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It's been a great while since I've been recruited and in the space of 90mins I've been contacted twice. - Mel Profit Oct 19, 11:55 5
- Ikariam??? -- nm - Beaker Oct 19, 11:57 2
  - will do freelance Leader work for food. -- nm - Mel Profit Oct 19, 11:58 1
    - "I should have stayed with the Promise Keepers." -- nm - Reagen Oct 19, 11:58
- we are in dire need of a yard gnome. nm -- nm - recruiter Oct 19, 11:56 1
  - I knew it. -- nm - Mel Profit Oct 19, 11:58
Poll for CQ: pick the youngest and oldest of these 80s singers: Bryan Adams, Paul Carrack, Corey Hart, Nick Kershaw, Robbie Nevil, Charlie Sexton -- nm - Max Oct 19, 11:53 5
- Youngest: Hart? Oldest: one of the other 4 I have no idea who they are? - JaxSean Oct 19, 11:57 2
  - Seriously? Wow. -- nm - Spawn Oct 19, 12:02
  - Wouldn't it be good to be in your shoes? -- nm - David Oct 19, 11:58
- Youngest: Sexton -- nm - Spawn Oct 19, 11:54 1
  - Oldest: maybe Carrack -- nm - Spawn Oct 19, 11:54
Friend's fb status. "somebody's got hurt someone before the night is through..." 5 responses - CQ Oct 19, 11:42 46
- well, the lyrics *are* wrong. :) - Andie Oct 19, 12:01
- laughing at the last one. -- nm - loosilu Oct 19, 11:49 1
  - yeah, I'm waiting for responses from the women. -- nm - CQ Oct 19, 11:53
- it's not like they're lyrics to a song no one has ever heard. it's the effin Eagles -- nm - CQ Oct 19, 11:45 36
  - Well, there may be a word missing. -- nm - mara Oct 19, 11:54
  - on DWTS this season, a 19 yo contestant and his 22 yo pro got assigned "Take It To The Limit" and since they'd never heard of it, they complained and - crash davis Oct 19, 11:46 24
    - Yeah it's so shocking they hadn't heard of a song released in 1975 and is regulated to crappy soft rock stations. -- nm - Qale Oct 19, 11:53 6
      - REGULATORS!!!! MOUNT UP!!!!! nm -- nm - Billy the Kid Oct 19, 11:54
      - relegated. -- nm - Beryllium Oct 19, 11:54 4
        
        The one post I didn't right click!!! (the and I thought I was better about that recently nt.) -- nm - Qale Oct 19, 11:56 1
        
        I wasn't saying you spelled it wrong, I was saying you used the wrong word. :) -- nm - Beryllium Oct 19, 11:57
        
        There might be some laws on the books, you don't know. (nm) - musubi Oct 19, 11:55
        
        (Unless that was one of Obama's changes ...) -- nm - Beryllium Oct 19, 11:54
    - I'm not sure who's worse, the couple dancing, or you for watching DWTS. (nm) - musubi Oct 19, 11:49 10
      - Here is the deal - crash davis Oct 19, 11:54 1
        
        No fair being all nice and rational, I was mocking your unfairly! - musubi Oct 19, 11:58
      - shush your face, hot chicks galore on DWTS. nm -- nm - groiny Oct 19, 11:50 7
        
        If only there were a web, possibly world wide, of places that one could look at hot chicks anytime. (nm) - musubi Oct 19, 11:52 2
        
        don't you condone watching a shitty TV series because of a hot chick in it? nm -- nm - groiny Oct 19, 11:53 1
        
        No. I even gave up on Chuck, they have Yvonne. (nm) - musubi Oct 19, 11:59
        
        Dancing girls are bendy -- nm - kilbooooo Oct 19, 11:51 3
        
        this Lacey chick did a dance 3 seasons ago that gave me wood. nm -- nm - groiny Oct 19, 11:51 2
        
        Is this the same Lacey that's like a swing dance champion and was on SYTYCD? - kilbooooo Oct 19, 11:53 1
        
