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Is anyone watching The Killing? My TV just cut out for a minute... Minor spoil question - MDH May 6, 18:54 2
- he feels bad about killing Rosie Larson - prayformojo May 6, 18:58
- um, have you met me? -- nm - Det. Linden May 6, 18:58
Can someone spoil the last part of Once upon a Time? Our DVR is retardo -- nm - RooRoo May 6, 18:45
UMD's basketball team has added recruit Sam Cassell Jr. Damn their class is solid. -- nm - MDH May 6, 18:45
Avengers: Fuck Yeah. -- nm - Reagen May 6, 18:43 1
- Speaking of Avengers! -- (link) - RooRoo May 6, 18:44
disney's Brave question - tRuMaN May 6, 18:42 2
- spoiler speculation - Mop May 6, 18:44 1
  - hmm, thats a thought -- nm - tRuMaN May 6, 18:45
is it too early to go to bed? - tRuMaN May 6, 18:40
Poor Schatz, I get grilled chuck steak and she gets Science Diet prescription food... - MojaveMeg May 6, 18:36 2
- :) Jim, my Siamese cat, surprised me yet again tonight, she kept paw touching me for a taste of grilled asparagus - ate 4 bites & wanted more but it - JenBro May 6, 18:40 1
  - It does have a kind of grassy taste, maybe that's what she was getting from it ? -- nm - MojaveMeg May 6, 18:45
Amazing Race spoilers - Dano May 6, 18:28 2
- Did they start on time tonight? -- nm - GregW May 6, 18:37 1
  - Yes -- nm - Dano May 6, 18:40
Huh, Net Worth: H$1,673,730,914.60. still 583rd all time. Never day traded. - Tim May 6, 18:24 2
- Do they still have commish-free days? -- nm - Beryllium May 6, 18:28 1
  - Sadly, no. -- nm - Jelly May 6, 18:31
Rumor: TBS is in talks to pick up Cougar Town for two 15 episode seasons! -- (link) - MDH May 6, 18:23 1
- A two year commitment on TBS is always better than a pilot for NBC. -- nm - Mop May 6, 18:41
Dave has a question.. what did RDJ get paid for Iron Man 2? Anyone? -- nm - Andie May 6, 18:21 9
- IMDB says $10M. - the wrong element, bad guy May 6, 18:26 6
  - I thought he got 10 for the first and 12.5 for the second, but I could be wrong. -- nm - Iron Spawn May 6, 18:31 4
    - IMDB said $500k for the first. - the wrong element, bad guy May 6, 18:38
    - I think it's right. plus he has director approval for the Iron Man films. -- nm - Remlik May 6, 18:33 2
      - He does now, sure. But there is no chance he had that power for Iron Man 1. - the wrong element, bad guy May 6, 18:50
      - Googling gave me rumors only. One said 500k/12.5 mil. -- nm - Iron Spawn May 6, 18:35
  - thx too ( movie starting soon! ) -- nm - Andie May 6, 18:31
- 12.5 mil IIRC -- nm - Iron Spawn May 6, 18:25 1
  - thx! -- nm - Andie May 6, 18:27
Oh, and I can not applaud enough for the final scene of The Avengers. -- nm - Iron Spawn May 6, 18:14 1
- Someone please spoil the 2nd ending credits scene for me. -- nm - Mop May 6, 18:43
This HSX talk actually inspired me to check: - Cuzzin Todd May 6, 18:09 7
- AVNGR 50,000 long H$38.60 H$540.89 H$87.42 (19.28%) H$27,044,500.00 25,114,500.00 (1,301.27%) -- nm - Tim May 6, 18:22
- TO: You can buy 100,000 shares now. -- nm - Iron Spawn May 6, 18:10 5
  - I just checked, it was already over H$200 when they increased the limit. I paid H$217.42 a few weeks after the limit was raised. -- nm - GregW May 6, 18:14
  - Just noticed that - I'm actually making some trades! -- nm - Cuzzin Todd May 6, 18:13 3
    - I just hate that it destroys the purchase price number. - Iron Spawn May 6, 18:15 2
      - Well, it won't for me, it's not like I'm going to max long on it now. -- nm - Cuzzin Todd May 6, 18:17 1
        
