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Glee Update: Chris Colfer Is Not Leaving, Twitter Account Was Hacked -- (link) - Budicio Jul 3, 10:47 1
- someone's real life boyfriend got drunk and into a Twitter account he shouldn't have. -- nm - Mel Profit Jul 3, 10:49
Seinfeld Show catchphrases and how they were born -- (link) - mara Jul 3, 10:41 1
- 'Oh, don't worry about it, buddy. The prostitutes are just having sex in your car.' That's what I loved about New York." -- nm - zuitgusto Jul 3, 13:34
"Le Gogh" -- (link) - Beryllium Jul 3, 10:36 [Image]
Killer Queen is my least favorite Queen earworm. -- nm - Max Jul 3, 10:32 4
- No Moet for you! -- nm - Wawa Jul 3, 10:41
- what's your fave? -- nm - Dilva, Slutty Beyonce Voter Jul 3, 10:32 2
  - Fat Bottomed Girls. -- nm - Mop (210 lbs) Jul 3, 10:36 1
    - Probably this, though favorite earworm is different than favorite song to hear on the radio. -- nm - Max Jul 3, 10:42
I visited over a dozen different Canadian news sites. The headline was the same on all of them except for the National Post. Priorities, people! -- nm - Mop (210 lbs) Jul 3, 10:28 1
- You really need to get laid -- nm - con_carne Jul 3, 10:43
Probably the last reason anyone was watching Glee (all 12 of them) anymore, Chris Colfer, has been "let go" from the show. -- (link) - Mop (210 lbs) Jul 3, 10:22 35
- "We're not saying be less gay, but maybe you could try being more straight?" -- nm - Max Jul 3, 10:29 5
  - Which movie has the super gay man trying to butch up? The Birdcage? -- nm - David Jul 3, 10:36 4
    - Yeah, Robin Williams tries to teach Nathan Lane to be less flamboyant. -- nm - Jim Jul 3, 10:39
    - Kevin Kline In-N-Out? -- nm - Tyego97 Jul 3, 10:37 2
      - Oh, that's my favorite Kevin. -- nm - Max Jul 3, 10:40 1
        
        I love in & out so much that I'm scared to watch it again. -- nm - peggy ann m Jul 3, 10:42
- The combination of "personal issues" and "let go" is weird. -- nm - Ender Jul 3, 10:28 8
  - We'll have to see, but I take that as he either A) fought with the boss or - Tyego97 Jul 3, 10:29 7
    - I suspect it's a break-up and he couldn't be professional about it on set. - David Jul 3, 10:31
    - So, on the Glee set... Lea Michelle > Naya Rivera. and Chris Colfer is < who? -- nm - Andie Jul 3, 10:31 5
      - Is Colfer tight with Rivera? It's also possible he picked the wrong side in that fight. -- nm - David Jul 3, 10:32
      - I don't want to be part of any world in which Lea Michelle > Naya Rivera -- nm - prayformojo Jul 3, 10:31 1
        
        Lea Michelle's brother could never play in the NFL. -- nm - David Jul 3, 10:32
      - Until Diva posted the rumor she heard, I figured this was another fight with Lea. - Tyego97 Jul 3, 10:31 1
        
