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Your semi-monthly Buzzfeed post of heartwarming pictures -- (link) - amoxy May 21, 18:30 1
- man, the helicopter in #24 must be kicking up a lot of dust. -- nm - Beryllium May 21, 18:50
ST what are you reading? or recently read? -- nm - Beaker May 21, 18:21 13
- Lincoln's Boys, the story of his two clerks (today would be considered Cheif of Staff etc) and how they shaped his legacy -- nm - zeitgeist May 21, 19:37
- Currently reading Technomancer, recently finished Wicked and The Wonderful Wizard of Oz. -- nm - Ender May 21, 19:09
- Just finished word Freak (if anyone wants it email me). Reading Hot Zone and hating ML. - iSpam May 21, 18:55
- I read the first few pages of Spook Country by William Gibson, but haven't got into it yet. -- nm - Beryllium May 21, 18:43
- The Invisible Bridge -- nm - professor smartbrain May 21, 18:38
- nothing -- nm - Peglegpete May 21, 18:36
- about to finish the three by sarah lotz & about to start ray by barry hannah...nm - x May 21, 18:28 3
  - What do you think about The Three? nm - ralph wiggum May 21, 18:30 2
    - i liked a lot of it for about the first 2/3 but then i thought it got a little wobbly.... - x May 21, 18:51 1
      - Yeah (not really spoilers) - ralph wiggum May 21, 18:54
- Quicksilver (Stephensen) almost done -- nm - mud May 21, 18:26
- Semi-recently read: Crazy Rich Asians, The Three and Herbie's Game. Just started In the Woods. nm - ralph wiggum May 21, 18:23
- got Field of prey and Deadline by John Sandford from the library ready to roll. -- nm - Beaker May 21, 18:22
I've got a 25th college reunion coming up soon and lots of people have been posting old photos, including this future movie star (nmblink) - ralph wiggum May 21, 18:13 [flickr] 4
- Thought this was going to be Dream a Little Dream. -- nm - David May 21, 18:16 3
  - Well, she was the same year as MD, so I guess you'll have to wait 2 years for their reunion. nm - ralph wiggum May 21, 18:18 2
    - So your thread is two years early! -- nm - David May 21, 18:19 1
      - I've always been a vanguard. nm - ralph wiggum May 21, 18:20
This would have been more amusing had the Mets not been awful lately, but earlier today Jacob deGrom was briefly the owner of the Cardinals. -- (link) - Tim May 21, 18:12
Milwaukee Brewer Will Smith just joined the Men Cheating Badly club. -- nm - David May 21, 18:10 11
- note to self: highlighting then googling "Will Smith" does not help you unless you are looking to get jiggy with it. -- nm - Tim May 21, 18:13 9
  - laughing. -- nm - all the boys love OBBR May 21, 18:38
  - He had a strange case of Vaseline Elbow. -- nm - David May 21, 18:16 7
    - "Crisco. Bardol. Vagisil." - Tim May 21, 18:18 6
      - You know, I tried to find you a link but "Will Smith cheating" also doesn't help. -- nm - David May 21, 18:20 5
        
        I found a few tweets that he was ejected for a foreign substance, I don't think there's any article yet. -- nm - Tim May 21, 18:22 4
        
        It's hilariously obvious. His forearm looks like he showered in KY jelly. -- nm - David May 21, 18:23 3
        
        Found video of his ejection on the mlb app. Even on my phone, I could see the his arm glistening. -- nm - Tim May 21, 18:31 2
        
        But what you *didn't* see was this -- (link) - prayformojo May 21, 18:40 [youtube]
        
        I just realized he went to high school 45 minutes from the park, so he probably had a lot of family and friends at the game. -- nm - David May 21, 18:36
- Aw hell naw -- nm - professor smartbrain May 21, 18:12
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- Mine I can see the wifi but it's unusable. I'd make sure before ditching the extender. - iSpam May 21, 18:53
- woohoo!! free WiFi!!! -- nm - ML's neighbor May 21, 18:14
- What model? -- nm - Beryllium May 21, 17:59 2
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- go up on the roof!....nm - x May 21, 17:57
Carla Gugino makes everything better -- nm - prayformojo May 21, 17:53 4
- She certainly does -- nm - budice May 21, 18:07
- she was the voice of that robot in man of steel and it did not help that piece of crap...nm - x May 21, 17:57 2
  - Well obviously not *everything*..... -- nm - prayformojo May 21, 18:11
  - that what in the what? -- nm - Reagen May 21, 18:06
I just saw 2 different BIs suggesting that Mandy Moore and James Roday have been having an affair for the last year. - ralph wiggum May 21, 17:51 12
- poor ryan. at least the breakup has been good for his music (prolific as heck lately). er, and poor maggie, too! -- nm - b. May 21, 17:59
- They'd be a terrific couple. -- nm - David May 21, 17:56
- awwww, dammit, James. -- nm - Tim May 21, 17:53 8
  - FWIW... -- (link) - David May 21, 18:06 7
    - But I missed when Shawn and Juliet broke up, if they actually did! - Tim May 21, 18:08 6
      - Either 2014 or 2015, depending on who you believe. - David May 21, 18:13 5
        
        awwwww -- nm - Tim May 21, 18:13 4
        
        I guess there will never be a Psych reunion. :( -- nm - David May 21, 18:15 3
        
        I was hoping they'd do a tv movie every so often, but alas. -- nm - Tim May 21, 18:25 2
        
