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Mop: Governments and corporations both work on the same theory of budgeting, th at if you just tighten the belt, you'll magically shed the pounds. - Beryllium Nov 26, 22:32
~I am a man of constant sorrow~ -- nm - eag Nov 26, 22:20
Dumb question: how much does a decent Christmas ornament usually go for? $10? $20? -- nm - TFox Nov 26, 22:16 7
- Gumps (which specializes in bizarrely expensive stuff) has these handblown starfish, blow fish and sea horses for as little as 20, makes cute gifts -- nm - zeitgeist Nov 27, 00:57
- Just looking at one site, looks like Hallmark commemoratives go for around $16 - so I'd agree with $10-20. -- nm - MojaveMeg Nov 26, 22:26 5
  - OK, thank you. Seems steep if you have to fill a whole tree. But I guess you don't fill it all with nice ones. -- nm - TFox Nov 26, 22:28 4
    - Ah right. Buy boxes of cheap glass ornaments to start, then add special ones each year. Celebrate events - you can get them for baby's - MojaveMeg Nov 26, 22:32
    - That's what the $4.99 box-of-balls is for. -- nm - Cuzzin Toddfurky Nov 26, 22:32 2
      - someone should tell Spawn about that deal -- nm - hardy pigby Nov 26, 22:39 1
        
        I shouldn't laugh, should I ? -- nm - MojaveMeg Nov 26, 22:41
Just having a nice night eating some soup and drinking hot cocoa -- nm - eag Nov 26, 22:06
hmm, darn, no boc for turkey day. -- nm - truman Nov 26, 22:00 1
- You hitting the sack soon ? - eag Nov 26, 22:05
is it too early to do what we're thankful for? me: Australia opens today! - hardy pigby Nov 26, 21:53 2
- "hardy"? You're a frank-and-joe fan? -- nm - Beryllium Nov 26, 22:35 1
  - how well do you know "Some Kind of Wonderful"? - hardy pigby Nov 26, 22:38
but the best part of today's Marketplace was deconstructing the cliche "tightening our belts" - hardy pigby Nov 26, 21:14 7
- Dayam, I didn't even *hear* that segment, and I just posted the same thing above. -- nm - Beryllium Nov 26, 22:33
- speaking of this, nobody cares but the thing of which I am most proud here is creating a relationship between my program - pilgrims and indians love mandy lane Nov 26, 21:32 4
  - *tears up* - Kai Ryssdal Nov 26, 21:37 3
    - fine! you can still be my nemesis. whatever. -- nm - pilgrims and indians love mandy lane Nov 26, 21:38 2
      - were the car washes at least bikini car washes? - hardy pigby Nov 26, 21:40 1
        
