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From below HK. Michigan Ave. Across the street from the park that is the location for Lollapolloza - JD Aug 3, 22:53
heh, timely. "How much booze would it take to kill you?" -- (link) - JaxSean Aug 3, 22:45 10
- It would take 21 Dirty Martinis to kill you! -- nm - amoxy Aug 3, 23:17
- I want to know how much porn will it take to kill you. -- nm - Redmond Aug 3, 23:07 2
  - you? notsomuch. -- nm - b! Aug 3, 23:11 1
    - eep! -- nm - 'lia Aug 3, 23:14
- I dunno, I think this is unfair. I've never had a drop of alcohol in my life, I think I'd succumb a lot faster than the average 189lb guy - Beryllium Aug 3, 22:50 3
  - died on me too. heh. -- nm - JaxSean Aug 3, 22:50 2
    - weird. Under FF 3.5.1 and FF3.5.2 on OS X, it pops up a warning dialog but never gives me a result. - Beryllium Aug 3, 22:52 1
      - that's what i saw in IE 7/vista when i finally made it to the site. -- nm - b! Aug 3, 22:54
- 16 of my usual rum and cokes. I typically drink 4 in an evening out along with water, food, and dancing. -- nm - Qale Aug 3, 22:49
- "internal server error" (which kind of works. ;) -) -- nm - b! Aug 3, 22:47
Hey b? - eag Aug 3, 22:40 9
- e! - b! Aug 3, 22:40 8
  - Would u do me a favor? - eag Aug 3, 22:55 7
    - well... - b! Aug 3, 23:04
    - FYI, b! can't run your cities, it's against the rules. - musubi Aug 3, 22:59 5
      - thanks, guys. postus-interruptus there. -- nm - b! Aug 3, 23:06
      - Yep! You might get banned. -- nm - Redmond Aug 3, 23:00 3
        
