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LIDAR speeding tickets being thrown out of Chicago courts -- (link) - oblique Nov 11, 07:48
Has anyone ever been to the annual Carnival in Trinidad, or know anecdotes about it? -- nm - Hotkiss Nov 11, 07:44 3
- if it's anything like the carnival in Quebec city, there'll be a snowman wearing a tuque and a vayageur sash. bonhomme carnival! -- nm - mafic Nov 11, 07:50
- Weird. Is that coming up? I just got a request that two people here are going and I need to be sure their phones and data work -- nm - oblique Nov 11, 07:47 1
  - Feb 15-16 this year. -- nm - Hotkiss Nov 11, 07:47
So, who here is a vet? Anyone? -- nm - oblique Nov 11, 07:41 5
- I was in the Navy for 8 years, MM2 & LT -- nm - ceregon Nov 11, 07:50
- sgtmike? -- nm - con_carne Nov 11, 07:50
- I think Sceire was deployed in Iraq at some point, and BAD was in the navy in WWII or Korea. -- nm - mafic Nov 11, 07:44
- Sceire -- nm - mara Nov 11, 07:43
- I can pretend to be a vet, if that helps. -- nm - Loyola Nov 11, 07:43
deals.woot is just strange. -- nm - tRuMaN Nov 11, 07:33 3
- Is it just a place to share other deals that they've found? -- nm - JaxSean Nov 11, 07:44 1
  - They are theirs, as they always show up during woot-offs. -- nm - Spawn Nov 11, 07:54
- If you get a chance, read my ika request. - Spawn Nov 11, 07:38
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- if I made ads for churches, I'd burgle this. -- nm - mafic Nov 11, 07:35 1
  - I will allow this transgression. -- nm - God Nov 11, 07:40
- I don't mind them as much as the clamheads that hang out by the Times Square Shuttle on the Grand Central side. -- nm - lileve Nov 11, 07:33
- I've seen these ads around here too. -- nm - Diva Nov 11, 07:25
- read about that in the NYTimes a few weeks ago... - znufrii Nov 11, 07:22 1
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- If an organization did that here, they would get lynched in seconds. -- nm - Hotkiss Nov 11, 07:20 2
  - you're in Indiana, right? -- (link) - znufrii Nov 11, 07:43 1
    - Oooh I like their website -- nm - Hotkiss Nov 11, 07:44
restored A Moveable Feast is a fraud according to A. E. Hotchner -- nm - lone canadian Jays fan Nov 11, 07:16
Now this is cool. Free wedding gowns to women engaged to military servicemen -- (link) - oblique Nov 11, 07:13
Farscape S1-3 are now on Netflix Streaming -- nm - oblique Nov 11, 07:09
effin wind. It's almost as if I didn't clean my yard at all yesterday. *curses the wind gods* -- nm - CQ Nov 11, 07:09 3
- and my leaf blower died yesterday tambien. ugh -- nm - CQ Nov 11, 07:13 2
  - going to have to invest in a sn*w bl*wer this year -- nm - lone canadian Jays fan Nov 11, 07:14 1
    - thankfully, our driveway is small and gravel. No need for a snow blower. -- nm - CQ Nov 11, 07:16
o Miley ? MILEY CYRUS DOES A GOOD DEED, SORT OF DISSES JAY-Z - lone canadian Jays fan Nov 11, 07:09 4
- A local radio station that did a promotion with her here said that when she wasn't "on" in front of the little kids or on the air, she was the meanest - pmb Nov 11, 07:35 1
  - I see a Britney type flame out in her future -- nm - Epiphany Nov 11, 07:44
- Says all I need to know about the pop recording industry right here... - znufrii Nov 11, 07:13 1
  - her handlers must have crapped when they heard that. -- nm - mafic Nov 11, 07:46
Ric Flair got married for the 4th time yesterday.... Hogan/Flair promo for the upcoming tour in Austrailia....Wiggums will have to attend.... -- (link) - Remlik Nov 11, 07:07 [youtube] 1
- WOOOOO! -- nm - lileve Nov 11, 07:15
so I bought someone off ebay on 10-23, its 11-11 and the damm thing is broke - tRuMaN Nov 11, 07:06 5
- remember remember the 11-11 of november -- nm - lone canadian Jays fan Nov 11, 07:25
- I hate when people break. useless -- nm - CQ Nov 11, 07:08
- You just can't trust those people you buy off of eBay these days. -- nm - decline Nov 11, 07:08
- arg, something. - tRuMaN Nov 11, 07:08 1
  - A. if you haven't left feedback yet you have a negiotiating tool, (note: sellers can NOT neg you back, period) b. if you paid by your own credit card - zeitgeist Nov 11, 22:07
Armistice Day Trivia: There is one surviving American WWI Veteran. Frank Buckles of Charles Town, WV. He's 108 and was an ambulance driver. -- nm - Ender Nov 11, 06:59 7
- *wonders if Frank Buckles is in the mood for a good beef b-b-q anytime soon* -- nm - kelly Nov 11, 07:13
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  - the lone canadian lives in spokane, WA, I believe. there was some minor controversy a while back when the government said the last WWI vet could - mafic Nov 11, 07:27
  - I believe you are correct on the Brit -- nm - Remlik Nov 11, 07:05 3
    - Yep, Harry Patch recently died. -- nm - LMS Nov 11, 07:11 2
      - Wikipedia lists Claude Choules as the sole surviving British Vet, though he now lives in Australia. -- nm - Ender Nov 11, 07:19 1
        
