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Poll - What is awesome in your world today? -- nm - Andie May 15, 06:17 15
- Currently getting our AC unit replaced. Yay! AC after 6 months without! -- nm - JaxSean May 15, 06:32
- Got white chocolate & strawberry cake, it's payday and double ep of Walking Dead on tv tonight. Plus booked my Max Max ticket. -- nm - LMS May 15, 06:25
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  - Nice! -- nm - Krusty May 15, 06:24
  - So when are you going to the gym? -- nm - Shaun May 15, 06:24
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    - Just about any other artist? - Krusty May 15, 06:24
    - A 60oz bottle of good rum? -- nm - Shaun May 15, 06:24
- Beauty weather, long weekend coming up and it's Friday! -- nm - Shaun May 15, 06:22
- Today is the end of Spring busy season at work, and I took off Monday. -- nm - MDH May 15, 06:22
- Nice weather and likely a Carvel ice cream cake later. -- nm - Krusty May 15, 06:21 2
  - Happy Happy Birthday! -- nm - Andie May 15, 06:23 1
    - Thanks! -- nm - Krusty May 15, 06:23
- sun is out. Monday is a holiday -- nm - Beaker May 15, 06:19
- 1. Long weekend Friday 2. Nice clean house for company 3. New light -- nm - Andie May 15, 06:18
This weekend's UK TV PSA - finale of Atlantis and Tatau, Danish drama 1864 and Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell begin -- nm - LMS May 15, 06:16 1
- TAR finale -- nm - Beaker May 15, 06:17
Legends of Tomorrow looks very ambitious and promising. Almost sounds like it will be a Superhero Sliders -- nm - Jovian May 15, 06:06 1
- hopefully they cast the main villain as well as Arrow and Flash has cast their shows -- nm - Beaker May 15, 06:20
It is such a pain to set up a new laptop - and going from Win7 to 8 on top of it. - Covington May 15, 05:56
Other site: I just flipped to short on both. MMax will probably be a post-adjust long and Pitch just looks effing terrible and I refuse to support it. - Shaun May 15, 05:44 4
- i just sold and shorted Pitch, but i still have Max long. -- nm - Andie May 15, 06:10 1
  - *stifles laughter* -- nm - oblique May 15, 06:12
- Agree. 47.4 for Fury seems a little high. -- nm - volnelk May 15, 05:53 1
  - and 46.5 seems possible for Pitch to open, but not sustain. -- nm - volnelk May 15, 05:55
Aaron Hernandez appeals murder conviction -- (link) - Beaker May 15, 05:36
Happy Krusty Birthday! -- nm - prayformojo May 15, 05:35 12
- Thank you all! Love this place so much! :-) -- nm - Krusty May 15, 06:25 1
  - HBD -- nm - z on the go May 15, 11:10
- Have a great day Krusty! -- nm - amoxy May 15, 06:24
- Happy Birthday! -- nm - MDH May 15, 06:22
- Happy Birthday!! -- nm - Jovian May 15, 05:58
- happy birthday Krustolus!! -- nm - Diva May 15, 05:56 3
  - You made me Greek? ;-/ - Krusty May 15, 05:59 2
    - I've dynastied your name and made it epic! -- nm - Diva May 15, 06:05 1
      - Nice! :-) -- nm - Krusty May 15, 06:07
- Yay Birthday! -- nm - Roovarian Cream May 15, 05:55
- Happy Birthday! -- nm - Shaun May 15, 05:42
- Don Homer! -- nm - Beaker May 15, 05:38
I don't know he's being made to apologize for donating to the Clinton charity but either way he's wrong for saying he shouldn't have donated. - Krusty May 15, 05:31 6
- Are we supposed to believe the Fox News people have never contributed to the politicians they interview? -- nm - Max May 15, 06:04 2
  - yeah, likely a kettle of fish some reporters do not want to open -- nm - Beaker May 15, 06:24
  - Or any of the charities they founded. He didn't give to her political campaign, he gave to their charity. Huge difference but people don't hear that - Krusty May 15, 06:07
