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Not watchin'. How are the networks handling the dueling events? PIP? -- nm - Mop Jan 28, 19:09
ST poll: in your opinion, which fast food chain makes the best shakes? - kelly Jan 28, 19:05 20
- Steak & Shake -- nm - Covington Jan 29, 01:57
- A&W -- nm - budice Jan 28, 19:20
- 50s Diner places are pretty good. -- nm - budice Jan 28, 19:20
- Shamrock! -- nm - budice Jan 28, 19:19
- Potbelly's -- nm - pmb Jan 28, 19:18
- Which Wich - hands down -- nm - JenBro Jan 28, 19:08 3
  - yeah, they good -- nm - mr. plow Jan 28, 19:08 2
    - I've tried several of theirs but chocolate malt is my favorite. -- nm - JenBro Jan 28, 19:15 1
      - *nods* -- nm - Epiphany Jan 28, 19:17
- Burgerville is apparently famous for it but I don't like them. I love Red Robin shakes. -- nm - Mop Jan 28, 19:07
- Harvey's, but that doesn't really help you. -- nm - Reagen Jan 28, 19:07
- Is Five Guys considered fast food? I'ts in the next tier of pricing, but I like those\ -- nm - Bacon Jan 28, 19:07 2
  - Yeah, I think so. I've had BK smoothie and a Chick Fil A shake today. I like CFA's. -- nm - kelly Jan 28, 19:11
  - Dairy Queen Blizzards are good too -- nm - Bacon Jan 28, 19:08
- McDonalds and Wendy's -- nm - Beryllium Jan 28, 19:07 3
  - do DQ Blizzards count? Or are they ... DQ'd? -- nm - Beryllium Jan 28, 19:08 2
    - They count. I have to eat the shakes with a spoon, so a Blizzard would work fine. -- nm - kelly Jan 28, 19:16
    - Butterfinger blizzard!! -- nm - Bacon Jan 28, 19:09
- Wendy's -- nm - amoxy Jan 28, 19:06
- Frosty -- nm - mr. plow Jan 28, 19:06
In case you need to see it, footage from a drone showing the FBI taking down the Bundy's. - Mop Jan 28, 18:56 3
- That looks ... Iffy. - Will Hunting Jan 28, 19:12 2
  - I know, it's awkward. He comes out with his hands up but then he reaches for something. - Mop Jan 28, 19:21
  - gun in his waistband. it looked clear in his hand to me -- nm - mr. plow Jan 28, 19:13
Anyone else watching current Top Chef episode? Spoiler - JenBro Jan 28, 18:52
Feingold maintains double-digit lead over Johnson -- (link) - Dano Jan 28, 18:51 3
- :-( -- (link) - ML Jan 28, 18:52 [Backboard] 2
  - I wonder if he weren't running for Senate how high up on the VP list he would be. -- nm - Dano Jan 28, 18:53
  - killfiler becomes the killfiled -- nm - mr. plow Jan 28, 18:52
"Nine Lives" stars Kevin Spacey as a Trumpian billionaire who gets turned into a cat named Mr. Fuzzypants -- (link) - mr. plow Jan 28, 18:49 14
- This looks terrible...It sounds like he's phoning it in, while 'phoning it in'. -- nm - Flavorize Jan 28, 19:00 4
  - taking the cat paycheck gig is as low as it gets -- nm - mr. plow Jan 28, 19:02 3
    - I agree, although taking the talking baby paycheck, is a close second (or starring in a Transformers movie) -- nm - Flavorize Jan 28, 19:13
    - Yeah, Bill Murray. -- nm - Dano Jan 28, 19:04 1
      - He thought it was Ethan Cohen! -- nm - Reagen Jan 28, 19:13
- Is this a riff of Mr. Limpet? -- nm - JenBro Jan 28, 18:56 2
  - and/or Shaggy Dog -- nm - mr. plow Jan 28, 18:56 1
    - Shaggy DA? -- nm - JenBro Jan 28, 19:24
- Tracey Jordan turned this down. -- nm - Reagen Jan 28, 18:53 1
  - that's the sequel -- nm - mr. plow Jan 28, 18:56
- Is this an 80s movie? -- nm - Beryllium Jan 28, 18:52
- Hell. No. -- nm - Epiphany Jan 28, 18:49 2
  - with Christopher Walken -- nm - mr. plow Jan 28, 18:50 1
    - I'm sad for both of them. - Epiphany Jan 28, 19:17
I have watched Kristen and Dax Africa video probably a dozen times now. -- (link*) - Bacon Jan 28, 18:47 2
- they really have fun :) -- nm - JenBro Jan 28, 19:06
- It's all kinds of crazy. -- nm - Mop Jan 28, 18:57
max news network: study for Rosslyn-Georgetown gondola moves forward -- (link) - mr. plow Jan 28, 18:37 2
