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At work today, I'm going to see if I can find something that lists all the references in Too Many Cooks. (Unless ST already knows of one?) -- (link) - mara Nov 8, 07:15 2
- Ooo, this kind of does -- (link) - mara Nov 8, 07:16 1
  - See, your work is done! Now you can go home. -- nm - prayformojo Nov 8, 07:17
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The best thing about pregnant women? -- (link) - mara Nov 8, 07:05 1
- heh -- nm - prayformojo Nov 8, 07:08
See, this is why meth is bad. It makes you stupid. -- (link) - Covington Nov 8, 06:19
"...only to regain his voice, and bring life to mighty evils like Darth Vader and CNN." -- nm - prayformojo Nov 8, 05:34
"We've been led to believe we're all going to be rock stars." *looks directly at Leto* - Mel Profit Nov 8, 05:21
"too many fishsticks" -- (link) - Beryllium Nov 7, 23:38 2
- Ahh! AHHHH!!! AHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!! nmbdib - mara Nov 8, 07:17
- You bastard. -- nm - nubby Nov 8, 04:36
A long time ago, we used to be friends. - psilotum Nov 7, 22:29 2
- Back then we used to be a lot of things....... ;) -- nm - Meg Nov 7, 22:55
- You're only through S1? -- nm - Ender Nov 7, 22:55
Interesting -- nm - tobor.2 Nov 7, 22:23
A tweet by Franz Kranz leads to speculation of another marvel character coming to AoS and why it could be important to the MCU especially Civil War -- (link) - eag Nov 7, 22:07 1
- Makes sense to me. -- nm - Volnelk Nov 8, 06:34
Wow. The Pixar plan. -- (link) - Spawn Nov 7, 21:56 1
- LOL -- nm - Mop Nov 7, 22:00
Interstellar B (spoilers) - amoxy Nov 7, 21:46 1
- also - amoxy Nov 7, 22:11
Reagen: I meant that the news covers the donation box thefts this time of year as a way to encourage donations. At this point it's basically tradition -- nm - Beryllium Nov 7, 21:34
K9 unit guy out walking his dog. Though I think he may trip himself with all that extra leash dragging. - tobor.2 Nov 7, 21:28
The problem, as I see it, isn't Leto as the Joker, but the Joker in the Suicide Squad movie. - Mop Nov 7, 20:47 9
- I like the casting. alot, but agree 100% with your take -- nm - Beaker Nov 8, 06:31
- It is like DC is doing everything they can* to get me to continue to ignore their movies. - Spawn Nov 7, 21:21 4
  - coming in 2018: Catwoman II starring Halle Berry!! :)) -- nm - Peglegpete Nov 7, 21:24 3
    - Hmm. I guess. If DC needs me. -- nm - Hail Beryl as Catwoman si Nov 7, 21:25 2
      - NMB Bery - Peglegpete Nov 7, 21:46 1
        
