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Taylor Lautner is barely shirtless at all in the Eclipse trailer. -- nm - Dano Apr 26, 16:09 1
- What about Rob? -- nm - David si Apr 26, 16:12
Can you get Apple products some place other than the Apple Store? - ty97 Apr 26, 16:09 10
- You can buy stuff on line. Look at Macmall.com. -- nm - pmb Apr 26, 16:16
- best buy -- nm - mr. irrelevant Apr 26, 16:12
- many of them, yes. Newness is a factor, though; if you want to order the same day as a refresh, the apple store is your best bet. -- nm - Beryllium Apr 26, 16:10
- What Apple product in particular? -- nm - Tim Apr 26, 16:09 6
  - AirPort Express - ty97 Apr 26, 16:10 5
    - yeah, seems like something Best Buy would have. -- nm - Tim Apr 26, 16:13 3
      - really? Who knew? - ty97 Apr 26, 16:15 2
        
        people who go to stores in the city they "live" in. :) My local future shop has an aisle of apple hardware -- nm - Beryllium Apr 26, 16:16 1
        
        not me, I'm just smart and resourceful. ;p - b. Apr 26, 16:18
    - best buy has it online. call to check if store has it? -- nm - b. Apr 26, 16:11
if I get married again. A golfing weekend w a concert or something. Vegas would also work for me. -- nm - Remlik Apr 26, 16:03 2
- Tiger? -- nm - Mop (220 lbs) Apr 26, 16:04 1
  - I'd pick better skanks that's for damn sure. -- nm - Remlik Apr 26, 16:06
Thanks to everyone who talked about strippers and Bachelor Parties on the backboards.....I think my fiancee and I have to have that discussion too... - Walt_Disney Apr 26, 15:59 2
- Did you make a lot of money? -- nm - Mop (220 lbs) Apr 26, 16:01
- even if you don`t want one, play it up, then say ``OK honey, for you I won`t``. Uber bonys points :) -- nm - Beaker Apr 26, 16:00
Fred Smoot helping to make the dreams of a Waffle House in DC a reality -- (link) - mr. irrelevant Apr 26, 15:54 1
- You have no idea my reaction when I saw this on DCist. I live 4 blocks away. - MDH Apr 26, 16:03
B5: totally with you there Oblique. Kids = yelling. -- nm - Beaker Apr 26, 15:50
One of the worst soccer misses ever -- (link) - Reagen Apr 26, 15:45 4
- i'll vote the bottom one is worse; it was in - Will Hunting Apr 26, 15:57 1
  - only because that jackass wanted all the glory of scoring. tool -- nm - CQ Apr 26, 16:00
- yeah, the one below is way worse -- nm - CQ Apr 26, 15:48
- without clicking, I'll say Baggio -- nm - CQ Apr 26, 15:47
I'm really loving this metric CD I found randomly on my laptop (did I buy this?) "live it out." it's really cheery - workmanda Apr 26, 15:43 4
- Are you walking on sunshing? -- nm - Dr.Vermin Apr 26, 15:44
- Love Metric. Fantasies was my #1 album of last year. -- nm - Reagen Apr 26, 15:44 2
  - am loving that album lately -- nm - ty97 Apr 26, 16:04
  - I don't have that. why do we not share more music? especially now that the RIAA wants to kill us all. - workmanda Apr 26, 15:59
Awesome, now I have two people who don't know their email using mine - Reagen Apr 26, 15:42 6
- I think I'm up to 3 regular ones. the newest bought a Honda in arizona. - b. Apr 26, 15:46 5
  - heh. I hadn't thought of that issue - Reagen Apr 26, 15:50 4
    - mine are all the same first/last name as me. - b. Apr 26, 15:54 3
      - oh yeah, I've gotten that kind of stuff from the realtor. -- nm - Reagen Apr 26, 15:55 2
        
        heh, I just checked messages - one of the not-mes apparently has my address in her facebook account. -- nm - b. Apr 26, 16:07 1
        
