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- so wishes he would fall to the chiefs. -- nm - tRuMaN Dec 14, 10:33
- I always find early-round defense players to be lot more productive for a team. -- nm - budice Dec 14, 10:33
Irish Central praises Sheamus winning the WWE title... -- (link) - Remlik Dec 14, 10:27 1
- My friend thinks a Sheamus /Orton feud would be good -- nm - eag Dec 14, 10:30
Damn errands. My plan to not leave the house this week has been foiled. -- nm - adventy97 Dec 14, 10:27
ST Poll. Coolest thing from last weekend? - con_carne Dec 14, 10:25 21
- The rain was replaced with snow, (let's see if anybody noticed) and a crabfeed for my birthday -- nm - zeitgeist Dec 14, 11:42
- Shopping for new skinny clothes. -- nm - MojaveMeg Dec 14, 10:34
- watched Prep and Landing. Highly amusing. -- nm - Remlik Dec 14, 10:30 1
  - It was -- nm - eag Dec 14, 10:31
- Besides moose jr and mooselette being uber-adorable? Trader Joes Vintage Ale. - musubi Dec 14, 10:29
- nothing, but this coming weekend my eldest nephew is getting married -- nm - peglegpete Dec 14, 10:29
- I don't remember ... maybe the sudden insight I had on a work-related issue. Those moments are fleeting these days. -- nm - Beryllium Dec 14, 10:29
- Celebrating turning 40 something with old and new friends and no arrests! -- nm - JenBro Dec 14, 10:29 1
  - Happy belated Birthday -- nm - con_carne Dec 14, 10:31
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  - I'll take it you were not in NYC. -- nm - adventy97 Dec 14, 10:28 2
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      - sounds like a lot of fun. - adventy97 Dec 14, 10:31
- Winning my poker tourney. - Will Hunting Dec 14, 10:27
- My kid got into the latest CYT show he auditioned for. Always proud. -- nm - oblique Dec 14, 10:27
- My niece repeatedly running around my apartment, tripping, and then getting up while saying "you okay? you okay?" -- nm - Max Dec 14, 10:27
- Picking up a friend's 16 year old daughter from school n the Rolls for her birthday. -- nm - CrankYanker Dec 14, 10:27
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- Coming home. -- nm - adventy97 Dec 14, 10:27
- The freaking weather around here. -- nm - Subversive Dec 14, 10:27
- Villa winning in Old Trafford. suck it Man U. -- nm - CQ Dec 14, 10:26
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- $80M+ for a #3 SP? Must be nice. -- nm - the wrong element, bad guy Dec 14, 10:31 3
  - word. they are spending like the yankees. -- nm - tRuMaN Dec 14, 10:33
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    - Uehara better be there first. -- nm - Will Hunting Dec 14, 10:34
- This has to be one of the quietest "big name" FA signings in a while. - musubi Dec 14, 10:26 1
  - Lackey is low-key to being with...makes sense. He'll soak up innings and put up consistent numbers -- nm - budice Dec 14, 10:30
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  - Says a lot when the Angels considered Lackey their #1 pitcher -- nm - budice Dec 14, 10:27
  - I think the Sox are going with the 8 man rotation next year -- nm - CQ Dec 14, 10:25 1
    - Beckett, Lester, Lackey, Daisuke, Buchholz. Wake is the backup plan slash long reliever. -- nm - TFox Dec 14, 10:28
  - It means probably exactly that, yes. It is also awesome awesome news. - TFox Dec 14, 10:25 3
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      - I wouldn't say necessarily. I mean, they are never "not in it" for someone like Halladay... - TFox Dec 14, 10:30 1
        