        and he's certainly still alive. lives nearby and was on the news today. -- nm - mafic Nov 11, 07:31
I should be in bed. - znufrii Nov 11, 06:57
Vincent Kartheiser, Emma Pierson and Jerry Hall to star in BBC adaptation of Martin Amis' cult novel Money -- (link) - LMS Nov 11, 06:54
an unusual thing about Veteran's Day is that it's the one federal holiday that we work on - prayformojo Nov 11, 06:51 1
- I have the day off -- nm - Fuzzy, waxed cabana boy Nov 11, 06:57
Oh yeah, eff you ESPN. DVR didn't get, I'm guessing 30 minutes of your WSOP event that you scheduled and edited pisspoor. -- nm - Will Hunting Nov 11, 06:48 1
- Good thing you already know who won! -- nm - kelly Nov 11, 06:56
staring at goats is fine -- nm - lone canadian Jays fan Nov 11, 06:45 3
- yeah, but chasing them is quicker -- nm - i'm not dead yet ! Nov 11, 06:57
- What if they stare back? -- nm - LMS Nov 11, 06:48 1
  - oops - -- nm - lone canadian Jays fan Nov 11, 06:49
25 video game diaramas. Kind of cool -- (link) - JaxSean Nov 11, 06:38 1
- What's a diorama?? -- nm - Ralph si Nov 11, 06:46
Whine du jour: i whacked my elbow on a doorknob this morning (don't ask) and now i can't even rest my arms on my desk without pain. Stupidest injury - Andie Nov 11, 06:35 3
- could be worse - znufrii Nov 11, 06:56
- Be careful during sexy time, Andie. -- nm - mara Nov 11, 06:55
- actually - lone canadian Jays fan Nov 11, 06:46
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- Hmmm...maybe. -- nm - Inigo Nov 11, 06:23 1
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Free download of the Beastie Boys "Double Check Your Head" -- (link) - Andie Nov 11, 06:15 5
- Whoa, great first thing in the morning. I now proclaim your elbow healed. -- nm - con_carne Nov 11, 07:45
- Cheers -- nm - LMS Nov 11, 06:48
- Thanks! -- nm - JaxSean Nov 11, 06:31
- Awesome..thanks! -- nm - Jim Nov 11, 06:28
- you rule. thank you. :) -- nm - TFox Nov 11, 06:18
Thank you to all of our military men and women, past and present. -- nm - Fuzzy Nov 11, 06:15 12
- Thanks. -- nm - lileve Nov 11, 06:57
- word -- nm - Beaker Nov 11, 06:27
- Yes, thank you. -- nm - Inigo Nov 11, 06:20
- holla. -- nm - TFox Nov 11, 06:19
- Remembrance Day sunrise ceremonies on now -- nm - lone canadian Jays fan Nov 11, 06:19
- Agreed. -- nm - JaxSean Nov 11, 06:18
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- Word. - znufrii Nov 11, 06:16
- I'm with Cabana Boy on this issue -- nm - Epiphany Nov 11, 06:16 2
  - Better? -- nm - Fuzzy, waxed cabana boy Nov 11, 06:18 1
    - Yes - Epiphany Nov 11, 07:40
- indeed. (special shout out to Dave's 90 year old dad, a WWII vet and his 87 year old mom who was a Welsh nurse in the war.) -- nm - Andie Nov 11, 06:16
Happy Veteran's Day -- nm - prayformojo Nov 11, 06:10 2
- wear your poppies -- nm - lone canadian Jays fan Nov 11, 06:12 1
  - in Flanders Fields - lone canadian Jays fan Nov 11, 06:12
Vote in Rolling Stone's Music of the Decade poll -- (link) - nubby Nov 11, 05:51 2
- There are a couple of people who don't belong in that Artist of the Decade poll. - ty97 Nov 11, 05:57 1
  - Avril ! -- nm - lone canadian Jays fan Nov 11, 06:13
Drunk pilot arrested at Heathrow, about to fly to Chicago. -- (link) - ty97 Nov 11, 05:48
Good news: There is a plate of vegetables available as an appetizer in the cafeteria every day. Bad news: - ty97 Nov 11, 05:40 1
- but the raw stuff is always mixed in with e.coli -- nm - lone canadian Jays fan Nov 11, 06:20
I know it's the Huffington Post, but is it just me or does most of the points in this story seem...ridiculous? -- (link) - JaxSean Nov 11, 05:33 23
- i thought the rally cry of gun advocates was 'guns don't kill people, people do." ? - Andie Nov 11, 06:04 2
  - There's a reason why that's the rally cry, because idiots like this believe the opposite. -- nm - Ender Nov 11, 06:07 1
    - because the only "people" they can blame for the death of their son is themselves. - znufrii Nov 11, 06:29
- Who takes an 8 year old to a gun show? THAT'S who should be locked up. - Jim Nov 11, 06:00 2
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    - Of course, I have sympathy for them for the loss of their son. But again... - Jim Nov 11, 07:37
- "The boy's family claims the gun was defective and unreasonably dangerous, " - ty97 Nov 11, 05:41 16
  - I feel kind of bad for them. - JaxSean Nov 11, 06:02 1
    - Certainly, I feel bad for them. - ty97 Nov 11, 06:03
  - You know what generally prevents a person from shooting themselves in the head with a "defective" gun? NOT POINTING IT AT THEIR OWN HEAD! -- nm - Ender Nov 11, 05:50 13
    - I'm wondeirng, though, if the family has a case. - ty97 Nov 11, 05:53 12
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      - A gun jamming doesn't make it point at someone's head and fire. -- nm - Ender Nov 11, 06:07 8
        
