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Supernatural spoiler - nubby Sep 17, 18:04
Survivor was pretty good (spoilers) - prayformojo Sep 17, 18:03 4
- sorta spoiler - con_carne Sep 17, 18:04 3
  - on second thought - con_carne Sep 17, 18:05
  - Wait, Survivor already started? -- nm - the liioulu with extra jacket Sep 17, 18:05 1
    - That's what I was thinking ... . I guess I need to get home by 8:00 p.m. tonight. -- nm - ReluctantCynic Sep 17, 18:06
Good God, y'all! -- nm - nubby Sep 17, 18:00 1
- Our laptop advice wasn't that bad. - the liioulu with extra jacket Sep 17, 18:01
Huh, so Melbourne was almost called Batmania? -- nm - Cloudy with a Chance of Dano Sep 17, 17:49 1
- When I was there, we went an hour out of our way to visit a Batman Park. - Dr.Vermin, :) Sep 17, 17:53
Dano, wanna trade? - MojaveMeg Sep 17, 17:45 1
- I don't think that's allowed. -- nm - Cloudy with a Chance of Dano Sep 17, 17:49
Dan Brown's 20 worst sentences. -- (link) - Reagen Sep 17, 17:34 10
- Some of those are on par with Tom Clancy's predilection for factual but completely meaningless detail. -- nm - Beryllium Sep 17, 18:05
- The snobbiness of this article seems not only overdone, but forced. - Dr.Vermin, :) Sep 17, 17:40 3
  - His writing style is definitely clunky, but mostly I was irked by how he handled exposition. - Cuzzin Todd Sep 17, 17:45 2
    - I don't disagree he's a bad writer. - Dr.Vermin, :) Sep 17, 17:55
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- ...on page 1. -- nm - Cuzzin Todd Sep 17, 17:40
- Only 20? -- nm - the liioulu with extra jacket Sep 17, 17:38 3
  - you have a death wish? actually, i have enjoyed reading his stuff in an old-tyme movie serial sense - zork Sep 17, 17:51 1
    - I lost my taste for bad writing after reading David Eddings. -- nm - the liioulu with extra jacket Sep 17, 18:03
  - one has to stop somewhere. -- nm - Reagen Sep 17, 17:48
should I start Smoltz tomorrow? coming off an injury v the Cubs - Guy Sep 17, 17:32 1
- In Cubs vs Cardinals in any given year the worse team usually wins. - the liioulu with extra jacket Sep 17, 17:35
When I first read about this historical event, I wanted to make a movie about it. Someone beat me to it. (wiggie, Go See This!) -- (link) - Cloudy with a Chance of Dano Sep 17, 17:32
The SNL show was about 75% unfunny. - Will Hunting Sep 17, 17:32 3
- You're being too easy on SNL. - the liioulu with extra jacket Sep 17, 17:33
- Yeesh, how much more material do they need? Does Obama have to blow a goat, or what? -- nm - Dr.Vermin Sep 17, 17:33
- So, a success for SNL? -- nm - nubby Sep 17, 17:33
Dammit Georgia Tech! -- nm - ty97 Sep 17, 17:31
Touchdown Miami! -- nm - CQ Sep 17, 17:24
Are there ABC college football regional TV coverage maps (like the NFL coverage maps?) -- nm - ty97 Sep 17, 17:15 4
- oh wait, I think I found it, But....help me read this, please? -- (link) - ty97 Sep 17, 17:20 3
  - Try this -- (link) - BB Sep 17, 17:23 2
    - Many thanks! - ty97 Sep 17, 17:30 1
      - Big Ten vs Pac-10 -- nm - BB Sep 17, 17:31
"Mick, pick!" -- nm - nubby Sep 17, 17:10 1
- Peter O'Toole. -- nm - BB Sep 17, 17:17
Monopoly City Streets will relaunch tomorrow, but they aren't annoucing the time. - BB Sep 17, 17:05 23
- Seriously? Resetting it all? That kind of sucks. -- nm - decline Sep 17, 17:19
- Nice. Again, I suggest that ST make a concerted effort to buy up as much property in one city as possible... probably Vegas. - Dr.Vermin Sep 17, 17:14 21
  - Vegas is a hot spot. If you are serious about doing that, I suggest a smaller, less well known city -- nm - decline Sep 17, 17:20 13
    - Peoria, Illinois! -- nm - ReluctantCynic Sep 17, 18:10
    - Galveston! -- nm - con_carne Sep 17, 17:47
    - Des Moines!!! - Cuzzin Todd Sep 17, 17:46
    - Milwaukee! -- nm - the liioulu with extra jacket Sep 17, 17:32
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      - Detroit! -- nm - Stephen Sep 17, 17:28 1
        
        So, just listen to a Huey Lewis song. - BB Sep 17, 17:40
    - It can't be too small or the rent will be low You pay taxes on your property after the first 5 buildings. - Krusty Sep 17, 17:26
    - Aberdeen, SD is ripe for the taking :p - BB Sep 17, 17:26 2
      - I've been logging in and playing all week. I targeted 2 small towns (Princeton NJ) was one, and South Beach Fl - Was over $20M in real estate this AM -- nm - decline Sep 17, 17:27 1
        
