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I think the formula for how long Jacen needs to play with a toy vs. its cost for me to feel like I got a deal is about $1/minute. -- nm - TFox Oct 15, 14:13 2
- Daddy spent $50 on that truck. Please don't play with the box it came in instead. -- nm - crash davis Oct 15, 14:14
- So dad, about that strip club trip? -- nm - Teen Jacen Oct 15, 14:14
Sad. Just saw this tweet go by: Webkinz Lil'Kinz Purple Goldfish TagOnly NewSealed http://bit.ly/UsgM0 #BalloonBoy Wife Swap CNN Colorado #twitterules - oblique Oct 15, 14:08
Now I have Robyn Hitchcock stuck in my head. - Dano Oct 15, 14:07
scientists find that ribbon thing that kidnapped Capt Kirk in ST: Generations -- (link) - crash davis Oct 15, 14:03 2
- Man I tell ya. Straight up? The Nexus would be the best thing to ever happen to me. nm - Jovian Oct 15, 14:08
- Time is the fire that burns. -- nm - Remlik Oct 15, 14:04
That didn't take long.... -- (link) - oblique Oct 15, 14:03 5
- Yipp-ee ki-yay, Little Falcon. -- nm - John McClane on WTBS Oct 15, 14:11
- they already have over 6,000 hits? - sycor Oct 15, 14:10 2
  - Maybe, but you can't always believe hit counters. -- nm - mara Oct 15, 14:11
  - spambot infection in 5...4...3...2... -- nm - oblique Oct 15, 14:11
- This is baby jessica 2.0! -- nm - lileve Oct 15, 14:04
I love rampant speculation in the afternoon. -- nm - Dano Oct 15, 14:01 2
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  - Speaking of real, January Jones' are real correct? -- nm - Jovian Oct 15, 14:09
from the backboards... if Shyamalan does a movie on the balloon thingie,,, what will be the 'what a tweest' moment? -- nm - i'm not undead yet ! Oct 15, 14:01 3
- The kid would have encountered the Rapture; and disappear right as the balloon is touching down. -- nm - Will Hunting Oct 15, 14:02 2
  - or perhaps he thinks that the Rapture happened while in flight, and he didn't get taken, he lands and thinks that everyone else is gone... - i'm not undead yet ! Oct 15, 14:09
  - or he turned into plant spores -- nm - Remlik Oct 15, 14:06
holy... there is already a t-shirt -- (link) - Guy Oct 15, 13:59
somewhat serious question: does this affect Up's Oscar chances if the boy is not found alive? - Guy Oct 15, 13:58 10
- I make one Dreamworks animated film a year and then bet my entire salary on Pixar winning the Oscar -- nm - Jack Black Oct 15, 14:05
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  - and i dont think my questions is any worse than dozens posted (like the Shamaylan comments, for example) -- nm - Guy Oct 15, 14:04
  - i dont personally care about the Oscars or the BO, but this sort of discussion usually comes up here. Spider-Man comes to mind -- nm - Guy Oct 15, 14:01 6
    - How so on the Spider-man bit? -- nm - Will Hunting Oct 15, 14:02 5
      - they had him stringing a web between the twin towers, iirc - Guy Oct 15, 14:03 4
        
        The early production stills had the Twin Towers reflected in his eye-glasses. - Will Hunting Oct 15, 14:04 3
        
        I have the 5 foot vinyl banner with this image. -- nm - sycor Oct 15, 14:13
        
        IIRC they also filmed a scene where bank-robbers escape in a heliciopter, which then got caught up in a giant web spun between the two towers -- nm - Roger More Oct 15, 14:06 1
        
