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i wear ty97's aunt's scorn as a badge of honor -- nm - mr. pin Nov 16, 08:52
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ST Stalker Poll: Yay or Nay? - Diva Nov 16, 08:49 14
- answers - Hotkiss Nov 18, 08:31
- My answers - CrankYanker Nov 16, 16:08
- OK - CovingtonCat Nov 16, 14:17
- My answers...... - MojaveMeg Nov 16, 11:30
- answers - ceregon Nov 16, 09:04
- Some yay, some nay (specifics inside) - pmb Nov 16, 08:55
- Answers - con_carne Nov 16, 08:54
- No to all except the last one. I do like art though. -- nm - Loyola Nov 16, 08:53
- answers - znufrii Nov 16, 08:53
- Answers: - Elf Andie Nov 16, 08:52 1
  - I like the big YAYs. -- nm - Diva Nov 16, 08:53
- n,n,n,n,coke,y,n,n,n,n,y,n,y,n,n,n,y,n,y,y,y, n,n,y -- nm - CQ Nov 16, 08:51
- Nay -- nm - Spawn Nov 16, 08:51 1
  - This is so helpful, I'll be sure to repost on B2. -- nm - Diva Nov 16, 08:55
Do I care who Scott Miller is? Do I want a free Christmas MP3 from him? -- nm - Mop (217 lbs) Nov 16, 08:45
This is all kinds of stupid. But I still feel bad for her. (Woman returns to sailboat to turn off propane tank ... uses a lighter to find the way) -- (link) - Beryllium Nov 16, 08:42 1
- Some people really want to win a darwin award -- nm - ceregon Nov 16, 08:53
Business Poll: What would you rather have, Business Cards or a Name Plate (for desk or door or whatever)? Do you have both/either/or? - JaxSean Nov 16, 08:41 22
- I have neither. -- nm - Beryllium Nov 16, 08:53 1
  - oh, actually, I take that back. I do have a nameplate on my desk. -- nm - Beryllium Nov 16, 08:54
- Business cards, because I'd much rather people call me than come by my office. I have both -- nm - Roger More Nov 16, 08:51
- Actually, I have both also. That's why I'd much rather have a door. -- nm - Jim Nov 16, 08:51
- Name plate. Any eegit can have a business card. -- nm - Loyola Nov 16, 08:50
- Name plates. I've had other people's stuff land on my desk just enough times to be irksome to me. -- nm - con_carne Nov 16, 08:49
- I have both -- nm - JD Nov 16, 08:48
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- Name plate on my cubicle. No cards. I avoid situations for which I'd need cards, like conferences, etc. -- nm - mara Nov 16, 08:45 3
  - I hate the card thing. I'm amused when people ask for a card. I just give them my number -- nm - CQ Nov 16, 08:47 2
    - a card is just an easy way of giving them your email and phone number. that's all it is. -- nm - Elf Andie Nov 16, 08:48 1
      - last thing I want is customer's or aspiring customers to have my e-mail. the phone is bad enough :) -- nm - CQ Nov 16, 08:50
- A door. -- nm - Jim Nov 16, 08:45
- neither. -- nm - CQ Nov 16, 08:43 3
  - actually, I think I might make up some bowling shirts with a company logo on the back and a fake name on the front pocket - CQ Nov 16, 08:49 2
    - Earl -- nm - decline Nov 16, 08:50 1
      - perfect -- nm - CQ Nov 16, 08:52
- Business Cards and a raise. -- nm - lileve Nov 16, 08:43
- I have business cards - never use them. A name plate would be silly as there are only 10 people in my company -- nm - decline Nov 16, 08:42 1
  - So what you're saying is, "size matters." - JaxSean Nov 16, 08:44
- A raise. -- nm - ty97 Nov 16, 08:42
Snapple Real Fact #714: Did you know that when thirsty, a camel can drink 25 gallons of water in less than 3 minutes? nm - Jim Nov 16, 08:41 3
- yes -- nm - Spawn Nov 16, 08:46
- *splurt* -- nm - dignan s.i. Nov 16, 08:42