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- yeah. I posted this info last week' -- nm - peglegpete Dec 14, 10:24
Watch this for a goal from inside his own half; -- (link) - Loyola Dec 14, 10:18 [youtube] 6
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  - He took the free kick pretty quick after the foul, the keeper didn't have time to get back to the net... - Jim Dec 14, 10:48
  - Usually they'll stay outside the 6 yard box to give them a chance to scoop up any through balls so that they beat an attacker in a race for the ball. - Loyola Dec 14, 10:25
- wow. -- nm - Remlik Dec 14, 10:19
- without clicking, must be the Wigan goal from Saturday. Great goal -- nm - CQ Dec 14, 10:18 1
  - That's the one. -- nm - Loyola Dec 14, 10:26
Poll: Do you know any married women who regularly don't wear a wedding ring? -- nm - Max Dec 14, 10:15 7
- my business partner and his wife do not wear rings. -- nm - decline Dec 14, 10:20
- Besides people who work with their hands, no -- nm - con_carne Dec 14, 10:20 2
  - (However, I don't think I'm that perceptive about this) -- nm - con_carne Dec 14, 10:21 1
    - I now put mine in my pocket when working. I lost the last one while working. -- nm - CQ Dec 14, 10:23
- No. -- nm - Loyola Dec 14, 10:18
- I can think of no one. -- nm - CQ Dec 14, 10:18
- I used to be married to one... -- nm - znufrii Dec 14, 10:17
congratulations, pmb/daughter #1! that's terrific! -- nm - b. Dec 14, 10:15
Critics Choice Award Nominees: Inglourious Basterds (hell yes) and Nine lead with 10 each -- (link) - MDH Dec 14, 10:15
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- tecmo bowl christian okoye laughs at both of them -- nm - dogbert Dec 14, 10:28 2
  - *sprints back to Christian Okoye after breaking a 99yd run already, laughs and then speeds off again for the TD* - Tecmo Bowl Bo Jax Dec 14, 10:30 1
    - *breaks 217 tackles running through would be tacklers instead of away from them like bo* -- nm - tecmo bowl okoye Dec 14, 10:38
- Cap Boso on the slant. Unbeatable! -- nm - CQ Dec 14, 10:17
- Ditka. (nm) - musubi Dec 14, 10:13
STIS: I love seeing 3-D movies, but somehow I feel like they change my view of the film. Should I see Avatar in 3-d and "regular?" - MDH Dec 14, 10:10 2
- I'm sure you'll see it in 2-D plenty when it hits the 'Sunday afternoon on TNT' rotation. See it in 3-D. -- nm - Agent.Vermin Dec 14, 10:18
- 3-D. That's the format Cameron has made it for. -- nm - Remlik Dec 14, 10:11
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- I didn't hate it, but TBL certainly ranks up there among films I was disappointed in. - musubi Dec 14, 10:15
- It grows on you. I didn't like it the first time I saw it either. -- nm - Agent.Vermin Dec 14, 10:13
- how you not like the Jesus? -- nm - CQ Dec 14, 10:08
- Agreed. Awful film. -- nm - Loyola Dec 14, 10:07
TT Poll: Top 3 Movies you saw in 2009 - FabioParme Dec 14, 10:03 25
- Star Trek, District 9, Zombieland. -- nm - Remlik Dec 14, 10:25
- Star Trek, District 9, & either Up or Where The Wild Things Are -- nm - Jovian Dec 14, 10:25
- Star Trek, Hangover, Zombieland -- nm - Agent.Vermin Dec 14, 10:19
- I haven't seen everything I plan to see yet, but... - Callisto Dec 14, 10:12 1
  - Oh, I forgot about Zombieland. So I Love You Man, Hangover and Zombieland. -- nm - Cuzzin Todd Dec 14, 10:18
- In The Loop, Star Trek, Taken -- nm - con_carne Dec 14, 10:12
- I Love You Man and Hangover definitely, probably have to fill it out with Taken. - Cuzzin Todd Dec 14, 10:10
- I've barely seen any films, but put District 9 at number one at the moment. -- nm - adventy97 Dec 14, 10:10
