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Star Wars 7 character spoils! (THIS IS REALLY IMPORTANT GUYS) - Mark HaML Dec 7, 10:51 1
- and apparently the black guy only has a minor supporting roll - decline Dec 7, 10:53
so, at what opening weekend numbers do we say Star Wars will be seen as a failure if it doesn't achieve said level? -- nm - call me Ishmael Dec 7, 10:45 12
- One Billion Dollars!! -- nm - decline Dec 7, 10:50 1
  - I honestly want to slug that person. - Sith Lord Sexypants Dec 7, 10:51
- For GFBs, anything short of the opening weekend record will be crushing. - Inigo Dec 7, 10:48 4
  - I feel like they need at least $175M. Otherwise, the stock could take a hit. - Sith Lord Sexypants Dec 7, 10:49 3
    - lets not forget the massive short the first SW project with a stock suffered -- nm - zeitgeist Dec 7, 11:00
    - I'm lumping in stock market traders in with GFBs. Kinda the same market. - Inigo Dec 7, 10:52 1
      - It's so ridiculous. They're going to sell half a billion dollars in Star Wars toys over the holidays. - Sith Lord Sexypants Dec 7, 10:54
- Unless it truly opens poorly, anyone calling it a failure will just be looking for attention. -- nm - TWuGbacca Dec 7, 10:47
- If it doesn't break the record, the news cycle will be a slew of explanations for why it failed to do so. - Sith Lord Sexypants Dec 7, 10:46 3
  - yeah, this. -- nm - Landie Calrissian Dec 7, 10:46 2
    - I agree. Records. -- nm - Lightning Bear (aka Volnelk) Dec 7, 10:48 1
      - "Perhaps it's time to examine whether Star Wars still has the same pull, after it's disappointing opening weekend of $194M, failing to reach the - Possible Future Headline Dec 7, 10:49
So not sure we have done this poll before Egg Nog Yay or Nay? - eag Dec 7, 10:44 13
- I prefer clogging my arteries the old fashioned way....with bacon -- nm - zeitgeist Dec 7, 11:02
- KILL IT!!! KILL IT WITH FIRE!!!!! -- nm - znufrii Dec 7, 11:01
- I like it. -- nm - Dark Callisto vs. Evil Dead Dec 7, 11:00
- Yummmmm. -- nm - Admiral Ackbaron Dec 7, 10:59
- Yay! -- nm - Krusty Dec 7, 10:55
- Nay. Straight from Satan's nipple. -- nm - TWuGbacca Dec 7, 10:54
- I don't think I've ever actually tried Egg Nog. It kind of scares me. -- nm - Darth Sycor Dec 7, 10:52
- Yay...duh. -- nm - Obi-Shaun Kenobi Dec 7, 10:51 1
  - The store bought stuff is great on it's own and for mixing spiced rum or Bailey's. MIL makes a homemade version with brandy and it's great. -- nm - Obi-Shaun Kenobi Dec 7, 10:56
- icky, yucky. -- nm - decline Dec 7, 10:50
- yes but not too much. -- nm - R2-Deev2 Dec 7, 10:46
- i enjoy about one glass of eggnog every year. One is plenty, but i enjoy that. -- nm - Landie Calrissian Dec 7, 10:46
- yay -- nm - Emperor Beak Dec 7, 10:45
this board needs more binky -- nm - jar jar binky Dec 7, 10:37
Ooh, Hulu has X-Men: The Animated Series. - Sith Lord Sexypants Dec 7, 10:36
Voyager Season 6 cliffhanger (spoilers) - Jawamoxy Dec 7, 10:36 1
- That second one's a joke, right? -- nm - Ender Dec 7, 11:00
I would totally watch Flip This House hosted by Clint Barton. - Beryllium Dec 7, 10:32 17
- Ignoring your awful, terrible, unforgivably lousy pun, we spent part of a Christmas party with an HGTV exec. - Sith Lord Sexypants Dec 7, 10:34 16
  - just out of curiosity, the exec's name wasn't Tracy, was it? -- nm - Landie Calrissian Dec 7, 10:55 1
    - I honestly don't know. It's someone Kim used to work with if she sees this to reply. -- nm - Sith Lord Sexypants Dec 7, 10:57
  - HIllary, The Love It Or List It Woman? Everyone hates her. Also, she's in The Rocky Horror Picture Show. -- nm - Landie Calrissian Dec 7, 10:52
  - It's Xmas David...tell us uplifting good stories and people to like. -- nm - Will Hunting Dec 7, 10:35 12
    - nah, tell us scandal and celebrity badness! -- nm - Emperor Beak Dec 7, 10:40 2
      - Apparently, Love It Or List It has never turned in an episode under budget in its history. -- (edited) - Sith Lord Sexypants Dec 7, 10:42 1
        
