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Your daily Trump voter statistic. -- (link) - decline Feb 16, 07:29 4
- Over/under on how many of these 31% voters have had gay sex? I'll say 25%. -- nm - David Feb 16, 07:32 2
  - And another 25% of them dream about it. -- nm - Spawn Feb 16, 07:34 1
    - I was just going to say, "Thought about it..." would be in the 70% - 80% range. -- nm - Mel Profit Feb 16, 07:35
- I haven't clicked to read/analyze the source question. - ty97 Feb 16, 07:31
Scalia, Vanity, and now Boutros Boutros-Ghali - decline Feb 16, 07:27 1
- F*ck! -- nm - Diva Feb 16, 07:29
Bery, what would be cool is if you had a link to patch notes (changes made to how the site works) -- (edited) - Bacon Feb 16, 07:23 6
- Nothing's changed in weeks -- nm - Beryllium Feb 16, 07:32 4
  - When did we lose double click grey? -- nm - Bacon Feb 16, 07:32 1
    - I don't know what that is? -- nm - Beryllium Feb 16, 07:38
  - It's a good idea, though. -- nm - Beryllium Feb 16, 07:32 1
    - thx -- nm - Bacon Feb 16, 07:33
- Hey, we have a newb. Welcome! -- nm - Spawn Feb 16, 07:25
Shane Black and Co. just released a teaser poster to the new Predator. Surprise! -- nm - Mop Feb 16, 07:17 2
- for as much as I loved the first Predator, I wish they would just let it die. -- nm - groiny Feb 16, 07:18 1
  - Yeah, let CNM have the stealth technology and then be done. -- nm - Spawn Feb 16, 07:19
The Weeknd might be a decent looking dude, but fuck man, that hair is awful. -- nm - groiny Feb 16, 07:11 3
- Recognizable, though. -- nm - Spawn Feb 16, 07:15 1
  - I think he could wear a dildo on his head and only be slightly more ridiculous. -- nm - groiny Feb 16, 07:16
- i always wonder if it is a piece that is just attached for performances/etc. -- nm - Truman Feb 16, 07:13
Speaking of Taylors - Lautner is outside our building at the moment. -- nm - LMS Feb 16, 07:08 2
- Holding a cardboard sign? -- nm - Bacon Feb 16, 07:09 1
  - He's doing this -- (link) - LMS Feb 16, 07:16
Dear world: stop encouraging Taylor Swift -- nm - ty97 Feb 16, 06:51 15
- She is the current Cher. Deal with it. -- nm - Spawn Feb 16, 07:22 8
  - Spawn gonna be Spawn. -- nm - MDH Feb 16, 07:31
  - She's kind of the current Elvis. -- nm - JaxSean Feb 16, 07:30 1
    - AH, very good call. Okay ty, I was trying to spruce Cher up for you. Sorry, stuck with Gaga. -- nm - Spawn Feb 16, 07:31
  - oh honey, Gaga is the current Cher. -- nm - ty97 Feb 16, 07:26 4
    - I wholeheartedly agree with this statement and am glad you finally see the truth. -- nm - David Feb 16, 07:32
    - No, Gaga was the last Cher. -- nm - Spawn Feb 16, 07:27 1
      - word. -- nm - sp commander amanda jones Feb 16, 07:31
    - Spawn is so damn straight -- nm - Bacon Feb 16, 07:27
- Haters gonna hate. -- nm - Mop Feb 16, 07:16
- dear world. dont pay attention to ty. -- nm - Truman Feb 16, 07:14
- On the other hand, if it annoys Kanye West... -- nm - Dano Feb 16, 07:00
- Remember that weird point in time when she was supposed to be a country artist? -- nm - Shaun Feb 16, 06:54 1
  - she shed that skin so quickly -- nm - Epiphany Feb 16, 06:57
- Imagine if Taylor Swift got abducted. I think Nancy Grace might stroke out. -- nm - David Feb 16, 06:52
Try as I might, I can't get the Run Dos Run joke from The Simpsons to pull up on Frinkiac. - David Feb 16, 06:49 3
- - -- (link) - Ender Feb 16, 06:53 2
  - Oh well done. Thank you! -- nm - David Feb 16, 06:54 1
    - (They definitely skip Lisa's reading of the line though.) -- nm - Ender Feb 16, 06:54
The 14 Most Insane Things Happening Right Now (2/16) -- (link) - Beaker Feb 16, 06:48
man the grammys were boring. and even when they might have been interesting, the audio quality sucked. - Truman Feb 16, 06:43
