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Vince Gray who is running for DC Mayor just killed his campaign with this: Strip $49M in DC Streetcar funds (which is already under construction!) -- (link) - MDH May 26, 11:00 8
- idiots. -- nm - znufrii May 26, 11:06
- The streetcars were on display for the public to showcase how excited everyone was. Fenty just got handed the election. -- nm - MDH May 26, 11:04
- This is the same city that elected Marion Berry. -- nm - Strongbad May 26, 11:02 4
  - Twice! -- nm - Beryllium May 26, 11:03
  - he still holds public office! -- nm - loosilu May 26, 11:02 2
    - Don't even get me started on him -- nm - MDH May 26, 11:03 1
      - His 1992 slogan was "He May Not Be Perfect, But He's Perfect for D.C." ... which rings true to me. :) -- nm - Beryllium May 26, 11:05
- No play for Mister Gray. -- nm - Beryllium May 26, 11:02
Repost for Crash Davis.... -- (link) - Remlik May 26, 10:54 [youtube] 1
- I enjoyed that episode. It ranks up there with Night of the Huntress. -- nm - crash davis May 26, 10:59
The 15 Most Annoying Levels in Video Game History. -- (link) - Shaun May 26, 10:49 50
- I would nominate the first town in RE4 to this list. I mean, it's a fun kind of annoying... - TFox May 26, 11:04 2
  - Whenever you hear the chainsaw noise, it's such a rush. - David May 26, 11:06 1
    - Never. I tend to run out of ammo. I finally found the shotgun house, but once I get it, it's like.... where the eff do I go now? - TFox May 26, 11:08
- the TMNT one stopped me from playing the game, IIRC. The Modern Warfare level is hard but fun. - Beryllium May 26, 11:02 1
  - There were more difficult levels in that game. The final level where you have to get off the plane in 30 seconds is much tougher. - Krusty May 26, 11:09
- Good list. #2 sucked a lot, drove me nuts. Tyson was beatable, you just had to keep at it. - Krusty May 26, 11:01 14
  - Contra without extra lives was hard as shit, I think especially that board. - TFox May 26, 11:02 7
    - Oh, for sure. Nearly impossible to beat without extra lives. - Krusty May 26, 11:06
    - My bother mastered it with the extra lives and then worked it with the 3 lives... - Mel Profit May 26, 11:06 1
      - my brother and I... -- nm - Mel Profit May 26, 11:06
    - I've got the Contra code on a t-shirt -- nm - Uber Nerd Strongbad May 26, 11:05
    - Contra was the game that made me appreciate the beauty of co-op play. -- nm - David May 26, 11:04 2
      - Yes. It's a fun one player game. It's a blissful two player game. - TFox May 26, 11:06 1
        
        it really did require both those things... - Mel Profit May 26, 11:07
  - I never beat Tyson :( -- nm - Shaun May 26, 11:01 5
    - The first time I had him beat (after several days of trying), the freaking power went out at my dorm. - David May 26, 11:05 2
      - Ha! I freaked out and ran outside to brag. -- nm - Krusty May 26, 11:07
      - sounds like tuition well spent! -- nm - wheezy May 26, 11:06
    - I've remembered the code all these years. - Krusty May 26, 11:04
    - Hah hah . . . bitch! -- nm - Buster Douglas May 26, 11:03
- f'ing websense. -- nm - Don Homer May 26, 10:57 1
  - try the actual link instead of dugg. -- (link) - loosilu May 26, 10:59
- I've done 3 out of the top 5 and 7 overall. -- nm - David May 26, 10:56 7
  - I've done 3 of the top 5 and 10 overall. -- nm - Krusty May 26, 11:02
  - can you c&p the list please? -- nm - Don Homer May 26, 10:58 4
    - (Sorry, I left the computer for a moment.) -- nm - David May 26, 11:03
    - 1-5 - Shaun May 26, 11:00 2
      - 6-10 - Shaun May 26, 11:00 1
        
