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has GDP outlived its usefulness as a measure of economic prosperity? -- (link) - znufrii Aug 10, 11:10 1
- What, it needs to incorporate new media? -- nm - nubby, Astronauts champion Aug 10, 11:11
"There really is a notion that if our government is going to spend our dollars, they ought to be transparent about it, we ought to know what the heck - Loyola Aug 10, 11:05 3
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  - Since a good chunk of it was invested as equity, I don't know how you would track it. - pmb Aug 10, 11:10 1
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Woman marries amusement park ride she has loved for 10 years. - Elf Andie Aug 10, 11:03 10
- I've gotta admit, after watching the 2nd video ... that looks like a fun ride. -- nm - Beryllium Aug 10, 11:09 1
  - But are you willing to form a lifelong commitment to it? - Spawn Aug 10, 11:10
- Jeez...and it's not even Millenium Force!!! -- nm - Jim Aug 10, 11:08
- ew. she's probably ridden every seat, and they don't clean those things. -- nm - mafic Aug 10, 11:05 1
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  - TTPOD. -- nm - nubby, Astronauts champion Aug 10, 11:07
- you have to watch the video! -- nm - Elf Andie Aug 10, 11:04
- ... what is it, a giant slippery slope? -- nm - Beryllium Aug 10, 11:04 1
  - *golf clap* -- nm - mara Aug 10, 11:07
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- /me digs out Genesis -- nm - Spawn Aug 10, 11:03
Hah! I'd only ever heard this skit on the radio. This is great. -- (link) - Beryllium Aug 10, 10:54 [youtube] 1
- (I was on the ferry from Quadra Island to Campbell River with my stepdad, and it came on the radio ... I was quite amused.) -- nm - Beryllium Aug 10, 10:57
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- i dont get it. some small time councilor goofed. why does this say anything about democracy? -- nm - Guy Aug 10, 10:57 6
  - it's like raaaaaiiiaaaaiin, see? -- nm - mafic Aug 10, 11:03
  - Because it was a democrat, silly. -- nm - Spawn Aug 10, 10:58 4
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    - fortunately this is New York, where if one party can't put you on their line, there's always two or three more you can ask. -- nm - znufrii Aug 10, 11:00
    - that seems beneath ML -- nm - Guy Aug 10, 11:00 1
      - True. -- nm - Spawn Aug 10, 11:00
Westchester County reaches public-housing non-discrimination agreement. -- (link) - znufrii Aug 10, 10:47
Kind of interesting... MLB winning percentages this decade (2000-2009, through Friday's games)... - Don Homer Aug 10, 10:47 6
- the royals is not shocking. -- nm - tRuMaN Aug 10, 10:56
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- Wow, look at the Dodgers and White Sox. And the Indians and the Mets. -- nm - nubby, Astronauts champion Aug 10, 10:48 3
  - Cubs and Blue Jays. Twins and Giants. -- nm - nubby, Astronauts champion Aug 10, 10:49 2
    - It is not quantity... -- nm - Spawn Aug 10, 10:51
    - Cubs/Blue Jays/Marlins, that is. -- nm - nubby, Astronauts champion Aug 10, 10:50
Your animal photo for the day. (Norway Fox) -- (link) - CQ Aug 10, 10:47 [Image]
Theo Fleury wants to make a comeback. -- (link) - Reagen Aug 10, 10:43 2
- Did you read Mirtle's post on it? He's (unsurprisingly) broke. -- (link) - Subversive Aug 10, 10:56
- yeah, I read that a couple days ago. if he makes it back, he gets paid peanuts. no one (smart) takes risk on him. - mafic Aug 10, 10:51
okay, this is going to be dangerous. -- (link) - znufrii Aug 10, 10:39 1
- Comments section; "I, for one, welcome our new German overlords." -- nm - Loyola Aug 10, 10:42
Funny People first half: A, Funny People second half: C- nm - Dignan Aug 10, 10:39 1
- UFC 101: C- nm - Dignan Aug 10, 10:40
Ah, college football must be right around the corner. Season tickets arrived today. -- nm - nubby, Astronauts champion Aug 10, 10:37 1
- (Duke sucks.) -- nm - Don Homer Aug 10, 10:40
truman, I got the 9:23pm departure from flightstats -- (link) - ty97 Aug 10, 10:33 4
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  - Scheduled departure was 9:10pm, so they wouldn't have boarded earlier than probably 8:40pm. -- nm - ty97 Aug 10, 10:38 1
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- I got the 9:30am departure from Rochester from the news story the the Consumerist post linked to -- (link) - ty97 Aug 10, 10:34
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- Not as much as he owes Plaxico. -- nm - Will Hunting Aug 10, 10:38
- half -- nm - Guy Aug 10, 10:35
- Eyes next year's contract. -- nm - laser rocket arm Aug 10, 10:35 2
  - *nods slowly* -- nm - Tom Brady Aug 10, 10:39 1
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- sweet googlimoogli -- nm - Beaker Aug 10, 10:33
Shipping for Tuesday: Knowing. (Hooray?) -- nm - Don Homer Aug 10, 10:26 6
- I don't think that word means what you think it means. -- nm - Cuzzin Todd Aug 10, 10:36
- you'll like the first half... -- nm - Elf Andie Aug 10, 10:35
- if you knew, you wouldn't have rented it -- nm - Guy Aug 10, 10:30
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- Half the battle. -- nm - Spawn Aug 10, 10:28
- why? -- nm - znufrii Aug 10, 10:27
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- Yep to the IM. I read somewhere where Akroyd said he considers it Ghostbusters 3. -- nm - Tim Aug 10, 10:27 1
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with the Patrick Kane thing - why is he charged with robbery if he beat the guy for not having change? - Guy Aug 10, 10:25 18
- They took the fare back and they apparently took $100 from him. -- nm - Reagen Aug 10, 10:26 16
  - he's a criminal mastermind as well as a hockey player! -- nm - Beaker Aug 10, 10:35 15
    - Dude made 850k last year and flips out over .20. -- nm - Reagen Aug 10, 10:36 14
      - that's the alcohol methinks -- nm - Guy Aug 10, 10:58
      - vancouver cabbies pull this all the time, and it enrages me (not that I'd consider hitting them). fare is $21.50, you give $them 30, they go - mafic Aug 10, 10:48 4
        
