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The (then Boston) Braves once wore swastikas on their caps. (link) - musubi Feb 17, 14:19 2
- There was a Canadian women's hockey team in like the 20s named the Swastikas. -- nm - Reagen Feb 17, 14:21
- nice symbol - Danedukenuuk Feb 17, 14:21
TTIS/F: please list the US Vice Presidents who went on to win the Presidential election, and got reelected. - Max Feb 17, 14:18 10
- Jefferson, T. Roosevelt, Coolidge - znufrii Feb 17, 14:23
- only jefferson. -- nm - b. Feb 17, 14:22 1
  - oh, I misread - nixon would work there, too. -- nm - b. Feb 17, 14:25
- JQ Adams -- nm - poochinski Feb 17, 14:20
- Nixon, Truman -- nm - Reagen Feb 17, 14:19 4
  - I don't want Truman though because he was only elected once. -- nm - Max Feb 17, 14:21 2
    - so not LBJ? -- nm - Reagen Feb 17, 14:23 1
      - right -- nm - Max Feb 17, 14:26
  - Coolidge, Teddy R -- nm - Reagen Feb 17, 14:20
- Nixon? -- nm - Loyola Feb 17, 14:19
Hump Day lesson: Where are these 5 erotic spots on a man's private parts? - CrankYanker Feb 17, 14:17 2
- If I'm lucky, in her mouth! Hey-o! -- nm - JaxSean Feb 17, 14:18 1
  - Cosmo kills me....."How to touch a naked man.....16 naughty strokes that will send him over the edge" - CrankYanker Feb 17, 14:20
help me see the problem here: Italian TV food host under fire for his "cat stew" reccomendation -- (link) - poochinski Feb 17, 14:06 1
- allergies. duh. -- nm - Max Feb 17, 14:11
A Serious Man: (B-) nm - Dignan Feb 17, 14:05 4
- I didn't even finish it... -- nm - stewie Feb 17, 14:11 2
  - Neither did the Coens. nm - Dignan Feb 17, 14:14 1
    - *rimshot* -- nm - poochinski Feb 17, 14:16
- too jokey? -- nm - Max Feb 17, 14:07
Armageddom, ID4, TDAT, Deep Impact. - 2012 (have not seen) -- nm - Beaker Feb 17, 14:01
These cross country skiiers always look like they're dying after they cross the finish line. -- nm - David Feb 17, 13:59 6
- well, we're all dying from the moment we are born, if you think about it -- nm - existential pixie Feb 17, 14:01 4
  - We're all semi-patiently waiting for nature to run its course with you. -- nm - David Feb 17, 14:01 3
    - this reminds me of the "Ennui" pin from Simpsons -- nm - Beryllium Feb 17, 14:04
    - *checks watch* -- nm - Roger More Feb 17, 14:02 1
      - We've replaced this Znufrii with Pixie crystals. Let's see if anyone notices. -- nm - zork Feb 17, 14:05
- they still have a 50KM to look forward to -- nm - Beryllium Feb 17, 14:00
SQL Oddity: I have a query I built in Access, then created into a View in SQL Server Manager. I run the query in SQL Server: data is good. Run the - JaxSean Feb 17, 13:54 8
- are you getting duplicate records because of your links? nm -- nm - groiny Feb 17, 14:04 1
  - I don't think so. It should "run" the View query on the SQL Server before returning the data, I would think...here's the sql: - JaxSean Feb 17, 14:15
- data *are* good -- nm - grammar beyatch Feb 17, 13:57 5
  - *IS* - Danedukenuuk Feb 17, 14:15 4
    - singular data = datum -- nm - poochinski Feb 17, 14:16 3
      - it's a technical term - Danedukenuuk Feb 17, 14:18 2
        