        every once in awhile I'll see three or so password resets requests in a row. -- nm - Reagen Apr 26, 16:11
Steelers teammates unload on Big Ben -- (link) - mr. irrelevant Apr 26, 15:41
itunes shuffle - Going from "Imagine" by John Lennon to - amoxy Apr 26, 15:39
Catching up on the last Cougar Town (spoilers) - Dano Apr 26, 15:38 1
- they expect you to do it. -- nm - Remlik Apr 26, 15:40
ST Computer Help Badly..........My computer is upside down abd writesd backwards. How do I fix this..... - Walt_Disney Apr 26, 15:37 8
- Try holding down CONTROL and ALT and then pressing the UP arrow. -- nm - mara Apr 26, 15:38 7
  - I will never doubt your postings again :P Thanks very much...that worked :) Not sure how I messed it up. -- nm - Walt_Disney Apr 26, 15:40 6
    - maybe you leaned on the alt key and hit the up key but what was written on the monitor? - zdroid Apr 26, 15:43
    - Since that worked, then it probably happened by holding control and alt and pressing the down arrow. :-) -- nm - mara Apr 26, 15:41 4
      - unrelated -- (link) - mara Apr 27, 17:48 1
        
        unrelated -- (link) - mara Apr 27, 17:50
      - Ah, the "Why does this function exist" function. -- nm - Reagen Apr 26, 15:51
      - next time I'm at office depot i am so doing that -- nm - zdroid Apr 26, 15:45
my god i really hate trying to navigate iTunes these days. -- nm - kare Apr 26, 15:27 2
- shop amazon instead! - Trish Apr 26, 15:51
- I've noticed it's very hard to navigate to the different genres' Top 100 lists - Stephen Apr 26, 15:36
Bachelor Party: "At it's heart is a touching love story of one man's love for his future wife." - Jovian Apr 26, 15:25 6
- I never lie. -- nm - Remlik Apr 26, 15:46
- Tom Hanks is so sweet in the movie. Really. -- nm - Callisto Apr 26, 15:27 4
  - he totally is. (movie spoils) - Jovian Apr 26, 15:31 3
    - a big, big guilty pleasure of mine. I think I quote it a lot without realizing it. -- nm - Callisto Apr 26, 15:38 2
      - I still think a sequel with Colin Hanks would work as the son of Tom's character. -- nm - Remlik Apr 26, 15:46 1
        
