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So Wayward Pines... do we buy what they're selling? - Mop Jun 11, 23:06 3
- Book spoilers to the extent they relate to Mop's spoilers - ralph wiggum Jun 11, 23:12 1
  - Further spoils - Ender Jun 12, 06:24
- (spoilers all over the place) -- nm - Mop Jun 11, 23:06
"Hey, you're the one with a sex toilet" -- nm - slipping jimmy Jun 11, 22:24
!! -- nm - b. Jun 11, 20:49 3
- !!! - IrishStephen Jun 11, 21:00 2
  - I guess we know how many injured Cavs it takes to win on the road, now. -- nm - Spawn Jun 11, 21:01 1
    - speaking of people who pee on others. -- nm - i.b. Jun 11, 21:07
Takes a breath -- nm - amoxy Jun 11, 20:36 6
- you ok? -- nm - kelly Jun 11, 20:38 5
  - Yeah OK...Took a breath watching the Warriors game - amoxy Jun 11, 20:39 4
    - hee. I was just on the phone with OTT and said similar. the mystic caffeine-spiking of their beverage supply I did in the 3rd Q seems to be holding - b. Jun 11, 20:42 2
      - I was not watching the game on TV, just watching the ESPN ticker until it got to be 10 point lead - amoxy Jun 11, 20:47 1
        
        I was following along online, too. just leaving work. -- nm - i.b. Jun 11, 21:09
    - ah, okay. :) -- nm - kelly Jun 11, 20:41
ok, i know that some of this has been well-covered on ST today, but Christopher Lee passed, Dusty Rhodes too .,, that's 2 ... and things happen in 3s - call me Ishmael Jun 11, 20:33 4
- Ron Moody also passed -- nm - Peglegpete Jun 11, 20:56
- this is a very good prank you are all playing on me. -- nm - Reagen Jun 11, 20:37 1
  - Suits, OITNB ... what's the third Netflix show to get new eps? -- nm - Beryllium Jun 11, 20:43
- Ornette Coleman, jazz legend. Jim Ed Brown country music hall of famer -- nm - Remlik Jun 11, 20:35
Why is Larry Wilmore playing air guitar... in a public restroom in the opening roll to the Nightly Show? -- nm - Mop Jun 11, 20:26 4
- Wyatt Cenac got out of the game too early. -- nm - Qale Jun 11, 20:31 1
  - Hey, he had that cool 2 episode shot on BoJack Horseman! -- nm - amoxy Jun 11, 20:40
- Chelsae Handler nude masturbating was unavailible -- nm - Peglegpete Jun 11, 20:27 1
  - I have trouble believing that was true. nm - ralph wiggum Jun 11, 20:38
As I look back, I always remember the Prestige as two different and separate movies. (spoilers) - Mop Jun 11, 20:22 1
- Same. I said it a couple days ago. I know there are 2 movies, but the only one I've seen is Prestige. -- nm - Volnelk Jun 11, 21:23
"For anything up to 175 quadrillion Zimbabwean dollars the bank will offer $5 in return." -- (link) - slipping jimmy Jun 11, 20:21 5
- in all seriousness, i need to see what I have. i dabble in collecting foreign currencies, not like day-trading, just an occasional item at coin shows - call me Ishmael Jun 11, 20:54
- i just *knew* that I should have invested in that sector of the currency market YEARS ago ! . . . -- nm - call me Ishmael Jun 11, 20:50
- I know a few people who did work there during the worst hyperinflation. they said you'd just bring duffel bags of currency to places. - mafic Jun 11, 20:37 2
  - wouldn't you strt using other countries' currency, dollars, euros, chinese juan? ryals? -- nm - zeitgeist Jun 11, 20:48 1
    - in large part US$, but it wasn't accepted for everything. I seem to remember it was illegal to use USD for a while as well. -- nm - mafic Jun 11, 20:57
OITNB Season 3 is live now. -- nm - Mop Jun 11, 20:17
2 big thumbs up for the dinos. -- nm - groiny Jun 11, 20:12 6
- Any shirtlessness? -- nm - Dano Jun 11, 22:21
- 312.50 -- nm - Spawn Jun 11, 20:37
- the Iquanodon community approves of this message . . . -- nm - call me Ishmael Jun 11, 20:18
- and opposable at that. suck it, T-Rex -- nm - slipping jimmy Jun 11, 20:16