        Mentioned in this article - you can probably find the trailer on the web now -- (link) - Roger More Oct 15, 14:11
From twitter: Hold on #balloonboy, ima let you finish, but Amelia Earhart had one of the best disappearances from a flight OF ALL TIME! - Kanye West -- nm - oblique Oct 15, 13:56 2
- Golden! -- nm - lileve Oct 15, 14:02
- follow up from twitter.. "Ya know, I think i'm gonna have to agree w/ Kanye on this one -- Taylor and Beyonce -- nm - i'm not Taylor Swift yet ! Oct 15, 13:57
So they are now reporting a basket was attached to the balloon when it lifted off, and it wasn't there when it landed -- nm - MDH Oct 15, 13:54 5
- an early photo after it took off from the hose didn't show a basket. -- nm - Remlik Oct 15, 13:59 3
  - Yep, CNN just said "There may not have been a basket. We expect to find him on the ground" -- nm - MDH Oct 15, 14:00 2
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      - Oof. -- nm - con_carne Oct 15, 14:03
- :( -- nm - oblique Oct 15, 13:55
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- Give me Tebow chicka STAT! -- nm - Will Hunting Oct 15, 13:57
- Boobs is fighting the good fight today. -- nm - Deevil Oct 15, 13:55
Amazon mp3 album deal of the day: Scary Fragile by Butterfly Boucher for $2.99 -- (link) - JaxSean Oct 15, 13:52
ATTEN: Seattle Slackers, I have a couple coming to town on Saturday to get married, they need a couple witnesses. - zeitgeist Oct 15, 13:51 3
- If I still lived there, I'd do it just to see the ceremony -- nm - crash davis Oct 15, 13:54
- It's a bar. Can't they just pick the nearest drunk? -- nm - oblique Oct 15, 13:54 1
  - yeah but I thought it would a great chance to meet some more slackers who live nearby -- nm - zeitgeist Oct 15, 13:57
Amazon has a collection of 500+ sound effects for $1.89. ("Album Savings: $527.76 compared to buying all songs." heh.) -- (link) - JaxSean Oct 15, 13:49
warnings on the vidmaster challenge annual - crash davis Oct 15, 13:47
Vuze now supports TiVo and PSP -- (link) - oblique Oct 15, 13:44
IM HAPPY FOR YOU & IMA LET YOU FINISH, BUT RUSSELL FROM UP WAS THE BEST KID IN A BALLOON THIS YEAR! -- nm - from Twitter Oct 15, 13:39 2
- L$ -- nm - lileve Oct 15, 13:42 1
  - L4! -- nm - lileve Oct 15, 13:42
I think I'm going to go see Paranormal Activity tonight. I need to get out of the house. -- nm - TFox Oct 15, 13:36 1
- get out -- nm - House Oct 15, 13:39
LYC: I love the new "High Score" theme in gmail. -- nm - JaxSean Oct 15, 13:36
Redstate: "tonight we are all Rush Limbaugh" ... it proceeds with the crazy from there exponentially -- (link) - Beaker Oct 15, 13:36 6
- Heh, I love this comment: "Dittoheads read that Niemoller poem and get jealous. Why aren't they allowed to go after Communists, socialists, unionists - mara Oct 15, 14:11
- I love watching the far right humiliate itself simply by talking. -- nm - David Oct 15, 14:01
- Wow -- nm - Roger More Oct 15, 13:51
- this is a whole new level of hyperbole. - Guy Oct 15, 13:47
- Oh, for the love of... -- nm - Stephen Oct 15, 13:46
- /me eats a whole cow. -- nm - Mop (233 lbs) Oct 15, 13:41
Richmond gets a minor league baseball team, the mascot is -- (link) - nubby Oct 15, 13:25 4
- Are they getting a new stadium? -- nm - David Oct 15, 13:31 2
  - Nope, still at the Diamond. And it's the Giants AA affiliate. -- nm - nubby Oct 15, 13:36
  - they should put one up next to the Short Pump Mall! -- nm - Deevil Oct 15, 13:32
- I've been out of work so long. This is just the opportunity I've been waiting for. -- nm - Rocky Oct 15, 13:26
Mmmm...bleached whites. Mandy would be proud of me :) -- nm - MojaveMeg Oct 15, 13:21 4
- I read that as beached whales and immediately thought of George Costanza -- nm - Beaker Oct 15, 13:33
- *after* Labor Day? snort -- nm - zeitgeist Oct 15, 13:24 2
  - That's ok. they're the whites that aren't seen in public ;-) -- nm - MojaveMeg Oct 15, 13:35 1
    - they smell bery, bery good. -- nm - Max Oct 15, 13:48
this is another case that could be solved by Spawn and crash in a muscle car with trunk full of shotguns -- nm - crash davis Oct 15, 13:20 17
- I want to be Jim Beaver in this set-up. -- nm - nubby Oct 15, 13:24 3
  - Nubby,,,Bobby...sounds close enough to me -- nm - crash davis Oct 15, 13:24 2
    - "You damn fools, what the hell did you screw up this time!" -- nm - nubby Oct 15, 13:28 1
      - damn idjits! -- nm - Epiphany Oct 15, 13:34
- Next on The Crash Channel. - Deevil Oct 15, 13:22 12
  - The Worst Damn Sports Show would be a regular feature -- nm - crash davis Oct 15, 13:24 11
    - me and Dr. Vermin can do the nightly political news recap. -- nm - znufrii Oct 15, 14:10 3
      - Like we need another fighty news show? :) -- nm - con_carne Oct 15, 14:10 2
        
