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Shefty: Browns announced they signed former Redskins QB Rex Grossman. -- nm - Broot Aug 12, 06:48 1
- Release QB Tyler Thigpen. -- nm - Broot Aug 12, 06:51
Hypothetical question re: Williams. Let's say he's a 63yr old man who's heart just gave out after years of hard living. - Will Hunting Aug 12, 06:28 10
- for me it's more - it's dredging up memories of a bad family suicide/murder - and it's very painful. -- nm - JenBro Aug 12, 09:39
- I was just thinking how one of my favorite movies of his, what dreams may come, will never be seen the same to me -- nm - dogbert Aug 12, 06:48
- I think two different things are happening, and they layer seamlessly. We are sad for his passing, sad for his family's loss. But when we imagine the - landbeck Aug 12, 06:48
- agreed with your IM. It feels cruel. -- nm - loosi at home Aug 12, 06:31
- I was thinking this morning - his chosen profession was to bring laughter to people. - Mel Profit Aug 12, 06:30 3
  - I think he did comedy and tragedy equally well, and they came from the same place. -- nm - loosi at home Aug 12, 06:31 2
    - I completely agree. Winters suffered apparently in the sane way. -- nm - Mel Profit Aug 12, 06:32 1
      - Williams just slayed me in Fisher King. -- nm - loosi at home Aug 12, 06:33
- yes, i think it is sadder this way. the fact that he felt so much pain is tragically. -- nm - Andie Aug 12, 06:29 1
  - ... is tragically heartbreaking. -- nm - Andie Aug 12, 06:31
today's news story no-one cares about - Courtney Snodden, 19, to reconcile with what's his face. - Andie Aug 12, 06:27 4
- who? -- nm - znufrii Aug 12, 06:35
- There are dominican baseball players who think she needs to cut the crap and be honest about her age. -- nm - Will Hunting Aug 12, 06:34 1
  - How's her fastball? -- nm - Broot Aug 12, 06:36
- your IM made me laugh. -- nm - loosi at home Aug 12, 06:32
London Underground's tribute to RW -- (link) - LMS Aug 12, 06:24 7
- Umm..debating the appropriateness of the quote. -- nm - Broot Aug 12, 06:27 3
  - It is a bit of a downer. -- nm - LMS Aug 12, 06:32 2
    - I'd worry about... - Broot Aug 12, 06:35 1
      - they sometimes put the helpline # on the overhead digital signs. -- nm - loosi at home Aug 12, 06:39
- and in Boston -- (link) - znufrii Aug 12, 06:27 2
  - well damn. -- nm - loosi at home Aug 12, 06:30
  - Son of a bitch stole my line. -- nm - Will Hunting Aug 12, 06:29
GRRM responds to his readers most urgent and pressing question (spoils) -- (link) - znufrii Aug 12, 06:15 1
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Rise of the Tomb Raider was announced as an XBone exclusive at Gamescom. If that's 100% true, boo-fucking-urns! -- nm - Shaun Aug 12, 05:55
Zelda Williams tweets a tribute to her dad. -- (link) - loosi at home Aug 12, 05:25 3
- We need to fire the cleaning crew here; it's so friggin dusty in here. -- nm - Will Hunting Aug 12, 06:26 1
  - gonna be dusty all day, I'm pretty sure. -- nm - loosi at home Aug 12, 06:32
- well, that's beautiful. -- nm - Andie Aug 12, 06:22
Robin Williams' star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame this morning. -- (link) - loosi at home Aug 12, 05:10
Wake up -- nm - znufrii Aug 12, 05:06
U.S. Postal Service loses $2B this spring (April - June quarter) -- (link) - Beaker Aug 12, 04:39 3
- Because they've been required to pay all their retirement health benefits in advance by Congress. -- nm - Reagen Aug 12, 06:10 1
  - It's almost like Congress set them up to fail. -- nm - TWuG Aug 12, 06:11
- Don't worry. I'm sure they insured the package. -- nm - Was Bar Was Aug 12, 05:58
Monty Python on FB nails it: - DaneDukeNuuk Aug 12, 04:33 2
- gift from the gods indeed ... well said -- nm - JenBro Aug 12, 06:21
- that's really great. -- nm - Mel Profit Aug 12, 06:19
Amazon: Friendly Giant as Long as It’s Fed -- (link) - Strongbad Aug 12, 04:16
Conan O'Brien Found Out About Robin Williams's Death During His Show -- (link) - Beaker Aug 12, 03:15
this is one of those mornings I wake up wishing I had a bad dream - JenBro Aug 12, 02:57 2
- (((Hugs)))...its 4:30 in the morning (crapped out, yawning) and not sleeping, have an important meeting with mom's medical 'team' and just can't sleep -- nm - zeitgeist Aug 12, 04:37 1
