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Monday is National Man Day -- (link) - Beaker Jun 12, 09:18 4
- also: "Sneak a Kiss Day," -- nm - Beaker Jun 12, 09:19 3
  - We need better days like National Sleep with the Au Pair Day and National Play Frisbee with the Dog Day. -- nm - David Jun 12, 09:21 2
    - If you didn't get that first one when Clinton was president, you ain't getting it. -- nm - Dano Jun 12, 09:23
    - the annual Brett Favre retirement day! -- nm - Beaker Jun 12, 09:23
Bobby Valentine: big in Japan. - David Jun 12, 09:16
Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo. -- (link) - nubby Jun 12, 09:11 4
- Neat but I think it maybe needs two commas? - DreadPR Jun 12, 09:16
- Oklahoma! Oklahoma! Oklahoma! Oklahoma! Oklahoma! -- nm - Spawn Jun 12, 09:15 1
  - *bangs pots and pans together* -- nm - Beaker Jun 12, 09:16
- Well, at least it's not a sentence fragment. -- nm - Beryllium Jun 12, 09:11
And I'm done, the Hello Kitty picture on Awkward Family Photos did me in -- (link) - MDH Jun 12, 09:10 2
- Is this a gay couple or is that the mom to the left? -- (link) - amoxy Jun 12, 09:21
- I think that one tops the Winnie the Pooh / Piglet / Eeyore one. Egads. -- nm - JaxSean Jun 12, 09:11
"PYLE!" "Shazam!" "PYLE!" "Shazam!" Happy 79th birthday, Jim Nabors! -- nm - Mop (235 lbs) Jun 12, 09:05
nmb 'lia & Ty - GWAA Jun 12, 09:04 2
- If you tell us the vicinity of where you're staying we can recommend places that are fairly close. - 'lia Jun 12, 09:27
- What part of town ar eyou going to be in? -- nm - ty97 Jun 12, 09:05
so sleepy -- nm - Beaker Jun 12, 09:03 1
- Me too. That overtime game kept me up way past my bed time. -- nm - DreadPR Jun 12, 09:09
Poll: If you had an extra $10 that you must spend today, what are you buying? - Hotkiss Jun 12, 09:00 30
- Chipotle is tempting but perhaps a woot shirt -- nm - DreadPR Jun 12, 09:19
- MetroNorth ticket to NYC. -- nm - lileve Jun 12, 09:18
- I'll but Redmond a BLT -- nm - peglegpete Jun 12, 09:12 4
  - buy -- nm - peglegpete Jun 12, 09:21
  - MLTs are much better -- nm - DreadPR Jun 12, 09:17 1
    - "But that's not what he said! He said, 'To blaaaave.'" -- nm - con_carne Jun 12, 09:22
  - Butt, lettuce and tomato? -- nm - Spawn Jun 12, 09:13
- Lunch. -- nm - JaxSean Jun 12, 09:10
- music -- nm - TFox Jun 12, 09:10
- a cheap 1.5L bottle of wine, tortillas, sour cream - I've got the rest of the makings for fajitas at the house. Y'all are invited! - 'lia Jun 12, 09:06
- cerveza -- nm - con_carne Jun 12, 09:02
- Alcohol. -- nm - MDH Jun 12, 09:02 1
  - ^5! -- nm - con_carne Jun 12, 09:03
- 3 twelve packs of Coca-Cola -- nm - Qale Jun 12, 09:01
- nuts. cashews, I think. -- nm - crabs love mandy lane Jun 12, 09:01
- itunes -- nm - Andie Jun 12, 09:01
- Five Guys. -- nm - David Jun 12, 09:01 10
  - I hate how they have increased their prices so much - MDH Jun 12, 09:10 1
    - I blame two of the guys but not the other three. -- nm - David Jun 12, 09:12
  - your meal is $12.10. You couldn't afford it! -- nm - Callisto Jun 12, 09:09 7
    - Are they really this expensive? - con_carne Jun 12, 09:13 5
      - You can't put a price on ambrosia. -- nm - David Jun 12, 09:16 3
        
        Maybe if they put ambrosia in it the burgers would have more flavor. -- nm - Max Jun 12, 09:22 2
        
        Is it your goal in life to tick me off every Friday? -- nm - David Jun 12, 09:24 1
        
