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Glee! -- nm - Dano Feb 15, 17:01
Speculation supposedly running high for Gabrielle Giffords to run for John Kyl's Senate Seat -- (link) - con_carne Feb 15, 16:57 3
- as much as i would love to see this happen, that is a tall order for her to come back this quickly from -- nm - cupixie Feb 15, 17:06
- I just can't see it....a Senate race will be a huge endeavor...that's asking a lot - Will Hunting Feb 15, 17:01 1
  - She wins in a landslide. -- nm - Spawn Feb 15, 20:02
hey tru, I know remlik and I already have new TVs so you haven't been looking for deals so much - amanda "new chairs, yo!" jones Feb 15, 16:32 9
- no need. i already got her a 98" ultra-sharp 3D plasma. having it delivered and installed -- nm - amanda's frenemy Feb 15, 16:45 4
  - what, you didn't fly to china and supervise the child labor making the thing? some friend you are. -- nm - amanda "new chairs, yo!" jones Feb 15, 17:00 2
    - can't we think of your mom's need at this time? it's not always about you, amanda -- nm - cupixie Feb 15, 17:07 1
      - SFAN! -- nm - amanda's frenemy Feb 15, 17:07
  - "but you aren't allowed to watch it" -- nm - Beryllium Feb 15, 16:46
- high end, low end, medium quality? -- (link) - tRuMaN Feb 15, 16:38 3
  - pretty basic, really. like 720p is fine. -- nm - amanda "new chairs, yo!" jones Feb 15, 16:59
  - Sony KDL-40EX500 1080p 120Hz 40" LCD HDTV $600 at Tiger Direct -- (link) - tRuMaN Feb 15, 16:39 1
    - Vizio E421VA 42" 1080p 120Hz LCD HDTV $500 at Dell -- (link) - tRuMaN Feb 15, 16:39
8 episodes of Fringe watched since midnight last night. -- nm - Mop Feb 15, 16:29 1
- I'm at least 1 behind, maybe 2 -- nm - Beryllium Feb 15, 16:31
Starline Tours to to offer "TMZ Hollywood Tour," which will include Winona Ryder's favorite department store, The Laugh Facotry where Kramer ranted -- (link) - con_carne Feb 15, 16:24
So my redneck cousin loves posting videos on facebook of her bejeweled accomplishments - Will Hunting Feb 15, 16:16 1
- has she seen the "Vagazelled" episode of Life On Top? -- nm - peglegpete Feb 15, 16:24
Can you imagine if Pacino decided to do comedy like DeNiro, what a tragedy that would be? -- nm - Mop Feb 15, 16:14 3
- I HAVE NIPPLES GREG, COULD YOU MILK ME? I SAID, COULD YOU MILK ME? I'M READY TO BE MILKED! -- nm - al pacino Feb 15, 16:24
- I thought most of Pacino's recent works were comedies. -- nm - Will Hunting Feb 15, 16:19 1
  - including Kevorkian -- nm - peglegpete Feb 15, 16:22
Thanks Obama! The new budget "eliminates the in-school interest subsidy for loans to graduate students." Education.. blah.. who needs it. - James Bond (aka Igor) Feb 15, 16:13 12
- be glad it's not Mitch Daniels. -- nm - Remlik Feb 15, 16:22 1
  - this -- nm - Spawn Feb 15, 20:03
- Don't worry, if this is anything like Obama's last budget, it'll never get anywhere. - Mop Feb 15, 16:17
- This is tax payer behavior in a nutshell. Everyone wants lower taxes but the specific cuts always draw outrage. - David Feb 15, 16:16 7
  - Yep. People need to realize you can'y balance by budget by just cutting foreign aid and "waste, fraud and abuse" - Brian Feb 15, 16:31
  - Yeah....it'll never change until they all get locked in a room and come to a concensus to fix the problem before we ever find out. - Will Hunting Feb 15, 16:19 5
    - I was never a David Stockman fan, but he drilled it with this quote: - David Feb 15, 16:23 4
      - so I guess the inevitable thing that needs to happen is a big hike in taxation -- nm - Beryllium Feb 15, 16:35 2
        
