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And enough, already, of your complaining! -- nm - prayformojo Oct 20, 10:03
Leia, Han, and Palpatine join the battle. -- (link) - Shaun Oct 20, 09:59 1
- that game looks amazing -- nm - Beaker Oct 20, 10:01
Messy story about the making of Destiny. -- (link) - Shaun Oct 20, 09:58
ok, so, what's the word on Star Wars advance tix sales? or maybe it's too early to suggest possible opening weekend sales? - call me The Great Punpkin, Charlie Brown Oct 20, 09:54 18
- You could check with MDH "reserved seat theater..." - con_carne Oct 20, 10:02
- No word yet. They probably won't release any hard figures beforehand. - Inigo Oct 20, 09:59
- Ignore the absurd #'s you'll see bandied around for opening weekends. - Will Hunting Oct 20, 09:57
- when does it open? -- nm - fabulous squad Oct 20, 09:55 10
  - I just bought tickets for Dave for his birthday. That's crazy to me. -- nm - Andie - Go Jays! Oct 20, 09:56 1
    - for the record, i bought tickets for a VIP, 5:45pm screening on the Sunday. About 1/4 of the theatre was already reserved. -- nm - Andie - Go Jays! Oct 20, 10:03
  - Dec 17th -- nm - Beaker Oct 20, 09:55
  - oh, 12/18. why are we presaling now? -- nm - fabulous squad Oct 20, 09:55 6
    - cause Star Wars! -- nm - Beaker Oct 20, 09:58
    - Because they can. -- nm - spamlet Oct 20, 09:58
    - That way they can collect the money and report it as 4Q Results -- nm - budice Oct 20, 09:57 3
      - when does q4 end? wouldn't sales in december be q4? -- nm - fabulous squad Oct 20, 10:00 2
        
        Can also advertise the Advance Sales as the popular must-see thing during the holidays -- nm - budice Oct 20, 10:03 1
        