        Look, you already have a hot wife. You can't have everything. -- nm - Max Jun 12, 09:26
      - Shush, you. they're worth it. -- nm - loosilu Jun 12, 09:13
    - Dream shatterer!] -- nm - David Jun 12, 09:10
- lunch. -- nm - znufrii Jun 12, 09:00
- candy, -- nm - Beaker Jun 12, 09:00
- porn -- nm - Dano Jun 12, 09:00
hotkiss, i think you are confusing mafia with common thugs. -- nm - Andie Jun 12, 08:59 6
- *knock knock* Goons. Hired goons. -- nm - Hired Goons si Jun 12, 09:00 4
  - do you have stairs in your house? -- nm - Hotkiss Jun 12, 09:02 3
    - uh. Not inside my condo, no. But the building has stairs. -- nm - Beryllium Jun 12, 09:03 2
      - (testing to see if you're a SomethingAwful goon) -- nm - Hotkiss Jun 12, 09:04 1
        
        Oh, no, I was going for the Simpsons reference. -- nm - Beryllium Jun 12, 09:11
- *bans you from Facebook* -- nm - Dano Jun 12, 09:00
it's almost july 4th. but *it is not july 4th yet.* (thank you for your time and attention.) -- nm - crabs love mandy lane Jun 12, 08:59 1
- I wish there was a website that could help to know if it really was july 4th. -- nm - ty97 Jun 12, 09:00
I tend to think the regular users are any transit system probably have gripes with it. - ty97 Jun 12, 08:58 23
- what I like particularly about DC and Paris is that as someone who's largely unfamiliar with the cities, - crabs love mandy lane Jun 12, 09:00 21
  - Toronto has fairly bad signage once you are in the stations. I see tourists looking perplexed all the time. - Andie Jun 12, 09:06
  - This is what I thought until I worked in DC and got asked to explain metro every morning -- nm - MDH Jun 12, 09:04 19
    - I think they do a very poor job of showing you which platform you need. And the fare machines are impossible for tourists. -- nm - loosilu Jun 12, 09:05 18
      - I do recall the fare machine not being tourist-proof -- nm - ty97 Jun 12, 09:08 13
        
        At the Smithsonian station, I don't think there is ever NOT a group of confused tourists at the machines. -- nm - loosilu Jun 12, 09:12 9
        
        To be fair, this probably happen in every city in the touristy areas. - ty97 Jun 12, 09:13 8
        
        not true. -- nm - loosilu Jun 12, 09:14 7
        
        oooo.....kkkkkk......... -- nm - ty97 Jun 12, 09:15 6
        
        You really should know better. -- nm - Spawn Jun 12, 09:16 1
        
        package package package package package package. "guess what my package gave me for ID4?" -- nm - crabs love mandy lane Jun 12, 09:17
        
        even if you are right, the DC machines are still very badly designed. -- nm - loosilu Jun 12, 09:16 2
        
        I admitted that clearly and fully. But tourists are tourists everywhere. - ty97 Jun 12, 09:19 1
        
        The first rule of designing an interface: Don't blame the user. If they can't figure it out, you designed it badly. - loosilu Jun 12, 09:20
        
        yeah. I kind of... uh... let's IM some more about packages! -- nm - crabs love mandy lane Jun 12, 09:15
        
        did we try to use one once? or am I hallucinating? I remember max had to rescue me from one once. -- nm - crabs love mandy lane Jun 12, 09:10 2
        
        Doll, when haven't I had to rescue you from something? -- nm - Max Jun 12, 09:25 1
        
        Aw! a Knight-in-shining-armour! -- nm - 'lia Jun 12, 09:31
      - Haha that is my favorite part, and SmartTrip's for parking kills -- nm - MDH Jun 12, 09:07 3
        
        oh, you know what else sucks? No stairs! and someone is always standing on the damn left! -- nm - loosilu Jun 12, 09:14 1
        
