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45 minutes early apparently not early enough. At least 100 people in line. -- nm - iSpam Feb 20, 07:18 1
- Probably closer to 200. They just opened the doors. -- nm - iSpam Feb 20, 07:20
A week out, what are the Oscar expectations? Checking the Options now (speculation) - Will Hunting Feb 20, 07:12 14
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  - So, really it's Picture, Director (which should be Innartu if only he hadn't won last year?) and Supp Actor? -- nm - Will Hunting Feb 20, 07:28
- You should read Dawson's posts on BOP, Twitter, Instagram and possibly other places. -- (link) - Krusty Feb 20, 07:16 9
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  - BOP has social media presences? -- nm - Will Hunting Feb 20, 07:19 7
    - God, I hate you people. - David's iPad Feb 20, 07:23 3
      - Okay. I'll talk with the BOP editor in chief. - Will Hunting Feb 20, 07:25 1
        
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      - When did you start writing for BOP? -- nm - ML Galaxy Feb 20, 07:24
    - They do now that Dawson is posting so often lately. -- nm - Krusty Feb 20, 07:21 2
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        Yes. I've enjoyed reading them and you give me info I didn't know about previous years or - Krusty Feb 20, 07:29
- Feel like there's been way less 'buzz' in any direction. Usually there is support behind one particular film. Haven't seen that as much. - Volnelk Feb 20, 07:15
The greatest tweet -- (link) - ML Galaxy Feb 20, 07:11
SDCC: Open Registration for Comic-Con 1 Hour from now -- (link) - budice Feb 20, 07:03 [youtube]
Let's go, West Brom! -- nm - znufrii Feb 20, 07:01
Now playing: Bridge of Spies -- nm - prayformojo Feb 20, 06:59
I have a black tie thing to go to tonight. But rather than rent a tux I'm thinking regular black suit, white tux shirt and dickie bow. - Loyola Feb 20, 06:55 3
- buy a tux for 50 -- nm - zeitgeist Feb 20, 12:17
- I think that'll work. Most people won't notice it's not a tux. -- nm - Krusty Feb 20, 07:01
- Should be fine -- nm - znufrii Feb 20, 06:57
Interesting. Arsenal schedule spoilers. - Volnelk Feb 20, 06:52 1
- Eesh. -- nm - znufrii Feb 20, 06:55
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- I read that Fred supposedly had a deathbed change of heart and that was the reason his family excommunicated him - Reagen Feb 20, 07:14 1
  - One of his kids was gay and he wanted to talk to him 'forgive' him, I guess the usual omg I was such a dick confession? -- nm - zeitgeist Feb 20, 12:14
- Attention whores gonna attention whore. -- nm - Will Hunting Feb 20, 06:56 1
  - Cultural parasites gonna parasite. -- nm - znufrii Feb 20, 07:04
- Because they can. -- nm - znufrii Feb 20, 06:52
- he gave them the right to do it -- nm - Beaker Feb 20, 06:47 3
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    - overruled -- nm - Beaker Feb 20, 07:23 1
      - Sidebar! -- nm - Ted Feb 20, 08:34
"Returned absentee ballots for the Republican SC Primary stands at 58,464, just a few thousand shy of D+R primary abs from '08 & '12. Combined." - ML Feb 20, 06:39 1
- Kinda cool seeing all the minutiae of the state primaries. Really brings to light broken systems -- nm - budice Feb 20, 06:44
Now waiting in (a long, long, long) line for: Best Picture Showcase - prayformojo Feb 20, 05:59 15
- I'm carbo-loading, which might be a bad idea -- nm - iSpam Feb 20, 06:32
- I think this is a good year for the showcase since there are less slow and serious films to sit through. -- nm - Krusty Feb 20, 06:01 13
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    - You mean one nominated for BP or any film? I've seen many films that are just slow to develop or - Krusty Feb 20, 06:56 6
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        I felt like I could have nodded off for 30 minutes and still had known what was going on. - Krusty Feb 20, 07:04 2 1
        
        In the case of TTSS, (spoils) - Will Hunting Feb 20, 07:06 1
        
        Heh. :-) -- nm - Krusty Feb 20, 07:11
      - Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy might be the slowest movie I have ever watched. - Will Hunting Feb 20, 06:58 1
        
