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I'm a little surprised that, this close to the Olympics, the Stars on Ice tour isn't closer to sold out. - TFox Feb 26, 17:04 10
- There's no Americans famous for it. - Will Hunting Feb 26, 17:05 8
  - other than the 3 famous americans in your IM? -- nm - jingoist pixie Feb 26, 17:07 2
    - Are they in the current tour and/or competing? - Will Hunting Feb 26, 17:10 1
      - I'm hoping that Meryl Davis is coming. I've never seen a space alien ice skate. -- nm - TFox Feb 26, 17:12
  - Well, Sasha Cohen is still famousish, no? And it seems like they are locking up half the medalists from Vancouver. - TFox Feb 26, 17:07 4
    - Borat? /*faint*/ -- nm - peglegpete Feb 26, 17:20
    - Cohen, maybe.....takes more time to gain marketing and the girls from Vancouver are having a late jump - Will Hunting Feb 26, 17:11 2
      - Well, maybe our gain then. -- nm - TFox Feb 26, 17:12 1
        
        Hell yeah, jump on that..... - Will Hunting Feb 26, 17:16
- you and mel should go - jingoist pixie Feb 26, 17:05
Anti-quitsies, you're it, quitsies, no anti-quitsies, no startsies! - Lloyd Christmas Feb 26, 16:59 1
- people who had to play with a list of caveats as long as your arm are a bunch of kick the can pusswads -- nm - jingoist pixie Feb 26, 17:04
Winners: mjbors, dogbert, Smiling Sam, CrankYanker, Seth76 - CrankYanker Feb 26, 16:47
First LT, now Sproles...Who will be in San Diego's Backfield -- (link) - amoxy Feb 26, 16:44 2
- i love sproles, i really hope a team picks him up and uses him. - tRuMaN Feb 26, 17:36
- I think they'd rather pay that money to Chester Taylor. -- nm - TFox Feb 26, 16:46
Crazzy old lady...Mama started watching curling about a hour ago and cannot stop watching it. - BAD Feb 26, 16:44
Have we talked about this the Old Spice comercial thats getting alot of buzz -- (link) - eag Feb 26, 16:41 8
- Ladies, look at your man. Now back at me. Look down. Now back at me. -- nm - psilotum Feb 26, 17:22
- Does it include a horse? - Spawn Feb 26, 16:54 1
  - That horse is amazin - give it a lick, it tastes just like raisins -- nm - Beryllium (iPhone) Feb 26, 17:00
- truly brilliant. -- nm - loosilu Feb 26, 16:45
- Old Spice has been *killing* it with this line of commercials. -- nm - TFox Feb 26, 16:44 3
  - I think this one is still my favorite. -- (link) - TFox Feb 26, 16:49 [youtube] 2
    - oh hell no - this is tops -- (link) - Guy Feb 26, 17:03 [youtube] 1
      - does Bruce fly through a tree? no, he does not. -- nm - TFox Feb 26, 17:04
OK, I'm stumped. Please suggest where I should look for my hearing aids. - loosilu Feb 26, 16:36 15
- You declutered them into the trash. -- nm - Spawn Feb 26, 16:55
- in your ears? -- nm - peglegpete Feb 26, 16:44 3
  - it's pretty easy to check that. :) -- nm - loosilu Feb 26, 16:46 2
    - sometimes I wonder :) -- nm - peglegpete Feb 26, 16:46 1
      - mine are BTE, not CIC. - loosilu Feb 26, 16:48
- Bookcase! thanks guys. -- nm - loosilu Feb 26, 16:42
- they might be in Nevada. -- nm - TFox Feb 26, 16:40 4
  - Or in her wallet, back in El Segundo. -- nm - Dr.Vermin Feb 26, 16:46 1
    - don't be silly, I have a special case to hold them in. - loosilu Feb 26, 16:47
  - nope -- nm - peglegpete Feb 26, 16:43 1
    - well, might. they obviously also might not be. -- nm - TFox Feb 26, 16:45
- Between the cushions of the couch? Dresser? -- nm - Krusty Feb 26, 16:39 1
  - thankfully I have never lost them in the sofa. I always put them on some sort of hard, flat surface. -- nm - loosilu Feb 26, 16:44
- Bathroom? Night stand? TV? -- nm - amoxy Feb 26, 16:38 1
  - Nope (but they are my #2 spot). Number one spot is on hte table next to the sofa. not there. -- nm - loosilu Feb 26, 16:40
LIR: I always put drinking vessels upside down. I have to, since I was a lab tech. -- nm - loosilu Feb 26, 16:31
Wow, you guys have gone tiny, and I have no idea what you're talking about. -- nm - loosilu Feb 26, 16:24 2
- The children's game of tag; specifically, regional variations. -- nm - Beryllium Feb 26, 16:26 1
  - those terms are so foreign to me I did not even recognize them. -- nm - loosilu Feb 26, 16:33
How did the 1969 Mets win 100 games?? -- (link) - amoxy Feb 26, 16:24 31
- Ask the '69 Cubs. - the liioulu with rickrack Feb 26, 16:45 26
  - They went 7-18 their last 25 games -- nm - amoxy Feb 26, 16:51 1
    - Yep. -- nm - the liioulu with rickrack Feb 26, 16:52
  - Why would we ask a team that finished 8 games back? - Will Hunting Feb 26, 16:48 23
    - This is one year in baseball where it did. Look it up. -- nm - the liioulu with rickrack Feb 26, 16:50 22
      - No, it really didn't. You lost by 8 games. The last day in first place was September 9th. - Will Hunting Feb 26, 16:55 21
        
