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    Image of GuyBitchy GuyBitchy
    03/31/09

    In reply to Stats Whiz Moving To Brooklyn Because the Numbers Told Him To
    Stats schmatts. He was wrong on the Oscars.
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    Image of OMG! Ponies! OMG! Ponies!
    03/31/09

    In reply to Stats Whiz Moving To Brooklyn Because the Numbers Told Him To
    Have his precious statistics told him to avoid going on camera?


    I swear, every time I've seen him punditting, he looks either stoned, underslept, or both.

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    Image of Kid Twist Kid Twist
    03/31/09

    In reply to Stats Whiz Moving To Brooklyn Because the Numbers Told Him To
    I thought everyone was moving to Washington.
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    Image of OMG! Ponies! OMG! Ponies!
    03/31/09

    @Kid Twist: Why would anyone do that? Have you ever been to that strip-mall-and-townhouse hell that is Montgomery County, Md?


    There's a reason REM has a song called "Don't Go Back To Rockville".

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    Image of procrastinator, esq. procrastinator, esq.
    03/31/09

    @OMG! Ponies!: If Montgomery County (which, by the way, isn't Washington D.C., and is quite lovely in most parts) is your vision of hell, I shudder at what you think of New Jersey and Nassau County. By your logic, do they taint NYC and make it unliveable, as well?
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    Image of Kevin Bracken Kevin Bracken
    03/31/09

    In reply to Stats Whiz Moving To Brooklyn Because the Numbers Told Him To
    How does he have 631 numbers but no 516? I don't know if having friends on eastern Long Island is really an incentive to move to Brooklyn, either.


    Somebody please explain if any of those Chicago area codes are too suburban to really count.

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    Image of OMG! Ponies! OMG! Ponies!
    03/31/09

    @Kevin Bracken: Either he loves Yaphank or he hates Mineola.
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    Image of J-No J-No
    03/31/09

    @Kevin Bracken: 773 and 312 are the city. 630, 815, and 847 are the suburbs. 815 is the far suburbs, as in, in the last year, this land was covered by corn fields and now you live here.
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    Image of belltolls belltolls
    03/31/09

    In reply to Stats Whiz Moving To Brooklyn Because the Numbers Told Him To
    I thought internet advertising was off...I see Mini ads and the Tudors and I see that the Osbournes have a new show (and I know when it is on)...people got to stop whining
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    Image of Tart of Darkness Tart of Darkness
    03/31/09

    @belltolls: The adverts that I wish were off are the ones for that showtime thing about the therapist. Isn't that just a live action Dr. Katz?
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    Image of lobstr lobstr
    03/31/09

    In reply to Stats Whiz Moving To Brooklyn Because the Numbers Told Him To
    Is it coincidence he's moving to NYC just in time for Aqueduct season?


    if you ever see him hop the A train towards Howard Beach without any luggage, follow that man..

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    Image of seekingwhat seekingwhat
    03/31/09

    @lobstr:


    That train stop (Aqueduct Racetrack) has to be the most depressing train station in the entire system.

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    Image of Tart of Darkness Tart of Darkness
    03/31/09

    @seekingwhat: Someone told me recently that there is a possibility they may close it. So it may yet get more depressing!
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    Image of BookishLookish BookishLookish
    03/31/09

    @Tart of Darkness: See you at the Meadowlands.
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    Image of lobstr lobstr
    03/31/09

    @seekingwhat: oh ya? I've never actually been, I always did chuckle at the little loop on the MTA map with the annotation "11am to 7pm racing days" .. but yeah, I imagine it to be filled with the most catfishy of peoples.
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    Image of Tart of Darkness Tart of Darkness
    03/31/09

    @BookishLookish: I'm a wsstie, so we're losing Hollywood Park, maybe Santa Anita and I'm gonna end up in Portland, I think!
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    Image of procrastinator, esq. procrastinator, esq.
    03/31/09

    In reply to Stats Whiz Moving To Brooklyn Because the Numbers Told Him To
    From what I've heard (on good authority) about Nate Silver, I don't think the translation is "I met a girl."
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    Image of No Day Like Friday No Day Like Friday
    03/31/09

    @procrastinator, esq.:


    Seriously. Is there a single straight guy on Gawker?

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    Image of btipling btipling
    03/31/09

    @No Day Like Friday:


    I'm straight and married, and ... boring. :/

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    Image of skahammer skahammer
    03/31/09

    @No Day Like Friday: Well, sure -- but I don't go around flashing my supermasculine het-ness in every thread.


    That's more of a private-message thing.

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    Image of smithhimself smithhimself
    03/31/09

    @No Day Like Friday:


    Straight. Unmarried. And broken-hearted. (BookishLookish has refused to have my child)

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    Image of BookishLookish BookishLookish
    03/31/09

    @smithhimself: Aw, don't be like that, honey.
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    Image of Smitros Smitros
    03/31/09

    @btipling:


    Me, too.

