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i am not very productive today. - tRuMaN Oct 17, 12:51 4
- i was ridiculously productive at work this week. can't figure out why -- nm - chris Oct 17, 12:58
- that's ok, i'm not productive at all -- nm - i'm not Undead yet ! Oct 17, 12:58
- I've been quite productive at work today. Got through Life on Mars and Samantha Who already, and almost done with last night's Grey's. -- nm - Cuzzin Todd Oct 17, 12:54 1
  - I watched Ugly Betty. -- nm - Amy Oct 17, 12:55
Zack and Miri ads removed.... -- (link) - budice Oct 17, 12:49 3
- "The stick-figure images are especially appealing to youngsters, since "stick figures are something for children," - Qale Oct 17, 12:53
- We have totally different ads for this here. - Andie Oct 17, 12:51 1
  - i should have just googled - it's here: -- (link) - Andie Oct 17, 12:52
That is twice today I've lost to 4 of a kind. - Will Hunting Oct 17, 12:47 11
- this is a sign. take Kelly out to dinner tonight -- nm - peglegpete Oct 17, 12:58
- not as crazy as the time I got 4-of-a-kind cracked by a straight flush playing Follow the Queen -- nm - znufrii Oct 17, 12:51 3
  - Not as crazy as the time my king got cracked by an ace in Indian Poker. - TFox Oct 17, 12:57
  - Wild card poker doesn't count! - Will Hunting Oct 17, 12:52 1
    - worst was hitting 5 of a kind on the last card of night baseball - znufrii Oct 17, 12:53
- You obviously should have folded. (nm) - musubi Oct 17, 12:50 1
  - Hard to fold Tier 1 hands pre-flop in a turbo tourney. - Will Hunting Oct 17, 12:51
- sorry to hear that, maybe you should Halo tonight instead of cards -- nm - crash davis Oct 17, 12:48 3
  - Maybe I should Halo tonight instead of cards. -- nm - Will Hunting influenced by a Jedi mind trick Oct 17, 12:50
  - Nope, I get an evening to go play so I'm going to play. -- nm - Will Hunting Oct 17, 12:49 1
    - good luck then -- nm - crash davis Oct 17, 12:50
weren't a lot of people recommending Nobody's Fool as a great Paul Newman film? it's on hulu -- (link) - chris Oct 17, 12:47 [hulu] 1
- it is a fantastic film. - Reagen Oct 17, 12:48
Judging from CT's postings, we may have another victi--- uh, teammate on Halo 3 soon. -- (link) - Mop Oct 17, 12:42 [Backboard] 5
- Don't get your hopes up too high - not a fan of that kind of game really. -- nm - Cuzzin Todd Oct 17, 12:47 3
  - Neither was I honestly till I started playing with these characters -- nm - eag Oct 17, 12:51
  - neither am I, its just fun playing in a big group -- nm - crash davis Oct 17, 12:51 1
    - We'll see, but I've got my eyes on several other games already. -- nm - Cuzzin Todd Oct 17, 12:53
- awesome -- nm - crash davis Oct 17, 12:43
when i rule the compound, only New York style pizza will be served -- nm - chris Oct 17, 12:38 15
- you would be overthrown before the meal was over -- nm - dogbert183 Oct 17, 12:45 1
  - He'd be turned into Soylent Green brand Pepperoni. -- nm - TWuG Oct 17, 12:53
- obviously you have never made deep dish pizza in a spring form pan -- nm - peglegpete Oct 17, 12:45
- Opression of the will of the people won't end well for you. (nm) - musubi Oct 17, 12:44 4
  - hey, i'm keeping spam. what more do you want? -- nm - chris Oct 17, 12:46 3
    - World Peace....a Mets Championship...Marisa Miller...a non-deliquent-Frosty-getter.... - musubi Oct 17, 12:49 2
      - i'm just a tin-pot despot, not a miracle worker -- nm - chris Oct 17, 12:50 1
        
