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i'm not going out in that deluge. now i gotta find someplace that delivers lunch - pixmas Dec 20, 13:18 3
- Yep, I made a quick trip to the store and think I got back just in time. It may be clearing a little to the north... -- nm - MistletoeMeg Dec 20, 14:01
- If you're going to order a john, go with - kilbowl full of jelly Dec 20, 13:19 1
  - *whew* -- nm - FTox Dec 20, 13:23
can I just buy a usb 802.11 dongle and plug it in to the xbox? will there be lots of lag? -- nm - zork Dec 20, 13:17 8
- Is it a new Xbox? If it is, then it has the WiFi built in. You don't need the additional anymore. -- nm - JaxSean Dec 20, 13:24 2
  - sound like it's a couple of years old but only played a couple of times. -- nm - zork Dec 20, 13:27 1
    - Ah. Then yes you need the microsoft ones like this. -- (link) - JaxSean Dec 20, 13:29
- It probably won't work. Only MSFT's proprietary dongles are known to work. -- nm - Reagen Dec 20, 13:23 1
  - I ran into that with my Samsung and didn't realize they used proprietary dongles on their BD players because I happened to have one at home with the - kilbowl full of jelly Dec 20, 13:25
- You don't have to run it wireless, you can run an ethernet cord from a hub or a desktop/laptop. -- nm - Trish Dec 20, 13:22 1
  - I can't seem to find a wireless bridge for less than $120 and unfortunately the documentation didn't come with the machine. -- nm - zork Dec 20, 13:26
- stop saying DONGLE! -- nm - pixmas Dec 20, 13:18
Probst's Survivor finale blog (spoilers) -- (link) - Beaker Dec 20, 13:16
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- Don't kick it to Connelly!! -- nm - not2fast Dec 20, 13:27
- Lovie Smith is going for [Clinch division spot] -- nm - kilbowl full of jelly Dec 20, 13:16 1
  - don't forget [don't break your leg!] nm -- nm - groiny Dec 20, 13:19
Nothing says Christmas like three boards of film nudity -- nm - con_carne wants it so bad Dec 20, 13:06 2
- We're all about the obscenity! -- nm - Qale Dec 20, 13:08
- Love Actually. -- nm - Will Hunting Dec 20, 13:08
dear god spawn plays halo a lot. - tRuMaN Dec 20, 13:04 5
- I've gotten to the point where I don't even go play on Fridays, I'm so far behind. -- nm - JaxSean Dec 20, 13:27
- I played only on Friday night. - groiny Dec 20, 13:06 3
  - which one? - tRuMaN Dec 20, 13:08 2
    - the problem is the bad guys who shoot him while you are driving. - groiny Dec 20, 13:10 1
      - hmm, no idea i guess. - tRuMaN Dec 20, 13:11
5% inactivity fee. Doe D Mac miss us that bad? -- nm - ty97 Dec 20, 13:00 27
- I just loaded hsx.com for the first time in a long time... that splash screen is a joke -- nm - stewie Dec 20, 13:30
- wow, have not looked at my port in years, I am knocking on a billion dollars. nm -- nm - groiny Dec 20, 13:22
- if they have an office still in CA then they can't do that, but in 3 or5 years they would send to the state in trust -- nm - double dose Dec 20, 13:17 1
  - it's fake money -- nm - pixmas Dec 20, 13:29
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  - I just got in. (Amazingly, I remembered my password.) -- nm - mara Dec 20, 13:18 2
    - Holy crap, I hate that site. -- nm - mara Dec 20, 13:20 1
      - ...still, I have a weird urge to buy PINK2. -- nm - mara Dec 20, 13:22
  - it was inactive and got reduced -- nm - Epiphany Dec 20, 13:17
  - try another browser if you're using chrome. I half want to say to them "between HSX and Chrome, I'm going to end up siding with the latter." - Max Dec 20, 13:16
- Why at that rate, my portfolio will be empty . . . in sixty years -- nm - Charles Foster Kane Dec 20, 13:13 1
  - *laughing* -- nm - mara Dec 20, 13:16
- Just looked at my port...did they clean out old portfolios? - Jim Dec 20, 13:13
- I'm going to be magnanimous and let them have it. They need the money more than I do. -- nm - mara Dec 20, 13:10
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  - *this* -- nm - Epiphany Dec 20, 13:20
- I ought to truly delete my account. I mean, I really meant to before. May as well do it now. -- nm - Qale Dec 20, 13:09
- per day? per week? per year? -- nm - Beaker Dec 20, 13:06 3
  - Every 30 days of inactivity = -5% -- nm - Will Hunting Dec 20, 13:08 2
    - what defines activity? -- nm - tRuMaN Dec 20, 13:08 1
      - A trade -- nm - Will Hunting Dec 20, 13:09
- My favorite...theyr'e now going to charge a 1% commish on delists......which makes no sense - Will Hunting Dec 20, 13:05 1
  - That is the idea. They don't want people holding until delist just to avoid commish. -- nm - not2fast Dec 20, 13:37
- well, he aslo said HSX is 10 years old in his announcement post. 1997-2010 is 14. -- nm - peglegpete Dec 20, 13:04 2
  - Have cantor only owned them that long? -- nm - Karl_S Dec 20, 13:13 1
    - That could be cause Cantor did own them on 9/11...but I don't think it had been for that long. -- nm - Jim Dec 20, 13:13
- ? -- nm - Don Homer Dec 20, 13:00
There was one really unfortunate result of crash bringing home Twilight: Eclipse. (and wtf is a "grace cock" and why is it in soup)-slight spoils - Trish Dec 20, 12:57 4
- You had to watch Twilight: eclipse? -- nm - Will Hunting Dec 20, 13:01
- *get out of jail free card for crash -- nm - Max Dec 20, 13:00 2
  - He still owes me a little for Jonas Hex. -- nm - Trish Dec 20, 13:02 1
    - sometimes it is better to say " no thanks, I think I will go and masturbate." nm -- nm - groiny Dec 20, 13:03
T-Fox not a complete slacker - Shefox Dec 20, 12:57 12
- but every movie with this senario has the mom looking at a totally messed up kitchen that would take a week to clean -- nm - double dose Dec 20, 13:03 3
  - It was worth the clean up time - Shefox Dec 20, 13:10 2
    - oh, see, this practically cancels out the cooking. -- nm - santa loosia Dec 20, 13:12 1
      - "It was worth the clean up time." nm - Jim Dec 20, 13:14
- That's using is head! -- nm - kilbowl full of jelly Dec 20, 13:00 3
  - as opposed to Will's -- nm - ty97 Dec 20, 13:00 1
    - Brown Bunny 2? nm -- nm - groiny Dec 20, 13:01
  - his head. damnit -- nm - kilbowl full of jelly Dec 20, 13:00
- He's the awesome-o. Don't you just love it when your guy does that kind of stuff? - Trish Dec 20, 12:59 1
  - It was great - Shefox Dec 20, 13:08
- he was just using that as an excuse to sit down and read a book -- nm - pixmas Dec 20, 12:59 1
  - LMAO- dingding you are correct sir! -- nm - Shefox Dec 20, 13:05
LYC2: the games that came with the elite box were ... - zork Dec 20, 12:54 3
- Halo Reach. nm -- nm - groiny Dec 20, 12:54 2
  - spawn needs someone to be better than. nm -- nm - groiny Dec 20, 12:55 1
    - no doubt he will be, I suck at video games. - zork Dec 20, 13:16
LIR QR Codes: the movie poster for Apollo 18 has one on it. haven't scanned it yet though so not sure what it does. -- nm - sycor Dec 20, 12:50 1
- We're starting to put it on our schedule posters here in the club. -- nm - Eight Vermin a-Vermining Dec 20, 13:06
Randy Quaid's wife sounds clinically paranoid. -- nm - Mel Profit Dec 20, 12:49 9
- link please. -- nm - Elf Andie Dec 20, 13:03 1
  - it's the one that's been kicking around here for a bit... -- (link) - Mel Profit Dec 20, 13:07 [Backboard]
- No kidding! -- nm - MistletoeMeg Dec 20, 12:52
- That was a *great* article. I see a violent end to that relationship, unfortunately. nm - Dignan Dec 20, 12:51 5
  - with Randy dead or missing. -- nm - Remlik Dec 20, 12:52 4
    - she'll absolutely cut him up literally into pieces. -- nm - Mel Profit Dec 20, 13:02 2
      - it'll be a big ritualistic reveal where she tells him that she is the head of the Star Whackers. -- nm - Remlik Dec 20, 13:13 1
        