- District 9, Up, Where the Wild Things Are -- nm - znufrii Dec 14, 10:08 1
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- Up, Star Trek, Hangover were by far the most 3 entertaining movies I saw this year so far. - Will Hunting Dec 14, 10:07
- For 2009 Releases: Summer Hours, An Education, Goodbye Solo -- nm - Dano Dec 14, 10:07 1
  - my only problem with An Education was that Carey Mulligan was too good. She was more convincing as a college student than age 16. -- nm - Max Dec 14, 10:13
- I think for me it's: (1) Star Trek, (1A) Up and (3) 300 Days of Summer. (nm) - musubi Dec 14, 10:07 6
  - THIS! IS! ANGST! -- nm - Will Hunting Dec 14, 10:08
  - Is 300 Days of Summer a shorter version of 500 Days of Summer? - FabioParme Dec 14, 10:08 1
    - Numbering my list was clearly a mistake on my part. (nm) - musubi Dec 14, 10:09
  - Which of course is my imaginary prequel to 500 Days of Summer. (nm) - musubi Dec 14, 10:08
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    - So's your face. (nm) - musubi Dec 14, 10:08 1
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- Public Enemies, 500 Days of Summer, Drag me to hell. -- nm - Loyola Dec 14, 10:05
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  - Ok. It would have been better "Top 3 Movies of 2009" -- nm - FabioParme Dec 14, 10:07
- Inglourious Basterds, Star Trek, Up in the Air -- nm - MDH Dec 14, 10:04
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- I think he has to. With the young guys (Garcon and the others) they need more time to really be ready.... - Remlik Dec 14, 10:15 1
  - I think he should try and win every game. That is why you play after all. - the wrong element, bad guy Dec 14, 10:22
Here's my secret stalker loot. So cool -- (link) - CQ Dec 14, 10:00 [flickr] 2
- nice! Who was the stalker? -- nm - Diva Dec 14, 10:22
- Very nice. I forgot to photo mine, and a lot of the good stuff is gone already :/ -- nm - MojaveMeg Dec 14, 10:18
I hear power tools upstairs. I'm still nervous about what they're going to find when the old floor comes up. -- nm - MojaveMeg Dec 14, 09:52 5
- Mouse burial ground. This one time (at band camp) when I was taking up a floor I found a nest of earwigs. They are so hard to kill. - Loyola Dec 14, 10:02
- Pirate treasure! -- nm - Cuzzin Todd Dec 14, 10:00
- the ceiling to the downstairs. -- nm - CrankYanker Dec 14, 09:56 1
  - What I'm concerned about is the condition of the support beams. This is a partially cantilevered deck. -- nm - MojaveMeg Dec 14, 10:17
- my guess is the bodies -- nm - dogbert Dec 14, 09:54
Woman cries over the ending of Return of the Jedi....The Future Mrs. Pixie? -- (link) - Remlik Dec 14, 09:51
Spawn...that's why you pick Demi now...and Heidi later. -- nm - Remlik Dec 14, 09:49
lir Mojave - I think he's being represented by Scooter's Pals up north.... not really in a "shelter". - CrankYanker Dec 14, 09:48 3
- Ah, I know you'd linked to requests from a group up there in the past. -- nm - MojaveMeg Dec 14, 09:50 2
  - actually, this is my first connection with them...you're probably thinking of Brighthaven which is where I heard about Russell. -- nm - CrankYanker Dec 14, 09:52 1
    - That's the one. I wasn't sure if I was remembering the name right. -- nm - MojaveMeg Dec 14, 09:53
If you thought this week's Overpaid Jerks quiz at HWDYK was awesome, it's because I wrote it. - Tim Dec 14, 09:48 6
- What about if I am ambivalent because you didn't link it directly? (nm) - musubi Dec 14, 10:12
