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mmmm....the S-mart down the street makes the most delicious buffalo chicken pasta salad - Stephen Jun 4, 17:20
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- Pete Rose!! -- nm - Shaun Jun 4, 17:26
- Lou Boudreau -- nm - the liioulu with flat trees Jun 4, 17:21
- Torre -- nm - GWAA Jun 4, 17:20 8
  - He was a pretty good player who become an excellent manager - amoxy Jun 4, 17:22 7
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      - Well, what's the cutoff for best? Is it stricter than how we cut of Muslims? -- nm - TFox Jun 4, 17:25 1
        
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    - he asked who was the best player to be a FANTASTIC manager - GWAA Jun 4, 17:22 3
      - I was agreeing with your choice of Torre -- nm - amoxy Jun 4, 17:25 1
        
        I see, too many ways to read these sentences :) -- nm - GWAA Jun 4, 17:26
      - or as Reagan said, under .500 -- nm - GWAA Jun 4, 17:23
- Frank Robinson maybe -- nm - CQ Jun 4, 17:20 1
  - first guy I thought of, but he's sub .500 as a manager. -- nm - Reagen Jun 4, 17:21
- Joe Cronin -- nm - CQ Jun 4, 17:19
- Felipe Alou, maybe? -- nm - Reagen Jun 4, 17:19 5
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    - he was cut off at the knees post-strike in Montreal. -- nm - Reagen Jun 4, 17:22 3
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        I'm just saying he did a lot with next to nothing. -- nm - Reagen Jun 4, 17:24 1
        
        I'd debate he wasn't even a better player than Torre - GWAA Jun 4, 17:25
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This might be boring to you guys so sorry in advance. However our news anchor just gave a suggestion that is SO STUPID. - Redmond Jun 4, 17:06 19
- I'd need a month to do this -- nm - CQ Jun 4, 17:19
- for a second I thought you meant branches still attached to trees. -- nm - mafic Jun 4, 17:15 1
  - That's how I read it at first and had to agree with him on it being stupid. -- nm - Cuzzin Todd Jun 4, 17:28
- why would you think this is stupid? -- nm - Reagen Jun 4, 17:14 6
  - We have trees everywhere here. It would take me hours to pick up all the branches all over the yard. -- nm - Redmond Jun 4, 17:18 5
    - I live next to a freaking forest -- nm - Redmond Jun 4, 17:18 4
      - does everyone in Portland? -- nm - Reagen Jun 4, 17:20 3
        
        Pretty much unless you are right downtown. The city is surrounded by a forest -- nm - Redmond Jun 4, 17:21 2
        
        so perhaps time consuming. I still don't get stupid. -- nm - Reagen Jun 4, 17:23 1
        
