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man every time it's on I get sucked into Man From Uncle. really hope Guy Ritchie does a follow up. -- nm - Remlik Aug 30, 19:51 1
- i doubt that's Guy's call to make -- nm - shaolin fantastic Aug 30, 19:52
ST Poll: What color should my Tesla Model 3 be? See S/X available colors at the link - TWuG Aug 30, 19:43 16
- Red would be my first pick, and then the blue. - . Aug 30, 19:55
- Titanium Metallic or Midnight Silver Metallic. -- nm - samara Aug 30, 19:52
- I love the blue. Titanium is a close second. -- nm - kelly Aug 30, 19:51
- white -- nm - shaolin fantastic Aug 30, 19:51
- blue. -- nm - Reagen Aug 30, 19:48
- fuck their color list. if you can afford that car, you can afford to paint it a color you want -- nm - Peglegpete Aug 30, 19:48 4
  - I know how to powder coat. - . Aug 30, 19:57
  - I can't afford an S or X. The 3 will start at $35,000 and average $42,000 if Musk is to be believed. - TWuG Aug 30, 19:50
  - but the blue & midnight silver look good enough to see what they look like in reality at a dealership -- nm - Peglegpete Aug 30, 19:49 1
    - I've seen red, white, midnight silver, silver, blue and obsidian in person. - TWuG Aug 30, 19:54
- Obsidian Black -- nm - Qale Aug 30, 19:46 2
  - I was going with what he liked. Black is always the best choice, but he wants what he wants. -- nm - Spawn Aug 30, 19:51 1
    - Just not a fan of black cars or white cars. - TWuG Aug 30, 19:55
- Red or silver of course. - iSpam Aug 30, 19:45 1
  - I've owned two silver cars and my current car is dark blue. The Tesla silver is striking in person. - TWuG Aug 30, 19:49
- Midnight Silver -- nm - Spawn Aug 30, 19:44
White Sox put bid on Puig but didn't get him. -- (link*) - iSpam Aug 30, 19:42
groiny, sceire x2, groiny -- nm - znufrii Aug 30, 19:33 1
- Can I join you guys? Your draft is going faster -- nm - Bacon Aug 30, 19:40
David alert. Cedar Point gets some love in this chat at 538 -- (link) - TWuG Aug 30, 19:31 7
- also, Anna-Maria Barry Jester almost pulls off the mythical four first name name. - Tim Aug 30, 19:46 1
  - I'll allow it under the "call sign from Top Gun" exception. -- nm - Reagen Aug 30, 19:48
- This reminds me of how we used to do MMQB before everyone ended up on different schedules. -- nm - Tim Aug 30, 19:45 1
  - We're planning on doing this again when football season begins. -- nm - David Aug 30, 19:47
- We still have a copy of one of those Physics papers in a mementos box. - David Aug 30, 19:41 1
  - Wait. There's physics field trip handouts for Cedar Point? - JD Aug 30, 19:54
- jeez, Nate is aging in dog years. -- nm - Reagen Aug 30, 19:36
AXSTV has a really good biography of Harry Nilsson on now, and it repeats in 2 hours -- nm - Peglegpete Aug 30, 19:30
mixed reviews for Teeball -- (link) - shaolin fantastic Aug 30, 19:13 3
- "Tebow wasn't willing to try the CFL..." You need to pass to be a CFL QB. -- nm - mafic Aug 30, 19:20 2
  - Soccer!! He needs to try that -- nm - Bacon Aug 30, 19:21
  - struth -- nm - mud Aug 30, 19:21
Bills season tix sales are strong -- (link) - shaolin fantastic Aug 30, 18:37
Seems like a reasonable response -- (link) - iSpam Aug 30, 18:32 2
- thanks, NRA -- nm - shaolin fantastic Aug 30, 18:33
- Chris Brown is out of control!! -- nm - Bacon Aug 30, 18:33
Over 700 USC patient records on laptop stolen from employee's car -- (link) - Meg Aug 30, 18:23 1
- "Only 700" that's hardly petty theft, it ain't breaking news till at least 5% of the population is screwed up -- nm - zeitgeist Aug 30, 23:38