        South Beach sounds like a good spot. The Jersey shore might be a good spot. -- nm - Krusty Sep 17, 17:29
    - Anchorage! Dibs on Lake Otis Parkway! -- nm - Dr.Vermin Sep 17, 17:22
    - Reno! -- nm - Stephen Sep 17, 17:22
  - I think I missed this. I've got the basic idea, but what's the point? -- nm - nubby Sep 17, 17:14 6
    - making money, being top of the game, just like all the other timewasters out there -- nm - decline Sep 17, 17:22
    - What BB said. But it's kinda fun, if they get it working well. - Dr.Vermin Sep 17, 17:21 3
      - You get rent money for building on the site. - BB Sep 17, 17:31 2
        
        Yeah, and I heard something about other players can bulldoze your buildings??? How does THAT work? -- nm - Dr.Vermin Sep 17, 17:32 1
        
        I haven't looked at it enough to know. - BB Sep 17, 17:38
    - Point? Since when do people need a point? - BB Sep 17, 17:18
Touchdown Miami! -- nm - CQ Sep 17, 17:02
"Keep f***ing that chicken!" -- (link) - Krusty Sep 17, 17:02 [youtube] 3
- Uhm... fired? -- nm - Mop (233 lbs) Sep 17, 17:09 2
  - Fox issued an apology but I don't think they fired him. - Krusty Sep 17, 17:20 1
    - That's his co-anchor he was commenting on in that clip -- nm - con_carne Sep 17, 18:03
Survivor! -- nm - nubby Sep 17, 17:00 2
- Samoa is gorgeous huh -- nm - Jovian Sep 17, 17:01 1
  - spoiler - nubby Sep 17, 17:02
Oh yes, I spend too much time at the library. - the liioulu with extra jacket Sep 17, 16:42 2
- I have 32 books checked out. -- nm - Mop (233 lbs) Sep 17, 16:59 1
  - I don't have quite that many. -- nm - the liioulu with extra jacket Sep 17, 17:10
"Edge of Seventeen" would be another good Glee number - farmer ted Sep 17, 16:40 10
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  - so far the musical numbers are enough to keep me coming back, though the storylines could be more tightly focused -- nm - farmer ted Sep 17, 17:09
- Sister Christian! -- nm - prayformojo Sep 17, 16:51 1
  - oh yeah. -- nm - Callisto Sep 17, 16:57
- I'd love to see them do 17 by Winger. Have one of the teachers sing it. -- nm - Remlik Sep 17, 16:46 4
  - Don't Stand So Close to Me. -- nm - Mop (233 lbs) Sep 17, 16:49 3
    - mashup! -- nm - Remlik Sep 17, 16:54 2
      - That, truly, would work quite well. -- nm - Mop (233 lbs) Sep 17, 16:54 1
        
        done Glee style of course. -- nm - Remlik Sep 17, 18:02
- 'Aqualung'. 'Radioactive'. 'Souljacker Part 1'. :) -- nm - Beryllium Sep 17, 16:41
Paranormal Pets Wanted -- (link) - CovingtonCat Sep 17, 16:32 6
- How silly. Everyone knows that cats are paranormal. They exist in "cat time" and easily move in "cat space". - Trish Sep 17, 16:42 3
  - I've got cat class and I've got cat style. -- nm - BB Sep 17, 16:53 1
    - Felinus Sapiens? -- nm - Beryllium Sep 17, 16:53
  - True, true. And there's that disappearing thing. You look for them everywhere, turn around and there they are. -- nm - CovingtonCat Sep 17, 16:44
- Wombat? -- nm - the liioulu with extra jacket Sep 17, 16:36
- Apparently Hell's Gate is at this place -- (link) - CovingtonCat Sep 17, 16:35
If you're not a regular visitor to Slate, their latest episode of "Cubez" went to Marvel HQ. -- (link) - nubby Sep 17, 16:29 11
- F*CK. Check out the Google offices in NYC. -- (link) - Mop (233 lbs) Sep 17, 16:43 8
  - That place is sick! The "Cubez" episodes are really good. -- nm - Krusty Sep 17, 16:53 6
    - That place is HUGE! -- nm - Mop (233 lbs) Sep 17, 16:54 5
      - I didn't realize they had that whole building. It's an entire city block, they should have golf carts to get around instead of scooters. -- nm - Krusty Sep 17, 16:58 4
        
        *AND* they seem to have more offices in Chelsea (Silicon Alley, maybe?) -- nm - Mop (233 lbs) Sep 17, 17:00 3
        
        No, that's the main office, sorry. They have something else in midtown. -- nm - Mop (233 lbs) Sep 17, 17:01 2
        
        Across the street from the New York Public Library (main branch?) and near Bryant Park. My God, look at that forest of high rises. -- (link) - Mop (233 lbs) Sep 17, 17:04 1
        