        hah -- nm - Beryllium Nov 7, 21:49
- Who to the what now? -- nm - Epiphany Nov 7, 21:12 1
  - Jared Leto rumored to play Joker in the Suicide Squad movie. -- nm - Mop Nov 7, 22:02
- Harley and Jokers Daughter are on the new team in the book. He could be cameoing in flashback -- nm - Remlik Nov 7, 21:02
They kept yelling "La joconde! her smile will die!" -- nm - Beryllium Nov 7, 20:20
I don't think I get enough email like the ones Google built Inbox for. So the whole things seems kind of meh? -- nm - Qale Nov 7, 20:11 3
- Yeah, me too. My spam goes to my aol account. I don't really see the need for Inbox. I am also not sure how different it is from the labels they - James Bond (on phone) Nov 7, 21:16 1
  - I'm more anxious to see what Lollipop does for me. -- nm - Qale Nov 7, 21:18
- I'm also going to miss the Tea House Fox. -- nm - Qale Nov 7, 20:50
It's mean to chastise a homeless person for pushing their grocery cart from the non-handle end, right? -- nm - Ender Nov 7, 19:53 5
- If you instruct him on proper technique, he'll thank you and that can be your good deed for the day. -- nm - Mop Nov 7, 20:38
- What kind of godless heathen does that? - Beryllium (scream.) Nov 7, 19:55 3
  - Right? Who pushes a cart like that?! -- nm - Ender Nov 7, 19:59 1
    - Sometimes it's the only way to get the wobbly-wheeled ones to go straight. - tobor.2 Nov 7, 20:12
  - ;-) -- nm - Beryllium (scream.) Nov 7, 19:56
Claire Danes spends a lot of time in T3 breathing through her eye teeth. -- nm - Max Nov 7, 19:32 2
- I had such a crush on her when she was a ginger. Now she's just so totally meh. -- nm - Mop Nov 7, 20:16
- She should breathe through her eyelids. -- nm - Annie Savoy Nov 7, 19:43
That was a funny coincidence: we were talking about the feasibility of solar panels from the house and then - Reagen Nov 7, 19:18
With a Big Mac knock off, McNugget knock off, and Egg McMuffin knock off, the BK menu is just a McDonalds copy at this point. -- nm - Mop Nov 7, 19:16 22
- Their burgers are much better than McDonald's. -- nm - Krusty Nov 7, 19:40 4
  - there's been a huge uptick in burger places here in the last few years. now for a couple dollars more, I can get a legitimately good not fast food - mafic Nov 7, 21:12
  - pffft the only burgers I like from BK are the Whopper with cheese, and their Angry Whopper. - Scots-IrishStephen Nov 7, 20:11
  - Be burgers "taste" better, but they have the consistency of cardboard. -- nm - Ender Nov 7, 20:00
  - Yep. -- nm - kelly Nov 7, 19:44
- I refuse to eat at Burger King after they became tax dodgers. Never again -- nm - Bacon Nov 7, 19:33 15
  - ... You can't be serious. -- nm - Beryllium (scream.) Nov 7, 19:39 14
    - Yep, they are on our official boycott list -- nm - Bacon Nov 7, 19:40 13
      - That must be a ducking long list, is my point. -- nm - Beryllium (scream.) Nov 7, 19:41 12
        
        about the same size as then one used to boycot GMO foods i'd guess -- nm - DaneDukeNuuk Nov 8, 00:45
        
        I find it easy to boycott BK, as I've only eaten there about ten times in my life. - tobor.2 Nov 7, 20:05 3
        
        I think I bought a burger there in Baker on my way back from Vegas the other day. There was - Meg Nov 7, 20:08 2
        
        Pretty much the only reason I do there. Everything else is closed. -- nm - tobor.2 Nov 7, 20:10 1
        
        On second thought it may have been Carl's Jr. It had a halfway decent restroom and a cheap burger :) -- nm - Meg Nov 7, 20:17
        
        It's not like I am boycotting burgers, I can go to Wendy's, Burgerville, McDonalds, Five Guys, -- nm - Bacon Nov 7, 19:42 6
        
        Pretty much every corporation and brand you interact with on a daily basis has a team of accountants trying to find and exploit tax loopholes. -- nm - Beryllium (scream.) Nov 7, 19:52 5
        
        Microsoft (and many other tech cos) operated for years in Ireland for this reason. -- nm - Beryllium (scream.) Nov 7, 19:53 4
        
        I boycott em as I find em -- nm - Bacon Nov 7, 19:55 3
        
        Right. So your list must be rather long. Looks like this article is what you're mostly concerned about, and it names a few. -- (link) - Beryllium (scream.) Nov 7, 20:04 2
        
        yep. We were going to boycott Walgreen's and I had cashed out my reward points but they caved to pressure - Bacon mobile Nov 7, 20:17 1
        