- I think there's an error in the quiz - Will Hunting Dec 14, 09:55 1
  - Hrm, it didn't say that in the wire story when I wrote that question and now it does. Thanks. -- nm - Tim Dec 14, 09:57
- Primer thought: What if Tim A (timmay!) wrote the awesome version, but Tim B wrote the sucky one? -- nm - Inigo Dec 14, 09:50 1
  - Ack, I forgot what your last name was Tim. Sorry, Primer has ruined my brain. -- nm - Inigo Dec 14, 09:52
- I'd better run over there and complete it then. -- nm - Diva Dec 14, 09:49
I caught up on Glee the other day. (spoilers) - adventy97 Dec 14, 09:48 3
- Emma is cute and all but her eyes scare me. -- nm - HdnAgnda Dec 14, 09:50 2
  - I think the fired their make up artist on the last few episodes cause Emma's skin use to glow - and now she looks pasty - Epiphany Dec 14, 09:52 1
    - they have been using too much blusher on Q of late. -- nm - Diva Dec 14, 09:58
By the way, I enjoyed Dollhouse very much this past week. (Spoils) - HdnAgnda Dec 14, 09:47 1
- spoils - the wrong element, bad guy Dec 14, 09:52
From B2 pics, Meg Ryan looks good for a 75 year old. -- nm - Loyola Dec 14, 09:47 13
- I think it's unfair to jump on her for looking like joan rivers, after she'd already been jumped on for the talk of cosmetic surgery. - Beryllium Dec 14, 09:51 4
  - How are the two things not intertwined? (nm) - musubi Dec 14, 10:28
  - She's aged in dog years. -- nm - Will Hunting Dec 14, 09:57
  - Yeah but she's ageing like a mofo. -- nm - Loyola Dec 14, 09:52 1
    - well having your marriage go down in flames like hers did and losing her box office bankabilty would age a person. -- nm - Remlik Dec 14, 09:55
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  - Eh, she could be like all the rest and just get beaucoup plastic surgery -- nm - con_carne Dec 14, 10:00
  - she could be a blonde Charlotte Rampling -- nm - Epiphany Dec 14, 09:54
  - That's not Helen. It's Bill Nighy in drag. -- nm - Agent.Vermin Dec 14, 09:52 1
    - Clint Eastwood -- nm - Max Dec 14, 10:07
  - eek! -- nm - Loyola Dec 14, 09:52
- ...corpse. -- nm - Agent.Vermin Dec 14, 09:49
- looks just like Joan Rivers. *shivers* -- nm - CQ Dec 14, 09:48
Oh, that's why that RC trade didn't help me - I used the pick on Eddie Royal. - Reagen Dec 14, 09:45 2
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  - Round 7 seems to have been my biggest mistake. - the wrong element, bad guy Dec 14, 10:13
ST Candymaker question! I'm playing with this recipe for Macadamia Nut Brittle. Last night's batch didn't go so well... - Agent.Vermin Dec 14, 09:45 3
- I make toffee with brown sugar and it's fine and it comes out brittle - the times it is goey is when I don't boil it long enough -- nm - Epiphany Dec 14, 09:50 2
  - Cool. I'm getting me a digital candy thermometer tonight. -- nm - Agent.Vermin Dec 14, 09:53 1
    - I've never used a thermometer for the stuff I make - it's 3 1/2 min and I also eyeball it. -- nm - Epiphany Dec 14, 09:55
LYC: I just heard Lea Michele's "Don't Rain on My Parade" she absolutely killed it. - MDH Dec 14, 09:44
Okay, the board has rolled. ST's opinion pleaseO: Clinton Portis value for next year. Nil? - Spawn Dec 14, 09:42 5
- This is an Astro question, right? - the wrong element, bad guy Dec 14, 10:02
- Depends, does he retain the Championship Belt? - musubi Dec 14, 09:44
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- He was deadly on Madden 08. -- nm - Loyola Dec 14, 09:43
- He may have to retire. -- nm - Inigo Dec 14, 09:43

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