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lead singer of Candlebox and the band Live have teamed up....new band Gracious Few..... -- (link) - Remlik Nov 11, 13:31 2
- It's like they want people to make up jokes about them -- nm - con_carne Nov 11, 13:33 1
  - word -- nm - Guy Nov 11, 13:35
Apple I for sale for $200k. Odd fact: I've seen this device in person when I was a kid -- (link) - oblique Nov 11, 13:31 1
- I've got a running Mac Classic. Just needs a system disk. -- nm - lileve Nov 11, 13:42
For Pixie....10 Comic series ready for tv adaption following the Walking Dead....some good crime stuff there you might like.... -- (link) - Remlik Nov 11, 13:30 2
- Didn't Zombieland start as an idea for a television series? -- nm - Dano Nov 11, 13:35 1
  - yeah. -- nm - Remlik Nov 11, 13:37
here's a fun contest: according to your cell phone's lifetime call timer, who has the most logged call minutes on their phone? (174 hrs, 24 mins) -- nm - drool pixie Nov 11, 13:24 10
- Lifetime usage? 2 days 20 hours. - Stephen Nov 11, 13:34
- 3 days, 0 hours (or 72 hours) -- nm - Dano Nov 11, 13:34
- I lose: 2 hours 16 Minutes (and I've had the phone for a few years) - howie Nov 11, 13:32 1
  - i've had mine since 2004 -- nm - drool pixie Nov 11, 13:34
- total calls: 11:26:19 -- nm - oblique Nov 11, 13:28
- 363:18 in the last 17 months. -- nm - Max Nov 11, 13:28
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- I don't even know how to find this on my phone -- nm - znufrii Nov 11, 13:27
- Trish or Mandy would win. -- nm - Remlik Nov 11, 13:25 1
  - they do know how to talk -- nm - drool pixie Nov 11, 13:30
ST Poll: If you were famous and hot (most of us are at least one or the other, naturally), would you pose naked? If so, targeted at the opposite sex - oblique Nov 11, 13:20 5
- Depends on the purpose - Guy Nov 11, 13:35
- How many real life males qualify for this who aren't actors or athletes? -- nm - Max Nov 11, 13:25
- So many young actors and actresses are stupid not to, so as to have a record of what they looked like at their hottest. -- nm - Reagen Nov 11, 13:24 1
  - I'm going to try this on future dates -- nm - con_carne Nov 11, 13:25
- No but if I did - I'd go for all markets -- nm - Epiphany Nov 11, 13:21
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- better for the sex to be consensual, you're a lawyer, you should know this -- nm - ceregon Nov 11, 13:28
LYC: Frickin' cool. A friend of mine/former coworker just got a job as a web developer at Activision. - con_carne Nov 11, 13:10 5
- Pitfall in browser! -- nm - drool pixie Nov 11, 13:12 4
  - Considering they just released the biggest game ever (COD: Black Ops), I think they're way past Pitfall now -- (link) - oblique Nov 11, 13:16 2
    - i just want to know if there was ever an end to it -- nm - drool pixie Nov 11, 13:19 1
      - I'm not sure if the Atari version had an end but I think some of the other platforms did -- nm - oblique Nov 11, 13:21
  - Hm... I'll pass it along! :-) -- nm - con_carne Nov 11, 13:13
I, too, would like to fly to Chicago to visit ty97, but cannot commit. *hint hint* -- nm - Mop (217 lbs) Nov 11, 13:10 1
- Maybe you can be his mom's +1 -- nm - oblique Nov 11, 13:17
lyc, but i really did like the song lady A sang last night at the cma awards. -- nm - tRuMaN Nov 11, 13:03 1
- lyc: I really liked the glee rendition of Teenage Dream - Epiphany Nov 11, 13:21
it sucks there is no NHL hockey this year. stupid lockout of 2010-11 -- (link) - Guy Nov 11, 13:02 3
- *arrives at arena tonight* Oh, what the f---? -- nm - HdnAgnda Nov 11, 13:13
- There's no NHL this year? I hadn't noticed. -- nm - nubby Nov 11, 13:03 1
  - yeah, it sucks. the NJ Devils would have had an amazing team if the season wasn't canceled. -- nm - Guy Nov 11, 13:05
LIR to Loyola re: the jackets - HdnAgnda Nov 11, 12:51 1
- Ok sure, I'll see what I can do :) -- nm - Loyola Nov 11, 12:53
Spent the afternoon raking leaves. Blech! And still only got the front yard done. -- nm - Don Homer Nov 11, 12:41 1
- can't you just rent one of those big leaf blowers and give all those nice leaves to your neighbors ? -- nm - decline Nov 11, 12:43
eek. I have to dogsit when I get home. Multiple outdoor walks in the cold every day! -- nm - ty97 Nov 11, 12:40 1
- don't you have a balcony or fire escape? Just put him on that ? -- nm - decline Nov 11, 12:45
Girl says she was cuffed and boots from airport for questioning body scanners... -- (link) - Don Homer Nov 11, 12:39 16
- Funny how her story doesn't at all match what the cctv shows. -- nm - Ender Nov 11, 12:49
- Nothing to see here, just move along.... -- nm - TSA Nov 11, 12:46 14
  - "We�ll let you decide what really happened." Wow, that's not passive aggressive at all. -- nm - Mop (217 lbs) Nov 11, 12:58 5
    - Honestly, I think the people at TSA are pissed. Everyone treats them like bad guys when all they are trying to do is keep people safe. -- nm - decline Nov 11, 13:02 4
      - And every time some dick with anger management issues starts yelling it's the TSA who take the heat. -- nm - Ender Nov 11, 13:04 2
        
