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The Braves have traded Carpenter and Shreve for Manny Banuelos. -- nm - nubby Jan 1, 16:32 1
- which is a *fantastic* get for us -- nm - David, Level 31 Warlock Jan 1, 16:35
WWE: Jerry Lawler hospitalized with diverticulitis... -- nm - Remlik Jan 1, 16:29 3
- That's bad. He's had it before. -- nm - Mop Jan 1, 16:35
- my brother -- nm - Beaker Jan 1, 16:31 1
  - i just saw this a little while ago on a facebook feed, and then lost myself for a half an hour watching old matches on youtube w/ lawler . . . - call me Ishmael Jan 1, 16:33
Hadn't seen a cat in a couple of hours...so I decided to empty the shredder :/ -- nm - Meg Jan 1, 16:01 5
- Please expand on that statement. - Covington Jan 1, 16:07 4
  - Hee, I see what you mean.....actually Minnie likes to *help* me empty it. -- nm - Meg Jan 1, 16:16 2
    - Ah, so missing cat came running when she heard you at the shredder. - Covington Jan 1, 16:21 1
      - Nah, I was hoping she *wouldn't * hear it. Makes enough of a mess without her trying to crawl in the trash bag. Shreddies everywhere!! -- nm - Meg Jan 1, 16:33
  - "Fear. The kitty is rank with it" -- nm - budice Jan 1, 16:10
What were the odds of FSU trailing at halftime? - David, Level 31 Warlock Jan 1, 15:55 7
- Sounds about right -- nm - Definitely Not Jameis Winston's Friend Jan 1, 16:43
- I couldn't care less about either (well, maybe im rooting for FSU a tiny bit more), but they have gotten the short end of calls. -- nm - JaxSean Jan 1, 15:58 3
  - I'm for the Nike Ducks -- nm - crash davis Jan 1, 16:00 2
    - 'tsup, brah? -- nm - Phil Knight in the Ladies Room Jan 1, 16:01 1
      - gotta show a little love for Marcus before he ends up in the hellscape that is the Lovie Smith Buccaneers -- nm - crash davis Jan 1, 16:03
- Game has shown how vital Big Game -- nm - budice Jan 1, 15:57 1
  - ...James Is -- nm - budice Jan 1, 15:57
that drive was huge -- nm - prayformojo Jan 1, 15:43
I think we all expected the score to be 11-6 at some point. -- nm - David, Level 31 Warlock Jan 1, 15:32 3
- by the 8th or 9th inning -- nm - mud Jan 1, 15:37 2
  - i'm still waiting for the day when we have a sports game score of 312 to 50 . . . -- nm - call me Ishmael Jan 1, 15:44 1
    - maybe cricket. -- nm - mud Jan 1, 15:49
OLeary got mugged. -- nm - budice Jan 1, 15:26
Oh man. Legend of Hercules: that lion. -- nm - Reagen Jan 1, 15:15
The Rob Lowe Direct TV campaign went about 2 characters too long -- nm - Bacon Jan 1, 15:13
Ok, finally watching The Lego Movie, it is pretty hilarious. -- nm - Andie Jan 1, 15:13 2
- Overpriced coffee! Everything is awesome! -- nm - budice Jan 1, 15:17 1
  - Here's your pants. Shows cancelled! -- nm - Jovian Jan 1, 15:23
It actually offends me that Helix is coming back for a second season. - Jovian Jan 1, 15:04 2
- i'm wondering if I should be offended that there's a tv series in the works based on 12 Monkeys -- nm - call me Ishmael Jan 1, 15:17 1
  - nah. that looks like it has potential. -- nm - Jovian Jan 1, 15:23