        If they waste a dollar on an ad like that, shareholders should beat them to a pulp. - Will Hunting Oct 20, 10:07
- All the money, bank on it -- nm - budice Oct 20, 09:54
- just assume as massive as possible. -- nm - Andie - Go Jays! Oct 20, 09:54 2
  - ...for a Christmas release. -- nm - Inigo Oct 20, 10:00
  - (but people will still over estimate it) -- nm - Reagen Oct 20, 09:58
Y/N: Do you know who or what a Meb Keflezighi is? -- nm - prayformojo Oct 20, 09:49 6
- Yes -- nm - Will Hunting Oct 20, 09:54
- Yes -- nm - budice Oct 20, 09:53
- Y -- nm - JD Oct 20, 09:52
- No. - ty97 Oct 20, 09:50
- Of course! :) Y -- nm* - Diva Oct 20, 09:50 1
  - *about to answer "NO" but morphs from nyyyYES!"...* -- nm - Mel Profit Oct 20, 09:51
Big Liberal Win In Canada Is Bad News For The F-35 Joint Strike Fighter -- (link) - spamlet Oct 20, 09:48 4
- It wasn't super high on my list of reasons, but it's another policy I liked. -- nm* - Reagen Oct 20, 09:51
- See? This is how you do it. - Mel Profit Oct 20, 09:50 2
  - it really made no sense for what we would use it for. -- nm - Andie - Go Jays! Oct 20, 09:51 1
    - ...unless we dragged you guys into another military adventure. - Mel Profit Oct 20, 09:52
I love this quote: "The official added, “this is nanners.”" -- (link) - ty97 Oct 20, 09:42 1
- totes cray cray -- nm - Beaker Oct 20, 09:44
"UN to call on governments around the world to decriminalise all drugs, says Richard Branson" - Loyola Oct 20, 09:41
This week's episode of Downton was surprising. -- nm - LMS Oct 20, 09:40 6
- i hate waiting till January. -- nm - Andie - Go Jays! Oct 20, 09:43 3
  - It's been mostly boring so far. -- nm - LMS Oct 20, 09:44 2
    - how many have aired? 2 or 3? - Andie - Go Jays! Oct 20, 09:47 1
      - 4 so far. -- nm - LMS Oct 20, 09:51
- spoils... - Remlik Oct 20, 09:41 1
  - Spoilers - LMS Oct 20, 09:43
I watched the John Oliver Canada segment and was surprised to see (spoilers) - ty97 Oct 20, 09:37 8
- I forget - did he appear in the SNL anniversary show? -- nm - Max Oct 20, 09:54 1
  - he did Wayne's World with Carvey -- nm - Beaker Oct 20, 10:02
- After The Love Guru, people realized they don't want to hire him anymore. -- nm - Dark Callisto Oct 20, 09:45
- You have an odd sense of what a spoiler is. -- nm - Spawn Oct 20, 09:39 1
  - I meant to style it as (spoilers?). I'm cautious with stuff like this though. -- nm - ty97 Oct 20, 09:49
- I'm pretty sure that was Fat Bastard -- nm* - David Oct 20, 09:38 2
  - method acting for Shrek. -- nm - Reagen Oct 20, 09:46
  - "can't act, eating" -- nm - Beaker Oct 20, 09:41
World reacts to Justin Trudeau's looks: "For real though, congrats Canada on your hot grown-up-Hogwarts-student Prime Minister " -- (link) - Andie - Go Jays! Oct 20, 09:35 2
- heh, John Scalzi has a tweet included (writer of Old Man's War) -- nm - Beaker Oct 20, 09:39
- He's just so dreamy! lol -- nm - Shaun Oct 20, 09:39
BF: Points For 714, Points Against 675, 3-3 record. -- nm - budice Oct 20, 09:34
It's Star Bond adjust day - there are loads. -- nm - LMS Oct 20, 09:29
My concern about the Star Wars trailer is that we *did* see Luke in it. -- nm - Mop Oct 20, 09:28 10
- I buy the theory (possible spolis) - eag Oct 20, 09:39
- I guarant-dang-tee you that Luke won't be in the actual film for more than a minute or two. No spoils. - ML Oct 20, 09:35 6
  - I think it's more likely there will be a twist involving Luke in the film. - Inigo Oct 20, 09:50
  - I agree entirely. - Mel Profit Oct 20, 09:48
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  - Agreed. -- nm - Remlik Oct 20, 09:39
  - Agreed. - Spawn Oct 20, 09:38
  - I hope he uses the forks. -- nm - David Oct 20, 09:38
- Is this the "evil" discussion? Or the one real shot? -- nm - Spawn Oct 20, 09:32 1
  - "evil" discussion. -- nm - Mop Oct 20, 10:22
Get your Xbone hard drive ready. Halo 5 has a 9GB day 1 patch and will be 55GB total. -- nm - Shaun Oct 20, 09:26 1
- Out of control -- nm - Qale As Folk Oct 20, 09:37
I have to bring something for a "f*ck off chad!" potluck tomorrow. what should I bring? -- nm - fabulous squad Oct 20, 09:23 11
- ALLLLLLLLLL OF IT!!!! -- nm - Gary Oldman Oct 20, 09:43
- an assortment of Oreos seems most logical. -- nm - Andie - Go Jays! Oct 20, 09:32
- here's camille's note. verbatim. - fabulous squad Oct 20, 09:26 6
  - That works and is simple. Someone else needs to be assigned fruit or veggies though. - ty97 Oct 20, 09:38 1
    - I live in centra PA. what's "fruit"? -- nm - fabulous squad Oct 20, 09:43
  - 1 small cheese pizza. -- nm - Beaker Oct 20, 09:31
  - Yes and then something for everyone else. -- nm - spamlet Oct 20, 09:28
  - yes. -- nm - Andie - Go Jays! Oct 20, 09:28
  - Yes. -- nm - Mop Oct 20, 09:27
- Vodka -- nm - budice Oct 20, 09:24
- doesn't matter, he'll eat all of it -- nm - ty97 Oct 20, 09:23
The definition of "playing to your readers" -- (link) - Reagen Oct 20, 09:18
am I crazy to start the Jets D against the Pats this week? -- nm - Beaker Oct 20, 09:18
Sam Bradford just threw another INT -- nm - Beaker Oct 20, 09:11 6
- And yet nobody cared about the game except for the fantasy stats. -- nm - budice Oct 20, 09:21 2
  - And people wonder why the NFL likes fantasy sports. -- nm - Spawn Oct 20, 09:40
  - and the teams' fans which are legion. Giants losing ruined an evening that had Jays winning and Harper losing. -- nm - mud Oct 20, 09:30
- I thought I was going to fall in my Friends and Family league. I had a 19 point lead, but he had Bradford. - Spawn Oct 20, 09:20
- A co-worker pranked me this morning by telling me the Eagles are in 1st place. I don't fool that easily, guy. -- nm - rollo Oct 20, 09:13 1
  - 1st place is the NFC East, baby!! -- nm - decline Oct 20, 09:16
So ST confess poll How many times have you seen the trailer so far ? - eag Oct 20, 09:05 27
- 4 or 5. -- nm - IrishStephen Oct 20, 09:51
- Zero -- nm - LMS Oct 20, 09:27 2
  - It's because Mr. Rachel Weisz slagged it, isn't it? -- nm - jangles Oct 20, 09:48 1
    - Just don't want to be spoiled. -- nm - LMS Oct 20, 10:01
- I watched it several times on the main big TV. - Mel Profit Oct 20, 09:19
- 6 -- nm - Remlik Oct 20, 09:15
- Once but I did read the "frame by frame" look at it online -- nm - oblique, Head Astronaut Oct 20, 09:14
- 1 -- nm - Qale Oct 20, 09:14
- 1 - last night during the game -- nm - decline Oct 20, 09:14
- 1 -- nm - Jim Oct 20, 09:14
- Once -- nm - amoxy Oct 20, 09:13
- Zero -- nm - Pippy Oct 20, 09:13
- zero -- nm - Andie - Go Jays! Oct 20, 09:13 1
  - (but it will) -- nm - Andie - Go Jays! Oct 20, 09:13
- Once -- nm* - Ender Oct 20, 09:12
- None. Waiting to see it on my tv tonight. -- nm - spamlet Oct 20, 09:11
- 4 times. -- nm - Shaun Oct 20, 09:10
- Zero -- nm - Krusty Oct 20, 09:10
- once, but have read 2 seperate trailer breakdowns so far -- nm - Beaker Oct 20, 09:10
- Once. It looked...solid. But I'm in full-on "Prove it" mode regarding Star Wars. -- nm - Will Hunting Oct 20, 09:09 1
  - word. -- nm - fabulous squad Oct 20, 09:12
- All the times! -- (link) - budice Oct 20, 09:08 [youtube]
- three or four -- nm - jangles Oct 20, 09:06 1
  - This is why you fail. -- nm - Spawn Oct 20, 09:09
- 5 -- nm - Spawn Oct 20, 09:06
- Twice. -- nm - TWuG Oct 20, 09:06
- Twice -- nm - Roger More Oct 20, 09:05
Twitter: Rick Pitino trending harder than Star Wars -- (link) - budice Oct 20, 09:01 6
- "Coach Pitino has no plans to step down and he absolutely didn't know about the allegations." -- (link) - spamlet Oct 20, 09:11 4
  - doesn't matter--coach has liability with the NCAA whether he knew or not -- nm - ML Oct 20, 09:23 2
    - Some coaches get plausible deniability. Some...don't. -- nm - spamlet Oct 20, 09:32 1
      - To be fair, he only met the hooker for about 30 seconds. -- nm - Will Hunting Oct 20, 09:58
  - "Was that wrong? Should I have not done that? I tell you, I gotta plead ignorance on this thing because if anyone had said anything to me at all when - Beaker Oct 20, 09:14
- hookers for recruits will do that for you -- nm - Beaker Oct 20, 09:04
Reading various trailer breakdowns for Star Wars. Came across a cool little detail that I hadn't noticed. -- (edited) - Volnelk Oct 20, 08:56 10
- The light-speed shots look just like warp in Star Trek -- nm - Roger More Oct 20, 09:12
- Yeah, noticed that, and it was mentioned in the shot-by-shot the Remlik posted. -- (edited) - Spawn Oct 20, 09:04 8
  - I think it's interested that...spoils - budice Oct 20, 09:06 6
    - I think it speaks to just how much of that period is simply looked past and forgotten. - Spawn Oct 20, 09:09 4
      - spoils from what JJ and others have said... - Remlik Oct 20, 09:23 3
        
