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- any word on Desean Jackson? Is his concussion going to keep him out? -- nm - Beaker Dec 2, 13:18 3
  - thanks guys...looks like plan B it is (Lee Ecans) -- nm - Beaker Dec 2, 13:21
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  - Jackson himself is saying he doesn't think he can go. That's not good. - Jim Dec 2, 13:19
- That's great...but would you start Fred Jackson tomorrow? - Jim Dec 2, 13:16 6
  - Is Marshawn down? I hadn't seen. -- nm - TFox Dec 2, 13:22 1
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    - Cool. He's in my lineup...with Knowshow and Smith, right now. -- nm - Jim Dec 2, 13:20 2
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        I may replace Smith with Santonio Holmes...but I'm not sure. He's been killing me lately. -- nm - Jim Dec 2, 13:22
Greying out monogamy -- (link) - Todd Manning Dec 2, 13:14 7
- /defends K-Lo/ - Dr.Vermin Dec 2, 13:22
- pretty much encompasses my thinking on the topic. -- nm - znufrii Dec 2, 13:20
- "A majority of men" -- I really don't understand why more people don't think this is obvious. -- nm - mara Dec 2, 13:19
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  - znu? -- nm - Spawn Dec 2, 13:18 2
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      - it's not invoking a "conspiracy theory" to offer the apparently revolutionary observation that our actions are influenced by societal norms. -- nm - znufrii Dec 2, 13:25
Fifa to investigate Thierry Henry handball -- (link) - Danedukenuuk Dec 2, 13:13 4
- Fifa can go suck my balls. -- nm - Loyola Dec 2, 13:18 2
  - wonder what they will do if they agree he made a handball - Danedukenuuk Dec 2, 13:20
  - Word. -- nm - Krusty Dec 2, 13:19
- "yep, he did it." -- nm - FIFA, 18 months and $40 million later Dec 2, 13:15
Dawson, is the decision by the NY State Assembly a surprise at all? -- nm - Mop (228 lbs) Dec 2, 13:12 4
- if they decided that they have to use bikes to get to their meetings i'd say it is! -- nm - Danedukenuuk Dec 2, 13:14
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  - I was surprised a bit, the Dems were saying that they weren't going to bring it to a vote unless the had the votes. - Krusty Dec 2, 13:19
  - re: inevitability;They either have no idea what they're talking about, or are thinking on a much longer time frame... -- nm - znufrii Dec 2, 13:15
(Rotten Tomatoes: Jurassic Park: 84%, JPII: 48%, JPIII: 49%) nm - Dignan Dec 2, 13:10 1
- To which I wonder what those 48% were watching. -- nm - Will Hunting Dec 2, 13:17
Breaking news; Tiger's wife used a wedge when she went gaga on his car; - Loyola Dec 2, 13:09 8
- wait I am confused - she did or did not use a golf club at all? - Epiphany Dec 2, 13:15 7
  - she did. She pirouetted while swinging the club into his back window and then gracefully bowed to her neighbors afterward -- nm - decline Dec 2, 13:20
  - she did. and i think he said "she has acted with more grace than could be expected". - TFox Dec 2, 13:18 3
    - "YOU CHEATED ON ME WITH THAT?!" - Will Hunting Dec 2, 13:22
    - okie dokie -- nm - Epiphany Dec 2, 13:19
    - "did not chop his balls off" -- nm - Reagen Dec 2, 13:19
  - A wedge is a golf club. - Loyola Dec 2, 13:18 1
    - not to be confused with her hoisting the mans underwear high up into cracks unknown -- nm - JenBro Dec 2, 17:57
"could care less", "for all intensive purposes", "millenium", and "supposebly" are just *SOME* of my pet peeves. - Mop (228 lbs) Dec 2, 13:09 9
- irregardless, for me. -- nm - Jim Dec 2, 13:15 2
  - Oh yeah...and we have a supervisor here that constantly says "pacific"....as in, "I have 25 pacific examples of this problem." -- nm - Jim Dec 2, 13:22
  - Agreed. Hate that word. (nm) - musubi Dec 2, 13:21
- i don't think i've ever seen "for all intensive purposes" before. or "supposebly". - TFox Dec 2, 13:10 4
  - I believe it's spelt "supposably" -- nm - Roger More Dec 2, 13:12
  - supposebly was the punchline to a great joke on Friends. -- nm - Reagen Dec 2, 13:11
  - I've only heard them not seen them written. -- nm - Krusty Dec 2, 13:10 1
    - True, that. -- nm - Mop (228 lbs) Dec 2, 13:13
- I reported here awhile back, my Moron Boss likes to write "who would of thought?" in her emails. -- nm - Dr.Vermin, irregardless Dec 2, 13:10
B2: putting a standard [off the shelf] PC under 100% load creates about 30-60 watt's of additional power consumption if it's also taxing the GPU - scorpion Dec 2, 13:08
Bery, didn't you guys kill BC Tourism? Who keeps sending me these damn e-mails? -- nm - Mop (228 lbs) Dec 2, 13:03 2
- maybe Tourism Victoria got the axe, I forget. -- nm - Beryllium Dec 2, 13:09
- when I saw "kill" and "BC", I expected you were being sent "feet" -- nm - zork Dec 2, 13:06
With my newly equipped and functioning man cave I have discovered Farscape - been watching the seasons on netflix while I game... - Capstern Dec 2, 13:02 15
- great now I got " dating site for Star Trek fans" on the left hand side. -- nm - Epiphany Dec 2, 13:14 2
  - Face it, it's a sausage-fest. -- nm - Mop (228 lbs) Dec 2, 13:19
  - ~pass the tribble on the left hand side~ -- nm - con_carne Dec 2, 13:15
- For me, it started slow. I watched only sporatically until the end, when it suddenly became HUGE SPACE BATTLES. - Mop (228 lbs) Dec 2, 13:06 6
  - Yeah, I couldn't make it past episode five. nm - Dignan Dec 2, 13:08 5
    - I nearly gave up as well. Someone asked me "has Scorpius shown up yet?" so I stayed until he did. - Reagen Dec 2, 13:12 4
      - (Was that me?) -- nm - David Dec 2, 13:20 1
        
