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LYC but could you wish me luck on a medical scan this afternoon? TIA -- nm - Epiphany Aug 3, 09:50 5
- I hope the technician is a hottie. -- nm - Dano Aug 3, 09:53
- You'll be aces and gearing up for your next trip to Hedonism 3 in no time. -- nm - ESPN Aug 3, 09:52 1
  - ESPN's definition of sports keeps expanding. -- nm - ty97 Aug 3, 09:55
- Good luck. Hopefully everything is where it should be in the right quantities. -- nm - Will Hunting Aug 3, 09:51
- *fingers and toes and legs and arms and eyes crossed* -- nm - ty97 Aug 3, 09:50
lost John Ford silent film to debut at the MPAA on Sept. 1 -- (link) - chuckles Aug 3, 09:49
Google now supports multiple account logins with switcher -- (link) - budice Aug 3, 09:49 2
- Here's the "switcher" activation page at Google. -- (link) - Mop Aug 3, 09:58
- sweet. this will end a battle at home. -- nm - Reagen Aug 3, 09:54
Justin Bieber 3D movie set for VD 2011 -- (link) - oblique Aug 3, 09:46 2
- He is also, at the ripe of age of 16, writing his memoirs - decline Aug 3, 09:49 1
  - Chapter 2 ... "Then I hit puberty" ... - i'm not dead yet ! Aug 3, 09:59
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- The Vikings plan to spend the day changing his mind. - ESPN Aug 3, 09:51
- It feels like we've reached the point where the mocking of the ridiculousness of the coverage = the ridiculousness of the coverage. (nm) - musubi Aug 3, 09:47 1
  - i'm sure espn's internals consistently show huge interest on the story. i'd cover it into the ground too if i were them....nm - xi Aug 3, 09:51
so have the bachelorette and her one true love broken up yet? -- nm - chuckles Aug 3, 09:41
Next time on a very special episode of Clone High... -- nm - David Aug 3, 09:40 8
- I love the Hot Dumpster Teen Who May or May Not Be Singing Sensation Mandy Moore -- nm - prayformojo Aug 3, 09:46 3
  - Ashley Angel! -- nm - Reagen Aug 3, 09:47 2
    - So we meet again, Underage Drinking. -- nm - David Aug 3, 09:48 1
      - ~G Spot/rocks the G Spot~ -- nm - Reagen Aug 3, 09:57
- hey, can you find me the model number I emailed you about? - Callisto Aug 3, 09:44 3
  - I don't know what you're talking about. The dryer? The tv? The TiVo? - David Aug 3, 09:47 2
    - the dryer - the receipt is in the top drawer of the book table and has the number on it. - Callisto Aug 3, 09:48 1
      - You're gonna smell like hot dogs! - ESPN Aug 3, 09:58
*headdesk* - znufrii Aug 3, 09:38 5
- *doodles a unicorn on the cover* -- nm - oblique Aug 3, 09:45
- That's fine. -- nm - Mop Aug 3, 09:44
- Just make sure to use the TPS cover sheets -- nm - amoxy Aug 3, 09:40
- Are there other similar, even slightly similar, reports that you *are* doing something with? -- nm - mara Aug 3, 09:39 1
  - not really. - znufrii Aug 3, 09:43
Sharron Angle "The Press should ask questions we want to answer" -- (link) - amoxy Aug 3, 09:38 7
- The Democrats had Martha Coakley. The GOP gives us Sharron Angle. -- nm - Mop Aug 3, 09:53
- Reading the article, she (or her advisors) are definitely shrewd. The know where they can/not gain traction and are focusing there. - ty97 Aug 3, 09:47
- *giggles like a school girl* -- nm - Harry Reid Aug 3, 09:46
- well, natually, but we don't want you to come right out and say it. -- nm - mainstream news media Aug 3, 09:45 1
  - but that only happens when we need you more than you need us... -- nm - mainstream news media Aug 3, 09:49
- the perfect answer for anyone working for Dr. Goebbels -- nm - Danedukenuuk Aug 3, 09:44
- *reads, realizes that's an exact quote, not a paraphase* Whoa. -- nm - mara Aug 3, 09:41
Did the Natinals (sic) steal their hat logo? (link) - musubi Aug 3, 09:36 [Image] 1
- Clearly not. (nm) - Will Hunting Aug 3, 09:54
Superman saves family from foreclosure -- (link) - chuckles Aug 3, 09:34 3
- with one fell swoop, a boring comic superhero outperforms hamp...nm - xi Aug 3, 09:43 1
  - look out, goldman sachs. you're next! -- nm - chuckles Aug 3, 09:44
- that's a great story, but here is what Superman is only really capable of.... -- (link) - Remlik Aug 3, 09:40
Knife goes in. Guts come out. -- nm - David Aug 3, 09:33 1
- your game shows reward knowledge. Ours punish ignorance! -- nm - Reagen Aug 3, 09:36
speaking of airlines, is there a possible reason anyone would ever fly Spirit? -- (link) - chuckles Aug 3, 09:30 7
- Same reason people fly RyanAir. Super cheap fares at the expense of service to mainly vacation destinations - ty97 Aug 3, 09:35 6
  - yes stansted is the main turist Hub in GB -- nm - Danedukenuuk Aug 3, 09:45
  - some are better than others. EasyJet is civilized. With RyanAir I was rooting for the plane to crash. -- nm - Reagen Aug 3, 09:37 4
    - huh, would not have expected: According to seatguru, Ryanair has better seat pitch than easyjet (30 vs 29 inches) -- nm - ty97 Aug 3, 09:40 2
      - what is seat pitch ? -- nm - decline Aug 3, 09:43 1
        