        an 8-year-old trying and failing to control the recoil from an uzi, though... - znufrii Nov 11, 06:08 7
        
        Sure, but that's not the gun's fault. -- nm - Ender Nov 11, 06:09 6
        
        If the gun was defective, it could have been a contributing factor. - ty97 Nov 11, 06:12 4
        
        i agree. if a malfunctioning gun had recoiled and an 18 year old had died, people might see it differently. -- nm - Andie Nov 11, 06:18 3
        
        It looks like they're just suing everyone. Standard operating procedure. - Inigo Nov 11, 06:23 2
        
        Agreed that is SOP. I'm surprised they aren't suing the venue where the show was held. -- nm - ty97 Nov 11, 07:16
        
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        true, it was just doing what it is supposed to. nothing wrong with that. -- nm - znufrii Nov 11, 06:10
      - Handing any 8 year old a loaded Uzi is putting them in extreme danger. - Inigo Nov 11, 06:07 1
        
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- meh. I think they're a little deluded in what they're expecting within a year. -- nm - JaxSean Nov 11, 05:26 3
  - I disagree. And all he has to do right now to stem the tide of most of this backlash is to repeal DADT. - ty97 Nov 11, 05:42 1
    - heh -- nm - JaxSean Nov 11, 06:17
  - Well, maybe it'll increase the priority level. -- nm - nubby Nov 11, 05:40
Okay....if I'm not feverish but in the last 18 hours I've lost 9lbs due to stomach issues.....should I be looking H1N1 or a different tactic? - Will Hunting Nov 11, 04:48 18
- Don't think it's swine flu but you should go to the doctor. That's not normal. -- nm - lileve Nov 11, 07:16
- Ya know, I was just thinking on my way in, "I really hope he doesn't decide to disclose how much weight he's lost *this* time." Glad I checked ST this - kelly Nov 11, 05:56 1
  - A turkey *burp* -- nm - Will Hunting SI Nov 11, 06:47
- If your stomache is settling, then you will likely put the weight back on shortly. - ty97 Nov 11, 05:44
- 2 bugs have been going around here: head colds and a 48-hour~ish stomach bug. -- nm - JaxSean Nov 11, 05:27
- Coming out both ends? And are you able to keep anything down? -- nm - amoxy Nov 11, 05:17
- could be food poisoning. -- nm - loosilu Nov 11, 05:16
- I would say you should be really concerned with dehydration if you have dropped that much weight in that amount of time. -- nm - HdnAgnda Nov 11, 04:51
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  - Okay.....they're saying it's likely a stomach bug...nothing more serious - Will Hunting Nov 11, 05:22
- Call your doctor. -- nm - mara Nov 11, 04:51 2
  - NO! GO TO THE ER! -- nm - mobile mafic Nov 11, 06:07 1
    - GET TO THE CHOPPAH! -- nm - nubby Nov 11, 06:12
- *9 pounds* ?? -- nm - prayformojo Nov 11, 04:49 4
  - That's, like, one feeding. -- nm - nubby Nov 11, 05:28
  - 199 to 190.5 -- nm - Will Hunting Nov 11, 04:51 2
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      - "This baby is kinda dark, and smells really bad!" nm -- nm - groiny Nov 11, 06:14
We caught some of that country music special on ABC, and for best Country Song ever (see B2), the three I came up with are - JaxSean Nov 11, 04:44 2
- The Dance is my pick for best country song ever. - Will Hunting Nov 11, 04:46 1
  - I pick the first one because it continues to resonate for me. - JaxSean Nov 11, 05:23
the empty boots at the fort hood memorial are chilling -- nm - prayformojo Nov 11, 04:43
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