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Hah. True. -- (link) - Reagen Jun 10, 17:09 1
- Exactly - and we'll all be there, right?? - Meg Jun 10, 17:12
"Goon" sequel is a go. Filming soon. -- nm - MDH Jun 10, 16:56
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- "Halfway through her response to Armageddon, our scientist went into a catatonic state from which she has not yet recovered" -- nm - Roger More Jun 10, 16:54
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  - Sounds pretty scientific there -- nm - budice Jun 10, 16:53
- "It's not possible for a fully grown man to be as short and petite as Elijah Wood" -- nm - ty97 Jun 10, 16:45
How the f'ing H is tomorrow not Friday yet? -- nm - prayformojo Jun 10, 16:41 1
- I think this is the part where I brag that I am off tomorrow and all day Friday. - ty97 Jun 10, 16:44
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- its not 'any' large pizza, unfortunately it has to be one of theirs -- nm - zeitgeist Jun 10, 20:46
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i realize it's no surprise but ESPN sucks so hard. I've been watching for 45 minutes and not once were the Stanley Cup finals mentioned. - diva Jun 10, 16:05 4
- the first 3 PTI bits were NBA, no-hitter was 4th -- nm - Beaker Jun 10, 16:24 1
  - Like those 2 dipshits know anything about hockey anyway. -- nm - Shaun Jun 10, 16:41
- did they ask Tim Tebow about Lebron? -- nm - Remlik Jun 10, 16:22 1
  - ugh. -- nm - diva Jun 10, 16:23
There's a film on tv that's half over, so I can't watch it. But the blurb for it says; - Loyola Jun 10, 15:57 8
- i saw that. it's terrible.....nm - x Jun 10, 16:06 3
  - Damn. What a waste of an idea. -- nm - Loyola Jun 10, 16:07
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    - yep, alex winter...nm - x Jun 10, 16:13
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  - I gave it a quick look. Paul Giamatti would have been better in title roll. - Loyola Jun 10, 16:06
- they totally should've stolen that idea for Hitman -- nm - Beryllium Jun 10, 15:58 1
  - They feckin should have. -- nm - Loyola Jun 10, 16:05
hm, am I using words wrongly? Sadism or masochism - which is less sexual? -- nm - Max Jun 10, 15:52 17
- They're pretty much the same sexually, or not. Depends on context. -- nm - tobor.2 Jun 10, 16:50
- "Quilting or macramé, which is less sexual?" -- nm - Beryllium Jun 10, 15:57 2
  - spoils - Beryllium Jun 10, 15:57 1
    - "Goldfinger has struck again!" "But... "Since the price of gold has gone up, he's switched to wrapping his traitorous girlfriends in 'gold' macrame." -- nm - Max Jun 10, 16:03
- they each can or can't be. -- nm - b. Jun 10, 15:53 12
  - Schrodinger's b? -- nm - Qale Jun 10, 19:44
  - er, that doesn't sound quite right. take away the can't? - b. Jun 10, 15:57 10
    - i.e, b. it is the context they are used in. -- nm - Peglegpete Jun 10, 15:58 9
      - it can be context, like, say, if we're talking (is this sfw? I don't know, I'll put it in im) - b. Jun 10, 16:03 8
        
        or Paul Bettany was a masochist in the DaVinci Code. -- nm - Peglegpete Jun 10, 16:05 2
        
        and Gary Busy was a sadist in Lethal Weapon. -- nm - Peglegpete Jun 10, 16:06 1
        
        You almost didn't need to specify the movie. :-) -- nm - Beryllium Jun 10, 17:12
        
        This is like cut the red wire or cut the blue wire. Okay, I'll say one in front of my boss and see it it's the right one. -- nm - Max Jun 10, 16:04 4
        
        wait, you know they mean different things, right? -- nm - b. Jun 10, 16:05 3
        
        But I've already sent the email! -- nm - Max Jun 10, 16:07 2
        
        now is when you plan the caper that has you get your hands on your boss's phone and/or computer to delete the message! -- nm - b. Jun 10, 16:08 1
        
