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Cool. Center Ice has both the MSG and Sportsnet broadcasts of the Leafs/Rangers game. Interesting to see the diffs. -- nm - Mop Oct 12, 17:13
House! -- nm - Beaker Oct 12, 17:02
I need 21 points from Davone Bess -- nm - Dano Oct 12, 16:56 1
- i just need a good game from Sanchez and a bad game from Brown to go 2-2 -- nm - Guy Oct 12, 16:57
FF ?: Cotchery or Ginn tonight. I just need 1 point. ESPN says Cotchery is active, but not that he'll play. -- nm - ceregon Oct 12, 16:48 1
- if you need 1 American point, then whichever person will definitely play. -- nm - TFox Oct 12, 16:57
Fool! A ninja is no match for Palaptine! -- (link) - Reagen Oct 12, 16:48
Deadspin points out how wrong Rick Reilly was about the Broncos -- (link) - Beaker Oct 12, 16:40 1
- Who wasn't? -- nm - David Oct 12, 16:41
3 copies of ODST ordered from TRU? 7 dollars shipping. 3 Lego games ordered from TRU? 9 dollars shipping. - Mop Oct 12, 16:32 4
- Wha? -- nm - Will Hunting Oct 12, 16:50 1
  - Buy 2, get 3rd free is on again at Toys R Us. So I bought 3 copies of ODST. That will make me 3x better! -- nm - Mop Oct 12, 16:53
- Who knew our monkey guy was such an entrepreneur. -- nm - nubby Oct 12, 16:45 1
  - Dude, if I ever lost my job, I could make a living on eBay. -- nm - Mop Oct 12, 16:48
Iron Chef America: Mario Batali was back amongst the roster of chef's in this past week's episode. -- nm - Mop Oct 12, 16:29 2
- that originally aired in 2006. the Flay episode was the new one last night -- nm - peglegpete Oct 12, 16:40 1
  - That's right, the Flay episode. I'm watching the tasting right now. Batali was in the roster at the beginning. -- nm - Mop Oct 12, 16:47
also, speaking of sports, I've said before that I think people should only be able to claim the glory and/or misery of their team that happened while - Reagen Oct 12, 16:29 24
- Uhm, as a third generation Cub Fan I can claim the whole thing as my birthright. - the liioulu with empty bottle Oct 12, 16:39 2
  - this is *exactly* what I'm talking about, for the record. -- nm - Reagen Oct 12, 16:40 1
    - phhttt!! logic has nothing to do with it. - the liioulu with empty bottle Oct 12, 16:45
- But in this case, since all of us can say it's been our whole lives, it really doesn't matter. - pmb Oct 12, 16:32 8
  - but in the case of, say, a 25 year old Royals fan versus a 25 year old Cubs fan - has the Cubs fan really suffered more? -- nm - Reagen Oct 12, 16:37 7
    - Since I'm old enough to go past all of those other sufferers at other teams, I don't care. -- nm - pmb Oct 12, 16:45
    - Depends. Is it Steve Bartman? -- nm - David Oct 12, 16:38 5
      - I think he goes by Langdon Alger now. -- nm - Reagen Oct 12, 16:43
      - So really, the Orioles fans and Cubs fans aren't very different at all in the last 25 years. - Will Hunting Oct 12, 16:42 3
        
        You guys started a season 0-21? I'm going to have to google that. -- nm - David Oct 12, 16:45 2
        
