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work sucks yo -- nm - tRuMaN Jan 19, 12:28
Brace yourselves. I've been told they no longer make "regular" Ruffles in the "small" (2 oz) bags. -- nm - Mop (226 lbs) Jan 19, 12:27 1
- they amanda-proofed it -- nm - i'm gay for batman Jan 19, 12:28
Coachella lineup announced: Jay Z, Muse, Faith No More, Gorillaz, Pavement reunion -- (link) - i'm gay for batman Jan 19, 12:26 4
- This might be the best Coachella lineup I've seen yet. Lots of great artists. -- nm - con_carne Jan 19, 12:29
- DJ Lance Rock! Spoon! De La Soul! Devo! - TFox Jan 19, 12:28 2
  - until you have to stand in 100 degree heat with 50000 hipster dickheads -- nm - i'm gay for batman Jan 19, 12:29 1
    - The days when I would consider attending something like this are long long gone. -- nm - TFox Jan 19, 12:31
When is the gay for Batman bet over? Now I'm getting How to date a gay millionaire ad.... -- nm - Beaker Jan 19, 12:23 5
- I get "funny/humorist T-shirts" - Roger More Jan 19, 12:28
- Sunday. -- nm - Remlik Jan 19, 12:27 2
  - aka when mel goes gay for me -- nm - i'm gay for batman Jan 19, 12:28 1
    - *ding* or we can change it to "I'm gaga for Pixie-Puffs." -- nm - Remlik Jan 19, 12:30
- don't blame me, homo -- nm - i'm gay for batman Jan 19, 12:25
Get ready for a Push TV series -- (link) - Beaker Jan 19, 12:20 3
- ugh...I had the movie from Zip but just couldn't bring myself to watch it -- nm - J Jan 19, 12:23
- The novel by Sapphire? -- nm - Dano Jan 19, 12:21 1
  - YSMM -- nm - con_carne Jan 19, 12:23
Way LIR decline: I finished Darksiders on Sunday. It is/was a wicked wicked game. I also was pumped about the ending. - Shaun Jan 19, 12:15
Hmmm, Man City vs. Man U. Can they both lose please. thanks. Onlythe first leg, but Villa would play the winner in the final it looks like -- nm - CQ Jan 19, 12:04
Ok, need your help. Where can one go to read the proposed Health Care bills? - Jim Jan 19, 12:02 22
- the thing is like nine phone books long. really? -- nm - i'm gay for batman Jan 19, 12:05 19
  - yeah...really. I want to know what it ACTUALLY says. Not what the Limbaugh's of the world want me to think it says. nm - Jim Jan 19, 12:13 18
    - This link is from Nov 18, but it's a PDF of the Senate bill. If you're going to read one, read this one. - TFox Jan 19, 12:20
    - Here's the House Bill -- (link) - Dano Jan 19, 12:17 1
      - The Senate Bill -- (link) - Dano Jan 19, 12:21
    - there's a reason lawyers get paid handsomely to read these things - i'm gay for batman Jan 19, 12:14 2
      - f*cking lawyers... -- nm - znufrii Jan 19, 12:14 1
        
        enough of your dreams about Dawson -- nm - zork Jan 19, 12:24
    - They are going to take your health care and give it to illegal aliens. -- nm - Dano Jan 19, 12:14 11
      - This is exactly the kind of shit I mean. I'm sick to death of listening or watching people spew shit like this... - Jim Jan 19, 12:24 7
        
        Seriously, I'd just find a couple of middle-of-the-road sources that talk about meanings and pros and cons rather than read the legislation -- nm - Roger More Jan 19, 12:27 6
        
        I may read that 74 page summary down there, honestly. Or at least stick a copy of it in my bag. - TFox Jan 19, 12:29
        
        Seriously. They're each like 2000 pages. The bills will be long dead and midterm elections over before he finishes! -- nm - Dr.Vermin Jan 19, 12:29
        
        I might try TFox's link below. My problem is there's hardly anywhere you can go anymore to get an unbiased breakdown of...well...anything. -- nm - Jim Jan 19, 12:29 2
        
        warning: it is technically a Democratic website, but its so granular I can't imagine it is spin-heavy. -- nm - TFox Jan 19, 12:30 1
        
