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I didn't realize that the ashes of the man that discovered Pluto was on the New Horizons spacecraft. -- nm - spamlet Jul 14, 07:18
Really good cast announced for TV version of Agatha Christie's And Then There Were None. -- (link) - LMS Jul 14, 07:14 5
- so a bunch of no-name actors, huh? -- nm - decline Jul 14, 07:23
- What are they changing the name of the island to this time? -- nm - Roger More Jul 14, 07:22
- I'm in -- nm - Beaker Jul 14, 07:20
- I will watch the crap out of that. -- nm - Kim Pine Jul 14, 07:17 1
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Kim and my doctor would totally have a threesome with us if we let her. -- nm - David Jul 14, 07:11 2
- kind of would make the hyrnia test awkward. nm -- nm - groiny Jul 14, 07:16
- Kim's Backyard Adventures Volume #1 -- nm - ty97 Jul 14, 07:11
Woot-Off: AT&T IPad 2 32gb refurb (roxxor) for $178+5 -- nm - emoticripple Jul 14, 07:00
Try not to look at the actresses's name, and tell me if you know who this is just by the picture. -- (link*) - Inigo Jul 14, 06:58 32
- I looked at the name and I still don't know who that is. -- nm - ty97 Jul 14, 07:09
- Glenn Close -- nm - CQ Jul 14, 07:03
- no -- nm - Pippy the Blank Slate Jul 14, 07:00
- I don't even know who it is after I look at the name. -- nm - Kim Pine Jul 14, 06:59
- I looked at the actresses's name and still don't know who it is. -- nm - Ender Jul 14, 06:59 25
  - Yes, you do. Look at her credits. -- nm - spamlet Jul 14, 07:01 23
    - Sure I've seen Major League and all, but I don't know her name. :) -- nm - Kim Pine Jul 14, 07:08 1
      - Well, no. But I had to see why he posted her in the first place. -- nm - spamlet Jul 14, 07:16
    - I have seen exactly one movie she's been in. -- nm - Ender Jul 14, 07:04 18
      - And I certainly don't know her by name. She's a "oh, I guess she was that lady in that one movie." -- nm - Ender Jul 14, 07:08
      - You haven't seen Major League and Major League 2? 9 1/2 Weeks? The Secret of My Success? -- nm - David Jul 14, 07:07 11
        
        No, no, 25 years ago, 25 years ago. -- nm - Roger More Jul 14, 07:12 6
        
        Seriously - you've never seen Major League????? How does this happen?\ -- nm - Jim Jul 14, 07:13 5
        
        Total lack of interest in baseball. I've never seen Field of Dreams either. -- nm - Roger More Jul 14, 07:14 4
        
        Field of Dreams is barely a baseball movie. Unless you hate your father, you should watch it. - David Jul 14, 07:15 3
        
        It's about baseball like Friday Night Lights was about football. - spamlet Jul 14, 07:15 2
        
        Also never seen: Friday Night Lights! (Movies that are about American sports don't do as well outside the US - Roger More Jul 14, 07:21 1
        
        I actually meant the tv show, not the movie. Should have clarified that. - spamlet Jul 14, 07:23
        
        I've seen Major League. I've never even heard of The Secret of My Success. -- nm - Ender Jul 14, 07:08 3
        
