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When I used to go to the drive in, type of movie was a consideration. - The Dark Spawn Jul 18, 11:16 3
- "WHAT? WHat's he saying? I can't understand any of this. Who's that guy?" -- nm - Max Jul 18, 11:21 2
  - The 13th Warrior was hell. -- nm - The Dark Spawn Jul 18, 11:24 1
    - I did see GI Joe at a drive in north of Cleveland, that turned out fine. I mean from an A/V standpoint. -- nm - Max Jul 18, 11:26
I don't have a staple remover. how many people did I have to ask to borrow one before I found someone who had one? -- nm - amanda Jul 18, 11:13 13
- I pretend mine is a little spaceship, he fights the evil paper clips when I am bored -- nm - Beaker Jul 18, 11:15 1
  - i can see how the Canadians have surged past us in wealth -- nm - the human tater tot Jul 18, 11:16
- I love my staple remover. I use it a lot, plus use it as a tension relief - amoxy Jul 18, 11:15 7
  - how do you jerk off with a staple remover? nm -- nm - groiny Jul 18, 11:21 2
    - very carefully -- nm - Beaker Jul 18, 11:28 1
      - ... SAME CONTINENT!!! -- nm - The Dark Spawn Jul 18, 11:31
  - Uhm... there are better things to cut yourself with. -- nm - The Dark Spawn Jul 18, 11:17
  - tension relief? -- nm - loosilu Jul 18, 11:15 2
    - *click, click. click* -- nm - Epiphany Jul 18, 11:20 1
      - Yup -- nm - amoxy Jul 18, 11:21
- all of them -- nm - the human tater tot Jul 18, 11:14
- 5 -- nm - prayformojo Jul 18, 11:14
- 0. you used your fingernails -- nm - peglegpete Jul 18, 11:14
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- Boston should be unloading some of these shit contracts, not taking on more. nm -- nm - groiny Jul 18, 11:22
- "Is there any way to stick Boston with all 3 of these f**ktards?" "No." "Dammit. We're going broke here!" -- nm - Will Hunting Jul 18, 11:14
- you need to coordinate better with your Presidential running mate -- nm - Beaker Jul 18, 11:10 7
  - He hasn't put me on the ticket this time. - Mel Profit Jul 18, 11:10 5
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      - we're running for Pres/VP again. -- nm - Mel Profit Jul 18, 11:17 3
        
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        *donates a bottle of cheez whiz* -- nm - Epiphany Jul 18, 11:21
        
        The Glutton Ticket -- nm - The Dark Spawn Jul 18, 11:18
  - have they released their tax returns yet? -- nm - the human tater tot Jul 18, 11:10
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"We miss you, MaxTT" - [email protected] Jul 18, 11:06 3
- You didn't know I speak Danish, did you? -- nm - Will Hunting Jul 18, 11:08
- I got that also. Which I thought was really weird since I play every day - amoxy Jul 18, 11:08
- I miss you Max in DC! -- nm - Teri Gross Jul 18, 11:07
I'll be interested to see if there is a spike in childbirths that can be directly correlated to sales of 50 Shades of Grey. - Beaker Jul 18, 11:04 4
- Better: AAA battery sales. -- nm - Dr.Vermin Jul 18, 11:12 3
  - *ding* -- nm - Epiphany Jul 18, 11:13 2
    - too bad he wasn't wrong, cause you could have said *bzzzzzt* -- nm - loosilu Jul 18, 11:14 1
      - buzz one out! -- nm - Epiphany Jul 18, 11:20
Carl Crawford being shopped by the Sox. - Mel Profit Jul 18, 11:02 4
- how is the Bell and Hanley contracts? cause they must be terrrrrrrrrrrrible if in the same breath as Crawford's -- nm - Beaker Jul 18, 11:08 2
  - More from Roto just hit... - Mel Profit Jul 18, 11:20 1
    - I realize that the people who run the Marlins are idiots but this one would take the cake. -- nm - David Jul 18, 11:21
- Is he back from the DL? -- nm - amoxy Jul 18, 11:08
Android app question, I need an app that will sync picture I take with my phone, to something not my phone. I don't use Picasa or Photobucket - sycor Jul 18, 11:00 10
- Do you have a gmail account? Mine auto upload to Google+ now. -- nm - JaxSean Jul 18, 11:18
- Dropbox -- (link) - oblique Jul 18, 11:04 1 2
  - ok I will remember this later. Dropbox is blocked from the office. -- nm - sycor Jul 18, 11:05
- Does dropbox do autosync on Android? it does on the iPhone. -- nm - spamlet Jul 18, 11:02 6
  - I dunno. Never used dropbox. Okay, this is one to look in to. Any more? -- nm - sycor Jul 18, 11:04 4
    - Google has Google Drive. same concept -- nm - the human tater tot Jul 18, 11:08
    - I could send you a dropbox referral. It would get me more space. :-) -- nm - Krusty Jul 18, 11:06
    - Google has this built into Android if you use Google+/Google Photos/Picassa - oblique Jul 18, 11:05 1
      - I don't use Google+ but I will look in to the photos and picassa. Thanks! -- nm - sycor Jul 18, 11:06
