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I just got smell-o-vision... - Krusty Mar 11, 14:41 5
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  - Doh! I will tonight, I promise! -- nm - Krusty Mar 11, 14:45
- It's so forgeign to me to live above a business. But the newest developments are planning their buildings in this way - con_carne Mar 11, 14:43 1
  - Very, very common in NYC. First for me though. - Krusty Mar 11, 14:44
- No watching any CSI shows for you tonight. -- nm - HdnAgnda Mar 11, 14:42
~Everybody knows you love me baby, everybody knows you really do...~ -- nm - HdnAgnda Mar 11, 14:39
ML, who should I draft on Saturday? -- nm - crash davis Mar 11, 14:29 14
- what teams do you like? -- nm - TFox Mar 11, 14:30 2
  - I'm actually angling for a list of people to stay away from. Its reverse psychology with ML -- nm - crash davis Mar 11, 14:31 1
    - solid. -- nm - TFox Mar 11, 14:32
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  - who do you think is hot? - TFox Mar 11, 14:32 9
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      - Counter-intuitive, but it can actually help new drafters to focus on a theme. - TFox Mar 11, 14:43 1
        
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    - (I am all for theme drafts. If you want to put together an "all-hot" team, I will totally help you.) -- nm - TFox Mar 11, 14:34 3
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        see, i can't find the hot ones for you. you need to tell me who is hot, and i will tell you where to draft them. - TFox Mar 11, 14:43 1
        
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    - He's a big fan of Mauer but he's nursing an injury which I'd keep an eye on. - Krusty Mar 11, 14:34 1
      - They will probably (hopefully) have some news on that by Saturday. - TFox Mar 11, 14:37
ST Humpday poll -- would you hump on the altar of a religious house of worship to which you were not an adherent, if you knew you wouldn't get caught? - znufrii Mar 11, 14:26 34
- I don't get the people who say "no" to this, unless it's a general aversion to sex in all public places. -- nm - Mop Mar 11, 14:44 3
  - restraint? I have no problem with sex in public...but I'd not do it in a school, or playground (again...but that was in high school...after dark) - The Calico Cat Coalition Mar 11, 14:46
  - Even though I don't share the belief, I respect the right of people to believe what they want and won't be an ass in their house of worship. -- nm - crash davis Mar 11, 14:45 1
    - exactly. -- nm - Andie Mar 11, 15:12
- Nope. -- nm - Dr.Vermin Mar 11, 14:37
- I wouldn't like myself for doing that. That is caught enough. -- nm - HdnAgnda Mar 11, 14:33
- Talk about bopping the Bishop. -- nm - Qale Mar 11, 14:30
- Sure -- nm - con_carne Mar 11, 14:30
- No chance despite my feelings about organized religions. -- nm - Krusty Mar 11, 14:29
- unless it's a shrine to Bacchus, in which case I wouldn't even care if I got caught. :) -- nm - znufrii Mar 11, 14:29 10
  - (or Eros or Cupid or any of those guys) -- nm - znufrii Mar 11, 14:30 9
    - well if we are talking silly, lets take the Church of Baseball - I'd be willing to defile home plate in Yankee Stadium -- nm - crash davis Mar 11, 14:31 3
      - Word! -- nm - Krusty Mar 11, 14:35
      - It's been pitched to by Roger Clemens, and hit over by ARod...how much more defiling would we need? -- nm - Will Hunting Mar 11, 14:34
      - I'd give the Yankees home plate a golden shower -- nm - CQ Mar 11, 14:33
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      - Buy the notepads in bulk at Sams...you'll need it -- nm - The Calico Cat Coalition Mar 11, 14:36
      - heh - he didn't even think of Aphrodite -- nm - Roger More Mar 11, 14:31 2
        
