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The more I read, the more offended I am. NYT reports how Canada is suddenly cool, rattling off a litany of celebrities who've been around for years -- (link) - Mop Jan 16, 17:08
Rejoice! and sing of your favourite carols, for Collinsworthmas is nigh! -- nm - Reagen Jan 16, 17:00 1
- I really like the whole NBC thing. The pregame is easily the best. No screamers, no guys on suits on a fake football field. No anybody that is on ESPN - zunk xometimes Jan 16, 17:09
Obama declares emergency in Michigan over lead-contaminated water -- (link) - Beaker Jan 16, 16:55 4
- I "like" that they compounded their stupidity by selling the pipes that connected them to Detroit for scrap - Reagen Jan 16, 17:07
- 9,000 poisoned kids. I hope their symptoms and side-effects will be minor. -- nm - Beryllium Jan 16, 17:02
- This is an attempt to ban bullets!! -- nm - What the NRA read in the story Jan 16, 16:57
- Issues an arrest warrant for Gov. Snyder? -- nm - Mop Jan 16, 16:56
I just spit Diet Coke when I saw someone named their team, Jed York Sucks. Well played -- nm - Bacon Jan 16, 16:53
Why is Hoodie not wearing a hoodie? -- nm - Mop Jan 16, 16:50
Hali would have had to lateral, but that could have easily been a game-tying "pick-six". -- nm* - David Jan 16, 16:49
deflected by Gronk's head -- nm - mud Jan 16, 16:49
WWE: Mark Henry removed from the ROyal Rumble....AJ STyles teases he'll be at the rumble if there is a spot open. -- nm - Remlik Jan 16, 16:48 1
- that would be phenomenal -- nm - dogbert Jan 16, 17:06
Danny Trejo's opening a vegan taco restaurant in LA. -- (edited) - nic to be named later Jan 16, 16:43 2
- Don't worry Machete fans - he has fried chicken and shredded beef tacos as well -- (link) - Roger More Jan 16, 16:52
- Vegan tacos, eh? That could probably be tasty -- nm - Beryllium Jan 16, 16:45
If you have 13 minutes to score a touchdown, Alex Smith is your man -- nm - Bacon Jan 16, 16:41 6
- There's a reason that "The Andy Reid School of Clock Management" is a thing. -- nm - Reagen Jan 16, 17:00 1
  - One day I want to see a team with Andy Reid and Mike Smith on the same coaching staff. -- nm - Strongbad Jan 16, 17:01
- That is seriously some of the worst clock management I've ever seen. -- nm - pmb Jan 16, 16:48 3
  - Without Maclin on the field, they didn't have a receiver who could get open. -- nm - David Jan 16, 16:53 2
    - They were still huddling, running the ball and sitting on timeouts. Just awful. -- nm - pmb Jan 16, 17:01 1
      - Not calling a timeout before the 2 minute warning -- nm - Bacon Jan 16, 17:08
"Happy birthday to fart", sings the big brother to the little brother. -- nm - Beryllium Jan 16, 16:41
The Chiefs are wasting way too much time -- nm - amoxy Jan 16, 16:38 1
- there is absolutely no way that an Andy Reid team could be bad at time management. It is unpossible -- nm - Beaker Jan 16, 16:39
Roger More, you in the Waterloo area? I see Trudeau did a little visit. -- nm - Mop Jan 16, 16:35 5
- Toronto. But he visited here too! -- nm - Roger More Jan 16, 16:35 4
  - Who's that in Blackberry's backyard..? -- nm - Mop Jan 16, 16:37 3
    - I must be thinking of Zork, but he's in Mississauga. I'm all confused. I can't tell a Sarnia from a Sudbury! -- nm - Mop Jan 16, 16:55 2
      - I *was* in Waterloo....in 1968 ;) -- nm - Meg Jan 16, 16:56 1
        
