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How you like me now? -- nm - David Feb 16, 14:56
I'm not allowed to play games at the house. - Will Hunting Feb 16, 14:52 1
- she banished you to Colorado for that? :) -- nm - peglegpete Feb 16, 14:54
The Big Picture: Westminster Dog Show -- (link) - CovingtonCat Feb 16, 14:50 1
- I'm convinced poodles are baboons with fluffy fur. Look at their feet, it's obvious. -- nm - Max Feb 16, 14:55
I know we discussed food prices yesterday but I guess I hadn't been paying attention to bread prices...damn!! - MojaveMeg Feb 16, 14:42 3
- we toy between buying two loaves at Costco all the time, and just one at the grocery.. -- nm - JaxSean Feb 16, 14:51 1
  - I usually buy the Kirkland 2-pack at Costco but I'm getting back to buying bread I like, rather than what's good for me :) -- nm - MojaveMeg Feb 16, 14:59
- I haven't noticed increases at costco. I spend about the same amount there every week. Gas is definitely up up up though. -- nm - ceregon Feb 16, 14:50
NMB loosi - sycor Feb 16, 14:39 1
- sure. - loosilu Feb 16, 14:40
i admit i don't know much in life, but i know that Crash Davis would never have laid down a bunt if the pennant was on the line with a man on 3rd -- nm - moles Feb 16, 14:31 9
- I don't think the pennant was on the line, I think it was the division. (nm) - musubi Feb 16, 14:53 2
  - i thought they had to get to the world series to keep her from selling the team -- nm - moles Feb 16, 14:57 1
    - oh wait, that was The Natural -- nm - moles Feb 16, 14:58
- And that's why Jake Taylor played in the majors and Crash Davis set the minor-league homer record. -- nm - Will Hunting Feb 16, 14:40 5
  - is that his name? i'd forgotten because he went out like such a punk ass bitch -- nm - moles Feb 16, 14:43 4
    - You mean...victorious. -- nm - Will Hunting Feb 16, 14:45 3
      - DIdn't they lose the AL pennant after Major League, but before Major League 2? (nm) - musubi Feb 16, 14:52 2
        
        Yeah, they lost in the ALCS but no one remember Bobby Thomson's team didn't win the Series either so.... - Will Hunting Feb 16, 14:54 1
        
        lo.ser. -- nm - moles Feb 16, 14:55
TIES IT UP! -- nm - Dr.Vermin Feb 16, 14:20 3
- ties it down -- nm - Mop on Evo Feb 16, 14:35
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so they've actually hired a writer who's worked on the Spider-man books to work on the Spider-man musical.... -- (link) - Remlik Feb 16, 14:17 2
- This should give them an excuse to push the opening back another couple weeks... -- nm - znufrii Feb 16, 14:50
- What do you mean, Spider-man can't fly? -- nm - Mop on Evo Feb 16, 14:39
OK, so I'm sitting in urgent care. -- nm - Mop on Evo Feb 16, 14:13 14
- The "urgent" code is more of a guideline than a rule. -- nm - Pirate nurse Feb 16, 14:14 13
  - The nurse took my pulse, bp and temp, made me put on a gown, and said someone would see me in half an hour - Mop on Evo Feb 16, 14:22 12
    - in a gown? what kind of place are you at? -- nm - sycor Feb 16, 14:23 10
      - Bridal shop. -- nm - loosilu Feb 16, 14:25 9
        
        nice. -- nm - sycor Feb 16, 14:37
        
        okay that's funny! -- nm - Epiphany Feb 16, 14:36 7
        
        I sent that to her. -- nm - Remlik Feb 16, 14:42 5
        
        you dirty liar. -- nm - loosilu Feb 16, 14:43 4
        
        damnit. she was paying attention -- nm - Remlik Feb 16, 14:44 3
        
        *stomps on your other foot* -- nm - loosilu Feb 16, 14:46 2
        
        I think that's flirting with him. - Will Hunting Feb 16, 14:48 1
        
        my way, he can't hop anywhere. -- nm - loosilu Feb 16, 14:49
        
        he'll breathe better if he loosens up the corset! -- nm - loosilu Feb 16, 14:37
    - Those gowns don't hide anything so Rachael Ray would be a bad thing for you to watch. -- nm - Will Hunting Feb 16, 14:23
hmmm, I guess I just havent seen too many pictures of her? But Lara Logan is quite attractive huh? -- nm - Jovian Feb 16, 14:13 10
- yes, very pretty. how old is she? She looks young. -- nm - loosilu Feb 16, 14:33 8
  - 39 -- nm - peglegpete Feb 16, 14:39 7
    - She had been a swimsuit model and she gave birth to her first child 2 years ago. -- nm - not2fast Feb 16, 14:46 1
      - *tries to remember it's not Judgy Friday* - Epiphany Feb 16, 14:52
    - wow - she looks much younger than that -- nm - Epiphany Feb 16, 14:44 4
      - no kidding ... she looks amazing. -- nm - loosilu Feb 16, 14:45 3
        
        she does have make-up people before many still pix -- nm - peglegpete Feb 16, 14:47 2
        
