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Is it too much to ask that library shelvers glance at the back cover of each book before shelving? It takes 2 seconds. -- nm - mara Feb 17, 07:25 3
- word -- nm - steve114 Feb 17, 07:26
- so they can recognize the authors? -- nm - loosilu Feb 17, 07:26 1
  - No, there's a location sticker. -- nm - mara Feb 17, 07:27
Gatorade Duel 150's are today! - Strongbad Feb 17, 07:19
I'm going to Tataouine with my visiting friend this wknd, and despite nags from hippie travel friends, damn it I'm going to splurge a bit. - Hotkiss Feb 17, 07:19 2
- Aw, but he wanted to go to Tosche Station for some used power converters! nm - Dignan Feb 17, 07:24
- sounds awesome. It's worth doing now and then. -- nm - loosilu Feb 17, 07:23
Obama proposes fee for Canadian visitors travelling by air to the U.S......(link) - Walt_Disney Feb 17, 07:14 17
- Sure. Let's have some reciprocity. Let's see who comes out ahead. -- nm - Mop Feb 17, 07:29
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  - The passport changes for Americans have had a huge change in travel to Canada..... - Walt_Disney Feb 17, 07:25 2
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    - that's a lot different than a $5 fee, though. -- nm - loosilu Feb 17, 07:26
  - it won't make a huge difference, it's just Canadians are getting *really* tired of surcharges above seat price. -- nm - Andie Feb 17, 07:25 3
    - I can understand that -- nm - Epiphany Feb 17, 07:28
    - Airlines are bad, but other industries are joining the game too. -- nm - Strongbad Feb 17, 07:28
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- Or more accurately, just charging them what US citizens already pay. - Strongbad Feb 17, 07:16 6
  - $5 for this, $10 for luggage, another $5 somewhere else....it all adds up tourism generates revenue, dont decrease so you can get an extra $5.... - Walt_Disney Feb 17, 07:23 1
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  - does it say that US citizens pay it? -- nm - Andie Feb 17, 07:18 3
    - Only Canada, Mexico and the Carribbean don't pay it. It's five dollars. -- nm - Amy Feb 17, 07:21 1
      - right, i read that, i just wasn't sure it residents had to pay it. -- nm - Andie Feb 17, 07:26
    - The way I read the article, yes. -- nm - Strongbad Feb 17, 07:18
- he clearly has no idea how much we already pay in airport taxes and fees. making it higher isn't going to promote tourism. -- nm - Andie Feb 17, 07:15
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- the really hilarious thing is that lobbying already had rendered dodd-frank pretty much toothless, and this is just more of the same.... - x Feb 17, 07:23 2
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    - rallying against the expansion of government, of course. -- nm - znufrii Feb 17, 07:24
- of course they are. How many voters actually understand what they are, and why they caused what they did -- (link) - znufrii Feb 17, 07:15 4
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    - *shrug* - znufrii Feb 17, 07:21 2
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        touche -- nm - znufrii Feb 17, 07:27
Survivor (spoilers) There's always more than we're shown. - Mop Feb 17, 07:06 1
- Spoilers - MDH Feb 17, 07:09
Rate your current temperature comfort level: 1: you are about to freeze to death. 5: Perfection 10: You are melting. -- nm - Andie Feb 17, 07:03 21
- 8. -- nm - mafic Feb 17, 07:15
- 4 -- nm - Walt_Disney Feb 17, 07:14
- 6, on the warm side, but comfortable enough. -- nm - mara Feb 17, 07:12
- mostly 5. I have on the exactly right amount of layers. -- nm - Amy Feb 17, 07:12
- 5 - and that is rare -- nm - Epiphany Feb 17, 07:11
- Ranging from a 3 to a 7.... - Will Hunting Feb 17, 07:10
- 3.75 -- nm - Ender Feb 17, 07:10
- 3 -- nm - Hotkiss Feb 17, 07:09
- 2 -- nm - nubby Feb 17, 07:08
- 6 but will be an 8 by this afternoon. stupid office won't turn the air on even though it's been in the 70s this week. -- nm - sycor Feb 17, 07:08 4
  - you need air conditioning when it's 70* out? that seems like perfect room temperature. -- nm - Andie Feb 17, 07:14 3
    - it's an old warehouse that was converted to office space. the insulation here sucks. -- nm - sycor Feb 17, 07:26 1
      - plus I'm fat. less fat than I was, but still fat. lol -- nm - sycor Feb 17, 07:26
    - maybe the building has huge windows and heats up in the sun? -- nm - loosilu Feb 17, 07:24
- 5 -- nm - Strongbad Feb 17, 07:06
- 8 -- nm - loosilu Feb 17, 07:06 1
  - wait, 5 is good? 4.5 -- nm - loosilu Feb 17, 07:06
- 2. -- nm - amanda jones Feb 17, 07:06
- 5 -- nm - lileve Feb 17, 07:05
- 2.5 -- nm - znufrii Feb 17, 07:05
- 3. -- nm - Andie Feb 17, 07:04
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- *gasp* People actually think you can have fun without drinking? - Strongbad Feb 17, 07:08 4
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    - Last I checked, they're just offering alternatives - Strongbad Feb 17, 07:11 2
      - yeah, a lot of kids just don't want any part of it. a bunch of my work study kids live in the alcohol/drug free dorm here... - x Feb 17, 07:26 1
        
