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And for those who missed it, say hello to Emma Watson at the Harry Potter premier in England -- (link) - con_carne Nov 12, 09:30 [Image] 12
- The haircut still isn't working for me. -- nm - Jim Nov 12, 09:30 9
  - Kinda reminds me of Salma Hayek for some reason. -- nm - Beryllium Nov 12, 09:54
  - i know why she did it though, she said she wasn't allowed to cut her hair, contractually, since the HPs started 10 years ago. - Elf Andie Nov 12, 09:31 7
    - Oh, I can totally understand. I just don't like it. :) -- nm - Jim Nov 12, 09:35
    - It was also an attempt to get the TGWTDT remake role. -- nm - Reagen Nov 12, 09:33 5
      - Hrmm...I honestly can't picture her in any form as Salander. -- nm - Will Hunting Nov 12, 09:35 2
        
        Every 25 and under actress had to try, though. -- nm - Reagen Nov 12, 09:37 1
        
        word -- nm - crash davis Nov 12, 09:39
      - for sure, or is that just a rumour? -- nm - Elf Andie Nov 12, 09:33 1
        
        These things get misreported sometimes, but I've seen it in most mentions of her recently. -- nm - Reagen Nov 12, 09:38
- If they do another live-action Peter Pan, there's your Tinkerbell. -- nm - Will Hunting Nov 12, 09:30 1
  - I was thinking the same thing. -- nm - Jim Nov 12, 09:31
Okay, so ST vaguely hates Gloria Allred (an opportunistic lawyer... The horror!), but this time... it's about boobs -- (link) - con_carne Nov 12, 09:25 2
- Just looking at the stills...I can't imagine that chick being "too distracting" for me to work. -- nm - Jim Nov 12, 09:30 1
  - word, unless she only works with prison inmates or recently rescued Chilean miners -- nm - Beaker Nov 12, 09:36
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- I'm still somewhat in awe of the night the Golden Steer gave us a private room on about 30 minutes notice. - MojaveMeg Nov 12, 09:27 2
  - "Hey guys, I can see the sign...it's right *there* Let's walk." - Will Hunting Nov 12, 09:30 1
    - heh -- nm - Epiphany Nov 12, 09:30
shablagoo! - drool pixie Nov 12, 09:22 1
- gaa gaa goo goo - crash davis Nov 12, 09:28
796 dead in Haiti cholera outbreak. Could be worse - they could be forced to eat poptarts and spam whilst stranded on a cruise ship. -- nm - Beryllium Nov 12, 09:20 3
- cruise ship people interviewed this morning said they were *plied* with alchohol. :) -- nm - Elf Andie Nov 12, 09:25 2
  - all warm! -- nm - loosilu Nov 12, 09:25 1
    - the horror! -- nm - Elf Andie Nov 12, 09:26
Is Syracuse really the only Bowl-eligible team from the Big East thru week 10? - Will Hunting Nov 12, 09:15 5
- I think that is where WAC and MWC fans get a little irritable. They know they aren't the SEC, but to say you don't get the same consideration as the - crash davis Nov 12, 09:26
- Talk bout a whack year for the Big East..Just looked myself. All around mendoza line. -- nm - budice Nov 12, 09:18 1
  - Just remember, there exists a manner where Boise or TCU won't make a BCS bowl game....yet the winner of this shithole is guaranteed a spot. -- nm - Will Hunting Nov 12, 09:23
- Are they? They have a win against a I-AA team. -- nm - Dano Nov 12, 09:16 1
  - I thought you got credit for 1 win like that, but only 1. Unless they changed the rules in the last year or 2. -- nm - Will Hunting Nov 12, 09:16
Happiness is finding a package of Ring Dings in your lunch... - Mel Profit Nov 12, 09:14 4
- Devil Dogs are my Drake's vice. -- nm - CQ Nov 12, 09:27
- you had to say that on a day when I have PMS> -- nm - loosilu Nov 12, 09:24
- Precious!!! -- nm - Gollum Nov 12, 09:21 1
  - One ringding to bring them all, and in the darkness bind them -- nm - Beryllium Nov 12, 09:21
Found out last night a buddy from work had a scene with Jeff Daniels and Russell Crowe in State of Play - Will Hunting Nov 12, 09:10
nmbReagen - Name Withheld By Request Nov 12, 09:10
posited: people who claim its cold when its over 50 degrees outside are wimps -- nm - crash davis Nov 12, 09:01 30
- I have yet to put on a jacket this fall....probably wont until its less than 5C/40F -- nm - Walt_Disney Nov 12, 09:29
- it's cold when you have ice in you'r nose hair -- nm - Danedukenuuk Nov 12, 09:27
- Cold is anything under 60 :) -- nm - MojaveMeg Nov 12, 09:24
- The same for people who complain about greater than 90. -- nm - nubby Nov 12, 09:22 2
  - Word. -- nm - Jim Nov 12, 09:25
  - I have no shame about my hot weather wimpiness. My mother is directly descended from puffins. - loosilu Nov 12, 09:23
- *yawn* another cold weather STer calling warm weather people wimps. What else is new? -- nm - con_carne Nov 12, 09:12 2
  - well... you are. -- nm - Reagen Nov 12, 09:19 1
    - Word. -- nm - Jim Nov 12, 09:19
- agreed -- nm - tRuMaN Nov 12, 09:10
- Amen to that! -- nm - OAE Nov 12, 09:07 6
  - (OAE stands for Old Antarctic Explorer in case you've forgotten.) - OAE Nov 12, 09:10 5
    - wow - I experienced minus 50 once, I can't conceive of triple digits. That sounds like a version of hell. -- nm - crash davis Nov 12, 09:16 3
      - It's a very dry cold, and the National Science Foundation gives you... - OAE Nov 12, 09:34
      - my coldest was -35. -- nm - loosilu Nov 12, 09:19 1
        
