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Do you get frustrated that your can of coke doesn't stay cold at your desk? Order your own usb mini fridge! -- (link) - Andie Feb 14, 06:59 1
- I have one -- nm - CQ Feb 14, 07:03
wonders if someone is waiting patiently for their limo to show up -- nm - Beaker Feb 14, 06:55
Amusing story from picking up the kids at Meg's place last night. - Inigo Feb 14, 06:44 1
- People! People! -- nm - oblique Feb 14, 06:45
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- yep, and just as bland as anything she's ever done. club beat, catchy hook, and devoid of substance. -- nm - mafic Feb 14, 07:07
- i have to agree with stacy though. - TFox Feb 14, 06:48 21
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    - There are riffs that are virtually identical. It's not that big of a deal, but when she keeps touting it as basically her most important piece of - pmb Feb 14, 07:01
    - I don't think it's a rip-off...more an homage. But it definitely borrows from Express Yourself. -- nm - Jim Feb 14, 06:58 1
      - If you played parts of it to me without reference, I would've immediately said "Madonna" as the artist - oblique Feb 14, 06:59
    - i don't want her tied and quartered for it or anything. - TFox Feb 14, 06:57 1
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  - Madonna vs Gaga is the new Stones vs Beatles. -- nm - Mel Profit Feb 14, 06:55 10
    - Madonna loves Gaga though. -- nm - MDH Feb 14, 06:57 9
      - So did Mick and John if you get my meaning. - Mel Profit Feb 14, 06:59
      - Strike while the iron is hot. They should do a tour together. -- nm - HdnAgnda Feb 14, 06:58 7
        
        i don't think either of them would want to be the opener. :) -- nm - Andie Feb 14, 07:00 5
        
        so like Elton and Joel did and alternate at each site -- nm - Beaker Feb 14, 07:02 4
        
        They don't need to split the gate. They aren't selling more tickets together than individually (at least not enough more). And if you double the - pmb Feb 14, 07:04
        
        There is no way in hell Madonna is opening for anyone. She has the highest grossing solo tour all time. It's not economically feasible. -- nm - MDH Feb 14, 07:03 1
        
        they could find a way for it to be economically feasible. Thisis something I might even trot my big ancient butt out to see. - Diva Feb 14, 07:06
        
