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"We're like at the strip club and the stripper is throwing the money back at us," Alderman Tyus says of city giving money to Kroenke -- nm - ML Dec 18, 15:40
STAR7 now $560, Long:Short ratio is 613.5 to 4.0 -- nm - Max Rebo Dec 18, 15:38
amazon prime-ers, it looks like they're currently offering $2 digital credits for delayed shipping instead of the usual $1. -- nm - bb.-8 Dec 18, 15:30 1
- sweet -- nm - Pippy Bells Dec 18, 15:40
Avatar $760M domestic record in play? -- (link) - budice Dec 18, 15:27 7
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- toast -- nm - jar jar trump Dec 18, 15:29 5
  - not a snowball's chance in Houston. -- nm - Use the Force, loosi Dec 18, 15:34 3
    - You know you just called a blizzard down on Houston? ;) -- nm - third stormtrooper on the right or left depending Dec 18, 15:40 1
      - they could use one. -- nm - Use the Force, loosi Dec 18, 15:41
    - it will be at $600m in two weeks -- nm - jar jar trump Dec 18, 15:35
  - By mid January at this rate -- nm - eag Dec 18, 15:30
oh Melll.... -- (link) - Remlik Five standing by! Dec 18, 15:26 [youtube] 1
- talk about a guy who would throw a stapler at someone's head... - Mel Profitine Dec 18, 15:37
Cards Against Humanity paid their printing facility in China to shut down for a week and give everyone a vacation. Apparently this is rare in China. - GregW Dec 18, 14:49 4
- "now give us $5" -- nm - jar jar trump Dec 18, 14:57
- For those that didn't buy the package, this page includes the photos and letters. -- (link) - GregW Dec 18, 14:54 1
  - fishing is apparently very popular there. -- nm - znufrii Dec 18, 14:59
- wow. - znufrii Dec 18, 14:54
Wow at 130 to 145 on Friday. Spawns 312.5 is in play. - Inigo Dec 18, 14:45 26
- I guess the Force has truly awaken -- nm - eag Dec 18, 15:27
- woo! -- nm - bb.-8 Dec 18, 15:26
- *Hands Spawn a cigar* - budice Dec 18, 15:18 1
  - Alpha. Mike. Foxtrot JURA4!! -- nm - Shaun Dec 18, 15:21
- you can't short it yet, ty. -- nm - Tim Dec 18, 15:18
- I hate to be cliche, but this is truly unbelievable, in every way. -- nm - Shaun Dec 18, 15:15 4
  - Not really. If you were listening. -- nm - Spawndroid Dec 18, 15:22 3
    - I was onboard with a new OW record, but not a 300M potentially OW record. That's mind-blowing. -- nm - Shaun Dec 18, 15:29 2
      - yah, I said this in my im below - when 300 was being said early on, it seemed impossible; and there actually was no good basis for it. - bb.-8 Dec 18, 15:33
      - It hilarious that the adjust is going to be more than 100 of the current stock price. -- nm - Shaun Dec 18, 15:32
- How are the Shorts holding up..Max? -- nm - budice Dec 18, 15:13 1
  - he flipped -- nm - jar jar trump Dec 18, 15:14
- Yep - if the $145M figure is accurate, $290M is the floor and $310-$320 is the likely outcome - who's scruffy-looking? Dec 18, 14:57 5
  - It's amazing. It's possible it'll break the current record by 50%. - Inigo Dec 18, 15:05 1
    - This movie took it to 11 for that extra push off the cliff. - TWuGbacca Dec 18, 15:10 [Backboard]
  - and its hold next weekend will be scary -- nm - jar jar trump Dec 18, 14:59 2
    - Nah. It'll be around a 50% drop. Remember $57 million of this weekend's take won't count next week. - Inigo Dec 18, 15:08 1
      - At this point I wouldn't bother trying to make any rational calculations. -- nm - Max Rebo Dec 18, 15:27
- I'll put it squarely on the "Chewie, we're home" trailer. That helped reassure people burned by the prequels. -- nm - TWuGbacca Dec 18, 14:51 7
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    - i don't know if Star Wars had the biggest opening weekend in 77 (not sure if they even kept that record) -- nm - jar jar trump Dec 18, 15:21 5
      - It didn't. It was a platform release. -- nm - Inigo Dec 18, 15:24 2
        
        was there even such a record at the time? (Jaws? Exorcist?) -- nm - jar jar trump Dec 18, 15:25 1
        
