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Shoe throwing journalist gets 3 years -- (link) - TWuG Mar 12, 11:12 3
- what has he actually been convicted of? (the article does not say) -- nm - Roger More Mar 12, 11:15 1
  - ahh... "attacking a foreign leader during an official visit", and apparently it's a crime on the books - Roger More Mar 12, 11:16
- I think it sounds fair, for what it was -- nm - Beryllium Mar 12, 11:13
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- The tax evaders they work for? -- nm - zeitgeist Mar 12, 11:32
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- Angry U.S. Tax lawyers -- nm - danedukenuuk Mar 12, 11:13
- Republicans. -- nm - David Mar 12, 11:12
- Al Qaeda Tax Lawyers -- nm - crash davis Mar 12, 11:12
- U.S. Divorce Attorneys -- nm - decline Mar 12, 11:11
- Ad agency people? -- nm - lileve Mar 12, 11:11
- Me linking to the NYTimes, obvie. -- nm - znufrii Mar 12, 11:11 2
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    - it's either that or you being sober. -- nm - znufrii Mar 12, 11:18
- Comcast. -- nm - loosilu Mar 12, 11:10 1
  - ooh, good answer -- nm - Beryllium Mar 12, 11:12
- Oh, I know this one - Beryllium Mar 12, 11:09
- Miracle Whip -- nm - con_carne Mar 12, 11:09
SITWAP: *kilbo signal* Sears Tower to change name to Willis Tower. -- (link) - TaurusII Mar 12, 11:03 6
- *burns to the ground* -- nm - Dan Plato Tower Mar 12, 11:06 1
  - Dana. I can't type today. -- nm - Reagen Mar 12, 11:06
- we need some some die hard 4 jokes -- nm - zeitgeist Mar 12, 11:05
- *world shrugs, continues to call it Sears Tower* -- nm - TWuG Mar 12, 11:04
- Yippee Kai-ay. -- nm - John McClane si Mar 12, 11:04
- "Whatchu' talking about, Willis?" -- nm - znufrii Mar 12, 11:03
PS3! Hooked up and it is rocking. -- nm - Shaun - Caveman Champion Mar 12, 11:03 1
- Set up Life and fold! -- nm - David Mar 12, 11:12
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- *stabs IE6 repeatedly in the face* -- nm - znufrii Mar 12, 11:02
Kare, it's the 12" Castlewall stone on this link. 2nd picture down - Will Hunting Mar 12, 10:50 10
- I'm building garden bed walls with urbanite -- nm - zeitgeist Mar 12, 11:07 1
  - urbanite? photo?? -- nm - kare Mar 12, 11:14
- very cool. those look neat with some trailing plants. :) - kare Mar 12, 10:56 7
  - *blank stare* - Will Hunting Mar 12, 10:58 6
    - yeah, i haven't seen any edgers that i think would work. i think we're going to install a path to the shed and around the side of the house, too. - kare Mar 12, 11:09 5
      - I am not a fan of those broken rock lookin things. -- nm - Will Hunting Mar 12, 11:11 2
        
        love 'em. :) do you know what you're going to use? lay concrete? -- nm - kare Mar 12, 11:14 1
        
        Wood. Wood decks have a larger allowable size under our HOA rules. -- nm - Will Hunting Mar 12, 11:17
      - a french drain UNDER the flagstone path (rocks in between the stone) is my brilliant plan. his yard has drainage issues. -- nm - kare Mar 12, 11:10 1
        
        We put a French drain through the middle of our back yard because the drainage was so poor. Added some river birch and a really bad corner and every- - TWuG Mar 12, 11:14
ST Poll -- How long until Steele resigns as RNC chairman? -- (link) - znufrii Mar 12, 10:41 18
- When Rush says it's time to replace him. -- nm - TaurusII Mar 12, 10:57
- Whenever the NYT says he will. -- nm - Dr.Vermin Mar 12, 10:45
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  - Dude, enough. - znufrii Mar 12, 10:46 13
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      - honestly, your obsession with this is kind of boring. -- nm - Reagen Mar 12, 10:51 8
        
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        *whistles the play and assesses a "Third Man In" penalty* - Name Withheld By Request Mar 12, 10:52 6
        
        see, you just made it a line brawl. *pulls your jersey over your head* -- nm - Reagen Mar 12, 10:53 5
        
        *skates in wearing goalie pads* -- nm - Will Hunting Mar 12, 10:53 4
        
        *calls you offiseds* -- nm - znufrii Mar 12, 11:01 2
        
        *slashes you in the head with the goalie stick* -- nm - Will Hunting Mar 12, 11:03 1
        
        "Make his head bleed!" -- nm - TFox Mar 12, 11:04
        
        *crowd goes nuts* -- nm - Reagen Mar 12, 10:54
      - Jealous? -- nm - znufrii Mar 12, 10:51 2
        