        My god that was slow. -- nm - MDH Feb 20, 07:05
  - I did the "24 hour marathon" last year - it was great. This year it's 2 hours longer. I couldn't being myself to do it. -- nm - MDH Feb 20, 06:41 4
    - It's longer, even with less movies? - Will Hunting Feb 20, 06:57 3
      - Last year started at 10AM ended at 5:30AM. This year starts at 10:30AM, ends at 7:35AM -- nm - MDH Feb 20, 07:07
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        Really? Thought it was 9. - Will Hunting Feb 20, 07:03
uh -- nm - Bacon Feb 20, 05:29 8
- Why are you awake? -- nm - Krusty Feb 20, 05:35 7
  - Eastern time zone and finally synced up to it -- nm - Bacon Feb 20, 05:42 6
    - You in the Caribbean on vacation? -- nm - Krusty Feb 20, 05:59 4
      - Getting on ship at 1pm still in Florida hotel -- nm - Bacon Feb 20, 06:00 3
        
        Nice! Have a great time! - Krusty Feb 20, 06:01 2
        
        that sounded like a great idea until the one that ran into that strom a couple weeks ago. -- nm - Bacon Feb 20, 07:06 1
        
        My sister is on that boat right now. After it came back and got repaired it was sent back out and my sister is on it heading to or in the Bahamas. -- nm - Krusty Feb 20, 07:27
    - Not for the FA cup? -- nm - JD Feb 20, 05:43
Here's the end of the Kimbo Slice v Dada 5000 fight...hilarious -- (link) - Beaker Feb 20, 04:01
TV PSA: MythBusters, Doctor Who, Black Sails, other stuff -- nm - Beaker Feb 20, 03:53
Chicago is hosting Poutine Fest this weekend. -- (link) - Mop Feb 20, 00:26
Bill and Hillary visited with Britney Spears in Las Vegas today. Caption this photo. -- (link) - Mop Feb 20, 00:08 [Image] 7
- Hillary tells a staffer to stfu as she offers Ms Spears a position in her cabinet. -- nm - Loyola Feb 20, 06:39
- "Bill had a full-on robot chubby and the Queen Mother was protecting her ground." -- nm - budice Feb 20, 05:59
- No! He has a weak heart! -- nm - Will Hunting Feb 20, 05:21
- We call this space the Neutral Zone, Bill is not to cross the Neutral Zone -- nm - Beaker Feb 20, 04:36
- "Maybe she could sit on the other side of Bill." "That is NOT happening." -- nm - Max Feb 20, 00:17 2
  - "'Oops, I did it again' wasn't funny the first time, Bill." -- nm - Roger More Feb 20, 05:20
  - She's not that innocent -- nm - zeitgeist Feb 20, 01:23
The Max Payne movie is pretty funny. They really somehow managed to capture the snow effects of the game. -- nm - Beryllium Feb 19, 23:33 1
- I'm like 90% positive that Max Payne's climax took place on the same building helipad that the Total Recall reboot shot at -- nm - Beryllium Feb 20, 00:52
So I used "Fiverr" to try and get a logo for GrubThing made. I think it turned out OK. -- (link) - Beryllium Feb 19, 23:26 [Image] 8
- The silverware should be moved down and the bow should go away. - nic to be determined Feb 19, 23:55 7
  - lii's a professional so I trust her eye. The bow, indeed, seems superfluous. Too busy. But it does something else... - Mop Feb 20, 00:05 4
    - I knew there was something about that. -- nm - nic to be determined Feb 20, 01:25
    - I was wondering if anyone would spot that. Nice :) -- nm - Beryllium Feb 20, 00:07 2
      - It's unfortunate. If there had been an outline to the utensils rather than just a silhouette, that could have been avoided. -- nm - Mop Feb 20, 00:09 1
        
