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f'in laker parade - chuckles Jun 21, 09:50
Fav quote of the day: "Ban Football (Soccer) from Vuvuzela Concerts" -- nm - MDH Jun 21, 09:46 8
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  - I'll admit that I will be mildly disappointed if my brother doesn't bring one back for us. -- nm - TFox Jun 21, 09:52
  - The PR guys for that stunt should be beaten and sealed room with the noise created by that garbage. - Will Hunting Jun 21, 09:50
  - I think Vuvuzelas and Shakira are gaining the most from the World Cup this year -- nm - MDH Jun 21, 09:49
  - "boost" attendance? That would be the one day I'd definitely *not* go. -- nm - JaxSean Jun 21, 09:49 3
    - On the hand, I would go just to get one. Seriously. - MDH Jun 21, 09:50 1
      - I very rarely go to live sporting events. If (a) these start getting popular, I'll go to less. And (b), if someone is blowing one of them by my ear, - JaxSean Jun 21, 09:54
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I like our mailman. He just knocked on the door so he could give me the mail in person, since my community college diploma was in there. - kelly Jun 21, 09:46 4
- He's not the doorman, but what the hell -- go for it! -- nm - Fuzzy Jun 21, 09:50
- You should have opened it and yelled "1999?! Fucking post office. Thanks a million for the prompt service, asshole." - TFox Jun 21, 09:47 1
  - nice. heheh -- nm - Beryllium Jun 21, 09:50
- That's nice of him -- nm - MDH Jun 21, 09:46
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- must have been one hard flag to pull off -- nm - chuckles Jun 21, 09:46
- Ouch...that sucks. -- nm - Jim Jun 21, 09:45
Who (along with TFox and ty97) wants to read Ulysses? - Callisto Jun 21, 09:39 6
- I am up for the attempt -- nm - Epiphany Jun 21, 09:51
- once was enough. good luck. (totally worth it though) -- nm - mafic Jun 21, 09:48
- On a related note, I requested the audio lectures from the Learning Company on Ulysses from my library the other day. - TFox Jun 21, 09:44
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- Didn't Apple ban it or something? -- nm - Black Rabbit Jun 21, 09:43
- I'm in. -- nm - znufrii Jun 21, 09:41
from b2: Reagan, movies I "knew" I would love and were disappointed. Happening A LOT lately. Alice, Wimpy Kid, and Where the Wild Things Are. - Qale Jun 21, 09:36 13
- where the wild things are was totally not what I expected, but I still really enjoyed it. - mafic Jun 21, 09:41 1
  - Agreed. -- nm - JaxSean Jun 21, 09:44
- I thought WTWTA was awful initially, but it grows on me upon reflection. - Callisto Jun 21, 09:40 4
  - WTWTA was more creative differences I guess for me. But Alice was so effing boring and vapid and Wimpy Kid impressively mean spirited. - Qale Jun 21, 09:44 3
    - Alice was forgettable. -- nm - JaxSean Jun 21, 09:45 2
      - No way. Hard to forget something you wanted so bad. That's like forgetting Episode 1. It can't be done. -- nm - Qale Jun 21, 09:47 1
        
        I remember Depp's performance. That's about it. -- nm - JaxSean Jun 21, 09:53
- How did spell that wrong, I kept the other window open just to make sure I wouldn't! I'm sorry. -- nm - Qale Jun 21, 09:36 5
  - How hard can it be? - Black Rabbit Jun 21, 09:43 1
    - Booyaka booyaka! Six-One-Nine! -- nm - Qale Jun 21, 09:45
  - I need to develop some sort of mnemonic for people. -- nm - Reagen Jun 21, 09:38 2
    - As big of a fan boy for BOP as I am, you'd think I'd get it right. I could just start calling you Openers Boy. -- nm - Qale Jun 21, 09:42
    - I've just started to pronounce it differently so I don't misspell it. "Reeghen" -- nm - TWuG Jun 21, 09:40