        Oh, I meant for Doctor Strange and the other Marvel movies. -- nm - Iron Spawn May 6, 18:18
Justin Bieber is trying too hard: Justin Bieber Joins Floyd Mayweather Jr. in the Ring at Vegas Fight -- (link) - MDH May 6, 18:06 1
- He's almost got Adam Lambert hair. -- nm - Qale May 6, 18:12
NHL head coaches have the funniest haircuts... - The Incredible Budice May 6, 18:05
Do we have no one left here with DirecTV? They must be getting desperate to hang on to customers, cutting NFL Sunday Ticket prices by nearly 40%. -- (link) - GregW May 6, 17:59 8
- We've had it for 12 years and I'm not about to give it up. - Trish May 6, 18:27 1
  - They kept increasing my monthly payment, year after year. I finally told them to stuff it. -- nm - GregW May 6, 18:37
- I went through an installation nightmare with them when I moved into my house a few years ago. - Cuzzin Todd May 6, 18:05 1
  - Maybe we've just been lucky with techs, but we've never had an installation problem. They show up when they say, do their job quickly, teach you if - Trish May 6, 18:31
- I have them, but I've never ordered a sports package. - Krusty May 6, 18:04 1
  - The only reason I ever had them at all was because of their monopoly on NST. I see this as firing their last bullet. -- nm - GregW May 6, 18:09
- I have them, but don't watch football -- nm - peglegpete May 6, 18:02
- I have them, but no premium channels. -- nm - MojaveMeg May 6, 18:01
The Hard Way: B -- nm - Bacon May 6, 17:56
Sherlock season 2 starts on PBS tonight, possibly in 4 minutes -- nm - Beryllium May 6, 17:56
Okay, the Prometheus trailer in 3D made me splurt. And the Avengers 3D quality on our mega IMAX was a *lot* better than we saw in Chicago, -- nm - Iron Spawn May 6, 17:43 10
- I wasn't crazy about Avengers 3d but Prometheus took my breath away. -- nm - David May 6, 17:59 2
  - Want scarier...Youtube has the latest trailer in slo-mo stretched to 12mins...Shocked at what you could miss -- (link) - The Incredible Budice May 6, 18:09 [youtube] 1
    - You are a scholar and a gentleman. Damn -- nm - oblique May 7, 05:52
- meh -- nm - tRuMaN May 6, 17:57
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  - Yeah, it was the first one we had in 3D, so I was well aware. As for non 3D, after watching the Rises trailer I think I know one probelom I had. - Iron Spawn May 6, 17:48 3
    - Rises spoiler - Iron Spawn May 6, 17:49 2
      - I think it adds to the story...spoils - The Incredible Budice May 6, 18:00 1
        
        Oh, agreed, just helps me understand the storyline a lot more. -- nm - Iron Spawn May 6, 18:02
  - The 3D in Avengers blends wonderfully into the action...Not needed, but still a welcome addon -- nm - The Incredible Budice May 6, 17:47
driving 7 hours home from Maine while combatting a lobster-induced food coma is one of the more interesting things I've accomplished this weekend. -- nm - znufrii May 6, 17:39 1
- I wish I could help combat the lobster menace like that. -- nm - Beryllium May 6, 17:44
The Pirates. C+ -- nm - Andie May 6, 17:32 2
- That's a shame, was hoping it'd be good. -- nm - Cuzzin Todd May 6, 18:04 1
  - it wasnt bad. it was just, fine. am now at Avengers (2D). -- nm - Andie May 6, 18:11
I've prolly watched this -- nm - JenBro May 6, 17:26 6
- Sfek - movie A League of their Own a dozen times - mostly with my mom when she was alive - always makes me smile thinking of how much she liked it & - JenBro May 6, 17:28 5
  - :-( Great flick though. -- nm - Krusty May 6, 17:32 4
    - Yep - one of the best for bringing back all kinds of good memories. I love how movies can do that - it's special - you know? Kinda like music - but - JenBro May 6, 17:58 3
      - Yeah, watching Avengers again today I was reminded of just how wrong pixie is. -- nm - Iron Spawn May 6, 18:04 2
        
