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Trivia/quiz time: what classic film scene is the only one Quentin Tarantino claims to have been disturbed by - ever? -- nm - Heisenbery Oct 30, 11:43 8
- "Mrs. Robinson, are you trying to seduce me?" -- nm - TWuG Oct 30, 11:47
- Kathy Bates in About Schmidt? -- nm - Strongbad Oct 30, 11:47 1
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- when E.T Leaves the planet -- nm - DaneDukeNuuk Oct 30, 11:45
- eye-razor scene in Un Chien Andalou -- nm - Dr.Vermin Oct 30, 11:45
- shadow of nosferatu -- nm - The Legend of CQ Hollow Oct 30, 11:45
- When Rhett walks out on Scarlet -- nm - ty97 Oct 30, 11:45
- Bambi's mom. -- nm - Will Hunting Oct 30, 11:44
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MDH met the mayor of DC and they got their photo taken together. -- (link) - ty97 Oct 30, 11:37 8
- we really have to raise the minimum wage for those burger king cooks -- nm - Marquis de Lafayette Oct 30, 11:44
- Rude. But I do have to admit, I live on 17th Street, and that's where this occurs. - MDH Oct 30, 11:41 1
  - I know what your secret stalker is getting you! - ty97 Oct 30, 11:41
- Is that the mayor's ceremonial hat or does he just wear that all the time? -- nm - Mop (200 lbs) Oct 30, 11:38 4
  - They mayor is the guy without the hat -- nm - ty97 Oct 30, 11:40 2
    - So wait, MDH has that awesome hat and we were never told? -- nm - ♠hellSpawn♠ Oct 30, 11:41
    - see, because... -- nm - Reagen Oct 30, 11:40
  - I think it was special for MDH. -- nm - ♠hellSpawn♠ Oct 30, 11:39
Robert Webb refutes Russell Brand on the futility of political engagement -- (link) - znufrii Oct 30, 11:29
Poll time. Guess the 10 most popular* HWDYK horror** quizzes in our catalog - prayformojo Oct 30, 11:27 11
- Here's the top 20, in order - prayformojo Oct 30, 11:38
- blair witch, para 1 -- nm - peggy ann mcamanda Oct 30, 11:32 1
  - Neither in top 20 -- nm - prayformojo Oct 30, 11:34
- nightmare 1, scream 2 -- nm - peggy ann mcamanda Oct 30, 11:32 1
  - #19, not in top 20 -- nm - prayformojo Oct 30, 11:33
- Evil Dead! - Kim Pine Oct 30, 11:32 1
  - #4! -- nm - prayformojo Oct 30, 11:33
- Scream - ty97 Oct 30, 11:32 1
  - Scream is #1 (and I'll give you Scream 3 at #8) -- nm - prayformojo Oct 30, 11:32
- original Halloween and Friday the 13th -- nm - Beaker Oct 30, 11:29 1
  - #7, not in top 20 -- nm - prayformojo Oct 30, 11:31
Okay, this really is super creepy. Are you guys familiar with the Elisa Lam case - her body was found in a rooftop water - Andie Oct 30, 11:19 45
- psillosyb mushrooms? (hands thing is like ooh pretty colors) I think she pressed the doors open button which is why it didn't close for a long time -- nm - Marquis de Lafayette Oct 30, 11:42 1
  - I have never seen one of those last more than 15-20 seconds. -- nm - ♠hellSpawn♠ Oct 30, 11:43
- Meh. There's two things going on in that video. Her behavior, and the elevator's behavior. - Mop (200 lbs) Oct 30, 11:31 12
  - Clearly - ♠hellSpawn♠ Oct 30, 11:35 4
    - Well, we can accept she was just being goofy or accept the truth: this is clearly evidence of the paranormal. -- nm - Mop (200 lbs) Oct 30, 11:37 3
      - if she didn`t die immediately afterwards i might go with `goofy.` - Andie Oct 30, 11:39
      - You mean that she *and* the elevator were acting goofy. -- nm - ♠hellSpawn♠ Oct 30, 11:37 1
        
