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Crash Davis Alert: Laura VanDerVoot news on the new show Bitten -- (link) - Remlik Jan 8, 13:00
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Oh, and Happy 14th job anniversary to me! (3 days ago) -- nm - ty97 Jan 8, 12:55 2
- Do you get an extra week of vacation next year? -- nm - David Jan 8, 12:57 1
  - Nope. I get another week at 20. - ty97 Jan 8, 12:58
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- Shield pilot? -- nm - peglegpete Jan 8, 13:01
- Emmys? -- nm - Will Hunting Jan 8, 13:00
- Victoria Secrets show a few weeks back with Taylor Swift? -- nm - peglegpete Jan 8, 12:59
- Game 7 of the World Series -- nm - Was Bar Was, Vampirates Primogen Jan 8, 12:58
- Sound of Music remake! -- nm - CQ Jan 8, 12:57
- Sound of Music? -- nm - spamlet Jan 8, 12:56 1
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Pennsylvania man seeks injunction, claiming San Diego Chargers shouldn't be in the playoffs... -- (link) - Don Homer Jan 8, 12:52 2
- Never mind that Pittsburgh had some assistance from the officials in beating the Packers the previous week. -- nm - Was Bar Was, Vampirates Primogen Jan 8, 13:07
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Payley Fest 2014: Hollywood at Dolby 3/13 - VerMars, OITNB, HIMYM, LOST, Mad Men, Community, AHS: Coven.. - budice Jan 8, 12:41
Pope picks up "hitchhiking" priest in Popemobile -- (link) - Beaker Jan 8, 12:37
8 actual NBA teams have contacte Andrew Bynum's agent.... -- nm - Beaker Jan 8, 12:35
52 degrees. I felt overdressed. -- nm - Mop on Samsung Galaxy S3 Jan 8, 12:34
I've been invited to the annual conference of SCUM ! - Meg Jan 8, 12:33 3
- they must have been very nervous extending the honor, i'll bet the letter was signed by the red shirt intern -- nm - zeitgeist Jan 8, 13:18
- cool t-shirts I bet -- nm - Beaker Jan 8, 12:34 1
  - Exactly.... -- nm - Meg Jan 8, 12:38
Map of Flu outbreaks in Canada... -- (link) - Beaker Jan 8, 12:29 5
- And nunavut doesn't even have one of the Legend colours -- nm - Beryllium Jan 8, 13:08
- *this enormous area* has a widespread outbreak, and *THIS enormous area* has localized outbreaks. -- nm - Andie Jan 8, 12:54
- that's a rather lousy map. -- nm - Don Homer Jan 8, 12:31
- I like how granulated they got with that. -- nm - Reagen Jan 8, 12:30 1
  - what is the deal with Alberta anyway? any theories as to why you guys are having such a bad flu season? -- nm - Andie Jan 8, 13:02
My friend (and former roommate) who still lives in Chicago notes on FB that he has a habit of holding is car key in his mouth while getting gas. - ty97 Jan 8, 12:23 5
- OFFS -- nm - Spawn Jan 8, 12:30
- (and then one his tires went flat in the cold and he had to change it) -- nm - ty97 Jan 8, 12:25
- ! -- nm - Andie Jan 8, 12:25
- odd habit. -- nm - CQ Jan 8, 12:24
- oh dear -- nm - Beaker Jan 8, 12:23
20% for Mussina....90% for Glavine. - Will Hunting Jan 8, 12:23 5
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- Moose deserves to get in and I think he'll get there eventually. Though, that number is surprising. -- nm - Krusty Jan 8, 12:33
- yeah, Mussina's number is a joke relative to Glavine's. -- nm - Don Homer Jan 8, 12:29
- wow, I would have lost that bet -- nm - Beaker Jan 8, 12:25
- Plus, he was on a bad team in a hitter's park in a hitter's league for half his career. -- nm - Inigo Jan 8, 12:24
Gah! With being on three different insulin medications, it's ridiculous how much I have to eat to keep my blood sugar from falling to low. - IrishStephen (Master of The Filthy Jockstrap) Jan 8, 12:19 6
