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I guess for some tourists, getting out of the car and frolicking with bears and moose ... would be like canucks playing with kangaroos -- nm - Beryllium Oct 14, 09:34 1
- I wanna box a kangaroo. - Spawn Oct 14, 09:35
A twitter game that won't annoy your followers. -- (link) - mara Oct 14, 09:32 1
i'm eating my leftover quinoa based chili - it's *great*. -- nm - Andie Oct 14, 09:32 6
- I'm having pasta and leftover sauce - italian sausage and mushrooms. -- nm - Deevil Oct 14, 09:36
- I have have no idea what quinoa is. I'm guessing a small game fowl, or a subtle citrus liquor. (nm) - musubi Oct 14, 09:34 3
  - it's a grain... somewhere between a lentil and bulgar. :) -- nm - Andie Oct 14, 09:36 1
    - (although, i like the idea of a 'subtle citrus liquor.' -- nm - Andie Oct 14, 09:36
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- I'm having chili again today too> -- nm - Max Oct 14, 09:33
uh, that state department page about Morocco? Says that the risk of terrorist attacks against Americans is high. -- (link) - loosilu Oct 14, 09:31 1
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I traded the Lean Cuisine I brought in with another person's. They just don't know it yet. - HdnAgnda Oct 14, 09:29 2
- Brilliant! -- nm - Spawn Oct 14, 09:31
- "We've secretly replaced HdnAgenda's cow orker's Lean Cuisine lunch with Folgers Crystals. Let's see if he notices." -- nm - whispering announcer Oct 14, 09:30
I look at it this way, I try very hard to live a good, honest life. If the make or break issue for getting into Heaven or going to Hell is a belief in - TWuG Oct 14, 09:28 16
- So you want into his club, but won't acknowledge the onwer? - oblique Oct 14, 09:34 4
  - I'm in his club based on birth, essentially. But I still think the doorman's a dick if he won't let me into his club based on looks. - JaxSean Oct 14, 09:35 1
    - It's your choice to ask to come in. How can you ask to come in if you don't acknowledge the existance? -- nm - oblique Oct 14, 09:37
  - If I pay my tab and follow the dress code...no club owner will give a shit if I acknowledge him or not. - Jim Oct 14, 09:35 1
    - WORSHIP ME!!! -- nm - Club Owner Oct 14, 09:36
- To take it a step further, if God made you, God made you analytical. Why would God do that but also require blind faith? It makes very little sense. -- nm - Inigo Oct 14, 09:34 4
  - Heh. Reminds me of the Onion editorial about how God made the writer intolerant to gays so it must be okay. -- nm - mara Oct 14, 09:39
  - *ding* -- nm - Spawn Oct 14, 09:37
  - *shrug* To me, everything we discover about the natural world makes God more and more real to me -- nm - oblique Oct 14, 09:36 1
    - *watches earthquake footage* - Spawn Oct 14, 09:37
