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LIR: SecretStalker poll answers ... . T-shirt size is XL. Favorite candy is Coffee Crisp. - ReluctantCynic Nov 19, 12:50 3
- have you ever tried a Maple Crisp? -- nm - peglegpete Nov 19, 12:52 2
  - Hhhmmmm ... no, I can't recall ever having a Maple Crisp. -- nm - ReluctantCynic Nov 19, 12:56
  - reagen, just splurted and doesn't know why. sounds intriguing. linky? -- nm - zork Nov 19, 12:53
*puts on Dow 7000 hat* -- (link) - budice Nov 19, 12:48 1
- the sell into the close was fierce once the nasdaq and s + p broke through those lows... - x Nov 19, 12:50
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- Tom Morello? -- nm - lileve Nov 19, 12:53
- You rang? :-) -- nm - con_carne Nov 19, 12:47
Congressman is asking if the CEOs will sell their jets and fly back commercially. -- nm - Max Nov 19, 12:41 12
- After the baseball inquiries, I no longer hold questions from Congress to any expectation of sanity or use. -- nm - TFox Nov 19, 12:48 1
  - But it does make sense...$300 round trip coach vs. $20,000 when asking for money -- nm - The Calico Cat Coalition Nov 19, 12:57
- +10 cheap political points for him. -- nm - VMan Nov 19, 12:47 6
  - +20. He asked them to raise their hands. -- nm - Max Nov 19, 12:47 5
    - One of them should just shrug off the bailout and say, "Fine, we'll go broke and close the plants. I still get my nice severence package." -- nm - VMan Nov 19, 12:49 2
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        Apart from the current situation, I'll all for letting them go under. On the other hand, $25 bil on top the $700 bil already promised is not much - VMan Nov 19, 12:52
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      - sorry, only half an ear to the radio -- nm - Max Nov 19, 12:50
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  - "And here's a $1.50, hand over your watch." -- nm - Ender Nov 19, 12:48
  - "Say it in a dog's voice!" -- nm - Roger More Nov 19, 12:45
woo hoo! we've busted thru the s + p 500 52 week low....nm - x Nov 19, 12:41 1
- 4.3125 -- nm - truman mobile Nov 19, 12:49
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- T. Boone Pickens said this weekend it will be back to $100 next summer. -- nm - Max Nov 19, 12:42 8
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    - it's pretty consistent, actually. he's long been a peak oil guy who touts natural gas as an alternative....nm - x Nov 19, 12:48 6
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        he's worth $3 billion. i bet he's been right more often than he's been wrong ;)...nm - x Nov 19, 12:57
      - He definitely has a vested interest in high oil prices, or at least in people expecting them. -- nm - Ender Nov 19, 12:50 3
        
        he didn't get to being one of the richest people in the country by being a dumbass...nm - x Nov 19, 12:51 2
        