        That isn't the whole story. As I said look it up. -- nm - the liioulu with rickrack Feb 26, 16:57 20
        
        I just did. I also see by how the runs went that year, you'd be expected to win 93 games. - Will Hunting Feb 26, 16:59 19
        
        Look up the story, not the numbers. -- nm - the liioulu with rickrack Feb 26, 17:00 18
        
        Nah, I don't care enough. Truly. - Will Hunting Feb 26, 17:02 17
        
        It's a story about the Mets and the Cubs. And it's about more than the numbers. - the liioulu with rickrack Feb 26, 17:06 13
        
        Okay....here's a story...a team plays over its head and had a lead that slowly drifts to nothingness over a hard-charging team..... - Will Hunting Feb 26, 17:15 3
        
        So we should ignor Mark Buehrle perfect game because it wasn't against the Yankees? -- nm - the liioulu with rickrack Feb 26, 17:24 2
        
        Where the hell did this come from? - Will Hunting Feb 26, 17:25 1
        
        Yankees were the winning team last year. and you said it all about the winning team. - the liioulu with rickrack Feb 26, 17:29
        
        it's the STORY! look it up!! -- nm - jingoist pixie Feb 26, 17:08 5
        
        The numbers are so much more fun to read. and tell such a compelling story. - the liioulu with rickrack Feb 26, 17:15 4
        
        Stories get colored by the people reliving them. Listening to sad-sack fans talk about how horrendous things are isn't any closer to reality than - Will Hunting Feb 26, 17:19 3
        
        Then look up the versions by the ones who aren't fans. - the liioulu with rickrack Feb 26, 17:22 2
        
        "Cubs fans blame this on a black cat being released on the field." --- When the more plausible explanation was they just went cold at the end of the - Will Hunting Feb 26, 17:25 1
        
        Still not the whole story. -- nm - the liioulu with rickrack Feb 26, 17:31
        
        You could, I dunno, link it. -- nm - TFox Feb 26, 17:08 2
        
        Can't link books I have at home. -- nm - the liioulu with rickrack Feb 26, 17:13 1
        
        And if someone can fish for the numbers they can fish for the story. -- nm - the liioulu with rickrack Feb 26, 17:14
        
        It must be some kind of We Are Marshall type story ... just a guess. -- nm - Beryllium (iPhone) Feb 26, 17:03 2
        
        Nope, nothing of the sort. A black cat and two losses to 0-99 Phillies. Ouch. - Beryllium (iPhone) Feb 26, 17:10 1
        
