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Hee. The Best Animated Gifs From The 2011 Best Picture Nominees -- (link) - con_carne Feb 23, 13:07 1
I just at ANOTHER piece of pie. There must be some way to motivate me to drop my christmas weight. What? What? -- nm - Amy Feb 23, 13:04 6
- its tough, especially when the pie is good -- nm - crash davis Feb 23, 13:08
- just shut yur pie hole - zeitgeist Feb 23, 13:06 1
  - this is actually very funny in context. I award you one piece of hazelnut candy I just stole from linda - amanda jones Feb 23, 13:08
- more ethnic slurs? -- nm - Beryllium Feb 23, 13:06
- Every time you eat something you know you shouldn't, baby Jesus cries. -- nm - Loyola Feb 23, 13:06
- triathlon? -- nm - znufrii Feb 23, 13:05
Other States are starting to turn down Federal Funds -- (link) - amoxy Feb 23, 12:57 1
- of course, if you listen to the crybaby ranchers out here, its wolves not bears that need to be paid off -- nm - crash davis Feb 23, 12:59
Deadliest Catch performer found dead in a hotel room -- (link) - Will Hunting Feb 23, 12:55
Making Flash work better in Firefox. -- (link) - Qale Feb 23, 12:54 10
- I work pretty great in Firefox already! :) -- nm - Flash Feb 23, 13:00
- Sweet. - con_carne Feb 23, 12:59
- Step 1: Use Chrome. Step 2: Don't use Flash. -- nm - Beryllium Feb 23, 12:58 5
  - blech. I've tried Chrome several times over the last couple years, and it's always a one-day experiment. -- nm - Don Homer Feb 23, 13:00 3
    - Does it not work for you or does it not "work" for you? - TWuG Feb 23, 13:04
    - the blazing fast javascript won me over ... -- nm - Beryllium Feb 23, 13:03
    - I kind of use a combination of the two really. Chrome is -great- for my site's WordPress stuff. -- nm - Qale Feb 23, 13:03
  - I'll give you Step 1, but you'll take my Flash from my cold dead non-animated hands! -- nm - Qale Feb 23, 12:59
- Step one - Download internet explorer. -- nm - pmb Feb 23, 12:57 1
  - AutoFail -- nm - Qale Feb 23, 12:59
IMVU ads are ... interesting. I never even heard of the service /game/whatever until today, but now I've seen 2 animated ads. -- nm - mara Feb 23, 12:47 1
- The "V" stands for virus. -- nm - Spawn Feb 23, 12:48
Always a fun sort of read this time of year. 9 most shocking Oscar upsets of all time -- (link) - con_carne Feb 23, 12:45 6
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- Some of those weren't actually that much of upsets. -- nm - Don Homer Feb 23, 12:56
- Adrien Brody fully deserved theat oscar imo. -- nm - Loyola Feb 23, 12:55
- They're missing Art Carney beating Jack, Pacino, Hoffman and Albert Finney. -- nm - Reagen Feb 23, 12:54 2
  - Jack losing for Chinatown was a crime. -- nm - Don Homer Feb 23, 12:56 1
    - who should investigate? L&O or CSI:oscar? -- nm - zeitgeist Feb 23, 13:05
What I learned at lunch: I am far too fat to fit into the shirt and vest my brother wants his wedding party to wear. - TFox Feb 23, 12:42 19
- triathlon! -- nm - znufrii Feb 23, 13:08
- Lunch break walk! -- nm - lileve Feb 23, 13:02 3
  - won't work. I walk almost between three and four miles a day now and I am just as fat as ever. -- nm - amanda jones Feb 23, 13:05 2
    - put the computer on a podium and stand at work, sit during breaks not the typical other way around -- nm - zeitgeist Feb 23, 13:07
    - it's not the walking thats the problem. it's that you're walking to Pies R Us -- nm - Will Hunting Feb 23, 13:07
