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my friend's parents live on a mountain and can't get cable internet. they're having a lot of trouble with their DSL. -- (edited) - unbreakable mandy jones Jul 19, 05:54 3
- Unlike cable modem, its best to go with what modem their DSL provider recommends. They could likely get it replaced by the provider. -- nm - budice Jul 19, 05:58 2
  - the provider does not provide. -- nm - unbreakable mandy jones Jul 19, 06:04 1
    - OK then, usually they have a recommend list. Motorola, Netgear -- nm - budice Jul 19, 06:12
Also horrible is that #plagerism is also trending high and THAT'S NOT HOW YOU SPELL THAT WORD IDIOTS! -- nm - Diva Jul 19, 05:47 4
- Did you mean plagiarism? -- nm - Google is yer freind Jul 19, 05:59
- #millenials -- nm - Strongbad Jul 19, 05:58 1
  - ISWYDT. -- nm - TorBaron Jul 19, 06:02
- *smh* -- nm - Krusty Jul 19, 05:48
Stewart must be dying. I mean look at just this board. There's massive amounts of material and we're just a bunch of amateurs. Imagine what his old - Mel Profit Jul 19, 05:41 3
- Kim Kardashian has a tape of Michelle Obama telling Melania she can use that speech. -- nm - budice Jul 19, 06:05 1
  - ha! -- nm - Diva Jul 19, 06:27
- His Colbert appearance was merely whelming -- nm - gerald Jul 19, 05:48
I love that the only way they could convice Donald not to have Don King speak at the convention was to remind him that he had killed a guy. - GregW Jul 19, 05:40
Now we know how Donald gets all the best words. -- nm - TWuG Jul 19, 05:36
Move over, hovercraft: Bubba Watson has a jetpack for the Olympics -- (link) - Strongbad Jul 19, 05:35
‪"We live in a world that needs walls, and those walls have to be built by Mexico. Who's gonna do it? You? You, Hillary Clinton? We have a greater - Melania T. Jul 19, 05:12 12
- " You can't handle the truth!" -- nm - Andie Jul 19, 06:07
- "He will never, ever give up. And most importantly, he will never, ever let you down.” -- nm - Rick Rolled! Jul 19, 05:16 10
  - Wait, she actually said this? -- nm - Mara Jul 19, 05:37 9
    - Transcript at link. -- (link*) - GregW Jul 19, 05:45
    - here -- (link) - oblique Jul 19, 05:40 7
      - I'm starting to believe the sabotage theory. Although it's a common enough platitude, much like the Michelle lines. -- nm - Mara Jul 19, 05:52 4
        
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        No, because it's a Rickroll. It's not bad, it's funny. -- nm - Mara Jul 19, 06:02 1
        
        She rickrolled her own husband. *snort* I hope someone on Hillary's staff picks up on that today. -- nm - Mel Profit Jul 19, 06:03
        
        the platitudes are common but the sequence is damning. -- nm - Mel Profit Jul 19, 05:58
      - this has to have been planned and played by a mole. Otherwise they are beyond dumb -- nm - Beaker Jul 19, 05:51 1
        
