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Without googling, do you know what the word "ploish" refers to? It's an urban dictionary thing, but not dirty. -- nm - Beryllium Oct 20, 15:48 5
- nope - Max Oct 20, 15:54
- nope. -- nm - b. Oct 20, 15:52
- Yes, which is strange since I only recently learned fleek. -- nm - David Oct 20, 15:51
- No. -- nm - Mop Oct 20, 15:50
- nope -- nm - prayformojo Oct 20, 15:49
How the flying freaking flipping frog is it only Tuesday night? -- nm - prayformojo Oct 20, 15:35 3
- I have an unending to-do list before my trip - and just tomorrow to do it. -- nm - Meg Oct 20, 15:55
- Right? - David Oct 20, 15:49
- Yeah, really. I just want this week to be over. -- nm - Stephen Harper si Oct 20, 15:41
Spawn News: 35 years ago this month U2 debuts with the Boy release -- (link) - Remlik Oct 20, 15:14 2
- Related: 28 years ago, U2 wrote their last good songs -- nm - jangles Oct 20, 15:18 1
  - Does that mean Discotheque made the cut? -- nm - Beryllium Oct 20, 15:31
Keith Richards Honors Merry Clayton (Gimme Shelter) After Car Crash -- (link) - Remlik Oct 20, 15:10 1
- This has been posted on ST before. Listen to her audio track from the recording of Gimme Shelter. -- (link) - Mop Oct 20, 15:46 [youtube]
So I guess the best place to get that SW poster is Ebay right if I dont want to overpay? -- nm - eag Oct 20, 15:07
LYC: Bah. No SW trailer for us today - con_carne Oct 20, 15:04 1
- Does it look alright? -- nm - Beryllium Oct 20, 15:06
Director Henry Selick confirms that Nightmare Before Christmas is actually, in fact, a Halloween movie -- nm - jangles Oct 20, 14:59 6
- missed this until now. I didn't know it was ever a question. -- nm - b. Oct 20, 16:00
- of course it is....nm - x Oct 20, 15:36 1
  - Hey you said something smart - jangles Oct 20, 15:58
- and yet it remains one of the best Christmas movies ever. -- nm - mud Oct 20, 15:14
- Director Henry Selick doesn't get to make that decision. -- nm - Ender Oct 20, 15:12 1
  - The winning team of the MLB All-Star Game does. -- nm - Reagen Oct 20, 15:15
Hmm, that was fast. -- (link) - Beryllium Oct 20, 14:58 1
- But we're sending winter coats, right? -- nm - Mop Oct 20, 15:04
Hmm, Ahmed (clock kid) is moving to Qatar with his family. -- nm - Beryllium Oct 20, 14:56 2
- See? Terrorist. Told you. -- nm - Mop Oct 20, 15:03 1
  - Nah. True american dreamer: Taking someone up on their offer of a total free ride. Trump style. -- nm - Beryllium Oct 20, 15:05
Florida Man runs for Congress -- (link) - znufrii Oct 20, 14:43
Anyone else have a new FB alert sound (chime-y)? I like it better than the old ding -- nm - jangles Oct 20, 14:37
They're going to call him out and I don't like it. Yes, he was really out but I feel like the spirit of the game is being taken away by these little - Krusty Oct 20, 14:37 2
- eh. - znufrii Oct 20, 14:46 1
  - For sure. But it feels cheap. Always did. -- nm - Krusty Oct 20, 14:54
MLB really needs to figure out how to tinker with replay to avoid outs for "pop up" slides. Too ticky-tack. -- nm - Name Withheld By Request Oct 20, 14:37 1
- Agreed, obviously. :-) -- nm - Krusty Oct 20, 14:38
Fuck off, Harold Reynolds. -- nm - Reagen Oct 20, 14:36 4
- He's no Tim McCarver. -- nm - Strongbad Oct 20, 15:52
- Signed, the Universe -- nm - David Oct 20, 14:52
- He's right that this isn't what replay is meant to be for. They had to call Rios out, but that should change by next year. -- nm - Name Withheld By Request Oct 20, 14:38 1
  - Those calls were made pre-replay, it was just tougher to see them - Reagen Oct 20, 14:45
would anyone like a code for a free* shutterfly 8x8 photo book? - b. Oct 20, 14:33 3
- If no one else wants it, I'll take it. We use Shutterfly to do books for grandparents. -- nm - spamlet Oct 20, 15:27 2
  - done! I'll e-mail you the code. :) - -- nm - b. Oct 20, 15:28 1
    - Thanks! -- nm - spamlet Oct 20, 15:28
So... Fox Sports One doesn't stream online? What is this, 2013? -- nm - Mop Oct 20, 14:30 5
- Count your blessings -- nm - jangles Oct 20, 14:34
- it streams via xfinity, at least. ed. to add... -- (edited) - b. Oct 20, 14:34 2
  - No, I've got Xfinity. But I can't find a streaming option on the FS1 site. -- nm - Mop Oct 20, 14:39 1
    - xfinity tv is where I have watched. -- nm - b. Oct 20, 14:40
- have to use their app. -- nm - Truman Oct 20, 14:33
Gilmore Girls poll: Rory married? No, Yes (Dean), Yes (Logan), Yes (Jess), Yes (other) - Mop Oct 20, 14:26 19
- She won't be married, but the fans will demand that she choose Jess. If ASP gets her way, it'll be Logan. - David Oct 20, 14:33 18
  - Stupid fans - Will Hunting Oct 20, 14:36 17
    - I don't get the Jess love. Show me someone who likes Jess. -- nm - Mop Oct 20, 15:03 6
      - heh, I remember having conversations on tt/st about him re: bad boys with poetry/soulfulness and the like. - b. Oct 20, 16:04 3
        
