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Here's the World of Warcraft trailer -- (link) - ML Nov 6, 11:34 [youtube] 8
- Would be better with light sabers. - Spawn Nov 6, 11:38
- Just regular Warcraft. -- nm - Shaun Nov 6, 11:37
- I hope it's based on Warcraft 2 -- nm - Beryllium Nov 6, 11:35 5
  - probably the last game I really truly loved and played obsessively. - Mel Profit Nov 6, 11:38 3
    - For the horde! -- nm - Beryllium Nov 6, 11:39 2
      - With WC1 I used to love to... - Mel Profit Nov 6, 11:41
      - zug zug -- nm - Strongbad Nov 6, 11:40
  - The Search For More Warcraft? -- nm - ML Nov 6, 11:35
Do 360 controllers work with the One? - spamlet Nov 6, 11:31 1
- lol. - Spawn Nov 6, 11:32
Holy crap. Text from dentist: Confirm your appointment on Tuesday at 2pm, cancellation fee: $150. -- nm - Max Nov 6, 11:31 15
- just FYI, docs and dentists lose a LOT of money by people missing appointments. - groiny Nov 6, 11:36 8
  - Yeah, it can cause them to actually see patients *on time* instead of 45 minutes late. -- nm - Spawn Nov 6, 11:39 2
    - lol, until you are the one who needs the immediate attention. - groiny Nov 6, 11:40 1
      - The majority of the time it is because they schedule too many appointments and can not keep up. -- nm - Spawn Nov 6, 11:42
  - seriously. I don't even understand how they keep food on the table for their starving children -- nm - decline Nov 6, 11:38 4
    - I am not really going that far, just saying that there is a reason many charge cancellation fees now. - groiny Nov 6, 11:39 2
      - There is a difference between a Cancellation Fee and a No Show Fee, though. - Spawn Nov 6, 11:41 1
        
        cancellation without enough time for them to be able to put someone else in that spot. nm -- nm - groiny Nov 6, 11:42
    - They might have to *gasp* sell one of their BMWs! -- nm - Beryllium Nov 6, 11:38
- text back: "Thank you. I have a similar cancellation policy so lets hope we are both there at 2pm on Tuesday" -- nm - decline Nov 6, 11:33
- I assume the cancellation fee is for less than 24 hours notice only? -- nm - Beryllium Nov 6, 11:33 2
  - *Tuesday* ... *Friday*. -- nm - Spawn Nov 6, 11:35
  - (I mean, that's the only way I can see it relating to the confirmation text ...) -- nm - Beryllium Nov 6, 11:33
- Next step: Find a new dentist. -- nm - Spawn Nov 6, 11:32 1
  - Word. -- nm - Loyola Nov 6, 11:32
Cuteness -- (link) - zork Nov 6, 11:30 2
- Hmm. If I update ST to embed vines, do we want audio on or off by default? I'm thinking off. -- nm - Beryllium Nov 6, 11:32 1
  - off please. always off. -- nm - decline Nov 6, 11:34
Legendary is live tweeting the WoW trailer debut. - Spawn Nov 6, 11:26 1
- Just regular Warcraft. -- nm - Shaun Nov 6, 11:32
KRUSTY ALERT! -- (link) - Spawn Nov 6, 11:22 1
- Nice kicks. - Krusty Nov 6, 11:32
In addition to not being a brain tumor, we have now also ruled out MS. -- (edited) - ty97 Nov 6, 11:19 24
- I hope they figure it all out very soon. Good thoughts for your brother. -- nm - Krusty Nov 6, 11:35
- That's good! -- nm - jangles Nov 6, 11:29
- I bet it's living in Texas - decline Nov 6, 11:28
- Good that their crossing off more scary stuff. Hope they nail down what this is. -- nm - Mel Profit Nov 6, 11:27
- If "no" is "now" that is great news. -- nm - Spawn Nov 6, 11:27
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  - bad headaches, trouble focusing sometimes, dizziness at times. - ty97 Nov 6, 11:26 5
    - Sounds a little like glaucoma? -- nm - Loyola Nov 6, 11:37
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    - I assume they have looked closely at his sinuses? -- nm - groiny Nov 6, 11:28 2
      - He had an MRI of his brain/head earlier this week. No tumors of any forum (including in the sinuses) on the MRI - ty97 Nov 6, 11:29 1
        
