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Also, I forgot to tell you taut -- nm - Amanda Oct 8, 14:33 2
- Blarg. That our trivia team name on Monday was "Ebola? I hardly know her!" And nobody but us loved it -- nm - Amanda Oct 8, 14:34 1
  - too soon -- nm - zeitgeist Oct 8, 15:17
I thought Kansas was the strangest Senate race, but it turns out that it's South Dakota. -- nm - Tim Oct 8, 14:29
and from BB Whatever, yes, there actually *is* a wrong way to eat a Reeces. - i'm not dead yet ! Oct 8, 14:25
with everything going on, i totally forgot the starbond adjusts yesterday . . . - i'm not dead yet ! Oct 8, 14:20 1
- thanks, I forgot too, dang lost a couple bucks and more on several bonds -- nm - zeitgeist Oct 8, 22:17
marcel, those colourised photos are cool, thanks. -- nm - zork Oct 8, 14:09 1
- agreed, I quite liked them. -- nm - Beryllium Oct 8, 14:10
Why does this chapstick I bought contain 'ricin oil'? -- nm - Beryllium Oct 8, 14:04 1
- it kills ebola -- nm - zeitgeist Oct 8, 14:06
You know it is Autumn cause the Leafs start to fall about now -- nm - Beaker Oct 8, 13:58 1
- *groan* ;-) -- nm - Beryllium Oct 8, 14:05
I'm in AG admin. An undergrad just told me my skirt was "twix." Sure, thanks. -- nm - Amanda Oct 8, 13:54 15
- Man, UrbanDictionary did not got in the direction I expected on this. -- nm - David Oct 8, 14:10 2
  - spoils - budice Oct 8, 14:17
  - and now know whatever happened to beavis and butthead after they dropped out of jr high -- nm - zeitgeist Oct 8, 14:14
- I'm 95% sure this was a high compliment -- nm - ty97 Oct 8, 14:02 1
  - still: know your caste, undergrads. -- nm - Max Oct 8, 14:05
- are you wearing chocolate coated leggings ? -- nm - zeitgeist Oct 8, 13:58
- Now I'm hungry for twix. - Max Oct 8, 13:57 4
  - Having chocolate so infrequently now really makes me appreciate it more. - David Oct 8, 14:17
  - Kinda goes without saying - zork Oct 8, 14:13
  - this. -- nm - budice Oct 8, 14:07
  - I know, right? -- nm - spamlet Oct 8, 13:58
- lol, I felt so old yesterday on the elevator when a couple were talking about a party....... - groiny Oct 8, 13:55 3
  - totes twix chillax -- nm - CQ Oct 8, 13:56 2
    - stop trying to make twix happen. it's not going to happen. -- nm - prayformojo Oct 8, 13:59 1
      - you're so twicks sometimes -- nm - CQ Oct 8, 14:02
No love for The Stanfields on B2's music thread? Ah well. -- (link) - Beryllium Oct 8, 13:45 [youtube]
"Save $100 a month and you'll be a millionaire" ... raise your hand if you ran the numbers on that. -- nm - Beryllium Oct 8, 13:44 12
- i'd rather get a million at 18 and pay 100 bucks a month the rest of my life -- nm - DaneDukeNuuk Oct 8, 14:08 2
  - i would just blow it all on hookers and crack -- nm - zeitgeist Oct 8, 14:11
  - That is officer thinking -- nm - zork Oct 8, 14:10
- And that's assuming you can save that amount every month for your whole working life. - Meg Oct 8, 13:52
- early days of ira and the beginning of double digit inflation of the 70's -- nm - zeitgeist Oct 8, 13:51 1
  - Good thing I'm saving a lot more than $100 a month, then. :) -- nm - Beryllium Oct 8, 13:51
- It works if you can yield 9.87% annually over a 45 year work life. - spamlet Oct 8, 13:48 5
  - i think it was figured on 8% return and deferred taxes till drawn on -- nm - zeitgeist Oct 8, 13:51
  - :-) Nice! -- nm - mara Oct 8, 13:49
  - No, but that makes more sense. Does that calculate on the lump sum, or the gradual contributions? -- nm - Beryllium Oct 8, 13:49 2
    - If you save $100 per month every month and average a 9.87% rate of return, you'll have $1m at the end. - spamlet Oct 8, 13:56 1
      - less than historic stock market average returns -- nm - zeitgeist Oct 8, 14:05