        That's a neat idea. (the dorm) -- nm - Strongbad Feb 17, 07:30
- Lame. - MDH Feb 17, 07:07
- we have this BS holiday called "state patrty's day" -- like a second st. patrick's day. and last night at Z we were eavesdropping - amanda jones Feb 17, 07:05 1
  - that is crazy -- nm - Epiphany Feb 17, 07:19
Map: the current state of the Middle East (and North Africa) -- (link) - Mop Feb 17, 07:00
I pimp Bill Bryson's books a lot, but Home is really, really great. It's basically a history of the different rooms in a house--but going back to - Amy Feb 17, 06:53 2
- He does have a great writing voice. -- nm - Inigo Feb 17, 06:55 1
  - He made me laugh at 6:30 in the morning. I didn't know that was possible. -- nm - Amy Feb 17, 07:00
sitwap: heh, informationisbeautiful created a meta-horoscope from 22 daily horoscopes -- (link) - tRuMaN Feb 17, 06:52
Top Chef quickfire was awesome last night. -- nm - Strongbad Feb 17, 06:51 2
- *spoilers* - Strongbad Feb 17, 06:54 1
  - Spoilers - MDH Feb 17, 06:56
Elephants give TB to workers at a preserve in Tennessee. -- (link) - loosilu Feb 17, 06:49 2
- should have used condoms -- nm - Beaker Feb 17, 06:51 1
  - *ouch* -- nm - loosilu Feb 17, 06:52
The new fully CGI Thomas and Friends is animated by Nitrogen Studios, a Canadian animation house. -- (link) - Mop Feb 17, 06:48
Or you could, y'know, go to a cheaper school... -- (link) - znufrii Feb 17, 06:46 19
- My state college was Yale for an 1/8th of the price. -- nm - lileve Feb 17, 07:06 2
  - a lot of what you pay for is the network and the name, really. I mean, if it were yale, you could leverage the name for better employment. - amanda jones Feb 17, 07:24 1
    - I know. If I knew what I know now I could have probably gotten into Yale and with a scholarship to boot. - lileve Feb 17, 07:28
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  - yeah, it's only NYU, it's not like it's worth getting a degree from there anyway... -- nm - znufrii Feb 17, 07:11 3
    - Yale degrees are over rated. *runs and hides* -- nm - lileve Feb 17, 07:12 2
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        I think it would have been funny if we had run into each other then. -- nm - lileve Feb 17, 07:29
- *crotchkick* -- nm - nubby Feb 17, 06:58
- piling up debt is the american way. if it's good for the government, it's good for the people!....nm - x Feb 17, 06:57
- The student loan system *is* a disgrace, but that just means that smart people avoid it or deal with it prudently. -- (link) - mara Feb 17, 06:55 3
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  - that's pretty solid. -- nm - znufrii Feb 17, 07:01
  - The Game of Life taught me that you should ALWAYS go the college route. - Strongbad Feb 17, 06:57
- "that 8 year Arts Degree will bankript me!" -- nm - Beaker Feb 17, 06:55
- yeah, this. I mean, they *picked* that for themselves. how is it not their faults? or their parents'? -- nm - amanda jones Feb 17, 06:53
- Isn't that in the Bill of Rights somewhere? - Strongbad Feb 17, 06:53
- It's Tahrir Square all over again! -- nm - Mop Feb 17, 06:51
- did someone force them to take out the loans? oy. -- nm - loosilu Feb 17, 06:48
Ancient cannibals made cups from human skulls. -- (link) - loosilu Feb 17, 06:41 4
- Use every part of the buffalo. -- nm - Mop Feb 17, 06:52
- isn't there a picture of the "Alive!" Chilean soccer players (the real ones) using a skull as a bowl? -- nm - Andie Feb 17, 06:48 1
  - I'd like to see it, if so. -- nm - loosilu Feb 17, 06:49
- and here's a picture. -- (link) - loosilu Feb 17, 06:43
~my gf who lives in Canada~ had baby twins yesterday. She's named them Phoenix and Adderley. I didn't know she was having twins - Diva Feb 17, 06:35 17
- that is fantastic! -- nm - Epiphany Feb 17, 06:53
- I'm with Andie -- two girls. -- nm - mara Feb 17, 06:47 3
  - I hope this is the Tivo synopsis for your new movie. nm - Dignan Feb 17, 07:13 1
    - L4 - loosilu Feb 17, 07:16
  - I actually agree with this, but someone had to guess different. -- nm - loosilu Feb 17, 06:48
- awesome! -- nm - loosilu Feb 17, 06:40
- excellent! and yes, those names aren't exactly gender-identifying, are they? :) -- nm - Andie Feb 17, 06:37 10
  - I'm frickin clueless! I'm going to guess one of each because women who have twins at advanced maternal age often have fraternal twins. - Diva Feb 17, 06:41 1
    - i say two girls. but fraternal -- nm - Andie Feb 17, 06:42
  - we should guess. I have "both girls." -- nm - amanda jones Feb 17, 06:38 7
    - Two girls (one sippy cup). nm - Dignan Feb 17, 07:12
    - I'll put my quarter on Phoenix is a girl, Adderley is a boy. -- nm - loosilu Feb 17, 06:40 5
      - I think Adderley is a girl, Phoenix I'm not sure, but I'm leaning toward girl. -- nm - mafic Feb 17, 07:19 3
        