        I'm glad our cabs take cards now. - znufrii Aug 10, 11:04
        
        I try to use cab companies that take interac. -- nm - Beryllium Aug 10, 10:50 2
        
        they all have to take visa in vancouver. that's what I do if they pull the no change thing. they don't like taking visa. -- nm - mafic Aug 10, 10:52 1
        
        reminds me of the old Air Farce skit, the Montreal Cab Driver. (No Visa, lady, or I keel you!) -- nm - Beryllium Aug 10, 10:56
      - and would have been due $-5-$7 mil when he his rookie contract runs out...what an f'n' moron -- nm - Beaker Aug 10, 10:37 7
        
        I don't think that's at risk... yet. (see: Danny Heatley) - Reagen Aug 10, 10:41 5
        
        at least heatley could plausibly go with 'stupid accident.' I think kane's lost that defense. -- nm - mafic Aug 10, 10:44 3
        
        he could go with the "i was shitfaced" defense -- nm - Guy Aug 10, 11:02 2
        
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        "b*tch set me up, and drank all my whiskey" -- nm - DC Mayor Marion Bery Aug 10, 11:04
        
        I was just thinking more why start a fight over 20 cents. crazy. -- nm - Beaker Aug 10, 10:44
        
        (based on his career stats and such) -- nm - Beaker Aug 10, 10:38
- He took back the money he paid with iirc. -- nm - Will Hunting Aug 10, 10:26
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- There's no regulation that they can't let them out, AFAIK. -- nm - ty97 Aug 10, 10:35 3
  - There must not be, since they did let them off the plane around 6:30am -- (link) - ty97 Aug 10, 10:36 2
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      - I don'[t think that's it. I think they couldn't let them reboard (though I don't entirely get that either). The issue for the airlines is that they - pmb Aug 10, 11:03
- maybe, but I somehow doubt that the claim that - tRuMaN Aug 10, 10:24
- Didn't read the post you're referring, but wasn't there a case not long ago where passengers successfully sued an airline for being kept on the plane - Cuzzin Todd Aug 10, 10:22
- I think if the passeger said, "Okay, I will not re-plane." they would have to let them out. If they refused, then there is a legal sitch. -- nm - Spawn Aug 10, 10:22 1
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- how many passengers does it take to completely over take a flight member to open a hatch door? - Epiphany Aug 10, 10:21 10
  - as many as will face criminal charges after the fact. -- nm - mafic Aug 10, 10:22 7
    - I'd do it, community service - something anything - just let me off the plane - Epiphany Aug 10, 10:25 6
      - "interference with a flight crew" can get you 20 years in the clink. -- nm - mafic Aug 10, 10:30 3
        