  - Yup. That would be my suggestion as well -- (link) - oblique Jul 18, 11:03
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- Yeah, but we're fatter! -- nm - JaxSean Jul 18, 11:21
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  - and our Scouts have been open to all since 1998 (I just found this out today) -- nm - Beaker Jul 18, 11:09 3
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    - Justin Bieber! -- nm - con_carne Jul 18, 11:11 1
      - total lesbian -- nm - Epiphany Jul 18, 11:14
- Yeah, being foreclosed on for no reason by an unregulated banking industry tends to do that -- nm - con_carne Jul 18, 11:00
- how do you like them apples, eh. -- nm - Max Jul 18, 10:59
- See what Obamacare will bring about here? -- nm - Obama Jul 18, 10:57
- viva socialism -- nm - the human tater tot Jul 18, 10:56
- yeah! -- nm - Beaker Jul 18, 10:56
If you think the world you live in now is technologically freaky, what's on the horizon is going to make you flip out -- (link) - oblique Jul 18, 10:54 4
- Imagine the advances in porn. Women will be watching Magic Mike 2 in their contact lenses and listening to 100 Shades of Grey while they sleep. -- nm - Max Jul 18, 11:00
- Some tech has reached the point where I understand it about as well as I do magic. -- nm - TWuG Jul 18, 10:59
- whatever. just give me my GD hoverbike already, dammit! -- nm - prayformojo Jul 18, 10:56
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It's 110F on the field at Yankee Stadium right now. It feels more like 115+ out there and the humidity is just going to rise throughout the game. - Krusty Jul 18, 10:52 5
- The leadoff hitter is wearing long sleeves. I started sweating just looking at him. He must be out of his f'ing mind! -- nm - Krusty Jul 18, 10:56
- Pitching and catching would be hard, the rest are just mostly standing around -- nm - Beaker Jul 18, 10:54
- lets play 2! -- nm - peglegpete Jul 18, 10:54
- my friend is at the game... -- nm - znufrii Jul 18, 10:53 1
  - Yikes. They usually give out free water on days like this. -- nm - Krusty Jul 18, 10:54
swimming poll and nobody replied "last weekend in a bottle of whiskey"? -- nm - zork Jul 18, 10:52
LYC: Now that's it's basically over, whatever they did to Love in the Wild between seasons sucks. The first season was fun and interesting - oblique Jul 18, 10:50
Inspired by the post below, I traded a few stocks. For a port I add stocks to about once a month, I'm up 10% on the year - TWuG Jul 18, 10:48 2
- I'm up about 10% since March 15th when I started playing again. - Will Hunting Jul 18, 10:50
- I'm up 27% for the year and just today re-cracked the top 300. -- nm - spamlet Jul 18, 10:49
Today's Travelzoo destination: Curacao. -- (link) - spamlet Jul 18, 10:43 1
- *drinks all their rum* -- nm - Will Hunting Jul 18, 10:44
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- I walked on snow earlier today, otherwise x-country skiing in late December. -- nm - mafic Jul 18, 11:06
- Snowboarding/snowshoeing in PA when there was 40" of snow - two winters ago? ah yes, winter olympics were on tv. -- nm - Max Jul 18, 10:58
- 1987, did an eightball on a Saturday night. -- nm - CrankYanker Jul 18, 10:50
- Snowball fight two years ago. We didn't get enough last winter to have fun in it. - Krusty Jul 18, 10:49
- When was the snowpocalypse in the upper east coast over president's day weekend about 10 years ago? Then. And never again if it can be helped. -- nm - JaxSean Jul 18, 10:46
- sliding with the wife and kids in February of this year -- nm - Beaker Jul 18, 10:46
- Around 2006, if catching snowflakes on my tongue counts. - con_carne Jul 18, 10:43
- This one winter, I was in Alaska, and a horde of vampires came out of my vagina. nm -- nm - Lindsay Lohan Jul 18, 10:43
- Two winters ago. It didn't actually snow last year, sadly. -- nm - Inigo Jul 18, 10:42 1
  - Heh. I was thrilled to death it didnt snow this past winter. - kelly Jul 18, 10:50
- Snowball fight during one of the blizzards in 2010. -- nm - Will Hunting Jul 18, 10:41
- it's been a couple years since i actually went and specifically *did* something. -- nm - Andie Jul 18, 10:41 1
  - this is me - may be made a snowball? I hide from snow - I don't care for it. - Epiphany Jul 18, 10:42
- built my nephew an igloo for his stuffed animal. -- nm - Jovian Jul 18, 10:41 2
  - But when? -- nm - mara Jul 18, 10:41 1
    - when we got clobbered with snow last year (or was it the year before?) -- nm - Jovian Jul 18, 10:48
- does shoveling the driveway count? - znufrii Jul 18, 10:40 5
  - Once?!?! After years of sneering at them, I'm going to have to buy a snowblower this fall. - Dr.Vermin Jul 18, 10:47 4
    - it was a warm winter. -- nm - znufrii Jul 18, 11:09
