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Yup, Iowa State really deserved that 3 seed over Maryland. -- nm - MDH Mar 19, 12:23
Let's go Panthers!!! - Strongbad Mar 19, 12:14
Wow. 16 large 1 item Papa Johns pizzas for $25. -- (link) - Ultron Mar 19, 12:12 9
- Sold out -- nm - spamlet Mar 19, 12:21 1
  - Wow. Got one right after posting it. Guess I got lucky. -- nm - Ultron Mar 19, 12:22
- is that for real? just in Indy? that is freakin awesome -- nm - Epiphany Mar 19, 12:18 5
  - Anywhere. -- nm - Ultron Mar 19, 12:20 4
    - Chick-fil-a has something, too. Original link. -- (link) - Ultron Mar 19, 12:21 3
      - Sorry, sold out. -- nm - Ultron Mar 19, 12:22 2
        
        thanks for letting us know - that was a great one -- nm - Epiphany Mar 19, 12:23 1
        
        I like that they list when they sold out. Chick went first. Skipped them as I do not eat there often and do not get that meal. -- nm - Ultron Mar 19, 12:24
- Still overpriced. -- nm - David Mar 19, 12:16
This is actually nice - Toronto's new mayor is holding a fund-raising dinner for one of his former opponents to help him pay off the debt he incurred - Andie Mar 19, 12:10
Ika media outlets on the beta.org world are only playing classical music, which usually means a sudden upheaval in leadership -- nm - zeitgeist Mar 19, 12:05 1
- what's so civil about war anyway? -- nm - Beaker Mar 19, 12:12
Now is an opportunity for bragging: is anyone 2-0 thus far? -- nm - David Mar 19, 12:03 2
- One of my coworkers did in our office pool -- nm - znufrii Mar 19, 12:04
- ESPN says only 4,000. - Ultron Mar 19, 12:04
Barack Obama's and my brackets are ruined! -- nm - Max Mar 19, 12:02
Dwayne Bowe to the browns -- nm - Beaker Mar 19, 11:55 2
- copycat -- nm - Ultron Mar 19, 11:56
- TE Charles Clay to the Bills. Dolphins won't match offer -- nm - Beaker Mar 19, 11:56
Europa League (spoilers) - CQ Mar 19, 11:54
and the announcers are already slamming Butler. -- nm - Remlik Mar 19, 11:53 1
- And the haters gonna hate, hate, hate, hate, hate. -- nm - Ultron Mar 19, 12:03
I think my laptop is finished. It goes blue screen and says hardware malfunction the last three times I turned it on. Dammit. -- nm - Loyola Mar 19, 11:50
That was alot of driving. Left at 7 am. 2 hour meeting, home at 3:30 PM. -- nm - Beaker Mar 19, 11:50 2
- Music: Bad Company 10 from 6; Metallica Load and Black album -- nm - Beaker Mar 19, 11:50 1
  - 10 to 6 is an excellent choice. - Epiphany Mar 19, 11:51
I was surprised to see UCI in the tournament until I read about their 7 and a half foot center. - GregW Mar 19, 11:45 1
- I was at that conf championship games and would've sworn that next tallest guy playing along side him was like 6-7, 6-8 - JD Mar 19, 11:49
ya know, if I knew UAB had a fire-breathing dragon on its logo, I would have picked them! -- nm - Jovian Mar 19, 11:42 2
- Not even in mind Big Upsets bracket did I have UAB lol -- nm - Jammed Uzi Mar 19, 11:46
- Fucking cuzzin Todd -- nm - professor smartbrain Mar 19, 11:45
PSA: Archie Vs. Predator is a must read. -- nm - Ultron Mar 19, 11:30 1
- yup. the preview was fun. Issue one is in April. -- nm - Remlik Mar 19, 11:50
Ghosts of Notre Dame past chokes haunting Irish. -- nm - Ultron Mar 19, 11:19 2
- I knew those Catholics were into the whole auto-erotic asphyxiation stuff. -- nm - Mop Mar 19, 11:30 1
  - Don't judge us. -- nm - ReluctantCynic Mar 19, 12:19
Come on, 14 seeds!!! -- nm - Kim Pine Mar 19, 11:13 7
- Now you may do it! -- nm - rollo Mar 19, 11:27 1
  - That's not how it works! -- nm - David Mar 19, 11:30
- Boo! -- nm - David Mar 19, 11:21
- If Iowa State loses, my bracket is utterly busted. -- nm - ReluctantCynic Mar 19, 11:18 2
  - Right? I had faith in The Mayor. -- nm - Tim Mar 19, 11:19 1
    - Didn't Buffy teach you not to do that? -- nm - spamlet, Astro king Mar 19, 11:32
- *highfives* -- nm - budice Mar 19, 11:15
Some nice items on the Texas Rangers ballpark menus. -- (link) - Shaun Mar 19, 11:10 3
- Want: For just five dollars, you get corn on the cob deep fried with a buttermilk batter -- nm - Jovian Mar 19, 11:56 1
