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How Do You Know trailer -- (link) - Dano Aug 13, 10:23 1
- Nice to see Owen Wilson embracing his inherent douchiness. -- nm - Reagen Aug 13, 10:27
Reagen...are you the one filling her head with all this nature talk? - Mel Profit Aug 13, 10:20 4
- Or...you can go view some trees while drinking a bottle. -- nm - Will Hunting Aug 13, 10:27
- But they're such beautiful trees. You could always go up to the White Mountains to see the bristlecone pines, but they're not as pretty :) - MojaveMeg Aug 13, 10:26
- Going to napa and *not* drinking? Wha? (nm) - musubi Aug 13, 10:23
- I promise no nasty leaves will attack you. -- nm - Reagen Aug 13, 10:21
My oldest daughter said she really didn't know who John Lennon was the other day while playing Beatles Rock Band. It got me thinking - JaxSean Aug 13, 10:11 44
- if you are going to "school her (good) musically", who are you going to send her to live with? - crash davis Aug 13, 10:30
- Add in some variant of a hair band for the 80's....maybe some Randy Travis for saving country in the 80's. -- nm - Will Hunting Aug 13, 10:25 4
  - Replace Randy with Garth -- nm - eag Aug 13, 10:28 1
    - Garth's great, but Travis was arguably more important -- nm - Will Hunting Aug 13, 10:32
  - Oh, and you gotta use Thriller. -- nm - Will Hunting Aug 13, 10:26 1
    - Ooh, this is good. Michael Jackson instead of Madonna. -- nm - JaxSean Aug 13, 10:30
- the minutemen, little richard, t rex, the byrds (gene clark era), cheap trick, the cramps, ccr....nm - xi Aug 13, 10:25 1
  - Minutemen is genius, because they were genius, and for the Jackass link she'll never see coming. -- nm - TFox Aug 13, 10:25
- Isn't that natural? IIRC, you've said you hate the Beatles. :) -- nm - con_carne Aug 13, 10:23 3
  - Even if you hate them you have to admit that they were extremely important to music history. -- nm - Dano Aug 13, 10:24 2
    - I don't *hate* The Beatles - I just really don't enjoy listening to most of their music. But this is my feeling as well. They're incredibly - JaxSean Aug 13, 10:30
    - I don't have to admit anything! (nm) - David si Aug 13, 10:25
- The *Eagles*? Clash, Hendrix, Stones, Boston, The Cure. -- nm - TFox Aug 13, 10:22
- stones, U2, AC/DC. -- nm - mafic Aug 13, 10:18
- I wouldn't bother. It'd be like parents in the 1960's trying to introduce to their kids the hip music from the 1920's. - Loyola Aug 13, 10:17 6
  - there're just so many. dylan, pink floyd, bruce springsteen, radiohead. -- nm - mafic Aug 13, 10:22 2
    - (Actually, having her listen to Pink Floyd's The Wall was my first thought on this whole thing.) - JaxSean Aug 13, 10:24 1
      - you should totally sync dark side of the moon with the wizard of oz! - mafic Aug 13, 10:26
  - Yeah, but she's a musical person. She plays mutliple instruments, and likes rock & roll. - JaxSean Aug 13, 10:19 2
    - All you can do is put the options in front of her. -- nm - Reagen Aug 13, 10:23
    - Ah right, that's cool enough, should be fun for you two. -- nm - Loyola Aug 13, 10:21
- AC/DC -- nm - Max Aug 13, 10:16 8
  - We're AC/DC really genere defining? I think that's what I am going for. -ish. - JaxSean Aug 13, 10:21 7
    - AC/DC = Rock. And if I'm going to marry her one day she's gonna have to like AC/DC. -- nm - Max Aug 13, 10:24 1
      - and sudden;y AC/DC is off the list. -- nm - mafic Aug 13, 10:26
    - AC/DC is more of a bridge between Zep and GNR than anything. -- nm - Reagen Aug 13, 10:22 4
      - Only one of those three bands is still selling out arenas -- nm - con_carne Aug 13, 10:28 2
        
        Since when does selling out arenas = quality music? -- nm - Strongbad Aug 13, 10:30
        
