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Seriously? someone in trolling in the book club nominations? How lame. -- nm - ty97 Jul 7, 11:15 4
- uh, that sounds odd. Are they not identifying themselves? -- nm - Beryllium Jul 7, 11:16 3
  - How did they bypass the security systems? -- nm - Roger More Jul 7, 11:17 2
    - It's an open link, but it's someone here doing it, because they are using STer's names are part of the 'joke' -- nm - ty97 Jul 7, 11:18 1
      - I was joking :) But I'd assumed it was with a joke nick, like Alvin Greene -- nm - Roger More Jul 7, 11:21
If I have an Access query that has 90k records, how can I export this to Excel 2003? -- nm - Will Hunting Jul 7, 11:11 9
- Dump the results into a table with an ID field, then pull the top 65,000 IDs, then the remaining 25k and put them into two pages in the workbook? -- nm - JaxSean Jul 7, 11:16 2
  - If you order the result set, you can do the same thing using SQL offset parameters, I think -- nm - Beryllium Jul 7, 11:16 1
    - I know sql server doesn't have a row ID built-in, but is there a way to pull the "bottom 25000" records? - JaxSean Jul 7, 11:18
- Excel 2003 has a row limit of 65,536 - you'll need to use multiple sheets. -- nm - decline Jul 7, 11:15 1
  - if you have Excel 2007, the row limit goes to 1,048,576 -- nm - decline Jul 7, 11:16
- I dont think you can, Excel 2003 is limited to 65k (or something around there) - Jovian Jul 7, 11:13
- Excel 2003 still has the line limits? Hrmph. Well, you could find some way of paginating it or offsetting it and then have several sheets per workbook - Beryllium Jul 7, 11:12
- can you export to Notepad first and then put it in chunks to Excel? - Mel Profit Jul 7, 11:12 1
  - the print preview thingie might work that way, too. nm but: -- (link) - b. Jul 7, 11:14
The guaranteed money is $34.8 million, a new record for an offensive lineman, surpassing the $30 million in guaranteed money that the Miami Dolphins.. - Will Hunting Jul 7, 11:09 2
- (more) Money for retired NFL players and a rookie salary limit are two of the biggest things for the next NFL CBA -- nm - flavorize Jul 7, 11:16
- It's interesting in that D'Brick had been considered a bust after his first two seasons. -- nm - David Jul 7, 11:14
i'm watching Psycho (the original) for the first time in maybe 20 years. Anthony Perkins was actually sort of geeky cute. - Andie Jul 7, 11:06 2
- Speaking of which, Cinemax is doing a HD Hitchcock month with several classics shown. -- nm - David Jul 7, 11:10
- Mother wouldn't like you talking about him in that way. -- nm - Roger More Jul 7, 11:09
Pixie Watch: Day 6 -- nm - Black Rabbit Jul 7, 11:03 1
- I e-mailed him yesterday evening, no reply. -- nm - James Bond (aka Igor) Jul 7, 11:13
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- Details? -- nm - Will Hunting Jul 7, 11:15 3
  - ML trades Tom Brady and CJ for Aaron Rodgers and 1-2. -- nm - David Jul 7, 11:16 2
    - So.....he got robbed? -- nm - Will Hunting Jul 7, 11:18
    - Welcome to the world of BF Magetron owners. -- nm - Shaun Jul 7, 11:17
- "what a fantastic goal" -- nm - Danedukenuuk Jul 7, 11:15
- "Gabrielle Reece in Playboy" (nm) - musubi Jul 7, 11:01 2
  - nothing like a naked chick with a dude face to make musubi's day. -- nm - TFox Jul 7, 11:02 1
    - Well, what can I say, penis just doesn't do it for me the way it does for you. (nm) - musubi Jul 7, 11:03
Reminder: Nominate a book for August -- (link) - ty97 Jul 7, 10:55 3
- done. and if it gets picked, ill join the club! Yea I know I know, you would be so honored. -- nm - Jovian Jul 7, 11:12 1
  - Boo! Fair weather book club friend! -- nm - Roger More Jul 7, 11:14
- done -- nm - Beaker Jul 7, 10:59
one of my favorite neighborhood buildings is getting a paint job. :( -- (link) - znufrii Jul 7, 10:55
For all you hotties... -- (link) - oblique Jul 7, 10:53
Warehouse 13 spoilers from last nights season premiere - peglegpete Jul 7, 10:52 1
- Agreed. -- nm - Ender Jul 7, 11:00
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- this is a weird time for them to IPO. -- nm - loosilu Jul 7, 11:08
- I hadn't even heard of them pre-IPO -- nm - ty97 Jul 7, 10:58 1
  - you'd never heard of the Tesla Roadster? Man, that's a shame. Fun car. -- nm - Nathan Ford si Jul 7, 11:07
- now there's a shock... - x Jul 7, 10:56 4
