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A comedian just interrupted Sepp Blatter's presser and showered him with money for 'North Korea in 2026'. The pictures will be used forever. -- nm - Volnelk Jul 20, 07:30
Now Playing yesterday was Public Enemy themed, so found my playlist for this afternoon. -- (link) - LMS Jul 20, 07:19 1
- Very nice! :-) -- nm - Krusty Jul 20, 07:20
That side by side putting grip that Dunne has is something else. -- nm - Reagen Jul 20, 07:17
because I have no internet at home, you missed "the saga of the lawnmower" but guys! my mom is going to pick up the lawnmower at 2:30 today. - fabulous squad Jul 20, 07:09 1
- Woohoo! Lawnmower Day! -- nm - prayformojo Jul 20, 07:12
Gun to your head --- what is the best hour episode of tv, you've ever seen? - Will Hunting Jul 20, 06:58 28
- Piggy Piggy - American Horror Story 1 -- nm - Pippy the Blank Slate Jul 20, 07:40
- Blink (Doctor Who) -- nm - LMS Jul 20, 07:29
- Recency Effect being what it is, Person of Interest-Relevance is in there. -- nm - Reagen Jul 20, 07:20
- Mine might be "The Supremes" from West Wing. -- nm - MDH Jul 20, 07:12 1
  - One of their last great episodes even if it goes into fantasy land. - Will Hunting Jul 20, 07:20
- The Bin Laden episode of Newsroom -- nm - decline Jul 20, 07:11 2
  - This. -- nm - Volnelk Jul 20, 07:30
  - Oh that was great too. The final 10 minutes, my god. -- nm - MDH Jul 20, 07:12
- IMDB ranks all of West Wing episodes. Not a surprise Two Cathedrals is #1, but 9 out of the bottom 12 are from Season 5 - amoxy Jul 20, 07:10 1
  - Season 6 picks up when they get to the campaigning. Two Cathedrals actually has the best lead in possible with the event in the final scene. Spoils - Will Hunting Jul 20, 07:19
- Recently it's the 100th episode of Good Wife. - spamlet Jul 20, 07:09 1
  - Oh, and Good Wife is on Amazon Prime now. If you haven't watched you need to do so. -- nm - spamlet Jul 20, 07:21
- I don't think I could pick one hour alone but Two Cathedrals would be in the argument for best hour. - Krusty Jul 20, 07:05
- can't pick 1, but GOT Battle of Blackwater Bay, Band of Brothers Day of Days, The Body/Hush/Once More with Feeling - Buffy -- nm - Beaker Jul 20, 07:05 5
  - I must have watched GOT - Hardhome about 3 times. -- nm - Diva Jul 20, 07:15 1
    - haven't watched the new season yet :) -- nm - Beaker Jul 20, 07:16
  - Rome - The Spoils (spoiler description and link) -- (edited) - Beaker Jul 20, 07:07 [youtube] 2
    - the Brendan Frasier Scrubs episodes are great -- nm - Beaker Jul 20, 07:19 1
      - That first one with Fraser, is my example of a perfect balance of Comedy and Drama on a single episode -- nm - amoxy Jul 20, 07:24
- Maybe 33 - Battlestar Galactica. There's probably better episodes, but that sticks out. -- nm - Inigo Jul 20, 07:04 5
  - That would be my answer. - prayformojo Jul 20, 07:13
  - Exodus part 2. -- nm - Reagen Jul 20, 07:12 3
    - Remind me of that one, please? -- nm - Inigo Jul 20, 07:25 1
      - spoils - ML Jul 20, 07:27
    - yep -- nm - ML Jul 20, 07:14