- Actually, I think this was posted to TT about seven years ago. -- nm - Beryllium Nov 16, 08:42
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- ..for a do nothing congress -- nm - budice Nov 16, 08:49
- Why paint a target on somebody else when this guy's got 6 years ahead of him. -- nm - Mop (217 lbs) Nov 16, 08:44 1
  - What target on who else? -- nm - Will Hunting Nov 16, 08:45
- Offs. -- nm - Will Hunting Nov 16, 08:43 3
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    - I hope the 8 people he cost jobs give him a Code Red in the cloakroom. - Will Hunting Nov 16, 08:48 1
      - 6 -- nm - Don Homer Nov 16, 08:52
- gh. -- nm - znufrii Nov 16, 08:42
Today's groupon in canada (the. entire. country.) appears to be Body Shop -- nm - Beryllium Nov 16, 08:36 1
- *Body Shop files for bankruptcy* -- nm - Mop (217 lbs) Nov 16, 08:45
i wonder how many falcons fans watched mnf and thought - Truman Nov 16, 08:34
does anyone on st have the new blackberry torch, or whatever its name id - Truman Nov 16, 08:32
Speaking of Jim, Nelly's still alive! -- nm - ty97 Nov 16, 08:26 1
- I was thinkin' 'bout her, thinkin' 'bout me, thinkin' 'bout us, what we gone be -- nm - Jim Nov 16, 08:39
I guess I should have bought Apple stock yesterday. -- nm - Mop (218 lbs) Nov 16, 08:23 6
- i think you mean shorted...nm - x Nov 16, 08:26 4
  - Maybe he means covered. -- nm - mara Nov 16, 08:28 3
    - If only there were a fake stock exchange to help me learn these terms -- nm - ty97 Nov 16, 08:29 2
      - Makes me nostalgic for the days when newbies would ask how to "trade" stocks with other players. -- nm - mara Nov 16, 08:32 1
        
        I remember having a hard time wrapping my head around shorting. It was like how do you negative buy things? -- nm - zork Nov 16, 08:34
- why? so you can lose 2% of your money today? -- nm - decline Nov 16, 08:26
This is probably sacrilegious on ST, but I watched Percy Jackson & the Lightning Thief and liked it better than all of the Harry Potter movies. -- nm - ceregon Nov 16, 08:23 7
- really? i thought it was just way too easy a quest. -- nm - Elf Andie Nov 16, 08:45
- FWIW - I thought Dealthly Hallows pt 1 was the best since no.3. -- nm - LMS Nov 16, 08:29
- What did you think of Cocktail? -- nm - Mop (218 lbs) Nov 16, 08:25 4
  - It was *so much better* than Silence of the Lambs -- nm - ceregon si Nov 16, 08:37 2
    - I don't get it. PH is the same genre as HP. None of these movies have anything to do with each other. -- nm - ceregon Nov 16, 08:41 1
      - Silence of the Lambs has a chianti in it, close enoguh. -- nm - Beryllium Nov 16, 08:45
  - Other than the song and thinking ESHUE was hot, I don't remember much about it, but I remember liking it. -- nm - ceregon Nov 16, 08:37
Ty97, I was sooo tempted to jump in on the Mom/snow update....but just couldn't come up with a shiv that only you would get :) -- nm - MojaveMeg Nov 16, 08:20 1
- heh. She keeps talking about how she's going to hang out in the condo. - ty97 Nov 16, 08:43
Day 1 of working inside a medium security prison: nothing but manual-reading so far. - landbeck Nov 16, 08:15 7
- stay away from Ryan O'Reilly. -- nm - Remlik Nov 16, 08:48 1
  - Shakey. Shakey, shakey, shakey. nm - Mayhem Nov 16, 08:52
- What, you want auto-reading? -- nm - Reagen Nov 16, 08:20 1
  - whoa, that right there could lead to autoerotication. -- nm - zork Nov 16, 08:21
- I don't think that getting promoted to kitchen duty qualifies as "working" there - zork Nov 16, 08:20
- Hi. Long time no see. -- nm - lileve Nov 16, 08:18
