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What is The Hazel Bloom? -- nm - oblique Feb 12, 11:39 5
- iirc a blog about veggie cooking run our very own Kare -- nm - zeitgeist Feb 12, 11:42
- "A cop show about Mark Hazel and Brendan Bloom?" -- nm - TFox Feb 12, 11:39
- Mara -- nm - the liioulu with less leggings Feb 12, 11:39 2
  - or not -- nm - poochinski Feb 12, 11:39 1
    - *sigh* kare? - the liioulu with less leggings Feb 12, 11:42
I believe that Canada is going into pre Olympics fever overdrive - lone canadian leafs fan Feb 12, 11:35 2
- *bets Joannie cracks under the pressure* - Diva Feb 12, 11:39
- the flame is on E. Broadway now - lone canadian kirsten fan Feb 12, 11:39
Don't think I didn't see that gender crack, wookie. - Mel Profit Feb 12, 11:34 1
- C3PO is advising you to let me win. -- nm - TFox Feb 12, 11:35
Ugh. I've hit that "after lunch" crash. I need a nap right now. *yaaaaaaaawn* -- nm - JaxSean Feb 12, 11:32
Well, the Bengals did sign one Jones with past legal problems. - the wrong element, bad guy Feb 12, 11:32 1
- You should have seen the guffaw on ESPN News when the story broke. -- nm - David Feb 12, 11:33
Hey, aren't you Roy Chappell? -- nm - David Feb 12, 11:29 2
- "Yeah, double-A leagues. gotta have a day job." ... haha -- nm - Beryllium Feb 12, 11:30 1
  - "They named a sandwich after me!" -- nm - David Feb 12, 11:32
Has anybody seen Edge of Darkness? What grade would you give it? -- nm - Loyola Feb 12, 11:24
Georgian luger crashed and flew off the track into a pole on Friday during training....(link). - Walt_Disney Feb 12, 11:21 34
- they just showed on tv. holy hell, I'm surprised he's alive. -- nm - mafic Feb 12, 11:27 1
  - is there any video online? I mean, we have TVs at work, but ... I should be doing work! -- nm - Beryllium Feb 12, 11:31
- Does it even snow in Georgia? Who's bright idea was it to put a redneck on a luge? -- nm - Mop (228 lbs) Feb 12, 11:26 4
  - L2.5 -- nm - Beryllium Feb 12, 11:27 3
    - Come to think of it, luging seems like a total redneck idea. -- nm - Mop (228 lbs) Feb 12, 11:38 2
      - "hold my beer and watch this" ;) -- nm - MojaveMeg Feb 12, 11:42
      - No, that is the street louge. -- nm - Spawn Feb 12, 11:39
- The NBC life feed today is from the luge practice runs. Damn, we could have seen that live. -- nm - Mop (228 lbs) Feb 12, 11:25
- one quote i read about the luge run was that one turn was so hairy that odds of crashing were 50/50....nm - x Feb 12, 11:23 13
  - and that's actually what the corner is called. -- nm - mafic Feb 12, 11:29
  - Curve 13. -- (link) - znufrii Feb 12, 11:27
  - YSMIM! - Spawn Feb 12, 11:27 10
    - when the president of the luge federation is worried about the safety of the track due to its speed...that's something... -- nm - znufrii Feb 12, 11:28
    - This one definetly passes my Olympic sports test. - Will Hunting Feb 12, 11:28 8
      - Someday, I'm going to pay to do a bobsled run down the training track in Lake Placid. Someday. -- nm - TFox Feb 12, 11:29 7
        
        I went luging just before the calgary olympics. lots of fun. -- nm - mafic Feb 12, 11:41
        
        I'd do it too. Looks like fun. Though I'll probably crack my skull open. -- nm - Krusty Feb 12, 11:40
        
        sure, as long as I get to be one of the middle people on a 4-man team... -- nm - znufrii Feb 12, 11:33 4
        
        ah, you like being the meat in a 4-man sandwich, dontcha, Trebek? -- nm - TFox Feb 12, 11:36 3
        