Not the Onion: Fracking company teams up with Susan G. Komen, introduces pink drill bits “for the cure” -- (link) - mara Oct 8, 13:43 3
- little pink houses for you an....BLAMMMM (cue ending of the Two Jakes) -- nm - zeitgeist Oct 8, 13:55
- The dick jokes write themselves. -- nm - TWuG Oct 8, 13:44
- pervs -- nm - Spawn Oct 8, 13:44
Got my vote-by-mail ballot today - guess I should start studying up on the issues. -- nm - Meg Oct 8, 13:39
Comcast apologizes for its poor service, but says it never asked for anyone to get fired. -- (link) - znufrii Oct 8, 13:27 5
- They didn't ask, but sending an email to his employer sure sounds like they wanted it. -- nm - tobor.2 Oct 8, 13:30 3
  - exactly - what else would be the purpose? -- nm - loosi at work Oct 8, 13:37 2
    - Look, we paid the assassin to kill the guy, but we had no idea he would be murdered. -- nm - David Oct 8, 13:39 1
      - "Oh, Fat Tony." -- nm - Reagen Oct 8, 13:41
- I am sure they hinted at it -- nm - amoxy Oct 8, 13:28
The Atlantic has an interesting attitude to the unknown party impersonating them on Ello -- (link) - mara Oct 8, 13:26 4
- If I hadn't picked that dorm room senior year, I wouldn't have met my best friend and everything would be different. - loosi at work Oct 8, 13:30
- if i had waited for the university acceptance i *really* wanted (there was a mail strike and i got impatient), my *entire life* would be different. -- nm - Andie Oct 8, 13:27 2
  - oh dear ... I followed Andie's lead and ended up in the wrong thread. - loosi at work Oct 8, 13:31 1
    - yeah, don't follow me! :) -- nm - Andie Oct 8, 13:34
Deep thought Poll: Think of a pivotal moment in your life and what would have changed if you did the opposite. - amoxy Oct 8, 13:25 35
- If I'd shown up for my physical to be an NYC subway operator instead of taking an interview for an office job -- nm - znufrii Oct 8, 14:33
- If I'd done something else in the summer of 2008, things would be somewhat different. But I don't know if they'd be good or bad. -- nm - Beryllium Oct 8, 14:08
- Boarding a ship at age 19 with as much as I could fit in two suitcases...never really looked back. -- nm - Meg Oct 8, 14:07 1
  - Leaving confused gendarmes to wander the dock looking befuddled? :-) -- nm - TWuG Oct 8, 14:09
- I decided to go to a small school in rural Missouri instead of U of Illinois. - spamlet Oct 8, 13:57 1
  - ooh, i coulda gone to cal tech, teacher wanted to sponsor me cause i built a stupid blinking light with a transistor and lied when - zeitgeist Oct 8, 14:03
- If texx doesn't email me to join the Prophets...... -- nm - prayformojo Oct 8, 13:56 3
  - People would never prove how well they know things! -- nm - David Oct 8, 14:09
  - You'd have a lot more free time? -- nm - spamlet Oct 8, 13:58 1
    - immeasurably so -- nm - prayformojo Oct 8, 13:59
- Mine is very similar to yours. The point at which I started dating my first wife. We were spending a lot of time together and we clearly had - pmb Oct 8, 13:51 1
  - I think most of us were at some point in the exact same position. - groiny Oct 8, 13:52
- if I would have went to the high school my dad wanted me to go to instead of the one I did. - groiny Oct 8, 13:49
- burned a bridge with the Demolay/masons...should have got that job with the PO back then, should have kept the family house instead of - zeitgeist Oct 8, 13:49
- Sliding Doors! -- nm - David Oct 8, 13:40 8
  - yeah, life might have been better if I'd skipped that movie. -- nm - Max Oct 8, 13:41 7
    - i love that movie. i don't even know why. -- nm - Andie Oct 8, 13:42 1
      - I jest a little. I like the actors, but I didn't see any chemistry and it's just so... 90s. -- nm - Max Oct 8, 13:43
    - Heh. (I actually kind of feel that way about the book Replay.) -- nm - mara Oct 8, 13:41 3
      - Oi! -- nm - David Oct 8, 13:42 2
        
