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Meeting TWuG in a little over an hour! Lost count of my ST face-time, but always happy to spend time with anyone here. -- nm - CrankYanker Feb 10, 09:40 1
- You did see Truman's coming into town? -- nm - Meg Feb 10, 09:46
Healthcare Triage does it again: Artificial sweaters are not dangerous. -- (link) - Mop (205 lbs) Feb 10, 09:36 [youtube] 6
- *wonders about merino wool* -- nm - JenBro Feb 10, 09:55
- But, but, cancer! Searle! Donald Rumsfeld! -- nm - Koo Koo Birds Feb 10, 09:45 1
  - yeah, comments are even more of a paranoid wasteland than usual. -- nm - Reagen Feb 10, 09:46
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- I still refuse to wear acrylic anyway. -- nm - Reagen Feb 10, 09:44
- They are if they are too tight! -- nm - Spawn Feb 10, 09:44
We should do something to promote CQ's sunset photo. It looks like I'm the only one who "favorite"d it. - Mop (205 lbs) Feb 10, 09:36 2
- *ahem* -- nm - con_carne Feb 10, 09:37 1
  - Sunset selfie? -- nm - Spawn Feb 10, 09:38
Frozen directors Chris Buck & Jennifer Lee, producer Peter Del Vecho, and songwriters Kristen Anderson-Lopez & Robert Lopez are doing a reddit AMA... -- (link) - Mop (205 lbs) Feb 10, 09:29
ST Predictions: Predict the Olympic Men's Hockey medal winners: -- nm - Beaker Feb 10, 09:28 2
- Canada, Russia, US -- nm - Beaker Feb 10, 09:28 1
  - This -- nm - Krusty Feb 10, 09:34
St Oscar Poll: 5 films have two Best Actress nominees in them. Name them. - Inigo Feb 10, 09:25 34
- I rocked this shit!!! -- nm - Spawn Feb 10, 09:43
- Last movie hint: 1970s movie about ballet dancers. -- nm - Inigo Feb 10, 09:40 5
  - Turning Point? -- nm - Spawn Feb 10, 09:40 4
    - A movie also famous for not winning a damn thing. -- nm - Baron Business Feb 10, 09:46
    - Anne Bancroft, Shirley MacLaine -- nm - Diva Feb 10, 09:41 2
      - Correct. It's the Spawn and Diva show. -- nm - Inigo Feb 10, 09:42
      - heh -- nm - Spawn Feb 10, 09:41
- WAG, All About Eve? -- nm - Spawn Feb 10, 09:33 9
  - Yes, and you know the drill. -- nm - Inigo Feb 10, 09:34 8
    - Bette Davis is easy... -- nm - Spawn Feb 10, 09:34 7
      - ... chick form Magnifiacnt Ambersons... -- nm - Spawn Feb 10, 09:34 6
        
        ... was it Alice Baxter? -- nm - Spawn Feb 10, 09:35 5
        
        ... maybe Anne Baxter? -- nm - Spawn Feb 10, 09:38 4
        
        Correct. -- nm - Inigo Feb 10, 09:39 3
        
        And I am *done* this time. Zero idea of the others. -- nm - Spawn Feb 10, 09:39 2
        
        There are no others. -- nm - Roger More Feb 10, 09:42 1
        
        (this was before his above hint) -- nm - Spawn Feb 10, 09:42
- Suddenly Last Summer and I have no idea about the rest. -- nm - Spawn Feb 10, 09:28 8
  - Yes. Name them. :) -- nm - Inigo Feb 10, 09:29 7
    - Kate and Elizabeth. -- nm - Spawn Feb 10, 09:30 2
      - Correct. -- nm - Inigo Feb 10, 09:33 1
        
        (pretty good movie) -- nm - Spawn Feb 10, 09:34
    - Elizabeth Taylor, Geraldine Page? -- nm - Diva Feb 10, 09:30 3
      - Hey, no helpsies -- nm - con_carne Feb 10, 09:31 2
        
        i don't think I'm right anyway. I think it was Hepburn, Taylor. -- nm - Diva Feb 10, 09:31 1
        