        either you or Ash. -- nm - Reagen Dec 2, 13:20
      - (although I got distracted around the start of Season 4 and haven't gone back to it) -- nm - Reagen Dec 2, 13:13 1
        
        Distracted by shows without puppets? nm - Dignan Dec 2, 13:18
- My all time fav sci fi series. - Spawn Dec 2, 13:03 3
  - Mine, too -- nm - con_carne Dec 2, 13:05 2
    - Keep your hands off of my hero. -- nm - Spawn Dec 2, 13:05 1
      - I'm more of a D'Argo fan myself -- nm - con_carne Dec 2, 13:07
- I'm excited to get started on this, with all my non-existent spare time. -- nm - TFox Dec 2, 13:03
Truth, Justice, Freedom, Reasonably Priced Love, and a Hard-Boiled Egg! -- nm - znufrii Dec 2, 13:02
TV PSA: 'Conspiracy Theory With Jesse Ventura' starts tonight on truTV at 10PM EDT. This ep is about HAARP - decline Dec 2, 13:01
Oddly, Jurassic Park 3 is the only one in the series that is watchable now. - David Dec 2, 13:00 15
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- I never watched JP3, but I still like JP1. -- nm - Krusty Dec 2, 13:07
- I was actually kind of underwhelmed with JP1 at the time it came out. - Reagen Dec 2, 13:05 3
  - about all I took from it was "clever girl." which I still occasionally say, and I'm always a little disappointed when nobody gets it. -- nm - kraken Dec 2, 13:08 1
    - It's been used elsewhere (including today's ZeroPunctiation) ... I usually interpet it as a shaun of the dead/hot fuzz refernece. -- nm - Beryllium Dec 2, 13:09
  - Was it the first movie to feature DTS or somesuch? I remember the sound blowing me away. nm - Dignan Dec 2, 13:07
- 3 was 1 with spruced up f/x and more dinos. -- nm - Mop (228 lbs) Dec 2, 13:05
- What makes #1 so unwatchable now in your mind? -- nm - Will Hunting Dec 2, 13:02 3
  - The special effects were the only memorable thing about it originally and those have become wildly dated. -- nm - David Dec 2, 13:18 2
    - Wildly dated? If by that you mean "look believable", I concur. -- nm - Spawn Dec 2, 13:22 1
      - You never should have accepted Pixie's DNA. -- nm - David Dec 2, 13:22
- this is on Starz right now - just watched it the other day. -- nm - decline Dec 2, 13:02
- Oh come on, the Raptor voicebox thing? -- nm - MDH Dec 2, 13:01 1
  - that was really my only beef with the movie..... - groiny Dec 2, 13:13
- Oddly, I honestly don't recall the sequels. -- nm - Spawn Dec 2, 13:01
Sundance Competition Lineup -- (link) - Dano Dec 2, 13:00 1
- Pat Tillman doc and Howl (the Allen Ginsberg movie) jump out at me right away -- nm - Dano Dec 2, 13:05
My parents talk about staying alive long enough to where science can keep their bodies youthful indefinitely. -- (link) - Dr.Vermin Dec 2, 12:59 5
- Did you ever read Cory Doctorow's "Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom"? -- nm - znufrii Dec 2, 13:06 4
  - Nope! But I just Googled for it and found a free downloadable copy, so I will check out pretty soon. -- nm - Dr.Vermin Dec 2, 13:08 3
    - really fun read - znufrii Dec 2, 13:11 2
      - I'm not sure if it was you or someone else who mentioned this book a while back. - Krusty Dec 2, 13:14 1
        
