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If Skyfall makes $78.2 million more worldwide, it will have doubled Quantum of Solice's worldwide take. - Inigo Feb 5, 09:18 8
- movies about poker are boring -- nm - zeitgeist Feb 5, 17:06
- I am curious as to the 'why' on this. It's the 22nd movie...why would this be such a monster hit vs the others? - Will Hunting Feb 5, 09:19 6
  - As below, a coordinated effort to pull in all demographics. Marketing, music, characters, preview images. -- nm - budice Feb 5, 09:23
  - The Olympics became free advertising. It has a killer title. The emphasis of Q in the ads helped. And the overseas market exploded since 2008. -- nm - David Feb 5, 09:23
  - he's the most kick-ass of all the Bonds -- nm - zork Feb 5, 09:22
  - Great story (personal, etc). Great marketing. -- nm - Spawn Feb 5, 09:21
  - Great marketing. -- nm - MDH Feb 5, 09:19 1
    - Superb. The timing was also good - people were in the mood for another one. And it happens to be a lot more entertaining than QOS. -- nm - Diva Feb 5, 09:21
This is America's youngest female billionaire -- (link) - ty97 Feb 5, 09:10 13
- must be nice... -- nm - znufrii Feb 5, 09:21
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- and who the hell needs 16 bathrooms????? nm -- nm - groiny Feb 5, 09:16 5
  - Ted Nugent sure doesn't. -- nm - Diva Feb 5, 09:22 1
    - nice. -- nm - Remlik Feb 5, 09:23
  - Listen mister, each one of those bathrooms created a job -- nm - con_carne Feb 5, 09:22
  - Seriously, that's the most absurd part of that. -- nm - Will Hunting Feb 5, 09:17 1
    - this is how you know when you have too much money. nm -- nm - groiny Feb 5, 09:21
- Only 30 and married 3 times already? -- nm - amoxy Feb 5, 09:15 1
  - those husbands were in and out. -- nm - Diva Feb 5, 09:19
- and the obligatory google images search -- (link) - zork Feb 5, 09:14
- That's ... an interesting biography. -- nm - Will Hunting Feb 5, 09:13 1
  - An awesome biography. -- nm - Beryllium Feb 5, 09:13
Your dentist starts texting you reminders for appointments and saying you need to text or call back to hold the appt. How do you feel about this? - TWuG Feb 5, 09:09 11
- i actually don't mind the idea of a text instead of a reminder call, but the 'text back or lose the appointment' part is not cool. -- nm - Andie Feb 5, 09:23
- Not cool. Ours calls two days before and asks us to confirm. No problem with that. -- nm - Spawn Feb 5, 09:21
- I find a new dentist. -- nm - Don Homer Feb 5, 09:21
- Annyong -- nm - con_carne Feb 5, 09:20
- Sounds a little like the Nissan dealership. They can't text me but the emails and phone calls are getting annoying. - Meg Feb 5, 09:17 2
  - J's gotten 2 dozen calls over the past month from the dealerships we visited -- nm - znufrii Feb 5, 09:19 1
    - I still get offers from the place I bought my Jeep in 1998 :/ -- nm - Meg Feb 5, 09:23
- no like. -- nm - Diva Feb 5, 09:14
- Not cool. -- nm - Will Hunting Feb 5, 09:13
- not cool. -- nm - znufrii Feb 5, 09:10
- I told them to stop the second I got my first one. -- nm - MDH Feb 5, 09:10
huh....Ted Nugent was a draft dodger -- (link) - Remlik Feb 5, 09:09
Grand Central 100th Birthday light show -- (link) - znufrii Feb 5, 09:08 [youtube] 1
- Wait for the cowboy hat -- nm - Jack Donaghy Feb 5, 09:21
it's her favorite song! -- (link) - Remlik Feb 5, 09:05
So yesterday at Nathan's birthday lunch, I played Buzztime Trivia....finished 61st nationwide. - Will Hunting Feb 5, 09:04
ST, you are my friends and I don't want you to die, so please heed this warning -- (link) - ty97 Feb 5, 08:59 [Image] 1
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Actual phone call from my wife: "You're not going to believe this but I need to know who Bill and Ted picked up immediately after Billy the Kid." - spamlet Feb 5, 08:57 14
- you win ST today. -- nm - loosilu Feb 5, 09:11
- I think I love her. -- nm - David Feb 5, 09:00
- I hadn't even remembered that they met Billy -- nm - zork Feb 5, 08:59
- *golf clap* - oblique [220] Feb 5, 08:58 7
  - Same here. -- nm - Beryllium Feb 5, 09:03
  - Dude. -- nm - Spawn Feb 5, 09:02
  - Truthfully, that's probably the only one I could do because it was early in the film. -- nm - spamlet Feb 5, 08:59 3
    - I want to say it was Lincoln next. -- nm - Reagen Feb 5, 09:07 1
      - the way it's worded on the wiki page implies that ... - zork Feb 5, 09:19
    - not totally baked yet? -- nm - zork Feb 5, 09:03
  - This. -- nm - MDH Feb 5, 08:58
- if mary wrote the trivia questions... -- nm - amanda Feb 5, 08:57
- duh -- nm - Spawn Feb 5, 08:57
- heh -- nm - Andie Feb 5, 08:57
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- They're 12 months away. Do skiiers require that much more healing than football players? -- nm - David Feb 5, 08:59 17
  - skiers' knees have to be perfect. -- nm - loosilu Feb 5, 09:12 2
    - Every third skiier in the X-Games has torn knee ligaments at least once. -- nm - David Feb 5, 09:17 1
      - this. and the regular Alpine skiers have the same kind of track records. -- nm - Diva Feb 5, 09:29
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    - She's a multi-time world champion. They'll hold her a spot, even if they have to re-work the rules to do it. -- nm - David Feb 5, 09:09
    - anyone else read that as *rump* competitions? -- nm - zork Feb 5, 09:04
  - My guess is yes; between all the shocks and the leaning and all...I'd have to imagine it's worse than running. -- nm - Will Hunting Feb 5, 09:01 8
    - for the ligaments, 1 year and a really good knee brace, she could probably do it. nm -- nm - groiny Feb 5, 09:03 7
      - when will she train? -- nm - loosilu Feb 5, 09:12 6
        
