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Check the cold medicine label: phenylephrine doesn't work. -- (link) - mara Nov 4, 09:03
I don't really have a plan. But since these shares of private stock won't be vested until 2018, I guess I'll be staying here at least until then. -- nm - Qale, Shareholder Nov 4, 08:57 1
- I've said that twice before. Didn't happen either time. -- nm - Reagen Nov 4, 09:06
Johnny Gomes sounds like Chris Farley. -- nm - Strongbad Nov 4, 08:52 3
- In a van? -- nm - Spawn Nov 4, 08:56 1
  - down by the river? -- nm - Beaker Nov 4, 08:56
- L2 -- nm - Diva Nov 4, 08:54
Spectre 65%, Peanuts 85%, Brooklyn 100% -- nm - Beaker Nov 4, 08:52
MyRA retirement accounts go live -- (link) - znufrii Nov 4, 08:51 4
- This seems like a big deal. -- nm - Mop Nov 4, 09:02 3
  - it's a start. -- nm - decline Nov 4, 09:05
  - if you're not already saving for retirement, and are wary of investing, sure. - znufrii Nov 4, 09:05
  - It's huge. -- nm - mara Nov 4, 09:03
I am wearing this long flowy black and white stripe cardigan thing today - i feel like Beetlejuice. - Andie Nov 4, 08:48 4
- "We come for your daughter Chuck" -- nm - eag Nov 4, 08:51
- get someone in your office to say your name three times. -- nm - Reagen Nov 4, 08:50 2
  - see? -- nm - zork Nov 4, 08:51
  - L3 -- nm - budice Nov 4, 08:50
Bud Light reportedly reups with the NFL. 6 year deal for $1.5 Billion ($250M per) -- nm - Beaker Nov 4, 08:42
Are you going to see A) Spectre, B) Brooklyn? -- nm - LMS Nov 4, 08:39 37
- My expectation is that we watch Peanuts Friday and Spectre Saturday. - David Nov 4, 09:13
- I have no idea what "Brooklyn" is, other than the city. Spectre: no. We've pretty much stopped going to movies. -- nm - JaxSean Nov 4, 09:07
- Spectre! -- nm - Remlik Nov 4, 08:57
- I'll see Brooklyn b/c it is part of the Oscar talk. I've never seen a Bond film and can't care to start now. -- nm - ty97 Nov 4, 08:56 1
  - Moonraker! -- nm - Beaker Nov 4, 08:56
- Yes, I've never heard of Brooklyn except for a couple of posts on ST (probably won't see it), and Yes to Peanuts too. -- nm - Mop Nov 4, 08:54
- Yes to both. My enthusiasm to see spectre has evaporated though. -- nm - Loyola Nov 4, 08:48
- Yes and yes. Probably not this weekend though -- nm - JD Nov 4, 08:47
- no, what's Brooklyn? -- nm - decline Nov 4, 08:44 2
  - Irish immigrant drama with Saoirse Ronan adapted by Nick Hornby (and one of my films) -- nm - LMS Nov 4, 08:55 1
    - Well, now this may change my mind. -- nm - JaxSean Nov 4, 09:08
- Yes, No -- nm - budice Nov 4, 08:43
- No, probably a rental. - spamlet Nov 4, 08:43
- no x 2 -- nm - groiny Nov 4, 08:42
- not likely - Pippy Nov 4, 08:42
- Tomorrow night. TBD but probably not. -- nm - Roger More Nov 4, 08:42
- no and no. also, I'm going to short spectre and associated derivatives. -- nm - fabulous squad Nov 4, 08:42 13
  - i sold it all yesterday. i haven't shorted yet, but i think that's the plan. -- nm - Andie Nov 4, 08:44 11
    - yeah me too. -- nm - fabulous squad Nov 4, 08:46 10
      - No way would I do this. There has not been a *big* movie for how long? - Spawn Nov 4, 08:49 9
        
        87 million worth? nah - I think people are holding out for Hunger Games or Star Wars -- nm - Pippy Nov 4, 08:50 8
        
        I have been wrong on everything the last 2 months, why stop now. - groiny Nov 4, 08:59 3
        
        hey I shorted Jesus so I clearly don't know what I'm doing -- nm - Pippy Nov 4, 08:59 2
        
        I had a decent run in the summer, but once fall hit, I stopped guessing right. - groiny Nov 4, 09:01
        