        I hate the concept of that show. If you are really in a relationship, either way you lose. -- nm - Lightning Bear (aka Volnelk) Dec 7, 10:49
    - The Property Brothers, whose first season is (or at least was) free on Vudu, are apparently wonderful human beings. - Sith Lord Sexypants Dec 7, 10:37 8
      - If it was revealed that the couple from Fixer Upper weren't good people, it would kill my wife. -- nm - Lightning Bear (aka Volnelk) Dec 7, 10:50
      - are they the twins? -- nm - decline Dec 7, 10:40 2
        
        Yes, that's them. -- nm - Sith Lord Sexypants Dec 7, 10:41
        
        Aye. -- nm - Obi-Shaun Kenobi Dec 7, 10:41
      - This makes me happy, as they are pretty enjoyable to watch as hosts. -- nm - Obi-Shaun Kenobi Dec 7, 10:38 3
        
        Here's the season that's free on Vudu. -- (link) - Sith Lord Sexypants Dec 7, 10:43 2
        
        Vudu. - Obi-Shaun Kenobi Dec 7, 10:52 1
        
        silly Americans. -- nm - Landie Calrissian Dec 7, 10:53
Creed A- (spoilers) - Darth Mel - Dark Lord of the Sith Dec 7, 10:28 2
- and oh look - - R2-Deev2 Dec 7, 10:32 1
  - there it is... -- nm - Darth Mel - Dark Lord of the Sith Dec 7, 10:34
These new(er) "sponsored" listings at Amazon are driving me nuts. - Mark HaML Dec 7, 10:26 5
- here -- (link*) - Mark HaML Dec 7, 10:28 3
  - that shows up as a charity - is that what you meant? -- nm - Pippy Bells Dec 7, 10:31 1
    - fixed, thanks - Mark HaML Dec 7, 10:33
  - (sorry, this was meant for decline) -- nm - Mark HaML Dec 7, 10:28
- whatzat ? -- nm - decline Dec 7, 10:27
Final Fantasy VII remake trailer. -- (link) - Obi-Shaun Kenobi Dec 7, 10:25 [youtube] 2
- When rendered that realistically, Cloud looks like a parody of himself. -- nm - Grand Mop Tarkin Dec 7, 11:00
- Barrett: Now 70% less overtly racist! -- nm - Sith Lord Sexypants Dec 7, 10:33
The AP uncovers: Uranium in California's water. -- (link) - Beryllium Dec 7, 10:19 [youtube] 4
- how long until there's a terrorist connection? -- nm - call me Ishmael Dec 7, 10:42 1
  - How do we keep the terrorists from sealing our water to build a bomb? We need water control! -- nm - Mop Dec 7, 10:48
- just Uranium? *jealous* -- nm - Rio Olympics Dec 7, 10:27
- (Oh, it's just a fearmongering teaser for tuesday) -- nm - Beryllium Dec 7, 10:20