        That tin-pot better have my Frosty in it. (nm) - musubi Oct 17, 12:52
- If you even hint at imposing such a rule, I'll rally the common folk to usurp you. -- nm - ReluctantCynic Oct 17, 12:42 3
  - okay Lizard King - chris Oct 17, 12:46
  - We need to make sure one of us stops in Peroia on the way to the compound to take the Avanti's chef with us -- nm - kilboooo Oct 17, 12:44 1
    - My brother has agreed to air lift us pizza bread as needed. -- nm - ReluctantCynic Oct 17, 12:49
- between this and your Slush Puppy, not Icees, verdict that you may have some problems mounting your coup -- nm - crash davis Oct 17, 12:40
- I'd allow Chicago-style on Thursdays -- nm - ty97 Oct 17, 12:39 1
  - for punishments, good thinking ty97 -- nm - chris Oct 17, 12:40
BTW, to pick up on the Liberal leadership discussion of B3....Yes, picking a small province premier who left ten years ago before being turfed is.... - Name Withheld By Request Oct 17, 12:36 11
- So not Iggy, and Rae would be suicide, going to another untested guy like Kennedy seems unlikely... - Reagen Oct 17, 12:39 10
  - As for your asks...A) Best case for Tories: Trudeau the younger. Slim risk of Obama treatment, but likely keeps them on the downslide. B) Best? - Name Withheld By Request Oct 17, 12:43 3
    - I give Justin only slighty greater odds of running than Ben Mulroney for the Conservatives. -- nm - Reagen Oct 17, 12:45 2
      - Oh, you're definitely underjudging the Liberals internal sense of expectation with him. - Name Withheld By Request Oct 17, 12:49 1
        
        Oh, I fully expect him to take a shot someday. just not now. - Reagen Oct 17, 12:57
  - Easiest Attack Ad Ever: "Gerard Kennedy is solely responsible for Stephane Dion's leadership victory." *claps hands like a blackjack dealer and walks* -- nm - Name Withheld By Request Oct 17, 12:40 5
    - Ujjal? -- nm - Reagen Oct 17, 12:44 4
      - No. The LIberals need a BC (and NDP strategy) to rebuild the west and he apparently burns bridges with those. - Name Withheld By Request Oct 17, 12:46 3
        
        I was gonna say Dhalla. Then we need to convince Catherine Clark to take a shot. -- nm - Reagen Oct 17, 12:47 2
        
        Nah. Her daddy has polluted her with hate for the merged party - a party that would never pick Joe as its leader. - Name Withheld By Request Oct 17, 12:51 1
        
        Work with me here! -- nm - Reagen Oct 17, 12:57
on the subject of meaningless endorsements that only matter to fans of a candidate, James Bond endorses Obama -- (link) - crash davis Oct 17, 12:36
Spiderman Web of Shadows for the XBox 360 Oct 21 -- (link) - Beaker Oct 17, 12:34
Bike helmets that don't suck. -- (link) - Reagen Oct 17, 12:29 11
- "Brainwear for smart people"... very nice -- nm - Jammed Uzi Oct 17, 12:36
- i like 'em -- nm - Jammed Uzi Oct 17, 12:34
- hey, those are nice. -- nm - Andie Oct 17, 12:30 7
  - Look at "Tokyo". -- nm - Amy Oct 17, 12:34 1
    - Gilligaaaaan! -- nm - chris Oct 17, 12:37
  - a little pricey though. -- nm - Reagen Oct 17, 12:33 4
    - i didn't even see pricing? -- nm - Andie Oct 17, 12:37 3
      - I clicked through to one retailer in the UK - about $175. -- nm - Reagen Oct 17, 12:37 2
        