- It's a neat idea until you realize that neither Georgetown side North or South terminal points are ideal. -- nm - Max Jan 28, 19:10 1
  - BUILD THE GONDOLA! -- nm - mr. plow Jan 28, 19:12
A bus driver made the news because he looks like Walter White. -- nm - Beryllium Jan 28, 18:27 3
- I've decided Australia doesn't have enough news for a 24 hour news channel. they were really delving into some minutiae yesterday on the one on in the - mafic Jan 28, 18:32 2
  - "I busted my pluggah" -- nm - Beryllium Jan 28, 18:34 1
    - yeah, well also that, so not a total loss. -- nm - mafic Jan 28, 18:34
Donaldo is like Howard Beale just rappin -- nm - mr. plow Jan 28, 18:24 6
- wth are Huckabee and Santorum there? -- nm - Jovian Jan 28, 18:38 5
  - Please please Rickie, ask them to google you again. -- nm - nic to be detemined Jan 28, 18:45
  - yep -- nm - mr. plow Jan 28, 18:39 3
    - so they have effectively both just dropped out of the race and endorsed Trump. -- nm - Jovian Jan 28, 18:40 2
      - well, it's free airtime for them during the debate that they weren't going to get otherwise -- nm - mr. plow Jan 28, 18:44
      - Polling at 2 and 1, "effectively" wasn't really the issue. -- nm - Reagen Jan 28, 18:43
Satanists to give prayer at Phoenix City Council meeting -- (link) - budice Jan 28, 18:23
9h my...hotel full of college women basketball players -- nm - Remliks phone Jan 28, 18:21 7
- "How about you and me get together and make like a semicolon" -- nm - Flavorize Jan 28, 19:16
- You know what to do -- nm - Epiphany Jan 28, 18:49
- Which ladies are going to be in your final four -- nm - Bacon Jan 28, 18:44
- I was trying to figure out if you'd been "busy" for 9 hours, but then I realized you meant to say "oh my" heh. -- nm - b. Jan 28, 18:31 3
  - b! - budice Jan 28, 18:33 2
    - boo.! - b. Jan 28, 18:37
    - time to send in the secret weapon: Mop -- nm - Peglegpete Jan 28, 18:36
Marco SMASH! -- nm - mr. plow Jan 28, 18:13
Rumor: Smash Bros for 3DS and Wii U will be a launch title port to the NX. -- nm - Qale Jan 28, 18:11
Ted Cruz "I won't engage in personal attacks". . . Thirty seconds after after making fun of Trump. -- nm - pmb Jan 28, 18:07 1
- Eh, Bush did the same last week at a speaking engagement. - Spawn Jan 28, 18:14
Good win for Maryland -- nm - budice Jan 28, 18:02
"Did America lose a bet?" -- nm - Reagen Jan 28, 17:51
I haven't watched X-Files yet, but based on the commercials, Mulder looks ancient and Scully looks amazing -- nm - Beaker Jan 28, 17:45 6
- She looks a little thin -- nm - amoxy Jan 28, 19:04
- Hes supposed to look like that...he looks a lot better in the second -- nm - Remliks phone Jan 28, 17:59
- When you do start watching it, don't give up based on the first episode. It gets better. :-) -- nm - Beryllium Jan 28, 17:52 2
  - Or after the second. -- nm - nic to be detemined Jan 28, 18:05 1
    - The second was good :) I mean, it had a few moments of paranoiababble, likely written by Chris Carter, but the rest was good. -- nm - Beryllium Jan 28, 18:24
- spoiler - Peglegpete Jan 28, 17:46
Dano's house of the week. -- (link) - Dano Jan 28, 17:32 28
- that looks so much bigger than 1080. I have 1103 and you could fit six of my house in it. -- nm - all the boys love christine baranski Jan 28, 18:43 8
  - I could tell at least some of the internal shots had been altered/stretched - unless the walls are really curved. check 11-15, especially. -- nm - b. Jan 28, 18:48 7
    - That's just what a wide angle lens does - Reagen Jan 28, 18:54 5
      - I've seen wide angle shots made ok, so the issue is that they weren't corrected? -- nm - b. Jan 28, 18:57 4
        
        you can't really without changing the shape of the image, at least not for one this wide - Reagen Jan 28, 19:05
        
