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MisterHippity
10/28/09

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That's Chris Cooley. He's a TIGHT END!!! #dc
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Elektra
10/28/09

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I have nothing even vaguely witty to say. Just: Good jesus what a rump. #dc
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unclevanya
10/28/09

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Pass completed! #dc
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Rufus-T-Firecrotch
10/28/09

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Should I save my concerns about Cooley breaking his ankle Monday vs. the Eagles and the fact that the 'Skins are going to finish 3-13 for Deadspin? #dc
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MisterHippity
10/28/09

@Rufus-T-Firecrotch: You're predicting they're actually gonna win another game this season??? OMG! Which one? #dc
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ms_priestypants
10/28/09

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Um, since we're on the subject of packages...can we see this from the front? #dc
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blix
10/28/09

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Wide receiver admires tight end. #dc
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Spirit Fingers
09/18/09

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And it's not like anyone would have known of its existence first hand, because we've never actually been there, but, you know NASA...carry on.

(Oh, geez. I'm some sort of mooner aren't I? )
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lobstr
09/18/09

@Spirit Fingers: Naw, I hear you. Even in elementary school I used to call extreme bullshit on those textbooks that'd try to tell us shit like how Neptune's core is 84% cupro-nickel and ammonium hydrosulfide ice.

I mean... not only have we never been there, but if, at the time, the best we had was a scant Hubble photograph of a fucking blue sphere, how can they possibly tell us with certainty what the CORE is made up of? I appreciate science, but how is that not pure speculation?

I guess I'm a Neptunecorer..
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Cord
09/18/09

@lobstr: Ya'll need to get up on your astronomical spectroscopy. Helps you evaluate stuff like the properties of planets and star jones weight befoe and after the surgery.
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Conchie Birdie
09/18/09

@lobstr: I only trusted what Mr. Frizzle told me about the different planets... at least she had actually visited some.
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The_Lovely_Miss_Bronx
09/18/09

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I dub thee Sir Loin of Beef.
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BookishLookish
09/18/09

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I know a young woman who makes these adorable things for the show and Miss Martha consistently dicks this talented artist out of her due credit every SINGLE time. I'd like to beat MS with that handle-free rolling pin.
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Tremonius
09/18/09

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Yeah, but no wind chill factor, right? That means the plains are worse winters, followed by Pluto only.
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Cynical Media Bitch
09/18/09

@Tremonius: I lived through the two coldest days in the history of Chicago, and I agree that wind chill is a bitch.

Not as big of a bitch as Martha, though.

What made -23 ('82) more memorable than -25 (in '85) was the constant 60mph wind. Think Antarctica without the penguins.
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Tremonius
09/18/09

@Cynical Media Bitch: The movie about the Emperor Penguins was adopted by some christian loons. "They're like us!" Here are quasi-fish hiking 70 miles to a singles spot, meeting and breeding, then dropping eggs, which are cuddled on the insteps of the fathers while ma goes back to the drink for grub, then she returns (210 miles, if you're counting) to spit up some of her meal for pa and the chick, who've been standing around in a moon crater with 128 mph winds. Then all the survivors gleefully hike back to the sea (that's 280 miles for mama in four months). The end. Sounds like some Baptists I have known, sho' 'nuff.
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Conchie Birdie
09/18/09

@Cynical Media Bitch: Where's Mr. Popper when you need him?
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Cynical Media Bitch
09/18/09

@Conchie Birdie: Stuck in traffic on the Kennedy Expressway, probably.
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misslinda
02/17/09

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*yawn*, wake me when it's 1975 again.
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JacquesPaysan
02/17/09

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Umm. Didncha notice if you draw a horizontal line from the lowest point today that we're still higher than the lowest point in 2002? I'm just saying.
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The Recession Is Over
02/17/09

@JacquesPaysan: Actually we got with in about 5 points of 2002 today if it had dropped 6 points, we'd be at the worst point since 1998, which means that if you had put a dollar in the stock market 10 years ago, you wouldn't have made a penny. Considering that a liter of coke cost 99 cents then and it costs about $2.29, that means we're actually down in real value by about 60 percent since 1998. How do you like them apples.
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JacquesPaysan
02/17/09

@xyu: This is why I was an English major.
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GuyBitchy
02/17/09

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America as pyramid scheme.

Sad thing is they're going to take the Constitution, civil liberties, free speech, and the rule of law down in the collapse...

People didn't mind (or even pay attention to) the incremental infringements while their 401 K was getting fatter.

And now?

Well, now it's too late to push back.

When the clampdown comes, you'll either be working for it, or you'll be a terrorist, with no rights whatsoever.
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eatsshootsleaves
02/17/09

@GuyBitchy: Sounds like you need a trip to the Ministry of Love.
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Aaron Altman
02/17/09

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I love the smell of pessimism in the morning. And the afternoon. And the evening. I go to bed in a coffin, what the hell.
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sample032
02/17/09

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Look at the chart with a log scale and fit the curve with a line. If your line is anything like mine, everything past 2005 was above even high markets of the past, and Dow at 4000 isn't as crazy as it sounds.
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GuyBitchy
02/17/09

@sample032: Yup.
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