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LYC: A friend of mine ate in the Top Chef DC challenger yesterday! - MDH Apr 8, 14:16 5
- Hannibal Lecter should go on Top Chef -- nm - the 40 year old virgin Apr 8, 14:17 4
  - IRON CHEF! Today's secret ingredient is ... LONG PIG! -- nm - Beryllium Apr 8, 14:17 3
    - mmm...Roast Leg of Bastard -- nm - znufrii Apr 8, 14:23
    - not last week's loser? -- nm - peglegpete Apr 8, 14:20
    - ALLEZ CUISINE! -- nm - The Chairman Apr 8, 14:18
cq news network: i found Cheerwine soda here in LA, amazingly. at the local indian curry food chain. weird. - the 40 year old virgin Apr 8, 14:13 1
- It's good stuff. I love how it's randomly anywhere -- nm - CQ Apr 8, 14:23
Mop - speaking of Borgs, I'm giving you a few months fair warning - crash davis Apr 8, 14:09
Borgs discovered at the Artic Circle. -- nm - peglegpete Apr 8, 13:53 12
- *heads to Efram Cochrane's compound in Montana* -- nm - crash davis Apr 8, 14:06 4
  - have fun there, genius - the 40 year old virgin Apr 8, 14:07 3
    - you'll be on the corner of Hollywood and Vine saying "this is not the weak future Borg shell you are looking for" - crash davis Apr 8, 14:11 2
      - like the Borg would ever want to assimilate me - the 40 year old virgin Apr 8, 14:14 1
        
        "I would never join a collective that would have me as a member" -- nm - crash davis Apr 8, 14:16
- Darn You Large Hadron Collider! -- nm - amoxy Apr 8, 14:05
- Bjorn and family are cross country skiing? -- nm - CQ Apr 8, 14:04
- I don't see anything on CNN about it ... -- nm - Beryllium Apr 8, 14:02 4
  - look under the headline about the black hole forming in Illinois. -- nm - Max Apr 8, 14:04 3
    - and the cold fusion plant in Chicago. -- nm - Remlik Apr 8, 14:05 2
      - effing Keanu -- nm - Reagen Apr 8, 14:11 1
        
