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Max. How much do you find yourself using other people's family trees in Ancestry? - oblique Jul 13, 11:23 4
- I've filtered those hints out because I generally don't trust them more than one generation back from the living user. - Max Jul 13, 11:33 2
  - ooh, mystery -- nm - gerald Jul 13, 11:38 1
    - Walter. He disappeared in Pennsylvania and then apparently popped up in Minnesota in the 1830s. And his line lives, so we could compare DNA. -- nm - Max Jul 13, 11:41
- rampant tree theft -- nm - gerald Jul 13, 11:26
I'm not a Yelp kind of guy, and had I been anyone else, I'm sure I'd have caused a scene but the dental assistant today seemed to be on her first day. - Qale Jul 13, 11:20
my wife LOVED Girl on the Train. Read it in under 3 weeks which is like 2 days for a normal reader -- nm - Beaker Jul 13, 11:15
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- Pokemoning? -- nm - Beaker Jul 13, 11:14 5
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    - no. I meant you should be Pokemoning. -- nm - Beaker Jul 13, 11:27
    - Plus, kids on your lawn. -- nm - Spawn Jul 13, 11:25 2
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        Don't know, just those damned kids are on your lawn again. -- nm - Spawn Jul 13, 11:39
first Pokemon Go stabbing: unlocked -- (link) - gerald Jul 13, 11:12 7
- He didn't go to the hospital because he had to complete his mission. I think this game is going to have some Darwin award winners. -- nm - jnine Jul 13, 11:31
- How is that not an Onion article? -- nm - Reagen Jul 13, 11:30
- Obsessions such as this one look so.. peculiar from the outside.. (NM) - Marlowe Jul 13, 11:22
- "I guess he wanted to battle because he came up at me with a knife" -- nm - Spawn Jul 13, 11:18 2
  - I just don't think he understands how a battle in Pokemon worked is all. -- nm - Beaker Jul 13, 11:19 1
    - Honest mistake. -- nm - Spawn Jul 13, 11:21
- Tom Hanks will star in the Pokemon Go version of Mazes and Monsters, where he plays an player who succumbs to dangerous obsession. -- nm - Max Jul 13, 11:13
If Clinton wins, we'd see a female head for each of the US, UK, and Germany. That's pretty cool. -- nm - Max Jul 13, 11:10 14
- McCloud! -- nm - gerald Jul 13, 11:17
- spamlet? -- nm - ty97 Jul 13, 11:14
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- decline? -- nm - Spawn Jul 13, 11:12 10
  - I'm resigned to the fact that Max just sees me as a secondary citizen -- nm - decline Jul 13, 11:26
  - pff, he posted that this morning. I don't do mornings. - Max Jul 13, 11:14 8
    - that's where all my best stuff is! TV PSA Suits and Mr Robot tonight! -- nm - Beaker Jul 13, 11:16 5
      - I figur all you Mr Robots already watched at the link I posted a while back? -- nm - Spawn Jul 13, 11:20 2
        
        meh, not watching anyway. Thought season 1 was way overrated (but know some on ST like it) -- nm* - Beaker Jul 13, 11:21 1
        
        I have never watched it. - Spawn Jul 13, 11:24
      - aw yeah, Suits! -- nm - Max Jul 13, 11:17 1
        
        I knid of wonder if - spoilers? - Beaker Jul 13, 11:20
    - WTF!?! We don't do morning board meetings (except for Saturday). -- nm - Spawn Jul 13, 11:16 1
      - We had to reschedule last month's cancelled meeting and then a board member died of a heart attack last week. -- nm - Max Jul 13, 11:17
Kelly, I just started CXG last night. 4 episodes in -- nm* - prayformojo Jul 13, 11:10
Hey Trish - here is your new Pennywise. -- (link*) - Andie Jul 13, 11:09 11
- that is a good looking clown. -- nm - groiny Jul 13, 11:18
- 2 part film? that is a mistake -- nm - Epiphany Jul 13, 11:17 6
  - I am not so sure, they usually cut the shit out of his books to fit them into a movie. -- nm - groiny Jul 13, 11:23 4
    - I don't care for the way they're splitting them up, though. I agree it should be split...but I don't like... - Jim Jul 13, 11:29 3
      - What does David think? - groiny Jul 13, 11:37 2
        