        11-15 - Shaun May 26, 11:00
  - #10 makes me so melancholy. -- nm - David May 26, 10:56
- huh. I didn't play any of those except Punch Out. -- nm - JaxSean May 26, 10:55
- #2 and #4 absolutely sucked. Once you figured out the precise moves on #9 you were fine and... - Mel Profit May 26, 10:54 2
  - #15 was one of the first games I owned on NES. -- nm - Strongbad May 26, 10:58 1
    - I loved that game like an imaginary girlfriend. -- nm - Mel Profit May 26, 10:58
- Number of levels I've played: 1 - oblique May 26, 10:53 1
  - 8/15. -- nm - Dr.Vermin May 26, 10:56
- Rainbow Road...Ask my kids - amoxy May 26, 10:52 2
  - there's one like that for the Wii mario kart and it's a pain. -- nm - JaxSean May 26, 10:56 1
    - iirc, the 64 MK RR had rails, but the effing one on the Wii doesn't at times. Screw that track. -- nm - Shaun May 26, 10:57
- I know hardly anyone played it, but one of the hardest games I ever played was - Jim May 26, 10:52 3
  - they need to release this for xbox Game Room badly -- nm - Jovian May 26, 10:59
  - i beat it but the parachute part is super annoying -- nm - wheezy May 26, 10:54 1
    - oh yeah. -- nm - Jim May 26, 10:55
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  - The Water Temple is "drive you to drink" annoying. -- nm - Shaun May 26, 10:57 2
    - Wasn't there a water temple in Wind Waker as well? I think that is the part where I quit the game. -- nm - TFox May 26, 11:00 1
      - Unsure. Never played it. -- nm - Shaun May 26, 11:01
- #1 still gives me nightmares. That game was so hard. -- nm - Strongbad May 26, 10:51 1
  - I wonder how many of the programmers on that game were going through bitter divorces. -- nm - David May 26, 10:53
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for Krusty: I googled, and it looks as if the Gulf states have declared states of emergency. It does NOT look as if Obama has declared a federal state - loosilu May 26, 10:49 2
- Interesting. I would have expected a federal state of emergency to have been declared by now. -- nm - Krusty May 26, 10:52 1
  - me too, honestly. that's what releases emergency funds. -- nm - loosilu May 26, 10:53
I am already tired of the pirate speak on Facebook -- nm - amoxy May 26, 10:49 2
- WTF? Talk Like a Pirate Day isn't until September! -- nm - Dr.Vermin May 26, 10:52 1
  - If you go all the way to the bottom of the main Facebook page - amoxy May 26, 10:56
Also, I had cous-cous with dinner on the plane. What on earth is cous-cous? - ty97 May 26, 10:47 14
- cous cous is pasta seeds, caviar -- nm - zeitgeist May 26, 11:27
- couscous is awesome - and so easy to make (only takes about 5 minutes) -- nm - decline May 26, 10:54
- wiki: Couscous is a dish of spherical granules made by rolling and shaping moistened semolina wheat and then coating them with finely ground wheat. -- nm - loosilu May 26, 10:50
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- It's wheat, in granule form. It really really needs to be flavoured with something -- nm - Roger More May 26, 10:49
- it's delicious. it's a barley-ish grain. -- nm - workmanda May 26, 10:48 8
  - I liked it, they had saffron flavor in it I believe. - ty97 May 26, 10:49 7
    - doesn't saffron have almost no taste and just add color? -- nm - workmanda May 26, 10:51 5
      - And it's expensive as fuck. -- nm - Jim May 26, 10:53 2
        
        seriously. you all enjoy your saffron rice. jim and I will use food coloring and spend the extra cash on whiskey. - workmanda May 26, 10:54 1
        
