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Suicide Squad trailer...the shrunk Harley's hot pants for the San Diego Comic Con footage -- (link) - Remlik Jul 29, 16:45 8
- I think that's backwards. I think it's shrunk in the actual film and lengthened for the regular trailer. -- nm - Qale Jul 29, 17:03 4
  - isn't that what they're saying? it makes sense that there'd be more coverage for trailers/ads. -- nm - b. Jul 29, 17:20 3
    - It makes it seem like it was done just for the convention when that's probably not the case. -- nm - Qale Jul 29, 17:23 1
      - ah. agreed. -- nm - b. Jul 29, 17:29
    - They want pervs like me to see it so they show more in the trailer. Then I get buyers remorse when it's all covered up. -- nm - Bacon Jul 29, 17:21
- IWHT -- nm - Bacon Jul 29, 17:01
- I had noticed something was up with that. -- nm - Spawn Jul 29, 16:47
- and one for the rest of you...the new Superman has quite the backside..... -- (link) - Remlik Jul 29, 16:47
Mike Pence chastised President Obama on Friday for indirectly referring to Donald Trump as a demagogue. - Spawn Jul 29, 16:45 3
- The word fits and it's far from name calling, unlike his running mate who has a terrible nickname for everyone he dislikes. - Krusty Jul 29, 16:50
- your governor! -- (link) - ty97 Jul 29, 16:48 1
  - Podhoretz has been killing them. -- nm - Krusty Jul 29, 16:51
we just got distribution of boulevard brewing here. this heavy lifting IPA is very nice - all the boys love newton time, yo. Jul 29, 16:43 1
- its probably one of those craft brewers that got bought by MegaDuff Corp and now has wide distribution -- nm - zeitgeist Jul 29, 17:15
He is going to continue saying stuff more and more outrageous until I don't know -- (link) - amoxy Jul 29, 16:39 2
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- Did the Kaiser steal his word for "twenty"? -- nm - Reagen Jul 29, 16:46
I've always said Krispy Kreme is like crack. Now some real evidence. -- (link) - GregW Jul 29, 16:36 2
- damn, then i would be in huge trouble -- nm - amoxy Jul 29, 16:44
- The drug test is majorly flawed. -- (link) - liioulu Jul 29, 16:43
Why is Chicago having so much trouble reducing gang violence? They've already locked up the leaders and there's no one to enforce cease fires. -- (link) - spamlet Jul 29, 16:15
my night: two episodes of mr. robot, one episode of unreal, beer. not a bad night at all. -- nm - all the boys love newton time, yo. Jul 29, 15:57 2
- kewl -- nm - budice Jul 29, 16:12
- god you're lazy -- nm - chubbers Jul 29, 15:59
Just got back from Trader Joe's. On the way there, 1 train pulls in packed but the car near me is only half-full. Winning! - ty97 Jul 29, 15:36 4
- Even *I* know better. - spamlet Jul 29, 15:38 3
  - It was one of those split second decisions. - ty97 Jul 29, 15:41 2
    - We have the same game on the CTA though a variation is the burnt rubber smell. - . Jul 29, 16:08 1
      - Which is more exactly burning rubber. -- nm - . Jul 29, 16:11
Mine. Mine. Mine, mine, mine. -- (link) - mara Jul 29, 15:35 5
- I think they've made him their leader. -- nm - jnine Jul 29, 16:09
- Haha! -- nm - Krusty Jul 29, 15:54
- Ocean city NJ is enforcing some law against this on the boardwalk. $500 and/or 90 days in jail -- nm - decline Jul 29, 15:47
- we were throwing them bread crumbs in the air at the beach last week. those birds are hella good at snatching them out of the air -- nm - gerald Jul 29, 15:37 1
  - right after the last big San Fran quake, we went to Santa Cruz boardwalk, place was *empty* we got fish 'n chips but it became a scene out of Birds - zeitgeist Jul 29, 17:09
You're the smartest guy I ever met... but you're too stupid to see... - amoxy Jul 29, 15:14
Did ST see the DNC's "Bullies" video? Amazing stuff. - TWuG Jul 29, 15:04 1
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- oh you're gonna be in rare form. -- nm - ty97 Jul 29, 15:35 1
  - "rare form"? - Spawn Jul 29, 16:56
- 7 am? -- nm - The Roger More Innuendo Jul 29, 15:19 1
  - Half would be lost in New Jersey. One would be sitting in holding cell drying out. Jack would be at his brunch date. -- nm* - . Jul 29, 15:21
- RIP Marlowe. - iSpam Jul 29, 15:00
- Did you lose my email? - Krusty Jul 29, 14:53 3
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    - *smh* -- (edited) - Krusty Jul 29, 15:00 1
      - you have been upgraded from hickory switch to cricket bat to administrate punishment to Mr Dawson with. -- nm - Peglegpete Jul 29, 16:58
You might remember me worrying about whether we'd put the new Harry Potter in the nonfiction section with plays. Sure enough. A 327-page play in the - mara Jul 29, 14:37 26
- You have yours already? Amazon said ours won't ship until Aug 3. Library privilege? -- nm - Meg Jul 29, 14:43 4
  - megga please - gerald Jul 29, 14:44
  - It's in the catalog and holdable, but will be "in processing" until August 3. (52 holds!) -- nm - mara Jul 29, 14:44 2
    - But have you had a sneak read of it already? -- nm - The Roger More Innuendo Jul 29, 15:20
    - Ah, gotcha. Our kids librarian had me pre-order it in the hope it would be here for the event on Sunday. - Meg Jul 29, 14:49
- What's the reason for it being in nonfiction? Is it actually a true story? -- nm - Krusty Jul 29, 14:40 20
  - No, it doesn't have to be true to be nonfiction. Nonfiction simply means it's not a novel or short story. -- nm - mara Jul 29, 14:41 19
    - Really? My understanding was nonfiction is writing based on truth. -- nm - Krusty Jul 29, 14:45 17
      - Not necessarily. For instance, folklore, legends and myths can be cataloged as nonfiction. -- nm - mara Jul 29, 14:48 16
        