        Hee - you two have some of the cutest chat fights - always makes me chuckle. :) -- nm - JenBro May 6, 18:37
        
        Hee - you two have some of the cutest chat fights - always makes me chuckle. :) -- nm - JenBro May 6, 18:32
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Grilled teriyaki chicken kebabs with red pepper, zucchini and mushrooms ... Mmm! Also making some cheddar smokies ... -- nm - Beryllium May 6, 17:20 1
- I *knew* I needed zucchini for something - just had to make the kababs without them :( -- nm - MojaveMeg May 6, 18:00
That's some heads-up baseball right there. -- nm - Jelly May 6, 17:20
Les Devils! -- nm - The Incredible Budice May 6, 17:18
Hope you didn't want to watch the new season of Breaking Bad on Dish Network -- they are dropping AMC on June 30th in another renewal agreement fail -- nm - stewie May 6, 17:13 1
- Yeah, that will hold up. - GregW May 6, 17:48
Chris Davis became the first AL position player to win a game today since Rocky Colavito. -- quick espn factoid. -- nm - Will Hunting May 6, 16:54 1
- "O's beat Red Sox in 17 when 1B/winning pitcher Chris Davis got OF/losing pitcher Darnell McDonald to ground into DP" -- nm - prayformojo May 6, 17:12
Here's how I would like to see the post-Avengers films playing out. - Volnelk May 6, 16:54
i am so effing tired of getting/being sick - tRuMaN May 6, 16:51 1
- Hmm. When did you move into your house? -- nm - Iron Spawn May 6, 17:52
DIY has a new show called Frontier House starting in 10 minutes. 3 families go thru 19'th cent. life -- nm - peglegpete May 6, 16:51 2
- I liked the PBS series, life was freaking hard work -- nm - zeitgeist May 6, 18:16
- why? people already went through the 19th century. -- nm - Mel Profit May 6, 16:53
Man. On 3/1 Avengers was $300.31 Adjusted up $87.42 today to $540.85. That's just silly. -- nm - Volnelk May 6, 16:46 3
- I just checked my acct and my former billion or two acct is down to 32m. -- nm - Mel Profit May 6, 16:52 2
  - Did you short everything? -- nm - Will Hunting May 6, 17:05
  - Ouch. I went over 1.7B today with the adjust, -- nm - Volnelk May 6, 16:54
I don`t get the hate for the DD movie. I liked it. -- nm - Beaker May 6, 16:36 5
- The opening sequence was awesome. -- nm - Iron Spawn May 6, 17:42
- I bought it on Blu Ray. Really like it -- nm - Bacon May 6, 17:32
- Daredevil? -- nm - Beryllium May 6, 16:38 2
  - yup, loved Bullseye, Kingpin, even Affleck as DD was decent -- nm - Beaker May 6, 16:39 1
    - I liked it too, but I only saw the director's cut. Heard the theatrical release was a mess. -- nm - Beryllium May 6, 16:47
This Orioles Red Sox game is now approaching epic status. - Will Hunting May 6, 16:25 15
- Where did all the fans go? It is not even 8 PM -- nm - JD May 6, 16:43
- wait...what? The game is still going on? - Mel Profit May 6, 16:29 1
  - It was 6-6, for eight innings -- nm - Will Hunting May 6, 16:37
- Sounded like a hell of a throw to the plate. -- nm - TFox May 6, 16:26 11
  - Wow. Thank god for salty. -- nm - TFox May 6, 16:30 10
    - Darnell MacDonald is pitching? - Mel Profit May 6, 16:31 9
      - "pitching" -- nm - TFox May 6, 16:35
      - "The pitcher, Chris Davis, is batting..." -- nm - Mel Profit May 6, 16:34
      - Both colleges are -- nm - Will Hunting May 6, 16:34 6
        
