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i have seen two stories on this federal mortgage plan they're cooking up. one said it would be for $50 billion. the other said $500 billion....nm - x Oct 30, 10:26 12
- bailout banks: check, bailout aig: check, bailout GM: check, bailout mortgages: check - Pippy of the Damned Oct 30, 10:31
- the bailout with a trillion greenbacks -- nm - Beryllium the Impaler Oct 30, 10:29
- I would take a billion off there hands. -- nm - tRuMaN Oct 30, 10:28
- since it's supposed to come out of the $700 billion rescue package already provided for by Congress, I'd assume the lower number -- nm - znufrii Oct 30, 10:28 8
  - The NY Times story (which estimated the plan at $50 billion) said it would come out of the $700 billion. -- nm - Mop Oct 30, 10:32 2
    - Time/CNN agrees with the 50. -- nm - slutty zombie loosilu Oct 30, 10:34
    - I called the $700 billion a "shadow budget". -- nm - Mop Oct 30, 10:32
  - no it's not -- nm - slutty zombie loosilu Oct 30, 10:30 2
    - then it's new since I read about it yesterday. -- nm - znufrii Oct 30, 10:31 1
      - You are right. -- nm - slutty zombie loosilu Oct 30, 10:33
  - totally new funds. -- nm - tRuMaN Oct 30, 10:30
  - *pats head*... that's so cute - dogbert183 Oct 30, 10:30
Wallaby on the loose near Ottawa. And it's *cold* right now., -- (link) - Halloween Candie Oct 30, 10:22 1
- Too bad his name wasn't Willoughby -- (link) - Beryllium the Impaler Oct 30, 10:28
where's hyde? -- nm - keanu reeves loves mandy lane Oct 30, 10:19 7
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- can't find him -- nm - dogbert183 Oct 30, 10:21
- right here! busy as hell today....nm - x Oct 30, 10:21 4
  - I'll bug you tomorrow then. -- nm - keanu reeves loves mandy lane Oct 30, 10:28 2
    - thanks. (does this post sound mean? I love you, hyde.) -- nm - keanu reeves loves mandy lane Oct 30, 10:28 1
      - no, it's fine. what do you need? i'll be around a bit....nm - x Oct 30, 10:31
  - /me pictures hyde behind a curtain, at a machine with giant levers and lots of steam, controlling the markets. -- nm - Mop Oct 30, 10:26
in homage to redmond, I have sent an email to a prospect on an internet dating site. - dogbert183 Oct 30, 10:14 15
- good luck. why'd you choose her? (always curious about these things) -- nm - slutty zombie loosilu Oct 30, 10:15 14
  - Aren't we being a tad assumptive assuming it's a 'her'? -- nm - Will Hunting Oct 30, 10:19 1
    - only if dogbert switched teams in the last month. -- nm - slutty zombie loosilu Oct 30, 10:21
  - she looks like she puts out - dogbert183 Oct 30, 10:17 11
    - You're looking for a sugar mama! -- nm - Amy Oct 30, 10:22 2
      - Desperately -- nm - dogbert's wallet Oct 30, 10:29
      - heck yes! I have no problem with my future wife making more than me. in fact I prefer it to be so much more it's embarassing - dogbert183 Oct 30, 10:24
    - So...... - Will Hunting Oct 30, 10:19 5
      - You're 43? -- nm - Will Hunting Oct 30, 10:27 1
        
        math is hard -- nm - dogbert183 Oct 30, 10:28
      - oh, she's 28 (1/2 age + 7 (+1 more because I said so)) -- nm - dogbert183 Oct 30, 10:26 2
        