        damn it! -- nm - znufrii Mar 11, 14:32 1
        
        She's only the subject of the most famous religious statue in the world, you know - Roger More Mar 11, 14:36
- that'd be so cool -- nm - CQ Mar 11, 14:29
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  - I fooled around with a girl in the church basement... - Krusty Mar 11, 14:38 2
    - Sinner. -- nm - con_carne Mar 11, 14:42
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  - L3! - Epiphany Mar 11, 14:32 1
    - Yoo hoo, anybody home? C'mon *kick kick kick* open the G-damn door! -- nm - HdnAgnda Mar 11, 14:34
- not an alter but maybe in a cemetery but that is different. I guess. -- nm - Epiphany Mar 11, 14:28
- No, I prefer a bed and privacy for that. -- nm - TaurusII Mar 11, 14:28
- naw...so many more comfortable places...the only ereason to do so would be to be an asshole -- nm - The Calico Cat Coalition Mar 11, 14:28
- no, that is just wrong -- nm - crash davis Mar 11, 14:27
- Not a chance. -- nm - Will Hunting Mar 11, 14:27
- Hell no. -- nm - CrankYanker Mar 11, 14:27
- Hell yeah. -- nm - Mop Mar 11, 14:26
SITWAP: *Vegastravaganza signal*: Casino magnate Wynn, wife file for divorce. -- (link) - TaurusII Mar 11, 14:25 2
- I'll take the old chick; Mel, you the old guy. -- nm - Will Hunting Mar 11, 14:27
- Which half of the hotel will you be staying in? -- nm - CrankYanker Mar 11, 14:26
110 Winston St. in downtown L.A. is not a safe place to be at night and certainly not where you'd expect a cd release party. - CrankYanker Mar 11, 14:25
Dammit, people! THIS IS HUMPDAY!!! -- nm - Mop Mar 11, 14:24 2
- Hey, I posted about the US National Pole Dance competition. What do you want for nothin'? -- nm - TaurusII Mar 11, 14:26 1
  - /me quickly clicks on Dr. S. Talk. -- nm - Mop Mar 11, 14:43
Rephrased: scientists used to think that eyeballs emitted streams of light to see. FMS. -- nm - TFox Mar 11, 14:23 11
- Scientists used to think lots of crazy shit. Blood letting still puzzles me. -- nm - TWuG Mar 11, 14:25 10
  - Was this anecdote in the book I'm reading now? I think so. Anyway, speaking of weird stuff.... - TFox Mar 11, 14:28
  - And phlogiston. -- nm - TaurusII Mar 11, 14:26 8
    - That was odd but at least had a weird logic. Blood letting is completely illogical. - TWuG Mar 11, 14:28 7
      - Chuck Norris is the ultimate scientist. -- nm - Max Mar 11, 14:31
      - Not when you factor in the theory of humours. -- (link) - TaurusII Mar 11, 14:30
      - Report: Blood-letting Treatment May Help Some Heart Patients -- (link) - Reagen Mar 11, 14:30 1
        
        Talk about counter-intuitive. -- nm - TWuG Mar 11, 14:31
      - I remember when I was younger, thinking this seemed like an obvious cure for high blood pressure. - Dr.Vermin Mar 11, 14:30 2
        
