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I can't decide which is my greatest skill: procrastination or avoidance - Dano Sep 2, 12:37 3
- they're closely related, aren't they? -- nm - loosilu Sep 2, 12:38 2
  - One is closely coupled with denial, the other is a finely-trained skill. - Beryllium Sep 2, 12:39
  - Kind of like disolving and melting. -- nm - JaxSean Sep 2, 12:39
/me holding out on a netbook purchase until dual-core are widely available...curse you hsn -- nm - budice Sep 2, 12:32 1
- I thought about getting one of these recently. Some of them have built-in 3G. - Beryllium Sep 2, 12:38
For Mop (because he likes 4K, not because it's already been posted). Canon unveils 4k multipurpose camera -- (link) - oblique Sep 2, 12:27 7
- 4k? Too rich for my blood. -- nm - Spawn Sep 2, 12:28 6
  - Oh, that's not the cost, just the pixel count (compared to 1080p) ... no, the cost would probably be over 50 thousand dollars -- nm - Beryllium Sep 2, 12:29 5
    - *psst* - Spawn Sep 2, 12:31 4
      - I assumed. I just chose to ignore that part. :) -- nm - Beryllium Sep 2, 12:31 3
        
        Never assume. - Spawn Sep 2, 12:33 2
        
        no, the ignoring makes an asshat out of me :) -- nm - Beryllium Sep 2, 12:36 1
        
        Well, that too. - Spawn Sep 2, 12:37
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- *laughs at the entire east coast* -- nm - con_carne in sunny Southern California Sep 2, 12:37
- oh, sure, you guys can't deal with it, so WE get stuck with your damn hurricane. -- nm - Andie Sep 2, 12:36
- Victoria's secret is that she's a robot. -- nm - Dano Sep 2, 12:36
- I swear I have been hearing about Earl for 3 weeks -- nm - amoxy Sep 2, 12:28 2
  - For Amy, "ear; Earl, EARL!!!" - Spawn Sep 2, 12:32
  - Here's a google trend chart for you :) -- (link) - Beryllium Sep 2, 12:31
- "If anything on this graphic causes confusion, ignore the entire product." - TFox Sep 2, 12:28
- AH! AH! AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH HHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!....nm - xi Sep 2, 12:26
- Earl is so yesterday. it's all about Gaston now. -- nm - Max Sep 2, 12:25 2
  - ~ no storm blows like Gaston ~ -- nm - mr. fancypants Sep 2, 12:26
  - don't *get* me started..... -- nm - Belle Sep 2, 12:26
- My mom's looking forward to it. Apparently it's 90F+ in Nova Scotia right now. -- nm - Beryllium Sep 2, 12:25 1
  - 102F+ on the humidex. Ouch. -- nm - Beryllium Sep 2, 12:26
- Okay, light green. You need to get your shit together. -- nm - Jelly Sep 2, 12:23 1
  - *scoffs* -- nm - Green Lantern Sep 2, 12:24
- Ha ha, hosers! -- nm - Spawn Sep 2, 12:22
Groiny - keep an eye out for a Yahoo Hockey invite -- nm - Guy Sep 2, 12:15 1
- I played fantasy hockey once. I knew nothing, but won the league because I used all the games allotted to me. -- nm - Was Bar Was Sep 2, 12:18
David, I worry about everybody too. But I just beseech the football gods for one small miracle - crash davis Sep 2, 12:13 6
- If on Septtember 11th my nephew's pop warner football team could squeak out a win while i watch them i would appreaciate it. -- nm - Stacy Sep 2, 12:21 3
  - Does their or their opponent's name sound anything like a terrorist? -- nm - Spawn Sep 2, 12:22 2
    - not their the cougars but maybe their opponent not sure what it is yet -- nm - Stacy Sep 2, 12:23 1
      - You might be able to whip the crowd into a frenzy on that day. -- nm - Spawn Sep 2, 12:24
- The football gods demand scantily clad cheerleaders. -- nm - Was Bar Was Sep 2, 12:16 1
  - The best I can do on short notice. -- (link) - Spawn Sep 2, 12:18
So we have these guys here today taking pictures for our new website. We all had to dress nicer, clean our desks. Well apparently - oblique Sep 2, 12:07 4
- Christian Bale will have *your ass*! -- nm - Mop (220 lbs) Sep 2, 12:13
- Pictures or video? -- nm - Spawn Sep 2, 12:08 2
  - Well, I think they were doing video in the room but pics in our spaces -- nm - oblique Sep 2, 12:09 1
    - Ah. Then that is their fault. -- nm - Spawn Sep 2, 12:15
Isn't Don Homer suppose to go before me? -- nm - Stacy Sep 2, 12:06 8
- So frickin close to finishing up all these drafts today. So close...but yet so far! -- nm - Jim Sep 2, 12:16 1
  - I jsut want to get thourgh so I can go back to sleep, havent even had 6 hours... -- nm - Stacy Sep 2, 12:18
- yes -- nm - Kim Pine Sep 2, 12:07 5
  - Whoops, my fault. -- nm - David Sep 2, 12:07 1
    - R. U. I. N. E. R! -- nm - Spawn Sep 2, 12:08
  - your husband said I was up??? -- nm - Stacy Sep 2, 12:07 2
    - he blames Lane Kiffin -- nm - mr. fancypants Sep 2, 12:08
    - I'm imperfect. -- nm - David Sep 2, 12:07
ST Poll: Which two STers are most likely related, but don't know it? -- nm - Dano Sep 2, 12:05 11
- JenBro is Redmond's illegitimate daughter -- nm - con_carne Sep 2, 12:17 1
  - which one? -- nm - Stacy Sep 2, 12:39
- Dignan and Groiny -- nm - con_carne Sep 2, 12:06
- well, I hope it's not will and kelly -- nm - Beryllium Sep 2, 12:06
- ml and jaxsean. (they're our doppelgangers?) -- nm - b. Sep 2, 12:06 5
  - crash davis is my evil doppelganger. -- nm - JaxSean Sep 2, 12:38
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    - There's a little bit of ML in all of us -- nm - oblique Sep 2, 12:28 1
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    - I almost said him, too. -- nm - b. Sep 2, 12:19
- Spawn and loosilu -- nm - decline Sep 2, 12:05
oh, there you are. I'm all well-y about finding my grandma's naturalization petition. thanks, kilbo! (ramble ahead.) - b. Sep 2, 12:05 2
- oh man, it's not her. (hee/aww.) -- nm - b. Sep 2, 12:09 1
  - I was on the phone with my mom when I saw there was a birthdate in small/fuzzy print that I knew was wrong. somehow, immigration came up - b. Sep 2, 12:25
Holy Crap. That Ancestry.com thing, I just found the passenger list with my grandmother's family listing that came over from Ireland. - JaxSean Sep 2, 12:03 19
- it wasn't on the Duchess of York, from Belfast in 1930 was it? :0 - Andie Sep 2, 12:09 14
  - *whew* no! Scythia from Queenstown, Ireland, on January 20, 1922. -- nm - JaxSean Sep 2, 12:11 13
    - Interesting. My family came over in the 1890s or earlier. I figured that was "late" but you guys are all earlier than that -- nm - oblique Sep 2, 12:13 12
      - three of my grandparents came over in living memory. -- nm - Reagen Sep 2, 12:18
      - my grandfather came over on the exact same ship as my grandmother, but one year earlier in 1929. their familes knew each other in Ireland, but they - Andie Sep 2, 12:17 1
        