        *snort* - Stephen Nov 11, 13:16 1
        
        Nobody's saying there are no abuses, but I swear, 90% of the people we hear complaining are just dicks who were being difficult and have created fantasy versions of the event. - Ender Nov 11, 13:31
      - I would say a large percentage of TSA employees know their jobs are bullshit. -- nm - Reagen Nov 11, 13:04
  - Also, and I don't get this, but did you notice that there were several people that went through the scanners that still got the pat down treatment? - Stephen Nov 11, 12:55 7
    - Isn't that the whole point of the scanners? To identify any questionable objects and have the agents check them out? -- nm - Ender Nov 11, 13:00 6
      - The scanners are so effective they need to be backed up by a pat down? - Stephen Nov 11, 13:06 2
        
        Do you seriously think that the only thing the scanner sees are weapons? Of course it finds questionable objects. - Ender Nov 11, 13:11 1
        
        And a pat down only confirms that there's a questionable object there as well. Not what that object may be. - Stephen Nov 11, 13:15
      - that's what i thought. if the scanner triggers something, a human being has to check it out further. -- nm - Andie, Remembers on Remembrance Day Nov 11, 13:04
      - no, the purpose of the scanners is to impinge on our right to privacy and embarass us in front of others -- nm - decline Nov 11, 13:02 1
        