- I wish I could be that specific on episodes, but I would tend to agree that I'd find it in the West Wing. For comedy, I'd be hard pressed to beat the - oblique Jul 20, 07:04 1
  - For comedy, I'd have to go with Master of Your Domain in Seinfeld or the Chalet farce in Frasier - Will Hunting Jul 20, 07:14
- Breaking Bad Ozymandias - amoxy Jul 20, 07:03
Has anyone checked on Keith Hernandez this morning? -- (link) - spamlet Jul 20, 06:48 2
- Hearing him keep sighing is hysterical. -- nm - Krusty Jul 20, 06:52
- I heard he spit on somebody. -- nm - Baron Bing Bong Jul 20, 06:52
George Coe, best known today for voicing Woodhouse on Archer, has passed away. :-( -- (link) - Krusty Jul 20, 06:47 5
- *throws his clothes off the balcony one last time* - Archer Jul 20, 06:52 3
  - That bowl of spider webs finally got him. - Krusty Jul 20, 06:54
  - Guess his health was why he wasn't in this season? rip. -- nm - Will Hunting Jul 20, 06:52 1
    - Yeah. He did season 4 but wasn't sounding great throughout. He had a very nice career and went out doing a fantastic show. - Krusty Jul 20, 06:55
- Very Sad. Also Senator Stackhouse on West Wing and an original cast member of SNL -- nm - amoxy Jul 20, 06:51
I learned a lot about Uber this weekend... - SleepyRoollow Jul 20, 06:47
The PitchF/X system tracks the 50 hardest thrown fastballs in any given season. How many different pitchers are on the list for 2015? -- nm - spamlet Jul 20, 06:18 10
- 50 -- nm - decline Jul 20, 06:50
- 6 1/2. -- nm - Baron Bing Bong Jul 20, 06:33
- 1 -- nm - Inigo Jul 20, 06:32 2
  - *ding* Aroldis Chapman has thrown each of the 50 hardest pitches this season. - spamlet Jul 20, 06:33 1
    - He really is amazing. I wish we were better so it mattered. -- nm - volnelk Jul 20, 06:48
- 13 -- nm - Beaker Jul 20, 06:31
- 3 -- nm - Will Hunting Jul 20, 06:25
- 5 -- nm - prayformojo Jul 20, 06:20
- guessing: 2 - ML Jul 20, 06:20
- 10 -- nm - Krusty Jul 20, 06:20
Happy PayPal Day! -- nm - Baron Bing Bong Jul 20, 05:58 1
- Mobile payments is a seious deal these days -- nm - budice Jul 20, 06:09
56 players have teed off today, 3 are over par. Coincidentally, they are the 3 last place players. - Will Hunting Jul 20, 05:50 17
- There's someone on the leaderboard named Ashley Chesters who is not, apparently, an adult film star. -- nm - Baron Bing Bong Jul 20, 06:35 2
  - Ollie Shneigderhajns....american. - Will Hunting Jul 20, 06:52
  - The leaderboard is absolutely nuts right now. -- nm - MDH Jul 20, 06:40
- Um there are a lot more than 3 people over par. A lot more. -- nm - MDH Jul 20, 06:19 1
  - I swear there weren't when I checked. -- nm - Will Hunting Jul 20, 06:31
- Tiger: currently at a Waffle House -- nm - ML Jul 20, 05:51 11
  - Coffee is for closers -- nm - budice Jul 20, 06:08
  - I can't even joke about him anymore. - Will Hunting Jul 20, 05:57 8
    - Speaking of--you could've made some money with a bet in 1999 that Sergio would still be major-less in 2015 -- nm - ML Jul 20, 06:04 7
      - Partly because he putts about as well as I do. -- nm - Reagen Jul 20, 06:15 2
        
