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thanks to verizon (don't need to be a customer), some free offerings on amazon for t-day - some books, movies, games, etc - b. Nov 25, 15:28 6
- Thanks! -- nm - Qale Nov 25, 18:24
- Everyone should get Scribblenauts for free. -- nm - David Nov 25, 15:41 2
  - That's the app I got. I may already own 2 or 3 versions of it (iOS, Google Play, etc.) -- nm - Mop Nov 25, 15:44 1
    - Kim and I have a running joke about "throwing a yeti at the problem", because that actually worked once in Scribblenauts. -- nm - David Nov 25, 15:45
- Cool! I got three MP3s and one app. -- nm - Mop Nov 25, 15:39 1
  - If one of those is All About The Bass i will no longer acknowledge you -- nm - eag Nov 25, 15:46
soft-on-terrorism Obama pardoned those turkeys again this year -- nm - sweet baboo Nov 25, 15:20 4
- Turkey is next to Syria which is next to hysteria so panic panic panic panic -- nm - zeitgeist Nov 25, 16:08
- "Have a Secret Service detail follow them back to their organization." -- nm - POTUS Nov 25, 15:51 1
  - pardoning them under U.S. law does not exempt POTUS from designating them as enemy combatants - sweet baboo Nov 25, 15:54
- oh man, "honest" and "abe" and raised by a doctor whose first name is jihad? nm but: -- (link) - b. Nov 25, 15:22
wap? nyt piece on fantasy sports and dehumanizing of athletes. - b. Nov 25, 15:15 2
- DANCE, MONKEY! AND MAKE ME SOME MONEY! -- nm - Mop Nov 25, 15:44
- interesting. -- nm - carrot znouffle Nov 25, 15:29
Creed: it's a'ight (minor spoils) - Reagen Nov 25, 14:59
This is pretty well done. -- (link) - Beryllium Nov 25, 14:43 1
- Love the placement of the signature. -- nm - toblr.2 Nov 25, 14:47
high speed kitten break -- (link) - sweet baboo Nov 25, 14:40 9
- "Look at me I'm a corgi durr durr durr" -- nm - Max Nov 25, 15:03
- Let the professional do it. - Pippy Giblets Nov 25, 15:01 3
  - kitten break is not a proprietary feature of ST! -- nm - sweet baboo Nov 25, 15:02 2
    - Some are good at it. Others....not so much -- nm - Pippy Giblets Nov 25, 15:32 1
      - look, even the dumb looking cats are entitled to be included in kitten break -- nm - sweet baboo Nov 25, 15:37
- ^ that is freaking disturbing and clearly done by people who don't like kitties. you know what that means, happier kitten break! nm but: -- (link) - b. Nov 25, 14:48 3
  - Yes -- nm - Pippy Giblets Nov 25, 15:02
  - camera don't lie - sweet baboo Nov 25, 14:51 1
    - "turnt" -- nm - b. Nov 25, 15:01
*covered in so much flour and baking soda as to resemble a polar bear* time to make the pies . . . -- nm - barnaby bear in the kitchen Nov 25, 14:27 1
- good thing I defuzzed you last night, dear, eh? remember, no using the kitchenaid mixer without me - we all know what happened last time. -- nm - b. Nov 25, 14:32
Sumner Redstone is non compos mentis, according to his ex-gf -- (link) - sweet baboo Nov 25, 14:23 3
- plenty of bizarre paradoxes to go around there. she doesn't want anything but to support his best medical interests, but she threatens to have tmz go - b. Nov 25, 14:28 2
  - normally i'm happy to believe the worst about golddigging women, but dude is pretty ancient -- nm - sweet baboo Nov 25, 14:33 1
    - I think there could be some truth in what she says; but going about it that way, including - b. Nov 25, 14:39
wap? Nate Silver says only 6 teams have a legitimate (>8%) chance of winning Super Bowl -- (link) - prayformojo Nov 25, 14:06 4
- And the Patriots are 5 of them. -- nm - Mop Nov 25, 14:13 1
  - Not with their receiver squad currently. -- nm - Name Withheld By Request Nov 25, 14:46
- that's such a weirdly worded beginning to that piece. makes it sound like the writer is doing the work, when he's really just repeating - b. Nov 25, 14:12
- Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain! WATCH! WATCH!! -- nm - Roger Goodell Nov 25, 14:08
There are a couple of kids practicing trumpet in the park outside the bookstore..... - Meg Nov 25, 13:52 1
- fuck em up -- nm - sweet baboo Nov 25, 13:53
as Frank Gifford's family reveals that he likely suffered from CTE, doctors take the first steps to call for banning h.s. football -- (link) - sweet baboo Nov 25, 13:52 14
- good on him and the family. - b. Nov 25, 14:03 13
  - no sport is 100% safe, obviously, but football is the next boxing in terms of being demonstrably unsafe for the brain even when played as intended - sweet baboo Nov 25, 14:05 12
    - I've said I wouldn't actually be opposed to it, just commenting knowing it's unlikely that banning will actually happen anytime soon, if ever. -- nm - b. Nov 25, 14:09 11
      - Will Smith's film about CTE due out next month should change how some people look at Football -- nm - Peglegpete Nov 25, 14:47 5
        