        And Durbin got reelected. -- nm - tobor.2 Nov 7, 20:33
- Their creepy mascot knockoff is also just a shadow of that which it copies. -- nm - Beryllium (scream.) Nov 7, 19:22
Blake on the Voice a couple of weeks ago: I've had a lot of luck with teenagers. -- nm - Mop Nov 7, 19:09 1
- isn't that one of Cappie's tattoos? :) -- nm - Peglegpete Nov 7, 19:17
the Man-Pack guy on Shark Tang looks soooo familiar -- nm - prayformojo Nov 7, 18:38 2
- I would watch a show called Shark Tang. -- nm - Mop Nov 7, 19:13
- oo, is that another title thing? I'd buy a micro shark that lived in a glass of tang! -- nm - b. Nov 7, 18:45
We knew The Newsroom returns this weekend, yes? -- nm - TWuG Nov 7, 18:29 9
- Did we know the whole season is 6 episodes? -- nm - volnelk Nov 7, 20:10
- I did not!! (Thanks!) -- nm - kelly Nov 7, 18:50
- Yup. Hopefully, they put last season's mess behind them. -- nm - David Nov 7, 18:48 4
  - still makes me mad that I wasted time watching that storyline -- nm - prayformojo Nov 7, 18:52 3
    - watching olivia munn never makes me sad -- nm - dogbert Nov 7, 19:20 2
      - she is so delicious -- nm - Jovian Nov 7, 22:37
      - she was just about the only part that I liked -- nm - prayformojo Nov 7, 19:29
- As does The Comeback! -- nm - MDH Nov 7, 18:29 1
  - Don't call it a... never mind. -- nm - Spawn Nov 7, 18:37
The short before Big Hero 6 is brilliant. - David Nov 7, 18:21 1
- any spoils? :) -- nm - i'm not dead yet ! Nov 7, 19:05
Rashida Jones wrote her movie with Samburg. And the canceld series A to Z. -- nm - Spawn Nov 7, 18:19 6
- I love that Rashida Jones on Twitter insists that A to Z isn't canceled. -- nm - Mop Nov 7, 19:11
- Wait, what? A to Z was cancelled? - Scots-IrishStephen Nov 7, 18:25 2
  - Ah, so you are the one. - Spawn Nov 7, 18:36 1
    - Crap. I've been trying to log-on to at least do wine runs, but it's been a crazy week. Also, what's this about migrating servers? -- nm - Scots-IrishStephen Nov 7, 18:57
- I liked Celeste & Jesse Forever -- nm - The Danodook Nov 7, 18:21 1
  - Trying to figure out how she landed TS4. -- nm - Spawn Nov 7, 18:24
from an insert in one of the papers today - Virgin has a wine club, with a decent intro. offer, then cancellable. nm but: -- (link) - b. Nov 7, 18:04
I've asked this, or similar, before without much feedback. If I arrive in Vancouver in the morning is it worth staying overnight and sightseeing or - Meg Nov 7, 18:02 21
- and now that I think about, it, I think you'd really like the museum of anthropology at UBC. -- nm - mafic Nov 7, 21:33
- Hmm. It's the coastal cruise I'm looking at. Would arrive in Vancouver in the morning. I could probably get a flight home that afternoon, but I've - Meg Nov 7, 18:24 6
  - in May, you say? I'd stay, but then I'm biased. Stanley Park is nice, and the aquarium there is pretty great. -- nm - mafic Nov 7, 21:28 1
    - (I could recommend a few restaurants too, depending on where you end up staying). -- nm - mafic Nov 7, 21:32
  - Vancouver's nice. In addition to the list below, there's also science world. If you've got *lots* of time, there's also the capilano suspension bridge - Beryllium Nov 7, 18:25 2
    - This would be in May. I saw some walking tours - historic Vancouver after dark type things - that look like they could be fun. -- nm - Meg Nov 7, 18:46 1
      - It's a good time to visit. The azaleas should be blooming. -- nm - tobor.2 Nov 7, 19:14
  - It's beautiful and there's plenty to see. -- nm - tobor.2 Nov 7, 18:25
- It's worth a day. Stanley Park is nice, and the art gallery has some nice collection of First Nations art and Emily Carr paintings (if you like that) -- nm - Roger More Nov 7, 18:19
- fwiw, I only spent a few days in Vancouver during a trip; but I wished it had been more. it's like san francisco, only cleaner - b. Nov 7, 18:09 11
  - I'm saving this for the girl (she's from Edmonton and gets annoyed when I rave about Vancouver). -- nm - mafic Nov 7, 21:26
  - Never apologize for insulting edmonton. It deserves it. :-) -- nm - Beryllium Nov 7, 18:14 9
    - I said "no offense"! it was ok and there were some good non-mall things; but I wished that part had been shorter, vancouver longer. - b. Nov 7, 18:19 8
      - "edmonton: so boring, you'll wonder if you've been gassed" -- nm - Beryllium Nov 7, 18:21 3
        