        Plus stuff like ghost hunting, astrology, homeopathy, trickle-down economics... :-) In cases like that, of course, the author is *purporting* it to - mara Jul 29, 14:52 2
        
        astrology is real, yo. -- nm - all the boys love venus in scorpio Jul 29, 16:44
        
        That makes sense. -- nm - Krusty Jul 29, 15:03
        
        I can see it in those cases because they're based on a perceived truth in the stories. - Krusty Jul 29, 14:52 12
        
        It's totally made up, like most plays. But plays are not novels, so they're put in nonfiction. -- nm - mara Jul 29, 14:54 11
        
        That makes no sense to me. Plays are not really that different than a novel so why the difference? - Krusty Jul 29, 15:00 3
        
        See my last post below. -- nm - mara Jul 29, 15:10
        
        at my store we had ~80 sections - none were called "non-fiction" - mud Jul 29, 15:05 1
        
        Yeah, as much as anything else, libraries are just trying to come up with a single word to call the items with Dewey Decimal numbers. -- nm - mara Jul 29, 15:14
        
        Poetry, too. Edgar Allan Poe didn't actually meet a raven who said "Never more," but it's in nonfiction. -- nm - mara Jul 29, 14:56 6
        
        Wait, wut? -- nm - iSpam Jul 29, 15:09
        
        I feel like it should be on a case by case basis. -- nm - Krusty Jul 29, 15:02 4
        
        You know what, I should retract some of this. There's actually a much better way to think of this. The 2 categories of texts shouldn't be fiction and -- (edited) - mara Jul 29, 15:10 3
        