ST Poll: Fave TV Dad who is not Homer Simpson. -- nm - Obi-Shaun Kenobi Dec 7, 10:14 21
- Red Foreman. -- nm - Obi-Shaun Kenobi Dec 7, 10:54
- How quickly we want to forget Dr. Cliff Huxtable -- nm - sgtmike Dec 7, 10:52
- The correct answer is Coach Eric Taylor. -- nm - volnelk Dec 7, 10:37
- John Walton, Charles Ingalls, Sheriff Andy Taylor, Mike Brady were the nicest. Mitch Buchannon would be the best to have because of his coworkers. - Count Zorku Dec 7, 10:35
- Martin Crane -- nm - TWuGbacca Dec 7, 10:32
- Rick Grimes - sweet baboo Dec 7, 10:27
- Hal Banks -- nm - RC-3PO Dec 7, 10:24
- Peter Griffin -- nm - znufrii Dec 7, 10:24
- Steven Keaton from Family Ties -- nm - Beaker Dec 7, 10:24 1
  - Jack Bristow from Alias -- nm - Beaker Dec 7, 10:25
- Tywin Lannister -- nm - decline Dec 7, 10:22
- Al Bundy -- nm - mud Dec 7, 10:18
- Howard Cunningham. -- nm - Sith Lord Sexypants Dec 7, 10:18
- Phil Dunphey or Terry Jeffords from B99. -- nm - Will Hunting Dec 7, 10:18
- Keith Mars. wait, maybe Burt Chance. -- nm* - Max Windu Dec 7, 10:18
- Dr Cal Lightman -- nm - Beryllium Dec 7, 10:17
- Phil Dunfey -- nm - Obi-Wan Kilobi Dec 7, 10:17
- Tony Soprano -- nm - sweet baboo Dec 7, 10:16
- Ward Cleaver -- nm - Jawamoxy Dec 7, 10:15
- Fred Flintstone -- nm - Peglegpete Dec 7, 10:15 1
  - current show: Malcolm Merlin -- nm - Peglegpete Dec 7, 10:17
What would be better A) Count Zorku or B) Grand Moff Zorkin - zork Dec 7, 10:09 4
- Thanks -- nm - Count Zorku Dec 7, 10:22
- A -- nm - Obi-Wan Kilobi Dec 7, 10:17
- A -- nm - Jawamoxy Dec 7, 10:12
- A -- nm - Emperor Beak Dec 7, 10:11
That CTHD2 trailer is ...... weird. -- nm - Beryllium Dec 7, 10:08
STAR7 is flirting with a stock price high of $500 today, which calculates to a $185m opening. Long:short holding ratio is 618.5 to 1.8 -- (link*) - Max Windu Dec 7, 10:06 8
- yeah ... i'm thinking still long until around Thurs or Fri of next week. - call me Ishmael Dec 7, 10:44
- I just don't even know what to do with thing. -- nm - fabulous squid Dec 7, 10:10 6
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    - Jack needs a theme nick. JackJack Binks? Return of the JD (maybe the other "JD" wants that?" -- nm - Landie Calrissian Dec 7, 10:13 3
      - Dawson the Hutt -- nm - who's scruffy-looking? Dec 7, 10:15 1
        