        *laugh* dang. (and sigh, y'all down there. pfft. "no comparison" doesn't mean it doesn't have its own features.) -- nm - b. Nov 7, 18:35 2
        
        I drove through there one summer. The crab at their red lobster was better than the red lobster in vegas. - Beryllium Nov 7, 19:04 1
        
        "We picked that date because we really needed something to look forward to in winter" -- nm - Roger More Nov 7, 20:03
      - But "no offence" always means you're about to say something offensive. -- nm - Roger More Nov 7, 18:21 3
        
        very similar to "I don't mean to be a racist but..." -- nm - zeitgeist Nov 7, 18:23 2
        
        Well, not in this case. And like I said, edmonton deserves it. -- nm - Beryllium Nov 7, 18:24 1
        
        well I'm no scientist but..... -- nm - zeitgeist Nov 7, 18:29
TIL: adult swim is actually considered its own network, separate from Cartoon Network. -- nm - Tim Nov 7, 18:01 2
- Well yeah, I would think some markets want CN but pass on AS programming -- nm - con_carne Nov 8, 08:05
- Sorcery! -- nm - Cran-Baron-ies Nov 7, 19:25
I kinda hate heat season. - ty97 Nov 7, 17:55 2
- Do you have radiators? Can you turn them off? -- nm - Krusty Nov 7, 18:18 1
  - In the LR yes, but it's the cooler room. - ty97 Nov 7, 18:24
I am now a temporary Boston Bruins fan. Way to go Bruins. - Bacon Nov 7, 17:54
Emergency landing of small plane at SNA. No one hurt but all runways closed...... -- nm - Meg Nov 7, 17:42
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a tip for any guy with an office. - b. Nov 7, 17:36 10
- sorry but sometimes you just gotta let `r rip. -- nm - mud Nov 7, 17:50 1
  - This was funnier when I glanced at the name and thought it was posted by Meg. -- nm - Bacon Nov 7, 17:52
- The More You Know -- nm - ST Cares Nov 7, 17:38
- hey that means it was a meal/drink that was really good and we're showing appreciation! -- nm - Remlik Nov 7, 17:38 6
  - then do it in front of the chef or barista? (no, don't do that.) -- nm - b. Nov 7, 17:41 5
    - heh. you're right. Leave a bottle of beano on the guys desk -- nm - Remlik Nov 7, 17:44 4
      - maybe I will. (omg, he just did it again.) -- nm - b. Nov 7, 17:49 2
        
        I'd call him out on it! -- nm - Remlik Nov 7, 17:52 1
        
        we're not that kind of family. -- nm - b. Nov 7, 17:57
      - This should be to Bacon below. (clicked way on wrong post) -- nm - ty97 Nov 7, 17:48
This tweet from an NYT reporter make me want punch an NYT reporter -- (link) - ty97 Nov 7, 17:35 10
- well, the missing tiles could pose a danger. -- nm - b. Nov 7, 17:38 1
  - Yes!! Job hazard. I see that stuff 1st - Epiphany Nov 7, 17:40
- Did you punch the guy passed out on the ground? Ty, you must be stopped! -- nm - Bacon Nov 7, 17:37 7
  - No, but I (*gasp*) tweeted multiple NYT'ers - ty97 Nov 7, 17:47 6
    - Nice! I agree 100%. -- nm - Krusty Nov 7, 19:42
    - I encounter many homeless in my daily job duties. Most are no issues. There are a few (guessing schizophrenia or similar symptoms) I am weary about - Bacon Nov 7, 17:51 4
      - Agreed. And the ill ones shouldn't be homeless, they should in care. - ty97 Nov 7, 18:12 1
        
        But it's so much cheaper to lock them up in jail when they get out of hand. - tobor.2 Nov 7, 18:32
      - Yep, I meet them in the library and the park outside. There's one that reacts negatively to any interaction :( -- nm - Meg Nov 7, 17:59 1
        
        yeah, we had Tourettes gal I used to refer to as "Little Miss Sunshine" she was usually well dressed so when she said something really nasty to you.. - zeitgeist Nov 7, 18:27
Rick Rosas , bassist for Neil Young and CSN passes away.... -- (link) - Remlik Nov 7, 17:33

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