        *rage* -- nm - znufrii Jun 12, 09:15
        
        honestly, I have never figured out smarttrips. -- nm - loosilu Jun 12, 09:13
- indeed, but that doesn't mean I can't say the DC system is not nearly as good as others. -- nm - loosilu Jun 12, 08:59
Poll: most favorite and least favorite public transit systems? London, can't choose. -- nm - loosilu Jun 12, 08:57 46
- I've only been on the DC, Paris, and Rome subways. Rome's is small, dark and dingy. Someone tried to pickpocket me on Paris'. So I'd have to go DC. -- nm - Ender Jun 12, 09:08
- Most: Hong Kong - clean and easy to use. Least: Tokyo, super confusing, multiple companies running multiple lines independantly, very long walks betw -- nm - een platforms -- nm - DreadPR Jun 12, 09:04
- For sunbway systems, probably Tokyo. Rome is probably the worst - it hardly goes anywhere and hasn't been cleaned since Italia '90 -- nm - Roger More Jun 12, 09:03
- least favorite would probably be any non-major city, where the bus comes every 40-120 minutes. - ty97 Jun 12, 09:03
- dirty, somewhat unreliable, impossible to decipher spoken messages, but it goes everywhere: NYC -- nm - ty97 Jun 12, 09:01 7
  - It's not anywhere near as unreliable as it used to be. -- nm - znufrii Jun 12, 09:01 5
    - Aside from the G train, I love them all. I heard gripes about rush hour 4,5,6 last year but haven't run into any bad at all. -- nm - Hotkiss Jun 12, 09:03 3
      - well, when the 2nd Ave subway opens six years from now, those gripes will be a thing of the past. - znufrii Jun 12, 09:04 2
        
        Isn't the new WTC/Wall Street station opening in a few years? - Hotkiss Jun 12, 09:08 1
        
        If your'e talking about the WTC PATH station that's really just a new station entrance, it's not affecting service much, if at all. - znufrii Jun 12, 09:11
    - I was gonna sya. -- nm - loosilu Jun 12, 09:02
  - (London is also impressive. Tokyo trains are amazing. I haven't figured the buses out yet) -- nm - ty97 Jun 12, 09:01
- fav: NYC, obvie. - znufrii Jun 12, 09:00 29
  - but you've ridden enough to have a favourite? :) NYC isn't my favourite - it's a little bewildering to visitors -- nm - Roger More Jun 12, 09:05 27
    - Took me 2 weeks to learn the NYC system decently well. I must be slow. -- nm - Hotkiss Jun 12, 09:10 9
      - actually that sounds about right. - znufrii Jun 12, 09:12 8
        
        Oh, and what 3 systems? huh? -- nm - Hotkiss Jun 12, 09:15 3
        
        Interborough Rapid Transit (numbered lines), Brooklyn Manhattan Transit (J-R, W, Z lines), Independent Subway (A-G, V lines) - znufrii Jun 12, 09:19
        
        ah, the subway has a history. :) It's made of up three lines that were combined. Many people still use the old names (like IRT) -- nm - loosilu Jun 12, 09:17 1
        
        ~LBJ took the IRT down to Ford Street USA~ - con_carne Jun 12, 09:26
        
        Local, express, uptown, downtown, one-way entrances, the mystery of the uptown 6 on Lafayette/Bleecker... I'm but a mere country gal! -- nm - Hotkiss Jun 12, 09:14 3
        
        heh. - znufrii Jun 12, 09:16 2
        
        Yes I'd like to hear it! You can send me an e-mail if you want - Hotkiss Jun 12, 09:18 1
        
        It's not really a story, just about the way the overlapping systems were built - znufrii Jun 12, 09:27
    - I think I've used mass transit in at least a dozen cities (not all in the US) - ty97 Jun 12, 09:07 6
      - sure - my experience is pretty similar, but of all those systems I found NYC was the one that requires the most local knowledge -- nm - Roger More Jun 12, 09:12 5
        
        again, I offer Boston as a counter example. -- nm - loosilu Jun 12, 09:15 4
        
        sure - but in that case, I had some local knowledge available. It's hard for me to tell how confused I would have been without it. - Roger More Jun 12, 09:18 3
        
        Ever heard the song "Charlie on the MTA?" It's about a guy who is on the T and can't get off, ever. - loosilu Jun 12, 09:20 2
        
        No, but then I never heard 'Word Up' either -- nm - Roger More Jun 12, 09:20 1
        
        ask Coolio, I bet she can sing it. -- nm - loosilu Jun 12, 09:21
    - then again, so is the city itself. :) -- nm - znufrii Jun 12, 09:06
    - did you ride the T in Boston? I'll show you bewildering. :) -- nm - loosilu Jun 12, 09:06 8
      - That was OK, except the green line. Also, Coolio has lived in Boston, so she knew what to do - Roger More Jun 12, 09:08 6
        