        If Zep got back together, their tour would make approximately a bajillion dollars. -- nm - Reagen Aug 13, 10:29
      - what we like to call "the bridge to nowhere". -- nm - TFox Aug 13, 10:23
- I'm not sure how you can school her on good music if you make her listen to the Beattles... - Stephen (Status Seeker) Aug 13, 10:15 2
  - I think the reason she doesn't know much about the Beatles is because I don't enjoy them. - JaxSean Aug 13, 10:17 1
    - Heh. Well Elvis was as influential in his time as the Beattles were in theirs - Stephen (Status Seeker) Aug 13, 10:26
- Why? So she can know a bunch of stuff her friends won't care about? - Roger More Aug 13, 10:15 6
  - My mom exposing me to music I'd never have listened to on my own is one of the best things she ever did for me - Stephen (Status Seeker) Aug 13, 10:19 5
    - I call my mom every 6 months to a year and berate her for not introducing me to some awesome band/album from her youth. - TFox Aug 13, 10:25 1
      - "How old do you think I am?" (nm) - TFox's mom si Aug 13, 10:26
    - Yeah, my parents had hundreds of albums that I listened to when growing up. - JaxSean Aug 13, 10:22
    - Sure - just making a joke at the expense of the youth of today -- nm - Roger More Aug 13, 10:21 1
      - :) -- nm - Stephen (Status Seeker) Aug 13, 10:27
- Bee Gees? Elton John? -- nm - mara Aug 13, 10:14 1
  - Yes, I think the Bee Gees would be a good disco slice. -- nm - JaxSean Aug 13, 10:16
- Stones. Sabbath. Clash. Police. Cars. -- nm - Reagen Aug 13, 10:13 1
  - I'll pay for her to purchase the Cars debut album. -- nm - Mel Profit Aug 13, 10:15
another weekend goal of mine is the suicide mission on ME2 -- nm - crash davis Aug 13, 10:09
arson and junk science - this article upset me too much last night -- (link) - crash davis Aug 13, 10:07 3
- I don't doubt that the number of innocent people executed is greater than zero. -- nm - mafic Aug 13, 10:19
- This could have a better outcome than the Willingham case in Texas. -- nm - TWuG Aug 13, 10:11 1
  - what really set me off was going to The Innocence Project's website and reading some of the cases, I should have known better than that -- nm - crash davis Aug 13, 10:29
I wonder if Plumtree is the most obscure band to have one of their songs become a Hollywood movie. (Scott Pilgrim) -- nm - Reagen Aug 13, 10:05
News to warm the heart of anti-McMahon people --- Cade died of heart failure. - Will Hunting Aug 13, 10:04 1
- She seems to be made out of teflon when it comes to this stuff -- nm - eag Aug 13, 10:11
happy birthday, dano!! and happy birthday, mopmop!! :) :) - - -- nm - b. Aug 13, 10:04 3
- *presses play on the boombox* -- nm - pixie in a ryan reynolds costume Aug 13, 10:10
- happy birthday, Dano! I'll wish Mop a happy birthday next thursday. -- nm - mafic Aug 13, 10:06
- Happy birthday, gentlemen! -- nm - David Aug 13, 10:04
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- Drinkin' - decline Aug 13, 10:27
- The missus is taking me out to see The Expendables, and then cooking fancy French food tomorrow. I plan to be lazy -- nm - Roger More Aug 13, 10:16 2
  - ooh...what's cookin' with Coolio? -- nm - Diva Aug 13, 10:18 1
    - I don't know. I cooked her a dinner last weekend, and this is the payback -- nm - Roger More Aug 13, 10:25
- It's my birthday! Dinner out with Melynda and a night with no kids courtesy of my mom. -- nm - Subversive Aug 13, 10:13 1
  - Happy Birthday! -- nm - JaxSean Aug 13, 10:14
- Laundry and picking up my mom from the airport sunday night -- nm - eag Aug 13, 10:12
- Saturday = curation day. Sunday = farmers' market. Dang I have an exciting life :) -- nm - MojaveMeg Aug 13, 10:11