        (there is a nine-pager, but it's way more politically spinny.) -- nm - TFox Jan 19, 12:30
        
        TFox's link below is a pretty effective summary. -- nm - znufrii Jan 19, 12:29
      - that's crap, E.T. can heal himself -- nm - dogbert Jan 19, 12:22
      - Is that before or after they take your kid's scholarship and give it to some illegal? -- nm - Mel Profit Jan 19, 12:15 1
        
        When they're done with it, you'll want to move to Mexico just so you can be an illegal immigrant in the US! -- nm - Dano Jan 19, 12:16
- from wikipedia - Max Jan 19, 12:05 1
  - Following their sourcing, this is probably simplest. Go to this link, and click "Section By Section Analysis". -- (link) - TFox Jan 19, 12:23
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- Am I just allowing Arthur C. Clark to corrupt my mind, or isn't it generally considered logical that the centers of Jupiter and Saturn are diamonds? - Name Withheld By Request Jan 19, 12:23 1
  - They probably have small rocky cores. -- nm - Reagen Jan 19, 12:28
- I would expect the "icebergs" to sink not float. *water* bergs float because h20 has the very odd and rare property of expanding when it freezes - zork Jan 19, 12:20
- mafic just signed up for Space Camp -- nm - i'm gay for batman Jan 19, 12:11 3
  - but he had read it as Space Chimp -- nm - zork Jan 19, 12:13 1
    - Another great movie! (Seriously. Okay, maybe not "great" but very enjoyable.) -- nm - Dano Jan 19, 12:14
  - Is Lea Thompson there? -- nm - Dano Jan 19, 12:12
- See, the problem is that all of the diamonds are under this giant tree... -- nm - Dano Jan 19, 12:11
- Jump starts manned missions to Uranus. -- nm - DeBeers Jan 19, 12:08 2
  - But what about the native uranians ? -- nm - eag Jan 19, 12:10
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- we didn't know the melting point of diamonds? - Mel Profit Jan 19, 12:07 4
  - they don't melt at any pressure humans find comfortable and either combust or vapourize first. - Reagen Jan 19, 12:09 3
    - put this in terms a former Poli Sci Major can understand... - Mel Profit Jan 19, 12:14 2
      - melting and boiling points are dependant on pressure. At atmospheric pressure, diamond burns or turns into gas before becoming liquid. -- nm - Reagen Jan 19, 12:23
      - They go poof! -- nm - Dano Jan 19, 12:15
- that's pretty cool. -- nm - decline Jan 19, 12:06
- I want to go to there. -- nm - Beaker Jan 19, 12:01 1
  - (DeBeers SI) -- nm - con_carne Jan 19, 12:08
*watches the trailer for The Good Guy again* -- nm - Dano Jan 19, 11:58
Based on the trailer, here's my analysis ... - Beryllium Jan 19, 11:56 5
- Where do the Blues Brothers rank there? -- nm - Mop (226 lbs) Jan 19, 11:58 3
  - he's to young for them. -- nm - Remlik Jan 19, 11:59 2
    - The movie stands up well enough for this generation. -- nm - Spawn: Champion of ST Jan 19, 12:02 1
      - We're on a mission from God. -- nm - Jim Jan 19, 12:05
- Blues. Brothers. -- nm - Spawn: Champion of ST Jan 19, 11:57
B4: english confusion - cough rhymes with trough but not tough and dough...what? -- nm - SyrDragon Jan 19, 11:53 29
- Exactly! - Ricky Ricardo Jan 19, 12:13
- they used to. -- nm - Reagen Jan 19, 12:01 1
  - In my early English lit class, we were taught to read every word phoenetically as a way to help us understand it *more* - con_carne Jan 19, 12:06
- Part of it is that we have nothing like the French Academy, which standardizes the French language. -- nm - loosilu Jan 19, 11:57
- English is very poorly spelt, but it's pretty simple compared to all the others. Easy verbs, no gendered nouns, no tonal pronounciation etc -- nm - Roger More Jan 19, 11:56 19
  - see but coming from learning chinese; tonal, gutterals, and genders are easy ...remembering english rules and exceptions to rules...not so easy -- nm - SyrDragon Jan 19, 12:01 17
    - I once had a friend try to teach my some Korean words. "Guttural" is definitely a word that describes some of them. -- nm - con_carne Jan 19, 12:25
    - genders are hard to learn in a new language, but a cinch in your first language. -- nm - loosilu Jan 19, 12:10 1
      - A turnip has a gender, but a young girl doesn't. -- nm - Mark Twain Jan 19, 12:15
    - Oh of course - whatever language you learn first is the easiest for you, and learning a second which has completely different rules is hard. - Roger More Jan 19, 12:08 13
      - see but then learning Spanish...it's phonetic...things are spelled like they sound! -- nm - SyrDragon Jan 19, 12:11 11
        
