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lyc: Its mystery Movie Night on the 20th Century Fox Lot tonight - budice Apr 12, 16:33 4
- The library was about to show SW:TFA downstairs. I probably should have stayed - free popcorn !! -- nm - Meg Apr 12, 16:39 2
  - (when you steal it from the kids, it's free) -- nm - the brain Apr 12, 16:40
  - Popcorn's cheap. Buy your own rather than suffer through that. -- nm - David Apr 12, 16:40
- I hope it's the McCloud episode where the chief leaves Terry Garr in charge. -- nm - Peglegpete Apr 12, 16:35
Deutsche Bank halts North Carolina expansion over anti-LGBTQ law -- (link) - Beaker Apr 12, 16:31
NY Daily News endorses Hillary -- (link) - the brain Apr 12, 16:28 5
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  - If you want ponies and rainbows, you pick Bernie Sanders. If you're in a knife fight with Putin, you pick Hillary. -- nm - Mop Apr 12, 16:38
- Which is kinda crazy in a way (they hate her) - ty97 Apr 12, 16:31 1
  - you mean the Post? -- nm - the brain Apr 12, 16:32
- *moves closer* -- nm - Clinton Death Star Apr 12, 16:30
I so badly want to rant about work stuff, but that could bite me. :-/ -- nm - Beryllium Apr 12, 16:18 3
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  - Yes Jack, talk to us -- nm - Federales Apr 12, 16:23
  - Never stopped you before, bruh -- nm - Nanak Apr 12, 16:21
i'm beginning to think Los Doyers might have some bullpen issues -- nm - the brain Apr 12, 16:17
Has anyone ever used a soft cone of shame? Kitty can't seem to get comfortable with the plastic one. -- nm - Dano Apr 12, 16:10 8
- bitch, please -- nm - chubbers Apr 12, 16:26
- yes, just make sure she can't get to the surgery site and can't get out of it. -- nm - b. Apr 12, 16:13 4
  - b! - cat si Apr 12, 16:13 3
    - :) - - b. Apr 12, 16:20 2
      - b! - cat si Apr 12, 16:22 1
        
        *flees* -- nm - b. Apr 12, 16:27
- mfer cone of shame my arse. ill show him -- nm - cat si Apr 12, 16:12
- She's probably scared, having never seen you wear one. Try a turtle neck for starters. -- nm - Max Apr 12, 16:11
Kitty cat had surgery today. - Dano Apr 12, 16:02 5
- cools -- nm - budice Apr 12, 16:12
- phew, good healing thoughts to kitty! - b. Apr 12, 16:09
- Yay kitty! -- nm - Diva Apr 12, 16:06
- Yay good health! I hope kitty is back to normal very quickly. -- nm - Krusty Apr 12, 16:05
- Yay for kitty! -- nm - iSpam Apr 12, 16:03
"I will not consider myself a pop culture icon until I'm on the Kardashians." - Stephen Hawking Apr 12, 16:00 6
- His speechification machine has clearly been hacked. -- nm - Mop Apr 12, 16:38
- "I am Ray J ooh baby ooh baby" -- nm - Steph Hawking Apr 12, 16:11
- trust me. NONE of the Kardashians know the difference between a Cosmetologist and a Cosmologist. -- nm* - Peglegpete Apr 12, 16:03 1
  - and hilarity ensues. LOVE IT! -- nm - E! producers Apr 12, 16:04
- "I am now approaching your black hole." -- nm - S. Hawking Apr 12, 16:00 1
  - Feeling rather nebula about this -- nm - zeitgeist Apr 12, 16:38
GODDAMMIT, Slack! I can't invite more than 100 people?! -- nm - Mop Apr 12, 15:58 8
- Or... I could e-mail Slack and they could lift the limit. That's cool. -- nm - Mop Apr 12, 16:39
- they say there's no limit for number of people (I saw it when I went to look at their animal page, as I wanted to know if there was a movie tie-in.) -- nm* - b. Apr 12, 16:07 5
  - *people*, but invites are not people. It could be an anti spam measure. -- nm - Beryllium Apr 12, 16:08 4
    - That seems to be the case. I wonder if it's time capped. It doesn't say. I can't even find the error message in a Google search. -- nm - Mop Apr 12, 16:34
    - how do people know to join? via a link sent outside the system? -- nm - b. Apr 12, 16:09 2
      - Corporate slack accounts (even free ones) grant access to *@companyname.com -- nm - Beryllium Apr 12, 16:16
      - these people say they found a way to get around the invite system to add people. nm but: -- (link) - b. Apr 12, 16:11
- At that point the extra slackers amount to less than 1%, which is statistically insignificant, and who needs those people? Scrape 'em off, Claire. -- nm - Max Apr 12, 16:00
What's a good synonym for "tool" or "relic", from a Dark Arts perspective? - Beryllium Apr 12, 15:44 18
- Talismans are more Defence against the Dark Arts than actual Dark Arts. -- nm - Roger More Apr 12, 16:03 1
  - That works for my use case. (Version control software.) -- nm - Beryllium Apr 12, 16:08
- Trump -- nm - budice Apr 12, 15:52
- totem -- nm - Peglegpete Apr 12, 15:46
- talisman? -- nm - b. Apr 12, 15:46 1
  - Thanks :) -- nm - Beryllium Apr 12, 15:46
- horacrux -- nm - Peglegpete Apr 12, 15:44
- talisman. doohickey. -- nm - Max Apr 12, 15:44 10
  - whoops, this wasn't there when I clicked to post. sorry! -- nm - b. Apr 12, 15:47 2
    - it appeared by magic after your post :) -- nm - Peglegpete Apr 12, 15:47
    - edit your post, copycat! edit! -- nm - Max Apr 12, 15:47
  - I think talisman is the winner. Thanks. -- nm - Beryllium Apr 12, 15:46 6
    - well I'll just hold on to my doohickey then. -- nm - Max Apr 12, 15:47 5
      - I'll do that for you as penance. -- nm - b. Apr 12, 15:50 4
        