        Me too. A bit longer ago, though. -- nm - Napoleon Jan 16, 16:58
Move over Carolyn Hax. The Guardian's new agony aunt is... -- (link) - Roger More Jan 16, 16:31
Dallas Fans Start Petition For Cowboys To Sign Manziel - Spawn Jan 16, 16:09 3
- That's to counter the 50 other petitions begging them not to. -- nm - Mop Jan 16, 16:36
- ...thus explaining why they're Dallas fans to begin with. -- nm - Strongbad Jan 16, 16:20
- Delusional! -- nm - Bacon Jan 16, 16:11
Up next in the Allan Rickman movieganza, Love Actually -- nm - Bacon Jan 16, 16:08
You've heard of Mexican Coke. Right now I'm drinking Mexican Squirt - con_carne Jan 16, 15:44 3
- i've heard of that in Tijuana -- nm - slipping jimmy Jan 16, 15:58 2
  - *Splurt* -- nm - General Zeit Jan 16, 16:34
  - and you paid extra for that didn't you? -- nm - Remlik Jan 16, 15:59
Sanders campaign backs down on DMCA takedown notice of Wikipedia for containing the Sanders 2016 logo. -- (link) - spamlet Jan 16, 15:42 1
- I'll probably get blamed for this too -- nm - Hillary Jan 16, 15:57
heh. A Chiefs employee took the challenge flag away from Andy Reid -- (link) - Beaker Jan 16, 15:41 1
- That's awesome. -- nm - Mop Jan 16, 16:14
SNL: Adam Driver hosts tonight. Chris Stapleton is the musical guest -- nm - Beaker Jan 16, 15:39 1
- I've heard that the promos play up the Emo K.R. angle ... it could be funny. -- nm - Beryllium Jan 16, 15:53
I think "don't cover Gronk near the end zone" is a good defensive strategy. -- nm - spamlet Jan 16, 15:33
didamandaseecreedorjoy.com -- nm - con_carne Jan 16, 15:27 1
- Hopefully Joy -- nm - Loyola Jan 16, 17:07
ST is smarter and more creative: How would you describe a situation where a person has mis-characterized something you have casually mentioned? - ReluctantCynic Jan 16, 15:27 7
- To misconstrue? -- nm - Loyola Jan 16, 17:03
- Fubar -- nm* - decline Jan 16, 15:32
- "There's a miscommunication. What I said was..." -- nm - con_carne Jan 16, 15:31
- someone playing the telephone game in their own head? not sure. -- nm - Beryllium Jan 16, 15:31 1
  - That's another good way to put it. -- nm - ReluctantCynic Jan 16, 15:45
- embellishing -- nm - slipping jimmy Jan 16, 15:30 1
  - THAT is the very word I could not come up with. - ReluctantCynic Jan 16, 15:32
Titans hire HC Mike Mularkey. -- nm - Strongbad Jan 16, 15:21 1
- bad teams stay bad -- (link*) - ML Jan 16, 15:26
TTIS: ski chase with a snow plow jump - marcel Jan 16, 15:09 5
- For Your Eyes Only with Moore I think -- nm - Beaker Jan 16, 15:45
- I believe that's "On Her Majesty's Secret Service." Alpine ski chase scene. Check YouTube. (nm) - howie Jan 16, 15:42 1
  - ah, there it is - marcel Jan 16, 15:47 [youtube]
- That sounds too gory for a bond movie. -- nm - Beryllium Jan 16, 15:40 1
  - Lazenby's one-liner afterwards: "He had lots of guts." -- nm - Roger More Jan 16, 16:00
werner herzog talks about virtual reality -- (link) - slipping jimmy Jan 16, 14:43 2
- "the only thing more absurd than our own reality is inventing another reality for us to be cruel to each other in." -- nm - Reagen Jan 16, 14:54 1
  - And yet, it is inevitable, and has always been. -- nm - Beryllium Jan 16, 15:05
I don't think there is enough there to overturn -- nm - Bacon Jan 16, 14:41
So it's gonna be that kind of game. -- nm - Mop Jan 16, 14:39
Kelly, here is something to try to redeem the code. -- (link) - spamlet Jan 16, 14:36 12
- I've used the Hola Better Internet/Flixster combo for foreign codes, but if it's a U.S. code, then it's something else... -- nm - Mop Jan 16, 15:00
- The person I bought it from swears it's a US code. I am trying it again after restarting the laptop. - kelly Jan 16, 14:50 10
  - I've never been able to link flixster to vudu. I just avoid buying flixster codes (which is inconvenient). -- nm - Amanda Jan 16, 16:02
  - Yes, you'll have to. That might be the problem. -- nm - iSpam Jan 16, 15:04 7
    - That's what I've been trying to do for a while now. Hmm. -- nm - kelly Jan 16, 15:05 6
      - Sorry. I linked mine a long time ago so I'm not helpful. - iSpam Jan 16, 15:07 5
        