        She protected you from the true nightmare then. Green line is by far the worst, but the whole thing is crazy. -- nm - loosilu Jun 12, 09:17
        
        That's why they're called "Express" trains. - znufrii Jun 12, 09:12 4
        
        Too many times I wound up in Harlem when I just wanted to picnic in Central Park. -- nm - Hotkiss Jun 12, 09:20
        
        sure - but visitors might not know what stops will be missed (or even that it's an express train) before they get on - Roger More Jun 12, 09:15 2
        
        well, the express stops are clearly differentiated on the map, and trains don't usually change to express, unless they need to adjust for service - znufrii Jun 12, 09:23 1
        
        you mean this map? *squints* - Roger More Jun 12, 09:29
      - especially if you're trying to get a train after 1:00 am -- nm - znufrii Jun 12, 09:07
  - and for a small city transit system, Portland, OR rocks. -- nm - znufrii Jun 12, 09:03
- Santa Monica/LA County Metro -- nm - con_carne Jun 12, 08:59 1
  - Actually, I shouldn't say that. The Metro has saved my ass too many times. For least favorite, I'll just say... the one in Fresno -- nm - con_carne Jun 12, 09:01
- I hate them all -- nm - Redmond in Sin City Jun 12, 08:59 1
  - people like YOU are the reason for oil dependency! -- nm - loosilu Jun 12, 09:00
But you say he's just a friend. But you say he's just a friend. -- nm - David Jun 12, 08:57 1
- ~ OH BABY YOUUU.... you got what i neeed... ~ -- nm - i'm not Biz Markie ! Jun 12, 08:58
con_carn: Yeah, fan pages too. I need to remember to do that for ST's fan page. -- nm - Beryllium Jun 12, 08:56
I am thinking about getting a drink of water. Should I? -- nm - Spawn Jun 12, 08:56 21
- The water is also cursed. -- nm - David Jun 12, 09:04 1
  - 25 Spawn Points - Spawn Jun 12, 09:12
- I don't know dude...there's issues on both sides of this one. My dilema is whether or not to USE the restroom...or not. -- nm - Jim Jun 12, 09:02 2
  - damn! you just reminded me I have to pee. should I, or no? what do you think? -- nm - crabs love mandy lane Jun 12, 09:04 1
    - I admit, this was my first thought for the post. - Spawn Jun 12, 09:14
- Diet Pepsi -- nm - Beaker Jun 12, 09:01
- water water everywhere, but not a drop to drink ! -- nm - i'm not dead yet ! Jun 12, 08:59
- To think soda is cheaper than bottled water -- nm - budice Jun 12, 08:57 9
  - I cannot recommend water service enough to everyone. it's so inexpensive really. -- nm - crabs love mandy lane Jun 12, 08:58 8
    - what's this? -- nm - ty97 Jun 12, 08:59 7
      - water service? you rent a cooler for like $4 per month and the water man (derek. he's pretty hot) brings you 5-gallon bottles for it at regular - crabs love mandy lane Jun 12, 09:03 6
        
        Can you adjust your 5-gallon quanity/frequency? Is it contract? -- nm - ty97 Jun 12, 09:04 4
        
        get this: derek just drives by, picks up old bottles, and drops off as many new ones as I leave out old ones. so it's just a replenishment system. - crabs love mandy lane Jun 12, 09:08 3
        
        It's something I was considering, because bottled is costly and environment-bad. - ty97 Jun 12, 09:12 2
        
        you know what's even cheaper and better for hte environment? Tap water. :) - loosilu Jun 12, 09:22 1
        
        tap water thru a Brita ain't so bad - 'lia Jun 12, 09:28
        
        (he's kind of short, though.) -- nm - crabs love mandy lane Jun 12, 09:04
- No -- nm - Redmond in Sin City Jun 12, 08:57
- No. Water can kill. You know how many people drown a year! -- nm - TWuG Jun 12, 08:57
- No. -- nm - Don Homer Jun 12, 08:57
- Water -- nm - amoxy Jun 12, 08:56
Word. -- nm - Jim Jun 12, 08:55 1
- Weiner -- nm - amoxy Jun 12, 08:56

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