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Will Hunting has amazing cool gmail. -- nm - Remlik Nov 5, 12:23 1
- Replied. -- nm - Will Hunting Nov 5, 12:26
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- Hey, I don't believe in marriage either. I say we ban it for heterosexuals too! -- nm - celedhrymandias Nov 5, 12:27
- What Jack said. Even if the GLBT community was universally against the right to marry, denying it would still be morally reprihensible. -- nm - TWuG Nov 5, 12:24
- Independent of Vermin (I haven't read that thread), I would be grateful if more people would just be honest about the fact that... - David Nov 5, 12:24 2
  - Yup. Don't talk to me about cultural value of marriage's reproductive symbolism, tell me that you just find gays icky, and at least I buy that. - musubi Nov 5, 12:26 1
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- I accept your apology. :) -- nm - Dr.Vermin Nov 5, 12:24
Did anyone check out the "holograms" used by CNN last night? what a fuicking waste of money... -- (link) - Beaker Nov 5, 12:20 1
- I wouldn'T say it was a complete waste of money, I watched CNN in part because of the gadget - Guigue Nov 5, 12:23
Conversation between 2 coworkers in my area: - kelly Nov 5, 12:20 2
- this made me giggle. -- nm - Diva Nov 5, 12:23
- I remember when I was in sixth grade, a friend of mine was totally in love with Burt Reynolds. - Callisto Nov 5, 12:23
Not that it matters but why hasn't NC been called? -- nm - David Nov 5, 12:20 7
- 12,000 votes and probably a lot still to be counted via absentee'ism and such. -- nm - Will Hunting Nov 5, 12:24
- Two day rule. -- nm - Dano, Least Improved Poster Nov 5, 12:21 3
  - What's that? I'm not familiar with it. -- nm - David Nov 5, 12:22
  - Oh, we're doing self-superlatives? -- nm - nubby, Least Important Poster Nov 5, 12:22 1
    - yay! -- nm - Amy--most deteriorated poster Nov 5, 12:24
- They're still waiting to hear from me? -- nm - nubby Nov 5, 12:20
- Too close? -- nm - TWuG Nov 5, 12:20
kid, your face is a fallacy of retrospect -- nm - prayformojo Nov 5, 12:19 2
- Ok, that's just mean. (nm) - musubi Nov 5, 12:21
- philosophical burn! -- nm - nubby Nov 5, 12:20
Estimated Freight - $19,500...Actual Freight - $850. - Will Hunting Nov 5, 12:17 3
- Drastic change in oil prices? -- nm - Dano, Least Improved Poster Nov 5, 12:19
- annual ship container full of frozen burgers? -- nm - Max Nov 5, 12:19 1
  - No, our idiot buyers who have moved on. - Will Hunting Nov 5, 12:20
IGN Babe Election (link) - Jovian Nov 5, 12:12 7
- I don't understand how you're supposed to vote. -- nm - Mop Nov 5, 12:23
- I'm currently madly in love with Yvonne Strahovski so even if the voting interface sucks, I made sure to vote for her -- nm - Guigue Nov 5, 12:18 1
  - I'll tell you what, if they'd put her in competition with Sarah Lancaster my brain may have shut down. That's an impossible choice. -- nm - TWuG Nov 5, 12:20
- Wow. What a completely impossible site to vote on. Seriously crappy interface. -- nm - TWuG Nov 5, 12:16 3
  - oh, I thought it was because voting hasnt started yet. Are you actually able to vote in some convoluted way? nm - Jovian Nov 5, 12:20 1
    - Hmmm... Maybe not. I followed a couple links from the pics and there was a "vote here" link on those pages, but I didn't try to vote. That way lies - TWuG Nov 5, 12:23
  - *takes notes* -- nm - Florida Board of Elections si Nov 5, 12:17
Smith's margin down to 5,000 votes with Multnomah still at 51%. If those lazy-asses ever get the job done, Merkley's gonna win by a large margin. -- (link) - Mop Nov 5, 12:10
So who were the incumbent House/Senate candidates that were booted this election? -- nm - Max Nov 5, 12:06 7
- Senate --- Dole; Sununu (smith to be determined)....House had 4 Dems get booted (Boyda, Mahoney, Lampson and Cayazoux) and the only GOPer I know is - Will Hunting Nov 5, 12:08
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  - Bill Sali is the name of the incumbent that just lost the House race I posted about below. -- nm - crash davis Nov 5, 12:19
  - Dole. (nm) - musubi Nov 5, 12:08 3
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      - Yeah, about 2 seconds after I clicked "post", I read the last three words of your post. (nm) - musubi Nov 5, 12:12
      - max's original question asked for both house and senate. -- nm - Diva Nov 5, 12:12
Danny Williams to throw a party to celebrate the Have status... -- (link) - Name Withheld By Request Nov 5, 12:04 2
- Book him Dano. Murder 1. -- nm - Steve McGarrett Nov 5, 12:19
- *does a shot* -- nm - Beaker Nov 5, 12:15
with a margin of just 3700 votes, Dem Walt Minnick has been declared the winner in Idaho's congressional district #1 - crash davis Nov 5, 12:02 13
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  - *laughing* You think those who say that had never heard of a close election before? -- nm - mara Nov 5, 12:05 7
    - besides, IMO it's not even about the close elections. It's a duty. -- nm - loosilu Nov 5, 12:08
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      - What's funny is that that number of 3700 is almost certainly rounded off. It could be 3712, or 3689. There's a bunch of votes right there that don't - mara Nov 5, 12:11 4
        
