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I've lived in my condo for 8 years. The person I bought it from was there for at least 3. I'm still getting mail for the person who lived there prior - Tim May 16, 11:42 3
- i'd definitely have some fun with this if i were you ... -- nm - call me Ishmael May 16, 12:12
- i get the occasional dunning letters for a couple of my (deadbeat) predecessors -- nm - senor dentista May 16, 11:43
- "I'm here for my mail" -- nm - Beaker May 16, 11:43
A 49 minute connection to the last flight of the night on a work night is a bad idea. I know this. - ty97 May 16, 11:41 4
- "You'll never make the six . . . " -- nm - senor dentista May 16, 11:41
- What airport? -- nm - spamlet May 16, 11:41 2
  - Charlotte, which is a very easy airport for that connection if the inbound is on time. - ty97 May 16, 11:43 1
    - Yeah, that's about as good as it's going to get. Live dangerously! - spamlet May 16, 11:45
Max, that's one of my favorite books ever. -- nm - Tim May 16, 11:39
ST Poll -- What was the most recent casual dining (sit-down) chain restaurant you have been to? - znufrii May 16, 11:39 19
- A couple weeks ago, while car was fixed, did jersey mikes, that ir panera -- nm - zeitgeist May 16, 13:24
- "El Divas!" in Colombia. - Mel Profit May 16, 11:43 4
  - your wife does *everything* -- nm - decline May 16, 11:44
  - Mel is Medellin -- nm - budice May 16, 11:44 1
    - Pablo Melscobar -- nm - senor dentista May 16, 11:45
  - she's got a restaurant chain now too? -- nm - senor dentista May 16, 11:43
- Margaritaville - David's iPad May 16, 11:43 1
  - win -- nm - budice May 16, 11:43
- Yard House -- nm - budice May 16, 11:43
- With Angie's birthday coming tho we have a plan to hi Pappas Brothers!!! -- nm - Capstern May 16, 11:42
- Chilis -- nm - Capstern May 16, 11:41
- Does fast casual count? If so, probably Chipotle. - spamlet May 16, 11:41 3
  - No. -- nm - znufrii May 16, 11:42 2
    - Ok, then the IM. I have no idea. Probably Friday's as my FIL seems to like that but it's just a guess. -- nm - spamlet May 16, 11:42 1
      - Agreed with your im up there as well - znufrii May 16, 11:45
- Ruth's Chris -- nm - senor dentista May 16, 11:40
- Bar Louie -- nm - decline May 16, 11:40
- probably Buca Di Beppo -- nm - groiny May 16, 11:40
- O'Charleys. -- nm - Spawn May 16, 11:40
Summer concert tours must not be selling well. I've been getting a slew of emails from Ticketmaster about $20 tickets for shows including Def Leppard - pmb May 16, 11:38 12
- lawn seats I bet. -- nm - Remlik May 16, 11:40 5
  - Yes, I'm sure. Still pretty cheap. -- nm - pmb May 16, 11:41
  - yeah, the last Blink show, I swore off lawn seats forever. -- nm - groiny May 16, 11:41 3
    - I don't view lawn seats so much as seeing a concert. I view it more as hanging out with friends listening to music. It's a very different experience - pmb May 16, 11:43 1
      - Merriwether Post Pavillion . . . never really liked the lawn -- nm - senor dentista May 16, 11:44
    - Yup. Just not worth it unless you plan to get busy there. -- nm - Spawn May 16, 11:43
- $20 plus a $20 email fee plus a $10 $20 ticket fee -- nm - Beaker May 16, 11:40
- Me too down here for the local outdoor amphitheatre. -- nm - spamlet May 16, 11:39 2
  - Yep, almost all Riverport (or whatever it's called now) shows are $20 lawn seats right now -- nm* - Jim May 16, 11:40 1
    - Dude, that was like 8 name changes ago. Those corporations paid good money for you to remember the name! - spamlet May 16, 11:42
- yeah, the Blink 182 show just went on sale, and I am getting groupons for it too. -- nm - groiny May 16, 11:39
- Yup. -- nm - Spawn May 16, 11:39
Dear Dallas Keuchel, you're killing my fantasy team but if you don't figure it out tonight I'd be okay with that. -- nm - spamlet May 16, 11:38
Chris Bosh may be done with basketball due to his health -- (link) - Beaker May 16, 11:38 1
- (for good) -- nm - Spawn May 16, 11:39
Is was already awesome, but they revamped the Hulk coaster at Universal Orlando! -- (link) - Shaun May 16, 11:33
Geek Deal: 2TB drive shipped (refurb) $35 @EBay -- (link) - budice May 16, 11:32
In Sept. 09 we adopted Gypsy. In In Aug 10 she was deathly ill and we got that figured out over the course of almost 2 years. But her illness is - TWuG May 16, 11:28 16
- very sorry -- nm - Pippy May 16, 11:53
- Yup, you fight as much for you as for them, but eventually it's best to let go {{{hugs}}} -- nm - Meg May 16, 11:49
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- I'm really sorry. -- nm - pmb May 16, 11:37
- Ugh, so sorry -- nm - Roger More May 16, 11:36
- very sorry to hear. -- nm - Remlik May 16, 11:36
- very sorry. -- nm - Beaker May 16, 11:35
- Very sorry :( -- nm - ty97 May 16, 11:34
- I'm sorry to hear it. It's never easy to make that decision. -- nm - spamlet May 16, 11:34
