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Tom, how will you take advantage of the congressional recess?

By sneaking in my application for a GS-14 spot under their noses.

Tom,

What's yr boozeahol of choice?

lol at louis

even though what cankles said on that thread was shitty it's not worth permabanning him over - he has not been a perpetual nuisance

That's not entirely true -- he was tempbanned at ILBaseball a while back for the accumulated weight of racial-hotword type bombs. I just don't get how it's okay to act like that; maybe I'm showing my age there. I'm okay with the ban. I'd also be okay with unbanning if he manages to talk Tom into it.

I mean maybe I'm making too big a deal out of this...

-- Curt1s Stephens, Saturday, August 2, 2008 3:36 PM (Saturday, August 2, 2008 3:36 PM) Bookmark Link

if you think you might be you probably are.

don't make me delete a bunch of meta junk please guys

i'm totally gonna make you delete a bunch of meta junk.

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3076/2734035007_ce3e050983_o.jpg

that's not even a question! stop not asking questions and ask some damn questions

Dear TOMBOT,

Who is your fantasy ILX ban? How long would the ban be?

Sometimes I would like to ban pretty much all the regulars for a week or two, but exercising mod powers is not actually something I "fantasize" about

MORE QUESTIONS

1st pick in fantasy football: LT or AP?

Did you ever play Master of Monsters? Do you know any other games like it?

Pound for pound, unit of monetary currency for unit of monetary currency, who has the best spooks on the planet?

where can i get a copy of the sporting news football prospectus? i'm gonna have some time to get some reading done this weekend.

immovable object or unopposable force?

xxp - racist

he's even named white

C'mon now. Some of my best friends work in the 'intelligence' community. Okay, maybe not but I've met a few and they seemed really nice and so eloquent, too.

1st pick in fantasy football: LT or AP?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eeOHEU7Ykyg

Did you ever play Master of Monsters? Do you know any other games like it?

No. It looks kinda Disgaea with hexes though.

Pound for pound, unit of monetary currency for unit of monetary currency, who has the best spooks on the planet?

tie between north korea and israel IMO

where can i get a copy of the sporting news football prospectus? i'm gonna have some time to get some reading done this weekend.

I dunno.

hey tombot, i am considering doing one of those "i am taking the bar exam" structured procrastination threads about the physics papers I read. should i do this as an ILX thread or as a proper blog elsewhere? more people would probably read it and comment here, but I'd have more control over the blog.

also, how do you feel about the last 90 seconds of "come sail away" by styx?

how should i invest $5000?

(this is a real question)

Will The Giants repeat?

should i do this as an ILX thread or as a proper blog elsewhere?

Do you want me to read it? I got no control over other folks but I can tell you I for one am not likely to start reading a blog about your bathroom reading, but would probably follow a thread about it, because every thread is an opportunity to delete stuff and ban people

also, how do you feel about the last 90 seconds of "come sail away" by styx?

I don't know really, but I feel like this song being eaten alive by South Park was probably a good thing

how should i invest $5000?

your first $5K goes in a money market mutual fund or similarly low-risk, interest-bearing but readily liquidated account, later to be referred to as the "oh shit" pot, and never touched again except in "oh shit" circumstances.

Will The Giants repeat?

I think they have a good chance if they stay healthy and keep up that road game streak.

Is a money market fund just essentially a high yield online savings account without FDIC protection?

what, you come NYC? what's up Sat night? (I am at 7:10 Mets game, well, til it ends)

Are you afraid of spiders or heights or enclosed places or anything like that?

What should Capello's first choice midfield look like?

Is a money market fund just essentially a high yield online savings account without FDIC protection?

Yeah, so try and get one with a larger bank, one that isn't associated with Countrywide. MM's keep pace with inflation, though, which savings accounts do not, and I can even write checks out of mine.

what, you come NYC? what's up Sat night?

Nothing that I know of, playing everything by ear right now.

Are you afraid of spiders or heights or enclosed places or anything like that?

I wouldn't say so, I can kind of get myself a little worked up about confinement or being buried alive but not for long.

What should Capello's first choice midfield look like?

I don't know how to help you out here, Michael Carrick wasn't in yesterday, maybe he could've helped. I actually saw a bit of that friendly, you made the Czechs look good, especially the goaltender. But it's a friendly, right? Shouldn't they all be making sure they stay healthy for the real shit?

what kind of interest are you earning in a money market account right now?

3.57% over 12 months, which is low, but everything's shit in 2008

I'm getting 3% in a internet savings account :/

Now extended until September 15, 2008: 3.50% APY.*

I'd maybe just get one a them ING Orange accounts, I think that's 3% or 3.5

xpost lol probably same one

i am poor :(

ps. talking about INTEREST RATES on the noise board should = ban imo
(xxpost dave the one i pasted was hsbc)

none of these posts look like questions to me

ps. talking about INTEREST RATES on the noise board should = ban imo

otm but someone asked a sincere question!

however I am not TOMBOT so I shoulda refrained from answering

tombot,

why do you think gabbneb will not answer my question on the ask a gabbneb thred?

why do you think gabbneb will not answer my question on the ask a gabbneb thred?

I think it is probably because he has no idea what you are talking about, at all.

really? i thought that was his game?

why did you not answer my question? do you have me killfiled? if so, why? wait maybe I don't want to know

where he at?

If I don't catch any messages aft Mets game, I head to Metropolitan.

El Tom,

Do you get to post on/read Intellipedia? If so, are there trolls?

why did you not answer my question? do you have me killfiled?

No, I just missed it.

immovable object or unopposable force?

like, who wins? The immovable object, I figure, at least half the time.

where he at?

drinking at Clem's for like 5 hours straight, lol. Good to see everyone. Also: Ouch.

Do you get to post on/read Intellipedia? If so, are there trolls?

I have read it, but not posted. I have not noticed any trolls, but the topics I imagine are hotly contested are not under my purview, and I don't have time like I used to to just browse pages and pages of reporting looking for fun classified trivia.

really? i thought that was his game?

it might be his game but that doesn't mean he's any good at it.

Ouch. But c'mon you'd have to admit he's reasonably good at fulfilling the role of guy who reads lots of blogs to parrot later on, right? cause really michael tomasky - he's fairly well-known. lol. that comment so beautifully encapsulates inside baseball/out-of-touchness i want to bottle it for later. although I would imagine he's happy to be both of those things. (sorry for no question tom)

well at least you said you were sorry.