CDAN: Enty en fuego... -- (link) - budice Jan 1, 14:54
Love that play, razzle dazzle -- nm - Bacon Jan 1, 14:29 1
- UpTempo pace is also fitting. -- nm - budice Jan 1, 14:31
LMS sorry I didn't see it sooner. As of now, "Pride" is my #1 for the year. -- nm - MDH Jan 1, 14:27 3
- Watched it in the wee hours of this morning. *loved* it. -- nm - kelly Jan 1, 15:47
- I told you all -- (link) - Covington Jan 1, 14:32 [Backboard] 1
  - It's truly fantastic. Funny, sad, wonderful performances and nothing over the top. -- nm - MDH Jan 1, 14:34
That's a stupid placement for the score on the screen. -- nm - Reagen Jan 1, 14:14 4
- ayup -- nm - prayformojo Jan 1, 14:23
- Agreed. -- nm - budice Jan 1, 14:19
- Oh hell yes! Horrible -- nm - Bacon Jan 1, 14:15 1
  - made worse because it's obviously about giving space for a constant sponsorship message. -- nm - Reagen Jan 1, 14:19
Okay -- ended 2014 at about 4,426,000,000 on HSX...goal for 2015 is 5.1b -- nm - Will Hunting Jan 1, 14:06 15
- I may have to get back into the game. -- nm - ReluctantCynic Jan 1, 16:35
- My port may be small, but I'm proud of my little 400 mill stack. -- nm - Loyola Jan 1, 15:28
- Got a hot tip for you. Guaranteed to pay big. PINK2 -- nm - Bacon Jan 1, 15:08
- I hit 2.5bn on new years eve (please, hold your applause). -- nm - peggy ann mcamanda Jan 1, 15:01 1
  - Yesterday was a very good day....WTG!! -- nm - Meg Jan 1, 15:06
- I was doing great until I took a big hit in the fall. Up about 3% for the year. -- nm - Meg Jan 1, 14:58 1
  - Heh, I actually did better in my RL port - trading much more conservatively :) -- nm - Meg Jan 1, 15:00
- I had a goal of 5B by year end 2014, but came up just short. -- nm - Polar Baron Jan 1, 14:24 1
  - well, you know . . . if you'd shorted it, you'd have probably made it ;) -- nm - call me Ishmael Jan 1, 15:00
- relatedly, are there any slackers here who are on HSX but haven't joined our league? we could use all the billionaires in our league that we can get -- nm - call me Ishmael Jan 1, 14:16
- I ended at about 3.6b. My goal is to get to 4b next year. -- nm - spamlet Jan 1, 14:13
- i've been a part-time player for almost 10 years and i'm *only* at $895 million . . . but 2014 was stellar for me . . . - call me Ishmael Jan 1, 14:10 3
  - I'm getting back into it and really started playing again mid November. H$1.2B Gonna try and hit H$2b by end of 2015 -- nm - CQ Jan 1, 14:33 2
    - *damn.* I thought that shooting for 3bn from 2.5 was a stretch. -- nm - peggy ann mcamanda Jan 1, 15:00 1
      - I'm not gonna hit that mark! heh. Aim high -- nm - CQ Jan 1, 15:04
Charles Woodson is awesome. -- nm - budice Jan 1, 14:05
Ok. The beer part of the beer mile has totally caught up to me. #tryingtostayawake -- nm - JD Jan 1, 13:58 1
- hey, we know how to play softball -- nm - prayformojo Jan 1, 14:00
Rose Bowl: FSU has its excuse.... -- (link) - budice Jan 1, 13:58
MSU!! WHERE IS JENBRO?? -- nm - Bacon Jan 1, 13:45
Outback, Cotton and the FBS Semis to go...Great 2015 so far. -- nm - budice Jan 1, 13:45
