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Batman #1 (1940) graded at a 9.2 sells at auction for $567,625.... -- (link) - Remlik Aug 1, 13:13
Buzzfeed: 33 Skeletor Affirmations To Get You Through Even The Worst Day - amoxy Aug 1, 13:04
Pantera fans: Phil Anselmo played Walk the other night and brought up a cancer kid to play the guitar.... -- (link) - Remlik Aug 1, 13:01 1
- fuckin`A -- nm - mud Aug 1, 13:05
Hey, Feds! Good job finally getting a conviction! Faboulus Fab found guilty of fraud -- (link) - spamlet Aug 1, 13:00
Does filming sequels back to back ever work out that great?...not counting LOTR which was intended from the beginning but a movie that did well, so... - zeitgeist Aug 1, 12:58 8
- the 3 & 4 Musketeers in the 1970's was good, and filmed back to back -- nm - peglegpete Aug 1, 13:03 2
  - that was a movie planned that way (and the stars sued because they were only paid to shoot one movie and wondered wow they sure are doing a lot of mat - zeitgeist Aug 1, 13:08 1
    - yup -- nm - peglegpete Aug 1, 13:09
- Not many productions try; and most of them that do are lacking in the overall storyline to the sequels - Will Hunting Aug 1, 13:01
- It's usually meant a big dropoff in box office returns for the second film released. -- nm - Inigo Aug 1, 13:01
- Back to the Future 2 and 3 turned out OK. Not as good as the original, but - sequels. -- nm - Roger More Aug 1, 13:00
- Back to the Future II and III were not that great either -- nm - amoxy Aug 1, 12:59 1
  - 3 was better than 2 but neither were as good as 1 - eag Aug 1, 13:01
One of the reasons Nintendo is failing with the WiiU is because they didn't learn the HD gaming development lesson. - Inigo Aug 1, 12:58 2
- There is going to be a sweet spot sometime very soon where picking up a Wii U refurbed will be a genius move if one likes their 1st party games. -- nm - Qale Aug 1, 13:01
- nintendo as a company has a very strange and insular culture....nm - x Aug 1, 12:59
Alison Krauss and Union Station .... country genre or folk music? - i'm not dead yet ! Aug 1, 12:56 14
- I prefer Gillian Welch -- nm - dave rawlings Aug 1, 13:12
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  - This. -- nm - Dr.Vermin Aug 1, 12:58
  - that's kind of a funky distinction. i'd say bluegrass was a subset of country.....nm - x Aug 1, 12:58 10
    - Bluegrass (a style of banjo playing using picks on all five fingers) was invented in the 50s before that it was single picked or 'frailed' - zeitgeist Aug 1, 13:06 2
      - Bluegrass is a genre of music that originated in the 18th century. Flatpicking, 3-finger (Scruggs) picking and frailing are styles of banjo playing. -- nm - Dr.Vermin Aug 1, 13:18
      - Blue Grass starts with Bill Monroe who started in the late 30s. -- nm - Mel Profit Aug 1, 13:12
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      - naw. country starts in like the teens with string bands, jimmy rodgers, the carter family et al.... - x Aug 1, 13:04 3
        
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        (i cheated. i just finished country music usa by bill c. malone, that covers the first 50 years of country)....nm - x Aug 1, 13:19
        
