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Salem's Lot is probably one of the freakiest books I've read. Of course I was alone upstairs in the projection booth - sycor Oct 28, 13:52
Is it really a billion dollar blimp? And why is its dong so big? -- nm - Beryllium Oct 28, 13:47 4
- the la times had a piece on the history of the program a few weeks ago. funding for the current program is way less, but over the years.. nm but -- (link) - b. Oct 28, 13:53
- Wiki said $200m, the rest is probably the spy stuff x fees surcharge etc, contains Obamas real birth certificate -- nm - zeitgeist Oct 28, 13:52
- Would you rather have a big dong or a small dong? - budice Oct 28, 13:50 1
  - LIR: we have gone about this wrong, he's a flyboy new in town, lonely, I say we get him laid -- nm - zeitgeist Oct 28, 13:54
I feel so sorry for those thousands of poor babies on B2 who have crabs -- nm - zork Oct 28, 13:38 1
- speaking of creepy. -- nm - b. Oct 28, 13:43
Rex Murphy butchers the anti-vax movement -- (link) - Beaker Oct 28, 13:32 2
- I swear I was just about to post a vent about some of those people. someone I follow, who I think is generally not-dumb, shared some exceptionally - b. Oct 28, 13:41 1
  - I have a friend who posts about "essential oils" all the time. Recently it was about using them to remove vaccine toxins from your kids. -- nm - TWuG Oct 28, 13:56
Phil Collins in unretiring. -- nm - Spawn Oct 28, 13:21 3
- *scoops up Phil in tether tentacles and goes on world tour* -- nm - flying jellyfish Oct 28, 13:29 2
  - ~ I can feel it comin' in the air tonight, oh lord ... ~ -- (link) - Beryllium Oct 28, 13:31 [youtube] 1
    - So much of his discography sounds perfect for this. "Something Happened On The Way To Heaven". "Take Me Home". - Beryllium Oct 28, 13:34
That safe in your hotel room is likely trivial to break into. -- (link) - spamlet Oct 28, 13:20 30
- " keep in mind they have limited liability" Inn Keeper statutes for each state - so regardless of the value - they only pay X -- nm - Pippy Zombie Salsa Dancer Oct 28, 13:25
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  - In some ways it's just nice to have a place where you know you left stuff. -- nm - Reagen Oct 28, 13:53 4
    - this is the function of our small under bed fireproof safe at home. valuables are kept there. - Andie Oct 28, 13:54 3
      - "Dear burglars: the valuable stuff is here - please don't mess any of our other shit up." -- nm - Reagen Oct 28, 13:56
      - which bedroom is that exactly? -- nm - b. Oct 28, 13:55 1
        
        it's so small, if they find it, they could just grab it anyway. fireproof and designated place, that is it's purpose. -- nm - Andie Oct 28, 14:00
  - I went to find where I posted about things being taken from a hotel room, and guess who started the thread? nm but: -- (link) - b. Oct 28, 13:37 1
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  - why bother locking your doors at home for that matter? -- nm - groiny Oct 28, 13:28 6
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    - My MIL did this at her house last week while we stayed, made me stress - Pippy Zombie Salsa Dancer Oct 28, 13:30 4
      - I mean, if they wanna get in, they are gonna get in. nm -- nm - groiny Oct 28, 13:30
      - we almost never remember to lock our door before we go to bed. we do lock it when we leave in the morning. - Andie Oct 28, 13:30 2
        