That's a hard ending to explain. Baylor was about 20 points better. -- nm - David, Level 31 Warlock Jan 1, 13:45 1
- I turned it back on at the end and was like, wha? - Will Hunting Jan 1, 14:03
Ballgame. -- nm - budice Jan 1, 13:44
Holy fucking shit. -- nm - nubby Jan 1, 13:37
That is a fast fat kid. -- nm - Will Hunting Jan 1, 13:31 1
- Talk about fat, how about the Wisconsin kicker! -- (link) - budice Jan 1, 13:51
It's a neat trick, but Pompeii manages to look both expensive and cheap at the same time. -- nm - Reagen Jan 1, 13:25 4
- Sutherland is the winner of the Edward G Robinson Most Miscast Award of this generation. - Mel Profit Jan 1, 13:52 1
  - If only we had some notion of what typical Romans looked like. Alas, this knowledge is lost to history. -- nm - Reagen Jan 1, 14:04
- Look both expensive and cheap at the same time with this ONE NEAT TRICK -- nm - nubby Jan 1, 13:27 1
  - Hire Paul W.S. Anderson -- nm - @Savedyouaclick Jan 1, 13:30
friends on netlix seems somehow pretty big to me. -- nm - peggy ann mcamanda Jan 1, 13:17
I watched the Tom Fontana Borgia series on Netflix the past few days. I enjoyed it a lot. minor spoils inside - Peglegpete Jan 1, 13:16
Oh! The party last night was at my friend-from-Montreal's apartment. He had a girlfriend from Montreal visiting. I wish Guigue were here. - Mop Jan 1, 13:13
Selling stuff is maybe even more satisfying than buying stuff. Just sold two UV codes and a set of speakers. - Mop Jan 1, 13:10
MSU just got lucky....still a game -- nm - budice Jan 1, 13:07
Florida Man arrested for decapitating his mother. Mugshot for the win. -- (link) - Mop Jan 1, 13:07 2
- I'm already feeling sorry for the poor schmoe who has to share a cell with him -- nm - zeitgeist Jan 1, 13:13
- This tweet by @_FloridaMan is also a winner. -- (link) - Mop Jan 1, 13:08
whoops . . . almost forgot to start up my new side project YTD port on HSX - call me Ishmael Jan 1, 13:00 1
- That reminds me I need to log on and either sell or buy stuff. -- nm - Loyola Jan 1, 13:31
Great execution on that kick. -- nm - Will Hunting Jan 1, 12:59
SEC not doing so well in post season -- nm - Bacon Jan 1, 12:43
*doink* -- nm - budice Jan 1, 12:42
I need 85% to have my question accepted? Balls! One of mine is at 82%. All those who voted it down are philistines. -- nm - Polar Baron Jan 1, 12:33
No pressure on OSU to prove they should be in the final four. - Will Hunting Jan 1, 12:33 13
- Braxton Miller news is some ill wind blowing. -- nm - budice Jan 1, 12:42 9
  - Not really. He just sat out a year and saw two people take his place with ease. - TWuG Jan 1, 12:47 8
    - Rule #1: you don't lose your job to injury. - Will Hunting Jan 1, 12:55 7
      - I think that rule used to be followed, but I have seen so many instances where it's ignored now. That rule is gone for the most part. - Bacon Jan 1, 13:07
      - Rule #1 is to win games. He's a lot less vital to that goal now than a year ago. - TWuG Jan 1, 13:03 5
        
