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Wait: Kim Richards was arrested and now convicted/sentenced for shoplifting? - JD Oct 28, 15:40 2
- For a second I was thinking, ok hoping, it was Kim Davis -- nm - zeitgeist Oct 28, 16:01
- It's good for ratings. -- nm - Mop Oct 28, 15:44
This should be popular with the film buffs here. -- (link) - Beryllium Oct 28, 15:39
OMG. ty97/JackDawson, any chance you've ever been in the Turkish Airways airport lounge in Istanbul? -- (link) - Mop Oct 28, 15:36 [youtube] 1
- I believe that the correct response to that is that the eagle flies at midnight -- nm - zork Oct 28, 15:39
Wolf Blitzer on the blimp: "We’ve never seen anything like this in the United States before!" -- (link) - ML Oct 28, 15:30 [youtube] 9
- It's a Rigid AirShip! Not a Blimp! -- nm - Captain Lammers Oct 28, 15:38 1
  - I'm pretty sure in this particular case, it is not a rigid airship. An aerostat if one wants to get fancy -- nm - JD Oct 28, 15:44
- runaway trains don't count -- nm - Peglegpete Oct 28, 15:35 2
  - wrong way on a one-way track -- nm - ML Oct 28, 15:36 1
    - dammit - prayformojo Oct 28, 15:39
- Kim Kardashian -- (link) - budice Oct 28, 15:33 1
  - Dat blimp doe -- nm - rollo Oct 28, 15:39
- I would love to see Wolf Blitzer on the blimp. -- nm - pmb Oct 28, 15:32
- he even interviewed the balloon boy -- nm - zork Oct 28, 15:32
Rob Ford has another tumour. This time in his bladder. -- nm - zork Oct 28, 15:21 4
- a toomah -- nm - budice Oct 28, 15:22 3
  - he's Canadian so it's a toumah -- nm - zork Oct 28, 15:23 2
    - Toomie. -- nm - Mop Oct 28, 15:38
    - les toumah? -- nm - budice Oct 28, 15:24
So, what they're saying is that anyone who can pick a lock can get into your hotel room safe? - Mop Oct 28, 15:20
SNOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOWWWWWW -- (link) - ML Oct 28, 15:18 [youtube] 1
- that reminds me - I saw a s.w. campbell's soup ad for the first time last night. v. nice. nm but: -- (link) - b. Oct 28, 15:23 [youtube]
I have a co-worker who's so intolerably beautiful that I find it intimidating to work with her. -- nm - Mop Oct 28, 15:17 5
- She'll probably end up with a guy who doesn't judge a book by its cover. - Loyola Oct 28, 15:24 4
  - she's probably lonely because everyone assumes she's with someone and/or will say no -- nm - zork Oct 28, 15:27 2
    - She must be somebody's baby. - TWuG Oct 28, 15:30 1
      - Yep. -- nm - Mop Oct 28, 15:37
  - She's a cat person. That's all I need to know. - Mop Oct 28, 15:26
lyc: Now You See Me 2 screen tonight...Burnt on the WB lot tomorrow. -- nm - budice Oct 28, 15:10 1
- boo.! - b. Oct 28, 15:13
Lindsey Graham playing FMK chose Palin, Fiorina and by default Clinton - amoxy Oct 28, 15:07 4
- Well, they're girls, so they're all icky... -- nm - Linds Oct 28, 15:15
- Which, given his rumored preference, is all theoretical anyway -- nm - jangles Oct 28, 15:09
- *Must name women. Must name women. Must name women* -- nm - Lindsey Graham Oct 28, 15:09
- "Jeb!, Rubio, and Tru---, uh, I mean..." -- nm - Mop Oct 28, 15:09
Big Eyes is on. There is absolutely nothing to do in the winter. -- nm - Loyola Oct 28, 15:06
aladdin in 2015. nm but: -- (link) - b. Oct 28, 15:00
Pegleg...that Tintin page sold for 1.7 Million -- (link) - Remlik Oct 28, 14:58 1
- /*FAINT*/ -- nm - Peglegpete Oct 28, 15:00
ManU / Middlebrough spoils... - budice Oct 28, 14:56 1
- *laughing* -- nm - JD Oct 28, 15:12
heheh, I just scared the crap out of a coworker when I walked into his office as he was getting ready to leave. Happy Halloween, scaredy cat. -- nm - Max Oct 28, 14:51 1
- *zips up* -- nm - coworker Oct 28, 14:55
Chicago, C+ I wish I didn't watch it though, it must be really good as a live show. -- nm - Loyola Oct 28, 14:50
I keep forgetting to lock my car door overnight, and it's not parked in the garage. - Beryllium Oct 28, 14:50 5
- ouch. good luck. -- nm - Peglegpete Oct 28, 15:02 4
  - Meh. I've gotten better at remembering. So far no one's been hiding in the back seat, and ... - Beryllium Oct 28, 15:06 3
    - Your im has been a fear of mine on multiple occasions. -- nm - Loyola Oct 28, 15:07 2
      - Dirty Mike and the Boys -- (link) - Beryllium Oct 28, 15:13 [youtube] 1
        
