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15% off any Dell Outlet Inspiron Laptop or Desktop. Enter code 6WWZ2FL5JX8JV1 -- (link) - oblique Mar 18, 10:30
So, it's clear that Sandra Bullock was aware of James' affair at the time of the Oscars, right? - Dignan Mar 18, 10:27 5
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  - Susan Sarandon, Kate Winslett, & Hilary Swank all divorced after winning -- nm - peglegpete Mar 18, 10:33 1
    - Well, so did Elizabeth Taylor. Sarandon's win was over ten years ago. I think the statute of limitations on citing it has passed. -- nm - Name Withheld By Request Mar 18, 10:40
  - but then it's like "wow, someone in Hollywood got divorced! What are the odds!" -- nm - Reagen Mar 18, 10:32
- she wnet to the razzies to be among frendly people? -- nm - Danedukenuuk Mar 18, 10:30
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  - How considerate of them to give you something to bitch about. -- nm - Reagen Mar 18, 10:28 1
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WTF Warren Buffett? -- (link) - Will Hunting Mar 18, 10:19 1
- him too, we're toast!!!!! -- nm - ImpL Mar 18, 10:23
Facebook 'considering installing panic button' -- (link) - Danedukenuuk Mar 18, 10:17
Have you heard the story of Eric Frimpong? This is frakking shocking. (link) - musubi Mar 18, 10:14 3
- Holy christ, that's appalling. -- nm - Will Hunting Mar 18, 10:33
- I have, actually. Obviously this is one side of the case, but it's damning. -- nm - Reagen Mar 18, 10:22 1
  - The evidence suggested in the story seems pretty incriminating ... of someone *else*. - Beryllium Mar 18, 10:25
It's early I know, but I have Villanova in the slackertalk tournie final four. heh -- nm - CQ Mar 18, 10:05 2
- What's great about the first round is that I'll totally root for the underdog even against my own interests. -- nm - Dano Mar 18, 10:08
- I have them winning. My name is -- nm - mud Mar 18, 10:08
take it for what it's worth but this reviewer saw "MacGruber" at SXSW and loved it -- (link) - fairway frank Mar 18, 10:02 5
- Feels like one of those movies I'm going to need to wait on about six months and have it reach quoting critical mass. - Name Withheld By Request Mar 18, 10:16
- I skipped it. My friend saw it and said it was pretty good -- nm - ty97 Mar 18, 10:16
- I admit, I crack up every time he looks at the mess of wire and says, "the fuck is this??" nm - Dignan Mar 18, 10:11 1
  - "oh, there's a lot of green wires." -- nm - Reagen Mar 18, 10:12
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i think it's time for a spring banner on slackertalk, oui? - Andie Mar 18, 09:59 5
- Not until this weekend. -- nm - Dano Mar 18, 10:00 4
  - patio weather here! -- nm - Andie Mar 18, 10:01 3
    - I'm in Victoria. It hasn't *not* been patio weather this winter. :) -- nm - Beryllium Mar 18, 10:09 2
      - there was that short cold snap before xmas ... -- nm - mud Mar 18, 10:10 1
        
        bah, who can remember that far back ... :) -- nm - Beryllium Mar 18, 10:11
Go Robert Morris! -- nm - Dano Mar 18, 09:57
are you a big fan of the Chicago Manual of Style? are you also looking for a new purse?? -- (link) - fairway frank Mar 18, 09:55
Jimmer Fredette may be my favorite name in the tournament. -- nm - Dano Mar 18, 09:54 2
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  - Just-in'love Smith! -- nm - prayformojo Mar 18, 10:19
Did Duke lose yet? -- nm - Jim Mar 18, 09:49
Capital One jumps on the Viking craze, just in time for the NCAA tourney, with a series of Viking basketball commercials. -- (link) - flavorize Mar 18, 09:28 [youtube] 26
- only think thats shows it's a commercial is the helmet - Danedukenuuk Mar 18, 09:40
- there is an interesting ongoing argument on one of the screenwriting sites about whether anyone should ever waste their time writing a viking script - fairway frank Mar 18, 09:30 24
  - nice excuse when you make a bad scipt indeed -- nm - Danedukenuuk Mar 18, 09:50
  - I saw The Thirteenth Warrior ... mostly only because it was filmed locally. -- nm - Beryllium (iPhone) Mar 18, 09:44 4
    - I liked the 13th Warrior and made me wish there was a Director's Cut. -- nm - celedhring Mar 18, 09:45 3
      - I'll have to see it again before I'm sure but I think I really liked it as well. -- nm - Mel Profit Mar 18, 09:45 2
        