        If you're recruiting, you don't let your former Heisman level player get usurped, no matter how good the 2nd kid played. - Will Hunting Jan 1, 13:29 4
        
        I think Elite Coaches can get away with it though. He can sell it. Saban could sell it. -- nm - Bacon Jan 1, 13:37 3
        
        He's got another elite coach in the conference now... - Will Hunting Jan 1, 13:44 2
        
        The reason they were #2 and #3 is because they were being groomed to replace Miller. Which they both just did this season. - TWuG Jan 1, 14:14 1
        
        You're not doing it keep from hurting the first guy's feelings. You're doing it so that the guys who are coming in the next 2 years don't have reason - Will Hunting Jan 1, 14:36
- I think their one out (of course this fits into your narrative) is their inexperienced Quarterback. - Bacon Jan 1, 12:37
- I hope OSU gets the crap beat out of them by at least 30 points -- nm - CQ Jan 1, 12:35 1
  - This would be my normal stance too. However, it requires me to root for Nick Satan and I can't do that. Of course, in a playoff, it's possible for - Bacon Jan 1, 12:40
Big guy touchdown! - JD Jan 1, 12:32
Polian has turned down the Bills. Staying at espn -- nm - Beaker Jan 1, 12:28
And Lee effing Greenwood! -- nm - spamlet Jan 1, 12:27
LYC: So I ended up short side of 19:25 vs 23:41 beer mile - JD Jan 1, 12:02 3
- Nice job! -- nm - JaxSean Jan 1, 12:05
- what are those times? What did you do in 19:25 and what did you do in 23:41? -- nm - rollo Jan 1, 12:04 1
  - (Beer + lap) x 4 = beer mile 8-) My 180 vs my 125 pound, non runner to my half marthoning co-worker won - JD Jan 1, 12:07
Melvin Gordon..28 carries...8.2ypc against Auburn -- nm - budice Jan 1, 11:58
I just made my pick in the draft. -- nm - ReluctantYuleLog Jan 1, 11:57 2
- I just picked my nose. -- nm - mud Jan 1, 12:10 1
  - butt here -- nm - Beaker Jan 1, 12:16
Introducing... Meathead Rob Lowe. -- nm - Mop Jan 1, 11:55
Dear ty: no lead is safe. -- nm - Reagen Jan 1, 11:55
Tottenham Hotspur. That's all. Have a great day. -- nm - Volnelk Jan 1, 11:54 1
- Southampton ftw! -- nm - budice Jan 1, 11:55
Jo Gordon-Levitt has married his less attractive girlfriend. Here's a picture of him wearing an Expos cap. -- (link) - Mop Jan 1, 11:51 6
- She's ok. It's not all about looks, Mop. -- nm - Loyola Jan 1, 13:34 2
  - Surely it's Mop's choice who he is more attracted to? -- nm - Roger More Jan 1, 14:17 1
    - Tis I spose. -- nm - Loyola Jan 1, 15:29
- He married a woman - Epiphany Jan 1, 12:05 1
  - Taking a page from the Jeremy Renner playbook, maybe? -- nm - Roger More Jan 1, 12:55
- "Founder of Robotics company marries actor who is also an Expos fan" -- nm - Beryllium Jan 1, 12:02
Pro tip in the form of a quiz: How did I resolve this problem? (Q inside) - rollo Jan 1, 11:50 25
- OK ... thank you all for playing. Answer inside, - rollo Jan 1, 12:59 6
  - cool -- nm - Peglegpete Jan 1, 13:19
  - of course the whole point of having the pipe is that you are not standing on a swamp of soggy mud or an impromptu ice skate rink -- nm - zeitgeist Jan 1, 13:09 1
    - True, and it did create something of a puddle/mess, but the alternative is water in the basement. -- nm - rollo Jan 1, 13:11
  - Wow, very nice....never would have occurred to me -- nm - prayformojo Jan 1, 13:06 2
    - Well, I wish I'd thought of it initially. This was how I spent 9-10:30 last night. -- nm - rollo Jan 1, 13:13 1
      - It is a fucking desolate feeling, standing outside in the dark, in 10 degree temp, contemplating an enormous ice plug, hoping the sump motor - rollo Jan 1, 13:21
- I'm stumped but itching to know what you did -- nm - prayformojo Jan 1, 12:49 2
  - I'll bet you jammed a broom stick in one end and pushed a ten foot ice pole out the other end -- nm - zeitgeist Jan 1, 12:51 1
    - Nope. Completely frozen solid, would not have budged. I did hack away at it with a kitchen knife ... I guess that would be the 0.5 thing I tried that - rollo Jan 1, 12:53
- You peed on it -- nm - Bacon Jan 1, 12:41 3
  - Considered it but no. This would not have worked as the volume of liquid would have been insufficient. -- nm - rollo Jan 1, 12:43 2
    - Sounds like an excuse to drink a bunch of beer -- nm - Bacon Jan 1, 12:46 1
      - OK I will give you credit for the 1st thing I tried which didn't work. I boiled a spaghetti pot's worth of water and poured it on the exposed PVC pipe - rollo Jan 1, 12:49
- outside of spending north of $10k to dig up and redo the whole system, I have no thoughts -- nm - Peglegpete Jan 1, 12:24 1
  - The system is above ground so no digging needed. -- nm - rollo Jan 1, 12:38
- hair dryer? -- nm - prayformojo Jan 1, 12:20 8
  - This was the 2nd thing I tried that didn't work. Low air team made it ineffective. I may as well have tried blowing on it. -- nm - rollo Jan 1, 12:39 1
    - air temp -- nm - rollo Jan 1, 12:45
  - I like this idea, followed by a small propane torch -- nm - CQ Jan 1, 12:31 5
    - Don't have a propane torch but would be concerned about melting/cracking the pipe -- nm - rollo Jan 1, 12:42 2
      - buy some pvc pipe and replace, seems like it would be faster than waiting for it to thaw or melt - zeitgeist Jan 1, 12:49 1
        
        The PVC connects to the sump "inside" the house where I cannot easily access it, so disconnecting the PVC was not an option -- nm - rollo Jan 1, 12:51
    - an electric heating wire you wrap around the pipe (kinda like how an electric blanket works) but I'd be worried the pipe is cracked by now anyway -- nm - zeitgeist Jan 1, 12:39 1
      - Nope ... this probably would have worked but sounds way more complicated than my solution, which took less than 10 minutes. -- nm - rollo Jan 1, 12:45

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