        pixie is technicaly a numbnut. -- nm - JaxSean Feb 17, 14:20 1
        
        this is actually true -- nm - Danedukenuuk Feb 17, 14:21
Caption this ... -- (link) - zork Feb 17, 13:52 [Image] 3
- "Sheesh, take the damn photo fast and let me get away from these two freaks" -- nm - Loyola Feb 17, 14:13
- Simon finalises who will judge season one of US version of X-Factor [and what's up with ... - zork Feb 17, 13:59
- "From Left to right: Mecca-lecca ho; Jambi; Mecca-hiney ho." -- nm - JaxSean Feb 17, 13:57
As usual Joe Posnanski has the right way to look at Lindsay Jacobellis's Olympics. (link) - musubi Feb 17, 13:52 6
- And he proves this by leaving out a word in the very first sentence. Ergo, it's Moose-approved! -- nm - David Feb 17, 13:54 1
  - Meh, it's his personal blog, there's no editor. It's about content and style, not form. (nm) - musubi Feb 17, 13:56
- "in his life" ... how can he be the best, if he has gender-altering typos like that? :) -- nm - Beryllium Feb 17, 13:54
- only because I tried to pull a trick off the last jump. -- nm - Reagen Feb 17, 13:53 2
  - Perhaps your writing would be more consistant if you were jumping while doing it? (nm) - musubi Feb 17, 13:59 1
    - "weren't jumping". Clearly, writing advice from me is.....not strong. (nm) - musubi Feb 17, 13:59
Hey Bald Bait... (Batwoman spoilers) - David Feb 17, 13:50 3
- DC sucks -- nm - Beaker, Ball of Hate Feb 17, 13:59
- I suspect a swerve in the story. -- nm - Remlik Feb 17, 13:55 1
  - death sounds like standard operating procedure for DiDio -- nm - crash davis Feb 17, 13:55
womens downhill - its over (SPOILERS) - crash davis Feb 17, 13:47 3
- i will not excuse it, sir. this post is tainted! -- nm - poochinski Feb 17, 13:48 2
  - you found a taint? -- nm - crash davis Feb 17, 13:53 1
    - In Russia, taint finds you -- nm - zork Feb 17, 13:56
Re Tarantino being due; It does seem for directors, that "being due" comes into it for some oscar nominations and eventual winners. - Loyola Feb 17, 13:44 12
- I actually thought it was much better than I was expecting. - Reagen Feb 17, 13:46 10
  - I was disappointed, but I only saw it after all the hype. But I think I really need to rewatch all of Tarantino's films -- nm - Roger More Feb 17, 14:17
  - Same here. - Callisto Feb 17, 14:15
  - I wasn't sure what I was expecting. (spoils) - Beryllium Feb 17, 13:52
  - For me there were two great scenes; spoils - Loyola Feb 17, 13:49 6
    - I was riveted throughout. -- nm - Reagen Feb 17, 13:52 5
      - I was like that for Kill Bill 1. I'd nearly swear the profanity cost him a nod for that film. -- nm - Loyola Feb 17, 13:59 4
        
        The mountain of limbs didn't help any. -- nm - David Feb 17, 14:01
        
        less the swearing than the exaggerated gore. -- nm - Reagen Feb 17, 14:00 1
        
        I figured he had to go that route seeing as it was a sort of homage to the genre. But yeah, it probably factored in too. Pity. -- nm - Loyola Feb 17, 14:03
        
        Sh!t, that's a lot of cussin' -- nm - Old guy on Pawn Stars Feb 17, 14:00
- Lots of people loved Basterds. - Cuzzin Todd Feb 17, 13:45
Sidenote: Batman Arkham Asylum fro the Xbox 360 is $39.97 at Costco. - JaxSean Feb 17, 13:34 1
- you can get it used for $29.99 from familyvideo.com - sycor Feb 17, 13:40
Nubby News Network: Scientists say that Kirk & Spock would be dead if they used Warp Drive.... -- (link) - Remlik Feb 17, 13:32 34
- I got a T.A.R.D.I.S. I don't care use warp drive :) -- nm - the Doctor Feb 17, 13:40 1
  - show off -- nm - Mickey Feb 17, 13:44
- "That's what that huge deflector shield dish is for! It's as if the author of that article never actually watched any StarTrek. Or read any of the - zork Feb 17, 13:38
- based on Earth's current scientific knowledge. remember, at one time, everyone thought our planet was flet :) -- nm - peglegpete Feb 17, 13:38 20
  - not to get all egghead, but this isn't true. -- nm - Reagen Feb 17, 13:41 18
    - Well, I bet they did at ONE time. Just not at Galileo or Christopher Columbus time. -- nm - Dr.Vermin Feb 17, 13:43 13
      - Just those Glen Beckius followers. But they'd believe anything. -- nm - JaxSean Feb 17, 13:46
      - I bet most people just didn't know, or have an opinion -- nm - Roger More Feb 17, 13:45 11
        