        we're mba students! when do you think we last saw the inside of a gym? - pilgrims and indians love mandy lane Nov 26, 21:42
- That was a pretty good segment. -- nm - ReluctantCynic Nov 26, 21:25
18870. (linky) -- (link) - ReluctantCynic Nov 26, 21:09 18
- 75385. I'm not sure I want to be any better than that. -- nm - TFox Nov 26, 22:02
- 663386. -- nm - the darcy Nov 26, 21:53 4
  - At some point, you just get tired of clicking, no? -- nm - Mop Nov 26, 21:58 1
    - I figured out how to get Buster to a good cruising altitude, only flap when I needed to maintain it, and only eat the corn in easy reach. - the darcy Nov 26, 22:02
  - You're ridiculous ... . -- nm - ReluctantCynic Nov 26, 21:54 1
    - Yeah, I don't know wtf. Too bad this isn't a marketable skill. -- nm - the darcy Nov 26, 22:01
- 151639. I hit a streak of corn in the high atmosphere. -- nm - Mop Nov 26, 21:53
- 145611 -- nm - Jelly Nov 26, 21:52
- 54631 -- nm - hardy pigby Nov 26, 21:43
- What the heck?! I can't get past 11,000! -- nm - Mop Nov 26, 21:40 1
  - Oh, I see. Click on the corn to make him flap. -- nm - Mop Nov 26, 21:44
- 27442 -- nm - MojaveMeg Nov 26, 21:40 1
  - i need mine to eat more corn -- nm - hardy pigby Nov 26, 21:41
- 150333 -- nm - the darcy Nov 26, 21:30 1
  - Now that's pretty damn impressive. - ReluctantCynic Nov 26, 21:45
- 98960. -- nm - the darcy Nov 26, 21:26 2
  - I bow before your mad skillz. -- nm - ReluctantCynic Nov 26, 21:30 1
    - Hee. Apparently I am a turkey-flinging savant or something. -- nm - the darcy Nov 26, 21:31
I've had three different people call me "dumbass" in the past 50 minutes. - ReluctantCynic Nov 26, 20:59 13
- were any of them named Red? -- nm - zork Nov 26, 21:11
- dumbass -- nm - truman Nov 26, 21:02 2
  - That's four in the past hour. - ReluctantCynic Nov 26, 21:06 1
    - even numbers are always better than odd -- nm - truman Nov 26, 21:08
- have you noticed a certain lightness in your skull? as if something is missing or has been borrowed? - loosilu Nov 26, 21:01 3
  - I have been feeling a little ... off? Kinda spacey? Been like that all day. - ReluctantCynic Nov 26, 21:03 2
    - um. can I at least have it for the weekend while I figure out what's going on? -- nm - loosilu Nov 26, 21:09 1
      - Yes. But no longer! -- nm - ReluctantCynic Nov 26, 21:25
- I will be playing Halo on Thursday and Friday morning as well as the usual Sat. and Sun. -- nm - Mop Nov 26, 21:00 4
  - I'm sorry, but you'll have to find an uncircumcized group to play with. -- nm - Trish Nov 26, 21:10 3
    - So just me and Crash, then? -- nm - Mop Nov 26, 21:23 2
      - Sorry babe, l'il Crash doesn't wear the turtleneck. -- nm - Trish Nov 26, 22:24 1
        
        And I'm suuuure he wanted a permanent record of that on the intarwebs ... -- nm - Beryllium Nov 26, 22:28
I have a fridge pack of empty Cherry Coke Zero cans on my desk. Stupid Fallout 3 -- nm - oblique Nov 26, 20:56 1
- mmmm, Cherry Coke. Whence it's return? hey kilbo !!! - mud Nov 26, 21:26
what was that tower game called? where you have to kill the monsters before they reach the end? -- nm - Guy1 Isgoogleneato Nov 26, 20:45 3
- Tower Defense? But you should also check out Kongregate.com for some really cool tower games. -- (link) - ReluctantCynic Nov 26, 20:52 1
  - thanks! (both) -- nm - Guy1 Isgoogleneato Nov 26, 20:54
- vector tower defense -- nm - truman Nov 26, 20:48
Sweet. My Blackberry Curve plays back the xvid encoded files I use on my Zen just as well - oblique Nov 26, 20:41 3
- my touch pro does as well -- nm - truman Nov 26, 20:44
- *feels an erotic shiver run up his spine* -- nm - ReluctantCynic Nov 26, 20:44 1
  - It's amazing to me that something encoded at 256Kbps still looks decent (even on a 2" screen) -- nm - oblique Nov 26, 21:20
The Samsung Propel commercial featuring Ozzy Osbourne is just freakin' brilliant. -- nm - ReluctantCynic Nov 26, 20:41 1
- What's with Ozzy? He's doing a World of Warcraft commercial, too. What a sellout! Next, he'll be doing his own reality show! -- nm - Mop Nov 26, 20:43
remember the tool bag in space, want to know where it is in orbit? wonder no more ... -- (link) - zork Nov 26, 20:41 11
- This is amazing(lyfunny) -- nm - con_carne Nov 26, 20:52 5
  - When I started watching in was just east of Indonesia. Now, about to cross over Vancouver Island. -- nm - Name Withheld By Request Nov 26, 20:54 4
    - it was west of indonesia for me and now it's about to go over venezuela -- nm - zork Nov 26, 21:10
    - It's scary that they know exactly where I am based solely on my IP address. -- nm - Mop Nov 26, 21:01 2
      - Sadly, they think I'm in Conneticut. Um, no. -- nm - oblique Nov 26, 21:02 1
        