- Going to see "Joseph..." with Anthony Federov (friend mus. direct and playing show), laundry, work on Sunday. -- nm - Diva Aug 13, 10:10
- Might buy a charcoal grill. Have some friends over Sat eve to grill things on said grill. -- nm - TFox Aug 13, 10:07
- Tour de Pain. -- (link) - JaxSean Aug 13, 10:05
- lunch with friends tomorrow, some Red Dead Redemption sprinkled in... wife recovering from 1st week at school with 20 1st graders -- nm - Strongbad Aug 13, 10:03
- Family tech support. Ordering my aunt a laptop. -- nm - Ender Aug 13, 10:03
- Knives Chau over and over again. -- nm - David Aug 13, 10:02
- tonight was musical instruments and wine, tomorrow moroccan food with a girl, sunday is cleaning day. -- nm - mafic Aug 13, 10:00
- Nothing tonight, get sloshed on Saturday, recover Sunday. -- nm - Loyola Aug 13, 10:00
- BBQ on Sat, The Expendables on Sun -- nm - Stephen (Status Seeker) Aug 13, 09:59
- evidently I'm going to get my butt kicked in Halo by groiny and Spawn which makes me laugh - crash davis Aug 13, 09:59
- soccer + horse racing, film noir sat. nite, farmer's markets + cooking, read some corto maltese....nm - xi Aug 13, 09:58
- Wife has off work. Overnight at hotel, swimming for the kids, brunch on Sunday, ballgame. -- nm - oblique Aug 13, 09:58
- As little as possible. -- nm - nubby Aug 13, 09:58
- BBQ and Expendables with the guys. -- nm - Max Aug 13, 09:57
"Thank you for sharing in our special day" is cliched for favour tags. Give me your best replacement saying ST! -- nm - Name Withheld By Request Aug 13, 09:56 6
- "Thanks for not f***ing it up, mom and dad." -- nm - Will Hunting Aug 13, 10:02
- this coupon good for one drink at our divorce party -- nm - zork Aug 13, 09:59
- "That'll be $32.50, please" -- nm - oblique Aug 13, 09:59
- "What what in the butt" -- nm - nubby Aug 13, 09:58
- I don't know, but it should involove the word "boitches" -- nm - mafic Aug 13, 09:58
- Thanks in advance for not doing anything to screw up OUR special day -- nm - Stephen (Status Seeker) Aug 13, 09:58
This would scare me, but I'm surprised that experienced ballooners find it so scary. -- (link) - mara Aug 13, 09:53 2
- little known fact: most ballooners wear kilts and are easily embarrassed. it's a fact. -- nm - Max Aug 13, 09:55
- Heh, cool. -- nm - Loyola Aug 13, 09:55
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- I know its not the norm, but even after suffering a lot of -25 pt performances, I like the scoring David set up on Ds -- nm - crash davis Aug 13, 09:56 3
  - I also like BF scoring. -- nm - Strongbad Aug 13, 10:11
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  - And the scoring David set up is precisely why Yahoo's projection is generally always atrocious. - TFox Aug 13, 09:58
Strongbad - as great as Peyton is, he still needs an O-line to block, a Wayne, a Clark, a crazy gun-toting dude, and some running game - crash davis Aug 13, 09:52 31
- word is that Jeff Saturday is really struggling after his knee surgery -- nm - Remlik Aug 13, 10:01 1
  - thats a shame, I like Saturday. Also, did you Halo last night? I'm taking a comment from groiny to mean you had problems -- nm - crash davis Aug 13, 10:03
- the con against making defenses that powerful is that only 10 matter and if you're in more than a 10 player league - crash davis Aug 13, 09:53 19
  - Why not draft individual defensive players? How did FF evolve with Team D's instead of individuals? - musubi Aug 13, 09:56 18
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      - My one critic of IDP is it's partially counter-intuitive. The best CB's don't get balls thrown their way therefore they don't get a ton of tackles. -- nm - Strongbad Aug 13, 10:08 6
        