        I am going to drink the koolaid on The Crow remake also. How can that not be a money maker? -- nm - Pippy Nov 4, 09:00
        
        Skyfall opened to 88M. -- nm - Shaun Nov 4, 08:57 1
        
        meh - and I loved Skyfall -- nm - Pippy Nov 4, 08:59
        
        This is a successful franchise, follow-up to a huge chapter after a long drought of movies to see. - Spawn Nov 4, 08:54
        
        i don't feel the buzz for this. and reviews are middling, so fence-sitters (like me) lose the drive to get out to see it. -- nm - Andie Nov 4, 08:50
  - yup -- nm - Pippy Nov 4, 08:42
- A) yes. B) what? -- nm - James Bond (aka Igor) Nov 4, 08:40
- both are on the 'could happen' list. (but if you mean this weekend, the answer is no, and no.) -- nm* - Andie Nov 4, 08:40
- Yes, no. -- nm - emoticripple Nov 4, 08:40
- A) yes (rental); B) never heard of it -- nm* - Beaker Nov 4, 08:39 2
  - It's that shitty part of New York that everyone hates. -- nm - Shaun Nov 4, 08:41 1
    - Which is why we mostly filmed in Montreal - LMS Nov 4, 08:56
- No, Yes -- nm - jangles Nov 4, 08:39
Halo 5 is doing ok. -- (link) - Shaun Nov 4, 08:33 7
- I think they're playing loose with this by including Halo-specific hardware. - David Nov 4, 09:11
- Picture caption: Men being herded into glass enclosure by heavily armed soldiers. -- nm - Mop Nov 4, 09:01
- I still have yet to play it. My daughter said since we bought the disc version, you have to have the disc in to play? - JaxSean Nov 4, 08:35 4
  - Yeah. Otherwise you could sell it back and still play. -- nm - Spawn Nov 4, 08:36 3
    - Yeah thats all the disk is for to verify you own the game - eag Nov 4, 08:41 2
      - But if I (well, she) bought it digitally, we can both play. That's stupid. -- nm - JaxSean Nov 4, 09:07 1
        
        The first three games we bought for XBox One were physical discs. We haven't purchased another since then. -- nm - David Nov 4, 09:12
Damn. Manziel is starting tomorrow. There goes Barnridge's value. -- nm - Strongbad Nov 4, 08:31 1
- Hurts Duke the most, I think. Manziel doesn't ever check down. - ML Nov 4, 08:33
kilbo alert: Famous EVE Online player wants to novelise its most famous war. -- (link) - Shaun Nov 4, 08:30 1
- zzzzzzzz -- nm - groiny Nov 4, 08:30
Another important result from last night that we haven't discussed: - emoticripple Nov 4, 08:29 1
- Should've skipped the liquor store completely ;) -- nm - Meg Nov 4, 09:05
Coos County, Oregon passes ballot measure upholding the 2nd Amendment. -- (link) - Mop Nov 4, 08:29 3
- they need to be more concerned that their county is named " Coos" - Pippy Nov 4, 08:49
- "As part of the measure, the county sheriff is also given the discretion to determine whether state or federal laws violate the Second Amendment." Um. -- nm - mara Nov 4, 08:47
- *smh* -- nm - znufrii Nov 4, 08:45
remember intern joshie? our new analyst for our reporting software is kala, who graduated from college in - fabulous squad Nov 4, 08:27
Nov 4, 1924 – Nellie Tayloe Ross of Wyoming is elected the first female governor in the United States. -- nm - Beaker Nov 4, 08:24 7
- 1952 – The United States government establishes the National Security Agency, or NSA. -- nm - Beaker Nov 4, 08:25 6
  - 1979 - A mob of Iranians, mostly students, overruns the US embassy in Tehran and takes 90 hostages (53 of whom are American). -- nm - Beaker Nov 4, 08:25 5
    - 1995 – Israeli prime minister Yitzhak Rabin is assassinated by an extremist Israeli. -- nm - Beaker Nov 4, 08:26 4
      - 2008 – Barack Obama becomes the first person of African descent to be elected President of the United States. -- nm - Beaker Nov 4, 08:26 3
        
