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Shaun PSA: gas going up 4 cents overnight fyi -- nm - Beaker Mar 30, 15:15
Huh. Drew Storen lost the closer's gig? Wasn't expecting that. -- nm - ML Mar 30, 15:14 1
- I bet he'll take it well. -- nm - iSpam Mar 30, 15:22
i really hope there's a place for Barney Frank in a Hillary Clinton administration -- (link) - pixie ninja Mar 30, 15:12
B2 Last book Six of Crows, Last Music: Working Girl - Little Boots Last Sammich: North Shore from Beach Hut Deli -- nm - JD Mar 30, 15:04
Andrew Miller just has a bruised wrist. X-rays were negative. *whew* -- nm - Krusty Mar 30, 15:03 3
- CT scan still pending though. He's not out of the woods yet. -- nm - ML Mar 30, 15:18 1
  - I don't think he tore something with that injury so the CT is just them being extra cautious. -- nm - Krusty Mar 30, 15:26
- Unless that ball achieved the Touch of Death in which case his wrist and heart will explode during some random future game. -- nm - Max Mar 30, 15:12
he probably has better things to do, but I would like justin trudeau to do snapchat or daily vlogs or the like. nm but: -- (link) - b. Mar 30, 15:01 1
- icft, too: would have been good if this wasn't just women. "female media members ask trump to fire corey lewandowski." nm but: -- (link) - b. Mar 30, 15:05
Consulting the DILFs Instagram feed, I've observed the following patterns... - Mop Mar 30, 14:54 7
- Clothes makes the man. It's not just one thing but the whole that makes those men attractive. - Krusty Mar 30, 15:24
- I...uh....Mop? -- nm - iSpam Mar 30, 15:23
- I...didn't know this was a thing, but I like that you're strategizing. Maybe ask budice. I understand he recently had sex with a 20-year-old. - David Mar 30, 15:06 1
  - If he'd used both his hands, would it have been a 40-year-old? -- nm - Mop Mar 30, 15:08
- You need a makeover. -- nm - JaxSean Mar 30, 14:59
- I got as far the comma in the subject, thought "oh Mop", shook my head, and closed ST -- nm - ty97 Mar 30, 14:55 1
  - This is why I suggested Hades. -- nm - Roger More Mar 30, 14:55
The State Department wants you to know that if you are ugly at home, you're ugly overseas too -- (link) - ty97 Mar 30, 14:52 1
- also, i don't think they get how buying drinks for "10" works -- nm - pixie ninja Mar 30, 14:55
Now I want pizza. Oh, never mind -- (link) - ty97 Mar 30, 14:49
I may have just spent more on beer to take back to IL than I did on LEGO at the LEGO store. This is unprecedented. - TWuG Mar 30, 14:47 1
- That will be me if I'm ever driving through Kentucky and stop at a liquor store -- nm - zeitgeist Mar 30, 14:58
It feels like 1995 to me this afternoon... - Mel Profit Mar 30, 14:46 1
- you bought tickets to see Tommy Boy opening weekend? -- nm - pixie ninja Mar 30, 14:49
Finding Dory has otters -- (link) - pixie ninja Mar 30, 14:41 7
- my inner 3 year old just squeed. some of it may not have been silent. sorry, coworkers! -- nm - b. Mar 30, 14:52
- savage otters -- nm - Max Mar 30, 14:44 1
  - Hee hee. -- nm - Dark Callisto Mar 30, 14:44
- My son was obsessed with going to the aquarium in Seattle. Turns out he just wanted to see the otters. -- nm - Mop Mar 30, 14:43 3
  - They are the coolest and most watchable critters -- nm - zeitgeist Mar 30, 14:57
  - Maggie stacks them cups like a boss -- (link) - pixie ninja Mar 30, 14:51 [youtube] 1
    - That's frustrating to watch. PUT THE DAMN GREEN CUP IN THE DAMN YELLOW CUP! -- nm - Mop Mar 30, 14:57
I read the report on the scouts complaining about Chip Kelly and I have no sympathy for them (the scouts). -- (edited) - Mop Mar 30, 14:33 1
- word -- nm - Beaker Mar 30, 14:53
the high cost of deferred maintenance: DC Metro weighing shutting down the whole rail system for six *months* to conduct repairs -- (link) - pixie ninja Mar 30, 14:30 23
- That's not what he said, he said an entire line, not the whole system. -- nm - Ender Mar 30, 15:05
- Jesus H. -- nm - Will Hunting Mar 30, 14:57
- this actually scares me. it would hellish. -- nm - Andie Mar 30, 14:53 5
  - DC is in the worst of possible situations. no sovereign power over the system within its border and stuck with two states that don't want to fund the - pixie ninja Mar 30, 15:01
  - I literally have no idea how we'd get to work easily. - Mel Profit Mar 30, 15:00 3
    - When we had this happen on a couple of lines they ran buses on essentially the same route. Definitely slower, but it works. -- nm - pmb Mar 30, 15:05 2
      - They've done this when they've shut down service to parts of lines for a weekend, etc and it does work... - Mel Profit Mar 30, 15:09 1
        