- Thanks in advance for the support. I'm taking a mental health day for the rest of today. And on as more positive note - TWuG May 16, 11:34
- Really sorry to hear this -- nm - prayformojo May 16, 11:32
- :( Sorry -- nm - Beryllium May 16, 11:31
- ((((hugs)))) for you and nuggies for the gypsy -- nm - zeitgeist May 16, 11:30
- Ugh, this is one of worst things. Sorry :( -- nm - Shaun May 16, 11:30
- sorry man -- nm - groiny May 16, 11:30
- I am so very sorry. -- nm - Spawn May 16, 11:29
I think I'm the only one here who watches Quantico but I thought the season finale was good. (safe to read, no plot details) - ty97 May 16, 11:22 13
- I am trying to get caught up. Through ep 10 so far. It does seem like way too much is going on. -- nm - GregW May 16, 11:29 1
  - I think that compounds in the back half, if you can believe it. -- nm - ty97 May 16, 11:33
- I died laughing when I saw the villain in an add and told Amy, getting the same reaction. - spoil - Spawn May 16, 11:29
- wife likes it...trying to decide if I want to try catching up on Blindspot tho -- nm - Capstern May 16, 11:28
- We're watching. I thought they wrapped it up nice if not (spoilers) - oblique May 16, 11:27 1
  - Considering how off the wall the show can be at times (and even messy on occasion) it was a tightly delivered ep (if still crazy) (spoils) - ty97 May 16, 11:32
- There is one thing that is bugging me though (spoilers for all of Season 1 + the finale) - ty97 May 16, 11:26
- but was how was Priyanka's hair? -- nm - Diva May 16, 11:23 5
  - Wait a few hours, it's the lead story on ABC World News Tonight tonight -- nm - prayformojo May 16, 11:40
  - Perfect at all times, of course. And whoever does fashion design of the trainee uniforms at Quantico has a future - ty97 May 16, 11:24 3
    - I approve of all the clothing (or lack thereof) choices on the show -- nm - oblique May 16, 11:27 1
      - There's gonna need to find new ways to work in locker room scenes next season - ty97 May 16, 11:29
    - sweet. I like a nice fitting henley... -- nm - Diva May 16, 11:25
This cracks me up: A Little Golden Book called Star Wars: I Am a Sith. -- (link) - Diva May 16, 11:21 1
- heh. -- nm - Remlik May 16, 11:38
LIR: spamlet. I'm plugging information into AwardWallet right now :) -- nm - oblique May 16, 11:21 2
- FWIW, I don't really use AW because my points are concentrated at AA, Marriott, and Chase but it can be useful if you want to do more than that :) - spamlet May 16, 11:34 1
  - It's a dark, slippery slope hobbit! -- nm - ty97 May 16, 11:42
For those that facebook, is there a way to allow someone to view a post without 'friending' them? -- nm - GregW May 16, 11:20 1
- make the post public (globe) instead of friends, or post to a group they belong in -- nm - zeitgeist May 16, 11:27
Daedliest Catch is wrong. It's not set in Alaska it's filmed there. Northern Exposure was set there. -- nm - . May 16, 11:20 3
- ha....its 'videod' in Alaska -- nm - zeitgeist May 16, 11:32
- all the ships are based out of Alaska and that is where the catch goes. -- nm - Beaker May 16, 11:24 1
  - It's a reality show. All the rest are fictional shows mostly set in locations they aren't actually shot. - . May 16, 11:38
Interesting Sinead O'Connot fact...she's been living in the Chicago area for a few months... - Elvis May 16, 11:17 1
- Did he know? -- nm - Mop May 16, 11:19
This is a video of an otter eating lettuce (mostly for amanda) -- (link) - ty97 May 16, 11:16
Giving Alaska to Canada would be amusing in a "make Vermin's head explode" way - Reagen May 16, 11:14 16
- Don't give us Hawaii though. Imagine how much it would cost to fly there domestically? No thanks. -- nm - Shaun May 16, 11:27 4
  - iirc its closer and cheaper to fly there from SEA than LAX? -- nm - zeitgeist May 16, 11:29 3
    - Air Canada would gouge that shit -- nm - Beaker May 16, 11:34
    - but not from Vancouver. And if SEA became part of Canada, not from SEA either. - Beryllium May 16, 11:31
    - Meh that was rude. Apologies. -- (edited) - Shaun May 16, 11:31
- Of course, it would me more amusing to give AL, MS, and LA to Canada. -- nm - ty97 May 16, 11:23
- I kinda like the idea of ceding ND, SD, WY because it would make for a strange incongruous map in the upper middle of the US. - ty97 May 16, 11:18 3
  - we get Toronto in exchange though -- nm - senor dentista May 16, 11:19
  - Let them have their polar vortex states. -- nm - Max May 16, 11:19 1
    - "Alberta! Keep your clippers to yourselves!" -- nm - ty97 May 16, 11:20
- Canada would prefer to have Minnesota. -- nm - budice May 16, 11:15 5
  - Or as it will now be known, South Saskatchewan. - spamlet May 16, 11:37
  - they can have both -- nm - groiny May 16, 11:15 3
    - So hath it been slackertalked, so shall it be done. -- nm - Beryllium May 16, 11:20 2
      - Can they take Michigan too? -- nm - groiny May 16, 11:21 1
        
