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From just what's on your iPod/MP3 player, give me your trifecta of "these bands/artists would never be caught dead on stage together" - Stephen, Enemy of the RNC Feb 25, 10:48 1
- England Dan, Rush, Tom Lehrer -- nm - TWuG Feb 25, 10:50
it's about time. the new White House social secretary is a gay -- (link) - moles Feb 25, 10:47 3
- Party man -- nm - Danedukenuuk Feb 25, 10:50
- a gay what? -- nm - Beryllium Feb 25, 10:49 1
  - Social secretary. I'm stunned to find that there are non-gay social secretaries. I mean, who knew? -- nm - TWuG Feb 25, 10:51
good news david! Twilight convention coming to Nashville in two weeks! -- (link) - moles Feb 25, 10:41 4
- yay! -- nm - sycor Feb 25, 10:49
- great -- nm - Gillette Salesman Feb 25, 10:44
- Keep trying. It will be funny someday, I'm sure. -- nm - David Feb 25, 10:42 1
  - I could try it on twitter. I follow three people from tennessee now ... -- nm - Beryllium Feb 25, 10:46
Google is offering Recipe searches now -- (link) - TWuG Feb 25, 10:38
ack, someone is actually playing journey's don't stop believin' on the piano in one of the practice rooms here....nm - x Feb 25, 10:37 4
- why do you hate awesomeness? -- nm - TFox Feb 25, 10:44 2
  - this -- nm - Beaker Feb 25, 10:46
  - That song has become an inescapable jukebox/DJ staple -- nm - con_carne Feb 25, 10:45
- just a smalltown girl? -- nm - moles Feb 25, 10:37
"Sheen, Gaddafi, or ESPN Poll?" -- nm - Beryllium Feb 25, 10:36
*mandy signal* (note: would that be like the bat symbol, but a giant cake?) -- (link) - tRuMaN Feb 25, 10:34 18
- *giggles to himself picturing amanda, standing on top of a building. looking up at a Fudgy the Whale signal & jumping into action* -- nm - HdnAgnda Feb 25, 10:38
- Sub-poll : What's your ST symbol? I'd take the uke, but it would just look like a guitar. So a rock stack. -- nm - mara Feb 25, 10:36 15
  - tacos -- nm - con_carne Feb 25, 10:42
  - I ... have no idea. Does anyone have suggestions for me? -- nm - Beryllium Feb 25, 10:41 6
    - A USB connector for keeping us all connected. -- nm - HdnAgnda Feb 25, 10:47
    - FSK -- nm - TWuG Feb 25, 10:44
    - Be -- nm - con_carne Feb 25, 10:43
    - bohr's model of beryllium. -- nm - loosilu Feb 25, 10:42 2
      - I couldn't find a good representation when I was modifying the template I used for my blog, so this is the closest I could get ... -- (link) - Beryllium Feb 25, 10:46 [Image] 1
        
        I was thinking more like this (see the symbol) -- (link) - loosilu Feb 25, 10:47
  - It might be a vacuum cleaner. -- nm - HdnAgnda Feb 25, 10:38
  - The uke I painted looks like a uke! -- nm - loosilu Feb 25, 10:38 4
    - ceci n'est pas une uke....nm - rene magritte si Feb 25, 10:43
    - Yeah, but a bat signal is just a silhouette. -- nm - mara Feb 25, 10:40 1
      - I still say if properly rendered, it looks different. -- nm - loosilu Feb 25, 10:40
    - Oh, right. I'm either a skull or a paint palette. -- nm - loosilu Feb 25, 10:38
  - i am not sure I would even need to bother to reply to this, I mean, st already knows. -- nm - tRuMaN Feb 25, 10:37
- i knew she'd find a way to unquit TV shopping -- nm - moles Feb 25, 10:36
according to ESPN poll, one state in the union is afraid of wild gorillas. which one is it? -- (link) - moles Feb 25, 10:29 6
- sorry, *not* afraid of wild gorillas -- nm - moles Feb 25, 10:30 3
  - where does Phillip live? -- nm - TFox Feb 25, 10:33 2