        It seems very stupid to me. Maybe I am wrong. It just seems like snow is coming you better move tree limbs so you don't trip over them. -- nm - Redmond Jun 4, 17:27
- Not as bad as one of ours from last night: "think only people are affected by the Governor's budget cuts, at 11 meet some animals who might die - Stephen Jun 4, 17:12
- This isn't necessarily a bad idea, if the storm hasn't arrived. - ty97 Jun 4, 17:12
- Only vampires. Imagine being *that* vampire in vampire hell who got killed by a tree branch propelled by wind? -- nm - Shaun Jun 4, 17:11 3
  - Edward sure seemed to really really like trees. -- nm - Qale Jun 4, 17:28
  - Buddy, try being the witch who got splashed by a prissy little girl and her shitkicker dog -- nm - Wicked Witch Jun 4, 17:13
  - Windy the Vampire Slayer? -- nm - mocking vampires Jun 4, 17:12
- Well...we get enough high winds it's assumed you've already done that. And you get warned to stay inside. - the liioulu with flat trees Jun 4, 17:09
- another friend just said his roommate was jogging and the storm just came out of nowhere and the winds knocked a tree branch on him - Guy Jun 4, 17:08
- if the wind is really bad, yes. -- nm - loosilu Jun 4, 17:07
Randy Johnson gets his 300th -- nm - amoxy Jun 4, 16:55 1
- 3 of spades - psilotum Jun 4, 16:59
Alright, I'm going home. I may have a rising urge to kill, so you might find me on Halo this evening. -- nm - Beryllium Jun 4, 16:54
Guys, we're doing an AAM moment. Sorry. I'm so happy I need to share. *Guess* who is safe, happy, and healthy in my house in Maryland right now. Guess - mobile browsing loves mandy lane Jun 4, 16:50 2
- But are you on a boat? - Shaun Jun 4, 17:08
- Aw, you don't think we care enough to be able to answer that? - MojaveMeg Jun 4, 16:59
Mickie James to go start a country singing career. -- nm - Remlik Jun 4, 16:48
"Ortiz to get his eyes checked" haha - Guy Jun 4, 16:47
Severe Thunderstorm Warning for Portland. (we never get these) Next hour we are going to get hammered. -- nm - Redmond Jun 4, 16:40 12
- That's it? That'd barely get a mention here. Weenies. - Cuzzin Todd Jun 4, 17:27
- my co-worker just called and said 205 is a massive parking lot (even going south) & that winds are 25 mph already and visibility is poor. - Guy Jun 4, 17:07
- It was always fun when we had those in Seattle. - the liioulu with flat trees Jun 4, 16:49 8
  - It's being treated like an earthquake would be in the Midwest east. We are having none stop news coverage of "Severe Weather Alert 09" -- nm - Redmond Jun 4, 16:50 7
    - Or a snowstorm? - the liioulu with flat trees Jun 4, 16:52 6
      - We had a lot and I mean a lot of snow this year. We had 24 hour news coverage for days at a time. - Redmond Jun 4, 16:53 5
        
        Ooh, actual significant snow levels. - the liioulu with flat trees Jun 4, 16:56 4
        
        They are doing live coverage of this severe weather. "Some trash cans in my yard were blown over" Yes, that is news here. -- nm - Redmond Jun 4, 17:00 3
        
        uhm...uhm...okay, that's ridiculous. How do they know it 's not raccoons? - the liioulu with flat trees Jun 4, 17:04 2
        
        If you could watch our news coverage you would be laughing your ass off. - Redmond Jun 4, 17:10 1
        
        Jeez, we nly get live coverage if the weather man is doing his report right outside the studio. - the liioulu with flat trees Jun 4, 17:15
- Yay! I will finally be washed. -- nm - Redmond's car Jun 4, 16:47
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- Isn't that the bar/restaurant in the Staples center? - musubi Jun 4, 16:35 1
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RC & Redmond - Severe thunderstorm warning - heading to Portland -- (link) - Guy Jun 4, 16:33 2
- Heh, you beat me to the post' -- nm - Redmond Jun 4, 16:41 1
  - Mop's house got nailed about 20 minutes ago. -- nm - Redmond Jun 4, 16:42
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- get the 5 hour shots. no sugar and only 4 calories. Most energy drinks are just overloaded sugar. -- nm - Remlik Jun 4, 16:32
- yeah, but the vodka seems to mess with your typing. that might be troublesome in that law-talking thing you do. -- nm - mafic Jun 4, 16:32
Dear Restoration Hardware since when is Lucite "Crystal"? -- nm - lileve Jun 4, 16:26 2
- Since they can charge you more for it? -- nm - Stephen Jun 4, 16:30 1
  - but overcharging is so unlike them. -- nm - mafic Jun 4, 16:52
milestone: $4 Billion - peglegpete Jun 4, 16:22 5
- Congrats! I should be a $1B by the end of the summer. -- nm - Krusty Jun 4, 16:55
- Yay for you!!! - MojaveMeg Jun 4, 16:37 2
  - did you realize, that at Vegastravaganza, half of us are in the top 100 - peglegpete Jun 4, 16:49 1
    - And as (I think) Tim once said to Induna on acheiving #2..."mostly due to longevity" :) -- nm - MojaveMeg Jun 4, 17:01
- congrats. I'll finally cross the $1B mark in the next month. -- nm - Max Jun 4, 16:25
This is why people drink, isn't it? God this is frustrating. -- nm - Beryllium Jun 4, 16:10 10
- (so many things in life are annoying me this afternoon that I'm just ranting ... and there is the A/C turning back on like a turbine. Christ.) -- nm - Beryllium Jun 4, 16:11 9
  - This is ranting heaven. Rant on! -- nm - lileve Jun 4, 16:15 8
    - Ah, one of the major headaches (work-related) is resolved now. Phew. Some XML parsing wasn't working right. -- nm - Beryllium Jun 4, 16:16 7
      - (I got so impatient with Firefox glitching out that I had to kill it and start fresh) -- nm - Beryllium Jun 4, 16:16 6
        