        Riiiight.... -- nm - Ender Nov 11, 13:02
today is the first costco coupon day of the xmas season, the parking lot is full -- nm - zeitgeist Nov 11, 12:36
SITMOP? Mystery missile really US Airways flight 808 -- (link) - oblique Nov 11, 12:35 11
- makes sense -- nm - CQ Nov 11, 12:58
- Nothing to see here folks, please move along. It was simply a, um, a weather balloon. Yeah, that's it, a weather balloon interacting with swamp gases. -- nm - DARPA Nov 11, 12:40
- and I though railfans have too much time on their hands. - znufrii Nov 11, 12:36
- well at least they have come up with a plausible lie. took em a few days - but they got one - Epiphany Nov 11, 12:36 4
  - it's the missile that's not plausible. Those travel at close to 5000 mph. - Reagen Nov 11, 13:07 3
    - I believe that more than I do the airplane - Epiphany Nov 11, 13:23 2
      - also, I dispute the idea that it took them days to come up with something plausible. People were suggesting it was a plane from Day 1. - Reagen Nov 11, 13:35
      - I don't understand the skepticism. -- nm - Reagen Nov 11, 13:30
- rrriiiiigggghhhhtttt -- nm - Conspiracy theorist Nov 11, 12:35 2
  - Mysteriously, nobody from U.S. Airways flight 808 is available for interview! -- nm - Max Nov 11, 12:43 1
    - *Boom* LOST -- nm - HdnAgnda Nov 11, 12:44
LYC: Is there any explanation with my sudden... - OAE Nov 11, 12:34 5
- is that the guy who looks like Johnny Depp? -- nm - oblique Nov 11, 13:18 2
  - It's the kid from Scream 1 and Jericho. -- nm - Will Hunting Nov 11, 13:19 1
    - So the answer is Yes then. :) -- nm - oblique Nov 11, 13:21
- it is his semi hawtness - Epiphany Nov 11, 12:53 1
  - semi-hawt is the best new word I've learned all day! -- nm - OAE Nov 11, 15:43
My mother was toying with coming to Chicago, but being mom she couldn't commit. So I got her a ticket and surprised her. - ty97 Nov 11, 12:25 5
- by your brother ? -- nm - decline Nov 11, 12:27 3
  - After bitching at me, she apparently called him to gripe - ty97 Nov 11, 12:31 2
    - good for him :) -- nm - decline Nov 11, 12:32
    - heh. +1 for your bro -- nm - oblique Nov 11, 12:32
- ...sending her right into the groping hands of TSA. -- nm - Max Nov 11, 12:26
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- Well, it is their jobs -- nm - con_carne Nov 11, 12:47
- Though I understand the reasoning and sentiment, I have a hard time seeing how eliminating the mortgage interest deductions doesn't just put another - pmb Nov 11, 12:40 10
  - Of course try to get something as major as this through when the economy and housing market is humming along fine. -- nm - Dano Nov 11, 13:17
  - I'm fearful of this so-called simplifying of the tax code. Incentives and deductions seem to be a key tool in helping us steer the markets. - con_carne Nov 11, 13:00 6
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      - Then I wonder why it's considered a step to closing the budget gap... -- nm - con_carne Nov 11, 13:29 1
        
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    - The free markets crowd should be all about it, though. -- nm - znufrii Nov 11, 13:06 2
      - If they are, it will mean what it always does: Get rid of all incentives and breaks... except for those that affect my constituents -- nm - con_carne Nov 11, 13:13
      - Free markets ain't free! *puts a boot up Milton Friedman's ass* -- nm - Toby Keith Nov 11, 13:11
  - I'll concur with this. It would hurt demand for real estate. -- nm - ty97 Nov 11, 12:41 1
    - Then again it may make the market much more realistic so that only those that truly can afford to purchase do. - Mel Profit Nov 11, 13:22
- Interesting, thanks. - ty97 Nov 11, 12:33
- Maybe that's the trick. Just put every proposal in Comic Sans from now on and it'll sail through both houses. -- nm - Reagen Nov 11, 12:29 1
  - stranger things have happened -- nm - znufrii Nov 11, 12:30
TV News: "Rubicon" Cancelled. I started watching it, but way too slow so I gave up. -- nm - MDH Nov 11, 12:24 2
- Aw, crap. I was of two minds with its fate. 1) It would be cancelled because of the success of Walking Dead or 2) the success of WD might be able to - HdnAgnda Nov 11, 12:46
- Yeah, me too. -- nm - Stephen Nov 11, 12:38
David re: Dan...I think I'm just not enjoying this season much (spoils) - Jim Nov 11, 12:21 14
- I give this season a solid B so far. -- nm - Dano Nov 11, 13:17
- It is far and away the worst season of Survivor ever -- nm - Jovian Nov 11, 12:31 2
  - Whoa whoa whoa...let's not let Thailand off that easy. :) -- nm - Jim Nov 11, 12:33 1
    - heh. Yea but I liked Shii Ann. And the way Brian played both Clay and Ted was also fun. -- nm - Jovian Nov 11, 12:36
- It's like that used car salesman's season in that everyone is forgettable *and* a horrible player. -- nm - David Nov 11, 12:25 9
  - Exactly. Heidik looked like the smartest player ever, but it was largely because he got to hit off the Pirates every game. - Jim Nov 11, 12:27 8
    - As you know, I thought he was a lousy player too. - David Nov 11, 12:28 7
      - It's hard to say with him. Would he have been able to pull his stuff on the previous season? With Mariano and Kathy and them? Maybe, maybe not. - Jim Nov 11, 12:31 6
        
        That would help out a lot. - David Nov 11, 12:37 5
        
        Ignore my gmail. :) Yeah, I can do that. And I'm sure I will rant. This may not be the worst season, but it has been the dumbest. Even (spoils) - Jim Nov 11, 12:38 4
        