        Elevators never just stop on a floor and stay there after you've pressed certain buttons. Never. Clearly, it's a devil elevator. -- nm - Mop (200 lbs) Oct 30, 11:39
  - `the autopsy showed no signs of drugs or alcohol` -- nm - Andie Oct 30, 11:33 6
    - Did they test for everything? :-) -- nm - TWuG Oct 30, 11:35 2
      - Did they test for the evil gene? Demonic possession? Midichlorian? -- nm - Mop (200 lbs) Oct 30, 11:38
      - i don`t know, i assume LA coroners would be pretty thorough in a case like that. -- nm - Andie Oct 30, 11:35
    - ... and walked to the rooftop and climbed into a water tank and drowned. Sure, totally normal. -- nm - Andie Oct 30, 11:34 2
      - I only scanned the video, but what I saw could easily be explained by mental disease. - ty97 Oct 30, 11:35 1
        
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- That's super unsettling. -- nm - Kim Pine Oct 30, 11:29
- Man, that's just wrong -- nm - Doll Face-Wearing Jakarta Street Monkeys Oct 30, 11:28
- Man, Japanese reality shows are going really far. -- nm - Reagen Oct 30, 11:26 1
  - have you seen the show that pranked a guy with a real looking raptor? - Mel Profit Oct 30, 11:30
- The hands thing at 1:55 in the video is freaky. - Will Hunting Oct 30, 11:24 22
  - It almost looks like she is waving her hands in front of the sensors - amoxy Oct 30, 11:34 1
    - the opening and closing at the end is it finally going to all the floors she pushed. -- nm - Andie Oct 30, 11:45
  - it's very Blair Witch like. - Mel Profit Oct 30, 11:28 16
    - Uh... the elevator is the main thing to notice. -- nm - ♠hellSpawn♠ Oct 30, 11:30 15
      - I don't get why this is creepy. The elevator isn't behaving oddly, she is. -- nm - TWuG Oct 30, 11:33 10
        
        why didn`t it move, why didn`t the doors close? -- nm - Andie Oct 30, 11:35 2
        
        There's a wet girl with long dark hair pressing the call button out in the hallway. -- nm - Dr.Vermin Oct 30, 11:39 1
        
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        The doors stay open. They do not *do* that.. -- nm - ♠hellSpawn♠ Oct 30, 11:34 6
        
        Locked elevators do. Broken elevators do. -- nm - ty97 Oct 30, 11:38 4
        
        I assumed she mashed on the button that holds the elevator... - Mel Profit Oct 30, 11:42
        
        and then just start working normally after a few minutes? -- nm - decline Oct 30, 11:39
        
        And then suddenly start functioning normally after she is gone? - ♠hellSpawn♠ Oct 30, 11:39 1
        
        The "emergency stop" button stops the elevator and can be overridden by the security office. - TWuG Oct 30, 11:43
        
        Sure they do if you press the emergency stop button. -- nm - TWuG Oct 30, 11:36
      - not sure I take your point? - Mel Profit Oct 30, 11:33 1
        
        I agree, but the more concerning part is the elevator. -- nm - ♠hellSpawn♠ Oct 30, 11:40
      - Yeah, that's the creepiest thing to me (though the hands thing is creepy too). -- nm - Kim Pine Oct 30, 11:31 1
        
