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I have returned to Houston. -- nm - Qale Apr 23, 15:43 4
- How's your car? -- nm - mara Apr 23, 15:48 1
  - Not there yet. I'll definitely let y'all know. -- nm - Qale Apr 23, 16:00
- just like the swallows to Capistrano? -- nm* - Peglegpete Apr 23, 15:45 1
  - Capistrano is the name of the tool I use to deploy SlackerTalk updates. :) -- nm - Beryllium Apr 23, 15:49
Slow Satruday. -- nm - nic to be determined Apr 23, 14:32 2
- In a strange turn of events, I'm out doing stuff. Birthday party for Kieran's friend and baseball -- nm - Beryllium Apr 23, 15:12
- Bring out your dead....ding ding ding....bring out your dead -- nm - Plague workers Apr 23, 14:57
can an accent give one a woody? -- (link) - mud Apr 23, 14:11 2
- She has some active eyebrows. -- nm - Max Apr 23, 14:22 1
  - Those are caterpillars. -- nm - Spawn Apr 23, 14:50
ancient cheerful skeleton mosaic found in Turkey -- (link) - Peglegpete Apr 23, 14:03 1
- Ancient order of odd fellow's. ...or the grateful dead? -- nm - zeitgeist Apr 23, 15:58
Comedy Central has put up a clean copy of Charlie Murphy's Prince story. -- (link) - Mop Apr 23, 13:49 1
- "And then what happened?" -- nm - Max Apr 23, 16:16
Edison Eskeets, is the first Native American owner/trader of the historic Hubbell Trading Post -- (link) - Peglegpete Apr 23, 13:43 3
- Nice!! I've been to Hubbel a number of times. It's 'on the way' to a number of places we visit. -- nm - Meg Apr 23, 13:54 2
  - I still haven't been able to get to the Crownpoint Auction....one of these days. -- nm - Meg Apr 23, 13:56 1
    - ditto -- nm - Peglegpete Apr 23, 14:12
Hmm. Film history, I guess. ;-) -- (link) - Beryllium Apr 23, 13:42
'The Simpsons' boss unearths script pages from the Prince episode that never got made -- (link) - ML Apr 23, 13:34
NFLN is playing through past drafts right now -- (link) - ML Apr 23, 13:31 1
- Mayock just said Mark Barron's floor is a Pro Bowl safety. Welp. -- nm - ML Galaxy Apr 23, 13:51
"That's just the kind of person Peter was....warm, generous and not disappointed in Snapchat" -- nm - prayformojo Apr 23, 13:27
Yep the extended version of Lets Go Crazy still awesome -- nm - eag Apr 23, 13:25
A different house was listed Thursday. My showing today was canceled because it got multiple offers yesterday. -- nm - Dano Apr 23, 13:24 3
- wow. I dont think the market is nearly that hot down here -- nm - prayformojo Apr 23, 13:27 2
  - It's insane here right now. -- nm - Dano Apr 23, 13:32 1
    - Move here! -- nm - David Apr 23, 13:33
TNA: Velvet Sky officially done as of last night. -- nm - Remlik Apr 23, 13:21 5
- Wonder if Bubba Ray is trying to get her in WWE. -- nm - Tim Apr 23, 13:22 4
  - She's 34. She may be to old for them. But she was the #2 merch seller in TNA behind Hardy...so they'll look at that as well -- nm - Remlik Apr 23, 13:25 3
    - And she was never that good a wrestler, which is kind of a priority for them now. -- nm - Tim Apr 23, 13:30 2
      - well...2nd to merch sales. -- nm - Remlik Apr 23, 13:56
      - There has literally never been a moment when Paige was a better wrestler than her. -- nm - David Apr 23, 13:32
yup. the Vikings left graphitti everywhere they went -- (link) - Peglegpete Apr 23, 12:53 6
- "Are was here" -- nm - nic to be determined Apr 23, 14:39
- effin' ML. -- nm - Spawn Apr 23, 13:18
- That's a discussion I often want to explore. When does it cease to be graffiti and become a historic inscription ? - Meg Apr 23, 13:14 3
  - that's really tough. sometimes it is both. good examples include workers who built cathedrals or pyramids -- nm - Peglegpete Apr 23, 13:25 2
