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Pajamas: ordered. 1 gift done. thanks, ML. -- nm - JaxSean Dec 2, 07:30
ST logo is no longer turkeyfied. - Beryllium Dec 2, 07:28 8
- Santa Vs. Dradle! -- nm - lileve Dec 2, 07:34
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  - this is what happens when mara is impatient ... it's a butterfly effect ... :) -- nm - Beryllium Dec 2, 07:31
- what? flowers? Snow, man. SNOW! -- nm - oblique Dec 2, 07:29 4
  - It's the only snow-related photo I have. The white bits are ice crystals. -- nm - Beryllium Dec 2, 07:30 3
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      - It doesn't snow on the Internet, dumb shit. It would screw up all the circuits. -- nm - TFox Dec 2, 07:32
    - (It barely ever snows in victoria ... but this year, we had a freak snow/ice incident in april) -- (link) - Beryllium Dec 2, 07:31 [flickr]
FYI. I fixed the results using the 5 day totals. Sorry. Nubby rocked Australia and Jax gets 4CHAN and Qale gets Transporter -- nm - oblique Dec 2, 07:25 3
- and sorry Nubby, that drops you below Ed for those with 8 or more predictions and if you drop to 5, Jax creeps in above all you -- nm - oblique Dec 2, 07:27 1
  - Blast! -- nm - nubbium Dec 2, 07:32
- woohoo! -- nm - JaxSean Dec 2, 07:26
I am man enough to admit that I like the Celtic Woman "concerts" - tRuMaN Dec 2, 07:24 1
- any nudity? - The Calico Cat Coalition Dec 2, 07:30
So much for my plan to get all new releases today - they skipped over one of them and are shipping "Shine a Light" instead. - kelly Dec 2, 07:23 8
- nmbKelly - Epiphany Dec 2, 07:26 2
  - No, I haven't. I'm only 100 pages or so in. (Having a harder time getting into this one, actually.) - kelly Dec 2, 07:33 1
    - nmbkelly - Diva Dec 2, 07:42
- Wanted? Got skipped for me too. -- nm - TFox Dec 2, 07:24 4
  - No, The Longshots. Wanted is being shipped today. -- nm - kelly Dec 2, 07:32 2
    - You took my copy!!! - TFox Dec 2, 07:33 1
      - It was an entertaining movie, too. Too bad you won't get to see it this weekend. -- nm - kelly Dec 2, 07:38
  - I read that TPB recently...not what I was expecting at all, I doubt if the movie follows the book cause it was fucking nuts -- nm - Beaker Dec 2, 07:27
Florida is favored over Alabama by 10 -- nm - Beaker Dec 2, 07:21 1
- Wow. That's.... crazy. -- nm - TFox Dec 2, 07:28
TV Tonight: House, The Mentalist, Eli Stone -- nm - Beaker Dec 2, 07:19 5
- plus NCIS for those that watch it -- nm - Beaker Dec 2, 07:19 4
  - and Bones. -- nm - TFox Dec 2, 07:24 3
    - isn't Bones on Wednesdays? -- nm - Beaker Dec 2, 07:25 2
      - Not anymore... new ones return in January, moving to Thrusday (according to the promo at the end of last week's). - Cuzzin Toddfurky Dec 2, 07:28
      - Maaaybe.... yes. Then what the shit else does SheFox tape tonight? - TFox Dec 2, 07:27
TV ranking from last night: Chuck A-, Prison Break: B (what a crazy show), Heroes: B-, Eurka repeat: B -- nm - Beaker Dec 2, 07:19
Any recommendations from the bands in this month's submission list? - TFox Dec 2, 07:13 16
- I hear those guns n roses kids are up and coming... -- nm - Reagen Dec 2, 07:29
- Maroon 5 has a new album coming out? Or is it an xmas CD? -- nm - JaxSean Dec 2, 07:28 2
  - It is the worst words any fan of a band could ever hear... - TFox Dec 2, 07:29 1
    - eeeew. -- nm - JaxSean Dec 2, 07:30
