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Also, I'm on vicadin at the moment. It's not as knock-outy as I thought it would be - con_carne Nov 17, 10:09 1
- Now try doing a differential diagnosis on someone -- nm - Beryllium Nov 17, 10:10
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Gartner: Windows Mobile lost 28 percent of its smartphone market share between the third quarter of 2008 and the third quarter of 2009 -- (link) - Mop (229 lbs) Nov 17, 10:04
Second Cup Eggnog Lattes rule. -- nm - Shaun Nov 17, 10:03
TTC fare increases: $3 cash fare - $2.50 token - $126.00 MetroPass starting January -- nm - lone canadian Jays fan Nov 17, 10:02 7
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  - not enough attention from znu this board? -- nm - Roger More Nov 17, 10:12 3
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      - I'm teasing. znu is STer most likely to complain about NYC subway fare hikes -- nm - Roger More Nov 17, 10:15 1
        
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  - Haha yes they are. My round trip per day used to be $13.75 -- nm - MDH Nov 17, 10:11
  - Toronto is almost alone in NA in getting no funding from senior levels of government...its either cash box or a small amount from the City itself... - Walt_Disney Nov 17, 10:06
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- It's on a lot of people's "gotta have kids perogative checklist" -- nm - Beryllium Nov 17, 10:09
LYC: Heard at an international conference at which my City was featured: "We can't pronounce your name but we love your City" - Walt_Disney Nov 17, 09:59 5
- I always thought it was "awwwgwaa" -- nm - Beryllium Nov 17, 10:08 1
  - no-one says it that way - Miss-iss-saw-ga. -- nm - Elf Andie Nov 17, 10:14
- I bet you come across Miss iss owga too. -- nm - Loyola Nov 17, 10:08
- How well do you think you'd pronounce Welsh city names in the same situation. - Trish Nov 17, 10:07 1
  - I admit I would likely brutalize most Welsh names....and I like a lot of them and the spellings. -- nm - Walt_Disney Nov 17, 10:11
Bill O'Reilly, bastion of journalistic integrity. "Barack Obama- is he the devil?" -- (link) - Mop (229 lbs) Nov 17, 09:58 2
- He and Glenn Beck are having a crazy-off. Bill just kind of ignored him until he realized Glenn was real competition -- nm - Trish Nov 17, 10:01 1
  - These people will be responsible for Sarah Palin becoming the GOP candidate in 2012. God bless them! -- nm - Mop (229 lbs) Nov 17, 10:03
I didn't even know SUNY *had* Division I sports programs... -- (link) - znufrii Nov 17, 09:58
Court acquits man of stealing from the bulk bins at a grocery store -- (link) - Beryllium Nov 17, 09:55
How many Division I-A College Football teams will go into the bowl season undefeated? -- nm - Dano Nov 17, 09:54 8
- My ultimate hope is that somehow Florida, Alabama, and Texas all lose and the other three teams stay undefeated. -- nm - Dano Nov 17, 10:06 5
  - I think a BCS Championship Game between Cincinnati and TCU could go a long way to getting a playoff. - Dano Nov 17, 10:11
  - I'll settle for Texas and one of the SEC schools to lose. - Will Hunting Nov 17, 10:10 1
    - One of the SEC schools has to lose. -- nm - Dano Nov 17, 10:11
  - Your ideas interest me, how can I sign up for your newsletter? (nm) - musubi Nov 17, 10:08
  - THAT would be fantastic. -- nm - Jim Nov 17, 10:06
- Hopefully 5. -- nm - Jim Nov 17, 09:59