        Hell yeah!!! -- nm - Jim May 26, 10:55
      - it has a subtle but distinct flavor. -- nm - b. May 26, 10:53
      - it's much more fragrant than flavorfull, but will provide taste as well as color -- nm - decline May 26, 10:53
    - mmm....saffron -- nm - znufrii May 26, 10:49
ender, did you watch any of that new alyssa milano show? - b. May 26, 10:47 3
- No, I knew it wasn't for me without having to watch the first minute. -- nm - Ender May 26, 11:02
- A new Alyssa Milano show? - Stephen May 26, 10:52 1
  - Don't bother, she's already been informed via Twitter that it's cancelled. -- nm - Ender May 26, 11:02
"....'take over' the operations from BP. And do what? Is there some secret naval division that handles deep-sea drilling that we have not deployed?" -- (link) - mara May 26, 10:47 2
- Send in the Power Rangers. -- nm - Strongbad May 26, 10:49
- "We call them ... the Danger Rangers!" -- nm - Beryllium May 26, 10:48
DH: Florida is not growing. check your facts! -- (link) - workmanda May 26, 10:47 6
- I have facts. I prefer the census data, which estimated that the state gained 114k residents from July 1, 2008 to July 1, 2009. -- (link) - Don Homer May 26, 10:50 5
  - you're in the middle of a census now. How old is the data that those numbers are based on? Plus, 114k is not a lot for a state to grow. -- nm - zork May 26, 10:54 1
    - Actually, taht's quite a bit for one year of growth. Ranked 5th out of all states for number. The data is less than 1 year old, based on estimates. -- nm - Don Homer May 26, 10:57
  - ok. -- nm - workmanda May 26, 10:52 1
    - (I apologize if I seemed snippy. *hugs*) -- nm - Don Homer May 26, 10:53
  - And, fwiw, the 3 states increasing the most (%-wise) in that time were 1) Wyoming, 2) Utah, 3) Texas. - Don Homer May 26, 10:52
earthquakes over 6.0 somewhere during each of the last four days -- (link) - zork May 26, 10:46
I saw a poll on the news that 70% of people disapprove of how BP is handling the oil spill. - ty97 May 26, 10:45 23
- I'm not really defending BP (they're notorious up here for being the biggest slackasses in terms of preventative maintenance, etc), but... - Dr.Vermin May 26, 10:49 8
  - It's not about non-experts pointing to a specific way, it's about whether people trust the company to do the job. -- nm - Roger More May 26, 11:08
  - i severly doubt that this is a oilwell at 1500 meters depth - Danedukenuuk May 26, 10:54
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    - it's like the airplane industry - Danedukenuuk May 26, 10:56
    - which boils down to what b is saying: should *do*, versus should have *done* ... -- nm - Beryllium May 26, 10:54 1
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  - When 'experts' in oil start spilling it into the Gulf, and then can't fix it a month, I'm pretty self-assured saying the ain't doing a good enough job - ty97 May 26, 10:52 1
    - [shrug] It's one thing to point to the problems they ignored that led to the problem. By all means, let's string 'em up for those. - Dr.Vermin May 26, 10:55
- "Fix it! FIX. IT!" (nm) - Keenan May 26, 10:48
- I'm more curious about what well-informed opinions those 70% have about what BP should do differently. -- nm - Ender May 26, 10:47 7
  - being lied to makes you an expedt in spotting lyes not in stopping run amok oil wells - Danedukenuuk May 26, 10:53
  - not blow up their rigs, for starters -- nm - wheezy May 26, 10:50
  - "Fix it. FIX! IT!" (nm) - Keenan May 26, 10:49
  - should do, I don't know. should have done? there's a list, starting with not lying/underplaying to the gov't and the public. -- nm - b. May 26, 10:48 2
    - no, starting with not weaseling out of a $500k failsafe obligation -- nm - Beryllium May 26, 10:50 1
      - good point! -- nm - b. May 26, 10:50
  - I love polls that also ask "How informed do you think you are on this subject?" Usually the % of people who think they're informed or well informed is - Roger More May 26, 10:48
- only??? - Danedukenuuk May 26, 10:46
- "accidents happen, and they're doing their best to deal with it." - znufrii May 26, 10:46 2
  - Randslide! -- nm - wheezy May 26, 10:46
  - maybe for the first week or two..... -- nm - ty97 May 26, 10:46
- drill baby drill -- nm - wheezy May 26, 10:45
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- My questions is, outside of the Gov't and BP, who actually knows what kind of pressure is being mounted - decline May 26, 11:04
- the potential of $4300 per barrel fines aren't pressure enough? -- nm - znufrii May 26, 10:46 3
  - Like it will ever be that much, or anything close. -- nm - Don Homer May 26, 10:47 2
    - peace, national debt. -- nm - TFox May 26, 10:47
    - one can hope... -- nm - znufrii May 26, 10:47
- I fully support this. -- nm - ty97 May 26, 10:45 5
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    - I haven't listened to the Carville interview as I'm in a public place. - ty97 May 26, 10:54 3
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        Pressure how exactly? - pmb May 26, 11:05 1
        
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one problem with no laughing (real or canned) is that they need to leave time for viewer reactions which means intentional, awkward, dead air -- nm - zork May 26, 10:44 16
- I often rewind Community to catch things that are said while I'm laughing my ass off -- nm - oblique May 26, 11:04
- It's interesting to see a tracked show with the laughs remove and how awkward the timing really is. - Ender May 26, 10:49 [youtube] 2
  - that is crazy. -- nm - Mel Profit May 26, 11:03
  - the M*A*S*H dvds apparently have the choice to include it and without is very uncomfortable -- nm - zork May 26, 10:52
- works ok on Modern Family and the Office. they play on the awkwardness for humor. -- nm - loosilu May 26, 10:47 3
  - Yes but most comedy shows aren't like those and the dead air might not work. - Krusty May 26, 10:50
  - ah, yes, the sly glances at the camera and such -- nm - Beryllium May 26, 10:48 1
    - yes, both of them keep up the pretense that there is a documentary filmmaker. -- nm - loosilu May 26, 10:55
- ... uh. What? -- nm - Beryllium May 26, 10:45 5
  - without pauses, you would be laughing over the next line. producers are very averse to airing quiet pauses. -- nm - zork May 26, 10:48 4
    - I can't recall ever noticing pauses in the shows I've watched from the list to which I linked. -- nm - b. May 26, 10:54 2
      - maybe you were laughing? -- nm - zork May 26, 10:55 1
        
        share! - b. May 26, 11:09
    - ... have you ever seen an episode of Gilmore Girls? -- nm - Beryllium May 26, 10:49
- i must completely tune these out. i never notice them on either BBT or HIMYM -- nm - prayformojo May 26, 10:45 1
  - We have been that well trained to accept them. It's a fascinating discussion in subliminal messaging. -- nm - David May 26, 10:48
shout it, shout it out loud -- nm - crash davis May 26, 10:44 4
- I think Finn found his wheel house last night. That's the best he's sounded since this show started. -- nm - Jim May 26, 10:46 2
  - Trish said essentially the same exact thing. So hopefully that might mean more rock for the show. -- nm - crash davis May 26, 10:50 1
    - oh, i think you and trish DEFINITELY need to watch the last scene of the show then - wheezy May 26, 10:51
- Those crazy kids in makeup! -- (link) - Paul Lynde May 26, 10:46 [youtube]
L O S T -- nm - Jim May 26, 10:42
POLAR BEAR -- nm - Dr.Vermin May 26, 10:42 1
- WALT -- nm - mara May 26, 10:43

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