        Ah, I get it...we see what he thinks and then know the opposite is true. - Jim Jul 13, 11:47
        
        Now you're getting it. -- nm - David Jul 13, 11:40
  - King's major books are usually huge though -- nm - gerald Jul 13, 11:17
- (i changed the link, the other one was glitchy) -- nm - Andie Jul 13, 11:12
- Keep your evil with your evil. Well done. -- nm - Spawn Jul 13, 11:10
- All the Pokemons float down here, kids -- nm - Pennywise Jul 13, 11:10
Krusty news: Pot carries Alien DNA from outside the solar system Nasa Confirms.... -- (link) - Remlik Jul 13, 11:07 2
- oh, remlik... -- nm - ÜMLaut Jul 13, 11:09
- Oh, honey. -- nm - David Jul 13, 11:08
Yep. Pokemon Go is going to start selling "sponsored locations" -- (link*) - ÜMLaut Jul 13, 11:01 17
- Dear Nintendo: Nobody gives a shit about your hardware. Make Zelda for PS4. kthxbye -- nm - Shaun Jul 13, 11:05 9
  - You don't deserve Zelda. -- nm - Qale Jul 13, 11:36 1
    - I had the gold OoT cartridge!! -- nm - Shaun Jul 13, 11:38
  - They sold over 100 million Wiis, 150 million DS and over 60 million 3DS. They failed on the WiiU. - Inigo Jul 13, 11:13 6
    - The 3DS is *so* good, it overshadows their Wii U. In the end, Nintendo is always Japan first everywhere else second. The new guy might change that som -- nm - Qale Jul 13, 11:40
    - Check the numbers on the sales of current systems vs. the old systems. It's *abyssmal*. - Shaun Jul 13, 11:18 4
      - It's one generation. Sony sales from PS2 to PS3 went down 75 million. PSP to Vita is even more abysmal. -- (edited) - Inigo Jul 13, 11:23 3
        
        Except Sony & MS are at least trying to have the best system. Nintendo's entering its 3rd generation of not trying to compete in that arena. - Ender Jul 13, 11:28 2
        
        Very much this. Making awesome 1st party games for your hardware is pointless if the userbase does not exist. - Shaun Jul 13, 11:37
        
        We don't have specs on the NX yet, and with a new CEO, it's premature to say they aren't trying. - Inigo Jul 13, 11:36
- smart. make every Walmart or McDonalds a pokestop or gym. genius -- nm - Beaker Jul 13, 11:03 6
  - yeah, Walmart needs more people inside it -- nm - gerald Jul 13, 11:05 5
    - they need to tap into the nerd/homebody market a little more -- nm - Beaker Jul 13, 11:06 4
      - my only goal when i enter Target is to leave Target as quickly as possible -- nm - gerald Jul 13, 11:07 3
        
