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- Yes. -- nm - Krusty Jul 29, 13:46 2
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    - *shudder* -- nm - Krusty Jul 29, 14:08
Arrived in Nashville for tonight's Tottenham vs Manchester City match. Very excited. -- nm - Volnelk Jul 29, 13:38
Secret Stalker shirt purchased & mailed - only took 15 minutes! YAY!!! - JenBro Jul 29, 12:54 1
- The young man who helped me in the P.O. on Monday was from Fiji. We held up the line way longer than necessary talking about - Meg Jul 29, 13:14
*applies to Long Island State* -- nm - prayformojo Jul 29, 12:04 1
- It's not even a real state! -- nm - Dano Jul 29, 12:09
The bill that wouldn't die -- (link) - mara Jul 29, 11:25 1
- So according to Trump, the Senate is not partisan enough. -- nm - GregW Jul 29, 12:53
Naming (and renaming) New York’s neighborhoods -- (link) - ty97 Jul 29, 11:25 3
- How can a state have neighborhoods? -- nm - con_carne Jul 29, 11:58 2
  - How can it not? :-) -- nm - Beryllium Jul 29, 12:02 1
    - That was very well stated -- nm - Bacon Jul 29, 13:03
So I guess if Trump isnt going to get the repeal and place he wants he is just going to stop paying insurance companies -- (link) - eag Jul 29, 11:23
Name the album these statements refer to: - Reagen Jul 29, 11:19 22
- It was also named the #12 Greatest Canadian Album of All Time in 2007. -- nm - Reagen Jul 29, 11:33 9
  - since I have to leave, the answer is - Reagen Jul 29, 11:48 8
    - Maybe I'll make that Today's Tape tomorrow! -- nm - Max Jul 29, 13:28
    - Heavy Metal? -- nm - Dano Jul 29, 12:09 1
      - right? -- nm - Remlik Jul 29, 13:36
    - Pretty sure everyone only remembers three of the six singles. -- (edited) - Tim Jul 29, 12:04 2
      - It was hugely controversial at the time and seen as a sell out that he'd do a duet with Tina Turner - Reagen Jul 29, 12:44
      - There's a good chance that was my favorite album of the year it came out. -- nm - Dano Jul 29, 12:11
    - wut -- nm - ty97 Jul 29, 11:56
    - 🤢 -- nm - Beryllium Jul 29, 11:49
- I was thinking George Michael - Faith, but that second clue torpedoes that one. -- nm - Tim Jul 29, 11:27 3
  - cheated. This is like when Jethro Tull won the Best Metal Album Grammy. -- nm - Tim Jul 29, 11:30 1
    - *nodding* -- nm - Reagen Jul 29, 11:31
  - let's just say I think Kerrang probably got some angry letters the next issue. -- nm* - Reagen Jul 29, 11:28
- guess - con_carne Jul 29, 11:26
- Appetite For Destruction? -- nm - Krusty Jul 29, 11:25
- For the first clue, is it - ty97 Jul 29, 11:21 5
  - The other one jumping to mind - ty97 Jul 29, 11:24 4
    - Neither is correct but you're circling around the reason I picked this. -- nm - Reagen Jul 29, 11:24 3
      - oh wait, both statements refer to the same album, duh ty97! -- nm - ty97 Jul 29, 11:26 2
        
        obviously my first guess is super dumb based on that. The second guess would have been my definite guess in that case. -- nm - ty97 Jul 29, 11:27 1
        
        (but obvie still wrong!) -- nm - ty97 Jul 29, 11:27
14 months later, Hollywood Reporter figures things out. -- (link) - David Jul 29, 11:15 1
- Officer Haught's hot. -- nm - Beryllium Jul 29, 11:20
So Brooklyn is *on* Long Island but not *in* Long Island? -- nm - Dano Jul 29, 10:59 9
- What a country! -- nm - prayformojo Jul 29, 12:02
- Correct. -- nm - Krusty Jul 29, 11:01
- Precisely. This isn't hard, people! -- nm* - ty97 Jul 29, 11:00 6
  - It's a bit to me.. (NM) - Marlowe Jul 29, 11:00 5
    - If you got in a cab in Brooklyn and said take me to Long Island he wouldn't say you're already there. He'd got on the highway towards Nassau or - Krusty Jul 29, 11:03 4
      - No, that I get.. My understanding of the Englsih prepositions is somewhat faulty.. (NM) - Marlowe Jul 29, 11:06 3
        
        Ahh, sorry. I misunderstood. - Krusty Jul 29, 11:13
        
        I think it's a unique usage of 'in' here that probably doesn't translate well - ty97 Jul 29, 11:07 1
        