        I linked you and Rem on FB so you can see what I'm looking at when I try to link. -- nm - kelly Jan 16, 15:09 4
        
        that's damned odd that it's doing that. Dumb question are you sure you haven't connected them before? -- nm - Remlik Jan 16, 15:14 3
        
        I've never used Flixster before so I had to create a new acct there, so they haven't been linked before. -- nm - kelly Jan 16, 15:15 2
        
        Yeah I had some issues of stuff being sent to all the accounts until I linked them -- nm - Remlik Jan 16, 15:23 1
        
        It went through the one time I tried showing Will the issue. Heh. -- nm - kelly Jan 16, 16:25
  - yeah I believe you do have to link them. -- nm - Remlik Jan 16, 15:00
If the nfl is serious about player safety, plays like that should mean an automatic ejection -- nm - TRuMaN Jan 16, 14:32 5
- lol -- nm - znufrii Jan 16, 14:34
- Looked clean to me, bruh -- nm - Ryan Shazier Jan 16, 14:34
- Seriously. How'd that not knock the guy's head right off his shoulders? -- nm - Mop Jan 16, 14:33 1
  - If his head came off he would have been penalized for not wearing a helmet -- nm - Bacon Jan 16, 14:35
- that too. -- nm - Reagen Jan 16, 14:33
that's DAF. -- nm - Reagen Jan 16, 14:30 1
- they need to fix those "half the distance" penalties. It should be 1st and 25. -- nm - Reagen Jan 16, 14:31
I keep thinking the new BvsS trailer is a beer commercial. nm - Dignan Jan 16, 14:15 3
- "Tastes great . . . less filling" -- nm - slipping jimmy Jan 16, 14:17 2
  - Riddle me this... -- nm - Reagen Jan 16, 14:36
  - "Frost brewed in a fortress of solitude" -- nm - Rollo Jan 16, 14:19
*I sidle up to the corner dressed in jeans and a hoodie. I reach into my bag and take out a mardi gras mask and wait.* -- (edited) - undercover crazy Jan 16, 14:06 2
- L3! -- nm - Epiphany Jan 16, 16:39
- American Horror Story: Birthday Mel -- nm - Rollo Jan 16, 14:13
"You're on TV, Dad. Don't do the chop." -- nm - Reagen Jan 16, 13:59 1
- ~Hackin' and whackin' and smackin'~ -- nm - Ol' Butcher Pete Jan 16, 16:13
I can't say I'm biased against most cultures but damn Russians are scary. - Mop Jan 16, 13:56 4
- "You pet my dog. You owe favor now. Hold this package for me." -- nm - Mop Jan 16, 14:50
- "No dog! Is cat now!" -- nm - Lugash Jan 16, 14:00
- Sounds terrifying. -- nm - Spawn Jan 16, 13:58
- There are only two things I can't stand in this world. People who are intolerant of other people's cultures, and Russians. -- nm - mara Jan 16, 13:57
How long has TE been a standard FF slot? - JD Jan 16, 13:56 3
- Ditka was a TE when he played -- nm - Beaker Jan 16, 14:55
- Same as kickers. -- nm - Spawn Jan 16, 14:01
- Since time immemorial -- nm - ML Galaxy Jan 16, 13:57
this is a weirdly low camera angle for the main field view. -- nm - Reagen Jan 16, 13:52
Seems like Edie Falco got a new nose -- nm - Rollo Jan 16, 13:52
Wife is doing a Alan Rickman moviethon and we just found a gem called Bottle Shock -- nm - Bacon Jan 16, 13:48 12
- Ah, yes. Presumably based on that time American wines beat the pants off French wines. -- nm - Mop Jan 16, 14:42
- She has started The Butler now -- nm - Bacon Jan 16, 13:54 6
  - See if you can find a movie called "Blow Dry". It's spectacular. - Mop Jan 16, 14:58 2
    - She watched that first, but I was still asleep -- nm - Bacon Jan 16, 16:09 1
      - Where'd she find it? I can't find it streaming anywhere. -- nm - Mop Jan 16, 16:16
  - I guess he's in it? Who knew -- nm - Bacon Jan 16, 13:55 2
    - He plays someone you might have heard of. -- nm - Spawn Jan 16, 13:57
    - I'm sad that he died but not *that* sad -- nm - slipping jimmy Jan 16, 13:56
- Good movie. -- nm - kelly Jan 16, 13:50
- Ys, it is a good one. Did Die Hard last night. More to follow. -- nm - Spawn Jan 16, 13:49
- It's fun -- nm - slipping jimmy Jan 16, 13:49
- Already saw Galaxy Quest this morning -- nm* - Bacon Jan 16, 13:48
It's okay to vote for Hillary Clinton because she's a woman. -- (link) - znufrii Jan 16, 13:45 12
- If her name was Bill Clinton, there wouldn't even be a race - slipping jimmy Jan 16, 13:50 6
  - If her name was Hillary Rodham, would she even be in the race? -- nm - Strongbad Jan 16, 15:19 1
    - with her resume, sure -- nm - slipping jimmy Jan 16, 15:31
  - "Man, that's weird that there's another Bill Clinton." -- nm - Reagen Jan 16, 14:03 3
    - This is like my old neighbors Chris and Chris(tine, who goes by Chris) -- nm - Rollo Jan 16, 14:09 2
      - There's this lesbian couple at work. Mina and Mina. Except is "Mee-nah" (like Suvari) and "My-nah" (like the bird). -- nm - Mop Jan 16, 14:40 1
        