        I think she'll actually blame him as a "Star Whacker". -- nm - Mel Profit Dec 20, 13:15
    - On a side note, I plan to watch Christmas Vacation tonight. -- nm - Don Homer Dec 20, 12:53
"Can we have 47 separate checks, please? Oh, and by the way, we all have Groupons..." -- (link) - znufrii Dec 20, 12:47 28
- shoot them all. -- nm - santa loosia Dec 20, 13:09
- after heading off a potentially similar experience, I will never organise my work Christmas lunch ever again -- nm - Roger More Dec 20, 13:05 3
  - what we do here is to arrange a set menu with a few choices ahead of time and collect $25 each before going. drink tickets are also a great idea. -- nm - zork Dec 20, 13:14 2
    - That is what I did, but some people said it was too expensive, could we order a la carte, etc - Roger More Dec 20, 13:25 1
      - nice. -- nm - znufrii Dec 20, 13:27
- "I'm sorry, we can't split a check for a group this large." nm - Jim Dec 20, 13:01
- That GM handled it very well, I think. Was anyone suprised by - JaxSean Dec 20, 12:51 10
  - had that happen in high school once, with my friend's dad ending up picking up the slack. - znufrii Dec 20, 12:56
  - not really there is always some cheap ass in the groups who gets out of paying -- nm - Remlik Dec 20, 12:55 8
    - (hence my sarcastic "shocked") -- nm - JaxSean Dec 20, 13:26
    - Confession: I dicked over a work lunch outing once. Boss says "we're going out for Christmas lunch" and we end up at a nice seafood place - kilbowl full of jelly Dec 20, 12:57 6
      - Bad move. The correct answer would have been to buy the chicken fingers meal and a bottle of tequila -- nm - Roger More Dec 20, 13:27
      - yeah, not cool. - znufrii Dec 20, 13:24 1
        
