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Thanks to all you lovely people for the birthday wishes. It's a bittersweet time for me, but your love makes it so much better. nm - ralph wiggum Sep 5, 16:23 2
- (((hugs))) -- nm - zeitgeist Sep 5, 16:26
- hang in there, baby -- nm - kitten on a branch Sep 5, 16:24
cover letter time ... - Beryllium Sep 5, 16:07
RIP Florence Lister. Pioneer in Southwestern archaeology. Aged 96 :( -- nm - Meg Sep 5, 16:02
Hey Bacon! Why bother renting an island? :) -- (link) - Meg Sep 5, 15:55 5
- I think I can about cover the island if Bery can supply the boat :) -- nm - Meg Sep 5, 16:19 2
  - Its a long way from the airport, we'd need a float plane -- nm - zeitgeist Sep 5, 16:23 1
    - All the expertise in this group and I don't believe we have a pilot? - Meg Sep 5, 16:27
- dang, that's awesome -- nm - zeitgeist Sep 5, 16:00
- Now if we can just get a millionaire, his wife, and a movie star! -- nm* - Bacon Sep 5, 15:57
officers were called to a nearby home where the resident reported someone had forced in a window, stolen items and painted their dog purple -- nm - why bother with link, this says it all Sep 5, 15:54 2
- Dude better find Gene Hackman fast. -- nm - Dano Sep 5, 16:12
- Call Batman, the Joker is loose -- nm - Bacon Sep 5, 15:56
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- How could a musical about Hollywood itself possibly lose at the oscars? That's the biggest Oscar bait ever. -- nm - iSpam Sep 5, 15:51 6
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    - but musicals have been a semi-regular BP winner, historically -- nm - shaolin fantastic Sep 5, 16:11 1
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  - Wait until you see my new musical about Hollywood musicals about the Holocaust. -- nm - Reagen Sep 5, 15:52 1
    - Starring Daniel Day Lewis and Jennifer Lawrence. -- nm - Name Withheld by Request Sep 5, 15:55
Johnny Manziel is back at Texas A&M taking classes -- (link) - amoxy Sep 5, 14:55 2
- "the courses required to receive his degree in recreation, parks and tourism sciences" - shaolin fantastic Sep 5, 14:56 1
  - *watch every season of Parks & Rec* -- nm - Beaker Sep 5, 15:24
SuperFeud: brian, nubby, Reagen -- nm - Strongbad Sep 5, 14:39 8
- The best of the best huh? -- nm - Bacon Sep 5, 14:46 7
  - Shame you didn't finish high enough. -- nm - Strongbad Sep 5, 14:54 6
    - I finished third dodging one spot higher of being in the never ending draft -- nm - Bacon Sep 5, 15:19 5
      - I accept blame on this. Wasn't more clear on the rules early. Didn't enforce time early enough. Didn't pester people who said they were playing. - Name Withheld by Request Sep 5, 15:52 4
        
        It's a steep learning curve. You're doing fine. -- nm - David's iPad Sep 5, 16:02 1
        
        He went to the zoo today, it's kind of like that but the animals don't behave as well. -- nm - Bacon Sep 5, 16:03
        
