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This is how tired I am. Headline states "Canada declares BPA toxic", and I don't have the energy to think of alternate expansions of the BPA acronym. -- nm - Beryllium Oct 14, 16:42
Redbox begins to rent games -- (link) - Lon_cHaneY Oct 14, 16:35
I knew Obama was a communist!! He turned the White House, PINK! -- nm - Bacon Oct 14, 16:34 4
- making law is like making sausage, you really don't want to see it before you eat it -- nm - zeitgeist Oct 14, 16:35 3
  - That makes no sense. -- nm - mara Oct 14, 16:44
  - mmm...chicken nuggets... -- nm - znufrii Oct 14, 16:36 1
    - even after seeing that picture I won't stop eating them. They are yummy -- nm - Bacon Oct 14, 16:39
*wonders who TPC is going to war with* -- nm - Beaker Oct 14, 16:31 1
- Canada -- nm - Bacon Oct 14, 16:32
Verizon to launch six 4G phones at CES 2011 (Jan 2011) -- (link) - budice Oct 14, 16:30
Fish, are you around? -- nm - David Oct 14, 16:11 2
- Yo -- nm - Dano Oct 14, 16:21 1
  - Too late. We needed jackass advice. -- nm - David Oct 14, 16:43
News of the Day: Ke$ha has announced she will release an EP on 11/22 entitled "Cannibal" and here's the lead single -- (link) - MDH Oct 14, 16:09 [youtube] 3
- is it supposed to sound like all of her other songs? -- nm - Beryllium Oct 14, 16:09 2
  - And what exactly is wrong with that? :-) - MDH Oct 14, 16:12 1
    - Nickelback Syndrome. (Also, I half-expected the song to be called "Eat Me".) -- nm - Beryllium Oct 14, 16:12
lyc, I'm eating yummy sauerkraut & mushroom pierogis from a Polish deli in Chicago. -- nm - CovingtonCat Oct 14, 16:01 5
- Ewww sauerkraut. - the liioulu with baked goods on her mind Oct 14, 16:25 4
  - I've gone blank on the name. It's across the street from Pasieka bakery on N Milwaukee. - CovingtonCat Oct 14, 16:49 1
    - Mmm, Red Apple. - the liioulu with baked goods on her mind Oct 14, 16:57
  - Yum...sauerkraut!! :) -- nm - MojaveMeg Oct 14, 16:29 1
    - ;) -- nm - the liioulu with baked goods on her mind Oct 14, 16:29
oblique, about that Kodak camera you linked to... - CovingtonCat Oct 14, 15:57
I broke a nail! - Vermintown Oct 14, 15:51 1
- who uses nails anymore, that's what a powered screw driver and wood screws are for, no more smashed fingers either -- nm - zeitgeist Oct 14, 15:53
Today's Bing.com image is *gorgeous*. -- nm - Mop (224 lbs) Oct 14, 15:47 3
- I guess they're just trying to out-do my new slackertalk banner. -- nm - Beryllium Oct 14, 16:20 1
  - nice one too -- nm - zeitgeist Oct 14, 16:25
- "It's fall, f**kers!" -- nm - con_carne Oct 14, 16:04
Bery News Network: Babbage's computer from 1837 may be built.... -- (link) - Remlik Oct 14, 15:43
Back to the Future to be back in Theaters for 2 nights only - amoxy Oct 14, 15:40 2
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- with Eric Stoltz footage??? -- nm - Dr.Vermin Oct 14, 15:41
a preview of A Shepard's Tale about Shepard Book... -- (link) - Remlik Oct 14, 15:34 3
- The Book Book. -- nm - con_carne Oct 14, 15:39
- *wants Shepherd's Pie now* -- nm - JaxSean Oct 14, 15:37 1
  - You're a sicko. -- nm - The Rock Oct 14, 15:37
Not to bring up about the Chilean miners again but did you hear the story about one of them? A miners wife heard this other woman wailing upon hearing - Loyola Oct 14, 15:31 4
- Numerous times in the past few days. -- nm - Will Hunting Oct 14, 15:37 1
  - It's a cruel world. -- nm - Loyola Oct 14, 15:38
- The mistress showed up when the guy was pulled out but not the wife -- nm - amoxy Oct 14, 15:34
- a wife will hug him immediately. the misteress will insist he shower first :) -- nm - peglegpete Oct 14, 15:34
I was able to catch the last 20 minutes of The Good Girl (spoilers) - amoxy Oct 14, 15:30
Reagen, just for giggles - I see evolution as defying the entopic nature of the universe thus I can see de-evolution as well - crash davis Oct 14, 15:29 1
- Don't anthropomorphize evolution. It hates that. -- nm - Reagen Oct 14, 16:25
So, hurricane season technically ends November 30th of this year. Would it be a bad idea to look into traveling to New Orleans the last week in Nov? - kelly Oct 14, 15:28 10
- Late season storms are not common. -- nm - Will Hunting Oct 14, 15:35 6
  - would you be interested in this at all? - kelly Oct 14, 15:38 5
    - Ehh, it's not high on my list... - Will Hunting Oct 14, 15:45 4
      - but think of the *food*! -- nm - Beryllium Oct 14, 15:52
      - oh, okay. - kelly Oct 14, 15:46 2
        
