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- ack no good -- nm - ty97 Jun 15, 08:04
- twitter says he choked. -- nm - Beryllium Jun 15, 08:01 6
  - While jerking off obvie. -- nm - Shaun Jun 15, 08:01 5
    - in a congressional hearing? kinky bastard... -- nm - znufrii Jun 15, 08:02 4
      - he is a busy man and can multitask -- nm - Danedukenuuk Jun 15, 08:03
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        then were were the male pages? -- nm - Mel Profit Jun 15, 08:05
        
        ... do as ze germans do -- nm - Beryllium Jun 15, 08:04
I've never met so many married 21 year olds. - Will Hunting Jun 15, 07:58 11
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  - Dear ML, - Epiphany Jun 15, 08:02 1
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- that is weird. -- nm - loosilu Jun 15, 07:59 7
  - I'm going to ascribe it to the culture where we're from. - Will Hunting Jun 15, 08:00 4
    - got my Masters and married later that year (at 23), 1st kid at 26 -- nm - SyrDragon Jun 15, 08:02
    - I only have one friend who got married before 25. -- nm - loosilu Jun 15, 08:00 2
      - I did, fwiw. -- nm - Don Homer Jun 15, 08:01 1
        
        like I said... - loosilu Jun 15, 08:02
  - if rural Indiana is anything like rural Saskatchewan (and I'm guessing it probably is), that's par for the course. -- nm - Reagen Jun 15, 07:59 1
    - so I hear. I never lived anywhere rural. -- nm - loosilu Jun 15, 08:00
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- L3! I love guest appearances by Roberto in the Jack Dawson show - high ratings! -- nm - Epiphany Jun 15, 08:01
- "Hi this is the Maury Show. We would like to invite you be a guest on the show." -- nm - sycor Jun 15, 07:59
- I'm guessing "No habla ingles senor" doesn't work in this case? -- nm - Roger More Jun 15, 07:58
- *makes sure he's going to be out of town this weekend* -- nm - znufrii Jun 15, 07:57
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Civilization is playing against Portugal?!!? THAT IS AWESOME! -- nm - Buzz Jun 15, 07:55
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Poll - what's your favourite novel that you were forced to read in school? -- nm - Roger More Jun 15, 07:51 23
- Mockingbird, The Stranger. -- nm - loosilu Jun 15, 08:08
- Romeo and Juliet, The Endless Steppe, Catcher in the Rye -- nm - Hotkiss Jun 15, 08:05
- Shakespeare. Hamlet or Macbeth. - Mel Profit Jun 15, 08:03 1
  - I *sucked* at reading plays off the page in school, much preferred to be acting in them. -- nm - znufrii Jun 15, 08:04
- Tale of Two Citites. Best book that I didn't read in school which I really shoulda: The Naked and the Dead -- nm - prayformojo Jun 15, 08:02
- Paradise Lost -- nm - Fuzzy Jun 15, 08:02
- Old Man and the Sea - Callisto Jun 15, 08:02
- Shakespeare or "Flowers For Algenon/Charlie" -- nm - SyrDragon Jun 15, 08:00
- Ender's Game. -- nm - Ender Jun 15, 07:59 1
  - That was a lucky coincidence. -- nm - Reagen Jun 15, 08:00
- Hamlet/Mockingbird -- nm - Will Hunting Jun 15, 07:59
- Probably Lord of the Flies. -- nm - JaxSean Jun 15, 07:59
- Lord of the Flies -- nm - oblique Jun 15, 07:58
- Night by Elie Wiesel - God that book is amazing. -- nm - Buzz Jun 15, 07:58
- Grapes of Wrath -- nm - znufrii Jun 15, 07:57
- Tale of Two Cities - it felt very soap operish to me - loved it. -- nm - Epiphany Jun 15, 07:57
- Deptford Trilogy by Robertson Davies -- nm - Walt_Disney Jun 15, 07:56
- of mice and men was a pleasant surprise, i remember. -- nm - kare Jun 15, 07:54
- Cue for Treason. -- nm - Shaun Jun 15, 07:54
- To Kill A Mocking Bird -- nm - LMS Jun 15, 07:52
- Heart of Darkness -- nm - Dano Jun 15, 07:52
- Brave New World, by Aldous Huxley -- nm - Roger More Jun 15, 07:51 1
  - I read this independently not too long ago. It was unlike any book I'd ever read before. -- nm - Hotkiss Jun 15, 08:06
What you check first on the internet (e-mail, facebook, news) in the morning tells a lot about you....(link) - Walt_Disney Jun 15, 07:49 1
- I usually check Amazon's mp3/DailyDeals first, then ST, then email. -- nm - JaxSean Jun 15, 07:52
Mother of pearl, what are you people trying to do to me? (vague Book of Lost Things spoilers) - ralph wiggum Jun 15, 07:46 1
- yeah, sorry about that... -- nm - znufrii Jun 15, 07:50
hello new mates of state CD for $3 at amazon. -- nm - workmanda Jun 15, 07:45 1
- blah. I haven't bought a daily deal in forever. -- nm - JaxSean Jun 15, 07:48
subpoll: What fraction of people have your name? 1 in 5,263 -- nm - tRuMaN Jun 15, 07:44 26
- 1 in 132 for Joseph; peaked in ~1915. 1 in 115 for Daniel; peaked in 1985. 13th and 5th ranked. -- nm - Will Hunting Jun 15, 08:03
- 1 in 106 -- nm - Don Homer Jun 15, 08:02
- Wayyyyyyy too many :( One in 164 -- nm - Walt_Disney Jun 15, 08:01
- "less than 1 in 12500 people (0.0008%)" -- nm - lileve Jun 15, 08:00
- 1 in 1484. -- nm - kelly Jun 15, 07:59
- I am shocked that more people have my name than yours. nm -- nm - groiny Jun 15, 07:56
- Less than 1 in 12500. -- nm - loosilu Jun 15, 07:55 1
  - most common age: 90. woo hoo! -- nm - loosilu Jun 15, 07:59
- No clue but not many have my name. -- nm - lileve Jun 15, 07:52 2
  - (click on the link below regarding First Names, the stats are in there when you type in your name.) -- nm - JaxSean Jun 15, 07:55 1
    - Sweet! -- nm - lileve Jun 15, 07:59
- 1 in 222 -- nm - Beryllium Jun 15, 07:49
- 1 in 261 -- nm - ty97 Jun 15, 07:47
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  - hey now! -- nm - ty97 Jun 15, 07:45 2
    - you know he likes it double barrel. nm -- nm - groiny Jun 15, 07:56
    - *laughing* -- nm - JaxSean Jun 15, 07:46
- 1 in 3268. -- nm - Shaun Jun 15, 07:45 8
  - *blink* wow. -- nm - JaxSean Jun 15, 07:46 7
    - must be the spelling. -- nm - loosilu Jun 15, 07:52 2
      - exactly. -- nm - lileve Jun 15, 08:00 1
        