        In the instance of bobsledding down an olympic-level track, I'd like to not be the one responsible for not crashing the damn thing thankyouverymuch. : -- nm - znufrii Feb 12, 11:37 2
        
        in calgary they have a special tourist bobsled that can't crash. -- nm - mafic Feb 12, 11:40
        
        bobsledding spoils - TFox Feb 12, 11:38
- Jeebus. Also, put me down for "Skeleton riders are the most insane people around" - Will Hunting Feb 12, 11:23 11
  - Word. -- nm - Krusty Feb 12, 11:39
  - I had an ex who did it on skateboards. - the liioulu with less leggings Feb 12, 11:34
  - Wii luge would be cool - lone canadian leafs fan Feb 12, 11:30
  - I still don't get skeleton. It's like if someone said "skiing is cool, but it would be a lot cooler barefoot." - TFox Feb 12, 11:24 7
    - Skeleton is for people who aren't good enough to win at Luge, and lack the instinct of self-preservation -- nm - Beryllium Feb 12, 11:26
    - It's just reverse luge.... - Will Hunting Feb 12, 11:25 3
      - I want to see people try ass-first luge. -- nm - Reagen Feb 12, 11:28 2
        
        I want the figure skaters to do the luge track. :) -- nm - Beryllium Feb 12, 11:29 1
        
        You want Red Bull Crashed Ice. -- (link) - Reagen Feb 12, 11:33
    - honest answer: started as lugers who weren't quite good enough. -- nm - mafic Feb 12, 11:25 1
      - the ones that whined too much about not making the team, so they tried to come up with a good way to give them concussions? -- nm - TFox Feb 12, 11:26
mildred pierce as an hbo series by todd haynes starring kate winslet? sign me up....nm - x Feb 12, 11:20
thanks for the Mac app - trying out SurplusMeter? - lone canadian leafs fan Feb 12, 11:18 3
- I just installed SurplusMeter on my iMac for a test. Seems to do the job. I much prefer the graphical view of Netmeter, but you take what you can get. - Mop (228 lbs) Feb 12, 11:24 2
  - 60 gb hardly seems enough now - lone canadian leafs fan Feb 12, 11:27 1
    - 56 mb for ST since you installed a few minutes ago? That's umpossible! -- nm - Mop (228 lbs) Feb 12, 11:36
Remember the guy who did Prauge with a Canon 1DMKIV? Now he's done timelapse of Dubai with a Canon 7D, 2x5DMK2, and a Panasonic GF1 -- (link) - oblique Feb 12, 11:17 [vimeo] 1
- If ever we needed a reason to have video as a desktop background... -- nm - Mop (228 lbs) Feb 12, 11:31
I rented Whip It last weekend. It was much better than my expectations were. -- nm - crash davis Feb 12, 11:15 2
- oooh try this - lone canadian kirsten fan Feb 12, 11:25 [flickr] 1
  - looks like fun -- nm - crash davis Feb 12, 11:40
I can't see Jeff and Jordan doing well on TAR -- nm - prayformojo Feb 12, 11:13 1
- "What's a can-delabra?" -- nm - Beryllium Feb 12, 11:14
Next week's Rock Band songs - Otis Redding, Brian Setzer ... Chemical Brothers? - Reagen Feb 12, 11:12 14
- how does one go about getting these songs? -- nm - CQ Feb 12, 11:16 4
  - there's a store on xbox live, or one that you can access from the game. -- nm - mafic Feb 12, 11:18 3
    - anything for the Wii? -- nm - CQ Feb 12, 11:23 2
      - It's on there as well. -- nm - JaxSean Feb 12, 11:30
      - nevermind, gotchya -- nm - CQ Feb 12, 11:23
- a Stax/Volt Rock Band edition would be awesome. -- nm - poochinski Feb 12, 11:15 1
  - they could make it a shooter. if you're doing an al jackson drum beat you have to avoid getting gunned down....nm - x Feb 12, 11:22
- Hmm...goes to LaLa.com to see what that song is. -- nm - JaxSean Feb 12, 11:14 1
  - [listening to it now] That bass line is going to be *tough* I bet. -- nm - JaxSean Feb 12, 11:20
- I'll definitely get the Setzer, and possibly Dock of the Bay -- nm - crash davis Feb 12, 11:13
- Let Forever Be is the one Noel Gallagher sings on. -- nm - poochinski Feb 12, 11:13 2
  - I guess they'll track the synths on the guitar, but it's still an odd one. - Reagen Feb 12, 11:14
  - great video too. -- nm - TFox Feb 12, 11:14
- That first one, while great....I can't picture it being fun to play - Will Hunting Feb 12, 11:13
I walked in behind a little girl going "Abra-kid-dabra!" -- nm - the liioulu with less leggings Feb 12, 11:12
TFox, if you say District 9 was the fourth best sci-fi movie of the year, what are the front three? - crash davis Feb 12, 11:10 22
- You could guess, but why would you want to think that crazy? -- nm - Spawn Feb 12, 11:11
- Avatar, Trek, Moon -- nm - TFox Feb 12, 11:10 20
  - Haven't seen Moon, but I can agree with the first 2. -- nm - Will Hunting Feb 12, 11:11 1
    - yup -- nm - Beaker Feb 12, 11:33
  - (in that order) -- nm - TFox Feb 12, 11:11 17
    - by moon, do you mean Twilight New Moon? -- nm - crash davis Feb 12, 11:12 16
      - While I did see that.... thing, no. I meant Moon. -- (link) - TFox Feb 12, 11:13 14
        