        Does Adrian Zmed have a son? -- nm - Dano Apr 26, 16:09
So you're at the gym and you see an employee *of the opposite gender* stroll through to put up a sign or something. Do you get upset? - Dr.Vermin Apr 26, 15:22 11
- what's a gym? -- nm - peglegpete Apr 26, 15:45 2
  - "Oh... a *gym*" - Reagen Apr 26, 15:46 1
    - It's one of the best examples of jokes that don't work in text :) -- nm - Beryllium Apr 26, 15:46
- In the gym? Why would I get upset? Are you talking about the locker room? - amoxy Apr 26, 15:41
- No, I'm not very modest. - Fuzzy Apr 26, 15:39
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- i wouldn't be pleased. it's not whether I'm naked or not, but the potential for someone to have been is pretty great. -- nm - Andie Apr 26, 15:29
- We're outta towels, and I'm too old to go diving into lockers -- nm - CQ Apr 26, 15:28
- yeah, that doesn't seem quite right. -- nm - kare Apr 26, 15:24
- is she hot? -- nm - this is how a flasher would respond si Apr 26, 15:24
- *** in the locker room *** -- nm - Dr.Vermin Apr 26, 15:23
sitwap:Lay's Changing Basic Shape of Salt Crystals for Healthier Potato Chips -- (link) - tRuMaN Apr 26, 15:17
Poll: Males -- Do you clean your own toilets? (with apologies to Nubby) - OAE Apr 26, 15:17 16
- That job is now with someone else but it used to be my job....not my favourite but I would do it. -- nm - Walt_Disney Apr 26, 16:02
- I have to. Not married and no cleaning lady - amoxy Apr 26, 15:42 2
  - you don't *have* to, you could just use it till it's full and then just throw it out and buy another -- nm - dogbert Apr 26, 15:44 1
    - Or, wait until your girlfriend visits and is so disgusted by what she sees, she cleans it for you! -- nm - kelly Apr 26, 15:50
- I do occassionally, but mostly my wife does. -- nm - Stephen Apr 26, 15:32
- Of course. How hard is that? -- nm - nubby Apr 26, 15:31
- i find that taking on large gruotty jobs forgives a lot of little lapses while I'm killin ikariums and stealing their wine - zdroid Apr 26, 15:28
- Yes. I generally do the bathrooms, mrs moose does the living room. (nm) - musubi Apr 26, 15:25
- I think I've cleaned one of the bathrooms once in the past year -- nm - kare Apr 26, 15:22 1
  - (my fiance has done it every other time) -- nm - kare Apr 26, 15:23
- honestly, i do less than half of the actual cleaning around here. - Andie Apr 26, 15:22
- we take turns -- nm - CQ Apr 26, 15:22
- Yes. My wife is a mamma's girl and I do a lot of the housework. - Dr.Vermin Apr 26, 15:21
- who else is gonna do it? - mr. irrelevant Apr 26, 15:20
- i asked the cat to do that chore, she ignored me. so now its my turn again. -- nm - tRuMaN Apr 26, 15:19
- I do not -- nm - J Apr 26, 15:18
hmm, the big rollout is not going entirely smoothly -- nm - Beryllium Apr 26, 15:16 6
- You done good! - OAE Apr 26, 15:16 4
  - this is a work thing ... re-indexing two approaching-hundred-million-row tables -- nm - Beryllium Apr 26, 15:17 3
    - (By the time I'm done, they'll *definitely* be hundred-million-row tables. They're hardcoded aggregate views ... that are getting a new aggregator) -- nm - Beryllium Apr 26, 15:18 2
      - Yiles a'mighty. Good thing precision is respected... - OAE Apr 26, 15:22 1
        
        that's what backups and rollback logs are for. - Beryllium Apr 26, 15:24
- I could really use a bottle of one of those new Mountain Dew flavours right now -- nm - Beryllium Apr 26, 15:16
b2 mel: not to spoil it too much but - mr. irrelevant Apr 26, 15:06
"Let's have a bachelor party with chicks and guns and fire trucks and hookers and drugs and booze!" -- nm - Reagen Apr 26, 15:04 2
- All the things that make life worth living for! - Callisto Apr 26, 15:13
- And corn dogs! -- nm - David Apr 26, 15:07
"Don't be a jerk" lessons for A-Rod. -- nm - Reagen Apr 26, 15:01 21
- anyone have a write up, clip of what he did this time? - Mel Profit Apr 26, 15:04 19
  - Braden went overboard, but ARod responded pretty d**k-ish too. - musubi Apr 26, 15:16 3
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      - You'd lose that bet. - musubi Apr 26, 15:23
      - agreed -- nm - tRuMaN Apr 26, 15:19
  - I mean in general, but he stepped on the pitching rubber going back to first on a foul ball. - Reagen Apr 26, 15:05 14
    - ST Poll: What should my Anti-ARod sign say? -- nm - Mel Profit Apr 26, 15:08 9
      - something about centaurs. -- nm - Reagen Apr 26, 15:15 5
        
        I like this, but the downside is that it'd never get on TV. (nm) - musubi Apr 26, 15:18 4
        
        clue me into the reference... -- nm - Mel Profit Apr 26, 15:22 2
        
        One of ARod's former girlfriends claimed that he has a portrait of himself as a centaur. - musubi Apr 26, 15:26 1
        