        If I change mine to the regular spelling it's 1 in 678. -- nm - loosilu Jun 15, 08:02
    - I am rare and therefore more valuable than you. -- nm - Shaun Jun 15, 07:50 3
      - Or you're going extinct, like the Dodo. Shaun = Dodo. -- nm - JaxSean Jun 15, 07:53 2
        
        No, it's more like I'm a diamond and you are a piece of limestone. -- nm - Shaun Jun 15, 07:54 1
        
        *grabs a pitchfork to kill off the Dodoshauns* -- nm - JaxSean Jun 15, 07:59
Seems the chances of getting Watership Down on audiobook are slim from the library. May have to actually read that one or skip. Hmmm -- nm - oblique Jun 15, 07:42 2
- Doesn't look like CPL has the audio either - ty97 Jun 15, 07:43 1
  - I ILL audio all the time. None of our libraries have it. Seems like all copies are "on order" from the June 1 release of the MP3-CD perhaps -- nm - oblique Jun 15, 07:57
i doubt Christiano playes the next game -- nm - Danedukenuuk Jun 15, 07:21 6
- The ref was wrong on that call. - Krusty Jun 15, 07:22 5
  - makes up for the yellow he should've gotten earlier for diving against Zokora -- nm - znufrii Jun 15, 07:27 1
    - Good point. -- nm - Krusty Jun 15, 07:30
  - he got the card for bitching around but he could have asked them both to shake hands and let that be it.. - Danedukenuuk Jun 15, 07:24 2
    - True but how did he miss that tackle? It was clearly a foul. -- nm - Krusty Jun 15, 07:26 1
      - yep he should have give Guy the yellow after -- nm - Danedukenuuk Jun 15, 07:26
To Kill a Mocking Bird is 50 years old. Has everyone read it? -- (link) - LMS Jun 15, 07:18 25
- for most American kids, the real questino is "how many times?" -- nm - loosilu Jun 15, 08:03
- I have not. -- nm - kelly Jun 15, 07:57
- Forced to read it in high school and it's likely my favorite 'literary importance' novel. - Will Hunting Jun 15, 07:49 1
  - This would make a good poll. -- nm - Roger More Jun 15, 07:50
- both read it and seen a stage prodcution -- nm - znufrii Jun 15, 07:34 3
  - (and the movie, of course) -- nm - znufrii Jun 15, 07:35 2
    - And played Scout in a stage production - znu si Jun 15, 07:35 1
      - hee! - znufrii Jun 15, 07:36
- Saw a stage production and loved it -- nm - SyrDragon Jun 15, 07:33
- I'm still stunned that this is the only novel she wrote. - ty97 Jun 15, 07:31 4
  - unless Truman Capote wrote it :P -- nm - Dano Jun 15, 07:39
  - How do you top that though? (also, fwiw, she had a major role helping Capote on In Cold Blood.) -- nm - Don Homer Jun 15, 07:38 1
    - Yeah, that's what I mean. It's so amazing, anything else would have paled. - ty97 Jun 15, 07:40
  - How do you top that though? (also, fwiw, she had a major role helping Capote on In Cold Blood.) -- nm - Don Homer Jun 15, 07:37
- Yes - I wonder if I'll be the only person to have read it by choice? -- nm - Roger More Jun 15, 07:28 3
  - I'm presuming I would have, if I hadn't been forced to. - ty97 Jun 15, 07:36 1
    - That's sort of what I meant - it's such a standard school text in the US that I'd expect most people who've read it, read it in school -- nm - Roger More Jun 15, 07:49
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- Nope, but saw the movie -- nm - Redmond Jun 15, 07:25
- Yes actually, but it was one of those forced reads from a high school English class -- nm - Shaun Jun 15, 07:22 2