Biggest Loser chart is missing quite a few entires. Whomever tweaked the chart... THANK YOU! It's awesome! -- nm - Mop (221 lbs) Jun 21, 09:33 1
- I think we can tweak the chart again once this week's entries are (mostly) full. -- nm - JaxSean Jun 21, 09:37
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~Oh Sookie - we'll do it in the day time - Bill won't know a thing~ - Epiphany Jun 21, 09:28
Cover letters suck. Just give me the damn job. -- nm - Dano Jun 21, 09:26 11
- I am uniquely qualified, yadda, yadda, yadda, [repeat their mission statement], yadda, yadda, yadda, will be an asset, yadda, yadda, yadda, Sincerely, -- nm - Dano Jun 21, 09:54
- I typically ignore coverletters and objectives on a resume. I expect the objective to be some fabrication, so why bother? -- nm - Fuzzy Jun 21, 09:49 4
  - I'm very anti-objective. I don't know why people like them so much. - TFox Jun 21, 09:50 3
    - Exactly! -- nm - Fuzzy Jun 21, 09:52
    - To get paid. -- nm - Will Hunting Jun 21, 09:52
    - Objective: To earn enough money to retire comfortably and program code as a hobby from my luxury yacht. -- nm - Beryllium Jun 21, 09:51
- when hiring, I mostly skip them anyway. depends on the job. sometimes I like to know people can write coherently. -- nm - mafic Jun 21, 09:37
- they're so pointless. -- nm - Reagen Jun 21, 09:32
- That should be your cover letter. -- nm - pmb Jun 21, 09:28 2
  - It would be amusing to see someone try to get hired that way. -- nm - Beryllium (iPhone) Jun 21, 09:31
  - It's stunning this approach hasn't worked yet. -- nm - Mop (221 lbs) Jun 21, 09:31
Weekend Simpsons HWDYKs from Roger More: Last Exit to Springfield and Itchy and Scratchy: The Movie -- (link) - prayformojo Jun 21, 09:23
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- I really need to look and see what you little guys are up to there. -- nm - Black Rabbit Jun 21, 09:33
- what what, in the butt. -- nm - TFox Jun 21, 09:24
From BB - Toys3 - A. Spoils - pmb Jun 21, 09:15
Downtown la..everyone has come out of the woodwork for the lakers parade. Taken me 2 hours to get into work. -- nm - Budice Jun 21, 09:10
Researchers from Yale University announced today that kids think food tastes better when its marketed with a cartoon. -- (link) - Don Homer Jun 21, 09:08 4
- Missed opportunity not having Handsome Dan deliver this news. -- nm - HdnAgnda Jun 21, 09:13
- *I* think food tastes better when the food is marketed with a fireworks factory -- nm - Beryllium Jun 21, 09:09 2
  - I think food tastes better when it's marketed with a hot shirtless man. -- nm - Dano Jun 21, 09:11 1
    - 's/man/woman/g' -- nm - decline Jun 21, 09:12
you know there is grammer bit**iness, and there is just being anal. - tRuMaN Jun 21, 09:06 16
- How many people use them? It may be easier for you to set an autocorrect for each person and call it done. - Fuzzy Jun 21, 09:42
- Every writer ever has had to deal with irrational editing decisions. -- nm - Reagen Jun 21, 09:31
- on a related note, I tried to correct "proforma" to "pro forma" for my first manager here.... - TFox Jun 21, 09:26 4
  - heh. -- nm - tRuMaN Jun 21, 09:31
  - Yeah. Continue to look stupid. Changing it would only make you look like you can recognize errors and correct them. Can't have that. -- nm - TWuG Jun 21, 09:29 1
    - BP sez: "Wait, that's wrong? Well, if that's wrong, we don't want to be right!" -- nm - Beryllium Jun 21, 09:39
  - Tards -- nm - Will Hunting Jun 21, 09:27
- Can you point to a Style Guide? or Shrunk & White for a resolution... - OAE Jun 21, 09:25 1