- you can always have a tailor add a panel to the sides or split the back and add some cloth or just duct tape it -- nm - zeitgeist Feb 23, 12:55
- Sauna. -- nm - Loyola Feb 23, 12:53
- Time for the bib. -- nm - Will Hunting Feb 23, 12:52
- Just use large safety pins to hold it together. - pmb Feb 23, 12:52
- get a muumuu. - Mel Profit Feb 23, 12:51
- Are you best man? You could wear something different. Or, get a shirt that fits that close enough, and then get the jcrew vest altered. They can - Amy Feb 23, 12:50 4
  - I suggested different, but the groomsmen are already wearing like the inverse of the groom's outfit. - TFox Feb 23, 12:54 3
    - You'll be fine. -- nm - Amy Feb 23, 12:59 2
      - I think I'll just go to Nordstroms and put their legendary customer service to the test. -- nm - TFox Feb 23, 12:59 1
        
        *points to sign: NO RENTERS, PLEASE* -- nm - Nordstroms si Feb 23, 13:02
- your brother clearly has to postpone the wedding - Danedukenuuk Feb 23, 12:48
- faaaaaaaat. -- nm - Pierce Feb 23, 12:45
- How long till the wedding? -- nm - amoxy Feb 23, 12:45 1
  - Just over two months. I could technically shed it, but we have... a lot going on. -- nm - TFox Feb 23, 12:45
I just burned 2 of my fingers and they feel like they are on fire, unless I keep them in a cup of ice cold water. What else might soothe them/stop - kelly Feb 23, 12:41 5
- nmbl -- (link) - mara Feb 23, 12:44
- alo lotion. but I've always heard that putting ice on burn is a bad idea because it causes the burn to go deeper into the tissue - sycor Feb 23, 12:43 1
  - yeah, ice is bad. put the burn under cold water -- nm - decline Feb 23, 12:45
- just cut 'em off and you won't feel that burning sensation anymore -- nm - decline Feb 23, 12:42 1
  - dr. dogbert? -- nm - moles Feb 23, 12:43
Thanks for the B-day wishes earlier :) - J Feb 23, 12:37 9
- Birthy Hapday! -- nm - Stephen, Enemy of the RNC Feb 23, 13:29
- bappy hirthday -- nm - tRuMaN Feb 23, 12:59
- happy birthday to you! (and belated happy bday, ender!) :) - -- nm - b. Feb 23, 12:53
- Happy B-day! -- nm - decline Feb 23, 12:52
- Happy Birthday! -- nm - Loyola Feb 23, 12:51
- Happy Birthday -- nm - con_carne Feb 23, 12:48
- have a nice day! -- nm - Remlik Feb 23, 12:47
- Happy birthday! Have a great day! -- nm - Krusty Feb 23, 12:43
- hey, happy birthday! -- nm - crash davis Feb 23, 12:42
So I'm killing time just going through my ancestry.com stuff. It looks like my Great Grand Uncle married the person listed as "servant" on his parent - oblique Feb 23, 12:37 12
- My dad was disowned by the family for many years for marrying a non jew (and a german at that) and even though they patched things later it wasn't ... - zeitgeist Feb 23, 13:04 1
  - My dad was for marrying a non Eastern Orthodox. -- nm - Amy Feb 23, 13:06
- i think this was actually quite common for widowers to marry their housekeepers. (of course, i have no idea how old your GGU was, etc.) -- nm - Andie Feb 23, 12:42 1
  - Replace "housekeeper" with "caregiver" and, according to zeitgeist, it happens all the time. -- nm - Mop (213 lbs) Feb 23, 12:44
- I was just on that site and I think i'm gonna have to spend some time on sometime soon - J Feb 23, 12:40
- not as fun as my great-great-great grandmother who was disinherited by her family for marrying a commoner. -- nm - znufrii Feb 23, 12:39 5
  - None of that for me. I'm 100% peasant. -- nm - loosilu Feb 23, 12:41
  - I had one of those. She married an Irishman and was disowned. Otherwise I would be rich! - sycor Feb 23, 12:41 3