        word -- nm - peglegpete Apr 8, 14:22
WB: Blockbuster continues to rent same-day releases while Netflix and Redbox must wait 30 days -- (link) - budice Apr 8, 13:51 1
- at least up until last week, Redbox had them on release day. -- nm - Max Apr 8, 13:53
Nice. 14 best fast food meals under 500 cal -- (link) - oblique Apr 8, 13:46 2 1
- Turns out that by ordering my burgers plain, I'm been eating healthy all along. -- nm - Mop (219 lbs) Apr 8, 13:54
- 1 french fry stolen from your friend's bag. -- nm - Max Apr 8, 13:49
Signs that your Hollywood success are way past you....Oscar winner Cuba Gooding Junior to drop puck tonight at Ontario Hockey Leauge game... - Walt_Disney Apr 8, 13:43 6
- What exactly happened to his career? -- nm - MDH Apr 8, 13:52 3
  - the universe restored its natural balance -- nm - Beryllium Apr 8, 14:01
  - He didn't deserve that Oscar in the first place. He's always sucked. -- nm - Mop (219 lbs) Apr 8, 13:55
  - the lightning escaped from the bottle. -- nm - Reagen Apr 8, 13:54
- erph. I don't think even Colbert would sign on for that ... -- nm - Beryllium Apr 8, 13:51
- Snow Dogs 2 -- nm - Dano Apr 8, 13:47
The post below reminded me of some of my favorite unknown hotties: Eddie McClintock, Christopher Gartin, John Allen Nelson -- nm - Dano Apr 8, 13:35
Interesting. It seems the iPhone OS 4 developer agreement might outlow using Flash-to-iPhone cross-compilers -- (link) - oblique Apr 8, 13:32 3
- What did I do?! :) -- nm - Flash Apr 8, 14:00
- The only reason for this is sheer spite. -- nm - Mop (219 lbs) Apr 8, 13:56
- Making 1/8th of the screen available to ads is pretty crappy of them - stewie Apr 8, 13:46
'yonconewton' is my favorite word today. -- nm - reluctantcynic (en treo) Apr 8, 13:28 2
- Yesterday in class I used gigagrams and megameters. -- nm - nubby Apr 8, 13:29 1
  - that's a lot of coke. -- nm - Beryllium Apr 8, 13:30
hmm ... you americans tax marrieds weirdly. Just sayin'. -- nm - Beryllium Apr 8, 13:26 2
- You mean the "marriage penalty"? -- nm - scorpion Apr 8, 13:36 1
  - stacking incomes, yeah. Weird. -- nm - Beryllium Apr 8, 13:39
None of you toook a swing at "do you enter anything"? What the hell? -- nm - Beavis Apr 8, 13:25 1
- *wipes brow* -- nm - oblique Apr 8, 13:28
Kaylee and Dr. Tam (pic) -- (link) - budice Apr 8, 13:22 5
- Forget them. That's Eddie McClintock! -- nm - Dano Apr 8, 13:27
- was the picture taken during an earthquake? -- nm - Reagen Apr 8, 13:24 3
  - Probably just taken with an iPhone. -- nm - Dano Apr 8, 13:26 2
    - I hate cellphone cameras. You *think* you're able to capture the memory but all you do is take blurry ass pictures -- nm - oblique Apr 8, 13:27 1
      - I've taken some great ones on my Moment, if the light is good. - TFox Apr 8, 13:28
I pulled up my text messages, and in the preview screen, the one on the bottom just says "creamy full fat" -- nm - Dano Apr 8, 13:20
So I start YE Yang and not Phil? That's pretty funny -- nm - CQ Apr 8, 13:17
Cougar Life girl is *smoking*. That is all. -- nm - TFox Apr 8, 13:11
It's snowing in Georgia today? - prayformojo Apr 8, 13:10 1
- It's the Strongbad Three Months Ago Weather Service. -- nm - Dano Apr 8, 13:13
you know what happens when you withdraw $100,000 in cash from the bank and put it in your purse? -- (link) - the 40 year old virgin Apr 8, 13:03 3
- rich people have a lot of problems i know -- nm - Danedukenuuk Apr 8, 13:05
- What about all the people who withdraw $100K in cash and don't get robbed? You never hear about them! -- nm - Roger More Apr 8, 13:04
- hookers and crack for everyone!!!!!!!! -- nm - CQ Apr 8, 13:04
Right on cue, Tiger Woods tees off on EPSN 3. -- nm - Mop (219 lbs) Apr 8, 13:01 2
- Well then obviously Tiger has cleaned up his act and should be forgiven for all his transgressions. - Kick Ass Apr 8, 13:02 1
  - GO TIGER! HIT THAT! -- nm - Mop (219 lbs) Apr 8, 13:09
i ask roughly 2 questions about baseball every year. here's one of them. it's about the infield fly rule - prayformojo Apr 8, 12:58 34
- no, the infield fly rule is - groiny Apr 8, 13:11 18
  - this game is harder than "What is Burn Notice?" -- nm - the 40 year old virgin Apr 8, 13:14
  - you're saying that the rule is in effect if there's only a runner on 1st? -- nm - prayformojo Apr 8, 13:13 16
    - yes, say Rickey Henderson is on 1st, Frank Thomas is batting.... - groiny Apr 8, 13:16 15
      - so is the wikipedia entry incorrect? - prayformojo Apr 8, 13:17 14
        
        MLB.com says: - oblique Apr 8, 13:20 12
        
        which means Wikipedia is right and groiny is wrong -- nm - oblique Apr 8, 13:22 11
        
        right, but it is not only with runner on thrid...... - groiny Apr 8, 13:25 10
        
        but your example of a runner on first is incorrect. It's 1B/2B or bases loaded (which is a force at 3rd and home as I believe pfm said) -- nm - oblique Apr 8, 13:26 9
        
        I had half of it right. It doe snot make sense that as a fielder - groiny Apr 8, 13:27 8
        