Trump sent a case of water and two towels to Rubio's campaign cause he sweats so much (this is hilarious) -- (link) - Beaker Feb 16, 06:37
A bunch of scripts from the BBC are available to download, should you be interested (including Sherlock) -- (link) - LMS Feb 16, 06:36
HSX: I went up 1 whole spot after yesterday. Darn. Currently kicking it at 525. -- nm - Shaun Feb 16, 06:36 6
- I went up one (337 yo) but am down over a mill today so will probs lose it tomorrow. -- nm - sp commander amanda jones Feb 16, 07:32
- I fell 3 spots to 467. -- nm - Spawn Feb 16, 07:16
- Same. One spot up to 443. -- nm - volnelk Feb 16, 07:02 3
  - I dont know why people are bailing on the stock. If Avengers have taught them nothing... -- nm - Epiphany Feb 16, 07:07 2
    - it's probably mostly just people that have limited funds that will get a bigger % return elsewhere for the next few weeks. -- nm - Andie Feb 16, 07:11 1
      - makes sense -- nm - Epiphany Feb 16, 07:15
*spills a drop* and sets a reminder to watch The Last Dragon tonight. nm - Jim Feb 16, 06:34 1
- Then Action Jackson -- nm - Bacon Feb 16, 06:41
People around me seemed to be fired up today. A lot of loud podcast listening appears to be on the horizon. -- nm - spamlet Feb 16, 06:26
Far Cry 4 can be beat in 15 minutes (spoilers at link) -- (link*) - iSpam Feb 16, 06:02 2
- I still have this sealed from awhile ago when it was $20 at Best Buy. -- nm - Shaun Feb 16, 06:36
- Heh. :-) Clever. -- nm - Krusty Feb 16, 06:08
Ryan Reynolds had such a good weekend, that he let Blake Lively choose where they went to dinner for Valentine's Day. - Will Hunting Feb 16, 05:54 11
- Agent Starling is on the case. -- nm - Mop Feb 16, 07:18
- This is why A-List is so dangerous. There may not be a shred of truth about it yet I see these jokes everywhere. - David Feb 16, 06:51 8
  - yes, i imagine being married to Ryan Reynolds would be terrible. -- nm - Andie Feb 16, 06:53 7
    - Yes he has good qualities but you can't forgive those two huge faults of his, being rich and good looking would get old very fast. -- nm - Bacon Feb 16, 07:25
    - I always wonder what this is all about. Maybe ScarJo knows. -- nm - Diva Feb 16, 07:23 1
      - like he has to be some closet monster. -- nm - Mel Profit Feb 16, 07:25
    - just freakin awful. - Epiphany Feb 16, 06:56
    - He's Santa? -- nm - Reagen Feb 16, 06:54 2
      - Naughty List, indeed. -- nm - Spawn Feb 16, 07:28
      - red suit.. -- nm - Andie Feb 16, 06:55
- heh - one day she will break free like Katie Holmes -- nm - Epiphany Feb 16, 05:58
The Sony spin-off Vaio has announced that it plans to merge with the computer divisions of its rivals Toshiba and Fujitsu as early as next month -- (link) - Beaker Feb 16, 05:50 1
- I always assumed Vaio *was* just a Sony computer. -- nm - JaxSean Feb 16, 06:55
I still get a high every time I use same-day shipping from Amazon Prime. It's so freaking cool. -- nm - Strongbad Feb 16, 05:29 1
- *whimper* -- nm - ML Galaxy Feb 16, 06:09
It looks like we have at least one opening in the Willy Nelson baseball league this year. Deets inside. - spamlet Feb 16, 05:09 12
- Will Hunting, take note -- nm - ML Feb 16, 06:01 8
  - Noted - mulling. -- nm - Will Hunting Feb 16, 06:17 7
    - If it helps, none of us are very good at this. - spamlet Feb 16, 06:27 6
      - It's a keeper league, what are the keepers details? - Will Hunting Feb 16, 06:29 4
        
        keep 7 players off a roster of 26 - ML Feb 16, 06:31 3
        
        also, there is a maximum # of years you can keep players, which plays into it as well. - groiny Feb 16, 07:07
        
        Can you detail which team roster would be taken over? -- nm - Will Hunting Feb 16, 06:38 1
        