        do like -- nm - Beaker Feb 14, 07:02
        
        It has been mentioned. But it would way way too expensive. - MDH Feb 14, 06:59
  - Totally agree. My daughter, who is a big fan, is very disappointed in the song. Apparently GaGa says she wrote the song in 10 minutes. My daughter - pmb Feb 14, 06:52 2
    - When she listens to it a few more times/hears it in a club (where he music truly shines) that opinion will change quickly. -- nm - MDH Feb 14, 06:53 1
      - She's too young to hear it in a club. I don't know if it will. She described the song as annoying. That rarely turns into liking it. -- nm - pmb Feb 14, 06:54
  - Oh all the gays agree too, but no one cares in the end. It's Gaga. :-) -- nm - MDH Feb 14, 06:50
- Proof wih numbers: #1 on iTunes in 23 countries, and in 3 days will sell 500K+ copies, record for a female. Highest # of radio spins ever in a day - MDH Feb 14, 06:48 5
  - Hit does not equal good. One day the country/world will wonder WTF they were thinking. Kinda like UK has to reckon with Mamma Mia being their #1 movie - HdnAgnda Feb 14, 06:50 4
    - ABBA rules. -- nm - Beaker Feb 14, 06:55 1
      - Apparently so...over there. :P -- nm - HdnAgnda Feb 14, 06:57
    - No, it doesn't. But in this case, it kinda is. She's a pop/dance queen and every song is dead on, IMO. -- nm - Jim Feb 14, 06:52
    - It's a good song, not great (and I'll admit that, but solid) The Mamma Mia line is so true though :-) -- nm - MDH Feb 14, 06:52
MDH: Grammys thoughts? -- nm - nubby Feb 14, 06:32 1
- I'm mostly fine with the winners to be honest. - MDH Feb 14, 06:41 [Image]
That's me in the bottom left corner -- (link) - Guigue Feb 14, 06:29 [Image] 7
- Bonhomme! -- nm - reelgirl Feb 14, 06:39 1
  - hey you caught up with us on B1 again! -- nm - Hotkiss Feb 14, 06:47
- Was it for a charity? -- nm - Inigo Feb 14, 06:34 1
  - Nope, for fun! -- nm - Guigue Feb 14, 06:34
- Is that you in the spotlight, losing your religion? -- nm - HdnAgnda Feb 14, 06:33 1
  - likes -- nm - zeitgeist Feb 14, 11:43
- Nice as...cot. -- nm - nubby Feb 14, 06:32
Tunisia, Egypt, ... Harrisburg -- (link) - Dano Feb 14, 06:24 1
- what a fantastic non-denial. - znufrii Feb 14, 06:26
"The Illusionist": F; "Killing in the Name": B "Poster Girl": B- "Strangers No More": A- "Sun Come Up": B+ "The Warriors of Qiugang": B+ -- nm - Ender Feb 14, 06:23 18
- The Kids are Alright - A-. -- nm - pmb Feb 14, 06:46
- Justified S2 premier...B. - Mel Profit Feb 14, 06:44
- Paranormal Activity 2 ...C- (major spoilers) - Mel Profit Feb 14, 06:39
- Gnomeo and Juliet: C- -- nm - Beaker Feb 14, 06:36
- You Again B (actually pretty decent) -- nm - MDH Feb 14, 06:31
- "The Gruffalo": A "Let's Pollute": A+ "The Lost Thing": A+ "Madagascar, carnet de voyage": B- "The Confession": A "The Crush": A- "God of Love": B -- nm - Ender Feb 14, 06:24 11
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    - The Confession definitely felt the most professional. I wanted to like God of Love, but it just seemed to be trying too hard. -- nm - Ender Feb 14, 06:47 1
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  - Who provides the voice of the mouse in The Gruffalo - is it James Cordon or is that just for the UK version? -- nm - LMS Feb 14, 06:29 3
    - To the best of my knowledge it's Corden. Can't imagine why they'd change it. -- nm - Ender Feb 14, 06:33 2
      - I thought I heard there was a US version but I could have easily been wrong. -- nm - LMS Feb 14, 06:41 1
        
        All the other voices I could recognize were the same so I'd assume his was too. -- nm - Ender Feb 14, 06:45
  - "Na Wewe": B- "Wish 143": A- -- nm - Ender Feb 14, 06:24 3
    - Oh, also... Fired Up: B+ -- nm - Ender Feb 14, 06:24 2
      - did you sleep? -- nm - znufrii Feb 14, 06:26 1
        