        *cracking up* that's right... - Mel Profit Apr 26, 15:30
        
        disguise it as a Three-Centaur-Moon shirt -- nm - Beryllium Apr 26, 15:21
      - "Dwight Howard has legendary talent *and* class. You're halfway there." - David Apr 26, 15:14
      - wear a rubber, don't step on one -- nm - CQ Apr 26, 15:13
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      - I wonder what Clemens would have done in the same situation. He's a #1 hot head arrogant prick too -- nm - CQ Apr 26, 15:09 2
        
        beaned the next 6 batters in retaliation -- nm - tRuMaN Apr 26, 15:18
        
        thrown at his junk. -- nm - Reagen Apr 26, 15:10
- "Look at your captain!" (nm) - Dallas Braden, assuming too much Apr 26, 15:01
on a scale of 1 (organic soy beans and yogurt) to 10 (A Mars Bar in a Twinkie then deep fried) how bad is my dinner of corn chips and salsa? Only - Andie Apr 26, 14:58 29
- add in some protein, and you're fine. mmm, pineapple salsa. -- nm - b. Apr 26, 15:48 3
  - I'm a total purist. mango and pineapple salsa is *ewwww* to me. have you had jack's special? perfect tomato cilantro ratio. - workmanda Apr 26, 16:03 2
    - it's totally healthy and cancels out anything bad about chips used to eat it. -- nm - Max Apr 26, 17:08
    - I like traditional the best, but sometimes fruity hits the spot. (never on fish, though - ick.) I looked-up Jack's when you/max mentioned it here, - b. Apr 26, 16:09
- likely just a four. maybe a five if your chip-to-salsa ratio is un-jones. - workmanda Apr 26, 15:39
- I would say 3 or 4. It's all vegetables! -- nm - Dr.Vermin Apr 26, 15:25
- pita chips are surprisingly good with excellent taste and fantastic crunch. worth the cost - zdroid Apr 26, 15:23 1
  - I like those too. But can never finish a bag before they go stale. - Dr.Vermin Apr 26, 15:24
- 8 - decline Apr 26, 15:15
- Depends on how many more birthdays you want to celebrate... - OAE Apr 26, 15:15 4
  - *rolls eyes* -- nm - b. Apr 26, 15:49 2
    - I must say that I feel like I am validated in my "OMGness" by the fact your eyes are rolling too. - workmanda Apr 26, 16:01 1
      - I wouldn't be surprised to learn that OAE drinks a lot. -- nm - b. Apr 26, 16:14
  - "not to be a downer"? then why say it? "how many more posts of this nature will I make?" - workmanda Apr 26, 15:38
- 4 -- nm - Jovian Apr 26, 15:14
- 3. salsa is all fresh veggies -- nm - peglegpete Apr 26, 15:09
- 6er -- nm - CQ Apr 26, 15:01
- 5 -- nm - mara Apr 26, 15:01
- by the way, i'm dubbing my new Mars/Twinkie creation a "Breaded Martian" -- nm - Andie Apr 26, 15:00
- 5 -- nm - tRuMaN Apr 26, 15:00
- 4 -- nm - Epiphany Apr 26, 14:59
- Are talking about health or taste? - musubi Apr 26, 14:59 7
  - health. taste it's off the scale. -- nm - Andie Apr 26, 15:00 6
    - Try baked tortilla chips instead, Also pico de gallo is less fattining than some of the sweet salsas. - Trish Apr 26, 15:10 2
      - you.are.strange. -- nm - tRuMaN Apr 26, 15:13
      - oh, i never eat like this but i am currently inhaling Tostitos scoops and fresh pineapple salsa. -- nm - Andie Apr 26, 15:11
    - I think a 6, maybe a 5, depending on how fresh the salsa is, and what kind of chips. (nm) - musubi Apr 26, 15:03 2
      - 7 if it's southwestern salsa. -- nm - Reagen Apr 26, 15:08 1
        
        (but then I've been eating Swedish berries all day) -- nm - Reagen Apr 26, 15:10

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