        I'm a chick, I know how much is makeup. :) -- nm - loosilu Feb 16, 14:50 1
        
        you're female??????? -- nm -- nm - peglegpete Remlik Feb 16, 14:52
- she's blonde -- nm - Epiphany Feb 16, 14:16
Imagine people's height being proportional to their income, so that someone with an average income is of average height. - mara Feb 16, 14:12 4
- which would make Oprah HWP -- nm - zeitgeist Feb 16, 14:51
- That was in the economist a few issues back -- nm - ceregon Feb 16, 14:28
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- oh baby! -- nm - Max Feb 16, 14:13
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- Biggest since 06! The world will surely end as it did then. -- nm - Mop on Evo Feb 16, 14:37
- Mutated neutrinos! -- nm - Dano Feb 16, 14:32
- and so begins the zombiepocalypse. -- nm - sycor Feb 16, 14:15 3
  - and WTH is a solar maximum? -- nm - sycor Feb 16, 14:17 2
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      - so, good time for a tan? -- nm - sycor Feb 16, 14:19
- WHOA -- nm - Max Feb 16, 14:11
Jax, re: that lottery story - tickets don't come in rolls here. -- nm - Reagen Feb 16, 14:08 3
- Interesting. So you can choose which tickets? -- nm - JaxSean Feb 16, 14:11 2
  - Yes. -- nm - Reagen Feb 16, 14:11 1
    - Well then that makes more sense. -- nm - JaxSean Feb 16, 14:29
me: yeah that bond paper stock has been here ten years or so. It took us until about then to finally get rid of the ones that had our teletype info - Max Feb 16, 14:08 5
- I have no idea what teletype is -- nm - MDH Feb 16, 14:09 4
  - I'm not mocking, but it's amusing to see younger generations react to news of older tech. -- nm - Max Feb 16, 14:10
  - heh. think, old fashioned telephone that you type on (mechanical typing) instead of talking. - loosilu Feb 16, 14:09 2
    - note: I'm pretty sure it is not older than a fax machine though, only because fax machines are much older than most people think. -- nm - loosilu Feb 16, 14:10 1
      - I remember using teletypes for international transactions in the mid-80s -- nm - MojaveMeg Feb 16, 14:35
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- We have met the enemy, and his name is Hal '9000' Skynet Watson -- nm - i'm not dead yet ! Feb 16, 14:41
- depends on what happens first, skynet or zombies. -- nm - tRuMaN Feb 16, 14:11
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  - Obama's budget calls for $70 billion + in cuts to defense proposed by Gates. -- nm - TWuG Feb 16, 14:23
SITMOP Joanne Siegel has died. She was the model that inspired Lois Lane and was married to Jerry Siegel -- nm - sycor Feb 16, 14:05 1
- hmm for some reason some news sources are just reporting this but it apparently happened the other day. Remlik posted the other day too. - sycor Feb 16, 14:09
a preview of tonight's jeopardy -- (link) - Beryllium Feb 16, 14:05 [Image]
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Journalist Who Cruelly Mocked Lara Logan Attack On Twitter Resigns From NYU -- (link) - con_carne Feb 16, 14:02 5
- His wiki page was just updated to include his remarks and subsequent apology. -- (link) - reelgirl Feb 16, 14:11
- good. -- nm - loosilu Feb 16, 14:08
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- I wonder what counts as "cruel" in that case ... wouldn't *any* mocking count? -- nm - Beryllium Feb 16, 14:02 1
  - Getting in trouble for mocking someone on Twitter is like handing out speeding tickets at the Indy 500 -- nm - con_carne Feb 16, 14:06
So, i made a Gilda Radner comment earlier, and it made me go to wikipedia to see when exactly she died. I never realized the exact circumstances of - Andie Feb 16, 13:57 12
- Wow....that's heartbreaking. -- nm - Will Hunting Feb 16, 14:09
- that is horrible -- nm - Epiphany Feb 16, 14:09
- If you haven't read "It's Always Something", her autobio, I would highly recommend it. -- nm - reelgirl Feb 16, 14:07
- oh, how sad. -- nm - loosilu Feb 16, 14:06
- My god. -- nm - lileve Feb 16, 14:01
- Journalist Who Cruelly Mocked Lara Logan Attack On Twitter Resigns From NYU -- (link) - con_carne Feb 16, 14:01 3
  - Jay Rosen, I know you share a last name and a place of work with the guy, but your silence is deafening. -- nm - Mop on Evo Feb 16, 14:48
  - jeez, I made a mistake of scrolling through the uh "comments" -- nm - zeitgeist Feb 16, 14:04
  - Oops indeed -- nm - con_carne Feb 16, 14:01
- yeah that's similar to what happened to my mom in her last days of cancer -- nm - Remlik Feb 16, 13:59 2
  - but i'm not sure she was in the last stages of cancer. she was just going for a cat scan. :( -- nm - Andie Feb 16, 14:01 1
    - yeah that's what makes Radner's story all the more sad. -- nm - Remlik Feb 16, 14:14
ST Survivor holdings: - Beaker Feb 16, 13:52 15
- wtf -- nm - moles Feb 16, 14:28
- Eh, not the worst pick possible. - Stephen, Most Miserable Poster in America Feb 16, 14:16 1
  - Probst likes him -- (link) - CovingtonCat Feb 16, 14:19
- Oh crap, I got the lawyer. - CovingtonCat Feb 16, 14:07
- Spawn and Nubby are out. -- nm - Will Hunting Feb 16, 14:04 2
  - i think both times i did this before, my person was the first one gone. (sorry kristina.) -- nm - Andie Feb 16, 14:08 1
    - We've found your unlucky kryptonite. -- nm - Will Hunting Feb 16, 14:12
- CHA-CHING! -- nm - nubby Feb 16, 13:53
- ok, someone will have to keep me informed since I dont watch the show. -- nm - tRuMaN Feb 16, 13:53 6
  - Nubby lost. -- nm - David Feb 16, 13:55 5
    - I think they both lost....I can't in any form see either of them winning - Will Hunting Feb 16, 14:08
    - Over/under on number of TCs he survives: 2.5. -- nm - nubby Feb 16, 13:55 2
      - I think Survivor protects them for at least 5 episodes, so I'll take the over. -- nm - David Feb 16, 13:56 1
        