        See above. -- nm - Spawn Feb 10, 09:32
- Thelma & Louise -- nm - Spawn Feb 10, 09:27 5
  - Yes, the last one. Name the actresses. :P -- nm - Inigo Feb 10, 09:29 4
    - Two dudes wearing wigs. -- nm - Spawn Feb 10, 09:31
    - Sarandon, Davis -- nm - Diva Feb 10, 09:31 2
      - Right, Deevs. You should be able to get the other two films left. -- nm - Inigo Feb 10, 09:33 1
        
        nah - I'm pretty brain dead these days. -- nm - Diva Feb 10, 09:37
- On Golden Pond (Jane Fonda and another old bird) -- nm - Beaker Feb 10, 09:26 1
  - No. They put Jane in the supporting category. IIRC, there was controversy she wasn't in the Best Actress category. -- nm - Inigo Feb 10, 09:28
No offense, but I would assume the mayor of Sochi is a tad too busy to meet with a city councillor from Canada (be he gay or straight) -- (link) - Beaker Feb 10, 09:23 1
- If it's important to you, you make time. (But, what's the upside to the mayor of Sochi for the meeting? In Russia, right now, there isn't one) -- nm - Roger More Feb 10, 09:41
Well looks like GA/NC/SC can expect 8-10" of snow this week, and mid atlantic may get dumped on -- (link) - MDH Feb 10, 09:17 7
- -20 SB Points to Mother Nature -- nm - Strongbad Feb 10, 09:30 2
  - And here for Metro Atlanta, 2" snow tops... basically a wintry mix with possibility of ice until Thursday AM -- nm - Strongbad Feb 10, 09:34 1
    - If I may suggest something.... - ty97 Feb 10, 09:37
- More concerning than the snow is the potential for a severe ice storm in parts of that area. -- nm - Don Homer Feb 10, 09:20
- I doubt there's a loaf of bread or a bottle of water left in Atlanta after the last debacle -- nm - ty97 Feb 10, 09:20
- Just checked the weather ap. This is the first time this year that the entire week has a forecast of sunshine. - Spawn Feb 10, 09:19
- *buys all the toilet paper* -- nm - Beaker Feb 10, 09:17
And on a gay support note, the mayors of Canada are kinda owning it right not (except, you know that one guy). -- (link) - ty97 Feb 10, 09:12 2
- yeah, the rest of Canada is making me proud (the flag is flying here, but Ford's input sort of sullies the whole thing) -- nm - Andie Feb 10, 09:19
- Example 2 -- (link) - ty97 Feb 10, 09:13
How cool is it that this story is coming out of a state like Missouri (not exactly the gay friendliest one we have) -- nm - ty97 Feb 10, 09:10 6
- I would like to go ahead and not be obsessed about who every public figure chooses to sleep with now please -- nm - con_carne Feb 10, 09:15 5
  - Agreed, but this *is* rather epic. -- nm - Spawn Feb 10, 09:17 4
    - Have any new mock drafts come out yet? will be interesting to see if any of the "experts" change his position -- nm - Beaker Feb 10, 09:18 3
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      - Well, he was not going to be first or second round (he us undersized and may shift position), but yeah. - Spawn Feb 10, 09:20 1
        