        for helmet and cover? or just one or the other? - Andie Oct 17, 12:38 1
        
        both. And then $60 for a different cover. -- nm - Reagen Oct 17, 12:39
- are there any we can get remlik for when he plays halo? -- nm - tRuMaN Oct 17, 12:30
EU optimistic on "ambitious partnership with Canada" -- (link) - Reagen Oct 17, 12:26 3
- Hey, wait a minute! -- nm - NAFTA Oct 17, 12:33 1
  - *boredly browsers on international dating sites* - Canada Oct 17, 12:36
- *fingers and toes crossed* - Name Withheld By Request Oct 17, 12:30
so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so. -- nm - tRuMaN Oct 17, 12:25 2
- what? -- nm - crash davis Oct 17, 12:27 1
  - Peter Gabriel remix. -- nm - Reagen Oct 17, 12:28
Is the Marky Mark thing supposed to be making fun of something? - JaxSean Oct 17, 12:22 12
- Probably The Happening, if anything. - Jelly Oct 17, 12:27 2
  - there no real overlap with the lines, but there's maybe a pinch of it in the parody. -- nm - Reagen Oct 17, 12:28 1
    - I wasn't sure, thanks. -- nm - Jelly Oct 17, 12:28
- I think it's just "I can do a Mark Wahlberg" impression - Reagen Oct 17, 12:24 8
  - He can? -- nm - Qale Oct 17, 12:24 7
    - Samberg has the speech patterns and cadence down pat. (nm) - musubi Oct 17, 12:28 6
      - absolutely. -- nm - Mel Profit Oct 17, 12:33 4
        
        Say hello to your mother for me. (nm) - musubi Oct 17, 12:36 3
        
        the thing is...alot of people 'round here talk like that. - Mel Profit Oct 17, 12:43
        
        I have a hard time deciding what the funniest bit was that week. That or Mary Poppins or the Forte vote song. Tough calls. -- nm - TFox Oct 17, 12:38 1
        
        I liked how good a job Bill Hader did in that sketch of reproducing the awfulness of Dick Van Dyke's accent. -- nm - Reagen Oct 17, 12:41
      - I guess my ears must be stopped up. All I heard was the sound of gigantic sucking. -- nm - Qale Oct 17, 12:32
I haven't seen much about House races. Here is an article from today's WaPo -- (link) - crash davis Oct 17, 12:22 1
- Me neither -- nm - Sarah Palin SI Oct 17, 12:26
ugh. - znufrii Oct 17, 12:22 2
- Sorry. - Krusty Oct 17, 12:33 1
  - eh. I'll figure it out one of these days. -- nm - znufrii Oct 17, 12:33
Will: I like that they managed to make her a reasonably well rounded character. - Mel Profit Oct 17, 12:20 4
- Randy deserves an Emmy this year. - JaxSean Oct 17, 12:21 3
  - He's fantastic too. His impersonations in the premiere were crying-funny -- nm - Will Hunting Oct 17, 12:48
  - Ethan Suplee has had an epic run of funny. - Mel Profit Oct 17, 12:33
  - Ethan Suplee and Alec Baldwin are the funniest people on TV right now. I don't think I could have predicted that. -- nm - Reagen Oct 17, 12:23
Decide My Lunch: Super burrito from the taco truck up the street, soup from the Safeway deli, or a sub from Big Town Hero? -- nm - ReluctantCynic Oct 17, 12:17 7
- sub -- nm - peglegpete Oct 17, 12:36
- wouldn't you rather just unhinge your jaw and swallow a cute little mouse whole? -- nm - chris Oct 17, 12:35 1
  - That's what a snake does, not a lizard. -- nm - ReluctantCynic Oct 17, 12:38
- It's Friday. Burrito - con_carne Oct 17, 12:20 2
  - That may interfere with "...sexytime..." from b2. -- nm - Qale Oct 17, 12:25 1
    - Sexy-time isn't until Saturday night, though. -- nm - ReluctantCynic Oct 17, 12:39
- sub -- nm - crash davis Oct 17, 12:18
SITWAP: Wow...how classy...bet Joe the Plumber thinks these are hysterical! -- (link) - The Calico Cat Coalition Oct 17, 12:12 1
- P.O.W. -- nm - John McCain Oct 17, 12:17
LIR: "beer social". Heh -- nm - con_carne Oct 17, 12:10 2
- well... it sounded better than chugging random brewskies ... ;o) -- nm - Jammed Uzi Oct 17, 12:14 1
  - I'll use it :-) -- nm - con_carne Oct 17, 12:15
Just curious. Anyone still playing any fake money poker online? - kilboooo Oct 17, 12:10 8
- I've been playing a lot on UltimateBet and Full Tilt Poker. Doing pretty well, too. -- nm - ReluctantCynic Oct 17, 12:13 7
  - Just don't put any real money in UB. -- nm - psilotum Oct 17, 12:16 6
    - ?? -- nm - Beaker Oct 17, 12:27 4
      - Here's the MSNBC story that broke the scandal ... (linky) -- (link) - ReluctantCynic Oct 17, 12:37 1
        