        Got to the theater at 9:30AM on Saturday, left at 7:30PM. -- nm - Ender Feb 14, 06:34
- Bah, that was supposed to be below. Oh well. -- nm - Ender Feb 14, 06:23
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- Ok, seriously...would anyone here like to see their team give Albert 10 years at $30/mil per? - Jim Feb 14, 06:19 7
  - with the sox and yanks presumably out, i think the cards are absolutely doing the right thing here. - TFox Feb 14, 06:41 2
    - This is what I'm thinking. I mean the Texas deal for ARod is what fucked up the landscape so bad in the first place... - Jim Feb 14, 06:51 1
      - don't get me wrong: if that's what it ends up taking, i absolutely think you should give it to him. - TFox Feb 14, 06:55
  - agree -- nm - Beaker Feb 14, 06:37
  - I for one look forward to him being in the AL East. -- nm - Ender Feb 14, 06:25 1
    - I actually still think he'll stay in St. Louis...I just hope it's not with a 10 year deal. -- nm - Jim Feb 14, 06:29
  - oooh! oooh! *raises hands* -- nm - Junior Steinbrenners Feb 14, 06:24
Happy Anniversary to all the ST couples! - Inigo Feb 14, 06:05 2
- Happy Anniversary to yall! -- nm - Epiphany Feb 14, 06:36
- yeah! happy anniversary! -- nm - CQ Feb 14, 06:10
Weekend Movies: The Town, A-; Social Network, A -- nm - znufrii Feb 14, 05:58 10
- Altered: (C+), Die Hard 4 (again): (B) nm - Dignan Feb 14, 06:35
- Wanted (C-) Sexy Beast (B+) -- nm - CQ Feb 14, 06:25
- Fired Up (A-), Happy Go Lucky (B-), shorts Day & Night (B), The Gruffalo (B+), Let's Pollute (C), The Lost Thing (A-), Madagascar, Journey Diary (C+) -- nm - Dano Feb 14, 06:18
- True Grit - B+ (got a bit bored of the colour brown), The Fighter - A-, The A Team - B-. -- nm - LMS Feb 14, 06:06
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  - everything about this movie is pure cute, as is the soundtrack. -- nm - Hotkiss Feb 14, 06:09 2
    - And the kid grew up to be a hottie. -- nm - Dano Feb 14, 06:36 1
      - I never saw that coming. -- nm - LMS Feb 14, 06:43
- Social Network: B; Paranormal Activity 2: B/B+ -- nm - prayformojo Feb 14, 06:05
- Knight and Day: C-, but it could have been *way* better if Cruise and Diaz had been credible at all as a couple. *at all.* - amanda jones Feb 14, 06:04
a couple just won a $7,000 ring on Breakfast Television and the guy immediately proposed (on bended knee). nothing was pre-arranged. -- nm - zork Feb 14, 05:51
ST Sundays after football is over. If it wasn't for the Grammys last night it probably would have been a board, maybe a board and a half. -- nm - HdnAgnda Feb 14, 05:50
Yikes! Area is under a fire weather warning alert today... - Don Homer Feb 14, 05:48 1
- NC is under the same. Amazingly, it has been a dry winter. A long, dry, cold winter. -- nm - HdnAgnda Feb 14, 05:54
All the best today for T-Fox, She Fox, Wee Fox & Soon to Be Fox on this Valentine's Day/Birthday to Be! -- nm - JenBro Feb 14, 05:08 13
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- (tomorrow.) - TFox Feb 14, 05:22 10
  - Wee Wee Fox? -- nm - ty97 Feb 14, 05:54
  - Oh, I hadn't realized she was that far along. Best wishes to you all!! -- nm - Don Homer Feb 14, 05:29
  - what's going on?! -- nm - Hotkiss Feb 14, 05:26 5
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      - ~ hello my baby, hello my darlin, hello my ragtime gal.... ~ -- nm - TFox Feb 14, 05:31 3
        
        sorry I got the date wrong :( ... typical for me I guess ... but I also thought you mentioned a boy? sheesh - I'm batting zip today! -- nm - JenBro Feb 14, 05:54 2
        