    - AAahhh, look. Vermin's all growed up. -- nm - spamlet Jul 18, 10:48 1
      - I guess. But if you ever see a *leafblower* in my hands, put me in the ground. -- nm - Dr.Vermin Jul 18, 11:18
    - prepare to love the winter. *pets his snowblower* -- nm - Beaker Jul 18, 10:48
So Willie Hantz showed his true hantziness yesterday and completely blew up - Jovian Jul 18, 10:39 3
- That took what... 10 days? -- nm - Strongbad Jul 18, 10:54
- To be fair, Frank was making shit up about him. -- nm - Ender Jul 18, 10:43 1
  - not really though. and Hantz has been shady to almost everyone he has tried to align with (ie Everyone) -- nm - Jovian Jul 18, 10:49
Remember when D.Mac split the TT boards because we were constantly talking non-movie related things on the movie board? - Inigo Jul 18, 10:38 21
- could those boards be less user-friendly? it hurts me to read them. -- nm - Andie Jul 18, 10:54 7
  - I can't look at any board format but this now. highjack: are you doing the greenp contest this year? -- nm - zork Jul 18, 10:59 3
    - yeah, i guess. i have a few i haven't even entered yet. -- nm - Andie Jul 18, 11:00 2
      - I've been googling for the start date and it kept coming up with last year's page. the slight name change messed things up. - zork Jul 18, 11:09 1
        
        no, i'm all registered. -- nm - Andie Jul 18, 11:21
  - that ticker nearly made me barf. - Mel Profit Jul 18, 10:58
  - They could be written in sanskrit -- nm - Strongbad Jul 18, 10:56
  - Sure, they could be orange. -- nm - mara Jul 18, 10:55
- I'm going to throw money in the Comment Jar just because I feel like I should. -- nm - Mel Profit Jul 18, 10:53
- I just read the link and hoo-boy has it gotten dumb over there. I'm not sure who mickpix is but I'm glad they didn't come here. - TWuG Jul 18, 10:53
- I wasn't. Evolution is a hot button issue for him. The bigger surprise to me was that no one responded on climate change. -- nm - Roger More Jul 18, 10:43 1
  - I'll admit I haven't been paying attention to him since ST started. - Inigo Jul 18, 10:49
- someone is giving accountants a bad name in that thread... -- nm - Beaker Jul 18, 10:42 1
  - it's possible to *give* them one? I thought they automatically had a bad name - zork Jul 18, 10:57
- That's the *only* place any discussion happens now. The other boards are nearly dead. -- nm - TWuG Jul 18, 10:40 3
  - Not true! Life Board is on its 118th page! -- nm - Roger More Jul 18, 10:44 1
    - Should it be called Life/Support Board then? -- nm - Inigo Jul 18, 10:45
  - I can't imagine how hard their web clicks were hit when we left. - Epiphany Jul 18, 10:43
- I will never forget when I ran into him on City of Heroes (mmorpg) and his hero was named, you guessed it, D.Mac -- nm - Jovian Jul 18, 10:40 1
  - ! -- nm - Andie Jul 18, 10:46
- so ugly -- nm - oblique Jul 18, 10:39
Anyone want to confirm that Dark Knight was filmed for IMAX? -- (link) - Old Antarctic Explorer Jul 18, 10:38 9
- An hour of it was. -- nm - The Dark Spawn Jul 18, 10:50
- It says right in the link you've provided, some scenes were filmed in IMAX, some not. IIRC, it's the most IMAX footage ever for a major studio film. -- nm - Inigo Jul 18, 10:40
- nmbl -- (link) - con_carne Jul 18, 10:40 [Backboard] 1
  - ta for this -- nm - Old Antarctic Explorer Jul 18, 11:14
- Yes, it was, for at least an hour of it. - Will Hunting Jul 18, 10:40
- Just some scenes? - Old Antarctic Explorer Jul 18, 10:39 3
  - The Dark Knight had scenes filmed in Imax...nothing additional needed to be done. - Will Hunting Jul 18, 10:40 2
    - and more square than other scenes. - JD Jul 18, 11:11 1
      - In Nolan we trust. -- nm - The Dark Spawn Jul 18, 11:13
LIR Spamlet - We'll just put Abby in the back seat to go to sleep when Madagascar ends - prayformojo Jul 18, 10:36 4
- Pending being overridden by the kiddos, I'm all for this. - Inigo Jul 18, 11:04
- How early do you have to arrive to beat the hordes of traffic? - kelly Jul 18, 10:53 1
  - no idea - we've never gone when they've had a big opener. - prayformojo Jul 18, 11:06
- Ah. Mine wouldn't go to sleep which is one reason we haven't checked one out. -- nm - spamlet Jul 18, 10:39
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- I was just cursing about that to Francesca on my TV. - Krusty Jul 18, 10:36 3
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    - 110F on the field right now and not single rain cloud in the sky. -- nm - Krusty Jul 18, 10:50 1
      - ARod's plastic hip was melting in the heat. - Will Hunting Jul 18, 10:51
LIR: LMS -- what role did you play in Coriolanus? - Old Antarctic Explorer Jul 18, 10:35

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