        Yeah, fisheye type lenses look bendy without corrections. Common realtor's technique is to go super wide to fit all the detail of the space. - Beryllium Jan 28, 19:00 2
        
        gotcha, thanks. I've seen it a bit that way before, but never quite that much. when walls aren't parallel, it's esp. deceptive if you don't notice. -- nm - b. Jan 28, 19:02 1
        
        Actually, after looking at them, I think they are just iPhone "short pano" stitched photos. -- nm - Beryllium Jan 28, 19:05
    - Dano's Fun House -- nm - mr. plow Jan 28, 18:51
- How close to the river is it? -- nm - nic to be detemined Jan 28, 18:21
- this place was clearly purchased by a flipper. nm but: -- (link*) - b. Jan 28, 18:15 3
  - Right out of HGTV :) Too bad they couldn't have bought the other half of the duplex and painted them both to match. -- nm - Meg Jan 28, 18:21 1
    - right? I've never seen dissimilar back halves like that either. -- nm - b. Jan 28, 18:30
  - Nice half ass job on the floors. -- nm - spamlet Jan 28, 18:17
- and once again I think I need to move to a smaller real estate market. -- nm - mafic Jan 28, 18:04 4
  - I could put that on my HELOC. -- nm - Reagen Jan 28, 18:10
  - I blink every single time. -- nm - b. Jan 28, 18:08 2
    - b! - budice Jan 28, 18:13 1
      - boo.! - b. Jan 28, 18:14
- the smart thing is to buy it tear it down and build new in that space -- nm - Peglegpete Jan 28, 17:50 1
  - the hill is a perfect spot for your Batcave :) -- nm - Peglegpete Jan 28, 17:53
- what they all said. lots of concerns, plus work to be done. -- nm - b. Jan 28, 17:49 2
  - be supportive of your gay husband, b. -- nm - mr. plow Jan 28, 17:51 1
    - I wish. *sob* but that is being supportive! don't want him to buy a place with issues. he's shared better, so we know they're out there. -- nm - b. Jan 28, 17:58
- What would it look like after a good snowstorm. I'm looking at that parking slot and all those stairs. -- nm - Meg Jan 28, 17:45
- pass. it needs too much work, and when it rains water does not go uphill :) -- nm - Peglegpete Jan 28, 17:45
- looks like it needs some work -- nm - mr. plow Jan 28, 17:35
- No AC, built in 1900 -- nm - budice Jan 28, 17:35
Yippie Kayak, other buckets! -- nm - iSpam Jan 28, 17:32 2
- And I haven't seen past this one but I'm assuming Santiago is pregnant. - iSpam Jan 28, 17:34 1
  - Yes. -- nm - Reagen Jan 28, 17:37
love Canary Cold and Heat; like Victor Garber, tolerate most of the rest...dislike the Hawks and Rip Hunter -- nm* - Beaker Jan 28, 17:31 1
- If the Hwaks are Egyptian why don't their costumes look Egyptian? - nic to be detemined Jan 28, 18:36
Our front desk guy's personal ringtone: a tornado siren. Not cool man, not cool. -- nm - Max Jan 28, 17:30 1
- ugh, I'd report that. -- nm - b. Jan 28, 17:47
sometimes i wish i wasnt me. that is all. -- nm - Truman Jan 28, 17:27
pegleg question for you - Beaker Jan 28, 17:04 13
- McFarlane Spiderman & Miller Darknight & DD sell for more -- nm - Peglegpete Jan 28, 17:16 1
  - oh, this was purely for me to put on he wall. Just something I grew up loving, no value per se -- nm - Beaker Jan 28, 17:17
- there are 2 or 3 collectors at the top of the Perez Avengers collector market who may have it. if it came to market, expect to pay well over $50,000 -- nm - Peglegpete Jan 28, 17:12 5
  - oh duh-me, I thought Beaker couldn't read the names, not that he wanted to know who is selling it. -- nm - b. Jan 28, 17:15 2
    - heh. I literally just had the issue in my hands, till i boxed it :) Thanks though -- nm - Beaker Jan 28, 17:17 1
      - oh, I knew you had it. just brainblipped at your question. -- nm - b. Jan 28, 17:18
  - good Lord. well, I am glad it is so popular :) -- nm - Beaker Jan 28, 17:13 1
    - Perez Avengers art has been red hot since about 2000 -- nm - Peglegpete Jan 28, 17:14