        except sony reportedly softened the script and marketing to make the nfl look better. -- nm - b. Nov 25, 15:05 4
        
        bastards :( -- nm - Peglegpete Nov 25, 15:09 3
        
        wimps. I've read they've made it be more of a whistle-blower focus instead of - b. Nov 25, 15:19 2
        
        here's a nyt story from september about this. nm but: -- (link) - b. Nov 25, 15:20 1
        
        I knew in advance I would probably know more from what I saw on 60 minutes, than Sony, after all, as people say: the NFL owns 1 day of the week :( (( -- nm - Peglegpete Nov 25, 15:28
      - oh, wait till the tort lawyers get involved - sweet baboo Nov 25, 14:10 4
        
        Yeah, I think this may move quite quickly once the flames get fanned just a bit. -- nm - Name Withheld By Request Nov 25, 14:47
        
        there already have been complaints. why hasn't anything much been done so far? -- nm - b. Nov 25, 14:14 2
        
        we'll see. this is the only class action (which are usually the big movers of behavior) at the high school level that has been dismissed, last Oct. -- (link) - sweet baboo Nov 25, 14:19 1
        
        thanks - oh yah, I read about a few weeks ago. I wondered if there had been other action. -- nm - b. Nov 25, 14:24
Jalapeno mushroom steak is in the crockpot. Time to drop off the donation turkey to St. Vincent de Paul. - ReluctantCynic Nov 25, 13:39 6
- this is also very good -- (link) - Peglegpete Nov 25, 15:30 [Backboard]
- Yum it's delish -- nm - Pippy Giblets Nov 25, 15:12 1
  - *likeS* -- nm - carrot znouffle Nov 25, 15:52
- I am wondering how long the line will be at the Food Bank in a couple of hours -- nm - amoxy Nov 25, 13:57 1
  - It's done by lottery, at least the turkey day baskets are -- nm - zeitgeist Nov 25, 14:00
- Launch turkey drone payload -- nm - Max Nov 25, 13:50
how the Dallas Cowboys ruined Thanksgiving -- (link) - sweet baboo Nov 25, 13:17 2
- "how Bryce Dallas Howard ruined Thanksgiving" -- nm - misread Nov 25, 13:58 1
  - high heels -- nm - sweet baboo Nov 25, 13:58
::wonders if STers will recognize the person on the cover of EW this week:: -- nm - Spawn Nov 25, 13:12 4
- yes, because it looks like her, with no weird shadows. -- nm - b. Nov 25, 13:27 1
  - See, I think this looks less like her than the other pics. -- nm - Spawn Nov 25, 14:33
- considering it has her name in big yellow letters . . . - sweet baboo Nov 25, 13:14 1
  - But from what ST had before, maybe not. -- nm - Spawn Nov 25, 13:14
I mentioned a while back that a writer I follow said she was working on a big piece on selfies. I thought it would be for one of the big pubs she's - b. Nov 25, 13:04 2
- Writing... about selfies? Really? - sycor Nov 25, 13:08 1
  - I've continued on, and it's actually mostly quite good; but I need to take breaks. - b. Nov 25, 13:25
Not sure what people bitched about. Good Dino gets a B+ -- nm - Spawndroid Nov 25, 12:57 8
- How many Kleenex? -- nm - Green Baron Casserole Nov 25, 13:01 7
  - Asking the important questions. -- nm - sycor Nov 25, 13:03
  - No comment. -- nm - Spawndroid Nov 25, 13:03 5
    - So the dino eats the human, I assume? Gobble gobble gobble Happy Thanksgiving. -- nm - Max Nov 25, 13:48 4
      - Veggiesaurus Max! -- nm - Andie Nov 25, 14:29 2
        
        mini carrots are all he can really handle with those tiny lil' arms -- nm - sweet baboo Nov 25, 14:35 1
        
