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The last soldiers to die in World War I -- (link) - DaneDukeNuuk Oct 29, 18:22 1
- have you read "Paris1919" Margaret MacMillan ? -- nm - mud Oct 29, 18:30
it's too dry. they need some rain at the game :) -- nm - peglegpete Oct 29, 18:22
Feliz Navidad! -- nm - JCVDano Oct 29, 18:20
wonder if the guy behind the plate will notice that victorino's foot steps out of the box while he's bunting -- nm - dogbert183 Oct 29, 18:17
I am starving, but the Ray's are going to keep me from getting fed -- nm - Dogbert's Wallet Oct 29, 18:11
DMac: "Due to an unforeseen technical difficulty, the HSX Classic site will not be up on Oct 29. I apologize for the delay." -- nm - budice Oct 29, 18:11 6
- *shocked* -- nm - Count Beakula Oct 29, 18:20
- Just pull the plug already. -- nm - mara Oct 29, 18:20
- be = stay. they had it up & working for a while this morning :) -- nm - peglegpete Oct 29, 18:18 1
  - did see your port?! was it a relief? Was seeing it in Classic a nostalgic experience? - mud Oct 29, 18:23
- i don't believe i've ever seen a more botched launch. did they hire people from sony's ps3 launch team to run this?...nm - x Oct 29, 18:16 1
  - I give it 8 thumbs up! -- nm - ken kutaragi Oct 29, 18:21
*shoots Jason Bartlett* -- nm - znufrii Oct 29, 18:07
I don't think they want to win -- nm - dogbert183 Oct 29, 18:07
The American Enterprise Institute: Still crazy with denial and delay after all these years -- (link) - DaneDukeNuuk Oct 29, 18:05
time for redemption iwamura -- nm - dogbert183 Oct 29, 18:02
Yay!! Homer! -- nm - Dogbert's Wallet Oct 29, 18:00
ROCCO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! (suck on that wallet) - dogbert183 Oct 29, 18:00
nice -- nm - znufrii Oct 29, 18:00
ROCCO!!! -- nm - nubby Oct 29, 18:00
As I start filling out my ballot. I just found out Ralph Nader is a member of the Peace Party. hahaha! never heard of it. -- nm - Deadmond Oct 29, 17:58 4
- all communists i bet -- nm - DaneDukeNuuk Oct 29, 18:01
- here he's on the Populist Party line -- nm - znufrii Oct 29, 18:00 2
  - Yup, same here. -- nm - secretslacker Oct 29, 18:04 1
    - I see what you did there. -- nm - znufrii Oct 29, 18:05
Doh!! -- nm - Dogbert's Wallet Oct 29, 17:53
Cancel/Renew TV list for Oct 28 -- (link) - Count Beakula Oct 29, 17:51
pitchers are way too pampered. with two days rest how does cole not get kept in the game? he's your ace in what could be the final game of the world - dogbert183 Oct 29, 17:50 2
- Or he can be on full rest for game 7 -- nm - Dogbert's Wallet Oct 29, 17:50 1
  - would only be 4 days, and if he wasn't throwing in game four it wouldn't look like the plan -- nm - dogbert183 Oct 29, 17:51
move upton to seco... aw forget it -- nm - dogbert183 Oct 29, 17:47 1
- *puts the thousand dollars in the friend zone* Maybe next year we can be together. -- nm - Dogbert's Wallet Oct 29, 17:50
MORONS! -- nm - nubby Oct 29, 17:46
"crap!" -- nm - Dogbert's Wallet Oct 29, 17:42 1
- Mother Fu!!! -- nm - Dogbert's Wallet Oct 29, 17:46
Upon seeing Bud Selig in the locker room after the suspension Monday, Scott Eyre looked at him and commented... - nubby Oct 29, 17:40
