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NRA wins and the stolen weapons reporting part of the Missouri gun bill is taken out. - spamlet Feb 18, 10:35 2
- the NRA does more to damage the cause of legal gunowners as criminals. -- nm - colin Feb 18, 10:37 1
  - wait..than criminals. -- nm - colin Feb 18, 10:37
lmao ... this twitter account is tweeting Top Gun. One frame at a time. -- (link) - Beryllium Feb 18, 10:34 5
- i don't think one frame, just one piece of dialog. -- nm - colin Feb 18, 10:35 4
  - It looks pretty close to one per frame actually. Pretty silly. -- nm - Don Homer Feb 18, 10:38 3
    - It's somewhere in between. I'd guess it's probably more like 2-3 tweets per second. -- nm - Ender Feb 18, 10:45
    - related: my favorite tumblr, Three Frames. three frames animated from different movies. -- (link) - colin Feb 18, 10:39 1
      - warning on the above.. he really likes surreal movies and tits.. it can get strange and is NSFW. -- nm - colin Feb 18, 10:40
VHS vs. Communism... -- (link) - Don Homer Feb 18, 10:32
We have an iTunes download of Game of Thrones season 3 if someone here wants it. -- nm - David Feb 18, 10:24 10
- *raises hand* -- nm - oblique Feb 18, 10:25 9
  - *punches kilbo in the nipple* -- nm - groiny Feb 18, 10:30 4
    - I haven't even watched Season 2 yet -- nm - oblique Feb 18, 10:37 1
      - wtf are you waiting for? -- nm - groiny Feb 18, 10:39
    - I am getting you a Vudu code. -- nm - David Feb 18, 10:31 1
      - you da man! -- nm - groiny Feb 18, 10:32
  - Okay, email me for the code. -- nm - David Feb 18, 10:26 3
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      - "Thats amazing! I have the same code for my luggage!" -- nm - President Skroob Feb 18, 10:30
      - 4 15 18 ... -- nm - oblique Feb 18, 10:28
Meanwhile, 4 years ago on NPR: Olympic Events We Will Invent Ourselves In The Next 24 Hours If It Keeps Snowing -- (link) - Beryllium Feb 18, 10:16
so, i just foot in mouthed hardcore...made a comment TO someone about a service being jettisoned and she said "Yeah, I know.. that's my job"... - colin Feb 18, 10:14 1
- smh -- nm - groiny Feb 18, 10:15
Unless the trailer for GotG is goddamn mind blowing, that movie is going to *bomb*. -- nm - Shaun Feb 18, 10:14 31
- I think it's Marvel's toughest sell, and I'm curious how it will do. - the wrong element, bad guy Feb 18, 10:43
- The teaser for the trailer made me think of Watchmen. -- nm - Inigo Feb 18, 10:32 8
  - perhaps one of the most underrated comic book movies all time. -- nm - Jovian Feb 18, 10:34 6
    - Ambien thinks it was dull. -- nm - Will Hunting Feb 18, 10:38
    - i liked it a lot. i also liked the fantastic 4 movies. soo... -- nm - colin Feb 18, 10:36 2
      - it was the big blue dick, wasn't it? -- nm - groiny Feb 18, 10:36 1
        
        i wish it had been in 3D. -- nm - colin Feb 18, 10:38
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      - yeah, it was pretty awful. nm -- nm - groiny Feb 18, 10:36
  - I can see that. nm -- nm - groiny Feb 18, 10:32
- it will probably be the first movie I've seen in the theatre since The Avengers -- nm - Beaker Feb 18, 10:30 13
  - Dude, you should take the kiddos to The Lego Movie. -- nm - Don Homer Feb 18, 10:34
  - I.cannot.wait...Rocket, Quill, Drax, The Collector, Ronan, etc. All characters I never ever expected to see on the big screen -- nm - Jovian Feb 18, 10:34 11
    - Will The Collector be played by you-know-who? -- nm - Beryllium Feb 18, 10:35 7
      - yes. but I believe the main villain for GotG is actually Ronan though. -- nm - Jovian Feb 18, 10:36
      - we know who it is already. nm -- nm - groiny Feb 18, 10:36 5
        
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        such a convoluted movie... what the hell. it was about as bad as the first one. -- nm - colin Feb 18, 10:38 2
        
        yet, you liked Watchmen? - groiny Feb 18, 10:40
        
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        yes. nm -- nm - groiny Feb 18, 10:38
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      - yup, I follow comics a bit, and I have no clue. nm -- nm - groiny Feb 18, 10:35 1
        
