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anthony head will be the new villain in warehouse 13 -- nm - tRuMaN Apr 22, 06:13 1
- Uther Pendragon? Sweet. -- nm - Jim Apr 22, 06:15
Is it ok to say "ass" when tweeting prayers to someone about cancer? :) -- nm - oblique Apr 22, 06:09 2
- "I hope your as cancer gets wiped out!" -- nm - TWuG Apr 22, 06:10 1
  - dammit: "ass cancer" -- nm - TWuG Apr 22, 06:11
Who wants to own a super cool piece of Survivor history? - Jim Apr 22, 05:52 11
- I figure its better now to strike while the iron is hot... - budice Apr 22, 06:04
- that is awesome. freakin' JT. lol -- nm - Jovian Apr 22, 06:03 1
  - I know, right? Russell is a complete douche and rumor has it he's broke as a joke..like can't make mortgage payments and shit. - Jim Apr 22, 06:12
- I didn't watch that season -- where did he get a pen? -- nm - amanda Apr 22, 05:57 7
  - relatedly, I so totally wish old survivor was on prime or watchnow. -- nm - amanda Apr 22, 05:58 6
    - i think old survivor is on prime now...thought i saw it yesterday -- nm - budice Apr 22, 06:00 5
      - oh wow. some are. thanks!! jim, should I watch nicaragua or south pacific? -- nm - amanda Apr 22, 06:07 4
        
        Nicaragua is one of the suckier seasons in a while...though, you'd get to see Brenda actually play the game. I'd go South Pacific. You get Cochran, - Jim Apr 22, 06:11 3
        
        I started south pacific, it turns out. I wonder why I quit. -- nm - amanda Apr 22, 06:17 2
        
        Probably Brandon. -- nm - Jim Apr 22, 06:19 1
        
        those "sent by the devil" comments are probably too close to the bone -- nm - Roger More Apr 22, 06:29
twice a year, I have to go to our environmental center to have a meeting. it's 30 minutes away, a *gorgeous* drive in the mountains. - amanda Apr 22, 05:39 1
- cool, you can see the geology from the vegetation. folding! orogenies! -- nm - mafic Apr 22, 06:33
The art that Google Street View built -- (link) - DaneDukeNuuk Apr 22, 04:35
Mad Men...Don is... - zeitgeist Apr 21, 23:12
Flight delays at LAX are being blamed on the sequester and Air Traffic Controller furloughs... -- (link) - Meg Apr 21, 23:08 3
- NYC area airport had ground delays in the afternoon/evening reportedly due to 'staffing' as well. -- nm - ty97 Apr 22, 03:09 1
  - Yup, it's all over the news today. -- nm - Krusty Apr 22, 06:11
- So what did they blame them on before the sequester? :)- -- nm - Under the Influence Apr 21, 23:15
Wow, "This is 40" is really bad. -- nm - MDH Apr 21, 22:35 6
- Spoiler - Qale Apr 22, 03:18 2
  - this. - JaxSean Apr 22, 04:30 1
    - agreed. nm -- nm - groiny Apr 22, 07:46
- Would've been better had they not shown most of the funny parts, in the previews. -- nm - Flavorize w/fava beans Apr 22, 02:49
- I liked it. Could have been a bit shorter, but all of Apatow's movies are long, so no surprise there. -- nm - kelly Apr 21, 22:48 1
  - The length definitely hurt my take on the movie. -- nm - MDH Apr 22, 06:08
Reese can't even look in the camera for her mugshot -- (link) - charlie Apr 21, 22:24 5
- She looks like a drunk Kristen Stewart - Will Hunting Apr 22, 05:48
- I really think we might have a celeb drunk driving arrest round at trivia this week. there have been *a lot* lately. -- nm - amanda Apr 22, 05:21
- "What are you looking at, sugarballs?" -- nm - Max Apr 21, 23:01
- Does "Do you know who I am?" ever worked for a celebrity when confronting police... EVER? -- nm - Mop Apr 21, 22:29 1
  - I'm sure in the old days...in san fran, ny vinnie got a DUI and handed the cop a police commissioner's card and said, here, he knows who I am - zeitgeist Apr 21, 23:09
If anyone is watching Bletchley Circle on PBS, let me know how it is -- nm - Beryllium Apr 21, 21:57 3
- I just finished watching it. Just setting the DVR to catch the next 2 episodes so that I don't forget. Like most of the English Detective series it - Under the Influence Apr 21, 22:06 2
  - what era is it set in? - zeitgeist Apr 21, 22:54 1
    - I was curious so I looked up the synopsis. I'd never heard about it before tonight. - Beryllium Apr 22, 00:14
I don't even know how this got made. -- (link) - mafic Apr 21, 21:50 [Image]
lol -- (link) - Spawn Apr 21, 21:34
time to get my GoT on -- nm - charlie Apr 21, 21:13
So, this awful week is finally over. - Spawn Apr 21, 21:08 13
- Well there is still the North Korean missile test to look forward too. -- nm - Under the Influence Apr 21, 22:09
- Um, it's only Monday. -- nm - Qale Apr 21, 21:50 3
  - Monday was when the suckling started. And it went for seven days. That is a week. -- nm - Spawn Apr 21, 21:52 2
    - But it'll still be two days till I say I'm sorry. -- nm - Qale Apr 21, 22:25
    - On it. -- nm - Frank Parker si Apr 21, 21:59
- I had an incredible weekend. Such a dichotomy in light of the week I had. - Mop Apr 21, 21:12 4
  - That is cool, but Stephen and shades round out the week. -- nm - Spawn Apr 21, 21:21 3
    - Seriously. Hebdomadam horribilis. Just... horrible. -- nm - Mop Apr 21, 21:31
    - BTW, new Octonauts tomorrow. -- nm - Spawn Apr 21, 21:31 1
      - The hits keep coming. -- nm - Mop Apr 21, 21:31
- no - charlie Apr 21, 21:11 1
  - mop? - Spawn Apr 21, 21:21
- Oh, I do hope so...although I do have another dental appointment in the morning :/ -- nm - Meg Apr 21, 21:11
Is Mad Men not concerned about the Ted McGinley curse? -- nm - Max Apr 21, 21:08 3
- Wait, I missed him. Who was he? -- nm - amoxy Apr 21, 21:14 1
  - "We can smoke some weed and then see what happens." -- (link) - Max Apr 21, 21:33 [Image]
- I don't watch but I'd heard. I assume, given it's the last season, they're breaking the seals. -- nm - Mop Apr 21, 21:08
just for spawn: 9 new pics from Man o' Steel -- (link) - charlie Apr 21, 21:03 2
- mop? - Spawn Apr 21, 21:04 1
  - gah, it's a munity! - Beryllium Apr 21, 21:19
Would it be bad of me to name my sprinter-gunner class "Pistorius"? -- nm - Beryllium Apr 21, 21:00 1
- I called it "Mr Sub", instead, on account of the submachine gun -- nm - Beryllium Apr 21, 21:10
Is that "snipey" supposed to be "snippy"? -- nm - Mop Apr 21, 20:58 2
- Your mom. - Beryllium Apr 21, 20:59 1
  - Maybe the right word is "pissy". :P -- nm - Mop Apr 21, 21:04
I have a few more questions for those of you that do wedding photography - Karl_S Apr 21, 20:46 1
- The reason I'm no longer a photog is that everything I knew about pricing and marketing went out the window when digital took over - zeitgeist Apr 21, 21:21
Peglegpete gets a raise for the heads up on the All the President's Men Revisited show on Discovery -- nm - zeitgeist Apr 21, 20:42 2
- also, Smithsonian has a new show on the finding of Richard III tonight. -- nm - peglegpete Apr 21, 21:01
- Ditto. I just set it to record. -- nm - Mop Apr 21, 20:44
Mike Tyson Is Now Following Luis Suárez On Twitter -- (link) - ty97 Apr 21, 20:42
So Defiance is Eureka mixed with Firefly, with some Twilight mixed in? - JaxSean Apr 21, 20:35 5
- I am a half hour in and you are right, it is not that good -- nm - amoxy Apr 21, 20:44 4
  - The guy driving was killing me. - JaxSean Apr 21, 20:50 3
    - spoilers - amoxy Apr 21, 20:59 2
      - Heh. We said the same thing. -- nm - JaxSean Apr 21, 21:09 1
        