  - well, hopefully the CEO sold a bunch of his shares before the selloff and got himself out of hock -- nm - decline Jul 7, 11:00
  - but, hyde! the stock market works off of logic! It's not random gambling! -- nm - ty97 Jul 7, 10:59 2
    - over time, markets are generally at least OK at valuing companies. that it's freefalling is a good example of reasonable market equilibrium..... - x Jul 7, 11:04 1
      - yeah, your IM is why I hate that the local news has a live report ten minutes after the market opens - ty97 Jul 7, 11:09
- tell it to Google's IPO -- nm - Epiphany Jul 7, 10:52
- My advice: Wait for it to drop precariously low, grab a few shares, and watch it pick up again when they ship their sedan. - Beryllium Jul 7, 10:51 2
  - That was my plan all along. -- nm - Black Rabbit Jul 7, 11:14
  - *ding* and it has a cool name! - Epiphany Jul 7, 10:53
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RE: Big Picture. I *love* #33, the infinity pool. And #40 is my new desktop. -- nm - loosilu Jul 7, 10:43
Hump Day Ruined Stars Poll: Are there any "stars" that might have once been Laminated List -worthy but now aren't (to most), but you'd still do? - JaxSean Jul 7, 10:42 57
- Tia Carrere still does it for me as I realized in watching a recent Iron Chef. -- nm - David Jul 7, 11:09
- Oh, I just thought of one: Mariah Carey. (nm) - musubi Jul 7, 11:02 2
  - she got ruined and then unruined. -- nm - TFox Jul 7, 11:10 1
    - Uh, she has *always* been ruined. -- nm - Black Rabbit Jul 7, 11:16
- I've already mentioned LiLo. I think Paula Abdul makes this list as well. -- nm - Fuzzy Jul 7, 10:53
- David Carr (who?) -- nm - samara Jul 7, 10:52 2
  - David Carradine jumped in to my head for a minute there. -- nm - JaxSean Jul 7, 10:59 1
    - i like to get crazy...but not that crazy. -- nm - samara Jul 7, 11:15
- Colin Farrell - can dudes even make this list? - Epiphany Jul 7, 10:51 4
  - Farrell almost seems to have un-ruined himself a bit that last few years. - ty97 Jul 7, 10:53 3
    - best bounce back from a sex tape - ever! - Epiphany Jul 7, 10:54
    - I was going to say, the last time I saw him, he looked like he "cleaned up well." -- nm - JaxSean Jul 7, 10:54
    - In Bruges helped -- nm - Beryllium Jul 7, 10:53
- Tori Welles still has a squirtin' coming to her. -- nm - Dr.Vermin Jul 7, 10:51 2
  - On this, we are of an accord. -- nm - David Jul 7, 11:06
  - (I have no idea what she looks like nowadays.) -- nm - JaxSean Jul 7, 11:00
- I'm trying to think of an answer but can't think of many 'ruined men'. I think we ruin our women more. - ty97 Jul 7, 10:49 6
  - what about the cheaters? Dean McDermott ( Tori Spelling's hubby) Eddie Cibrian ( Leann Rhymes stole him) and Tiger Woods? -- nm - Epiphany Jul 7, 10:56 2
    - What's a Dean McDermott? -- nm - David Jul 7, 11:15
    - Dean slept with the Spelling hag, do you really have to ask? - ty97 Jul 7, 11:00
  - Sulu -- nm - peglegpete Jul 7, 10:53
  - Tom Cruise? -- nm - Shaun Jul 7, 10:52
  - mel "sugartits" gibson! -- nm - Beryllium Jul 7, 10:50
- Kim Novak, Dianna Rigg, Yvonne Craig, -- nm - peglegpete Jul 7, 10:47 5
  - Your Laminated List predates the invention of lamination -- nm - prayformojo Jul 7, 10:49 4
    - I'm surprised he didn't mention Clara Bow or Mary Pickford -- nm - Roger More Jul 7, 10:55 1
      - they're dead. nameing them would be just creepy :) -- nm - peglegpete Jul 7, 11:00
    - *laughing* -- nm - JaxSean Jul 7, 10:54
    - don't fuck with Batgirl! - peglegpete Jul 7, 10:50
- Tara Reid -- nm - amoxy Jul 7, 10:46 2
  - Never mind, I didn't read it all - amoxy Jul 7, 10:46 1
    - Meh. She'd be a wild night, that's for sure. -- nm - JaxSean Jul 7, 10:48
- Britney, Paris, Angelina -- nm - Jim Jul 7, 10:44 17
  - One of these things is not like the others. -- nm - loosilu Jul 7, 10:48
  - I will say Angie too. She's not LLIST for me anymore, but damn oh man... -- nm - Shaun Jul 7, 10:46
  - I'm curious: How is Angelina 'ruined'? - ty97 Jul 7, 10:45 14
    - She was never ruined for me. But a lot of people got turned off by the Billy Bob thing. the kissing her brother thing. Etc... -- nm - Jim Jul 7, 10:47 12
      - those weren't the worst for me. that was the entirely classless photo spread with brad and her so soon after brad and jen's breakup. they both got - b. Jul 7, 10:56 7
        
