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following up on that rumeal robinson evicting his foster mother stuff from last week - he apparently needs the cash to pay his stripper bills. -- (link) - Reagen Oct 12, 10:38
Fun trivia that I'm too lazy to check if it's been posted before: The Redskins will play a winless team for the SIXTH consecutive week. - musubi Oct 12, 10:37 3
- And we're sub .500 - Will Hunting Oct 12, 10:41
- and Spawn is still yet to have more than 90 points scored against him in BF. -- nm - Reagen Oct 12, 10:40
- They are the gift that keeps on giving. -- nm - Shaun Oct 12, 10:37
Poll; Do you think it's bad luck to kill a spider? -- nm - Loyola Oct 12, 10:33 11
- Nope. -- nm - Will Hunting Oct 12, 10:40
- my cat sure doesn't. -- nm - znufrii Oct 12, 10:38
- No, but I let them live. -- nm - Krusty Oct 12, 10:36
- no, but I try not to kill them if there's a chance to put them outside - Reagen Oct 12, 10:35 2
  - I don't kill them just in case it is bad luck. -- nm - Loyola Oct 12, 10:38
  - Ditto this. (nm) - musubi Oct 12, 10:38
- Only for the spider. But I like spiders in the house. If I see a lot it lets me know they're - TWuG Oct 12, 10:35 3
  - What does the exterminator kill? -- nm - Loyola Oct 12, 10:39 2
    - Whatever the spiders are finding to eat. And the spiders. -- nm - TWuG Oct 12, 10:40 1
      - I never heard of that before. -- nm - Loyola Oct 12, 10:41
- No - I will not suffer a spider to live. - Epiphany Oct 12, 10:33
LYC: Whitney Houston has announced she's touring. European dates are out, US to come -- nm - MDH Oct 12, 10:29
The way this article describes "Tokio Hotel's" band members made ma laugh almost as much as brokenCYDE -- (link) - MDH Oct 12, 10:26 1
- they look like the white Thompson Twins. -- nm - Reagen Oct 12, 10:27
Ah, good old North Korea. They tested 5 more short range missles today. - TWuG Oct 12, 10:24
/me hangs 150 in BF -- nm - budice Oct 12, 10:22 1
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WAC trivia question for 50 crash points - The University of Idaho is 5-1, seemingly poised for their first winning season in 10 years. Their last - crash davis Oct 12, 10:22 4
- Dennis Erickson coached there;, I'll go with him for the first. -- nm - Will Hunting Oct 12, 10:39 1
  - I'll give you a high five for knowing this but Erickson was coaching OSU at the time this happened. - crash davis Oct 12, 10:41
- I don't know who the coach is, but i'm guessing 2 is crash davis - musubi Oct 12, 10:28 1
  - you win 5 crash pts and some weak hints for the bonus, a strong hint for the main question - crash davis Oct 12, 10:36
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- Really you have snow? Wow. -- nm - HdnAgnda Oct 12, 10:22