        [bookmarks post] -- nm - mud Aug 1, 13:07
      - Yeah. There was a great documentary a while back called Appalachia that talked all about this - con_carne Aug 1, 13:03
      - agreed. -- nm - Mel Profit Aug 1, 13:00
Jack Sock! -- nm - Dano Aug 1, 12:53
note to self: next time get 85% dark chocolate. the 70% is too sweet. -- nm - znufrii Aug 1, 12:51 11
- I get 92. I'm more man than are you. -- nm - amanda Aug 1, 12:59 2
  - Surprising who? -- nm - Spawn Aug 1, 13:14
  - challenge accepted. -- nm - znufrii Aug 1, 12:59
- 70 is my limit, that 85 is toooo ewe bitter might as well be licking a piece of tree bark -- nm - zeitgeist Aug 1, 12:53
- Bah! 100%!!! -- nm - Spawn Aug 1, 12:51 6
  - Willy Wonka would love you -- nm - eag Aug 1, 12:54
  - I've had 99%, that was a treat. -- nm - znufrii Aug 1, 12:53 4
    - cocoa powder isn't 99. -- nm - loosilu Aug 1, 12:55 3
      - this... -- (link) - znufrii Aug 1, 12:56 2
        
        how does it stay together? -- nm - loosilu Aug 1, 12:58 1
        
        the 1%, I guess... -- nm - znufrii Aug 1, 12:59
The Heavy's realease The House That Dirt Built $5 at amazon.... -- (link) - Remlik Aug 1, 12:49
man, I would kill for a freaking chipwich. who gave me this curse?? -- nm - amanda Aug 1, 12:49 2
- *points in groiny's direction* -- nm - budice Aug 1, 12:50 1
  - 160! -- nm - Spawn Aug 1, 12:50
Gareth Bale moving from Tottenham to Real Madrid for $159 million -- nm - budice Aug 1, 12:45 3
- Good, back to the bottom for Tottenham -- nm - J Aug 1, 12:48 1
  - doubtful since they now have cash to burn and it sounds like they'll also be getting two players on top of that... - x Aug 1, 12:54
- the dude is good and he deserves to play in champions league, but that's sure a lot of money for a kind of fragile guy.....nm - x Aug 1, 12:47
LOTR: Sean Parker Has $4.5M wedding styled as Middle Earth -- (link) - budice Aug 1, 12:42 4
- $4.5M just for the site! Not anything else, damn. -- nm - MDH Aug 1, 13:06 1
  - And Lars Ulrich there is amazing. -- nm - MDH Aug 1, 13:07
- that was like 2 years ago already? -- nm - zeitgeist Aug 1, 13:01
- With hobbit Lars Ulrich! -- nm - Roger More Aug 1, 12:45
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You know what I haven't been to much of lately? An Irish pub. ST Poll: Name the last English or Irish pub you've been to - con_carne Aug 1, 12:39 24
- Duke of Gloucester -- nm - Andie Aug 1, 13:05
- I don't know if it was Irish Times in Victoria or that Irish pub in San Francisco -- nm - Beryllium Aug 1, 13:04 1
  - Does Irish Times have 2 drunk Irishman fight for an audience each night? -- nm - Spawn Aug 1, 13:07
- doyles is a semi regular stop for me, even have half my guiness card punched - zeitgeist Aug 1, 12:52
- McGinley's here in Anchorage. -- nm - Dr.Vermin Aug 1, 12:50
- Gordon Ramsay's Pub at Caesars Palace -- nm - peglegpete Aug 1, 12:49
- zeno's, obvs. -- nm - amanda Aug 1, 12:47 1
  - oh wait! I was at the bottle shop at kildare's last week. so that. (best pick six in town bar none.) -- nm - amanda Aug 1, 12:48
- Pat Troy's -- nm - loosilu Aug 1, 12:46
- Either Royal Mile or Sully's. -- nm - Cuzzin Todd Aug 1, 12:43
- The Snug -- nm - J Aug 1, 12:43
- O'Murphy's -- nm - CQ Aug 1, 12:42
- Claddagh -- nm - Spawn Aug 1, 12:42
- The Heart of Oak Pub (I go there every week) -- nm - decline Aug 1, 12:41
- Fionn MacCool's -- nm - JaxSean Aug 1, 12:41 3
  - We had a place in Santa Monica called Finn McCool's, they serve a great seafood boxty -- nm - con_carne Aug 1, 12:44 2