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  - i'm just long till next week. -- nm - Landie Calrissian Dec 7, 10:11
I don't know if anyone here used it, but Dropbox is killing its Mailbox service. -- nm - Beryllium Dec 7, 10:04 1
- and Carousel, too -- nm - Beryllium Dec 7, 10:17
Blood Feud Defense question: is there a way to score less than -25 with a D? - Emperor Beak Dec 7, 10:02 5
- Scoring & Settings tab: that's as low as it can go - Mark HaML Dec 7, 10:06 1
  - cool, thanks. - Emperor Beak Dec 7, 10:09
- I don't think so, no. -- nm - znufrii Dec 7, 10:05
- i think the limit is negative 25. -- nm - Truman Dec 7, 10:03 1
  - yeah, looking at some D scores, -25 seems to be the highest I could find... -- nm - Emperor Beak Dec 7, 10:05
Canada awarded $1B in WTO trade sanctions against U.S. over meat-labelling rules -- (link) - Emperor Beak Dec 7, 09:56 1
- *walks in...carrying a wiffle ball bat...approaches Reagen...puts my hand in front of my eyes for the shade...looks up...sizing up the target... - Nekkid Crazy Mel Dec 7, 10:02
Indian curries tend to use cream, etc, which does not help. I could not give a flip about sodium levels. -- nm - ty97 Dec 7, 09:55 9
- My curry uses cubed leftover meat - beef, turkey, chicken, whatever along with - Meg Dec 7, 10:02 3
  - This sounds amazing. -- nm - ty97 Dec 7, 10:06 2
    - if you are willing to use coconut milk, a super easy curry is this: - Landie Calrissian Dec 7, 10:09 1
      - Ah, and reading that - I left the sauteed onions out of my recipe. -- nm - Meg Dec 7, 10:34
- Only mughal curries from northern India use cream (well, yoghurt, really) There are plenty of Indian dishes that don't use it - who's scruffy-looking? Dec 7, 09:58
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  - Honestly, the literature I have seen about sodium seems to be mixed at most. - ty97 Dec 7, 10:02 1
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Missed marketing opportunity for Spotlight: from the director of The Cobbler! -- nm - Tim Dec 7, 09:55
So Nike+ gave me the badge of longest workout for 50K+ - JD Dec 7, 09:54
Pippy, do you still have that somewhere? Your TT/ST Star Wars Opus? -- nm - Jawamoxy Dec 7, 09:54
Here is the NFL draft order right now -- (link) - Emperor Beak Dec 7, 09:50 1
- I like the idea of the Bengals picking 29th. -- nm - volnelk Dec 7, 10:04
college basketball? College basketball! What is your school's current RPI? - prayformojo Dec 7, 09:49 2
- Women are #7. Men are #151. Georgetown men are actually #104. - Sith Lord Sexypants Dec 7, 10:25 1
  - yeah, sorry...couldn't figure out why that didn't mesh with what I saw last night - prayformojo Dec 7, 10:29
Is there any word yet on whether the 3D in TFA is going to be worth it? -- nm - Obi-Shaun Kenobi Dec 7, 09:47 8
- The special effects are the primary reason to see these films, so watch it in the highest possible resolution style. -- nm - Sith Lord Sexypants Dec 7, 10:19
- It's 3D, so of course not. -- nm - Ender Dec 7, 10:18
- Heh, here's how lame our theatre is. There are 4 shows on Thursday the 17th and only one of them is sold out. -- nm - Obi-Shaun Kenobi Dec 7, 09:58 3
  - If i look on the main page (linked) it only shows one sold out, but if i click on the actual showtimes, they are all basically sold out. -- (link) - Landie Calrissian Dec 7, 10:04
  - Canadians are smart. -- nm - Will Hunting Dec 7, 09:59
  - it's going to bomb! -- nm - Emperor Beak Dec 7, 09:58
- based on history I would say it isn't -- nm - Emperor Beak Dec 7, 09:49 1
  - No doubt. The non-3D showings would be less busy too I'm thinking. -- nm - Obi-Shaun Kenobi Dec 7, 09:49
Another movie involving college students and a 'supernatural entity' ? -- (link) - Meg Dec 7, 09:47
OK, I'll play. -- nm - ML-D2 Dec 7, 09:44 6
- I was thinking you should use a certain actor's real name. - Landie Calrissian Dec 7, 09:49 5
  - Mark HaML? -- nm - who's scruffy-looking? Dec 7, 09:56 2
    - Ha! I'll take it. -- nm - Mark HaML Dec 7, 09:58
    - nice. -- nm - Landie Calrissian Dec 7, 09:56
  - It's quite sad to read where he's at in life these days -- (link) - ML-D2 Dec 7, 09:51 1
    - that is truly sad. -- nm - Landie Calrissian Dec 7, 09:52
Two people will get the joke of my Star Wars nick, but... -- nm - Star Manning Dec 7, 09:44 2
- I'm clearly not one of those people, but ... - Beryllium Dec 7, 10:03
- 25 Spawn Points -- nm - Spawn Solo Dec 7, 09:45
~Growing up is not so tough, except when I've had enough but there's lots of fun stuff I'm Caillou, Caillou, Caillou, I'm Caillou.~ -- nm - Emperor Beak Dec 7, 09:43

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