        yeah me too. -- nm - peggy ann m Jul 3, 10:43
- To be sure, that show is no Welcome Back, Kotter - prayformojo Jul 3, 10:26 1
  - Is Santana fired or not? (i'm not sure anymore.) -- nm - Dilva, Slutty Beyonce Voter Jul 3, 10:28
- I have no idea if this is true at all but some gossip site said that Colfer had been trying to get Darren Criss (Blaine) fired. - Dilva, Slutty Beyonce Voter Jul 3, 10:26 4
  - he really is the 'heart' of the show. it is a surprising move. -- nm - Andie Jul 3, 10:33
  - Man, I'd love a source on that. That would blow some people's minds. -- nm - Mop (210 lbs) Jul 3, 10:33 1
    - It was actually kind of a story arc late last season. -- nm - David Jul 3, 10:33
  - yeah, me too. (note: have not watched since early season 2.) -- nm - peggy ann m Jul 3, 10:28
- I wonder what happened. -- nm - Mel Profit Jul 3, 10:23
- That extra season of renewal was a mistake. -- nm - David Jul 3, 10:23 9
  - This coming year they're going to be teaching at a medical school, right? -- nm - Ender Jul 3, 10:27 1
    - With some random new doctor named Park like there was on House? -- nm - Qale Jul 3, 10:28
  - It has an AfterMASH feel. - Mel Profit Jul 3, 10:24 4
    - Realistically, they can make Glee music money independent of the show. - David Jul 3, 10:29 3
      - I think the show was the catalyst for that awareness otherwise, it's just a bunch of kids singing Journey songs. -- nm - Mel Profit Jul 3, 10:36 2
        
        They have loyalists now but money would have to be spent on advertising. - David Jul 3, 10:43 1
        