  - your mom is so lucky to have you advocating for her - hang in there Zeit - I know how it is - a cluster you know what trying to keep all the doctors & - JenBro Aug 12, 06:19
i freaking hate 2014 !!!!!!! -- nm - DaneDukeNuuk Aug 12, 02:47
*Ding!* Thank you for playing Mr. Williams. -- nm - H-Mogul Aug 12, 01:12 1
- Just rewatched this actually - con_carne Aug 12, 01:33
(one of) the hottest places in the US today was ....Seattle....96 and the evening finished with dry lightning and thunder - zeitgeist Aug 12, 00:57
I can see the edge of a lightning storm in Washington - flash of lightning behind a haze of smoke particles. Blood red. -- nm - Beryllium Aug 11, 22:43 3
- This is a terrible haiku. -- nm - Qale Aug 11, 22:55 2
  - No, this is a terrible haiku. - Beryllium Aug 11, 23:52 1
    - refrigerator. -- nm - mafic Aug 11, 23:53
I just saw Deb Freakin' Morgan in that actors studio video -- nm - Beryllium Aug 11, 22:16
I really, really liked the last three episodes of Continuum. - Imperator Aug 11, 21:52 1
- Yes. I loved the reveal on John Doe. -- nm - Reagen Aug 12, 05:50
86 year old actor cast as Ser Denys Mallister of the Night's Watch died after filming only a few scenes -- (link) - zork Aug 11, 21:28
THe US dept of defense tweeted about RW. It's just remarkable how deep he reached. -- nm - loosi at home Aug 11, 21:17 2
- here's the tweet (w pic) -- (link) - loosi at home Aug 11, 21:29 1
  - thanks for linking this Loosi ... dusty in here. -- nm - JenBro Aug 11, 21:42
Well I'm no JenBro but...the resort gave me $30 in free play and I walked away with $14.53 cash. Not complaining :) -- nm - Meg Aug 11, 21:16 7
- Happy Birthday, desert-dweller. -- nm - mafic Aug 11, 23:00
- Happy Birthday Meg, hope it was a great day -- nm - amoxy Aug 11, 21:29
- ^5 - nice goin' Meg! -- nm - JenBro Aug 11, 21:29 2
  - Not to mention their breakfast special - 2 eggs, hash browns, and toast - was $1.99... - Meg Aug 11, 21:44 1
    - sounds tasty indeed ... I have a club breakfast tomorrow where I do the toast. The mussels dinner tonight was also a club thing - I am just not - JenBro Aug 11, 21:53
- HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!!!!! again -- nm - peglegpete Aug 11, 21:28 1
  - I need to get my photos uploaded. We went to a trading post that had an associated museum. They had what is claimed to be the - Meg Aug 11, 21:42
Thanks again to tru for the Actor's Studio rec. Robin at his absolute best. -- nm - loosi at home Aug 11, 21:13
12 gifs of male celebs in their underwear -- (link) - Let's Be Dano Aug 11, 21:00
Bob Weir cancels all his shows for the rest of the year. no explaination as to why, yet. -- (link) - peglegpete Aug 11, 20:43
New favorite podcast: We Have Concerns -- nm - Tim Aug 11, 20:40
Huh, people do use airport pianos -- (link) - zork Aug 11, 20:40
You contributed many verses RIP Robin -- (link) - eag Aug 11, 20:28 [youtube] 1
- nice -- nm - zeitgeist Aug 11, 21:36
horror is reading ST from top to bottom searching for bad news. I am shocked. -- nm - Mel Profit Aug 11, 20:19 2
- IKR? As soon as I corrected my sfek post I saw I think Greg's post about a comedian dying & then just screamed no as I saw the name further down. -- nm - JenBro Aug 11, 21:56
- Andy Dick! -- nm - Bacon Aug 11, 20:20
nobody mentioned yet his great performance saved the show Homicide -- nm - peglegpete Aug 11, 20:15 2
- I quoted his character from that episode, "Bop Gun" - landbeck Aug 12, 01:59
- very true. -- nm - Remlik Aug 11, 20:16
Tru...we live on the Red Line. Leghump me for details if you like. -- nm - Mel Profit Aug 11, 20:15
god, I'm dying. He's doing impressions of his kids. -- nm - loosi at home Aug 11, 20:04
huh...Robin Williams was slated to be on Star Trek The Next Generation... - Remlik Aug 11, 20:02 1
- I remember that episode. Frewer was pretty good. -- nm - Mel Profit Aug 11, 20:12
Mean Gene! -- nm - Remlik Aug 11, 19:58 6
- It's a weird segment to end the last Raw before SummerSlam but the crowd is eating it up. -- nm - Tim Aug 11, 20:04 5
  - WOOO! -- nm - Tim Aug 11, 20:06 4
    - Piper! -- nm - Remlik Aug 11, 20:09 3
      - NWO! -- nm - Tim Aug 11, 20:11 2
        