        Dude. Seriously. Dude. - David Jul 14, 07:09 2
        
        I have a Night Ranger earworm now. -- nm - Kim Pine Jul 14, 07:17 1
        
        25. Hours. a. Day! -- nm - David Jul 14, 07:18
      - I would bet two of them. - spamlet Jul 14, 07:05 4
        
        Never seen 2. -- nm - Ender Jul 14, 07:06 3
        
        It's spectacularly awful. -- nm - David Jul 14, 07:09
        
        LIAR! -- nm - spamlet Jul 14, 07:08 1
        
        Is that the one where Charlie Sheen is a 12 year old with an incredible pitching arm who owns the twins? -- nm - Ender Jul 14, 07:11
    - Nope. -- nm - Beryllium Jul 14, 07:03 1
      - Really? Well, I know Ender does. - spamlet Jul 14, 07:04
  - this -- nm - decline Jul 14, 07:00
- Rutger Hauer. -- nm - emoticripple Jul 14, 06:58 1
  - LOL -- nm - JenBro Jul 14, 07:43
847,822 veterans are currently in a backlog for VA health care. Of those, 238,657 are dead. -- (link) - Ender Jul 14, 06:50 4
- And you have NO idea the kind of bullshit the VA is trying to get hospitals and providers to do in order to get paid for services. - Jim Jul 14, 07:12
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- Status report: "we just cut 28% of our backlog!" -- nm* - Beaker Jul 14, 06:51 1
  - "If we finally get them added we'll drastically reduce the amount of money spent per user!" -- nm - Ender Jul 14, 06:54
God, I hate morning radio. - David Jul 14, 06:50 1
- ~bow chicka wow wow~ -- nm - Beaker Jul 14, 06:50
Top engineer at Reddit quit yesterday -- (link) - Beaker Jul 14, 06:33 3
- So they're hiring? -- nm - Beryllium Jul 14, 06:53 2
  - Circling the drain. - Kim Pine Jul 14, 06:57 1
    - I wouldn't want to work there - I don't like their code. (Almost all of reddit is opensource, which is good, but it lets me see the guts ...) - Beryllium Jul 14, 06:59
nmb ty97 ... - Krusty Jul 14, 06:30 2
- awww, that stinks :( -- nm - ty97 Jul 14, 06:38 1
  - Yeah. I had been wondering where it went and I kept waiting to see it put back but when it had been gone for this long I decided to look up - Krusty Jul 14, 06:49
Gawker (in the right here) takes New York Post to task for using *16* reporters to repeatedly belittle a homeless man -- (link) - ty97 Jul 14, 06:29 1
- The Post is an awful rag of a newspaper. I see that guy on the UWS all the time and he never really bothers anyone. He's got mental issues so it would - Krusty Jul 14, 06:38
Mrs. Wall St., Hillary Clinton has no plans to propose reinstating Glass-Steagall if she is president. -- (link) - Krusty Jul 14, 06:22 19
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  - Bernie is very much in favor of reinstating Glass-Steagall. Bernie 2016! -- (edited) - Krusty Jul 14, 06:33 17
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      - The senate will swing back in the next election. The house is a mess and can be worked around. - Krusty Jul 14, 06:40 15
        
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        yup, it's dead legislation. If you want banking reform you'll need to look elsewhere -- nm - decline Jul 14, 06:43 1
        
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        Oh, you're saying basically the entire senate will refuse to work with him on this. -- (edited) - Krusty Jul 14, 06:41 11
        
        as they have the last 3 times he's attempted to do banking reform -- nm - decline Jul 14, 06:42 7
        
        He wasn't in a position of power then as he might be in the future. -- nm - Krusty Jul 14, 06:43
        
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        So this is on us to stop electing people that are bought and paid for by Wall. St. Elect Bernie in 2016! -- nm - Krusty Jul 14, 06:44 4
        
        I think it's also that those that get elected get wooed by the money offered. - Inigo Jul 14, 06:52
        
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        Agreed, the vast majority of the politicians are big fat liars and she's no better or worse. But with Bernie - Krusty Jul 14, 06:53 1
        
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        That can change and I think it will if people start to push for it more. -- nm - Krusty Jul 14, 06:42 1
        