        The rule is to prevent multiple outs from dropping a popup, it isn't supposed to stop the defense from choosing which runner to get out. (nm) - musubi Apr 8, 13:29 7
        
        You are correct, but it is dumb in that case. - groiny Apr 8, 13:30 6
        
        In field popups are pretty rare in general (iirc, leaguewide avg was something like 3%), and then consider the rarity of a batter - musubi Apr 8, 13:37
        
        All about the stats. Infielders don't want those errors!!! -- nm - Shaun Apr 8, 13:32 4
        
        they would not be errors. nm -- nm - groiny Apr 8, 13:35 3
        
        I would deem it so. -- nm - Shaun Apr 8, 13:36 2
        
        I believe it's only an error if it costs a base. -- nm - Reagen Apr 8, 13:44 1
        
        It would be my own personal "Nice catch dumbass" error. -- nm - Shaun Apr 8, 13:46
        
        I believe that to be incorrect. nm -- nm - groiny Apr 8, 13:17
- because if it's dropped, it's unlikely that they'd get both the advancing runner and the batter. -- nm - Reagen Apr 8, 12:59 11
  - (Whereas a double play would be easy on a dropped fly with two runners on) -- nm - Reagen Apr 8, 13:01
  - but why is it more unlikely than if the force was at third or home? -- nm - prayformojo Apr 8, 13:01 9
    - say you have a runner on first, less than two outs - Reagen Apr 8, 13:05
    - Because with a force at 3rd and home, that means there are multiple outs that can be gained by an intentional drop. - musubi Apr 8, 13:02 7
      - Though, this only makes it a wash. It would be less confusing for the rule to just apply in all cases. -- nm - TFox Apr 8, 13:17 2
        
        I agree, plus it would make sense to switch a fast runner and let the slow bastard run. nm -- nm - groiny Apr 8, 13:26 1
        
        That's the bonus the defense gets for someone hitting a popup on the infield. (nm) - musubi Apr 8, 13:32
      - ok, that makes sense (in as much as it's still a stupid rule) -- nm - prayformojo Apr 8, 13:03 3
        
        It's actually a perfectly sensible rule, to discourage intentional dropping the ball. - musubi Apr 8, 13:05 2
        
        look, kid, it's a stupid rule. don't make me regale you with more tales of haunted mojo's house -- nm - prayformojo Apr 8, 13:11 1
        
        Uncle, uncle. (nm) - musubi Apr 8, 13:31
- even nubby can't explain the infield fly rule - the 40 year old virgin Apr 8, 12:59 2
  - The Large Hadron Collider was built to try to answer the riddle of the infield fly rule. -- nm - Dano Apr 8, 13:05 1
    - and it broke as soon as they flipped the power on -- nm - the 40 year old virgin Apr 8, 13:08
your Phil is 5-under at Augusta pic o' the day -- (link) - the 40 year old virgin Apr 8, 12:52
The wife and I talk about adopting some Chinese babies... -- (link) - Dr.Vermin Apr 8, 12:49 27
- My coworker adopted a Russian child last summer. Lots of paperwork and 2 trips there (one for a month) but the kid is adorable. -- nm - Max Apr 8, 13:55
- wow, very cool! -- nm - loosilu Apr 8, 13:18
- Damn. I wanna go out and adopt one right now. -- nm - Mop (219 lbs) Apr 8, 13:05
- "You named her Lily? Won't that be hard for her to say?" -- nm - oblique Apr 8, 13:03
- I have a few friends that have done this. -- nm - pmb Apr 8, 12:57 9
  - ... -- nm - Dr.Vermin Apr 8, 12:57 8
    - Not sure what that means. - pmb Apr 8, 12:59 7
      - Thank you! - Dr.Vermin Apr 8, 13:00 6
        
        Both of the people I know did it twice. One is a single mother, the other is one of my partners. If you want information about the process I could - pmb Apr 8, 13:02 4
        
        We're way too early in discussions to actually start any part of any process... - Dr.Vermin Apr 8, 13:05
        
        pmb is gay? and polyamourous? -- nm - oblique Apr 8, 13:04 2
        
        sssshhhh, he's a lawyer -- nm - Beryllium Apr 8, 13:04 1
        
        So based on the sample of lawyers provided by ST, the odds are pretty good? -- nm - Roger More Apr 8, 13:10
        