        survey! -- nm - Remlik Aug 11, 20:13 1
        
        TiVo cut! -- nm - Spoon Aug 11, 21:10
I love the movie What Dreams May Come. Not sure I could watch it now and keep my eyes dry. - Bacon Aug 11, 19:54 1
- It was too dark for me. And too ... fantastical ... but maybe that was a metaphor that went over my head. -- nm - Beryllium Aug 11, 19:56
This Actor's Studio appearance is nuts. How did he DO that? -- nm - loosi at home Aug 11, 19:42 17
- Cocaine. - Beryllium Aug 11, 19:53 7
  - you know, I really don't think so. -- nm - loosi at home Aug 11, 20:49 2
    - Truthfully, *cocaine* thought Robin Williams was overly frenetic. -- nm - Beryllium Aug 11, 20:51 1
      - "Hello, my name is Cocaine." "Hello, Cocaine." "It's been 15 days since my last dose of Robin Williams." -- nm - Comics Anonymous Meeting Aug 11, 21:07 1
  - Naw, that was in 2001. He had been free from Cocaine since the mid 80's -- nm - amoxy Aug 11, 20:14 3
    - Although, didn't Phillip Seymour Hoffman relapse after 15 or 20 years of being clean? -- nm - Bacon Aug 11, 20:16 2
      - just MHO, I think he was totally sober on the Actor's Studio. He was just able to do that. -- nm - loosi at home Aug 11, 20:50 1
        
        Just watched the whole thing. I completely agree. -- nm - Beryllium Aug 12, 00:03
- Link? - con_carne Aug 11, 19:47 8
  - here's the whole thing. -- (link) - loosi at home Aug 11, 19:51 5
    - I'm in the middle. Around 40 minutes, he asks a random lady to borrow her pink scarf. Then he goes of on a series of improv characters. - loosi at home Aug 11, 19:56 4
      - That was awesome. -- nm - Volnelk Aug 11, 21:06 3
        
        right? -- nm - loosi at home Aug 11, 21:07 2
        
        the one bit at the of the scarf bit was the best (spoils) - Beryllium Aug 11, 23:52 1
        
