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After repeated viewings of Begin Again, I've realized that there is a section that has a sequence of some of my favorite movie scenes (spoils?) - JD Jun 8, 21:26
Teen girl sends out sexy selfies, school reports to fam, dad cuts her hair as a warning, girl jumps off freeway bridge -- (link) - zeitgeist Jun 8, 21:13 2
- Today in "The Zeiter Side of the News" -- nm - tristafe Jun 8, 21:18
- Geez. True Detective Season 2 is dark. -- nm - Beryllium Jun 8, 21:18
Was just reading that fraternity stuff on B2. Wow. - tobor.2 Jun 8, 20:59
2200 piglets excape after truck turns over in Ohio -- (link) - Peglegpete Jun 8, 20:55 6
- This after a train hits a truck full of bacon!? Why is our bacon supply under attack!? -- nm - TWuG Jun 8, 21:15 1
  - its a war on breakfast, remember bird flu generated a chicken holocaust, (and literally mass graves) and there is a shortage of eggs -- nm - zeitgeist Jun 8, 21:54
- Chicken Run 2: Pork Choppers -- nm - tristafe Jun 8, 21:15
- It doesn't say where they were going. -- nm - tobor.2 Jun 8, 21:05 1
  - Weren't you expecting them to say they were going to market? -- nm - Meg Jun 8, 21:09
- Ethan Hunt seen speeding away on a motorcycle. -- nm - Max Jun 8, 21:04
D'it Hawks! -- nm - tobor.2 Jun 8, 20:40
Ryback's gonna kill somebody with his klutzy moves. -- nm - David Jun 8, 20:26 2
- "I don't know if you've heard this, but Ryback hurts people." -- nm - Tim Jun 8, 21:20
- You don't say? -- nm - CM Punk Jun 8, 20:31
Way to go Sam. Governor Brownback threatens to defund the Judiciary if they rule against him -- (link) - amoxy Jun 8, 20:26
Ever since you got out of prison, you've changed. -- nm - yeahprison'lldothattoyou Jun 8, 20:19
Houston gets Daz Cameron in the second round, thereby acquiring three of the top six players in the draft. -- nm - David Jun 8, 19:48 2
- How did they get two top 5 picks? Did I miss something? -- nm - volnelk Jun 8, 19:55 1
  - Aiken. Nevermind. -- nm - volnelk Jun 8, 19:59
So Saad -- nm - budice Jun 8, 19:25
Apparently actress Mary Ellen Trainor (Romancing the Stone, Goones, Lethal Weapon, wife of Zemeckis) died back on May 20th, reported today? -- (link) - Max Jun 8, 19:23 7
- I believe she was also the female news anchor in Die Hard -- nm - tristafe Jun 8, 19:40 6
  - "Author of Hostage Terrorist, Terrorist Hostage: A study in duality." -- nm - Cuzzin Todd Jun 8, 19:58
  - Everyone needs to memorise this chart -- (link) - Roger More Jun 8, 19:47 4
    - What's ironic is that Al Leong was named "Least Likely to Play a Guy Named Uli". -- nm - Reagen Jun 8, 21:03
    - '"Bruce Lee" Piscopo defeats Al Leong's character, and uses his claw hand to slice a pizza.' Linked from above..... -- (link) - prayformojo Jun 8, 19:52 2
      - Yeah, I've spent the last ten minutes reading this too -- nm - Roger More Jun 8, 19:55 1
        