        I'll just have to go in the women's restroom and use the stall next to her - Max Jun 10, 16:11
Jesus Christ Bail Bonds -- nm - prayformojo Jun 10, 15:45
I wish ST had a weekday put aside for music polls, so I could just avoid it. -- nm - mud Jun 10, 15:37 6
- This makes me think of movies like The Saddest Music in the World. -- nm - Max Jun 10, 15:41
- no Gordon Lightfoot or Anne Murray answers eh? -- nm - Remlik Jun 10, 15:39 1
  - kate bush! -- nm - b. Jun 10, 15:48
- I just skimmed over most of them, esp. those that'd make me cranky. -- nm - b. Jun 10, 15:39 1
  - Ive been verry annoyed lately - eag Jun 10, 15:49
- This is because someone mentioned Mudhoney, isn't it? -- nm - Beryllium Jun 10, 15:39
Punnett squares are real, yo -- (link) - Reagen Jun 10, 15:32 [flickr] 1
- :D -- nm - b. Jun 10, 15:35
Alt history poll: what would our age group have been called if Douglas Copland never wrote "Generation X"? - slipping jimmy Jun 10, 15:31 17
- nothing. no other generation other than baby boomer would have had a name - Peglegpete Jun 10, 15:38 4
  - We should just go back to describing society based on whatever the English monarch's name happened to be. -- nm - Roger More Jun 10, 15:40 3
    - Elizabeth has been on the throne now for 2 billion years. -- nm - Loyola Jun 10, 15:43
    - I thought that was for achitecture or furniture :)))) -- nm - Peglegpete Jun 10, 15:43 1
      - Literature, art, morality, etc. Victorian is a synonym for prudish, for example. -- nm - Roger More Jun 10, 16:17
- MTV Generation? -- nm - Roger More Jun 10, 15:36
- The MTV Generation -- nm - David Jun 10, 15:34
- Baby Bust. -- nm - spamlet Jun 10, 15:34
- I think it was something like post-ww2 baby boom. doesn't have quite the same ring to it. -- nm - b. Jun 10, 15:34 7
  - Thinking more, slackers was the other one they liked to throw around before Gen X caught on for good -- nm - slipping jimmy Jun 10, 15:35 6
    - google says also "the lost generation" but we're too ennui-ridden to get upset about that. -- nm - b. Jun 10, 15:37 5
      - That was the generation who fought in the First World War -- nm - Roger More Jun 10, 15:38 4
        
        actually a little younger than that. I typed the above without thinking, sorry. this dude's page I was looking at messed me up. nm but: -- (link) - b. Jun 10, 15:44 3
        
        I'm not sure. Hemingway was born in 1899, and by 1918 he was an ambulance driver in the US Army. But maybe "came of age" is a better description than - Roger More Jun 10, 16:14 1
        
        that's been my understanding, but I now see that may be because I grew up in the u.s. it looks like it's different in other places. (link) - b. Jun 10, 16:26
        
        Something in the grunge-Nirvana-lolapalooza world would have probably stuck eventually -- nm - slipping jimmy Jun 10, 16:02
- Generation Phreak. -- nm - Beryllium Jun 10, 15:34
Big Brother premieres in 2 weeks on 6/24 -- nm - Peglegpete Jun 10, 15:12 1
- woot woot -- nm - Jovian Jun 10, 16:43
So I am supposed to put a rack of lamb on the grill for dinner, but there's a thunderstorm on the way. Coolio's suggestion? - Roger More Jun 10, 15:09 10
- You guys should go to Outback. -- nm - David Jun 10, 15:35 4
  - The closest one is in Niagara Falls. And, ew! -- nm - Roger More Jun 10, 15:36 3
    - But it'll be like a trip home! -- nm - David Jun 10, 15:40 2
      - I'll go right after you try out that poutine truck -- nm - Roger More Jun 10, 15:42 1
        