        Lack of oxygen? -- nm - zeitgeist Nov 6, 11:31
  - It is not a brainworm! -- nm - Beryllium Nov 6, 11:24
- all good ! -- nm - Andie Nov 6, 11:22
- FWIW, based on experience, all I can say is keep trusting that you'll eventually find the right doctor. -- (edited) - David Nov 6, 11:21 6
  - yeah, there are a lot of things that they have to test for in most cases. - groiny Nov 6, 11:23
  - Brother and Mom are currently in love with the new guy from this morning, said he is excellent. - ty97 Nov 6, 11:23 4
    - The right doctor makes all the difference. - David Nov 6, 11:32 1
      - Thanks for sharing. - ty97 Nov 6, 11:36
    - good. if any of the docs don't feel right for any reason, don't ever feel like you need to stick with them. - Mel Profit Nov 6, 11:29 1
      - oh yeah, one jerk has already been fired this week. -- nm - ty97 Nov 6, 11:30
- That's good stuff to rule out. -- nm - spamlet Nov 6, 11:21 1
  - yep -- nm - zork Nov 6, 11:34
- Good that at least some of the really bad is getting ruled out. -- nm - pmb Nov 6, 11:21
I'm officially a Google product tester now. (No, it's not a real job.) -- (edited) - David Nov 6, 11:19 3
- That's pretty cool. -- nm - Krusty Nov 6, 11:34
- Nice, I assume you're not allowed to speak about the products when you have them -- nm - J Nov 6, 11:29 1
  - That's probably the case but I still might. 😉 - David Nov 6, 11:35
speaking of music, the joy of spotify, I see that my daughter is currently listening to..... - groiny Nov 6, 11:18 6
- And tell her how awesome she is. - Spawn Nov 6, 11:19 5
  - no. - groiny Nov 6, 11:20 4
    - At least she's listening to decent music. - JaxSean Nov 6, 11:22 3
      - Yeah, I would be ecstatic. -- nm - Spawn Nov 6, 11:29 2
        
        oh, she gets most of her musical tastes from me, which is awesome, but I hate, hate, hate, Frank. nm -- nm - groiny Nov 6, 11:32 1
        
        She needs to educate you, then. -- nm - Spawn Nov 6, 11:42
CC Sabathia opens up about his alcoholism. -- (link) - iSpam Nov 6, 11:14 2
- "I drink too much." - Spawn Nov 6, 11:19 1
  - he's a big guy, he has to. nm -- nm - groiny Nov 6, 11:20
PSA Reminder: Fallout Pip-Boy app is out. -- nm - Strongbad Nov 6, 11:14 1
- (not much you can do now until the game is out, other than play Demo Mode) -- nm - Strongbad Nov 6, 11:21
Fast hands -- (link) - decline Nov 6, 11:03 2
- pff, let's see how good she is at cup stacking -- nm - Max Nov 6, 11:08 1
  - CUP SMASH!!! -- nm - Incredible Rhonda Nov 6, 11:09
Jack, they played Penn last week, Chestnut Hill is up tonight (not tomorrow) -- (link) - znufrii Nov 6, 11:01 1
- and now I see the confusion, yes they play Penn in real football tomorrow -- nm* - znufrii Nov 6, 11:03
"West Point was actually built to store grain." -- @TajMagruder -- nm - Beryllium Nov 6, 10:55 2
- heh, I just used something similar on FB -- nm - Beaker Nov 6, 10:59
- "Can't wait to read his next book: Grifted Hands" -- nm - WaPo Commenter Nov 6, 10:57
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- We need a couple of those guys to retire asap. -- nm - Krusty Nov 6, 10:58
*throws Jerruh onto a futon full of guns and chokes him out. It's how I'll become a leader.* - gravy Nov 6, 10:50
the best Bond song is kind of like the best STD. nm -- nm - groiny Nov 6, 10:46 30
- And that would be A View to a Kill. nm - Jim Nov 6, 11:30 2
  - those are in my Mount Rushmore of Bond songs for sure. nm -- nm - groiny Nov 6, 11:33 1
    - L&LD and Spy Who Loved Me have the best songs -- nm - zork Nov 6, 11:38
- I do think it's strange that it's a "thing". It's just a song that plays during a film. Not sure why it gets the attention. -- nm - volnelk Nov 6, 10:57 9
  - Until the latest Bond, they usually were the title song (literally shared the title). So that it was tied a bit closer to the movie. Now, it seems a - Spawn Nov 6, 11:29
  - It's a cycle of the music being something that made the early movies great, the desire to do something similar, audience expectations and heavy - Roger More Nov 6, 11:04 5
    - the recent ones have actually been pretty good, Chris Cornell and Sam Smith excepted. -- nm - Reagen Nov 6, 11:05 4
      - Oh, I'll take Chris Cornell's over Jack White & Alicia Keys' one. -- nm - Name Withheld By Request Nov 6, 11:08
      - (and apparently I Eternal Sunshined the Madonna one out of my memory, so that one too) - Reagen Nov 6, 11:08 1
        