Michele Bachmann: God picked Donaldo (over Ted Cruz) to run for president -- (link) - shaolin fantastic Aug 30, 18:23 13
- (Because he really doesn't want republicans to win) -- nm - mafic Aug 30, 18:58 8
  - In other words, God picked Hillary to be president. -- nm - Spawn Aug 30, 19:11 3
    - don't tell ML -- nm - shaolin fantastic Aug 30, 19:11 2
      - Is he still on the window ledge? - Spawn Aug 30, 19:18 1
        
        hanging with this guy, if i had to guess -- (link) - shaolin fantastic Aug 30, 19:22
  - Or we're talking Old Testament Sodom and Gommorah anhiliation. -- nm - Reagen Aug 30, 19:03 3
    - What he means is Old Testament, Mr. Mayor, real wrath-of-God type stuff. Fire and brimstone coming down - TWuG Aug 30, 19:24 1
      - points! -- nm - zeitgeist Aug 30, 23:39
    - wooHOOO -- nm - mud Aug 30, 19:06
- *snork!* -- nm - . Aug 30, 18:36
- So that means God wanted Obama for 2 terms. -- nm - Bacon Aug 30, 18:29
- maybe it was a draft card pick -- nm - Max Aug 30, 18:27 1
  - Or lack thereof: "Fuckin' Autodraft gave me who?!!!" -- nm - Name Withheld by Request Aug 30, 18:30
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- That seriously may be the stupidest plan I've ever heard for this. It suggests investors essentially buying stakes in students. Let's think about - pmb Aug 30, 19:58
- So, we can purchase 20 yo coeds? - decline Aug 30, 19:53
- It would be pretty funny if this led to more students deciding to become, say, doctors and then when they graduate, they go work in a refugee camp. - Roger More Aug 30, 19:41 5
  - I thought peace corp was a way to work off school debt, doctors spend time in some middle of nowhere indian res etc -- nm - zeitgeist Aug 30, 23:36
  - Yes and no. This is to give an option to those who can't afford to make it right now. It's expanding the educated pool, not robbing it. -- nm - Name Withheld by Request Aug 30, 19:55 2
    - "Investors" are not going to be interested in the people that would expand the educated pool. I assume there would be some bundling of students to - pmb Aug 30, 20:03
    - It's a market that would have information assymetry and moral hazard. I don't think that can be hand waved away with "that's not the intent". -- nm - Roger More Aug 30, 19:59
  - Hmm... That would be great. -- nm - . Aug 30, 19:52
- Serfdom. -- nm - jnine Aug 30, 18:35
- "...Basically..." - Name Withheld by Request Aug 30, 18:28 4
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    - By your logic on this, banks essentially are buying home owners. Is that your position? -- nm - Name Withheld by Request Aug 30, 19:18 2
      - Is that not the nature of the relationship? -- nm - Beryllium Aug 30, 19:23 1
        
        The house pretty much belongs to the bank until the final payment. -- nm - . Aug 30, 19:31
znu, budice and Will Hunting are on the clock. -- nm - Dark Callisto Aug 30, 18:20 1
- I am an hour past bedtime. Will pickup tomorrow -- nm - Will Hunting Aug 30, 18:57
Dan Bongino went 0/2 in MD, and now has finished 3rd in the FL GOP Primary for a House Seat. When will he realize he's an awful candidate. -- nm* - MDH Aug 30, 18:09 2
- i can't believe that profanely losing your shit with a reporter on the record wouldn't pay off at the ballot box -- nm - shaolin fantastic Aug 30, 18:11 1
  - Or that a last minute Ted Cruz endorsement didn't send people to the polls. -- nm - MDH Aug 30, 18:29
Budice is the one that let Caveman pass us. Just sayin -- nm - Bacon Aug 30, 18:08 3
- Is there a clock this year? If so, what time is COB? -- nm - samara Aug 30, 18:14 2