        !! -- nm - mara Apr 12, 15:54 1
        
        !! -- nm - budice Apr 12, 15:55
        
        nmb b. - Peglegpete Apr 12, 15:54 1
        
        :) - - b. Apr 12, 15:57
Man, if CA Civil War deviates from any sensible character arc from the previous movies, I am going to be super irritated at the writers. - Max Apr 12, 15:43 2
- relax. it's NOT a DC movie -- nm - Peglegpete Apr 12, 16:32
- you worry to much -- nm - Remlik Apr 12, 16:29
Love it. My last customer was barely able to see over the desk, but paid for her own book :) -- nm - Meg Apr 12, 15:34 8
- Cute. :-) -- nm - Krusty Apr 12, 15:56
- the copy of the Navajo rug I showed you the other day, sold for almost $3500 -- nm - Peglegpete Apr 12, 15:38 3
  - Somebody got burned :( -- nm - Meg Apr 12, 15:40 2
    - Seller or buyer? Or is there some Navajo curse? -- nm - Max Apr 12, 15:41 1
      - a misc. junk dealer had a 1970's copy of an 1880's Moki pattern Navajo rug on ebay. it's worthless. if it was right, it's a $15k and up piece -- nm - Peglegpete Apr 12, 15:42
- "kids pay double, see" -- nm - the brain Apr 12, 15:37 2
  - She looked down at her change and yelled "moneeee." She looked all of about three :) -- nm - Meg Apr 12, 15:42 1
    - "...one of those combs there, a pint of Old Harper, a couple of flash light batteries and some beef jerky." -- nm - kid Apr 12, 16:05
Man Kareem and Doc J showin age -- nm - budice Apr 12, 15:34 1
- They should have retired years ago. -- nm - Mop Apr 12, 15:44
The Ghost Shitter -- nm - Tales Of Office Horror! Apr 12, 15:27
remember when the Washington football team didn't need to overpay Alfred Morris? -- (link) - the brain Apr 12, 15:09
I can't find the forward mail button on gmail! -- nm - Loyola Apr 12, 15:01 8
- Oh I found it. -- nm - Loyola Apr 12, 15:02 7
  - how drunk are you? - Epiphany Apr 12, 15:05 6
    - Worryingly, not at all. -- nm - Loyola Apr 12, 15:09 5
      - Are you smelling toast? -- nm - Bacon Apr 12, 15:09 4
        
        What does that even mean?! -- nm - Loyola Apr 12, 15:14 3
        
        If you do, Bacon is right behind you. Or he's cooking you breakfast. -- nm - JaxSean Apr 12, 15:21
        
        The smell of burnt toast is a symptom of having a stroke. -- nm - Bacon Apr 12, 15:15
        
        It's a symptom of cat scratch fever -- nm - Beryllium Apr 12, 15:15
LYC: I went home from a baseball game with four foul balls but I didn't catch any of them. -- (edited) - Krusty Apr 12, 14:58
If you think about it, it's weird that D.Mac has been doing the job he's been doing for almost 20 years. -- nm - Reagen Apr 12, 14:56 27
- I can understand a career being that long, but I don't think I could work on one thing for that long. - Beryllium Apr 12, 15:29
- Maybe he's like the Dread Pirate Roberts. The real D Mac has been retired fifteen years and living like a king in Patagonia. -- nm - JaxSean Apr 12, 15:24
- I just post on occasion and boot the occasional prick -- nm - D.Mac si Apr 12, 15:12 3
  - Bery should have scribbled everyone for April Fools -- nm - Bacon Apr 12, 15:13 2
    - I could have baconized everyone, but then the unbaconizing might have done some bad things. -- nm - Beryllium Apr 12, 15:14 1
      - bacon bacon bacon -- nm - D.Mac si Apr 12, 15:16
- Was Mac Daddy before him, or did he change his name? -- nm - Bacon Apr 12, 15:11 6
  - Mac Daddy was this guy -- (link) - Reagen Apr 12, 15:19 4
    - Really. That's interesting. And apparently from the photos is (or was) with Estella Warren? - pmb Apr 12, 15:24 1
      - She famously went to their 1999 millennium party. It was a huge deal for them at the time. -- nm - David's iPad Apr 12, 15:38
    - oh, i thought it was going to be one of the Kriss Kross kids -- nm - the brain Apr 12, 15:21
    - That's right. I keep forgetting. Stupid memory -- nm - Bacon Apr 12, 15:20
  - Because Im not the Mack Daddy -- nm - D.Mac si Apr 12, 15:12
- Cantor Fitzgerald forgot that he's there. - pmb Apr 12, 15:10 2
  - I smoke the occasional pole, keeps them happy -- nm - D.Mac si Apr 12, 15:17
  - just like max -- nm - the brain Apr 12, 15:10
- How many were there before him? He predates me, but seems like there was turnover prior to his stable reign? - ty97 Apr 12, 15:02 8
  - How many D Macs? Two or three. How many HSX employees? Hell, I was one for about 10 days. -- nm - David's iPad Apr 12, 15:07 5
    - *adds to 'things ty97 did not know'* - ty97 Apr 12, 15:54 4
      - I never made the trip. I interviewed (in HSX Chat!) and they hired me. 10 days later, they found out they couldn't pay the bills. -- nm - David Apr 12, 16:13 3
        