- Two long thumbs...? -- nm - J Jun 11, 20:16 1
  - On very short arms ;) -- nm - Meg Jun 11, 23:23
Without Craig Ferguson, nobody ever talks about the proper amount of suction any more. -- nm - David Jun 11, 20:02 1
- groin seems to have a few takes on the subject -- nm - budice Jun 11, 20:03
Ex texts me to "go to aftercare to pick up backpack". Google Inbox asks "Add reminder 'Go to aftercare'?" - Mop Jun 11, 20:00 4
- a friend got a notification on her phone a while back to the effect of "you might want to leave for work now. traffic between [home] and [office] - mafic Jun 11, 20:34 2
  - "But she'd been fired the day before. How heartless." -- nm - Beryllium Jun 11, 21:09 1
    - Google wouldn't make that mistake. Google has been reading your performance reviews. -- nm - Mop Jun 11, 21:16
- twice the nagging! -- nm - slipping jimmy Jun 11, 20:11
Duran Duran coming to play at the WA state fair...ok I get that fairs are mostly about country music, they usually toss a bone to rock fans, but... - zeitgeist Jun 11, 19:45 4
- putting aside my h.s. fandom, that fair usually includes some decently big and popular acts. here's more for this year. nm but: -- (link) - b. Jun 11, 19:57
- The county fair circuit is big for has-been reunited bands. But, frankly, I thought Duran Duran was bigger than that. -- nm - Mop Jun 11, 19:50 2
  - Probably depends on the market -- nm - slipping jimmy Jun 11, 19:53 1
    - Fair enough. State fairs are bigger venues than county fairs. -- nm - Mop Jun 11, 19:58
Grrr TV news hypes a story all day, why is this sweet LOL being evicted by major non profit corp running senior housing... - zeitgeist Jun 11, 19:36 7
- the news teases are never worthwhile -- nm - James Bond (aka Igor) Jun 11, 20:13 2
  - Something you're serving for dinner tonight might kill you! The story, tonight at 11. -- nm - Mop Jun 11, 20:15 1
    - a neighborhood in Your Town being evacuated after chemical truck crashes, more at 11 - zeitgeist Jun 11, 20:22
- Wilson Fisk admires their dedication ... -- nm - Beryllium Jun 11, 19:42 1
  - Let me just point out that Fisk is another in a long line of villains demonized for having good intentions. - Mop Jun 11, 19:53
- ick. :/ -- nm - b. Jun 11, 19:39 1
  - The elderly are *infestuous* -- nm - slipping jimmy Jun 11, 19:42
Steam Summer Sale Poll: What vidya games are you playing? -- nm - Qale Jun 11, 19:24 16
- Destiny, mostly. When Fallout 4 comes out, I'm gonna have to get a new console. -- nm - mafic Jun 11, 20:44
- I really enjoy Don't Starve. -- nm - Krusty Jun 11, 20:17 5
  - Me too. -- nm - African Orphan Jun 11, 20:37 4
    - I can play Name That Poster with the best of them but I didn't expect this joke from you. -- nm - Tim Jun 11, 20:42 3
      - Name that Poster sounds like a terrible game. -- nm - Qale Jun 11, 20:57 2
        
        i name you Butchy -- nm - slipping jimmy Jun 11, 21:08
        
        There is a tree limb.. with a small cat barely hanging on... -- nm - Spawn Jun 11, 21:04
- I've looked over at the Steam store but remain fiercely loyal to my Nintendo products so it's Pokemon X and sometimes Smash for me. - Qale Jun 11, 19:49
- Looking at getting Borderlands 2 -- nm - Beryllium Jun 11, 19:48
- Night Trap -- nm - slipping jimmy Jun 11, 19:34
- I've really dug when the entire studio catalogs are discounted. -- nm - budice Jun 11, 19:28
- World of Warships (quite a lot). Alien: Isolation. Just picked up the Fallout trilogy. -- nm - ReluctantCynic Jun 11, 19:28 4
  - "53 games from your wishlist are on sale!" - ReluctantCynic Jun 11, 19:41 3
    - And how many are u actually gonna play - eag Jun 11, 19:51 1
      - So far, I've played most of the games I have on Steam at least a little bit here and there. - ReluctantCynic Jun 11, 20:03