        I missed that one. Thanks for pointing it out. I'll rent it -- nm - crash davis Feb 12, 11:14 13
        
        prepare to be bored -- nm - poochinski Feb 12, 11:15 11
        
        so pretty divided in opinion on this movie -- nm - sycor Feb 12, 11:18 10
        
        i'd say it's flawed, but i liked it...nm - x Feb 12, 11:24 6
        
        Yup. -- nm - David Feb 12, 11:26
        
        *bookmarks for posterity* - poochinski Feb 12, 11:25 4
        
        hey, i like all kinds of stuff....nm - x Feb 12, 11:33 2
        
        kittens? -- nm - Spawn Feb 12, 11:35 1
        
        yes. i like kittens. puppies, on the other hand.....nm - x Feb 12, 11:40
        
        It is actually laf. -- nm - Spawn Feb 12, 11:27
        
        i kept waiting for awesome sci-fi shit to happen - poochinski Feb 12, 11:19 2
        
        Dignan's People. -- nm - David Feb 12, 11:29
        
        it's true; there wasn't a single laser gun anywhere. -- nm - TFox Feb 12, 11:21
        
        It's quite good. -- nm - TFox Feb 12, 11:15
      - *weeps for sci-fi* -- nm - oblique Feb 12, 11:12
I'm olympic obsessed: who will be the mysterious final torch-bearer? - mafic Feb 12, 11:10 33
- Andie -- nm - peglegpete Feb 12, 11:21 1
  - hmph, can you believe they didn't ask me? - Andie Feb 12, 11:24
- Terry Fox with his mother.....Terry will be a hologram -- nm - Walt_Disney Feb 12, 11:20 5
  - Based on news reports of the last 24 hours...I think Walt might be right about the hologram Terry Fox. -- nm - Name Withheld By Request Feb 12, 11:23 4
    - In all liklihood, Canada's going to go nuts over who they pick with the rest of the world going "huh"? -- nm - Reagen Feb 12, 11:32 3
      - Unless it's Obama -- nm - Beryllium Feb 12, 11:33 2
        
        I hope for your kids' sake that senses of humour aren't hereditary. -- nm - Reagen Feb 12, 11:35 1
        
        kid, your FACE is hereditary -- nm - Beryllium Feb 12, 11:36
- They've said they're going for a splash, so I don't see who's left after her if it's not Gretz. -- nm - Reagen Feb 12, 11:16 7
  - the queen? -- nm - Beryllium Feb 12, 11:17 6
    - Seth Green! -- nm - Andie Feb 12, 11:19 5
      - two problems there - not Canadian and would have trouble reaching the cauldron. -- nm - Reagen Feb 12, 11:21 2
        
