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Yesterday I gave Abby a present of her very first power tool - prayformojo Aug 24, 08:27 3
- lol power tools are fun! -- nm - sycor Aug 24, 08:44
- Yay! -- nm - emoticripple Aug 24, 08:42
- adorbs. -- nm - Diva Aug 24, 08:29
Colbert guest list. - Spawn Aug 24, 08:17 2
- I'm not excited to see him interview political personalities. I fear it will be a disappointing sight -- nm - Guigue Aug 24, 08:36 1
  - Plus, they will be mad due to the lack of pancakes. -- nm - Spawn Aug 24, 08:44
Mitt Romney thinking about getting back into the GOP race -- (link) - jangles Aug 24, 08:01 16
- His bit on the Colbert ad made me laugh. -- nm - Baron Bing Bong Aug 24, 08:32
- I heard on the news this morning that a couple of teenage boys registered their labrador retriever to run for president this weekend. -- nm - pmb Aug 24, 08:14 1
  - Why not, it's currently polling higher than Pataki. -- nm - Will Hunting Aug 24, 08:17
- According to the suspicions of a guy fired from the Trump campaign. -- nm - spamlet, Reigning Blood Feud Champion Aug 24, 08:06 12
  - What do you have to do to get fired by the Trump campaign? Be a rational, logical adult? -- nm - ty97 Aug 24, 08:30 2
    - Disagree with the toad. -- nm - Will Hunting Aug 24, 08:32
    - Be a fact checker. -- nm - Spawn Aug 24, 08:31
  - yeah, there's zero chance Mitt gets into this crowded field -- nm - ML Aug 24, 08:08 8
    - Really? It seems he is a far better option than what has presented itself to date. -- nm - Spawn Aug 24, 08:15 7
      - he sees Jeb floundering. And thinks he'll be the rational option against Trump. -- nm - Remlik Aug 24, 08:16
      - It's the last thing he wants after 2012: Another campaign of whack a mole -- nm - iSpam Aug 24, 08:16 5
        
        he'll wait till the crowd thins. -- nm - Remlik Aug 24, 08:17 4
        
        It won't until the caucuses/primaries start. By then it's too late. -- nm - spamlet, Reigning Blood Feud Champion Aug 24, 08:20 3
        
        I disagree. Especially after Trump wins all that. -- nm - Spawn Aug 24, 08:25 2
        
        I don't think you understand how this works. - spamlet, Reigning Blood Feud Champion Aug 24, 08:45 1
        