        She'll be doing stuff all along -- if she doesn't ski, it won't be because she's rusty; it'll be becuase she's not physically ready. -- nm - Will Hunting Feb 5, 09:15
        
        she will be doing rehab on the knee days after the surgery. - groiny Feb 5, 09:15 4
        
        she needs a sample of whatever replacement tendons AP used. -- nm - Diva Feb 5, 09:17 3
        
        We may need to look deeper into the doctor's contention that AP ligaments had baby-like wear on them at the time of the surgery - Will Hunting Feb 5, 09:21 1
        
        knee procedures in general have come a LONG way since 2007 when I had mine. - groiny Feb 5, 09:23
        
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  - IANAD, but I would guess yes. For that 2-3 minutes, the pressure on that knee, with no room for even a momentary lapse, would be tremendous. -- nm - TFox Feb 5, 09:00
  - 12 months and 2 days, to be exact. We're going to kick the crap out of Canada in hockey. -- nm - David Feb 5, 09:00
- Not necessarily. -- nm - AP's Zombie Knee si Feb 5, 08:57
- dammmmmit -- nm - prayformojo Feb 5, 08:56
Any banks out there offering good* rates on CDs right now? - znufrii Feb 5, 08:53 4
- Looks like the best is a little over 1.5% for 5 years. Somewhere over 1% for any less. - Meg Feb 5, 09:10 3
  - looking at them now - znufrii Feb 5, 09:12 2
    - I have a 5.26% maturing in September, and a 5.21% in November...I'll be sad to see those go :( -- nm - Meg Feb 5, 09:20 1
      - my, how times have changed. -- nm - znufrii Feb 5, 09:22
Bernard Pollard played most of the season with 6 cracked ribs. - the wrong element, bad guy Feb 5, 08:53 5
- Oddly, 4 of them belonged to New England Patriots. -- nm - Will Hunting Feb 5, 09:00 1
  - Bah dump-dump -- nm - zork Feb 5, 09:01
- rub some dirt on it and get back out there! -- nm - znufrii Feb 5, 08:54
- ...a few of them his own. - Mel Profit Feb 5, 08:54
- ouch -- nm - Don Homer Feb 5, 08:53
WTF movie was that from? -- nm - nubby, Astro-lord Feb 5, 08:51 4
- Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow! -- nm - prayformojo Feb 5, 08:57
- Tron -- nm - David Feb 5, 08:55
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- what? -- nm - Don Homer Feb 5, 08:52
Politicians from both right and left could learn from the Nordic countries... -- (link) - Don Homer Feb 5, 08:51
OK, the thing I mentioned to Will earlier is live now: The Gibson Index, a ranking system for the relative severity of cyber attacks. -- (link) - Beryllium Feb 5, 08:49 1
- Anyway, I'm going to mention this to a few friends in the industry to see if they have constructive ideas, then I might try spreading it around a bit. -- nm - Beryllium Feb 5, 09:04
can we talk about that dude who jumped from space? felix whatever? so if he had died, do we think it would have impacted red bull's sales? - amanda Feb 5, 08:49 7
- "He didn't drink enough Red Bull to give him wings". Car racers, etc. die and have sponsors on their cars and the races themselves have sponsors. - zork Feb 5, 08:58 1
  - that's my thing. he was one dide, so was it different? who knows. -- nm - amanda Feb 5, 09:11
- I would guess they would have to change "it gives you wings" then. nm -- nm - groiny Feb 5, 08:50