        we've done it on occasion too, but during rush hour? fuhgeddabout. -- nm - Andie Mar 30, 15:17
- you...the...this...but...holy shit -- nm - ty97 Mar 30, 14:46 2
  - it sounds like they might only do one color at a time but still -- nm - pixie ninja Mar 30, 14:47 1
    - That's a bit more realistic, though still quite painful. -- nm - ty97 Mar 30, 14:48
- I could see people moving to other cities as result. -- nm - Max Mar 30, 14:46 5
  - no no no. You keep Congress, it's yours, we don't want it. -- nm - ty97 Mar 30, 14:47 1
    - You can't be all NIMBY about Congress, man, it's coming your way. -- nm - Max Mar 30, 14:48
  - gondola! -- nm - pixie ninja Mar 30, 14:47 2
    - Imagine the sweet action movies we could have if DC had gondolas over the rivers. -- nm - Max Mar 30, 14:49
    - Yeah!\ -- nm - prayformojo Mar 30, 14:48
- I read this earlier this afternoon. The idea is sorta inconceivable and yet unavoidable -- nm - prayformojo Mar 30, 14:45
- Just one rail line at a time, no? -- nm - iSpam Mar 30, 14:40
- I fear MA might have to do the same. They admit to being behind by 6 or 7 billion on needed repairs. -- nm* - Mel Profit Mar 30, 14:33 3
  - Is Beverly Scott still there? She's freakin awful. -- nm - Strongbad Mar 30, 15:56
  - We're good, though. -- nm - BART Mar 30, 14:44 1
    - Eh...only poor (brown) people take mass transit anyway. - Mel Profit Mar 30, 14:47
Today's bigger political drama: John Kasich ate pizza with a fork -- nm - ty97 Mar 30, 14:26 26
- to be fair, Ohio has pretty crappy pizza. No offense Vol. -- nm - Jovian Mar 30, 14:36 6
  - You've clearly never been to the Sbarro's at the Cleveland airport. -- nm - Mop Mar 30, 15:19
  - You've never had Donatos then. -- nm - TWuG Mar 30, 14:48 4
    - Or Deweys! -- nm - iSpam Mar 30, 15:20
    - This. -- nm - Ender Mar 30, 14:58 1
      - (Or Marion's) If you cut it in small enough squares you don't need to cut it. -- nm - Ender Mar 30, 15:07
    - And, to be clear, Donatos isn't an "eat with a fork" type pizza. - TWuG Mar 30, 14:50
- Remember when this was a political crisis? -- nm - Mop Mar 30, 14:34
- this is amusing. nm but: -- (link) - b. Mar 30, 14:33 7
  - I follow him on Twitter. He wrote that article in response to the Kasich thing. -- nm - ty97 Mar 30, 14:45 3
    - that's why I linked it? ;) - -- nm - b. Mar 30, 14:47 1
      - why are you asking me why you linked it? Don't you even understand your own motivations?! -- nm - ty97 Mar 30, 14:56
    - (he's also written a screed against honeydew in the past) -- nm - ty97 Mar 30, 14:45
  - I dislike him for a better reason. the Grateful Dead kicked him out of one of their concerts for being an asshole backstage -- nm - Peglegpete Mar 30, 14:44
  - (and, for disclosure's sake: I've done exactly what he did, in public where there was drip/mess risk. start with fork and knife, end with hands.)-- nm - b. Mar 30, 14:36 1
    - Yeah, for me it's entirely dictated by the nature of the pizza. -- nm - mara Mar 30, 14:40
- I shudder to think how he eats a burrito -- nm - decline Mar 30, 14:32 1
  - like a fancy lad! -- nm - pixie ninja Mar 30, 14:34
- the kind of pizza is important there. -- nm - b. Mar 30, 14:32 5
  - heh. I actually didn't even read/look far enough to know because the whole thing is so silly. -- nm - ty97 Mar 30, 14:43
  - Right. Like floppy NY style needs to be eaten with a fork or it just looks like a sad floppy mess. -- nm - iSpam Mar 30, 14:37 3
    - You don't use a fork and for that comment you're not welcome back here. - Krusty Mar 30, 15:27
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    - But the point of eating pizza is the whole hold it with your hands experience. - Loyola Mar 30, 14:41
- There's really no recovery from that. -- nm - Loyola Mar 30, 14:31
- c'mon dude -- nm - pixie ninja Mar 30, 14:29
Dear autocorrect: I type "already" waaay more than I type "ashtray" - Reagen Mar 30, 14:26 1
- There are reasons I disabled my autocorrect. -- nm - nic to be determined Mar 30, 14:30
Mop should Disneybound. (nm) - David Mar 30, 14:00 39
- Are you her Stitch? -- nm - Roger More Mar 30, 14:21 12
  - You do know her email right? -- nm - iSpam Mar 30, 14:38 8
    - I never made the connection -- nm - Roger More Mar 30, 14:40 7
      - How is that even possible? -- nm - David Mar 30, 14:43 6
        
