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BB, glad tRu got it...sorry usps mangled the pkg - SyrDragon Aug 20, 08:34 1
- *many* years prior, but I still wear it :) -- nm - Meg Aug 20, 08:39
Scott Hall 5 month video update since going to DDP's house to get cleaned up -- (link) - Remlik Aug 20, 08:33 [youtube] 2
- That's pretty awesome. -- nm - Jim Aug 20, 08:39
- and DDP is on a HBO's real sports tonight -- nm - Remlik Aug 20, 08:34
Wow ... car accident posted on Vine. Single-car, but still - no idea if anyone was hurt. -- (link) - Beryllium Aug 20, 08:30 2
- The way Vine works, you have to hit record at just the right moment. I don't know how they pulled off that miraculous feat. -- nm - Mop (200 lbs) Aug 20, 08:32 1
  - They must have seen the truck on the median, got the app started, started recording, and BAM -- nm - Beryllium Aug 20, 08:34
50 Shades casting rumour -- (link) - LMS Aug 20, 08:28 2
- I've had a man-crush on Charlie since Undeclared. -- nm - Mop (200 lbs) Aug 20, 08:32 1
  - I'll always remember him as a schoolboy in Queer as Folk. -- nm - LMS Aug 20, 08:34
The story of the astronaut who almost drowned. In his own words. -- (link) - Beryllium Aug 20, 08:27 4
- "glug glug glug" -- nm - Spawn Aug 20, 08:28 3
  - I'm a bad person, partially for laughing at that. -- nm - zork Aug 20, 08:31 2
    - True, but love the link. -- nm - Spawn Aug 20, 13:38
    - I mean if the joke is just laying there on the floor, I don't blame you for picking it up. -- nm -- Mel Profit (aka mel profit) Aug 20, 10:37 - Spawn Aug 20, 08:32
an interesting proposal to merge all of the Tribune newspapers into a new national paper with significant local coverages. -- (link) - spamlet Aug 20, 08:24 2
- seems like most of them already do, its all AP stories with some local coverage -- nm - zeitgeist Aug 20, 11:39
- Interesting idea. I could see it working if done right. -- nm - Krusty Aug 20, 08:30
So Tivo's got a new DVR. Any chance they've sped up the CPU? -- nm - Mop (200 lbs) Aug 20, 08:24
today's -- nm - Andie Aug 20, 08:24 1
- today's 'cool practical thing' - portable balcony shelf. great for an outdoors laptop work station. -- (link) - Andie Aug 20, 08:24
"Gay marriage needs to be legalized everywhere because I would watch the shit out of gay divorce court." - con_carne Aug 20, 08:23 5
- That would be pretty funny -- nm - amoxy Aug 20, 08:25 4
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    - Well, it's not like gays get to have marriage without the prospect of the perpetually single such as myself laughing at your follies -- nm - con_carne Aug 20, 08:36
    - Divorce is no joke. - Beryllium Aug 20, 08:28 1
      - Every camera adds 10% funny. -- nm - Spawn Aug 20, 08:29
Recent Poll says 82% of Americans believe we are losing the War on Drugs -- (link) - amoxy Aug 20, 08:23 1
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it seems so elementary to me that I should be able to access the history of my libraries account. like, have I read this book? - amanda Aug 20, 08:17 5
- I use Goodreads for that. Plus to track the books I already own. -- nm - spamlet Aug 20, 08:25 1
  - I don't feel like I should have to use a third party for it. this university just doesn't understand the power of data. - amanda Aug 20, 08:33
- Oh, that reminded me to check...I'm down to #1 in line for The Cuckoo's Calling. Has anyone read it yet? -- nm - Meg Aug 20, 08:21
- What irks me is that you can't see the books you've borrowed from Amazon. - decline Aug 20, 08:19
- Indeed. -- nm - NSA Aug 20, 08:18
Guy turned left from a middle lane this morning, almost hit me on my bike as I was turning from the correct lane. He pulled into my work's parking... - colin Aug 20, 08:10 3
- Just look for the cockneck. - Spawn Aug 20, 08:15
- "... and apologized to me." -- nm - (even in canada, this would be rare) Aug 20, 08:13
- I wonder how big you could key the word douche on his hood. :-) -- nm - Krusty Aug 20, 08:12
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- They're on the board somewhere. :-) - Krusty Aug 20, 08:11 1
  - 2 Vamps left: Samara, Walt Disney -- nm - Strongbad Aug 20, 08:14
500 vintage Chevys to be auctioned by Nebraska dealer -- (link) - Beaker Aug 20, 08:06
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- That is surprising. I would count my experiences with pricing there a few years back as traumatic -- nm - con_carne Aug 20, 08:09 1
  - Agreed. Something must have changed dramatically for this to be a reality. -- nm - Mop (200 lbs) Aug 20, 08:35
- yeah, we get a couple of those 20% off coupons a month, plus another through flyers. We go there a fair bit cause of it -- nm - Beaker Aug 20, 08:08
Booking my lodging in WV. I can stay at the hostel at the bar for $20 a night, or book an apartment for $50 a night. - loosilu Aug 20, 08:01 30
- did you check AirBnB? (that might be where you saw the apartment) -- (link) - Andie Aug 20, 08:33 1
  - also - is Thomas anywhere near Newell? (Fiestaware outlet!!!) -- (link) - Andie Aug 20, 08:34
- unless I was poor I would never do such a thing. Get a hotel room in a nice place -- nm - decline Aug 20, 08:17 11
  - laughing. there are no hotels. -- nm - loosilu Aug 20, 08:23 10
    - LYC: That is the best indicator that there is no chance in hell I would go there. -- nm - Spawn Aug 20, 08:24
    - I guess WV doesn't want guests. - Krusty Aug 20, 08:24 8
      - A lot of rural areas don't have hotels because there's no demand. - spamlet Aug 20, 08:30 1
        