  - as a ball park item...that is a steal. granted ears of corn are .3 cents an ear -- nm - Epiphany Mar 19, 12:16
- Yum to the Yum Yum -- nm - Epiphany Mar 19, 11:26
"People who are offended when I breastfeed in public need to STFU. What I'm doing is natural and strengthens the bond between me and my dog." -- nm - con_carne Mar 19, 11:07
ND spoiler - rollo Mar 19, 11:02
~Bit of the camera, made a run for our lives, take out the knees, had to choose, had to find - gonna take out the gunman~ - Epiphany Mar 19, 10:54
For the first time in I don't know how many years, I did not fill out a bracket. - ???? Mar 19, 10:52 3
- Communist. -- nm - David Mar 19, 11:20
- I did not until the final 5 minutes. - Ultron Mar 19, 10:56 1
  - Take all the time you want - professor smartbrain Mar 19, 11:00
And now the myopia story is hitting the work mailing lists ... - Beryllium Mar 19, 10:49 2
- Myopia as in "vaccines cause near sightedness?" -- nm - con_carne Mar 19, 10:52 1
  - (not sure if you're being meta right now) -- nm - con_carne Mar 19, 11:27
Secretary Napolitano needs to understand that protesting tuition hikes is an old pasttime at the UC's. Quote: "We don't have to listen to this crap." -- (link) - con_carne Mar 19, 10:45
Bowe Browns. -- nm - Ultron Mar 19, 10:44
BB: top albums last 10years in england...Ellie Goulding (she sang at the royal wedding and then SNL right after) -- nm - zeitgeist Mar 19, 10:42
ALL THE SCORES -- nm - Max Mar 19, 10:37 1
- UAB and Iowa State is ... interesting ... -- nm - ReluctantCynic Mar 19, 10:46
kind of cool john wick kill count info graphic -- (link) - amanda Mar 19, 10:29 [Image] 3
- gun porn -- nm - mud Mar 19, 10:53 2
  - but *good* gun porn. not shitty gun porn. (Like, what's a good example? Pain and Gain?) -- nm - Beryllium Mar 19, 10:54 1
    - *ding* -- nm - Ultron Mar 19, 11:11
Hi. How do you get a twitter link/pic to display inside the message?? -- nm - Jovian Mar 19, 10:17 4
- I think you just post the URL to the Twitter post. -- nm - Mop Mar 19, 10:18 3
  - ... which you can get by right-clicking the timestamp of the twitter post and hitting Copy Link -- nm - Beryllium Mar 19, 10:50 1
    - Ah. Much easier. Thanks. -- nm - Ultron Mar 19, 10:51
  - yep -- nm - Andie Mar 19, 10:27
Chicago hotel: I expect folks will tend toward wanting to stay in North Loop / Gold Coast / Mag Mile area? -- nm - ty97 Mar 19, 10:14 4 1
- More than likely yes. -- nm - ReluctantCynic Mar 19, 10:25
- Is the Travelodge by Union Station still there? It was relatively cheap and relatively clean. -- nm - spamlet Mar 19, 10:17 1
  - (but not in that area) -- nm - spamlet Mar 19, 10:35
- that's where we will stay. (it's where we always stay.) -- nm - Diva Mar 19, 10:16
addendum to B2 - if Chun is going to Chicago, i may just drive. i have yet to meet her. -- nm - Andie Mar 19, 10:08 16
- I'm still trying to rationalize the sweet, 'normal' lady I met at dinner with the stories from later :) -- nm - Meg Mar 19, 10:12 4
  - It was fun to watch the transformation over the next 6 hours. From that quiet girl at dinner to her going down on the statue. -- nm - Ultron Mar 19, 10:39
  - Vixen! - that's what they say about you before Zumanity. :) -- nm - Diva Mar 19, 10:17 2
    - You know, right after I posted I thought about that.....pot, meet kettle :) -- nm - Meg Mar 19, 10:20 1
      - Pot, meet Kettle - You're Sexy. -- nm - Diva Mar 19, 10:21
- Does Porter fly to Chi? -- nm - Diva Mar 19, 10:10 10
  - I've flown them from Midway to Toronto -- nm - ty97 Mar 19, 10:10 9
    - hmm... -- nm - Diva Mar 19, 10:11 8
      - they do - right now a Chicago deal is $175 - *one way* -- nm - Andie Mar 19, 10:14 7
        
        :( -- nm - Diva Mar 19, 10:15 6
        
        our airport taxes are insane. -- nm - Andie Mar 19, 10:16 5
        
        Buffalo-Chicago is around 244 RT -- nm - ty97 Mar 19, 10:18 4
        
        yeah, but remember, our dollar is weak right now.... i really don't think i can spring for a Chicago weekend (that costs me 25% more than you guys) so - Andie Mar 19, 10:21 3
        