  - me too, yet it was one I didn't hate (I normally hated forced reads because they were forced reads) -- nm - ty97 Jun 15, 07:32
  - ditto -- nm - JaxSean Jun 15, 07:27
- Nope, never read it. I want to at some point. -- nm - Krusty Jun 15, 07:21 2
  - ST Book Club Nominee! - ty97 Jun 15, 07:32 1
    - Good idea :-) -- nm - Krusty Jun 15, 07:36
The 2010 Teen Choice Award Nominees: Good lord do they nominate every TV show and Movie of the year (they have dozens of categories) - MDH Jun 15, 07:17 7
- that show is 6 hours long. nm -- nm - groiny Jun 15, 07:58
- Teens are stupid -- nm - Redmond Jun 15, 07:21 2
  - Teens are people?????? -- nm - Danedukenuuk Jun 15, 07:25 1
    - Yes. Very, very stupid people. -- nm - sycor Jun 15, 07:27
- *pukes* -- nm - Don Homer Jun 15, 07:18 1
  - My thoughts exactly. Although I did love the random 'Fringe' and 'Burn Notice' nominations -- nm - MDH Jun 15, 07:19
- Twilight will win everything in movies anyway, so it doesn't matter. -- nm - Shaun Jun 15, 07:18
LIR: Don Homer. There's a big release of "Wave 4" from Microsoft for their Live products. I expect many of them to change at that time -- nm - oblique Jun 15, 07:13
And the CBC World Cup feed has finally choked. -- nm - Reagen Jun 15, 07:12
In which decade was your first name most popular - prayformojo Jun 15, 07:11 28
- 1970s. (more specifically, the year I was born. heh.) -- nm - kelly Jun 15, 07:59
- 1880s. -- nm - loosilu Jun 15, 07:54
- So my name is the newest name -- nm - Gwaahjo Jun 15, 07:46 1
  - and mine is the oldest. -- nm - loosilu Jun 15, 08:05
- Most popular from 1890's to about 1960....stilled ranked high -- nm - Walt_Disney Jun 15, 07:39
- the highest peaks were the 1950s and 1970s -- nm - tRuMaN Jun 15, 07:38
- 1930s -- nm - Ender Jun 15, 07:31
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- 1980s -- nm - Redmond Jun 15, 07:25
- 1910's - I thought it would be 3000BC. -- nm - LMS Jun 15, 07:22 1
  - heh -- nm - prayformojo Jun 15, 07:24
- 1960s (specifically late 1960s) -- nm - MDH Jun 15, 07:19
- The late 1940's. -- nm - Krusty Jun 15, 07:18
- 1980's - amoxy Jun 15, 07:18
- 1960s. -- nm - Callisto Jun 15, 07:17
- 1950s -- nm - Inigo Jun 15, 07:16
- 70s, specifically late 70s, which is the likely reason why I have my name spelled as it it. -- nm - Shaun Jun 15, 07:15 1
  - Shaun Cassidy...hehe. -- nm - Shaun Jun 15, 07:16
- 1890. This probably has something to do with Bejamin Harrison -- nm - Roger More Jun 15, 07:15
- it always amuses me that Wolfram Alpha doesn't understand its own suggested formats. -- nm - Reagen Jun 15, 07:14
- 70s which makes since since that's when I was born. -- nm - sycor Jun 15, 07:14
- Looks like the 80's. 1 in 399 (0.25%) are named Sean. -- nm - JaxSean Jun 15, 07:13 2
  - nmb Jaxie - ST Loser - Epiphany Jun 15, 07:14 1
    - hee -- nm - JaxSean Jun 15, 07:26
- peaked in roughly 1967, almost 1 in 20, still near the top though. -- nm - Don Homer Jun 15, 07:12
- Wolfram|Alpha doesn't know how to interpret your input -- nm - Danedukenuuk Jun 15, 07:12
- 1840's - I am kidding. I just made that up. -- nm - Epiphany Jun 15, 07:12
- 2000s -- nm - Gwaahjo Jun 15, 07:12
wow -- nm - Danedukenuuk Jun 15, 07:10
Katy Perry boobs! -- nm - Shaun Jun 15, 07:08 1
- they're my first my last my everything? -- nm - Danedukenuuk Jun 15, 07:09

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