        I said the same thing to mel this morning. -- nm - Diva Jul 19, 05:53
Last Edited by User C. Christie -- nm - Melania.Speech.7.18.16.doc Jul 19, 04:56 1
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It makes me sad that David has never watched Golden Girls. -- nm - Todd Manning - 178 days till Monster Trucks Jul 19, 04:42 2
- i'm still not sure that show isnt about david and his cats. -- nm - tRuMaN Jul 19, 04:58
- agreed. -- nm - Beaker Jul 19, 04:42
TV PSA: America's Got Talent, Deadliest Catch, RNC (repeat?), Hotel Hell, Pretty Little Liars, Smackdown, Animal Kingdom, Coupled, Scream, Zoo, -- nm - Beaker Jul 19, 04:32 3
- Feed the Beast, Wrecked, other stuff -- nm - Beaker Jul 19, 04:32 2
  - Wrecked continues to be funny enough to stay on the recording schedule. -- nm - Strongbad Jul 19, 05:05 1
    - Yup. I'm enjoying it. -- nm - Krusty Jul 19, 06:04
'I happen to know a secret about Melania. She'll read anything you put on the teleprompter. When I mean anything I mean...an.ny.thing. - Mel Profit Jul 19, 03:53 2
- White Lies Matter -- nm - gerald Jul 19, 04:59
- (winner) -- nm - Beaker Jul 19, 04:33
5-6 weeks to write and prepare a speech that is partially plagiarized? Is this extreme laziness, stupidity or is there a mole? -- (edited) - Diva Jul 19, 03:29 4
- I theorized last night they were on dial up. -- nm - jnine Jul 19, 07:41
- I'm trying to think of a way yesterday could have gone worse for him and am failing absent actual violence. - Will Hunting Jul 19, 03:36 2
  - Don't forget the traffic accident that the motorcade got into on the way to the convention hall. -- nm - Diva Jul 19, 03:58
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Awake too late again. But caught up on Preacher and Mr Robot. -- nm - Beryllium Jul 19, 02:39
Mayim Bialik Visits The Final Frontier - amoxy Jul 19, 00:09
Preacher spoilers question - Beryllium Jul 19, 00:01
Sewage spill in L.A. closes beaches in Long Beach. -- (link) - Meg Jul 18, 23:17
Michelle should tweet "Nice to hear Republicans espousing Democratic values. Melania would be a welcome member of our party." -- nm - Max Jul 18, 23:05 1
- *mic drop emoji* -- nm - budice Jul 18, 23:07
when there are so many other things to criticize, can we maybe not make fun of people's appearances? --nm - i.b! Jul 18, 23:04 5
- I agree with this. -- nm - ReluctantCynic Jul 18, 23:57
- Don Lemon still needs another haircut -- nm - Peglegpete Jul 18, 23:06
- I wasn't making fun. I was observing that she looked like an overlord. -- nm - Beryllium Jul 18, 23:05 2
  - I kept thinking of the warden on deathrace 2000 and V prime minister speaking to the masses -- nm - zeitgeist Jul 18, 23:14
  - :) - -- nm - i.b! Jul 18, 23:06
never, ever -- (link) - Beryllium Jul 18, 23:04
The thing that gets me about the speech is those eye movements. Compared to Michelle's ... they're unnerving. - Beryllium Jul 18, 23:01 3
- She reminded me of Susanna Hoffs singing "Walk like an Egyptian" -- nm - amoxy Jul 18, 23:06 1
  - you take that back. you take that back right now. -- nm - Mel Profit Jul 19, 05:42
- She's wondering if anyone has noticed she is stealing. -- nm - jnine Jul 18, 23:03
Which child of a presidential nominee will each Trump child steal from? -- nm - jnine Jul 18, 23:00 3
- Buddy -- nm - Beaker Jul 19, 04:49
- Charlie Brown, Richie Rich, Tiffany will probably draw on Lil Orphan Annie -- nm - zeitgeist Jul 18, 23:12
- Dibs on Socks. -- nm - Don Trump Jr. Jul 18, 23:02
Trump camp just made a statment about Melania's speech. No acknowledgement it may have been plagiarism or that there is any controversy. Said it was - jnine Jul 18, 22:55 12
- finally. they learned how to answer a situation like a politician :( -- nm - Peglegpete Jul 18, 23:05
- this does suggest there were borrowed fragments. nm but: -- (link) - i.b! Jul 18, 23:02 5
  - I don't see that in that statement at all. It says there were writers, but it doesn't say they borrowed from other people. -- nm - jnine Jul 18, 23:06 4
    - "inspirations... in some instances included fragments that reflected her own thinking" (but were not her own original thoughts) -- nm* - i.b! Jul 18, 23:08 3
      - That makes it sound like the speechwriters wrote fragments of it, not that it was stolen. -- nm - jnine Jul 18, 23:09 2
        
        to me, it could go either/both ways. (+I think it was carefully crafted with intent.) -- nm* - i.b! Jul 18, 23:11 1
        