        That's hot. -- nm - Paris Hilton Nov 19, 12:57
        
        Wait, but... that's who we were trying to get votes from. That isn't how it works? -- nm - The Republicans Nov 19, 12:54
- wouldn't it be easier to use bigger tanks? -- nm - M Nov 19, 12:42
Havens & Secretstalker. June 11-20 are the dates of CineVegas 2009 -- nm - peglegpete Nov 19, 12:35
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- the tide is turning! New election needed, stat. -- nm - zork Nov 19, 12:54
- Obama should do the decent thing and just let John McCain be President of Missouri. - Loyola Nov 19, 12:37 1
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- bellweather no more!!! -- nm - Rorschach: 03/06/09 Nov 19, 12:36
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- This defies the "bellwether" thing, right? -- nm - con_carne Nov 19, 12:34 5
  - But the Redskins home game correlation remains intact! -- nm - Roger More Nov 19, 12:40 2
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      - Heh - the ESPN article touting the pre-election Steelers-Redskins game did not mention that. Oh well. -- (link) - Roger More Nov 19, 12:54
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    - ...so went the country, two weeks earlier and the different direction -- nm - The Calico Cat Coalition Nov 19, 12:38
- They were reluctant to hand over the "bellweather" status -- nm - The Calico Cat Coalition Nov 19, 12:34
- Good thing it wasn't close - waiting for these results would've been a killer. -- nm - Cuzzin Todd Nov 19, 12:34
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- I am only allowing one injured back per week. Portis last week, Westbrook this week, so you had better run Jacobs! -- nm - Rorschach: 03/06/09 Nov 19, 12:33 1
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Effing Javascript. "Syntax Error" at Line 2 tells me nothing! NOTHING!!! -- nm - Ender Nov 19, 12:31
Indecision 2008 Palin sidenote: - David Nov 19, 12:29 1
- i voted: - DaneDukeNuuk Nov 19, 12:31
I'm amused at the phrase "Big Three CEOs" - con_carne Nov 19, 12:27 4
- This is a job for the Cloverfield Monster. -- nm - Diva Nov 19, 12:35
- They have offices in the head of their T.Rexes, and push the button frequently. -- nm - Rorschach: 03/06/09 Nov 19, 12:29 1
  - Sven sucks. -- nm - Cuzzin Todd Nov 19, 12:35
- It's like a bad game of Rampage -- nm - oblique Nov 19, 12:28
ok, work ethical dilemma (sp?) - interested to hear what people think [especially certain people here] - prayformojo Nov 19, 12:24 37
- Do the report, save her job, and tell her supervisors to treat her like a human being. - ReluctantCynic Nov 19, 12:54 1
  - I agree. -- nm - lileve Nov 19, 13:04
- Try to help her. Sucks I know but no one deserves to loose their jobs in this market. -- nm - lileve Nov 19, 12:46 3
  - not sure about "no one". not trying and crappy attitude and drain on everyone else makes life bad for many. -- nm - zork Nov 19, 12:52 2
    - In the abscence of any evidence to the contrary that the majority of her co workers are the arseholes, it's best in these situations to err on the - Loyola Nov 19, 12:57
    - I know. -- nm - lileve Nov 19, 12:53
- Help her. -- nm - Loyola Nov 19, 12:42
- I'd help if she asked, or if I wanted her to stay or if I thought her failure would hurt the company or your customer (if applicable). - pmb Nov 19, 12:39
- I'd help her with the hope that the bosses eventually realize how poor a worker she is and fire her. -- nm - krusty Nov 19, 12:33
- Give her the tools, give her the second chance. After that, bupkus -- nm - con_carne Nov 19, 12:32
- I would simply let her know if she needs any help on the report, to ask me...it is then up to her, AND should she ask and you help... - The Calico Cat Coalition Nov 19, 12:32
- Serengeti Plain. - Dr.Vermin Nov 19, 12:30 1
  - this is my suggesting, barring the task not getting done having profound negative consequences for the business ass a whole. -- nm - znufrii Nov 19, 12:31
- Does doing the report help the organization? If so, I would do it. -- nm - David Nov 19, 12:30
- do you know about the deadline officially? I might be like, hey mandy, if you need any help, let me know. - pilgrims and indians love mandy lane Nov 19, 12:30 2
  - i don't know officially. that's an interesting take. -- nm - prayformojo Nov 19, 12:32 1
    - make it casual. don't fishgive, but mention casually that you know how to fish and have some time. -- nm - pilgrims and indians love mandy lane Nov 19, 12:36
- i'd probably help her with the report - but if she's already on the chopping block, she'll go eventually anyway. -- nm - El Fandie Nov 19, 12:29
- She should know how to ask for help to get the resources she needs to do her job, honestly. -- nm - TFox Nov 19, 12:29
- sounds like they would come up with another reason if she did finish it. -- nm - zork Nov 19, 12:27
- is she hot? -- nm - DaneDukeNuuk Nov 19, 12:27
- Is this enablement teaching her a skill that will improve her quality of work or simply "doing it for her"? -- nm - oblique Nov 19, 12:27 4
  - more the former. i'm not doing anything *for* her, but rather enabling her to do something herself -- nm - prayformojo Nov 19, 12:29 3
    - Would she be able to acheive that skill/talent/knowledge without you enablement? -- nm - VMan Nov 19, 12:30 2
      - not really -- nm - prayformojo Nov 19, 12:30 1
        
        Like some of the others here. I would probably stay out of it unless asked directly for help. -- nm - VMan Nov 19, 12:32
- Is she attractive and will repay you with sexual favours? I'd probably just stay out of it and let her fail. -- nm - VMan Nov 19, 12:27
- can't you have your cake and eat it? (help her and seek to get her fired anyway) -- nm - Don Homer Nov 19, 12:27
- what effect would it have on the business if the report does not get done? -- nm - znufrii Nov 19, 12:26
- No. If she were to ask for help, then maybe. -- nm - Rorschach: 03/06/09 Nov 19, 12:26
- (snicker) I might save her on this and let her poor quality get her fired on her own later. -- nm - Max Nov 19, 12:26 6
  - interesting, though just basis of her performance/attitude, this should have been done a long time ago -- nm - prayformojo Nov 19, 12:28
  - it could be that the report is a mickey mouse to give them an excuse to fire her... -- nm - znufrii Nov 19, 12:26 4
    - It sounds like they don't need an excuse as is. Trapping her is crappy management and I might be tempted to subvert them. -- nm - Max Nov 19, 12:28 3
      - this is interesting. i think the reason she's still here is that they don't want to deal with her directly. lord knows she's given them ample cause -- nm - prayformojo Nov 19, 12:33 2
        