        it'd be dogbert's team, I don't have dollar values but here's the squad -- (edited) - ML Feb 16, 06:40
      - *cold stare* -- nm - ML Feb 16, 06:28
- Dingers is about as complicated as I can get for fantasy baseball. -- nm - Strongbad Feb 16, 05:46 1
  - same -- nm - Beaker Feb 16, 05:47
- Sign up and take my free money -- nm - CQ Feb 16, 05:44
Excitement at new cancer treatment -- (link) - LMS Feb 16, 04:45 1
- that is. My friend just started a new immunotherapy trial as well. Something called Rucaparib. -- nm - Andie Feb 16, 06:48
Here is the Hamilton song from the Grammys -- (link) - Beaker Feb 16, 04:40 4
- and here is Harry Potter singing and dancing with Dan Dan Fielding -- (link) - Beaker Feb 16, 04:45 [youtube] 3
  - Huh, what's the old guy from Mad Men doing there? -- nm - Ender Feb 16, 06:31 2
    - He originated Radcliffe's role on Broadway. -- nm - Reagen Feb 16, 06:47 1
      - He played Harry Potter?! -- nm - Ender Feb 16, 07:22
They closed a big hill down the road from me due to the ice/freezing rain. My wife and I both turned around due to the ice - Beaker Feb 16, 04:22 2
- I almost couldn't walk to my bus stop; I couldn't get down my street. -- (link) - sp commander amanda jones Feb 16, 06:19
- Y'all stay safe -- nm - Epiphany Feb 16, 04:23
Trump: Science, Persuasion and Name Recognition - Strongbad Feb 16, 04:02 6
- Well, okay then, if it's science...*changes his vote* -- nm - Znufrii Feb 16, 06:09
- First of all, the candidate that is the least science-minded is Ted Cruz. Secondly. Scott Adams is a professional troll. -- nm - Reagen Feb 16, 06:02
- i think it's interesting that everyone i know says Trump will be a lunatic if he's in office.. like every candidate ever didn't backpedal on what they - colin Feb 16, 05:18 3
  - There's a difference between backpedaling campaign promises (Obama's continuation of the War on Terror...) - Will Hunting Feb 16, 06:22
  - I don't really think he'll be a lunatic, but I think he'll make a bunch of bad decisions and policies. - Roger More Feb 16, 05:33 1
    - I just stole your entire message - but gave you credit. obvie. -- nm - Epiphany Feb 16, 06:32
Marco Rubio's new ad uses Vancouver as a fill-in for America -- (link) - Beaker Feb 16, 03:44 10
- this is such a stupid mistake - these are professional companies putting these ads together, getting paid well to do so - they can't get it right? -- nm - Epiphany Feb 16, 05:52 4
  - my guess is they didn't even know. they went to a stock site and bought it. It probably *never occurred to them* that it could be anyway except - Andie Feb 16, 06:18 2
    - I am sure you are correct. But they can't leave that to chance. -- nm - Epiphany Feb 16, 06:57 1
      - oh, it was a dumb dumb mistake. -- nm - Andie Feb 16, 07:21
  - They haven't caught up to the idea that people can (and do) examine this stuff for truth. It's still all about the visuals to the ad people. -- nm - Will Hunting Feb 16, 05:55
- At this point, I'm expecting the Mayor of Vancouver to issue a cease & desist order to Rubio for using Vancouver in his ads -- nm - Strongbad Feb 16, 05:46
- Let's dispel once and for all with this fiction that Vancouver is in America. -- nm - colin Feb 16, 05:17 3
  - Hey, X-Files filmed there. That makes it ours. -- nm - Negabaronic Middle-Aged Forehead Feb 16, 05:57 2
    - everything films there. -- nm - Andie Feb 16, 06:12 1
      - X-Files, Deadpool ... -- nm - Beryllium Feb 16, 07:38
Feb 16, 1804 – First Barbary War: Stephen Decatur leads a raid to burn the pirate-held frigate USS Philadelphia. -- nm - Beaker Feb 16, 03:23 4
- on "the shores of Tripoli" -- nm - decline Feb 16, 06:43