        Whe she renters the elevator before that, with her hands on the edges, the entire look of her was unsettling. -- nm - ♠hellSpawn♠ Oct 30, 11:32
  - i know. -- nm - Andie Oct 30, 11:25 2
    - i am not 100% sure it`s real. -- nm - Andie Oct 30, 11:25 1
      - (but i can`t find a site that debunks it.) -- nm - Andie Oct 30, 11:27
- I remember this story. This was water people were drinking. -- nm - Mop (200 lbs) Oct 30, 11:21 2
  - "does this water taste like chop suey to you?" -- nm - Hotel Guest Oct 30, 11:22
  - watch the video. -- nm - Andie Oct 30, 11:22
No, no, NO! The businesses near me are starting to put up their winter doors :( -- nm - ty97 Oct 30, 11:15 4
- My brother and my parents have both put up their car shelters. if you don't know what that is, you don't live where it snows a lot. -- nm - Mop (200 lbs) Oct 30, 11:16 3
  - or you have a garage. car shelters are a really Montreal thing. -- nm - Andie Oct 30, 11:21 2
    - But they do sound adorable. -- nm - ♠hellSpawn♠ Oct 30, 11:31 1
      - Grandma's knitting you a car cozie. -- nm - Mop (200 lbs) Oct 30, 11:32
Lunch in Lafayette. That last bit was a slog. Oversized trucks not allowing passing and bad roads. -- nm - Qale as Folk Oct 30, 11:08 6
- You didn't stop in Biloxi and hit the casinos? -20 SB Points -- nm - Strongbad Oct 30, 11:33
- When the trucks block your rights of passage, road rage is for the driver the most sacred right and indispensible duty -- nm - Marquis de Lafayette Oct 30, 11:19
- whatcha having? -- nm - decline Oct 30, 11:13 3
  - Jr. Bacon at Wendy's. Bottle of water. I can overhear this guy who is on the phone saying he lost everything at a casino. -- nm - Qale as Folk Oct 30, 11:16 1
    - Daymn -- nm - Epiphany Oct 30, 11:39
  - Lafayette. -- nm - TWuG Oct 30, 11:14
I'm about 5 episodes into S2 of Breaking Bad. The wow factor is only at about a 4 - prayformojo Oct 30, 11:02 15
- I think the payoff is Season 2 is pretty great. Season 3 is a step over it. -- nm - Inigo Oct 30, 11:05
- There were 3 Holy Sh** moments in Season 1 -- nm - amoxy Oct 30, 11:02 12
  - At this point, I think we can just macro these responses. - Mop (200 lbs) Oct 30, 11:18
  - Yes, but....(spoilers) - prayformojo Oct 30, 11:05 10
    - wait for it -- nm - Beaker Oct 30, 11:08
    - Yeah, agreed. Stick with it, it gets alot better in Season 3 -- nm - amoxy Oct 30, 11:08
    - the stuff with the wife is a blackeye on the show. -- nm - Don Homer Oct 30, 11:06 7
      - I dunno, I kinda like the discomfort I felt during all that. nm -- nm - groiny Oct 30, 11:16 6
        
        Totally agreed. -- nm - ♠hellSpawn♠ Oct 30, 11:17 5
        
        I really, really hated her by the end of the second season. nm -- nm - groiny Oct 30, 11:20 4
        
        Dave hates her. i don`t. -- nm - Andie Oct 30, 11:21 3
        
        to be fair, I hated her from the beginning. - groiny Oct 30, 11:23 2
        
        I was okay with her, at first. - ♠hellSpawn♠ Oct 30, 11:33
        
        (we are just finishing season 3, so, i don`t know how it works out in the end.) -- nm - Andie Oct 30, 11:28
- Really? You may want to give it up. -- nm - ♠hellSpawn♠ Oct 30, 11:02
$5 extra a month for HBO, Showtime, Starz, and Encore because I'm a "quality" customer! -- nm - The Legend of CQ Hollow Oct 30, 11:00 3
- Who's your provider? -- nm - Mop (200 lbs) Oct 30, 11:16
- They offered us that, but I declined. -- nm - ♠hellSpawn♠ Oct 30, 11:02
- yeah - we got that too. - Diva Oct 30, 11:00
Spying is like farting - everyone does but you're supposed to be discreet about it and apologize when you're caught. -- nm - Reagen Oct 30, 10:54 30
- So the WSJ "Actually those recordings came from your own agencies" story is an example of "he who smelt it, dealt it." -- nm - Dr.Vermin Oct 30, 11:11
- I guess we'll never know what we gained from spying on our allies, but I can't imagine it's significant. -- nm - Inigo Oct 30, 11:00 23
  - 1) You spy on your allies to know when they're not your allies. 2) The cost of what you miss if you don't spy exceeds what you gain when you do. - Max Oct 30, 11:11 21
    - I think America already has a good idea of which allies are its allies and which are not -- nm - Roger More Oct 30, 11:17 11
      - *boom* - Pearl Harbor Oct 30, 11:25 9
        
        Japan wasn't an ally, it was a strategic threat - like Russia and China are today. -- nm - Roger More Oct 30, 11:29 1
        
        and Germany, France, Italy and Spain are too it looks like - DaneDukeNuuk Oct 30, 11:31
        
        Japan was one of the closest allies of the US in june 1941? -- nm - DaneDukeNuuk Oct 30, 11:26 6
        
        No, but weren't we friendly before we weren't? The key point is you don't wait to find out that your friends have betrayed you. -- nm - Max Oct 30, 11:35 5
        
        And more seriously, not really. In the 1860s, the US sent warships to Japan to force them to open trade. - Roger More Oct 30, 11:46
        