        Well maybe I can get on a computer tomorrow -- nm - eag Aug 3, 23:05 2
        
        If you can't, don't sweat it. - musubi Aug 3, 23:13 1
        
        eag, did you see Mel's response to you this morning? - b! Aug 3, 23:16
Unless the movie just sucks, I think "Jennifer's Body" is going to open huge. -- (link) - JaxSean Aug 3, 22:38 1
- sweet - 'cause I bought this at 21 and change -- nm - JenBro Aug 4, 14:58
"Top 30 Shockingest Movie Moments" -- (link) - JaxSean Aug 3, 22:36
Don't tell Guy Fieri but 10 dollars off at TGIFridays at Coke Rewards along with tickets to Coke Museum. Come see me in Atlanta. Heh! -- nm - Qale Aug 3, 22:34
Just got back from Beverly Hills. Love that place. So pretty. Also love driving the empty (relative to other times) 405. So nice and beautiful with - James Bond (aka Igor) Aug 3, 22:25
Wait... what? Did Bill Clinton just defect? -- nm - Mop Aug 3, 22:17 1
- Well, it'll be interesting if North Korea kidnaps him - however, it sounds like he's being a hostage negotiator. -- nm - Beryllium Aug 3, 22:45
Orly Taitz - Leader of a movement -- (link) - amoxy Aug 3, 21:55 5
- Pure genius. Fabricate a document so overtly fake that even the most cursory investigation would reveal it as a fake, and watch the fireworks! -- nm - Mop Aug 3, 22:28
- "like... attempting to interview an angry Fraggle." -- nm - Mop Aug 3, 22:21
- ORLY? -- nm - Qale Aug 3, 22:18
- 8 months ago "right wing fringe-y" people I laughed off. 4 months ago it was getting tiresome. Now, these people are scaring me. (see: tonight's - JaxSean Aug 3, 22:06 1
  - This a hilarious sideshow. Not the birthers. The GOPers who are so desperately trying to make them stop. Please, God, stop. - Mop Aug 3, 22:23
I've been trying to download the USPS PDF list of potential closures all day. Looks like most of America's gone to bed and I finally got it. -- (link) - Mop Aug 3, 21:53
Did anyone grow up in a city that had XXX theaters? - JaxSean Aug 3, 21:45 22
- Sure. There were a couple downtown. Former movie palaces that had fallen apart. Most have now been restored into large live theaters that show - pmb Aug 4, 07:56
- Yes, there was one down the block from my Elementry School. I'm from NYC. They were everywhere. -- nm - lileve Aug 4, 06:30
- Shortly after Deep Throat became the biggest grossing movie of all time (well close to it at the time) and court decisions allowed them, one opened in - zeitgeist Aug 4, 00:31
- i just got google-educated about a variety of x-rated and gay places. who knew? - b! Aug 3, 22:24
- I did. There was the Starlight in Peoria. - ReluctantCynic Aug 3, 22:05 2
  - "but will it play in Peoria?" -- nm - 500 dugs of summer Aug 3, 22:09
  - Hmm. I don't think I know if there were gay areas. - JaxSean Aug 3, 22:07
- No. -- nm - Beryllium Aug 3, 21:59
- One of my earliest NYC memories was walking by a theater in Times Square showing a movie called Damp Tramps. - Cuzzin Todd Aug 3, 21:58
- Had one downtown...Ended up being an eyesore. A church bought the property to turn into a house of worship - amoxy Aug 3, 21:57 1
  - hah -- nm - Beryllium Aug 3, 22:00
- I don't remember. I am sure Sacramento had them though. -- nm - Redmond Aug 3, 21:53
- I forget that not everyone grew up in a large metropolitan area. - Mop Aug 3, 21:52
- Worked at a printing plant next door to a smut drive in...we would stagger our lunch to see all the movies...had our own speaker wired into their syst -- nm - BAD Aug 3, 21:51 2
  - dirty BAD. (what flavor of ice cream did you have tonight?) - JaxSean Aug 3, 21:55 1
    - Mint Chocolate Chip...I'm addicted to it. -- nm - BAD Aug 3, 22:16
- This weekends top 3 films: Fucking People, Harry Pooter and the Half Hard Prince, G-Force -- nm - Qale Aug 3, 21:50 4
  - G-String Force -- nm - Beryllium Aug 3, 22:00 1
    - That's the joke. -- nm - Chevy Chase Aug 3, 22:17
  - Hairy. -- nm - JaxSean Aug 3, 21:52 1
    - Whoops, obviously. -- nm - Qale Aug 3, 22:17
- The most gorgeous theater in the city used to show porn. It's like gilded inside. - TFox Aug 3, 21:47
for STers my age (read: old), did you live somewhere that didn't have multiplex theaters when you grew up? - 500 dugs of summer Aug 3, 21:33 31
- yes ... it was a HUGE deal when our local one added a second screen upper level -- nm - JenBro Aug 4, 15:00
- The old huge movie theaters. I miss them. Most have been multiplexed or changed into shopping or live theaters. -- nm - pmb Aug 4, 07:57
- There was 1 theater in town when I was growing up. - musubi Aug 3, 23:20
- We had HUGE single screen theaters. I miss the River Hills something awful - 1800 seats, HUGE screen... - Cuzzin Todd Aug 3, 22:00 1
  - The theater that I worked at had a single screen with 1200 seats - amoxy Aug 3, 22:05
- no, we always had those. -- nm - loosilu Aug 3, 21:53
- yes. i spent 1/2 of my summers on my grandparents farm in western kansas. - tRuMaN Aug 3, 21:40 2
  - it's hard to believe that wasn't that long ago -- nm - 500 dugs of summer Aug 3, 21:41 1
    - umm, that town still has a one screen theatre, 3-4 months behind major openings. - tRuMaN Aug 3, 21:49
- i asked my sister about our hometown theatre. - b! Aug 3, 21:40
- I lived in a place that just had a 2-plex. Does that count? -- nm - Beryllium Aug 3, 21:39 1
  - (Actually, technically speaking, I lived in a place with no theatres - I had to take a ferry to get to the 2-plex) -- nm - Beryllium Aug 3, 21:40
- my hometown still has no movie theater. the next town over has a single-screen theater. - howie Aug 3, 21:38 3
  - we had a crappy (in retrospect) three-screener i could ride my bike up the top of the hill to. - 500 dugs of summer Aug 3, 21:40 2
    - if I recall correctly, I saw star wars 25 miles away in boston. - howie Aug 3, 21:43 1
      - I saw Star Wars in a stadium seating theater when I was7 or 8. Blew me away!! Vader scared the shit out of me, and I had a crush on the Princess. -- nm - Redmond Aug 3, 21:45
- Grew up in South L.A. where we would go to 7 theaters within 2 miles...until drive ins drove them under. -- nm - BAD Aug 3, 21:36
- How about a traveling projectionist, who set up in the community hall on Friday nights? Don't know how current the movies were - if they were PG we - MojaveMeg Aug 3, 21:36 2
  - After we moved to the city in '54 we had a real movie theater. Actually two, one inside and one open air that was used in the summer. I believe they - MojaveMeg Aug 3, 21:41 1
    - hey now! -- nm - 500 dugs of summer Aug 3, 21:42
- I didn't really start going to the movies until the 80's, and we had a United Artists theater at the mall that had 3 or 6 theaters. -- nm - JaxSean Aug 3, 21:36
- Yes. We actually had no indoor thater, even (caught fire). - Spawn Aug 3, 21:35
- No. Also I loved seeing movies at the drive inn when I was a kid over seeing them in a theater. -- nm - Redmond Aug 3, 21:34 7
  - drive-ins are fun -- nm - 'lia Aug 3, 21:51 2
    - With cops? -- nm - Redmond Aug 3, 21:53 1
      - with whoever is in the vehicle with you - nm - 'lia Aug 3, 21:57
  - No drive-ins near where I grew up -- nm - Beryllium Aug 3, 21:40 3
    - we had two -- nm - 500 dugs of summer Aug 3, 21:42 2
      - we had a two-screen drive-in about 6 miles away. It's gone now. but the mall that replaced it has a multi-screen. - howie Aug 3, 21:47
      - The drive inn my parents used to take me to in Sacramento is still there and in operation. -- nm - Redmond Aug 3, 21:43
- No, but my 4 screen town theater played Tic Toc on Saturdays. those days are long gone. -- nm - Max Aug 3, 21:34
JD re: Chicago - ty97 Aug 3, 21:31 1
- (also: Navy Pier. I was disappointed, but it's fun to walk around, and it's free, unless you want to do the ferris wheel or something) - ty97 Aug 3, 21:38
Re: B2 Hotkiss: The local stuff esp. when it come eating - JD Aug 3, 21:24 2
- Are you at the Irving Place or Michigan Ave hotel? -- nm - Hotkiss Aug 3, 21:40
- It's a given you must have Chicago pizza. Here are some rules. - ty97 Aug 3, 21:37
shameless hussy confession: today at one of my new jobs i got caught in a walkin cooler with a motorcycle cop - 'lia Aug 3, 21:17 8
- *waits for this to show up on Redtube* -- nm - JaxSean Aug 3, 21:20
- Did he frisk you? -- nm - Redmond Aug 3, 21:18 6
  - were handcuffs involved? - b! Aug 3, 21:21 5
    - of course! he was on duty! ALL the hardware was involved - 'lia Aug 3, 21:27 4
      - woowoo! - b! Aug 3, 21:30
      - Hee, only on ST.....fully equipped cop... - MojaveMeg Aug 3, 21:30 2
        