        stalker! -- nm - Reagen Sep 2, 12:18
      - well, my Mom's family all came over in the 1600s, documented. -- nm - loosilu Sep 2, 12:15 6
        
        see, I think that's the cool part. Real American history there -- nm - oblique Sep 2, 12:16 5
        
        er, except it wasn't the US. :) -- nm - loosilu Sep 2, 12:24
        
        my dad's family is like that. came to the states in the 1600's. -- nm - Andie Sep 2, 12:19
        
        they're on the Champlain grant! -- nm - loosilu Sep 2, 12:16 2
        
        so you are a true blue blood -- nm - zeitgeist Sep 2, 12:19 1
        
        I'm descended from the Filles du Roi, as well as an officer of the Carignan-Salieres regiment. -- (link) - loosilu Sep 2, 12:21
      - I personally flew to the States from Argentina on a jet. I win. -- nm - con_carne Sep 2, 12:14
      - using the hints, if they are to be believed, i got my dad's side back to 1600s England when we arrived in Baltimore -- nm - mr. fancypants Sep 2, 12:14
- It didn't take long with the free trial for me to get hooked on the site, even if I only use it a few times a year -- nm - oblique Sep 2, 12:08
- effin papists -- nm - mr. fancypants Sep 2, 12:04
- My grandfather has done so much ancestry work, but is so so computer dumb. - TFox Sep 2, 12:04
- I bet we find out that some ST'rs are related. -- nm - lileve Sep 2, 12:03
How many drinks require drumming and pounding on the table beforehand? Not enough. - TFox Sep 2, 12:01 1
- Show me the way to go home, I'm tired and I want to go to bed. I had a little drink about an hour ago and it went right to my head. - Spawn Sep 2, 12:06
Congrats Loosi! -- nm - Jelly Sep 2, 11:58
I know as soon as I buy the UK release of "The Choir", BBC America will put it on Amazon Video on Demand in the US - oblique Sep 2, 11:58 2
- keep the receipt -- nm - Beryllium Sep 2, 12:26
- there's a couple decent sites for region free players if you decide you're going that far.... - xi Sep 2, 12:04
How can you get "out of control" using a "controlled" substance? -- nm - CrankYanker Sep 2, 11:57 10
- Why do we drive on a parkway and park on a driveway?! -- nm - Ender Sep 2, 11:59 9
  - I know I know: When people began buying cars they would take them out long the paths beside the rivers for weekend day trips, the NY legislators took - zeitgeist Sep 2, 12:11
  - Why are the letters of the alphabet in that order? Is it because of that song? -- nm - CrankYanker Sep 2, 12:00 7
    - originally letters were used for numbers so they had to be in an order (you can blame the arabs for changing that) -- nm - zeitgeist Sep 2, 12:13 3
      - Then why aren't Roman numerals alphaetic order? -- nm - Roger More Sep 2, 12:16 2
        
