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I'm trying to find a radio ad I heard today. It's not easy. -- nm - Loyola Jan 29, 08:02
Grand Budapest Hotel, for birds. -- (link) - budice Jan 29, 07:57 2
- CQ, is that what your kids did the other day? -- nm - decline Jan 29, 07:59 1
  - yep, theirs look just like this. -- nm - CQ Jan 29, 08:00
cancer result number 1 is in... - Andie Jan 29, 07:47 5
- Is it still an xray where you slap the boob on a plate? -- nm - budice Jan 29, 08:02 1
  - um... -- nm - Diva Jan 29, 08:03
- hmmm. -- nm - Epiphany Jan 29, 07:58
- goodish news. -- nm - Mel Profit Jan 29, 07:51 1
  - yes, good-ish. -- nm - Andie Jan 29, 07:54
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- I prefer it a lot more than the previous version. The video clickbait is a lot less prominent. -- nm - Ender Jan 29, 07:56
- Word. I try using the mobile versions which minimize the mess, especially for espn -- nm - budice Jan 29, 07:48
Target employee commits suicide after being made to do a walk of shame in handcuffs after he was fired. Is Target responsible? -- (link) - Mop Jan 29, 07:44 3
- and the video on the same site of the cops killing the teen girl in the station. -- (link) - groiny Jan 29, 07:54
- Criminally, no. Civilly.... maybe? If the kid was just taken to and from the place where he was questioned, I'd argue no. If he was actually taken - TWuG Jan 29, 07:53
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Cuban outfielder Dian Toscano and the Atlanta Braves have agreed to a four-year, $6 million contract. -- nm - Beaker Jan 29, 07:42 3
- is there a video of him jumping over a moving train? - groiny Jan 29, 07:43 2
  - Nope, but he's a helluva swimmer. -- nm - Will Hunting Jan 29, 07:51 1
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has anyone been to El Salvador? i am *this close* to booking cheap tickets and a beach house through AirBnB? -- nm - Andie Jan 29, 07:34 9
- isn't that one of the countries under so much gang violence girls as young as 12 are fleeing to avoid gang rape, beauty queens are gunned down in... - zeitgeist Jan 29, 13:43
- Never been but I wouldn't go alone. -- nm - Loyola Jan 29, 07:58
- I'd go in a heartbeat if I had the chance. -- nm - CQ Jan 29, 07:45 4
  - airfare right now i can get for $400/person. i can rent a beach front apartment for under a $100 a night. - Andie Jan 29, 07:55 3
    - see? -- (link) - Andie Jan 29, 07:56 2
      - pretty -- nm - Epiphany Jan 29, 08:00
      - all you need is your surfboard. -- nm - CQ Jan 29, 07:57
- My business partner has been there. She didn't give it a ringing endorsement - decline Jan 29, 07:45
- I have not but we have an office there. Maybe I need to check it out. - spamlet Jan 29, 07:38
PMO today, thank you very much. Only 2 and a half hours left to get some things done. grrrrr need more time -- nm - CQ Jan 29, 07:29
LYC: Mortgage is up for renewal in about a month. Big banks have been slashing rates. Me = happy. -- nm - Shaun Jan 29, 07:23 11
- That's nice. Banks here are continuously increasing rates even as the central bank rate keeps falling. -- nm - Loyola Jan 29, 07:54
- "Renewal"? -- nm - Ender Jan 29, 07:29 9
  - Mortgages here are only locked into an institution for a short period of time relative to the mortgage, usually 5 years. 10 year max term, I believe. -- nm - Reagen Jan 29, 07:47
  - interest rate locked in for 1-2-5 years. rate is up for renegotiation...you don't have that in the US? -- nm - Beaker Jan 29, 07:43 5
    - US interest rates are locked in for the entire amortization. -- nm - Reagen Jan 29, 07:45 4
      - huh...that sucks -- nm - Beaker Jan 29, 07:48 2
        
        not really - you can always refi, and having a 25 year mortgage at today's rates would be great. -- nm - Reagen Jan 29, 07:49 1
        
        yeah, i'd lock in now for the duration if that was an option. -- nm - Andie Jan 29, 07:55
      - You can get floating rates but to renegotiate you have to refinance the entire thing. -- nm - spamlet Jan 29, 07:47
  - Renewal!?! I would cancel that sh!t! -- nm - Ultron Jan 29, 07:30 1
    - maybe he had a balloon ? I had that on my home mortgage because I had never financed before ... got lucky and locked it year 5 -- nm - JenBro Jan 29, 07:41
Fire alarm keeps going off at the Pats' hotel in early morning hours. Tues 1:30 am and Thursday 4:40 am. -- nm - Diva Jan 29, 07:21 15
- Get a better name, Pat's Hotel -- nm - con_carne Jan 29, 08:00 1
  - and they're staying at the same hotel the Gints stayed at when they were all in Glendale AZ for SB XLII. - Diva Jan 29, 08:03
- It's all the pants on fire from DeflateGate. -- nm - Will Hunting Jan 29, 07:22 6 1
  - I figured it was Richard Sherman's wife setting them off. -- nm - Ultron Jan 29, 07:23 5
    - that tool is married? - Epiphany Jan 29, 07:40 4
      - I know he's expecting a child but I don't know if he's married. -- nm - Diva Jan 29, 07:41 3
        
        better some how - and babies!! -- nm - Epiphany Jan 29, 07:58
        
        Yeah, my bad. Assumed wife but he may end up missing the SB for the birth. -- nm - Ultron Jan 29, 07:43 1
        