        (unless you count the -80 lab freezers that made my nose bleed) -- nm - loosilu Nov 12, 09:19
    - The only STer I can think of who might have experienced colder is mafic. -- nm - loosilu Nov 12, 09:12
- welcome to los angeles - drool pixie Nov 12, 09:04
- They're the first to be eaten. -- nm - Reagen Nov 12, 09:02
- 10C can be cold. - Beryllium Nov 12, 09:01
- yeah! - loosilu Nov 12, 09:01 9
  - while heat doesn't bother me, its humidity that gets me - I'd be a horrible Southerner -- nm - crash davis Nov 12, 09:03 8
    - I'll take hot hot summers to cold cold winters anyday. luckily, we get both. YAY!!! -- nm - Jim Nov 12, 09:04 2
      - I'm very interested in finding out how summer feels in the new townhouse here. - Beryllium Nov 12, 09:09
      - *nods* - Will Hunting Nov 12, 09:06
    - I'd get as far south as Nevada and go "Yep, this is about right." -- nm - Beryllium Nov 12, 09:04 3
      - well, Nevada is a desert. -- nm - loosilu Nov 12, 09:04 2
        
        Yes, it's hot but not humid. It was 98F the entire time I was there, and I found it quite comfortable. -- nm - Beryllium Nov 12, 09:04 1
        