        It's The Crash Channel. If the Nightly News devolves into a cage match, all the better. -- nm - Deevil Oct 15, 14:12 1
        
        *puts $20 on Vermin* - Will Hunting Oct 15, 14:15
    - Hosted by any number of STers on a revolving schedule. It would be an awesome hot mess of wrongness every week. but fun. -- nm - Deevil Oct 15, 13:26 6
      - each day the segment DLC hosted by our own Mumpower as he sounds off! -- nm - Remlik Oct 15, 13:52 3
        
        the coolness is that just about every STer who loves sports posts something crazy here eventually. - Deevil Oct 15, 13:59 2
        
        And welcome back to Crazy Sports S**t...i'm your host, Will Hunting - Will Hunting Oct 15, 14:01 1
        
        See? it writes itself! -- nm - Deevil Oct 15, 14:08
      - It would be like that ESPN skit about billiards last week -- nm - Beryllium Oct 15, 13:26 1
        
        ... on SNL. Brought to you by Tampax. -- nm - Beryllium Oct 15, 13:26
A calorie tax? -- (link) - oblique Oct 15, 13:20 3
- I still think it's missing the point, or addressing a real cause of the problem, which is our whacked-out farm subsidies. -- nm - znufrii Oct 15, 13:34 1
  - *not* addressing... -- nm - znufrii Oct 15, 13:35
- Seems like a reasonable suggestion. - Subversive Oct 15, 13:33
Days that start out with boobs should not spiral down like this. -- nm - Inigo Oct 15, 13:18 1
- I've attempted to resuscitate boobs twice now. One for each one. -- nm - Deevil Oct 15, 13:19
wouldn't the kid come home when he got hungry? -- nm - zeitgeist Oct 15, 13:16
Somebody's finally using the H-word. -- (link) - mara Oct 15, 13:16
Taxi Driver locations: then and now -- (link) - Reagen Oct 15, 13:15 2
- That's great. -- nm - Krusty Oct 15, 14:11
- cool -- nm - zeitgeist Oct 15, 13:22
Nifty TiVo discovery... - David Oct 15, 13:12 5
- Does all of that work take less time than just fast-forwarding through the commercials? -- nm - Elvis Oct 15, 14:09
- Sweet. Does a boy in a ballon come with it? -- nm - lileve Oct 15, 13:13 3
  - Up's not out on DVD yet. -- nm - David Oct 15, 13:13 2
    - That's going to be my favorite movie release week of the year. - Will Hunting Oct 15, 13:14 1
      - Yup. -- nm - David Oct 15, 13:16
Jeez, I leave the mediaworld for 2 1/2 hrs... -- nm - HdnAgnda Oct 15, 13:12 4
- I am seeing this video for the first time. That balloon is hauling a$$! -- nm - HdnAgnda Oct 15, 13:20
- I know! I feel so out of the loop all of a sudden! -- nm - Subversive Oct 15, 13:14
- I mentioned it here to someone after getting a Breaking News email, then everyone was rivetted to live feeds. -- nm - JaxSean Oct 15, 13:13
- Just a few more questions, sir... Where were you for the last 2 1/2 hours? -- nm - Mop (233 lbs) Oct 15, 13:12
