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This is the kind of game that will screw up a batting average for a month. - Tim Apr 10, 22:55 1
- 2am -- nm - budice Apr 10, 23:00
Three weeks from tomorrow I'm cruisin' - sooo much to do before then. -- nm - Meg Apr 10, 22:44
Tied up again! This game won't end! -- nm - Krusty Apr 10, 22:43 4
- ...Meanwhile back on Naboo.... -- nm - budice Apr 10, 22:47
- i was assured the games are getting shorter this year -- nm - professor smartbrain Apr 10, 22:46 1
  - You missed the asterisk that said Yankees/Red Sox doesn't count. -- nm - Krusty Apr 10, 22:49
- oh geez -- nm - Tim Apr 10, 22:45
positive: hello from my ginormous new laptop! hopefully not very negative: good Mom thoughts appreciated, please. - hp.b! Apr 10, 22:36 8
- good thoughts and yay shiny! -- nm - Tim Apr 10, 22:46 1
  - :) - thank you! -- nm - hp.b! Apr 10, 22:56
- Thinking good happy thoughts all round!! -- nm - Meg Apr 10, 22:40 1
  - thank you! -- nm - hp.b! Apr 10, 22:45
- b! - budice Apr 10, 22:37 1
  - boo.! thank you! -- nm - hp.b! Apr 10, 22:38
- yay! boo! -- nm - professor smartbrain Apr 10, 22:37 1
  - indeed. -- nm - hp.b! Apr 10, 22:38
HBO Now is now -- nm - professor smartbrain Apr 10, 22:17 1
- When will then be now? - Qale Apr 10, 22:21
Which president has been depcited the most in superhero movies? - Beryllium Apr 10, 22:15
Interesting fact to think about. This Sunday, 12 April, Hillary Clinton will announce seeking presidential bid. The ship, RMS Titanic, set sail on it -- nm - friend's FB post Apr 10, 22:04 2
- Nice factfind, Honestly think she could hold out a lot longer and still win. -- nm - budice Apr 10, 22:07
- Yes, this is the kind of things we should think about more! -- nm - Guigue Apr 10, 22:05
Now playing: Star Wars. -- nm - David Apr 10, 21:58
Tex! This game won't end! -- nm - Krusty Apr 10, 21:57 1
- Just like a Hobbit movie. -- nm - budice Apr 10, 22:05
Top of the 16th? Wha-? -- nm - Jovian Apr 10, 21:43 12
- Papi! -- nm - Tim Apr 10, 21:46 11
  - I'm in a cab racing to get home. just heard this on the cab radio. -- nm - Mel Profit Apr 10, 21:55 10
    - oh FFS.... - Tim Apr 10, 21:57 9
      - wtf. -- nm - Mel Profit Apr 10, 22:02 8
        
        It's like 1am out there no? -- nm - budice Apr 10, 22:08 7
        
        Yup. Tomorrow is a day game. -- nm - Krusty Apr 10, 22:16 5
        
        When do we get into position players on the mound? - Mel Profit Apr 10, 22:27 4
        
        You guys are good with the knuckleballer. This is our last pitcher and he pitched yesterday too. -- nm - Krusty Apr 10, 22:32 3
        
        I want to see assum -- nm - Mel Profit Apr 10, 22:33 2
        
        see some dude who hasn't pitched since HS throwing 87mph - Mel Profit Apr 10, 22:35 1
        