        Al Leong death reel! -- (link) - Roger More Jun 8, 19:57 [youtube]
Swiss women's soccer players look hot, even if the coach looks like a dude -- nm - budice Jun 8, 19:14 1
- swedes were hotter -- nm - mud Jun 8, 19:19
I thought the Tony Award performances were kind of blah, but I loved this number from Fun Home. -- (link) - Dano Jun 8, 19:11 [youtube] 8
- Storm f'ed my signal but it came back about halfway through this. -- nm - tobor.2 Jun 8, 20:03
- That girl nailed it. And she's only 11. -- nm - MDH Jun 8, 19:43
- dvr'd the show - watched that one twice. -- nm - diva Jun 8, 19:28 1
  - I was doing other stuff while it was on. It was the one number that got me to stop what I was doing and rewind to watch again. -- nm - Dano Jun 8, 19:31
- I also liked the opening from Something Rotten -- nm - mud Jun 8, 19:17 1
  - this one too. -- nm - diva Jun 8, 19:29
- September! -- nm - mud Jun 8, 19:15 1
  - I need to do a New York trip at some point. -- nm - Dano Jun 8, 19:23
I get to play Xbox about once every quarter. I think I should cancel Live. -- nm - Beryllium Jun 8, 19:09 4
- I kinda got to that point too. Been rethinking my memberships -- nm - budice Jun 8, 19:11 3
  - I don't think I need gold to finish Borderlands, either -- nm - Beryllium Jun 8, 19:13 2
    - Were you on a month or yearly or every 3 months? -- nm - eag Jun 8, 19:25 1
      - Yearly at full price -- nm - Beryllium Jun 8, 21:11
The US Navy: Guided by Pushpins -- nm - prayformojo Jun 8, 19:06
I'm not worried about our robot overlords quite yet. -- (link) - Dano Jun 8, 19:00 [youtube] 2
- hold on! there's alcohol on this planet. -- nm - bender Jun 8, 19:13
- They just want to live you and squeeze you and call you George -- (link) - Beryllium Jun 8, 19:05
Forearm shiver! -- nm - prayformojo Jun 8, 18:54
Stone-Cold Crawford -- nm - budice Jun 8, 18:41
Buehler, Buehler.....Buehler.... -- nm - Will Hunting Jun 8, 18:37
I had to look this up, so it's quiz time: What is Jeremy Renner's character's name in Mission Impossible? -- nm - Beryllium Jun 8, 18:37 13
- Brand or Brant -- nm - Roger More Jun 8, 19:32 2
  - (or maybe Brandt) -- nm - Roger More Jun 8, 19:33 1
    - Winner! -- nm - Beryllium Jun 8, 21:10
- Faux eye -- nm - tristafe Jun 8, 19:04 1
  - You know the "x" is silent, right? -- nm - Beryllium Jun 8, 19:05
- Sploob McKelba. nm - Dignan Jun 8, 18:56 1
  - Seems legit. "Agent Sploob" has a quaint ring to it. -- nm - Beryllium Jun 8, 19:07
- Runner-up answers: Clint Barton. Jeremy Renner. -- nm - Beryllium Jun 8, 18:54
- Dickey Wittenberger -- nm - Max Jun 8, 18:52
- Johnny Extraneous. -- nm - Reagen Jun 8, 18:41 1
  - That's a terrible code name! -- nm - prayformojo Jun 8, 18:45
- I got no recollection -- nm - Peglegpete Jun 8, 18:40 1
  - Boy, those character names just keep getting worse. -- (edited) - tobor.2 Jun 8, 18:44
goalie Ben Bishop may be in wheel chair, but I gotta keep him in there... -- nm - Tampa Bay coach Jun 8, 18:28 1
- SCOTT STERLING! -- nm - dogbert Jun 8, 19:01
GOAL! -- nm - tristafe Jun 8, 17:49 1
- GOAL! -- nm - tristafe Jun 8, 18:09
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- They're all lottery tickets. Might as well go for soda. -- nm - David Jun 8, 17:48
Protest in East L.A. over the filming of the Lowrider movie. -- (link) - Meg Jun 8, 17:41
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Sounded like one of the loudest anthems ever. GO HAWKS!!! -- nm - zunk xometimes Jun 8, 17:24
#FightOwensFight -- nm - Tim Jun 8, 17:14
Faye Marsay wants to be back on Doctor Who [and I think she would be smashing as the next companion] -- (link) - Peglegpete Jun 8, 17:12
Mets ran a promotion for the next homestand, discounted tickets based on strikeouts thrown by pitchers on the road trip. - Tim Jun 8, 16:50 1
- "We rigged the cards. They're all events the Communists never lose!" -- nm - tristafe Jun 8, 17:02
USA's defense so far is.....not so great -- nm - prayformojo Jun 8, 16:40 7
- I dunno... we haven't been invaded recently. We must be doing something right. -- nm - Cuzzin Todd Jun 8, 20:00
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  - omg, she's our only hope? -- nm - zeitgeist Jun 8, 17:58
- "We were abused as colonists." -- nm - USA Jun 8, 16:56
- On the other hand..... -- nm - prayformojo Jun 8, 16:42 1
  - spoils - prayformojo Jun 8, 16:44
- I vote we go with Germany's "so long as we're in their end, we don't even have to field a goaltender" strategy. -- nm - Mop Jun 8, 16:42
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- Scout.com is 4 for 4. - David Jun 8, 16:38 10
  - Whitson, Castro, Woodson, Rofosky.? -- nm - prayformojo Jun 8, 16:41 1
    - I want to know more about Castro's knees. -- nm - David Jun 8, 16:49
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      - You remember Mike Cameron? Like him, only much younger. -- nm - David Jun 8, 16:43 5
        
        (He's a Boras client, and a lot of people were projecting him to fall out of the top 30 due to signability.) -- nm - David Jun 8, 16:44 4
        
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        I'd love for the Braves to spend a pick on him. He's by all accounts one of the five best players this year. - David Jun 8, 16:47 2
        
        Also, Jay was one of three finalists to go #1 overall. So, that's a good get at #6. -- nm - David Jun 8, 16:48 1
        