    - He's started a crab hunting safarii -- nm - Beaker Feb 25, 10:42
    - Idaho, apparently -- nm - moles Feb 25, 10:36
- where does Phillip live? -- nm - TFox Feb 25, 10:30 1
  - god, we have such great characters these days. I flipping love hollywood. -- nm - amanda jones Feb 25, 10:31
I think the inevitable next step in Charlie Sheen's career is to start a porn company. - David Feb 25, 10:28
~ I'm doin 100 on the highway. So if you do the speed limit, get the f*ck outta my way. ~ -- nm - JaxSean Feb 25, 10:24
"The winner of the Best Foreign Film comes from a country we once totally pwned in war" - con_carne Feb 25, 10:22 3
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- But who actually did win the War of 1812? -- nm - Roger More Feb 25, 10:29 1
  - 1813 -- nm - sycor Feb 25, 10:32
'Fiscally conservative, socially liberal'. - Dr.Vermin Feb 25, 10:21 15
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- what tea are you drinking? -- nm - loosilu Feb 25, 10:36 2
  - He smokes his. - mara Feb 25, 10:37 1
    - nice -- nm - znufrii Feb 25, 10:38
- Is that from the Official Tea Party platform? Oh wait... -- nm - con_carne Feb 25, 10:24
- What?! No! - HdnAgnda Feb 25, 10:23 7
  - I think he's joking. (And I think a lot of people on ST are fiscally conservative, to a degree, and socially liberal) -- nm - Beryllium Feb 25, 10:32 6
    - Time to break out the ST political compass - Roger More Feb 25, 10:35 5
      - Fiscally conservative, socially moderate -- nm - Stephen, Enemy of the RNC Feb 25, 10:43
      - boom! -- (link) - tRuMaN Feb 25, 10:37 2
        
        -4.12 on Economic Left-Right ---- -2.67 on Social Lib/Authoritarian. -- nm - Will Hunting Feb 25, 10:46
        
        Thanks (but I think there's a more recent one) -- nm - Roger More Feb 25, 10:44
      - It was accidentally smashed during the ST Obama vs. Hillary debacle -- nm - con_carne Feb 25, 10:36
- Yeah, sorry, the Tea Party is anything but socially liberal. And they're also fiscally insane. -- nm - TWuG Feb 25, 10:23
- socially liberal tea partyist doesn't sound congruent. -- nm - Max Feb 25, 10:22
LYC: Poker update from last night - Strongbad Feb 25, 10:19
Question, do you all agree or disagree with the fact that Obama hasnt called for Gadhafi to resign? -- nm - Jovian Feb 25, 10:10 35
- I can't see what possible positive effect he could have. -- nm - Reagen Feb 25, 10:33
- I have an inkling that in Obama's eyes, Iran is the prize here. He's (probably) already decided that he can't back up a call for Gadafi to resign with - Loyola Feb 25, 10:23 4
  - How ironic that the foreign policy adventurerists of the last administration aren't in power right now. - Mel Profit Feb 25, 10:29 3
    - Be that as it may, those aligned with the Project for the New American Century are loving all this upheaval right now. - Loyola Feb 25, 10:40
    - Maybe Jesse Jackson will go over on his own and fix things. -- nm - loosilu Feb 25, 10:37
    - IM = at least three weeks behind. -- (link) - Roger More Feb 25, 10:32
- i agree. -- nm - tRuMaN Feb 25, 10:18
- The less involved we are, the less we commit ourselves to either side, the better things will work out. - TWuG Feb 25, 10:16
- either bin laden has done it or he hasn't, it's not an issue of agreement. -- nm - loosilu Feb 25, 10:15 4
  - Bin laden? -- nm - mara Feb 25, 10:18 1
    - my contacts are screwed up! Obama, Osama, they're all the same! - loosilu Feb 25, 10:18