        Rachel Leigh Cook! -- nm - David May 21, 18:26 1
        
        Real fans know her as Rachael. -- nm - Will Hunting May 21, 18:44
- made a pilot together in 2014 -- (link) - all the boys love OBBR May 21, 17:53
Amanda - and other Scrabble players - have you seen this !! -- (link) - Meg May 21, 17:43 1
- SOWPODS will let anything in! - iSpam May 21, 17:47
"Where the hell are the singing cats?" - David May 21, 17:41
omg. just saw the Josh Duggar story. -- nm - Andie May 21, 17:25 11
- nm -- (edited) - Tim May 21, 17:30 10
  - :/ - b. May 21, 17:57 5
    - fine. I edited the post. - Tim May 21, 18:03 3
      - At the risk of being too cynical, with 19 kids, *someone's* got to be the black sheep. -- nm - Reagen May 21, 18:42
      - I understood what you meant. - b. May 21, 18:12
      - I understood what you were getting at. -- nm - kelly May 21, 18:08
    - (nmb tim) - b. May 21, 18:00
  - yeah. let's attribute this behavior to "pro-lifers" - Strongbad May 21, 17:43 1
    - We're all terrible people, natch. -- nm - iSpam May 21, 17:48
  - Women to the Duggars are what humans are to the Alien facehuggers - professor smartbrain May 21, 17:41
  - He just wants more targets. -- nm - Spawn May 21, 17:38
"604 Loveknot Place" -- nm - Wayward Pines May 21, 17:17
70-year-old woman, involved in police standoff - shoots at the crisis-intervention robot sent in to take her a cell phone. -- (link) - Meg May 21, 17:07 6
- So I take it that she has failed her graduation exercise? The power is weak in this one. -- nm - Under the Influence May 21, 17:21
- admit it, this is how you want to go out, not behind the wheel of a multi county car chase -- nm - zeitgeist May 21, 17:15 4
  - They want to take Meg out, they are going to need to nuke her from orbit. - TWuG May 21, 18:35
  - What about a multi-county robot car chase? -- nm - Beryllium May 21, 17:23
  - I'm just sad for that poor little robot :( -- nm - Meg May 21, 17:17 1
    - It died doing what it does best - eag May 21, 17:22
Airplane Dumps Human Feces on Girl’s Sweet 16 Party, Family Says -- (link) - amoxy May 21, 17:04 4
- sweet crude -- nm - Max May 21, 17:16 1
  - SLUDGE FUDGE. -- nm - all the boys love OBBR May 21, 18:13
- Now that's the sort of thing TLC should have a show about -- nm - Beryllium May 21, 17:05 1
  - it would seem a lot of their shows now should have the tagline "s#it happens, and we're all for encouraging it" -- nm - b. May 21, 17:13
I haven't watched in many years, but it breaks my heart that Letterman is gone. - David May 21, 17:02 18
- I love the guy. I just wish he'd found a way to be enthused about the last 10-15 years. - TWuG May 21, 18:40
- On the plus side, maybe now he can devote more time to his acting career. -- nm - Beryllium May 21, 17:14 3
  - Cabin Boy 2 -- nm - Dano May 21, 17:17 2
    - Great and terrible minds think alike. -- nm - Beryllium May 21, 17:22 1
      - Still selling monkeys? -- nm - Spawn May 21, 17:35
- yah. you may want to seek-out a clip of when he explained what the foo fighters song "miracle" meant to him. very touching. in fact, here.. nm but: -- (link) - b. May 21, 17:11
- So now Carson Daly is the elder statesman of late night. -- nm - Dano May 21, 17:11 3
  - Conan -- nm - Krusty May 21, 19:00
  - I enjoy his show, even though it's not comedy-based -- nm - con_carne May 21, 17:14 1
    - I honestly had no idea it was still on. -- nm - Spawn May 21, 17:36
- I was just reading his bio on Wikipedia. There was once a plot to kidnap his kid. That's freaking scary. - Beryllium May 21, 17:09 4
  - This was the Smitty Affair situation. -- nm - David May 21, 17:20 2
    - the kidnapping was years earlier. smitty things were the blackmail attempt. here's a story re: the former. nm but: -- (link) - b. May 21, 17:24 1
      - Oh, my fault. I should have paid more attention to what he said. -- nm - David May 21, 17:25
  - i remember that, some worker on his montana estate building the house, I forget how that got broke up, a friend ratted him out he tried to recruit? -- nm - zeitgeist May 21, 17:18
- agreed -- nm - budice May 21, 17:08
- word -- nm - Spawn May 21, 17:06
- I remember when people were all downers about when his kid was born -- nm - Beryllium May 21, 17:03