- I think 4. Florida/Bama....Texas, TCU & Boise. - Will Hunting Nov 17, 09:55
Ok...so were we aware that someone put the old NES cheat code into the code of Facebook? - Jim Nov 17, 09:54
Sweetness! Bob Ross is on. Only catching the last 10 minutes, though. Time enough for a big as tree! -- nm - CQ Nov 17, 09:50 1
- Happy birthday! -- nm - Roger More Nov 17, 10:12
happy birthday, shaun! :) - -- nm - b. Nov 17, 09:47 15
- Happy Birthdauy! - musubi Nov 17, 10:07
- Thanks all! -- nm - Shaun Nov 17, 10:02 1
  - Happy birthday from me too! -- nm - Trish Nov 17, 10:12
- Don Homer! Hope you made the rally today!! -- nm - Beaker Nov 17, 09:58
- Happy Birthday! -- nm - LMS Nov 17, 09:56
- Have a great birthday! -- nm - amoxy Nov 17, 09:55
- Happy, Happy!! -- nm - MojaveMeg Nov 17, 09:55
- Happy Birthday! -- nm - Dano Nov 17, 09:55
- Happy Birthday! And Marty Scorsese, too! -- nm - Mop (229 lbs) Nov 17, 09:54
- happy b'day -- nm - z6rk Nov 17, 09:53
- birthday birthday! -- nm - CQ Nov 17, 09:52
- Happy birthday, buddy. -- nm - con_carne Nov 17, 09:51
- Happy Happy! -- nm - Elf Andie Nov 17, 09:50
- Happy Birthday Mister Shaun! -- nm - Loyola Nov 17, 09:49
- Happy B-Day! -- nm - Diva Nov 17, 09:47
costco is stopping carrying coke products because of a price dispute. nm but: -- (link) - b. Nov 17, 09:46 7
- SHIT! -- nm - Columbia cartel Nov 17, 10:09
- Diet Pepsi for everyone!!!!! -- nm - Beaker Nov 17, 09:59
- I wondered why I couldn't find any last night. -- nm - Remlik Nov 17, 09:55
- hmm ... following that link eventually led me to the Consumerist, which led me to this: Disney's Up (Rental Edition) does not have Closed Captioning -- (link) - Beryllium Nov 17, 09:52 1
  - Bah. Hearing impaired people don't rent movies. -- nm - Mop (229 lbs) Nov 17, 09:55
- but they still have coffins, right? then i'm set -- nm - prayformojo Nov 17, 09:47 1
  - well good for you, vampire mojo. -- nm - b. Nov 17, 09:49
Be careful clicking this link - the image it links to is hilarious, but the website that the image references is NSFW ... -- (link) - Beryllium Nov 17, 09:45 [Image]
Having finished them all: Rocky: B+; Rocky II: C+; Rocky III: B-; Rocky IV: D; Rocky V: D; Rocky Balboa: B- -- nm - prayformojo Nov 17, 09:43 2
- Your rating of Rocky IV is wrong. - Mop (229 lbs) Nov 17, 09:57 1
  - So is his ratuing of Rocky and Rocky II...both were As. -- nm - Jim Nov 17, 09:59
Weekend Report: I had a crapload of fun playing Broomball - con_carne Nov 17, 09:38 8
- now, you said you played on skates, right? That's odd -- nm - CQ Nov 17, 09:40 3
  - No skates. - con_carne Nov 17, 09:41 2
    - yeah, that's the broomball I know. So much fun -- nm - CQ Nov 17, 09:44 1
      - Yup. The nurse who put my splint on asked me if I would ever do something like that again. I actually had to think about that one. -- nm - con_carne Nov 17, 09:50
- Awards you the Honourary Canadian badge... 'eh. -- nm - Mop (229 lbs) Nov 17, 09:39
- Things I learned on TT today: con_carne has a twin. (nm) - musubi Nov 17, 09:39 2
  - Yes, indeed. He's swell. -- nm - con_carne Nov 17, 10:06
  - You really must try to keep up ;) -- nm - MojaveMeg Nov 17, 09:47
Michael Moorcock is to right a Doctor Who novel (I tried to read one of his books but got bored) -- (link) - LMS Nov 17, 09:37 2
- I saw some of the casting of the End of Time...very innterrresting I think...and I'm not talking...spoiler... - Remlik Nov 17, 09:43 1
  - I'm hoping for a few surprises. - LMS Nov 17, 09:51