        it's been fine; just happy to have it finally -- nm - Beaker Sep 5, 15:53 1
        
        Four days should be enough though. Five max. -- (edited) - Name Withheld by Request Sep 5, 15:55
Braves say interest in Tim Tebow due to potential, not as attraction -- (link) - Strongbad Sep 5, 14:18 3
- Wait, do they think that actually makes them look better? -- nm* - Spawndroid Sep 5, 14:37
- And if you believe that, folks... -- nm - David Sep 5, 14:19
- Lies Lies Lies -- nm - Bacon Sep 5, 14:19
So what are you doing to prepare for tonight's Murray/Dimitrov match? -- nm - Dano Sep 5, 14:04 2
- same thing I do every night - Beaker Sep 5, 14:06 1
  - Dimitrov is pretty hot. -- nm - Dano Sep 5, 15:17
New University of Waterloo student Diki Suryaatmadja is 12 years old -- (link) - Beaker Sep 5, 14:00
Our next ST adventure. Renting a tropical island -- (link) - Bacon Sep 5, 13:54 3
- Does it have a cool name, like Snake Island? -- nm - Beryllium Sep 5, 13:56 2
  - Ultimate Survivor Island -- nm - David Sep 5, 14:10
  - Snake Island is actually a peninsula! -- nm - prayformojo Sep 5, 13:57
Sully runtime: svelte 96 mins -- nm - budice Sep 5, 13:26 9
- I saw the news at the time so 96 minutes too long -- nm - Beaker Sep 5, 13:30 8
  - Did the news show the "untold" story? -- nm - Roger More Sep 5, 13:44 7
    - Maybe theres a sequel, Sully 2: The New Crew -- nm - budice Sep 5, 13:46 6
      - Sully 3: Perfect Storm -- nm - Beryllium Sep 5, 13:49 5
        
        Sully 4: Well offer Danny Craig $75M to do it -- nm - budice Sep 5, 14:26 4
        
        Sully 5: Airplane! On The Hudson -- nm - Beryllium Sep 5, 14:50 3
        
        Sully 6: National Lampoon's Airplane Vacation -- nm - zeitgeist Sep 5, 15:56 2
        
        Sully 7: Featuring The Rock For Some Reason -- nm - Beryllium Sep 5, 16:05 1
        
        that would have to be the Fast and Furiouser: Hudson Drift -- nm - zeitgeist Sep 5, 16:24
Happy birthday, Bob Newhart! -- nm - 2016 Sep 5, 12:56 3
- what about Bob Hope? -- nm - budice Sep 5, 13:02 2
  - I got him first -- nm - 2003 Sep 5, 13:03 1
    - Missed it by *that* much -- nm - 20th century Sep 5, 13:45
Laremy Tunsil, Arian Foster named Dolphins Week 1 starters - Beaker Sep 5, 12:55 1
- He needs to hold onto the ball tighter -- nm - Bacon Sep 5, 12:55
FYI: George Carlin's 2001 live special "Complaints and Grievances" was filmed in November. - GregW Sep 5, 12:21 1
- Working title (and something he mentions in one of his books) was "I Kinda Like It When A Lotta People Die." -- nm - Tim Sep 5, 12:24
Vikings not ready to name first-week starting QB yet -- (link) - shaolin fantastic Sep 5, 12:19 3
- I think either way they'll be running the ball, a lot, over the next few weeks -- nm - Flavorize Sep 5, 12:21 2
  - All Day getting killt -- nm - shaolin fantastic Sep 5, 12:23 1
    - 12 Man Front -- nm - budice Sep 5, 12:49
RIP Hugh O'Brien -- nm - shaolin fantastic Sep 5, 12:16 2
- LQ Jones is on the short list of 1950's western actors still with us -- nm - Peglegpete Sep 5, 12:50
- 2016 can kiss my ass. -- nm - Spawn Sep 5, 12:37
The buzziest films hitting TIFF - and coming to theatres before long -- (link) - Beaker Sep 5, 12:05
Holy **** Dozier -- nm - ML Sep 5, 12:01
Carson Wentz was lying in a NJ cornfield hunting geese when he got the call that he's starting this Sunday -- (link*) - decline Sep 5, 12:00 3
- when you call it,they will come -- nm - budice Sep 5, 12:50
- he's like every guy I knew in high school -- nm - ML Sep 5, 12:00
- "Shh, buzzards." -- nm - David Sep 5, 12:00
Sony offers Daniel Craig $150 Million for 2 more Bond films.... -- (link) - Remlik Sep 5, 12:00 43
- fyi, the current series of Fleming's James Bond audiobooks released in 2012 have different celebrity narrators -- (link) - Peglegpete Sep 5, 13:23 1
  - Rosamund Pike? -- nm - Spawn Sep 5, 16:23
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  - meanwhile, Hillary got $143M in donations in august -- nm - Peglegpete Sep 5, 13:25 1
    - Mrs Clinton. ..M....it's all coming together man -- nm - zeitgeist Sep 5, 13:51
- I...why exactly is Craig able to leverage them so much? - Will Hunting Sep 5, 12:47 29
  - This would be for more than making the movies - it's about selling Omega watches, Tom Ford suits and Aston Martins. Craig is instantly recognizable as - Roger More Sep 5, 13:02 7
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      - Of course it would be. Like when its in kevin harts contracts to utilize his Twitter and Instagram followers - Remliks phone Sep 5, 15:26 1
        