        Melania Trump Goes Both Ways!!!! -- nm - Peglegpete Jul 18, 23:13
- Trump will go on FOX News tomorrow and all will be well. No questions about it -- nm - amoxy Jul 18, 22:59 1
  - Fox had an Aryan youth commentator mention it appeared to be plagiarised and the other commentator ignored it completely. When they were putting head -- (edited) - jnine Jul 18, 23:02
- ...as a black woman growing up in Chicago. -- nm - . Jul 18, 22:57 2
  - The SNL skit writes itself so easily, that they might as well skip the skit and write a skit about the skit they skipped. -- nm - Beryllium Jul 18, 22:58 1
    - I stand before you as a strong black woman married to the first black president -- nm - #FamousMelaniaTrumpQuotes Jul 18, 23:34
LOL, FamousMelaniaTrumpQuotes is trending. -- nm - Jovian Jul 18, 22:36 2
- "Vhy am I covered vith goo?" -- nm - Beryllium Jul 18, 22:52 1
  - its trending #1 world wide -- nm - Jovian Jul 18, 22:59
Clearly Michelle Obama traveled forward in time to steal Melania's speech from tonight, it's the only explanation -- nm - gerald Jul 18, 22:22 3
- 12 Monkeys keep moving it from one era to another. Eleanor Roosevelt is going to give it in an alternate time. -- nm - jnine Jul 18, 22:58
- clinton stole it from melania back in 07 or whenever they were at that wedding together, but gave it to michelle, hell I don't need it anymore -- nm - zeitgeist Jul 18, 22:26 1
  - if you could read Russian, it came from a Catherine the Great speech to her troops in 1768 -- nm - Peglegpete Jul 18, 22:30
running the two side by side is fascinating, Michelle is as gifted a speaker as her husband, warm, animated, genuine. -- nm - zeitgeist Jul 18, 22:22 1
- Melania comes off like the video above a factory full of slaves in a dystopian future world....are bite moch fry -- nm - zeitgeist Jul 18, 22:25
Don Lemon needs another haircut. -- nm - Peglegpete Jul 18, 22:19
"Someone get the hell over to Brian Willams's house and lock him in a room without cameras or internet for the next week or so." -- nm - NBC honcho Jul 18, 22:13
"I have a dream today..." -- nm - Melania Trump Jul 18, 22:10 15
- "Ask not vat your country can do for vue, ask vat vue can do for your country" -- nm - Melania Trump Jul 18, 22:11 14
  - This is a day that will live in infamy. -- nm - Melania Jul 18, 22:14 7
    - "Mr. Gorbachev, tear down that wall. And erect another one, in Mexico." - Melania Trump Jul 18, 22:17 5
      - Other board?!? You cheatin' bastard! -- nm - Krusty Jul 19, 05:50
      - we all know the Chinese build the greatest walls. -- nm - Peglegpete Jul 18, 22:20
      - Ich bein ein Berliner, no seriously, get me one, I'm starving -- nm - Melania Drumpf Jul 18, 22:19
      - I'm tired of hearing about your other board. At least have the decency to hide it from us. -- nm - jnine Jul 18, 22:19 1
        
        agreed. he's brazen about it now. -- nm - Mel Profit Jul 19, 05:44
    - L3 -- nm - Max Jul 18, 22:15
  - Viaduct? Vye not a chicken? -- nm - Peglegpete Jul 18, 22:12 5
    - I don't know nuthin 'bout burthin no babies -- nm - Melania Drumpf Jul 18, 22:16 4
      - Badges? I don't need no stinkin' badges! -- nm - Peglegpete Jul 18, 22:19 3
        
        Vat vie haff heir is...a failure to communicate -- nm - zeitgeist Jul 18, 23:06 2
        
        [doing a great John Banner impression] I Know Nothinnnnnk!! -- nm - Peglegpete Jul 18, 23:12 1
        
        "let them eat cake" -- nm - Beaker Jul 19, 04:50
Wonder if any women's groups should mount a rescue mission, at least a welfare check, I'll bet Melania doesn't show her face for months because she - zeitgeist Jul 18, 22:08 1
- She'll never be able to wear the same dress twice again, that's for sure. -- nm - Max Jul 18, 22:10
finally Kayley :))))))) -- nm - Peglegpete Jul 18, 22:03 8
- *vomit* I had to put it on mute right away. -- nm - Max Jul 18, 22:04 6
  - she is horrid. but at least she admitting its lifted directly from it -- nm - Jovian Jul 18, 22:05 5
    - 2% lifted, 98% AWESOME IMMIGRANT -- nm - Max Jul 18, 22:06 4
      - she drank a triple dose of the kool aid every day for a month :) -- nm - Peglegpete Jul 18, 22:08 3
        