        I just remember how it was universally panned and thinking it was pretty damn cool when I got to see it - celedhring Mar 18, 09:51 1
        
        I actually thought the language bit was rather amusing, from a storytelling perspective. -- nm - Beryllium Mar 18, 10:10
  - Beowulf was about vikings, wasn't it? That made almost $200M worldwide. -- nm - JaxSean Mar 18, 09:41
  - seems like you could have said exactly the same thing about pirate movies. -- nm - Reagen Mar 18, 09:34 12
    - there's an innate romanticism in piracy that lends itself to good storytelling. The Noble Rogue sticking it to the man, and all that. - znufrii Mar 18, 09:39 3
      - you could also introduce some facts in the topic and get - Danedukenuuk Mar 18, 09:52 2
        
        If you're going to bother with facts, make a documentary. :) -- nm - znufrii Mar 18, 09:56 1
        
        Vikings teleporting betwenn Valhalla and the bridge of the Enterprise? -- nm - Danedukenuuk Mar 18, 10:12
    - there's an innate romanticism in piracy that lends itself to good storytelling. The Noble Rogue sticking it to the man, and all that. - znufrii Mar 18, 09:38 2
      - way to stereotype the Vikings. There is so much more to them once you get past the raping and pillaging. so much more -- nm - CQ Mar 18, 09:44 1
        
        Sounds like we NEED a Viking movie! - Dr.Vermin Mar 18, 09:53
    - it has been pointed out to Terry by numerous posters - fairway frank Mar 18, 09:35 4
      - oh wait, he admits he may have been wrong (to a certain extent) with How to Train Your Dragon coming out! - fairway frank Mar 18, 09:38 3
        
        But again, Pirates only worked because of the comedy aspect. - Reagen Mar 18, 09:42 2
        
        vikings seem to engender myriad internet conflicts -- nm - fairway frank Mar 18, 09:45 1
        
