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David, Jeff Jarrett's GFW promotion had a show at the minor league stadium in Knoxville tonight. -- (edited) - Tim Jun 13, 19:07 1
- Knoxville wrestling is hugely popular. -- nm - Kim Pine Jun 13, 19:11
Today's IPO has already sold out and has begun moving. -- nm - GregW Jun 13, 19:07
Lindor just got the call too. -- nm - ML Galaxy Jun 13, 19:04 1
- nickname? "The Truffle" -- nm - prayformojo Jun 13, 19:05
I feel like the WWC should have had a group of Thailand, Costa Rica, Netherlands and Norway. -- nm - Reagen Jun 13, 19:02
Oh look. Smash is available on Amazon Prime. -- nm - Dano Jun 13, 18:59
Hey lawyer type people - Reagen Jun 13, 18:48 6
- Linda Fiorentino should portray her in the movie. -- nm - Max Jun 13, 19:07 1
  - Jade? I should watch that movie again -- nm - budice Jun 13, 19:08
- Unless the gf retained all those lawyers, the judge should allow representation -- nm - budice Jun 13, 18:55
- Yeah, I've seen that tactic used by people...My partner who does divorce work has had people pull that. -- nm - ML Galaxy Jun 13, 18:54 1
  - (A good judge will levy sanctions) -- nm - ML Galaxy Jun 13, 18:57
- tell the judge in the case of her actions now. he will know what to do. -- nm - Peglegpete Jun 13, 18:52
I see black because I know I am. See, color is a state of mind, Marcus. -- (link*) - Dano Jun 13, 18:39 [youtube] 7
- oh, great, now I'm going to inadvertently tell that story some day. - Max Jun 13, 19:52
- Above video is NSFW. (Bery, I edited the link in the post and then tried to mark it NSFW and it gave me an error.) -- nm - Dano Jun 13, 18:42 5 1
  - It appears that it remembers that I marked it NSFW when I originally posted it and now won't let me after the edit. I received the message in the IM. - Dano Jun 13, 18:43 3
    - OK, I'll make a note to port the flag functionality to the new architecture next (after search) and then I can set up workflow tests to find the prob. -- nm - Beryllium Jun 13, 18:46 2
      - It would seem to be a pretty rare situation and not a big deal. Just thought I'd let you know. -- nm - Dano Jun 13, 18:49 1
        
        thanks :) -- nm - Beryllium Jun 13, 18:50
  - Worked for me - do you remember anything specific about the error? -- nm - Beryllium Jun 13, 18:43
Tim and other videogame fans should read this ESPN the Magazine article. -- (link) - David Jun 13, 18:21 6
- That was loooooooong. -- nm - Volnelk Jun 13, 18:41
- I understand about 37% of this -- nm - ML Jun 13, 18:31 2
  - Because you're old. - David Jun 13, 18:32 1
    - Last night I got sucked into an internet chat with someone claiming to be a 13yr old earning $10k every 3 months. Perhaps he was real. -- nm - Max Jun 13, 19:09
- League of Legends is a mediocre game that happens to be a really good game to spectate. - Tim Jun 13, 18:25 1
  - Read the article! -- nm - David Jun 13, 18:27
That was the most Spielbergian film I've seen since 1993. - David Jun 13, 18:05 9
- There are echos of SS in JURA4. The bits of humor amidst danger for example. -- nm - Mel Profit Jun 13, 18:24 2
  - What about people just looking, slack jawed into the distance. I mean, you gotta have that Spielbergian idea. -- nm - Qale Jun 13, 18:48 1
    - Does his name literally mean Story Town? -- nm - Beryllium Jun 13, 19:06
- Holy crap. Señor Spielbergo's next film is The BFG. -- nm - Beryllium Jun 13, 18:13 4
  - Bridge of Spies. -- nm - ML Jun 13, 18:15 3
    - Shush. That's a Tom Hanks movie. -- nm - Beryllium Jun 13, 18:15 2
      - it is possible that it's Spielberg's non-union Mexican equivalent -- nm - ML Jun 13, 18:18