        but that did nothing to affect her hotness. In fact, it basically cemented it. :) -- nm - Jim Jul 7, 10:59 1
        
        I can't so easily separate the person from the behavior, in a lust kind of way anyway. -- nm - b. Jul 7, 11:01
        
        my classless item was when they both denied they met/fell in love on the movie set - of course they did - why not admit it??! - Epiphany Jul 7, 10:57 4
        
        We need Stacy's expert analysis on what really happened. -- nm - Shaun Jul 7, 11:08
        
        I suspect because admitting it would cost Brad money in the divorce. -- nm - loosilu Jul 7, 11:07 1
        
        because he would have admitted to adultery. -- nm - loosilu Jul 7, 11:09
        
        yah, that stuff didn't help either; but it wasn't quite as in-your-face. -- nm - b. Jul 7, 10:59
      - billy bob, ruined, definitely. definitely. -- nm - Beryllium Jul 7, 10:49
      - I must've missed the brother kiss thing - ty97 Jul 7, 10:48 2
        
        SNL did a great skit on it -- nm - Beaker Jul 7, 10:52
        
        I think it was at the Oscars...she was a little too loving with her brother for some people. -- nm - Jim Jul 7, 10:51
    - the incest didn;t help -- nm - Beaker Jul 7, 10:46
- (Jenna Jameson is my answer.) -- nm - JaxSean Jul 7, 10:43 4
  - DQ -- Pr0n stars are ineligible for the LLIST. - Fuzzy Jul 7, 10:46 3
    - No they aren't. In fact, there is always at least one pr0n star on my list. -- nm - JaxSean Jul 7, 10:47 2
      - Sasha Grey currently? -- nm - Will Hunting Jul 7, 11:12 1
        