        SPIKE! -- nm - David Oct 20, 16:05 2
        
        no, military dude. you know. *brain squint* -- nm - b. Oct 20, 16:06 1
        
        riley! -- nm - b. Oct 20, 16:06
      - Millennial women. -- nm - David Oct 20, 15:49
      - CQ -- nm - jangles Oct 20, 15:09
    - Have you ever looked at the wikipedia page for the character bios? - David Oct 20, 14:52 9
      - Well, it takes a lot longer to detail his idiotic rap sheet and try to justify his personality as a character - Will Hunting Oct 20, 15:00 8
        
        I completely agree with you. He's the worst part of the entire run for me. - David Oct 20, 15:50
        
        Chill. Wait until you see the whole series. -- nm - kelly Oct 20, 15:28 6
        
        oh yah, he wasn't all bad overall. -- nm - b. Oct 20, 15:29 5
        
        Oh, I think he's pretty horrible up until S4. But his guest appearances in later seasons showed he had changed. -- nm - kelly Oct 20, 15:35 4
        
        spoileryish. - b. Oct 20, 15:52 3
        
        so b. likes the bad boys. noted. -- nm - Remlik Oct 20, 16:04 2
        
        *laugh* I swear I didn't see this before typing the above. - b. Oct 20, 16:05 1
        
        sure b. sure. :) -- nm - Remlik Oct 20, 16:06
More Luke speculation. - Mop Oct 20, 14:23 1
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Who are those assholes first row right behind homeplate staring into their phones? -- nm - Reagen Oct 20, 14:21 2
- A-hole ump is in the way! How can they possibly see the strike zone? They need the app. -- nm - Mop Oct 20, 14:27
- I was thinking the same thing about them. her most. he looks up occasionally ( -- nm - Peglegpete Oct 20, 14:24
in my world, that would have been a HR -- nm - Peglegpete Oct 20, 14:19 1
- not a double -- nm - Peglegpete Oct 20, 14:19
Tired: BidenWatch, wired: RyanWatch -- nm - jangles Oct 20, 14:11 2
- JackRyanWatch? -- nm - Beryllium Oct 20, 14:21 1
  - Bryan Watch -- nm - Mop Oct 20, 14:31
Ken Curtis [no not the actor who played Festus on Gunsmoke] was injured in Tombstone Az gunfight re-enactment. someone brought/used real bullets! -- (link) - Peglegpete Oct 20, 14:11 2
- ban reenactments! -- nm - znufrii Oct 20, 14:55 1
  - don't forget we are going to the 950'th Battle of Hasting anniversary re-enactment next october :) -- nm - Peglegpete Oct 20, 14:59
creepy clowns terrorize UK children -- (link) - Peglegpete Oct 20, 13:45 1
- Alternate headline: Cirque du Soliel Touring UK -- nm - Mop Oct 20, 14:27
Vikings DT placed on injured reserve, free agent signed to take his spot. Do I drop them as my DEF in favor of Philly? -- nm - emoticripple Oct 20, 13:43 2
- Your first sentence is rather irrelevant to your second, and I'd say yes. - ML Oct 20, 13:46 1
  - Okay and okay. -- nm - emoticripple Oct 20, 13:55
New Hell in a Cell card for this Sunday after ratings continue to plummet. - Qale Oct 20, 13:38 6
- Huh. I thought we'd already had the Undertaker's retirement match. -- nm - Mop Oct 20, 14:29
- I don't even know who half of those people are. -- nm - sycor Oct 20, 14:17 1
  - Then you would have loved RAW yesterday. It featured Undertaker!!! Stone Cold!!! HBK!!!! Flair!!! WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!! -- nm - Qale Oct 20, 14:19