    - ALL GLORY TO THE GABEN -- nm - Tim Jun 11, 19:43
you know what's a funny word? "Whiffenpoofs". -- nm - kelly Jun 11, 19:21 5
- "Listen, when you get home tonight you're going to be confronted by the instinct to drink alone. Trust that instinct. Manage the pain." - Toby Ziegler s.i. Jun 11, 19:26 3
  - I've never seen a single minute of this show. - kelly Jun 11, 19:30 2
    - Count your blessings -- nm - slipping jimmy Jun 11, 19:47
    - As well it should! There's a large part of it I haven't seen, but what I did see was great. -- nm - Beryllium Jun 11, 19:33
- I'm sure someone has it on the baby name list -- nm - budice Jun 11, 19:22
Declan's taken to squawking like some kind of dinosaur. I was going to make a Jurassic Park re-creation, but ... something came up. -- (link) - Beryllium Jun 11, 18:56
Jon Stewart's segment on the California drought last night included coverage of people resistant to water treatment plants? - Mop Jun 11, 18:44 16
- That was a nine minute segment based around like four "persons on the street" saying they were grossed out by "toilet-to-tap." It was pretty dumb -- (link) - con_carne Jun 11, 20:29 1
  - It wasn't just persons on the street. They showed news reports *covering* the miracle of "toilet-to-tap" and reacting. -- nm - Mop Jun 11, 20:31
- I remember the first time I went to London a tour guide told us that the tap water had passed through an average of 7 people. - mafic Jun 11, 19:54 6
  - I heard 15. -- nm - tobor.2 Jun 11, 20:28 1
    - well, that was like 25 years ago. I wonder if 8 stomachs in 25 years is reasonable? -- nm - mafic Jun 11, 20:38
  - Someone once did the math: Total water on Earth, average water consumption of a dinosaur, # of years dinosaurs were around = - howie Jun 11, 20:12 1
    - not to mention all the fish that fuck in it -- nm - W. C. Fields Jun 11, 20:18
  - But what's that have to do with London? -- nm - Cuzzin Todd Jun 11, 20:03
  - the sediment is correct? ..oh, "sentiment" -- nm - mud Jun 11, 19:56
- California is in a drought sitting next to a big ass ocean. -- nm - budice Jun 11, 19:29 1
  - Isn't it ironic? - slipping jimmy Jun 11, 19:36
- desalinization is expensive and uses a lot of engery, Santa Barbara built one last drought, never used it -- nm - zeitgeist Jun 11, 19:27
- No. They don't. - Cuzzin Todd Jun 11, 18:48 3
  - John and Hank addressed that in their first episode of the "Dear John and Hank" podcast. Basically, whenever it rains... - Mop Jun 11, 19:02 2
    - Conversely ... - Beryllium Jun 11, 19:12 1
      - POWER! -- nm - Mop Jun 11, 19:13
"Some people are like a Slinky. They're not good for much....but sometimes they can bring a smile to your face...." - prayformojo Jun 11, 18:38
When a friend of mine says her husband is still using XP, I'm not being hyperbolic by telling her he absolutely needs to either upgrade or stop - Qale Jun 11, 18:24 6
- Geek squad agrees.. -- (link) - tobor.2 Jun 11, 18:42
- You are on the correct side of history. -- nm - Beryllium Jun 11, 18:31
- no. there are lots of tips out there (or at least were as of sometime last year) for what to do after microsoft dropped its updates. *pause* like so! -- (link) - b. Jun 11, 18:31 3
  - (I should add that there are other reasons to upgrade. life is too short to deal with the slowness.) -- nm - b. Jun 11, 18:34 2
    - slowness my butt, this win7 machine is glacier compared to my recently departed XP -- nm - zeitgeist Jun 11, 19:29 1
      - it does depend on the system and what you use 'em for; and, in your case, iirc, something seemed really amiss? - b. Jun 11, 19:38
Ty, that guy is just a rich guy shipping something his wife can't live without to his summer home in France. -- nm - tobor.2 Jun 11, 18:22
Jabberwocky! -- nm - David Jun 11, 18:14 6