        time for a kickstarter! or just go win something! - Diva Mar 19, 10:22 2
        
        your IM is *insane.* - Andie Mar 19, 10:23 1
        
        i know! -- nm - Diva Mar 19, 10:24
Speaking of Chicago, for some reason I have had the Blackhawks' goal song in my head all day. -- nm - Shaun Mar 19, 10:01
I think if you sign up for daily draft fantasy baseball you should get an automatic referral for gamblers anonymous. -- nm - spamlet Mar 19, 09:59
early game - Reagen Mar 19, 09:58
Obama suggests mandatory (Ooh, is that a bad word?!) voting as a way to combat money in politics -- (link) - con_carne Mar 19, 09:52 3
- elections these days are not won by those who vote but lost to one's who didn't -- nm - zeitgeist roaming the dark galaxy Mar 19, 10:55
- L3. -- nm - Strongbad Mar 19, 10:06 1
  - Oh wait. He's serious? - Strongbad Mar 19, 10:07
I got a free Amazon book for being a Prime member, The Gemini Effect - Will Hunting Mar 19, 09:50 4
- *rages* -- nm - dumbass itunes people who get free stuff Mar 19, 09:52 1
  - Oh, I'm not ever one to turn down something free if it's interesting or whatnot. - Will Hunting Mar 19, 10:31
- Just started it. 2 chapters in and I am already worried about how good it would be. -- nm - decline Mar 19, 09:51 1
  - I found it to be solid quickly after that... -- nm - Will Hunting Mar 19, 10:32
*cough* (is this thing on?). So, people. We're doing a Chicagostravaganza thing August 7-9. - ty97 Mar 19, 09:50 21 1
- I'd just like to remind everyone that the last big ST gathering resulted in a stabbing and a lawsuit. -- nm - Diva Mar 19, 10:20 2
  - L3! - Epiphany Mar 19, 10:48
  - I appreciate that we all know this is being used as marketing. - ty97 Mar 19, 10:22
- Museum of Science and Industry? Pizza at Burt's Place? - ReluctantCynic Mar 19, 10:19
- I'd like to go to a baseball game. any baseball game - I don't know the favorites in Chicago or anything - isn't there two teams? one? - Epiphany Mar 19, 10:00 13
  - Are you baiting with this? -- nm - David Mar 19, 10:38
  - And the Brewers have the Cards in Milwaukee that weekend (about an hour away) -- nm - ty97 Mar 19, 10:04
  - Cubs host SF that weekend. White Sox are away. -- nm - ty97 Mar 19, 10:02 9
    - Hrmmm - amoxy Mar 19, 10:56 2
      - hmmm...think about it some more...hmm -- nm - Diva Mar 19, 11:12 1
        
        Things that make you go hmmm -- nm - eag Mar 19, 11:13
    - that's not bad. -- nm - Diva Mar 19, 10:02 5
      - But it will be harder to get tickets if the Cubs are any good. -- nm - spamlet Mar 19, 10:04 4
        
        On the grand risk spectrum that ranks somewhere around the chances of Rosie O'Donnel stealing someone's husband. -- nm - ty97 Mar 19, 10:07 3
        
        the Cubs have made some moves - it could happen. i wonder are the bleachers fixed yet. - Diva Mar 19, 10:09 2
        
        They're not. They might be ready by June. -- nm - spamlet Mar 19, 10:14 1
        
        smh -- nm - Diva Mar 19, 10:16
  - There are two. Wrigley is the popular option but then you have to watch the game with Cubs fans. -- nm - spamlet Mar 19, 10:01
- We're considering that weekend being our summer road trip. -- nm - JaxSean Mar 19, 09:52 2
  - road trip to Chi Town? -- nm - Epiphany Mar 19, 09:59 1
    - Yes -- nm - JaxSean Mar 19, 15:31
Thunderstorms my butt -- nm - con_carne Mar 19, 09:43
decline, what don't you like about them? -- nm - znufrii Mar 19, 09:39 4
- primarily becase they are too plain-jane. - decline Mar 19, 09:48 3
  - I agree. I'm not going to pay someone to do this when I can do it myself just as easily. - spamlet Mar 19, 10:00 1
    - Thx -- nm - znufrii Mar 19, 10:18
  - Gotcha. Thanks, appreciate the insight. -- nm - znufrii Mar 19, 09:54
Whoa. Lots of new AoU here. -- (link) - Ultron Mar 19, 09:33 13
- Oh that motorcycle toss is awesome -- nm - Jovian Mar 19, 10:14 1
  - For you. -- (link) - Ultron Mar 19, 10:50
- Just saw it on FB and was coming to post it here. I *love* it. -- nm - Mop Mar 19, 10:08
- You should link that to something useful, like Youtube. -- nm - Shaun Mar 19, 09:59
- Sooooo cannot wait. -- nm - TWuG Mar 19, 09:46
- Shouldn't Thor be trying to save the Germanic people instead of Americans? Why is Thor an Avenger anyway, dude's a god -- nm - CQ Mar 19, 09:38 1
  - Tony Stark and Agent Coulson asked him really nicely and Thor said 'Ok'. -- nm - Diva Mar 19, 09:40
- Shiny! -- nm - eag Mar 19, 09:37 5
  - hammer + shield = winning -- nm - Ultron Mar 19, 09:40 4
    - And for me. -- (link) - Ultron Mar 19, 11:55 1
      - tight, compact swing. really good follow through... -- nm - Diva Mar 19, 12:14
    - Hulk was adorable. -- nm - Diva Mar 19, 09:41 1
      - totes -- nm - Ultron Mar 19, 09:41

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