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So - I missed all the Superbowl back boards - did anyone win any money last night? none of my squares won :( -- nm - JenBro Feb 8, 10:55
Sort of cool thing I heard on the radio today; - Loyola Feb 8, 10:45 5
- how completely gratifying ... I would send him a retirement card - let him figure it out -- nm - JenBro Feb 8, 10:58
- You should do it. -- nm - ceregon Feb 8, 10:55
- I'd go with "I'd like my project regraded, thanks" -- nm - Roger More Feb 8, 10:52 2
  - "and could you hurry up with that regrade, while you still have the office." -- nm - Jim Feb 8, 10:57
  - Just because it's what the government decided to do, doesn't mean it's any better than 40% ... :) -- nm - Beryllium Feb 8, 10:55
VD PSA: Teleflora seems to have the best deal. $29.99 red carnations (or $39.95 w/ roses). Then you get $10 off + 25% cashback via bing. - oblique Feb 8, 10:39
Hmm, dead end at 1094. -- nm - CQ Feb 8, 10:38 2
- wow! -- nm - Andie Feb 8, 10:41 1
  - It just kept going. The name changes are crazy. Aparently my fathers side goes back to Chesire, Eng. And the name back then was LeBrid -- nm - CQ Feb 8, 10:52
I can't make up my mind: Will Meryl Streep or Sandra Bullock win for Best Actress? I haven't even seen The Blind Side - Facto Feb 8, 10:38 12
- bullock -- nm - mr. reliable Feb 8, 10:40
- her fight with Mr Rogers is legendary -- nm - Beaker Feb 8, 10:39 1
  - nmbl -- (link) - Beaker Feb 8, 10:39 [Backboard]
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  - As to your point: this is seeing as she is not really lead actress, but co-lead actress.. ? -- nm - Facto Feb 8, 10:47 2
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      - Ok, I'm almost completely convinced now that it'll be Bullock -- nm - Facto Feb 8, 11:03
  - My mistake.. Too long since I checked, I confused no. of nominations with actual wins. Thanks, that's a very valuable lesson. - Facto Feb 8, 10:45 4
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      - But at least she is a featured guest at the awards every other year or so.. ;-) (Streep, of course, being nominated so often) -- nm - Facto Feb 8, 11:02
    - So that would be a FactoFail, I guess. -- nm - Dano Feb 8, 10:46 1
      - Correctamundo... -- nm - Facto Feb 8, 10:47
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- Morissey and Markos must blanche at being back to back. -- nm - Reagen Feb 8, 10:45
- absolutely. -- nm - Mel Profit Feb 8, 10:40
- Does the minority party have anything to gain from this? - Mop (228 lbs) Feb 8, 10:40 1
  - They might look bad (to some) if they're the ones that don't agree to it. And they'll probably be better prepared next time. -- nm - Roger More Feb 8, 10:44
- "It was riveting and educational. The exchanges were substantive, civil and candid. And in a rare break from our modern politics, sharp differences - Roger More Feb 8, 10:37
- or as Canadians call it: Question Period. -- nm - Beaker Feb 8, 10:37
- I can only imagine that if something like this becomes entrenched, it will just become another sound-bite-a-thom. -- nm - Mop (228 lbs) Feb 8, 10:36
- we can call it Tea Time -- nm - Max Feb 8, 10:35
- about time. -- nm - znufrii Feb 8, 10:33
Toskala takes parting shot at the Leafs -- (link) - Beaker Feb 8, 10:32 8
- translate for the hockey deficient: didn't the leafs used to be like the yankees of hockey? - mr. reliable Feb 8, 10:33 7
  - they are hated like the Yankees though -- nm - Beaker Feb 8, 10:38 2
    - "Mocked" would be more appropriate. -- nm - Mop (228 lbs) Feb 8, 10:38 1
      - Yeah, you have to win to be hated -- nm - Roger More Feb 8, 10:50