  - oh, are you asking if we think he *should*? doesn't matter, IMO. -- nm - loosilu Feb 25, 10:17 1
    - *looks at the rest of this thread* Might as well. Jovian's post is clearly a Rorschach test. :) -- nm - con_carne Feb 25, 10:19
- Yeah. I think it would only help G. "Look the infidels are against me! The enemy of your enemy..." -- nm - Dr.Vermin Feb 25, 10:15 2
  - If you can't win the hearts of the people being machine-gunned....you're in the wrong business. -- nm - Will Hunting Feb 25, 10:30
  - but G likes obama -- nm - Beryllium Feb 25, 10:30
- not sure what the point would be at this stage. Khadaffi is obviously a dead-ender and nothing on the ground is going to be affected by what Obama - moles Feb 25, 10:14 5
  - I'd hope that the Nobel Peace Prize winner would speak about bringing peace to a violent location. - Will Hunting Feb 25, 10:17 4
    - Given the specific US/Libyan history, there -- nm - Reagen Feb 25, 10:34 2
      - 's no benefit for him here, and too much baggage. -- nm - Reagen Feb 25, 10:35 1
        
        I don't see where Libya's a valuable member of the world (unlike Egypt)....and I believe in right and wrong - Will Hunting Feb 25, 10:51
    - yeah really, time to earn it. -- nm - loosilu Feb 25, 10:17
- If he didn't need to resign last year, he doesn't need to resign now. He needs to stop the bloodshed and make things better for his country. - mara Feb 25, 10:14 2
  - Pretty much the lowest bar you can set for a leader is...don't machine gun your own people. -- nm - Mel Profit Feb 25, 10:16 1
    - wha? -- nm - Stalin Feb 25, 10:19
- have any other world leaders called for it? -- nm - sycor Feb 25, 10:13 5
  - Apparently Sarkozy did. -- (link) - loosilu Feb 25, 10:23 2
    - Who'd have guessed the French would be in favor of surrender. -- nm - TWuG Feb 25, 10:24 1
      - ha! -- nm - loosilu Feb 25, 10:25
  - I think Imadinnerjacket suggested it, right? -- nm - Beryllium Feb 25, 10:14 1
    - I figure Imawaistcoat might have done it. -- nm - sycor Feb 25, 10:20
- I would hope that DHS/CIA's intel is such that Obama's got more information than we do about what's really happening on the ground there. - Beryllium Feb 25, 10:12 2
  - (However, if there are political reasons why it hasn't been called for yet - such as not wanting to piss of the libyan people .... - Beryllium Feb 25, 10:13 1
    - s/political/diplomatic/ -- nm - Beryllium Feb 25, 10:13
- agree -- nm - con_carne Feb 25, 10:11
Steam Punk Bobba Fett -- (link) - Mel Profit Feb 25, 10:10
FMK. Tea Leoni (45), Chelsea Handler (36), Rashida Jones (35). -- nm - HdnAgnda Feb 25, 10:09 14
- FKM -- nm - Ender Feb 25, 10:48
- FKM - Chelsea is a haggard looking 36 - J Feb 25, 10:38
- FKM -- nm - Stephen, Enemy of the RNC Feb 25, 10:24
- FKM -- nm - Jovian Feb 25, 10:21
- easy FKM. -- nm - loosilu Feb 25, 10:15 1
  - Yup. -- nm - Dr.Vermin Feb 25, 10:16
- tough one. I'm going to have to go with 4-some after converting to Mormonism. -- nm - sycor Feb 25, 10:12
- MKF -- nm - Will Hunting Feb 25, 10:11 2
  - sadly, i agree -- nm - tRuMaN Feb 25, 10:35
  - I think you might be right. I don't think tea is that hot really but rashida is just icy cold. -- nm - amanda jones Feb 25, 10:26
- FKM... - TFox Feb 25, 10:10 3
  - this. -- nm - JaxSean Feb 25, 10:22
  - It would probably mean you're doing very well professionally if she'd let you. -- nm - Will Hunting Feb 25, 10:11 1
    - dude, I'm a *team leader*. that has to be a good enough title. -- nm - TFox Feb 25, 10:12