    - what about Kilroy? -- nm - mud Apr 23, 13:29 1
      - for now I would consider Kilroy graphitti. history may prove otherwise in 500 years or so. -- nm - Peglegpete Apr 23, 13:38
Dano's house of the week. -- (link) - Dano Apr 23, 12:52 4
- pass -- nm - James Bond (aka Igor) Apr 23, 15:20
- 1 bathroom and they do not even show a picture of it, or state which floor it is on? pass. -- nm - Peglegpete Apr 23, 12:56 2
  - That's it to the right of the driveway ;) How much snow do you get there? That's a loooong driveway. -- nm - Meg Apr 23, 13:10 1
    - labeled WELL on the map -- nm* - Peglegpete Apr 23, 13:16
Aldi review - couple of good deals but not enough to really make it worth the drive. - Meg Apr 23, 12:51 1
- Keep an eye on the adds. They have theme weeks with specials available for a limited time, and at good prices. - nic to be determined Apr 23, 14:38
Fun fact: Shakespeare and Cervantes died on the same date, but not on the same day. -- (link) - mara Apr 23, 12:35
Doctor Who's new companion has been announced (spoils) -- (link) - Beaker Apr 23, 12:18 4
- Nice. I don't love nor hate her. -- nm - JaxSean Apr 23, 17:56
- Craig Ferguson will be disappointed it wasn't him. Again. -- nm - nic to be determined Apr 23, 14:35
- she is trying way too hard to smile. she looks slightly freaky -- nm - Peglegpete Apr 23, 12:27
- Idris Elba? Bold choice. -- nm - Beryllium Apr 23, 12:18
PJ's Pets, Pets Unlimited, Petculture, and Oliver & Pets closing a bunch of their stores in Canada -- (link) - Beaker Apr 23, 12:14 1
- that's sad. They were my last employer (2007-13) -- nm - mud Apr 23, 12:18
CY..did you ever drive Prince somewhere?? CNN is talking to one of his drivers -- nm - Peglegpete Apr 23, 12:08 1
- I asked him on fb, said no, but did travel in same direction, next to his limo, it had purple lights under so it floated in a purple cloud -- nm - zeitgeist Apr 23, 12:52
Politifact has actually run a fact check on something against a statement in Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt Season 2 -- (link) - ty97 Apr 23, 11:05
Fuck those wankers -- nm - CQ Apr 23, 11:03
Justin Bieber Did Not Make the Prince Comment on Instagram, Rep Says - Spawn Apr 23, 10:52
A Hologram for the King was released this weekend and The Circle is out later this year. Where's my Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius film? - Tim Apr 23, 10:46
So Blake Snell has stuff huh - ML Apr 23, 10:41
Does this VR game look like fun to you? -- (link) - mara Apr 23, 10:18 2
- Feels fake. -- nm - David's iPad Apr 23, 10:25 1
  - Hmm, I hadn't considered that, maybe because I watched with no sound. -- nm - mara Apr 23, 10:26
What was the 2016 of the previous celebrity generation? I'm guessing a year or two after James Dean's death ... -- nm - Beryllium Apr 23, 10:10 20
- 1989: Lucille Ball, Laurence Olivier, Bette Davis, Gilda Radner, Graham Chapman, Irving Berlin, Mel Blanc - Max Apr 23, 12:43
- 1959: Big Bopper/Buddy Holly/Ritchie Valens plane crash, George Reeves, Billie Holiday, Errol Flynn, Lou Costello, Cecil B. DeMille, Carl Switzer (Alfalfa, at age 31) -- (edited) - Max Apr 23, 12:24 1
  - Luckily he was an orphan owned by the studio. -- nm - Reagen Apr 23, 15:38
- 1955: Einstein, Sir Alexander Fleming, James Dean, Carmen Miranda, Honus Wagner, Emmett Till -- nm - Max Apr 23, 12:14
- 1969: Brian Jones, Judy Garland, Boris Karloff, Sharon Tate, Rocky Marciano, Walter Hagen, Jack Kerouac, Joe Kennedy, King Saud, Eisenhower -- nm - Max Apr 23, 11:49
- 1994: Cobain, Cab Calloway, Dinah Shore, John Candy, Jessica Tandy, Burt Lacaster, Raul Julia, Nicole Simpson, Ayrton Senna, Jacquie Kennedy, Nixon -- nm - Max Apr 23, 11:28