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for the first time in the history of our ball league, we are considering canceling for non-weather reason. Road closures for PanAm are so brutal, we -- (edited) - Andie Jul 14, 06:10 1
- Awe man! -- nm - squeegee-man Jul 14, 06:19
LYC:Tried Oil Pulling this morning. Surprisingly interesting - OnTheVergeOfRoo Jul 14, 06:03 14
- okay, what is oil pulling? -- nm - Andie Jul 14, 06:11 13
  - I looked it up and it's swishing oil, usually coconut, in your mouth for 20 minutes to remove bacteria and toxins. - Krusty Jul 14, 06:24 5
    - Coconut oil is a miracle cure for everything! -- nm - spamlet Jul 14, 07:00
    - Or you could, you know, just brush your teeth. -- nm - Baron Bing Bong Jul 14, 06:36 2
      - crazy talk -- nm - decline Jul 14, 06:45
      - This is supposed to be done before brushing not as an alternative. -- nm - Krusty Jul 14, 06:45
    - companies have paid me good money to say worse -- nm - Dr Oz Jul 14, 06:25
  - It's sorta new age...you swish around oil in your mouth (for 15-20 min) and it pulls toxins out of you -- nm - Flavorize Jul 14, 06:24 5
    - oh, of course. - Andie Jul 14, 06:27 4
      - Supposedly the oil draws out the toxins and has also been reported to whiten teeth. - Krusty Jul 14, 06:31 3
        
        I like the 'even from some doctors' part :) -- nm - Shaun Jul 14, 06:36 2
        
        Heh. :-) I didn't want it to sound like only kooky health nuts were doing it. - Krusty Jul 14, 06:48 1
        
        "Hey, did those doctors go to Hollywood Upstairs Medical College too?" -- nm - Dr. Nick Riviera Jul 14, 06:48
  - it's where you pull oil -- nm - decline Jul 14, 06:19
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- that is a lot. i think the most i ever have on one day is 3 or 4. -- nm - Andie Jul 14, 06:14
- ugh, July babies are the worst. -- nm - ty97 Jul 14, 06:13
MI: Rogue Nation plane stunt inspired by cargo plane chase in Uncharted 3. -- (link*) - Shaun Jul 14, 05:53 7
- At some point, we're going to have to admit that these missions were in fact possible after all. -- nm - ty97 Jul 14, 06:07 2
  - Mission Impossible: Viable, Sane Republican Candidate -- nm - Inigo Jul 14, 06:17
  - No one's paying to see a movie called Mission: Tough But Doable. -- nm - Will Hunting Jul 14, 06:10
- Tom Cruise: "If Wahlberg's fake character can do it, so can I." -- nm - Will Hunting Jul 14, 06:03 3
  - Thankfully, he's no longer attached to the film. He'd be awful as Drake. -- nm - Shaun Jul 14, 06:23 2
    - "I look like Mark Wahlberg ATE Mark Wahlberg!" -- nm - Beaker Jul 14, 06:25 1
      - Yep...still funny. -- nm - Jim Jul 14, 06:36
Bell opens CraveTV to everyone (Canadians only I assume) starting next year -- (link*) - Beaker Jul 14, 05:53
Plutonian progress -- (link) - prayformojo Jul 14, 05:49 1
- That last one seems a little bit different -- nm - decline Jul 14, 06:21
This is awesome. Welsh Government Responds to UFO Questions in Klingon -- (link) - Beaker Jul 14, 05:45 3
- How do we know the reply wasn't in Welsh? -- nm - Roger More Jul 14, 06:07 2
  - I didn't see this until now. Well done. -- nm - spamlet Jul 14, 07:19
  - cause Worf doesn't speak Welsh -- nm - Beaker Jul 14, 06:08
New Horizons just zipped by Pluto -- (link) - Beaker Jul 14, 05:43 1
- Took a midnight train going anywhere -- nm - ty97 Jul 14, 06:04
Did you know? All the planets in the solar system rotate anticlockwise, with the exception of Venus which rotates clockwise. -- nm - Beaker Jul 14, 05:40
And cool...the 2nd woman finalist on American Ninja Warrior is a local woman. -- nm - Will Hunting Jul 14, 05:37 4
- And the first went to Towson, right? -- nm - Inigo Jul 14, 05:40 3
  - I dunno, the local paper's had this woman on their homepage for a few days now. -- nm - Will Hunting Jul 14, 05:41 2
    - Weird. I can't find anything online about a second female finalist. -- (link) - Inigo Jul 14, 05:55 [youtube] 1
      - She apparently made the finals last night; didn't finish but qualified. -- nm - Will Hunting Jul 14, 06:07
From what I saw of the home run contest last night...that new format is great. - Will Hunting Jul 14, 05:35
July 14, 1789 – French Revolution: Citizens of Paris storm the Bastille. -- nm - Beaker Jul 14, 05:28 3
- 1881 – Billy the Kid is shot and killed by Pat Garrett outside Fort Sumner. -- nm - Beaker Jul 14, 05:29 2
  - 1960 – Jane Goodall arrives at the Gombe Stream Reserve in present-day Tanzania to begin her famous study of chimpanzees in the wild. -- nm - Beaker Jul 14, 05:30 1
    - 1976 – Capital punishment is abolished in Canada. -- nm - Beaker Jul 14, 05:30
Mr Turner sex scene tops UK film complaints last year - can you guess how many complaints it got? -- (link) - LMS Jul 14, 04:17 6
- 1 dollar Bob -- nm - Beaker Jul 14, 05:22
- 260 -- nm - Krusty Jul 14, 05:21
- Well, 5 people saw the movie... so I'll say 5. -- nm - secretslacker Jul 14, 04:50 3
  - You're the closest. The most complained about film last year got a total of 19 complaints. -- nm - LMS Jul 14, 06:41 2
    - So much for the Australian stereotype of the whingeing Pom -- nm - Roger More Jul 14, 06:45 1
      - We save it for conversations about the weather. -- nm - LMS Jul 14, 07:11
Amazon's Prime Day is tomorrow, curious to see if the site holds up. People are talking about it. -- (link) - budice Jul 14, 04:09
Harper Lee's lawyer is changing her story on how the book was "found" now that it's being published -- (link) - spamlet Jul 14, 03:49 7
- This whole thing sounds so shady and makes me not want to read the book. I really think Harper Lee is being taken advantage of by many people. -- nm - Krusty Jul 14, 05:16 6
  - yup. and the spoilers for it are really turning me off - major spoilers - Beaker Jul 14, 05:21 5
    - Seriously? Not sure I like the way that sounds. - Krusty Jul 14, 05:29 4
      - spoiler - ty97 Jul 14, 06:10 2
        