        People mock, but A-ha's Living Daylights is a catchy 80's tune in line with "Don't Forget About Me". - Name Withheld By Request Nov 6, 11:09
      - "the coldest brrr runs through my veins" is not a great lyric, but neither is most of Skyfall -- nm - Roger More Nov 6, 11:07
  - The fact that I really only know maybe 5 of these songs tells me all I need to know. - groiny Nov 6, 10:59
  - It's a tradition. An institution. But ... I don't get it either. -- nm - Beryllium Nov 6, 10:59
- You're weird. -- nm - David Nov 6, 10:49 14
  - I have zero issue with you liking Live and Let Die. Elevating it above *all* Beatles songs? That's madness. -- nm - TWuG Nov 6, 10:54 6
    - It's *as good* as any Beatles song and better than nearly all. Of course, Paul wrote the music for most of the Beatles' songs. -- nm - zork Nov 6, 11:27 1
      - I'll respectfully disagree with that. It's good and it's as good as any of his solo stuff...but it's really upper middle of the pack - Jim Nov 6, 11:38
    - It is on my list of top 10 Paul songs. There are a couple other non-Beatles on there as well. -- nm - Spawn Nov 6, 11:01 2
      - It should be #1! -- nm - David Nov 6, 11:23 1
        
        When I'm Sixty-Four is one that tops it. -- nm - Spawn Nov 6, 11:25
    - right, I like Live and Let Die quite a bit, but yeah. nm -- nm - groiny Nov 6, 10:57
  - you are not really talking about a hotbed of musical greatness there. nm -- nm - groiny Nov 6, 10:51 6
    - It's not about musical greatness though, just about capturing the spirit of a fun movie. -- nm - Roger More Nov 6, 10:55 5
      - (not that I have any problem with Beatles > Bond music. Ob-la-di, Ob-la-da = best = David level trolling) -- nm - Roger More Nov 6, 10:58 1
        
        No, it and Hey Jude are the best ones. - David Nov 6, 11:22
      - Goldfinger does that well (its the only bond song all about the bad guy) -- nm - zeitgeist Nov 6, 10:58 2
        
        Well, all but 5 songs now have been titled the same as the movie. -- nm - Spawn Nov 6, 11:03
        