- That Brett Dennen is going out like crazy here. My personal pick is Love is All. -- nm - Amy Dec 2, 07:16 3
  - Love is All: "perky, frenetic, new wave stomps from Sweden"? Accurate? -- nm - TFox Dec 2, 07:23 2
    - I would say they are a little harder than "new wave". -- nm - Amy Dec 2, 07:31 1
      - OK good, b/c to me it looked like "the Cardigans turn into the Ting Tings" and I wanted to harm myself. -- nm - TFox Dec 2, 07:33
- What was Pavement's big song? -- nm - nubbium Dec 2, 07:16 3
  - All I know is the album was called Crooked Rain Crooked Rain. - Subversive - daddy x 2 Dec 2, 07:17 2
    - Cut Your Hair? {nm} - Banzai! Dec 2, 07:21
    - Oh, the PTI song. -- nm - nubbium Dec 2, 07:19
- scott pinkmountain & the golden bolts of tone is an awesome band name -- nm - Subversive - daddy x 2 Dec 2, 07:15 1
  - True enough (and congratumagations, man!) -- nm - TFox Dec 2, 07:21
- Kevin Costner? -- nm - Beaker Dec 2, 07:15 1
  - One of my old college friends is actually the backup vocalist in that band. -- nm - TFox Dec 2, 07:21
ugga bunga -- nm - tRuMaN Dec 2, 07:08 2
- New White House secret greeting? -- nm - CrankYanker Dec 2, 07:19
- Meaning ? (are these Bronx Mowgli's first words ?) -- nm - Mazujingle Bells Dec 2, 07:09
can I skip accounting class today please? please? -- nm - santa claus loves mandy lane Dec 2, 07:02 4
- Maybe you shouldn't, but I think you can. -- nm - Mazujingle Bells Dec 2, 07:08
- No. - nubbium Dec 2, 07:07
- Yes. -- nm - TFox Dec 2, 07:07
- No. -- nm - Beaker Dec 2, 07:07
SITWAP: Ain't it always the way? JPMorganChaseWaMu to lay off 80% of Seattle WaMu workers. *After* they're done merging WaMu into JP's systems. -- (link) - TaurusII Dec 2, 06:57 1
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SITWAP: More FUD (Fear, Uncertainty, and Doubt): Ten Retailers who may not see 2009. -- (link) - TaurusII Dec 2, 06:54 17
- dang. I like Dillards and Eddie Bauer. (nm) - Callisto Dec 2, 07:50
- I never understood how Rite-Aid could afford to keep opening stores all over the place, some across the street from each other. - krusty Dec 2, 07:08
- Eddie Bauer! No!!!! -- nm - nubby Dec 2, 07:07
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  - Pier One? Noooooooooooooooooooooooo!!! -- nm - kelly Dec 2, 07:08 5
    - Where else will I find my wicker baskets and decorative balls to fill said baskets with?!?! -- nm - TFox Dec 2, 07:10 4
      - My SIL has those all over. Logan was in heaven until I told him he couldn't touch them. -- nm - Amy Dec 2, 07:22
      - I love their chairs and pillows. -- nm - kelly Dec 2, 07:17
      - Never has a post been more true. -- nm - Subversive - daddy x 2 Dec 2, 07:16 1
        
        congrats -- nm - tRuMaN Dec 2, 07:18
  - If Eddie Bauer goes under I may be forced to go naked... - Mel Profit Dec 2, 07:01 1
    - Williams-Sonoma is fun, but I'd rather just go to Macy's. -- nm - Diva Dec 2, 07:07
  - Mrs. Taurus will be greatly saddened if Williams-Sonoma disappears. -- nm - TaurusII Dec 2, 06:57 4
    - I'm sure another store that charges $15 for a citrus reamer will come along one day -- nm - Roger More Dec 2, 07:00 3
      - it's insanely overpriced (at regular prices.) -- nm - El Fandie Dec 2, 07:03 2
        
        Honestly, I don't know why anyone would shop there. Even the things that are the exact same things sold in other stores cost 50% more in WS. -- nm - Roger More Dec 2, 07:08 1
        
