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Mumbles - RNE - 8/25/2009 2:09:32 PM
- Having a bad day RNE? - Lindy - 8/26/2009 11:48:59 PM
  - Nope - RNE - 8/28/2009 6:21:25 PM
    - "Customers are profit, everything and eveyone else are costs." - Lindy - 8/29/2009 1:10:04 AM
- How about people who "graze" their way through the produce department. - Bowser - 8/26/2009 9:42:55 PM
- Fry's Electronics has done this for many years. - alcaray - 8/26/2009 9:25:05 PM
  - And for many years.... - Robert - 8/26/2009 11:24:57 PM
    - Fry's knows exactly how much merchandise walks out the door unpaidfor. - alcaray - 8/27/2009 3:18:41 AM
- Airport Bars - podrock - 8/25/2009 10:12:57 PM
  - Good for you, Podrock! (n/t) - Eri - 8/26/2009 2:32:09 AM
- Standard practice at the local BJ's store too - z - 8/25/2009 10:04:28 PM
- It's part of the new (old) psychology. - SDAI-Tech1 - 8/25/2009 9:02:08 PM
  - Authority figures? - Lindy - 8/26/2009 11:40:11 PM
  - Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by... - alcaray - 8/26/2009 9:28:29 PM
  - On the other hand... - TB - 8/26/2009 5:52:16 PM
  - Being Human - podrock - 8/26/2009 1:12:19 AM
    - re: Being Human - SDAI-Tech1 - 8/26/2009 4:55:09 AM
      - Feeling exploited, Tech1? - Lindy - 8/26/2009 11:34:27 PM
      - Evil Feng Shui - podrock - 8/26/2009 3:08:56 PM
      - smart architecture - SDG - 8/26/2009 2:59:55 PM
    - Right on! (n/t) - Eri - 8/26/2009 2:45:14 AM
- re: Mumbles - TB - 8/25/2009 6:15:35 PM
- Trust but verify - RobVG - 8/25/2009 2:24:57 PM
  - On the other hand... - Mary Anne - 8/28/2009 5:29:32 PM
  - Don't care - RNE - 8/25/2009 4:36:07 PM
    - re: Don't care - Lindy - 8/26/2009 11:59:52 PM
      - Especially Lindy's herbal tea! :) (n/t) - TB - 8/27/2009 4:18:26 PM

"The Boy Who Heard Too Much" - TB - 8/28/2009 3:54:39 AM
- Now, THAT is scarey! (n/t) - Eri - 8/28/2009 11:39:26 PM

Dog Costume of the Week - TB - 8/28/2009 7:40:34 PM
- Oh dear god!!! - Jody - 8/28/2009 7:48:03 PM
  - Not mine. - TB - 8/28/2009 8:19:12 PM
    - I couldn't resist posting a comment. - Eri - 8/28/2009 11:16:13 PM

Sometimes a candy wrapper is just a candy wrapper - TB - 8/28/2009 12:33:49 AM
- That candy wrapper looks perfectly harmless to me - z - 8/28/2009 4:02:57 PM
  - Depends.. - Jody - 8/28/2009 5:41:36 PM
    - But it doesn't sound like you're offended or scandalized - z - 8/28/2009 7:11:11 PM
- re: Sometimes a candy wrapper is just a candy wrapper - Doug Ellison - 8/28/2009 7:51:39 AM
- C'mon...you're just imagining it. - SDAI-Tech1 - 8/28/2009 2:59:17 AM
  - I don't agree that it's "harmful" - TB - 8/28/2009 3:17:47 AM
    - Oh, it's harmful. (Exploitation 101 - some disturbing imagery) - SDAI-Tech1 - 8/28/2009 8:04:07 AM