      - I mean, it might as well be called Saving Private Powers. ;-) -- nm - Beryllium Jun 13, 18:17
- Madame Bovary? -- nm - ML Jun 13, 18:12
aww, cute dolphins -- (link) - slipping jimmy Jun 13, 17:19
This is the best Conehead State Farm commercial -- (link) - Covington Jun 13, 16:43 [youtube]
*swoon* -- nm - ML Galaxy Jun 13, 16:35 6
- Don't you mean *boing*? -- nm - spamlet Jun 13, 18:21 1
  - I was going to pick him up on Monday for a dollar in WN. - ML Jun 13, 18:28
- "The Twins are saving money on Buxton’s flight to Texas because he'll just put on his cape and fly down there himself. #BuxtonFacts - ML Galaxy Jun 13, 17:03 2
  - A friend of mine is bummed he won't see him play in person since he lives in Rochester. -- nm - Tim Jun 13, 17:24 1
    - I kinda figured he was never going to sniff AAA. - ML Jun 13, 17:48
- Over that Edelman contract? Yeah, me too. -- nm - Strongbad Jun 13, 16:46
I think magic mike xxl is currently underpriced a fair bit. not like $175. but a fair bit. -- nm - all the boys love OBBR Jun 13, 16:26 1
- I think the two that are currently underpriced are Inside Out (compared to Minions) and Trainwreck. -- nm - Volnelk Jun 13, 16:48
Dylan Bundy MRI. - ML Jun 13, 16:02
Bryce Harper leaves game after getting hit by pitch in the knee. -- nm - Volnelk Jun 13, 15:56 2
- ...which caused his patella to shoot out and impale the umpire in the eye socket. -- nm - Max Jun 13, 15:58 1
  - dammit! - prayformojo Jun 13, 15:59
Love and Mercy A- Great Story Great Acting (except) (spoilers) - amoxy Jun 13, 15:50
Ok, what stock has given you the greatest % loss? I have quite a few in the 90% range, but ITJO2 is the largest at -98.61%. - IrishStephen Jun 13, 15:50 2
- SPYHT -96.44% (it's at 0.07 now. I should sell and rebuy soon.) -- nm - Beryllium Jun 13, 15:59
- Ronin and triple frontier are both negative 99.94% -- nm - Volnelk Jun 13, 15:54
I reallllly don't get pizza pricing. 3 medium pizzas with various toppings were charged at over $60, but - TWuG Jun 13, 15:49
In terms of dollars, Captain America 3 is my biggest at +$17.6. Dis des Los muertas is my big loser at -$9.1 -- nm - Rollo Jun 13, 15:45
500 MEEEEEELLION DOLLARS! - IrishStephen Jun 13, 15:35
an open letter to the White Walker army -- (link) - slipping jimmy Jun 13, 15:10 12
- What lazy trolling. I guess things are tough at The New Yorker if they're printing that. -- nm - David Jun 13, 18:27 2
  - good news, dignan - slipping jimmy Jun 13, 18:28 1
    - *and* Pixie disagrees! It's double lotto week! -- nm - David Jun 13, 18:32
- Nonsense. nm - Dignan Jun 13, 16:13 6
  - you're wrong - slipping jimmy Jun 13, 16:29 5
    - you're dumb - Dignan Jun 13, 16:49 4
      - jesus - slipping jimmy Jun 13, 17:00 3
        
        For whatever reason, your brain refuses to tell your mouth to shut up. It's perplexing. - Dignan Jun 13, 17:11 2
        
        just so i'm clear, you're saying that the internet was *right* about something? - slipping jimmy Jun 13, 17:13 1
        
        They rightly pooped on the water garden "fight." - Dignan Jun 13, 17:16
- [weep] -- nm - ice zombie Jun 13, 15:19
- Yep. Yep. Uh-huh. Yep. -- nm - tobor.2 Jun 13, 15:18
So, yeah, that govt hack is pretty bad. -- (link) - Covington Jun 13, 15:08
Working in a blog post, but I don't know if it's good enough to post on my regular tech blog - Beryllium Jun 13, 15:07 3
- It's a bit stiff and teacherish. - tobor.2 Jun 13, 15:36 2
  - Other than that the content is good, well worth posting on that score. -- nm - tobor.2 Jun 13, 15:37 1