        like I said, humidity makes it worse, but I don't like the heat much either. -- nm - loosilu Nov 12, 09:05
    - Humidity makes it much worse. -- nm - loosilu Nov 12, 09:03
Jeez...like it's not bad enough in Denver. DJ Williams got picked up for DUI at about 3am this morning. - Jim Nov 12, 09:00
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- I'm leaving the city, that should cheer you up... :) -- nm - znufrii Nov 12, 09:38
- nothing tonight. tomorrow is Scouting for Food, a kids birthday party and then my birthday party. nm - Jim Nov 12, 09:10
- Opera! Live from the Met: Don Pasquale! - OAE Nov 12, 09:08
- cousin's 50th birthday tomorrow -- nm - Dano Nov 12, 09:04
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- Well, the aforementioned Rainbow happens to be located in West Hollywood. Eh?... Eh?... -- nm - con_carne Nov 12, 09:00
- same as they were on b2. -- nm - loosilu Nov 12, 08:58
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- Mercy is a type of kindness. -- nm - Beryllium Nov 12, 09:00 1
  - It droppeth like the gentle rain. -- nm - loosilu Nov 12, 09:04
I've seen films worse than Jacen's submitted to film festivals is all I'm saying. -- nm - Dano Nov 12, 08:53
Bored: Poll: Where (physically, like city and event) did you meet your SO, or your most recent SO if you are currently living the wild single life? -- nm - Elf Andie Nov 12, 08:48 38
- at the olympia area reclaiming spiral dance -- nm - zeitgeist Nov 13, 00:01
- Houston, TX - was there to hang out with his relative -- nm - Epiphany Nov 12, 09:28
- Amagansett. Local live music tavern. It was all in my dancing -- nm - CQ Nov 12, 09:11 4
  - ~Here comes CQ. He's a berserker ~ -- nm - Mel Profit Nov 12, 09:25
  - Along Came CQ -- nm - con_carne Nov 12, 09:13
  - youtube an example! -- nm - loosilu Nov 12, 09:12 1
    - I will not be so cruel as to subject people to this hideous form of self expression -- nm - CQ Nov 12, 09:23
- Winnipeg, met online. (I would pay huge money to be able to go back in time and sit in a booth nearby to watch.) -- nm - Name Withheld By Request Nov 12, 09:11
- It depends on what we're defining as the meet. It could be North Carolina, Tennessee, Ohio, Illinois or the Mind's Eye. -- nm - David Nov 12, 09:09 4
  - very first time you actually actually met in person. -- nm - Elf Andie Nov 12, 09:15 3
    - A parking lot in Knoxville before driving to North Carolina to meet up with Feathers. -- nm - David Nov 12, 09:30
    - that would be the restraining order hearing -- nm - drool pixie Nov 12, 09:16 1
      - But I eventually let her marry me anyway. -- nm - David Nov 12, 09:29
- Chicago - Blind date at the Blue Water Grill. -- nm - pmb Nov 12, 09:08
- a wine bar in Doylestown, PA (the blind date from a few weeks back? - we're still seeing each other) -- nm - decline Nov 12, 09:02
- she was late to pick me up at the Nashville airport, I should have realized then that we'd never get anywhere on time -- nm - crash davis Nov 12, 08:59 1
  - ha! - drool pixie Nov 12, 09:01
- Work (she was another Blockbuster Music store manager) here in Jacksonville. -- nm - JaxSean Nov 12, 08:56
- At work, in beautiful Los Angeles, CA -- nm - con_carne Nov 12, 08:55
- In a touring hostel in London in 1964. I was living in a basement room with 3 other girls, he was on the 2nd floor and owned the only - MojaveMeg Nov 12, 08:54 5
  - Two of them were males, but the other two? Well, the other two were females! God knows what they were up to in there. - Reefer Madness Nov 12, 09:02
  - the Swinging Sixties! - drool pixie Nov 12, 08:55 2
    - Can't remember where our first 'outside' date was. I remember seeing movies at the Leicster Square Theatre, because he had a part-time job there as an - MojaveMeg Nov 12, 09:00 1
      - I saw movies there in the late 90s. :) -- nm - loosilu Nov 12, 09:00
  - that's awesome. -- nm - Elf Andie Nov 12, 08:55
- Vegas 07. -- nm - Will Hunting Nov 12, 08:53
- Subway station when I heard her asking the ticket collector how to get to the nearby library. - zork Nov 12, 08:52 1
  - in Toronto at the Yonge and Bloor station -- nm - zork Nov 12, 08:57
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- "most recent" goes back a long time, but . . . .the K-Mart Deli - drool pixie Nov 12, 08:51