        You also think the Nolan Batmans are awful. -- nm - Shaun Jul 13, 11:10 1
        
        i don't think that - gerald Jul 13, 11:12
        
        We kinda picture you like that when you are anywhere but your box or work, though. -- nm - Spawn Jul 13, 11:09
Unfortunate design is unfortunate -- (link) - TWuG Jul 13, 10:58
YDC: A power outage is really messing up the trains on the west side. I'm melting waiting for this train. Stupid humidity. -- nm - Krusty Jul 13, 10:50 6
- *every* line is delayed -- nm - ty97 Jul 13, 10:58 4
  - I waited nearly an hour for the 2/3 -- nm - Krusty Jul 13, 11:14 1
    - I have to get to LGA later :/ (YES it's all about me!) -- nm - ty97 Jul 13, 11:16
  - from A to Z -- nm - ÜMLaut Jul 13, 10:59 1
    - No problem! (NM) - 4-5-6 line former user Jul 13, 11:13
- i hear there are delays -- nm - gerald Jul 13, 10:53
HUGE Marvel Comics spoilers (Civil War #3) - you've been warned - Beaker Jul 13, 10:50 5
- Yeah, I am a bit annoyed by this. spoil - Spawn Jul 13, 10:54 3
  - the thing with that to me is threefold - spoilers - Beaker Jul 13, 10:56 2
    - Spoils... - Remlik Jul 13, 11:00 1
      - still, they should have used a grain of salt - spoilers - Beaker Jul 13, 11:02
- Hail Hydra -- nm - gerald Jul 13, 10:53
Jeez. I have a daughter named Alyssa? I'd have guessed Sarah if someone had asked. -- nm - oblique si Jul 13, 10:47
Too funny. I was too nice and didn't want to interrupt the interns. Went to get a soda and there's a guy who works here sitting in the corner where - oblique Jul 13, 10:46
Welp. -- (link) - ty97 Jul 13, 10:43 4
- I'll never delay you -- nm - Pikachu Jul 13, 10:45
- I see JZ in this, but the rest is, "huh?". -- nm - Spawn Jul 13, 10:44 2
  - It's common knowledge that his name came from that, right? -- nm - ty97 Jul 13, 10:48
  - (this is pretty funny.) -- nm - unbreakable mandy jones Jul 13, 10:46
Deadliest Catch: Nova Scotia -- (link) - Beaker Jul 13, 10:39
our long national nightmare is finally over! I have purchased an elephant skirt.* -- nm - unbreakable mandy jones Jul 13, 10:38 5
- noooooo. -- nm - Gary Jul 13, 10:40
- oh, and I also really loved "settle for me" and "don't settle for me." -- nm - unbreakable mandy jones Jul 13, 10:39 3
  - Settle For Me is grrreat. -- nm - kelly Jul 13, 10:45 2
    - (like total "now I am smiling thinking about it" earworm material. source: my face right now.) -- nm - unbreakable mandy jones Jul 13, 10:46 1
      - Here you go: -- (link) - kelly Jul 13, 10:49
is *anyone* team josh? I mean, besides josh and paula? -- nm - unbreakable mandy jones Jul 13, 10:38 9
- I only saw 1 or 2 episodes (so far) and I don't get him at all (spoiils) - Will Hunting Jul 13, 11:21 1
  - I don't remember. -- nm - kelly Jul 13, 11:25
- Where is this show streaming? -- nm - ty97 Jul 13, 10:49 1
  - Netflix -- nm - kelly Jul 13, 10:49
- A lot of folks on Internet boards, apparently. (Spoilers) - kelly Jul 13, 10:43
- who are josh and paula -- nm - decline Jul 13, 10:40 3
  - crazy ex GF, and the ex -- nm - gerald Jul 13, 10:43 2
    - paula is the ex's worst work bestie. josh is the object of the ex's affection. just watch the damn show already, pixie. -- nm - unbreakable mandy jones Jul 13, 10:45 1
      - i was only half-paying attention at their live scriptnotes thingy -- nm - gerald Jul 13, 11:18
I really shouldn't open up Ancestry.com - oblique Jul 13, 10:37 2
- I spend an hour plus on it every day doing my regular searches. - Max Jul 13, 10:40
- Agreed. -- nm - Pokemon Go Jul 13, 10:38