    - Thanks for the tips. I'd already done one pass to make it partially first person, perhaps more of that would help. -- nm - Beryllium Jun 13, 15:42
Currently: raining. Chance of rain per NWS: 0%. - ML Jun 13, 15:03 3
- That beats the severe thunderstorm warning on Monday. It went up15 minutes after it went through. - tobor.2 Jun 13, 15:11
- low of 80, highs pushing 110 for the next 10 days here. -- nm - Peglegpete Jun 13, 15:10 1
  - Pick a low of 54 to 70 and a high of 70 to 90 and you have next week here. - tobor.2 Jun 13, 15:13
the eternal question. flip JW tomorrow or hold it long thru delist. -- nm - Peglegpete Jun 13, 15:02 4
- Short it and forget it. Like 95% of tent pole openers. -- nm - Will Hunting Jun 13, 18:14
- I think the dilemma is whether to sell or flip. Not even The Dark Knight delisted above adjust, though it wasn't worth shorting. (I'll be flipping) -- nm - Roger More Jun 13, 15:05
- I think it has legs. And arms. Really small arms. -- nm - Beryllium Jun 13, 15:04 1
  - And some wings? -- nm - tobor.2 Jun 13, 15:09
Happy Birthday Ty!! -- nm - tobor.2 Jun 13, 14:49
Harley & Ivy -- (link) - Peglegpete Jun 13, 14:11
So, if Jurassic World does 190mil, holding all the options and stock long will be roughly a $28mil gain tomorrow. - Will Hunting Jun 13, 14:11 5
- I wonder if they'll do something to temper volatility. also, that much money flooding into the market will mean that there'll a lot of big shorts the - all the boys love OBBR Jun 13, 15:09
- I missed my chance on the call and the OW. Damn Saturday halts, why can't they halt on Sunday? -- nm - Beryllium Jun 13, 14:29 2
  - They halt on Friday -- nm - Roger More Jun 13, 14:37 1
    - Noooooooooooooooooo! (do not want) -- nm - Beryllium Jun 13, 15:04
- Err, 20mil long. -- nm - Will Hunting Jun 13, 14:12
Don't want to get a log cabin but went for a walk to do a walk by on a house for sale and something dawned on me. - Dano Jun 13, 13:50 2
- Of course interest rates have been certain to rise for the past 3 years. - iSpam Jun 13, 18:10
- I think once you have enough down payment to get the lowest rate (30% down might get you better than 20%), no reason to wait. Anything you could save - Max Jun 13, 14:04
John Mayer sat in with Phil Lesh & Friends last night to recreate the 5/8/77 Cornell show [and I am guessing will also sit in tonight's 1977 show] -- (link) - Peglegpete Jun 13, 13:38
ika.com-ers: If anyone has troops or navy they'd like to engage there's a barnburner going on at 64:42. Thx. -- nm - Diva Jun 13, 13:23
what stock has given you the greatest % gain? I bought Shazam at $.09 and it is gain is 50,000% -- nm - Peglegpete Jun 13, 12:58 9
- Jackie (?) 18,000% gain. Biggest $ gain is JURA4 which I bought at around $30. -- nm - spamlet Jun 13, 18:20
- TDIVE, 2 CENT buy, 35,000% gain JURA4 biggest dollar gain at 32m, bought at 85 -- nm - z on the go Jun 13, 16:54
- JURA4 at +1,591%, next closest is WONDR at +463%. -- nm - IrishStephen Jun 13, 15:40
- only (43,000.00%). TINK. -- nm - all the boys love OBBR Jun 13, 15:11
- SHAZM = 448,700% upwards. Bought at a penny. CINTL = 368,100% upwards. -- nm - Will Hunting Jun 13, 14:08 1
  - nice -- nm - Peglegpete Jun 13, 14:23
- that I still hold, NMANC 21,450.00%, ASASN 2,625.00%, UNCLE 2,170.53% -- nm - Beryllium Jun 13, 13:19
- My radar of JQUES is 56,350%, was much higher on May 26 -- nm - Max Jun 13, 13:10
- Jurassic World. (1,162.46%) -- nm - JaxSean Jun 13, 13:02
Huh. The kid who played Kick-Ass is also the guy who played Quicksilver in Age of Ultron and Casey Affleck in Godzilla. -- nm - Mop Jun 13, 12:51 10