        Bah. Seth Green hater. You should become a fan of Suckerpunching Seth Green on Facebook -- nm - Beryllium Feb 12, 11:22
        
        i actually meant Seth Rogan (not sure where my brain went,) -- nm - Andie Feb 12, 11:22
      - a brian adams/celine dion duet. -- nm - mafic Feb 12, 11:20 1
        
        Michael J Fox! - Beryllium Feb 12, 11:21
- Celine!!! -- nm - Diva Feb 12, 11:16
- as long at it isn't Don Cherry, i'm good. -- nm - Andie Feb 12, 11:15
- Sidney Crosby! (nm) - Will Hunting Feb 12, 11:15
- I guess it might have been mentioned on B2 that Wayne's dad says it's not Wayne -- nm - Beryllium Feb 12, 11:13
- Mike Myers -- nm - mara Feb 12, 11:13
- Is Barbara Ann Scott still alive? -- nm - Diva Feb 12, 11:11 5
  - yes, and she carried it to parliament in Ottawa (again, doesn't rule her out). -- nm - mafic Feb 12, 11:14 4
    - she's so cute. -- nm - Diva Feb 12, 11:16
    - i don't see them repeating -- nm - Andie Feb 12, 11:14 2
      - It would be a cutesy olympics in-joke ... probably not what they're looking for -- nm - Beryllium Feb 12, 11:15 1
        
        ^-- sorry, this post references Robyn Perry from Calgary, not Barbara Ann Scott -- nm - Beryllium Feb 12, 11:16
- shania twain in a catsuit -- nm - poochinski Feb 12, 11:11 3
  - she already carried it in Timmins. doesn't rule her out I suppose. -- nm - mafic Feb 12, 11:13 2
    - i'm watching coverage right now - she was in the caribbean yesterday. -- nm - Andie Feb 12, 11:13 1
      - fantasy killer -- nm - poochinski Feb 12, 11:16
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  - thats inspired -- nm - crash davis Feb 12, 11:10
to get the mackenzie brothers to light the torch though, they'd have to get rick moranis down off his giant pile of money.... - x Feb 12, 11:09 6
- He wouldn't even come out of retirement for the 50th Anniversary of Second City. -- nm - the liioulu with less leggings Feb 12, 11:33
- the modern day equivalent of the Trailer Park Boys was suggested yesterday. -- nm - Reagen Feb 12, 11:17
- wouldn't even come back for the Bob & Doug cartoon. -- nm - Reagen Feb 12, 11:13
- I had no idea he just walked away from it. That's awesome. -- nm - Will Hunting Feb 12, 11:11 1
  - he writes country music now. seriously. -- nm - poochinski Feb 12, 11:11
- *weeps* -- nm - Ghostbusters III Feb 12, 11:10
LIR: Jim. I would just hate for anyone (spoilers) - oblique Feb 12, 11:08
Survivor cameramen are like Seattle public transit private security officers. -- (link) - Mop (228 lbs) Feb 12, 11:08 2
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- not going to watch that *shakes head* nope -- nm - oblique Feb 12, 11:09
I quite like Flashpoint. I hope CBS keeps it. -- nm - Beryllium Feb 12, 11:07 3
- I definitely want Fox to keep Fringe and Human Target (as well as Bones and House, but I doubt those are in jeopardy) -- nm - Beryllium Feb 12, 11:09
- In fact, I think I like it more than I like Cold Case - but my wife likes Cold Case a bit, and I don't think she's watched Flashpoint. - Beryllium Feb 12, 11:08 1
  - Flashpoint in Maple Leaf Gardens - lone canadian leafs fan Feb 12, 11:11
morlocks -- nm - poochinski Feb 12, 11:07
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- I think that's crazy, honestly. It wouldn't work. He's a moronic man-child. Mass voters wouldn't fall for him. -- nm - TFox Feb 12, 11:09 2
  - they fell for Scott Brown -- nm - poochinski Feb 12, 11:09 1
    - and they'd fall for him again against Patrick Kennedy. -- nm - TFox Feb 12, 11:10

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