- that sort of attitude is why when the great divide comes, you'll be in the Army of Sam...me, I'm going to be an officer in the Army of Dean -- nm - crash davis Oct 14, 09:30 5
  - I have no ide what this means. Does this put me on your side, but in a different regiment, or will Sam and Dean fight each other? -- nm - TWuG Oct 14, 09:33 1
    - it means I like Supernatural on the CW very much, not much meaning otherwise :) -- nm - crash davis Oct 14, 09:34
  - *joins the Army of Castiel and waits for the emo-fest battle to end* -- nm - Will Hunting Oct 14, 09:32 2
    - *drinks whiskey, hits on hot girls, listens to classic rock and laughs at Army of Castiel* -- nm - crash davis Oct 14, 09:33 1
      - *laughs as Castiel changes the radio station to All-Britney All-the-Time* -- nm - Will Hunting Oct 14, 09:35
I ♥ Battlestar Galactica. I think I found there here. Not sure but it's great. -- (link) - lileve Oct 14, 09:28 [youtube] 3
- What is this sentence about? :) -- nm - HdnAgnda Oct 14, 09:33
- aaaahhhmaziiiing -- nm - Danedukenuuk Oct 14, 09:33
- there=this -- nm - lileve Oct 14, 09:28
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- hmm. they didn't ask me. -- nm - decline Oct 14, 09:28 2
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    - *claps* Now explain string theory with shadow puppets. (nm) - musubi Oct 14, 09:31
- Dems better hurry up and get behind another option.....Toomey's a marginal candidate vs a competent one there. -- nm - Will Hunting Oct 14, 09:27
It may be a function of living in LA, but I hear "wicked" as a compliment more often than not. (nm) - musubi Oct 14, 09:26 3
- Yeah, that was why I added "valley". -- nm - Spawn Oct 14, 09:27 2
  - I don't read your post IMs, silly. - musubi Oct 14, 09:28 1
    - Obviously since it was *in* the subject line. -- nm - Spawn Oct 14, 09:34
"organ donations due to motor vehicle fatalities increase by 10 percent when states repeal motorcycle helmet laws" -- (link) - mara Oct 14, 09:24 2
- That is what is known as a win/win. -- nm - Spawn Oct 14, 09:25
- my dad has always called motorcyclists "organ donors" -- nm - loosilu Oct 14, 09:25
LIR: Zork - lileve Oct 14, 09:18
mr crash man. are we going to have a halo 3 vidmaster achivement night this week? -- nm - tRuMaN Oct 14, 09:17 6
- Thursday night, Vidmaster night....family stuff permitting, I may be looking to do some firefighting to warm up tonight -- nm - crash davis Oct 14, 09:18 5
  - We could try for the Endure if we're firefighting. -- nm - Remlik Oct 14, 09:22 4
    - true, or I could mess your chances up by agreeing to it and then going for the Be Like Murphy achievement - crash davis Oct 14, 09:23
    - one round without killing anything? - tRuMaN Oct 14, 09:22 2
      - endure is the Vidmaster achievement for 4 player Heroic level firefighting -- nm - crash davis Oct 14, 09:23 1
        
