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I've really gotten hooked on The Americans.

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Square Rob wrote:Live streaming radio of all EPL games as well as the English cups.

Sounds great. Is that kosher for US IP addresses, or do you have to jump through some questionably-hoops to make it work?

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The "Old Country"? My father was first generation Canadian (his father was born in Belgium), and he uses that term all the time. Right but I didn't think circumcision was a new thing. If anything I would have thought it was something more conducive to the "Old Country." That's w...

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Jerloma wrote:The "Old Country"?

Yugoslavia.

Edit - What sancarlos said.

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I think it was just because my dad was from the Old Country, and that wasn't something they did in the Old Country - or at least it wasn't something Catholics did.

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Back when I was in junior high, the one guy in the phys ed locker room who wasn't circumcised was an object of some juvenile ribbing/derision. I wonder if that possible issue affects parents' decisions nowadays? I wonder if it is any more common nowadays for a kid to be uncircumcised? I think I was...

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brian wrote:
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mister d wrote:Its a fake, they don't all connect.
It would be kind of cool if you could take the L from O'Hare to Oakland in only six or seven stops, though.
You sure about that? Ever been to Oakland?

Heh.

(But yes, I lived right down the street from Oakland for three years.)

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mister d wrote:Its a fake, they don't all connect.

It would be kind of cool if you could take the L from O'Hare to Oakland in only six or seven stops, though.

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Jerloma wrote:I thought it was Duke LAX rape.

howard wrote:Katrina. As I recall.
I thought it was the thread where guys discussed how much money it would take for them to let another dude blow them.
I'd pay 25/35$ tops.

Cheapskate.

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Did you know that something like 5500 new laws were enacted by Blair that defined certain words, speech, as "crime"? Do you even think about such things? That is to say, merely expressing one's opinion is enough to ruin one's life. That's tyranny in its purest form. That's what happened t...

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Amusing ...

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Jerloma wrote:I thought it was Duke LAX rape.

howard wrote:Katrina. As I recall.

I thought it was the thread where guys discussed how much money it would take for them to let another dude blow them.

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Rush2112 wrote:Tarmacadam is tar over macadam i.e. gravel or stone that's laid down and tar is spread over it to bind it.

Is that the "tarmac" that planes sit on at the airport?

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Jerloma wrote:What the fuck is a tarmacadam?
I'm guessing one of these made with tar:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macadam

Didn't Boy George have a song about them?

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Brontoburglar wrote:It's a 12 year old snopes.com special.Hilarious

That's great. Are you going to post the link to whoever put it on Facebook?

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P.D.X. wrote:"Government-owned tenements"?

They used to have high-rise public housing projects in Chicago that definitely qualified as government-owned tenements.

But I think they tore all of them down.

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Population of counties won by: Democrats: 127 Million Republicans: 143 million Murder rate per 100,000 residents in counties won by: Democrats: 13.2 Republicans: 2.1 Implications aside, I wonder if those numbers are even accurate. Those Democrat-Republican county numbers add up to 270 million. What...

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What do you want to know? People mutilate the genitals of their infants because they think that the dude that created foreskins doesn't want them there. Isn't circumcision still pretty common? How many circumcisions these days are motivated by religious belief at all, let alone an actual belief tha...

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rass wrote:Ruling?

Yes, I think that is ironic.

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howard wrote:Extortionists rarely hire a lawyer to write and deliver the extortion demand.

You'd be surprised.

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Perfect....More characters! I need a scorecard to remind me who all these guys with beards are. Yeah, well, it isn't going to get better on that front any time soon. Or ever. I think this is why it is taking George RR Martin so long to come out with more books. I don't think I'm being spoiler-y, bu...

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brian wrote:Damn, that sucks. He was a great WRITER. Period.

Great writer, Illinois alum, and flaming asshole, according to various stories over the years.

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sancarlos wrote:Steve, Handzus is a good checker, shot blocker, shootout and faceoff man. Not much offense, though.

Thanks. I'm pretty sure he was on the Hawks a few years ago. At this point, I'm happy to put my faith in Quenneville. He seems to have the magic touch these days.

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Have we heard from Ocean Matt?

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Sabo wrote:Wait, Luis Valbuena has a MLB job? Damn, the Cubs must be horrendously awful.

They are.

But they are 1-0!

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Basically, if I pay a house off in 10 years (which I'd like to) and the house loses, let's say 20%, I've spent 100,000 on an 80,000 property and have gotten to live there for 10 years. If I choose to continue renting, I've spent 100,000 on a place to live for 10 years. As long as the numbers work o...

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Does anyone have a good reason why they went back to the prison instead of taking over Woodbury?

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I'm pretty sure selling for profits twice in the last 5 years qualifies me as a real estate expert, right? I'm with Kranepool. Either you'll buy a condo you'll need to sell down the road or a house you need to sell when a future spouse (and/or future you) doesn't like it or your needs change. Rent....

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The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/510V0PB8wiL._BO2,204,203,200_PIsitb-sticker-arrow-click,TopRight,35,-76_SX240_SY320_CR,0,0,240,320_SH20_OU01_.jpg Often imitated. Often flat-out plagiarized. But when, if ever, have you read ...

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This is great.

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But Brian's couch is really comfy.

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The Sybian wrote:Keep swinging, no matter how lamely, and you are going to get some hits.
That's it. Number of hits. Not batting average. As my long-single brother used to say, "I'm not looking for Miss Right. I'm looking for Miss Right Now!"

At least total bases, right?

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Rex wrote:Unlikely but it would be the best stolen point or points ever, especially because of where it would leave Mexico.
Absolutely. A point tonight is a stolen point. A loss is a shrugged shoulder "meh".

A stolen point is 3 stolen points. One for us and two denied to Mexico.

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howard wrote:Most, if not all, of the locations in that little film were on the campus of UCSB. Gaucho gals are a special kind of intuitive, i guess.

A special kind of something, anyway. Holy shit, I have to go back to college.

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I do not like the Rick decision to sacrifice Michonne. Because it is just stupid. And I look forward to that voice of morality and reason Merle to talk him out of it. This, a million times. Not just Rick, but Darryl and Herschel, too. No one thinks, "Hey, maybe the crazed psychopath is lying&q...

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Jerloma wrote:And who the fuck leaves a loaded shotgun on their porch while the boy next door cleans their yard?

Who doesn't?

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Just came across this bit of logic on an OKCupid profile: Atheists who do yoga, it doesn't make sense to me, stop doing it ? You do know it is part of a religion? The particular stretches are to do with the soul and the body? We won't even start with chakra alignments and houses. Yes, its like goin...

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RSL played a game at Cruz Azul a couple years ago where there was so much rain that passes were getting intercepted by puzzles.

That didn't stop RSL from blowing a late 3-goal lead.

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Shirley wrote:Yeah, great post, Bapo! The Swamp doesn't get enough long-form posting anymore.

I know it's a couple of days late, but I wanted to echo this.

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I'll give him points for cleverness, though. That last line reads like the Onion.

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