        That's a fallacy of retrospect that they don't make a difference though. - musubi Nov 5, 12:15 3
        
        There is nothing that would have caused 3700 Dems not to vote that would not also have caused a comparable number of Republicans not to vote. - mara Nov 5, 12:17 2
        
        No there isn't, but that's all it'd take. That's why every 1 vote does count. (nm) - musubi Nov 5, 12:19
        
        on the other hand, members of the minority party in a heavy state for the majority party are more apt to feel that their vote doesn't count -- nm - crash davis Nov 5, 12:18
- wow. -- nm - Diva Nov 5, 12:03
- *jaw drops* -- nm - znufrii Nov 5, 12:03
- Who do you think you are? Montana? -- nm - Dano Nov 5, 12:03 1
  - It did help that the Rep incumbent was so far right that he made Dick Cheney look like Mary Poppins -- nm - crash davis Nov 5, 12:05
I kinda feel like arguing with David (when he'e bringing the crazy) is a rite of TT passage. - musubi Nov 5, 12:01 10
- TT Sub-Poll: What do you disagree with David about? - nubby Nov 5, 12:20 1
  - The second worst hitter in the NL! (You disagree with statistics rather than me on this one.) -- nm - David Nov 5, 12:21
- old David was more fiesty funness than this cheap imitation -- nm - Redmond Nov 5, 12:03 7
  - seriously. I think Cal's slipping something to him in his food. -- nm - Mel Profit Nov 5, 12:10 6
    - I almost died, people. It took off some of the edge. -- nm - David Nov 5, 12:18 5
      - Ahhhhhh..........percosets. - Will Hunting Nov 5, 12:19 2
        
        ugh, makes me projectile vomit. -- nm - loosilu Nov 5, 12:26
        
        That was the only type of pain medication my surgeon could get me to take. - David Nov 5, 12:21
      - This isn't about Whiner David...it's about Fighty David. -- nm - Mel Profit Nov 5, 12:19 1
        
        There's just the one David. -- nm - David Nov 5, 12:19
Ford's pardoning of Nixon....Good or bad? - Name Withheld By Request Nov 5, 12:01 4
- Bad. (nm) - Will Hunting Nov 5, 12:04 1
  - Set a precedent for later criminality in the White House. Be it Republican or Democrat, the concensus is now... - Mop Nov 5, 12:06
- Bad. It was institutional criminality and by pardoning Nixon, too many of the baddies got away and came back to haunt us in later years. -- nm - Mop Nov 5, 12:03
- necessary. -- nm - znufrii Nov 5, 12:02
64 passed??? thats ridiculous -- nm - Guy Nov 5, 12:01 2
- hell yes. -- nm - Redmond Nov 5, 12:04 1
  - according to OregonLive - it hasn't passed yet (though the yes votes are ahead) -- (link) - Guy Nov 5, 12:17
Loosi, not that you asked for my opinion, but - - kelly Nov 5, 11:59 25
- Oh, by all means. I did not mean to imply otherwise, and I'm very grateful. There are a few who continue to be - loosilu Nov 5, 12:02 24
  - Well, maybe that's why. :) - kelly Nov 5, 12:05 23
    - I ignore it most of the time. on the other hand, it feels wrong to just let someone tell me to get the fuck off the board and just not say anything. - loosilu Nov 5, 12:07 22
      - Speaking as someone who has had multiple experiences of spats with you... - Trish Nov 5, 12:27 2
        
        thanks. all of this being said, there's a difference between fights (which I am not interested in any more) and people - loosilu Nov 5, 12:32 1
        