        Heh heh heh. -- nm - rich people. Feb 15, 16:36 1
        
        Laugh it up, fuzzball. -- nm - Al Capone si Feb 15, 16:38
      - Right, Boehner's plan was for 60b....they couldn't find 100bil this year - Will Hunting Feb 15, 16:25
- those darn Republicans in Dem clothing -- nm - moles Feb 15, 16:16
Dude, Watson is a machine!....oh..wait. -- nm - Jovian Feb 15, 16:12 1
- spoiler - peglegpete Feb 15, 16:13
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- Mother Jones' interpretation of that bill is little extreme, I think. -- nm - mara Feb 15, 16:11 16
  - It's getting to be a real pattern this year, along with 'the GOP wants to legalize rape' and 'Sarah Palin made a kid shoot a Congresswoman'. - Dr.Vermin Feb 15, 16:22 1
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    - "while resisting an attempt to harm" sounds like the killing of the abortion provider would have to take place during the abortion procedure itself. -- nm - mara Feb 15, 16:24 11
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        as the bill reads, will killing the mother be justified if she is smoking or drinking while pregnant? - dogbert Feb 15, 16:36 2
        
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        Souns like it could be. -- nm - the liioulu with tools she made herself Feb 15, 16:37
      - Sounds like it could also be used to justify killing anyone working at Planned Parenthood who advises pregnant woman. -- nm - the liioulu with tools she made herself Feb 15, 16:28 6
        
        I just don't see it. -- nm - mara Feb 15, 16:29 5
        
        "attempt to harm" is a little vague. A lot of people think that PP is nothing more that a front for abortionists. - the liioulu with tools she made herself Feb 15, 16:34 3
        
        Screwed up big time in the IM...Mother Jone is not known for exaggeration. -- nm - the liioulu with tools she made herself Feb 15, 16:38 2
        
        Heheheh. -- nm - Dr.Freud Feb 15, 16:44 1
        
        Freud had nothing to do with it. Re-editing more than once did it. -- nm - the liioulu with tools she made herself Feb 15, 16:51
        