Why is Balfour even on the roster? -- nm - nubby Oct 29, 17:33
is it baseball time yet? -- nm - dogbert183 Oct 29, 17:27 2
- Let's get it over with -- nm - Dogbert's Wallet Oct 29, 17:29 1
  - listen up wallet, I don't like you and you obviously don't like me, but let's put our differences aside for tonight, ok? -- nm - dogbert183 Oct 29, 17:33
underwhelming so far. - znufrii Oct 29, 17:19 12
- And the first deeply anti-OBama commercial from McCain again pointing out the lack of experience -- nm - secretslacker Oct 29, 17:38
- It's a highlite reel of ground balls back to the pitcher -- nm - CQ Oct 29, 17:30
- What about me!? What about me!?!?! -- nm - Joe the Plumber Oct 29, 17:28 1
  - God I hate you Joe. -- nm - Qale Oct 29, 17:32
- I agree.. not sure what the point of this is. Will anyone not in his camp actually watch this? Waste of money. -- nm - secretslacker Oct 29, 17:27 5
  - tip of the iceberg on the wasting money bit...we'll be in so much national debt after his first term -- nm - GJOSHGREEN Oct 29, 18:02 1
    - like MCCain will be any better in that regard, honestly. -- nm - znufrii Oct 29, 18:08
  - as a nice closing, but really a missed opportunity, imho. -- nm - znufrii Oct 29, 17:30
  - later the pundits and spinmisters will tell the undecideds what they should think via 30 second sound bites and their own snarks or applause -- nm - zeitgeist Oct 29, 17:28 1
    - It doesn't seem to be streaming online anywhere. -- nm - Loyola Oct 29, 17:29
- I think it was a serious unnecessary mistake. -- nm - Qale Oct 29, 17:21 1
  - I wouldn't go that far, but it's clear he's not trying for anything new here. - znufrii Oct 29, 17:22
Barack Obama is so assured he'll be President, he's already preempting Prime Time television, what's up with that? -- nm - Qale Oct 29, 17:17 4
- so uppity -- nm - pigby Oct 29, 17:45
- I thought Bush was the only preempteror. -- nm - Loyola Oct 29, 17:32
- He's going to be cancelling my live morning shows right and left, I can tell... at least he's not as annoying as BUsh -- nm - secretslacker Oct 29, 17:20 1
  - he's a whole lot more condescending though. -- nm - CQ Oct 29, 17:24
So I came back from vacation to find a couple of (really nice) credit card offers from WaMu in my mail. Think they're still good? :) -- nm - Dr.Vermin Oct 29, 17:14 3
- How you doin -- nm - Subprime homeowner Oct 29, 17:33
- probably -- nm - zeitgeist Oct 29, 17:30 1
  - Hmm! Yeah, I see their website is still up... - Dr.Vermin Oct 29, 17:33
I'm going to get one of those "stick figure family" things to put on my car. - nubby Oct 29, 17:02 14
- here ya go -- (link) - budice Oct 29, 17:23 [Image] 1
  - btw all my neighbors have the stick figures -- nm - budice Oct 29, 17:24
- whassat? -- nm - slutty zombie loosilu Oct 29, 17:03 11
  - Surely you've seen them? -- (link) - nubby Oct 29, 17:04 10
    - never noticed them. but there are turtle stickers!!! -- nm - slutty zombie loosilu Oct 29, 17:05 9
      - not that you care, but I swear half the cars in Guam have big elaborate white stickers of all different kinds, like that. - slutty zombie loosilu Oct 29, 17:06 7
        