        Shit no. -- nm - Beryllium May 16, 11:23
New Mr. Robot Trailer -- (link) - budice May 16, 11:10 1
- I'm considerably more whelmed by this trailer than the first one. -- nm - Mop May 16, 11:19
The longer I do this data security job the more I am terrified to use a credit card anywhere - Capstern May 16, 11:10 4
- Knows it too, rolled out those EMV terminals. People that handle those are scary. -- nm - budice May 16, 11:14 1
  - I think a lot of people think (the common man) that business owners are smart and successful - Capstern May 16, 11:27
- LIR spammie I'm on the Chase Freedom card - like Meg I charge EVERYTHING - Pippy May 16, 11:12 1
  - Yeah - CC is less of a worry since there is a limit to how bad you can be jacked and people think the chip or the P2P encryption will save them - Capstern May 16, 11:26
LYC: The car "welcoming" me is just weird. - Strongbad May 16, 11:09 7
- FWIW, you can usually disable that. -- nm - spamlet May 16, 11:14 2
  - Yeah, I know. -- nm - Strongbad May 16, 11:34 1
    - But then you make the car sad. - Spawn May 16, 11:35
- There was a test car years back with Eddie Murphy quips... - budice May 16, 11:13
- 'Sup -- nm - car May 16, 11:12 2
  - "How you doin'?" -- nm - Joey from "Friends" May 16, 11:14 1
    - "my n***a" -- nm - N.W.A. May 16, 11:16
U.S. District Court orders Cleveland, Mississippi schools to desegregate -- (link) - ty97 May 16, 11:08 1
- that's some wide-ranging jurisdiction -- nm - senor dentista May 16, 11:09
Does Arsenio Hall have an alibi?!? -- nm - Ender May 16, 11:07 2
- Truthful she's always been very mentally fragile, so this is worrisome -- nm - ML May 16, 11:10 1
  - Hopefully she pulled a Forest Gump and just decided to ride. -- nm - Spawn May 16, 11:11
Applebee's embarks on $75 million overhaul of its restaurants, adding wood-fired grills and hand-cut steaks. -- (link) - znufrii May 16, 11:05 33
- hand-cutting the horsemeat doesn't really fix things -- nm* - senor dentista May 16, 11:09 2
  - *horseface* -- nm - Mr. Ed May 16, 11:12
  - Dude, horse is *tasty* -- nm - ty97 May 16, 11:12
- I like to see efforts made to compete, sit-down chains can get stale. -- nm - budice May 16, 11:07 29
  - On the other hand, I quit going there ages ago as they did away with anything even close to fettuccine. - Spawn May 16, 11:10 28
    - When I want authentic Italian pasta, I certainly head to Applebees :) -- nm - ty97 May 16, 11:14 19
      - No, it is when Amy and Logan want to go to the closest sit-down restaurant to our house and I need to find something to eat on that menu. - Spawn May 16, 11:25
      - this is why Spawn is not allowed in food conversations. -- nm - groiny May 16, 11:14 17
        