        it will all depend on how people view "an attempt to harm". one may see it as mugging a pregnant woman where another might see potential harm to the - dogbert Feb 15, 16:34
    - "master, mistress, or servant,"?! -- nm - the liioulu with tools she made herself Feb 15, 16:24
- Yeah, I saw that article today. Fancy. -- nm - James Bond (aka Igor) Feb 15, 16:09
- I wonder if this includes miscarriages that can be linked to spousal abuse? -- nm - Beryllium Feb 15, 16:05
LYC: There were times when we'd lie on the ice -- attempting to ... - OAE Feb 15, 15:56
CBS correspondent was gang raped after her report on Mubarak's resignation in the square, after her report, a crowd surrounded them -- (link) - zeitgeist Feb 15, 15:45 3
- "One witness saw a woman slap a man after he touched her. The man was then passed down a line of people who all slapped him and reprimanded him." -- nm - Todd Manning Feb 15, 16:19
- They don't explicitly say "raped," although sexual assault is horrible, too. -- nm - JaxSean Feb 15, 16:16
- I know this is one of the risks of the job, but it's still a rotten event. -- nm - OAE Feb 15, 15:51
Oh, Alec Baldwin got the 2,433rd Hollywood Walk of Fame Star -- (link) - con_carne Feb 15, 15:42 1
- It would have been nice to have my daughter there... but Stephen is OK. -- nm - Alec Feb 15, 16:08
Catching Fire, Mockingjay and Justified s1 ordered -- nm - Beaker Feb 15, 15:39 2
- gah, nope, 17 bucks to ship to canada F that noise -- nm - Beaker Feb 15, 15:47 1
  - Do it -- nm - con_carne Feb 15, 15:50
Rhapsody threatening legal action over Apple's gouge-tastic subscription policy - stewie Feb 15, 15:22 1
- This policy impacts anyone who has a subscription service on iPhone. This includes little guys like, say, Netflix. Apple will take 30% cut. -- nm - Mop Feb 15, 16:09
LYC: I was watching Cash Cab on the dvr and a guy won $6,200. Most I've ever seen won and he was all alone. - Krusty Feb 15, 15:19 2
- just because. rock chalk jokehawks! - tRuMaN Feb 15, 16:41
- ... what, no driver? -- nm - Beryllium Feb 15, 15:22
CIA source "Curveball" admits he made all that WMD stuff up -- (link) - Reagen Feb 15, 15:19 15
- It'll be interesting to see the rash of books from retired Intelligence Officers in 20 or 30 years. - Mel Profit Feb 15, 16:12
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  - how were they supposed to know Saddam was bluffing?! -- nm - moles Feb 15, 15:42 1
    - They could have just listened to Hans Blix. -- nm - the liioulu with tools she made herself Feb 15, 15:45
  - be competent? -- nm - Reagen Feb 15, 15:41 1
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- he was KEEEEDING! -- nm - moles Feb 15, 15:35
- I'm glad to see the intelligence services have pretty much the same fact checking capabilities as - say - the Enquirer. -- nm - Mop Feb 15, 15:29 1
  - uh. I think the Enquirer has proven, over the past two years, that they are better at fact checking than CIA and DHS. :) -- nm - Beryllium Feb 15, 15:29
- ugh. -- nm - loosilu Feb 15, 15:28
- /issues recall on 'Bush Lied, Iraqis Died' sticker -- nm - Bumper Sticker Printer Feb 15, 15:27 2
  - I mean, what did you want him to do - check *every* source that confirmed his beliefs? -- nm - Reagen Feb 15, 15:41
  - replacing it with what? "Ex-Iraqi Lied, Iraqis Died"? -- nm - Beryllium Feb 15, 15:28
- Codename: still funny -- nm - con_carne Feb 15, 15:22
- Sadly, the number is much higher than four -- nm - ceregon Feb 15, 15:21
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- unSCORE: the closest AMC theater to me is in Seattle. No Best Picture Showcase for me... -- nm - Dr.Vermin, :( Feb 15, 15:17 1
  - Road trip! -- nm - con_carne Feb 15, 15:18
- jump in all the right places: we expect no less from you -- nm - OAE Feb 15, 15:15 2
  - you mean, the guy next to him's lap? nm -- nm - groiny Feb 15, 15:16 1
    - well, of course, if that's the way he's gunna jump! -- nm - OAE Feb 15, 15:52
- That's awesome. - Will Hunting Feb 15, 15:05
- you should go in a scuba suit. nm -- nm - groiny Feb 15, 15:00 2
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    - it makes perfect sense. - groiny Feb 15, 15:05
I wonder if Archer's animation team is in any way cross-pollinated with Borderlands visual team - Will Hunting Feb 15, 14:53 2
- the season one disc has a 20 minute feature on their animation process -- nm - David Feb 15, 14:59 1
  - Hrmm......I rarely ever watch extras. -- nm - Will Hunting Feb 15, 15:05
Is to be to do? Or is to do to be? -- nm - nubby Feb 15, 14:49 2
- I do not want what I haven't got -- nm - con_carne Feb 15, 14:55
- ~ Do be do be do... ~ -- nm - Dr.Sinatra Feb 15, 14:51
well, she would certainly remember that birthday! - groiny Feb 15, 14:46 1
- Now all we need is to hope the therapist has low rates as well becuase she'll remember that birthday. -- nm - Will Hunting Feb 15, 14:47
Jax, thanks...that was the answer -- the conversation thing -- nm - Will Hunting Feb 15, 14:42 1
- Was it also the answer to the chihuahua issue? -- nm - Beryllium Feb 15, 15:14
Hey Pippy, want to do something slutty? - David Feb 15, 14:40 25
- You rang? - Epiphany Feb 15, 14:54 3
  - *invades pipy's access point* -- nm - groiny Feb 15, 14:55 2
    - which one? - Epiphany Feb 15, 14:57 1
      - all of them. - groiny Feb 15, 14:59
- She hasn't replied yet. I hadn't taken her for the delayed gratification type. -- nm - David Feb 15, 14:50 6
  - Oh I'm not - I get distracted by bright and shiny objects on B2-B10. ha. -- nm - Epiphany Feb 15, 14:54
  - You got the thing, yeah? nm - ralph wiggum Feb 15, 14:50 4
    - I did but I haven't even had a chance to look at it yet. I hope to do so within the hour. -- nm - David Feb 15, 14:52 3
      - No issue from my end. Just wanted to make sure you got it. nm - ralph wiggum Feb 15, 14:55 2
        