        It would be a sweet dude name. "Hey baby, want to see a Phoenix rising?" = tons of puss. nm - Dignan Feb 17, 07:23 2
        
        or in your case, pus. -- nm - loosilu Feb 17, 07:25 1
        
        I...really should have seen that coming. nm - Dignan Feb 17, 07:26
      - I'd guess precisely the opposite. -- nm - znufrii Feb 17, 06:41
mandy alert (its not a 46" tv though, sorry) - tRuMaN Feb 17, 06:30 3
- mandy alert: this one is 46"+ - tRuMaN Feb 17, 06:32 2
  - it's so crazy to me that the difference between 42 and 46 is between 40% and 60%. maybe she does get a 42. -- nm - amanda jones Feb 17, 06:37 1
    - yeah, i cannot explain that jump in price either -- nm - tRuMaN Feb 17, 06:38
Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives trailer -- (link) - Dano Feb 17, 06:30
Amusing website of the day: The Texas Lice Squad....which uses the melody to Santas Claus is coming to town as its landing page song...(link) - Walt_Disney Feb 17, 06:30
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- His vocals are like nails on a chalkboard in this song. nm - Dignan Feb 17, 07:08
- With your bitch slap rappin' and your cocaine tongue, you get nothing done. -- nm - Jim Feb 17, 06:30
TV PSA: The Mentalist, Community, 30 Rock, Wipeout, Greys, Private Practice, CSI, The Office, Bones -- nm - Beaker Feb 17, 06:22 7
- usa shows? are those new? -- nm - amanda jones Feb 17, 06:27 3
  - Royal Pains and Fairly Legal are new. -- nm - Max Feb 17, 06:48 2
    - I'm liking Fairly Legal more as it goes. - JaxSean Feb 17, 06:56 1
      - me too -- nm - Epiphany Feb 17, 07:07
- Nikita and Jersey Shore too. -- nm - MDH Feb 17, 06:25 2
  - do you watch Jersey Shore? - Hotkiss Feb 17, 06:38 1
    - Yep. -- nm - MDH Feb 17, 06:40
~Weep for yourself, my man, You'll never be what is in your heart.~ -- nm - Inigo Feb 17, 06:20
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- The house is a guaranteed pass, that's not a worry at all. Senate is the issue. - MDH Feb 17, 06:24 1
  - *Knock on wood* just so I'm not the kiss of death -- nm - MDH Feb 17, 06:25
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- Because driving is fun, and in a powerful car, makes you feel powerful. -- nm - mara Feb 17, 06:48 1
  - I agree. -- nm - Dany Heatley Feb 17, 07:09
- Isn't this the second time for him? -- nm - amoxy Feb 17, 06:35 1
  - Well, he had a domestic dispute in 2009 and when police got there he had a .26 level at 6:30 AM -- nm - Jim Feb 17, 06:36
- Heard some of the reported details on Mike and Mike...apparently he had slurred speech, smelled of alcohol and took a swig from a bottle of scotch in - Jim Feb 17, 06:31 6
  - Is there a phrase that calls someone out as an asshat more than, "Do you know who I am?" -- nm - Inigo Feb 17, 06:35 5
    - "You're a fag-loving Jew." - TFox Feb 17, 06:39 3
      - That's the nuclear version. Although I'd bet Mel said do you know who I am, too. -- nm - Inigo Feb 17, 06:54
      - "what are you looking at, sugartits" is also acceptable here. (hi, foxie. cute kid. whose is he?) -- nm - amanda jones Feb 17, 06:52 1
        
        who knows. they're literally everywhere in this hospital. we just grabbed one that looked the cutest. -- nm - TFox Feb 17, 07:05
    - If there is, I don't know what it is. -- nm - Jim Feb 17, 06:36
- agreed -- nm - Beaker Feb 17, 06:21 1
  - or call a cab. lots of people who make less than that do it... -- nm - Beaker Feb 17, 06:21
Boom pow. -- nm - nubby Feb 17, 06:18 1
- *pees* -- nm - Fergie Feb 17, 06:21

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