        We've been having that issue at work ... GeoIP databases can be very finnicky. -- nm - Beryllium Nov 26, 22:28
- This is one of the funniest things I've seen all week. -- nm - ReluctantCynic Nov 26, 20:43 1
  - it is, isn't it? -- nm - zork Nov 26, 20:45
- I love the internet. -- nm - Name Withheld By Request Nov 26, 20:42 2
  - 4.6 miles per second! Wow that picked up speed something fierce. -- nm - Name Withheld By Request Nov 26, 20:45 1
    - that's probably what it was doing when it was dropped -- nm - zork Nov 26, 20:46
So, do I start Westbrook or not? - oblique Nov 26, 20:37 6
- Yeesh ... talk about a Hobbsian choice. - ReluctantCynic Nov 26, 20:38 3
  - uh - hardy pigby Nov 26, 20:41 1
    - *throws a nit at pixie* - ReluctantCynic Nov 26, 20:43
  - That's what my gut says too. Thanks -- nm - oblique Nov 26, 20:39
- I'm playing Thomas instead on a gamble. Westbrook's just not right. -- nm - Name Withheld By Request Nov 26, 20:38 1
  - I trust him a little more than TJ, but I think he's better off on the bench too -- nm - oblique Nov 26, 20:39
renter season is over. I think I might reassemble my coffee table. does this sound like a bad, bad idea after almost three beers? -- nm - pilgrims and indians love mandy lane Nov 26, 20:31 9
- my coffee table is glass, if that matters. -- nm - pilgrims and indians love mandy lane Nov 26, 20:32 8
  - Probaby a bad idea. - ReluctantCynic Nov 26, 20:37
  - watts could do it - hardy pigby Nov 26, 20:35 5
    - gauntlet: thrown. where's my drill? -- nm - pilgrims and indians love mandy lane Nov 26, 20:36 4
      - amanda needs screws, badly -- nm - hardy pigby Nov 26, 20:39 3
        
        actually, it's the case: I have all the pieces of the table but I have no idea where the screws are. -- nm - pilgrims and indians love mandy lane Nov 26, 20:52 2
        
        see, you *are* pretty -- nm - hardy pigby Nov 26, 20:56 1
        
        freaking gorgeous. I thought I'd taped the bag of screws to the glass, mais non. -- nm - pilgrims and indians love mandy lane Nov 26, 20:58
  - please don't -- nm - zork Nov 26, 20:33
My skin is insanely dry lately. - ty97 Nov 26, 20:13 8
- It rubs the lotion on its skin. It does this whenever it is told. -- nm - Jame Gumb Nov 26, 20:34
- traveling and different bathing water can do that. -- nm - peglegpete Nov 26, 20:20
- you turning into a scaly lizard like RC? -- nm - simple pigby Nov 26, 20:14 5
  - I'll have you know that my elbows are all smooth and supple. - ReluctantCynic Nov 26, 20:18 3
    - rub some skin lotion on them -- nm - peglegpete Nov 26, 20:23 1
      - or it gets the hose again -- nm - buffalo pigby Nov 26, 20:25
    - I don't have any cracking, just itchy dry skin all over. - ty97 Nov 26, 20:19
  - I haven't had the pleasure of inspecting RC's skin, but maybe. -- nm - ty97 Nov 26, 20:15
What future endeavors? -- nm - ReluctantCynic Nov 26, 20:11 22
- Hey! You'll appreciate this...Over the last month I decided I am going to begin campaigning for a provincial seat in the October 2011 prov. election. - Name Withheld By Request Nov 26, 20:19 19
  - dude! way huge congrats! -- nm - pilgrims and indians love mandy lane Nov 26, 20:29 6
    - Thank you. I'm excited to finally be able to say, "Yes. This is the race." - Name Withheld By Request Nov 26, 20:35 1
      - dignan! vote for this dude! -- nm - pilgrims and indians love mandy lane Nov 26, 20:54
    - did you receive an email from me in the last couple or so weeks? - zork Nov 26, 20:31 3
      - I'm mainly in just my school mail lately. mary at psu dot edu. everything else just falls away. - pilgrims and indians love mandy lane Nov 26, 20:34 2
        