- It's a game stay the samer. -- nm - Tim Jun 11, 18:16 5
  - "God, Ted, why don't you just do her already!" -- nm - David Jun 11, 18:20 4
    - although the squirrel turned out to be a mistake...driven mad by not being able to sleep due to its constant glowing... -- nm - prayformojo Jun 11, 18:22 3
      - Do you have a TiVo Roamio? - David Jun 11, 18:23 2
        
        yep....really nice for stuff like that -- nm - prayformojo Jun 11, 18:24 1
        
        It basically gives you direct access to that entire Amazon library. - David Jun 11, 18:44
Okay, which one of you killed off Rue McClanahan again? -- nm - tobor.2 Jun 11, 18:13
Guys we only have three screens of Jurassic park. What the hell? -- nm - Amanda Jun 11, 18:08 6
- We get Love and Mercy this weekend. -- nm - Dano Jun 11, 18:47
- I can't wait for Jurassic Brunch. Watch dinosaurs eat people while being served pancakes and omelettes? - Cuzzin Todd Jun 11, 18:43 1
  - I hope they don't get them confused -- nm - slipping jimmy Jun 11, 18:46
- are you looking at todays or tomorrows showings? -- nm - Peglegpete Jun 11, 18:25 2
  - Tomorrow. Again, do you think I'm really dim? -- nm - Amanda Jun 11, 18:33 1
    - that never crossed my mind. I was thinking of the website not giving you the right info -- nm - Peglegpete Jun 11, 20:00
Will Amazon finally bring Gilliam's Don Quixote to life? -- (link) - iSpam Jun 11, 18:05 5
- I love that we live in an era where no project is too dead. Bring back "Push, Nevada"! -- nm - Mop Jun 11, 19:18 4
  - I'll wager good money that David is the only Slacker that recognizes the reference. -- nm - Mop Jun 11, 19:18 3
    - it's like you don't know us or something. I not only know it, but I watched some of it again a few years ago on yt. -- nm - b. Jun 11, 19:21 1
      - nm but: -- (link) - b. Jun 11, 19:23 [youtube]
    - short lived show on ABC (produced by Ben Affleck) with a gimmick that a viewer could win a million bucks by following some clues. -- nm - Tim Jun 11, 19:20
When is Icelandaganza? -- nm - Dano Jun 11, 18:01 3
- "Soon after arriving, he offended the Icelanders by calling their country inadequate because it had no bowling alleys." -- nm - Max Jun 11, 18:43
- Hmm, looks like I could fly through Seattle or Toronto. Still a long flight. -- nm - Meg Jun 11, 18:09 1
  - you take cruises, in fact, you are a viking at cruises -- nm - zeitgeist Jun 11, 20:12
Battlebots is back? -- nm - iSpam Jun 11, 17:51 2
- and on ABC -- nm - budice Jun 11, 17:59 1
  - Just saw that. -- nm - tobor.2 Jun 11, 18:04
Why does this sound familiar? -- (link) - Meg Jun 11, 17:49 1
- Just like Birdman! -- nm - slipping jimmy Jun 11, 17:50
Okay b. you think I'm funny for checking the Denny's menu. Let's not mention obsessively checking a Delta flight to make sure there are - Meg Jun 11, 17:42 1
- nonono, checking the menu is good! it was my brain combining your earlier post about daily site checks with the denny's post - b. Jun 11, 17:54
The 5 Greatest Unscripted Disasters in Pro Wrestling -- (link) - Beaker Jun 11, 17:33
You know what I love? Nectarines -- nm - Dano Jun 11, 17:29 1
- Hear that, Supreme Court? -- nm - slipping jimmy Jun 11, 17:50
Just watched guy with southern drawl ask two young Asian women that look nothing alike if they are twins - ty97 Jun 11, 17:15 4
- Hopefully he meant to say "sisters". -- nm - Spawn Jun 11, 17:25 1
  - They did not understand. He said twins five times. -- nm - ty97 Jun 11, 19:07
- How is your IM in his defence? -- nm - Roger More Jun 11, 17:17 1
  - Obviously the guy wants to sleep with twins. -- nm - Spawn Jun 11, 17:27
This story is going around ... "What Is Code?" -- (link) - Beryllium Jun 11, 17:11

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