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eep. something's causing some system load on here. Sorry if it's slow. -- nm - Beryllium May 25, 08:53 2
- III dddoonnn'ttt ssseeeeee a diiifffeeerrreeennnccceee -- nm - con_carne May 25, 08:57
- Latest Dr. S. Talk search: Sam Waterston -- nm - oblique May 25, 08:57
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- Crack *is* much better than meth. Agreed. -- nm - Don Homer May 25, 08:57
- I hate your zubaz hate -- nm - oblique May 25, 08:56
- I've been really happy with switching to Colgate, too. -- nm - Reagen May 25, 08:55
- I thought Favre had only been a Viking for 1 season? -- nm - Beaker May 25, 08:54
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I *really* wish my phone would start ringing with calls I actually want to take (like, say, job interviews). - kelly May 25, 08:49 2
- c'mon, Will's not *that* bad! -- nm - Don Homer May 25, 08:51 1
  - No, not Will, but you're on the right track... :) -- nm - kelly May 25, 08:55
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Is LMS around to explain the Edge of Darkness spoiler? I had to re-read three times to make sure I was seeing the right word. -- nm - David May 25, 08:48 4
- This sounds completely unhinged. -- (link) - Reagen May 25, 08:51 2
  - Some of the Brits are just complete nutters. -- nm - Remlik May 25, 09:06
  - The movie is...somewhat different. -- nm - David May 25, 08:58
- semi-spoils - Beryllium May 25, 08:49
Toddler LYC ABCD: - prayformojo May 25, 08:45 12
- correct answer spoils - prayformojo May 25, 08:53 5
  - heh -- nm - Don Homer May 25, 08:57
  - I *am* your daughter! -- nm - that kid in The Others May 25, 08:56 1
    - heh I was going here next :) -- nm - Beaker May 25, 08:57
  - Your house is *sooooo* haunted -- nm - oblique May 25, 08:56
  - open the box! -- nm - Beaker May 25, 08:54
- C and D would both be tremendous. -- nm - David May 25, 08:51
- a -- nm - znufrii May 25, 08:49
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- Well, I would guess that A is actually B (she' pregnant) with whoever she's meeting for C - oblique May 25, 08:45
- c -- nm - kelly May 25, 08:45
- D -- nm - Beaker May 25, 08:45
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- Yesterday: Hi - you look really, really busy. I need you to stop what you're doing and courier this right now. - Person Diva Doesn't Support si May 25, 08:52
Last night's L&O ended on a note that works well for an unplanned series finale. -- nm - crash davis May 25, 08:35 15
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  - one of the top all time exit lines for a TV character -- nm - crash davis May 25, 08:48 8
    - who had this one? -- nm - Beryllium May 25, 08:49 7
      - Elizabeth Rohm's ADA. Fred Thompson fired her at the end of one of the season finales. -- nm - crash davis May 25, 08:50
      - Sam Waterston -- nm - oblique May 25, 08:50 5
        
        oh. heheh. :) -- nm - Beryllium May 25, 08:50 4
        
        You googled him, didn't you? -- nm - oblique May 25, 08:51 3
        
        Now why would I do that? You think I don't know who Sam Waterston is? -- nm - Beryllium May 25, 08:53 2
        
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        I had to put my son on a "Calvin and Hobbes only on the weekend" rule for the summer - oblique May 25, 08:58
  - heh -- nm - Beaker May 25, 08:39
- spoils? -- nm - Beaker May 25, 08:35 3
  - (spoils) - crash davis May 25, 08:46 1
    - nice -- nm - Beaker May 25, 08:50
  - IT IS OVER!?!?! NO!!!!!!!! -- nm - Nightcrawler May 25, 08:36
I need to hurt something.\ -- nm - znufrii May 25, 08:34
Seriously Connecticut ? Linda McMahon? - amoxy May 25, 08:33 11
- Feel lucky you don't live here. -- nm - Martha Stewart May 25, 08:38
- well that's not her commercial I suspect. -- nm - Remlik May 25, 08:36 7
  - Nope, it began with her saying "I am Linda McMahon and I approve this message" -- nm - amoxy May 25, 08:37 6
    - Here it is -- (link) - amoxy May 25, 08:41 [youtube] 5
      - Amoxy I suspect that's not a real commerical. The quality of the WWE footage is crap and there is a stephanielevasque.net logo in one fo the clips.... - Remlik May 25, 08:48 [youtube]
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      - It's a parody.....says as such in the description. -- nm - Will Hunting May 25, 08:46
      - and that wasn't a powerbomb, it was a Tombstone. Probably getting out ahead of attacks against her for her business. -- nm - Beaker May 25, 08:43 1
        