- see, you could have moved to texas. -- nm - tRuMaN Oct 12, 10:22
Wolf spiders are evil evil things. - Will Hunting Oct 12, 10:19 10
- Did you...take care of the situation? - kelly Oct 12, 10:28 3
  - I killed it. - Will Hunting Oct 12, 10:39
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    - There are clean versions? (nm) - Will Hunting si Oct 12, 10:29
- There are so many around where I live that they don't phase me anymore -- nm - decline Oct 12, 10:25
- Don't drag us into your simile. We can such things. -- nm - Little girls Oct 12, 10:23 1
  - Handle. We can handle such things. -- nm - Little girls Oct 12, 10:25
- *laughing* - Krusty Oct 12, 10:21
- we need them to keep the deer tick population in check. -- nm - Max Oct 12, 10:20 1
  - They eat deers? -- nm - Jovian Oct 12, 10:44
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what a terrible week in football. Niners get stomped on and then I go 0-4 in fantasy (1-4 if Sanchez does well). -- nm - Guy Oct 12, 10:15 2
- I need 85 points from Ricky Williams and the Miami defense combined -- nm - CQ Oct 12, 10:17 1
  - I need the Miami D to suck it up big time to get my first BF win this year. - Krusty Oct 12, 10:19
ThinkGeek's got a treat for every Jedi's snuggly-wuggly-cuddly-just-ten-more-minutes-p lease-mom side. -- (link) - tRuMaN Oct 12, 10:11
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- Maybe I should go visit him. -- nm - Dakota Fanning Oct 12, 10:17
Stupid Hampton's International Film Festival. How am I supposed to watch Zombieland with all these crap movies playing? -- nm - CQ Oct 12, 10:09 5
- That's what you get for living in sticks. ;-) - Krusty Oct 12, 10:14 4
  - yeah, the festival takes over everything, even the town. Crazy bunch of artsy nutheads. -- nm - CQ Oct 12, 10:16 2
    - That sucks. In the future, if you can, you guys should use this time to go away. - Krusty Oct 12, 10:18 1
      - now we're talking! -- nm - CQ Oct 12, 10:19
  - *the sticks* - Krusty Oct 12, 10:14
A 32 year old nuclear physicist working on the Black Hole Machine of Death, arrested for being a suspected terrorist; -- (link) - Loyola Oct 12, 10:06
eeebuntu (a replacement OS for asus eeepcs) is so much better than what ships on the units. - tRuMaN Oct 12, 10:06
cause no one cares, I just posted a reivew of Halo Wars and ODST firefight on hsj. - tRuMaN Oct 12, 09:52
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- I think you mean, "Happy Thanksgiving Day, eh?" - musubi Oct 12, 10:02 11
  - you mean Turkey and Hockey. -- nm - tRuMaN Oct 12, 10:06 9
    - there are in fact two CFL games each Thanksgiving. -- nm - Reagen Oct 12, 10:07 8
      - America Jr, truly. - musubi Oct 12, 10:15 7
        