        It think it would have an underlying assumption, not consciously thought about, if you go back far enough. -- nm - mara Feb 17, 13:50 9
        
        I'm not sure. People who used boats to sail over the horizon would probably have assumed the world was round, for example - Roger More Feb 17, 13:59 8
        
        If you go back far enough people didn't sail over the horizon. -- nm - Ender Feb 17, 14:02 7
        
        Then the IM comes into play. -- nm - Roger More Feb 17, 14:07
        
        Exactly. I wonder if people are so caught up in debunking the medieval flat earth myth that they're not taking a long enough view. -- nm - mara Feb 17, 14:07 5
        
        I'm not sure you can ever say "if you go back far enough, everyone had the same perspective". Humans have had different languages for as long as - Roger More Feb 17, 14:17 3
        
        You go back far enough and there was only one human. -- nm - Ender Feb 17, 14:21 2
        
        When human language was first developed, its speakers wouldn't have been considered human. Monkeys have language -- nm - Roger More Feb 17, 14:30 1
        
        That doesn't matter. At one point there had to be only one human, and tautologically all humans must have believed the same thing. -- nm - Ender Feb 17, 14:37
        
        Yeah, we also totally need to debunk that whole galileo/earth-orbits-the-sun thing, too -- nm - Beryllium Feb 17, 14:10
        
        "You 'eer what 'ee said, Basil? 'Ee says the world is round 'ee does!" *dies of cholera* -- nm - Reagen Feb 17, 13:47
    - ok. some of the people thought earth was flat :) -- nm - peglegpete Feb 17, 13:42 3
      - The rest thought it was held on Hercules' back. *NM* - Ender Feb 17, 13:43 1
        
        Atlas. Hercules only held it for a little while. -- nm - Beryllium Feb 17, 13:44
      - very few. -- nm - Reagen Feb 17, 13:42
  - flat -- nm - peglegpete Feb 17, 13:38
- That's what the deflector screen's for! -- nm - Ender Feb 17, 13:37
- Hmm. OK ... so he applied current theories to a fictional device that hasn't been invented yet, and came up with a number. - Beryllium Feb 17, 13:36
- this is why you have shields, duh -- nm - Reagen Feb 17, 13:36
- hehe the nerd responses are better than the article -- nm - sycor Feb 17, 13:36 3
  - I know! -- nm - Remlik Feb 17, 13:41
  - "This so-called "scientist" is nothing more than a charlton buffoon with a Babylon 5 box set." - poochinski Feb 17, 13:39 1
    - "How can we take anyone seriously who doesn't know that the Borg don't use a cloaking devise?" -- nm - Roger More Feb 17, 13:43
- I assume this is "smushed to the back of the space ship" typical stuff? :) -- nm - Beryllium Feb 17, 13:33 1
  - ooh, this is a novel take on things. Nice. -- nm - Beryllium Feb 17, 13:35
- yeah, Romulan scientists from the future who want Kirk & Spock to *think* that -- nm - poochinski Feb 17, 13:32
Life-cycle of a video game franchise addict. -- (link) - Shaun Feb 17, 13:31
heh. After two periods, Finland/Belarus shots are 28-4. Score is just 3-1 though - Reagen Feb 17, 13:29 10
- three goals on four shots? that's pretty good! - zork Feb 17, 13:31 2
  - heheh :) Well, to be fair, one goal on four shots *is* pretty good ... -- nm - Beryllium Feb 17, 13:45 1
    - that sample is too small to get any meaningful significance calculations. -- nm - zork Feb 17, 13:47
- Yeah, one thing you never want to do is challenge someone from Belarus to a sniping competition. -- nm - Beryllium Feb 17, 13:30 4
  - they're especially good at hitting goalies in the head. -- nm - Reagen Feb 17, 13:43 1
    - But they only do it once ... that's why the SOG are so low. :) -- nm - Beryllium Feb 17, 13:47
  - Especially not if *death* is on the line! Hahahahahahahahahahahaha! -- nm - Subversive Feb 17, 13:42
  - not if the white also has ammo no -- nm - Danedukenuuk Feb 17, 13:32
- men/women? -- nm - Danedukenuuk Feb 17, 13:29 1
  - men. -- nm - Reagen Feb 17, 13:30
so if Lent is the time when you give up something, shouldn't there be an Un-Lent when you take up something you've never done before? -- nm - poochinski Feb 17, 13:26 12
- like a resolution to do something new? perhaps at a time symbolic of starting over? -- nm - TFox Feb 17, 13:28 1
  - if only there were a convenient place on the calendar for new beginnings -- nm - zork Feb 17, 13:29
- One week before Lent, is Lint. That is the time you speak of. -- nm - Spawn Feb 17, 13:27
- That's what everyone means when they say "live each day for today" after a near-death experience -- nm - Beryllium Feb 17, 13:27 8
  - Then within a week they're watching bowling on TV and shooting aerosol cheese directly in their mouths. -- nm - Cuzzin Todd Feb 17, 13:29 1
    - I've known a couple of people who've had near-death experiences. My generalisation is their personality remains the same but they become more spiritua -- nm - Roger More Feb 17, 13:36
  - We're doing a series at church on the book One Month to Live. Interesting topic -- nm - oblique Feb 17, 13:29 5
    - it's a good idea in theory but in practice if you actually lived your life like that, it would be untenable - poochinski Feb 17, 13:31 4
      - Indeed. It focuses more on relationships than anything else, not the actual "I'd eat all donuts all day" type things -- nm - oblique Feb 17, 13:33 3
        