        I get it but I figured she was going somewhere that expected people not the backwoods of WV. - Krusty Aug 20, 08:35
      - there are some guest houses. Going for a week long painting class. -- nm - loosilu Aug 20, 08:27 5
        
        Cool, have a great trip! Maybe you should just grab a tent and sleep in the woods. :-) - Krusty Aug 20, 08:37 2
        
        Bears are the least of her worries in bumf*ck WV. Didn't you seen Wrong Turn ? -- nm - decline Aug 20, 08:38 1
        
        No but I will now so I know how it'll all end for her. -- nm - Krusty Aug 20, 08:40
        
        seems to be some B&B's too. I would check those out first -- nm - decline Aug 20, 08:31 1
        
        There you go. - Spawn Aug 20, 08:33
- The hogans at Crow Canyon each have 6 beds (four singles and a bunk bed) but our group was small so we were only two to a room. - Meg Aug 20, 08:11
- bring a tent! -- nm - Andie Aug 20, 08:05
- where in WV? that sounds like red creek rates to me. (ah, red creek. how I miss you and my crazy crazy youth.) -- nm - amanda Aug 20, 08:04 2
  - Thomas. I am goign to call around some more. -- nm - loosilu Aug 20, 08:05 1
    - 18 miles from my beloved red creek. -- (link) - amanda Aug 20, 08:14
- how many nights? -- nm - znufrii Aug 20, 08:02 10
  - 6. It doesn't matter anyway, apt isn't available all nights. -- nm - loosilu Aug 20, 08:04 9
    - that would be a bit long for a hostel situation, for my taste. -- nm - znufrii Aug 20, 08:06 8
      - For sure. A night or two, maybe. No way for six nights. -- nm - Spawn Aug 20, 08:14 5
        
        obvs just hang out a bar and find a dude with a nice house with whom to go home for the week. -- nm - amanda Aug 20, 08:15 4
        
        Sometimes when I listen to Amy Schumer, I hear her as you. -- nm - Spawn Aug 20, 08:16 3
        
        So I went home with this guy I met at the bar because he said the cutest thing. - AS Aug 20, 08:19 2
        
        She is hysterical on every podcast that she guests on. Love her! -- nm - Krusty Aug 20, 08:38
        