        If they don't...it's a pretty lame-ass season. - Will Hunting Feb 16, 14:11
    - Too bad Will didn't end up with Rob or Russell :) -- nm - Beryllium Feb 16, 13:55
Play it again, Sam! -- nm - Dr.Vermin Feb 16, 13:51
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- someone remind me when he reschedules cause I have to see his face to know for sure - Epiphany Feb 16, 14:11
- I think he has overvalued the franchise tag -- nm - crash davis Feb 16, 13:49 1
  - heh. -- nm - Diva Feb 16, 13:50
WTF, Hasbro? -- (link) - znufrii Feb 16, 13:48 21
- The play money was at least half of its appeal when I first started playing. -- nm - mara Feb 16, 14:07 1
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- I hope this thing fails. -- nm - Will Hunting Feb 16, 14:03
- Seriously. Noone except really annoying people ever played the game by its printed rules. - TWuG Feb 16, 13:53 15
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    - Was the free parking pot part of the printed rules? I honestly don't know. - musubi Feb 16, 14:12 3
      - No, but it's okay to agree on house rules. -- (link) - mara Feb 16, 14:18
      - absolutely not. -- nm - znufrii Feb 16, 14:15
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    - I see we've found one of the annoying people. -- nm - TWuG Feb 16, 14:03
    - ^this -- nm - Remlik Feb 16, 13:56
  - Word. -- nm - znufrii Feb 16, 13:54 7
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      - and this is the exception that proves the rule. - znufrii Feb 16, 14:19 5
        
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        not really, but whatever. -- nm - znufrii Feb 16, 14:25 3
        
        this conversation also reminds me that I don't play games nearly often enough these days. -- nm - znufrii Feb 16, 14:27 2
        
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        generally not. but will definitely let you know. -- nm - znufrii Feb 16, 14:35
- "competitive Monopoly player and coach?" -- nm - Amy Feb 16, 13:51 1
  - nice work if you can get it. -- nm - znufrii Feb 16, 13:52
"Amazon.com has Iron Man 2 Blu-ray Single-Disc Edition + $5 Video On Demand Credit for $9.99." -- nm - David Feb 16, 13:47 2
- Isn't that $5 credit offered with every disc purchase and pretty much a one time deal? -- nm - Mop on Evo Feb 16, 14:20 1
  - I've used hundreds of them, but your mileage may vary. -- nm - David Feb 16, 14:23

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