- Say hi to Barksdale for me. -- nm - Don Homer Nov 16, 08:17
so is this soccer player on the take? just sucky? dead tomorrow? -- (link) - Beaker Nov 16, 08:11 4
- That's awful. -- nm - Will Hunting Nov 16, 08:20
- heh. "Meanwhile Qatar gently weeps." -- nm - zork Nov 16, 08:19
- yeesh -- nm - JaxSean Nov 16, 08:15
- to be fair, the guy's right footed accuracy is even worse -- nm - CQ Nov 16, 08:13
Next Android version includes "e-wallet;" use your phone to make payments by tapping it against a cash register. -- (link) - JaxSean Nov 16, 08:11 3
- I don't think I can afford to get my wife a new phone every two weeks. -- nm - Mop (218 lbs) Nov 16, 08:24
- the credit card is DEAD..,..nm - x Nov 16, 08:16 1
  - Go easy on him. -- nm - Mop (218 lbs) Nov 16, 08:25
High Score on Zuma Blitz! -- nm - amoxy Nov 16, 08:10 4
- I am so glad facebook is blocked at work... -- nm - znufrii Nov 16, 08:18 3
  - When you play, the way to get high scores is to get gap shots - amoxy Nov 16, 08:45 2
    - oh, I'm quite familiar with the game. I was up until 1:30am playing it last night. -- nm - znufrii Nov 16, 08:56
    - Also, the more scores in a row, the more points. As in, shots that actually destroy balls, not just add to the chain. -- nm - Jim Nov 16, 08:46
Anyway, my grade for the Hurt Locker was above average. (spoils) - CQ Nov 16, 08:09 27
- I grade on normal curve and in no way would I ever put Hurt Locker on the average level - Will Hunting Nov 16, 08:18 6
  - I totally agree. I was so tense by the time the movie ended, my body actually hurt a little. -- nm - Jim Nov 16, 08:40 1
    - Thank god we had it on DVD so we could pause and decompress. I couldn't imagine it in a theatre. -- nm - Will Hunting Nov 16, 08:44
  - I really disagree with your IM. - con_carne Nov 16, 08:24
  - not nearly as intense as Children of Men -- nm - CQ Nov 16, 08:21 2
    - CoM was strong, but not nearly to this degree imo. I don't have the love for CoM some do. - Will Hunting Nov 16, 08:23 1
      - Indeed. Also, HL had a touch more tension than CoM, I thought. - Beryllium Nov 16, 08:35
- C is only an average if you give out a lot of Ds and Fs. -- nm - loosilu Nov 16, 08:16 6
  - I think we assume there are bunches of Ds and Fs we haven't seen and take those into account. -- nm - mara Nov 16, 08:27 1
    - Plus we all know what an F is like. -- nm - Reagen Nov 16, 08:35
  - I think this is true of Roger Ebert, but not regular people. We tend to avoid movies that look like they would be D/F movies to us. - ty97 Nov 16, 08:27
  - I tend to. C is right on my average. -- nm - Reagen Nov 16, 08:26
  - If you watched everything, you'd see a lot more Ds & Fs....but we watch stuff that's at least supposedly competent and interesting. - Will Hunting Nov 16, 08:24
  - If that's true, then why even bother posting movie grades on ST? - con_carne Nov 16, 08:22
- C+ is a thumbs down in my book, fwiw. (B- vs C+ is the cut-point.) -- nm - Don Homer Nov 16, 08:14 4
  - Is it possible I've been misinterpreting ST movie grades all this time? - con_carne Nov 16, 08:20 3
    - When it comes to movies, "meh" equals "thumbs down" to me. Why would I want to waste my time watching 2 hours of meh? -- nm - mara Nov 16, 08:36 2
      - Well yeah, it's not like you're going to go around recommending such a movie -- nm - con_carne Nov 16, 08:38
      - If I see some C's and B's, and I wanted to see it, I'll take the chance. If I see C's and D's and/or F's, that's a skip for me. -- nm - JaxSean Nov 16, 08:38