Re: boy in the balloon, where does a 3-yr-old play into this? Is a 3-yr-old the only witness to the boy climbing into the balloon? -- nm - Mop (233 lbs) Oct 15, 13:11 17
- pretty sure the missing kid is 6yrs, and it was an older brother who said they saw him around it -- nm - Truman Oct 15, 13:13 1
  - MSNBC says it's the 6-year-old, Falcon. CNN says it's the 8-year-old, Ryo. There is no 3-year-old. The third brother is the oldest. -- nm - mara Oct 15, 13:15
- According to the Huff Po article, he was the youngest, who WAS the 3 year old? -- nm - MDH Oct 15, 13:13 1
  - the butler. -- nm - Beryllium Oct 15, 13:14
- It wasn't a 3 year old. It was a 40 yr old Estonian immigrant. -- nm - TFox Oct 15, 13:13 10 1
  - *cutting the ropes* -- nm - esther si Oct 15, 13:18
  - This, sir, is a true L5. -- nm - David Oct 15, 13:16
  - You speak the truth. -- nm - Deevil Oct 15, 13:16
  - I thought it was a cultured Korean lady. -- nm - loosilu Oct 15, 13:15
  - *giggling* -- nm - Subversive Oct 15, 13:15
  - *scribbles notes* -- nm - Shamalama Oct 15, 13:14
  - BWAH! -- nm - nubby Oct 15, 13:13 3
    - I just pissed myself. -- nm - Mop (233 lbs) Oct 15, 13:15 2
      - "I'm lizzing!" -- nm - nubby Oct 15, 13:23 1
        
        YSMM -- nm - con_carne Oct 15, 13:46
- I don't know about a 3-year-old, I thought he was the youngest, and one of his brothers saw him get in the balloon -- nm - znufrii Oct 15, 13:12
- I pushed him! -- nm - 3-yr-old Oct 15, 13:12
I want to know what flame war Spawn is supposed to be committed to David in -- nm - crash davis Oct 15, 13:09 1
- Oh, he knows. He knows. -- nm - David Oct 15, 13:12
Everything I do, I do it for you -- nm - zeitgeist Oct 15, 13:08
To change the subject: Last night's new episode of Mythbosters was *awesome* - znufrii Oct 15, 13:08 12
- ayup -- nm - Truman Oct 15, 13:13
- Did they prove that it's actually really bad to use duct tape in ducting? -- nm - Beryllium Oct 15, 13:11 1
  - no (spoilers) - znufrii Oct 15, 13:12
- Was it the mylar balloon/small boy episode? nm - Dignan Oct 15, 13:10
- duct tapes board 2 cause it's moving around too much, or wait, should I use some WD40 cause it seems stuck on one subject -- nm - zeitgeist Oct 15, 13:09
- Is that the Kazakh version? -- nm - Reagen Oct 15, 13:09 6
  - I'm getting hungry for a Cheeseborger from Quark's. -- nm - nubby Oct 15, 13:09 5
    - The seafood platter was quite good. I was actually impressed, a little. -- nm - con_carne Oct 15, 13:18
    - chee'berger, chee'berger, pepsee, pepsee, ... -- nm - zork Oct 15, 13:17 3
      - no pepsee, coak -- nm - zeitgeist Oct 15, 13:23 1
        
        bzzt - zork Oct 15, 13:32
      - Coke? NO COKE -- nm - Beryllium Oct 15, 13:23

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