        the distance between a seat and the seat behind it. - ty97 Aug 3, 09:45
    - Definitely, there are different approaches to the low-cost airline business. Virgina America vs Spirit is probably a key example. - ty97 Aug 3, 09:39
My bookstore haul: Henrietta Lacks, The Birth of Tragedy by Nietzsche, and The Shack audiobook. -- nm - Dano Aug 3, 09:28
This dog's got moves. -- (link) - Reagen Aug 3, 09:26 1
- He may have a disease, unfortunately. -- nm - mara Aug 3, 09:48
I beat FF13 yesterday. *spoils* - Strongbad Aug 3, 09:24 2
- The best boss fight in the game is mission #64. -- nm - David Aug 3, 09:40
- Yeah, I never went back to it after finishing it. -- nm - Tim Aug 3, 09:25
Soundgarden's new disc to be packaged with the new Guitar Hero game. -- (link) - JaxSean Aug 3, 09:19 2
- The new game is going to have the entire version of Rush's 2112 on it. That's going to be fun. -- nm - pmb Aug 3, 09:31
- more info: -- (link) - JaxSean Aug 3, 09:20
Twitter/Virgin America sale. Flights as cheap as $39. -- (link) - Mop Aug 3, 09:13 16
- frisco? i'm comin barnaby bear! -- nm - chuckles Aug 3, 09:16
- *one way **before taxes and fees (I hate that all the airlines advertise like that) -- nm - ty97 Aug 3, 09:15
- I *lurve* Virgin America. Best flight to the coast EVER. -- nm - Diva Aug 3, 09:15 13
  - i forgot how spoiled they made me until i flew southwest last week -- nm - chuckles Aug 3, 09:16 12
    - though it's weird that they don't seem to have the same inter-city flights on the east coast as they do out here -- nm - chuckles Aug 3, 09:20 10
      - some of the corridors here are so clogged. I think they just want to be able to keep charging exhorbitant rates on flights like BOS to DCA. - Diva Aug 3, 09:23
      - Until now, I wasn't aware that they had anything other than transcon flights -- nm - ty97 Aug 3, 09:21 8
        