        *perk* does hoagy the dangerous dragon have a friend? -- nm - b. Nov 25, 14:43
      - It's in mah nature -- nm - Forrest Whitaker is The Good Dinosaur Nov 25, 13:50
Andie should go as Jamei Bond. She'd look good in a tux. -- nm - toblr.2 Nov 25, 12:51
Interesting weather forecast for Saturday. Predicting a high of 40, and a low of ... 40. I don't think I have ever seen that before. -- nm - GregW Nov 25, 12:42 4
- Al Gore warned us about Global Uniformity and now it's here. nm - Dignan Nov 25, 14:47
- I think it was a year or two ago when we had a low at night that was higher than the high of the day. It was really weird. -- nm - sycor Nov 25, 12:57 1
  - We have had that happen a number of times. -- nm - Spawn Nov 25, 13:14
- Loosing all our highs and lows, ain't it funny how all feeling goes away -- nm - zeitgeist Nov 25, 12:49
LYC, there's a girl... -- nm - Mop Nov 25, 12:39 4
- Just...a girl? -- nm - zeitgeist Nov 25, 13:28
- ... she just does not know it yet. -- nm - Spawn Nov 25, 13:13
- locked in a box -- nm - decline Nov 25, 12:44
- ...in a tree... -- nm - Max Nov 25, 12:40
"Probably the area's best buffet brunch, which comes with an omelet station, is the Sunday spread at Seasons in the Four Seasons hotel in Georgetown.. - prayformojo Nov 25, 12:39 6
- People can eat oysters by the dozen, crabs, I can do 3 dungeness , do they have a carving station? Prime rib? -- nm - zeitgeist Nov 25, 13:36
- They should have Jeff Foxworthy promote them. -- nm - David Nov 25, 12:58
- in general, for buffets like that, you're also paying a premium to be able to have choices. - b. Nov 25, 12:47
- I think the FS buffet here is well over $100 large -- nm - sweet baboo Nov 25, 12:42 1
  - comes with a happy ending tho. -- nm - budice Nov 25, 12:49
- It better include bottomless shrimp for that price. And good premium giant shrimp. None of that Golden Corral shrimp. - sycor Nov 25, 12:41
Here we go. 5 days to go in the month, and we're $164 in the black. We should make it easily, but...... - prayformojo Nov 25, 12:25 18
- Question about these updates. - sycor Nov 25, 12:36 12
  - It's just relative to the budget we've decided on. (I go on and on inside) - prayformojo Nov 25, 12:46 10
    - oh yah, tracking is the first step I always recommend to anyone looking to have a better handle - b. Nov 25, 12:50 1
      - I maintain a spreadsheet at work that goes out several months to help me gage how a purchase will affect the long run. -- (edited) - sycor Nov 25, 12:52
    - That's cool. I need to get a little more serious about my budgeting. And I'm glad the red isn't as severe as I was imagining. -- nm - sycor Nov 25, 12:48 4
      - no, didn't mean to imply that -- nm - prayformojo Nov 25, 12:49 3
        
        It was probably me over thinking it than you. I miss a lot of posts so I'm sure it was explained before I just missed it. - sycor Nov 25, 12:50 2
        
        that's really nice and thoughtful of you. :) - -- nm - b. Nov 25, 12:51 1
        
        Thanks. I know I don't participate much a lot of time. But this place is pretty awesome and I do like most of you. - sycor Nov 25, 12:53
    - it really is good practice, i should do this. -- nm - Andie Nov 25, 12:46 2
      - It was such a pain when we tried to do this locally on Excel - Google spreadsheets makes it so much easier - prayformojo Nov 25, 12:48 1
        