        (clarification: not cool on *their* part) -- nm - znufrii Dec 20, 13:24
      - I wouldn't say you dicked it over at all... - Stephen Dec 20, 13:09 2
        
        agreed. Someone tried to pull that crap on me once. I declined and just paid my own bill. -- nm - sycor Dec 20, 13:10
        
        *nods* -- nm - Don Homer Dec 20, 13:09
- yeah that's a total dick move...you tell the restaurant at the start of the meal that's what you're doing -- nm - Remlik Dec 20, 12:51 5
  - also the separate checks thing. to have to back out each individuals order would take *ages.* -- nm - Elf Andie Dec 20, 12:55
  - I was surprised that wouldn't be in the fine print on the Groupon, at least, that it must be presented before ordering... -- nm - znufrii Dec 20, 12:52 3
    - Yeah, we read that -- nm - college students Dec 20, 12:56 2
      - apparently they did, because they tried to game the "one groupon per table" condition... -- nm - znufrii Dec 20, 12:57
      - Sigh - con_carne wants it so bad Dec 20, 12:57
- Oh lord - Shefox Dec 20, 12:51
- won't load -- nm - Beaker Dec 20, 12:48 3
  - here's the consumerist article... -- (link) - znufrii Dec 20, 12:49 2
    - serves the restuarant right for putting something up on Groupon. -- nm - Beaker Dec 20, 12:51 1
      - Yeah, it's the restaurant's fault for having a coupon and spelling out the conditions clearly. -- nm - JaxSean Dec 20, 12:53
nmbPippy - zork Dec 20, 12:47 1
- *giggles* - all colors of purple with black or silver or combos of those - Epiphany Dec 20, 13:04
Harrison Ford reportedly wants Indiana Jones to die in the next movie, if there is one -- (link) - pixmas Dec 20, 12:44 22
- Why do I picture Karen Allen hitting in the head with an iron skillet - amoxy Dec 20, 12:58 2
  - Because women *are notoriously cruel and violent?* nm - Dignan Dec 20, 13:01 1
    - she'll drink him to death, when we were introduced to her she drank a sherpa under the table and was cold sober next scene -- nm - double dose Dec 20, 13:06
- if that happened, the whole watching experience would be about "when/how" he dies. Better if he just stays home or dies before the story starts. -- nm - zork Dec 20, 12:49
- I would have loved for him to become the Guardian in Last Crusade.... - Remlik Dec 20, 12:48 2
  - It was a great ending as it was though. -- nm - Don Homer Dec 20, 12:52 1
    - yeah it was. -- nm - Remlik Dec 20, 12:56
- Fragged in Vietnam by one of his own men. -- nm - Max Dec 20, 12:47 5
  - Indiana Jones and the Myocardial Infarction -- nm - Reagen Dec 20, 12:48 3
    - Raiders of the Treacherous Bathtub. nm - Dignan Dec 20, 12:50 2
      - "Maximum Load 250 LBS" -- nm - whip warning label Dec 20, 12:54 1
        
        The Temple of Diabetes -- nm - Eight Vermin a-Vermining Dec 20, 13:12
  - poor Niedemeyer -- nm - Beaker Dec 20, 12:47
- "Like, this time, the fridge won't open." nm - Dignan Dec 20, 12:45
- spoiler, dude -- nm - Reagen Dec 20, 12:45 4
  - ? -- nm - Don Homer Dec 20, 12:47 3
    - It's a joke, son. -- nm - Reagen Dec 20, 12:48 1
      - Now, go on. You bother me. -- nm - W.C. Reagen Dec 20, 12:50
    - future spoiler alert. nm -- nm - groiny Dec 20, 12:47
- Oh why oh why couldn't this have been the ending of Indy 4. - Will Hunting Dec 20, 12:45
- I wanted to die 10 minutes into the last movie - kilbowl full of jelly Dec 20, 12:45
- Please, FSM, don't let there be another. - Don Homer Dec 20, 12:44
New board confession: I like Vincent Gallo a lot. nm - Dignan Dec 20, 12:40 9
- Eh. I've had better. -- nm - Chlo� Sevigny Dec 20, 12:42 3
  - That's a shame that you weren't even sated given how much of your career you put on the line. -- nm - Will Hunting Dec 20, 12:44 2
    - Season 4 of Big Love sucks too. - Chlo� Sevigny Dec 20, 12:47 1
      - I love the fact she had the balls to declare what the fans were thinking - Epiphany Dec 20, 13:13
- were they your lips? nm -- nm - groiny Dec 20, 12:42
- Buffalo 66 was great -- nm - Epiphany Dec 20, 12:42 3
  - Also: Palookaville. nm - Dignan Dec 20, 12:46
  - It's one of my favorite movies of the 90s -- nm - con_carne wants it so bad Dec 20, 12:42
  - Good gravy, no. -- nm - Don Homer Dec 20, 12:42

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