  - He's a Caveman, Manchurian Candidate. They brainwashed him to lag -- nm - Bacon Aug 30, 18:17 1
    - I'll take a cave painting that resembles a football player at this point. -- nm - samara Aug 30, 18:29
Chris Brown has been taken into custody by LAPD on suspicion of assault with a deadly weapon -- nm - shaolin fantastic Aug 30, 18:03 12
- I wonder what constituted the assault. Her description doesn't seem to mention it. -- nm - mara Aug 30, 18:18 2
  - "assault" can include threats that place another person in reasonable fear of imminent harm - shaolin fantastic Aug 30, 18:21 1
    - Ah, thanks. -- nm - mara Aug 30, 18:21
- He should have left that durian in the freezer. -- nm - . Aug 30, 18:17
- brandishing one of his many scimitars. -- nm - Diva Aug 30, 18:09 1
  - *snort* -- nm - Epiphany Aug 30, 18:42
- I guess he has Mark Geragos on retainer. -- (link) - Meg Aug 30, 18:08 2
  - He probably spends more time with him than with his own son. -- nm - jnine Aug 30, 18:33
  - shoulda paid Ray Donovan instead -- nm - shaolin fantastic Aug 30, 18:14
- but can he play QB? -- nm - Beaker Aug 30, 18:05
- I hope he at least had a draft card -- nm - prayformojo Aug 30, 18:04 1
  - yet still having a better day than Teddy -- nm - shaolin fantastic Aug 30, 18:05
1 short of tying the attendance record at BOP today. -- nm - Beaker Aug 30, 17:58 4
- Since it's a secret board, I was never clear on how we ever got 42 at once in the first place. - David Aug 30, 18:05 3
  - I think that was the night of the vtual Oogiesloves viewing party -- nm - prayformojo Aug 30, 18:29
  - Russian hackers -- nm - Dano Aug 30, 18:09 1
    - Dark Army. -- nm - samara Aug 30, 18:16
even for Donaldo, this seems totes cray: considering a last-minute meeting with Mexico's president before giving his "big" immigration speech tomorrow -- (link) - shaolin fantastic Aug 30, 17:58 2
- I hope this is when he will backtrack on the wall - Brian Aug 30, 18:13 1
  - well, supposably he is going Full Jeb! on amnesty -- nm - shaolin fantastic Aug 30, 18:14
Planned to leave the library by the staff door. Blocked by a couple of police cruisers and a woman in short shorts and a - Meg Aug 30, 17:53 2
- Is she one of your informants? -- nm - Spawn Aug 30, 19:08 1
  - Meg's pimp hand is *strong* -- nm - shaolin fantastic Aug 30, 19:10
Fact: A group of Millennials is called a YAAAAAS. -- (link) - Qale Aug 30, 17:48 [youtube] 1
- Canada isn't real. - Spawn Aug 30, 19:17
budice, not only are you a shitty beer, but you're also a slow drafter. -- (edited) - samara Aug 30, 17:44
Hunting is up then Kilbo. - David Aug 30, 17:44 7
- Just picked...onto Kilbo - Will Hunting Aug 30, 17:46 1
  - done. dp3x2 again -- nm - oblique Aug 30, 17:47
- emails have been sent to both -- nm - ML Aug 30, 17:45 4
  - I'm ready :) -- nm - oblique Aug 30, 17:46 3
    - You're up again. -- nm - David Aug 30, 17:50 2
      - back to hunting -- nm - oblique Aug 30, 17:56 1
        
        6 am will be the pick - already shut down for tonight. -- nm - Will Hunting Aug 30, 18:58
So, Survey Monkey. Emphasis on first or second word. This isn't the first time I've heard a reporter speak of a survey "Monkey Poll" - Meg Aug 30, 17:39
SuperFeud: kilbo, Disney, Inigo -- nm - Strongbad Aug 30, 17:32 1
- done. Disney is up -- nm - oblique Aug 30, 17:46
Statement from Vikings Director of Sports Medicine and Head Athletic Trainer Eric Sugarman on Teddy Bridgewater: - ML Aug 30, 17:15 5
- is that bad? -- nm - shaolin fantastic Aug 30, 17:18