- 1997: Princess Diana, B.I.G., Michael Hutchence, John Denver, Chris Farley, Jimmy Stewart, Robert Mitchum, Versace, Allen Ginsberg, Mother Teresa -- nm - Max Apr 23, 11:18
- 2009: Michael Jackson, Natasha Richardson, Swayze, John Hughes, Farah Fawcett, Dom DeLuise, David Carradine, John Updike, Chuck Daly, Ted Kennedy - Max Apr 23, 10:49 3
  - Good lord. It was known as the Summer of Death. -- (link*) - mara Apr 23, 11:54 2
    - so also Ed McMahon, Billy Mays, Karl Malden, Rbt McNamara, Walter Cronkite, Frank McCourt, Gidget, Les Paul, Bob Novak, Wm Safire -- nm - Max Apr 23, 12:00 1
      - Never mind, I see you mentioned him! -- nm* - mara Apr 23, 12:13
- 1970....Jimmy Hendrix and Janice Joplin -- nm - zeitgeist Apr 23, 10:40 3
  - Both within weeks of each other in Sep/Oct. Alfred Newman, Erle Stanley Gardner, Vince Lombardi, Ray Schalk, Max Born, Otto Warburg,Nasser, de Gaulle -- nm - Max Apr 23, 12:09
  - 2016 seems to be targeting musicians particularly more than statistically random would expect, or even that 3 at a time thing -- nm - zeitgeist Apr 23, 11:03 1
    - April 23rd. 252 days to go. Unreal. -- nm - Spawn Apr 23, 11:08
- Answer: -- (link) - ML Apr 23, 10:35 1
- 1980 was John Lennon, Bon Scott, John Bonham, Ian Curtis, Jimmy Durante, Steve McQueen, Peter Sellers, Hitchcock, Colonel Sanders, Jesse Owens, Sartre -- nm* - Max Apr 23, 10:35 1
  - Hard to beat this. nm - Dignan Apr 23, 11:34
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  - 1977: Presley, Lynyrd Skynyrd plane crash, Joan Crawford, Charlie Chaplin, Groucho & Gummo Marx, Maria Callas, Nabokov - Max Apr 23, 11:58
Nice day today. Yesterday was kind of gloomy. -- nm - Beryllium Apr 23, 09:47 1
- Still gloomy, here. I hoped I would wake up and not be so down. -- nm - Spawn Apr 23, 10:06
Never let it be said that Ted Cruz and I disagree on every single thing -- (link) - dj fingerblast Apr 23, 09:29 2
- Of course he does, he is Canadian. -- nm - Spawn Apr 23, 10:07
- Man, it's getting vicious. -- nm - Mop Apr 23, 10:02
What it's like to have no "mind's eye" -- (link) - Reagen Apr 23, 09:11
The average webpage is now the same size as the original Doom -- (link) - iSpam Apr 23, 08:55
I've decided The Black Album was his greatest work after Purple Rain. -- nm - mud Apr 23, 08:53
Rumor: Prince supposedly had issues with immune system, HIV? -- (link) - budice Apr 23, 08:29 5
- There are more immune diseases than that. -- nm - nic to be determined Apr 23, 14:32
- I'm sticking Randy Quaid's theory: Star Whackers -- nm - zeitgeist Apr 23, 10:43
- I too agree it's appropriate to engage in baseless speculation at this point. - ML Galaxy Apr 23, 08:49 2
  - Bery, we need the ability to heart posts. -- nm - David's iPad Apr 23, 10:20
  - word -- nm - Spawn Apr 23, 09:22
Watched a couple episodes of Game of Thrones last night. That's a pretty good show. -- (edited) - Volnelk Apr 23, 08:18 7
- I've heard this. Is anybody else watching this show? -- nm - Mop Apr 23, 08:27 4
  - What network's it on? -- nm - David Apr 23, 08:29 3
    - EZTV -- nm - mud Apr 23, 08:48 2
      - not anymore since russian scammers took over that site. -- nm - Remlik Apr 23, 08:53 1
        
        I'd better do a Windows Restore then. -- nm - mud Apr 23, 08:56
- Spoilers - David Apr 23, 08:20 1
  - Yep. We've seen them all and I've read them all. Episodes 8, 9, 10 from season 5 are excellent. -- nm - Volnelk Apr 23, 08:51
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- Nicely done -- nm - iSpam Apr 23, 09:08
- VNT! The first 3B is the hardest! -- nm - mara Apr 23, 08:20
- Well done, Brother Daniel! -- nm - David Apr 23, 08:20
- Onwards to over 99! -- nm - McDonald's Apr 23, 08:18