  - i mentioned it to him, his rationale "its a personal pet peeve, so fix it" -- nm - tRuMaN Jun 21, 09:26
- You can't get fired soon enough. -- nm - Mop (221 lbs) Jun 21, 09:20
- It's a shame you work in a small company, because there'll never be a chance you'll appear on Undercover Boss -- nm - Roger More Jun 21, 09:08 1
  - yeah, no tv executive would allow this man on any show that they wanted to seem credible. -- nm - tRuMaN Jun 21, 09:14
- ctrl+F, replace all ! -- nm - Hotkiss Jun 21, 09:07 1
  - yeah sure, i just need to find a way for that to work across word, excel, txt, and wordperfect files at once. - tRuMaN Jun 21, 09:11
- grammar. -- nm - it was worth it. si Jun 21, 09:07 1
  - hmm, I might have messed that up :) -- nm - Beryllium Jun 21, 09:07
Gabourey Sidibe's mom on America's Got Talent... I wasn't optimistic. -- (link) - Mop (221 lbs) Jun 21, 09:03 3
- spoils - Beryllium Jun 21, 09:05 2
  - Wouldn't you have thought Gabby would have been there for her mom? -- nm - Jim Jun 21, 09:05 1
    - she might have been filming (Yelling to the Sky might not have wrapped at that time) -- nm - Beryllium Jun 21, 09:06
Between England and France, which has had the more disappointing World Cup so far - prayformojo Jun 21, 09:02 9
- France, they won't even advance out of the non-seeded group -- nm - ceregon Jun 21, 09:15
- France -- nm - Stephen (Status Seeker) Jun 21, 09:08
- south africa -- nm - tRuMaN Jun 21, 09:06
- Both teams have self-combusted, but probably France which has next-to-no chance of making it to the next round -- nm - Roger More Jun 21, 09:05
- Have to include Spain in the discussion too, I think. -- nm - Don Homer Jun 21, 09:05 1
  - if they smoke Honduras all is well again. -- nm - Reagen Jun 21, 09:06
- Between this years antics and Zidane's head butt last time I'm thinking the French team needs their own reality TV show. - Diva Jun 21, 09:04
- France -- nm - JD Jun 21, 09:03
- France. England still controls it's own destiny -- nm - Will Hunting Jun 21, 09:03
We've seen the production pictures, have we seen the teaser to Smurfs? -- (link) - Mop (221 lbs) Jun 21, 09:02
~Well we're the people from Enpro and the call us the best. If you've got hazardous waste, well we clean up the mess. Call 1-800-926-1102. Yeah!~ -- nm - CQ Jun 21, 08:56
well, that was fun. - znufrii Jun 21, 08:55
Does Toy Story 3 have a trailer for the next Pixar movie at the start? -- nm - Mop (221 lbs) Jun 21, 08:54 5
- No, but the short before the film is *awesome*. - JaxSean Jun 21, 08:57 3
  - Shown only @ 3D IMAX screens? I saw it there. -- nm - OAE Jun 21, 09:33 1
    - I saw it in regular 3d, so no, I think it's before all of them. -- nm - JaxSean Jun 21, 09:43
  - Amen and amen. "Day and Night" is possibly the most... - OAE Jun 21, 09:32
- mine did not (and i was at disney's own theater) -- nm - chuckles Jun 21, 08:55
My wife informs me that a kid just brought an unopened Hogwart's Lego Castle to daycare to share. -- nm - Mop (221 lbs) Jun 21, 08:53 1
- Well it is almost lunch. -- nm - HdnAgnda Jun 21, 08:54
Hello, Mr & Ms. Ceregon. This is an intervention. Have a seat. - Slackertalk (the community that cares) Jun 21, 08:52 3
- I heard Winter's Bone was good. -- nm - Diva Jun 21, 09:00 1
  - Yes, I've heard the actress playing the main character is very good as well. -- nm - HdnAgnda Jun 21, 09:16
- Hah! I'm going to call her that from now on. -- nm - ceregon Jun 21, 08:56
I once shot a man in Reno just to watch him die. But I missed and hit his foot. Now I stay up at night living in fear. Topeka Kansas, you're on! -- nm - Larry King Jun 21, 08:52
ST Poll # Monday: What are you reading - ty97 Jun 21, 08:51 28