        Well you know the saying about winning arguments on the internet... -- nm - Shaun of the Dead Nov 5, 12:34
      - To your IM: Not when you know that's exactly what they want. You know who your main antagonists are. Ignore them. -- nm - TWuG Nov 5, 12:08 18
        
        I feel like I'm letting them get away with it, then. I honestly don't know what is right. - loosilu Nov 5, 12:09 17
        
        To put it another way, if someone talked to a friend of mine that way, I'd rip them a new one. That's the right thing to do. -- nm - loosilu Nov 5, 12:10 16
        
        Except here you know it just feeds the pattern of abuse. They abuse you *because* you react. Stop reacting. -- nm - TWuG Nov 5, 12:12 15
        
        they do it regardless of how i react. In spite of what some people claim, I hardly ever respond. -- nm - loosilu Nov 5, 12:13 13
        
        plus, this implies that it is all my fault, which is bullshit. -- nm - loosilu Nov 5, 12:14 12
        
        I think it implies it's in your control, not that it's your fault. -- nm - mara Nov 5, 12:15 11
        
        *ding* -- nm - TWuG Nov 5, 12:18 1
        
        You know, I step up - loosilu Nov 5, 12:19
        
        It's equally in control of the antagonists. I would *love* it - loosilu Nov 5, 12:17 8
        
        you can't control other people, you can control yourself. -- nm - Andie Nov 5, 12:18 7
        
        not the point. *sigh* -- nm - loosilu Nov 5, 12:20 6
        
        yes. it is. don't perpetuate it. -- nm - Andie Nov 5, 12:20 5
        
        what I am trying to understand - loosilu Nov 5, 12:22 3
        
        Some do, some don't. TT isn't a BS-proof. For example: Vermin still posts. - musubi Nov 5, 12:24 2
        