        Here you are. -- (link) - Dr.Vermin, irregardless Dec 2, 13:15
I can't believe so many haven't seen Amistad. Great film. A- -- nm - Loyola Dec 2, 12:54 1
- I'm a scholar of Revolutionary and post-Revolutionary America, so I love this film. -- nm - Mop (228 lbs) Dec 2, 12:58
Dawson/Cap etc: Here are super spoilers about Nip/Tuck this season - MDH Dec 2, 12:52 15
- Has Famke made her return yet? -- nm - Mop (228 lbs) Dec 2, 12:56 3
  - Nope. -- nm - MDH Dec 2, 12:57 2
    - In that case... oops. Soilers above. -- nm - Mop (228 lbs) Dec 2, 13:03 1
      - Spoilers, too... maybe. -- nm - Mop (228 lbs) Dec 2, 13:06
- bringing on Chuck Palhniuk as head writer seems like it was a mistake. -- nm - Reagen Dec 2, 12:56 2
  - this made me look him up on Wikipedia, and really, what a choade he is. - TFox Dec 2, 13:01 1
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- Are you kidding me? That's just too much. -- nm - Mop (228 lbs) Dec 2, 12:55 2
  - That's only what I can remember from this season. -- nm - MDH Dec 2, 12:57 1
    - That's a very narrowed down version of how ridiculous it's been. -- nm - pmb Dec 2, 13:00
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  - Yes, and she plays her part well, but the show is a disaster - MDH Dec 2, 12:54 3
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      - To really give an idea of the level of outrageous train wreck (spoils) - pmb Dec 2, 13:00 1
        
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If I say "singularity", do you know what I'm talking about? -- nm - Mop (228 lbs) Dec 2, 12:52 24
- I can guess at which definition you mean, yes. -- nm - mara Dec 2, 13:22
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- spoiler guess - con_carne Dec 2, 12:58
- I know of at least two definitions, possibly more. -- nm - Beryllium Dec 2, 12:56 3
  - here's the two I can think of right now - Beryllium Dec 2, 12:59 2
    - I was thinking the later, although I suspect most people thought the former. -- nm - Mop (228 lbs) Dec 2, 13:02 1
      - *latter* -- nm - Mop (228 lbs) Dec 2, 13:07
- Like the big bang? That yes, other than space, no. -- nm - Krusty Dec 2, 12:56
- How could I? -- nm - Loyola Dec 2, 12:55
- I know a few definitions for it, but I'd default to black hole. -- nm - mafic Dec 2, 12:54
- Mae album released in 2007? -- nm - JaxSean Dec 2, 12:54
- yes. -- nm - znufrii Dec 2, 12:54
- Yes. -- nm - Dr.Vermin Dec 2, 12:54
- Dawson's anus? -- nm - oblique Dec 2, 12:53 7
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    - yes it does. see mafic. -- nm - TFox Dec 2, 12:55 5
      - not if the anal bleaching rumours are true -- nm - zork Dec 2, 13:08
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        kilbo is saying that he is inevitably drawn to you -- nm - Roger More Dec 2, 12:57 2
        
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        HSX chicks dig the smooth hobbit action -- nm - oblique Dec 2, 13:00
- destruction of (spoils I guess) - Roger More Dec 2, 12:52
- Duh. -- nm - nubby Dec 2, 12:52 1
  - OK, not in the astronomic sense. -- nm - Mop (228 lbs) Dec 2, 12:53
Joseph Gordon-Levitt should play Jughead in a live action Archie movie. nm - Dignan Dec 2, 12:52 13
- *Has secretly been wanting this movie to happen for years* -- nm - MDH Dec 2, 12:53 12
  - Cast Betty and Veronica. nm - Dignan Dec 2, 12:53 11
    - Betty-Blake Lively, Veronica-Scarlett Johannsen (with black hair) -- nm - Elf Andie Dec 2, 13:01 1
      - I think Blake Lively (with black hair) would make a better Veronica. nm - Dignan Dec 2, 13:02
    - Jessica Simpson and Megan Fox -- nm - Dr.Vermin Dec 2, 12:57 2
      - Time machine usage is too expensive. - Spawn Dec 2, 13:04
      - Jessica is a good choice for Betty -- nm - zork Dec 2, 13:04
    - Betty: Amanda Seyfried (wish a young Reese) Veronica: Lacey Chabret -- nm - MDH Dec 2, 12:56
    - January Jones for Betty -- nm - Will Hunting Dec 2, 12:54
    - Megan Fox for Veronica -- nm - zork Dec 2, 12:54 3
      - This was my first thought, but she's not 'old money'. Teenage Kristin Davis? -- nm - Roger More Dec 2, 12:58
      - I...agree. And Elizabeth Banks for Betty. nm - Dignan Dec 2, 12:57 1
        
        if we go with the comics, it's CGI-blond Megan Fox. -- nm - Reagen Dec 2, 13:00
What's interesting about the Bing Maps + Twitter is how many people around my neighborhood are using Foursquare -- nm - oblique Dec 2, 12:52 1
- Bing - a lot better overhead shot of my house, but no street view. Can't tell if it's a newer pic than Google Maps. -- nm - Dr.Vermin Dec 2, 12:53

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