They slandered Issa. - David Mar 5, 08:06
i would love a company car. used to have the sweet ass company van, drove that thing everywhere. -- nm - colin Mar 5, 07:56 14
- misreading "car company" made me think you'd like to start "Colin's Sweet-Ass Van Company" in 1920s Coca Cola curly font. -- nm - Max Mar 5, 08:04 1
  - don't spill his Plan B! -- nm - Reagen Mar 5, 08:04
- I probably missed this, but how did you get EU citizenship? -- nm - ty97 Mar 5, 08:03 1
  - bribes. lots of bribes. maybe a few bjs when the stakes were high. - colin Mar 5, 08:11
- What kind of job are you interviewing for there? - Kim Pine Mar 5, 07:59 1
  - senior it service delivery manager - colin Mar 5, 08:01
- although having a car in London is more of a pain in the ass than anything, I think. -- nm - Reagen Mar 5, 07:58 7
  - "Hey look kids, there's Big Ben, and there's Parliament. Again." -- nm - Don Homer Mar 5, 08:01 1
    - Heh, and that was right before the 'tourist' ran into our rear fender :) -- nm - Meg Mar 5, 08:23
  - In the congestion charge zone a little. Less so in greater London. -- nm - the King of Argentina Mar 5, 08:00 1
    - God, I hate those things. We got the F out of London when we got the car but we drove into a few of them elsewhere with next to no warning. -- nm - Spawn Lord Mar 5, 08:07
  - they give a car allowance.. i figure that'll get spent on expensive train passes. -- nm - colin Mar 5, 07:59 2
    - Oyster card! -- nm - the King of Argentina Mar 5, 08:01 1
      - Which are a lot cheaper if you're not going in to zone 1 by tube (central London), plus includes the bus in all zones. -- nm - LMS Mar 5, 08:23
Whoa, earth shaking news: I just learned that my whole family may not be together for Thanksgiving. - ty97 Mar 5, 07:53 11
- Time to discover the joys of drinking out in NYC during Thanksgiving break -- nm - con_carne Mar 5, 08:05
- Curious, what will you do when you meet a special someone? Expect him to bend to your will on this stuff? -- nm - Spawn Lord Mar 5, 08:04 5
  - (bwahahahahahahaha!. okay, serious face now). That decision would be based on our mutual agreement. - ty97 Mar 5, 08:11 4
    - The answer is obvious. - Spawn Lord Mar 5, 08:21 3
      - better: invite the families to your place! -- nm - Remlik Mar 5, 08:23 2
        
        That is step 2. - Spawn Lord Mar 5, 08:24 1
        
        Have you see my kitchen? -- nm - ty97 Mar 5, 08:40
- have thanksgiving in paris. grow wings, fly! -- nm - colin Mar 5, 07:55
- what is thanksgiving? -- nm - DaneDukeNuuk Mar 5, 07:54
- ty97, it's time to cut the cord... -- nm - decline Mar 5, 07:54 1
  - Well sure, if I want my mother to cut my neck. - ty97 Mar 5, 07:55
Spawn...more on the Blackface/Mardi Gras Pa pa rous story -- (link) - Remlik Mar 5, 07:52 2
- No win sitch. -- nm - Spawn Lord Mar 5, 08:05 1
  - totally. The more I read of this guy the more an ass I think he is..he didn't pay the payroll tax and is blaming 'The Man' for it... - Remlik Mar 5, 08:14
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  - some things are worth the risk. nm -- nm - groiny Mar 5, 08:28
  - Because that stuff would have made huge mess of the dresses. -- nm - Spawn Lord Mar 5, 08:14

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