        /shakes my tiny fist at you/ -- nm - Dr.Vermin Nov 5, 12:25 1
        
        small size test. - Andie Nov 5, 12:32
        
        I'm shriiiiinkiiiiiing! (nm) - musubi Nov 5, 12:22
        
        *nodding* -- nm - kelly Nov 5, 12:13
LIR: Mel. I know that's where my influences have come from, but when the prevalent images of "the movement" is the opposite - oblique Nov 5, 11:59 13
- So it's the responsibility of the group to search you out and prove to you that they're not fruits? - Mel Profit Nov 5, 12:09 4
  - Tragically, while it might not be that groups responsibility, the onus to bring change is generally on that group. (nm) - musubi Nov 5, 12:17
  - *I* don't hold those views, but I'm supposing that those who have limited exposure to gays in their pesonal life have to take what is offered - oblique Nov 5, 12:14 1
    - you're right..you weren't saying this was your opinion. - Mel Profit Nov 5, 12:21
  - I thought he was saying this isn't where his views come from, but undoubtedly it is for many others. -- nm - TFox Nov 5, 12:11
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  - The crux of it is: the behavior of those in the gay pride parade, is that what you are really proud of gay people for? - TFox Nov 5, 12:07 2
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    - But everyone understands that Cinco de Mayo and St. Patty's have been co-opted. Gay pride is still all about being gay until frat boys use it as a - oblique Nov 5, 12:08
  - I don't want to paint all participants as anti-straight, but you cannot deny there is a kind of animonsity there in some circles. Hence: Breeders -- nm - oblique Nov 5, 12:04 3
    - *eye roll* if you want to start bring up the names that are used, you'll lose that fight..."breeder" is nothing compared to The Other F Word -- nm - The Calico Cat Coalition Nov 5, 12:16 1
      - I wouldn't, but I think it has an effect in-so-much that blacks use of white perjoratives didn't advance their cause -- nm - oblique Nov 5, 12:20
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Black Panther? I wasn't arguing about the prevailing imagery, I was just pointing out that Black Pride marches do exist. (nm) - musubi Nov 5, 11:58 2
- I don't quite believe Black Pride marches are in the vein, nor the immigration ones. - Will Hunting Nov 5, 11:59 1
  - I can't even formulate the joke of what an equivalent black pride march would need to look like. -- nm - TFox Nov 5, 12:03
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  - (spoils) - The Calico Cat Coalition Nov 5, 12:08
- false -- nm - The Calico Cat Coalition Nov 5, 12:03
- Tricky question because what part of it might be false? Could it have been a 4-1 margin? Or maybe they voted for Obama? Or there's no such county? -- nm - Mop Nov 5, 12:00 1
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- True -- nm - znufrii Nov 5, 11:58
- sure. -- nm - loosilu Nov 5, 11:58
email grammar nazi poll -- "cc:ed" or "cc'ed" or some other variation? -- nm - znufrii Nov 5, 11:57 14
- CC'ed -- nm - oblique Nov 5, 12:00
- I use cc'ed. (The colon is a terrible idea.) -- nm - mara Nov 5, 11:59 8
  - I absolutely loathe the use of an apostrophe before "ed". -- nm - loosilu Nov 5, 12:03 3
    - wait a minute. no I don't. My god, where has my brain gone? What I loathe is the use of apostrophe-S for plurals. -- nm - loosilu Nov 5, 12:04 2
      - It's a necessary evil with initialisms. -- nm - mara Nov 5, 12:09
      - *grabs popcorn to watch loosi argue with herself* (nm) - musubi Nov 5, 12:05
  - Agreed. It looks like you carbon copied a dude named Ed. -- nm - TFox Nov 5, 12:00 1
    - This is absolutely correct. -- nm - Beryllium Nov 5, 12:05
  - I assume you're using it as a verb in the past tense? -- nm - mara Nov 5, 11:59 1
    - correct. -- nm - znufrii Nov 5, 12:00
- I use cc'd, but I'm not a nazi. -- nm - Trish Nov 5, 11:58 2
  - Me as well, and I am a Nazi. Like an actual one. - TFox Nov 5, 12:00
  - You just play one on ST. :-P - TWuG Nov 5, 11:59
- since it's not a real word, anything you want, but I lean toward the first. -- nm - loosilu Nov 5, 11:58
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- It's from Bambi :) -- nm - Trish Nov 5, 11:59
- It's from Bambi :) -- nm - Trish Nov 5, 11:59
- "If you can't say anything nice, don't say anything at all." -- nm - Thumper's Mom Nov 5, 11:58 2
  - That would make ST totally boring and I would have to go to another board. -- nm - Amy--voted for only two winners Nov 5, 12:14
  - Bwahahahahahahahaha! -- nm - Dr.Vermin Nov 5, 12:01
Wait, what has been said about Crichton? Did I miss something? -- nm - kelly Nov 5, 11:56 14
- *pours a 40 in his honor* -- nm - budice Nov 5, 12:00
- Dead at 66 from cancer. -- nm - TWuG Nov 5, 11:57 11
  - (re: Vermin's 'nice to see TT/ST staying classy' bit.) - kelly Nov 5, 12:00 5
    - Crichton was an ardent opponent of the prevailing view on global warming and had some interesting views on SETI and extraterrestrial life. -- nm - Mop Nov 5, 12:02 1
      - also - he was an asshole -- nm - Guy Nov 5, 12:26
    - Oh, I wasn't being sarcastic! I'm sincerely glad. - Dr.Vermin Nov 5, 12:01 2
      - ...and then Guy breaks the ice. - Dr.Vermin Nov 5, 12:03 1
        
        i lost all respect for him when he crossed some lines with his book critics -- nm - Guy Nov 5, 12:25
  - Not from disappointment? -- nm - Guy Nov 5, 12:00 2
    - I've been wanting to say this all day. If Guy gets grief for saying it, I should too. -- nm - Mop Nov 5, 12:01 1
      - Here at the library, we made those jokes hours ago. -- nm - Amy--voted for only two winners Nov 5, 12:21
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    - No details. Private battle. -- nm - Mop Nov 5, 11:59
- RIP -- nm - Dano Nov 5, 11:57
I'm gayer on TT than in real life too! (nm) - musubi Nov 5, 11:56 1
- God, me too. If any of my offline friends saw me here, they'd be quite confused. As would be my wife. -- nm - Mop Nov 5, 11:58
*wipes the slate* -- nm - oblique Nov 5, 11:54

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