        Well its understandable, outside Silver Surfer and Galactus, no other Marvel Cosmic properties have made it to the big screen - Jovian Feb 18, 10:38
- I really doubt it 'bombs', it might not be a mega-hit. But bomb? I just dont see it -- nm - Jovian Feb 18, 10:28 1
  - depends on the definition of bomb. nm -- nm - groiny Feb 18, 10:29
- Even the teaser was mind blowing. It's gonna crush it at the box office. -- nm - Mop (205 lbs) Feb 18, 10:19 3
  - what part was mind blowing? nm -- nm - groiny Feb 18, 10:20 2
    - that's part where they're like "Get in the chopper!" and then everything explodes. And kissing. -- nm - colin Feb 18, 10:22 1
      - Pretty much, yeah. -- nm - Mop (205 lbs) Feb 18, 10:24
- I am less than interested. nm -- nm - groiny Feb 18, 10:16
LIR - Budice - crikey - sorry about my mishap on the CFF email yesterday - I missed the 2nd "S" in the address - just re-sent it - JenBro Feb 18, 10:11 1
- I sent mine as well -- nm - Epiphany Feb 18, 10:40
mafic, this is related to a comment you made a couple weeks ago ... about peanut butter. -- (link) - Beryllium Feb 18, 10:10 3
- That's... weird. It ceases being a liquid on crackers? I wonder if they'd let me bring a block of ice on. -- nm - mafic Feb 18, 10:16 2
  - only if you find a way to put it on crackers -- nm - Beryllium Feb 18, 10:17 1
    - Freeze crackers in ice. Cover all my bases. -- nm - mafic Feb 18, 10:18
ST School Poll #2: Showering after PE (Physical Education, not counting athletics). Was this a thing for you? - con_carne Feb 18, 10:07 18
- Nope. -- nm - Don Homer Feb 18, 10:33
- They were there but nobody used them. -- nm - James Bond (aka Igor) Feb 18, 10:32
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- It was my last class of the day, so no. -- nm - Spawndroid Feb 18, 10:22 2
  - there's a glitch in the spawndroid. -- nm - colin Feb 18, 10:28 1
    - Public WiFi sucks! -- nm - Spawn Feb 18, 11:02
- It was my last class of the day, so no. -- nm - Spawndroid Feb 18, 10:19
- I used them daily. nm -- nm - groiny Feb 18, 10:17
- They were there, no one used them. -- nm - spamlet Feb 18, 10:15
- Grade school, no. High school yes -- nm - CQ Feb 18, 10:13
- skipped it, so ida know. - colin Feb 18, 10:13
- Nobody did that. -- nm - Ender Feb 18, 10:12
- At one of my schools it was. -- nm - mafic Feb 18, 10:11
- This is one of the major, major reasons I opted not to go to high school. -- nm - Beryllium Feb 18, 10:11 4
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    - There were multiple reasons. Multiple major reasons. - Beryllium Feb 18, 10:38 1
      - So, were you home schooled or do you just have like a 6th grade education?? -- nm - Don Homer Feb 18, 10:39
  - (I was not a fan of the gym shorts concept, even) -- nm - Beryllium Feb 18, 10:11
Please & Thank you to any ST Facebook friends that can give my home town of Petoskey a vote in the Native Eyewear "Locals Only Project" - we're 1 of 5 - JenBro Feb 18, 10:02 1
- oh - and voting ends March 7th -- nm - JenBro Feb 18, 10:03
Irrational Games (Bioshock/Bioshock Infinite) lays off all but 15 developers. - Ender Feb 18, 10:01 2
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  - that is the way to do it for sure. -- nm - Remlik Feb 18, 10:03
Topless Nudity Laws By State -- (link) - Beryllium Feb 18, 09:57 6
- see, Texas is cool. -- nm - colin Feb 18, 10:12 1
  - Yeah, but local laws prohibit it everywhere. -- nm - GregW Feb 18, 10:36
- Who's got a "no fat chicks" ordinance? -- nm - Mop (205 lbs) Feb 18, 10:00 3
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    - Just as important as "No fat dudes in Speedos" ordinances. -- nm - Mop (205 lbs) Feb 18, 10:11 1
      - "Where do they go?" -- nm - Homer si Feb 18, 10:12
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- but who will Boomer throw the occasional dirty look at ? -- nm - Beaker Feb 18, 09:55
- I like Sharpe, but that lisp of his drove me bonkers -- nm - Remlik Feb 18, 09:49 1
  - he tried too hard to be ghetto in his 2,000 dollar suit. nm -- nm - groiny Feb 18, 09:50
- good, shannon sharpe sucked. nm -- nm - groiny Feb 18, 09:49 1
  - Yup. Also, terrible voice. -- nm - Krusty Feb 18, 09:49
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- I realize that this site posted this just now, but it's from an October 2011 issue of EW. -- (link) - Mop (205 lbs) Feb 18, 09:47 12
  - love the photo of Andre the Giant on the ground. nm -- nm - groiny Feb 18, 09:49 11
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      - no Fred Savage? -- nm - groiny Feb 18, 09:52 7
        
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        fezzini? -- nm - groiny Feb 18, 09:55 4
        
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        dumbass -- nm - groiny Feb 18, 09:56 2
        