        I never do while I'm awake. -- nm - Reagen Oct 28, 13:54 1
        
        how else will they steal your magic beans? -- nm - groiny Oct 28, 14:03
  - I just keep my passports and work laptop in there when I go out. -- nm - spamlet Oct 28, 13:26 6
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      - I've never had anything taken when I'm traveling but like 97 said the laptop is policy and I might as well use it. -- nm - iSpam Oct 28, 13:44
    - I don't know that I've ever seen one big enough to hold a laptop - Beryllium Oct 28, 13:28 3
      - The standard ones I come across in Hilton and Marriott (etc) brands fit the laptop just right. - ty97 Oct 28, 13:34
      - They're surprisingly roomy inside. -- nm - spamlet Oct 28, 13:30
      - yeah, me either. -- nm - Andie Oct 28, 13:29
  - some hotels have a safe deposit at the front desk -- nm - Pippy Zombie Salsa Dancer Oct 28, 13:25 1
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  - keep our Passports in them when we are out shopping/swimming/at parks etc -- nm - Beaker Oct 28, 13:25
  - Because we have to for work. -- nm - ty97 Oct 28, 13:24 2
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      - not when I leave for dinner or when I am there over a weekend. -- nm - ty97 Oct 28, 13:26
  - *shrugs* I usually like to leave my gun in the room. -- nm - Spawn Oct 28, 13:22
~borrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrn freeeeeeeeeeeee.....as free as the wind blows....~ - Runaway Blimp Oct 28, 13:13 2
- *snork* -- nm - con_carne Oct 28, 13:20 1
  - indeed -- nm - zork Oct 28, 13:39
Wow. We are switching trash service company and cutting our cost in half. - Spawn Oct 28, 13:10 12
- I'd look into doing this, but half of zero is zero. - znufrii Oct 28, 13:35
- Oh heres something interesting going on in Cali. Companies having recycle bins, but not paying to recycle. Just dumping it with normal trash. -- nm - budice Oct 28, 13:12 7
  - That is BS. I looked into ours to confirm they were actually recycling. - Spawn Oct 28, 13:15 6
    - Actually Disney is accused of not recycling as they claim -- nm - budice Oct 28, 13:17
    - So what you should do, is hide in a can and take video of the whole process. - Beryllium Oct 28, 13:16 4
      - heh. The current company, I stopped by their recycling facility. -- nm - Spawn Oct 28, 13:17 1
        
        It's a front. They don't recycle, they just melt everything down and extract the cocaine. -- nm - Beryllium Oct 28, 13:18
      - Oh, wait, the IM is about composting. (We get recycling pickup every other thursday, and compost/garbage pickup every Friday) -- nm - Beryllium Oct 28, 13:17 1
        