        pro football in Canada predates that in the US by about 30 years, FYI, so you're copying us. :) -- nm - Reagen Oct 12, 10:17 6
        
        Professional hockey in the US predates Canadian hockey by more than a decade! 1904 to 1917. - musubi Oct 12, 10:20 5
        
        yes you did. A Canadian also invented basketball, so we claim three sports. -- nm - Reagen Oct 12, 10:21 4
        
        67% of Canadians polled revealed a "strong" desire to be American. - musubi Oct 12, 10:24 1
        
        I'd be more impressed if you'd known that it formed out of the ashes of the NHA as a "no Homers" club. -- nm - Reagen Oct 12, 10:26
        
        And just like those other great sport inventors, the English, Canadians aren't good at many of them - Roger More Oct 12, 10:23
        
        you had some crazy form of rugby/football in the 1860s, which was similar to what was played - tRuMaN Oct 12, 10:23
  - YSMM -- nm - SyrDragon Oct 12, 10:05
So, I watched Flash Forward on Hulu this weekend.... - musubi Oct 12, 09:45
A Question of When Dishonesty Becomes Criminal, the NYTimes headline asks... -- (link) - znufrii Oct 12, 09:43
"Player is under godly protection." -- nm - Spawn Oct 12, 09:43 2
- what level is the town? - tRuMaN Oct 12, 09:56 1
  - Through level 4 OR until they launch an attack on another player OR build a colony. -- nm - TWuG Oct 12, 09:59
Elinor Ostrom, American, becomes the first woman ever to win the Nobel Prize for Economics; - Loyola Oct 12, 09:38 5
- That makes 9 out of 13 recipients this year who are american. -- nm - decline Oct 12, 09:44 4
  - Americans must be the smartiest. -- nm - Loyola Oct 12, 09:45 3
    - It's more that the US is where the most cutting edge research is done. Two of this years 3 Nobel Prize winners, eg, were born and educated elsewhere -- nm - Roger More Oct 12, 10:13
    - That was what I said! -- nm - Dubya Oct 12, 09:46 1
      - He did?! Heh. -- nm - Loyola Oct 12, 09:46
"I don't need a birthday present. I buy myself all the birthday presents I need. And, because of my drinking, it's usually a surprise." -- nm - con_carne Oct 12, 09:30
"Professor Mojib Latif, one of the leading climate modellers in the world, recipient of several international climate-study prizes and a lead author - Loyola Oct 12, 09:25 5
- Mr. Latif says that doesn�t make him a climate change skeptic, just a scientist. - musubi Oct 12, 10:14 1
  - An hour ago his credentials and opinion were unimpeachable. Now, I bet not so much. nm - Dignan Oct 12, 10:19
- That's an interesting cherry-pick of what he said (though, it's a Telegraph columnist) - Reagen Oct 12, 10:11
- hack, cough, cough, wheeeeeeze, *eyes get cloudy and gray* *dies* -- nm - Green movement Oct 12, 09:29 1
  - /dances on grave/ - Dr.Vermin Oct 12, 09:51
Sorry Mr Emmerich. It isn't really going to happen. -- (link) - HdnAgnda Oct 12, 09:22 23
- I found The Day After Tomorrow decent mindless fun, but this looks almost exactly the same movie. What gives? -- nm - celedhring Oct 12, 10:01 1
  - I loved TOMOR. A. -- nm - Loyola Oct 12, 10:02
- Bah, you're just another individual spreading these lies and the disinformation being perpetrated by the shadow governments - decline Oct 12, 09:34 5
  - Yep. I know where I'll be December 21, 2012. In an airplane on a long haul flight. I'll be damned if I'm gonna be on the ground waiting for the Earth - Loyola Oct 12, 09:41 4
    - yeah, but, where are you going to land? -- nm - znufrii Oct 12, 09:57 1
      - On your face ;) -- nm - Loyola Oct 12, 09:58
    - You trust the air? In space is the only safe place. -- nm - Spawn Oct 12, 09:45 1
      - Seriously, you think that 'canadian clown' was up there sightseeing? Nope, he was touring the new residential facilities - decline Oct 12, 09:57
- It would be a refreshing change in these disaster flicks if no one had any idea why it was happening. -- nm - Inigo Oct 12, 09:25 1
  - What it ulitmately means is that I still have to draw up a Christmas shopping list that year. Crap! -- nm - HdnAgnda Oct 12, 09:27
- Cusack can't be this hard up for money. - Will Hunting Oct 12, 09:24 12
  - Could be worse, he could be in that new Robin Williams/John Travolta movie. - Ender Oct 12, 09:32 2
    - We should expect nothing less from Robin Williams. - Will Hunting Oct 12, 09:36
    - it's gonna do Wild Hogs numbers -- nm - J Oct 12, 09:33
  - I don't think anyone is trying to say this is Oscar material. I expect it to be another ID-4. - Spawn Oct 12, 09:31 6
    - I like ID-4 and Day After Tomorrow and Twister etc etc... - Will Hunting Oct 12, 09:37 4
      - I don't get this...it looks the same to me. It's an end of the world disaster flick. Nothing more, nothing less. -- nm - Jim Oct 12, 09:46 2
        