        Firefox for me has been locking up something fierce the last two months. I have to reboot the system. -- nm - Remlik Jun 4, 16:47 1
        
        I think I overloaded the Firebug extension with about 70 megabytes of debug headers. -- nm - Beryllium Jun 4, 16:52
        
        People drink, well at least me, to get the edge off. Stupid shit no longer bothers you. But some take it too far and that's when drinking sucks. I ... - lileve Jun 4, 16:21 3
        
        P.S.: I hear you on the frustration. You've done everything right but it still doesn't work because of a quirk or glitch on the softwares part. Sucks. -- nm - lileve Jun 4, 16:23 2
        
        It's not so much that alone; it's a culmination of things - Beryllium Jun 4, 16:35 1
        
        $16 FTW! -- nm - lileve Jun 4, 16:44
Now watching The Abyss SE -- nm - Beaker Jun 4, 16:09 1
- nice -- nm - Danedukenuuk Jun 4, 16:10
nmbmafic - Stephen Jun 4, 16:07
Nothing says you love animals more than threatening the life of a chef who serves seal meat -- (link) - Beaker Jun 4, 16:04 1
- people are crazy -- nm - Danedukenuuk Jun 4, 16:09
Psst.... - TWuG, First Apostle of our Lord and Savior Musubi. Jun 4, 16:03
Excel formula help: I have a column of dates, and of "lead times": no. of days to be subtracted to produce a resulting date. However, - con_carne Jun 4, 16:03 4
- Thanks all! Looks like I have some stuff to play with, then. -- nm - con_carne Jun 4, 16:19
- How about the WORKDAY command? - JD Jun 4, 16:12
- Excel help suggests you need to install an Analysis ToolPack (details inside) - TaurusII Jun 4, 16:07
- Multiply by 7/5 to get an approximation? -- nm - psilotum Jun 4, 16:06
you don't care: I'm pretty convinced the only reason freedom of religion is enshrined in the US constitution is because they couldn't agree on one. - mafic Jun 4, 16:02 35
- don't forget many of the earliest settlers were puritans who were fleeing england cause they were expelled as the talaban of their day, we did not ... - zeitgeist Jun 4, 16:54
- I wouldn't be surprised if that was in some small part a reason, but the only reason? Nah. (nm) - musubi Jun 4, 16:09
- The John Adams miniseries disagrees with you (at least for John Adams) :-) -- nm - con_carne Jun 4, 16:05
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  - no. they were all supersecret muslims. -- nm - mafic Jun 4, 16:09 1
    - and freemasons -- nm - Danedukenuuk Jun 4, 16:14
  - Here's a fun chart showing the religious affiliations of the various FFs. -- (link) - TWuG, First Apostle of our Lord and Savior Musubi. Jun 4, 16:08 28
    - All I know, believe, is this, if our founding fathers didn't want religion to mix with politics in any way they would have started each session with a - Stephen Jun 4, 16:11 19
      - I haven't seen anyone here argue that they wanted a secular country. They did not want state sanctioned religion, they were not at all opposed to - TWuG, First Apostle of our Lord and Savior Musubi. Jun 4, 16:23
      - in the end they were all christian. if you're going to accept other religions in the country, and tell them their voice is just as important, I don't - mafic Jun 4, 16:18 1
        
        nonetheless, there will always be some bias from the people making the laws no matter what religion they are or if they represent the majority -- nm - Guy Jun 4, 16:25
      - they didnt want either, but the problem because that since they didnt go either way - tRuMaN Jun 4, 16:18
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        Uh, they prayed exactly before they did "speak for the country" - Stephen Jun 4, 16:17 7
        