I see Yahoo added weather next to the game info on the fantasy baseball team page. Nice little addition to help us know if there will be a rainout. - Krusty Andromedon Apr 23, 07:24 2
- Your IM: right? -- nm - ML Galaxy Apr 23, 07:48
- Increased their valuation by a billion dollars! -- nm - Mop Apr 23, 07:27
White Sox execute baseball's first-ever 9-3-2-6-2-5 triple play -- (link) - budice Apr 23, 06:25
Yasiel Puig with one hell of a throw -- (link) - eag Apr 23, 05:25 [youtube] 2
- That damn fence---cost Story another HR -- nm - Flavorize Apr 23, 09:03
- "Story did not expect that ending." - znufrii Apr 23, 06:28
Getting Prince Fielder in a run down seems kind of unfair. -- nm - iSpam Apr 23, 04:54 2
- was there cake? -- nm - ML Apr 23, 05:28 1
  - He might have run harder. -- nm - iSpam Apr 23, 07:53
6 dead (including the shooter) after Georgia shooting incident -- (link) - Beaker Apr 23, 04:32
Why can't I get choked like the Capitals? -- nm - Cheryl Apr 23, 04:30 5
- *perks up* -- nm - Jian Ghomeshi Apr 23, 10:56
- ... and what's their safe word? -- nm - Mallory Apr 23, 09:21
- There's a real possibility the Blues and Capitals meet in the finals and the world simply ends before game 7. -- nm - iSpam Apr 23, 05:32 2
  - We would make the 2004 ALCS look like a standard back and forth series. - Will Hunting Apr 23, 05:42 1
    - That series never happened. 2004 doesn't exist. We went from 2003 to 2005 for some odd reason. -- nm - Krusty Andromedon Apr 23, 06:06
Huh, there's an Alaska plane outside. Looks like they have flights to Seattle from here. - iSpam Apr 23, 04:29
TV PSA: Outlander, Stanley Cup, Gennady Golovkin (34-0, 31 KOs) faces Dominic Wade (18-0, 12 KOs), NBA, other stuff -- nm - Beaker Apr 23, 04:26
i'll give M-83 this, Teen Wolf rocks the keys -- (link) - dj fingerblast Apr 22, 23:52 [youtube]
Nikolas Coster-Waldau is looking forward to not answering questions about Jon Snow. -- nm - nic to be determined Apr 22, 23:12
Interesting article about judicial compassion, judge has to sentence ptsd vet to night in jail, drives him and spends the night talking to him so he -- nm - Doesn't freak out again Apr 22, 22:58
well shit. hard to imagine watching that Oswalt special any time soon now. -- nm - Reagen Apr 22, 22:25
This may be the best news all week: O.J. Simpsons reportedly wants to date Kris Jenner after he gets out of jail. -- nm - Mop Apr 22, 22:04 10
- That's even too weird for that family -- nm - zeitgeist Apr 22, 22:53 6
  - Will it get them more media coverage? -- nm - Mop Apr 22, 23:05 5
    - Yes -- nm - nic to be determined Apr 22, 23:09 4
      - well, there it is then -- nm - Beaker Apr 23, 05:23 2
        
        I'm wondering if Kris would be delighted to be the center of the media spectacle of if she's all about exploiting her children. -- nm - Mop Apr 23, 10:18 1
        
        I imagine she's just mad she didn't think of this first -- nm - Beaker Apr 23, 11:07
      - That was understood. -- nm - Mop Apr 22, 23:54
- he's not getting out. -- nm - Peglegpete Apr 22, 22:33
- and by "date" he means cut her head off -- nm - dj fingerblast Apr 22, 22:10 1
  - That was understood. -- nm - Mop Apr 22, 23:04
It's been a loooong day - but at least I have the weekend off. -- nm - Meg Apr 22, 21:40
Marvel has pulled Inhumans from its release schedule. -- nm - Mop Apr 22, 21:31 4
- Why do they hate Hyde? -- nm - David Apr 22, 22:01
- "a good start" -- nm - dj fingerblast Apr 22, 21:39
- I thought that was already announced? -- nm - Beryllium Apr 22, 21:37 1
  - By me? I'll have to check. -- nm - Mop Apr 22, 21:58

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