        Whatever, I don't follow wrestling -- nm - amoxy May 25, 08:46
- any woman who can take a powerbomb would get my vote. -- nm - Beaker May 25, 08:34
- Don't worry, she won't win. -- nm - Don Homer May 25, 08:33
Bruce Springsteen Box Set 7.99 + 5 -- nm - ty97 May 25, 08:31 11
- Actually, that is 2 box sets. 7 CDs total. -- nm - not2fast May 25, 08:41 1
  - The description indicates you pick one of the box sets. -- nm - kelly May 25, 08:44
- link? -- nm - Remlik May 25, 08:36 3
  - woot off, silly -- nm - Nightcrawler May 25, 08:37 2
    - I didn't see that. I just opened the board! -- nm - Remlik May 25, 08:39 1
      - Ah. They sent me an email. -- nm - Nightcrawler May 25, 08:39
- Too much. -- nm - Nightcrawler May 25, 08:32 4
  - you misspelled "not enough" -- nm - Beaker May 25, 08:35
  - too much awesomeness -- nm - crash davis May 25, 08:35 2
    - That must be why nobody is buying it. -- nm - Nightcrawler May 25, 08:37 1
      - cause everyone aready owns it -- nm - Beaker May 25, 08:38
kelly should look at Woot.com alert -- nm - tRuMaN May 25, 08:31 3
- Heh. Thanks, guys. (I already own them both, but thanks for the heads up!) -- nm - kelly May 25, 08:33
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- heh -- nm - ty97 May 25, 08:31
"[Professor Friend's] fave parts of class today were when lost was compared to cop rock and mad men was compared to jersey shore. - ty97 May 25, 08:30
We finished Season 3 of Deadwood on Friday. spoils? - Shaun May 25, 08:30 5
- Was supposed to have a 4th season. And when that went away there was supposed to be 3 2-hour Deadwood movies to finish it up. - Jim May 25, 08:31 4
  - I'm still on an anti-David Milch watching soapbox due to his straight out lying about doing a wrap up movie. -- nm - Remlik May 25, 08:41
  - C*cksuckers. -- nm - Don Homer May 25, 08:39 1
    - This. -- nm - Beaker May 25, 08:40
  - Still. -- nm - Shaun May 25, 08:32
Today is my granddaughter's 14th birthday. My mother would have been 90 today :( -- nm - MojaveMeg May 25, 08:20 2
- Is that Baby Devlin? -- nm - Dano May 25, 08:29 1
  - Hee - yes. How does that make you feel? :) -- nm - MojaveMeg May 25, 08:41
i hate it when i hear a song on the radio and have no idea who its by, then cannot figure out - tRuMaN May 25, 08:19 15
- many radio stations post their playlists on their websites. Or you could call them -- nm - oblique May 25, 08:28 1
  - yeah, its not there, I think because the band is a special guest at a concert coming up - tRuMaN May 25, 08:31
- I have been searching for a song for months that I heard in a store. - groiny May 25, 08:23 1
  - It's California Girls by Katy Perry. You're welcome. -- nm - Shaun May 25, 08:25
- 'tis why I love the vcast song id thing Verizon has for the blackberry - decline May 25, 08:21 1
  - sprint htc winmobile phone, so no app for me -- nm - tRuMaN May 25, 08:25
- (can't wait to get my phone back, because this app is killer fun.) -- nm - TFox May 25, 08:20 5
  - How I lived before Shazam is unclear. -- nm - ty97 May 25, 08:21 4
    - I play a lot of mashups and remixes in the store that won't show up in Shazam, and the nerds can't figure out why the program can't find it. -- nm - Remlik May 25, 08:25
    - i lamented not having it when i saw the new Ford Fiesta commercial the other night... - TFox May 25, 08:23 1
      - I've been known to wonder away from friends in stores to get near a speaker (and away from people talking) to tag a song. -- nm - ty97 May 25, 08:24
    - If I ever get into a car accident because of my cell phone it will be because of Shazam, not texting or talking. -- nm - Dano May 25, 08:23
- any lyrics? genre? -- nm - Don Homer May 25, 08:20 2
  - it was on Rock station - tRuMaN May 25, 08:24 1
    - Pete Yorn? or a song called so good to feel good again -- nm - Epiphany May 25, 08:56
Lost (spoils) If you come with me, I'll show you what I mean - Nightcrawler May 25, 08:17 3
- Thanks ST, I'm starting to appreciate the Lost finale (spoiler) - Guigue May 25, 08:48
- I like that article - oblique May 25, 08:25 1
  - Indeed. It honestly helped clarify a lot of my thoughts and more specifically feelings on it. - Nightcrawler May 25, 08:32