        our building is saving more on garbage pick up now - the City has *finally* implemented organic waste for buildings (houses have had it for a decade) - Andie Oct 28, 13:19
- Just toss the trash near your neighbor's can and save 100% -- nm* - decline Oct 28, 13:12
- Hooray for competetion -- nm - JD Oct 28, 13:12 1
  - The savings is largely because they are now offering free recycling. - Spawn Oct 28, 13:14
Huh. Furious 7 is only ("only") $150 million behind Jurassic World in worldwide gross - prayformojo Oct 28, 13:01 9
- Considering its the 7th in the franchise. That has some staying power. -- nm - budice Oct 28, 13:04 5
  - Furious 19 will be Vin Diesel racing in a wheelchair -- nm - decline Oct 28, 13:05 4
    - Furuious 26 will star Paul and Vins kids in a reimagination -- nm - budice Oct 28, 13:06 3
      - 30...hover craft on Mars -- nm - zeitgeist Oct 28, 13:50
      - Big Wheels! -- nm - Max Oct 28, 13:09
      - And it will make ALL THE MONEY! -- nm - Spawn Oct 28, 13:08
- *flying forearm into T-Rex's jaw* -- nm - Furious 9 Oct 28, 13:03 2
  - More like *flying forearm into Hitler's jaw* -- nm - Furious Nein Oct 28, 13:05
  - *Blows Up Vin Diesel* -- nm - Mbay Oct 28, 13:04
Revised: The Blimp is still afloat and is dragging tether lines that are taking out powerlines all over PA -- nm - decline Oct 28, 12:47 10
- Ha, apparently there was a statement from a NORAD spokesman expressing concern about the explosive possibility of this *helium-filled* balloon - Reagen Oct 28, 12:54 3
  - Oh that reminds me.. -- (link) - JD Oct 28, 13:11 [youtube]
  - well of course he said that. It's not like he can say "there's secret spy stuff on that blimp so keep back" -- nm - decline Oct 28, 13:06
  - Plus it makes them talk funny. -- nm - budice Oct 28, 13:05
- Follow-up: One of the tether lines has gotten tangled in a powerline and it appears the line is... charging the blimp. It has tripled it's size... -- nm - Spawn Oct 28, 12:49
- Runaway blimp now secured -- (link) - mara Oct 28, 12:49 2
  - Sure, they secure a white blimp safely... -- nm - Reagen Oct 28, 12:51
  - "Dacey reported that local law enforcement have surrounded the blimp... and it suddenly broke free, carrying several officers to their doom." -- nm - Spawn Oct 28, 12:50
- Is Pizza Rat piloting it? -- nm - jangles Oct 28, 12:48
- Jeebus. The blimp is over 2 football fields in length. That is massive. -- nm - pmb Oct 28, 12:48
I've never seen Chicago and it's on in 15 mins. Should I watch it? -- nm - Loyola Oct 28, 12:47 5
- No. - Pippy Zombie Salsa Dancer Oct 28, 13:29
- You'll love it, and all that jazz -- nm - zeitgeist Oct 28, 13:28
- Yes. And I say this as someone who generally does not like musicals. -- nm - ReluctantCynic Oct 28, 13:22
- you have it coming. -- nm - Mel Profit Oct 28, 13:16
- Sure -- nm - JaxSean Oct 28, 13:07
What's the best scary book you ever read? - prayformojo Oct 28, 12:46 56
- Misery. Because I lived in Colorado, and that shit could actually happen. -- nm - JaxSean Oct 28, 13:54
- The Silence of the Lambs. -- nm - Diva Oct 28, 13:41
- Books and movies never actually scare me. A few movies have creeped me out some. -- nm - zork Oct 28, 13:39
- Peter Pan...he's flying off with the boys, he just let's them drop....for fun, sadistic freak -- nm - zeitgeist Oct 28, 13:24
- The Amityville Horror and The Pit and the Pendulum both scared the crap out of me when I read them for the first time. - ReluctantCynic Oct 28, 13:21
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  - "Be-hold!!! The ravages of old age!" -- nm - Reagen Oct 28, 13:23 1
    - Sometimes being a bitch is the only thing a woman has to hold on to!! -- nm - Diva Oct 28, 13:41
- The Bible -- nm - budice Oct 28, 13:13
- Hands down "Helter Skelter" -- nm - jangles Oct 28, 13:10 2
  - How did you turn the pages? -- nm - Spawn Oct 28, 13:11 1
    - charlie ... moves him. -- nm - Beryllium Oct 28, 13:12
- Frankenstein -- nm - con_carne Oct 28, 13:07
- The Exorcist ...the movie left things out. -- nm - Mel Profit Oct 28, 13:04
- I hear Sarah Palin's "Going Rogue" is terrifying -- nm - jangles Oct 28, 13:04
- note about Horrorstor for Dark Callisto - prayformojo Oct 28, 12:59 3
  - spoilers - Dark Callisto Oct 28, 13:02 2
    - One thing I really, really liked - prayformojo Oct 28, 13:10 1
      - Yes, that totally crept up on me. Very inventive. -- nm - Dark Callisto Oct 28, 13:12
- Pet Semetary. -- nm - Reagen Oct 28, 12:57 7
  - winner winner chicken dinner -- nm - Jim Oct 28, 13:23
  - Never read it, but the trailer for the movie (and for Arachnophobia) scared me enough not to watch -- nm - Beryllium Oct 28, 13:11 5
    - the book puts the movie to shame. - decline Oct 28, 13:12 3
      - Yup. As many of his do. Like, The Tommyknockers was a great read. -- nm - Spawn Oct 28, 13:16
      - yep. scary effin' book. -- nm - Mel Profit Oct 28, 13:15
      - Yeah. It's a scary book for sure. -- nm - Dark Callisto Oct 28, 13:13
    - Meh. I names my cat after one of the dead people. -- nm - Spawn Oct 28, 13:12
- It is up there (though it falls apart a little at the end). Turn of the Screw and House of Leaves. -- nm - Dark Callisto Oct 28, 12:53 3
  - I never finished house of leaves - it was just too weird. I understand he's got 1 or 2 other books that are similar -- nm - decline Oct 28, 12:58 2
    - The Fifty Year Sword is an easier-to-read scary one from him. - Dark Callisto Oct 28, 13:00 1
      - thanks (adds to queue). I should really dig out HoL and give it another go -- nm - decline Oct 28, 13:04
- Nothing comes to mind immediately but I do recall IT being pretty freaking scary - Pippy Zombie Salsa Dancer Oct 28, 12:52 2
  - IT was a pretty good one, though reading Dracula one Saturday night while my parents were out and the power goes off - amoxy Oct 28, 12:56 1
    - yikes -- nm - Pippy Zombie Salsa Dancer Oct 28, 12:59
- Dracula probably best for creeping dread, Invisible Man best as a thriller, Haunted by Pahlaniuk for . . . ick. -- nm - emoticripple Oct 28, 12:52 1
  - at some point I want to read this. - Mel Profit Oct 28, 13:17
- The Shining -- nm - David Oct 28, 12:52 15
  - same. or Heart Shaped Box -- nm - Beaker Oct 28, 13:14 1
    - I recall Heart Shaped Box scaring me - I'd like Ed Harris to play the big bad in the movie -- nm - Pippy Zombie Salsa Dancer Oct 28, 13:20
  - Either that or Salem's Lot. I was way too young for SL when I read it, so that probably added to it. -- nm - Spawn Oct 28, 12:53 12
    - I was the same way with The Shining. That's why it freaked me out so much. - David Oct 28, 12:53 11
      - Me either. My dad gave me Night Shift when I was 11, probably. - Dark Callisto Oct 28, 12:57 9
        