        more JenBro spoils - TFox Feb 14, 06:38 1
        
        Good Lord ... today is not my day! heh heh - know that I will chuckle over this all day! -- nm - JenBro Feb 14, 06:47
  - (laughing. (sorry.)) -- nm - amanda jones Feb 14, 05:25 1
    - nmbmaj - TFox Feb 14, 05:33
- right on Foxes. -- nm - Mel Profit Feb 14, 05:11
Mubarak's sons almost came to blows during his last speech -- (link) - Beaker Feb 14, 04:52
Happy Monday! -- nm - Don Homer Feb 14, 04:49 2
- Happy Valentine's Day ST! -- nm - JenBro Feb 14, 05:09 1
  - this -- nm - Beaker Feb 14, 05:11
CouchSurfing: does this guy actually exist? because if so, I'm so tempted to invite him to our place just for kicks. - Hotkiss Feb 14, 03:19 1
- tunisia is very close to italy, and even guidos like to travel sometimes. - mafic Feb 14, 05:40
wow ... that burn notice episode/season did not end the way I expected it to -- nm - Beryllium Feb 14, 01:49
fusionchicago.com is really spinning some good dance music right now. -- nm - James Bond (aka Igor) Feb 14, 00:11
The IRS says they can save money by paying refunds by debit card rather than check? I'm still trying to get my brain around that one ? -- nm - MojaveMeg Feb 13, 23:17 11
- interesting. - znufrii Feb 14, 05:39
- they gain interest on the cash before you spend it. they maintain the money; it's not sent to you. that's something. -- nm - amanda jones Feb 14, 05:26 3
  - not quite, they'll hire a bank (or group of banks) to be responsible for setting up the accounts and distributing the funds. - znufrii Feb 14, 05:43 2
    - there you go. same basic difference, different mechanism. -- nm - amanda jones Feb 14, 06:05 1
      - makes sense, though. paper money is becoming less and less relevant, and if you can keep the money "working" instead, why not? - znufrii Feb 14, 06:16
- It's also a way to get 3rd party check-cashers out of the loop. - CovingtonCat Feb 14, 03:12
- actual debit cards, or direct debit? my refunds have always just been deposited straight into my nominated account. -- nm - mafic Feb 14, 02:18 1
  - instead of a check, they will be mailed a debit card linked to a bank account containing the funds. - znufrii Feb 14, 05:59
- Because they will charge a transaction fee, monthly fee, and the card will expire before the balance is used and the money will go back to the IRS. -- nm - CrankYanker Feb 14, 01:57 1
  - not in my experience, the banks will likely be tripping over themselves to offer the cheapest program to get their hands on the money. -- nm - znufrii Feb 14, 06:00
- maybe they have a deal with third-party vendors who can do them on an economy of scale that are cheaper than the IRS cutting checks in house? -- nm - cupixie Feb 13, 23:20
Local news guy tweets: "For the first time in a long time, an award show was actually ... a show." - I think he has a point. :) -- nm - Beryllium Feb 13, 23:08
Screw all y'all, I like Arcade Fire and I liked that performance. -- nm - Reagen Feb 13, 22:07 2
- one expert agrees. that's all the validation I need. -- nm - mafic Feb 14, 02:20
- Oh shit, he's using the plural of the already plural term y'all, he means serious Southern business now. -- nm - Qale Feb 13, 22:16
I have read more books in the past month and a half then I did in the previous 5 years -- nm - amoxy Feb 13, 21:56 1
- I have read a lot of books lately also 10 in the last 4 months. I hadn't read a single one in the 5 years prior to that -- nm - Karl_S Feb 13, 22:02
Worst Cooks Spoiler - amoxy Feb 13, 21:45 1
- Spoiler - amoxy Feb 13, 21:59
ST knows etiquette: You (male) arrive at a restaurant with a female. You need to walk a little through the restaurant to get to the host's table. Do - James Bond (aka Igor) Feb 13, 21:37 15
- That's the way I've done it. -- nm - Jelly Feb 14, 02:39
- Depends who made the booking -- nm - Karl_S Feb 13, 21:54 2
  - no it doesn't -- nm - cupixie Feb 13, 21:56
  - Yeah, that is true. But I always make the reservation. Girls like that haha. -- nm - James Bond (aka Igor) Feb 13, 21:56
- step up to the host's station to let them know you've arrived but let her take the lead to the table -- nm - cupixie Feb 13, 21:50 2
  - correct. -- nm - znufrii Feb 14, 05:55
  - I guess I been doing it right all along. *dusts shoulders off* -- nm - James Bond (aka Igor) Feb 13, 21:57
- I believe that Western tradition holds that ladies are first to sit at the table, and the host will assist the lady with being seated. -- nm - Beryllium Feb 13, 21:40 1
  - (If she still misses the chair with the host's assistance, then TFox has a point) -- nm - Beryllium Feb 13, 21:41
- beauty before beast, age before beauty - zeitgeist Feb 13, 21:39
- i agree with you, although the first one is whatever. bitch is too dumb to find the host stand, you've got bigger problems. -- nm - TFox Feb 13, 21:39
- Depends on her butt. -- nm - Todd Manning Feb 13, 21:39 2
  - "hate to see you go, but I love to watch you leave." -- nm - mafic Feb 14, 02:30
  - They're all nice, which is why you always walk behind the lady. -- nm - CrankYanker Feb 14, 01:52
- I lead, you follow. -- nm - Qale Feb 13, 21:39
"Help us Dave Grohl, you're our only hope." -- nm - Reagen Feb 13, 21:35 5
- the new song is certainly screamy. -- nm - Mel Profit Feb 14, 07:00
- What's this from? -- nm - jnine Feb 13, 21:55 3
  - me? -- nm - Reagen Feb 13, 21:56 2
    - I thought you were quoting someone. Did you watch the video? it sounds just like Wattershed. -- nm - jnine Feb 13, 22:00 1
      - I'm glad to see he's found his edge again. I was ready to get a restraining order for him and cellos. -- nm - Reagen Feb 13, 22:08
keep the car running -- nm - cupixie Feb 13, 21:34

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