        puh-lease! he was one of the ones that showed up that i didn't know - 'lia Aug 3, 21:37 1
        
        heh. So that's where the "shameless hussy" part comes into play. ;-) -- nm - Beryllium Aug 3, 22:54
Is there anyone else on eMusic? I just logged in and seem to now have 35 d/l's instead of 25 left. - JaxSean Aug 3, 21:11 2
- Still on emusic and I think that's due to fundamental shift in membership terms - JD Aug 3, 21:26 1
  - Yeah, I have a 35/month deal as of July 20th, and I got an extra 2 on the switch. But I downloaded 12 credits already. It's ... odd. - JaxSean Aug 3, 21:28
Welcome to the majors, Neftali Feliz. - TFox Aug 3, 21:11 2
- Moose assures me that we did not overpay in the Teixeira deal. -- nm - David Aug 3, 21:15 1
  - Well, sure, from a Mets fan's perspective. - the wrong element, bad guy Aug 3, 21:21
Qale we all have a built in drink stopper. Mine works about 95% of the time. Every once in awhile I just get out of control. - Redmond Aug 3, 21:05 2
- My stopper takes some effort on my part. Also, hard alcohol sneaks up on me big time. - JaxSean Aug 3, 21:08
- I'm still practicing this since losing all the weight. It's a PITA. -- nm - TFox Aug 3, 21:07
Yahoo added free live scoring, and real FAAB functionality, and a reasonable price cut to Plus leagues, all at once? - TFox Aug 3, 21:05
i just bought a water bed, it's filled-up for me and you. -- nm - b! Aug 3, 21:02 11
- you huzzy! - nm - 'lia Aug 3, 21:05 3
  - huzzah-y! - b! Aug 3, 21:08 2
    - shameless huzzah- ies! - nm - 'lia Aug 3, 21:10 1
      - :) - -- nm - b! Aug 3, 21:23
- I remember the first water bed I had (and the only one) filled it up with regular cold water. Froze my ass off!!! - Redmond Aug 3, 21:03 5
  - that's one way to slow things down. nmbr: - b! Aug 3, 21:06 4
    - Uh, I ain't following that link. Not sure where it leads -- nm - Redmond Aug 3, 21:10 3
      - pfft. (rare b.-on-st profanity warning.) - b! Aug 3, 21:23
      - Protip: It leads to b2. -- nm - Qale Aug 3, 21:11 1
        