- *plays trombone for emphasis* -- nm - Dark Callisto Oct 20, 13:43 2
  - TRICEP MEAT -- nm - Tim Oct 20, 14:46
  - Dark Callisto feeling the PPPPOOOOOWWWWEEEEEERRRRRAAAHHHHH! -- nm - Remlik Oct 20, 13:45
Pull the Dickey out! -- nm - J Oct 20, 13:37 3
- no, keep him in! -- nm - Truman Oct 20, 14:12
- please. fast. -- nm - Andie - Go Jays! Oct 20, 13:37 1
  - Have we learned why Gibbons pulled him so quick in the ALDS Game 4? WE may have. -- nm - Name Withheld By Request Oct 20, 13:47
so yup, The Good Dinosaur = talking dinosaurs. -- nm - Reagen Oct 20, 13:33 1
- Just like Theodore Rex! -- nm - jangles Oct 20, 13:35
Nerds! NERRRRRRRRRDS! -- (link) - ML Oct 20, 13:25 2
- this is even better... -- (link) - Mel Profit Oct 20, 16:20
- It's the Star Wars equivalent of the waves of Chinese cannon fodder during the Korean War. The pilots don't need to be skilled. They just need lots. -- nm - Mop Oct 20, 14:32
I'm not crazy about the direction they're taking Major's character on iZombie this season - jangles Oct 20, 13:23
Let's Go Blue Jays! Clap! Clap! Clapclapclap! -- nm - Andie - Go Jays! Oct 20, 13:20 1
- spoilers - Andie - Go Jays! Oct 20, 13:21
Dammit Kilbo! You need to buy more burritos! -- (link) - decline Oct 20, 13:19
David News: Dr. Ken gets full season pickup! -- (link) - Remlik Oct 20, 13:18 1
- I honestly can't believe they canceled Cristela for that. -- nm - David Oct 20, 13:20
I think he's out but I don't think you can overturn it. -- nm - Reagen Oct 20, 13:16
I think Joe Buck started drinking early. -- nm - Reagen Oct 20, 13:16
I so wish I was going to be in town for the Weight Watchers meeting this week :) - Meg Oct 20, 13:09 18
- do you own the stock ? -- nm - decline Oct 20, 13:10 17
  - No, and now I'm wishing I jumped on it yesterday :) *only* up 30% today. -- nm - Meg Oct 20, 13:14 16
    - nothing has changed besides oprah really. maybe some more revenue from her face but aren't their problems brand-related and organizational? - fabulous squad Oct 20, 13:15 15
      - WW cures cancer! -- nm - Dr Oz Oct 20, 13:31
      - They do seem to have moved away from the original concept. I actually asked recently when they would - Meg Oct 20, 13:31 8
        
        Information about food and how to eat healthily is easily available, but getting touchy-feely and clubby keeps people in the program -- nm - Roger More Oct 20, 14:07 7
        
        the social/community part, but some of what they've tried has been a turnoff for many - attempts at teaching NLP and other methods by people not - b. Oct 20, 14:27 6
        
        I'm sure plenty of people have been turned off, but maybe those aren't the target customers? (People willing to pay more, and who will stay in the - Roger More Oct 20, 14:48 5
        
        from when I was going regularly and from what I've read online, the changes caused some people who had been going for a long time, sometimes - b. Oct 20, 15:09 4
        
        I hadn't actually read any stories on the Oprah involvement yet, but here is a quickety googled one. it mentions their declines. nm but: -- (link) - b. Oct 20, 15:12 3
        
        Thanks. Interesting to see the problems facing the company in more detail. -- nm - Roger More Oct 20, 15:36
        