Check out the history of the price of gas under Bush II, - Bowser - 8/26/2009 8:58:15 PM
- Still blaming Bush - RobVG - 8/26/2009 11:48:56 PM
  - It's just a chart. - Bowser - 8/27/2009 12:20:38 AM
    - re: It's just a chart. - RobVG - 8/27/2009 2:47:47 AM
      - I've read that, too. If our refiining capacity is so low, maybe it's time to nationalize the oil industry! - Eri - 8/27/2009 7:21:57 PM
    - So how do you explain Jimmy Carter's era? (n/t) - TB - 8/27/2009 12:36:29 AM
      - OPEC (n/t) - Bowser - 8/27/2009 1:17:08 AM
        
        OPEC still exists. What else changed? (n/t) - TB - 8/27/2009 4:14:36 PM
        
        You, I, and General Motors still exist, too. - Bowser - 8/27/2009 6:12:05 PM
        
        The question... - TB - 8/27/2009 6:16:28 PM
        
        Year to date, (may 2009), OPEC members contributed 47 % of US imports. - podrock - 8/27/2009 10:26:23 PM
        
        From 1993 to now - TB - 8/27/2009 11:33:25 PM
        
        Canada's tar sands have come online since then. - Lee - 8/28/2009 9:47:23 AM
        
        And environmentalists are doing their damnedest to get them back offline. (n/t) - TB - 8/28/2009 2:59:18 PM
        
        You had to be there. OPEC, like GM, and you, and me, ain't what it used to be. - Bowser - 8/27/2009 7:43:16 PM
        
        Good memory (n/t) - RobVG - 8/27/2009 2:22:05 AM

Souvenirs !!! - Raoul - 8/27/2009 6:51:02 PM

"In 2008, rooftop solar added more than 10 times the amount of power to the country's grid than utilities did." - Bowser - 8/26/2009 10:18:53 PM
- The "wrench" in the business model - TB - 8/26/2009 11:41:53 PM
  - There is a certain amount of truth to that and some questions. - Bowser - 8/27/2009 12:14:58 AM
    - re: There is a certain amount of truth to that and some questions. - TB - 8/27/2009 12:35:32 AM
      - following the money - SDG - 8/27/2009 2:30:47 PM

District 9 - RobVG - 8/24/2009 12:51:52 AM
- My problem with it (spoiler) - Buck Galaxy - 8/25/2009 12:57:40 AM
  - Thinking of an alternative lead actor... - RobVG - 8/25/2009 2:36:46 AM
- I walked out after the first 40 minutes... - SDAI-Tech1 - 8/24/2009 8:47:16 AM
  - That's pretty ugly and angry. (n/t) - alcaray - 8/24/2009 7:28:55 PM
    - You're right I apologize. - SDAI-Tech1 - 8/25/2009 1:52:25 AM
- I liked it. - alcaray - 8/24/2009 7:25:48 AM
- Story was recycled trash we haven't seen 100 times before. (n/t) - "Apartheid was bad. Rac. NO WA?! REALLY? - 8/24/2009 4:57:43 AM

"Currahee" - TB - 8/24/2009 11:10:03 PM
- That's beautiful! (n/t) - Eri - 8/24/2009 11:23:33 PM

Old fart's mumbling - RNE - 8/24/2009 5:24:53 PM
- Re: Old fart's mumbling - gothgirl - 8/24/2009 7:39:27 PM

Evolution stops here: Future Man will look the same, says scientist - Jody - 8/2/2009 7:57:48 PM
- I disagree - RNE - 8/4/2009 5:48:36 PM
- Not a snowball's chance in Hell. Humanity's rate of evolution is at its greatest ever. - David F Mayer - 8/3/2009 12:36:23 AM
  - re: Not a snowball's chance in Hell. Humanity's rate of evolution is at its greatest ever. - Jody - 8/3/2009 11:01:39 AM
    - I don't believe that is possible. - David F Mayer - 8/3/2009 12:56:26 PM
      - re: I don't believe that is possible. - Doug Ellison - 8/6/2009 9:29:46 AM
        
        re: I don't believe that is possible. - RAY Smith - 8/23/2009 9:56:42 PM
        
        re: I don't believe that is possible. - RAY Smith - 8/23/2009 9:55:56 PM
        
        re: I don't believe that is possible. - RAY Smith - 8/23/2009 9:55:49 PM
        
        We have NOT beaten natural selection. We have only changed the human environment. - David F Mayer - 8/9/2009 1:51:08 AM
      - Genetically engineer people to live on other worlds, or in space itself - Socrates II - 8/3/2009 1:46:09 PM
        