        "house." I have standards, honey. -- nm - amanda Aug 20, 08:38
      - this -- nm - Beaker Aug 20, 08:07
      - me too. -- nm - loosilu Aug 20, 08:07
Mosaic of photos taken by the Hubble Telescope, arranged to form "Starry Night" -- (link) - landbeck Aug 20, 08:00 [Image] 1
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So, Under the Dome is a big piece of shit, right? - con_carne Aug 20, 07:59 10
- I generally like it. It's a mixed bag. I felt better about it when I thought it was going to come to a final conclusion this season. -- nm - pmb Aug 20, 08:40
- *shrug* it's ok. Better than watching reruns -- nm - decline Aug 20, 08:15
- I don't know...I like it well enough. It has veered so far from the book, though. -- nm - Jim Aug 20, 08:15 2
  - It is the World War Z of tv. -- nm - Spawn Aug 20, 08:26
  - this. I can't even begin to predict what will happen because 1) I forgot most of what the book was about and 2) it seems so did the writers -- nm - oblique Aug 20, 08:16
- meh. its enjoyable enough. but bad acting and bad writing abound. -- nm - Jovian Aug 20, 08:02
- I never got into it. There is some pretty bad acting on it -- nm - amoxy Aug 20, 08:01
- I was wondering what ST thought because the DVR wasn't recording it. - Mel Profit Aug 20, 08:01 2
  - Your DVR is being pre-emptive. -- nm - Mop (200 lbs) Aug 20, 08:14
  - Truth is, I've seen all of 40 minutes of this show - con_carne Aug 20, 08:06
Taco Bell expanding its breakfast Waffle Taco options -- (link) - znufrii Aug 20, 07:57
HuffPo is my new time sink. For instance, if ever a man deserved to be smiling in his mugshot, it's this guy... -- (link) - Mop (200 lbs) Aug 20, 07:54 9
- Huffington Post has turned into Internet junk food, like so many other sites. It's disappointing. -- nm - con_carne Aug 20, 08:13 2
  - yeah, i never go there....nm - x Aug 20, 08:29
  - With a terrible front page that is just cluttered. - Krusty Aug 20, 08:26
- Wait a minute. Prince actually Tweeted: "Game: Blouses." And then put Chappelle on the cover to a single? That's kinda awesome. -- (link) - Name Withheld By Request Aug 20, 07:59 2
  - I wondered what that was about. -- nm - Mel Profit Aug 20, 08:11
  - AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH HHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!! -- (link) - Name Withheld By Request Aug 20, 08:03
- I know 3 ways can ruin your relationship, but this happened unusually fast. -- nm - Ender Aug 20, 07:55 1
  - The wife looks pretty smug in the photo, herself. I'm thinking she liked it. -- nm - Mop (200 lbs) Aug 20, 07:57
- This Australian has forgotten the rules of Knifey-Spoony. -- (link) - Mop (200 lbs) Aug 20, 07:54
Hamilton man wins Tim Hortons Duelling Donuts competition -- (link) - Beaker Aug 20, 07:52
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- I may get to that. Bad Religion didn't quite cut it yesterday. -- nm - spamlet Aug 20, 08:26
- Oh. excellent suggestion. I need something feisty. -- nm - Mel Profit Aug 20, 07:58 2
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    - after I listen to that I legit want to go flip a cop car over. - Mel Profit Aug 20, 08:02
DNN? new tivo roamio announced With Increased Storage And Outside-The-Home Streaming -- (link) - amanda Aug 20, 07:49 1
- I really stopped caring about TiVo when they introduced the streaming device for other TVs and demanded you pay another monthly fee for it. -- nm - spamlet Aug 20, 07:53
Ham, an extinct animal, British royalty, a monkey butler and a science award figure into which film? -- nm - prayformojo Aug 20, 07:43 5
- The Pirates! -- nm - Don Homer Aug 20, 07:52
- Spoilers - LMS Aug 20, 07:51 1
  - Correct (I was unfamiliar with that title) -- nm - prayformojo Aug 20, 07:55