        I don't want to read B2 either. -- nm - Redmond Aug 3, 21:12
- Really? REALLY?!! Hurrah! *jumps on* -- nm - Mr. Cactus Aug 3, 21:03
stop making sense -- nm - 500 dugs of summer Aug 3, 21:01
I am *this* close to blocking him on FB, which means he can't see a single thing I do anymore. - Hotkiss Aug 3, 21:01 30
- Defriend him, I beg you. -- nm - loosilu Aug 3, 21:55
- Do it! If I hadn't somebody would still be stalking me -- nm - amoxy Aug 3, 21:10 1
  - Stop talking about me! -- nm - Redmond Aug 3, 21:11
- Be sure to keep us posted. nm - Jim Aug 3, 21:06 16
  - I'll be sure to personally let you know next time I hover over the submit button. -- nm - Hotkiss Aug 3, 21:08 15
    - heh -- nm - JaxSean Aug 3, 21:09
    - Thanks for taking every one's focus off of my mistakes :) - Redmond Aug 3, 21:09 12
      - You have a lot of idiotic posting to do to catch up to her, dude. -- nm - Jim Aug 3, 21:10 10
        
        She is in her early 20s, I am 40. She still has time to grow out of it. -- nm - Redmond Aug 3, 21:11 9
        
        You are much more entertaining. -- nm - lileve Aug 3, 21:21 8
        
        are you saying you want me to be more explicit and take breaks to post in between sex sessions? - Hotkiss Aug 3, 21:28 1
        
        Hey, if Paris can take a phone break, you can do this! -- nm - Todd Manning Aug 3, 22:49
        
        in the same way Carrot Top is more entertaining than Gallagher -- nm - 500 dugs of summer Aug 3, 21:23 5
        
        After tonight I am kind of getting the idea of how you feel every day. -- nm - Redmond Aug 3, 21:25 4
        
        so, are yhou saying... none of it was true? *bursts into tears* -- nm - loosilu Aug 3, 22:03 2
        
        *puts you in the friend zone* -- nm - Redmond Aug 3, 22:05 1
        
        that puts me in the same zone as you. -- nm - loosilu Aug 3, 22:08
        
        *pins tails on the eeyores* -- nm - b! Aug 3, 21:32
      - I gotcha, wingman. -- nm - Hotkiss Aug 3, 21:10
    - Good, I'll sleep so much better that way. nm -- nm - Jim Aug 3, 21:09
- I don't know if I understand a world where this would be that hard to do. -- nm - TFox Aug 3, 21:03 1
  - me neither. HK, do you have a spine or don't you? -- nm - loosilu Aug 3, 22:02
- Hotkiss is to ex boyfriend as Redmond is to alcohol. -- nm - Redmond Aug 3, 21:02 6
  - I refered to him as my ex today. It didn't feel good. -- nm - Hotkiss Aug 3, 21:03 5
    - You'll live. -- nm - loosilu Aug 3, 21:56
    - It's all about time passed and distance. Every time you give in and talk or see him you have to reset the timer to zero. -- nm - Redmond Aug 3, 21:06
    - *shakes head* -- nm - Spawn Aug 3, 21:05 1
      - You can lead a horse to the well.. - lileve Aug 3, 21:07
    - Get over it and move on. -- nm - lileve Aug 3, 21:04
- block schmock. take off and defriend him from orbit - 500 dugs of summer Aug 3, 21:02

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