        Vikings are really vikings at something. -- nm - Mel Profit Mar 18, 09:47
  - Mel Gibson is doing one and said it might be his last directing job. -- nm - zork Mar 18, 09:33 1
    - Mel Gibson can do whatever movie he wants whenever he wants - fairway frank Mar 18, 09:34
  - Nobody has ever given us a reason to want to see a viking movie -- nm - zeitgeist Mar 18, 09:33
  - but that one with Antonio Banderas was gold. gold I tell ya -- nm - CQ Mar 18, 09:33
looks like CBS is broadcasting the game from a blimp inside the arena. or is it just me? -- nm - CQ Mar 18, 09:25
The ball is tipped and there you are. You're running for your life. You're a shooting star. -- nm - David Mar 18, 09:20 1
- Let it begin! Let it begin! -- nm - flavorize Mar 18, 09:24
One of the coolest features of my laptop that I always forget about is that all the CD-ROM/DVD drives on Dell laptops come out and - oblique Mar 18, 09:19 1
- I.did.not.know.this. -- nm - Mel Profit Mar 18, 09:24
MouseHunt question (and yes I have read several walk throughs - this is just asking opinion) - Capstern Mar 18, 09:14 2
- Have you done the mousoleum/catacombs? - celedhring Mar 18, 09:19 1
  - yeah spent time in moz but have ot be legendary to get to catacombs I think -- nm - Capstern Mar 18, 10:03
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- China accepted all the apologies? -- nm - HdnAgnda Mar 18, 09:14
- there is no possible way I'm gonna click that link. -- nm - CQ Mar 18, 09:13 1
  - nor I. -- nm - znufrii Mar 18, 09:13
I love making my wife blush. We were watching Justified last night. I turned around to look at her and her she was just *glowing.* i said to her, - prayformojo Mar 18, 09:10 4
- Still surprising when I see him in the movie 'Go.' -- nm - HdnAgnda Mar 18, 09:19
- Brilliant pilot. -- nm - David Mar 18, 09:13 1
  - i didn't like it quite as much as you did, but it's a keeper (spoils) - prayformojo Mar 18, 09:18
- This is lovely. I hope you took her hand and kissesd it. -- nm - Old Antarctic Explorer Mar 18, 09:11
Jedi believer who refused to remove his hood gets an apology. -- (link) - Shaun Mar 18, 09:09 2
- people are crazy -- nm - Danedukenuuk Mar 18, 09:19
- hilarious -- nm - znufrii Mar 18, 09:12
*throws up the Spawn signal* Batman: Arkham Asylum GOTY edition. -- (link) - Shaun Mar 18, 09:06
today is the 20th anniversary of the biggest art heist in history, at the Gardner Museum in Boston. -- (link) - loosilu Mar 18, 09:03 17
- Ovation is running the movie of the theft this week -- nm - peglegpete Mar 18, 09:40
- Statue of limitation expires this year too. Probably see a book about it, next year from one of the criminals -- nm - flavorize Mar 18, 09:21 2
  - "Statute. It's not a statue. -- nm - Shaun Mar 18, 09:23 1
    - Of course, and you've NEVER had any spelling errors -- nm - flavorize Mar 18, 20:36
- It's crazy to me that 1990 was 20 years ago. -- nm - HdnAgnda Mar 18, 09:07 12
  - what's crazy to me is that I was a senior in college. -- nm - loosilu Mar 18, 09:09 5
    - Holy crap, you're old. -- nm - Will Hunting Mar 18, 09:10 4
      - shaddap. -- nm - loosilu Mar 18, 09:15 3
        
        You forgot to add 'you whippersnapper.' -- nm - HdnAgnda Mar 18, 09:18 2
        
        I just want him to get off my front lawn! -- nm - loosilu Mar 18, 09:18 1
        
        pfft. the list of people on here who are older than me is pretty short. That's scary. - zork Mar 18, 09:26
  - effin' frightening. -- nm - Mel Profit Mar 18, 09:08 5
    - back to the theft, I did not know Whitey Bulger is a suspect. -- nm - loosilu Mar 18, 09:18 4
      - I remember reading that awhile back and thinking... - Mel Profit Mar 18, 09:26 3
        
        I also did not know that he is #2 on the most wanted list after Bin Laden. -- nm - loosilu Mar 18, 09:37 2
        
        Whoa...that's news to me. - Mel Profit Mar 18, 09:40 1
        
        I think most people would like that. -- nm - Beryllium Mar 18, 10:26
Oh darn. There's a giant truck obscuring the view of the sprinkler hit :( - Beryllium (iPhone) Mar 18, 08:57 2
- so are you talking to that company to get their insurance information so that they have to pay for the repairs? -- nm - tRuMaN Mar 18, 08:58 1
  - Property management company should take care of that, yes -- nm - Beryllium (iPhone) Mar 18, 09:00
I hate that Mich St and Maryland are seeded to play in round 2. Wish they could both go farther. -- nm - Don Homer Mar 18, 08:55
"It's also got what we in the future call 'buttons', which turn out to be pretty important to those handful of millions of people who play shooters, platformers, or..." - Ender Mar 18, 08:55 [youtube] 1
- i like the fighting joke too -- nm - tRuMaN Mar 18, 08:55
Reagen, my bracket mostly is until that point. Taking four 1s, 2s, 3s, 4s and three 5s. - Name Withheld By Request Mar 18, 08:51 2
- I only have one team below a 6 advancing to the S16 this year. - Reagen Mar 18, 09:01 1
  - Two for me. (Minnesota, which I'm going to stick with, and BYU). -- nm - Name Withheld By Request Mar 18, 09:14
God of War 3 is pretty epic so far. spoils? - Shaun Mar 18, 08:50
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- What other institution/corporation would survive this kind of scandal? - Dignan Mar 18, 09:53 13
  - It definitely puts into stark contrast the privileged status religion still has in society, overall. - znufrii Mar 18, 09:55 12
    - Imagine if the leader of a left-leaning organization was exposed as having coddled child molesters in the past. - Dignan Mar 18, 10:00 10
      - Like the ACLU and NAMBLA? :) -- nm - Dr.Vermin Mar 18, 10:02 9
        