        yup -- nm - loosi at home Aug 12, 06:25
  - if you google - Truman Aug 11, 19:48 1
    - Thanks -- nm - con_carne Aug 11, 19:51
If you told me that Jaimee on Masterchef was the result of a magic spell cast to turn a mouse into a human - Reagen Aug 11, 19:41 6
- I'm pretty sure I know which contestant you're talking about ... and I know someone in real life who she reminds me of. -- nm - Beryllium Aug 11, 19:55 2
  - Steve from accounting, right? -- nm - Will Hunting Aug 11, 19:56 1
    - No, my wife's former roommate. -- nm - Beryllium Aug 11, 19:56
- I don't know. Amy the mouse on Buffy was a total bitch. -- nm - David Aug 11, 19:45 2
  - it's like her language is basic on squeaks and glottal stops. -- nm - Reagen Aug 11, 19:49 1
    - But she can cook. -- nm - ... Aug 11, 20:35
Mel Alert: the Hogan bit is on in a few minutes. -- nm - Remlik Aug 11, 19:41 2
- I probably am not even going to bother watching the show this week. After the 41 times the Network was shilled over last week's terrible episode. - Qale Aug 11, 23:25
- crud. we had a lovely dinner with a good friend and I missed it. Maybe youtube will have it. Thanks for the heads up. -- nm - Mel Profit Aug 11, 20:13
I do wonder, we had Jonathan winters, then robin Williams, is there going to be anyone like them again? -- nm - Truman Aug 11, 19:36 27
- Robin, like Carey and some others, could make you feel embarrassed by his antics, bit make you laugh still. -- nm - zork Aug 11, 20:35 2
  - also Eddie Murphy and Richard Pryor -- nm - zork Aug 11, 20:42
  - See: Ace Ventura 2's rhino -- nm - Beryllium Aug 11, 20:36
- I watched something about Winters recently and he was a genius. He and Williams together was something special. -- nm - Mel Profit Aug 11, 20:14
- Rickles, Newhart, Shandling, Cosby -- nm - con_carne Aug 11, 19:45 4
  - Rickles and Newhart are the generation before. - ... Aug 11, 20:29 1
    - As was Jonathon Winters. - ... Aug 11, 21:21
  - Those are his contemporaries. Will we see their like from the current generation? -- nm - TWuG Aug 11, 19:57 1
    - I know shandling is good, but I can't in good conscience group him with those people. -- nm - Beryllium Aug 11, 19:59
- Probably not. The environment that created them was then changed by them. The folks we have today - TWuG Aug 11, 19:43 2
  - I think there will be another genius of his magnitude, but that person will look very different because of the environment. - loosi at home Aug 11, 19:52 1
    - This is basically what my wife said. -- nm - Beryllium Aug 11, 20:31
- there's always someone. -- nm - loosi at home Aug 11, 19:42
- Steve Carell -- nm - Broot Aug 11, 19:38
- Jim Carrey -- nm - Remlik Aug 11, 19:37 3
  - not the same type of performer, close, but not that ability to jump into 100 people in 5 mins - Truman Aug 11, 19:39 2
    - Jim Carrey basically let Hollywood out of having to hire RW for that role when JC hit it big in 1994. -- nm - Will Hunting Aug 11, 19:43
    - He is as close as we currently have. -- nm - T.S.Garp Aug 11, 19:42
- Andy Dick -- nm - Bacon Aug 11, 19:37 8
  - Even Dane Cook thinks this idea sucks. -- nm - Will Hunting Aug 11, 19:54 4
    - The only answer that could be worse rhymes with Hris Chudnall. -- nm - David Aug 11, 19:56 3
      - That name looks familiar. Do I know him? - Bacon Aug 11, 20:14 2
        
        Way to prove David's point! -- nmby - Roger More Aug 11, 20:21 1
        
        Dammit! -- nm - Bacon Aug 11, 20:42
  - You, sir, need to apologize. - the wrong element, bad guy Aug 11, 19:51 1
    - cause *fuck* him. -- nm - Reagen Aug 11, 19:52
  - Maybe Mirror Universe Andy Dick, because the one living in this universe is teh suck. -- nm - TWuG Aug 11, 19:38

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