        just mary or mary ... -- nm - zork Nov 26, 20:35 1
        
        mary at psu dot edu. not understanding the confusion. -- nm - pilgrims and indians love mandy lane Nov 26, 20:54
  - I'll be sure to clear my calendar. - ReluctantCynic Nov 26, 20:24 5
    - what is your record? how many winning campaigns? -- nm - peglegpete Nov 26, 20:31 3
      - For candidates? Ballot measures? Or both? -- nm - ReluctantCynic Nov 26, 20:38 2
        
        candidates please -- nm - peglegpete Nov 26, 20:42 1
        
        Uhm ... hrm ... - ReluctantCynic Nov 26, 20:45
    - Thanks. The party's been struggling to find it's footing for almost a decade and I finally decided I couldn't wait for someone else to fix it. - Name Withheld By Request Nov 26, 20:25
  - What province? What party? This is awesome! How do you know the election will be 2011? -- nm - Mop Nov 26, 20:21 5
    - Manitoba. I'm a Tory for better or for worse. Fixed election dates came in this year. -- nm - Name Withheld By Request Nov 26, 20:22 4
      - Well, I can't have it all. With you in Canada and RC in Oregon, I've got friends in high places on both sides of the border. -- nm - Mop Nov 26, 20:25 3
        
        Oh hell, I'm just an NDP intern finding Dr. Tron away from spectacular failure, so not that high place......yet. - Name Withheld By Request Nov 26, 20:27 2
        
        You just need to build that into your campaign plan. - ReluctantCynic Nov 26, 20:57
        
        I'm a political liability! Yay! -- nm - Mop Nov 26, 20:53
- Yeah! What future endeavours! -- nm - Mop Nov 26, 20:18
- I intend to eat some turkey and stuffing tomorrow. -- nm - ty97 Nov 26, 20:12
from my employer? I left 45 minutes early. -- nm - loosilu Nov 26, 20:09 5
- and they gave me a plane ticket for tomorrow. -- nm - loosilu Nov 26, 20:09 4
  - To where? -- nm - ReluctantCynic Nov 26, 20:12 3
    - I don't think I've mentioned it. -- nm - loosilu Nov 26, 20:13
    - laughing. -- nm - amanda Nov 26, 20:13 1
      - :-) - ReluctantCynic Nov 26, 20:29
where's my stuffing? -- nm - simple pigby Nov 26, 20:08 14
- dignan's back. -- nm - loosilu Nov 26, 20:09 13
  - is he really? -- nm - amanda Nov 26, 20:10 12
    - isn't that him on b2? -- nm - loosilu Nov 26, 20:13
    - Yeah. He was posting all morning. -- nm - Name Withheld By Request Nov 26, 20:11 10
      - mother effer. mother effing effer. -- nm - amanda Nov 26, 20:12
      - And he's better than ever. - ReluctantCynic Nov 26, 20:12 8
        
        that's not saying much, you dumbass - simple pigby Nov 26, 20:12
        
        yeah. they could duke it out... -- nm - amanda Nov 26, 20:12 3
        
        that sounds like some bad john hughes movie -- nm - simple pigby Nov 26, 20:13 2
        
        I may be angsty enough to be a hughes heroine, but I'm not pretty enough, even after the makeover scene. -- nm - amanda Nov 26, 20:17 1
        
        "Pretty Enough in Pink" -- nm - simple pigby Nov 26, 20:17
        
        pixie fired for not alerting mandy to be here for dignan morning -- nm - ty97 Nov 26, 20:12 2
        
        a "friend" of mine is in town, and another friend just paged me: "warning: (name) spotted at zanzibar." - amanda Nov 26, 20:15 1
        
        SANDS OF ZANZIBAR, DUBBY! -- nm - Beryllium Nov 26, 22:45
*legalises home brewing of slackertalk* -- nm - zork Nov 26, 20:06 1
- *immediately starts brewing slackertalk in his garage with plans for future expansion* -- nm - ReluctantCynic Nov 26, 20:10

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