        But - as a browsing experience - it's a good store. -- nm - Roger More Dec 2, 07:08
Fear my 4CHRS prediction skillz!!! -- nm - nubby Dec 2, 06:53 3
- I was 100% on Australia... -- nm - Beaker Dec 2, 07:07 2
  - I'm in a virtual tie for first for those with at least 8 of the 15 predictions. -- nm - nubbium Dec 2, 07:15 1
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can i get a volunteer to see if you can reach this site? -- (link) - prayformojo Dec 2, 06:51 4
- thanks guys -- nm - prayformojo Dec 2, 06:55
- nope. can't get to that, or the base IP address -- nm - colin Dec 2, 06:52
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- just spins and spins. -- nm - El Fandie Dec 2, 06:51
hyde, if you're around that Forbes article from b2 is just all kinds of factually wrong. - Inigo Dec 2, 06:51
Italians are considered the most handsome men in the world according to a 12 country survey....(link) -- (link) - Walt_Disney Dec 2, 06:50 2
- They all live at home. Easy access to mom's makeup - Mazujingle Bells Dec 2, 06:55
- obviously. -- nm - El Fandie Dec 2, 06:51
Once again, ST dominates the non-STers on the boxoffice prediction game. WTG Qale and Nubby -- (link) - oblique Dec 2, 06:49 6
- I wish I could access this at work. :( -- nm - JaxSean Dec 2, 06:55
- Dude, you should have specified it was 3DAY, not 5 (like every other BO prediction game) -- nm - secretslacker Dec 2, 06:53 4
  - I sent out an Update via Facebook that said it was 5 day -- nm - oblique Dec 2, 07:01
  - It was? Oh, crud. I put in my numbers on Monday and didn't update. - JaxSean Dec 2, 06:56 2
    - It didn't say anything either way so I just assumed it was... I would have nailed TRANS3 if it was 5 day -- nm - secretslacker Dec 2, 06:59 1
      - Were the actuals I put in not the 5 day totals? - oblique Dec 2, 07:02
well, that was scary, i almost choked on my huge multivitamin. - El Fandie Dec 2, 06:49 5
- This happened to me when I first moved to NYC and it was right after I fell off a bus and twisted my knee. - Diva Dec 2, 07:12
- Now instead you live to tell about it. It's your duty to spread the word. Thank you. -- nm - Mazujingle Bells Dec 2, 07:08
- were you in an elevator with a super hot dude and trying to cash in on karma? -- nm - Max Dec 2, 06:49 1
  - sadly, no. -- nm - El Fandie Dec 2, 06:50
- death by nutrition! -- nm - prayformojo Dec 2, 06:49
SITWAP: And loosi's in Algeria, can't save us: Panel warns bioterror or nuke attack on US likely within 5 years. -- (link) - TaurusII Dec 2, 06:42 1
- This week in FEAR! -- nm - HdnAgnda Dec 2, 06:45
wow, Desert Bus has broken the $50,000 mark. - znufrii Dec 2, 06:38 5
- That means Morgan will have to go hairless. - Beryllium Dec 2, 06:49 1
  - Hopefully that won't be on the webcam. -- nm - krusty Dec 2, 06:58
- just chipped a few bucks their way :) -- nm - colin Dec 2, 06:41 2
  - I'm going to wait until it gets closer to adding another hour to their total. When I donate, I want them to feel it. -- nm - znufrii Dec 2, 06:42 1
    - they're ramping up so fast, it's hard to keep up. this is cool.. -- nm - colin Dec 2, 06:43
I was reading CBSsports.com and this comment made me giggle. - nubby Dec 2, 06:32
So excited, Just purchased my tix to Britney Spears and The Pussycat Dolls in DC - MDH Dec 2, 06:32
*waits patiently for the ST banner to be changed* -- nm - mara Dec 2, 06:28 6
- To something that's respectful to the Jews, Hindus and Buddhists on the boards. -- nm - secretslacker Dec 2, 06:47 1