- looks like the Vikings have dodged one bullet at least -- (link) - ML Aug 30, 17:17 3
  - Someone found his patella on the field? -- nm - Reagen Aug 30, 17:39
  - Tebow! -- nm - Dano Aug 30, 17:33 1
    - sadly his MLB career lends him unable to contribute -- nm - ML Aug 30, 17:35
Spawn is right, Facebook is evil - ty97 Aug 30, 17:15 2
- what did your mom do now? -- nm - Epiphany Aug 30, 17:26
- Hey now! -- nm - Spawn Aug 30, 17:15
AP calls it: Marco Rubio unquitting quitting for the FL GOP senate nomination -- nm - shaolin fantastic Aug 30, 17:10 14
- another good one: the state's attorney in the George Zimmerman case is now out on her ass -- nm - shaolin fantastic Aug 30, 18:17
- Did Trump endorse him? -- nm - Dano Aug 30, 18:08 1
  - to the contrary, his schtick now is "only I can be a check and balance against him in the senate" -- nm - shaolin fantastic Aug 30, 18:17
- DWS not going nowhere, Bernie Bros -- nm - shaolin fantastic Aug 30, 17:52
- Murphy stomped Grayson like a grape for the Dem nom -- nm - shaolin fantastic Aug 30, 17:19
- Dammit, Tim -- nm* - prayformojo Aug 30, 17:13
- Never quit never quitting. -- nm - Tim Aug 30, 17:13 7
  - I never wish I could never quit you. -- nm - Qale Aug 30, 18:58
  - he wouldn't commit to actually serving all 6 years though if he wins -- nm - shaolin fantastic Aug 30, 17:15 5
    - Marco on whether he'll do his job: 'No one can make that commitment". -- (link) - Diva Aug 30, 17:26 2
      - wtf? -- nm - Epiphany Aug 30, 17:27
      - Murphy: "I can" - shaolin fantastic Aug 30, 17:27
    - Wait. Stop. Do you mean to suggest that his deciding to run for reelection was all about positioning himself for 2020? - ty97 Aug 30, 17:20
    - "I might only show up whenever there's a vote to impeach Hillary." -- nm - Tim Aug 30, 17:19
I'm not saying that the opening scene to Ballers this week was gratuitous, but.... -- nm* - prayformojo Aug 30, 17:02 3
- Are we talking a bone coming out of someone or a bone going in? Either way I'll watch. -- nm - Max Aug 30, 19:11
- spoiler question - crash davis Aug 30, 17:20 1
  - I should have been patient. Now I see what you mean -- nm - crash davis Aug 30, 17:25
WillHunting is up -- nm - CQ Aug 30, 16:55
the Disneyland Halloween Parade this year goes dark, focussing on characters like the Headless Horseman -- (link) - Peglegpete Aug 30, 16:55 1
- and Stitch -- nm - shaolin fantastic Aug 30, 17:03
As the days get shorter so does your opportunities to vote for Amelia. Go do it now, before it's too late! -- nm - Krusty Aug 30, 16:54
Resolved: I'm tired of not being to have it both ways -- nm - prayformojo Aug 30, 16:54 5
- get a Carvel ice cream cake....its cake and its ice cream -- nm - crash davis Aug 30, 16:55 4
  - who doesn't love cookiepuss? -- nm - samara Aug 30, 16:58 3
    - wiggums -- nm - shaolin fantastic Aug 30, 17:02
    - Fudgie > Cookiepuss -- nm - Strongbad Aug 30, 17:02
    - Heathens, that's who! -- nm - Krusty Aug 30, 17:01
Have the Yankees won the World Series yet? -- nm - ty97 Aug 30, 16:53 2
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  - trade us your starting pitching and we'd be running away with the division -- nm - shaolin fantastic Aug 30, 17:02
Good news, everyone! -- (link) - Beryllium Aug 30, 16:52 3
- I loved reading this story. Evolution, baby! -- nm - Krusty Aug 30, 16:55
- ruh-oh -- nm - bugsbunny Aug 30, 16:55
- cool cool cool -- nm - crash davis Aug 30, 16:53
Please rise for the playing of our national anthem -- nm - shaolin fantastic Aug 30, 16:52

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