        Mama racoon *laughing* -- nm - Loyola Oct 28, 15:19
heh, my friend said she's actually also teaching some instrumental this year; and she sent some commisseration to Mr. S. -- nm -- (edited) - b. Oct 28, 14:46 2
- It's partly also this school - getting some of these kids just to show up is often a task. -- nm - Reagen Oct 28, 14:48
- It's like neither of them ever saw School of Rock -- nm - jangles Oct 28, 14:47
from backboards: I dunno about best, but most fun? Willow. -- nm - Qale Oct 28, 14:45
Star Wars Battlefront gives a sense of grandeur to the battles of Star Wars that the original trilogy could not. -- nm - Mop Oct 28, 14:39 4
- It also makes me think everyone in the SW universe has hellacious PTSD. -- nm - Reagen Oct 28, 14:49 1
  - *tea kettle makes tie fighter noise for some reason*, and then everyone hits the deck -- nm - Beryllium Oct 28, 14:51
- you buy it? -- nm - Remlik Oct 28, 14:48 1
  - I am Halo's bitch. -- nm - Mop Oct 28, 15:05
Sammy Watkins trying to get traded. -- (link) - spamlet Oct 28, 14:35 2
- Jim bet on the wrong horse with this one. -- nm - David Oct 28, 14:49
- Behavior includes peeing in his locker and sleeping with the coach's daughter. -- nm - Mop Oct 28, 14:43
Brian Williams has the post-mortem on the blimp scene -- (link*) - budice Oct 28, 14:30
ST predicts: what will Jeb! do onstage at tonight's debate to prove that he's a fighter? - jangles Oct 28, 14:29 12
- Give Rubio a piledriver -- nm - amoxy Oct 28, 15:08
- Try really hard not to cry. -- nm - pmb Oct 28, 14:49
- He's going to push his glasses up to the bridge of his nose and all of America is going to go..... - Loyola Oct 28, 14:48
- "Look, I'm sorry I have to drop this zinger on my opponent, but debates happen, so here it comes." -- nm - Max Oct 28, 14:35
- Bitch slap Cruz -- nm* - decline Oct 28, 14:32
- stab Trump and say he is deflating a blimp -- nm - Peglegpete Oct 28, 14:31
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  - Same thing -- nm - decline Oct 28, 14:33
  - Watching the Mets win the world series is not a horror movie -- nm - Beryllium Oct 28, 14:31 1
    - it's a marathon -- nm - Peglegpete Oct 28, 14:32
- A rowdy crowd member will throw a half-empty bottle of Pepsi on stage, and Jeb! will recoil in fear -- nm - Beryllium Oct 28, 14:30
- challenge Supergirl to a mudwrestling match. nm -- nm - groiny Oct 28, 14:30
It seems to me that JLENS could easily be replaced with WWII era civil defense people in towers with binoculars and a phone. -- nm - Mop Oct 28, 14:16 4
- AWACs -- nm - zeitgeist Oct 28, 16:05
- *replaces your laptop with the original Turing machine* -- nm - ty97 Oct 28, 14:28
- Umm ... no. -- nm - Beryllium Oct 28, 14:21 1
  - Well, given that JLENS doesn't work at all, I'd disagree. -- nm - Mop Oct 28, 14:38
Just used MATH to help the women's basketball team assign rooms for away trips. - nubby Oct 28, 14:16 5
- I hope you factored in all the variables. -- nm - ... and called it Operation KRUMHOLTZ Oct 28, 14:29
- Was it the Futurama algortihm? -- nm - Reagen Oct 28, 14:25
- Math is hard! -- nm - Barbie Oct 28, 14:22
- go math! :) - -- nm - b. Oct 28, 14:18
- "I heard we all have to room with Round Robin. That sounds horrible." -- nm - Max Oct 28, 14:17
teewoo, from b2: :( - it's sucky that my first thought was along the lines of "could be worse" - ugh. - b. Oct 28, 14:12 4
- b! - budice Oct 28, 14:26 2
  - boo.! - b. Oct 28, 14:28 1
    - Bah! nmbh - Scrooge Oct 28, 15:25
- She's a genuinely nice person so I don't engage on the subject with her. But it's so completely hogwash.... -- nm - TWuG Oct 28, 14:15
LIR - I get that I'm super paranoid for a lot of reasons BUT - killers ( serial/otherwise) talk about how they select homes to go kill someone in - Pippy Zombie Salsa Dancer Oct 28, 14:12 25
- I still haven't changed the locks on my house. Haven't locked my doors once since July. -- nm - All the boys love lazy chicks Oct 28, 15:01 4
  - So someone could prank you by going in and locking your doors -- nm - zork Oct 28, 15:31
  - Hope you have knobs and not handles on the doors going outside. - Covington Oct 28, 15:26 1
    - she has lovely knobs -- nm - groiny Oct 28, 15:35
  - You only have to be afraid of being locked inside with those two killers -- nm - jangles Oct 28, 15:24
- I must have missed something. But I always make sure my doors are locked. I don't even like having the blinds open at night. -- nm - sycor Oct 28, 14:31
- less than killers, I don't get not locking - it's an easy way to have one extra step, maybe giving some extra time at least, for someone unwanted - b. Oct 28, 14:22 10
  - it's just a non-existent worry. -- nm - Reagen Oct 28, 14:24 9
    - it's not, though. even though the odds may not be huge, bad things do happen. - b. Oct 28, 14:27 6
      - just not a thing that happens here. -- nm - Reagen Oct 28, 14:29 5
        