        I believe it was either Jaws or Close Encounters. Then Superman broke whatever record existed. -- nm - Inigo Dec 18, 15:26
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        i just don't know! - jar jar trump Dec 18, 15:23
Ha! I'm watching a Rockford Files episode that seemed really familiar but different than what I remembered. It's the same story as a Simon & Simon - TWuGbacca Dec 18, 14:45 1
- over the years I must have seen a dozen western tv shows that used the Stagecoach or Rio Bravo plot with almost no changes -- nm* - Peglegpete Dec 18, 14:54
Secret Service again fails to prevent intruders into the White House -- (link) - Max Rebo Dec 18, 14:41
Just started the final Survivor episode...spoilers -- (edited) - Emperor Beak Dec 18, 14:40 4
- The forced integration of live elements is another way they've gone wrong. -- nm - David Dec 18, 14:45 2
  - these wasted time since they were mostly Jeff explaining the last 10 minutes like we were idiots :( -- nm - Peglegpete Dec 18, 15:24 1
    - heh. you do realize how many morons actually benefited from that? - Jovian Dec 18, 15:41
- I'm with you on that -- nm - third stormtrooper on the right or left depending Dec 18, 14:41
Another thing I liked about SW:tFA was (spoilers) - Mel Profitine Dec 18, 14:36 9
- To your post on b2. - Use the Force, loosi Dec 18, 15:16 4
  - Response...(Massive Spoilers) - Mel Profitine Dec 18, 15:22 3
    - oh and one more thing. - Use the Force, loosi Dec 18, 15:33 1
      - Good, point. I hadn't thought of that. Goes back to the line mentioned in this thread. -- nm - Mel Profitine Dec 18, 15:38
    - fascinating. - Use the Force, loosi Dec 18, 15:30
- Yep (spoils) - TWuGbacca Dec 18, 15:12 2
  - Yeah, but am I wrong that.... *spoils* - Endor Dec 18, 17:14
  - I liked that - Use the Force, loosi Dec 18, 15:16
- hadn't thoughtabout that, and agreed. -- nm - Use the Force, loosi Dec 18, 15:08
Ten years ago, Revenge of the Sith set the record for fastest to $250 million at 11 days. -- nm - Max Rebo Dec 18, 14:35 3
- and it took 17 days to get to $300m -- nm - Max Rebo Dec 18, 14:37 1
  - which is the current record for fastest to $500m -- nm - Max Rebo Dec 18, 14:39
- *flicks dust off shoulder* -- nm - The Force Awakens Dec 18, 14:36
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Bernie Sanders' campaign files lawsuit against Democratic National Committee over voter data access -- (link) - ML Dec 18, 14:30 3
- he's a democrat now? -- nm - jar jar trump Dec 18, 14:32 2
  - A socialist democrat, I think. Either way, he is running as one. -- nm - Krusty Dec 18, 15:05 1
    - i think it's silly to lock him out but should he really be surprised the party is playing hardball with him? - jar jar trump Dec 18, 15:07
Interesting - Crow Canyon just called to remind me their early bird specials were about to expire on their Icelandic tour. -- (link) - Meg Dec 18, 14:18 1
- Looks at smoking mountain, wonders if there will be an Iceland very long -- nm - General Zeit Dec 18, 15:56
Strange office day. We have a secretary here who is retiring today. She has been with the firm almost since the firm's inception (nearly 40 years). - pmb Dec 18, 14:17 23
- How competent is she at her job? -- nm - David Dec 18, 14:31 6
  - She didn't work for me, but she was known to be very efficient. - pmb Dec 18, 14:43 3
    - Some years ago I was the managing partner of the firm and we decided that we had to put a cap on secretarial salaries because for her and a couple of - pmb Dec 18, 14:52 1
      - Heh. She sounds great. -- nm - Lukola Skywalker Dec 18, 14:53
    - Heh. That's an unusual form of job security. -- nm - David Dec 18, 14:44
  - competent enough to throw a stapler at someone's head and get away with it, apparently. -- nm - znufrii Dec 18, 14:42 1
    - We should all aspire to be that effective. -- nm - Max Rebo Dec 18, 14:43
- do you have a bank vault filled with bearer bonds? -- nm - jar jar trump Dec 18, 14:26
- She probably got bit by a rabid co-worker back in the 70s and just never forgot. - GregW Dec 18, 14:26 13
  - In her younger days she was known for her temper. The most famous story in firm lore is of her hurling a stapler at the head of one of the senior - pmb Dec 18, 14:30 12
    - A good secretary is hard to find especially lawyerly ones. -- nm - third stormtrooper on the right or left depending Dec 18, 14:44
    - I love that offices like this existed. - Mel Profitine Dec 18, 14:38 4
      - Yeah, there are some great "back in the day" stories that would just never fly now. -- nm - pmb Dec 18, 14:41 3
        