        you're 64? -- nm - slutty zombie loosilu Oct 30, 10:26 1
        
        I only feel 64 -- nm - dogbert183 Oct 30, 10:27
    - cool! -- nm - slutty zombie loosilu Oct 30, 10:17
    - i liked the subject line better :o) -- nm - Pumpkin Pie-inbaked Uzi w/ jam Oct 30, 10:17
I need to eat. Yesterday was Chipotle. Today? Subway, local hot dog place, or Chipotle again? -- nm - kilboooo Oct 30, 10:14 6
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- do you drive near island lake? if so, chipotle and pick me up some -- nm - dogbert183 Oct 30, 10:15 2
  - Rosemont. My Chipotle is right next door to the Allstate Arena and directly in the flight path for Ohare -- nm - kilboooo Oct 30, 10:16 1
    - crud! -- nm - dogbert183 Oct 30, 10:17
- hot dog. -- nm - slutty zombie loosilu Oct 30, 10:14 1
  - thanks, I've been working out -- nm - dogbert183 Oct 30, 10:15
amazondeals Lightning Deal! $69.99 - Belkin N1 Wireless Router - David Oct 30, 10:13
I love how this headline could be taken many different ways... -- (link) - znufrii Oct 30, 10:13 1
- I'm hoping for a runoff. -- nm - JCVDano Oct 30, 10:34
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- oh spoils - Jovian Oct 30, 10:26 1
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- saw a commercial on tv for this last night - znufrii Oct 30, 10:19 4
  - Mmmm Bop? -- nm - Cuzzin Todd Oct 30, 10:20 3
    - "I Don't Want To Set The World On Fire" by The Ink Spots -- nm - znufrii Oct 30, 10:22 2
      - yep. its great, all the music in game is from the 50's. the game score is original though. nm - Jovian Oct 30, 10:28 1
        
        nice! - znufrii Oct 30, 10:30
- question... - colin Oct 30, 10:14 5
  - its like obilivion with a fallout skin. -- nm - tRuMaN Oct 30, 10:24
  - thanks all.. i've been out of gaming for 4 years or so. hard for me to keep up :) -- nm - colin Oct 30, 10:17
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  - exceptionally open. very RPG like. lots of loot. every place you can visually see? you can go into and explore. nm - Jovian Oct 30, 10:15
  - Have you ever played Oblivion or Morrowind? - kilboooo Oct 30, 10:15
wow.. someone love Reese's... -- (link) - colin Oct 30, 10:12 8
- That is *so* photoshopped -- nm - kilboooo Oct 30, 10:14 3
  - nah, the do tattoo posts pulled from galleries of the tattoo... it's just a nicely done tattoo. -- nm - colin Oct 30, 10:18 1
    - also looks fake, but amazing work.. (link) - colin Oct 30, 10:26
  - I think drawn wiht markers. -- nm - slutty zombie loosilu Oct 30, 10:16
- Blocked. I guess my company knows what's good for me -- nm - Pumpkin Pie-inbaked Uzi w/ jam Oct 30, 10:13 3
  - I guess you don't work for Fatboy Industries -- nm - Beryllium the Impaler Oct 30, 10:15 1
    - this is true. I don't -- nm - Pumpkin Pie-inbaked Uzi w/ jam Oct 30, 10:16
  - ah, there can be nudity on that site, so maybe that's why. - colin Oct 30, 10:15
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- sex tape in 5...4...3... -- nm - Reagen Oct 30, 10:21 1
  - Yes please. -- nm - Slutty Slut Oct 30, 10:23
- I just saw some bootleg concert footage of this. I always wonder about the musicians backing up teenie-boppers like this. - Mop Oct 30, 10:18
- oooh, All Saints covering Under The Bridge by RHCP is the absolute worst -- nm - Pumpkin Pie-inbaked Uzi w/ jam Oct 30, 10:11
- Worse than Britney and Satisfaction? -- nm - amoxy Oct 30, 10:09
- now you can never eat peaches and cream again? -- nm - Beryllium the Impaler Oct 30, 10:09
amanda, next time you have to do a project on branding, you must use Joe the Plumber and his attempts to be a country star: -- (link) - Halloween Candie Oct 30, 10:01 1
- pop you in the pooper -- nm - Dano Go Lucky Oct 30, 10:23
Does this work better as a halloween nick? -- nm - Beryllium the Impaler Oct 30, 10:00 3
- what bout FrankenBerry? -- nm - kilboooo Oct 30, 10:01 1
  - FrankenBeryl. Or, for ML, Al FrankenBeryl. -- nm - Mop Oct 30, 10:03
- I like it. -- nm - Mop Oct 30, 10:01
have we seen this from sedaris on undecideds? swearing - keanu reeves loves mandy lane Oct 30, 09:57 34
- It makes me sad for his childhood (assuming it's true), and aside from the airplane analogy, which is funny, it sort of makes no sense. -- nm - Subversive Oct 30, 10:18 5
  - His childhood (and Amy's and the Rooster's etc.) have provided me with hours of laughter. No matter what, there was/is a lot of love there. -- nm - Amy Oct 30, 10:24
  - I should lend you one of his essay books. He had a nicely crazy southern upbringing. -- nm - Reagen Oct 30, 10:23 3
    - both siblings turned out pretty odd. -- nm - slutty zombie loosilu Oct 30, 10:27 2
      - There's more than jsut the two. His youngest brother is basically a redneck. -- nm - Reagen Oct 30, 10:29 1
        