        google shows calgary, winnipeg, and toronto area news stories, just from the past several months. -- (edited) - b. Oct 28, 14:40 4
        
        Don't be weird about this. -- nm - Reagen Oct 28, 14:44 3
        
        :( - fine, done. -- nm - b. Oct 28, 14:47 2
        
        move along, nothing to see here. nm -- nm - groiny Oct 28, 15:03 1
        
        yah, any day now I'll stop caring about other people. -- nm - b. Oct 28, 15:12
    - right, we don't *decide* to not lock our doors when we don't, we just don't think about it, at all. -- nm* - Andie Oct 28, 14:26
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- but, they could just as easily decide to kill me when i'm in line at Starbucks if it's a random crazy act, right? -- (edited) - Andie Oct 28, 14:15 1
  - I'm trying to negate any odds I can - locking a door does that for me - Pippy Zombie Salsa Dancer Oct 28, 14:21
- A guy rifling a purse is looking for a few bucks for a fix, not a serial killer -- nm - zeitgeist Oct 28, 14:13 5
  - ... but they're still dangerous. -- nm - Beryllium Oct 28, 14:14 4
    - Hence the knife in the back - Pippy Zombie Salsa Dancer Oct 28, 14:19 3
      - Spree criminal high on something? Well, that's a knifing. - Beryllium Oct 28, 14:31 2
        
        the home owner didn't know he was on a criminal spree at the time - its just...Texas - Pippy Zombie Salsa Dancer Oct 28, 14:35 1
        