        I believe so. nm -- nm - groiny Oct 19, 11:54
    - I hope the replacement song was "Life In the Fast Lane" or "Take It Easy". Geez. -- nm - Beryllium Oct 19, 11:48
    - Lacey? nm -- nm - groiny Oct 19, 11:48 2
      - yep, Lacey and Kyle - they didn't know who The Eagles were -- nm - crash davis Oct 19, 11:49 1
        
        *plans to bang Lacey while Hotel California is on* nm -- nm - groiny Oct 19, 11:50
    - wow -- nm - CQ Oct 19, 11:47
    - *shakes head* - JaxSean Oct 19, 11:47
  - I don't think I've ever heard an Eagles song. -- nm - MDH Oct 19, 11:45 9
    - least surprising post ever -- nm - hachiko Oct 19, 11:55
    - How have you avoided Hotel California? Or any number of other songs? - Will Hunting Oct 19, 11:51 2
      - Heck, I'm looking at their playlist right now, and *I* know a significant number of them. -- nm - Beryllium Oct 19, 11:52 1
        
        Exactly. -- nm - Will Hunting Oct 19, 11:54
    - do you live in a pineapple under the sea? nm -- nm - groiny Oct 19, 11:48
    - Hotel California? (nm) - musubi Oct 19, 11:46
    - Someone should slap your parents. -- nm - JaxSean Oct 19, 11:46 1
      - They are my mom's favorite band -- nm - Lon_cHaneY Oct 19, 11:52
    - It's pretty hard to escape hotel california. -- nm - CQ Oct 19, 11:46
- Though there's really no call to quote the Eagles. -- nm - Reagen Oct 19, 11:44
- Were they trying to quote Eagle's lyrics? (gonna hurt someone..) -- nm - JaxSean Oct 19, 11:44
- the lack of knowledge of the Eagles among younger folks disturbs me -- nm - crash davis Oct 19, 11:44 3
  - So i'm gonna be THAT guy---Who are the Eagles. I only know them as the band with the Album that comes close to MJ's Thriller -- nm - Matrix_Mafia Oct 19, 11:48 1
    - There are Japanese hiding on WW2 islands in caves who've heard Hotel California for chrissakes. -- nm - Will Hunting Oct 19, 11:57
  - they're all my age. wtf? -- nm - CQ Oct 19, 11:45
It's a difficult thing: wondering how much longer you should fight something out or decide it is lost. Work slump is scaring me. -- nm - Qale Oct 19, 11:39
Police say an Indiana man pulled over for speeding was driving with the partial remains of a hit-and-run victim hanging from the tailgate of his truck -- (link) - mara Oct 19, 11:37 19
- truck nuts? -- nm - Lon_cHaneY Oct 19, 11:43 1
  - literally -- nm - JaxSean Oct 19, 11:47
- I don't think I could be so nonchalant. Even that far over the limit. -- nm - Qale Oct 19, 11:41 8
  - "I hit someone. I drank about a case of beer today." - Drunk Driver Oct 19, 11:45 7
    - he blew a 0.12 - he must have been drinking slowly. -- nm - decline Oct 19, 11:48 6
      - or stopped drinking a while earlier. -- nm - TFox Oct 19, 11:53
      - I was gonna say, that's not high. -- nm - loosilu Oct 19, 11:50 3
        
        it's high enough. -- nm - Reagen Oct 19, 11:50 2
        
        when I read that he'd had a case, I expected higher. -- nm - loosilu Oct 19, 11:51
        