        cute, seems everybody around here has a bad boy peeing on something -- nm - zeitgeist Oct 29, 17:10 6
        
        That's why I'm all for not putting any stickers on my cars. I do put stickers on my kayak though -- nm - CQ Oct 29, 17:13 4
        
        I got two turtle stickers in Guam. Need to pick one for the car. -- nm - slutty zombie loosilu Oct 29, 17:14 3
        
        is it in color or all white outline or such -- nm - CQ Oct 29, 17:17 2
        
        one of them is the same turtle shown in that link. -- nm - slutty zombie loosilu Oct 29, 17:21
        
        all white. they sold a few in color but white is the overwhelming choice. -- nm - slutty zombie loosilu Oct 29, 17:21
        
        ugh, hate that. -- nm - slutty zombie loosilu Oct 29, 17:13
      - It's going to be one of those things where you'll notice them on virtually every car now. -- nm - nubby Oct 29, 17:06
"I'm Barack Obama, and I approved this message." -- nm - nubby Oct 29, 17:00 2
- PRimetime informercials... and it's too late to change my vote. -- nm - secretslacker Oct 29, 17:00 1
  - its the robo calls that piss me off, seriously I would consider not voting for someone cause of that -- nm - zeitgeist Oct 29, 17:11
Oh sh**, it's 5 already? I need to get some work done 'fore I leave. (nm) - Boo! subi Oct 29, 16:59
Yep, well, it's time for some mint chocolate chip ice cream for me. -- nm - CQ Oct 29, 16:53 3
- Stand by Union Squares makes a mint ice cream and Makers Mark shake. It's soooo good. -- nm - lileve Oct 29, 16:55 2
  - hmm, sounds good. -- nm - CQ Oct 29, 16:56 1
    - No chocolate chips though. Still amazing. -- nm - lileve Oct 29, 16:58
Is Andie still around? Anyone remember that site where you could send free (real, not virtual) postcards? Does it still exist? -- nm - JCVDano Oct 29, 16:50 1
- This? -- (link) - mara Oct 29, 17:11
finally, the homeowners are getting cut some slack in all of this bailout mania -- (link) - znufrii Oct 29, 16:43 36
- Guess I should have refi'd instead of paying off my mortgage. No debt and money in CD's and mutual funds...what's in all this for me? - MojaveMeg Oct 29, 17:17
- I wonder if there are still people who have one of those crappy mortgages who haven't been evicted yet? this has been going on for a couple years now - zeitgeist Oct 29, 16:48 3
  - absolutely there are. -- nm - slutty zombie loosilu Oct 29, 16:49 2
    - --in fact, I think there's a new wave coming as people get laid off. -- nm - slutty zombie loosilu Oct 29, 16:49 1
      - in a society where people traditionally live paycheck to paycheck, those are equally traditional foreclosures, more of them fursure just because the.. - zeitgeist Oct 29, 17:08
- Unrelated poll, which do you prefer, absorb, or, adsorb. - Loyola Oct 29, 16:48 6
  - absorb is being eaten, adsorb is being latched onto (i think) -- nm - nubby Oct 29, 16:59 2
    - more or less. - Reagen Oct 29, 17:21
    - this is coming back to me. I think you use "adsorb" to describe thin layer chromatography. - slutty zombie loosilu Oct 29, 17:01
  - I've never seen "adsorb" before. -- nm - Dr.Vermin Oct 29, 16:53 2
    - I saw it but only when I took chemistry as an undergrad. -- nm - slutty zombie loosilu Oct 29, 16:53 1
      - My limited recollection. - Loyola Oct 29, 17:10
- *gets in line with my 5.35% fixed rate* Can't hurt, maybe they will lower it to -3% and pay me to live here. -- nm - Deadmond Oct 29, 16:48
- Hooray for more personal irresponsibility! - Boo! subi Oct 29, 16:47 8
  - agreed, unless I'm the bailee. -- nm - CrankYanker Oct 29, 16:49
  - at this point I think I'm convinced we needed it. -- nm - slutty zombie loosilu Oct 29, 16:48 6
    - I'm don't disagree, but it still sucks. (nm) - Boo! subi Oct 29, 16:50 5
      - at this point I think I'm convinced it would suck more not to. -- nm - slutty zombie loosilu Oct 29, 16:51 4
        
        *looks around* Didn't I just say I don't disagree? - Boo! subi Oct 29, 16:53 3
        
        yes you did. I was not arguing, honest. -- nm - slutty zombie loosilu Oct 29, 16:54 2
        