        *grip* *grip* *grip* *grip* *grip* *grip* *grip* *grip* *grip* *grip* *grip* *grip* *grip* *grip* *grip* *grip* *grip* *grip* - ML Jul 20, 06:56 1
        
        *hangs it out to the right* -- nm - Will Hunting Jul 20, 06:59
      - Tiger broke him. - Will Hunting Jul 20, 06:09
      - one of the odd mysteries of the tour -- nm - budice Jul 20, 06:08 2
        
        Another mystery: David Duval is currently at -8. -- nm - Baron Bing Bong Jul 20, 06:15 1
        
        Every few years, he finds it for one glorious week. -- nm - Will Hunting Jul 20, 06:26
  - Waffle House is for winners. -- nm - Baron Bing Bong Jul 20, 05:52
July 20, 1968 – The first International Special Olympics Summer Games are held at Soldier Field in Chicago, with about 1,000 athletes -- nm - Beaker Jul 20, 05:24 6
- 1969 – Apollo 11's crew successfully makes the first landing on the Moon in the Sea of Tranquility. - Beaker Jul 20, 05:24 5
  - BS -- nm - Carl Everett Jul 20, 05:55 2
    - *wipes his hands on you* - spamlet Jul 20, 05:57 1
      - I think your IM is right. -- nm - ML Jul 20, 06:03
  - 1976 – The American Viking 1 lander successfully lands on Mars. -- nm - Beaker Jul 20, 05:24 1
    - 2012 – A gunman opens fire at a movie theater in Aurora, Colorado, as it is showing The Dark Knight Rises, killing 12 and injuring 70 others. -- nm - Beaker Jul 20, 05:25
Ty Lawson to the Houston Rockets -- nm - Beaker Jul 20, 05:17
RCMP websites also maybe hacked (they were/are down. Anonymous had been threatening them -- (link*) - Beaker Jul 20, 05:12
Man, after all this, the winner's going to be 20 under. -- nm - Reagen Jul 20, 05:05 1
- The 40yr old 22yr old is good. -- nm - Will Hunting Jul 20, 05:28
Weekend entertainment: Jersey Boys on broadway: A- the music was great, Meeting Jack and ty97 for a few drinks A++, Friday Night Lights S1 E3: C- -- nm - Inigo Jul 20, 04:53 13
- Kinky Boots (the show) - A. -- nm - pmb Jul 20, 07:10
- Antman B+, 2nd Season BoJack Horseman A-, 3rd Season OITNB C- so far through 4 episodes -- nm - amoxy Jul 20, 06:48 2
  - I'm only a couple episodes into this season of BoJack and there has already been a few times when I had to rewind and listen to a joke again - Baron Bing Bong Jul 20, 06:59 1
    - Oh I am going to watch it all again, because I missed a lot. Well worth it -- nm - amoxy Jul 20, 07:11
- Antman - B+. -- nm - LMS Jul 20, 06:46
- Minions: F (It was completely and entirely unfunny. The audience was filled with kids, and was silent) -- nm - MDH Jul 20, 06:35
- Minions: B (A+ for Kevin) -- nm - oblique Jul 20, 06:31 1
  - this -- nm - Spawn Jul 20, 07:26
- Trainwreck B-, rewatched Death Sentence A- -- nm - Pippy the Blank Slate Jul 20, 06:29
- Antman B+, Insurgent B -- nm - budice Jul 20, 06:12
- Minions: C-, Trainwreck: B+, Mr. Holmes: C+, binged Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt: A-, Foo Fighters (opening act Dropkick Murphys): A... -- (edited) - Diva Jul 20, 06:11
- Trainwreck A-, The Captive C+, Modest Mouse concert B+. -- nm - JaxSean Jul 20, 05:46
- 6 person game of Tucket: B+ (the men lost but still fun), Suits season premiere: B+ ; new float at the Lake: A+ -- nm* - Beaker Jul 20, 05:10
Slow to the party - heard Craig Charles play Dreams by Beck this morning, getting a bit of a Tears for Fears vibe from it, but catchy. -- (link) - LMS Jul 20, 04:31 [youtube]
Germany bro has expressed interest in Joss Whedon yet thinks Buffy is laughable. Firefly/Serenity DVDs on loan have been deployed -- nm - con_carne Jul 20, 01:51 17
- from a dude perspective, he might like Dollhouse -- nm - Pippy the Blank Slate Jul 20, 06:28
- has he watched Buffy though? Cause I kinda felt that way too till I actually watched it -- nm - Beaker Jul 20, 03:52 15
  - yeah, I was wholly unprepared for how great buffy was. -- nm - fabulous squad Jul 20, 05:10 14
    - I've never watched it because it looks so cheesy and I expect some rather mediocre dialogue. -- nm - Krusty Jul 20, 05:58 13
      - *point for Chicago style pizza* - Will Hunting Jul 20, 06:05 3
        
        I see all the love it gets here and elsewhere but it looks like a show for 16 year old girls. - Krusty Jul 20, 06:14 2
        
        it is great. -- nm - Beaker Jul 20, 06:15
        
        It was magnificent. -- nm - Diva Jul 20, 06:15
      - you could seriously not be farther from the truth. -- nm - Reagen Jul 20, 06:00 8
        
        (In your parlance, this is "Boy, this Barbeque Chicken Deep Dish Pizza is the best thing ever") -- nm - Reagen Jul 20, 06:01 7
        
        Really? I know you guys and gals love it but it doesn't seem like something for adults. I guess I'm wrong. - Krusty Jul 20, 06:16 6
        