  - Good lord, no. Up until a few years back, though, the Habs had the most championships of any professional sporting team. -- nm - Mop (228 lbs) Feb 8, 10:37 1
    - The Port Adelaide Magpies laugh at this claim. -- nm - Roger More Feb 8, 10:47
  - more like the Red Sox. - Reagen Feb 8, 10:35 1
    - 4th Biggest Payroll, baybee! -- nm - Mel Profit Feb 8, 10:57
ST vacay poll -- when would be the best time of the year to visit Yosemite? -- nm - znufrii Feb 8, 10:25 21
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- Depends on what you want to do - ceregon Feb 8, 10:41
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  - first week of may sounds more my style, from b.'s link below, but I don't doubt I'd have a fantastic time whenever I went... - znufrii Feb 8, 10:41 4
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      - I think I can make it happen. - znufrii Feb 8, 10:51 2
        
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        brilliant. -- nm - znufrii Feb 8, 10:57
- Late August -- nm - Redmond Feb 8, 10:36 1
  - Change that I thought you asked about Yellowstone for some reason. 2-3 weeks after school starts back up. - Redmond Feb 8, 10:38
- it depends on what you're after. there are, surprise!, good websites re: what's what. nm but: -- (link) - b. Feb 8, 10:28 1
  - oooh, thanks! -- nm - znufrii Feb 8, 10:32
- Before it blows the fuck up. -- nm - Spawn Feb 8, 10:26 4
  - (spoiler) - znufrii Feb 8, 10:27 3
    - (spoiler) - Spawn Feb 8, 10:32 1
      - except... - znufrii Feb 8, 10:37
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- if NoCal weather is comparable to SoCal, June or July -- nm - mr. reliable Feb 8, 10:26
- (Don't take this as fact, but) I'd consider going in late-spring, I think. -- nm - Beryllium Feb 8, 10:26 2
  - Maybe *very* late spring. I've been there at the beginning of April and the pass was still snowed in. - MojaveMeg Feb 8, 10:30 1
    - I agree, Lots of wild flowers still left and plenty of water for the waterfalls. -- nm - BAD Feb 8, 10:39
I dunno what it is, but sentimentality has been kicking my ass lately. Damned near teared up to Saturday's Pearls Before Swine. -- (link) - Name Withheld By Request Feb 8, 10:23 12
- I got a little sniffly at the google ad last night. -- nm - Dano Feb 8, 10:33 1
  - the music makes that one -- nm - mr. reliable Feb 8, 10:43
- Damn. Wish I could rememberthe comic, but Amy did tear up at one a few days ago. (spoil) - Spawn Feb 8, 10:31
- The wife teared up over Undercover Boss, toward the end. -- nm - Dr.Vermin Feb 8, 10:31 3
  - my embarrassing one is i cry at the end of Home Alone. -- nm - Andie Feb 8, 10:43 2
    - You and George Constanza. -- nm - Reagen Feb 8, 10:46 1
      - really? i can't believe there's an episode of Seinfeld i haven't seen. -- nm - Andie Feb 8, 10:51
- ah. -- nm - Andie Feb 8, 10:26
- that's very nice. -- nm - b. Feb 8, 10:25
- seasonal affective disorder, maybe? -- nm - Beryllium Feb 8, 10:25
- LYC: NB's Tourism Minister resigned from/was fired from Cabinet for disagreeing with the Liberals over the NB Power sale -- nm - Beaker Feb 8, 10:24 1
  - Sounds about right. It's a major government agenda item, so he can't stay and not support it. -- nm - Name Withheld By Request Feb 8, 10:28
Body found in landing gear bay (let that be a lesson to you, kids - you can't get from JFK to Tokyo that way!) -- (link) - Beryllium Feb 8, 10:22 1
- Which leads to the question - was he an airport employee? Otherwise, how did he get to the plane? -- nm - MojaveMeg Feb 8, 10:27