Hmm. Do "-" and "ー" look pretty similar to you? -- nm - Beryllium May 21, 16:59 5
- Similar, yes. The same, no. -- nm - tobor.2 May 21, 17:03 3
  - The latter one is one form of the japanese word for 'Over' -- nm - Beryllium May 21, 17:12 2
    - Ah, explains the little dot before it. -- nm - tobor.2 May 21, 17:13 1
      - I don't see a little dot here. heh. -- nm - Beryllium May 21, 17:14
- (In this font they don't, but in others they seem to) -- nm - Beryllium May 21, 17:01
Just ate at CiCis Pizza. That ought to qualify as a suicide letter. -- nm - Qale As Folk May 21, 16:56 11
- Even Chad has to think twice about CiCi's -- nm - professor smartbrain May 21, 17:19
- Do we need to do some kind of intervention with you ? -- nm - eag May 21, 17:13
- But you watched NXT Unstoppable so you'll die happy. -- nm - Tim May 21, 17:07 2
  - I want to join the Lynch Mob! - Qale May 21, 17:28 1
    - They put out a shirt for her, but people might get the wrong idea if you wear it. - Tim May 21, 17:32
- I think it's officially classified as "pizza". -- nm - iSpam May 21, 17:04
- Did you have the mac and cheese pizza? - tobor.2 May 21, 17:00 4
  - It was as bad as my chicken and cheddar ramen noodle idea from last night. -- nm - Qale As Folk May 21, 17:10 3
    - if you don't mind allthesodium, I suggest mac & cheese mixed with tuna, hot or cold*. low-budget, fast tuna casserole. -- nm - b. May 21, 17:20 1
      - It mostly was about trying to do something a bit different. - Qale May 21, 17:29
    - While cheese is good added to a lot of things, it isn't good added to everything. - tobor.2 May 21, 17:15
Okay, the Community nod to CA: Winter Soldier was awesome. -- nm - Spawn May 21, 16:54
Ick. Gawker has a story about a child molester. 19 kids and counting. -- (link) - Beryllium May 21, 16:31 12
- I think it was Chris Hardwick who described this family as "a fucked up human pyramid scheme." -- nm - Tim May 21, 17:22
- The Leacher Channel -- nm - zeitgeist May 21, 17:06
- This rings true, does it not? -- (link) - Beryllium May 21, 16:48 2
  - Yes. He doesn't get to let himself off the hook. -- nm - tobor.2 May 21, 16:54 1
    - And it looks like there's even more to the story... -- (link) - tobor.2 May 21, 17:06
- "Family Research" indeed. -- nm - TWuG May 21, 16:35
- "19 kids and counting" is the name of the show in which the family is featured . - i.b! May 21, 16:35 5
  - looks like TLC knew *9 years ago* -- speaking of boycotts. ugh. -- nm - i.b! May 21, 16:43 2
    - And the Dad waited a year before turning his son in -- nm - amoxy May 21, 17:19
    - ("stop reading, b.!" making me feel sick. those poor girls in that messed-up family, gah.) -- nm - b. May 21, 16:51
  - Well, yes, to be fair I was making an inappropriate joke ... -- nm - Beryllium May 21, 16:35 1
    - oic. -- nm - i.b! May 21, 16:37
SF Giants swept the Dodgers with 3 consecutive shutouts -- nm - budice May 21, 16:29 2
- boo.! - i.b! May 21, 16:32 1
  - Ignores b - eag May 21, 16:43
TNA issues statement in regards to cancellation - Remlik May 21, 16:28 1
- I saw the discussions on the backboard but I could care less about Samoa Joe. - Tim May 21, 16:31
Dano!! You coming out this way any time soon? -- (link) - Meg May 21, 16:19 2
- He's gonna need a bigger boat -- nm - eag May 21, 16:28
- Time for a dip! -- nm - Dano May 21, 16:28
*shrieks!* -- nm - ReluctantCynic May 21, 16:11 9
- Just keep looking at the zinc on his nose. -- nm - tobor.2 May 21, 16:29
- ok, fine, I'll close another button on my sweater. it was hot in the supply room, geez. -- nm - i.b! May 21, 16:13 5
  - THANKS RC! -- nm - Remlik May 21, 16:18 4
    - ^+ for nothing. (the brought to you by my self-esteem nm) - i.b! May 21, 16:31 3
      - I think he was admonishing RC for causing you to notice and show less skin. Remlik was enjoying the view! -- nm - TWuG May 21, 16:33 2
        
        ^this. RC is a bum. :) -- nm - Remlik May 21, 16:43
        
        the three of us hope so. -- nm - i.b! May 21, 16:36
- Shhhhhh. Just let it happen. - pmb May 21, 16:12 1
  - Oh man, here comes the Twitter outrage. -- nm - Qale May 21, 16:16

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