- I don't think so. they just wouldn't have advertised -- nm - Remlik Feb 5, 08:49 2
  - right, but like, would they have... done anything differently, do we think? -- nm - amanda Feb 5, 08:55 1
    - if they had a sense of class (not saying they don't). I think a tribute of some kind to him.... - Remlik Feb 5, 08:59
- "Pour a Red Bull 40 for Felix" -- nm - Beryllium Feb 5, 08:49
hehehe. One drawback to audiobooks. -- (link) - Beryllium Feb 5, 08:47 [Image] 1
- ... I have a feeling Sherlock Holmes is beyond this guy, anyway. -- nm - Spawn Feb 5, 08:49
Stand-alone Star Wars movies? ugh. Rumor that the first one would be about Yoda... -- (link) - Don Homer Feb 5, 08:47 3
- milk that teat. milk it -- nm - oblique [220] Feb 5, 08:58
- I would watch the hell out of a bounty hunting movie with Fett, IG-88, Dengar, Bossk, etc. -- nm - MDH Feb 5, 08:57 1
  - Yeah, theer is a *ton* of potential there. I do not fault them for their logic, at all. -- nm - Spawn Feb 5, 09:03
some Breaking Bad news....Dean Norris (Hank) asked to be killed off the show so he could get another job, he was told... - Remlik Feb 5, 08:40 3
- that looks like a spoiler. -- nm - loosilu Feb 5, 08:45 2
  - not really...no more than contact talks really. -- nm - Remlik Feb 5, 08:49
  - Not hardly. But it does explain a stretch of time in the show. -- nm - Beryllium Feb 5, 08:47
Huh. Gus Johnson groomed as voice of World Cup by Fox... -- (link) - Don Homer Feb 5, 08:40 4
- oh god yes -- nm - charlie Feb 5, 09:12
- Arriaga II. Extra. Time. Goal. *Can. You. Believe. It*?!?!?! -- nm - prayformojo Feb 5, 08:41 2
  - "Center holds it. Holds it! Holds it!!!!!!" -- nm - Don Homer Feb 5, 08:53
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Interesting. I hadn't seen this mentioned much but the new Blackberries have an Android runtime (currently Gingerbread) but soon to be updated to -- (link) - oblique [220] Feb 5, 08:32 1
- That runs like crap, apparently. -- nm - spamlet Feb 5, 08:38
Anyone heard anything about that one hot skier, lately? - Spawn Feb 5, 08:30
Well that's just creepy. Article about a "revenge porn" site operator -- (link) - oblique [220] Feb 5, 08:29 1
- I haven't finished yet, but I just got to the part about his lawyer buddy that negociates on behalf of girls - Guigue Feb 5, 08:53
what's so bad about Jewel grocery? -- nm - Diva Feb 5, 08:25 34
- Overpriced, outdated, tired stores. (They have supposedly recently lowered their prices to increase sales) -- nm - ty97 Feb 5, 08:42 3
  - yeah, and they are still too damn high. - groiny Feb 5, 08:44 1
    - To charge a premium, you need to look like Heidi Fleiss's 1990 vag, not her 2013 vag. - ty97 Feb 5, 08:46
  - (overpriced + lowered prices = priced) -- nm - Spawn Feb 5, 08:44
- It's where I shopped when I lived in Bloomington. - Kim Pine Feb 5, 08:31 13
  - *giggle*..."Schnucks"...*giggle* -- nm - Diva Feb 5, 08:35
  - Tell the other part. -- nm - David Feb 5, 08:32 11
    - ... yes, she lived with me in Bloomington. -- nm - Spawn Feb 5, 08:33 9
      - This explains *everything*. I look so great in comparison to the last guy that she's never letting me go. -- nm - David Feb 5, 08:35 8
        