        If Trump wins, they will change that. -- nm - Spawn Aug 24, 08:48
Have the draft times been set for FJS and the Krusty league yet? -- nm - spamlet, Reigning Blood Feud Champion Aug 24, 07:52 2
- I'll take care of it when I get home tonight. Thanks for the reminder. -- nm - Krusty Aug 24, 08:14 1
  - This. -- nm - Spawn Aug 24, 08:15
So with the stock market dropping, clearly those flights I have been tracking are dropping their prices too, right? - ty97 Aug 24, 07:50 2
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  - *shakes fist at the sky* -- nm - ty97 Aug 24, 07:52
not all that rational, but I can't stand when non-work contacts stalk me on google and call or email me at work. I have a very strict workwall. -- nm - fabulous squad Aug 24, 07:49 2
- I don't have a work phone (my cell phone is my every phone) but I can't stand personal e-mails at work. -- nm - ty97 Aug 24, 08:32
- today is gonna be the day that they're gonna throw it back to you -- nm - jangles Aug 24, 08:29
Weekend Movies Poll: Man From UNCLE, B+. The Tale of Princess Kaguya, A-. Princess Mononoke, A -- nm - con_carne Aug 24, 07:45 19
- we didn't have time to watch anything because we spent saturday night hanging my beautiful huge tv on my wall. - fabulous squad Aug 24, 08:37 2
  - Grats! -- nm - emoticripple Aug 24, 08:43 1
    - it's pretty amazing. -- nm - fabulous squad Aug 24, 08:44
- Roman Holiday - A+, Mad Men season 7 disc1 - B. -- nm - LMS Aug 24, 08:21
- NXT Takeover: Brooklyn: A, SummerSlam: B- -- nm - Tim Aug 24, 08:12 1
  - Jurassic World: B-; The Brink season finale: A; FtWD pilot: B/B-; Disney Animated Shorts Collection: B+ -- nm - prayformojo Aug 24, 08:19
- Inside Out: A, The Rewrite: C+, A Little Chaos: B-, Disney Shorts vol 2: B. -- nm - kelly Aug 24, 08:09 2
  - where did you see A Little Chaos? Is it in theatres right now? -- nm - Andie Aug 24, 08:12 1
    - What did I ever do to you! -- nm - N Aug 24, 08:46
- Tried to watch White God, but the Mrs. put the kibosh on it before anybody got hurt. First 75 pages of The Martian: B+. -- nm - emoticripple Aug 24, 08:02
- Stage Fright - B, Witness For the Prosecution (again) - A. It was Marlene Dietrich Day on TCM on Saturday. -- nm - Diva Aug 24, 08:00 1
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- The Gift - A- -- nm - Jovian Aug 24, 08:00
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- Wet Hot American Summer, series.: B. Silly, amusing, short but sweet. -- nm - Andie Aug 24, 07:49
- No feature length movies, and I'll refrain from rating all 15 shorts I watched. -- nm - Ender Aug 24, 07:47 2
  - Dooo iiiit -- nm - con_carne Aug 24, 08:44 1
    - None of you have heard of any of them, like 3 of them have made it into film festivals in the studen categories. -- nm - Ender Aug 24, 09:18
- Wolf Children: A - spamlet, Reigning Blood Feud Champion Aug 24, 07:46
How do I respond to an email someone sent me through craiglist about an item I'm selling? - sycor Aug 24, 07:43 2
- reply to the email. it goes through the CL anonymizer. are you selling that table I love? -- nm - fabulous squad Aug 24, 07:45 1
  - Thanks! And no. I'm selling an Ikea Detolf display case. -- nm - sycor Aug 24, 07:54
There's a silver lining to all this stock market news you guys: new Dead Weather coming out soon -- nm - con_carne Aug 24, 07:36
Toronto news station - Two unconfirmed reports of Ashley Madison related suicides... -- (link) - Andie Aug 24, 07:33 20
- The "social impact" isn't because of the leaks, it's because of the cheating in the first place. - Mop Aug 24, 08:25 13
  - so amy's email address is on the list. she didn't cheat. what if she did something drastic over an accusation from spawn? - fabulous squad Aug 24, 08:36
  - Cheating is between the few people directly impacted by the events and their fallout. - Will Hunting Aug 24, 08:28 1
    - I argue that this is a Pandora's Box that deserved to be opened. -- nm - Mop Aug 24, 08:45
  - i don't know what you are so angry about. people who have cheating spouses, yes, they should be angry. You? Why? -- nm - Andie Aug 24, 08:28 3
    - Hypocrisy. I hate it with a passion. And my passion is being stoked. -- nm - Mop Aug 24, 08:34 2
      - it's a good thing that only bad people ever have their information released! -- nm - Reagen Aug 24, 08:39
      - me too. and, sure, i laugh at Josh Duggar getting outed, he deserves it. but not at the cost of some gay man in a country where being gay - Andie Aug 24, 08:37
  - People have cheated since the beginning of time. Society is still here. -- nm - Spawn Aug 24, 08:26 5
    - Exactly. For the cops to suggest that somehow being exposed for cheating is wrong is stupid. P.I.'s would be out of business! -- nm - Mop Aug 24, 08:33 4
      - I mean, for one thing, adultery hasn't been a crime for ages. -- nm - Reagen Aug 24, 08:38
      - you really don't think that releasing all the names is unfair? Hell, we were joking yesterday that my gmail could very well show up if we search. - Andie Aug 24, 08:36 2
        
        oh, I wouldn't be stunned to see macaroon at gmail there. -- nm - fabulous squad Aug 24, 08:40 1
        
        right? -- nm - Andie Aug 24, 08:42
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  - i think you can search for emails. It was in an article i read last week, but i don't know where. -- nm - Andie Aug 24, 07:37 4
    - here -- (link) - Spawn Aug 24, 07:40 3
      - i refuse to click anything that might be a AM search engine on my work compute.r -- nm - Andie Aug 24, 07:45 2
        
