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That's not a good way to solve my IR problem. - the liioulu without checking Jan 14, 17:10
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- Sure - the Three Gorges Dam is probably the best known development project - Roger More Jan 14, 17:11
- w/o reading, I know they did for the 3 Gorges Dam. -- nm - psilotum Jan 14, 17:09
Hey, when I rent a car in a northern state in winter, they come with winter tires, no? -- nm - Mop (225 lbs) Jan 14, 17:02 9
- ....? no? i mean, they come with tires. and you can use those in winter. -- nm - TFox Jan 14, 17:03 8
  - You see, in colder environments, people often change tires in winter to ones that grip ice and snow better. -- nm - Reagen Jan 14, 17:11 4
    - Maybe in other colder environments. Not here (generally). We just plow our roads and then learn how to drive. -- nm - TFox Jan 14, 17:12 3
      - And make sure they've got decent tread on the tires. -- nm - the liioulu without checking Jan 14, 17:13
      - As I understand it, that latter thing doesn't happen. -- nm - Reagen Jan 14, 17:13 1
        
        You are correct. I call it the Winter Purging of the Lesser. -- nm - TFox Jan 14, 17:14
  - Uh-huh. -- nm - the liioulu without checking Jan 14, 17:04 2
    - I have no idea what anyone is saying -- nm - Epiphany Jan 14, 17:06 1
      - Southerner!!! - the liioulu without checking Jan 14, 17:12
"(Bullock) and a handful of other actors such as Drew Barrymore wield a certain amount of clout through their own production companies, and are - Loyola Jan 14, 17:00
LYC, i watched Adventures in Babysitting about a week ago on tv, now, there are ads on tv for RENT - Andie Jan 14, 16:58 3
- gawd I love that movie - I LOVE YOU THOR!! -- nm - Epiphany Jan 14, 17:08
- I can't think of Anthony Rapp and not picture Mark. -- nm - TFox Jan 14, 17:07 1
  - this is the correct school of thought. -- nm - Hotkiss Jan 14, 17:10
a review of the Guns and Blubber....er...Roses show in Canada.... -- (link) - Remlik Jan 14, 16:52
nmb Liioulu - peglegpete Jan 14, 16:50 3
- Just sent you email back. - the liioulu without checking Jan 14, 16:52 2
  - it was good enuf to be a pilot for a spinoff if they wanted to do so. -- nm - peglegpete Jan 14, 16:58 1
    - Well... - the liioulu without checking Jan 14, 17:03
Not at the Lady Gaga concert tonight (now) after all :( Technical complications on my part -- nm - Hotkiss Jan 14, 16:48 5
- "PC Load Letter? What the fuck does that mean?" -- nm - TFox Jan 14, 16:54
- scalp those suckers. I know a Purdue alum that was looking for tickets. -- nm - Remlik Jan 14, 16:53 1
  - I thought I had a good connection to get in, but nixed due to Air Force One-like high security. Kind of a bummer, but oh well. - Hotkiss Jan 14, 16:57
- ok, i'll bite -- nm - fatsquatch Jan 14, 16:50
- Forgot to buy the tickets? - Stephen Jan 14, 16:48
What state has the most amount of hottest girls, relatively speaking. -- nm - Loyola Jan 14, 16:46 8
- Well east coast girls are hip, I really dig the styles they wear. And the southern girls with the way they talk, knock me out when I'm down there. -- nm - Qale Jan 14, 17:07
- Florida does a pretty good job of it. -- nm - CQ Jan 14, 16:57
- Wouldn't L.A. import enough to take the title? -- nm - Dr.Vermin Jan 14, 16:55 2
  - Being a centre for cosmetic surgery would help too -- nm - Roger More Jan 14, 17:02
  - we're way up there -- nm - fatsquatch Jan 14, 16:57
- Depends on time of year; they're migratory -- nm - Beryllium (iPhone) Jan 14, 16:47
- I think South Carolina for some reason. -- nm - Loyola Jan 14, 16:46 1
  - Yeah, and surrounding areas. Easily. -- nm - TFox Jan 14, 16:48
December NPD results: Wii 3.81 million, DS 3.31, PS3 1.36 million, XBox360 1.31 million, PSP .647 million - Inigo Jan 14, 16:43 1
- the full picture numbers are looking brutal for the 360, PS3 outsold it by 50% last week (+102K) - stewie Jan 14, 17:12
details on The Pacific.... - Remlik Jan 14, 16:35 2
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- thanks! -- nm - b. Jan 14, 16:37
Just made my prediction in the Box Office Prediction game on Facebook. Get yours in too -- nm - CQ Jan 14, 16:35 1
- is this the week for Denzel or blue things to be #1 ? -- nm - lone canadian leafs fan Jan 14, 16:41
And if I had to live someplace in Canada (to include our Candian friends) it would be Banff (Vancouver would be my second choice) -- nm - Redmond, pants on the ground Jan 14, 16:33 32
- somewhere in the rockies, or vancouver. -- nm - mafic Jan 14, 17:14
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  - hippie. -- nm - mafic Jan 14, 17:12 2
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      - nelson = hippie centre of canada. it's also where all the draft dodgers went in the '60s. -- nm - mafic Jan 14, 17:17
- Calgary, I suppose. so Reagen and I could become the fastest of friends -- nm - fatsquatch Jan 14, 16:51 3
  - We'd have a lot of fun agreeing on nothing. -- nm - Reagen Jan 14, 16:57
  - I imagine you and he singing "Just the Two of Us" -- nm - Roger More Jan 14, 16:54 1
    - or the theme song from Courtship of Eddie's Father -- nm - fatsquatch Jan 14, 16:55
- NB -- nm - Beaker Jan 14, 16:43 1
  - just to watch the bicycles move up magnetic hill all by themselves -- nm - lone canadian leafs fan Jan 14, 16:44
- BC -- nm - the liioulu without checking Jan 14, 16:36
- Quebec -- nm - Roger More Jan 14, 16:36
- Vancouver, I guess. I don't know America Jr too well. (nm) - musubi Jan 14, 16:36
- Canada doesn't have enough going on to divide it into regions. It's just one big adorable park with a government. -- nm - TFox Jan 14, 16:33 5
  - Don't tell that to Quebec, or they will spit on you. -- nm - Redmond, pants on the ground Jan 14, 16:35
  - Which reminds me, did you get Canadian Tire Money? - musubi Jan 14, 16:35 3
    - read it and weep, son. -- (link) - TFox Jan 14, 16:38 2
      - You lucky sonofabi***, I am so jealous. (nm) - musubi Jan 14, 16:38 1
        