- I saw him apologize on GMA, but I thought he was apologizing for not disclosing he had donated before interviewing them. - JaxSean May 15, 05:42 1
  - The NYT article mentions specifically him saying he never should donated the money. He's wrong. He just needed to publicly disclose it and there's no - Krusty May 15, 05:44
- *He = Stephanopoulos* Crazy Greek name! -- nm - Krusty May 15, 05:32
Ouch, Grantland. "Blah Cappela: The Mess and Minor Insult of Pitch Perfect 2" -- (link) - volnelk May 15, 05:18
May 15, 1718 – James Puckle, a London lawyer, patents the world's first machine gun. -- nm - Beaker May 15, 04:37 5
- 1905 – Las Vegas, is founded when 110 acres (0.45 km2), in what later would become downtown, are auctioned off. -- nm - Beaker May 15, 04:37 4
  - "I made my bones when you were going out with cheerleaders!" -- nm - More Greene si May 15, 05:50
  - 1928 – Walt Disney character Mickey Mouse premieres in his first cartoon, Plane Crazy -- nm - Beaker May 15, 04:38 2
    - 1940 – McDonald's opens its first restaurant in San Bernardino, California. -- nm - Beaker May 15, 04:38 1
      - 1976 - The borough of Brooklyn celebrates the birth of their future ruler. ;-) -- nm - Krusty May 15, 05:58
99%: 168/2. I think I may try and get to the 3 o'clock showing this afternoon -- nm - Beaker May 15, 04:35 1
- A second ruiner? Burn them at the stake! -- nm - Der Frühlingshafterbaron May 15, 06:03
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- Is it really bad? -- nm - oblique May 15, 05:20 1
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Good morning, and thanks for the birthday wishes yesterday! -- nm - loosi May 15, 02:51 1
- slicks back hair, how you doing? -- nm - z on the go May 15, 11:11
Wreckage of missing Marine helicopter found in Nepal, with several bodies - zeitgeist May 15, 02:48
Just watched the movie "Killing Them Softly". Frankly, I'm surprised it wasn't rated lower. 6.2/10 on imdb. - Beryllium May 15, 01:04
RIP B.B. King -- nm - professor smartbrain May 14, 22:56 5
- You watching channel 4 too? :) -- nm - Meg May 14, 23:02 4
  - CNN -- nm - ELPeglegpete May 14, 23:18 3
    - thats better -- nm - Peglegpete May 14, 23:18 2
      - I'd just seen it as breaking news on Ch.4 and came to post it...and he beat me to it :) -- nm - Meg May 14, 23:20 1
        
        up until a few hours ago, he lived in Vegas :( -- nm - Peglegpete May 14, 23:28
Quote from the review for Bravetown. (spoilers - as if you care) - Dano May 14, 21:16 1
- I fully expect this will make your 2015 Top 10 list -- nm - ty97 May 14, 21:24
Glenmorangie tasting? For free?!?! -- nm - tobor.2 May 14, 21:10 1
- There are meet up groups for Whiskey tastings, usually there is a minor fee, less than the cost of a shot of that 30yo - zeitgeist May 15, 00:22
We met Adam Shadowchild -- nm - amoxy May 14, 20:43
Weather.com is a really busy website. They really need to clean up the content and streamline it. A billion things start loading when you get there. -- nm - James Bond (aka Igor) May 14, 20:42 8
- I gave up on it a while back and switched to Wunderground. -- nm - Der Frühlingshafterbaron May 15, 06:00
- It's overloaded with click bait rendering it pretty useless which is counter productive. -- nm - Qale May 14, 22:48
- Try Weather.gov (Nat'l Weather Service) -- nm - con_carne May 14, 21:14 2
  - Or a local tv station. -- nm - tobor.2 May 14, 21:20 1
    - The website. Whichever has the best weather reports. -- nm - tobor.2 May 14, 21:21
- or you can just look outside -- nm - professor smartbrain May 14, 20:45 2
  - I want to know what tomorrow will bring -- nm - James Bond (aka Igor) May 14, 20:55 1