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    Image of it takes a lot to laugh it takes a lot to laugh
    12/11/08

    In reply to Mark Penn Has a Well-Compensated Newspaper Job, Still No Justice in Universe
    That's a macrotrend, Mark, not micro. Your micro-theory is dead and useless in the face of the massive massive macro things going on, which joins all people together in misery.
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    Image of Astigmatism Astigmatism
    12/11/08

    In reply to Mark Penn Has a Well-Compensated Newspaper Job, Still No Justice in Universe
    Oddly, ever time I manage to shoot out the bridge Mark Penn is standing on and cast him into a pit of lava, I wake up to find that it was all a beautiful, wonderful dream.
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    Image of miss_msry miss_msry
    12/11/08

    In reply to Mark Penn Has a Well-Compensated Newspaper Job, Still No Justice in Universe
    Is he suggesting we invest in mattresses? Wouldn't that be considred inside info?
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    Image of Botswana Meat Commission FC Botswana Meat Commission FC
    12/11/08

    In reply to Mark Penn Has a Well-Compensated Newspaper Job, Still No Justice in Universe
    My office's nanocoffee will still taste like an ashtray.
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    Image of Moff Moff
    12/11/08

    @Botswana Meat Commission FC: You'll be extra for it, too, since even electrocigarettes will have been banned by edict of the House of Warlords that replaces Congress.
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    Image of La Cieca La Cieca
    12/11/08

    In reply to Mark Penn Has a Well-Compensated Newspaper Job, Still No Justice in Universe
    I may be a New Mattress Stuffer, but Mark Penn is an Old Pillow Biter.
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    Image of Moff Moff
    12/11/08

    In reply to Mark Penn Has a Well-Compensated Newspaper Job, Still No Justice in Universe
    What about the macrotrend group of people who understand that Mark Penn is a fucking retard and don't ever want him to get paid for his opinion again? What is going to happen to us?


    This is what I'm worried about: that in ten to fifteen years, as those of who are currently awesome settle into our upper-level management jobs in whatever form the writing-for-money industry has taken, we're going to be in a virtual telemeeting discussing how to improve the op-ed encryptofeed, and someone is going to say, "How about Emily Brill?"


    Yeah, yeah. There will be gradual nods all around, and murmurs of "She gets people talking," until, horrified, the editorial assistant who has just taken a break from Second Lifecasting to drop off someone's nanocoffee says, "Emily Brill is a fucking idiot. She lost that election for Rachel Maddow to a dating columnist who couldn't even decide whether to go back to school by herself."


    The conversation subsides, and there is silence, and finally, someone says, "Love her or hate her, everyone's got an opinion about her," and the discussion resumes. And the assistant goes back to concommenting* on Gawk3r, where Pareene is still day editor.


    IS THIS OUR FUTURE???


    *In the future, would-be commenters will have to start out by commenting on comments, and earn three Commies before they graduate to full-on posts.

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    Image of katastic katastic
    12/11/08

    @Moff: In the future, how does my hair look?


    Seriously. Should I start deep-conditioning now, or what?

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    Image of Moff Moff
    12/11/08

    @katastic: It's long and silky and straight, but none of it's on your head, unfortunately.
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    Image of braak: You are, as usual, completely correct. braak: You are, as usual, completely correct.
    12/11/08

    @Moff: This is exactly our future, Dr. Moff. It is horrifying, yes, but evidence of the universal human truth that the future is exactly like the present, only all the words are made-up, and no one has ever heard of any of these people.
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    Image of braak: You are, as usual, completely correct. braak: You are, as usual, completely correct.
    12/11/08

    @braak: Also, in the future I will have a robotic liver that can shoot LASERS.
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    Image of crashedpc - Haifisch crashedpc - Haifisch
    12/11/08

    @braak: Yeah? Well, in the future I won't have a liver because of my uncontrollable drinking problem. HAH!
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    Image of Moff Moff
    12/11/08

    @braak: Well, and there's ion sex.
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    Image of braak: You are, as usual, completely correct. braak: You are, as usual, completely correct.
    12/11/08

    @Moff: True. Also space-hookers.


    So, the future won't be exactly the same. But the gist of it will be.

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    Image of crashedpc - Haifisch crashedpc - Haifisch
    12/11/08

    @braak: Other than complete 360degree floaty space sex, how are space-hookers different than street hookers?
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    Image of braak: You are, as usual, completely correct. braak: You are, as usual, completely correct.
    12/11/08

    @crashedpc: It's complicated. Unfortunately, most of the words required to explain it haven't been invented yet. Until then, the explanation looks like this:


    Basically, space-hookers will be able to ________ your ______ repeatedly, sometimes even engaging your _______, especially if you've got a high-definition ________. They will also have between two and seven ________, to help with the psychosexual techniques _______, ________, and nuclear __________.

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    braak: You are, as usual, completely correct. was starred braak: You are, as usual, completely correct. was unstarred
    Image of Moff Moff
    12/11/08

    @crashedpc & braak: NEURAL FINGERTIPS
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    Image of crashedpc - Haifisch crashedpc - Haifisch
    12/11/08

    @braak: Ooh, my ___________s can't wait for some of that good ol' fashioned ____________!!!!
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    Image of crashedpc - Haifisch crashedpc - Haifisch
    12/11/08

    @Moff: Brain ticklers?
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    Image of Botswana Meat Commission FC Botswana Meat Commission FC
    12/11/08

    In reply to Mark Penn Has a Well-Compensated Newspaper Job, Still No Justice in Universe
    I think he means "The New 0% Yield T-bill Stuffers."
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    Image of BadUncle BadUncle
    12/11/08

    In reply to Mark Penn Has a Well-Compensated Newspaper Job, Still No Justice in Universe
    I'm sorry, but I'm old school. Give me Martha's Muffin.
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