        Does slashing their tires count? -- nm - David Jun 10, 15:51
- "Sheltering myself with a large piece of sheet metal....." -- nm - prayformojo Jun 10, 15:35
- that was fallin, fallin. -- nm - Reagen Jun 10, 15:28
- You can grill in the snow too. - Krusty Jun 10, 15:20
- I'm glad the IM wasn't what I was expecting -- nm - Beryllium Jun 10, 15:17
- Yeah, I often get that "suggestion" -- nm - spamlet Jun 10, 15:10
ST Poll: Most underrated band ever -- nm - ty97 Jun 10, 15:03 61
- Minor Threat. -- nm - Volnelk Jun 10, 18:46
- Jane's Addiction. nm - Dignan Jun 10, 16:56 1
  - They're like a slightly hipper version of the Red Hot Chili Peppers -- nm - slipping jimmy Jun 10, 17:18
- Los Lobos - tobor.2 Jun 10, 16:52 2
  - Kim's brother-in-law plays with them a lot. -- nm - David Jun 10, 16:52 1
    - That means he's a really good musician. -- nm - tobor.2 Jun 10, 17:14
- Concrete Blonde.... -- (link) - Remlik Jun 10, 16:07 [youtube]
- Thin Lizzy..... -- (link) - Remlik Jun 10, 16:06 [youtube]
- Screaming Trees -- (link) - Remlik Jun 10, 16:01 [youtube]
- It's the ever bit that has me flummoxed. -- nm - Loyola Jun 10, 15:45 2
  - "Nazareth. No, the original one." -- nm - Beryllium Jun 10, 15:46 1
    - Heh. I think I'm going to go with the Ramones. -- nm - Loyola Jun 10, 15:51
- Weird Al's band. He's had the same band for almost his entire career, but they get little recognition outside of his fans. -- nm - TWuG Jun 10, 15:45
- Me First & the Gimme Gimmes - prayformojo Jun 10, 15:36 1
  - Love them! -- nm - Krusty Jun 10, 15:50
- Alternate answer: The Yardbirds. -- nm - David Jun 10, 15:36
- The Dandy Warhols. -- nm - Reagen Jun 10, 15:29 3
  - They are playing this weekend at the Taste of Randolph street festival here. -- nm - pmb Jun 10, 15:44
  - Aren't you legally required to say the Tragically Hip? -- nm - spamlet Jun 10, 15:35 1
    - They are in the weird case of being overrated in Canada and underrated everywhere else. -- nm - Reagen Jun 10, 15:36
- Big Daddy Meat Straw - znufrii Jun 10, 15:29
- Mudhoney. I'd put Violent Femmes up there, too, though. -- nm - ReluctantCynic Jun 10, 15:28
- Too many to mention -- nm - slipping jimmy Jun 10, 15:25
- I think a lot of people dismiss Billy Idol in the hair band vein, but i think his B-side arrangements are really interesting. -- nm - Max Jun 10, 15:25 1
  - (You must read this in your best Patrick Bateman voice) -- nm - slipping jimmy Jun 10, 15:26
- fairport convention, but only the sandy denny years..... - x Jun 10, 15:20
- I'm struggling to come up with a band that had staying power. Violent Femmes, maybe? - spamlet Jun 10, 15:17 1
  - Eve's Plum should have been huge. nm -- nm - groiny Jun 10, 15:17
- Rockpile -- nm - amoxy Jun 10, 15:15 1
  - NIck Lowe is great in any incarnation -- nm - Peglegpete Jun 10, 15:35
- The E Street Band. -- nm - David Jun 10, 15:14 2
  - I still think it's weird that they have Tom Morello right now. -- nm - Beryllium Jun 10, 15:22 1
    - Disturbingly, his exotic dancer name was Tom "Meat Swinger" Morello. - Beryllium Jun 10, 15:30
- U2 -- nm - decline Jun 10, 15:13
- The Beach Boys. -- nm - pmb Jun 10, 15:11 6
  - c'mon, they were massively popular and pet sounds regularly makes lists of the top 100 rock lp's of all time....,nm - x Jun 10, 15:14 5
    - I get that people that are into rock history appreciate them, but I think to a lot of people (largely because of Mike Love and the last 30 years) they - pmb Jun 10, 15:20 2
      - fwiw, there are a number of younger/newer acts that list the BBs, and "pet sounds" in particular as influences.-- nm - b. Jun 10, 15:25
      - there's no doubt that mike love is the problem....nm - x Jun 10, 15:25
    - They could be on my "most overrated" list -- nm - Roger More Jun 10, 15:15 1
      - mike love at least is on my most overrated list....nm - x Jun 10, 15:16
- Bad Brains -- nm - Krusty Jun 10, 15:09 5
  - saw them with the crazy ass lead singer. It was the last show I ever stage dived at. -- nm - Remlik Jun 10, 16:01 1
    - H.R.? He was awesome! I saw them a few times and they are up there as some of the greatest shows I've seen in my life. -- nm - Krusty Jun 10, 16:46
  - i went to see them twice. one time they failed to show, the other time they were 6 hours late....nm - x Jun 10, 15:11 2
    - That really sucks. I'd be pissed. I've never had a band not show up. -- nm - Krusty Jun 10, 15:18 1
      - i love them too, i'm def. pissed that i never saw them...nm - x Jun 10, 15:21
- Journey -- nm - CQ Jun 10, 15:08 4
  - *killfiles* -- nm - spamlet Jun 10, 15:12 3
    - you're right. I'll go with Sugar Ray instead -- nm - CQ Jun 10, 15:14 2
      - The Coors Light of bands! -- nm - ty97 Jun 10, 15:16
      - I think you're in the wrong poll. -- (edited) - spamlet Jun 10, 15:14
- Southside Johnny & the Asbury Jukes -- nm - Peglegpete Jun 10, 15:07
- Whitesnake -- nm - groiny Jun 10, 15:07 3
  - You just enjoyed Tawny Kitaen rolling around on that car in the video -- nm - eag Jun 10, 15:10 2
    - I did, but Coverdale could belt. - groiny Jun 10, 15:13 1
      - you mean like he did in 93? -- (link) - Remlik Jun 10, 16:03 [youtube]
- triple thick, the half worcesters, chore wheel, rodentt, jumbo, the household appliances or the corn lords.....nm - x Jun 10, 15:06
- Fleetwood Mac -- nm - eag Jun 10, 15:05 1
  - Peter Greene or Bob Welch version? both are great -- nm - Peglegpete Jun 10, 15:06
- Beatles -- nm - Beaker Jun 10, 15:03
seriously, steely dan sucks....nm - x Jun 10, 15:03 4
- They really are the worst. -- nm - Kim Pine Jun 10, 16:05
- That's a solid pick, but I'm going with the Red Hot Chili Peppers -- nm - Roger More Jun 10, 15:06 2
  - I could get on board with this -- nm - ty97 Jun 10, 15:17
  - fair....nm - x Jun 10, 15:07
welcome back my friends to the show that never ends. we're glad you could attend, come inside, come inside -- nm - Peglegpete Jun 10, 14:59

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