    - are you sure it wasn't spelled as above? it's a chain. -- nm - Andie Aug 1, 13:04 1
      - Nope. They're both just named after a mythological character, I think -- nm - con_carne Aug 1, 13:10
- Ryan's on my most recent overnight in the city. - znufrii Aug 1, 12:41 1
  - n/m, more recently is Great American Pub, which probably counts - znufrii Aug 1, 12:43
- Ummmmmmmmmmmmmm. Mel, does the place we went to next to the stadium count for this? - Truman Aug 1, 12:40 2
  - iffy but I'll allow it. -- nm - Mel Profit Aug 1, 12:57
  - For Boston, I'm envisioning a "here we just call them pubs" type answer -- nm - con_carne Aug 1, 12:49
- The RednGrey pub in Chico. Sad thing is it burned down 20 years ago -- nm - amoxy Aug 1, 12:40
Jonathan Goldsmith, the most interesting man in the world, helps expose unexploded bombs in Vietnam -- (link) - amoxy Aug 1, 12:38 [youtube] 1
- A video featuring exploding bombs and the most interesting man in the world shouldn't be that dull. -- nm - Ender Aug 1, 12:49
Good lord...Cameron is now writing Avatar 2,3 and 4. Will shoot all at the same time, projected to cost $1 Billion...1st release Dec 2016 -- (link) - Remlik Aug 1, 12:36 28
- I adore Avatar. I watched it six times in the theatre. But even I am a bit wary of over sequelization. -- nm - Qale Aug 1, 13:00
- I think at this point, only Cameron could get $1bil in funding for anything in Hollywood. - Will Hunting Aug 1, 12:58 3
  - World Wide box office on the 3 prequels (unadjusted for inflation) was $2.5 billion. They would hardly be viewed as disasters. - pmb Aug 1, 13:05
  - I think Spielberg probably could too for the right project -- nm - decline Aug 1, 13:01 1
    - if he would do a trilogy of Jurassic Park films then yes. otherwise no.... -- nm - Remlik Aug 1, 13:06
- he won't make any of it back from me -- nm - peglegpete Aug 1, 12:50
- Let's hope some of that money is spent making a movie that's actually good, not just pretty. -- nm - Cuzzin Todd Aug 1, 12:45
- And after *that* we'll do True Lies 2. -- nm - Tom Arnold Aug 1, 12:44 2
  - He needs to get busy and release a director's remastered version of True Lies. That is a beauty. -- nm - Shaun Aug 1, 12:48
  - L3. I bet he's asking James for a part in one of the Avatar movies. - Inigo Aug 1, 12:47
- Couldn't he just copy an existing script like he did with the first Avatar? - Inigo Aug 1, 12:43 3
  - And the visuals were stolen from Yes. - Spawn Aug 1, 12:44 2
    - you mean roger dean!....nm - x Aug 1, 12:46 1
      - heh -- nm - Spawn Aug 1, 12:47
- I have very little desire to see them. The first one was only great because of the stunning visuals -- nm - amoxy Aug 1, 12:39 10
  - Same here - eag Aug 1, 12:44
  - Yeah, I do worry that seven years between films is too long, and audiences won't care about the movie. - Roger More Aug 1, 12:43 3
    - Avatar is a *gorgeous* Blu-ray. I can't speak for the 3D Blu-ray though. -- nm - Shaun Aug 1, 12:45 2
      - I'm sure it looks great. But do you/other people who own the Blu-Ray watch it over and over? - Roger More Aug 1, 12:50 1
        
        I've probably watched it 3 actual times since owning it, and I've had it on for background numerous other times. -- nm - Shaun Aug 1, 12:55
  - i tried to watch it on tv and i confess i couldn't get through it....nm - x Aug 1, 12:41 4
    - In the theater and in 3D, It is awe-inspiring. But I found the story very predictable - amoxy Aug 1, 12:43 3
      - ditto but somehow it won me over. -- nm - Mel Profit Aug 1, 12:54 1
        