Jane Esperson has quit as showrunner of Caprica, but remains as Exec-producer.... -- (link) - Remlik Nov 17, 09:36
Corollary Poll: Least favorite book that you had to slog through for school. -- nm - Dano Nov 17, 09:35 25
- Either Huck Finn (more the schedule of it).....but bookwise Faulkner's mess of As I Lay Dying/Sound and the Fury. - Will Hunting Nov 17, 09:56 1
  - Oh, and I disliked Gatsby a ton too. -- nm - Will Hunting Nov 17, 09:59
- Stone Angel (also Gatsby), it was one of several that I didn't actually read -- nm - z6rk Nov 17, 09:52
- Island of the Blue Dolphins. -- nm - Jim Nov 17, 09:51 1
  - is that the one with the girl who gets left behind by her tribe? I don't think I'd rank that as least-favourite ... -- nm - Beryllium Nov 17, 09:52
- Pilgrims Progress. nm -- nm - groiny Nov 17, 09:50
- Tess of the D'urbervilles -- nm - prayformojo Nov 17, 09:45
- By the Skin of Our Teeth -- nm - Max Nov 17, 09:45 1
  - which is a play. Handmaid's Tale for actual novels. -- nm - Max Nov 17, 09:45
- So far as fiction, that's tough. Probably the Canterbury Tales. -- nm - con_carne Nov 17, 09:44
- Silas Marner. I closed that book and promised myself never to read again. -- nm - Loyola Nov 17, 09:43
- The Stone Angel. nm - Dignan Nov 17, 09:43 1
  - o you poor lass - at least you didn't have to suffer through Atwood Surfacing -- nm - lone canadian Jays fan Nov 17, 09:47
- The Pearl -- nm - Beaker Nov 17, 09:41
- Ursula K. Le Guin's The Dispossessed -- nm - Mop (229 lbs) Nov 17, 09:41
- I didn't like Great Expectations at all when I read it, but I bet I'd like it now. -- nm - Callisto Nov 17, 09:38
- Madame Bovary. -- nm - pmb Nov 17, 09:38
- Diary of Anne Frank. -- nm - CQ Nov 17, 09:37
- At the time, I hated The Great Gatsby. I think I might dislike it less now though. (nm) - musubi Nov 17, 09:37 2
  - You'd better! Get reading, right now! -- nm - Mop (229 lbs) Nov 17, 09:41
  - novels are fun to read until the teachers force you to look for all the symbolism and gothic allusions -- nm - lone canadian Jays fan Nov 17, 09:41
- Systems Analysis and Design -- nm - Beryllium Nov 17, 09:36
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- The Scarlet Letter -- nm - Dano Nov 17, 09:35 1
  - Master of the Mill by Frederick Philip Grove - lone canadian Jays fan Nov 17, 09:37
11 things Wal-Mart has banned -- (link) - Beryllium Nov 17, 09:35
a feature on Avatar....warning it gives away a ton of the film....but interesting.... -- (link) - Remlik Nov 17, 09:32
Today in the leaf saga of CQ, the back yard is raked. Tomorrow I will have the sides and the front front. (LYC) -- nm - CQ Nov 17, 09:31 3
- I care enough that I posted as you yesterday. -- nm - Spawn Nov 17, 09:32 2
  - CQ Versus the Leaves may become my favorite annual miniseries. -- nm - Dano Nov 17, 09:33 1
    - Yup. He has simply *owned* it. -- nm - Spawn Nov 17, 09:36
That reminds me, friends of my wife named their son "Atticus" because they're big fans of TKAM. (nm) - musubi Nov 17, 09:31 6
- speaking of weird name calling, friend of mine named their kid Marith. Mom is named Mary and dad is named Keith. wtf is that shit? -- nm - CQ Nov 17, 09:32 4
  - Sounds like "Mariss" with a lisp. (nm) - musubi Nov 17, 09:34 3
    - Also is that a boy or a girl? (nm) - musubi Nov 17, 09:35 2
      - A woman, I hope. -- nm - Niles Crane si Nov 17, 09:35
      - yeah, girl -- nm - CQ Nov 17, 09:35