        you're not completely wrong. -- nm - Reagen Mar 11, 14:30 1
        
        That's the nicest thing you've said to me in months. -- nm - Dr.Vermin, blushing Mar 11, 14:31
hey Sceire, re b2 - tRuMaN Mar 11, 14:18 1
- Canada's top RC bishop routinely opens his big mouth about this kind of stuff. -- nm - Reagen Mar 11, 14:20
pet peeve: why do truck and bus drivers neverr switch off their engines when they have to wait for a while??? -- nm - marcel Mar 11, 14:17 6
- I'm not talking a minute, they do it easily for 10 minutes and more -- nm - marcel Mar 11, 14:27 1
  - and i asked several of them, none could give me a reason why it was necessary. they all switched off. -- nm - marcel Mar 11, 14:28
- It probably turns off their heat/everything else they may have on in their cab. Agreed, it's annyong -- nm - con_carne Mar 11, 14:21
- more efficient. -- nm - tRuMaN Mar 11, 14:19
- Diesel engines take more energy to get started, so it's more efficient to leave them idle, perhaps? -- nm - znufrii Mar 11, 14:19 1
  - and in the case of very cold weather, you're not going to get them restarted. -- nm - Reagen Mar 11, 14:20
Costo? heh, it's like 2 hours away! I live in the boonies people -- nm - CQ Mar 11, 14:17
Victoria Jackson: Obama is Castro! -- (link) - Reagen Mar 11, 14:15 1
- She's got a special kinda crazy going on. -- nm - TWuG Mar 11, 14:18
SITWAP: Iran's Pres claims "the capitalist economy is on the verge of collapse." Apparently because they won't pay $150 a barrel for oil anymore. -- (link) - TaurusII Mar 11, 14:15
so my boss told me I could get a new laptop, anyone think he would let me get a mac and - tRuMaN Mar 11, 14:15
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- meh, nothing I said was anger laced - tRuMaN Mar 11, 14:15 12
  - I'm pretty sure he wasn't referring to you/ -- nm - TFox Mar 11, 14:18 8
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      - heck at times we could give Rush Limbaugh a lesson in "everyone-who-disagrees-with-me-is-a-total-id iot" arguments -- nm - znufrii Mar 11, 14:23 1
        
        or at least a run for his money -- nm - znufrii Mar 11, 14:23
    - yeah I know. - tRuMaN Mar 11, 14:19 4
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        didnt read all the posts on b2, server issues at work - tRuMaN Mar 11, 14:29
      - yeah, it's an argument shutdown tactic. -- nm - Reagen Mar 11, 14:22 1
        
        No it isn't. -- nm - Dr.Vermin, startup tactic Mar 11, 14:26
  - He didn't say "anger laced", he said "invective laced", JERK!!! -- nm - Dr.Vermin, runs off crying Mar 11, 14:18 2
    - here, have a lollipop. -- nm - tRuMaN Mar 11, 14:18 1
      - Cool, I wanna have a lot of sucks tonight. -nm - Dr.Vermin, runs off crying Mar 11, 14:25
SITWAP: CNBC finally getting a clue: "Let AIG go bankrupt, not America." -- (link) - TaurusII Mar 11, 14:09 18
- worked great with Lehman... and AIG is only 5x bigger - Stewie Mar 11, 14:24
- Not so much CNBC as much as a guy who appeared on CNBC. -- nm - Mop Mar 11, 14:14
- A lot of what he said is incorrect though - Japan's lost decade wasn't caused by trying to bail out the banks, it was because the banks were allowed - Roger More Mar 11, 14:14 15
  - Sweden also got the government out of a lot of national areas in the 90s too. Deregulation was as big a part of that as anything else. -- nm - Name Withheld By Request Mar 11, 14:21 1
    - Oh definitely. While Japan made a lot of investments in infrastructure that it didn't need. Not that gov't stimulus in infrastructure is a bad thing, - Roger More Mar 11, 14:31
  - well, in japan, the banks became "zombie" banks, which - tRuMaN Mar 11, 14:20 4
    - sure - goes to my point that the guy quoted in the article is mistaken. It wasn't the bailing-out of banks that led to the lost decade, but the way... - Roger More Mar 11, 14:25
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      - "or sometimes not at all!" -- nm - znufrii Mar 11, 14:24 1
        
        YSMM! -- nm - TaurusII Mar 11, 14:24
  - And what are we doing? -- nm - TaurusII Mar 11, 14:16 6
    - captializing profits, socializing losses - Epiphany Mar 11, 14:18 1
      - Sounds like "cooperative government officials" to me. -- nm - TaurusII Mar 11, 14:20
    - My understanding is a little from column A and a little from column B -- nm - Roger More Mar 11, 14:18 3
      - When do I get my egg roll? -- nm - TaurusII Mar 11, 14:21 2
        
        If you're interested though, here's a brief description of what Sweden did. I'll look for a story on Japan's response to its banking crisis -- (link) - Roger More Mar 11, 14:26 1
        