        don't worry, they don't fly out of Chicago AFAIK -- nm - oblique Aug 3, 09:23 1
        
        Rumors of 2011. -- nm - ty97 Aug 3, 09:29
        
        it's the airline for the cool kids, ty97 - chuckles Aug 3, 09:22 5
        
        they turn on colored lights!....nm - xi Aug 3, 09:29 4
        
        and they play jazzy drum and bass while you board! -- nm - chuckles Aug 3, 09:30 3
        
        it's the sweety sweetness! -- nm - Diva Aug 3, 09:31 2
        
        hyde's airline of choice is Aeroflot -- nm - chuckles Aug 3, 09:32 1
        
        i flew virgin to la at xmas. it was ok.... - xi Aug 3, 09:35
    - I hear raves about VA. They sound great. - ty97 Aug 3, 09:20
Diva, I'm going to need you to get on the hunt for these tickets now, ok? ok, word. -- (link) - TFox Aug 3, 09:09 1
- I *saw* that... -- nm - Ron Burgundy Aug 3, 09:10
Royal Shakespeare Company announces line up for NYC residency -- (link) - znufrii Aug 3, 09:09 1
- Damn. Didn't make the cut. -- nm - Mop Aug 3, 09:14
Boy, that Joan Holloway sure can conga. - HdnAgnda Aug 3, 09:08
Question: is the US officially at war? - Guigue Aug 3, 09:08 21
- Don't forget the War on Illiteracy rages onwerd. -- nm - Dr.Vermin Aug 3, 09:27
- yes - Danedukenuuk Aug 3, 09:12
- "We haven't declared war since World War II." -- nm - Wag the Dog Aug 3, 09:12
- nope, not officially at war - decline Aug 3, 09:11 7
  - Both Afghanistan and Iraq were authorized by acts of Congress. -- nm - Ender Aug 3, 09:19 5
    - Still not an official "declaration of war" if that's the definition being used -- nm - oblique Aug 3, 09:19 4
      - That wasn't the question. -- nm - Strongbad Aug 3, 09:20
      - there's no official definition of what a declaration of war is. -- nm - Reagen Aug 3, 09:20 2
        
        whoa, we're down the rabbit hole!....nm - xi Aug 3, 09:23
        
        not in a world where 30 min is the max response time in some cases -- nm - Danedukenuuk Aug 3, 09:21
  - It used to. That's an arcane, disregarded rule now. -- nm - ty97 Aug 3, 09:14
- We are in foreign lands shooting at people and being shot at. Doesn't get much more official, paperwork be damned. -- nm - ty97 Aug 3, 09:11 5
  - Then the US is constantly at war... And has been for a long time -- nm - Guigue Aug 3, 09:12 4
    - we have always been at war with Oceania -- nm - chuckles Aug 3, 09:28
    - not every day of it's exsistence sofar bu a lot of the days sofar yes -- nm - Danedukenuuk Aug 3, 09:15
    - Pretty much. -- nm - Mop Aug 3, 09:13
    - Not constantly, hella often. -- nm - ty97 Aug 3, 09:13
- to my knowledge, there was never an official declaration of war in either Iraq or Afghanistan... -- nm - znufrii Aug 3, 09:10 1
  - the war in Aghanistan did not need a declaration - Danedukenuuk Aug 3, 09:14
- Wiki -- (link) - Strongbad Aug 3, 09:09
- in sort of the way that brett favre is retired....nm - xi Aug 3, 09:09
Thanks Defcon! Stealthy Government Contractor Monitors U.S. Internet Providers, Worked With Wikileaks Informant -- (link) - Mop Aug 3, 09:08
Okay Tfox I stand corrected - take Grave Dancers and stick it down the garbage disposal - horrible horrible piece of cinema. - have you seen.. - Epiphany Aug 3, 09:08 8
- is that the one (spoils) - TFox Aug 3, 09:10 7
  - i should clarify: not hilarious the whole way. really effed up. (spoils) - TFox Aug 3, 09:13 6
    - Yes!!! oh my gawd - you just hated those kids - that main guy - would have made a better Edward Cullen - not that you care. ha. AND.. - Epiphany Aug 3, 09:15 5
      - dumplings by fruit chan? dang, i reviewed that for bop a loooong time ago...nm - xi Aug 3, 09:22 1
        
        yep one and the same -- nm - Epiphany Aug 3, 09:24
      - Dumpling from Three... Extremes? Hell yeah. All three of those movies were... *shudder*. -- nm - TFox Aug 3, 09:16 2
        