        We use Goodbudget, which is a glorified spreadsheet for our stuff. - spamlet Nov 25, 12:55
  - In the red = Abby don't eat -- nm - sweet baboo Nov 25, 12:45
- yoo hoo, pfm. look at me, all shiny and sparkly and oh so prettttyyyyy. -- nm - cyber monday. Nov 25, 12:30
- Dollar Tree -- nm - budice Nov 25, 12:29
- $99? Have you heard of this new site called Fan Duel? -- nm - David Nov 25, 12:28 1
  - Doesn't sound like something I'd want to sign up for, unless there was a code to promote it - prayformojo Nov 25, 12:31
- "pfm's gambling fund" -- nm - sweet baboo Nov 25, 12:27
We should help homeless vets before syrian refugees? guess who is helping homeless vets?..syrian refugees -- (link) - zeitgeist Nov 25, 12:17 3
- Why are we sending our veterans over there to get help from refugees? -- nm - Mop Nov 25, 12:41 1
  - They are far more compassionate there, is my guess -- nm - zeitgeist Nov 25, 13:39
- I should post this a guy on facebook. But I think it will just be easier to unfriend him. -- nm - sycor Nov 25, 12:20
Saskatchewan town instates 11pm curfew for anyone under 18. -- (edited) - Andie Nov 25, 12:14 5
- But only if they're Muslim. -- nm - Mop Nov 25, 12:40
- And yet no restrictions on singing Little Drummer Boy in public. -- nm - Max Nov 25, 12:16 3
  - I've told 3 people this week about Little Drummer Boy Challenge. They all thought it was a great idea -- nm - prayformojo Nov 25, 12:22 2
    - now make it interesting, put some money on the line and lock yourself in a room for 30 days -- nm - sweet baboo Nov 25, 12:23 1
      - Paycheck 2 -- nm - Beryllium Nov 25, 12:31
*wonders why bananarama stopped at summer and didn't write songs about the other three seasons* -- nm - sweet baboo Nov 25, 12:11 1
- are you channeling Steven Wright? -- nm - JenBro Nov 25, 12:36
STIS: I think I might have asked this before but how to I change a photo from 180 DPI to 220 DPI without expensive software.... - Walt_Disney Nov 25, 12:09 2
- Gimp. It does everything Photoshop does and is free. -- (link) - decline Nov 25, 12:32
- maybe try this? nm but: -- (link) - b. Nov 25, 12:19
David Canary, who played twin brothers Adam and Stuart Chandler on the ABC soap opera "All My Children," has died at 77 -- (link) - Beaker Nov 25, 12:06 2
- :( -- nm - gravy Nov 25, 13:30
- :( -- nm - spamlet Nov 25, 12:13
Juve/MC spoils... - budice Nov 25, 12:04
our office's holiday party theme this year is a Speakeasy -- nm - sweet baboo Nov 25, 11:59 10
- We are doing "Show up if you can." - Shaun Nov 25, 12:05 1
  - We're doing the usual "everybody get wasted in the auditoriums". -- nm - Ender Nov 25, 19:01
- Every gift bag comes with a Derringer. -- nm - Max Nov 25, 12:05 1
  - i should hire some actors to pose as The Untouchables and bust up the joint -- nm - sweet baboo Nov 25, 12:07
- nice. -- nm - Andie Nov 25, 12:01 4
  - sure, unless you don't know the password -- nm - sweet baboo Nov 25, 12:03 3
    - "pixie is a dumbass" -- nm - Beaker Nov 25, 12:05 2
      - too easy -- nm - sweet baboo Nov 25, 12:07 1
        
        Spawn loves Avatar -- nm - Beaker Nov 25, 12:08
- We are doing "Vintage Hollywood." -- nm - psilotum Nov 25, 12:01
Miss Andypenny -- nm - sweet baboo Nov 25, 11:57
*note to self* Needing to get out and walk is *not* an excuse to go shopping :/ -- nm - Meg Nov 25, 11:53 1
- Carrying 10 pounds of cat food and a box of wine is good exercise -- nm - zeitgeist Nov 25, 12:46
*said the night's wind to all on B1* -- nm - emoticripple Nov 25, 11:52

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