Beaker - I'm fairly surprised that I got my 1/6 keg which holds ~56 12oz beers for $65, so that's about $1.10 per beer. - JaxSean Jul 13, 10:34 7
- we were paying $50 for 30 beer; so this new deal is going to be huge...and put the nail in my liver -- nm - Beaker Jul 13, 10:36 6
  - 60 Alpine is the only way to go. -- nm - Shaun Jul 13, 11:11
  - Sadly, for NB, this is a smoking red alert fire alarm hot deal. -- nm - Shaun Jul 13, 10:54 1
    - yup, hopefully they've stocked up cause going to be madness at the L Store -- nm - Beaker Jul 13, 11:13
  - Plus it's Moosehead, so, eww. -- nm - JaxSean Jul 13, 10:42 2
    - What could some punk from Florida possibly know about Moosehead beer? - Shaun Jul 13, 10:55
    - as long as it isn't warm, for $1.25 a beer it will be tasty -- nm - Beaker Jul 13, 10:43
Pokemon Go is totally dorky but it's helping people's depression and anxiety so that's good -- (link*) - ÜMLaut Jul 13, 10:30 1
- Is Chewbacca Mom playing it? - Spawn Jul 13, 10:36
Jeez. My dad is 73. I would have guessed < 70 if someone had asked. - oblique Jul 13, 10:30 12
- You don't know your father's age based off your own? -- nm - David Jul 13, 10:32 11
  - I know my Dad's age based on his age. Is that too weird? (NM) - Marlowe Jul 13, 11:02 1
    - It's certainly direct. -- nm - David Jul 13, 11:05
  - yes, our birthdays are one day apart - gerald Jul 13, 10:40 1
    - So. Dumb. -- nm - Spawn Jul 13, 10:41
  - I guess you and I are on the same side of ST confusing me, today. -- nm - Spawn Jul 13, 10:40 2
    - You were due to be right after yesterday. -- nm - David Jul 13, 10:47 1
      - not really. -- nm - groiny Jul 13, 10:47
  - I have no idea how old my father is. -- nm - groiny Jul 13, 10:38 2
    - how do you not know this? -- nm - decline Jul 13, 10:41 1
      - we are not very close, for one. - groiny Jul 13, 10:43
  - No clue. I'm really bad with dates/ages -- nm - oblique Jul 13, 10:32
What is it about curly fries that makes them better? (other than the obvious shape difference) does the proximity to the next curl have physical effec -- nm - zeitgeist Jul 13, 10:26 5
- In Arby's case, they have some kind of different seasoning or oil used to give them a darker color. Whatever it is, yum. -- nm - Strongbad Jul 13, 10:35 3
  - yeah I like Arby's fries...they're so bad for you but so tasty -- nm - ÜMLaut Jul 13, 10:35 2
    - My other top 3 would likely be Steak and Shake and waffle/CFA -- nm - Strongbad Jul 13, 10:40 1
      - You are the anti-me (except for Arbys). -- nm - spamlet Jul 13, 10:47
- the coating. -- nm - groiny Jul 13, 10:28
Iqaluit means the place of many fish. -- nm - Beaker Jul 13, 10:26
Hey Jaxsean... -- (link) - ÜMLaut Jul 13, 10:21 6
- hmm. thanks. Of course we're Costco and BJs club members, and not Sam's. -- nm - JaxSean Jul 13, 10:33 3
  - BJ Club? -- nm - groiny Jul 13, 10:37 1
    - Initiation must be pretty awful. -- nm - Spawn Jul 13, 10:39
  - ... they have a club now? -- nm - Spawn Jul 13, 10:37
- Hisense. Why do you hate Jax? -- nm - oblique Jul 13, 10:23 1
  - I know, but 4 year warranty included and the price is astounding. -- nm* - ÜMLaut Jul 13, 10:25
Dronemon Go -- (link) - oblique Jul 13, 10:20 [youtube] 1
- You'll never hatch your eggs that way! -- nm - TorBaron Jul 13, 10:30
Mods! -- nm - ÜMLaut Jul 13, 10:20 3
- Rockers! -- nm - mud Jul 13, 10:21 2
  - Mockers! -- nm - Ringo Jul 13, 10:21 1
    - heeh -- nm - mud Jul 13, 10:22

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