- I'm not him, but my curious nature had me go look to see what it looked like; and I found this.. nm but: -- (link) - b. Jan 28, 17:05 [flickr] 4
  - I have the issue :) One of the very first comics i can remember buying for some reason. -- nm - Beaker Jan 28, 17:08 1
    - I may well have had it, too. my uncle owned a store in s.f. that sold some (among other things); and he used to load me up with them when we visited. - b. Jan 28, 17:11
  - it's a bunch of other places, too; but a list from a book shows another partner, hmm. nm but: -- (link) - b. Jan 28, 17:07 1
    - nevermind, you can see in this that the partners are perez & marcos. nm but: -- (link) - b. Jan 28, 17:09
Paul Kantner obit -- (link*) - Peglegpete Jan 28, 17:03
Fox and Roger are reportedly calling that guy every 15 minues -- (link) - mr. plow Jan 28, 16:59 3
- Donald, ever hear the saying Never pick a fight with someone who buys ink by the barrel? This is the net that started the Tea party, that convinced - zeitgeist Jan 28, 17:35
- in her feed, she says that he invited a group of reports to fly with him on his plane to reiterate he's not joining the debate. -- nm - b. Jan 28, 17:03 1
  - ~mile high club~ -- nm - Beaker Jan 28, 17:03
"Report: Las Vegas Sands to propose $1 billion domed stadium to possibly draw NFL franchise" -- nm - ML Galaxy Jan 28, 16:58 10
- Goodell refuses to even consider us as an NFL market. it'll never happen with him in charge -- nm - Peglegpete Jan 28, 17:13 3
  - pro ballers and Vegas on a year-round basis would just be a Springfield tire-dump fire -- nm - mr. plow Jan 28, 17:17 2
    - It'd be a hell of a home field advantage though. -- nm - spamlet Jan 28, 18:11
    - Yup. -- nm - Krusty Jan 28, 18:08
- they should start small with the NHL -- nm - Beaker Jan 28, 17:02 1
  - we are -- nm - Peglegpete Jan 28, 17:59
- DOOOMED stadium... no wait, that's not right. -- nm - mafic Jan 28, 17:01 2
  - i guess if you're going to sentence the players to a slow motion CTE death, what's a little gambling amongst friends? -- nm - mr. plow Jan 28, 17:03 1
    - *bets it all on blue* -- nm - Concussed Beaker Jan 28, 17:09
- that reminds me, and idtiwap: the new warriors arena in s.f. (after it gets funding and is built) would be another chase-er. nm but: -- (link) - b. Jan 28, 17:01
so the implication of season 5 of House of Cards is that (spoils) - mafic Jan 28, 16:54 3
- Through an obscure constitutional provision... -- nm - Reagen Jan 28, 16:56 2
  - or by murdering a supreme court justice. either way. -- nm - mafic Jan 28, 17:00 1
    - Pelican Brief FTW -- nm - Beaker Jan 28, 17:01
Beaker, I always loved that Squadron Supreme limited series. I have them all too. -- nm - Volnelk Jan 28, 16:54 2
- it was one of the very first things I set aside to keep. I remember skipping ET at the theatre as I found #12 at the drug store and could only do one -- nm - Beaker Jan 28, 16:58 1
  - one of the early Avengers on my list is their first appearance (as bad guys). once I saw what it was I had to keep it -- nm* - Beaker Jan 28, 16:59
*orders three NM shrimp salads to go* - barnaby bear Jan 28, 16:54 3
- When the credit card bill arrives they'll find they actually paid $2,495 for the recipe. -- nm - Endor Jan 28, 17:01 1
  - yikes, that's like 3 Hamilton tickets -- nm - Beaker Jan 28, 17:03
- nuh-uh. I bet they don't include the cafe for their equivalent of kohl's cash when its offered. -- nm - b. Jan 28, 16:58
Yahoo fantasy baseball is live. - ML Galaxy Jan 28, 16:51 3
- I look forward to defending my Dingers Championship Belt* -- nm - Strongbad Jan 28, 16:59 1
  - Urgh! -- nm - J Jan 28, 17:45
- I expect mine to say "Caveman Champion" in there somewhere -- nm - Beaker Jan 28, 16:52

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