        1988 with Murray & Rikepn in their primes. -- nm - Will Hunting Oct 12, 16:48 1
        
        With the mighty Rick Schu at 3B. - the wrong element, bad guy Oct 12, 16:53
- Let's apply this rule to race relations. -- nm - Dr.Vermin Oct 12, 16:31 11
  - black people won't let go of the past... gay people won't let go of the present... nation of whiners... -- nm - stewie Oct 12, 17:16
  - The reality of that is yes and no. Yes, I don't think we have to carry the guilt of slavery and long past racism, but that doesn't mean the effects - pmb Oct 12, 16:51 3
    - Are you saying racism is "long past" in the U.S.? - the wrong element, bad guy Oct 12, 16:56 2
      - I was saying what you said in your IM. - pmb Oct 12, 16:57
      - He as much as says it isn't in his IM. -- nm - TWuG Oct 12, 16:57
  - If only the Emancipation had just instantly made everyone equal in fact if not intent. Then you'd not have 100 years of Jim Crow, or 150 years of - TWuG Oct 12, 16:48
  - I mostly agree, but I don't think there's an ethnic group in the world that's not holding a grudge against someone - Reagen Oct 12, 16:34 2
    - The English are grudgier than most - French, Germans, Americans, Scots, Irish, colonials -- nm - Roger More Oct 12, 16:39 1
      - "Why don't we still own you?" -- nm - Reagen Oct 12, 17:04
  - let's not -- nm - TFox Oct 12, 16:33 1
    - White man's burden! -- nm - David Oct 12, 16:34
Edmonton vs. Nashville: who ya got? -- (link) - David Oct 12, 16:25 [Image] 3
- Preds for nostalgia's sake -- nm - TFox Oct 12, 16:29
- judging by the rest of this year, Edmonton will lead for most of the game and then give up a ridiculous goal in the final two minutes. -- nm - Reagen Oct 12, 16:26
- Preds (go Steve Sullivan!) -- nm - Guy Oct 12, 16:26
so that new Muse album sure sucks, huh? - Reagen Oct 12, 16:22 5
- compared to their previous stuff...yeah - stewie Oct 12, 16:41
- seems like an opportune place to mention again how fantastic the Monsters of Folk album is -- nm - Guy Oct 12, 16:24 2
  - Florence and the Machine! -- nm - stewie Oct 12, 16:41
  - bought it. haven't bothered listening to it yet. -- nm - TFox Oct 12, 16:30
- I've not heard it, but I see really good reviews on it from Glenn Beck to Shirley Manson. -- nm - Remlik Oct 12, 16:24
Californication watchers...that's Susan Saradon's daughter who's the student/dancer. - Remlik Oct 12, 16:17 10
- Here's her IMDB entry: Eva Amurri -- (link) - OAE Oct 12, 16:46
- I thought most people knew that. - the wrong element, bad guy Oct 12, 16:20 8
  - I had no idea. She got her mother's great rack. -- nm - pmb Oct 12, 16:25 1
    - Butterface -- nm - con_carne Oct 12, 16:30
  - Can she act? -- nm - the liioulu with empty bottle Oct 12, 16:24 1
    - She's decent as an actress on Calif...but she's a smokin dancer on that show as well. -- nm - Remlik Oct 12, 16:39
  - she's grown into her looks. She was kind of odd looking in The Banger Sisters. -- nm - Reagen Oct 12, 16:24
  - I had zero clue who she was. -- nm - Remlik Oct 12, 16:23 2
    - I can see you skipping Saved! - the wrong element, bad guy Oct 12, 16:26 1
      - I can't stand Goldie Hawn at all. So I'll never see the Banger Sisters. -- nm - Remlik Oct 12, 16:31
I say he was out at third. -- nm - David Oct 12, 16:05 1
- but they were playing *football*. I call a red card on Andy Rooney's eyebrows, by the way ... made me miss the end of TAR. Gotta download it now. -- nm - Beryllium Oct 12, 16:08
Michael Cera. - Callisto Oct 12, 15:57 1
- Heh! -- nm - Dr.Vermin Oct 12, 16:00
one concept i just can't my toddler to grasp is that of subtlety -- nm - prayformojo, Xynast Oct 12, 15:50 11
- my nephew didn't grasp speaking for someone else's point of view this weekend. -- nm - Reagen Oct 12, 16:02 3
  - This has the makings of a hysterical conversation where you explain behavioral instincts to him. -- nm - David Oct 12, 16:07 2
    - the odds of me creating a Skinner Box are currently at about 4:1 against. -- nm - Reagen Oct 12, 16:08 1
      - "You're talking about feelings and emotions again. Hey, I know, let's call your Uncle David and you can talk to him..." -- nm - David Oct 12, 16:10
- Nick currently has 3 settings: 1) Happy manic, 2) Angry manic and 3) Sleeping. nm - ralph wiggum Oct 12, 16:00
- teaching a child to grasp subtlety is like teaching george w. bush to read a dictionary properly. -- nm - Beryllium Oct 12, 15:52 2
  - to tell the difference between god telling him what to do and Dick Cheney -- nm - zeitgeist Oct 12, 16:52
  - "N... U...C...U...L... Dammit, Dick, this dictionary is defective too!" -- nm - TWuG Oct 12, 15:54
- Yerah, good luck with that. My 8 year old doesn't understand sublety. -- nm - TWuG Oct 12, 15:51 2
  - Some adults don't either. - the liioulu with empty bottle Oct 12, 15:56 1
    - some adults make a career out of it :) -- nm - Beryllium Oct 12, 15:59
oh, happy b-day amoxy -- nm - Beryllium Oct 12, 15:41 2
- Happy Birthday amoxy... -- nm - BAD Oct 12, 17:05
- Happy Birthday! -- nm - ty97 Oct 12, 15:44
I'm guessing that if Will Hunting catches the ball at a baseball game, he immediately does the "IN YOUR FACE! HAH!" thing to everyone sitting near him - Beryllium Oct 12, 15:39 10
- then - peglegpete Oct 12, 15:42 9
  - What makes you think I wasn't trying to knock *him* over to get the ball for myself? -- nm - kelly Oct 12, 15:57 7
    - I thought that you were, but he is greatly larger than you are, and tough to stop at full momentum -- nm - peglegpete Oct 12, 16:08 5
      - but she can distract him with and order of wings and get the ball. -- nm - Remlik Oct 12, 16:11 2
        