        ~whoa whoa whoa whooooooooa~ nm -- nm - Damn Yankees Oct 19, 11:51
      - paced himself sober -- nm - CQ Oct 19, 11:49
- WTF, Indiana! -- nm - kilbooooo Oct 19, 11:40
- Aunt Edna is gonna be pissed -- nm - CQ Oct 19, 11:40
- gawd. -- nm - loosilu Oct 19, 11:39
- spawn drives a truck? -- nm - hachiko Oct 19, 11:38 2
  - with an 8 track player -- nm - kilbooooo Oct 19, 11:51
  - he does live in the South. -- nm - Remlik Oct 19, 11:49
- jeebus h. -- nm - TFox Oct 19, 11:38 1
  - he shoulda paid the extra buck for the Deluxe wash. nm -- nm - groiny Oct 19, 11:39
"Little Librarian" playset. Just add books! -- (link) - mara Oct 19, 11:34 3
- this better not be some link to a Thailand brothel. -- nm - CQ Oct 19, 11:35 2
  - like all of mara's other links -- nm - hachiko Oct 19, 11:36 1
    - teenage sex seems to follow her everywhere -- nm - budice Oct 19, 11:37
this is bad news: 2 ambulance attendants missing after ambulance crashes into Kennedy Lake on vancouver island -- (link) - Beryllium Oct 19, 11:31
It looks as if I'm gonna have to move the mums inside during the night. damn deer ate about half of one. ugh -- nm - CQ Oct 19, 11:31 8
- A deer ate your mum?!? That's dreadful! My condolences, my good fellow. -- nm - Random English Tourist with Blue Socks Oct 19, 11:33 2
  - blow it out yee arse yee cheeky bastard -- nm - CQ Oct 19, 11:37
  - "Here, got you these." *reads the card* "To a wonderful mum." -- nm - Beryllium Oct 19, 11:35
- Just run some exposed electric wire around them - decline Oct 19, 11:32 4
  - it's weird, they seem to prefer the yellow mum over the purple one. -- nm - CQ Oct 19, 11:33 3
    - I have to ask, what's a mum? -- nm - Loyola Oct 19, 11:34 2
      - here -- (link) - CQ Oct 19, 11:36
      - chrysanthemum. -- nm - Beryllium Oct 19, 11:35
Tru...Mara is a busy and dedicated person at work....you.....not so much. - Remlik Oct 19, 11:30
Well, Schatz didn't get her walk this morning, and I doubt I'll be *walking* to the library an hour from now. :/ - MojaveMeg Oct 19, 11:28 5
- (when are we going to find Brother Deevs and get him to spill all the juicy gossip?) -- nm - hachiko Oct 19, 11:33 2
  - He's in O.C., I'm in O.C. I'm sure he'd join us any time you wanted to come down here :) -- nm - MojaveMeg Oct 19, 11:41 1
    - ay, there's the rub -- nm - hachiko Oct 19, 11:56
- nothing in hollywood at the moment -- nm - hachiko Oct 19, 11:29 1
  - Yup, it's a weird one. Circulating in from the southeast and hitting O.C. the worst. -- nm - MojaveMeg Oct 19, 11:33
Bery, from the bb's, leather couches and cats don't mix well in my experience. - Stephen Oct 19, 11:27 1
- My cat liked woven fabrics...avoided velor finishes. -- nm - MojaveMeg Oct 19, 11:29
Speaking of football predictions, I like Peter King a lot but the Carolina Super Bowl bid reminds me... - David Oct 19, 11:27 5
- They drove an APC off a dam then skydove to a helicopter! - Reagen Oct 19, 11:31 4
  - I'll never forget the Dallas Morning News giving us hell for that. And we totally deserved it. -- nm - David Oct 19, 11:33 3
    - You guys got mocked by the Dallas Morning News? - Will Hunting Oct 19, 11:35 2
      - and I couldn't argue the point! -- nm - David Oct 19, 11:36 1
        