        OMG this is right out of Star Wars. - amoxy Apr 21, 21:31
I'm just starting to piece together the Shades news. My stomach is in knots. -- nm - Mop Apr 21, 20:23 12
- Wait, is there an update from his post on B4? nm - ralph wiggum Apr 21, 20:28 10
  - Nothing more. I'm hoping he answers my message. I'm also reaching out to some of the folks at Comingsoon.net. -- nm - Mop Apr 21, 20:32 9
    - The best he's offered is the following tweet. - Mop Apr 21, 20:48 8
      - Did you see this thread? -- (link) - ty97 Apr 21, 20:53 [Backboard] 7
        
        And this earlier on FB.... - Meg Apr 21, 20:57 5
        
        Operations for leukemia, though? Isn't that treated with radiation and medication? -- nm - Mop Apr 21, 20:59 4
        
        That's what I thought but I did find this.... - Meg Apr 21, 21:09 3
        
        that would only be one op, though, right? -- nm - Beryllium Apr 21, 21:10 2
        
        Bone marrow transplant, maybe? -- nm - Mop Apr 21, 21:12 1
        
        yeah, my aunt had it, her brother had to take a bunch of immune suppressing drugs so he could donate bone marrow, a big drag, didn't work - zeitgeist Apr 21, 23:07
        