- it would depend on the size of the sandwich but I would be positively starving by dinner if that was all I had. -- nm - Reagen Jan 8, 12:25
- Little known fact, the first draft of Speed was called Insulin Shock before they rewrote it to change 100 to 55mph. Sandra signed on and it hit big. -- nm - true story Jan 8, 12:24
- that's not a lot of food, really, and i think you will definitely have to eat 3-4 times a day... -- nm - Andie Jan 8, 12:23 3
  - Seriously? I guess i've just gotten used to not eating breakfast, and only occassionally lunch, that it seems to be a lot? - IrishStephen (Master of The Filthy Jockstrap) Jan 8, 12:28 1
    - That may have been enough for our ancestors, but this isn't nineteen-tickety-two. -- nm - Max Jan 8, 12:34
  - (well, the breakfast is substantial, but overall it's not a ton.) -- nm - Andie Jan 8, 12:27
30 of the naughtiest.... -- (link) - Remlik Jan 8, 12:18
Wakes up from surgery and the first thing he says is "I want to go to the park!" -- nm - Beryllium Jan 8, 12:16 2
- Tahiti is a magical place -- nm - Agent Coulson Jan 8, 12:18 1
  - Tahiti is not in Europe! -- nm - Bernard Abbott Jan 8, 12:27
Frozen passes $300 million. Likely on it's way to $400 million (Thank you, Wednesday Christmas!) -- (link) - Inigo Jan 8, 12:14 11
- It doesn't have that much juice left in it. -- nm - Tim Jan 8, 12:31 6
  - It was only down 31.5% last weekend. Most kids films following the Christmas holidays drop 45% to 55%. Plus, there's a holiday weekend coming up. - Inigo Jan 8, 12:38 5
    - I still consider last weekend a holiday weekend as most schools weren't back in until Monday. -- nm - Tim Jan 8, 12:40 1
      - right. it got a soft landing out of Christmas. -- nm - Reagen Jan 8, 13:01
    - what did Lion King do? does it have a chance to pass that? -- nm - Beaker Jan 8, 12:39 2
      - $312.85 million in the first run. $328.54 million after an IMAX re-release. $422.78 million after the 3-D re-release. - Inigo Jan 8, 12:47
      - Depends on if you include the re-releases or not. -- nm - David Jan 8, 12:42
- for those who care, i do believe that this makes the blockbuster warrent a definite long -- nm - i'm not dead yet ! Jan 8, 12:28
- Dah. *Its* ^ -- nm - Inigo Jan 8, 12:22
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  - Thank you global warming! -- nm - Max Jan 8, 12:15
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- i am glad it's happening and not sure i could bear to watch it. - Andie Jan 8, 12:15 1
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- cool, thanks. -- nm - Don Homer Jan 8, 12:12
So, a positive development occurred at work. This calls for a glass of wine tonight. ST pick my wine - ty97 Jan 8, 12:10 5
- you should get goats do roam. (note that we cancelled bourbon last night due to cold. maybe tonight.) -- nm - peggy ann mcamanda Jan 8, 12:51
- Congrats for whatever it is! Anything but merlot. -- nm - Krusty Jan 8, 12:34
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- what are you having for dinner? I'll say a malbec. -- nm - Don Homer Jan 8, 12:11 1
  - Wine, duh. - ty97 Jan 8, 12:12
OK, here's the second excerpt I released.....no more til the book comes out. Enjoy! ZZTop and Farrah Fawcett - CrankYanker Jan 8, 12:08 8
- cool, thanks for sharing. -- nm - Don Homer Jan 8, 12:20
- as I said a decade ago, this book is gonna sell big and be a very fun movie -- nm - peglegpete Jan 8, 12:12 1
  - heh, have I been talking about it that long? It's hard. I don't know how Qale cranks them out so fast. -- nm - CrankYanker Jan 8, 12:27