        Err, both bullpens are done. We are in position player territory. - Will Hunting May 6, 16:36 5
        
        I love shit like this. -- nm - Mel Profit May 6, 16:40 4
        
        If we win, its like xmas for us -- nm - Will Hunting May 6, 16:41 3
        
        you guys should have a parade. - Mel Profit May 6, 16:42 2
        
        Effing unreal. -- nm - TFox May 6, 16:44
        
        Whooo. Parade time -- nm - JD May 6, 16:44
Happy birthday, Bacon! -- nm - loosi May 6, 16:24 3
- Thx, but I was just fooking with ya last night. I knew you meant me -- nm - Bacon May 6, 16:25 2
  - that was not nice. I was in a zombie state. So much stuff going on yesterday. -- nm - loosi May 6, 16:32 1
    - "I watched someone else clean my house, and then I watched other people brew beer. Twas exhausting." -- nm - loosi si May 6, 16:37
Weekend movie grades: Doc Hollywood, The Incredibles, Groundhog Day, Kiss Kiss Bang Bang All get A grades. The Hunger Games gets a B - Bacon May 6, 16:23 9
- And Doc Hollywood gets an A. Really? -- nm - Trish May 6, 17:00 8
  - The Pixar remake was much better. -- nm - Iron Spawn May 6, 18:17
  - Why on earth wouldn't it??? -- nm - Cuzzin Todd May 6, 18:07
  - I love it -- nm - Bacon May 6, 17:24
  - I liked Doc Hollywood, but better than the Hungar Games? - Stephen May 6, 17:11 4
    - I know, right? - Trish May 6, 18:01 1
      - It's a cute movie and I like the small town stuff. Julie Warner Boobies push the grade to an A -- nm - Bacon May 6, 18:22
    - Well I can't give it an A or I am Bery -- nm - Bacon May 6, 17:24 1
      - Well, you could upgrade all the others to A+ and give it an A- ... Oh, I see your point .... -- nm - Beryllium May 6, 18:09
And we go to the 16th. -- nm - Will Hunting May 6, 16:15
Dear Prudie: My 19-year-old niece just confessed to me she's made a porn film. Should I tell the family? - Beaker May 6, 16:04 1
- The only person that should be told is her campaign manager when she decides to run for office, its not like the 'rents don't know she's a disappoint. - zeitgeist May 6, 16:06
I'm doing that celery regrow thing that was linked a while back. I have some new shoots that have started. -- nm - Dano May 6, 16:01 3
- are you still going to have room for a Sky Rider track in the yard? -- nm - pixitude May 6, 16:02 2
  - It seems obvious that my big idea should involve clothing that some part can be detached and interchanged. - Dano May 6, 16:09 1
    - Enhanced-crotch pants -- nm - Beryllium May 6, 16:14
Piggybacking on Mel's post, can we get a headcount of how many people saw Avengers twice this weekend? - Stephen May 6, 15:57 4
- We went to the Thursday midnight show (well Friday actually) and took D. Then she went again Friday night. - Trish May 6, 17:17
- going Wednesday with the wife and will likely go again myself sometime in the week after -- nm - Beaker May 6, 16:50
- here -- nm - remlik May 6, 16:34
- We're in the theater right now finishing our second viewing. - Kim Pine May 6, 16:25
So we saw Avengers again. It was a 12:30am Showing on Sunday and it was packed. Minor spoilers) - Mel Profit May 6, 15:34 3
- i think my theatre laughed the most at - tRuMaN May 6, 16:12 2
  - *I* laughed the most at.... - Trish May 6, 17:23 1
    - i was going to make a joke about when did this become about you, but my mind is too fuzy -- nm - tRuMaN May 6, 17:33
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- Mark Reynolds on the other hand has had his OBP go from 287 to 333 just in today's game. -- nm - Will Hunting May 6, 16:17

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