        *catches the ball in the left hand while never slowing the pizza shove with the right hand* - Will Hunting Oct 12, 16:18
        
        there was a time, flashing him would have worked :( -- nm - peglegpete Oct 12, 16:14
      - And why not giving Kelly the ball is a problem. :) -- nm - the liioulu with empty bottle Oct 12, 16:09 1
        
        you know it'll take a lifetime for Kelly to retrain him of all the faults the other women in his life created :) -- nm - peglegpete Oct 12, 16:13
    - Because Weebles wobble but they don't fall down? -- nm - TFox Oct 12, 16:00
  - this sounds accurate. :) -- nm - Beryllium Oct 12, 15:43
btw - zach braff is not dead. -- nm - marcel Oct 12, 15:35
Happy Birthday Amoxy!!! -- nm - Deevil Oct 12, 15:34
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- but they're only recognized as such if it's raining rabbits in Poland on a Tuesday. -- nm - CrankYanker Oct 12, 15:30
- so you've got the Newsom-era voided marriages, the couples married during the brief period it was legal, and out-of-staters. Have I missed any others? -- nm - Reagen Oct 12, 15:28 3
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    - "the costs of entering into the arrangement outweigh the costs." -- nm - Dr.Freud, chuckling Oct 12, 15:48
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- And right now there are conservatives working to revoke his conservative standing. -- nm - the liioulu with empty bottle Oct 12, 15:28 4
  - Not sure he had one to begin with. -- nm - Dr.Vermin Oct 12, 15:45 3
    - if arnold's being defined out of the conservative club, that's some big grouping you've got. -- nm - Reagen Oct 12, 16:03 2
      - Pretty soon the GOP really will be small enough to fit inside the bedroom -- nm - TWuG Oct 12, 16:10 1
        