not sure if this autism study has been posted here or not -- (link) - Beryllium Feb 8, 10:18 7
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  - well, "genetic" in the sense of inborn, not neccesarily that it's inherited. -- nm - Reagen Feb 8, 10:27 2
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    - a genetic abnormality, at least. -- nm - Beryllium Feb 8, 10:28
- I'm glad they're looking things like this, but this one seems pretty obvious. -- nm - Inigo Feb 8, 10:20 2
  - that would seem to put a lot more weight on the nature side of the scale, though. -- nm - Reagen Feb 8, 10:21 1
    - so in other words, further (circumstantial) evidence against vaccines as a cause -- nm - Beryllium Feb 8, 10:23
Dear John: how New Line made the original deal then killed the project -- (link) - mr. reliable Feb 8, 10:11 7
- Probably almost every hit movie was passed up by one studio or another before being made. -- nm - Cuzzin Todd Feb 8, 10:17 2
  - some are, some aren't. if you have a known quantity, like a Sparks novel, that you buy the rights to, usually you're going to make the pic yourself -- nm - mr. reliable Feb 8, 10:19 1
    - But plenty of "known quality" projects are thought to be sure-fire-hits that end up flopping. - Cuzzin Todd Feb 8, 10:53
- I don't think anyone saw this coming, but these kinds of projects are basically risk free, aren't they? - Reagen Feb 8, 10:16 3
  - the last Sparks one, Nights In Rodanthe kind of bombed. but the risk there was spending for talent with Gere and Diane Lane -- nm - mr. reliable Feb 8, 10:18 2
    - although I see now that the Rodanthe budget was reported at 20 mil. So even then they came out OK. -- nm - Reagen Feb 8, 10:22
    - Right, I mean specifically with the cheap cast. -- nm - Reagen Feb 8, 10:20
Looks like Bob Gainey is out as GM for the Habs -- nm - Beaker Feb 8, 10:08 1
- Now that the Molsons are back in charge, it's time to clean house. -- nm - Mop (228 lbs) Feb 8, 10:35
this ancestry.com thing is amazing. Only 15 minutes in and I'm back to 1704 on my father's side. - CQ Feb 8, 10:06 19
- I'm reluctant to get into something like this... I'd rather keep working to get rich and famous myself, and if that works, some secretary can look - Facto Feb 8, 10:18
- I need to do this one of these days - znufrii Feb 8, 10:12 4
  - they may not be referenced, but i almost guarantee someone has entered the data. -- nm - Andie Feb 8, 10:14 3
    - I'd be more interested to find out info on the other branches of my family, which are much less documented. - znufrii Feb 8, 10:16 2
      - you can do a two week free trial -- nm - Andie Feb 8, 10:23 1
        
        I just might, can't do it while I'm here at work, though... -- nm - znufrii Feb 8, 10:24
- everyone's Famous - lafarrow Feb 8, 10:11 4
  - I was just saying that those are the first and middle names and have my last name, not that i'm related to those exact individuals -- nm - CQ Feb 8, 10:16 1
    - that's pretty neat... -- nm - znufrii Feb 8, 10:17
  - oh, i have servants, waitresses, and whole lot of farmers. -- nm - Andie Feb 8, 10:14
  - I'm sure we have plenty of those in our family tree -- nm - CQ Feb 8, 10:12
- oh sure, I talk it up for years, and then some hot blonde canadian comes along and everyone is all 'oooh blah blah blah blah giggity' - Max Feb 8, 10:09 3
  - Most of us are terrified it might tell us we are related to you. I would rather not know. -- nm - Redmond Feb 8, 10:11
  - who are you again? -- nm - mr. reliable Feb 8, 10:10
  - well Max, she is a whole lot better looking than you -- nm - CQ Feb 8, 10:09