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  - My grading is: A: Great, B: Good, C: Average/meh, D: Bad, and F: WTFHDTMIOF? -- nmea - JaxSean Nov 16, 08:18 5
    - WTF has Dano told me is outright fantastic? -- nm - Roger More Nov 16, 08:53
    - yup. - znufrii Nov 16, 08:26 1
      - D's and F's are usually accidental. - JaxSean Nov 16, 08:31
    - This is pretty much how I grade movies. -- nm - con_carne Nov 16, 08:25
    - this is how I do it as well. -- nm - decline Nov 16, 08:21
Jack in the box is giving away 2 free tacos to everyone in the US after 2PM on 11/16. I'm guessing if you have a JitB in your area, you know this. -- (link) - JaxSean Nov 16, 08:06
Cars 2 official trailer -- (link) - oblique Nov 16, 08:02 [youtube] 5
- ... was there a coup by DreamWorks that we didn't hear about? -- nm - Reagen Nov 16, 08:08
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  - I haven't watched the trailer yet, but Pixar trailer often have little resemblance to the actual movie story. -- nm - Don Homer Nov 16, 08:12
  - I'm sure it will be a hit but this may be the first Pixar movie I have no interest in seeing -- nm - oblique Nov 16, 08:07
  - "Tow-mater, average intelligence." -- nm - Jim Nov 16, 08:07
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So, indirectly, I had the 2 worst defenses of the week. - Will Hunting Nov 16, 08:00 8
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  - This really is showdown week. The top half of the league are gonna go cannibal on each other. - Spawn Nov 16, 08:49
  - Now watch, after 2 months of huge weeks, I'll throw up a complete disaster. -- nm - Will Hunting Nov 16, 08:05 5
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      - ::flexes:: -- nm - Spawn Nov 16, 08:47
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        Teams playing Spamlet score 15pts over league average. That's hysterical. -- nm - Will Hunting Nov 16, 08:17
        
        Spamlet quite honestly should be 2-3rd in the league. - Will Hunting Nov 16, 08:10
loosi, it was one of those technicalities where they never got around to taking it off the books. -- nm - Reagen Nov 16, 08:00 6
- Here's the clip - it's at the 5.10 mark. -- (link) - LMS Nov 16, 08:08 [youtube]
- ah, thanks. still seems like it would have been superseded by Lincoln's proclamation. -- nm - loosilu Nov 16, 08:00 4
  - In England? -- nm - mara Nov 16, 08:34 2
    - psst. -- (link) - zork Nov 16, 08:37 [Backboard] 1
      - I knew I was missing something. (Wasn't it just that they ratified the 13th amendment?) -- nm - mara Nov 16, 08:50
  - and I wouldn't say that you "won" on B2. you just made the most guesses - zork Nov 16, 08:12
STIS: I need an external hard drive for Apple's Time Machine back up, I'd prefer firewire but can deal with USB. TIA. -- nm - lileve Nov 16, 07:59 5
- No eSATA? -- nm - Mop (218 lbs) Nov 16, 08:29
- I see deals posted for these just about every day at Amazon or Newegg or TigerDirect -- nm - oblique Nov 16, 08:04 3
  - My WD shit the bed and now I don't know who to use. -- nm - lileve Nov 16, 08:12 2
    - They're all the same. Drives fail. Compare warranties if you're looking for an edge on one over the other -- nm - oblique Nov 16, 08:13 1
      - Ok, thanks! -- nm - lileve Nov 16, 08:17
*gropes B1 for its safety* -- nm - ty97 Nov 16, 07:58
Word. -- nm - Jim Nov 16, 07:58 4
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  - (ugh) -- nm - JaxSean Nov 16, 08:02
  - (spoils) - Jim Nov 16, 08:02 1
    - agreed. -- nm - Beaker Nov 16, 08:09

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