        oh, that. yeah, we could try for that as well. - tRuMaN Oct 14, 09:26
I like Mark and Brian -- nm - amoxy Oct 14, 09:10 2
- I like Dick & Jane -- nm - lileve Oct 14, 09:18
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I hate it when I lose my cool and get in a screaming match with my son - amoxy Oct 14, 09:10 8
- ... and he wins. -- nm - Spawn Oct 14, 09:10 7
  - "I learned it by watching you!!" -- nm - con_carne Oct 14, 09:28
  - Exactly! He was pushing my buttons this morning being an absolute slug gettting moving for school - amoxy Oct 14, 09:12 5
    - Today is Logan's first day back at Daycare after being sick. Was gone for exactly a week. - Spawn Oct 14, 09:13
    - Just be sure to apologize. We should be able to do that as parents too when we make mistakes - oblique Oct 14, 09:12 3
      - I did and he realized he screwed up and also apologized - amoxy Oct 14, 09:14 2
        
        I need some sort of volume alarm that can go off in my head. I raise my voice far too often -- nm - oblique Oct 14, 09:15 1
        
        Yeah. I don't think I yell at moose jr often, but it's certainly more than I like. - musubi Oct 14, 09:30
It is windy but not raining here, but I see big storm clouds on the horizon -- nm - amoxy Oct 14, 09:09
"Show me the way to go home, I'm tired and I want to go to bed" -- nm - amoxy Oct 14, 09:09
For the college basketball fans... today is John Wooden's 99th birthday. -- (link) - Don Homer Oct 14, 09:07
Patagonia is tops on my destination list -- nm - Guy Oct 14, 09:07 1
- yeah, it is very good clothing made right in the great state of Oregon -- nm - crash davis Oct 14, 09:08
some of these travel advisories countries slap on others sounds like the retaliations of bitchy high school girls -- nm - crash davis Oct 14, 09:07 9
- Spies. Whatya gonna do. -- nm - Sam Axe Oct 14, 09:23 1
  - *gives Max even more points* -- nm - crash davis Oct 14, 09:25
- I think it's more that tourists are often quite stupid. "Oh look, a bear! Let's get out of our car and chase after it so we can take a photo!" -- nm - Roger More Oct 14, 09:11 4
  - yeah, in most cases you are fine as long as you don't do anything stupid. - loosilu Oct 14, 09:12
  - I can't speak for Australia, but Americans are bear stupid in their very own country -- nm - crash davis Oct 14, 09:12 2
    - Sure - but the State Dept can't issue a travel advisory for the US :) -- nm - Roger More Oct 14, 09:13 1
      - I'd love to see them slap one on Wyoming -- nm - crash davis Oct 14, 09:14
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  - *laughing* -- nm - crash davis Oct 14, 09:12
Finally cleared my emails - what did I miss? -- nm - LMS Oct 14, 09:03 3
- Stay away from Africa...there's terrorists in dem dere hills. -- nm - Jim Oct 14, 09:04 2
  - The whole continent? -- nm - LMS Oct 14, 09:19 1
    - just the hilly parts -- nm - crash davis Oct 14, 09:20
Loosi, are you working on any paintings? -- nm - peglegpete Oct 14, 09:03 1
- not currently. work got me so stressed out I haven't been able to get my head in it. -- nm - loosilu Oct 14, 09:03
Thought for a rainy Wednesday morning........ - MojaveMeg Oct 14, 09:01 1
- "I'm genetic garbage?" -- nm - Danny DeVito in Twins Oct 14, 09:03
I just wonder what she's attempting to do by publishing that story. - Will Hunting Oct 14, 08:57 30
- Hers might be the story that gets both sides of the abortion argument to agree on something. - TWuG Oct 14, 09:04 2
  - I don't really think, in the end, this story has much to offer either side of the debate. - znufrii Oct 14, 09:18
  - I am very pro-choice, but there's a lot of reasons (that both sides can agree on) why it shouldn't be. -- nm - JaxSean Oct 14, 09:16
- she probably wrote it as part of her healing process of coming to terms with her illness... -- nm - znufrii Oct 14, 09:01 4
  - That was my thought also -- nm - amoxy Oct 14, 09:13 3
    - anbd then some agent got wind of it, and convinced her to sell it to a publisher along the idea of helping others who are in unfortuante situations. -- nm - znufrii Oct 14, 09:15 2
      - She IS a literary agent. -- nm - Ender Oct 14, 09:28 1
        
        ah, I missed that part. - znufrii Oct 14, 09:30
- LIR: Thank Jack for bringing religion into the coversation and insulting it again (not that I brought that up at all). The article simply had her - oblique Oct 14, 09:00 15
  - Honest question: Do you use "wicked" like that on a frequent basis? - Spawn Oct 14, 09:07 9
    - I have zero assocations with wicked to religious tones.... - Will Hunting Oct 14, 09:09 7
      - reminded me of something my grandmother would say. - znufrii Oct 14, 09:13 1
        
        *ding* -- nm - Spawn Oct 14, 09:21
      - I've heard it both ways. -- nm - Shawn Spencer Oct 14, 09:10 1
        
        No you haven't Shawn. -- nm - Burton Guster Oct 14, 09:12
      - See my IM, silly. -- nm - Spawn Oct 14, 09:10 2
        
        No I totally see that part, but I've never seen any religious connotation otherwise. - Will Hunting Oct 14, 09:12
        
        Also, valley talk. -- nm - Spawn Oct 14, 09:11
    - A wicked person? Sure. Someone doing bad things. I'm sure there's plenty of other words that fit just as well -- nm - oblique Oct 14, 09:09
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    - The abortion lady. Keep up. -- nm - oblique Oct 14, 09:04 3
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        Or the Wizard of Oz. -- nm - Cuzzin Todd Oct 14, 09:17
        