        Sure - but that's the one area where Spanish (and Italian and to some degree French) is simpler than English. - Roger More Jan 19, 12:21
        
        I don't know so much about Spanish, but one of the huge advantages of English is that it's easy to speak it poorly and still be understood. - loosilu Jan 19, 12:14 9
        
        but see change your 'l' sounds and 'r' sounds (as most chinese speakers do) and you get "Today is erection day!" -- nm - SyrDragon Jan 19, 12:29
        
        also word order is much more flexible in English. -- nm - Reagen Jan 19, 12:24 4
        
        in German it sounds funny if descriptors don't follow in order of time-manner-place so they say stuff like "I went yesterday by car to the store" even - zork Jan 19, 12:30
        
        hmmm, I think it's the opposite, actually. English ditched word endings for simplicity, and word order is king. - loosilu Jan 19, 12:27 2
        
        but you can construct a sentence with many different word orders. -- nm - Reagen Jan 19, 12:29 1
        
        I did not know this - Roger More Jan 19, 12:33
        
        You can speak Spanish poorly and still be understood. You just get laughed at, whereas in America, you might get elected President. -- nm - con_carne Jan 19, 12:20 2
        
        I saw W on TV for the first time since he left office this Sunday. - Mel Profit Jan 19, 12:27 1
        
        this made me think, it's pretty surprising more world leaders don't die in office. - Andie Jan 19, 12:29
      - in Chinese, I can't diffferentiate a lot of the tones. no way that would be easy for me. -- nm - loosilu Jan 19, 12:11
  - no gendered nouns is a huge thing. -- nm - loosilu Jan 19, 11:58
- also, i can't imagine explain that read and read are different tenses of the same verb, but pronounced differently. -- nm - Andie Jan 19, 11:56 3
  - and then throw in 'red' -- nm - Andie Jan 19, 11:56 2
    - and rede. -- nm - loosilu Jan 19, 11:58
    - reed! -- nm - Spawn: Champion of ST Jan 19, 11:56
- Buff and Duff!!! -- nm - Duffman Jan 19, 11:54
Finally got around to read the Marvin Harrison GQ article...A buddy said it Sunday, "Sounds like Stringer Bell." -- nm - Name Withheld By Request Jan 19, 11:50 1
- yeah. great comparison -- nm - Remlik Jan 19, 11:55
Tiger Woods's sex rehab clinic requires patients to sign a "celibacy contract" (including no SHP) -- (link) - i'm gay for batman Jan 19, 11:48 6
- I wonder how they monitor that. -- nm - b. Jan 19, 11:49 5
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    - I was thinking slips of those would be easier to spot, at least for those for whom their issue is expressed privately. -- nm - b. Jan 19, 11:58
    - they should hire Mel as a consultant -- nm - i'm gay for batman Jan 19, 11:55 1
      - I broke an 86 Year Old Curse...dont mess with me. -- nm - Mel Profit Jan 19, 12:08
  - yes. they all eat cheetos at every meal -- nm - i'm gay for batman Jan 19, 11:50
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- bayonetta sucks. stay away from that. -- nm - Remlik Jan 19, 11:56 9
  - Wha....? This is the next game I'm buying when I find it sub-$40. -- nm - JaxSean Jan 19, 11:57 8
    - wait till it hits the $20 range or lower. -- nm - Remlik Jan 19, 12:00 6
      - Did you buy it? I really liked the demo. - JaxSean Jan 19, 12:07 5
        
        no I got it as a gift. it sucks. It's a Japanese game...someone linked to a blog earlier about the making of it... - Remlik Jan 19, 12:09 4
        