        (These are all movies I could never, ever let SheFox even know the existence of, let alone see, or she'd murderfy me.) -- nm - TFox Aug 3, 09:18 1
        
        hee -- nm - Epiphany Aug 3, 09:24
What I love about LaDainian and Philip Rivers is, even after they part ways, they can't stop whining about each other. -- (link) - TFox Aug 3, 09:07 3
- This is the first public acknowledgement, which means we're just getting started. -- nm - David Aug 3, 09:50
- Were they on the make-believe Biggest Sports Bitch List? -- nm - Divruh Aug 3, 09:08 1
  - no. which is how we know it was made up. -- nm - TFox Aug 3, 09:09
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad calls for TV debate with Obama -- (link) - Strongbad Aug 3, 09:05 5
- Mahmoud, don't do it! -- nm - John McCain Aug 3, 09:13
- I would pay a lot for this PPV -- nm - ty97 Aug 3, 09:12
- You can't debate with crazy. "Sir, I believe it has been established that the sky is blue." "No it hasn't." -- nm - Mop Aug 3, 09:07
- would watch. -- nm - TFox Aug 3, 09:05 1
  - I'd pay $20 if they were inside a steel cage. -- nm - Strongbad Aug 3, 09:07
~Imma take my talents to South Beach~ (nm) - Tim Aug 3, 09:05
So the Spider-Man musical is now called "Spider-Man Turn off the Dark". -- (link) - Divruh Aug 3, 09:03 3
- Meesa got a baaaad feeling about this. -- nm - TFox Aug 3, 09:04
- *jazz hands* -- nm - JaxSean Aug 3, 09:04 1
  - there will be jazz hands before every web splurt. -- nm - Divruh Aug 3, 09:06
I agree that Ryan Reynolds is a perfect Deadpool but a correctly done movie would just be too damn weird. -- nm - Tim Aug 3, 09:01
Isn't your "cousin's cousin" also your cousin? -- nm - Mop Aug 3, 09:01 14
- is you sister-in-law's sister also you sister-in-law? -- nm - znufrii Aug 3, 09:10
- possibly but not necessarily. -- nm - Andie Aug 3, 09:08
- No because it could be the child of my dad's sister's husband's sibling. -- nm - HdnAgnda Aug 3, 09:04
- Grand Cousin? -- nm - Danedukenuuk Aug 3, 09:04
- no, for the same reason your in-laws aren't blood relatives (or at least aren't supposed to be) -- nm - Reagen Aug 3, 09:04 1
  - That was a $500 clue right there. -- nm - Mop Aug 3, 09:07
- It's my (biological) Dad's Brother's Wife's Brother's Daughter. - JaxSean Aug 3, 09:03 6
  - that...kinda hurt me in the face. -- nm - Diva Aug 3, 09:13
  - "removes" actually refer to generation. most people call their first cousin's children their second cousin, but they are technically - Andie Aug 3, 09:09 3
    - this -- nm - oblique Aug 3, 09:11 2
      - right, and you get second cousins by generations from shared ancestor. - Andie Aug 3, 09:14 1
        
        I just need to know which ones I can bone - legally - Groiny SI Aug 3, 09:16
  - You're just making sh*t up now. -- nm - Mop Aug 3, 09:07
- Not necessarily. -- nm - ty97 Aug 3, 09:01
Ok. Who is the geek writing this blog with Hyde!!? -- (link) - oblique Aug 3, 09:00 1
- i have never knowingly associated with any blog that involves scooby doo!....nm - xi Aug 3, 09:08

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