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        Understood. -- nm - Spawn Aug 24, 07:47
now that I live on the R bus route, I can get to the Y pretty easily. I was like, ok, I'll join the Y finally. $462 per year. maybe I won't join the Y -- nm - fabulous squad Aug 24, 07:27 7
- Pay monthly! -- nm - Spawn Aug 24, 07:27 6
  - $530 if you pay monthly. -- nm - fabulous squad Aug 24, 07:35 5
    - A month costs more than year? Where is this place, Venus? ;-P -- nm - Baron Bing Bong Aug 24, 07:37 4
      - $480 per year if you pay monthly. the convenience of paying monthly costs $62 per year. -- nm - fabulous squad Aug 24, 07:42 1
        
        (note $50 joiner fee is the difference.) -- nm - fabulous squad Aug 24, 07:43
      - $75 per day! -- nm - Spawn Aug 24, 07:40 1
        
        Tips not included. Creepy guy hanging outside the shower wants his dollar. -- nm - Baron Bing Bong Aug 24, 07:43
I love that since the Lakers can not get any more banners, Kobe gave Swift one. -- (link) - Spawn Aug 24, 07:25
One Monday in 1987, my father sat me down and explained to me that there was no reason to panic about what happened to stocks that day. - ty97 Aug 24, 07:25 5
- Why? OMG! What's going on with stocks?! -- nm - Mop Aug 24, 08:25
- %wise, this isn't even in the same ballpark as 1987. 508 pts. then was 22% of the DJIA -- nm - jangles Aug 24, 07:57 2
  - Of course. As I said, it's nothing like that Monday. -- nm - ty97 Aug 24, 07:57 1
    - You're still not getting it ty, this isn't anything like 1987! -- nm - Ender Aug 24, 08:02
- Nice! -- nm - Bacon Aug 24, 07:26
Okay, took the morning to try to clean up some dogs and put money in stalwarts - Will Hunting Aug 24, 07:23 3
- Are you still holding SDRL? - Bacon Aug 24, 07:24 2
  - Nope, I got out of the oils. -- nm - Will Hunting Aug 24, 07:44
  - btw CLB was something I have been watching for awhile and it finally hit my strike buy price today. - Bacon Aug 24, 07:28
I think the thing about Chef that has me most fascinated is whether Favreau knew how to cook beforehand, learned for the movie, or had a cooking doubl -- nm - Mop Aug 24, 07:21 2
- We watched some stuff on it, he actually trained with some of the top chefs. Forget if we found it on youtube or there was extra features on Vudu -- nm - Bacon Aug 24, 07:23 1
  - He even appeared on Top Chef a year prior to the movie. He picked the brains of the entire production. -- nm - David Aug 24, 07:29
I jammed by little toe walking back the couch yesterday. Wearing shoes today is not fun. I should have taken the day off so I could not wear shoes. - sycor Aug 24, 07:21
back above 16,000 -- nm - Bacon Aug 24, 07:12 4
- I'll laugh if it ends up green. -- nm - Reagen Aug 24, 07:28 2
  - My loss from the open has been cut in half just now. -- nm - Bacon Aug 24, 07:39 1
    - Same. And I have one green stock! -- nm - Reagen Aug 24, 07:44
- Crisis solved! -- nm - Mop Aug 24, 07:20
Hey Astronauts, I need a RB so I will consider offers for my round 2 pick. -- nm - Spawn Aug 24, 07:11 2
- Vamps: TY Hilton is available. -- nm - Strongbad Aug 24, 07:41
- Vamps: Got J Randle, Sammy Watkins if someone wants to deal -- nm - budice Aug 24, 07:18
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- Uh... could I have your mom pray for me to get a girlfriend? -- nm - Mop Aug 24, 08:27
- well, technically they're already pregnant so her job is done :) -- nm - oblique Aug 24, 07:09 3
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    - That... is not how getting pregnant works. -- nm - Spawn Aug 24, 07:12 1
      - WHAT?! Can you elaborate? -- nm - Mop Aug 24, 08:44
Pew: 23% of Americans say that the stock market has a major effect on their household finances -- (link) - ty97 Aug 24, 07:02 9
- which is like a third those who say gas matters. poll: does the stock market have a major effect on your household finances? - fabulous squad Aug 24, 07:09 7
  - Only in so much as I work for a nonprofit and market performance can effect charitable giving. -- nm* - emoticripple Aug 24, 07:14
  - None. -- nm - Krusty Aug 24, 07:13
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  - My guess it's those people are retired -- nm - Bacon Aug 24, 07:10
  - Nope. -- nm - spamlet, Reigning Blood Feud Champion Aug 24, 07:09
  - Only in the abstract (in the long run, market performance determines when I can retire, etc) - ty97 Aug 24, 07:09
  - zero -- nm - oblique Aug 24, 07:09
- My one thought is that had I not put money into a Roth IRA for this year and last year I'd have enough money for a down payment on a house now. -- nm - Dano Aug 24, 07:04
This may be one to keep an eye on -- (link) - Reagen Aug 24, 06:59 12
- I'm assuming it's leveraged to the hilt to produce that loss? -- nm - spamlet, Reigning Blood Feud Champion Aug 24, 07:02 11
  - Oh, wait, ETF not fund. Nevermind. -- nm - spamlet, Reigning Blood Feud Champion Aug 24, 07:03 10
    - Thought theoretically, the ETF should generally stay near its underlying valuation. -- nm - ty97 Aug 24, 07:06 9
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        There are things that call themselved Leveraged ETFs though (all the Ultras and 3Xs) - is that some other trickery? -- nm - Reagen Aug 24, 07:24 1
        