    - despair, most likely -- nm - professor smartbrain May 14, 20:58
Pup Fiction. Mad Ma. The Rod Warrior. Hostbusters. Ear Window. Tar Wars. -- nm - Beryllium May 14, 20:40 3
- Ad Max -- nm - tobor.2 May 14, 21:00
- pretty in ink . . . -- nm - call me Ishmael May 14, 20:51 1
  - Finding Emo -- nm - Beryllium May 14, 22:06
Of course a multithread argument breaks out over suggesting the PATH train be clearly integrated into the NYC subway map -- (link) - ty97 May 14, 20:26 1
- The Path train is on the map just fine. If they changed it I wouldn't really care. - Krusty May 14, 20:51
that was awesome. - groiny May 14, 19:53 1
- Pitch Perfect 2. -- nm - Spawn May 14, 20:15
So for our EPL fans, is it possible that QPR could potentially just freefall as on top of being relegated, they could be blocked from Championship? - JD May 14, 19:51 3
- Compare and contrast with Deflategate. -- nm - tobor.2 May 14, 21:04
- welcome back my friends to the show that never ends. we're so glad you could attend. come inside come inside. -- (link) - ELPeglegpete May 14, 20:15 [youtube]
- Read up on the Glasgow Rangers and what happened to them a few years ago. -- nm - J May 14, 20:13
ty nailed it with the "Dormer looks like a methed out Taylor Swift" analysis. Thank you. -- nm - Spawn May 14, 19:50 1
- I was thinking jane krakowski. -- nm - mafic May 14, 19:59
Things that seem crazy to me when it comes to film production: Tom Hardy was cast in 2010 and the bulk of the shooting of Mad Max was done in 2012. -- nm - Tim May 14, 19:38 9
- Theron had to take the smaller role in Prometheus to allow for her shooting schedule on Fury Road. -- nm - volnelk May 15, 04:05
- I first saw footage in April 2013. -- nm - budice May 14, 20:36
- this type of info used to mean the film was crap & shelved for a few years -- nm - ELPeglegpete May 14, 20:33
- also, George Miller was a doctor. -- nm - Tim May 14, 19:57
- Whoa, I did not realize that. What took so long? -- nm - MDH May 14, 19:39 4
  - I believe there were also extensive weather delays. -- nm - volnelk May 15, 04:30
  - the metric system -- nm - prayformojo May 14, 19:42
  - reshoots done in 2013. my guess is Miller's a perfectionist. - Tim May 14, 19:42
  - finding the money, i think -- nm - professor smartbrain May 14, 19:40
I'll say this - my resume cleans up nice. -- nm - Mel Profit May 14, 19:32 1
- So you're not up resume creek without a paddle. Good. -- nm - Beryllium May 14, 19:36
Reserved Theater Sales: Both Pitch Perfect and Mad Max are strong (Pitch is bigger than Insurgent, etc. in presales) - some analysis - MDH May 14, 19:21 2
- Though MMAX4 is now marginally higher than PTCP2 on the other site. (It's probably time to flip) -- nm - Roger More May 14, 20:06 1
  - Both are movies with appeal for women and women tend to wait on WOM before seeing a movie. - tobor.2 May 14, 21:37
Hey, Groiny.. Ingrid Michaelson was the guest on the most recently posted Nerdist podcast -- (link) - JD May 14, 19:11 1
- *swoon* -- nm - groiny May 14, 19:53
They're not wrong about Fury Road. Wow. -- nm - prayformojo May 14, 19:10 7
- If Fury Road was a woman would I have sex with her? -- nm - Bacon May 14, 20:09 1
  - Who are you kidding? If The Happening was a woman, you'd have sex with her. -- nm - Roger More May 14, 20:15
- So it *is* a feminist conspiracy designed to trick and emasculate the world's males?!? nm - ralph wiggum May 14, 19:42 4
  - what isn't these days? -- nm - professor smartbrain May 14, 20:21
  - George Miller is going for the record of "longest ever con" -- nm - Roger More May 14, 20:07
  - I do feel like giving women equal pay now... Damn you Fury Road!!! -- nm - Guigue May 14, 19:45