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        Of course they speak for the country when they debate issues... - Stephen Jun 4, 16:26 4
        
        They've been elected to legislate for the country and their views often reflect their constituents (which is some small subset of the country). - pmb Jun 4, 16:31 1
        
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        Well, at least that's the way it's supposed to work... -- nm - Stephen Jun 4, 16:28
        
        Well said. (nm) - musubi Jun 4, 16:25
      - Maybe they didn't want a completely secular country, but they were wrong about other things, that'd just be one more.. - musubi Jun 4, 16:15 5
        
        No, no they weren't. - Stephen Jun 4, 16:18 4
        
        I don't need to believe in a god, if I am one. (nm) - musubi, part-time messiah Jun 4, 16:19 3
        
        God of Bacon? -- nm - Beaker Jun 4, 16:20 1
        
        Behold my porcine divinty! (nm) - musubi Jun 4, 16:24
        
        classic self-loather. -- nm - mafic Jun 4, 16:20
    - John Hancock was a snake handler? Wow. -- nm - Reagen Jun 4, 16:10 7
      - I'm surprised that there were that many Catholics... - Stephen Jun 4, 16:14 5
        
        why? - tRuMaN Jun 4, 16:19 4
        
        nope not in "many" - Danedukenuuk Jun 4, 16:37 2
        
        you can't be serious -- nm - Stephen Jun 4, 17:21 1
        
        the majority of european countries are catholic - Danedukenuuk Jun 4, 17:58
        
        especially in England what with the King starting his own religion and everything -- nm - Beaker Jun 4, 16:20
      - Don't Tread On Me! -- nm - TWuG, First Apostle of our Lord and Savior Musubi. Jun 4, 16:11
if you could take any 3 baseball players, under 30, to start a new team, who would you pick? - tRuMaN Jun 4, 16:02 12
- McCann, Pujols and Lincecum -- nm - Krusty Jun 4, 16:52
- Soto, but you have to keep him away from Selig's preseason games. -- nm - the liioulu with flat trees Jun 4, 16:46
- Mattingly, Mattingly, Mattingly. - Beryllium Jun 4, 16:19 3
  - I think I meant currently playing baseball, under the age of 30. -- nm - tRuMaN Jun 4, 16:20 2
    - Preston Mattingly! Don's son was a first round pick a couple of years ago. - David Jun 4, 16:28 1
      - That's because he hasn't shaved his sideburns. -- nm - Beryllium Jun 4, 16:31
- Pujols, Mauer, Wright. - musubi Jun 4, 16:18 3
  - If I weren't a homer, I'd take Hanley Ramirez. (nm) - musubi Jun 4, 16:27 2
    - If you were smarter, you'd also take McCann. -- nm - David Jun 4, 16:29 1
      - Over Hanley, that wouldn't be smart at all. (nm) - musubi Jun 4, 16:32
- Longoria, McCann, Pujols. -- nm - David Jun 4, 16:16
- Crawford, Longoria, Lincecum - Guy Jun 4, 16:14
Which describes how you're feeling all the time. -- nm - Dr.Vermin Jun 4, 16:01
*lurks* -- nm - TaurusII Jun 4, 16:01
BLT THURSDAY! -- nm - Redmond Jun 4, 16:00 2
- Bacon is my sabbath. (nm) - musubi Jun 4, 16:02 1
  - So we should remember Thursday and keep it holy? -- nm - nubby Jun 4, 16:05

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