        Spoilers - David Nov 11, 12:42 3
        
        spoils - Jim Nov 11, 12:48 2
        
        That leads to an interesting question... - David Nov 11, 12:57 1
        
        Oddly enough, Richard Hatch used being the food provider to get himself to the end. - Jim Nov 11, 13:03
I'm also in awe of the idea that the govt messed up fiscal policy to enable this, but in turn, the solution out of it is more govt policy. - Will Hunting Nov 11, 12:19 28
- government policy had about 10% to do with the mortgage bubble -- nm - drool pixie Nov 11, 12:26 1
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- they messed up by taking their hands off the wheel for a few decades. -- nm - Mel Profit Nov 11, 12:21 8
  - With the same fools in charge as were.....yeah....fire em all and start fresh, maybe I'll buy it. -- nm - Will Hunting Nov 11, 12:22 7
    - Unfortunately, we seem to get the fools in the red shirts or the fools in the blue shirts. - ty97 Nov 11, 12:34 5
      - You know, I thought Will Hunting was referring to the Treasury Dept/Fed... In any case, I repeat my recommendation for all STers to watch Inside Job - con_carne Nov 11, 12:42 3
        
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        I'm not saying they're untrue, just questioning the "throw the bums out" mentality. - con_carne Nov 11, 13:03 1
        
        Someone else who didn't help steer the boat to the precipice of the waterfall? -- nm - Will Hunting Nov 11, 13:11
      - *this* -- nm - Epiphany Nov 11, 12:36
    - Welcome to the Teabaggers! -- nm - Mel Profit Nov 11, 12:33
- Don't know, don't care. Just give me my free house. kthxbye. -- nm - Jim Nov 11, 12:19 16
  - :) I know it's a pretty bum deal for the financially responsible who still have their jobs and means to continue paying off mortgages bought before or - Loyola Nov 11, 12:24 14
    - Again, why should it be a bum deal? Benefit everyone. -- nm - Will Hunting Nov 11, 12:29 13
      - They'll never benefit everyone. It's a guessing game as is as to how much helping out those in dire need of help would hit the dollar. -- nm - Loyola Nov 11, 12:35 12
        
        Then we get back to my F**k the Plan your pushing. - Will Hunting Nov 11, 12:40 11
        
        Well like there's degrees within the whole gamut of troubled homeowners. There's the junkie who walked into a bank one day in 2005, got a mortgage for - Loyola Nov 11, 12:50 10
        
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        I guess I find the whole idea interesting and was thinking today what traction a politician would get if he ran with it. -- nm - Loyola Nov 11, 13:08 4
        
        "What do you mean you're only giving those people the benefits? Another f***ing bailout?" - Will Hunting Nov 11, 13:15 3
        
        I don't know, it's been a hot topic today with everyone I talked to. -- nm - Loyola Nov 11, 13:21 2
        
        Maybe over there. Here, it'd go over like a lead balloon. -- nm - Will Hunting Nov 11, 13:26 1
        
        Here the debt is really accentuated as well. I know loads of people who lost jobs, don't spend a penny and are scrimping every month to gather up the - Loyola Nov 11, 13:34
        
        And once again....why should those people who haven't suffered be cut out *again*. - Will Hunting Nov 11, 12:56 3
        
        That won't happen. You might as well get the whole country to march on the White House and shout up to Obama, give everybody, every single citizen, - Loyola Nov 11, 13:05 2
        
        So really....your answer is let's pick and choose becuase the alternative is too damaging to society. And my response is "Then let's not pick and - Will Hunting Nov 11, 13:12 1
        
        You'd definitely need a cut off done on a timescale so you'd be picking and choosing years I guess. Everyone who took out a mortgage between say 2002 - Loyola Nov 11, 13:19
  - Sorry, you're responsible...we cannot permit you to benefit in any form from this. - Will Hunting Nov 11, 12:21
*forgives B2* -- nm - con_carne Nov 11, 12:15 2
- blessed are the boaed rollers, for they shall inherit a fresh board -- nm - zeitgeist Nov 11, 12:43
- *kicks you in the gonads* - ty97 Nov 11, 12:16

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