    - could women inherit land at the time? -- nm - loosilu Feb 23, 12:44 1
      - probably not but the family only had daughters so I assume the land would been part of the dowry or something. -- nm - sycor Feb 23, 12:47
    - also funny is that's how I found out I'm related to one of the people in my choir - znufrii Feb 23, 12:43
- I'm sure mom and dad were thrilled. -- nm - Mop (213 lbs) Feb 23, 12:38
Bare-breasted Venus on Minneapolis Institute of Arts' Titian exhibit billboard graffiti-bombed with bra -- (link) - con_carne Feb 23, 12:35
people saw that Penny Arcade and *didn't* instantly think of Pipe Dream?! - TFox Feb 23, 12:35 3
- Vaugely -- nm - amoxy Feb 23, 12:53
- Not all of us had a home computer at that time, Richie Rich -- nm - con_carne Feb 23, 12:38 1
  - Hey, you're talking to the spokesmodel for Uptime floppy disc news magazine. You watch your tone. -- nm - TFox Feb 23, 12:39
Prank caller dupes Gov. Walker into discussing his strategy to break the unions. -- (link) - Mop (213 lbs) Feb 23, 12:32 4
- I'm not sure how it shows their assertion that he's "cozy" with Koch, when he couldn't even realize it wasn't Koch on the phone. -- nm - Ender Feb 23, 12:38 3
  - maybe cozy isn't the right word, but I've read several times that the Koch brothers were instrumental in getting Walker elected -- nm - decline Feb 23, 12:40
  - cause he took his call when nobody else in the world has been able to talk to him -- nm - moles Feb 23, 12:39 1
    - BTW, it breaks my heart that the Kochs are chief contributors to NOVA. -- nm - Mop (213 lbs) Feb 23, 12:40
"Only later did we realize that JCCentCom was a deputy attorney general for the state of Indiana." -- (link) - mara Feb 23, 12:30 4
- He's now been fired. -- (link) - Reagen Feb 23, 12:39 2
  - He's now been hired in Libya. -- (link) - Spawn Feb 23, 12:52
  - good. - znufrii Feb 23, 12:40
- what a jackass. -- nm - Remlik Feb 23, 12:33
BP clean-up efforts less than adequte: "New oil washes up on shore at Elmer's Island, more new oil sighted near coast" -- (link) - mara Feb 23, 12:20
Heh, Facebook shut down the Breakup Notifier. -- nm - David Feb 23, 12:20 1
- F*@&!!! -- nm - Mop (213 lbs) Feb 23, 12:38
So, what continent should Hotkiss visit next? -- nm - con_carne Feb 23, 12:18 9
- South Korea, otherwise known as Hong Kong - prayformojo Feb 23, 12:47
- Korea or Cuba. -- nm - mara Feb 23, 12:22
- Eastern Europe! still some nukes floating around. -- nm - loosilu Feb 23, 12:19
- where ever Quaddafi pitches his next tent -- nm - Epiphany Feb 23, 12:18 5
  - that's so nasty. -- nm - Remlik Feb 23, 12:20 4
    - *smack* apologize to the lady. -- nm - loosilu Feb 23, 12:22 3
      - for what? The Col. *is* nasty. -- nm - Remlik Feb 23, 12:33
      - Lady? -- nm - Groiny Feb 23, 12:24 1
        
        LOL!! -- nm - Epiphany Feb 23, 12:45
According to the CDC, there were 21,000 cases of whooping cough last year, mostly in kids. -- (link) - loosilu Feb 23, 12:16 3
- i had a co-worker who got whooping cough about 5 years back....nm - x Feb 23, 12:19 1
  - how bad was it? I got a booster a couple of years ago as one of my travel shots. -- nm - loosilu Feb 23, 12:20
- ~Whoop there it is!~ -- nm - Epiphany Feb 23, 12:18
note to self: no matter how easy it may seem with your new computer, you MAY NOT play Civ 5 while you're working. - znufrii Feb 23, 12:13 4
- what laptop did you get after? -- nm - Beaker Feb 23, 12:14 3
  - Got this to replace my sucky-ass laptop, if that's what you're asking... -- (link) - znufrii Feb 23, 12:26 2