        I firmly believe that the current office etiquette is correct. - Mel Profitine Dec 18, 14:50 2
        
        I was a temp at one place when I had to yell at a coworker who was bad mouthing me. - third stormtrooper on the right or left depending Dec 18, 14:56
        
        "Back in my day, we could hurl a stapler or bottle of Jack at someone's head and not kill anyone or need a national conversation on it!" -- nm - OOG: original office gangster Dec 18, 14:53
    - that's kind of badass. -- nm - znufrii Dec 18, 14:37
    - Who did she have dirt on that she *kept her job* after that? -- nm - ty97 Dec 18, 14:33 3
      - She had worked with that partner for 15 years already. They were like a dysfunctional married couple. -- nm - pmb Dec 18, 14:35 2
        
        The partner probably figured they deserved it -- nm - JD Dec 18, 14:43
        
        yeah, i've been in those firms -- nm - jar jar trump Dec 18, 14:39
    - Heh, Ida Blankenship. -- nm - who's scruffy-looking? Dec 18, 14:31
- "Don't let yourself get attached to anything you are not willing to walk out on in 40 years flat if you feel the heat around the corner." -- nm - Max Rebo Dec 18, 14:26
A $275 million weekend would be a per-site-average of $66,521. Jurassic World was $48,855 -- nm - Max Rebo Dec 18, 14:16 1
- Geebus. I'm going to lose ALOT of $HSX! -- nm - Lukola Skywalker Dec 18, 14:28
'Star Wars: The Force Awakens' US sales for Friday expected to top $100m; on pace for $200m through Sunday, says Disney -- (link*) - ML Dec 18, 14:16 6
- I wonder how much JJ is set to make on this. He might triple his net worth -- nm - decline Dec 18, 15:01 2
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  - if it's a Spielberg-esque deal . . . a lot -- (link) - jar jar trump Dec 18, 15:04
- My 240 guess feels good. -- nm - Mel Profitine Dec 18, 14:22
- Good for them. That's the proper way to manage expectations. -- nm - David Dec 18, 14:16 1
  - Investors get testier when you make an estimate that misses by a little on the high side than by one that misses by more on the low. -- nm - third stormtrooper on the right or left depending Dec 18, 14:19
"so how much better does Ep. VII beat Avengers 2's opening at xmas? -- nm -- professor smartbrain (aka chris) May 3 '15, 10:14" -- (link) - jar jar trump Dec 18, 14:15 [Backboard] 27
- You better get your hopes up! -- nm - David Dec 18, 14:16 26
  - "Simply stated, there is no need for people to have that kind of rush, because they have plenty of free time to watch Star Wars over the holidays." - jar jar trump Dec 18, 14:17 25
    - I realize you think you're doing something here, but all you're doing is indicating you never truly understood what other people were saying. -- nm - David Dec 18, 14:20 24
      - Fwiw, this David is my most favorite-est David. Nm - Qui-Gonn Jim Dec 18, 14:39
      - To be honest I've got no idea what the bug up your butt is on this. You hate SW? You hate SW fans? You hate that it didn't open in June? What? - third stormtrooper on the right or left depending Dec 18, 14:26 20
        