        true, but all that can be fixed later. For now, it's amusing. -- nm - Beryllium Feb 20, 00:13
  - All good suggestions ... but I didn't think of them at the time, so *shrug* heheh -- nm - Beryllium Feb 19, 23:57 1
    - I did get the EPS/AI files, and my wife has graphic design experience, so if the dude from Bangladesh didn't gum it up, it should be fixable. -- nm - Beryllium Feb 20, 01:04
Lisa, the blues ain't about making yourself feel better, it's about making everyone else feel worse -- nm - Bleeding Gums Murphy Feb 19, 23:04
the republican tv commercials have started, and there were 2 hillary's in the last commercial break. -- nm - Peglegpete Feb 19, 22:57
Kart-a-geena -- nm - sweet baboo Feb 19, 22:51 1
- "Come, fly with me ..." -- nm - Beryllium Feb 20, 00:08
fire in Laughlin NV. powerplant blacks out city -- (link) - Peglegpete Feb 19, 22:39
Holy Shit - Steve Martin is doing stand up again -- (link) - Reagen Feb 19, 22:16 4
- fortuniately, he has his lucky astrology mood watch ... -- nm - call me Ishmael Feb 20, 07:26
- I'm not sure people grasp how momentous this is. It actually shocked Reagen. -- nm - Mop Feb 20, 01:08
- So, he's giving up. - Max Feb 19, 22:48
- I saw him in 1978 at Red Rocks. he was incredible -- nm - Peglegpete Feb 19, 22:27
I know this is like calling water wet but NXT has been killing it this month. -- nm - Qale Feb 19, 22:12 1
- Sami/Joe was great. -- nm - Tim Feb 19, 22:14
Gilmore girls question (spoiler) - amoxy Feb 19, 21:29 1
- Spoilers - Bacon Feb 20, 04:17
How does Trump's people keep track of what he says? Or do they just take the latest spew and that is gospel? - amoxy Feb 19, 20:00 5
- When negotiating with hostage takers, they keep a list, matrix of stances, deceptions, promises, probably works for his staff too, I think trump ... - zeitgeist Feb 19, 22:51
- I'm guessing they commit to whatever is most recent and disavow anything that came before that differs. - TWuG Feb 19, 20:34 1
  - This has been my impression. -- nm - Mop Feb 19, 21:16
- they poll & test ahead of time a lot of it -- nm - Peglegpete Feb 19, 20:05 1
  - let Mexico build a wall was not off the cuff. -- nm - Peglegpete Feb 19, 20:08
Holy Crap. Christopher Bell somehow walks away from this crash -- (link) - amoxy Feb 19, 19:41 6
- They're not supposed to do that anymore. Wonder if the trucks don't have the flap. -- nm - iSpam Feb 19, 20:03 2
  - It never went backwards to deploy. Sideways would probably barrel-roll the cars too. -- nm - Will Hunting Feb 19, 20:04 1
    - Ah, good point. -- nm - iSpam Feb 19, 20:06
- Those are the ones you should walk away from easily - Will Hunting Feb 19, 20:01 2
  - No concussion from all that rolling? -- nm - amoxy Feb 19, 20:12 1
    - He might but the HANS device has his head locked in tight. -- nm - Will Hunting Feb 19, 20:14
San Bernardino shooter's phone password was changed by county admin while in possession of the FBI *link added -- (edited) - zeitgeist Feb 19, 19:38 3
- The iCloud password is separate from the encryption key on the phone, would be my guess. -- nm - TWuG Feb 19, 19:42 2
  - But shouldn't Apple be more capable of providing the iCloud password than the iPhone key? -- nm - Mop Feb 19, 21:16 1
    - Yes, they have done so in dozens of cases, it's routine, but something happened when the password was reset from an IP not associated with the phone -- nm - zeitgeist Feb 19, 22:55
Texas judge moves affluenza teen's case to adult court, ooh he's gonna get spanked now -- (link) - zeitgeist Feb 19, 19:30 1
- that's foreplay in prison :) -- nm - Peglegpete Feb 19, 19:39
I was wavering a bit on Gilmore Girls, but then Lorelai mentioned PowerPuff Girls and Absolutely Fabulous in one episode - amoxy Feb 19, 19:26
For Easter, Trump will take on Jesus "It took this guy 3 days, I think it would take me 3 hours, Jesus, such low energy -- nm - NPR Feb 19, 19:14 2
- He Is Risen. Quoth the Messiah, "One thing my father taught me well was the Art of the Smote. This is gonna be YUUUGE." -- nm - Beryllium Feb 19, 19:17 1
  - Cue the music. -- nm - X Gon Give It To Ya Feb 19, 19:22
And now for something completely different: an episode of House Hunters where they fixate on the wall colors. -- nm - ty97 Feb 19, 19:13 2
- And they just complained that a home was older because it was built in 2006. -- nm - ty97 Feb 19, 19:27 1
  - they just don't build them like that any more -- nm - zeitgeist Feb 19, 19:31
Not letting Canadians take the online Jeopardy test is probably just them being overly cautious about anti-spam laws -- (link) - Reagen Feb 19, 19:09 4
- Where did you take the test then? -- nm - iSpam Feb 19, 19:11 3
  - I got invited based off the previous year's test. -- nm - Reagen Feb 19, 19:14 1
    - Ah. -- nm - iSpam Feb 19, 19:15
  - The same place Ted Cruz was born -- nm - Beryllium Feb 19, 19:13
Meldives, at 10:00 on TCM is the Thin Man -- nm - zork Feb 19, 18:44 3
- we literally came home and I poured myself a whiskey as we sat down and watched. - Mel Profit Feb 19, 20:23
- thx! -- nm - Diva Feb 19, 19:16
- *shoots mel in the tabloids* -- nm - sweet baboo Feb 19, 18:46
I predict that The Witch will receive historically low Cinemascores -- nm - Dano Feb 19, 18:41 14
- yes -- nm - Diva Feb 19, 19:18
- someone in my FB screenwriting group said the ending was Blair Witch-level bad -- nm - sweet baboo Feb 19, 18:42 12
  - People bought the Blair Witch ending. It worked. - Mel Profit Feb 19, 20:34
  - The movie isn't bad, but the audience that's going to see it is going to hate it. -- nm - Dano Feb 19, 18:47 4
    - agreed. they have no idea that what they think the movie is, is NOT what they will see. (spoilers) - Mel Profit Feb 19, 20:27
    - They came for a horror movie but they get something closer to a Bergman film. -- nm - Dano Feb 19, 19:01 2
      - nobody expects the Swedish inquisition -- nm - sweet baboo Feb 19, 19:02 1
        