        even so, there's a lot of weird packed into just the two we know. -- nm - slutty zombie loosilu Oct 30, 10:30
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- I've been railing against undecideds for a few weeks now. TDS had a segment about them a few days ago. - Mop Oct 30, 10:07 4
  - on the other hand, they really might be *thinking* more than the average American. instead of just saying 'i'm a democrat' or 'i'm a republican', - Halloween Candie Oct 30, 10:09 2
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    - If you're a one or two issue voter, and both of them cancel eachother out it could be close. -- nm - Inigo Oct 30, 10:11
  - I don't see why it would matter to anyone, honestly. -- nm - slutty zombie loosilu Oct 30, 10:08
- I was just going to bring this up. It's perfect, which ever side you're on. -- nm - Reagen Oct 30, 09:58 21
  - To me it shows that people are polarizing the candidates more than the candidates are polarizing eachother. - Inigo Oct 30, 10:06 5
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      - the economy isn't like abortion, though. You're not for it or against it. I honestly don't know which candidate will handle it better. -- nm - slutty zombie loosilu Oct 30, 10:17 1
        
        i'm not voting for either of 'em, but i'll take someone who listens to paul volcker over someone who listens to phil gramm any day of the week....nm - x Oct 30, 10:20
    - to me it's the same old "if you don't agree with me you're a fucking idiot" elitist rhetoric I'm sick of. -- nm - slutty zombie loosilu Oct 30, 10:07 1
      - "Your favorite band sucks!" -- nm - znufrii Oct 30, 10:15
  - right? speaking of, is your pool up yet? I pet my sister wants in. -- nm - keanu reeves loves mandy lane Oct 30, 09:59 14
    - "So that's how it is in that family..." -- nm - Mel Profit Oct 30, 10:01
    - mental brillo. -- nm - slutty zombie loosilu Oct 30, 10:01 7
      - Tangent - the image of what mental brillo would do makes me cringe more than anything has caused the mental brillo comment. -- nm - Inigo Oct 30, 10:08 1
        
        oh, now I don't know math. -- nm - dogbert183 Oct 30, 10:10
      - no! paint a picture of it first for those of us with poor imaginations -- nm - dogbert183 Oct 30, 10:05 2
        
        oh, the K fooled me into think it was kilbo posting. -- nm - slutty zombie loosilu Oct 30, 10:07 1
        
        I do not pet my sister -- nm - kilboooo Oct 30, 10:07
      - speak for yourself. -- nm - Reagen Oct 30, 10:01 1
        
        yeah, more of a mental "moar petting plz" for everyone else -- nm - Beryllium the Impaler Oct 30, 10:02
    - you can send at any time until Tuesday - Reagen Oct 30, 10:00 2
      - sorry, I'm class and slickertalk is not searchable -- can someone post a link, please? sorry. -- nm - keanu reeves loves mandy lane Oct 30, 10:07 1
        