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You know, some of Heinz Doofenschmirtz's grievances are legitimate. -- nm - Reagen Jun 8, 16:14 4
- His parents really did do wrong by him. - Kim Pine Jun 8, 16:17 1
  - Bewege dich nicht! -- nm - Mop Jun 8, 16:33
- His brother seems to get the bigger straw a lot. -- nm - David Jun 8, 16:17
- Yeah but when it's all mixed up with the crazy it's hard to tell the difference - iSpam Jun 8, 16:17
Oh, and you're all right. The trailer kills. -- nm - iSpam Jun 8, 16:11 1
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I really look forward to Matt Damon promoting the Martian on Kimmel -- nm - tristafe Jun 8, 16:05
First day after a really hot weekend...The phone went nuts -- nm - amoxy Jun 8, 16:05
Just remembered - have a fasting blood draw in the morning. Don't like :( -- nm - Meg Jun 8, 15:15
Run for your lives: Oscar Pistorius is being released from jail. - diva Jun 8, 15:14 9
- He's catch you. -- nm - Mop Jun 8, 16:34
- Should have the chick from Kingsman as his guard -- nm - amoxy Jun 8, 16:18
- How will he wear the ankle bracelet? -- nm - Cuzzin Todd Jun 8, 15:24 1
  - Hopefully he doesn't. -- nm - Blade Runner 2 plot ideas Jun 8, 15:25
- Literally -- nm - tristafe Jun 8, 15:20
- Free after serving one sixth of his sentence. What a joke. -- nm - Loyola Jun 8, 15:18 2
  - Sounds like a U.S. sentence. -- nm - Meg Jun 8, 15:27 1
    - I couldn't understand at the trial why it wasn't put to him; - Loyola Jun 8, 15:50
- "Okay, who approved the ankle monitor!?" -- nm - TWuG Jun 8, 15:15
"And now, his opponant, hailing from Green Bay, Wisconsin, and weighing in at a svelt 234 and one-quarter pounds . . . - call me Ishmael Jun 8, 15:07
There's a Duncan The Tall series in negotiation. Also, spoils for the show and book relating to Jon Snow - TWuG Jun 8, 14:56 1
- spoils (and for David from B2) - Roger More Jun 8, 15:38
Ty, I don't know. To the non book reader, what he gleans from the trailer is spoilers; - Loyola Jun 8, 14:55 5
- The movie is six months out. Non book readers won't remember that much. -- nm - iSpam Jun 8, 14:59 3
  - it's so crazy to me how fast they made the thing. that was fast, right? -- nm - all the boys love OBBR Jun 8, 15:01 2
    - fastish. wiki - all the boys love OBBR Jun 8, 15:02 1
      - I look forward to Sean Bean's death scene. -- nm - TWuG Jun 8, 15:11
- *marge grumble* -- nm - Mel Profit Jun 8, 14:56
Do you think Gravity helps or hurts The Martian at the box office? - David Jun 8, 14:53 11
- As opposed to Interstellar? -- nm - Max Jun 8, 15:57 3
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    - nah, that was way more philosophical - this is another survival story. -- nm - Reagen Jun 8, 17:29 1
      - This is Apollo 13 on Mars. -- nm - TWuG Jun 8, 17:55
- If they think it looks good from what they see on the trailer, helps. -- nm - Roger More Jun 8, 15:43
- I would say it helps if it has any effect. -- nm - Krusty Jun 8, 15:31
- I would guess negligible effect -- nm - prayformojo Jun 8, 15:03
- I did not even really make that connection. nm -- nm - groiny Jun 8, 14:58
- I would think helps. -- nm - Loyola Jun 8, 14:56 1
  - Keeps it grounded. - tobor.2 Jun 8, 20:26
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cast Lyanna: Jessica Chastain or Bryce Dallas Howard or ... -- nm - mud Jun 8, 14:46 5
- they are both 10+ years too old for the part, among other problems. -- nm - Peglegpete Jun 8, 15:02 1
  - every adult in the tv show is like 5 years older than the books. - mafic Jun 8, 18:10
- isn't it all britishers? -- nm - all the boys love OBBR Jun 8, 15:01 2
  - Sarah Bolger -- nm - Peglegpete Jun 8, 15:02
  - good point. Ruth Wilson! -- nm - mud Jun 8, 15:01
the hills are alive with the sound of music -- nm - Peglegpete Jun 8, 14:45 3
- actually, that's just the winds blowing down off of Krakatoa -- nm - call me Ishmael Jun 8, 15:05
- *skips into view...wearing nuthin' but a blond pigtail wig...leaping and twirling freely...disappears from view* -- nm - Nekkid Crazy Mel Jun 8, 14:56 1
  - ********APPLAUDES******** Encore, Encore!! -- (edited) - Julie Andrews Jun 8, 15:06

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