        I am the guy before that. -- nm - Spawn Feb 5, 08:36 7
        
        So you're the guy she dumped for that guy, Logan's Run? -- nm - David Feb 5, 08:43 6
        
        The guy she could not handle? yes. - Spawn Feb 5, 08:44 5
        
        The one she called Shorty Greasy Spot Spot? -- nm - David Feb 5, 08:51 4
        
        Oh no, I heard about him. I was after him... Ah, she never told you about me. -- nm - Spawn Feb 5, 08:57 3
        
        Bob? - David Feb 5, 08:58 2
        
        What about? -- nm - Spawn Feb 5, 09:04 1
        
        No, we've been doing Blackadder references for a while now. Do keep up. -- nm - David Feb 5, 09:08
    - (I've accidentally called Kroger "Jewel" like three times over the last couple of weeks. It's out of nowhere.) -- nm - Kim Pine Feb 5, 08:33
- I found them really overpriced the time I was in Chicago for work. - timPhone Feb 5, 08:30 3
  - That is why you use someone else's credit card. I have ty's, if you need it. -- nm - Spawn Feb 5, 08:31 2
    - dammit groiny! -- nm - Sheriff Joe Arpaio Feb 5, 08:34
    - The good news is I was given a per diem for meals and misc. expenses. - timPhone Feb 5, 08:34
- truth : even their sales prices are much higher than, say, Wal Mart. nm -- nm - groiny Feb 5, 08:27 8
  - I find walmart to be like hideously expensive for groceries. nothing is ever on sale. -- nm - amanda Feb 5, 08:57 5
    - wow, must be different here, because 100 bucks at Wal Mart goes a long, long way for me. - groiny Feb 5, 09:02 1
      - Me too. I can always do better at Walmart. - Kim Pine Feb 5, 09:17
    - Wait... their commercials are misleading!?! -- nm - Spawn Feb 5, 08:58
    - me too. i am almost never there, but i have looked, i don't get why people shop there for food. -- nm - Andie Feb 5, 08:58 1
      - some things are cheap but a big thing is that they price match. -- nm - zork Feb 5, 09:00
  - most likely true. I go there and Dominics because they're closer than Walmart to my house -- nm - oblique [220] Feb 5, 08:30 1
    - I have found that 95% of the items that I buy are anywhere from .25 to 1.00 more at Jewel. - groiny Feb 5, 08:31
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- Nothing. ty97 is a city snob -- nm - oblique [220] Feb 5, 08:26 1
  - I reject the usage of the work city in this statement. -- nm - ty97 Feb 5, 08:43

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