    - ahh, thanks. I thought you got a laptop not replaced one (I might be looking in a bit is why I asked) -- nm - Beaker Feb 23, 12:27 1
      - ah, no. wanted something a bit more sturdy for work. and Civ 5. -- nm - znufrii Feb 23, 12:29
I'm not sure if Rushmore fans would love Youth in Revolt, or find it blashphemous. I'm not quite sure what I think of it myself yet. -- nm - Reagen Feb 23, 12:09 3
- I didn't think too highly of it. -- nm - Kim Pine Feb 23, 12:12 1
  - you read the book, though, right? because the book was *delicious.* -- nm - amanda jones Feb 23, 12:30
- It's a total bust. -- nm - David Feb 23, 12:11
Crash Davis Needs a Present: Cover Girls of the DC Universe Poker Set.... -- (link) - Remlik Feb 23, 12:07 2
- nice but spendy -- nm - crash davis Feb 23, 12:33 1
  - see if someone truly loved you that wouldn't matter. -- nm - Remlik Feb 23, 12:48
New Dr. Pepper diet soda "not for women." -- (link) - not2fast Feb 23, 12:06 11
- Catchphrase! -- nm - Mop (213 lbs) Feb 23, 12:40
- Maybe they can have armed guards (that are men of course) at store displays - amoxy Feb 23, 12:25
- hmmm...what's more obnoxious, this, or the Diet Pepsi "skinny can" -- nm - znufrii Feb 23, 12:18
- I'll be interested to see if it's less crappy than the current diet Dr Pepper. The current one is one of the two worst diet pops out there. - Ender Feb 23, 12:11 6
  - I am liking the versions of Diet Dr Pepper and Diet Mt Dew that I got with my soda maker machine thingy. - kelly Feb 23, 12:13 1
    - give it to the Murph! -- nm - moles Feb 23, 12:16
  - Sir, I request your presence on the duelling dais. -- nm - Reagen Feb 23, 12:13 3
    - Seriously. I think I'm Diet Dr. Pepper's best customer. -- nm - Kim Pine Feb 23, 12:14 2
      - The Dr was my go-to drink when I drank real pop, but the diet version just tastes nothing like it. -- nm - Ender Feb 23, 12:16
      - I'm drinking a Diet Cherry Dr. Pepper right now -- nm - oblique Feb 23, 12:15
- 10 calories? Bah. I want zero. I need to drink my diet soda in massive man quantities! -- nm - oblique Feb 23, 12:09
Undercover TSA agent makes it through full-body scanners with gun in her undies... -- (link) - Don Homer Feb 23, 12:05 7
- That scanner picture looks like an alien that was on an episode of "The Outer Limits" -- nm - amoxy Feb 23, 12:27
- I hope she know this just gives them more of a motive to feel her up. -- nm - not2fast Feb 23, 12:11
- Spend billions more adding something new and improved to catch it. -- nm - Name Withheld By Request Feb 23, 12:11
- Maybe they thought she was just happy to see them. -- nm - Inigo Feb 23, 12:10
- Funny. A walk through the metal detector would've found that -- nm - oblique Feb 23, 12:08
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  - Security theater baby! -- nm - Don Homer Feb 23, 12:09
Rip Torn vs. Norman Mailer fight.... -- (link) - Remlik Feb 23, 12:04
i do like the xkcd from a few days ago though. -- (link) - tRuMaN Feb 23, 12:03 4
- I would actually like to put that 30 second delay in place on my machine, honestly. -- nm - TFox Feb 23, 12:36
- Portlandia had a fun take on a similiar idea -- (link) - znufrii Feb 23, 12:08 [youtube]
- That second panel is more STish than I'm comfortable with -- nm - con_carne Feb 23, 12:07 1
  - yes it is -- nm - Epiphany Feb 23, 12:18
yes -- nm - Spawn Feb 23, 12:00
blah -- nm - tRuMaN Feb 23, 12:00 1
- Lamest. Vampire. Ever. -- nm - con_carne Feb 23, 12:01

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