        erk. -- nm - znufrii Nov 19, 12:42
        
        I hate that. Fire her for the right reasons. Don't demand her to run a mile in under 3 minutes and they claim she failed. - Max Nov 19, 12:40
So, has Palin donated the clothes yet? -- nm - Rorschach: 03/06/09 Nov 19, 12:19 16
- She uses them to drape over the wolf cubs she shoots from her helicoptor. - Dr.Vermin Nov 19, 12:23 2
  - I think the RNC did indeed come and get them. I think. -- nm - Remlik Nov 19, 12:48
  - I thought she draped the dead wolves over the helicopter to camoflage the copter. - TFox Nov 19, 12:26
- Supposedly gave them back to the RNC. -- nm - lileve Nov 19, 12:22
- I'm going to miss that dumbass psycho. -- nm - David Nov 19, 12:22 9
  - I won't. *buys a rifle scope* -- nm - znufrii Nov 19, 12:30 1
    - link -- (link) - znufrii Nov 19, 12:30
  - not if she has anything to say about it... - Mel Profit Nov 19, 12:28 2
    - I had a dream that by 2012 she had really let herself go, but was quite unaware of this fact. -- nm - Rorschach: 03/06/09 Nov 19, 12:30 1
      - she better hope not given that I'm pretty sure that most of her national appeal is based on her appearance. - Mel Profit Nov 19, 12:38
  - Karl Rove's comment about her at that conference last week was basically that it's ok for the VP not to know that Africa is a continent and think that - pmb Nov 19, 12:28 1
    - Do you think she's mad at God for not wanting her to be a senator? -- nm - David Nov 19, 12:31
  - well then, you need to adjust your scope. -- nm - Beryllium Nov 19, 12:24 1
    - ::watches her shower:: -- nm - Russia Nov 19, 12:32
- She's not done with them yet. Maybe after '12 -- nm - VMan Nov 19, 12:20 1
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- Did I miss something? What are you talking about? - krusty Nov 19, 12:30 13
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    - Then the owner of the A's is retarded. - krusty Nov 19, 12:38 11
      - Right it OUGHT to be a 3 game series. -- nm - Ender Nov 19, 12:49 1
        
        5 minimum, imo. -- nm - krusty Nov 19, 12:53
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        Equally retarded, IMO. -- nm - TFox Nov 19, 12:41 3
        
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        Why should team be rewarded by going to the playoffs if they weren't good enough to win their division? - krusty Nov 19, 12:46
        
        Cons: it would necessitate shortening the season, and we already let the top 25% of teams in after 162 games of play. - TFox Nov 19, 12:46
        
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        That doesn't work either. We already have too many teams and rounds in the playoffs. - krusty Nov 19, 12:42 2
        
        Also, I'd get rid of about 4-6 teams if not more. -- nm - krusty Nov 19, 12:43 1
        
        I'd be more interested in introducing relegation. - znufrii Nov 19, 13:00
- The off-days are a bigger problem than the lengths of the series. It's a dumb suggestion. -- nm - TFox Nov 19, 12:21 9
  - Agreed. TV concerns should be removed from the equation. -- nm - Rorschach: 03/06/09 Nov 19, 12:27
  - Also the start dates of each series should be adaptive and not set in stone. - Don Homer Nov 19, 12:23 7
    - The league would have to pay more to secure a larger number of dates for the venues to ensure they're available. -- nm - VMan Nov 19, 12:25 3
      - What else are baseball stadiums being used for in October? -- nm - psilotum Nov 19, 12:28 1
        
        Concerts and other events are held at stadiums in warm weather states. -- nm - krusty Nov 19, 12:35
      - Really? The BoSox aren't booking Collective Soul concerts at Fenway in October. -- nm - TFox Nov 19, 12:27
    - indeed. that's just silly. -- nm - znufrii Nov 19, 12:23 2
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        That is an issue (and hotel rooms), but don't the NHL and NBA adapt their schedules (or am I wrong?)? -- nm - Don Homer Nov 19, 12:28
- I remember the NHL had 1 5-game series then 2 7-game series before. Much better than the marathon now of 4x7-games -- nm - zork Nov 19, 12:20 5
  - ^^^^FAIL^^^^ -- nm - Name Withheld By Request Nov 19, 12:22 4
    - it really needs to be over well before frickin' June! -- nm - zork Nov 19, 12:23 3
      - and with less series, they don't have to have a day off after every fucking game -- nm - zork Nov 19, 12:25 2
        
        These two I agree with, but the solution is not to shorten the greatest sports tournament, but to end the regular season earlier and to schedule.... - Name Withheld By Request Nov 19, 12:31 1
        
        IIRC they *used* to play 2 days in a row, travel, 2 days in a row, then alternate travel and one game. - zork Nov 19, 12:38
Did Jax go to Rice university? -- nm - oblique Nov 19, 12:18 4
- Go? I *did* Rice University. -- nm - JaxSean Nov 19, 12:18 2
  - ... so suck it Debbie !! (and Dallas) -- nm - JaxSean SI Nov 19, 12:21
  - ~Jax Sean frontieres~ -- nm - Rorschach: 03/06/09 Nov 19, 12:19
- because it sucks? -- nm - zork Nov 19, 12:18
Dear stalker: I'll take GM's private jet. -- nm - Dr.Vermin Nov 19, 12:17 4
- sorry, I just put it up on eBay. -- nm - znufrii Nov 19, 12:24
- at 20,000 a trip? no thanks -- nm - decline Nov 19, 12:20 1
  - well, he's just gonna have it in the backyard... you know... for the kids. -- nm - Hammed Uzi Nov 19, 12:23
- How much? Gas prices have been going down so I think I can afford it again. -- nm - Diddy Nov 19, 12:19

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