        Yes, that's the main branch for Manhattan, great looking building. - Krusty Sep 17, 17:17
  - Wow, would hate to be there to see those perks go away if the stock falls. -- nm - CrankYanker Sep 17, 16:53
- very nice! thanks nubby. -- nm - Remlik Sep 17, 16:35 1
  - Check out the other Cubez episodes. They're amazing. -- nm - nubby Sep 17, 16:37
Tracii Brooks (TNA Knockout) playboy pics.... -- (link) - Remlik Sep 17, 16:26
Fox News actually gets one right. -- (link) - Tim Sep 17, 16:25 1
- Very accurate, as always. -- nm - BB Sep 17, 16:32
meet me in the middle of the day - farmer ted Sep 17, 16:22
Protect your chicken from Dokken. -- (link) - Mop (233 lbs) Sep 17, 16:21 1
- I wish to protect my chicken from Hadouken! ... should I install AVG, or Panda? -- nm - Beryllium Sep 17, 16:24
ML: so you like your politicians grandstanding then? - Reagen Sep 17, 16:19 8
- Honestly, grandstanding is one of least potentially harmful things a politician can do. - Dr.Vermin Sep 17, 17:24 2
  - shoplifting is one of the least harmful things a criminal can do. I'm still calling them out on it. -- nm - Reagen Sep 17, 17:25 1
    - You go, girl! -- nm - Dr.Vermin, :) Sep 17, 17:34
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  - Because they're instrumental in the plan to make us all Muslins? -- nm - BB Sep 17, 16:37 1
    - we're all cut from the same cloth -- nm - farmer ted Sep 17, 16:43
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- I am not sure but I think ML was being sarcastic -- nm - amoxy Sep 17, 16:23
What's the significance of the cresent in Islam? -- nm - Mop (233 lbs) Sep 17, 16:18 8
- Short answer, it determines their lunar calendar and they determine the beginning of the month based on the new moon. -- nm - the liioulu with extra jacket Sep 17, 16:28 2
  - I was under the impression that Islam used a solar calendar ... -- nm - Beryllium Sep 17, 16:29 1
    - At the least it determines when Ramadan is. -- nm - the liioulu with extra jacket Sep 17, 16:30
- here? -- (link) - the liioulu with extra jacket Sep 17, 16:20 3
  - Oh my God, that's too many words this late in the afternoon! -- nm - Mop (233 lbs) Sep 17, 16:24 1
    - I just kidn of scanned it. I can give you the first answer even if it doesn't cover the crescent. ;) -- nm - the liioulu with extra jacket Sep 17, 16:26
  - Oddly the first answer I looked at went on about the star. -- nm - the liioulu with extra jacket Sep 17, 16:21
- it's the moon. or something like that -- (link) - marcel Sep 17, 16:20
shows set in DC: XFiles, Lie to Me, NCIS. -- nm - loosilu Sep 17, 16:14 5
- XFiles kind moved all over. - the liioulu with extra jacket Sep 17, 16:15 1
  - sort of, but it was DC-centric, especially the conspiracy stuff. They did film some of it in DC. -- nm - loosilu Sep 17, 16:16
- The thread was about shows that are about politics -- nm - con_carne Sep 17, 16:15 2
  - he didn't say politics! - loosilu Sep 17, 16:16 1
    - I think it was implied in being about DC. Though on that note I can add "The District" - the liioulu with extra jacket Sep 17, 16:18
Congratulations TFox !! - MojaveMeg Sep 17, 16:10 3
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- Congrats!! -- nm - the liioulu with extra jacket Sep 17, 16:13
- word -- nm - Beaker Sep 17, 16:10
ST Survivor Come and see who you have!!! Enjoy the show! - Beaker Sep 17, 16:10 6
- Dammit. I got a girl? -- nm - Cloudy with a Chance of Dano Sep 17, 17:26
- And the prize is 100 BILLION Dollars? -- nm - amoxy Sep 17, 16:19
- dang, i missed it again... EVERY YEAR -- nm - GWAA Sep 17, 16:18
- Sweet. Thx! -- nm - con_carne Sep 17, 16:13
- Considering I've never watched the show, and am unlikely to know who any of these people are......I'm - MojaveMeg Sep 17, 16:12 1
  - I'd make you the oods on favorite on those reasons alone. -- nm - the liioulu with extra jacket Sep 17, 16:16
So that Rammstein video...um....wow -- nm - Stephen Sep 17, 16:08
Some friends of mine in college once turned a Rammstein song into an educational PSA - Tim Sep 17, 16:06
Whoa new error while processing message? -- nm - Hotkiss Sep 17, 16:05 3
- oh, hopefully you didn't get the one with nudity. -- nm - Beryllium Sep 17, 16:06 2
  - I've gotten no complaints so far :) -- nm - con_carne Sep 17, 16:07 1
    - What, you don't notice we've got our eyes covered?! -- nm - the liioulu with extra jacket Sep 17, 16:14

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