        What should really happen now is that a group of NFL players who are gay should all come out and issue a statement saying that they've been reading - pmb Feb 10, 09:33
ST Poll: What is the most you have won playing the lottery? -- nm - Beaker Feb 10, 09:01 15
- $9000 -- nm - JaxSean Feb 10, 12:11
- about $30 - 40 over the course of some scratch offs in a 2 day period -- nm - i'm not dead yet ! Feb 10, 10:35
- 20 bucks, my mom and some fellow employees split $130,000 but there were so many people that her take home was just 5k - J-Nexus Feb 10, 09:52
- A 65" TV, I suppose. -- nm - the King of Argentina Feb 10, 09:41
- Around $20. -- nm - Krusty Feb 10, 09:35
- $576 -- nm - Jovian Feb 10, 09:24
- Far less than I've spent. -- nm - ty97 Feb 10, 09:15
- $50 on a scratch-off. -- nm - Diva Feb 10, 09:15
- $25. My grandfather has hit multiple $250s+ on scratch offs. -- nm - MDH Feb 10, 09:14
- $12 off of powerball. $20 from a scratch off -- nm - decline Feb 10, 09:04
- $85. Many years ago. Think it was 4 out 6 -- nm - amoxy Feb 10, 09:03
- a free ticket? -- nm - CQ Feb 10, 09:03
- $20 on a scratch off ticket. - Will Hunting Feb 10, 09:03 1
  - oh, scratch offs. Yeah, I've won $50 on one of those. -- nm - CQ Feb 10, 09:04
- I won $131.60 on Friday's draw (5 out of 7 numbers and that is it!). - Beaker Feb 10, 09:02
Here is my newest game addiction: Threes! Ten minutes can quickly turn into two hours... -- (link) - Don Homer Feb 10, 08:58
Kessels and Carpenters are badass hockey players. - David Feb 10, 08:57 1
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The level of carelessness is astonishing. My grandpa is at a nursing home still recovering from his long hospital stay. They were doing a urine - James Bond (aka Igor) Feb 10, 08:55 5
- it is a wonder any of these places are still running, the lawsuits have to be piled up for most of them. - groiny Feb 10, 08:57 3
  - Oh, it is ridiculous. I have way more stories. -- nm - James Bond (aka Igor) Feb 10, 09:11 1
    - We all do. When my grandmother was in my sister, mothe and I took shifts to be there whenever anything was happening with her. - Spawn Feb 10, 09:13
  - *all close* - Nursing Homes Feb 10, 08:58
- SOP -- nm - Spawn Feb 10, 08:56
Alright. Obligatory ST Poll: What is your high score in Flappy Bird? - oblique Feb 10, 08:50 15
- 15 -- nm - J-Nexus Feb 10, 09:49
- 22 and I deleted it a day later. I played for two days. -- nm - Krusty Feb 10, 09:37
- 5. And then I realized how much I would come to hate the game, and myself for playing it, and I deleted it. - IrishStephen (Master of The Filthy Jockstrap) Feb 10, 09:30
- 6 -- nm - Jovian Feb 10, 09:24
- Never played it. -- nm - Kim Pine Feb 10, 09:05
- I installed but never played. -- nm - spamlet Feb 10, 09:04
- never played -- nm - CQ Feb 10, 08:58
- 7 - ty97 Feb 10, 08:52 2
  - You got off of Scruff for 40 minutes? -- nm - MDH Feb 10, 08:57
  - lol -- nm - Spawn Feb 10, 08:54
- WTF???? -- nm - groiny Feb 10, 08:51 1
  - The game or the score? I get kinda obsessive esp when my kids are playing and beating me -- nm - oblique Feb 10, 09:26
- I played ten times, got 25, and deleted it. -- nm - Spawn Feb 10, 08:51
- n/a -- nm - Don Homer Feb 10, 08:51 1
  - Me either. Never heard about the game until Saturday. -- nm - Name Withheld By Request Feb 10, 08:51
I counted wrong. There were 11 films with two best Actor nominations. The only missing film was... - Inigo Feb 10, 08:48 2
- Carry my answer forward. -- nm - LMS Feb 10, 08:57
- yes to your im -- nm - Beaker Feb 10, 08:50
B.C.'s new Family Law Act is the first to allow birth certificates with more than 2 parents -- (link) - Beaker Feb 10, 08:46
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- WTF is flappy bird, can someone give me a synopsis of this -- nm - MDH Feb 10, 08:51 2
  - A simplified version of Badlands, sounds like. -- nm - Mara Feb 10, 09:02
  - Stupid little app where you tap the screen and a bird flaps its wings, and you guide it through obstacles. - Mop (205 lbs) Feb 10, 08:52
- I will give $4500 for a time machine to go back and never download this game. -- nm - ty97 Feb 10, 08:47 2