        I'm just now sure how the awareness would come other than from a primary source like a TV show. - Mel Profit Jul 3, 10:47
  - You're talking about Season 2, right? -- nm - Tyego97 Jul 3, 10:24 1
    - Sadly, yes. This was lightning in a bottle. -- nm - Mop (210 lbs) Jul 3, 10:24
- not cool. -- nm - Dilva, Slutty Beyonce Voter Jul 3, 10:23
- whoa. that's pretty surprising. -- nm - Andie Jul 3, 10:23
For Sale in Lincoln Park: Chicago's Most Expensive House on the Market -- (link) - Tyego97 Jul 3, 10:13 1
- "Completed in 2004..." ugh. -- nm - peggy ann m Jul 3, 10:16
I'm loving the new single from Royal Blood. It's a bit Jack Black/Led Zep -- (link) - LMS Jul 3, 10:11 1
- Correction, I meant Jack White. -- nm - LMS Jul 3, 10:46
EFF has developed a browser add-on that stops advertisers and other third-party trackers from secretly tracking where you go and what pages you look -- (link) - mara Jul 3, 10:03 6
- ST is secretly tracking me! - oblique Jul 3, 10:10 3
  - I just tried doing a city lookup on your IP, but comcast is cloaking it from geocoding very nicely. -- nm - Beryllium Jul 3, 10:16 2
    - Traceroute points to chicago, though. -- nm - Beryllium Jul 3, 10:17 1
      - :) Metro Ethernet. Sweet stuff -- nm - oblique Jul 3, 10:27
- I feel like their URL should be eff.off -- nm - Reagen Jul 3, 10:04 1
  - I thought the same thing. -- nm - Mel Profit Jul 3, 10:05
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- call Dustin Hoffman, quick! -- nm - groiny Jul 3, 10:05
- I always thought that ebola would eat through the infected faster than it could spread ... did the CDC lie? heheh -- nm - Beryllium Jul 3, 10:04
The Sacramento Kings and guard Darren Collison have agreed to a three-year worth $16 million -- nm - Beaker Jul 3, 10:01
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A new record for the fluffiest tail has been set. Fluffy, fluffy. -- (link) - mara Jul 3, 09:56 4
- "Hi there, I'm groiny and I judge tail of all kinds. Wait, what? Oh, nevermind. Moving on." -- nm - Jaxón Jul 3, 10:01
- Sure the tail is fine and fluffy, but the rest of that rodent is totally not. -- nm - Qale Jul 3, 09:59 1
  - business up front... -- nm - Reagen Jul 3, 10:00
- "IT'S SO FLUFFY!!!" -- nm - Reagen Jul 3, 09:57
Glorious wonderful air conditioning in the car. Oh how I've missed you. -- nm - Qale Jul 3, 09:54 1
- Also, 13 watchers on my Animal Crossing Limited Edition 3DS XL has to mean they're waiting it out, right? 5 days, 7 hours to go and it's only at $51. - Qale Jul 3, 09:58
ummm, is, like, nubby hunkered down, do we know? -- nm - Tyego97 Jul 3, 09:53 5
- He was lamenting the increased humidity because it would interfere with something about electrostatics ... -- nm - Beryllium Jul 3, 10:03 1
  - and his hair, that humidity is horrible for your hair. -- nm - Andie Jul 3, 10:22
- I'm sure he's organizing the most delicious shelter operation ever at Eggs Up Conway -- nm - con_carne Jul 3, 09:58
- It's just a little wind and rain. -- nm - Jaxón Jul 3, 09:56
- Maybe check Facebook? I haven't been on Fb for a few days. -- nm - mara Jul 3, 09:54
One of our projects have preshoots tomorrow and starts production on Sunday. - LMS Jul 3, 09:53
Frequent fliers, do you know about Level Skies? Apparently they find the cheapest price and pay the difference if it goes up. -- (link) - mara Jul 3, 09:53
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#BB16: We all agree that Donny is awesome, right? -- nm - Ender Jul 3, 09:45 2
- I'm not sure how much longer he can pull off the whole "aw shucks" thing. -- nm - Mop (210 lbs) Jul 3, 09:56
- he's out of his element. -- nm - Dilva, Slutty Beyonce Voter Jul 3, 09:50
We need to do a Sporcle competition -- post the same contest and see who does best... - Will Hunting Jul 3, 09:44 8
- Sporcle? -- nm - Jaxón Jul 3, 09:49 4
  - Poor zork -- nm - Roger More Jul 3, 10:31
  - It's the latest Sid Meier game - con_carne Jul 3, 09:50 2
    - With Will posting it, I figured it was a site dedicated to sporks and eating. -- nm - Jaxón Jul 3, 09:52 1
      - sporcle.com -- the site for the quiz below. It's awesome. - Will Hunting Jul 3, 10:03
- I'll get the coffee going -- nm - con_carne Jul 3, 09:47
- I'm usually some combination of Polk, Fillmore or Buchanan away from being able to name all the US presidents in order - prayformojo Jul 3, 09:45 1
  - Buchanan is the one who left the turd for Lincoln - Reagen Jul 3, 09:58
The foreground third of this shot of the lightning strike on WTC looks pretty photoshopped, right? -- (link) - prayformojo Jul 3, 09:35 4
- Probably just overuse of HDR. -- nm - Reagen Jul 3, 09:55
- I can tell from some of the pixels and from seeing quite a few shops in my time. -- nm - Qale Jul 3, 09:49
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- 95% of that photo looks fake to me. -- nm - Tyego97 Jul 3, 09:42
How many elements on the periodic table can you name? I'm always surprised at how few I can get -- (link) - prayformojo Jul 3, 09:33 31
- 69. Most embarrassing miss: nickel -- nm - Roger More Jul 3, 10:45
- 35 -- nm - Strongbad Jul 3, 10:40
- 43 -- nm - Ender Jul 3, 10:01
- stuck on 24 -- nm - groiny Jul 3, 09:58
- 39 -- nm - TWuG Jul 3, 09:51
- I am kicking myself on the noble gases. -- nm - Name Withheld By Request Jul 3, 09:50 4
  - I tapped at 29 and hated myself afterward. -- nm - Name Withheld By Request Jul 3, 10:00 3
    - I feel like I should just do this every day until I hit 100. -- nm - mara Jul 3, 10:01 2
      - There were three that I was just screwing up the spelling on, but still, I missed some low hanging fruit. -- nm - Name Withheld By Request Jul 3, 10:05 1
        