        I"m guessing but would bet they were named for various gods -- nm - zeitgeist Sep 2, 12:21
        
        Because Byrhtfer was English. -- nm - Beryllium Sep 2, 12:17
    - and we all know the Alphabet song is Twinkle Twinkle Little Star, right? -- nm - Andie Sep 2, 12:11 2
      - And Baa Baa Black Sheep. -- nm - mara Sep 2, 12:22 1
        
        huh, i never put that together, (though i haven't heard BaaBaa Black Sheep in about 35 years.) -- nm - Andie Sep 2, 12:29
"Well, yes. Sorta. But more precisely, no. Definitely no" -- nm - prayformojo Sep 2, 11:57
heh. Oh yes, there will be peeing -- nm - oblique Sep 2, 11:55 2
- Where is oblique and what have you done with him? -- nm - lileve Sep 2, 11:59
- "I killed a cockroach, i want you to have it" -- nm - amoxy Sep 2, 11:58
I blame that quitter, Lane Kiffin. -- nm - David Sep 2, 11:55 7
- He's the poster boy for Ruination. -- nm - Diva Sep 2, 12:11
- for what? -- nm - Reagen Sep 2, 11:55 5
  - whadda ya got? -- nm - mr. fancypants Sep 2, 11:55
  - Losing a bet to Deevs this Saturday. -- nm - David Sep 2, 11:55 3
    - You picked against Tennessee-Martin? -- nm - crash davis Sep 2, 12:04 1
      - We're 13 scholarship players down right now. I worry about everybody. -- nm - David Sep 2, 12:08
    - ? -- nm - Stacy Sep 2, 12:00
nashville -- nm - Stacy Sep 2, 11:53 1
- You're up in BF. -- nm - David Sep 2, 11:55
dammit, webmail is gone again. -- nm - Andie Sep 2, 11:52
My Blood Feud domination is ready to begin, yet again! -- nm - Spawn Sep 2, 11:52
NY Fire department can't even -- (link) - znufrii Sep 2, 11:50 3
- A pellet gun would have taken care of that. -- nm - Mop (220 lbs) Sep 2, 11:58
- sfek. rescue a cat out of a tree -- nm - znufrii Sep 2, 11:50 1
  - who was it that pointed out that you don't see a lot of cat skelletons in trees - zeitgeist Sep 2, 12:17
Guessing game: The upcoming disaster drill will be in what US city? - loosilu Sep 2, 11:50 28
- NYC -- nm - Danedukenuuk Sep 2, 11:53
- second hint: IT's a city known for its music. -- nm - loosilu Sep 2, 11:52 13
  - *gasp!* Branson!! -- nm - Diva Sep 2, 11:53 7
    - now there's a place that needs a mosque built near it -- nm - mr. fancypants Sep 2, 11:59
    - no! not the sunsphere! -- nm - prayformojo Sep 2, 11:56 5
      - I think you mean the "wigsphere". -- nm - Ender Sep 2, 11:58
      - "Bam! Second encore!" -- nm - Reagen Sep 2, 11:57 3
        
        "No dice" "Dis ain't over" -- nm - Roger More Sep 2, 11:58
        
        Soy! Soy! Soy! -- nm - David Sep 2, 11:57 1
        
        "He's very quiet and enjoys puzzles." -- nm - Reagen Sep 2, 12:00
  - Memphis or Nashville. -- nm - Roger More Sep 2, 11:52 4
    - *ding* Memphis. -- nm - loosilu Sep 2, 11:53 3
      - Civil Rights Museum! -- nm - Epiphany Sep 2, 11:55 2
        
        Beale St! -- nm - loosilu Sep 2, 11:56 1
        
        Graceland? -- nm - Danedukenuuk Sep 2, 11:57
- Detroit -- nm - decline Sep 2, 11:52
- Anchorage -- nm - budice Sep 2, 11:52
- no one got it yet. -- nm - loosilu Sep 2, 11:51
- Denver -- nm - Beaker Sep 2, 11:51 1
  - Tangent: War Machine has began pillaging HAVOC. -- nm - Spawn Sep 2, 12:31
- phoenix -- nm - Epiphany Sep 2, 11:51
- *thinks of cities where loosi got drilled* -- nm - con_carne Sep 2, 11:50
- Indy -- nm - mara Sep 2, 11:50 5
  - No. -- nm - Spawn Sep 2, 11:52 4
    - much to your relief. -- nm - loosilu Sep 2, 11:52 3
      - I am tired of you people picking on Indy. -- nm - Spawn Sep 2, 12:07 2
        
        Indy asked to be nuked. -- nm - loosilu Sep 2, 12:09 1
        
        Yeah. If Indy didn't want that to happen, it shouldn't have dressed that way. :) -- nm - Beryllium Sep 2, 12:10

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