  - Happy Festivus!!! -- nm - TaurusII Dec 2, 06:49
- The slickerbanner is still rocks. -- nm - nubby Dec 2, 06:39 1
  - I'm in the mood for rolling rocks. -- nm - Max Dec 2, 06:49
- *looks forward to Christmas turkey* -- nm - TaurusII Dec 2, 06:36
- he's only one man, mara! -- nm - colin Dec 2, 06:33
My building smells like a sewer today. It's horrible. -- nm - Amy Dec 2, 06:24 4
- go home -- nm - DaneDukeNuuk Dec 2, 07:32
- my bad, I had an omelette for breakfast and the cheese made me gassy. -- nm - znufrii Dec 2, 06:38 2
  - Hee. I admit, I smelled my pits when I came in. But we just got the "Odor Problem" email from facilities. -- nm - Amy Dec 2, 06:54 1
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- Those British... so stiff and no fun at all... well, except for LMS :) -- nm - secretslacker Dec 2, 06:48
- This doesn't look like it comes from the Onion... -- nm - Mel Profit Dec 2, 06:46
- Then you're not doing it right. -- nm - TaurusII Dec 2, 06:35 3
  - It's like he's just insulting the dancers, really. -- nm - mara Dec 2, 06:39 2
    - I choose to think of it as pointing out his own deficiencies. -- nm - TaurusII Dec 2, 06:43 1
      - Ah. Perhaps he needs lap dancers of a different gender. -- nm - mara Dec 2, 06:53
- Come again? -- nm - HdnAgnda Dec 2, 06:33
- ummm... - znufrii Dec 2, 06:24
I'm not entirely sure how this happened, but over the weekend some friends of ours decided to host a party to watch the Eurovision 2009 Finals. - znufrii Dec 2, 06:11 5
- Like... the song contest ? -- nm - Mazujingle Bells Dec 2, 06:38 4
  - err...yeah... - znufrii Dec 2, 06:39 3
    - Come on. That would be fun. FWIW Eurovision parties aren't uncommon in Australia. - Roger More Dec 2, 06:45 2
      - strangely enough, the friend who will be hosting it is from australia. - znufrii Dec 2, 06:46 1
        
        it can be fun to watch for sure. I was just surprised that people here (and in Ausssie) watch it -- nm - Mazujingle Bells Dec 2, 07:14
stalker gift - sent! (i actually knew what i was getting almost immediately but couldn't bring myself to send it before thanksgiving) -- nm - prayformojo Dec 2, 06:07
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- THanks, but you really don't have to get me anything this year. -- nm - secretslacker Dec 2, 06:20
- Wow, that is a great deal. -- nm - kelly Dec 2, 06:09 2
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    - My present arrived yesterday! - kelly Dec 2, 06:34
Congratulations Subversive! - lileve Dec 2, 06:01 [Backboard] 12
- Woo Hoo!!! -- nm - krusty Dec 2, 07:22
- Awesome! -- nm - Mel Profit Dec 2, 06:47
- *Cheers!* -- nm - mud Dec 2, 06:40
- Yeah !!! -- nm - Mazujingle Bells Dec 2, 06:39
- Wuzzah Subby!!! -- nm - TaurusII Dec 2, 06:34
- Congratulations! Excellent news! -- nm - Roger More Dec 2, 06:31
- Congrats Zoe - you picked great parents! -- nm - El Fandie Dec 2, 06:22
- Welcome Zoe! -- nm - Amy Dec 2, 06:10
- cool.. and a home birth. that's different. -- nm - the colin Dec 2, 06:10
- indeed! congratulations to the family! -- nm - prayformojo Dec 2, 06:06
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- ditto. Congrats on the Subbette! -- nm - JaxSean Dec 2, 06:03
Crap. - kelly Dec 2, 05:53
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Roll! -- nm - Beaker Dec 2, 05:36

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