        oh. sf/napa. I hereby redact my comment about food. For obvious reasons. :) -- nm - Beryllium Oct 14, 15:52 1
        
        er, "withdraw", not "redact" -- nm - Beryllium Oct 14, 15:59
- I think you'll be fine. - Kim Pine Oct 14, 15:34
- Our cruise is the last week of November. So...I hope so. -- nm - JaxSean Oct 14, 15:34
- one of my friends grew up in Guyana, says their saying was "june too soon, october all over." I'd put end of november pretty low on the risk scale. - mafic Oct 14, 15:33
I just got an email for a pre-sale for tickets to see Sade at the United Center. Can she really sell out a 20,000+ seat arena these days? - pmb Oct 14, 15:27 1
- She's got one of the year's best selling albums. her tour is supposed to be one of 2011's hottest tickets -- nm - MDH Oct 14, 15:49
so the sunset was kinda nice here last night. -- (link) - mafic Oct 14, 15:25 [flickr] 9
- That is pretty epic -- nm - Bacon Oct 14, 16:02
- Spoiler alert for those of us on the West Coast -- nm - Bacon Oct 14, 16:01
- Better than 'kinda' nice! -- nm - MojaveMeg Oct 14, 15:33
- I hate you. -- nm - JaxSean Oct 14, 15:32 2
  - choke yourself while jerking off! -- nm - mafic Oct 14, 15:38 1
    - My hobbies have nothing to do with this right now -- nm - JaxSaen Oct 14, 15:53
- that is an awesome shot -- nm - crash davis Oct 14, 15:31
- Whoa -- nm - amoxy Oct 14, 15:27
- flip it upside down and claim it's a dramatic oil slick shot. :) -- nm - Beryllium Oct 14, 15:27
Am I a bad person if I am sick to death of the Chilean miner rescue? - DaMENACE Oct 14, 15:07 27
- you mean the coverage on TV? - Danedukenuuk Oct 14, 15:50
- It's all over now, what are you complaining about? -- nm - amoxy Oct 14, 15:35 1
  - I can't trip over the TV without Super Mario's mug on it. And I hate Matt Lauer. - DaMENACE Oct 14, 15:40
- Why the hell would most people care about the financial issues...it's not like we've not been dealing with this for 2 years now. - Will Hunting Oct 14, 15:19
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- Unplug. -- nm - HdnAgnda Oct 14, 15:18
- I'm fine with it being over. Let's move on. -- nm - Mop (224 lbs) Oct 14, 15:16
- I wasn't so until the evening news yesterday, then... "wow, really?" Then heard how my boss stayed up all night... - Vermintown Oct 14, 15:15 1
  - it hits pretty close to home for me, but even I didn't do that. I did have it streaming at work though. -- nm - mafic Oct 14, 15:19
- I love some of the gifts some countries are giving them. -- nm - Jovian Oct 14, 15:14
- I'm really curious as to what the media is gonna clutch onto now. Effin sheep -- nm - CQ Oct 14, 15:12 1
  - If we could somehow create a hybrid news story combining the best bits of balloon boy and the Chilean miners, that would be tv gold. -- nm - Loyola Oct 14, 15:15
- What if they foreclose on the mine? -- nm - Dano Oct 14, 15:12 1
  - not unpossible. pretty sure it's the company's only active operation. -- nm - mafic Oct 14, 15:22
- What does one have to do with the other? -- nm - Reagen Oct 14, 15:11 7
  - One I care about and the other I was done with once they were all rescued. -- nm - DaMENACE Oct 14, 15:25
  - it's taking up valuable news time and internet space! -- nm - mafic Oct 14, 15:12 5
    - I know! How am I supposed to know if Lindsay Lohan is in jail or not! (stolen from Jimmy Fallon) -- nm - Dano Oct 14, 15:14 4
      - islindsayinjail.com - Reagen Oct 14, 15:17 3
        