        "I'll take Jap anus relations for $400, Trebek!" -- nm - Sean Connery si Oct 30, 11:39
        
        so an surprise attack from Canada or Belgium is likely yes? - DaneDukeNuuk Oct 30, 11:38 2
        
        Yes, exactly, an attack from Canada is likely. And when people betray you they always put it on the agenda for discussion. -- nm - Max Oct 30, 11:44 1
        
        NATO is an integrated millitary allience and you need spies to prevent from attack fro member nations there? - DaneDukeNuuk Oct 30, 11:50
      - aparently the US has no allies at all everyone is spyed on -- nm - DaneDukeNuuk Oct 30, 11:21
    - The game is going to happen whether you actively participate or not. I'd rather we were the best at it instead of a bystander. - TWuG Oct 30, 11:16 4
      - you think so based on what? - DaneDukeNuuk Oct 30, 11:20 3
        
        What difference does it make how it's organized? Or the number of people involved? - TWuG Oct 30, 11:30 2
        
        ohh yes the large part of he internet is based of technoly from France i know - DaneDukeNuuk Oct 30, 11:36 1
        
        We're better at it and I'm thankful we are. -- nm - TWuG Oct 30, 11:46
    - the US has agreements with allies about what to spy on and what not - DaneDukeNuuk Oct 30, 11:15 2
      - pff, the law. -- nm - Pee Wee Herman Oct 30, 11:16 1
        
        i know it's not really leagal to kidnap and enprison citizens of other nations but it happens even without an apology afterwards -- nm - DaneDukeNuuk Oct 30, 11:30
    - Since so much of political and economic negotiations is like a game of poker, its easier if you can peek at their cards -- nm - zeitgeist Oct 30, 11:13
  - 99% of all valuable inteligence would be given voluntarally i think - DaneDukeNuuk Oct 30, 11:01
- some people don't really get the outrage it seems - DaneDukeNuuk Oct 30, 11:00 2
  - I'm not suggesting it was wise or good to do that - and we've had our own spying scandal recently - Reagen Oct 30, 11:02 1
    - thats what i mean - DaneDukeNuuk Oct 30, 11:09
- Has ST discussed this yet? Kremlin slips spying gadgets into G20 summit gift bags -- (link) - Strongbad Oct 30, 10:57
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FFLYC: My 7-1 team is tied for first, is first in points (912) and is first in points allowed (669). Have never had that happen this late. -- nm - ♠hellSpawn♠ Oct 30, 10:53 1
- "The draft continues to pay off for Team hellSpawn, which got 90.6% of their points from players they drafted." -- nm - ♠hellSpawn♠ Oct 30, 11:07
My other point: where are they finding 50 people to go to a 1 year olds b-day party? I'd light myself on fire first -- nm - Beaker Oct 30, 10:53 17
- hoping for more gifts, send out 50 invites, get a couple dozen cute outfits, toys, all for the price of a cake -- nm - Marquis de Lafayette Oct 30, 11:22
- Is there a keg? -- nm - Ender Oct 30, 11:12
- Normally, being invited to so many children's parties would cause irreparable damage to the friendship, but... - Roger More Oct 30, 10:56 3
  - I bet he sells Amway and is looking for new customers -- nm - amoxy Oct 30, 11:02 1
    - oof. -- nm - Diva Oct 30, 11:02
  - this - I think he just really likes throwing parties. But I think it's wearing her out. -- nm - Diva Oct 30, 11:01
- It sounds like these were adult parties disguised as a kid's birthday party. - Inigo Oct 30, 10:55 4
  - agreed. ours are more family get togethers. -- nm - The Legend of CQ Hollow Oct 30, 10:58
  - I can do that at home without a bunch of other people's kids bothering me -- nm - Beaker Oct 30, 10:58 2
    - My guess on this dude's thinking is "I have to have a party for my kid, but I want a party too!" -- nm - Inigo Oct 30, 11:09 1
      - true, but/and the manipulation of her on his part is way uncool. -- nm - Diva Oct 30, 11:12
- You didn't invite me to little Snotterick's birthday gathering? They shall hear about this at the next cotillion! -- nm - Reagen Oct 30, 10:55 1
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- even if there were booze and strippers? -- nm - colin Oct 30, 10:53 2
  - daddy? why is the jungle gym only straight up? -- nm - zeitgeist Oct 30, 11:15
  - TAKE THE DIAPERS OFF! -- nm - Beaker Oct 30, 10:54

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