        I don't think so. Here is why. - David F Mayer - 8/4/2009 1:24:13 AM
        
        Mostly Agree - Marsby - 8/5/2009 6:53:29 PM
        
        Okay, that settles it - we're turning the Sol system into a Dyson Shell - Socrates II - 8/4/2009 1:11:40 PM
        
        Sci Fi movies... - Jody - 8/3/2009 3:59:43 PM
        
        Live Long and Prosper. (n/t) - Eri - 8/4/2009 12:36:17 AM
- Our environment has changed drastically. - alcaray - 8/2/2009 9:19:06 PM
  - Well, that lets ME out. Guess it's good I didn't have kids. (n/t) - Eri - 8/2/2009 11:09:26 PM
    - Maybe that's why you didn't have kids. Or a factor. (n/t) - alcaray - 8/3/2009 12:42:18 AM
      - Exactly (two reasons) - Socrates II - 8/3/2009 1:59:05 PM
- Evolution is accelerating - Raoul - 8/2/2009 8:11:00 PM
  - Stop! Go! Stop! Go! Stop! Go! Round and round evolution goes - Eri - 8/2/2009 9:10:02 PM
    - I know... - Jody - 8/2/2009 10:15:01 PM
      - Picky brains. - Eri - 8/2/2009 11:10:48 PM
        
        Yeah - Rob VG - 8/3/2009 12:09:01 AM
        
        These scientists need to read more science fiction - Socrates II - 8/3/2009 1:36:47 PM

Jody, you been writing standup? - Eri - 8/23/2009 5:35:36 AM
- OMG!!! - Jody - 8/23/2009 2:32:07 PM
  - LOLOL! (n/t) - Eri - 8/23/2009 4:42:46 PM

The Philosophies of the Multiverse - Socrates II - 8/21/2009 2:53:57 PM
- "the choice seems to come down to either God or multiverse." - Lindy - 8/23/2009 2:53:37 AM
  - re: "the choice seems to come down to either God or multiverse." - Lindy - 8/23/2009 2:07:16 PM
- Somewhere between Occum's razor and Maxwell's Silver Hammer. (n/t) - RobVG - 8/22/2009 4:55:24 AM
- Scale - Bowser - 8/22/2009 12:41:40 AM
- Wow - Jody - 8/21/2009 5:10:07 PM
  - This is not easy to explain. - Jody - 8/21/2009 8:29:44 PM
    - Understanding the Multiverse is as simple as can be... - alcaray - 8/22/2009 3:39:55 AM
    - It would seem... - Jody - 8/21/2009 8:40:55 PM
      - Brains - Socrates II - 8/21/2009 9:53:42 PM
        
        Spirituality - Jody - 8/21/2009 10:55:48 PM

2012 and making a buck. (originally from Mysteries of the Multiverse) - SDAI-Tech - 8/22/2009 8:56:21 AM
- Re: 2012 and making a buck. - FrankC - 8/22/2009 5:36:49 PM

Asking all the right questions - Mini Madoff - 8/20/2009 9:13:46 PM
- You can be as nutty as you like on the off-topic board. (n/t) - alcaray - 8/22/2009 6:01:01 AM
- Things that go bump in the night - Major Madoff - 8/21/2009 2:50:13 PM

Best CG "event" this week - TB - 8/21/2009 6:46:22 PM

Now THIS is a film review - Socrates II - 8/21/2009 1:51:36 PM
- Blocked at work :( - Tony - 8/21/2009 6:00:55 PM
- Thanks! - TB - 8/21/2009 4:53:25 PM

