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  1. Re:Good for everyone on Rupert Murdoch Publishes North Korean Flash Games · · Score: 3, Insightful

    The colonies?

  2. Re:Available now... on Duke Nukem Forever Back In Development · · Score: 1

    +1, Funny

  3. Re:Question for those who Blame Lifestyle on White House Fingers PlayStation As Obesity Culprit · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Give it a few years... add beer and a lowered metabolism and you're set ;)

  4. Re:Huge Idiot on White House Fingers PlayStation As Obesity Culprit · · Score: 1

    This comment brought to you by Corporatism, a subsidiary of Capitalism.

  5. Irony on White House Fingers PlayStation As Obesity Culprit · · Score: 1

    Somewhat ironically, the First Lady's other anti-childhood obesity efforts include a $60,000 video game contest."

    Can anything really be ironic when the government is involved?

  6. Re:Cap on Another Gulf Oil Rig Explodes · · Score: 1

    apparently it's the citation

  7. Thank god for academia! on Oxford Dictionary Considers Going Online Only · · Score: 2, Informative

    Thankfully most academic institutions already provide proxy access to OED online for the students/faculty. I'll have to stay in academia just so I can get free access to OED and the precious definitions within...

  8. Re:Really? on First Review of Avatar Special Edition · · Score: 1
    Your first post is a bit funnier now, but I was being serious and you're still an asshole.

    A young woman's quest for revenge against the people who kidnapped and tormented her as a child leads her and a friend, who is also a victim of child abuse, on a terrifying journey into a living hell of depravity.

  9. Re:Really? on First Review of Avatar Special Edition · · Score: 1

    oof feelings hurt

  10. Re:Really? on First Review of Avatar Special Edition · · Score: 1

    I haven't seen that movie, but for a really killer movie, check out Martyrs

  11. Re:Farmers are often on the cutting edge on Video Adverts On the Printed Page · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Same effect you get from all the corn products you eat?

  12. Re:Reversed Rolls on Girls Bugged Teachers' Staff Room · · Score: 1, Redundant

    Backward buns? Ass backwards.

  13. Re:so apple does not like blind people? on Authors Guild Silent Over iBooks Text-To-Speech · · Score: 1

    lol ya got me!

  14. Re:so apple does not like blind people? on Authors Guild Silent Over iBooks Text-To-Speech · · Score: 1

    How did you get that impression?

  15. Re:Is there an N-word exemption by contract? on Justice Department Seeks Ebonics Experts · · Score: 1

    You would be more likely to lose your job if you were omitting words like that

  16. Re:Not enough mod points... on Justice Department Seeks Ebonics Experts · · Score: 1

    I used my last mod point to mod you "Informative." Oh SHI--zzel.

  17. Re:Recycling is Bullshit on Smart Trash Carts Tell If You Haven't Been Recycling · · Score: 1

    I thought the system checked for the recyclable container near the trash can.

  18. Re:Recycling is Bullshit on Smart Trash Carts Tell If You Haven't Been Recycling · · Score: 1

    What would that do?

  19. Re:Recycling is Bullshit on Smart Trash Carts Tell If You Haven't Been Recycling · · Score: 1, Informative

    Ya, Merriam-Webster, nice source...From OED
    Burgle, v.
    orig. colloq. or humorous.


    a. intr. To follow the occupation of a burglar. b. trans. To break feloniously into the house of; to steal or rob burglariously.
    1872 M. COLLINS Pr. Clarice I. iv. 63 The burglar who attempted to enter that room would never burgle again. 1874 Standard 14 Nov. 3 New words with which the American vocabulary has lately been enriched; ‘to burgle’, meaning to injure a person by breaking into his or her house. 1884 Blackw. Mag. 513/2, I burgled myself again in the night. Hence burgled ppl. a., and burgling vbl. n. and ppl. a.
    1880 Daily News 28 Oct. 5/3 Treachery seems to have been developed even in burgling circles. 1884 C. DICKENS Dict. Lond. 28/3 A gentleman of the burgling persuasion. 1885 Graphic 14 Feb. 151/1 After the ‘burgling’ is completed. 1886 PHELPS Burglars in Par. vii. 117 ‘Oh’, said the mistress of the burgled cottage..to the policeman.
    burglarize, v.
    U.S.


    trans. To rob burglariously; to break into by violence for the purpose of theft. Also intr.
    1871 Southern Mag. Apr. (Schele de Vere), The Yankeeisms donated, collided, and burglarized, have been badly used up by an English magazine-writer. 1876 Congress Rec. July 4419/2, I found that the house of a lady moving in good society had been burglarized. 1883 TALMAGE in Chr. Globe 13 Sept. 829/2 The man who had a contempt for a petty theft will burglarise the wheat-bin of a nation. 1884 Boston (Mass.) Jrnl. 7 Feb. 1 The house of John Fuller was burglarized on Wednesday night. 1926 J. BLACK You can't Win xi. 142 It was built to be burglarized. 1947 Jrnl. Crim. Law & Criminol. Nov.-Dec. 319, I tried to resist the urge to get outside and burglarize. Hence burglarizing vbl. n.
    1872 SCHELE DE VERE Americanisms 655 In like manner the burglar's occupation has been designated as burglarizing. 1888 Merchant Traveler (Farmer), ‘What have you been doing for a living lately?’.. ‘Burglarizing.’

  20. Thanks University of North Dakota! on Portal On the Booklist At Wabash College · · Score: 1

    ENGL 407 Studies In 20th Century Lit: Hypertexts and New Media

    In a class last semester, everything from Shelley Jackson's Patchwork Girl by Mary/Shelley & Herself to Interactive Fiction, like Nick Montfort's Winchester's Nightmare were part of our syllabus. I think the only two things purchased for the class were PG and Moulthrop's Victory Garden ~$20. The rest of our reading was all available free online.

  21. Re:You wonder? I know it happens. on 75% Use Same Password For Social Media & Email · · Score: 1

    I've been involved with tech support, and have been asked for help from family and friends.

    Can't we have a conversation, just once, without discussing them?

  22. Nice and legal in ... on Internet Explorer Turns 15 · · Score: 2, Funny

    Thailand! Look out boys, Microsoft will be out on the town soon!

  23. Re:American Guns!! Yay NRA!! on Narco-Blogger Beats Mexico Drug War News Blackout · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Fuck you. Perhaps the artificial restraints by the government, and the support some of these gangs receive from the same government, is the reason for these problems.

  24. Re:Are these leaked by the CIA as well? on Wikileaks To Publish Remaining Afghan Documents · · Score: 1

    The US is encouraging poppy growth? They have better things to do than fight the war on drugs(terrorism)? Maybe the US is stockpiling heroin to be sold when they legalize personal amounts of drugs fingers crossed

  25. Re:Two special friends? on Sharing the Perseids With #Meteorwatch · · Score: 1

    Jesús y Jorge yo!