        Yeah, that makes sense. -- nm - Krusty Jul 29, 11:11
quiz time? Name some of the biggest islands in the world. I'll say what rank they are. -- nm - Beryllium Jul 29, 10:53 54
- Has no one said Long Island yet? Just to see where it is on the list. -- (edited) - con_carne Jul 29, 11:56 2
  - Right?? What took so long. Answer: #149 -- nm - Beryllium Jul 29, 11:58 1
    - Sweet. Now what ranking is it when we include Brooklyn and Queens :) -- nm - con_carne Jul 29, 12:07
- Sumatra, Sulawesi, Mindanao, Davao, Great Brtain -- nm - Roger More Jul 29, 11:27 6
  - #6 (not counting the giant rat), #11, #19, n/a (not an island?), #9 -- nm - Beryllium Jul 29, 11:44 3
    - Did you mean a different name than Davao? Because you're in the proximity of one. -- nm - Beryllium Jul 29, 12:00 2
      - Oh, I got mixed up. Luzon. -- nm - Roger More Jul 29, 12:19 1
        
        #15 -- nm - Beryllium Jul 29, 12:28
  - Sakhalin -- nm - Roger More Jul 29, 11:28 1
    - #23 -- nm - Beryllium Jul 29, 11:46
- Prince Edward Island? -- nm - mara Jul 29, 11:14 3
  - #104 (and yet, it gets to be a province and Vancouver Island doesn't. Go figure.) -- nm - Beryllium Jul 29, 11:16 2
    - for vast and interesting historical reasons! - Reagen Jul 29, 11:20 1
      - Hey, they got a tv show about them, I guess. The reasons are sort of interesting. - Beryllium Jul 29, 11:21
- Banks, Prince of Wales, Southampton - Reagen Jul 29, 11:12 1
  - #24, #40, #34 -- nm - Beryllium Jul 29, 11:15
- Sri Lanka -- nm - ty97 Jul 29, 11:10 1
  - #25 -- nm - Beryllium Jul 29, 11:11
- Baffin, Ellesmere, Victoria, Vancouver, Newfoundland -- nm* - Reagen Jul 29, 11:08 1
  - #5, #10 (Ellesmere), #8, #43, #16 -- nm - Beryllium Jul 29, 11:11
- New Guinea -- nm - Marlowe Jul 29, 11:06 1
  - #2 -- nm - Beryllium Jul 29, 11:08
- Can you tell me where (if at all) Singapore is on this list? That will let me calibrate what size we're talking about here. -- nm - ty97 Jul 29, 11:01 4
  - Singapore is under 300 square miles, the list bottoms out at 390. -- nm - Beryllium Jul 29, 11:07 1
    - Thanks! -- nm - ty97 Jul 29, 11:08
  - Doesn't Greenland being #1 calibrate it? -- nm - mara Jul 29, 11:06 1
    - No? It tells me what the biggest is. It doesn't give me an idea of what's too small to be on the list. -- nm - ty97 Jul 29, 11:06
- Java -- nm - Dano Jul 29, 11:01 1
  - #13 -- nm - Beryllium Jul 29, 11:03
- Taiwan? -- nm - Krusty Jul 29, 11:00 1
  - #38 -- nm - Beryllium Jul 29, 11:03
- The two islands that make up New Zealand, whatever they are called. -- nm - ty97 Jul 29, 10:59 2
  - South #12, North #14 -- nm - Beryllium Jul 29, 11:02 1
    - Well that's not very original! -- nm - ty97 Jul 29, 11:04
- Hispaniola? -- nm - Marlowe Jul 29, 10:59 1
  - #22 -- nm - Beryllium Jul 29, 11:00
- Cuba? -- nm - Krusty Jul 29, 10:59 1
  - #17 -- nm - Beryllium Jul 29, 11:01
- Honshu (I think that's the main island of Japan?) -- nm - ty97 Jul 29, 10:58 1
  - #7 -- nm - Beryllium Jul 29, 11:00
- Borneo? -- nm - Marlowe Jul 29, 10:58 1
  - #3 -- nm - Beryllium Jul 29, 10:59
- Ireland -- nm - ty97 Jul 29, 10:56 1
  - #20 -- nm - Beryllium Jul 29, 10:57
- Madagascar -- nm - ty97 Jul 29, 10:56 1
  - #4 -- nm - Beryllium Jul 29, 10:57
- Hawaii? - ty97 Jul 29, 10:56 1
  - #75 -- nm - Beryllium Jul 29, 10:56
- Australia -- nm - Krusty Jul 29, 10:54 5
  - Think smaller ... :) -- nm - Beryllium Jul 29, 10:55 4
    - Greenland -- nm - Krusty Jul 29, 10:55 3
      - Great Britain. -- nm - Krusty Jul 29, 10:56 1
        