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        you need to play better. nm -- nm - groiny Feb 18, 10:00
        
        mole -- nm - Beaker Feb 18, 09:53
    - I love Luck's nickname of Andrew the Giant -- nm - Beaker Feb 18, 09:50 1
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Lynda La Plante pens Prime Suspect prequel. Who should play young Helen Mirren? -- (link) - LMS Feb 18, 09:45 7
- If she is in her early 39s, Christina Cole. If it's mid-20s, Emily Browning. -- nm - David Feb 18, 10:31
- Alexandra Daddario -- nm - volnelk Feb 18, 10:00
- Jessica Chastain? heh -- nm - CQ Feb 18, 09:50
- Young Helen Mirren. -- (link) - Digital Hollywood Feb 18, 09:49 [Image]
- Kelly Hawes, Sarah Alexander or Billie Piper. -- nm - Remlik Feb 18, 09:47 2
  - Speaking of Keely, she's amazing in the new series of Line of Duty. -- (link) - LMS Feb 18, 09:48 1
    - cool. will look for that. -- nm - Remlik Feb 18, 09:51
AMC Theaters has BOGO ticket offer for Oscar Movies -- (link) - budice Feb 18, 09:44
ST Poll: For as long as I can remember, TV/movies have portrayed schoolchildren as calling each other by their last names. Did you do this growing up? - con_carne Feb 18, 09:44 21
- Among my 5 closest friends, we definitely used last names primarily. Not sure about the rest of my area. -- nm - Max Feb 18, 11:24
- Depended a lot on the name. Mostly first names, but some had more interesting last names. Most used my last name. -- nm - GregW Feb 18, 10:38
- I was called "Doc" a lot due to initials by guys, was always Michael to girls. -- nm - Spawndroid Feb 18, 10:26 1
  - is that because you were giving prostate exams to them all? -- nm - groiny Feb 18, 10:33
- with a somewhat unusual first name, this was never necessary for me. nm -- nm - groiny Feb 18, 10:01 1
  - "groiny" is pretty unusual -- nm - Beryllium Feb 18, 10:13
- Several of my teachers called everyone by their last names. Also, I question cop dramas for the same reason. Bones and Castle in particular. -- nm - mafic Feb 18, 10:01
- I wasn't referred to by my first name until after college. I was always my last name. -- nm - MDH Feb 18, 10:00
- Pretty sure it was first names, but I can see how it may have evolved. - Beryllium Feb 18, 09:59
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- I call a couple of people by their last name now mostly because I like their last name. TURNER! -- nm - James Bond (aka Igor) Feb 18, 09:49 1
  - I've worked with people who do this, and I find it pretty entertaining -- nm - con_carne Feb 18, 09:59
- Not in school, but that was standard procedure in my Boy Scout troop. -- nm - Ender Feb 18, 09:49
- It was all over the place, first name, last name or nickname. A lot of boys in my neighborhood had "boy" added to the end of their name. - Krusty Feb 18, 09:48 2
  - The only equivalent I can think of for me is boys named Jesus always got the nickname "Chuy." Why, I don't know. :-) - con_carne Feb 18, 09:57 1
    - yeah, it was more nicknames than anything in certain circles. nm -- nm - groiny Feb 18, 10:19
- Both for me in grade school. I was always called by my last name and in various ways. High school was always last names. -- nm - CQ Feb 18, 09:48 1
  - Was it the same for both boys and girls? On TV, IIRC boys get last names, but with girls I think there was more variation - con_carne Feb 18, 10:02
- Never -- nm - LMS Feb 18, 09:46
- both -- nm - Remlik Feb 18, 09:45 1
  - this -- nm - Beaker Feb 18, 09:49
Shameless and House of Lies renewed by Showtime -- nm - MDH Feb 18, 09:39
Trying to finish a song on Rock Band with two 2 year olds is never gonna happen. Finch needs to work on his drumming and the Grinch can't sing a damn - CQ Feb 18, 09:36 10
- Tell me about it. -- nm - Joe Jackson Feb 18, 09:42
- Heh. :-) -- nm - Krusty Feb 18, 09:38
- I did enjoy listening to Bub riff lyrcis for songs he did not know. - Spawn Feb 18, 09:38
- any groupies? -- nm - Don Homer Feb 18, 09:37 6
  - My kids are really pissed we can't play any Yo Gabba Gabba songs. They thing it's bullshit -- nm - CQ Feb 18, 09:38 5
    - And they tell you so using those exact words. -- nm - Was Bar Was Feb 18, 09:42 4
      - They can get angry quick and the profanities start pelting you like stinging rain. -- nm - CQ Feb 18, 09:45 2
        
        Freezy 2 Def DaDa is one of those hardcore rap groups. -- nm - Diva Feb 18, 09:54 1
        
        right? funny thing, we went sledding yesterday and none of the kids wanted to stop. no freezy to def -- nm - CQ Feb 18, 10:00
      - or they use 'bulldookie' -- nm - Remlik Feb 18, 09:45

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