        I mean, doesn't Indiana at least have Macaroni Grill?! -- nm - ty97 May 16, 11:16 16
        
        They have Buca di Beppo which is a pretty tasty chain if you ask me. -- nm - Diva May 16, 11:17 13
        
        *LOVE* their apple gorgonzola salad. -- nm - Strongbad May 16, 11:35
        
        A great place to go if you are down with it taking 90 minutes. -- nm - Spawn May 16, 11:30 4
        
        wow - I haven't been to Indy in a long time, but that was not my experience there. -- nm - Diva May 16, 11:43
        
        that is what appetizers are for. -- nm - groiny May 16, 11:31 2
        
        I meant it more that any time I take the family out to eat for dinner, time is an issue as Logan has a bedtime. -- nm - Spawn May 16, 11:42 1
        
        tell lil man to fucking suck it up. -- nm - groiny May 16, 11:43
        
        I've never been. Not even sure I've heard of it. *searches* Broadway & 45th, not far! -- nm - ty97 May 16, 11:20 4
        
        30% off gift cards here -- (link) - budice May 16, 11:23 1
        
        fwiw, their dinner portions are huge -- nm - budice May 16, 11:24
        
        oh, yeah, and bring a friend or two. -- nm - groiny May 16, 11:22
        
        if you like garlic and olive oil, it is the bomb. - groiny May 16, 11:22
        
        Word. -- nm - budice May 16, 11:17
        
        WORD -- nm - groiny May 16, 11:17
        
        Indiana still has Hardees and Stuckeys -- nm - budice May 16, 11:16 1
        
        jeebus - Pippy May 16, 11:17
    - this is my gripe too - as soon as I love something on the menu - its gone and replaced with something inferior -- nm - Pippy May 16, 11:13 4
      - I find this to be true at most casual chains (Chili's I'm making an annoyed face at you!) -- nm - ty97 May 16, 11:14 3
        
        They will never get rid of their greatest achievement. - Spawn May 16, 11:26 2
        
        which is funny, because they are not close to crispy -- nm - groiny May 16, 11:28 1
        
        IIRC you now have that option, but I stay with original. -- nm - Spawn May 16, 11:32
    - Do you mean alfredo? -- nm - Shaun May 16, 11:11 2
      - Both work in this case, but yes, I mean fettuccine alfredo. -- nm - Spawn May 16, 11:27 1
        
        We would probably induce a food coma in you if you had our homemade alfredo. -- (edited) - Shaun May 16, 11:30
Getting shit done day: new I-PASS, Allstate, AMEX Bluebird, house cleaning service (mother's day gift) - oblique May 16, 11:03 3
- i cleaned my apartment this weekend. that was more than enough -- nm - senor dentista May 16, 11:07
- ummmm, you're over 11 months early on that last thing -- nm* - ty97 May 16, 11:03 1
  - Due 6/30 -- nm - oblique May 16, 11:05

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