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        ah, gotcha -- nm - ty97 Aug 24, 07:07
      - It should and if I had any cash in my accounts I'd buy this immediately. -- nm - spamlet, Reigning Blood Feud Champion Aug 24, 07:07 4
        
        Seriously, that dive makes no sense, right? -- nm - ty97 Aug 24, 07:09 3
        
        Looking at its chart it seems prone to wild swings for some reason. -- (link) - Reagen Aug 24, 07:15 1
        
        and its bid/ask is in the high 50s/low 60s - which is a reminder that ticker values aren't always a reflection of reality. -- nm - Reagen Aug 24, 07:20
        
        PANIC! -- nm - spamlet, Reigning Blood Feud Champion Aug 24, 07:09
With the new timeframe of FTWD, a question: Would a standard walker bite by a new walker actually kill you? - Ender Aug 24, 06:56 2
- I would think you are correct, but we will see. -- nm* - Spawn Aug 24, 07:15
- *looks at watch* I have to go return some video tapes. -- nm - Robert Kirkman si Aug 24, 07:13
Texans name Brian Hoyer starting QB -- nm - David Aug 24, 06:52 4
- They really hate winning. -- nm - ML Galaxy Aug 24, 07:30 1
  - Keep drafting QBs until you have one. -- nm - David Aug 24, 07:33
- I saw an headline "Browns not ready to name starting QB" - Yeah, I'd want to delay facing reality as long as possible there too. -- nm - Reagen Aug 24, 06:56 1
  - On M&M this morning their coach said, "Unless something major changes, McCown is QB1, Manziel is QB2." -- nm - Spawn Aug 24, 07:05
I look forward to the return of "Brokers With Hands On Their Heads" -- nm - Reagen Aug 24, 06:50 5
- I may need a link to that what happened to the worst investment timer ever article again. -- nm - Dano Aug 24, 06:57 1
  - here -- (link) - Reagen Aug 24, 07:00
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  - this one doesn't seem to be based on an underlying flaw in the market, at the least. - Reagen Aug 24, 06:55
- Yahoo doesn't disappoint -- (link) - spamlet, Reigning Blood Feud Champion Aug 24, 06:51
"It's gotten so bad, Netflix trailing P/E is down to 250" - ty97 Aug 24, 06:44
think I'm gonna turn off my market alerts for today - Reagen Aug 24, 06:42
August 24, 1992 - Hurricane Andrew hits South FL. -- nm - Strongbad Aug 24, 06:42
MLB Stat of the Week: 14.1 percent of the pitches Matt Carpenter has taken out of the zone have been called strikes, highest rate in the majors. - Krusty Aug 24, 06:41 2
- The umps heard he hates old people, children, and dogs. -- nm - Baron Bing Bong Aug 24, 06:44 1
  - Well, he plays for the Cardinals so that's a given. -- nm - spamlet, Reigning Blood Feud Champion Aug 24, 06:45

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