        Well, yeah, I don't understand shooting someone who's trying to get away. Even when the cops do it, most of the time. - Beryllium Oct 28, 14:42
At this years @NFL combine top calculated bench press was 473lb. Cena ,38 yrs old, benched 463 -- (link) - Remlik Oct 28, 14:08 3
- Then again, they drug test at the combine. -- nm - David Oct 28, 14:13 2
  - this is true -- nm - Remlik Oct 28, 14:16 1
    - Does hand wave gesture in front of face to Remlik -- nm - John Cena Oct 28, 14:20
One of my applicants was self employeed as a golf ball retreival specialist. He was making $70K a year for the last 8 years. - sycor Oct 28, 14:06 9
- I wonder what else besides balls and the occasional club, he found in the water traps -- nm - Peglegpete Oct 28, 14:13
- cover for his weed dealing -- nm - Pippy Zombie Salsa Dancer Oct 28, 14:08 7
  - certainly all his dealing involve grass -- nm - zork Oct 28, 14:10 1
    - *giggling* -- nm - Pippy Zombie Salsa Dancer Oct 28, 14:10
  - Probably. He's also a drunk and does drugs. -- nm - sycor Oct 28, 14:09 4
    - *shrug* - making $ 70k a year - he can do what he wants - Pippy Zombie Salsa Dancer Oct 28, 14:10 3
      - Except now he's racking up hospital bills because of it and is applying for goverment assistance. - sycor Oct 28, 14:14 1
        
        that is not good. -- nm - Pippy Zombie Salsa Dancer Oct 28, 14:21
      - The boss man with the contracts with local regional clubs probably makes bucks, the workers get minimum wage -- nm - zeitgeist Oct 28, 14:12
"Ron Gardenhire is the leading candidate to be the next manager of the San Diego Padres." -- nm - ML Oct 28, 13:58 2
- Hahahahahahahahahaha... *takes breath* - nubby Oct 28, 14:17
- wow, that is quite a decline from the first ~half of his twins years to the second ~half, eh? nm but: -- (link) - b. Oct 28, 14:03
*scribbling notes for tonight's debates* moon....needs......nuking.....gigantic....spa ce......kablooie -- nm - ML/Mel '16 Oct 28, 13:57 11
- "not naked ALL the time. Reformed. Personal Journey. Help of Family and Friends. God." - Mel Profit Oct 28, 14:19
- And what you gonna do about all those runaway blimps ? -- nm - eag Oct 28, 14:06
- until this, I didn't match that it's tonight, going against game 2 of the ws. why wouldn't they have had it tomorrow instead? -- nm - b. Oct 28, 14:00 7
  - The debate was scheduled first, I believe. -- nm - spamlet Oct 28, 14:02 5
    - I think the schedule came out a few weeks ahead of the ws schedule, still giving at least a couple of months to shift. -- nm - b. Oct 28, 14:07 4
      - They also assume people that care about the debate != the people that care about baseball. -- nm - spamlet Oct 28, 14:11 3
        
        So Unamericans? Baseball, Mom and Apple Pie lovers are so not the demographic the GOP usually relies on. -- nm - TWuG Oct 28, 14:17 1
        
        I mean, there's a lot of brown people that they're probably uncomfortable with playing. -- nm - Reagen Oct 28, 14:26
        
        if that's the case, it makes no sense. oof. -- nm - b. Oct 28, 14:16
  - Having folks NOT watch the debate is a feature, not a bug. -- nm - TWuG Oct 28, 14:02
- I bet kablooie tests great with the target audience. -- nm - David Oct 28, 13:58
Flying jellyfish must be stopped -- nm - jangles Oct 28, 13:56 2
- *slaps the back of your head, continues gliding up the PCH* -- nm - flying jellyfish Oct 28, 14:05 1
  - Don't make me scramble Blue Thunder -- nm - jangles Oct 28, 14:11
"What's in the box?!" -- (link) - Beryllium Oct 28, 13:56
Also Re "Charter Rights": bet you didn't know Canada still worked on Pirate Law. -- nm - Reagen Oct 28, 13:55

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