        I feel like I have to read the book but I'm not really looking forward to it. -- nm - Krusty Jul 14, 06:12 1
        
        I don't feel I have to read it (maybe I will but doubt it) - ty97 Jul 14, 06:16
      - pretty much - major spoilers at link -- (link) - Beaker Jul 14, 05:31
Iran nuke deal is done.... -- (link) - zeitgeist Jul 14, 02:02 2
- Done? Or done? -- nm - Roger More Jul 14, 05:22 1
  - Reached. Now Congress has 60 days to review and vote on it. - TWuG Jul 14, 05:44
Local friend posted photos of the fire at her apartment complex, fireworks of course, catching the hill behind -- nm - zeitgeist Jul 14, 00:47
Nintendo fans flock to the World Store in New York City to pay respects to Iwata. -- (link) - Qale Jul 13, 23:47
i wonder who they'll cast as Scout and Atticus in Go Set a Watchman? - jangles Jul 13, 23:17 3
- Clint Eastwood -- nm - mara Jul 14, 07:10
- Adam Sandler playing both roles -- nm - Beaker Jul 14, 05:22
- they'll get clooney and introducing taylor swift in her cinema debut -- nm - zeitgeist Jul 14, 00:49
Michael Cole said "women's wrestling" on Raw and I bet he got screamed at for that. - Tim Jul 13, 22:58 4
- I dunno if the awesome you mentioned on b2 is worth having Stephanie out there trying to score "face" points off it. -- nm - Qale Jul 13, 23:26 2
  - actually I think - Tim Jul 13, 23:28 1
    - Trips I believe I can accept as face, but never Steph. Never... - Qale Jul 13, 23:33
- Baby Brother... clap clap clapclapclap. -- nm - Qale Jul 13, 23:18
[very soon] Happy Bastille Day!! -- nm - Peglegpete Jul 13, 22:56

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