        to be fair, it took me roughly 6 years to figure this out -- nm - prayformojo Mar 30, 14:46 2
        
        If Stitch had been available, she'd have suffered through so much knitting spam over the years. - David Mar 30, 14:48 1
        
        ha! -- nm - prayformojo Mar 30, 15:32
        
        I saw the movie once, when it came out. I don't follow Disney -- nm - Roger More Mar 30, 14:45 2
        
        It's the movie Kim has watched the most since I've known her. -- (edited) - David Mar 30, 14:47
        
        i'm sorry - pixie ninja Mar 30, 14:46
  - She's more Stitch than Lilo. - David Mar 30, 14:37 2
    - Meega nala kweesta! -- nm - Dark Callisto Mar 30, 14:44 1
      - speak english -- nm - pixie ninja Mar 30, 14:53
- Holy crap, this is a thing? -- nm - Mop Mar 30, 14:07 24
  - I'll refer you to an expert. -- (link) - David Mar 30, 14:08 23
    - Disneybound is not, they repeat, not cosplay. Mostly because I assume they want you to buy the clothes from them. -- nm* - nic to be determined Mar 30, 14:29
    - do *not* do this, moppy - pixie ninja Mar 30, 14:10 21
      - Sweet Jesus, Mary and Joseph. Even I'm not that extreme. -- nm - Mop Mar 30, 14:12 20
        
        Subpoll: Which Disney character would Mop be? -- nm - Andie Mar 30, 14:22 19
        
        Lewis Robinson -- nm - David Mar 30, 14:36
        
        magic broomstick. -- nm - b. Mar 30, 14:30 5
        
        *grabs the axe* -- nm - pixie ninja Mar 30, 14:32 4
        
        NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO. didn't you see Fantasia? there will be hundreds of little Mop's -- nm - Peglegpete Mar 30, 14:33 3
        
        grab the blowtorch -- nm - Peglegpete Mar 30, 14:34 2
        
        Then you'll inhale the smoke and I'll eat you up from the inside like a cancer! - Mop Mar 30, 14:36 1
        
        whatever :))...Meg still has first dibs on you after that 1500 Petroglyph comment last night :))) -- nm - Peglegpete Mar 30, 14:45
        
        one of the penguin waiters in Mary Poppins -- nm - Peglegpete Mar 30, 14:30
        
        I'm surprised how highly you all think of me. I expected Piglet or Smee or LeFou. But, yeah, Hades works. -- nm - Mop Mar 30, 14:29 1
        