        I'd start that, if it doesn't exist, but I fear the constant switching between "YES" and "NO" would be too hard. - Beryllium Oct 14, 15:20 2
        
        Just set it to always say "probably." -- nm - the wrong element, bad guy Oct 14, 15:28 1
        
        heheh. Or have it come back with Geico style rhetorical questions. ("Do woodchucks really chuck wood? Is water wet?") -- nm - Beryllium Oct 14, 15:29
- I am increasingly of the opinion that there is going to be, be it planned or unplanned, mass global debt forgiveness within the next 3 years. - Loyola Oct 14, 15:11 1
  - Ala Fight Club! -- nm - DaMENACE Oct 14, 15:20
- But they've been in a mine! They're heroes!! -- nm - Beaker Oct 14, 15:09 2
  - "It's more than you ever did." -- nm - Reagen Oct 14, 15:11 1
    - I've seen a mine -- nm - Beaker Oct 14, 15:13
In other art news: Buffalo family may have had a lost Michaelangelo painting hanging on their wall for years. -- (link) - Reagen Oct 14, 15:03 2
- "The Mike" -- nm - Stephen Oct 14, 15:13 1
  - I liked that. -- nm - Reagen Oct 14, 15:13
The Ready Set has a song called "Love Like Woe" but I'm trying to figure out if they mean "Love Like Whoa" -- (link) - Dano Oct 14, 14:57 [youtube] 4
- I thought it was "woah". -- nm - kelly Oct 14, 15:01
- In the TFox vernacular? -- nm - con_carne Oct 14, 15:00
- Is this something I'd have to spend more than six seconds listening to that song to figure out? - Reagen Oct 14, 14:59 1
  - I posted the question to the official YouTube video, so we will see what results from that. -- nm - Dano Oct 14, 15:08
Recent splurges - vacation travel. I no longer head automatically to the Motel 6 when I can find a nice historic hotel, and - MojaveMeg Oct 14, 14:57 6
- AAA & AARP cards should get discounts -- nm - peglegpete Oct 14, 15:03 1
  - They do for a lot of hotels, and a little bit of train travel. Some cruises have senior discounts, but not all of them, and discounts tend to - MojaveMeg Oct 14, 15:16
- Do you not get money from the government every week when you retire? Here you get approx $270 a week when you hit 65. - Loyola Oct 14, 15:01 1
  - I get Social Security. I could live on it, but not *live* on it. Fun stuff has to come from savings. -- nm - MojaveMeg Oct 14, 15:14
- mine would be new camera, and a trip to europe. and I cheap out on cars. -- nm - mafic Oct 14, 15:00 1
  - I guess cars would also be one of my splurges. Did I really *need* that Xterra? :) -- nm - MojaveMeg Oct 14, 15:17
Google shares are up $48 in after hours trading after they announced earnings -- nm - stewie Oct 14, 14:56 1
- Android's revenue is already at $1 billion a year - stewie Oct 14, 15:18
Bacon! Christine Hendrix is on the Ellen show today. -- nm - peglegpete Oct 14, 14:56 1
- Busty Large Titties Thursday! -- nm - Bacon Oct 14, 16:04
help needed, please (I think I have asked this here before but I can't recall) - so, my uncle took the pics for our wedding. He really went above and - kelly Oct 14, 14:51 14
- Spa certificate! -- nm - Roger More Oct 14, 15:04
- for me, it's really the joy I can give with the pics that is the best reward - marcel Oct 14, 15:00
- Is there something photography related you can think of? -- nm - Dano Oct 14, 14:56 1
  - He's pretty.....quality so the odds are we'd either get him something beneath the rest of his equipment or something he doesn't need - Will Hunting Oct 14, 15:02
- CA, eh? Does he live near a Fry's? A techie would appreciate a GC from there. -- nm - con_carne Oct 14, 14:56 5
  - umm, he might? (I can't sign into FB right now so I can't see his exact location - is FB down for anyone else?) - kelly Oct 14, 15:00 4
    - There's a Fry's in SD -- nm - con_carne Oct 14, 15:03 3
      - According to FB, he is in SD so that might work. Thanks. -- nm - kelly Oct 14, 15:05 2
        