        regarding your IM - oblique Oct 14, 09:11
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  - Abortions should be free. -- nm - JaxSean Oct 14, 09:00 2
    - Miniature American flags for others! -- nm - Don Homer Oct 14, 09:03 1
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- Controversy sells. -- nm - JaxSean Oct 14, 08:58 1
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about travel advisories: THe state department doesn't put them up unless the situation is pretty bad, so I'd pay attention to them. - loosilu Oct 14, 08:57 17
- not to state the obvious, but Al Queda killed a lot of people on American soil..... -- nm - Andie Oct 14, 08:58 16
  - that has nothing to do with anything. THey specifically made threats against westerners who go to North Africa. In most cities where tourists go, - loosilu Oct 14, 09:00
  - Doesn't Canada have a travel advisory for the US? :) -- nm - Beryllium Oct 14, 08:58 14
    - we did for a time over the Maher Arar thing, specifically for naturalized citizens who were born in a specific group of countries. - Reagen Oct 14, 09:01
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    - I expect it has a travel advisory for every country -- nm - Roger More Oct 14, 09:00
    - probably. and i know Australia has one for canada, it mentions *bear attacks* among other things. - Andie Oct 14, 09:00 9
      - Canada's travel advisory for Australia notes that it is located "in a seismic zone" and hints that if you may be prevented from entering as a same sex - Roger More Oct 14, 09:05 5
        
        (is there really any basis to that same sex couple thing? i've never heard that before.) -- nm - Andie Oct 14, 09:11 2
        
        I think it's a general catch-all that they include in all their travel advisories - Roger More Oct 14, 09:17 1
        
        you just have to come in one at a time. -- nm - znufrii Oct 14, 09:27
        
        hee. -- nm - Andie Oct 14, 09:10
        
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      - !!!!!!! -- nm - Colbert Oct 14, 09:02 2
        
        heh, i actually was going to link it, but they've updated it because of the olympics -- (link) - Andie Oct 14, 09:03 1
        
        although it does mention risk of terrorist attack still. -- nm - Andie Oct 14, 09:12
    - oh, nevermind: " There is no Official Warning for this country. " -- nm - Beryllium Oct 14, 08:59
Bad Ideas Jeans inspired: Michael Jackson's kids to get 'reality show' -- (link) - Andie Oct 14, 08:57 1
- Hmmmm. I am thinking a good theme song for the show would be the Jackson 5 song 'Torture' - HdnAgnda Oct 14, 08:59
And the award for first country to establish broadband as a legal right goes to.... -- (link) - Don Homer Oct 14, 08:57
When Catholics go into a church, men are supposed to take off their hats and women are supposed to wear hats. - Spawn Oct 14, 08:54 19
- the thing about that list, I wholeheartedly agreed with #7 -- nm - crash davis Oct 14, 08:58 11
  - that list is super old school, pre-Vatican 2. I hate that kind of stuff. I don't see any difference between that and idolatry. -- nm - loosilu Oct 14, 09:04 2
    - yeah, exactly how old is JackDawson's aunt? - znufrii Oct 14, 09:09 1
      - my mom would send me that. she's in her 70s. -- nm - loosilu Oct 14, 09:14
  - isn't there a whole thing about doing things just so you get into heaven, and God being smart enough to see through that? -- nm - Reagen Oct 14, 09:03 7
    - true, but I believe in doing good things for their own sake -- nm - crash davis Oct 14, 09:14
    - You don't do good things to get into heaven. You're already in when you believe in God and accept it (blah blah). You do good works as a result of - oblique Oct 14, 09:05 3
      - so, if I generally don't do good things, it's a sign that I'm not getting into heaven, therefore I have no incentive to change my behavior? - znufrii Oct 14, 09:17
      - not according to that list, though, which is what we're talking about. -- nm - Reagen Oct 14, 09:07 1
        
        it's a bargaining list. tit for tat. -- nm - loosilu Oct 14, 09:08
    - In case of damnation, break glass. -- nm - Spawn Oct 14, 09:04
    - *takes one from Reagen's positive tally and moves it to the negative* -- nm - God Oct 14, 09:04
- "In Soviet Russia hats wear YOU!" -- nm - Ender Oct 14, 08:57
- It's the Spawn improv comedy board! - HdnAgnda Oct 14, 08:56
- not in any church I've been to. -- nm - loosilu Oct 14, 08:55
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- That -- nm - Reagen Oct 14, 08:55 2
  - 's good for centuries of hatred right there. -- nm - Reagen Oct 14, 08:55 1
    - Hat-red. -- nm - HdnAgnda Oct 14, 08:59

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