        Smee, Smop, same thing. -- nm* - groiny Mar 30, 14:30
        
        the candlestick from beauty and the beast. -- nm - Truman Mar 30, 14:28
        
        Bernard from The Rescuers. -- nm - JaxSean Mar 30, 14:27
        
        Hades -- nm - Roger More Mar 30, 14:25
        
        He definitely doesn't have the figure for Belle. -- nm - Reagen Mar 30, 14:24
        
        Lumiere, natch -- nm - pixie ninja Mar 30, 14:24
        
        Which one gets their kidneys stolen in Bangkok? -- nm - iSpam Mar 30, 14:24 2
        
        i assume that would be Captain Hook, on his travels. -- nm - Andie Mar 30, 14:26 1
        
        Hmm.. makes you wonder about the real story about that hook. -- nm* - nic to be determined Mar 30, 14:32
        
        Elsa -- nm - groiny Mar 30, 14:23
- mop should trunkclub. that will fix all his problems. - Truman Mar 30, 14:03
Pennystock news. -- (link) - GregW Mar 30, 14:00 1
- That's good casting. -- nm - David Mar 30, 14:03
"My position has not changed" (in the past 5 minutes). Trump flips and flops -- (link) - ty97 Mar 30, 13:58 10
- His logic charts make the Primer flow-chart look positively linear. -- nm - Will Hunting Mar 30, 14:02 7
  - The NBC News website had an article today where they put down all of his positions on about 5 different issues. It's pretty funny (except to the -- (edited) - pmb Mar 30, 14:07 6
    - this might be the thing that pries his voters from him. Any hint of dishonesty in the positions and they may leave. -- nm - Mel Profit Mar 30, 14:14 4
      - The hints are everywhere. Most see his lack of being pinned down as an advantage (don't ask me how, but the polling shows that). They believe what -- (edited) - pmb Mar 30, 14:39
      - Not really. His supporters are already able to square the circle of "he says whatever he wants!" and "he's saying what he needs to to get elected!" -- nm - Reagen Mar 30, 14:18 2
        
        true 'nuff. -- nm - Mel Profit Mar 30, 14:26
        
        all they care about is "blowing up washington" - pixie ninja Mar 30, 14:19
    - Link. -- (link) - Mop Mar 30, 14:13
- My position has not changed, except to the extent that it has, which it hasn't. The press is so unfair to me. -- nm - Drumph Mar 30, 13:59 1
  - and let me tell you something -- nm - Jovian Mar 30, 14:04
tired: Susan Sarandon feeling the bern; wired: Oliver Stone berning up -- (link) - pixie ninja Mar 30, 13:57 4
- I thought he was dead. -- nm - Beryllium Mar 30, 14:48 2
  - Shit, he's 69. He could be 2016's next name. -- nm - Beryllium Mar 30, 14:49 1
    - He can't sing nor play an instrument professionally so he should be safe -- nm - zeitgeist Mar 30, 15:22
- God no. -- nm - Mop Mar 30, 14:07
Doing some cyber security training for work. This is so cheesy. -- nm - iSpam Mar 30, 13:55 4
- "OK, first I need everyone to log into the server and download this script that'll install all the files you'll need. The password is 1-2-3-4-5-6." -- nm - Mop Mar 30, 14:08
- Vanderbeek is doing his best! -- nm - Reagen Mar 30, 13:59
- are they teaching you about the Dark Net and Tor and how something may be Cyber? -- nm - Remlik Mar 30, 13:58 1
  - Zero Cool and Acid Burn gonna drop some science on yo ass -- nm - pixie ninja Mar 30, 14:01
Science. Tackling the tough questions. -- (link) - znufrii Mar 30, 13:51
Biggie Biggie Biggie can't you see Sometimes your words just hypnotize me -- nm* - Truman Mar 30, 13:50 4
- Biggie Smalls is the illest. Your style is played out like Arnold with that "Whatcha' talkin about Willis." -- nm - Krusty Mar 30, 13:52 3
  - Super Nintendo, Sega Genesis when I was dead broke, man I couldn't picture this -- nm* - Truman Mar 30, 13:54 2
    - decide for me: should I see Sick Puppies ( new frontman) + Buck Cherry or Pop Evil? both on the same night - Epiphany Mar 30, 14:08 1
      - i dont know. is buck cherry actually making new music, or just living off old glory? - Truman Mar 30, 14:15

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