        I'll buy it from you for $20! :) -- nm - JaxSean Jan 19, 12:12 3
        
        ha! I got $25 in trade in on it. -- nm - Remlik Jan 19, 12:22 2
        
        *curses* I would have given you $25 for it! -- nm - JaxSean Jan 19, 12:28 1
        
        you would have paid to much. -- nm - Remlik Jan 19, 12:29
    - Save your $. -- nm - Spawn: Champion of ST Jan 19, 11:58
- Buy two get one free. You buy two, they give you a $60 gift card for a third title, right? -- nm - JaxSean Jan 19, 11:50 1
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from b2: yet another day of rain, now with the "fun" addition of extra bursts of whooshyness. it's ~50, though. (whine ahead.) - b. Jan 19, 11:47
Yeah, I'm pretty sure MacGruber was never funny in a 2 minute sketch. nm -- nm - Jim Jan 19, 11:45 2
- While I'm happy that Abe Lincoln is getting work, I'm sad that he's getting this particular work. - David Jan 19, 11:51 1
  - It may actually throw under It's Pat. -- nm - Jim Jan 19, 12:02
casting call: frustrated single women (LA only) for a new cable show - i'm gay for batman Jan 19, 11:43 3
- did I ever have mojo? -- nm - b. Jan 19, 11:48 2
  - how can you not remember what we had?! -- nm - mojo si Jan 19, 11:49 1
    - Redmond?' -- nm - loosilu Jan 19, 11:50
Soon I Will Be Invincible....holy crap this looks awesome... -- (link) - Beaker Jan 19, 11:42 [youtube] 12
- based on a book by Austin Grossman -- nm - Beaker Jan 19, 11:43 11
  - The book is sort of like Dr. Horrible played straight. -- nm - Reagen Jan 19, 12:03 10
    - That doesn't sound like a good thing. (nm) - musubi Jan 19, 12:05 9
      - can't be worse than playing it for "laughs" -- nm - i'm gay for batman Jan 19, 12:06 2
        
        Sometimes you make me sad. (nm) - musubi Jan 19, 12:09
        
        yup, watch is set correctly. -- nm - Reagen Jan 19, 12:07
      - watch the clip. -- nm - Beaker Jan 19, 12:06 1
        
        No youtube-ing from work. - musubi Jan 19, 12:09
      - It's a bit too cute for its own good sometimes, but a solid read. -- nm - Reagen Jan 19, 12:06 3
        
        Grr. Amy did not buythe audiobook for the library, and I hate killing trees for paper. -- nm - Spawn: Champion of ST Jan 19, 12:10 2
        
        you spend a lot of time going "oh, that guy's ____" -- nm - Reagen Jan 19, 12:13 1
        
        Yeah, even in that clip I caught myself thinking that about who he fought. -- nm - Spawn: Champion of ST Jan 19, 12:14
no way that's spawn -- nm - i'm gay for batman Jan 19, 11:41 6
- "insane abs" -- nm - Roger More Jan 19, 11:42 5
  - Have you seen them? -- nm - Spawn: Champion of ST Jan 19, 11:43 4
    - I wouldn't use such a gushing word to describe them -- nm - Roger More Jan 19, 11:45 3
      - Insane is not exactly gushing, but okay. -- nm - Spawn: Champion of ST Jan 19, 11:52 2
        
        (I am not being serious) -- nm - Roger More Jan 19, 11:58 1
        
        Neither am I. -- nm - Spawn: Champion of ST Jan 19, 11:59
Where might that be? -- nm - Spawn: Champion of ST Jan 19, 11:41
The Abomination missed it by -that- much. -- nm - David Jan 19, 11:41

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