        (actually, he lives in Lakeside.) -- nm - kelly Oct 14, 15:14
        
        No prob. I mean, an Amazon GC would totally work, too, but - con_carne Oct 14, 15:14
- my friend got me a nice bottle of whisky for basically the same thing, but since that's off the books I'd need to know more about him. - mafic Oct 14, 14:54
- If I were your uncle, I would be pleased that I could choose my own purchase. - Beryllium Oct 14, 14:52
- does he collect anything? -- nm - peglegpete Oct 14, 14:52 1
  - I don't know. He might. - kelly Oct 14, 14:54
somebody on ST will like this -- (link) - marcel Oct 14, 14:49
Does anyone know if Banzai has old Hostel material? - DaMENACE Oct 14, 14:48
Well, I did something I haven't done before. FF'd through some scenes in Chuck this week. - HdnAgnda Oct 14, 14:48 3
- How can you stand the Sarah/Chuck "relationship" scenes? - DaMENACE Oct 14, 14:50 2
  - I admit it is getting quite formulaic. This will probably be its final season so I'll see it out. -- nm - HdnAgnda Oct 14, 14:54 1
    - Yeah I am sold until the end too. I even have a nerd herd logo as my desktop. -- nm - DaMENACE Oct 14, 15:01
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- DAMN ACTIVIST JUDGES! -- nm - Obama Oct 14, 15:06
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david is really scraping the bottom of the barrel with his comebacks. -- nm - Beryllium Oct 14, 14:47 9
- Some Futurama fan you are. -- nm - David Oct 14, 14:48 8
  - "I can darn well tell you where we're not: The Universe." -- nm - Reagen Oct 14, 14:50 3
    - "I'm a 10th level Vice-President!" -- nm - David Oct 14, 14:53 2
      - oh, so I *have* seen that episode. It was Uhura who said that to Gore, right? -- nm - Beryllium Oct 14, 14:53 1
        
        Which one? The die comment was Gary Gygax. -- nm - David Oct 14, 14:56
  - I haven't watched it for years. I want to watch it from the beginning, in its entirety. - Beryllium Oct 14, 14:50 3
    - Amazon Unbox. Now. -- nm - David Oct 14, 14:53 2
      - as if that's a thing in canada -- nm - Beryllium Oct 14, 14:54 1
        
        (besides, I have hours and hours and hours of Dexter and Good Guys and Chuck to watch) -- nm - Beryllium Oct 14, 14:54
lackluster board roll. -- nm - kelly Oct 14, 14:46 1
- shines its shoes for free -- nm - i'm not Undead yet ! Oct 14, 14:58

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