        The Man with the Golden Gun -- nm - Roger More Nov 6, 11:00
- Nobody Does It Better, For Your Eyes Only, View to a Kill. nm -- nm - groiny Nov 6, 10:48
- Never mind. Did not realize this was a continuation of some DLC. -- nm* - Spawn Nov 6, 10:46
the next Supreme Court session should be interesting -- (link) - decline Nov 6, 10:45 3
- Save us Hobby Lobby -- nm - jangles Nov 6, 10:50
- I can't wait for the year after when they challenge the font size and paper stock it was written on. -- nm - Reagen Nov 6, 10:49
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nap time -- nm - Truman Nov 6, 10:44 2
- did they give you the good drugs for the bum leg? -- nm - decline Nov 6, 10:45 1
  - yup, painkillers -- nm - Truman Nov 6, 10:46
the worst thing about loving your lawyer is that it's all done in 6 minute increments. -- nm - Reagen Nov 6, 10:43 4
- Never have sex with an optometrist. They spend the whole time asking if it's better like this, or like this. -- nm - zork Nov 6, 11:31
- Better Off Ted did this bit extremely well. -- nm - David Nov 6, 10:50
- You can love your lawyer, just don't *love* your lawyer. -- nm - mara Nov 6, 10:45
- and you'll be billed for the full hour. -- nm - gravy Nov 6, 10:44
I bussed to work today and have a 2 in the other building to which I'm taking the bus. soon I will be as chubbers as my kitten, chubbers. -- nm - fabulous squad Nov 6, 10:43 2
- speaking of, here is a kitten being particularly cute while sleeping. -- (link) - fabulous squad Nov 6, 10:46 1
  - Cat friends are *lazy* -- nm - jangles Nov 6, 10:51
Mel, you see that attitude a lot in engineering as well - Reagen Nov 6, 10:42 2
- I enjoy the times when Lawyers and Doctors fight. - Mel Profit Nov 6, 10:46 1
  - this reminds me... -- (edited) - Mel Profit Nov 6, 11:15
Spoils from B2: Most Militaristic Colleges - MDH Nov 6, 10:40 1
- LIES! - tim mie Nov 6, 10:55
Howard? -- nm - CQ Nov 6, 10:40 1
- Towson? -- nm - CQ Nov 6, 10:41
Used to love Pawn Stars, now it is pretty much unwatchable - Beaker Nov 6, 10:38 21
- I read a couple of years ago that Chum was getting $25k per episode (the bastard) yet he nickels and dimes everything. -- nm - zork Nov 6, 11:19
- I always enjoyed Auction Kings, it was filmed about 10 minutes from where I work. -- nm - Strongbad Nov 6, 10:58 1
  - yes! I liked that one too -- nm - Beaker Nov 6, 10:59
- Dumb Chum has to be an act, cause we've seen him know collectible shoes expertly and iirc comics -- nm - zeitgeist Nov 6, 10:54 1
  - Yeah, if he were that stupid he'd never be allowed to manage a shift crew. -- nm - TWuG Nov 6, 10:55
- The show is now a joke. I dont even know how it still has viewers. - Jovian Nov 6, 10:45 3
  - watching AP now, still enjoy that one :) -- nm - Beaker Nov 6, 10:50 1
    - Me too! But its leaning.. -- nm - Jovian Nov 6, 10:56
  - Spoiler - Spawn Nov 6, 10:46
- yep - turning him into a star ruined the show. the fake bits are annoying and cut into the history stuff. - Mel Profit Nov 6, 10:44 6
  - Beard of Knowledge would be a History Channel shows I would watch -- nm - Beaker Nov 6, 10:51 5
    - yep - just follow him around. - Mel Profit Nov 6, 10:53 3
      - I like the toy shop guy too -- nm - Beaker Nov 6, 10:54 2
        
        At least 2 of them have gone on to have their own shows, Rick and Count. -- nm - Strongbad Nov 6, 11:03 1
        
        yup, both are OK and decent if nothing else is on -- nm - Beaker Nov 6, 11:04
    - ding -- nm - gravy Nov 6, 10:52
- I just now realized that title is supposed to be a pun. (Isn't it?) -- nm - mara Nov 6, 10:41 4
  - I always figured it was -- nm - zork Nov 6, 11:20
  - It is? -- nm - prayformojo Nov 6, 10:43 2
    - A play on the phrase "porn stars"? -- nm - mara Nov 6, 10:46 1
      - oh, get your mind out of the gutter already -- nm - prayformojo Nov 6, 11:37

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