        You got outflanked by Texans. - Will Hunting Oct 19, 11:37
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- I'd say at least half of the supportive crowd switches to against while a small amount of people would switch the other way. - Name Withheld By Request Oct 19, 11:40 2
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    - If you disagree with my guess that it would swing the other way if she took the more unpopular position. - Name Withheld By Request Oct 19, 11:49
The board rolled. Here are CR's top laptops from their top products issue. - David Oct 19, 11:25
Need a stencil to 'win' the neighbourhoods best jack-o-lantern this year? - Andie Oct 19, 11:24 8
- I want a santa one. help? -- nm - chromanda Oct 19, 11:52
- oh maybe Benjamin Franklin is more your style? Or Pilgrims for Thanksgiving? -- (link) - Andie Oct 19, 11:29 3
  - some of those, I can only say "Wow" to -- nm - crash davis Oct 19, 11:31
  - fine! i'll go carve a stupid pumpkin -- nm - hachiko Oct 19, 11:30 1
    - i know i keep it pretty hidden, but, i love halloween. -- nm - Andie Oct 19, 11:31
- i like the Where The Wild Things Are one in the actual linked link. -- nm - Andie Oct 19, 11:28
- the Obama is awesome. -- nm - loosilu Oct 19, 11:27
- heh. One way or another, we won't be where we are now by next halloween. So we'll be able to do this. :) -- nm - Beryllium Oct 19, 11:24
Will, what? - Reagen Oct 19, 11:24 3
- They lived in Clinton's world of leadership, and they wanted to be leaders and just didn't know how to be good ones. - Will Hunting Oct 19, 11:25 2
  - As the saying goes, that's not right, it's not even wrong. -- nm - Reagen Oct 19, 11:25 1
    - Yeah, that was the tipping point from people just wanting him to stop attacking the President to outright booing. -- nm - Will Hunting Oct 19, 11:30
NFL Poll: Does Dallas finish with a .500 (or better) record? (nm) - budice Oct 19, 11:23 5
- i only see 4 games that could be fairly said to be "should wins" -- nm - hachiko Oct 19, 11:27
- 2-14 - Epiphany Oct 19, 11:27
- I think they wind up 9-7. -- nm - David Oct 19, 11:26
- only if they fire Wade. -- nm - Reagen Oct 19, 11:24
- No. -- nm - Will Hunting Oct 19, 11:24
Big giant circle: 22 year olds. Tiny little circle inside: valedictorians. (nm) - musubi Oct 19, 11:21 16
- so all valedictorians are also 22 years old - hachiko Oct 19, 11:22 13
  - The tiny little circle isn't cocentric. - musubi Oct 19, 11:24 7
    - that's not what you wrote! -- nm - hachiko Oct 19, 11:25 1
      - I'm painting a picture in words. Sometimes there's a pause between brush strokes. (nm) - musubi Oct 19, 11:28
    - what about high school valedictorian? -- nm - loosilu Oct 19, 11:24 4
      - College valedictorians, Miss Non-detail oriented. (nm) - musubi Oct 19, 11:25 3
        
        This is the "T", not the "S"/"N" ... -- nm - Beryllium Oct 19, 11:26 2
        
        it's the NT together. -- nm - loosilu Oct 19, 11:27 1
        
        Very important. -- nm - Lane Meyer Oct 19, 11:37
  - well, the smaller circle doesn't have to be in the center. It could be off to the side in the venn diagram. -- nm - Beryllium Oct 19, 11:23 2
    - I think you mean, overlapping. -- nm - loosilu Oct 19, 11:24 1
      - by "in the center" I meant "wholly contained by the parent circle" -- nm - Beryllium Oct 19, 11:25
  - eventually. -- nm - loosilu Oct 19, 11:23 1
    - Unless they go the Len Bias graduation celebration route. (nm) - musubi Oct 19, 11:24
- *waves at you from inside* -- nm - loosilu Oct 19, 11:22
- Tinier circle: Valedictorians whose speeches make the front page. -- nm - Name Withheld By Request Oct 19, 11:22
~ controversy ~ -- nm - hachiko Oct 19, 11:19 3
- *boos* -- nm - loosilu Oct 19, 11:20 2
  - "I'm used to booing because I live in a haunted house." -- nm - weasley senator si Oct 19, 11:21 1
    - *throws rotting vegetables that I brought to graduation ceremony* -- nm - Diva Oct 19, 11:31

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