        Got it. I'm sorry for dragging this out but I was genuinely curious. Thanks for the detailed answer. -- nm - Krusty Jul 29, 15:16 2
        
        Heh, I was thinking of apologizing to ST, but *I'm* happy to talk about it. It's actually been helpful to me. -- nm - mara Jul 29, 15:17 1
        
        Cool. :-) -- (edited) - Krusty Jul 29, 15:24
    - interesting. -- nm - Epiphany Jul 29, 14:44
Whatever happened to Emily Procter anyway? She just vanished. -- nm - David Jul 29, 14:33 7
- I think she caught the dreaded 'Turned 40' bug going around Hollywood. nm - Dignan Jul 29, 15:13 2
  - what was her Last Fuckable Day? -- nm - gerald Jul 29, 15:14 1
    - Seaon 6 episode 21 of CSI Miami. Whenever that was filmed. nm - Dignan Jul 29, 15:19
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- or Moira Kelly! -- nm - mud Jul 29, 14:40
- Wiki says she's in a movie coming out soon. I think she took time off to be a mom, maybe? -- nm - sycor Jul 29, 14:38
- She was on a CSI show, no? -- nm - TWuG Jul 29, 14:37
Nope. Nope. nope nope nopenopenopenopenope -- (link*) - prayformojo Jul 29, 14:08 3
- Eh, there's a walkway and railings. - . Jul 29, 14:28
- It's like bad dreams I've had, only with a railing. -- nm - KuBaron and the Two STrings Jul 29, 14:27
- *jumps up and down* -- nm - gerald Jul 29, 14:21
Academy Award winning 1943 Donald Duck cartoon Der Fuhrer's Face, is finally off Putin's list of 3700 banned items -- (link) - Peglegpete Jul 29, 14:07
another Ailes victim speaking out about -- (link) - gerald Jul 29, 14:02 4
- he's horrid, and I have no interest in defending him; but.. this one is not quite the same as with the others - b. Jul 29, 16:16
- Horrifying. -- nm - mara Jul 29, 14:04 2
  - "My job was to sell the war. I needed to get people on the air that were attractive and articulate and could convey the importance of this campaign." - gerald Jul 29, 14:10
  - what a greaseball -- nm - prayformojo Jul 29, 14:06
"Are you ignorant, son, or just apathetic?" -- (edited) - prayformojo Jul 29, 13:54
Think playing The Open is tough? Try it wearing a 30 lb sack of flour. -- (link) - KuBaron and the Two STrings Jul 29, 13:48
The two things that caught me as unfortunate from Clinton's speech were the call for the Amendment (pie in the sky) and defeating TPP. - TWuG Jul 29, 13:44 4
- Do we even know fully what's in the TPP? -- nm - Krusty Jul 29, 13:48 3
  - For purposes of this political campaign cycle, it's a stand-in for "job-stealing trade deals". Details don't matter. -- nm - ty97 Jul 29, 14:04
  - The Wikipedia article about it has a link to "Agreement online text in full." -- nm - mara Jul 29, 14:00
  - We wish it were really called the TTP, so we could make Dilbert "The TTP Project" jokes. -- nm - KuBaron and the Two STrings Jul 29, 13:50
Public speaking - I've always been fairly comfortable and then I watched the video of my library presentation ;) - Meg Jul 29, 13:29 3
- 2 if it's from prepared. 5 if it's off the cuff. -- nm - . Jul 29, 13:47
- It's funny this comes up, because I just this minute recieved the evaluations from my last speaking engagement at a seminar. -- nm - pmb Jul 29, 13:36 1
  - Did it agree with what you felt? -- nm - Meg Jul 29, 13:40
ST Poll -- Hillary magically gets to pass one constitutional amendment, what should it be? -- (edited) - znufrii, dad. Jul 29, 13:28 24
- the country will only nominate smart women for positions of leadership, they get shit done and don't start wars -- nm - zeitgeist Jul 29, 17:18
- Voting rights amendment. -- nm - Krusty Jul 29, 14:40 3
  - Yup. As much as I hate guns, what's being done to keep minorities from voting is fundamentally un-American. nm - Dignan Jul 29, 15:15 2
    - I get angry when I read the stories and see states pass terrible legislation to make voting more difficult. It should be as easy as possible. -- nm - Krusty Jul 29, 15:32 1