        I seriously doubt he'd miss the SB for the birth. as much as I hate him, I think he'd be an outstanding father - Epiphany Jan 29, 07:58
- Even I think that is a BS move. -- nm - Ultron Jan 29, 07:22
- time to move them to an undisclosed location -- nm - Epiphany Jan 29, 07:22 2
  - armed guards on fire alarm. shoot to kill orders -- nm - Beaker Jan 29, 07:23 1
    - No, run current through all the levers. -- nm - Ultron Jan 29, 07:24
- The NFL better put 50 investigators on this immediately -- nm - Beaker Jan 29, 07:21
- fire-alarm-gate!! -- nm - decline Jan 29, 07:21
Simpsons Trivia: In "Principal Charming," where does Skinner buy an engagement ring for Patty? - Krusty Jan 29, 07:20 7
- C -- nm - Ender Jan 29, 07:32
- A -- nm - decline Jan 29, 07:26
- D! -- nm - CQ Jan 29, 07:26
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- C -- nm - Beaker Jan 29, 07:21 2
  - Correct! -- nm - Krusty Jan 29, 07:41 1
    - on a roll! -- nm - Beaker Jan 29, 07:54
Palin's spouting some authentic frontier gibberish there. -- nm - Reagen Jan 29, 07:19 4
- She seemed drunk or on medication. That was an ugly mess of a speech. -- nm - Krusty Jan 29, 07:33 1
  - for the last 4 years or so she has been coming across as on pills. at least to me. -- nm - Diva Jan 29, 07:41
- I love how her support is eroding. even those intellectuals who excused her are calling her dumb and dangerous... - Mel Profit Jan 29, 07:32
- The sheriff's near? -- nm - Polar Baron Jan 29, 07:27
LYC: Last night I had a dream I was at a family gathering, except my brother was married to Ellie Kemper - Reagen Jan 29, 07:17 1
- I had a dream I was a homeless paranoid schizophrenic who could see alternate realities - decline Jan 29, 07:20
dear god, my boss just bought his wife a new Lexus. with a cheque. -- nm - Andie Jan 29, 07:03 6
- can your boss adopt me? -- nm - Diva Jan 29, 07:28 2
  - "we...Mav. we." [nm] - Mel Profit Jan 29, 07:30 1
    - you've been traded in for a Lexus. nm -- nm - groiny Jan 29, 07:34
- Hopefully her name is spelled right on the title. -- nm - Ultron Jan 29, 07:05 1
  - heh. one would hope. -- nm - Andie Jan 29, 07:06
- Lets hope his last name isn't Target -- nm - decline Jan 29, 07:05
Pippy - Andie Jan 29, 07:00 3
- gotcha. cancer is a beotch. I am hopeful for all involved -- nm - Epiphany Jan 29, 07:04 2
  - one is a two time breast cancer survivor, and the other is battling aggressive ovarian - Andie Jan 29, 07:06 1
    - :( - Epiphany Jan 29, 07:15
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- Jury Duty is inconvenient when we have a SB Party to plan... -- nm - Mel Profit Jan 29, 07:28
- Looks like a couple diffrent things may be going on here with jurors. From Boston.com... - Diva Jan 29, 07:27
- Send in Darnell Dockett -- nm - MDH Jan 29, 07:19
- ummm - did someone *make sure* he didn't show? -- nm - Epiphany Jan 29, 07:04
- Religious Holiday...Feast of Maximum Occupancy -- nm - Beaker Jan 29, 07:02
argh! Bery, i keep getting a blank screen when i try to reply! -- nm - Andie Jan 29, 06:58
okay, so, this morning, two different people i care about a lot are getting scan results back from their oncologists. (odd timing, but true) - Andie Jan 29, 06:37 11
- *rubbing my lucky stapler* -- nm - Mel Profit Jan 29, 07:30 3
  - I didn't expect my wife and spam to be the ones to go blue on this. - Mel Profit Jan 29, 07:45
  - that's not your...stapler... -- nm - Diva Jan 29, 07:42
  - Hopefully it's the one on the desk. -- nm - spamlet Jan 29, 07:37
- ::fingers crossed:: -- nm - Ultron Jan 29, 07:25
- Good and healthy thoughts for them. -- nm - Krusty Jan 29, 07:15
- Oh yeah, I should probably check and see if my dad has an oncologist appointment yet... -- nm - Ender Jan 29, 07:06 1
  - good thoughts for him -- nm - Andie Jan 29, 07:14
- good thoughts on scans! - are these people going to the doctors office? or is this a call situation? - Epiphany Jan 29, 06:44
- Good thoughts to you and them. -- nm - Inigo Jan 29, 06:38 1
  - don't waste your thoughts on me! - Andie Jan 29, 06:38
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Target Canada...bouncin' cheques -- (link) - Beaker Jan 29, 06:31 1
- eeesh -- nm - Andie Jan 29, 06:32
New version of Chrome for Android (in beta at the moment) has pull-to-refresh -- (link) - decline Jan 29, 06:22 2
- Oh hells ya. -- nm - Reagen Jan 29, 07:18
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Jobless claims: 265K. Lowest level since 2000 -- nm - ty97 Jan 29, 06:19
Are John & Jacob a band? If so I was just in the lift with them. -- nm - LMS Jan 29, 06:16
Don't you do it, Irish. Don't you make me believe you have a good basketball team and then flame out in the second round of the tourney. -- nm - Polar Baron Jan 29, 06:07
Heh. The DP show did a takeoff of the ending of "Thelma and Louise" for the opening of the show today -- nm - amoxy Jan 29, 06:06
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- they never should have gotten rid of super size fries -- nm - JenBro Jan 29, 07:43
- Is it weird that my first thought was that he came out as gay, and that my second was that he revealed the state of his belly button...? -- nm - Ender Jan 29, 07:08
- I'm not a financial guru but I don't see what all the hand wringing is about with McDonalds - so it didn't grow - maybe fast food is dying out? - Epiphany Jan 29, 06:13 11
  - We could only hope that fast food is dying out. Not a gonna happen -- nm - CQ Jan 29, 07:28
  - There's a lot of issues with the growth of the company combined with some strained relations with franchisees. - Will Hunting Jan 29, 06:38 4
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      - I don't envy that market space....the rush is for fast casual (Chipolte and the like) - Will Hunting Jan 29, 07:18 2
        