        your end looks *fine* -- nm - moles Feb 15, 14:56 1
        
        good, but that was a married woman who lives 1/2 a world a way - lets take these lines on the bus -- nm - crash davis Feb 15, 14:58
- I DO!!!!! nm -- nm - groiny Feb 15, 14:41 13
  - I knew you were gay for David. -- nm - Will Hunting Feb 15, 14:42 12
    - jealous? nm -- nm - groiny Feb 15, 14:44 11
      - Maybe it's ordained....you send him gifts, they get taken; I send them; they arrive no problems. - Will Hunting Feb 15, 14:48 9
        
        Boys, boys, both your gifts are pretty. -- nm - David Feb 15, 14:49
        
        yeah, but he actually would have wanted my gift. nm -- nm - groiny Feb 15, 14:48 7
        
        I eagerly await pictures of the shrine he's built around mine. -- nm - Will Hunting Feb 15, 14:51 6
        
        your penis statue is really not all that glorious....... - groiny Feb 15, 14:53 5
        
        David, smote him! He just invoked Star Wars in a Heyward conversation! -- nm - Will Hunting Feb 15, 14:54 4
        
        That is worth at least one Halo betrayal. -- nm - David Feb 15, 15:03 3
        
        are you ever going to actually play again? nm -- nm - groiny Feb 15, 15:03 2
        
        Friday. Friday. Friday. -- nm - David Feb 15, 15:05 1
        
        promises, promises. nm -- nm - groiny Feb 15, 15:06
      - Nope, he's all yours -- nm - budice Feb 15, 14:47
nubbyalert: Professor jumps off a 35 foot platform into 12in. of water -- (link) - MDH Feb 15, 14:39 [youtube] 8
- no cannonball fail -- nm - Max Feb 15, 15:16
- man, that could have had 1,000 Ways to Die written all over it -- nm - Jovian Feb 15, 14:57 1
  - This is what I was thinking. -- nm - Beryllium Feb 15, 15:11
- Interesting. -- nm - nubby Feb 15, 14:48 1
  - don't even think about it, you cannot even take a bath in 12 inches of water - groiny Feb 15, 14:49
- *rescinds his tenure* -- nm - Will Hunting Feb 15, 14:42
- i hate word problems -- nm - moles Feb 15, 14:40
- the horror, the horror. -- nm - Skipper & Gilligan Feb 15, 14:40
I would not want to know what that dog's last earthly thought would be. -- nm - Beryllium Feb 15, 14:36 5
- They are a perfect storm of annoyance - Will Hunting Feb 15, 14:40 3
  - Poltergeist? -- nm - Never Go Full JenBro Feb 15, 15:32
  - you need a revenge plan. -- nm - loosilu Feb 15, 14:44 1
    - I'm thinking of marking my territory one evening after a bar run. -- nm - Will Hunting Feb 15, 14:46
- too late. -- nm - loosilu Feb 15, 14:37
Vermy was the rightest. -- nm - loosilu Feb 15, 14:36 2
- His version os grammatically correct but took out most of the subtlety in meaning. -- nm - Reagen Feb 15, 15:16
- *flex* - Dr.Vermin Feb 15, 14:44
Mmmmmm, beefy. -- nm - Will Hunting Feb 15, 14:36

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