        Not really. This is where I keep getting in trouble here. So many of you are about nothing more than the numbers of sports. - the liioulu with rickrack Feb 26, 17:19
- They were very good in tight games; they shoulda only won 92 with their Run Differential. An ERA under 3.00 will get it done too. -- nm - Will Hunting Feb 26, 16:25 2
  - I'm trying to reconcile your love for pitcher's wins with the use of run differential... I just can't get there. :) -- nm - TFox Feb 26, 16:53 1
    - I just like to see the Run Differential thingy...it's usually close. -- nm - Will Hunting Feb 26, 16:56
- faustian bargain. they're still paying the price -- nm - jingoist pixie Feb 26, 16:25
Erph. My wife's employer was painting today, and the fumes made her ill so she went home. -- nm - Beryllium Feb 26, 16:18 7
- (Apparently they were rather dickish about it ... and it's a small company.) -- nm - Beryllium Feb 26, 16:18 6
  - Did they want to her to stay and gut it out? - amoxy Feb 26, 16:25
  - Are they aware of her 'delicate condition?' She's probably way more sensitive to a lot of things right now. - MojaveMeg Feb 26, 16:25 2
    - Yes, they're aware. Like I said - dickish. -- nm - Beryllium Feb 26, 16:26 1
      - very uncool of them. -- nm - loosilu Feb 26, 16:31
  - poor mrs. bery. :/ -- nm - b. Feb 26, 16:23 1
    - She also has asthma ... so it's double-bad. Bad for her, bad for baby. - Beryllium Feb 26, 16:24
No Salma Hayek in sight, be no hanky-panly tonight - Facto Feb 26, 16:09 1
- ................ -panky ....... *sigh* -- nm - Facto Feb 26, 16:10
erph, I need to sleep. So exhausted. -- nm - Beryllium Feb 26, 16:07
Hmm..kitchen cabinet chili - little of this, can of that, and a couple of burger patties from the back of the freezer... - MojaveMeg Feb 26, 16:01
There is one thing I won't miss about Olympic hockey. - HdnAgnda Feb 26, 15:54
and in more important news S04 vs BVB 2-1 -- nm - Danedukenuuk Feb 26, 15:49
Is it me, or is the firey background here ta bad choice, given the subject -- (link) - ty97 Feb 26, 15:48 4
- everything about the design of that page is wrong -- nm - jingoist pixie Feb 26, 15:50
- in bad taste yes - it's a real story, not a fiction horror drama, right? -- nm - Facto Feb 26, 15:49 1
  - correct. -- nm - ty97 Feb 26, 15:51
- Yeah, that's not good. -- nm - Stephen Feb 26, 15:49
Red alert on Ika.org - 3 of mjbors towns are being attacked by an independent player on the same island and from nearby islands. -- nm - CrankYanker Feb 26, 15:42 8
- There's no island at the coordinates you gave us. -- nm - Will Hunting Feb 26, 16:05 5
  - it's nothing to worry about. the guy has a score of 7,500. no mortars vs a 21 wall - dogbert Feb 26, 16:15 4
    - That's my conclusion here....I'm not worrying about defending a town he's not worried about defending. - Will Hunting Feb 26, 16:18 3
      - heck I wish I could turn traitor and open the wall for the guy. he's attacking someone 33X bigger than him, gotta admire that kind of foolishness -- nm - dogbert Feb 26, 16:20 2
        
        He very likely has spied it out well. I'm rooting for him; heck...this might be the type of guy to get in the alliance. - Will Hunting Feb 26, 16:21 1
        