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        Not sure why that's counter intuitive. Draft safeties instead of corners. (nm) - musubi Aug 13, 10:10 4
        
        Look at the Top 20 scoring IDP's, some of those names will make you scratch your head. That's all. -- nm - Strongbad Aug 13, 10:14 3
        
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        You want the tackle machines, right. -- nm - Strongbad Aug 13, 10:27
        
        True, but thats true of offense too. Goal line fullbacks get tons of points in TD leagues, but it's just part of the strategy. - musubi Aug 13, 10:17
    - either 1) lack of enough usuable stats until recently, or 2) hyde complained about the length of drafts -- nm - crash davis Aug 13, 09:57
    - I am anti-IDP. (The more fantasy sports I play, the more I think over-complicating things ruins 90% of leagues.) -- nm - TFox Aug 13, 09:56 8
      - I'm not pro or con, really. I'm more curious. It's weird that it evolved that way. - musubi Aug 13, 09:58 7
        
        Most fantasy sports settings are derived from whatever was in the newspaper box score, pre-computers. - TFox Aug 13, 09:59 6
        
        Especially USA Today. -- (link) - mara Aug 13, 10:13
        
        Good point. I tend to think of FF in modern terms (ie with internet), so I never really thought about that. - musubi Aug 13, 10:01 4
        
        I brought up the same dang point earlier, where is my praise? -- nm - crash davis Aug 13, 10:02 3
        
        You didn't explicitly say "newspaper box score". Brievity over clarity cost you. - musubi Aug 13, 10:03 2
        
        you didn't read my mind? shame on you -- nm - crash davis Aug 13, 10:04 1
        
        Apologies. (nm) - musubi Aug 13, 10:11
- NFL? Yeah, I agree. I'm talking fantasy football. - Strongbad Aug 13, 09:53 8
  - are we not talking about BF here? if so, then ignore all my comments. -- nm - TFox Aug 13, 09:55 5
    - We're not, it's another league I'm in with even more weighting towards DEF -- nm - Strongbad Aug 13, 10:06 4
      - 40 points for shutouts. -- nm - Strongbad Aug 13, 10:07 3
        
        I'll grant that might be excessive -- nm - crash davis Aug 13, 10:08 2
        
        Here's their scoring - Strongbad Aug 13, 10:09 1
        
        Yeah, that's a little silly. -- nm - TFox Aug 13, 10:10
  - if things were easy to predict, we should just have a random assignment of numbers and declare who gets #1 the winner -- nm - crash davis Aug 13, 09:55 1
    - Pixie Feud! -- nm - TFox Aug 13, 09:55
Thanks to all who've been voting for AACL on the APX gives back thing. Here are today's vote totals. -- (link) - Subversive Aug 13, 09:52 3
- I'm having a lot of trouble not voting for calgary hospice (they were very good to my dad), but since they don't have a chance, I'll back the leader. -- nm - mafic Aug 13, 10:05 1
  - You can vote for multiple charities, just only once per charity per day. -- nm - Subversive Aug 13, 10:12
- Nice! (Let me know if that changes, and I'll go over and vote.) - TFox Aug 13, 09:53
That projection is nonsense. 24 pts/game? Stop it, Yahoo. -- nm - TFox Aug 13, 09:52
poso cama alma zeke irni tile hi come see go - zork Aug 13, 09:50 1
- What is it, Nell? Are you hungry? -- nm - Max Aug 13, 09:51
This may be a dumb question, but what do you need to look for to find a cell phone that will work internationally? - Gwaahjo Aug 13, 09:49 14 1
- Thanks all, much appreciated -- nm - Gwaahjo Aug 13, 10:03
- #1: GSM phone (AT&T, Tmobile) will offer the most compatibility. Verizon and Sprint have international coverage but it isn't as commonplace. #2: What - oblique Aug 13, 09:52 3
  - #3. use skype if you can -- nm - decline Aug 13, 09:53 1
    - I very much enjoyed the WiFi calling feature on some T-Mobile phones. It worked very well when we travelled -- nm - oblique Aug 13, 10:02
  - Also, there are, I think, three different GSM frequencies so just having a GSM phone isn't enough. Check with your provider. US GSM, Europe GSM, and - oblique Aug 13, 09:53
- partly your IM. most countries have GSM networks. you need is a phone that isn't locked to one company's network (ie. ask for an unlocked phone). -- nm - mafic Aug 13, 09:52 5
  - elaboration: - mafic Aug 13, 09:55 4
    - this -- nm - zork Aug 13, 09:56 3
      - and with this you can't get dinged for hundreds of dollars for data. guy here was abroad and streamed from a radio station back home. bill was $7k -- nm - zork Aug 13, 09:59 2
        
        roaming charges are outrageous but at the same time I don't know how people are still not aware of this. -- nm - Reagen Aug 13, 10:19
        
        It can often be more expensive using a local phone to call back to the US as it is to use your roaming US phone. Just turn off data when roaming. - oblique Aug 13, 10:00
- I usually call the provider to have them add international to the line. nm -- nm - groiny Aug 13, 09:50 2
  - but doesn't the phone have to be dual band or quad band or something or other to begin with? -- nm - Gwaahjo Aug 13, 09:52 1
    - See above. Yes -- nm - oblique Aug 13, 09:56
LIR: I believe that the ninth most common (element) is titantium. It's not rate but stuff made of it is expensive because it's hard to work with. - zork Aug 13, 09:48 2
- err, not rare. -- nm - zork Aug 13, 09:51
- aluminum is a bitch to work with. it was once more valuable than gold. -- nm - Reagen Aug 13, 09:51

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