        My introduction to it was "Hush", season 4. Still among the better hours of tv I've seen. - Will Hunting Jul 20, 06:32 5
        
        my favourite Buffy is probably the musical. not just because, hey, musical, but because of where Buffy's character is at in it. -- nm - Andie Jul 20, 07:13 2
        
        I liked that the musical wasn't a one-off (Like Scrubs') and actually furthered the narrative of that season's storyline and the overall mythology. -- nm - Diva Jul 20, 07:16 1
        
        so much happens in it, it was a massive part of the shows which made it all the better -- nm - Beaker Jul 20, 07:17
        
        I've only seen a few episodes, but I'm glad to say that was one of them. I will get around to the whole series one of these days. -- nm - Baron Bing Bong Jul 20, 07:01
        
        confession: I own the CD for their muscial episode. Those songs are the worst ear worms -- nm - Beaker Jul 20, 06:53
So I just watched Oblivion. I'd give it a B-. (Spoils) - Beryllium Jul 20, 00:24
"There's a decent chance Rick Astley gave up on that girl." -- nm - con_carne Jul 19, 23:01 2
- One of my favourite Pointless quiz questions was 'Name what Rick Astley is never going to do' -- nm - LMS Jul 20, 04:38
- Let it never be said though that he didn't try really really hard over all those years. -- nm - Max Jul 19, 23:33
Hmm, Ashley Madison got hacked. That's not good for ... some people. -- nm - Beryllium Jul 19, 22:07 4
- heh -- nm - Pippy the Blank Slate Jul 20, 06:29
- alot of worried folk out there today -- nm - Beaker Jul 20, 05:11
- where? -- nm - Max Jul 19, 22:35
- FUN! -- nm - Mop Jul 19, 22:09
Started watching Unreal. Solid start two episodes in. -- nm - Dano Jul 19, 21:55
It's 87 at 1am. This weather can eff off. -- nm - ty97 Jul 19, 21:52 5
- My A/C is having a very hard time cooling down my bedroom. At one point yesterday it was barely doing anything. -- nm - Krusty Jul 20, 05:59
- Is there anywhere in this country that's not hot right now? And humid, and raining? -- nm - Meg Jul 19, 21:58 3
  - hot & dry. no rain today -- nm - Peglegpete Jul 19, 23:26
  - Hot, yes. Humid and raining, no. The Pacific Northwest is awesome! And earthquake-tastic! -- nm - Mop Jul 19, 23:08
  - Its not raining up here, in fact the Olympic forest, usually the wettest place in the US is having forest fires its so dry -- nm - zeitgeist Jul 19, 22:42
Does the Open usually last until Monday or has it been postponed because of weather? -- nm - Mop Jul 19, 21:43 2
- postponed because you're not supposed to have to read the wind on putts. -- nm - Reagen Jul 19, 21:46 1
  - Have they ever considered moving the British Open to some place more temperate..? Like maybe Venus? -- nm - Mop Jul 19, 22:05
The parking lot for one of our local parks is in a "dry" wash.....today, not so much ;) -- nm - Meg Jul 19, 20:59 3
- Get all that rain out of the way before I come down next week. -- nm - Mop Jul 19, 21:27 2
  - *Supposed* to be cooler and drier after tomorrow...Cooler being mid-80s, morning cloud, clearing later. -- nm - Meg Jul 19, 21:34 1
    - Disney Day next Sunday. I could stand for cooler weather. -- nm - Mop Jul 19, 21:44
Not liking Season 3 "Orange is the new black" (spoilers) - amoxy Jul 19, 20:57 6
- It builds. Last 2 episodes as epic -- nm - Karl_S Jul 19, 23:24
- Agreed. Crazy Eyes brings it though -- nm - Pippy Jul 19, 21:10 4
  - she is amazing. She was about to quit acting and then she got this role. *That* would have been a crime. -- nm - Diva Jul 20, 06:13
  - Yep. And, oddly ... - Beryllium Jul 19, 21:11 2
    - Yeah. Tayrn can act -- nm - Pippy Jul 19, 21:33 1
      - Yes she can...but (spoilers) - amoxy Jul 19, 22:09
Bobby thumbed a diesel down, just before it rained. took us all the way to New Orleans. -- nm - Peglegpete Jul 19, 20:52

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