        If we tie it up again that's what'll happen. -- nm - Krusty Apr 10, 22:38
        
        yohn# -- nm - Mel Profit Apr 10, 22:10
Jeremy Clarkson unsubtly hints he is coming to Netflix -- (link) - Peglegpete Apr 10, 21:22
Complaining about service always gets results. - Karl_S Apr 10, 21:01
Will Forte does some amazing eye acting. -- nm - Reagen Apr 10, 20:34
so, I might very well have a job lined up for after I finish school in a couple of months . . . - call me Ishmael Apr 10, 20:26 4
- Sounds promising and exciting. He must see something to indicate you'd be good for the position. - Meg Apr 10, 21:20
- did he try to put any moves on you in the hot tub? -- nm - professor smartbrain Apr 10, 20:28 2
  - um, first of all . . .ew . . . second of all, no. but he did intimate that there might be a time travelling device somehow associated w/ the hot tub - call me Ishmael Apr 10, 20:34 1
    - wait, the pacrat I know *is* the principal! -- nm - mafic Apr 10, 21:30
2 episodes in. Daredevil is very impressive. -- nm - Jovian Apr 10, 20:24 1
- not big spoils. more like jealousy - Peglegpete Apr 10, 20:38
Tattoo girl on Amazing Race is kinda gorgeous when fixed up. The tats don't work with the look though. -- nm - Name Withheld By Request Apr 10, 20:18 1
- all the girls cleaned up nice -- nm - Peglegpete Apr 10, 21:18
Mmmm, mm imitation crab salad on french with pickled jalapeno slices. Delicious quick dinner -- nm - con_carne Apr 10, 20:16
Darren Sharper's rape plea agreement includes provision for "penile monitoring" -- (link) - professor smartbrain Apr 10, 19:58 2
- It became self-aware. -- nm - budice Apr 10, 20:02 1
  - aren't they all? -- nm - professor smartbrain Apr 10, 20:10
wap? Va. student earns admission to all 8 Ivy League schools, plus 6 others | 4.57 GPA, scored 2390 on the SAT and heads a national non-profit. -- (link) - prayformojo Apr 10, 19:27 3
- A kid from NY and Minnesota as well. Not sure why they'd apply to all of them though. -- nm - Krusty Apr 10, 19:36 2
  - I shudder to think of the cost involved in all those applications. -- nm - Tim Apr 10, 19:37 1
    - Both her parents are engineers and probably come from well-off families. -- nm - tobor.2 Apr 10, 19:40
I got 2 stolen bases in Willy Nelson's tonight from Joey Votto and Miguel Cabrera. heh -- nm - CQ Apr 10, 19:25
That was one of the weirder Communitys. - tobor.2 Apr 10, 19:23 3
- One of the biggest problem of the year in my opinion is the lack of time restraint - Guigue Apr 10, 21:56
- *buys a handshake* -- nm - Beryllium Apr 10, 20:50 1
  - (the episode I'm referencing is literally the only one I've seen) -- nm - Beryllium Apr 10, 20:51
Aroldis Chapman would get you out. I don't care what you say. - Volnelk Apr 10, 19:23
Headley! -- nm - Krusty Apr 10, 19:11 3
- that was huge. -- nm - diva Apr 10, 19:16
- he crushed it -- nm - Jovian Apr 10, 19:14
- that one got a little too much of the plate -- nm - CQ Apr 10, 19:14
boom. -- nm - Jovian Apr 10, 19:11
Got my DNA results from Ancestry.com - no real surprises. - Meg Apr 10, 19:06 17
- Mine - Covington Apr 11, 03:05
- does anyone remember the 1990s movie "Relic" ? -- nm - call me Ishmael Apr 10, 20:21
- My wife's uncle did this, and got mostly North-west Europe. Which was a big surprise, because he's East Indian. - Roger More Apr 10, 19:46
- "human" -- nm - Max Apr 10, 19:33
- I wonder if I did this if it would solve some of our ancestry questions. - tobor.2 Apr 10, 19:30 4
  - Maybe, although they do lump a lot together, such as Scandinavia and eastern and western Europe. - Meg Apr 10, 19:37 3
    - Scandinavian should be from 700-1100 when the Vikings visited regularily -- nm - Peglegpete Apr 10, 19:46 1
      - and GB should be the early founders who walked over thousands of years ago before the last ice age, and before there was an English Channel -- nm - Peglegpete Apr 10, 19:47
    - Not sure how many people out of the US use them. -- nm - tobor.2 Apr 10, 19:42
- Jessica Alba is more Jewish than you are :)) she was on the PBS geneology show last fall -- nm - Peglegpete Apr 10, 19:30 3
  - I am shocked you know of Jessica Alba. -- nm - kelly Apr 10, 20:17 2
    - She's no Clara Bow! -- nm - peglegpete si Apr 10, 20:22 1
      - Heh. -- nm - kelly Apr 10, 20:43
- I'd love to see my daughter's now. Between mine and my S-I-L's her Irish component should go way up. -- nm - Meg Apr 10, 19:26
- how come they won't tell you how much superhero you got, they're withholding that important info -- nm - zeitgeist Apr 10, 19:16
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- 100% badass motherfucka -- nm - professor smartbrain Apr 10, 19:09
Tomorrow I'm supposed to go see owl babies get their ID bracelets. Hope I'm feeling better than I have the past couple of days :( -- nm - Meg Apr 10, 19:00
ooh...Forensic Files... -- nm - diva Apr 10, 18:59 4
- start drinking. -- nm - Mel Profit Apr 10, 19:09 3
  - if she's watching FF, chances are she's already drinking. (gorman rules. -- nm - all the boys love mandy lane Apr 10, 19:10 2
    - I've had a glass of chardonnay... -- nm - Diva Apr 10, 19:23 1
      - Did you play that category on Jeopardy too? -- nm - Sean Connery si Apr 10, 20:31
I tend to accept most modern technology without much thought but one thing that makes me go "WHAT SORCERY IS THIS?!" is Shazam. -- nm - Tim Apr 10, 18:53 12
- it's so awesome. -- nm - CQ Apr 10, 19:06
- I created a spotify playlist tonight for "things I've shazamed." I love shazam so, so much. -- nm - all the boys love mandy lane Apr 10, 19:05 7
  - It was a relief when I showed my mom how to use it, she'd often attempt to sing the melody (badly). - Tim Apr 10, 19:06 6
    - shazamming at a karaoke bar is the best -- nm - CQ Apr 10, 19:08 5
      - does it work? we often shazam at my favorite bar and the ambient noise kills the shazam. -- nm - all the boys love mandy lane Apr 10, 19:09 4
        
        It's hit or miss which makes for a great betting/drinking game -- nm - CQ Apr 10, 19:12
        
        what's funny is that I play my ipod in the store..my ipod has lots of mashups and people try to shazam them... - Remlik Apr 10, 19:11 2
        