        No. Thank you. -- nm - Mop Apr 21, 20:55
- Yeah, did that a few hours ago. - Spawn Apr 21, 20:24
"The police, they have started shooting at us, they are chasing us," Mrs. Tsarnaeva says Tamerlan told her. "Mama, I love you." -- (link) - ty97 Apr 21, 20:19 8
- Momma, I just killed a man, put a gun up to his head, pulled the trigger now he's dead, momma live had just begun now I've thrown it all awayyyyyyyy -- nm - zeitgeist Apr 21, 20:39
- Did we realize that the elder brother had a wife (or ex-wife?) and a child with her? -- nm - ty97 Apr 21, 20:29 2
  - it was mentioned by the aunti n her first interview. -- nm - Andie Apr 22, 03:14
  - I did, but only because friends from RI brought it to my attention via FB. (She was living with her parents in RI.) - kelly Apr 21, 20:31
- subscription required. -- nm - JaxSean Apr 21, 20:22 3
  - Just google the headline and you'll get to it without logging ing -- nm - ty97 Apr 21, 20:28 1
    - harder than it usually is, but here's an austrailian newspaper -- (link) - zeitgeist Apr 21, 23:20
  - oh that poor mother -- nm - charlie Apr 21, 20:25
"You like to watch" - budice Apr 21, 20:01 1
- Heh spoils - JenBro Apr 21, 20:02
"'What Would Ryan Lochte Do' is as every bit as awful as you expected it to be: Will you watch?" -- (link) - Mop Apr 21, 19:52 3
- I watched the re-air, it was a hot mess. -- nm - MDH Apr 21, 20:49 2
  - Is it delightfully bad, or just bad? -- nm - Mop Apr 21, 20:57 1
    - It's stare at the screen and wonder "So his sisters and family members know he's dumb as a rock, right?" -- nm - MDH Apr 21, 20:58
Happy Birthday Pippy and Congrats to J on getting hitched -- nm - zork Apr 21, 19:50 4
- Congrats on marrying Pippy, J! Wait. no. Happy Birthday Pippy! Congrats J! -- nm - ty97 Apr 21, 20:36
- Happy birthday, congrats, and a big 'go kick some ass' to secretslacker -- nm - Max Apr 21, 20:07
- Congrats -- nm - Karl_S Apr 21, 19:53
- Pippy and J are getting hitched? Congrats! =) -- nm - budice Apr 21, 19:53
Burn Gorman is unrecognizable on Game of Thrones. -- nm - David Apr 21, 19:42 9
- "What is Burn Gorman?" -- nm - charlie Apr 21, 21:02
- He aged 30 years in the past decade. -- nm - nubby, Astro-lord Apr 21, 19:55 3
  - he's been like this for years. -- nm - Remlik Apr 21, 20:09
  - *thinks about this for a minute, counting out years on his fingers* -- nm - charlie Apr 21, 19:57 1
    - He's half dog! -- nm - Roger More Apr 21, 19:59
- That's an odd bit of casting since IMDB lists the character name as a generic - TWuG Apr 21, 19:50 3
  - Spoils - Roger More Apr 21, 19:56 2
    - spoils - TWuG Apr 21, 20:00 1
      - Spoils - Roger More Apr 21, 20:08
The Creation. -- (link) - Dr.Vermin Apr 21, 19:41
The younger brother may have run over his older brother in a desperate attempt to get away -- (link) - ty97 Apr 21, 19:38 5
- I heard about the runover, but the way it's described seems unlikely. - Mop Apr 21, 19:46 4
  - The cops dove out of the way of the oncoming car, but the older brother was already on the ground and cuffed. nm - ralph wiggum Apr 21, 19:49
  - A separate account I read said that one of the cops yelled "watched out" and the cops jumped/scurried out of the way of the car. - ty97 Apr 21, 19:49 2
    - OK, yeah. Given the chaos of that night, I can see that. -- nm - Mop Apr 21, 19:51 1
      - "It was a Fire FIGHT!!" -- nm - Willem Dafoe si Apr 21, 20:28
Mad Men spoils... - budice Apr 21, 19:38 3
- oh and spoils... - budice Apr 21, 19:39 2
  - spoilers - amoxy Apr 21, 19:42 1
    - Agreed - JenBro Apr 21, 20:04
re bb3 discussion - Bloomberg has been putting his money behind candidates who are pro gun control. - tl Apr 21, 19:31
Here's your Long Read for Monday: How I Met My Dead Parents -- (link) - ty97 Apr 21, 19:31
Mad Men (spoilers) - amoxy Apr 21, 19:28
Mad Men spoiler speculation - JenBro Apr 21, 19:16 6
- spoilers - amoxy Apr 21, 19:54 5
  - Woah ... Spoils - JenBro Apr 21, 20:02 4
    - Spoils - amoxy Apr 21, 20:05 3
      - I loved how ... - JenBro Apr 21, 20:13 2
        
        I couldn't tell - amoxy Apr 21, 20:14 1
        
        Noooo ... - JenBro Apr 21, 21:07
Cool. Rodriguez ("Sugarman") had a set at Coachella. -- nm - Mop Apr 21, 19:08
Bet you never thought of doing this with 3-D printing - TWuG Apr 21, 19:08 1
- ... not for me, thanks. -- nm - Spawn Apr 21, 19:08
Maybe my favorite episode of Game of Thrones ever. -- nm - Volnelk Apr 21, 19:07 1
- It really was quite boss. -- nm - Jovian Apr 21, 19:13
gay . . . fucking shit -- nm - charlie Apr 21, 19:07
BOOM! -- nm - Spawn Apr 21, 19:06

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