        it made for very amusing conversations with Canadian Tire employees. I carry it in my wallet daily. -- nm - TFox Jan 14, 16:39
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  - "It's just like New York, except without the excitement" -- nm - Roger More Jan 14, 16:36 7
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      - Lake effect. -- nm - the liioulu without checking Jan 14, 16:46
      - You're forgetting where I live. My wife (who is from Montreal and disdains Toronto) says that her favourite thing about NY is that there's a certain - Roger More Jan 14, 16:41 3
        
        your heartbeat ratches up a notch or two when you hit New York City sidewalks - lone canadian leafs fan Jan 14, 16:44 2
        
        Yeah - I don't mean to diss Toronto too much, it's a very nice comfortable city, there are great restaurants, there's a great mix of people, there - Roger More Jan 14, 16:50
        
        That's because people in New York aren't nearly as polite and Canadians. - the liioulu without checking Jan 14, 16:47
    - heh -- nm - Andie Jan 14, 16:37
  - It's a close second for me. -- nm - Krusty Jan 14, 16:35
- Edmonton always seemed like a nice place, the few times I've been through there. -- nm - Dr.Vermin Jan 14, 16:33
- BC. -- nm - Krusty Jan 14, 16:33
On the heels of any disaster expect scum to start scams to make a bit of money off the dead. -- (link) - Beaker Jan 14, 16:31 1
- within hours, our news reported telemarketing robo calls about it -- nm - zeitgeist Jan 14, 16:38
Oh hell no you didn't! - Stephen Jan 14, 16:30 7
- Coalingua, oh oh, what was that town those punks that kidnapped awhole school bus and buried in an old quarry? Chowchilla? there's a bunghole for you -- nm - zeitgeist Jan 14, 16:44
- :P - Redmond, pants on the ground Jan 14, 16:31 5
  - Heh, first time I med Stephen I made sure to have 'Stuck in Lodi Again' in my tape-deck....but then he moved :) -- nm - MojaveMeg Jan 14, 16:37 4
    - heh any time I went away on a trip I made sure to have that song on me to play as I drove back into town. -- nm - Stephen Jan 14, 16:42
    - I grew up in Elk Grove. We made fun of Lodi. -- nm - Redmond, pants on the ground Jan 14, 16:39 1
      - Ashlee grew up in Lodi, she says it has changed A LOT in the last ten years or so. - Stephen Jan 14, 16:41
    - med = met -- nm - MojaveMeg Jan 14, 16:38
A good, relatively short and interesting primer on UZR, for the sabermetrically curious. -- (link) - TFox Jan 14, 16:28
I've decided to be a Nik Antropov fan. -- nm - Dano Jan 14, 16:25
What 5 states would you live in if you could only live in those 5 places for the rest of your life. Alaska, Hawaii, Maine, Montana, Wyoming -- nm - Redmond, pants on the ground Jan 14, 16:24 40
- not sure. the rocky mountainish west. -- nm - mafic Jan 14, 17:16
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- Illinois, Hawaii, Massachusetts, North Carolina, Virginia. -- nm - pmb Jan 14, 16:57
- California, Idaho (yes, seriously), Montana, Arizona/New Mexico, and one city in Indiana. -- nm - Stephen Jan 14, 16:43
- Washington, Oregon, Wisconsin, Michigan, and Pennsylvania. - the liioulu without checking Jan 14, 16:39
- Alaska, Colorado, California, Virginia, Nevada -- nm - Dr.Vermin Jan 14, 16:35 1
  - I debated California, but it's only the southern part I wouldn't want to live in. -- nm - the liioulu without checking Jan 14, 16:36
- California, New York, Masaachusetts, Oregon, Washington I suppose -- nm - Roger More Jan 14, 16:31
- MA, NH, ME, VT, CA -- nm - CovingtonCat Jan 14, 16:31
- Hawaii, Florida, Alaska, NY, Texas -- nm - Beaker Jan 14, 16:29
- NY, Hawaii, Oregon, Connecticut and California. -- nm - Krusty Jan 14, 16:29
- Rhode Island, New York, Colorado, Hawaii, Oregon -- nm - TFox Jan 14, 16:29 8
  - Why Oregon? (nm) - musubi Jan 14, 16:33 5
    - I'm not sure? Because I felt like including the West Coast, and it seemed like hedging my bets taking the one in the middle? -- nm - TFox Jan 14, 16:34 3
      - (But I lied. I'd probably take Tennessee over Oregon. Miss Tennessee.) -- nm - TFox Jan 14, 16:36 2
        