        Here's a brief description of the lost decade - again from the Economist (c and p'd because it's subscription only) - Roger More Mar 11, 14:29
  - Hmmm... replace "a lot" with "some". I have issues too with the "debt + borrowing + consumption is not a solution" argument - Roger More Mar 11, 14:16
Mel, try to find me now; i signed up on the .com side. Coordinate 35:23. -- nm - Will Hunting Mar 11, 14:09 5
- wait, there is a .com version? - tRuMaN Mar 11, 14:24
- I see you, stuck on a crystal island like me. :-) -- nm - Krusty Mar 11, 14:17 3
  - I'm at 57:85, my town is Almathea. -- nm - Krusty Mar 11, 14:17 2
    - How do we ally up? - Will Hunting Mar 11, 14:21 1
      - Yeah, you need to research a bunch of things and reach a certain level before you can join an alliance. - Krusty Mar 11, 14:23
I also find it interesting that someone could get that upset about an excommunication of a stranger from a religion you obviously don't agree with. -- nm - TFox Mar 11, 14:06 9
- Let's just put it this way...the injustice and suffering of others makes me mad...it's the Christian in me -- nm - The Calico Cat Coalition Mar 11, 14:09 5
  - You should listen to the Christian in you a little more often. - TFox Mar 11, 14:11 1
    - kind of hard around here though -- nm - The Calico Cat Coalition Mar 11, 14:40
  - I have a hard time believing that excommunication actually hurts anyone. It's like believing a voodoo curse hurts somebody. -- nm - mara Mar 11, 14:10 2
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    - well, it affects the people who believe in it, for sure. -- nm - znufrii Mar 11, 14:12
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  - I was *not* upset. I used smilies to indicate humor. Should I append a disclamer to all my humorous posts so that you can keep up? -- nm - TWuG Mar 11, 14:20 1
    - he's too busy drinking after all of my NYTimes links to pay attention to that -- nm - znufrii Mar 11, 14:21
There never was a wide-spread idea that the Earth was flat. -- (link) - Reagen Mar 11, 14:05 14
- Kid, your face is flat. -- nm - TFox Mar 11, 14:07
- Oh, I think there was, but you have to go back much further than most people think. -- nm - TaurusII Mar 11, 14:07 12
  - Yeah, they're actually referring to the middle ages. -- nm - mara Mar 11, 14:11 11
    - but even then it wasn't the case. -- nm - Reagen Mar 11, 14:15 10
      - I might even dispute that. - TaurusII Mar 11, 14:20 8
        
        "wide-spread" - Reagen Mar 11, 14:21 7
        
        my point stands. -- nm - TFox Mar 11, 14:22 6
        
        in what way? -- nm - Reagen Mar 11, 14:25 5
        
        all i was saying is that scientists, just like religious leaders, believed things at one time that have since been proven false and now sound silly. - TFox Mar 11, 14:30 2
        
        the difference being that scientists throw off beliefs that don't pan out. -- nm - Reagen Mar 11, 14:32 1
        
        and the religious leaders z was referencing have throw out bloodletting, I'm pretty sure. -- nm - TFox Mar 11, 14:33
        
        If a minority belief the earth's a sphere, then the belief that the earth is flat must be widespread. -- nm - mara Mar 11, 14:29 1
        
        but that's yet to be shown - Reagen Mar 11, 14:31
      - That's what we mean. It's not that there was *never* a widespread flat-earth belief. It's just that there wasn't in the middle ages. -- nm - mara Mar 11, 14:17
Mel is a bad boy. -- nm - Mel Profit Mar 11, 14:04 3
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  - I'm coming for you. -- nm - Mel Profit Mar 11, 14:23
- *excommunicates you* -- nm - Bishop of ST Mar 11, 14:05
noted: discussions on excommunication bring up ads for "find sexy Christian singles in your area" -- nm - Roger More Mar 11, 14:03 2
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  - but they are fun to convert...though a bit weepy and guilty the morning after -- nm - The Calico Cat Coalition Mar 11, 14:07
Bam! -- nm - lileve Mar 11, 14:01

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