        My mom would read the Stephen King books first and then give them to me. - Mel Profit Oct 28, 13:06 8
        
        its quite amazing what our parents let us read ain't it? - Pippy Zombie Salsa Dancer Oct 28, 13:07 6
        
        very much so. I was often left to my own devices like this. - Mel Profit Oct 28, 13:14 3
        
        hee to the IM -- nm - Pippy Zombie Salsa Dancer Oct 28, 13:20 2
        
        favorite hiding spot... - Mel Profit Oct 28, 13:26 1
        
        !! -- nm - Pippy Zombie Salsa Dancer Oct 28, 13:28
        
        ... I do not know what is in them. -- nm - Spawn Oct 28, 13:09 1
        
        history bodice ripping romance novels except - Pippy Zombie Salsa Dancer Oct 28, 13:19
        
        heh. this was my aunt and me. -- nm - decline Oct 28, 13:07
      - I had just turned 9 when I read Salem's Lot. My big sister read it and it freaked her out, so I did too. -- nm - Spawn Oct 28, 12:55
- What is it? -- nm - Spawn Oct 28, 12:51
- The Supernaturals by Golemon is excellent. I'm currently reading Twisted by Kaufman which is also quite good. -- nm - decline Oct 28, 12:50
- The Haunting of Hill House -- nm - mara Oct 28, 12:50 1
  - good choice :) -- nm - decline Oct 28, 12:50
WWE/UFC: Ronda Rousey wants the Divas Championship.... -- (link) - Remlik Oct 28, 12:39 4
- Ok, here. No reason to have a match or anything. You just take it and let us know when you're done with it. Thanks. - Current Divas champion Oct 28, 12:45
- But what about Dancing with the Stars? -- nm - David Oct 28, 12:41 2
  - good question -- nm - Remlik Oct 28, 12:50
  - More of a challenge than the Divas title. -- nm - Will Hunting Oct 28, 12:46
Major Flash spoilers and scene -- (link) - Beaker Oct 28, 12:35 4
- spoil - decline Oct 28, 12:37 3
  - spoils - Spawn Oct 28, 12:42
  - spoils - Beaker Oct 28, 12:39
  - spoils... - Remlik Oct 28, 12:39
I wish I could add this automatically to every one of my posts. -- (link) - David Oct 28, 12:35 [youtube]
Buzzfeed: "Fled Zeppelin" - ML Oct 28, 12:30 1
- Blimp down, man. Blimp down. -- nm - decline Oct 28, 12:35

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