        just don't talk about what they're doing in there. -- nm - Reagen Oct 12, 16:21
nopte: Formula 409 removed 90% of the cartridge ink from my hands - peglegpete Oct 12, 15:11 1
- Heh, at my table at the museum day outreach program one of the kids decided to ink his hand and replicate handprint rock art. - MojaveMeg Oct 12, 15:52
Breaded porkchops, mashed potatoes, and corn on the cob. Awesome! -- nm - CQ Oct 12, 15:10
Ike.com update: V3.2 goes live tomorrow. -- nm - TWuG Oct 12, 15:04 7
- That's tomorrow Ike time which means anywhere from 5 to 12 hours from right now. -- nm - TWuG Oct 12, 15:05 6
  - Oh crap. (nm) - musubi Oct 12, 15:42 5
    - apparently bewttwen 9 and 16 game time, so... 9 to 16 hours. -- nm - Reagen Oct 12, 15:42 4
      - So should I just kamikaze all my troops garrisoned away from my own towns? - musubi Oct 12, 15:44 2
        
        what he said. just don't transit anything if it's going to take longer than that, and move them after the upgrade. -- nm - Reagen Oct 12, 15:49
        
        Your troops are fine as long as they aren't being moved or in battle. Upkeep will drop significantly for land units - TWuG Oct 12, 15:46
      - adn my twypning has gon too siht. -- nm - Reagen Oct 12, 15:43
I've got to hand it to the producers of Dexter. I'm not sure I could think of a better creepy serial killer than John Lithgow. - crash davis Oct 12, 14:52 9
- spoils - Jovian Oct 12, 15:17
- i am supremely curious... (spoils/conjecture) - TFox Oct 12, 15:04
- yikes!! I am a few seasons behind - but he was great in Riccochet with Denzel W. -- nm - Epiphany Oct 12, 14:55
- that would read better if I'd said "a better actor to cast as a creepy serial killer" - crash davis Oct 12, 14:53
- I had totally forgotten just how scary Lithgow can be. He's terrific. -- nm - Remlik Oct 12, 14:53 4
  - Having seen Raising Cain - eag Oct 12, 14:55 2
    - Though this is in the running for me as one of the worst movies I've ever seen. -- nm - Reagen Oct 12, 15:11 1
      - yeah it was, but he was good in it. And over the top in Cliffhanger -- nm - Remlik Oct 12, 15:13
  - incredibly so, but we could have done without the bare butt scene -- nm - crash davis Oct 12, 14:55
that one blind item about an actress who was part of an ensemble TV show...was that revealed? -- nm - crash davis Oct 12, 14:39 2
- Generally speaking, if they get revealed, someone gets sued. -- nm - David Oct 12, 14:40 1
  - that stands to reason -- nm - crash davis Oct 12, 14:43
Ed Norton may be Daniel Negreanu's twin, but he isn't Canadian. -- nm - Reagen Oct 12, 14:39 19
- This will help with A-D list. - the wrong element, bad guy Oct 12, 15:11 4
  - the Brendan Fraser guess is a good one -- nm - Guy Oct 12, 15:52 2
    - Indiana isn't in Canada. -- nm - the wrong element, bad guy Oct 12, 16:08 1
      - He just looks like he could be a Mountie. - the liioulu with empty bottle Oct 12, 16:23
  - i thought CDAN was supposed to be Claire Danes before I clicked. :) -- nm - Guy Oct 12, 15:26
- I'm not really up to date on my Canadian actors. I have no clue -- nm - CQ Oct 12, 14:44 5
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    - I thought of him, but he's not filming anything right now that I'd really consider big - Reagen Oct 12, 15:01 1
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    - I'd say so - but I think the A/B/C list thing is used in blind items for deniability -- nm - Roger More Oct 12, 14:48
    - wait, how about Will Arnett? -- nm - CQ Oct 12, 14:47
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  - Finally! You and I agaree on something - OAE Oct 12, 16:50
  - Wait, what? -- nm - David Oct 12, 14:46 1
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  - close enough that I'm not the only one to remark on it -- (link) - Reagen Oct 12, 14:42 [Image] 3
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      - shorty? scrawny? -- nm - Epiphany Oct 12, 14:58 1
        
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Home, James -- nm - oblique Oct 12, 14:37

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