        (kilnk?) -- nm - mafic Aug 10, 10:31 2
        
        not sure - but you are likely right. - Epiphany Aug 10, 10:36
        
        (kghet?) -- nm - Spawn Aug 10, 10:35
      - you probably get thrown on the no-fly list. -- nm - Reagen Aug 10, 10:27 1
        
        The airline should be put on it, as well. -- nm - Spawn Aug 10, 10:28
  - and then what? jump down the 2+ stores to the tarmac? -- nm - decline Aug 10, 10:21 1
    - they got an air slide - Epiphany Aug 10, 10:23
sitwap. middle-income family can expect to spend $291,570 including inflation to raise a child born in 2008 to adulthood -- (link) - tRuMaN Aug 10, 10:19 8
- This actually seems low. -- nm - Spawn Aug 10, 10:24 5
  - extremely low. -- nm - Beaker Aug 10, 10:38
  - That was my thought. -- nm - nubby, Astronauts champion Aug 10, 10:38
  - the cost of batman paraphenalia is not included in the estimate. -- nm - tRuMaN Aug 10, 10:25 2
    - Then that ain't raisin' a boy right. -- nm - Spawn Aug 10, 10:27
    - LOL!! - Epiphany Aug 10, 10:26
- Not including those two is like saying "All inclusive (except for travel and lodging)" -- nm - TWuG Aug 10, 10:20 1
  - Wait ... parents pay for childbirth AND college? Damn greedy kids. Pick ONE! -- nm - Beryllium Aug 10, 10:27
Humans > (other) Animals -- nm - nubby, Astronauts champion Aug 10, 10:17 9
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  - like you've ever been to unicornland. - znufrii Aug 10, 10:25
  - Killkillkill. -- nm - nubby, Astronauts champion Aug 10, 10:21
- did anyone suggest otherwise? - znufrii Aug 10, 10:18
- Actually, you have that backwards. - Spawn Aug 10, 10:17 4
  - But we eat with knives and forks. They have no dining manners. -- nm - Loyola Aug 10, 10:18 3
    - Mine constantly grabs a mouthful of dogfood and moves over so he is eating over the area rug - Epiphany Aug 10, 10:20 2
      - Try a second bowl. He doesn't want crumbs on the food he is about to eat. -- nm - Spawn Aug 10, 10:36
      - :) -- nm - Loyola Aug 10, 10:35
Kiehls lovers - miss amanda jones is unavailable for STing, but wanted to share this with you - free Lip Balm *and* shipping with this code! -- (link) - Elf Andie Aug 10, 10:16 1
- *ahem* free shipping and lip balm! -- nm - Elf Andie Aug 10, 10:42
Question about the ending of GIJOE (spoilers) - ceregon Aug 10, 10:16 6
- spoiler - nubby, Astronauts champion Aug 10, 10:25 1
  - spoiler - Beryllium Aug 10, 11:02
- correct - stupid name for a movie - Epiphany Aug 10, 10:19 2
  - GI Joe: The Rise and Fall of Cobra. "Great. Now I know how it ends." -- nm - Reagen Aug 10, 10:24 1
    - more like - nubby, Astronauts champion Aug 10, 11:03
- I think you are correct -- nm - con_carne Aug 10, 10:18
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- This is a huge WIN -- nm - MDH Aug 10, 10:26
- Whew! It's more of a remix...i love the original fight song (it was so good the Houston Oilers stole it) -- nm - ceregon Aug 10, 10:18
- They're on a boat? -- nm - Reagen Aug 10, 10:16 2
  - (Wait, that's the Vikings' song) -- nm - Reagen Aug 10, 10:17 1
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MMA people: so who does Anderson Silva destroy next? -- nm - Beaker Aug 10, 10:15 3
- The winner of Rampage/Evans. nm - Dignan Aug 10, 10:41 1
  - please be Rampage (hate Rashad Evans). -- nm - Beaker Aug 10, 10:44
- Cock Chestner!!! -- nm - Spawn Aug 10, 10:16
Why is this so difficult for everyone to understand? -- nm - Spawn Aug 10, 10:13 4
- makes perfect sense to me. -- nm - znufrii Aug 10, 10:23
- cause you mumble. -- nm - tRuMaN Aug 10, 10:14 2
  - I USE SPELL CHECK! - Spawn Aug 10, 10:15 1
    - and thsi matters to whom exactly? -- nm - tRuMaN Aug 10, 10:17

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