        #9 -- nm - Beryllium Jul 29, 10:56
      - #1 -- nm - Beryllium Jul 29, 10:56
Crap, I'm running late. See what being stupid on ST gets me? -- nm - crash davis Jul 29, 10:52 1
- Existence is pain. -- nm - budice Jul 29, 10:53
So then, back to upstate, downstate, and Western New York...... -- nm - ty97 Jul 29, 10:51 4
- Ha! -- (edited) - Krusty Jul 29, 10:53 3
  - I always thought of everything north of the Bronx as upstate, but there are some pretty virulent arguments against. - ty97 Jul 29, 10:54 2
    - Where you grew up is definitely upstate to me. There's woods all around. - Krusty Jul 29, 11:05 1
      - Ha! Where I grew up built up a lot (thanks in large part to IBM) so not lots of woods in my immediate area - ty97 Jul 29, 11:12
The argument became moot once the Islanders moved to Brooklyn. -- nm - Reagen Jul 29, 10:42 9
- And the L.I. people were pissed because they were no longer on "The Island". - Krusty Jul 29, 10:46 2
  - The fisherman's been gone for 20 years! - Reagen Jul 29, 10:52 1
    - It's an ugly stain. Like those shorts the White Sox wore. - Krusty Jul 29, 11:16
- So this means Las Vegas is becoming part of the Bay Area? -- nm - ty97 Jul 29, 10:44 5
  - They're getting an expansion team, not a relo. -- nm - Beryllium Jul 29, 10:46 4
    - Did the Raiders move get canceled? -- nm - ty97 Jul 29, 10:53 3
      - I wasn't aware "Raiders" referred to a physical location or geographical feature! -- nm - Reagen Jul 29, 11:07
      - The Islanders are an NHL team, so I wasn't considering other, lesser sports. -- nm - Beryllium Jul 29, 10:54 1
        
        Ugh, is it 'pretend hockey is a sport' day again so soon? What's next, soccer? - ty97 Jul 29, 10:55
And people think it's confusing that Vancouver isn't on Vancouver Island. -- nm - Beryllium Jul 29, 10:41 3
- Not to me. Vancouver is across the river from Portland. Vancouver Island is like in a whole other country to me. -- nm - crash davis Jul 29, 10:43 2
  - I have yet to visit that Vancouver. Given that there isn't a ScienceWorld there, though, I see no reason. -- nm - Beryllium Jul 29, 10:44 1
    - No immediate reason, at least. -- nm - Beryllium Jul 29, 12:10
"are you covered in blood?" "no. wait, yes." -- nm - Tim Jul 29, 10:38 4
- Are we supposed to believe that that exchange was spontaneous and extemporizd? -- nm - mara Jul 29, 10:45 3
  - ST has had better faster. And even if it is calculated, it's entertaining. -- nm - David's iPad Jul 29, 11:00
  - The replies are a bit too close to each other time wise, but it's still a clever use of the medium and tropes. -- nm - Tim Jul 29, 10:48 1
    - Ah, okay. I agree there. Just wasn't sure if that was the point or not. -- nm - mara Jul 29, 11:13
ty, since you went to wiki as a defining source, let me share this little gem from wiki "The majority of New York City residents now live on Long Island" -- (edited) - crash davis Jul 29, 10:36 18
- But they don't live *in* Long Island -- nm - ty97 Jul 29, 10:46 2
  - Unless they're NYC mole people, I'd say you are absolutely correct -- nm - crash davis Jul 29, 10:48 1
    - They don't come out during the day or most of the summer months. -- nm* - Krusty Jul 29, 10:50
- Which is correct. You, Mara and the others are correct that geographically they're on Long Island. - Krusty Jul 29, 10:45 7
  - I know. I was just messing with ty. See below for why I won't mess with you -- nm - crash davis Jul 29, 10:47 2
    - Fine, no NYC gay bar tour for you then! -- nm - ty97 Jul 29, 10:47 1
      - oh, I forgot you can offer that. I just thought you did the airline VIP club tours exclusively -- nm - crash davis Jul 29, 10:49
  - Maybe they're *on* Long Island, they're just not *in* Long Island. -- nm - mara Jul 29, 10:46 3
    - Doesn't help if I say going *to* Long Island.. - Marlowe Jul 29, 10:51
    - Yes. That's what I've been trying to get at. :-) -- nm - Krusty Jul 29, 10:47
    - This has been my point all along -- nm - ty97 Jul 29, 10:47
- Stop bugging me with facts! -- nm - krash Jul 29, 10:39 6
  - Me: The compound is 97% arsenic and 3% glucose. Don't eat that, its poison. ty: Its not all inedible! -- nm - crash davis Jul 29, 10:42 5
    - Actually ty: ummm, why do you have arsenic? -- nm - ty97 Jul 29, 10:42 4
      - I'm telling you not to eat it. So it must be in your hands. -- nm - crash davis Jul 29, 10:43 3
        
        I decry your Jedi mind tricks! -- nm - ty97 Jul 29, 10:44 2
        
        Actually, I'm just messing with you. I've got to apologize to Krusty because one day he is going to take me on a pizza and hot dog tour. -- nm - crash davis Jul 29, 10:45 1
        
        My pleasure! :-) - Krusty Jul 29, 10:48

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