- Toronto, baseball diamond by the lake -- nm - Elf Andie Nov 12, 08:50
- watching a Red Sox/Yankees game at a bar in Manhattan with JackDawson. -- nm - znufrii Nov 12, 08:50 1
  - "you had tickets to that game?!" -- nm - drool pixie Nov 12, 08:52
- Rolla, MO at a Sigma Pi fraternity party. -- nm - Jim Nov 12, 08:50
- First day of junior high -- nm - JD Nov 12, 08:50 2
  - Cities people! i want cities! -- nm - Elf Andie Nov 12, 08:50 1
    - Fairfield, CA -- nm - JD Nov 12, 08:52
- at her bar. -- nm - TFox Nov 12, 08:49
Snapple Real Fact # 720: Did you know that fresh apples float because 25% of their volume is air? -- nm - Jim Nov 12, 08:47 2
- Mmm it can't really be the primary reason. If the other 75% was lead, it wouldn't float -- nm - Guigue Nov 12, 08:55
- didn't know that, but it sounds about right. -- nm - znufrii Nov 12, 08:47
Time for ST to earn it's keep for when I have to explain what you all do for me...Excel question inside. - Mel Profit Nov 12, 08:46 7
- thanks everyone. I'm about to go through this and see what works. I'm sure I'll have questions. Thanks in advance. -- nm - Mel Profit Nov 12, 09:15
- You can also use =IF to dedicate a column to your IMs list of descriptions, and reference the cell containing the date -- nm - con_carne Nov 12, 08:59
- Conditional formatting - con_carne Nov 12, 08:53 2
  - Yup. Highlight the fields based on the conditions, then you can sort/filter by cell color. -- nm - JaxSean Nov 12, 08:55 1
    - why not just directly sort by the same conditions? -- nm - loosilu Nov 12, 09:00
- this might help -- (link) - Beryllium Nov 12, 08:51
- they store dates as seed numbers, so if you use today()-14 and stuff like that, it should work. -- nm - TFox Nov 12, 08:48
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- study guide? :) -- nm - znufrii Nov 12, 08:47 2
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    - *fear* -- nm - znufrii Nov 12, 08:52
the only thing i know about the missing neighbor is they broke the door down but i don't think she was home in the apartment - drool pixie Nov 12, 08:45 4
- here is hoping that she is okay, and the neat thing about where you live? - crash davis Nov 12, 08:47 3
  - oh yeah, I'm sure the police always buy that in LA. -- nm - loosilu Nov 12, 08:47 2
    - "There are two kinds of people who think of ways to kill people: serial killers and mystery writers. I'm the one that pays better." -- nm - Pixie Castle si Nov 12, 08:48 1
      - loosi is the the third way, she "kills" by the thousands in order to save -- nm - zeitgeist Nov 13, 00:08
sitwap - Viacom plans to sell Harmonix -- (link) - crash davis Nov 12, 08:44 6
- they made a terrible deal for it and it's bleeding money. i'm not surprised...nm - x Nov 12, 08:49 5
  - I'll predict that whoever buys it will be laughing all the way to Wall St. - crash davis Nov 12, 08:54 4
    - most of the losses recently were more related to huge inventories and the high cost of making cheap plastic instruments.... - x Nov 12, 09:06 3
      - who knows, but being over inventoried in q3 might not be a bad thing when you're core business makes money on Xmas sales - crash davis Nov 12, 09:11 2
        
        perhaps. any buyer should be *very* careful about the price they're going to pay mostly what i'm saying... - x Nov 12, 09:15 1
        
        yeah, I have no idea what they paid. I do think its interesting that they won't wait to see how the new tech plays out, but maybe a sale would take - crash davis Nov 12, 09:21
from b2: I *love* the Jacen video. The little feet, the "nope! nope!", the "I shakin'", the high five. Made of win. -- nm - loosilu Nov 12, 08:42
I'm always right on my evaluation of football talent, because unlike the fools who run the game, I use the power of hindsight to evaluate things. -- nm - crash davis Nov 12, 08:41 1
- (but not math) -- nm - David Nov 12, 08:49
i'm just sitting here watching airplanes, take off, and fly away. -- nm - tRuMaN Nov 12, 08:40
Look at your woman, now back to me .. -- (link) - marcel Nov 12, 08:39 [youtube] 1
- I don't like beer or soccer. No deal! -- nm - David Nov 12, 08:51

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