  - heh -- nm - mud May 14, 19:44
This is the part where I break ST ... oops -- nm - Beryllium May 14, 18:52 13
- ~'cause I can't resist it no more~ -- nm - Beryana Grande May 14, 19:11
- I was prepping the database for the post editing feature, and I forgot that we had over 3 million posts. -- nm - Beryllium May 14, 18:57 11
  - Only one million or so are any good though. -- nm - Roger More May 14, 19:07 2
    - Optimist. - Beryllium May 14, 19:25 1
      - ST is nothing if not repetitive. -- nm - Qale May 14, 22:50
  - can I edit other people's posts? that might be fun. -- nm - mafic May 14, 19:05 5
    - Yes but you can only change one letter -- nm - Dano May 14, 19:47 2
      - "12 Years a Slav" - prayformojo May 14, 19:48 1
        
        well, that would certainly add a new twist and meaning to the movie . . . -- nm - call me Ishmael May 14, 20:29
    - I dunno, I haven't checked. Maybe. -- nm - Beryllium May 14, 19:25
    - editing or deleting, tough call. -- nm - b. May 14, 19:16
  - considering the usefulness of that project, your time would be better spent going - mud May 14, 19:00 1
    - It's useful in other ways. Worth it even if I turn the feature off, because it cleans up the code base and makes it easier to maintain. -- nm - Beryllium May 14, 19:24
Hey Reagen (nmbR) - Tim May 14, 18:50 2
- I hope so, since I haven't started yet! -- nm - Reagen May 14, 19:31 1
  - No worries, I figured I was, just double checking. -- nm - Tim May 14, 19:34
Holy crap the finale of SHIELD. -- nm - sycor May 14, 18:40 2
- I know, right?! Pure awesomeness. - TWuG May 14, 18:55
- I know, right?! Pure awesomeness. - TWuG May 14, 18:53
so San Andreas is just the baby of 2012 and The Day After Tomorrow right? -- nm - Beaker May 14, 18:30 5
- It might be time to change my nick..... -- nm - San Andreas May 14, 19:24
- But with Gugino and Daddario. This can not be overstated. -- nm - Volnelk May 14, 18:51
- I expect lots of peaks and valleys. - Will Hunting May 14, 18:40 1
  - "jug-weeno"? -- nm - Beryllium May 14, 18:41
- It definitely has the sight-seeing disaster thing tour going on -- nm - Roger More May 14, 18:39
Don't forget to set your DVRs!!! - Todd Manning May 14, 18:30 3
- Any chance of a Nathan wardrobe malfunction? -- nm - Dano May 14, 19:21 2
  - Like they let him wear clothes anyway. -- nm - Todd Manning May 14, 19:43 1
    - They've been putting him in tanktops lately. -- nm - tobor.2 May 14, 20:27
Well, gave a presentation for work to the biggest crowd yet, about 150 people. I'm still a bit loopy from the antibiotics, so I know it wasn't my best - IrishStephen May 14, 18:28 2
- So great and best of luck opening up their wallets! -- nm - Krusty May 14, 18:57
- that's an excellent start! ^5! :) - -- nm - b. May 14, 18:33
this is a nice, smoother/sorta modern-easy-listening cover of "see you again" nm but: -- (link) - b. May 14, 18:19 [youtube]
Boo. Slickertalk was been blocked at work but today they blocked slackertalk and Edmunds. However FB is still available. :/ -- nm - James Bond (aka Igor) May 14, 18:05 2
- try hsxtt.com? -- nm - b. May 14, 18:10 1
  - cool, will do. - James Bond (aka Igor) May 14, 18:14
Okay, who had 46 hours in the betting pool for "when the gays will be blamed for the Amtrak crash" -- (link) - ReluctantCynic May 14, 18:05 2
- Oh no, I had "two minutes" -- nm - professor smartbrain May 14, 18:11 1
  - So... more than the Republicans. -- nm - Strongbad May 14, 18:41
Hi there. -- nm - kelly May 14, 18:02 1
- ~I'm on my way. I'm makin' it.~ -- nm - Der Frühlingshafterbaron May 14, 18:03

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