        this? -- (link) - dogbert183 Oct 30, 10:09 [Backboard]
    - pics plz -- nm - Beryllium McGee Oct 30, 10:00 1
      - Is it heavy petting or just light brushing? -- nm - kilboooo Oct 30, 10:00
It's no end of trouble to me that in Canada, conservatives are blue and liberals are red. -- nm - Mop Oct 30, 09:54 10
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- It was really only after 2000 that the colours got fixed in the US. - Reagen Oct 30, 09:55
- It should be that the conservatives are blue and the liberals are bluer. -- nm - JCVDano Oct 30, 09:54 7
  - we must hold a vote to decide which shade of blue is the most elitist, and the liberals should become that -- nm - Beryllium McGee Oct 30, 09:56 6
    - Royal blue. -- nm - Mop Oct 30, 10:00
    - Columbia blue. -- nm - slutty zombie loosilu Oct 30, 09:57
    - That's easy. Periwinkle. -- nm - Reagen Oct 30, 09:57 3
      - columbia blue is sort of periwinkle. -- nm - slutty zombie loosilu Oct 30, 10:00
      - (and obviously you want to stay away from Prussian Blue) -- nm - Reagen Oct 30, 09:59 1
        
        "I can see Prussia from my house!" -- nm - Beryllium McGee Oct 30, 10:00
As a small door prize - what small bottle of liquor can I give away? what as unisex appeal? -- nm - Epiphany Oct 30, 09:52 23
- Whatever it is, make it premium -- nm - con_carnage Oct 30, 10:15
- Wonder Woman costume and bottles of rum at the door. You know we're all showing up at your place tomorrow night. - Mop Oct 30, 10:02
- Should you REALLY be giving out tiny bottles of booze to trick-or-treaters? - Cuzzin Todd Oct 30, 10:00 2
  - they have to be tiny, kids are little and don't have the tollerance built up yet -- nm - dogbert183 Oct 30, 10:01 1
    - "Fun size" -- nm - Cuzzin Todd Oct 30, 10:02
- Black Jonnie Walker -- nm - DaneDukeNuuk Oct 30, 09:59
- SPIDER! -- nm - dogbert183 Oct 30, 09:59 3
  - OMFG - I have not even had that in my presence since my wedding - Epiphany Oct 30, 10:02 2
    - "Booze! Booze! Booze!" and "where is Pippy, she has been gone for an hour?!" - amoxy Oct 30, 10:08 1
      - *looks for Groiny just like every other TTer still in attendance* -- nm - Will Hunting Oct 30, 10:11
- Or - create one of those various 6-beer packs. -- nm - JaxSean Oct 30, 09:58
- bailey's. Patron. Rum. -- nm - slutty zombie loosilu Oct 30, 09:56
- Butterscotch Schnapps. -- nm - VMan Oct 30, 09:55
- There are typically scraps over the bottle of Bailey's at our Christmas parties. -- nm - Reagen Oct 30, 09:54
- Rum. -- nm - Will Hunting Oct 30, 09:54
- Southern comfort always seems to go over well. -- nm - Subversive Oct 30, 09:53 1
  - I like this answer -- nm - con_carnage Oct 30, 10:29
- get something thematic. -- nm - Halloween Candie Oct 30, 09:53 2
  - ahem.. like a 6 pack of Witchwood ale (with witches right in the glass on the bottle), or a wine with 'devil' or 'black cat' in the name... that sort - Halloween Candie Oct 30, 09:55
  - I am putting this out on the liquor table since it was opened last year and not used very much -- (link) - Epiphany Oct 30, 09:55 [Image]
- kahluah... even if you're not a drinker, you can make something with it -- nm - colin Oct 30, 09:53
- Vodka. Or wine. -- nm - JaxSean Oct 30, 09:53 1
  - Crystal Skull Vodka!!! -- nm - slutty zombie loosilu Oct 30, 09:57
Here, I got ST an ecard to ease all this political turmoil -- (link) - Banzai! Oct 30, 09:51
My entire office building is getting decorated for Halloween...my group's section has a theme of "insanity" I'm pushing a cardboard boxtown as a... - ceregon Oct 30, 09:51 4
- If the theme is Insanity. You all should do nothing and just keep working - kilboooo Oct 30, 10:06
- dude. Give out mortgages. -- nm - slutty zombie loosilu Oct 30, 10:03 1
  - negative-interest mortagages :) So sub-prime, we GIVE you money! -- nm - Beryllium the Impaler Oct 30, 10:06
- aww, you can do better than that! -- nm - colin Oct 30, 09:55

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