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        hughly amused, drunk, same diff... -- nm - znufrii Mar 12, 11:01
- I figured he would be a disaster. -- nm - The Last Dano on the Left Mar 12, 10:44
Hey, Will Hunting... "WATCHMEN still strong with 59% of Fandango Ticket Sales " -- nm - secretslacker Mar 12, 10:38 6
- This is missing a lot of information to actually make it matter. - Will Hunting Mar 12, 10:48 3
  - Down 12% yesterday while almost every other film in the top 20 was up. It's plummeting. -- nm - David Mar 12, 11:11 2
    - I just did a quick thing using Mon & Tuesday....and then giving it sizable but hardly historic drops - Will Hunting Mar 12, 11:13 1
      - There's still a lot of swing, but between $105 and $125 seems right. -- nm - David Mar 12, 11:19
- 59% of how many? -- nm - The Last Dano on the Left Mar 12, 10:40 1
  - 4. - TFox Mar 12, 10:45
Our IM system at work (Lotus Sametime) tells you when a user "is typing..." I can't stand it when it says that for like 5 minutes. - JaxSean Mar 12, 10:33 3
- maybe they are hunt and peck typists but don't see all that well without their glasses -- nm - zeitgeist Mar 12, 10:40 1
  - Sometimes. But sometimes, after 20 minutes, their response is "OK." -- nm - JaxSean Mar 12, 10:55
- Lotus Sometime -- nm - Beryllium Mar 12, 10:38
ST Rap Madness Round Two! Vote now! -- (link) - TFox Mar 12, 10:33 5
- Mine - Stephen Mar 12, 10:59
- Te correct answers are: - the wrong element, bad guy Mar 12, 10:43
- Mine: - Name Withheld By Request Mar 12, 10:39
- In case you didn't see my votes earlier, nmbl -- (link) - con_carne Mar 12, 10:36 [Backboard]
- Mine: - JaxSean Mar 12, 10:36
HWDYK: Tropic Thunder by {drumroll.....} Kelly and Willy Hunting -- (link) - prayformojo Mar 12, 10:29 8
- 22/26. Wrong answers were - Roger More Mar 12, 11:13
- 25/26, I kinda love that movie -- nm - MDH Mar 12, 10:53 2
  - Which did you get wrong? -- nm - Will Hunting Mar 12, 10:55 1
    - Who was yelling their positions in the jungle, I guessed - MDH Mar 12, 11:00
- 17 -- nm - Beryllium Mar 12, 10:36
- errr, *Will* Hunting. not sure why the Y is in there. -- nm - prayformojo Mar 12, 10:30 2
  - "Your name isn't William. It's Willy!" -- nm - Patton SI Mar 12, 10:43
  - It was pretty clear to me why it was in there. -- nm - TFox Mar 12, 10:32
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- what did you get? -- nm - tRuMaN Mar 12, 10:28 1
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- telling the truth is not a treat unless you're an austrich -- nm - danedukenuuk Mar 12, 10:40
- As soon as we stop allowing companies to grow "too big to fail." Fat chance of that. -- nm - con_carne Mar 12, 10:40
- I am growing more and more hardline on the auto companies. Let the bad ones go and wait three years. Betcha the strong ones grow. -- nm - Name Withheld By Request Mar 12, 10:31 3
  - "Taxes or GTFO" -- nm - Beryllium Mar 12, 10:36
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    - Exactly. This proping up the weak companies is only hurting the strong ones that would absorb lots of that marketplace. -- nm - Name Withheld By Request Mar 12, 10:36
- No way in Hell should Chrysler get money when Cerberus has no interest in putting money in. -- nm - TWuG Mar 12, 10:28
- Threatening canada? Hmm. I wonder what Harper and the Conservatives will say to that? -- nm - Beryllium Mar 12, 10:27 9
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    - Didn't GM just win labor concessions in Canada. Thought I saw something about that on the news ticker in the lobby this morning. -- nm - znufrii Mar 12, 10:39 2
      - Yes, but it was a relatively minor concessions. Mostly extending previous wage freezes and losing one of two extra weeks of holiday (3 instead of 4). -- nm - Name Withheld By Request Mar 12, 10:52 1
        
        gotcha. and reading further, they're still after cash aid from the Canadian government as well. -- nm - znufrii Mar 12, 11:03
    - "Give us 5 beeelion dollars or we won't pay you your 1 beeelion in taxes!" -- nm - TWuG Mar 12, 10:30
    - yes, they're basically holding a billion in unpaid taxes over our head. -- nm - Marvel Mar 12, 10:28 3
      - that Joker is unpredictable -- nm - con_carne Mar 12, 10:29 2
        