- Fevre Dream - George RR Martin -- nm - TWuG Jun 21, 09:26
- "Impact" Douglas Preston, just finished "Altar of Eden" James Rollins -- nm - MDH Jun 21, 09:23 1
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- "How to Train Your Dragon" Cowell -- nm - SyrDragon Jun 21, 09:21
- Just finished Horns, onto Cemetery Dance -- nm - Beaker Jun 21, 09:18 1
  - also reading: The Raid (the story of the Song Tay rescue during the Vietnam War) -- nm - Beaker Jun 21, 09:25
- About to start Up In Honey's Room by Elmore Leonard. -- nm - LMS Jun 21, 09:14
- "call me by your name" by Andre Aciman -- nm - Dano Jun 21, 09:05
- finished The Strain last week. - znufrii Jun 21, 09:00
- The Triumph of Caesar by Steven Saylor -- nm - Stephen (Status Seeker) Jun 21, 08:59
- The short second life of Bree Tanner - Eclipse Novella - Epiphany Jun 21, 08:58 5
  - We bought this and Christina read it. It's next on my list after I finish the current book. -- nm - JaxSean Jun 21, 09:01 4
    - I am reading it out loud at night - Epiphany Jun 21, 09:08 3
      - Sometimes I read to SheFox at night, generally from her Hans Christian Anderson book. -- nm - TFox Jun 21, 09:25
      - I like this. May have to co-opt (steal) this idea. -- nm - Diva Jun 21, 09:14 1
        
        we go through about 30 pages a night - also good for road trips -- nm - Epiphany Jun 21, 09:16
- The Man in the High Castle -- nm - Jovian Jun 21, 08:58
- I rec'd the first copy off the press of this book by the author who also inscribed it for me: - Diva Jun 21, 08:57
- A Clive Cussler book in the Kurt Austin series. - Will Hunting Jun 21, 08:55
- The Passage by Justin Cronin -- nm - ceregon Jun 21, 08:54 1
  - I'm about 80% through this. -- nm - decline Jun 21, 08:57
- The Girl Who Played With Fire -- nm - JD Jun 21, 08:54
- Ulysses -- nm - TFox Jun 21, 08:52 2
  - teacher's pet! - ty97 Jun 21, 08:54 1
    - you want me to get a head start, with everything i have going on. trust me. -- nm - TFox Jun 21, 09:04
- In The Woods by Tana French -- nm - CQ Jun 21, 08:52 1
  - I really enjoyed this book. -- nm - decline Jun 21, 09:06
- The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest. Made some good progress Saturday night. -- nm - JaxSean Jun 21, 08:52
Anyone know if Armond White is a professional contrarian? -- nm - Shaun Jun 21, 08:51 6
- You tell me...linky -- (link) - Jim Jun 21, 09:04 [Image] 5
  - There are 2 movies on his good list that I even sorta like. - Will Hunting Jun 21, 09:16 2
    - I'm wondering if he didn't try to get a job with Disney or Pixar at some point, and not get it. - Jim Jun 21, 09:17 1
      - I think it's more likely that he figured the easiest way to get publicity is to be contrarian and boom; there ya go. - Will Hunting Jun 21, 09:19
  - Though in fairness, some movies on the bad list *are* quite bad. -- nm - Don Homer Jun 21, 09:09
  - Good lord what a tard. -- nm - Shaun Jun 21, 09:05
Google Wave is now out of beta! -- (link) - Don Homer Jun 21, 08:50 1
- all six users must have agreed on a set of features. -- nm - TFox Jun 21, 08:52
hmm, every time I call UPS to redirect my shipment, the number is busy -- nm - Beryllium Jun 21, 08:50 3
- obviously, its a conspiracy of cartographers. -- nm - tRuMaN Jun 21, 08:52 2
  - and now the xbox won't deliver until tomorrow because of the redirect ... but I have shit to do tomorrow during work. grr. -- nm - Beryllium Jun 21, 09:00 1
    - (Gotta take the bus at lunch to pick up the car to get the car seat inspected by the fire department.) -- nm - Beryllium Jun 21, 09:02

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