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      - It was (reportedly) when the deal was $100 million for two movies. - Roger More Sep 5, 14:28 2
        
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        It's a franchise that has multi-movie contracts with several major brands who want the movie's star promoting their products. - Roger More Sep 5, 16:53
    - I am sure the international box office totals also had something to do with the offer amount -- nm - Peglegpete Sep 5, 13:08
  - because he's the best Bond (save the obvious one) -- nm - mud Sep 5, 12:50 20
    - Right. Dalton. He ws in some crap movies but he was damn good. - Remliks phone Sep 5, 15:25 1
      - Licence to Kill holds up really well, IMO. -- nm - Roger More Sep 5, 15:34
    - He is good, I like him, but he has been there a decade. No contingency plan is absurd. - Will Hunting Sep 5, 13:09 3
      - Unless this is their "well, he turned down that so what could we have done?" Justification for a new guy. -- nm - Will Hunting Sep 5, 13:33 2
        
        I think it's more that the contingency plans - Hiddlestone, Turner, Bell, etc - didn't work out. -- nm - Roger More Sep 5, 13:37 1
        
        Oh, the other thing is that a new and cheaper Bond makes it easier for Bond to end up at another studio. -- nm - Roger More Sep 5, 13:43
    - 3rd behind Roger Moore and Connery -- nm - Beaker Sep 5, 12:54 13
      - and Dalton. and Brosnan. and Lazenby. and David Niven -- nm - shaolin fantastic Sep 5, 12:54 11
        
        Woody Allen? -- nm - mud Sep 5, 12:56 9
        
        i don't count Little Jimmy Bond as a real James Bond -- nm - shaolin fantastic Sep 5, 12:56 8
        
        Connery and Craig. The others do not exist. -- nm - mud Sep 5, 13:00 7
        
        don't make me fight you... -- nm - Beaker Sep 5, 13:29 6
        
        Old people love Connery -- nm - Bacon Sep 5, 13:30 5
        
        give me Moore's smarm and shit eating grins over the rest any day -- nm - Beaker Sep 5, 13:31 4
        
        I agree with you. Roger was the best -- nm - Bacon Sep 5, 15:33
        
        I didn't like the corny villains nor the self mockery ,near batman tv show cartoonishness , conner and Craig were serious -- nm - zeitgeist Sep 5, 14:01 2
        
        I would like to see them in eachotther's films. Like, Pierce or Dalton doing the modern takes back then. - Spawn Sep 5, 14:11 1
        
        You know what i disagree. Criag is damn good. Its Sam Mendes who overstayed his welcome directing - Remliks phone Sep 5, 15:28
        