        FWIW I have a co-worker who's gone through the process twice. -- nm - Roger More Apr 8, 13:01
- you should. - Andie Apr 8, 12:50 12
  - Don't they require you to be married now? -- nm - Mop (219 lbs) Apr 8, 12:56 4
    - yes, for at least 2 years -- nm - CQ Apr 8, 13:00 3
      - depends on a lot of factors. - Andie Apr 8, 13:08 1
        
        (not, their child was not from China.) -- nm - Andie Apr 8, 13:15
      - Andie's secret marriage, exposed! -- nm - Mop (219 lbs) Apr 8, 13:02
  - Stop eating babies!!! -- nm - David Apr 8, 12:55
  - Oh... the Andie show is getting exciting. -- nm - Dano Apr 8, 12:54 5
    - I dunno, introducing a new kid into an established series sounds like Jump-the-Shark territory. - musubi Apr 8, 12:55
    - *extremely* preliminary. -- nm - Andie Apr 8, 12:55 3
      - *waits for the episode where Andie wins Chinese babies in a contest before she's finally committed to the idea. Hilarity ensues* -- nm - pmb Apr 8, 13:01 2
        
        Fox would have ran with this premise about 15 years ago. -- nm - Reagen Apr 8, 13:02 1
        
        "DisOriented" -- nm - the 40 year old virgin Apr 8, 13:08
Why, he's barely even pacing to have 400 RBIs! -- nm - David Apr 8, 12:49 8
- Tuffy Rhodes was on pace for 486 home runs! (nm) - musubi Apr 8, 12:51 7
  - Look, don't blame me because all of your prospects turn out like Bill Pulsipher. -- nm - David Apr 8, 12:51 6
    - They also sometimes turn out like Scott Kazmir. (nm) - The more hurtful barb Apr 8, 12:53 4
      - One of the new writers is also a USC grad Mets fans. Apparently, your pain has gone viral. -- nm - David Apr 8, 12:54 3
        
        "If you have a weird thing for spiced meat, you're stealing someone's bit!" -- nm - Reagen Apr 8, 12:58
        
        You're hunting us down and collecting us? (nm) - musubi Apr 8, 12:56 1
        
        "Doppelmoosganger" -- nm - Reagen Apr 8, 13:00
    - Hmm, I even spelled his name right. -- nm - David Apr 8, 12:52
"The Prize Winner of Toronto, Canada" -- nm - prayformojo Apr 8, 12:49
Grimace is a milkshake thief, for the record -- nm - the 40 year old virgin Apr 8, 12:48 6
- Grimace brings all the boys to the yard. -- nm - Dano Apr 8, 13:36
- I assume he's named Grimace after the face he makes when he realizes that there's actually no milk in that "shake". -- nm - pmb Apr 8, 12:58 2
  - Don't care. Their "ice cream" cones are awesome. -- nm - Kick Ass Apr 8, 13:01
  - frozen dairy product. whatevs -- nm - Grimace Apr 8, 12:59
- So he's in cahoots with the Hamburgler? Frakkin' McCriminals. (nm) - musubi Apr 8, 12:50 1
  - You want hamburgers and milkshakes? What kind of terrorists are you?? -- nm - Joe McTakagi Apr 8, 12:51
I won a piece of software to unlock a Blackberry phone the other day because I responded quick on Twitter - oblique Apr 8, 12:46 5
- I never win anything either - decline Apr 8, 12:48
- do you enter anything? -- nm - Andie Apr 8, 12:47 3
  - hee HEE hee -- nm - Beavis Apr 8, 13:25
  - This is the trade secret for multiple contest winners. Spend an hour a day just entering shit. There are tonnes of contests. -- nm - Shaun Apr 8, 13:09
  - in all seriousness, if you live in a big city, it's not hard. most newspapers/magazines/radio stations, etc, have weekly contests. - Andie Apr 8, 12:49

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