        Imagine how many Most Improved Poster awards you'd have won if you'd taken this path -- nm - Roger More Apr 12, 16:23 2
        
        I'd be a studio mogul by now. -- nm - David Apr 12, 16:27 1
        
        or a movieboss at least. -- nm - Remlik Apr 12, 16:40
  - there was a staff of at least several people at the time I started playing in late 1999. (btw, he's actually "only" been with them since june 2000.) -- nm - b. Apr 12, 15:06 1
    - then he took them all out and consolidated all that sweet HSX power for himself -- nm - the brain Apr 12, 15:07
- I swear I was just thinking about that yesterday. -- nm - b. Apr 12, 14:58
- he's like Desmond in the bunker now -- nm - the brain Apr 12, 14:58
transferred to British Airways. *terrible* hold music. -- nm - Andie Apr 12, 14:53 2
- Diego no love you, mi amor. -- nm - Diva Apr 12, 15:40
- ~What's new, pussycat, whoa, whoa whoa, ...~ -- nm - Max Apr 12, 15:29
dear Bery., it's worth repeatedly repeating: thank you very much for the ability to edit posts. xoxo <3, etc. -- nm - b. Apr 12, 14:49 1
- :) -- nm - Beryllium Apr 12, 15:14
no date yet when Vikings season 4 episodes 11-20 will run. it's a split season :(( -- nm - Peglegpete Apr 12, 14:49
icft, too, and justslightly more important - white house says justice dept is working w/ fed. agencies re: anti-lgbt laws in NC and MS. nm but: -- (link*) - b. Apr 12, 14:48
In Mr Robot, Elliot hacked his brain to read "E Corp" as "Evil Corp". Whereas when I tried it ... - Beryllium Apr 12, 14:46 2
- You make a good point. -- nm - Mop Apr 12, 15:09
- Heh. :-) -- nm - Krusty Apr 12, 14:49
christiano ronaldo is trending on twitter. not just for this photo. nm but: -- (link) - b. Apr 12, 14:45 4
- I'm tired of people photoshopping his head on my body. So annoying. -- nm - Krusty Apr 12, 15:00
- dannnngggg -- nm - Epiphany Apr 12, 14:49 1
  - He probably pees that way at the urinal. You don't want a dude like that, ladies. -- nm - Max Apr 12, 15:27
- He had a pretty good day. -- nm - Volnelk Apr 12, 14:46
guys, i have this slutty canadian on the line. what do i do? -- nm - Diego at Iberia Apr 12, 14:35 6
- give her a seat upgrade! what a newb -- nm - Epiphany Apr 12, 14:49
- flirty /= slutty. -- nm - b. Apr 12, 14:46 2
  - the things she is saying make Diego blush very hard -- nm - Diego at Iberia Apr 12, 14:53 1
    - *self-censored for the good of the community* -- nm - b. Apr 12, 14:54
- I want to know if she's been upgraded yet. - ty97 Apr 12, 14:37 1
  - Canadian *is an upgrade -- nm - zeitgeist Apr 12, 14:39
In a shocking turn of events, Ivanka Trumps's husband's newspaper endorses The Donald -- (link) - ty97 Apr 12, 14:34
Congrats to the JaxSeans on the grandkid! -- nm - nic to be determined Apr 12, 14:33 5
- He wants us to call him Gramps now. -- nm - Bacon Apr 12, 14:34 4
  - No. No I do not. -- nm - JaxSean Apr 12, 14:57 3
    - Listen GIL, you don't get to choose your nickname. -- nm - Will Hunting Apr 12, 14:58 2
      - You tell 'em, Joey. -- nm - kelly Apr 12, 17:15
      - word -- nm - groiny Apr 12, 14:59
shameless. I am SOOOOO flirting with the dude at Iberia to get them to give me seat assignments now instead of when i check in. - Andie Apr 12, 14:33 1
- hee to the IM -- nm - Epiphany Apr 12, 14:50

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