        mjbors says these are "gold" towns for him...nothing to pillage but a handful of sulphur. As far as his attacker goes, he has proven to be foolish - CrankYanker Feb 26, 16:45
- he'll never get through the wall -- nm - dogbert Feb 26, 15:48
- dump, sell donate shipout -- nm - Danedukenuuk Feb 26, 15:44
This reminds me of the "I'm not a homophobe" letter this morning - ty97 Feb 26, 15:41 4
- And keep your plantains away from my Gran Torino! -- nm - Dr.Vermin Feb 26, 16:03
- I like how the complainers always know a couple of people from the group and they are good people, but the ones they don't know are scary -- nm - Roger More Feb 26, 15:54 2
  - Stuff White People Like #14: Having black friends -- (link) - Beryllium Feb 26, 15:57
  - xeno.... whatever...ia -- nm - Danedukenuuk Feb 26, 15:55
Angry Ryanair passenger eats his winning scratchcard -- (link) - Danedukenuuk Feb 26, 15:40 3
- Ryanair makes a lot of people cranky. -- nm - the liioulu with rickrack Feb 26, 16:56
- Seems like they'd have to sell a lot of overpriced drinks to have that amount of cash on hand :) - MojaveMeg Feb 26, 15:52
- say, Loyola hasn't been around lately -- nm - jingoist pixie Feb 26, 15:41
I've heard it both ways. -- nm - Shawn Vermin Feb 26, 15:34 39
- You know that's right. -- nm - Callisto Feb 26, 15:50
- I heard you go both ways -- nm - amoxy Feb 26, 15:39 1
  - Depends on who's mixing the drinks. - The Vermin Feb 26, 15:40
- what are you, swiss? nut up and pick a side! - Beryllium Feb 26, 15:36 35
  - well it would have to be McCready because he's the hero and the hero would never be a killer alien - jingoist pixie Feb 26, 15:38
  - It's *really* good. For an almost 30-year-old movie, it holds up awfully well. -- nm - The Vermin Feb 26, 15:37 3
    - Yeah, I saw it for the first time a couple of years ago, and wasn't disappointed -- nm - Roger More Feb 26, 15:57
    - this is correct. -- nm - TFox Feb 26, 15:57
    - It's in my top 10 of movies that I posted in my HSX profile... - Facto Feb 26, 15:39
  - The ending remains a mystery, the new movie that's gonna be made is thought to be a prequel -- nm - Facto Feb 26, 15:37 27
    - *sigh* What happened to original stories? -- nm - the liioulu with pretty soft yarn Feb 26, 15:38 26
      - it was a remake of a freaking 50s monster movie - jingoist pixie Feb 26, 15:39 25
        
        I know. -- nm - the liioulu with rickrack Feb 26, 16:48
        
        tag you're it -- nm - Reagen Feb 26, 15:44 23
        
        you have to make sure to say "no butcherbacks" -- nm - Beryllium Feb 26, 15:45 22
        
        No what? - musubi Feb 26, 15:47 21
        
        don't pin this on us. I never heard the phrase./ -- nm - Reagen Feb 26, 15:49 2
        
        yeah, zero hits on google for it :) Must be a Quadra Island thing -- nm - Beryllium Feb 26, 15:50 1
        
        oh, apparently it's also been mentioned in Manitoba -- (link) - Beryllium Feb 26, 15:51
        
        I think it might be "no tagbacks" in other areas -- nm - Beryllium Feb 26, 15:48 17
        
        You think? - Stephen Feb 26, 15:48
        
        and I think I've also heard "no returnsies". -- nm - Beryllium Feb 26, 15:48 15
        
        I've never heard any of these terms. Grew up in the Northeast. -- nm - loosilu Feb 26, 16:32 4
        
        No tagbacks here. -- nm - Will Hunting Feb 26, 16:34 3
        
        I've heard no tagbacks and no backsies. -- nm - Krusty Feb 26, 16:36 2
        
        backsies!! that's the word I know. -- nm - loosilu Feb 26, 16:46 1
        
        That was the most common one when I was a kid. -- nm - Krusty Feb 26, 16:51
        
        I've said "no return" but "no returnsies" is.. well... do I really need to explain? -- nm - Roger More Feb 26, 15:53 9
        
        I think it speaks for itself. :) (It was used in that form on Friends, AFAIK) -- nm - Beryllium Feb 26, 15:53 8
        
        It's the sort of thing Hugh Grant would say -- nm - Roger More Feb 26, 15:56 7
        
        Yes. And David Schwimmer, if I recall correctly. -- nm - Beryllium Feb 26, 15:59
        
        "No one's said whoopsie-daisies in like 30 years and even then it was little girls with blonde ringlets." -- nm - Will Hunting Feb 26, 15:58 5
        
        You have to admit, "No Butcherbacks" sounds a lot more manly than "No Returnsies" :) -- nm - Beryllium Feb 26, 15:59 4
        
        Only if more manly means less comprehensible. -- nm - Will Hunting Feb 26, 16:06 3
        
        Not surprisingly, it often does. -- nm - Beryllium Feb 26, 16:09 2
        
        urrr urrr urrr -- nm - Tim Allen Feb 26, 16:33 1
        
        *ding!* :) -- nm - Beryllium (iPhone) Feb 26, 17:12
  - me either. -- nm - the liioulu with pretty soft yarn Feb 26, 15:36 1
    - *bada-boom* -- nm - Facto Feb 26, 15:37

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