- the most interesting part is that even for things for which no official records exist, another person may have put in the info, and you can access tha -- nm - Andie Feb 8, 10:08 2
  - yeah, it's pretty cool. I knew we'd be well documented, but it's fun as hell -- nm - CQ Feb 8, 10:09 1
    - totally addictive. -- nm - Andie Feb 8, 10:09
- Here's your $5. -- nm - Ancestry.com Feb 8, 10:08
And in the continuing saga of my left hand thumb: the tip still can't move much, discomfort is still there but there's no more swelling - Facto Feb 8, 10:04 6
- cut it off before it zombifies you! -- nm - Beaker Feb 8, 10:10 3
  - this reminds me... That dude in District 9 had a worse condition than I have -- nm - Facto Feb 8, 10:12 2
    - All this means is that you can not fire kickass guns with it. - Spawn Feb 8, 10:13 1
      - Yeah, that's kinda disappointing -- nm - Facto Feb 8, 10:14
- I have a bad feeling you will end up suing ST for malpractice at some point. -- nm - Spawn Feb 8, 10:05 1
  - I'm not very litigious... - Facto Feb 8, 10:09
for v-day: best 104 (!) US cities to find love -- (link) - mr. reliable Feb 8, 10:00 4
- I browsed through it and I'm thinking it's basically a ranking of where there are the most unattractive people... It's only logical, isn't it? -- nm - Facto Feb 8, 10:35
- #64 proper -- nm - mr. reliable Feb 8, 10:06
- #58 -- nm - znufrii Feb 8, 10:05
- #17 and... - Mel Profit Feb 8, 10:03
hmm, suggestion I heard in an IRC channel: Captain Awesome playing Captain America -- nm - Beryllium Feb 8, 09:59 2
- Looks like he was genetically tailored for the job. -- nm - Mop (228 lbs) Feb 8, 10:38
- What about Captain Hammer? -- nm - nubby Feb 8, 10:00
I just ate a sandwich from Quizno's. - nubby Feb 8, 09:58 2
- Hope so too! - Dr.Vermin Feb 8, 10:02
- Best of luck! -- nm - Beryllium Feb 8, 10:02
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- Saying the game isn't much different than one of the best games of last year isn't much of a condemnation :) -- nm - oblique Feb 8, 10:42
big big news in my hometown. the body of a 27 year old missing woman was found last night, and the police have cordoned off the home of the nearby - Andie Feb 8, 09:55 6
- Zombie soldiers are amassing and taking out the humans? -- nm - Will Hunting Feb 8, 10:03 4
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    - I found it actually to be a little disappointing, but still okay. -- nm - Dano Feb 8, 10:08 2
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        jamaican bobsled zombie-killing team? -- nm - Beryllium Feb 8, 10:13
- that should read .... the 'home of the commander of the nearby military base.. ' -- nm - Andie Feb 8, 09:56
happy birthday, budice! :) - -- nm - b. Feb 8, 09:55
Tits in a Box(es) -- (link) - nubby Feb 8, 09:54 9
- #6 makes Lady Gaga look like she was thrown down a chimney. [nm] - Mel Profit Feb 8, 10:25
- (If you scroll to photo #4, you'll see why Pete and Ashlee are made for each other.) -- nm - nubby Feb 8, 09:59 2
  - #5 made me laugh out loud. -- nm - Spawn Feb 8, 10:07
  - wow, (pic 19) Joan Jett may be plastic but she looks great while Kristen Stewart looks like Lohan's ex. -- nm - Max Feb 8, 10:07
- raise your hand if you thought this kid was this media savvy? -- nm - Mel Profit Feb 8, 09:56 3
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  - *raises hand* - nubby Feb 8, 09:57 1
    - Exactly. Judging by his dating history, he obviously has a great grasp of his situation. -- nm - Spawn Feb 8, 10:10
- That rhymes with Socks, Tiny Jocks, and Goldilocks. -- nm - Charles Feb 8, 09:55

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