        "Hi, I'm Mih-nah" -- nm - their sitcom Jan 16, 14:57
- But if you don't vote for her because she's a woman, you're some kind of monster? How is that fair? -- nm - Mop Jan 16, 13:48 3
  - in a fair world it wouldn't be necessary to do so. -- nm - znufrii Jan 16, 14:36
  - It's okay because I have women friends. -- nm - Bacon Jan 16, 14:06 1
    - Women be campaignin' -- nm - Rollo Jan 16, 14:10
- Good Lord, we forgot! -- nm - Undecided Voters Jan 16, 13:48
ALL THE GRONK SAUCE!!! -- nm - David Jan 16, 13:44 1
- Yeah! - prayformojo Jan 16, 13:47
Go Patriots!!! -- nm - prayformojo Jan 16, 13:35
leaving the 'net until Diva and I can watch the game together. Go Pats. -- nm - Mel Profit Jan 16, 13:30 1
- Happy happy! -- nm - Spawn Jan 16, 13:37
The O's gave Chris Davis a Bobby Bonilla deal. -- (link) - ML Galaxy Jan 16, 13:24 5
- It's Chris Davis day! -- nm - ML - 2035 Jan 16, 14:31
- I doubt the O's will do the same thing with the deferred payments that the Mets did. - Rollo Jan 16, 13:57 1
  - Yeah. If anything, this is a way to make the team easier to sell, with less upfront liabilities -- nm - Will Hunting Jan 16, 13:59
- That is not too bad then. -- nm - Will Hunting Jan 16, 13:26 1
  - There's only a decade of reports that Davis earned 3.5M for not playing -- nm - JD Jan 16, 13:49
Right about now. -- nm - Spawn Jan 16, 13:21

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