        More over the top, more outlandish. - Will Hunting Oct 12, 09:50 1
        
        *uses macbook circa 1994 to connect wirelessly to alien spaceport* *sends destructo virus* -- nm - Jeff Goldblum in ID4 Oct 12, 10:08
      - 9.5 -- nm - Spawn Oct 12, 09:44
    - Whew! The dog lived. Happy now. -- nm - HdnAgnda Oct 12, 09:33
  - Based on the trailers I have seen both old and new, I must ask because STIS (spoils) - HdnAgnda Oct 12, 09:26 1
    - Ya know all that beachfront property in Iowa that Cuzzin Todd's been selling? - Will Hunting Oct 12, 09:27
"That woman was sexy...Out of your league? Son. Let women figure out why they won't screw you, don't do it for them." -- nm - oblique Oct 12, 09:11
Weekend Movies Poll: Frost/Nixon B+, Gran Torino B, Paul Blart: Mall Cop, D -- nm - con_carne Oct 12, 09:10 17
- Paranormal Activity B- -- nm - Epiphany Oct 12, 10:33
- Tosca - Live HD Bcast/Met Opera, NYC - A - OAE Oct 12, 10:05
- Couples Retreat - C, 12 Rounds - N/A (only made it to the 15 minute mark) - J Oct 12, 09:23 1
  - If you turned it off after 15 minutes, doesn't that make it an automatic F? - Subversive Oct 12, 09:29
- Zombieland: B+. -- nm - kelly Oct 12, 09:23
- As much as it pains me to say it: David was right, Zombieland is awesome. A- -- nm - Subversive Oct 12, 09:15 1
  - He was just copying me, so it's cool. -- nm - Spawn Oct 12, 09:19
- Zombieland....B+. Some really great parts. 2nd favorite comedy of my year behind Hangover. -- nm - Will Hunting Oct 12, 09:14
- War of the Worlds: B- - Reagen Oct 12, 09:14 4
  - The son thing is the worst appeasement of test audience screenings I've seen in a long time. -- nm - Inigo Oct 12, 09:23 3
    - Wait a minute. Test audiences are responsible for that? FAIL! -- nm - HdnAgnda Oct 12, 09:31 1
      - That's just a guess by me. It just seemed so tacked on. -- nm - Inigo Oct 12, 09:40
    - The last 5 minutes of that movie moved it from an A for me to a C- - amoxy Oct 12, 09:24
- Whip It - B-/B. -- nm - pmb Oct 12, 09:13
- The Boy in the Striped Pajamas, A. -- nm - Loyola Oct 12, 09:12
- This reminds me of a song of mine. How did it go again? -- nm - Meatloaf Oct 12, 09:11
- Also, I'm upgrading Michael Clayton to an A- -- nm - con_carne Oct 12, 09:10
Happy birthday Amoxy! -- nm - kelly Oct 12, 09:00 4
- happy birthday, a.! and happy birthday to syrdragon, too! -- nm - b. Oct 12, 09:33 1
  - thx! -- nm - SyrDragon Oct 12, 09:49
- Happy birthday! -- nm - Mop Oct 12, 09:31
- Happy birthday!!! -- nm - Krusty Oct 12, 09:18
Where are the "ARod isn't clutch" people now? (nm) - musubi Oct 12, 08:57 17
- falling back to the well-defended and impregnable fortress of "ARod is a douche". -- nm - Reagen Oct 12, 08:58 3
  - It's nice to have multiple fall back positions. -- nm - Subversive Oct 12, 09:10 1
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  - *laughing* -- nm - kelly Oct 12, 08:59
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  - For a Yankee fan you're really down on the team. What's up? - Krusty Oct 12, 09:21 11
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      - Gotcha. Don't get me wrong either, I'm worried about the Angels but I think the Yanks have the arms and the bats to win it in 6. - Krusty Oct 12, 09:34 9
        
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        True, I believe they can win every game. - Krusty Oct 12, 09:45 2
        
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        Cool. Go Yankees! -- nm - Krusty Oct 12, 09:57
        
        Angels. 75%. Write it down. -- nm - Spawn Oct 12, 09:34 3
        
        75% of what? -- nm - Krusty Oct 12, 09:35 2
        
        75% sure. Just like I was of the Broncos this weekend. -- nm - Spawn Oct 12, 09:44 1
        
        Ahhh...too bad you won't be right about the Yankees too. ;-) -- nm - Krusty Oct 12, 09:46

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