19.19 !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! - Raoul - 8/20/2009 7:02:35 PM
- He's going to be on Jamaican money in a few years. (n/t) - Jefferson-Washington - 8/21/2009 1:45:22 AM
  - Usain & Berlino! - Raoul - 8/21/2009 4:57:50 PM

"Dance then, whereever you may be..." - TB - 8/21/2009 7:58:45 AM

Agora: A film about Hypatia of Alexandria this October - Socrates II - 8/19/2009 7:21:03 PM
- Recent book about Hypatia - Socrates II - 8/21/2009 2:57:12 AM

This town I live in now has nothin' on NYC. - Jefferson-Washington - 8/20/2009 12:30:41 AM
- I remember Nelson. They filmed "Roxanne" there. - TB - 8/20/2009 1:38:24 AM
  - Yes, true. But I have visited SF in '80; not as over-the-top as I had assumed. - Jefferson-Washington - 8/21/2009 1:42:31 AM

A sign that some university professors have waaaaay too much time on their hands - z - 8/19/2009 2:13:03 AM
- Zombieism isn't a disease. - Lee - 8/19/2009 11:27:36 PM
  - Yes, but... - Socrates II - 8/20/2009 1:48:58 PM
- All You Zombies - Socrates II - 8/19/2009 7:51:39 PM
  - Here is another paper along these lines - Socrates II - 8/20/2009 4:23:33 PM
    - For some reason that reminds me of the CGI in LOTR - podrock - 8/20/2009 6:50:59 PM
      - "The only winning move...is not to play." - Socrates II - 8/20/2009 7:07:43 PM
        
        As a character in LOTR (the books) said: - podrock - 8/20/2009 8:09:34 PM

Are Tourists Loving Egypt's Treasures to Oblivion? - Socrates II - 8/20/2009 2:50:00 PM
- This is a problem with caves and cave paintings, too. (n/t) - TB - 8/20/2009 6:04:01 PM

Here Buck, see if you can do better than this - Lindy - 8/15/2009 1:12:08 PM
- Nice work - Buck Galaxy - 8/19/2009 5:37:55 AM
  - Kinda FAKE - carl - 8/19/2009 3:36:10 PM
- The same thing happened in the 60s... - alcaray - 8/18/2009 12:32:21 AM
- re: I wonder - Johannes - 8/17/2009 11:20:59 PM
  - Newly released UFO files from the MOD in the UK - Lindy - 8/18/2009 12:05:58 AM
    - re:Interesting, Thank You. (n/t) - Johannes - 8/18/2009 2:10:55 AM
      - Hey,, at least they RELEASED IT - carl - 8/18/2009 4:35:59 PM
        
        How do all these aliens escape capture all the time? - Socrates II - 8/18/2009 6:29:00 PM
        
        re: How do all these aliens escape capture all the time? - Lindy - 8/18/2009 7:00:53 PM
        
        Quit asking questions? - Socrates II - 8/18/2009 7:18:49 PM
        
        The Men in Black were just here - Lindy - 8/18/2009 10:47:36 PM
        
        We can't handle the truth - President Eisenhower 1961 - 8/18/2009 7:15:24 PM
        
        Do you think IKE Knew the TRUTH? - carl - 8/19/2009 3:34:34 PM
        
        An observation made from the UK UFO report - Socrates II - 8/19/2009 6:45:13 PM
        
        Explains mass hysteria - Lindy (aka Coward, aka ETC...) - 8/20/2009 3:47:44 AM
- Blown up image - TB - 8/15/2009 4:01:35 PM

Do not try this at home!! - Jody - 8/18/2009 10:26:16 PM
- Done it. - Eri - 8/19/2009 1:07:27 AM
  - However, I did not mean... - Eri - 8/19/2009 7:55:23 PM

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