        I never really got why they sold all of their stake in Chipotle. - spamlet Jan 29, 07:33
        
        yes to your last sentence -- nm - Epiphany Jan 29, 07:22
  - Shareholders tend to be unable to see past the one year mark -- nm - con_carne Jan 29, 06:22
  - IINM, same store sales are declining. That's...not good. -- nm - ty97 Jan 29, 06:18
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  - Sears used to say the same thing... -- nm - decline Jan 29, 06:16 1
    - heh - good point. thanks guys -- nm - Epiphany Jan 29, 06:23
Yesterday I ate something called currywurst. It was quite tasty. -- nm - Polar Baron Jan 29, 05:58
Australian author Colleen McCullough, whose 1977 best-selling novel The Thorn Birds became a smash hit television miniseries, has died at 77 -- nm - Beaker Jan 29, 05:03
For those who have seen Paddington - London's Natural History Museum is re-modelling its entrance, moving out the dinosaur and moving in a blue whale. -- (link) - LMS Jan 29, 04:41
Repost from B2: this Onion link is great -- (link) - Beaker Jan 29, 04:39
*concerned that Prayformojo is not awake yet* -- nm - Epiphany Jan 29, 03:33 3
- I think he is at the Aaron Hernandez murder trial -- nm - Beaker Jan 29, 05:08
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  - Johnny Cash earworm -- nm - Beaker Jan 29, 04:58
Kenya's Christian-owned Hope FM radio hijacked -- (link) - DaneDukeNuuk Jan 29, 02:41
AUS OPEN 2015 - Djokovic v Abrams Semi-Final -- (link) - DaneDukeNuuk Jan 29, 02:28 [youtube]
Oakham earthquake recorded at 3.8 in magnitude -- (link) - DaneDukeNuuk Jan 29, 00:41 1
- side bar, docs are worried ebola may be mutating, becoming more contagious, comparing current samples with earlier -- (link) - zeitgeist Jan 29, 00:54
Aussie Open spoils... - budice Jan 28, 21:56
The Valentines cookie recipe I found calls for me to unwrap 54 chocolate kisses...... - Meg Jan 28, 21:53 7
- One for you and one for me. One for you and two for me... -- nm - Ultron Jan 29, 07:06
- could be worse - they could be the chocolate cherry filled kisses -- nm - JenBro Jan 29, 05:48 2
  - blech - they should taste better than they do -- nm - Epiphany Jan 29, 05:58 1
    - for reals ... I liked them - and I don't like the other cherry filled chocolate - I don't like the cream part - am happy kisses only have the cherry -- nm - JenBro Jan 29, 07:44
- I suppose just getting a bar of chocolate doesn't demonstrate your commitment enough. -- nm - mafic Jan 28, 22:02
- heart jerky -- nm - Peglegpete Jan 28, 21:58 1
  - between your local Mexican & Asian grocers, you can get almost any critter -- nm - Peglegpete Jan 28, 21:59
(Gonna find her) (Gonna find her) (Gonna find her) (Gonna find her)Yeah, I've been searchin' Oh, yeah, searchin' every which a-way -- nm - Peglegpete Jan 28, 21:50 1
- But I'm like the Northwest Mounties You know I'll bring her in someday -- nm - Peglegpete Jan 28, 21:52

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