- At least they didn't name him Boo. (I named one of my cats "Scout" because of the book.) -- nm - Dano Nov 17, 09:32
phew! just back from FS - definitely have the Star Trek *blu-ray* steelbook now in hand - lone canadian Jays fan Nov 17, 09:30
"Buy me stuff. Nobody likes me." -- nm - ty97 Nov 17, 09:27
/me waits to see what all moose will get wrong on this board -- nm - Spawn Nov 17, 09:25 4
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  - There lies the flaw in your logic. I think the Mets suck. I'm totally not wrong about that. (nm) - musubi Nov 17, 09:33 2
    - *hands you your acorn* -- nm - Spawn Nov 17, 09:40
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ST Poll: Favorite book that you only read because you had to for school. -- nm - Dano Nov 17, 09:23 32
- Lord of the Flies, The Old Man and the Sea -- nm - z6rk Nov 17, 09:52
- Lord of the Flies -- nm - Beaker Nov 17, 09:39
- To Kill a Mocking Bird (but I already loved the film) -- nm - LMS Nov 17, 09:38
- 12 Angry Men -- nm - Max Nov 17, 09:34
- The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman - then Jane Eyre Wuthering Heights Frankenstein The Portrait of Dorean Gray -- nm - lone canadian Jays fan Nov 17, 09:31 1
  - * had * to read Tristram Shandy - lone canadian Jays fan Nov 17, 09:32
- Fail Safe -- nm - JD Nov 17, 09:27
- Lord of the Flies -- nm - oblique Nov 17, 09:27
- Either Tom Sawyer or To Kill A Mockingbird. (nM) - musubi Nov 17, 09:27
- tough call, since I was an English major and liked most of what I "had" to read. - Callisto Nov 17, 09:27 5
  - English major ^5. - con_carne Nov 17, 09:29 4
    - Double ^5 -- nm - oblique Nov 17, 09:31 2
      - 5, 5, 5 dollar footLONG! -- nm - Annoying Subway Commercial Guy Nov 17, 09:33 1
        
        ^-- NOT an english major. -- nm - Beryllium Nov 17, 09:36
    - My favorite classes (periods?) were Modern British Lit and early American literature. - Callisto Nov 17, 09:31
- In Cold Blood by Truman Capote. But, Hamlet is a close second. -- nm - con_carne Nov 17, 09:26 2
  - In Cold Blood might be my favorite book, but I didn't read it until seeing the Capote movie. -- nm - Dano Nov 17, 09:30 1
    - I read it when I was in my late 20s, maybe. Excellent book for sure. -- nm - Callisto Nov 17, 09:32
- The 50's by Halberstam -- nm - CQ Nov 17, 09:25 2
  - what the hell am I saying. A Tale of Two Cities -- nm - CQ Nov 17, 09:28 1
    - you got the fun Dickens - we were stuck with Great Expectations - lone canadian Jays fan Nov 17, 09:39
- Catch-22 - i'm not dead yet ! Nov 17, 09:25
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- Lord of the Flies -- nm - Dano Nov 17, 09:25
- Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. -- nm - Spawn Nov 17, 09:24
- To Kill a Mockingbird or Hamlet....if you count Hamlet to be a book. -- nm - Will Hunting Nov 17, 09:24
- Anything with a map of the world. -- nm - Loyola Nov 17, 09:24
- Siddhartha. -- nm - Jim Nov 17, 09:24 3
  - hm, that's a good choice too. -- nm - Callisto Nov 17, 09:28
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    - I was forced to read it by my 9th grade English teacher. And I actually liked it a lot. - Jim Nov 17, 09:26
- Grapes of Wrath. -- nm - znufrii Nov 17, 09:24
I got something to say! It's better to burn out than to fade away! -- nm - con_carne Nov 17, 09:23 1
- "Kastagere is gone. Now, only you and I remain." - i'm not dead yet ! Nov 17, 10:25

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