        Well, it had been discussed for quite a while on 2+2, as mentioned in the msnbc article. -- nm - psilotum Oct 17, 12:40
      - Some of the people who ran it were involved in a cheating scandal using accounts which could see all the hole cards. - psilotum Oct 17, 12:34 1
        
        Thanks, I knew some of this, but that post is great -- nm - Beaker Oct 17, 12:38
    - Yeah ... I learned that. Although I'm tempted to think that UB will enjoy the equivalent of a "food poisoning rebound." - ReluctantCynic Oct 17, 12:27
here's a better hax question: my wife and my mother . . . do they always fight like this?? - chris Oct 17, 12:10 24
- has he told them to act like grown-ups? it doesn't sound like it. he should. -- nm - Andie Oct 17, 12:30
- Sounds like that guy married a real beyotch. - con_carne Oct 17, 12:15
- I lived this. It was not good (though it was all much more passive aggressive than they sound). And from now on I will think of you as . . . - pmb Oct 17, 12:13 20
  - say pmb - crash davis Oct 17, 12:15 19
    - you are challenging david for the crazy level now -- nm - chris Oct 17, 12:34
    - Have you eaten pizza in both places? - Krusty Oct 17, 12:22 8
      - *wow my typing sucks* - Krusty Oct 17, 12:23
      - I had pizza on a visit to Manhattan a long time ago. Maybe it isn't the same as Brooklyn? -- nm - crash davis Oct 17, 12:23 6
        
        Not even close. Manhattan doesn't really have any family pizzeria's. - Krusty Oct 17, 12:25 3
        
        "Sbarro's." (nm) - musubi Oct 17, 12:46
        
        ah, I shouldn't paint one borough with another one's brush - I was just being loyal to Chicago because of the amazing pie sent to me -- nm - crash davis Oct 17, 12:26 1
        
        I hear great things about Chicago pizza. The pizza on Giordano's site looked really good. -- nm - Krusty Oct 17, 12:35
        
        Ray's! :-) -- nm - con_carne Oct 17, 12:24 1
        
        Not Ray's :) - znufrii Oct 17, 12:25
    - It was Giordano's. -- nm - pmb Oct 17, 12:16 8
      - well played -- nm - kilboooo Oct 17, 12:29
      - gracias -- nm - crash davis Oct 17, 12:18 6
        
        there's a Gino's in the building I work in but I far prefer Giordano's. I should eat that this weekend. -- nm - kilboooo Oct 17, 12:29 3
        
        don't say stuff like that to me - crash davis Oct 17, 12:33 2
        
        There's a Giordano's down the street from work and I was so happy when they opened one a few minutes from home - kilboooo Oct 17, 12:35 1
        
        L4 on the IM -- nm - crash davis Oct 17, 12:38
        
        I shouldn't say this, but Trish isn't around... - Roger More Oct 17, 12:23 1
        
        oh yeah, I had that bookmarked at one point and time, but then I lost my bookmarks -- nm - crash davis Oct 17, 12:25
- this is why God invented TV, couch, beer, and non-committal grunts -- nm - crash davis Oct 17, 12:11
"Mark Wahlberg talks to Sarah Palin" -- nm - Reagen Oct 17, 12:09 1
- " Listen, sweetie ... I've talked to a lot of pigs in my life, but never a pig with lipstick. How does that make you feel ? " - Mark Wahlberg Oct 17, 12:12
My parent's house offer is good until 5pm ET today. It's a bit past 3pm and they've heard nothing. - ty97 Oct 17, 12:08 5
- where are they buying ? your neck of the woods ? -- nm - Jammed Uzi Oct 17, 12:10 4
  - well.... - ty97 Oct 17, 12:14 3
    - aah ... gotcha. well, Fort Myers has.... many golf courses and Google. And of course a lot of hurricanes... - Jammed Uzi Oct 17, 12:20 2
      - old people - ty97 Oct 17, 12:29 1
        
        ... shouting at eachother like normal people - Jammed Uzi Oct 17, 12:39

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