        Tori Black. -- nm - JaxSean Jul 7, 11:16
- Jennifer Aniston -- nm - ty97 Jul 7, 10:43
- Britney Spears -- nm - Beaker Jul 7, 10:42
Once again, the Times has a pretty cool baseball graphic. This time on The Phenom Strasburg (link) - musubi Jul 7, 10:41 2
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  - Oh noes! - musubi Jul 7, 10:49
Red vs Blue visits Blood Gulch in Halo: Reach. Ahh... memories. But so much better. -- (link) - Mop (219 lbs) Jul 7, 10:41 3
- Are they doing anything for "Bungie Day?" -- nm - Shaun Jul 7, 10:41 2
  - When is that? The end of the video suggests they're doing something for Comic-Con. -- nm - Mop (219 lbs) Jul 7, 10:42 1
    - Today. 7/7. -- nm - Shaun Jul 7, 10:45
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It's interesting how few services we can offer when most of our servers are offline. -- nm - mara Jul 7, 10:35 8
- Browse, patrons! -- nm - landbeck Jul 7, 10:39 1
  - It really is fun to randomly browse sections of the NF stacks sometimes -- nm - ty97 Jul 7, 10:40
- Good thing you have the hole DDC system memorized, down to three decimal places. -- nm - ty97 Jul 7, 10:37 1
  - I should note - -ue Jul 7, 10:39
- who's obsolete now, bitches! -- nm - card catalogue Jul 7, 10:36 3
  - Totally. -- nm - mara Jul 7, 10:38
  - I am -- nm - -ue Jul 7, 10:37 1
    - hee -- nm - JaxSean Jul 7, 10:38
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- How did this guy win a primary again? -- nm - znufrii Jul 7, 10:54
- That'll create lots of jobs in China -- nm - Roger More Jul 7, 10:43
- Thank you, South Carolina. -- nm - The Daily Show Jul 7, 10:37
- wow -- nm - Beaker Jul 7, 10:36
- He just wants to reach out and touch the children. -- nm - Mop (219 lbs) Jul 7, 10:35
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- "I don't really have anything to say. I just bet DWade that I could get ESPN to do this." -- nm - pmb Jul 7, 10:50 3
  - ha! -- nm - b. Jul 7, 11:04
  - I think this one wins. (nm) - musubi Jul 7, 10:51 1
    - Yup. -- nm - David Jul 7, 11:04
- "Call me LeBrenda now." -- nm - Reagen Jul 7, 10:41
- "I've decided to have a sex-change operation and take over the WNBA." -- nm - Will Hunting Jul 7, 10:41
- "I've killed a lot of old people in my time. And I'm not above doing it again...wait wrong speech" -- nm - Beaker Jul 7, 10:39
- I'm running off to Sweden with Elin Woods - suck it Tiger! -- nm - Epiphany Jul 7, 10:37 1
  - This is much better without the quotes. (nm) - Fuzzy Jul 7, 10:42
- SanDimasHighSchoolFootballRules! -- nm - prayformojo Jul 7, 10:34
- "I've decided to remain with Cleveland, but will be switching to baseball. You can see me next year with the AA Akron Aeros." -- nm - Ender Jul 7, 10:33
- "I'm announcing my retirement to pursue my first real love, the world of competitive ballroom dancing." (nm) - musubi Jul 7, 10:33 2
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    - Truly, the People's Champion. (nm) - musubi Jul 7, 10:40
- "Really, the Italian League made the best offer, and I've always wanted to see Rome." -- nm - Reagen Jul 7, 10:31
- YESSSS!...ahh man :( -- nm - Darko Jul 7, 10:30
from the backboards, movie franchises with at least 3 films ... we overlooked an obvie ... Hellraiser :) -- nm - i'm not dead yet ! Jul 7, 10:29 3
- Not sure if these were listed: Star Trek, James Bond, High School Musical (does this count? did they have theatrical releases?) The Muppet movies -- nm - Fuzzy Jul 7, 10:40
- to this day - Pinhead is a creep mo/fo -- nm - Epiphany Jul 7, 10:36 1
  - i still think he's one of the baddest movie bad guys -- nm - i'm not dead yet ! Jul 7, 10:45
Hey, ESPN3... get with the program!!! -- nm - Espa�a Jul 7, 10:28 2
- There we go. Started at 10:30 sharp. -- nm - Espa�a Jul 7, 10:33 1
  - good thing you were on them, then! -- nm - Reagen Jul 7, 10:34

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