The Pac-Man game Google put on its home page gobbled up almost five million hours of work time, suggests a study. -- (link) - LMS May 25, 08:15 1
- You mean the study from a time management/tracking software vendor? -- nm - oblique May 25, 08:16
Did the ST sports fans discuss that Yankee stadium will not allow laptops including the iPad into the stadium?..... - Walt_Disney May 25, 08:14 2
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- That's a pretty bogus reason. -- nm - Don Homer May 25, 08:16
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- i've greatly underestimated how much i would like every pixar i've seen, with the exceptions of - prayformojo May 25, 08:24 3
  - I can't imagine not liking The Incredibles!! You, sir, are inhuman. -- nm - Don Homer May 25, 08:33 2
    - It's my favorite. -- nm - David May 25, 08:52
    - agreed. -- nm - Beryllium May 25, 08:51
- I love both of them (each are in my top 20 of all time), but this one doesn't look as good. -- nm - Inigo May 25, 08:14 1
  - this is what I was going to say. TS2 looked like a blatant cash-in. -- nm - Reagen May 25, 08:26
*lights up the kilbo tech signal part 2* - ty97 May 25, 08:11 3
- Probably been replaced by newer models maybe? -- (link) - oblique May 25, 08:13 2
  - you're like magci -- nm - ty97 May 25, 08:17 1
    - kinda like my finger are crpa -- nm - ty97 May 25, 08:17
*lights up the kilbo tech signal* - ty97 May 25, 08:09 5
- I have the VMware player on my laptop. It was installed to get around some application on my regular Windows that was causing issues. - Walt_Disney May 25, 08:18
- Yes. ESX (and ESXi) are "bare metal" hypervisors that are, in essence, the OS themselves -- nm - oblique May 25, 08:11 3
  - Thanks - ty97 May 25, 08:13 2
    - I'm a *huge* virtualization supporter. Let me know if you have more questions. We're about 90% VM here - oblique May 25, 08:14 1
      - I'm seeing it pop up more and more (not surprisingly) around here, so I'm trying to get myself up to speed on it. - ty97 May 25, 08:19
Don Homer - yes. With his own money. He's been saving for a long time. - Jim May 25, 08:07 7
- I haven't used mine much (so far) but I bought it mainly for use on the road. For me it was a better option than any kind of smart-phone with monthly - MojaveMeg May 25, 08:13
- Cool. Make sure he's got good virus/spyware protection. - Don Homer May 25, 08:08 4
  - 1. Set up OpenDNS on your home network and block sites you don't want them to get at -- (link) - oblique May 25, 08:10
  - Yeah...right now it has whatever came with it...some sort of trial thing. - Jim May 25, 08:09 2
    - Microsoft Security Essentials -- (link) - oblique May 25, 08:11 1
      - cool..thanks. -- nm - Jim May 25, 08:30
- dang, good for him. -- nm - TFox May 25, 08:08
kelly - I recommend Please Give and Mother and Child, both playing at Bethesda. -- nm - Dano May 25, 08:06 7
- which of those 2 did you prefer? - kelly May 25, 08:12 5
  - Please Give -- nm - Dano May 25, 08:14 4
    - trailer -- (link) - Dano May 25, 08:18 3
      - Thanks! -- nm - kelly May 25, 08:23 2
        
        It stars Catherine Keener. That should be enough right there. -- nm - Dano May 25, 08:28 1
        
        Yeah, she's great. I also like Rebecca Hall and Amanda Peet so those are added bonuses. -- nm - kelly May 25, 08:31
- And Exit Through the Gift Shop is at E Street. -- nm - Dano May 25, 08:09
*sigh* - ty97 May 25, 08:06 5
- Like it or not, she's an important political figure. I don't see what's bad about hearing what she has to say. -- nm - Dano May 25, 08:13 1
  - My concern (with this or any book my a politician) is that she's being marketed to for a future vote. - ty97 May 25, 08:21
- We're still waiting for my friend's daughter to finish her copy. We want to read it (for the entertainment value) but refuse to buy it :) -- nm - MojaveMeg May 25, 08:08
- yikes! -- nm - Don Homer May 25, 08:08
- What? Your mom isn't allowed to read comedy? -- nm - Jim May 25, 08:08
boom -- nm - Beaker May 25, 08:05

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