        Hell, if the head of ACORN was exposed as having cheated on his taxes in 1980, he would be drawn and quartered by the right. nm - Dignan Mar 18, 10:05 8
        
        And that isn't the kind of criticism and outrage that the Catholic church has undergone regarding this issue? And yet, gov't would still go on - oblique Mar 18, 10:28 1
        
        No, it's absolutely not the outrage that the Catholic Church is receiving. - Dignan Mar 18, 10:32
        
        To take the ACLU analogy a little farther... - Dignan Mar 18, 10:17 5
        
        I'm with Dignan, we should dismantle the federal government. I'll bet the ratio there is even higher for wrongdoings -- nm - oblique Mar 18, 10:31
        
        I don't disagree. Obviously, for better or worse, the Catholic Church is more than just another organization. - Dr.Vermin Mar 18, 10:30 3
        
        This isn't about a few remote priests here and there. - Dignan Mar 18, 10:36 2
        
        Absolutely concur. -- nm - Dr.Vermin Mar 18, 10:37 1
        
        To be fair, I think almost everybody would concur. - Dignan Mar 18, 10:40
    - (and specifically *institutionalized* religion) -- nm - znufrii Mar 18, 09:57
- All organized religions can hang their collective heads in shame. - Old Antarctic Explorer Mar 18, 09:12 1
  - any organization that it not accountable to something outside of itself will eventually begin to rot from the inside. -- nm - znufrii Mar 18, 09:14
- shut it down and outlaw it -- nm - Danedukenuuk Mar 18, 09:03 2
  - what we need to do is bring back the Inquisition, and let them loose on the inside this time. -- nm - znufrii Mar 18, 09:08 1
    - we need that just as much as we need to fire all prison guards and let the prison gangs handle things inside prisons -- nm - Danedukenuuk Mar 18, 09:14
- Take deep breaths and a lot of a shots -- nm - ceregon Mar 18, 09:02 3
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    - let me know if you need help getting into a club -- nm - ceregon Mar 18, 09:08 1
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- The Practice did a couple really good episodes along these lines. -- nm - Beaker Mar 18, 08:58
- ugh. -- nm - znufrii Mar 18, 08:57 2
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    - oh sh!t... - znufrii Mar 18, 09:06
- I agree. Give each and every abuser and facilitator their punishment -- nm - oblique Mar 18, 08:52
- Apologies if I'm misremembering, but isn't your family part of the church? -- nm - Don Homer Mar 18, 08:50 2
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Drunk person leaving rap concert, breaks into house and climbs into bed with the homeowner (their exchange is hilarious) -- (link) - Beaker Mar 18, 08:47 2
- There was an episode of This American Life talking about the Penn State campus (#1 Party School! WOO!), and this happens several times a week! -- nm - Dr.Vermin, ;) Mar 18, 09:34
- Here a local report on the incident (link) -- (link) - Fuzzy Mar 18, 08:58
Yuck. That salad I just got from Quiznos was pretty awful. -- nm - Strongbad Mar 18, 08:47
Iam McKellen has posted on his website that shotting for The Hobbit will begin in July -- (link) - Beaker Mar 18, 08:46 1
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this b1 is too legit, too legit to be b2. -- nm - tRuMaN Mar 18, 08:45
~Children by the million sing for Alex Chilton when he comes 'round..~ - Don Homer Mar 18, 08:45

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