        BOTOX, its good for the complexion -- nm - zeitgeist Jul 18, 22:09 2
        
        her face is easily 2 times too big for her head -- nm - Jovian Jul 18, 22:11
        
        she's so brainwashed, she's almost the 21'st century equivelent of a Manson girl -- nm - Peglegpete Jul 18, 22:11
- Im shocked!! -- nm - Jovian Jul 18, 22:04
Here is an advance copy of Trump's acceptance speech -- (link) - amoxy Jul 18, 22:01 3
- I figure he will sprinkle is some Ali for good measure. -- nm - Spawndroid Jul 18, 22:03
- he's gonna end Prohibition? cool! -- nm - Peglegpete Jul 18, 22:02 1
  - fifty four forty or fight! -- nm - zeitgeist Jul 18, 22:04
wow -- (link) - Jovian Jul 18, 22:00
Just finished episode 3 of "Stranger Things" Very creepy - amoxy Jul 18, 21:57
CNN's panel is spending a lot of time discussing the plagiarism in Melania's speech. -- nm* - Max Jul 18, 21:41 17
- Melania Trump told NBC's Matt Lauer before the speech: "I wrote it...with a little help as possible." -- (link) - amoxy Jul 18, 21:53 6
  - On CNN satellite radio this afternoon, they said she had been working with speech writers and practicing her speech for 5-6 weeks. -- nm* - jnine Jul 18, 22:07 1
    - Lulz -- (link) - gerald Jul 18, 22:09
  - I guess she'll find out exactly how "intensely loyal" he really is -- nm - gerald Jul 18, 21:55 3
    - Ivanka will handle first lady duties, and me if I'm lucky. -- nm - Drumpster Jul 18, 22:15
    - There is always wife #4 or maybe Marla will come back on board -- nm - amoxy Jul 18, 21:56 1
      - I doubt that. -- (edited) - . Jul 18, 22:29
- Wow -- nm - amoxy Jul 18, 21:52
- Msnbc is saying this has to be a deliberate act of sabotage, the culprit should own up now to stem the damage -- nm - zeitgeist Jul 18, 21:45 7
  - that was my first thought. all we can do is sit back and see how it plays out. -- nm - Peglegpete Jul 18, 22:01
  - I think, based on several stories by previous interview writers, esp his art of the deal ghostwriter, trump hated what was written, saw some - zeitgeist Jul 18, 21:48
  - Didn't I hear her earlier - on the family aircraft - saying she wrote the speech herself? -- nm - Meg Jul 18, 21:47 4
    - They brushed that off -- nm - zeitgeist Jul 18, 21:49 3
      - "Literally, no one would believe that" -- nm - gerald Jul 18, 21:50 2
        
        Well, I mean, "wrote it herself" + "accusations of plagiarism" ... that's kind of believable -- nm - Beryllium Jul 18, 21:52 1
        
        it's catch-22. She's either the dumb brunette or the plagiarist. -- nm - Max Jul 18, 21:53
- I can't wait to hear him tomorrow denying / media-blaming -- nm - mud Jul 18, 21:43
drumpf flunkie andy Dean has the worst backpfeifengesicht ever -- nm - mud Jul 18, 21:36
ok, ST, time to ask for positive thoughts for my mum ... details IM (and sorry for anything repeated that you knew already) ... -- (edited) - call me Ishmael Jul 18, 21:32 15
- good thoughts -- nm - Beaker Jul 19, 04:50
- Good thoughts. -- nm - JaxSean Jul 18, 22:22
- good thoughts to you and her -- nm - Spawndroid Jul 18, 22:05
- you have my best wishes & thoughts, sit back & relax. -- nm - Peglegpete Jul 18, 22:00
- All my positive thoughts for your mom and you -- nm - amoxy Jul 18, 21:46
- Good luck for your mom, apparently it's a common injury, youngesters break collar bones adults, shoulders, seniors upper arms -- nm - zeitgeist Jul 18, 21:43 2
  - Sounds like she'll be in the best of hands. You need to be sure to take care of yourself. - Meg Jul 18, 21:45 1
    - ****should, of course, be one post up**** -- nm - Meg Jul 18, 21:46
- good thoughts! You guys should also figure out why she keeps falling. Maybe have a home safety eval done (it is like child proofing a home). -- nm - James Bond (aka Igor) Jul 18, 21:40 1
  - well, i'm not 100 percent sure, but i think that there has been discussion that some of her balance issues have been the result of ... - call me Ishmael Jul 18, 21:48
- best wishes -- nm - mud Jul 18, 21:39
- Good thoughts for you and yours. - . Jul 18, 21:37 2
  - well, i *selfishly* take a little time for myself several times a week :) ... -- (edited) - call me Ishmael Jul 18, 21:46 1
    - Good for you. - . Jul 18, 22:25
- good thoughts to all, especially that your mom's surgery and recovery go as smoothly as possible. -- nm - i.b! Jul 18, 21:34
The Word -- nm - gerald Jul 18, 21:23 1
- It's so fine. It's sunshine. -- nm - mud Jul 18, 21:25

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