        I don't think that's accurate spoils - ML Oct 20, 09:27 2
        
        perhaps... - Remlik Oct 20, 09:40
        
        Yeah, that was what I thought. Will tell you in 1,400 hours. -- nm - Spawn Oct 20, 09:34
    - well it's not like - jangles Oct 20, 09:07
  - you didn't mention it at the time - jangles Oct 20, 09:06
happy birthday, Bery.!! :) - -- nm - b! Oct 20, 08:56 4
- yonh!! happy birthday!! -- nm - Diva Oct 20, 09:49
- thanks :) I saw a bunch of birthday wishes on the BBs as well - thanks, all y'all :) -- nm - Beryllium Oct 20, 08:57 2
  - Happy, Happy !! -- nm - Meg Oct 20, 09:06 1
    - Happy! -- nm - Loyola Oct 20, 09:06
MPAA Adds New Rating To Warn Audiences Of Films Not Based On Existing Works -- (link) - budice Oct 20, 08:56
TV PSA: BTE w/NPH, Flash, Limitless, MLB, Grandfathered, Grinder, NCIS, SHIELD, Face Off, Scream Queens, NCIS NO, The Voice, iZombie, Chicago Fire, - Beaker Oct 20, 08:55 3
- The Bastard Executioner, Drunk History, other stuff -- nm - Beaker Oct 20, 08:55 2
  - Flash, Limitless, SHIELD for me; Chicago Fire for the missus -- nm - Beaker Oct 20, 08:56 1
    - those 3 for me too. -- nm - decline Oct 20, 09:15
israel restaurant offers discount to Jews and Arabs who dine together -- (link) - jangles Oct 20, 08:47 3
- Arabs cover the tip? -- nm - budice Oct 20, 08:51 2
  - Oh. Oh my. Saucy. -- nm - Baron Bostwick as Brad Majors Oct 20, 09:06
  - heh -- (link) - Beryllium Oct 20, 08:53 [Image]
I used to think maybe you loved me, now baby I'm sure -- nm - con_carne Oct 20, 08:43

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