- did you ever ask for autographs? or was that a no-no? -- nm - Beaker Jan 8, 12:10 4
  - Every chance I got...and pics. I wish we had cellphones way back when. -- nm - CrankYanker Jan 8, 12:20 3
    - the Hilton story you posted certainly would have been much more memorable :) -- nm - Beaker Jan 8, 12:21 1
      - yeah, that image is burned into my brain. -- nm - CrankYanker Jan 8, 12:26
    - It was a perceived no-no, but the celebs didn't mind and I usually developed a friendly relationship with them. -- nm - CrankYanker Jan 8, 12:21
I don't want the juicers getting in but some, at least partially, should be there. I'm just not sure what you put on their plaques if they've never - Krusty Jan 8, 12:00 14
- how do you determine who used or not? why does Maddux get off scot-free? I highly doubt Thomas never partook. -- nm - Don Homer Jan 8, 12:08 3
  - There was never a hint that the slow throwing Maddux juiced, that's why. -- nm - Krusty Jan 8, 12:35
  - Thomas was 6-6 and 240 before he finished college. If he took steroids, it was pointless. - David Jan 8, 12:23 1
    - Yup, he played TE for Auburn. -- nm - spamlet Jan 8, 12:26
- The bigger question is how much did the juice help them become elite players in the first place - eag Jan 8, 12:07 1
  - you'll never know that, just as you'll never know definitely who all did it. so you let them in, or you let no one in. -- nm - Don Homer Jan 8, 12:08
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  - There should be a committee and the votes taken away from the writers. This system doesn't work well. -- nm - Krusty Jan 8, 12:30
  - let's kick out the amphetamine freaks from the 60s/70s too. -- nm - Don Homer Jan 8, 12:07
- *tested positive but* -- nm - Krusty Jan 8, 12:04
- Have a special room, sponsored by Tropicana -- nm - ty97 Jan 8, 12:01 2
  - Ha! :-) -- nm - Krusty Jan 8, 12:04
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- The Asterisk Wing. -- nm - Reagen Jan 8, 12:01
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JenBro - the Britney stories are actually the easiest because I wasn't there during the meltdown....here's one of them... - CrankYanker Jan 8, 11:59 10
- that's really cool. -- nm - Mel Profit Jan 8, 12:32
- "And when B says 'remind me to fire you,' she means it. I didn't bother to remind her and she totally forgot." -- nm - Max Jan 8, 12:19
- that IS a great story (but you have 'conservation' and mean 'conversation'.) -- nm - Andie Jan 8, 12:11 1
  - thanks, still rewriting and it hasn't gone to edit yet. -- nm - CrankYanker Jan 8, 12:40
- Bah, no dirt!!! -- nm - Spawn Jan 8, 12:03
- *sniffles* ... dusty in here - JenBro Jan 8, 12:02 1
  - TY -- nm - CrankYanker Jan 8, 12:09
- yeah, you posted this before, great story. -- nm - Beaker Jan 8, 12:01 2
  - isn't it? must be pretty cool to be able to make someone's day like that - and have staff that can just "make it happen" too ... what a world - it's - JenBro Jan 8, 12:04 1
    - Pretty much every day was like this with her, I loved working for her. -- nm - CrankYanker Jan 8, 12:06
I don't care how bad it is *for my car*. Leaving it running for 10 minutes means that's 10 more minutes of heat in the car so we're not shivering. - Mop (200 lbs) Jan 8, 11:57 1
- Take that, winter, you don't know what you're up against -- (link) - Max Jan 8, 12:02 [Image]
random thought that could be a game: has Clint Eastwood ever had a love scene or a passionate kiss in the movies? - Max Jan 8, 11:56 26
- everywhich way but loose - zeitgeist Jan 8, 13:15
- Man, Clint is sounding more and more like a big slut. -- nm - Max Jan 8, 12:25 1