        You're entitled to your interpretation of the situation and I appreciate your expressing it. -- nm - David Dec 18, 14:28
        
        why ask why? just enjoy -- nm - jar jar trump Dec 18, 14:27 18
        
        I don't speak for David, but there's never an ounce of malice towards a film that goes into my analysis - Reagen Dec 18, 14:45 16
        
        I never sensed malice from you fwiw. -- nm - Mel Profitine Dec 18, 15:23 1
        
        agreed. -- nm - bb.-8 Dec 18, 15:28
        
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        The thing with this is, you cannot get more of a slam dunk then this movie. - Spawndroid Dec 18, 15:26 10
        
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        it broke single day but not weekend, but probably would have in a regular three-day release. -- nm - Reagen Dec 18, 15:37
        
        than....than -- nm - third stormtrooper on the right or left depending Dec 18, 15:33
        
        No it isn't. There are a dozen rational reasons why this movie shouldn't have come anywhere near the record. The one irrational reason was "Because." -- nm - Max Rebo Dec 18, 15:29 6
        
        Flip that, and reverse it. The only logical reason I shouldn't do it? Because it's never been done and because it is Christmas. - Spawndroid Dec 18, 15:41
        
        i explained my reasoning completely at the time. everyone's reaction was "Xmas is different" - jar jar trump Dec 18, 15:31 3
        
        Dow 30,000: Why It's Different This Time -- nm - Max Rebo Dec 18, 15:42
        
        word. -- nm - groiny Dec 18, 15:40
        
        I figure Christmas will be a big plus. There are not a lot of movies you can get the whole family, including grands, to agree on. This qualifies. -- nm - third stormtrooper on the right or left depending Dec 18, 15:39
        
        Good luck. -- nm - Reagen Dec 18, 15:31
        
        It seems to me that in this case, in his case, there's something more than that. -- nm - third stormtrooper on the right or left depending Dec 18, 14:49
        
        i agree that you don't speak for David - jar jar trump Dec 18, 14:49
        
        I am, but he now seems to want us to understand. Very odd. -- nm* - third stormtrooper on the right or left depending Dec 18, 14:29
      - "It won't. -- nm -- David (aka David) May 3 '15, 10:15" - jar jar trump Dec 18, 14:22 1
        
        It still hasn't. -- whatever timestamp right now is - David Dec 18, 14:24
DL is saying $130-$145M Friday, $250-$275M weekend -- (link) - who's scruffy-looking? Dec 18, 14:14 4
- Funny viewing story from the showing we went to...(no spoilers) - Mel Profitine Dec 18, 14:20
- you don't say? -- nm - ty97 Dec 18, 14:15 2
  - My computer is slow and B2 wasn't loading for me -- nm - who's scruffy-looking? Dec 18, 14:16 1
    - I'm just messing with you. - ty97 Dec 18, 14:17 [Backboard]
From B3, have you ever been in a movie that everybody loves, except you think WTH? - amoxy Dec 18, 14:14 10
- Big trouble in little china, flying people never worked for me -- nm - General Zeit Dec 18, 15:59
- My greatest film heresy is that I don't love Goodfellas - Reagen Dec 18, 14:53 1
  - you're off the hook, dignan -- nm - jar jar trump Dec 18, 15:00
- I still don't get American Beauty -- nm - ty97 Dec 18, 14:36 1
  - yup -- nm - jar jar trump Dec 18, 14:43
- I forgot...Titanic. I was rooting for that iceberg for a big part of it. -- nm - third stormtrooper on the right or left depending Dec 18, 14:27
- what's with the English Patient? -- nm - Elaine Dec 18, 14:24 1
  - JUST DIE ALREADY! -- nm - Emperor Beak Dec 18, 15:40
- The love for Kingsman honestly blows me away. -- nm - David Dec 18, 14:15 1
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Hours later congregating next to the refrigerator, some girl's talking bout her haters. she ain't got none. -- nm - ty97 Dec 18, 14:13 2
- that lyrics slays me - Pippy Bells Dec 18, 14:15 1
  - Yup, it's a great lyric. -- nm - ty97 Dec 18, 14:16
Weekend plans update (lyc) - znufrii Dec 18, 14:12 3
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  - I might be exaggerating a little bit - znufrii Dec 18, 14:26 1
    - And this will be exhibit A during your first depo -- nm - General Zeit Dec 18, 15:51

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