        Its one of those movies that you have too see at least once - eag Aug 1, 12:59
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- I predict at least a delay of a year. -- nm - Spawn Aug 1, 12:38 2
  - they may push it back. But once Cameron sets a game plan he follows through -- nm - Remlik Aug 1, 12:39
  - Probably more than that. -- nm - Truman Aug 1, 12:39
Sitwap. Your first August free Xbox game is Crackdown. David will now dream about orbs. -- nm - Truman Aug 1, 12:32 7
- Not Crackdown 2? -- nm - David Aug 1, 13:15
- Cool. A free 6.5 year old game. -- nm - Shaun Aug 1, 12:35 3
  - Well, it was a AA title at least. As opposed to the tower defense game they out in July -- nm - Truman Aug 1, 12:36 2
    - + handed -- nm - Truman Aug 1, 12:37
    - *pets his PS+ membership* -- nm - Shaun Aug 1, 12:36
- that was a blast of a game -- nm - Remlik Aug 1, 12:34 1
  - Is there any co-op or multiplayer to it? -- nm - Truman Aug 1, 12:34
I just had to report someone's ineptness to their manager. - Will Hunting Aug 1, 12:31
sitwap: BBC to reveal the new Dr. Who tonight 7pm England time... -- (link) - Remlik Aug 1, 12:30 6
- so, an hour and a half ago? -- nm - znufrii Aug 1, 12:30 5
  - To the TARDIS! -- nm - BBC Aug 1, 12:32
  - yeah I guess they did it at 2pm -- nm - Remlik Aug 1, 12:31 3
    - the article says the announcement is on Sunday... -- nm - znufrii Aug 1, 12:32 2
      - ah thank you. I totally missed that. thanks -- nm - Remlik Aug 1, 12:33 1
        
        it is in English :( -- nm - peglegpete Aug 1, 12:51
Eight weeks at #1 for Blurred Lines, One Direction enters at #2 thanks to digital sales. -- (link) - Tim Aug 1, 12:29 5
- I have to say, The Best Song Ever really isn't. -- nm - Qale Aug 1, 13:04
- i saw this guy perform BLurred Lines on AGT last night and I was left with the impression of ... - i'm not dead yet ! Aug 1, 12:36 3
  - If you hear it in the background, it's a great beat to dance to. Listening to the words though...it's a complete fucking disaster of a song. -- nm - Shaun Aug 1, 12:37 2
    - what rhymes with hug me? -- nm - Tim Aug 1, 12:40 1
      - HEYYYYYY A YAYYYYYYY A YEAHHHHHHHH! -- nm - Shaun Aug 1, 12:46
did i say 2 ohone interviews this week? make that 4....nm - x Aug 1, 12:29 6
- great news. -- nm - Mel Profit Aug 1, 12:35
- Sweet. I agreed with your point on B2. -- nm - Inigo Aug 1, 12:35 1
  - thnx. i agree, too. they'll find a way to get by somehow. their ip alone can keep them afloat, ultimately....nm - x Aug 1, 12:40
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  - Word. -- nm - Truman Aug 1, 12:33
  - thnx. a couple of these are at least really promising....nm - x Aug 1, 12:31
Blood Feud: Playoff Changes Fails 18-9. The 5 and 6 win teams shall rejoyce. -- nm - Strongbad Aug 1, 12:28 5
- Power to the people. -- nm - David Aug 1, 12:44
- Seriously? Wow. -- nm - Spawn Aug 1, 12:36
- Dammit. -- nm - amoxy Aug 1, 12:33
- 66.7% of the league making the playoffs is worse than even NBA/NHL standards (60%) -- nm - Strongbad Aug 1, 12:32
- someday -- nm - oblique Aug 1, 12:29
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- Havethebfkeepersbeenpostedyet.me -- nm - Truman Aug 1, 12:30

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