  - don't get us started on what he did to the ape -- nm - Beaker Jan 8, 12:26
- the movie Tightrope. he hooked up with a woman who was into the kinky stuff. -- nm - Remlik Jan 8, 12:16 1
  - Play Misty For Me as well right? -- nm - Beaker Jan 8, 12:18
- he nails someone in Outlaw Josey Wales too...although the best sex scene in that is saved for Chief Dan George -- nm - Beaker Jan 8, 12:11 1
  - "Howdy" -- nm - Beaker Jan 8, 12:18
- Isn't there a western where he's nursed back to health in a brothel or at least a house full of women? -- nm - Mop (200 lbs) Jan 8, 12:09 2
  - The Beguiled. that's a weird ass movie -- nm - Remlik Jan 8, 12:16 1
    - I caught this on tv about a year. it's really is bizarre. -- nm - Andie Jan 8, 12:25
- I seem to recall some girls in the movie he did with Jeff bridges ... -- nm - Beryllium Jan 8, 12:02 3
  - Blood Work -- nm - Beaker Jan 8, 12:03 2
    - Yes, that too - I meant Thunderbolt and Lightfoot -- nm - Beryllium Jan 8, 12:11
    - was one (later in his career) -- nm - Beaker Jan 8, 12:04
- This calls for a supercut! -- (link) - mara Jan 8, 12:02 [youtube] 1
  - okay, now let's play Name the most recent movie kiss for a given actor -- nm - Max Jan 8, 12:04
- in High Plains Drifter he kinda - spoilers - Beaker Jan 8, 12:00 2
  - i was just talking about this movie a few days ago ... I don't remember your IM, so now i'm going to have to watch the movie again -- nm - i'm not dead yet ! Jan 8, 12:01 1
    - near the start - spoilers - Beaker Jan 8, 12:03
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- Didn't he in The Bridges of Madison County? Also one circa the early 80s but drawing a blank on which. -- nm - Don Homer Jan 8, 11:58
- Bridges of Madison County? -- nm - Reagen Jan 8, 11:58 4
  - I can't remember details - do they show anything between knowing looks and cut to waking up in the same bed? -- nm - Max Jan 8, 11:59 3
    - IIRC there's a shared bath scene -- nm - Roger More Jan 8, 12:31
    - I'm fairly certain there was kissing, and a scene in bed. -- nm - Inigo Jan 8, 12:06
    - I've never seen it. Just seemed like a likely candidate. -- nm - Reagen Jan 8, 12:00
The Steroid Hunt: We know what MLB players were doing during the steroid era. Here's what baseball writers did. -- (link) - Beaker Jan 8, 11:56
@NYGovCuomo: We will open a new spur for @MetroNorth providing direct access to #PennStation & build 4 new stations in the #Bronx... -- nm - ty97 Jan 8, 11:55
ST trivia buffs ... tonight is opening night for 4th season of Trivia here - will do my best to get the Q&A's - but can't post them tonight as I have - JenBro Jan 8, 11:55
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- Say it. -- nm - Mop (200 lbs) Jan 8, 11:54
The biggest thing to me about the Deadspin vote is that they are all defensible - Beaker Jan 8, 11:51 5
- Will he lose his ballot next year? And how often is the voting process revised? Any chance it changes in our lifetimes? -- nm - Mop (200 lbs) Jan 8, 12:01 3
  - The people that run baseball will take a few years to even *understand* what he did. -- nm - Spawn Jan 8, 12:04
  - He intends on officially turning it over to Deadspin next year. -- nm - Tim Jan 8, 12:03 1
    - plus they have another vote from the person who had to back out this year too -- nm - Beaker Jan 8, 12:04
- In theory you're going to get that with the "wisdom of crowds" - Reagen Jan 8, 11:56
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- I also would like to withdraw my name from contention. -- nm - Reagen Jan 8, 11:57

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