- 1923 – Howard Carter unseals the burial chamber of Pharaoh Tutankhamun. -- nm - Beaker Feb 16, 03:23 2
  - 1959 – Fidel Castro becomes Premier of Cuba after dictator Fulgencio Batista was overthrown on January 1. -- nm - Beaker Feb 16, 03:24 1
    - 2005 – The National Hockey League cancels the entire 2004–2005 regular season and playoffs. -- nm - Beaker Feb 16, 03:25
TV PSA: HW Game Night, Fresh Off the Boat, NCIS, New Girl, Pretty Little Liars, Flash, Muppets, Grandfathered, Chicago Med, Brooklyn 99, Agent Carter, -- nm - Beaker Feb 16, 03:21 2
- Happy Valley only thing of note here today. -- nm - LMS Feb 16, 04:03
- Dog Show, NCIS NO, Teen Wolf, Shannara Chronicles, Shadowhunters, iZombie, Rizzoli & Isles, Limitless, Grinder, Chicago Fire, other stuff -- nm - Beaker Feb 16, 03:22
We played this cardgame at work today. "Codenames". It was pretty fun. -- (link) - Beryllium Feb 15, 23:25 1
- "chubmate" -- nm - sweet baboo Feb 15, 23:27
We have a credit union in Oregon. They've been running this ad for years. I think I recognize the actress. - Mop Feb 15, 22:48 [youtube]
Just watched the walking dead opening (spoils) - Beryllium Feb 15, 22:07 10
- these posts disappoint me. (spoilers) -- (edited) - Mel Profit Feb 16, 06:38 2
  - it was more like something out of necessity. spoils - groiny Feb 16, 07:08 1
    - Spoils - Beryllium Feb 16, 07:41
- I agree with the i09 review and didn't like it at all, spoils - Beaker Feb 16, 03:15 4
  - Heh, I just read the review (spoil) - Dignan Feb 16, 03:42 2
    - and with that - spoils - Beaker Feb 16, 04:31 1
      - You kind of missed the point. spoil - Spawn Feb 16, 07:18
  - Not only that... (spoil) - Dignan Feb 16, 03:27
- Spoilers - Beryllium Feb 15, 22:13
- repeat -- nm - Spawn Feb 15, 22:09
Huh. Just got a BOC. WOOT-off! -- nm - jaxSean Feb 15, 22:04 3
- Yeah, stuck on the processing screen. Probably will not get one as it made me do that log-in even though I was logged in thing... Now on the waiting list... nope. -- nm* - Spawn Feb 15, 22:07 2
  - Lame. I was on the confirmation page for a while, but confirmed. -- nm - jaxSean Feb 15, 22:12 1
    - I hate how it does the thing where you are logged in (Name is there) but when you go to buy it realizes it has been a while since you logged in and - Spawn Feb 15, 22:14
Loosi - nope, not Amazon. - kelly Feb 15, 21:52 1
- some shipping interfaces will do that when the seller clicks to print out the label, so tommorrow UP/dex will pick it from them, ebay often does that -- nm - zeitgeist Feb 16, 00:54
Those who slight this year's Grammy performances have too easily forgotten the 90s and 00s. - Mop Feb 15, 21:51 2
- Some of us like hip hop and R&B. -- nm - Krusty Feb 16, 05:48 1
  - and then again, some of us don't! -- nm - groiny Feb 16, 07:12
Looks like Little Big Town played before the NFC Championship Game. Maybe that's where I saw them. -- nm - Mop Feb 15, 21:22 2
- There's a ton of covers on YouTube. I may have just heard a cover, like on American Idol. -- nm - Mop Feb 15, 21:48
- if you know Bonnie Tyler's "Its A Heartache", its the identical chord progression and melody -- nm - crash davis Feb 15, 21:24
Dishwalla reference! -- nm - crash davis Feb 15, 21:21 1
- ~It must have been late afternoon...~ - Name Withheld by Request Feb 15, 21:33
Alice Through the Looking Glass is Disney's Gods of Egypt. - Mop Feb 15, 21:20
Meanwhile, tech nerds are a little more awkward on a stage in front of an audience. -- (link) - Max Feb 15, 21:20 2
- Barney is not pleased. -- nm - Spawn Feb 15, 22:12
- God, I'm afraid to even watch -- nm - Mop Feb 15, 21:21
Man, Taylor Swift is happy for everyone. -- nm - Mop Feb 15, 21:18 1
- She's just gonna shake ... - JenBro Feb 15, 22:34

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