        Yeah see, 5 is too restrictive, cause I wouldn't mind living in Tennessee either. - Stephen Jan 14, 16:47
        
        Trust me, you wouldn't -- nm - Lane Kiffen Jan 14, 16:38
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    - SheFox would murder me if I didn't include it. I need to account for my wife's wants if I'm going to be happy where I live. :) -- nm - TFox Jan 14, 16:31
- 5 that have 4 seasons. -- nm - TWuG Jan 14, 16:28
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- Alaska, Washington, Illinois, Massachusetts, Florida. -- nm - Loyola Jan 14, 16:27 1
  - No wait, screw Illinois. Hawaii. -- nm - Loyola Jan 14, 16:29
- New Hampshire, Oregon, maybe Florida and Hawaii. That's 4. I'm good. -- nm - Mop (225 lbs) Jan 14, 16:27 3
  - I had Oregon but bumped it for Wyoming. -- nm - Redmond, pants on the ground Jan 14, 16:28 2
    - I'd take an alpine chalet in Bend over a ranch in Wyoming. -- nm - Mop (225 lbs) Jan 14, 16:30 1
      - I love Wyoming way too much. Jackson Hole is one of my all time favorite places to vacation. -- nm - Redmond, pants on the ground Jan 14, 16:34
- denial, disbelief, suspended animation, amazement, and ... umm ... Washington. -- nm - Beryllium Jan 14, 16:27 1
  - no love for Bliss? -- nm - zeitgeist Jan 14, 16:40
- The five with the highest average temperatures. -- nm - nubby Jan 14, 16:26 5
  - To wit: Hawai'i, Florida, Louisiana, Texas, Georgia. -- nm - nubby Jan 14, 16:38 3
    - Man, that list goes downhill fast. :) - Beryllium (iPhone) Jan 14, 16:43
    - Hawaii? Really? -- nm - Dr.Vermin Jan 14, 16:43 1
      - By a good 10 degrees F. -- nm - nubby Jan 14, 17:13
  - The five with averagest average temperatures for me. - celedhring Jan 14, 16:27
- filthy rich, happily in love, perfect health, bliss & California -- nm - peglegpete Jan 14, 16:26
- Hawaii, California, Nevada....Washington, maybe Alaska. (nm) - musubi Jan 14, 16:26
- Hawaii, Florida, Massachusetts, California, and New York -- nm - CQ Jan 14, 16:25
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- No one ever remembers Maine. -- nm - Mop (225 lbs) Jan 14, 16:24
- nubby and kelly did. (nm) - musubi Jan 14, 16:24 2
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  - I wish them the best when the polar icecaps melt. -- nm - Mop (225 lbs) Jan 14, 16:26
- I know my state ids technically not New England, but I consider my area to be. -- nm - CQ Jan 14, 16:24
- Lots of non hate for Wisconsin too. - Loyola Jan 14, 16:23 7
  - I'm sure I could assemble a long list of "meh" states, but I had a hard time coming up with a list of five absolute "no" states. - Beryllium Jan 14, 16:25 2
    - Lol yeah I was reaching for a 5th too. -- nm - Loyola Jan 14, 16:28 1
      - I only added Alaska because I'm really tired of winter right now. - the liioulu without checking Jan 14, 16:34
  - My Grandparents are from Eau Claire and I want to visit the city some day. -- nm - Redmond, pants on the ground Jan 14, 16:25
  - Cows! -- nm - Mop (225 lbs) Jan 14, 16:24 2
    - frozen custard! -- nm - Roger More Jan 14, 16:27 1
      - More cows! - the liioulu without checking Jan 14, 16:35
- does Maryland count? Someone said that. -- nm - Beryllium Jan 14, 16:23 1
  - no -- nm - fatsquatch Jan 14, 16:23
- I would live there no problem at all -- nm - Redmond, pants on the ground Jan 14, 16:22
BLT THURSDAY! -- nm - Redmond, pants on the ground Jan 14, 16:22

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