        I can have the last word too. - Boo! subi Oct 29, 16:56 1
        
        can't. -- nm - slutty zombie loosilu Oct 29, 16:59
- Awesome! How do I get my mortgage reduced? - Dr.Vermin Oct 29, 16:45 13
  - well, if they're going to reward banks for making poor decisions they can at least level the playing field and help out the litle guy too, eh? -- nm - znufrii Oct 29, 16:47 10
    - oh yeah. compounding one bad idea by piling on another is an excellent idea....nm - x Oct 29, 18:12
    - did you listen to This American Life about the bailout? -- nm - slutty zombie loosilu Oct 29, 16:48 8
      - I'm only a few minutes into this one. As good as the 'global pool of money' one? - Dr.Vermin Oct 29, 16:49 3
        
        and then some. -- nm - slutty zombie loosilu Oct 29, 16:49 2
        
        Sweet. /fires up the Zune/ -- nm - Dr.Vermin Oct 29, 16:52 1
        
        at the end of it, I actually understood a bit about the corporate paper market and why it was in such a scary place a few weeks ago. -- nm - slutty zombie loosilu Oct 29, 16:54
      - nope. -- nm - znufrii Oct 29, 16:48 3
        
        Fanfriggingtastic. Go listen. -- nm - slutty zombie loosilu Oct 29, 16:49 2
        
        *puts it on his list* -- nm - znufrii Oct 29, 16:49 1
        
        They ask a great quesiton at the end... "Is it fair for me to be angry, and who should I be angry at?" - slutty zombie loosilu Oct 29, 16:51
  - although I hate the rewarding poor decisions aspect, the problem is now so big that we all are paying. - slutty zombie loosilu Oct 29, 16:46
  - the IM is probably correct. -- nm - Beryllium McGee Oct 29, 16:46
I try to get used to using Labels in gmail, but then I forget that I made the labels. -- nm - JCVDano Oct 29, 16:42 1
- I like that filters can be used to auto-apply labels -- nm - Beryllium McGee Oct 29, 16:43
Remlik: You reminded me, someone who lives in this building has a "Rush is a Band" sticker and plates that say N2GEDDY. -- nm - slutty zombie loosilu Oct 29, 16:41 1
- obviously a person of refined taste and senseabilities. -- nm - Remlik Oct 29, 16:41
Yea! We're going to the Spider Pavilion at the L.A. County Museum of History this Sunday! Special show for corporate partners. -- nm - CrankYanker Oct 29, 16:40 5
- What I saw. We're going to see Sarah Palin at the L.A. County Museum. - Deadmond Oct 29, 16:43 4
  - she's fossilized???? -- nm - slutty zombie loosilu Oct 29, 16:47 1
    - She can't be - she doesn't believe in fossils. -- nm - Beryllium McGee Oct 29, 16:57
  - Well, the Dinosaur Experience is in the same building.......... - CrankYanker Oct 29, 16:47
  - Who in the what now? (nm) - Boo! subi Oct 29, 16:44
I feel so crappy right now and miserable and stressed right now - eag Oct 29, 16:39 16
- *hug* -- nm - kelly Oct 29, 16:50
- It's alright man, the Rays can still comeback and win tonight. - Boo! subi Oct 29, 16:44 1
  - Not with my luck. -- nm - Dogbert's Wallet Oct 29, 16:44
- Life really sucks sometimes, doesn't it? We need some kind of activity for times like this.... - MojaveMeg Oct 29, 16:42 2
  - What makes it worse - eag Oct 29, 16:54
  - Sailing, for me :) -- nm - Beryllium McGee Oct 29, 16:54
- One word. Exercise. You need to burn off the Adrenaline. Go for a little run. -- nm - Deadmond Oct 29, 16:42 8
  - Im too emotionally wired and dont have the energy for it. -- nm - eag Oct 29, 16:44 3
    - You're missing the connection here. - Dr.Vermin Oct 29, 16:48 1
      - What he said. -- nm - Deadmond Oct 29, 17:29
    - That is like saying, I am too tired to try and get some sleep. -- nm - Deadmond Oct 29, 16:46
  - some Lone Wolf might help, too -- nm - Beryllium McGee Oct 29, 16:43 3
    - I'd be happy to play 1 game or 2 tonight. gotta turn in early though. -- nm - Remlik Oct 29, 16:46 2
      - I have strata council crap to deal with, so I dunno if I can -- nm - Beryllium McGee Oct 29, 16:56
      - Yeh maybe ill be up to it -- nm - eag Oct 29, 16:46
- dude. - znufrii Oct 29, 16:40

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