  - I downloaded it yest just so I could have it. there's appar some noise that the millions of d/l might have been - peggy ann mcamanda Feb 10, 08:49 1
    - I have no idea if it was faked or not, but it definitely blew up in my Twitter feed circa Thursday/Friday last week -- nm - ty97 Feb 10, 08:55
- I still don't quite understand what the guy's deal was. I saw he was pulling in $50k per day in ad revenue?? -- nm - Don Homer Feb 10, 08:46 9
  - People were angry it was too hard. - Spawn Feb 10, 08:48 2
    - It was kinda buggy -- nm - ty97 Feb 10, 09:04 1
      - Really? Had no problems like that. -- nm - Spawn Feb 10, 09:10
  - heh, was just reqading about it. He claims it ruined his life...but there are also claims he was about to get his ass sued for copyright infringement -- (link) - Beaker Feb 10, 08:48 5
    - I'm curious. If he pulls the app, does he still get revenue from existing installations? -- nm - oblique Feb 10, 08:49 2
      - Of course. - Spawn Feb 10, 08:55
      - I would assume so. -- nm - Don Homer Feb 10, 08:50
    - Uhm, what kind of Invasion of the Body Snatchers shit is on the hand in that pic? -- nm - Spawn Feb 10, 08:49
    - also claims that the reason it became so popular so fast was the use of bots/fake accounts to download it -- nm - Beaker Feb 10, 08:48
- OFFS -- nm - Spawn Feb 10, 08:46
What movie has the most former acting Oscar winners in it? (I don't know the answer, just wondering what it might be) - Beaker Feb 10, 08:40 3
- Michael Todd's Around the World in 80 Days -- nm - peglegpete Feb 10, 09:27
- that's possibly right. I count 9 if Seth MacFarlane counts. -- nm - Reagen Feb 10, 08:52
- this shows winners and nominees together... -- (link) - Beaker Feb 10, 08:42
WHY HAS NO ONE KILLED JOFFREY YET??? -- nm - David Feb 10, 08:38 1
- He is the rightful king! The people love him! -- nm - Roger More Feb 10, 09:00
mandy, I missed your issue. Have you tried iserror? - spamlet Feb 10, 08:34 2
- I tried IFERROR to get the statement to return me a value of 0, but I don't know if match can be used in conj with iferror. I will try iserror next. - peggy ann mcamanda Feb 10, 08:38
- or isna() -- nm - decline Feb 10, 08:36
You know what's a joke? Neither Redford nor Newman was nominated for Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid. - David Feb 10, 08:33 11
- that's messed up. -- nm - Mel Profit Feb 10, 09:01
- although dang, that's a murderer's row of nominees in 1970. -- nm - Reagen Feb 10, 08:38 4
  - The hell? I just went to look and stumbled upon the concept of "Goldie Hawn, Oscar winning actress". -- nm - Name Withheld By Request Feb 10, 08:51 1
    - she was sort of the Jennifer Lawrence of her day. - Reagen Feb 10, 08:57
  - 67 -- nm - Don Homer Feb 10, 08:48
  - I've never seen the Burton film. but I've seen others describe it as the worst 10 nomination film ever made. -- nm - David Feb 10, 08:40
- PSA: American Experience has a Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid episode tonight - con_carne Feb 10, 08:37 2
  - *tunes in, gets pissed off* -- nm - Spawn Feb 10, 08:40
  - Correction: tomorrow night -- nm - con_carne Feb 10, 08:39
- Yet "Raindrops Keep Fallin' on My Head" was... -- nm - Ender Feb 10, 08:34
- Agreed. -- nm - Spawn Feb 10, 08:33
name the two films to have their entire cast nominated. -- nm - Reagen Feb 10, 08:30 6
- Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? -- nm - Don Homer Feb 10, 08:32 1
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- On Golden Pond? -- nm - Beaker Feb 10, 08:32
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  - I'd never seen the first on this list, likely because of what it mentions. -- nm - Reagen Feb 10, 08:35
- Sleuth (which is a cheat, because B2) -- nm - Roger More Feb 10, 08:30
Speaking of Hollywood, I came across this fantastic award acceptance speech by Jerry Seinfeld. "All awards are stupid..." -- (link) - con_carne Feb 10, 08:29 [youtube]
No one ever says Jude Law. -- nm - David Feb 10, 08:29 1
- *seethes* -- nm - Sean Penn Feb 10, 08:58

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