        Brosnan wasn't even Bond. He was just in action movies that happened to have Bond in them -- nm - Beaker Sep 5, 12:56
      - [snork] -- nm - mud Sep 5, 12:54
- I don't know whether to laugh or cry. -- nm - David Sep 5, 12:01 7
  - I know it's been hell for Craig, but for that kind of $, you'd be setting up the next 3 generations of Craigs-- for 2 years work -- nm - Flavorize Sep 5, 12:02 6
    - so does it apply to random people named Craig, or... -- nm* - Reagen Sep 5, 14:55
    - he can also buy Skyfall -- nm - Peglegpete Sep 5, 13:08
    - Yep. That's liberating money. You do not say No to that. - Mel Profit Sep 5, 12:47
    - huh? -- nm - mud Sep 5, 12:08
    - yep. -- nm - Remlik Sep 5, 12:04
    - yup -- nm - Beaker Sep 5, 12:04
I love you, Beth Cooper -- nm - prayformojo Sep 5, 11:59 4
- I unabashedly like the movie. -- nm - David Sep 5, 12:01 3
  - I had to stop reading the book on a plane because I was embarrassed about laughing out loud so much. -- nm - Dano Sep 5, 13:54 2
    - I love how many new words/phrases he coined. -- nm - Max Sep 5, 13:59
    - Larry Doyle lives in Baltimore now. you should stalk him! -- nm - shaolin fantastic Sep 5, 13:58
Sarkisian hired to Alabama staff. Sa an must be bored with Kiffin already and is looking for a challenge. -- nm - Volnelk Sep 5, 11:53 1
- This is actually something very decent of Kiffin. He's stuck his neck out for his friend, a recovering alcoholic. -- nm - David Sep 5, 11:57
Big Brother updates..spoils POV - Peglegpete Sep 5, 11:39
Dolphins depth chart -- (link) - budice Sep 5, 11:39
Definition of a backhanded compliment: Dick Wolf calls Chicago a kinder, fatter New York. -- (link) - GregW Sep 5, 11:33 3
- Kinder other than all those murders and stuff -- nm - Bacon Sep 5, 11:38 2
  - No one said those shooters were not polite. -- nm - GregW Sep 5, 11:46
  - one shot in the head vs bleeding from a million little cuts -- nm - zeitgeist Sep 5, 11:42
sooo ... this happened a little while ago regarding work (LYC) ... - call me Ishmael Sep 5, 11:23 2
- best of luck to you and I hope it all works out. -- nm - CQ Sep 5, 11:27 1
  - this, most definitely -- nm - Beaker Sep 5, 12:04
documents obtained from the Paris investigation suggest that ISIS intended their attacks to be much deadlier -- (link*) - shaolin fantastic Sep 5, 11:12
Can the 49ers just release Bruce Miller already? - IrishStephen Sep 5, 10:51 4
- Yes, yes they can, and just did. - IrishStephen Sep 5, 12:13 3
  - Why did they start now? -- nm - Spawn Sep 5, 12:57 1
    - I don't know, but it's a step in the right direction. - IrishStephen Sep 5, 14:50
  - buh bye Bruce -- nm - Bacon Sep 5, 12:14
Epopee: Now there's a word I haven't seen...well...ever. So BOP: entertaining, informative and now vocabulary building - JD Sep 5, 10:50
Did Mandy ever get her carpets cleaned? -- nm - iSpam Sep 5, 10:50 1
- If we know what you mean? -- nm - con_carne Sep 5, 13:13
"If we can't teach our guys something classy like that, what's college for?" -- (link) - GregW Sep 5, 10:44 7
- by running up the score on a first-week patsy? -- nm - shaolin fantastic Sep 5, 10:46 6
  - L3. -- nm - Strongbad Sep 5, 11:32
  - Since when is 43 running up the score? In the 90s, that was a half-time score. -- nm - GregW Sep 5, 10:49 4
    - 22 in the fourth quarter -- nm - shaolin fantastic Sep 5, 10:55 3
      - So you think teams should just stop playing if they are ahead in the 4th Quarter? That is just plain stupid. -- nm - GregW Sep 5, 10:57 2
        
        forget it Greg, it's pixie town -- nm - Beaker Sep 5, 13:30
        
        against Fresno State? sure -- nm - shaolin fantastic Sep 5, 11:00
solidarity forever -- nm - shaolin fantastic Sep 5, 10:43

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