        This actually is funny -- nm - zork Feb 19, 19:26
  - so...best horror movie ending ever? (as already discussed earlier today) -- (link*) - Beaker Feb 19, 18:46 [Backboard] 3
    - The Witch aims for a shocking ending (massive spoilers) - Mel Profit Feb 19, 20:31
    - Exactly. First part of the movie was "Eh"...but the last 10 minutes still give me nightmares -- nm - amoxy Feb 19, 18:48 1
      - they still make me want to fly back to Baltimore and demand a refund -- nm - sweet baboo Feb 19, 18:50
  - wanting to see it even more now ... -- nm - call me Ishmael Feb 19, 18:44
  - Witches, man -- nm - prayformojo Feb 19, 18:44
good luck -- nm - Beaker Feb 19, 18:38 1
- thanks! -- nm - sweet baboo Feb 19, 18:38
Nintendo World re-opened today in New York City as Nintendo NY. The remodeled store still retains the Pokemon Center doors, but otherwise is all new. - Qale Feb 19, 18:29 [youtube] 1
- Pixels debuts tonight on Starz -- nm - Peglegpete Feb 19, 18:31
age of world's oldest dress confirmed by carbon dating -- (link) - Peglegpete Feb 19, 18:02 1
- That's a lovely blue and black dress. -- nm - Negabaronic Middle-Aged Forehead Feb 19, 18:12
Is Curt Schilling the pitching coach at Arizona these days? -- (link) - amoxy Feb 19, 18:00 2
- He's a douchebag but that was the gutsiest thing I've seen in sports. - Mel Profit Feb 19, 20:38
- Lady Kenmores -- nm - budice Feb 19, 18:00
"My heart is my armor, she's the tear in my heart. She's a carver. She's a butcher with a smile, cut me farther than I've ever been." -- nm - Qale Feb 19, 17:59

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