        I'm one of the reasons they're tanking. As a lifetime member I don't pay dues, I don't pay for their online tools and I don't buy their products. - Meg Oct 20, 15:20 1
        
        yah, the core program (some notable experimental fails aside) has value*; but they've done -- (edited) - b. Oct 20, 15:26
      - this may be the best bet, unless she is able to bring major changes to the brand (she did get a board seat) -- nm - decline Oct 20, 13:16 4
        
        one board seat. I mean, how much change can she impact? I don't see great change besides an uptick in enrollments. -- nm - fabulous squad Oct 20, 13:26 3
        
        After the stock gain the last day or two, she could probably kill a few other board members and the next of kin would be cool - Will Hunting Oct 20, 13:34 2
        
        Depends what they're holding it at. It was trading at close to $30 a year ago. -- nm - Meg Oct 20, 13:45 1
        
        Half a loss is better than 80% a loss. -- nm - Will Hunting Oct 20, 13:58
Per notfab: Ep. VII has banked $6.5 million in IMAX sales alone already -- nm - jangles Oct 20, 13:08 4
- which is why the "record sales" stories are always comically irrelevant -- nm - David Oct 20, 13:19
- that's not so much. how long has it been on sale? -- nm - fabulous squad Oct 20, 13:09 2
  - about 32 hours -- nm - ML Oct 20, 13:11 1
    - that's just $200k per hour. chump change. if it does that opening weekend, it's only 14 mill. - fabulous squad Oct 20, 13:13
Cameron Heyward is appealing his fines from the NFL -- (link) - Beaker Oct 20, 13:04 1
- Dear NFL...dig up. -- nm - Will Hunting Oct 20, 13:06
I missed this. September 22... lawsuit is won. Happy birthday is public domain! -- (link) - Mop Oct 20, 13:03 1
- I still prefer the Futurama version. -- nm - Baron Bostwick as Brad Majors Oct 20, 13:05
pfm, Volquez just said fiarly diplomatically that he thinks stealing signs from CF is basically impossible and that Cueto is talking out his ass -- nm - Reagen Oct 20, 13:02 1
- cueto is talking out his arse. he wants to blame anyone but himself for his performance. - Truman Oct 20, 14:13
So much for breaking CR's test scale. Stripping Tesla of recommended status due to terrible reliability. -- (link) - iSpam Oct 20, 13:00 17
- From the actual CR report: "Despite the problems, our data show that Tesla owner satisfaction is still very high: Ninety-seven percent of owners said - TWuG Oct 20, 13:10 12
  - Just like VW owners :) -- nm - spamlet Oct 20, 14:00
  - I'm reminded of the Star Wars Cinescore.... - Will Hunting Oct 20, 13:14 5
    - Trying to argue that Revenge of the Sith is a good movie is like maintaining that the Philadelphia 76ers front office knows what it's doing. -- nm* - David Oct 20, 13:38
    - heh...nm - x Oct 20, 13:29
    - The people buying actual Tesla cars aren't sweating these things. It *will* be an issue if the Model 3 has the same issues. - TWuG Oct 20, 13:28 2
      - 90k beta products? - Will Hunting Oct 20, 13:33 1
        
        Closer to 78k and the Beta analogy isn't perfect. But Tesla owners are "early adopters" and accept -- (edited) - TWuG Oct 20, 13:42
  - gotta love this: '..owners were increasingly discontent with having spent near $100,000 on a car that spent a good portion of its life on the flatbed - decline Oct 20, 13:12 3
    - That's from the Mashable "interpretation" of the CR report. - TWuG Oct 20, 13:24 2
      - actually, isn't it that's authors anecdotal evidence from talking to Tesla owners over the years? -- nm - decline Oct 20, 13:27 1
        
        Anecdote isn't data. CR, at least, is collecting data through actual surveys and are finding owners aren't dissatisfied with the cars. - TWuG Oct 20, 13:32
  - It also notes that the "squeaks, etc" are only noticeable because there's no engine noise. -- nm - TWuG Oct 20, 13:12
- that'll leave a mark - ML Oct 20, 13:04 2
  - all new cars have their little quirks! Just look at the Yugo!! -- nm - Elon Munk Oct 20, 13:18
  - It's revolutionary! - Will Hunting Oct 20, 13:08
- best cars ever!! -- nm - decline Oct 20, 13:02
Word. -- nm - Jim Oct 20, 13:00

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