        African-American. -- nm - Diva Nov 4, 08:27 2
        
        (C&Ped directly from the Wiki) -- nm - Beaker Nov 4, 08:29 1
        
        hm -- nm - Diva Nov 4, 08:56
Also in my brain: Home for the Holidays, The Family Stone, and August: Osage County are three movies that are kinda alike. -- nm - Max Nov 4, 08:24
I am pretty excited to see Constantine on Arrow tonight. - groiny Nov 4, 08:22
More college football talk, please dammit. Who do you like in LSU at Alabama Saturday night? - prayformojo Nov 4, 08:19 5
- A meteor? -- nm - Spawn Nov 4, 08:49
- LSU. -- nm - Will Hunting Nov 4, 08:44
- LSU -- nm - eag Nov 4, 08:29
- I'm rooting for Alabama and Ohio State to win out. I enjoy the rivalry between the two that I have with my neighbor. - TWuG Nov 4, 08:23
- Bama, but they've actually been susceptible to superstars during Sabin's tenure. -- nm - David Nov 4, 08:22
The key to viable third parties seems to be preferential voting (Australian ballot) where voters rank candidates by preference, coupled with - TWuG Nov 4, 08:13 16
- Counterpoint - Australia doesn't have a viable third party, at least in the House of Reps equivalent. - Roger More Nov 4, 08:25
- mixed-member proportional representation! -- (link) - znufrii Nov 4, 08:20 [youtube] 1
  - I always feel that this system is too easy to manipulate by the political parties....plus I feel its more complicated than ranking. -- nm - Walt_Disney Nov 4, 08:23
- I would endorse this idea more than PR....the challenge in Canada would be that Liberals would likely form right out of 10 governments. - Walt_Disney Nov 4, 08:20 1
  - I hate PR for Canada. We have so few binding institutions cross-country. The large brokerage-style parties are one of the few. - Name Withheld By Request Nov 4, 08:35
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  - "Is first best or worst? Can I skip numbers? What if I leave someone out?" -- nm - TWuG Nov 4, 08:18 1
    - "Here's a ball. Perhaps you'd like to bounce it." -- nm - Reagen Nov 4, 08:19
- Canada seems to do okay without it. -- nm - spamlet Nov 4, 08:15 6
  - wait for it... -- nm - Reagen Nov 4, 08:16 5
    - Agreeance. I think Trudeau will float some idea of changing FPTP. Not sure how far it will go but some change will be presented. -- nm - Walt_Disney Nov 4, 08:21 4
      - I mean, he ran on it, so... -- nm - Reagen Nov 4, 08:22 3
        
        Politicians run on lots of things but then change them because of some financial or political challenge.... - Walt_Disney Nov 4, 08:25 2
        
        The Supreme Court will have its say as well. Ironically, some of the rulings against Harper's govt imply that framer's intent would matter on system.. - Name Withheld By Request Nov 4, 08:30 1
        
        This is why I think it's going to be some form of IRV. Very little needs to be functionally changed. -- nm - Reagen Nov 4, 08:51
- That California recall election would have taken 6 years to figure out. -- nm - Reagen Nov 4, 08:14
Does anyone know how to link to a decline post? -- nm - Shaun Nov 4, 08:12 1
- it's easy! I'm all over the frickin' place -- (link*) - decline Nov 4, 08:13 [Backboard]
I've been hearing Ex's and Oh's all over the place so I looked up Elle King to see what gives. I'm just now finding out she's the daughter of Rob Schn - Max Nov 4, 08:07 14
- He taught her how to spell. -- nm - Green Baron Casserole Nov 4, 08:14
- I recently learned Tanya Donelly of Belly ("Feed The Tree") is actually an alt rock badass - con_carne Nov 4, 08:13
- you need to read ST more!! -- (link) - decline Nov 4, 08:11 [Backboard]
- heh -- (link) - ML Nov 4, 08:11 [Backboard] 10
  - I'm seeing Reagen's joke for the first time...and laughing my ass off. -- nm - David Nov 4, 08:25 8
    - Oh yes, it's excellent. He needs to start writing TV shows and movies. - zork Nov 4, 08:32 7
      - I've felt that ST is a great environment for creativity, like what I imagine a writer's room to be. - Mel Profit Nov 4, 08:56 3
        
        From reading Ken Levine's blog, writers rooms are WAY more offensive and un-PC. -- nm - TWuG Nov 4, 08:59 2
        
        I imagine that to be true. We're more careful of each other but creative ideas still fly around. -- nm - Mel Profit Nov 4, 09:05
        