        Four easy obscure ones to remember - Reagen Jul 3, 10:08
- effing lanthanides -- nm - Reagen Jul 3, 09:47 2
  - 70 off the top of my head. -- nm - Reagen Jul 3, 09:51 1
    - and kicking myself on about 20 more. -- nm - Reagen Jul 3, 09:53
- 30. I give up. -- nm - Loyoliano Jul 3, 09:45
- A method I should have thought of: think of the nutritional minerals (as in "vitamins and minerals") -- nm - mara Jul 3, 09:44
- There's... - znufrii Jul 3, 09:37
- Nobody here had better not get number 4! -- nm - mara Jul 3, 09:36 2
  - yeah...missed that. -- nm - Will Hunting Jul 3, 09:39 1
    - me too -- nm - Tyego97 Jul 3, 09:41
- I'm guess 15-20, let's see. -- nm - Tyego97 Jul 3, 09:35 9
  - I'm up to 18. (Not that I'm proud of that.) -- nm - mara Jul 3, 09:42 1
    - one I am bothered I missed - Tyego97 Jul 3, 09:48
  - After five minutes, I was stuck at 17. -- nm - Tyego97 Jul 3, 09:40 6
    - I was at 14 quick...and then got bored. -- nm - Will Hunting Jul 3, 09:42
    - Did you get beryllium? -- nm - David Jul 3, 09:41 4
      - There's also Barium - Reagen Jul 3, 10:08 1
        
        In combination with sulfate, it's the devil's concoction. -- nm - David Jul 3, 10:10
      - It's literally one of the first ones I think of now. -- nm - mara Jul 3, 09:43
      - nope - Tyego97 Jul 3, 09:42
- Where the hell is Transformium? -- nm - Will Hunting Jul 3, 09:34 1
  - And unobtanium -- nm - mara Jul 3, 09:37
Wimbledon spoils - Reagen Jul 3, 09:32 3
- First, the NBA...then Wimbledon? We need to stop this stuff now. - Will Hunting Jul 3, 09:34 2
  - His kid sucks at baseball, so... - Reagen Jul 3, 10:00 1
    - Unlike Nadal at Australia, at least he has a shot here. -- nm - Name Withheld By Request Jul 3, 10:01
LIR - Spawn's a pretty snappy dresser ... First time I met him he was wearing a vest with jeans - like a rock star! I can see him wanting Rem to up - JenBro Jul 3, 09:25 2
- Remlik wears whatever he wants, regardless of the situation. - Spawn Lord Jul 3, 09:28 1
  - niiiiiiice! You'll have a blast! -- nm - JenBro Jul 3, 09:30
ST Prediction Poll -- What time will I be able to leave here, and how long will it take me to get to the shore? - znufrii Jul 3, 09:23 9
- just leave right now -- nm - Beaker Jul 3, 10:11
- You'll be permitted to leave 1 hour before normal; and it will take you 3x as long. -- nm - Will Hunting Jul 3, 09:31 1
  - this sounds about right. -- nm - znufrii Jul 3, 09:32
- You, my friend, are a Californian at heart -- nm - con_carne Jul 3, 09:28
- It depends on so many variables, so I'm going to make a wild guess and say it will definitely take you one hour and 27 minutes. - Loyoliano Jul 3, 09:27
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- hahahahahahahahahahahaha -- nm - Tyego97 Jul 3, 09:26
- 2.5 hours -- nm - JenBro Jul 3, 09:26
- Just in time for the hurricane. -- nm - Spawn Lord Jul 3, 09:25
Heh. I called this one "skytrain - dystopian", but it's not really dystopian. It's just ... old. And cold. -- (link) - Beryllium Jul 3, 09:23 [flickr] 2
- Bery's review of Snowpiercer? -- nm - Mop (210 lbs) Jul 3, 09:30 1
  - heh -- nm - pippy bells Jul 3, 09:47
UK TV PSA: new Maggie Gyllenhaal thriller An Honourable Woman starts tonight on BBC2. -- nm - LMS Jul 3, 09:21

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