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- make Roe V Wade untouchable and state proof -- nm - Epiphany Jul 29, 14:08
- An ERA with sub-clauses to more strongly protect voting rights and to define people as humans only. -- nm - ty97 Jul 29, 14:07 1
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- Echoing our friends to the north, a wrap-around amendment establishing the Bill of Rights and Responsibilities. - ReluctantCynic Jul 29, 13:53 4
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    - "The Rights and Responsibilities of Citizenship" -- (edited) - ReluctantCynic Jul 29, 14:05 2
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        Ah-hah ... thanks. - ReluctantCynic Jul 29, 14:14
- The Baseball season shall start on the First Monday in April and the first game shall begin in Cincinnati at 12:30 local time. - spamlet Jul 29, 13:44 1
  - Mr. Speaker, I propose a rider stating from this day forth, no more lights, and no more night home games for the Cubs. -- nm* - Peglegpete Jul 29, 13:48
- Election Day = national holiday -- nm - KuBaron and the Two STrings Jul 29, 13:40 1
  - I change my answer. Revise/remove the natural-born citizen clause for presidential eligibility. -- nm - KuBaron and the Two STrings Jul 29, 13:42
- Amend (or eliminate) the 2nd amendment. -- nm - pmb Jul 29, 13:38 1
  - I am shocked this was not the answer from every person here. -- nm - Spawn Jul 29, 16:32
- Mandatory voting with very strong restrictions on who can be disenfranchised and for how long. -- nm - TWuG Jul 29, 13:37
- Every media outlet gets fined for inaccurate/biased reporting. -- nm - David Jul 29, 13:36
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- for every screening in 3D of a movie on opening weekend, there shall be an equal number of 2D screenings -- nm - mud Jul 29, 13:33
- Trump to the woodshed for a paddlin -- nm - amoxy Jul 29, 13:29
Lir: depending on who Hillary might appoint to SCOTUS, overturning Citizens United isn't out of the question - gerald Jul 29, 13:24 17
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  - I thought the context was essentially "we'll get a constitutional amendment if we have to." -- nm - pmb Jul 29, 13:35 5
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      - Yeah, I had a similar reaction. Honestly, part of me feels like the entire constitution could use a bit of an overhaul. But considering I think - pmb Jul 29, 13:40 3
        
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        What would you change? -- nm - Strongbad Jul 29, 14:30 1
        
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  - It would be the perfect mission for Bernie to mobilize his army in support of - gerald Jul 29, 13:28 1
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  - Yeah, that was one of the few "Ugh" moments in her speech. -- nm - amoxy Jul 29, 13:27 6
    - why? It's an applause line for Democrats and nearly impossible to fix. It will get people fired up for years to come. -- nm - spamlet Jul 29, 13:43 2
      - Call their bluff then, hold a vote -- nm - gerald Jul 29, 13:57
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      - But how would it read? -- nm - amoxy Jul 29, 13:30 1
        
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  - sarcasm? -- nm - mud Jul 29, 13:26
"intercepted by warlords" - oblique Jul 29, 13:22
it's friday. go home and enjoy the weekend. -- nm - Peglegpete Jul 29, 13:21 2
- what Dead song is that from? -- nm - mud Jul 29, 13:22 1
  - LOL ... all of them! -- nm - JenBro Jul 29, 13:27
Word. -- nm - Jim Jul 29, 13:21 2
- erotica -- nm - amoxy Jul 29, 13:22 1
  - exotica -- nm - oblique Jul 29, 13:23

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