        (Marvel? DC! Bah.) -- nm - con_carne Mar 12, 10:38 1
        
        Comic Company FAIL -- nm - Reagen Mar 12, 10:39
- Chrysler? They're still around? -- nm - JaxSean Mar 12, 10:26 3
  - They broke away from Daimler-Benz a few years back -- nm - con_carne Mar 12, 10:27 2
    - are they still in the US? I thought it was just Dodge now. -- nm - JaxSean Mar 12, 10:30 1
      - Yes. - con_carne Mar 12, 10:34
loosi saying 'hizzouse' doesn't work. Even in print. - HdnAgnda Mar 12, 10:25
the question is, why is WIll laying 2" of paver sand in a flower bed? -- nm - kare Mar 12, 10:20 12
- drainage? -- nm - danedukenuuk Mar 12, 10:30 1
  - Sort of. It makes a base that prevents heaving during freezing and thawing. -- nm - TWuG Mar 12, 10:32
- To put the retaining wall in. -- nm - Will Hunting Mar 12, 10:24 4
  - ooh. for the base? and what are you going to build the wall out of? - kare Mar 12, 10:26 3
    - The wall is going to be those $2 stones from Lowes, tan pebbly wall. -- nm - Will Hunting Mar 12, 10:32 1
      - I would link but they don't have them on their site anymore -- nm - Will Hunting Mar 12, 10:34
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- Anyone heard from Kelly? -- nm - HdnAgnda Mar 12, 10:23 2
  - She told him to pound sand. He took her literally. -- nm - TWuG Mar 12, 10:25 1
    - I'd been out there for hours until she let me in what she meant. -- nm - Will Hunting Mar 12, 10:33
- Cause he's only packing 2"? -- nm - Jim Mar 12, 10:21
- to grow hamburger trees, dammit -- nm - Will s.i. Mar 12, 10:20
get ready to suck it, Trebek -- nm - pigby Mar 12, 10:20 5
- Cheering for you. -- nm - Name Withheld By Request Mar 12, 10:32
- Good luck!!! -- nm - Krusty Mar 12, 10:28
- awesome! kick arse -- nm - CQ Mar 12, 10:24
- Do it. Do it. Be charming and friendly and smile. Wear color. And then...hit 'em with your smarts! - Diva Mar 12, 10:21
- today? - kare Mar 12, 10:20
Hey...does anyone know where the president is? -- nm - Jim Mar 12, 10:18 5
- LOOSI AND OBAMA AREN'T ON THE SAME CONTINENT -- nm - Loosi si Mar 12, 10:21 3
  - lyc: we've been freed! -- nm - loosi on mobile Mar 12, 10:24 2
    - He really IS like Lincoln! -- nm - Beryllium Mar 12, 10:37 1
      - spoiler: He is speaking at the dedication of Lincoln Hall. -- nm - loosilu Mar 12, 10:42
- dog home to find the new dog#1 -- nm - danedukenuuk Mar 12, 10:20
TWuG: Yes, it needs to connect to the tubes. -- nm - Beryllium Mar 12, 10:17 8
- Is it possible to do that wirelessly? No way am I going through the hassle of having cat5 run to my TV. -- nm - TWuG Mar 12, 10:18 7
  - if you get a zyxel p-330w wireless router, you can turn it into a wireless bridge easily - tRuMaN Mar 12, 10:28 3
    - Those instructions are written in a language I don't comprehend. -- nm - TWuG Mar 12, 10:34 1
      - they are following the menu items in the router - tRuMaN Mar 12, 10:38
    - I used this for my ps3, and other sytems and never had a problem. -- nm - tRuMaN Mar 12, 10:33
  - you can buy a wireless adapter for $100, yes -- nm - Beryllium Mar 12, 10:19 2
    - I think they're $70 on Amazon, iirc. - JaxSean Mar 12, 10:19 1
      - well, $86. -- (link) - JaxSean Mar 12, 10:20
You just know they're going to try and give us Zach Efron as JD. -- nm - Marvel Mar 12, 10:13 1
- Oh god, I hope not. -- nm - znufrii Mar 12, 10:17
heh, the people who are trying to reason their way past the guarsd are funny. -- nm - loosi on mobile Mar 12, 10:13 1
- "Get your hand out my pocket!" -- nm - con_carne Mar 12, 10:19
"We've decided to open Thor on May 5. Then, Ant-Man on May 6. X-Men 4 goes May 7th. A bit of a break for Cap on May 9th..." -- nm - Marvel Mar 12, 10:13 9
- I'm waiting for the year when there aren't any summer movies besides superheroes -- nm - MDH Mar 12, 10:14 8
  - How far back do we have to go for a Super-Free Summer? Even before the boom, there was usually one or two comic ones, wasn't there? -- nm - Name Withheld By Request Mar 12, 10:17 7
    - 1998 is close, with just Mystery Men and Asterix and Obelix. - Marvel Mar 12, 10:27 4
      - The Crow: City Of Angels weeps at your IM. - Name Withheld By Request Mar 12, 10:34 3
        
        for the purposes of what we're doing, I pretty much count 1998. -- nm - Reagen Mar 12, 10:52 2
        
        Mystery Men was 98? - Will Hunting Mar 12, 10:55 1
        
        sorry, yes. I mistranscribed when I was looking at the lists. - Reagen Mar 12, 11:01
    - The first one that was noticeable to me was seeing Spidy 1 in HS, before that idk -- nm - MDH Mar 12, 10:21 1
      - I thought X-men came before that one. And there were Batman years. Even Mystery Men and The Crow movies would qualify. - Name Withheld By Request Mar 12, 10:29
Space junk alert on space station -- (link) - danedukenuuk Mar 12, 10:12
Little darling, it's been a long cold lonely winter -- nm - George HarriVermin Mar 12, 10:11

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