        you don't have to be dying to do that! -- nm - poochinski Feb 17, 13:34
        
        Smoking and drinking galore too! WOO! -- nm - Cuzzin Todd Feb 17, 13:34 1
        
        well, if you did that you'd only live for about a month anyway, so it works... :) -- nm - znufrii Feb 17, 14:17
So, the kid who replaced the football player who punched out a Boise State kid has punched out his gf. - David Feb 17, 13:26 6
- well, um, did she deserve it ? -- nm - decline Feb 17, 13:28 3
  - we can't reach a conclusion until we know what she was wearing and whether she came home late without answering her phone. -- nm - Max Feb 17, 13:38
  - hate to admit it but this made me laugh. -- nm - zork Feb 17, 13:32
  - congratulations, you've just qualified to coach at Colorado. -- nm - Reagen Feb 17, 13:30
- "What's that make us?" "Absolutely nothing" -- nm - zork Feb 17, 13:28
- he's going to get a stern tongue lashing from that coach -- nm - poochinski Feb 17, 13:27
*starts the anti-gum lobby on ST* -- nm - zork Feb 17, 13:23 18
- The Anti-gum group will go in the same camp as the NFTA and A2OAG people. May you live in peace in your compound. -- nm - JaxSean Feb 17, 13:33 9
  - (NFTA = No Food Touching Association, A2OAG = Aliens Over Alien Group.) = Crazies -- nm - JaxSean Feb 17, 13:35 7
    - wha? Is that something to do with the WOONAO people? -- nm - zork Feb 17, 13:40 3
      - Ok I give. -- nm - JaxSean Feb 17, 13:50 2
        
        [spoils] - zork Feb 17, 13:52 1
        
        Aliens = Alien 2. -- nm - JaxSean Feb 17, 13:54
    - I'm definitely in the NFTA and Anti-Gum group. -- nm - Krusty Feb 17, 13:38 1
      - 2 out of 3. Get behind the barbed-wire fence, commie. -- nm - JaxSean Feb 17, 13:41
    - hells yes. they're going into "The Pit" -- nm - poochinski Feb 17, 13:37
  - umm - zork Feb 17, 13:35
- Most car parks are covered in old gum. I've never understood why car makers don't incorporate some sort of rubbish bin in car interiors. Like one with - Loyola Feb 17, 13:28 3
  - I've seen them but nobody ever empties them -- nm - zork Feb 17, 13:30
  - they do - Danedukenuuk Feb 17, 13:29 1
    - Yeah but who's going to throw their gum on the back seat. Or in the ashtray. They just spit it out wherever. -- nm - Loyola Feb 17, 13:31
- Gum is disgusting. -- nm - nubby Feb 17, 13:24 1
  - you should take it up for Lent -- nm - poochinski Feb 17, 13:25
- You can have my gum when you pry it from the bottom of my cold MDF desk! -- nm - Beryllium Feb 17, 13:24 1
  - heh -- nm - zork Feb 17, 13:26

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