        You need to shazut that down -- nm - professor smartbrain Apr 10, 19:13 1
        
        need more mashups! -- nm - Remlik Apr 10, 19:23
- tv shows have all thier stuff tagged with shazam now. -- nm - Remlik Apr 10, 19:01 2
  - That also baffles me. I tried to Shazam a song in an ad and it knew I was watching a tv show. -- nm - Tim Apr 10, 19:02 1
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pretty please, is google down for you? it isn't for me on my phone, but it is on wired and wireless work. -- nm - b. Apr 10, 18:51 4
- (er and I'm on st via work connection, thus the query - I wonder if it's something local or spotty or something) - b. Apr 10, 18:53 3
  - Seems okay here. -- nm - Meg Apr 10, 18:57 2
    - thanks - I just looked at some isitdown type sites and it looks to be notjustme. -- nm - b. Apr 10, 19:00 1
      - those others may be random; but our IT "action"line finally answered and said our campus is having - b. Apr 10, 19:28
I just remembered: There was a keyboard command to Refresh ST. What was it? -- nm - Mel Profit Apr 10, 18:48 2
- . -- nm - Reagen Apr 10, 18:54 1
  - right, but what's the command? - Mel Profit Apr 10, 18:56
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- kid's looking old! -- nm - prayformojo Apr 10, 18:48 4
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      - (I'm sure you look stunning in them.) -- nm - b. Apr 10, 19:06 1
        
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In some ways, Paul Blart 2 and Mad Max Fury Road look to be very, very different movies -- nm - prayformojo Apr 10, 18:32
TAR spoils - Jovian Apr 10, 18:30 1
- Spoils - tobor.2 Apr 10, 18:49
Van 1 survived the OC runs as well as the drive to Oceanside and now we are waiting for dinner - JD Apr 10, 18:20 1
- good job, all around, including you! (c'mon!) :) - -- nm - no.b.ody. Apr 10, 18:24
"HEY! Hey! stop fucking with Korean Jesus! He ain't got time for your problems! He's busy... with Korean shit!" -- nm - Beaker Apr 10, 18:19
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- The first month of HBO Now through Apple is free -- nm - professor smartbrain Apr 10, 18:41
- Staz is free too because Outlander is back -- nm - Peglegpete Apr 10, 18:18 1
  - Starz -- nm - Peglegpete Apr 10, 18:18
The Parents Edition Of 'Truth Or Drink' -- (link) - Remlik Apr 10, 17:47
-- nm -- nm - tobor.2 Apr 10, 17:44
Not for nuthin' but...I went rummaging through the work fridge in the vain hope that I'd stashed forgotten leftovers and I found instead... - Mel Profit Apr 10, 17:44 4
- got home a quarter to four, found a note pinned to my door, where you been hun its been so long, looked in the window everything was gone (old blues) - zeitgeist Apr 10, 19:14
- it's the Power of the Vest! -- nm - prayformojo Apr 10, 17:47 2
  - Just think, if he had worn white pants, there'd be ingredients for a mojito in the fridge. A vest will get you nowhere. -- nm - CQ Apr 10, 17:51 1
    - and old bomber jacket would have gotten him a six of Schlitz. -- nm - Reagen Apr 10, 19:16
going through the myrealname gmail account and dealing with incorrectly sent messages, I came across a poor-girl name of a nice man's granddaughter. - b. Apr 10, 17:42 4
- heh, I just realized the grandpa's name is one that has to always be spelled, too: woodie. -- nm - no.b.ody. Apr 10, 17:43 3
  - this amused me - another mename made a hair appointment with a stylist whose name is showing as: curry amber. (spoiler) - no.b.ody. Apr 10, 17:50 2
    - continuing talking to myself: I hadn't used pinterest in a while. man, the "picked for you" has gotten crazy, and it's really annoying to - no.b.ody. Apr 10, 18:28 1
      - Cut it out, Max -- nm - professor smartbrain Apr 10, 18:47
nobody's here -- nm - prayformojo Apr 10, 17:37 2
- hello! -- nm - no.b.ody. Apr 10, 17:42
- That's because I just showed up. -- nm - Dano Apr 10, 17:41
#happydance -- nm - Strongbad Apr 10, 17:05
Daredevil ep 1-7 were very good and only had about 5 minutes of worthless scenes, total -- nm - Peglegpete Apr 10, 16:43 5
- watching the pilot now. its very good. -- nm - Jovian Apr 10, 16:59
- I need to wait till next week to watch them - eag Apr 10, 16:48 3
  - a friend is watching them with me, and cannot be back for 2 weeks due to work, etc. to see the other 6. thankfully it has not grabbed me like Game of - Peglegpete Apr 10, 16:53 2
    - Your use of "fortnight" in casual conversation tells me you don't need any more Game of Thrones -- nm - con_carne Apr 10, 17:55 1
      - or I am watching too many historical shows by the BBC on youtube -- (link) - Peglegpete Apr 10, 18:16 [youtube]

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