        C'mon people! Let's get more offensive, pronto! -- nm - zork Nov 4, 09:00
      - sadly the market for extremely specific format-based humour is not that large. -- nm - Reagen Nov 4, 08:39 2
        
        I'm sure you could adapt - zork Nov 4, 08:49 1
        
        Right, Reagen! Start working on that thing we discussed! -- nm - David Nov 4, 09:10
  - for more information about Elle King, consult any number of previous boards! -- nm - prayformojo Nov 4, 08:16
Black Oregon man applies for refugee status in Canada, saying US is "corrupt, consistently killing black people." -- (link) - con_carne Nov 4, 08:07
Flying down to AUS last night, I was a rather new American Airlines 737-800 with (p)leather seats and AVOD TVs at every seat. - ty97 Nov 4, 08:05 14
- Did they fly A320 & 319 previously? I'm not sure I've flown in one before. - Meg Nov 4, 09:01
- I was on one of these in DFW recently. It was ncie. -- nm - MDH Nov 4, 08:16
- "It's almost like I'm on a first world airline" -- nm - spamlet Nov 4, 08:14 1
  - Youngsters are so cute and naive. He kept going on how nice and spacious it was. - ty97 Nov 4, 08:26
- interesting - typcially they have the oldest planes - in my limited experience -- nm - Pippy Nov 4, 08:11 9
  - Historically they had rather old planes (tons of MD-80s) but, not long before the merger, they ordered 400+ new planes. - ty97 Nov 4, 08:23 2
    - Unfortunately all our MD-80s are being replaced by regional planes. - spamlet Nov 4, 08:46
    - Yeah!! I'm stucking using them the most of all -- nm - Pippy Nov 4, 08:41
  - I get slightly worried when I'm on a plane and they still have ashtrays -- nm - Pippy Nov 4, 08:12 5
    - word -- nm - James Bond (aka Igor) Nov 4, 08:42
    - As long as the bathrooms are big enough for MHC, you are fine with it I'll bet. - Shaun Nov 4, 08:12 2
      - Uhm... isn't that something to do with the immune system? -- nm - Spawn Nov 4, 08:43
      - totally - Pippy Nov 4, 08:20
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hay spamgroin, that police officer shooting from September has been ruled a "carefully staged suicide" -- (link) - ML Nov 4, 08:04 2
- I saw that but didn't see details. Stealing and laundering money, oof. -- nm - spamlet Nov 4, 08:34
- oh man, that is unfortunate. nm -- nm - groiny Nov 4, 08:18
Emoticripple for President of Kentucky! -- nm - prayformojo Nov 4, 08:02 3
- Ha! I had to do a lot of thinking last night about next steps and how to turn this moment into progress rather than congestive heart failure. - emoticripple Nov 4, 08:12 2
  - You just gotta start using ATYSFS as a campaign slogan! The dollars would start rolling in! - prayformojo Nov 4, 08:15 1
    - He needs to get Weed on a ballot -- nm - Pippy Nov 4, 08:55
5 Fictional Universes That Overlap In Mind-Blowing Ways -- (link) - Beaker Nov 4, 08:02 1
- Nice. -- nm - mara Nov 4, 08:08
Investors wiped another 3 billion euros off Volkswagen's market value on Wednesday -- (link) - Beaker Nov 4, 08:01 1
- I saw they just announced another recall in the US -- nm - ML Nov 4, 08:01
The sun always shines on TV -- nm - prayformojo Nov 4, 08:00 1
- touch me -- nm - Spawn Nov 4, 08:22
Full list of Justin Trudeau's new Cabinet -- (link) - Beaker Nov 4, 07:59 3
- Hunter Tootoo! -- nm - Shaun Nov 4, 08:15
- No Seamus. -- nm - Reagen Nov 4, 08:14
- It's full of Canadians! This is an outrage! -- nm - Green Baron Casserole Nov 4, 08:07
"As a kid, I had to be careful not to curse around adults. Now as an adult, I have to be careful not to curse around kids." -- nm - con_carne Nov 4, 07:59 2
- talking with some friends who have a 4 year old, instead of not cursing around him, they're more concerned with teaching him how to curse *properly* -- nm - znufrii Nov 4, 08:00 1
  - Yep. We teach our daughter that "colorful phraseology" is perfectly acceptable, but know the right time and place. -- nm - TWuG Nov 4, 08:07

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