Hockey history. 71 yrs ago today the first televised hockey game was broadcast between the Rangers and the Habs. Rangers won 6-2 at MSG. -- nm - HdnAgnda Feb 25, 10:08 1
- hmm. I wonder if there's a recording of this? -- nm - Beryllium Feb 25, 10:10
Also, Anne Hathaway is beautiful -- nm - con_carne Feb 25, 10:08
Clearly I have defeated this earthworm with my words -- imagine what I would have done with my fire breathing fists. (*swoon.*) -- nm - amanda jones Feb 25, 10:05 3
- I pity the earthworm who finds itself in your octagon. -- nm - mara Feb 25, 10:08 1
  - awwwww. this is so sweet. -- nm - amanda jones Feb 25, 10:10
- I'm glad this in-home rehab of his is going so well. -- nm - Will Hunting Feb 25, 10:06
I don't expect films to be works of historical scholarship, but I do expect them to be accurate (or inaccurate) enough to serve the story. -- nm - znufrii Feb 25, 10:04 5
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  - Hmm? The only mention of him I remember was talking about him as a cautionary example for royalty. -- nm - Reagen Feb 25, 10:36 1
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  - what was the quote or reasonable facsimile? I don't recall this. -- nm - Mel Profit Feb 25, 10:15
  - yeah, something particularly egregious like that is enough to take someone out of the story completely. -- (link) - znufrii Feb 25, 10:09
I'd watch some 2.5 Men if they changed Charlie's actor as often as Murphy Brown's assistant. -- nm - Max Feb 25, 10:02 3
- same here. - Mel Profit Feb 25, 10:03 2
  - Jon Cryer needs to go to. The kid is still OK -- nm - Beaker Feb 25, 10:04 1
    - The only thing that needs to go is the laugh track. -- nm - Beryllium Feb 25, 10:09
"Where's the bridge in the battle of Sterling Bridge?" "We found it got in the way." "Aye, that's what the English found, too." -- nm - Reagen Feb 25, 10:01 1
- that was totally a shock when I first heard about that. -- nm - Mel Profit Feb 25, 10:26
Fuckers. HarperCollins puts 26 loan cap on ebook circulations in libraries. -- (link) - mara Feb 25, 10:01 1
- Publishers are hell-bent on driving themselves right out of business. -- nm - TWuG Feb 25, 10:02
Gaddafi's craziest quotes. -- (link) - loosilu Feb 25, 10:00 4
- #5 is a great Caption Me option. -- nm - Mel Profit Feb 25, 10:28 1
  - one of the pics (can't open it now) shows what I believe are some of his female security guards. -- nm - loosilu Feb 25, 10:35
- Sheen mashup! -- nm - con_carne Feb 25, 10:07
- Somebody needs to put together the game "Is this quote from Charlie Sheen or Ghadaffi". -- nm - pmb Feb 25, 10:07
TSG 2 parter on the recent NBA trades (part II is his take on the Celtics deals) -- (link) - Beaker Feb 25, 10:00
Look, I'm not trying to be unreasonable about this thing... - TFox Feb 25, 10:00 1
- To be fair, he's still trying to get his head around the fact that there are Vanderbilt Commodore fans. -- nm - Will Hunting Feb 25, 10:01
alert the media: I think this cold is done. Repeat: I think I'm feeling well at this point. -- nm - Mel Profit Feb 25, 09:58 6
- Be ever vigilant! - Stephen, Enemy of the RNC Feb 25, 10:09 1
  - this is what I'm afraid of. - Mel Profit Feb 25, 10:13
- let's see how you feel tonight. -- nm - Diva Feb 25, 10:00 3
  - I think as long as I... - Mel Profit Feb 25, 10:01 2
    - nmbmel - Diva Feb 25, 10:03 1
      - I'll be there. -- nm - Mel Profit Feb 25, 10:04

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