        I like it, I recommend it all the time, but it's kind of encouraged a tendency I already had to wish I'd done things differently. -- nm - mara Oct 8, 13:44 1
        
        Okay, I totally get that. - David Oct 8, 13:46
    - You would have cured cancer with those two hours! -- nm - Spawn Oct 8, 13:41
- The one I always think about was going to grad school. I wonder where I'd be if I hadn't gone. - Dano Oct 8, 13:40 1
  - definitely for me. Not sure if it would be good or bad. -- nm - loosi at work Oct 8, 13:40
- Mine is simple. I'm either here today, or I'm not. - Will Hunting Oct 8, 13:39 1
  - Glad you did -- nm - amoxy Oct 8, 13:41
- I could have stuck with the hsx.com chat boards. -- nm - Max Oct 8, 13:37 3
  - Actually that is a good one. Rather I could have not checked out HSX when I saw the article in EW. -- nm - Spawn Oct 8, 13:38 2
    - oh, good one. yes. my life would be different. - Andie Oct 8, 13:39 1
      - I think came there from an article in Time -- nm - amoxy Oct 8, 13:42
- Amy was the 4th girl I considered marrying. I have no doubt that if I had any of those times it would have ended in disasters of various proportions. -- nm - Spawn Oct 8, 13:35
- Got married. It was all up from there. If I hadn't gotten married, my life would have been pretty pathetic. - TWuG Oct 8, 13:30 2
  - :) -- nm - Diva Oct 8, 13:33
  - Congrats! -- nm - amoxy Oct 8, 13:32
Dane's idea is a good one - also, Texans might have Ebola. -- nm - Reagen Oct 8, 13:25 1
- But that's just giving Texans what they want. - tobor.2 Oct 8, 13:27
new Ghostbusters confirmed....Paul Feig to direct...cast it... -- (link) - Remlik Oct 8, 13:25 6
- The happiest person about this news has to be Heuy Lewis. -- nm - Reagen Oct 8, 13:49
- Melissa McCarthy as Arianna Venkman -- nm - Beryllium Oct 8, 13:48 2
  - Krysten Ritter as Janine Melnitz please. -- nm - Max Oct 8, 13:51 1
    - If it's a straight up gender flip (which it won't be) wouldn't Janine be a man? -- nm - Beryllium Oct 8, 14:07
- Hmmm, he directed Bridesmaids and The Heat. I wonder who he will go for......? - volnelk Oct 8, 13:43
- Are they going to be fighting Ebola? -- nm - amoxy Oct 8, 13:26
speaking of ebola - Spain went ahead and euthanized the nurse's dog. for no real reason it seems. -- (link) - Andie Oct 8, 13:22 13
- noone expects the spanish inqusition -- nm - DaneDukeNuuk Oct 8, 14:06
- Related? The Spanish Health Security Committee's head official is a cat named Senor Mittens. nm - Dignan Oct 8, 13:33 3
  - *slow motion walk away from doghouse explosion* -- nm - cat Oct 8, 14:20 2
    - "When asked to comment, Senor Mittens pricked his ears and promptly fell back asleep." nm - Dignan Oct 8, 14:37
    - This is really, really, extremely funny. -- nm - David Oct 8, 14:22
- Can it cross species? -- nm - amoxy Oct 8, 13:27 3
  - The CDC confirms that dogs have contracted ebola, but are asymptomatic. -- nm - mara Oct 8, 13:28 1
    - They are not known as a vector for transmission. -- nm - loosi at work Oct 8, 13:33
  - yes - bats, monkeys, etc. dogs don't seem to be affected. -- nm - Andie Oct 8, 13:28
- Fear, nothing else. -- nm - loosi at work Oct 8, 13:23 3
  - Agreed. They could have kept the dog in quarantine. They could have learned a lot. -- nm - Mop Oct 8, 13:27
  - To create it, or from it? -- nm - Beryllium Oct 8, 13:23 1
    - I meant from it. -- nm - loosi at work Oct 8, 13:27
The Nevada stay is unstayed. Idaho stay remain. -- nm - ty97 Oct 8, 13:19
how come catastrophes are often referred to as Act of God? wouldn't they rather be the work of the Devil? -- nm - marcel Oct 8, 13:18 3
- They are natural events, and nature = God, not Satan. -- nm - Roger More Oct 8, 13:21 1
  - Acts of Mom. - tobor.2 Oct 8, 13:24
- Santa's Revenge -- nm - Max Oct 8, 13:19
Only 5 threads so far on this board? why so slow? -- nm - ty97 Oct 8, 13:18 20
- That was clearly too subtle. *quarantines Dallas* -- nm - ty97 Oct 8, 13:29
- Reagen YouTube'd us to death. -- nm - David Oct 8, 13:26
- I'm still song hunting. -- nm - Reagen Oct 8, 13:23 13
  - You can stop. I appreciate the effort, though. - TWuG Oct 8, 13:28 12
    - At least listen to the Brendan Benson. It's very Cheap Trick. -- nm - Reagen Oct 8, 13:36 1
      - I listened to most of all of them. - TWuG Oct 8, 13:42
    - He didn't even link to the right version of Hysteria. -- nm - David Oct 8, 13:29 9
      - He said *new* music. -- nm - Reagen Oct 8, 13:41 7
        