- Maybe Greystoke? Or some other Tarzan movie? -- nm - Roger More Aug 20, 07:48
- I'll throw a guess out: The Island of Doctor Moreau -- nm - Beaker Aug 20, 07:47
So, is RC going to update his keepers to reflect trades? -- nm - Will Hunting Aug 20, 07:39 3
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  - My database needs to be foolfproof - Will Hunting Aug 20, 07:45 1
    - completely foolfproof! -- nm - Beryllium Aug 20, 08:07
5 Pleasant Surprises About Famous People You Had All Wrong -- (link) - Beaker Aug 20, 07:35
Fukushima nuclear plant: Radioactive water leak found -- (link) - DaneDukeNuuk Aug 20, 07:31 1
- ~Waves~ -- nm - Gojira Aug 20, 07:33
Well, shit. Elmore Leonard died (age 87). -- nm - Beryllium Aug 20, 07:29 7
- crap -- nm - Spawn Aug 20, 07:58
- I was only vaguely aware of him until "Justified". -- nm - Mel Profit Aug 20, 07:31 4
  - I did not know him by name until then, either. -- nm - Beryllium Aug 20, 07:35
  - with a title like Get Shorty figured him for a fav... -- nm - Beaker Aug 20, 07:32 2
    - I mean if the joke is just laying there on the floor, I don't blame you for picking it up. -- nm - Mel Profit Aug 20, 07:37 1
      - It had to be done. -- nm - Spawn Aug 20, 08:27
- Damn. :-( -- nm - Krusty Aug 20, 07:30
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This wins for first pitches. -- (link) - spamlet Aug 20, 07:25 11
- Looks like the South Korean women are trying to one-up themselves with crazier pitches and shorter pants. -- nm - Mop (200 lbs) Aug 20, 07:57 1
  - I'm not sensing a complaint here -- nm - con_carne Aug 20, 08:01
- Meh. Gymnast was more impressive, this is just flip-stance-pitch. -- nm - Beryllium Aug 20, 07:42 3
  - "just" -- nm - Name Withheld By Request Aug 20, 07:42 2
    - Nothing Nolan Ryan couldn't do. -- nm - Beryllium Aug 20, 07:44 1
      - while punching random dudes in the head repeatedly -- nm - Beaker Aug 20, 07:47
- Looks like a balk to me. -- nm - Name Withheld By Request Aug 20, 07:42
- I think I've watched that 10 times and I still can't figure out what she did. - Mel Profit Aug 20, 07:38
- "Your move, American baseball." -- nm - con_carne Aug 20, 07:38
- She would give up so many stolen bases. -- nm - Reagen Aug 20, 07:35
- Naw, I still like the gymnast better -- nm - amoxy Aug 20, 07:29
This is how we put out all our fires in Canada -- (link) - Mop on Nook Android Tablet Aug 20, 07:17 1
- Mop, mop, mop. This is at least the third time this has been posted. - zork Aug 20, 08:30
I'm pretty sure Jason Segel's response to a spinoff proposal with him is *cocks shotgun* "Keep walkin'." -- nm - Reagen Aug 20, 07:13
Kenneth Branagh is to make his New York stage debut in a production of Macbeth performed at an army base. -- (link) - LMS Aug 20, 07:12 7
- I would go see the heck out of that. -- nm - Mel Profit Aug 20, 07:21 4
  - I got to watch him do a scene on the set of My Week With Marilyn, he was amazing. - LMS Aug 20, 08:07 1
    - that's excellent. -- nm - Mel Profit Aug 20, 08:10
  - word. Love Branagh (Dead Again is an underrated gem) -- nm - Beaker Aug 20, 07:41 1
    - this. -- nm - loosilu Aug 20, 07:59
- and River Song as Lady M? *runs to buy tickets* -- nm - znufrii Aug 20, 07:19 1
  - nice. that should be a fun show -- nm - Remlik Aug 20, 08:45
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START THE DRAFT! -- nm - Beaker Aug 20, 07:11 4
- 3 Caveman keepers outstanding -- nm - Beaker Aug 20, 07:14 3
  - quelle surprise. -- nm - Reagen Aug 20, 07:15 2
    - Our commish hasn't even posted his roster.... -- nm - Will Hunting Aug 20, 08:12 1
      - RUINER!!! -- nm - Spawn Aug 20, 08:27

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