- Probably the blandest guy Hollywood is trying to sell us on as the next big thing. - Roger More Jun 13, 12:52 9
  - Sam Worthington says "Hey!" - Reagen Jun 13, 13:24 5
    - No one's trying to ship Sam Worthington these days. (Thank God he's not Bond) -- nm - Roger More Jun 13, 14:36 2
      - he'll be back - slipping jimmy Jun 13, 14:37 1
        
        I'm really interested to see if anyone will care about Avatar by the time those movies come out. - Roger More Jun 13, 14:48
    - I've never seen a single movie with Sam Worthington in it. -- nm - Mop Jun 13, 14:27
    - "Hey." -- nm - Max Jun 13, 13:34
  - That body though. -- nm - MDH Jun 13, 13:10 2
    - It's this thinking that leads to a decade of Randy Orton. -- nm - Will Hunting Jun 13, 14:08 1
      - Heh. -- nm - Tim Jun 13, 15:38
I was briefly short on JURA4 from $305 to $322 and since I flipped back it is now my 9th most profitable active stock -- nm - Rollo Jun 13, 12:40 9
- $26.28 -- nm - Meg Jun 13, 17:43
- got first 50K cheap years ago. Came back to game and bought rest last year. averaged up to 82.06 per share. -- nm - diva Jun 13, 17:34
- It seems I bought it when it was around $190. - tobor.2 Jun 13, 14:52
- you made me go check and I've held it since it was H$31.43. Looks like you can't check transaction history anymore? - JaxSean Jun 13, 13:01 2
  - You can. Go to trade history and put in the ticker - Rollo Jun 13, 14:01 1
    - I bought a year ago. just before we all started playing again. 05/20/14; $159 -- nm - all the boys love OBBR Jun 13, 15:13
- poor groiny :( -- nm - slipping jimmy Jun 13, 12:44
- It is my second most profitable but will eclipse JLEAG in my port any time now. -- nm - ty97 Jun 13, 12:42
- Correction: now 8th -- nm - Rollo Jun 13, 12:41
Re: Post-apocalyptic thrillers... - Mop Jun 13, 12:34
PSH makes such a good villain in MI3 - prayformojo Jun 13, 12:32 3
- Mission Impossible is all a blur. Emilio Estevez get squished by an elevator, Tom Cruise dangles from stuff, cars are chased... - Mop Jun 13, 12:37 2
  - uh, wrong movie -- nm - Beryllium Jun 13, 13:00 1
    - It's all one long movie, playing over and over again in my head. -- nm - Mop Jun 13, 13:01
Wayward Pines (spoilers) - Mop Jun 13, 12:31 2
- I'm not watching, but if your IM is all you think is going on, there's another major element that hasn't been revealed yet. -- nm - ML Jun 13, 12:32 1
  - I'm still not buying the premise. I'm being glib because I feel it's a cheap stunt hiding something better. -- nm - Mop Jun 13, 12:35
Thanks for all the birthday wishes ST! -- nm - ty97 Jun 13, 12:30 2
- yonh! -- nm - diva Jun 13, 17:35
- Happy birthday!!! -- nm - kelly Jun 13, 14:45
Dinos eating people = $$$$$$ -- nm - ML Jun 13, 12:18 9
- Transformers v Jurassic World crossover -- nm - budice Jun 13, 12:34 3
  - If all those dinosaurs got out and were eatin and stompin of people in town, I'd think the Avengers should come in to rescue us -- nm - zeitgeist Jun 13, 13:06 2
    - Antman would shrink all of them. story over. -- nm - Peglegpete Jun 13, 13:26 1
      - Thor could turn the whole battle into a Gallagher special, just don't sit in the first couple rows -- nm - z on the go Jun 13, 15:06
- This would be the second Jurassic movie to hold the opening weekend crown (if it get it) -- nm - ty97 Jun 13, 12:30 3
  - third. -- nm - Reagen Jun 13, 12:33 2
    - #1 did as well? I didn't realize that! -- nm - ty97 Jun 13, 12:36 1
      - well happy birthday then -- nm - slipping jimmy Jun 13, 12:39
- nomnomnomnom -- nm - Jovian Jun 13, 12:28

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