        There is only one version of Hysteria in the history of music. -- nm - David Oct 8, 13:42 1
        
        the history of music begs to differ. -- nm - Reagen Oct 8, 13:45
        
        It is like you sacrificed the "good" for the "new", though. -- nm - Spawn Oct 8, 13:42 4
        
        You go sit in your old fogey world - Reagen Oct 8, 13:46 2
        
        *cranks Have You Ever Needed Someone So Bad to 11* That should get them to go. -- nm - TWuG Oct 8, 13:48
        
        I will beat every one of your 80 inches of soulless musical blasphemy husk. -- nm - David Oct 8, 13:48
        
        He didn't need to link to Def Leppard. I already like them. :-) -- nm - TWuG Oct 8, 13:43
      - I know, right? -- nm - Spawn Oct 8, 13:36
- Because, ebola. -- nm - Spawn Oct 8, 13:23
- slow and steady -- nm - Beaker Oct 8, 13:22
- Sleepy... -- nm - Mop Oct 8, 13:22
- YOUR REPORT CARD - vice president peggy ann Oct 8, 13:18
child prostitute grave robber - prayformojo Oct 8, 13:17 2
- is this an underaged hooker with a weird goth hobby, or a weird guy who digs up graves of child prosties? -- nm - zeitgeist Oct 8, 15:16
- I think he's auditioning for a Scott Lynch adaptation. -- nm - David Oct 8, 13:25
Hmm, Delaware will not allow trust accounts to go to paperless statements. -- nm - Meg Oct 8, 13:17
Dang it. I bet the board is going to move forward to nuke me and Pippy out of existence by this point - Roo Oct 8, 13:16 2
- I'm have very inappropriate thoughts for Cappie's next board game :( -- nm - Meg Oct 8, 13:38
- All we have to fear is fear itself. - Spawn Oct 8, 13:25
willtherebefangfingersthisyear.com -- nm - prayformojo Oct 8, 13:16 1
- ALWAYS! -- nm - David Oct 8, 13:25
Keepon and I will never forgive you. -- nm - David Oct 8, 13:12
timber -- nm - Beaker Oct 8, 13:11

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