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The Dems really do need to look at their bench of future potential national candidates -- nm - ty97 Oct 24, 11:55 3
- In theory this is what the next 4 to 8 years are for, right? - Tim Oct 24, 11:57
- Obama and Holder are on it -- (link) - mr monkey Oct 24, 11:57
- Which is the deeper list for them: governors or senators? -- nm - Max Oct 24, 11:56
*crash signal* Senator Mike Crapo of Idaho, who rescinded his endorsement of Trump earlier this month, is voting for Trump again -- (link) - ty97 Oct 24, 11:51
Heh. Petition to replace Joe Buck with Bob Uecker -- (link) - kilbooooo Oct 24, 11:50 4
- He must be getting up there. I will guess...74 -- nm - Max Oct 24, 11:54 1
  - Older. In his 80's, but my daughter says he's in amazing shape. He drives a corvette, runs up the steps and is still the life of the party. -- nm - pmb Oct 24, 11:57
- He's busy at BelvedereCon. -- nm - Baron More Dough Oct 24, 11:53
- Juuuuust a bit outside -- nm - budice Oct 24, 11:52
Oh, Netflix, you do know how to tempt me. The Fall Season 3 on Oct 29. -- nm - Baron More Dough Oct 24, 11:50
Hey Diva. Matt, Ben and Tom will be sending you a t-shirt for me. - Mel Profit Oct 24, 11:46 1
- ok -- nm - Diva Oct 24, 11:56
Oh my goodness. I've discovered World Market. *love* -- nm - kelly Oct 24, 11:45
The lions outside the Art Institute of Chicago are Cubbies fans. -- (link) - Mop Oct 24, 11:39 2
- It was pretty cool when they had the Blackhawks helmets--I happened to be in Chicago for a visit. They looked awesome -- nm - Flavorize Oct 24, 11:47
- Winter is Coming -- nm - Peglegpete Oct 24, 11:42
Heh. Middle school just sent out a notice that if the world series goes to 7 games they are moving the band concert to the next day -- nm - kilbooooo Oct 24, 11:29 16
- Chicago be wild if Cubs win the Series -- nm - budice Oct 24, 11:31 14
  - I'm trying to figure out if the tickets are really going to sell on the 3rd party sites for the $2k they are going for now or if the prices are going - kilbooooo Oct 24, 11:33 12
    - I think they will drop some, but not a lot. The high end ticket prices have come back to a semblance of reality, but the low end has not moved much - pmb Oct 24, 11:40 5
      - so now the question becomes, do I beg my vendor for tix :) -- nm - kilbooooo Oct 24, 11:42 4
        
        Our clients are starting in on us. Tickets at these prices are kind of hard to comp though. We've got a few to take clients, but I think we'll be - pmb Oct 24, 11:43 3
        
        yeah, kinda why I haven't asked yet. It feels a bit low -- nm - kilbooooo Oct 24, 11:46 1
        
        I'm glad I ponied up for the tickets on Saturday. It was still a lot, but a fantastic experience. But these prices are insanity. - pmb Oct 24, 11:56
        
        Hunger Games them -- nm - mr monkey Oct 24, 11:46
    - the prices will not drop. -- nm - Candie Apple Oct 24, 11:35 5
      - *shrug* they dropped $1k since last week -- nm - kilbooooo Oct 24, 11:39
      - maybe he could trade his extra Hamilton tix for some -- nm - mr monkey Oct 24, 11:37 3
        
        #Ham4Cub -- nm - budice Oct 24, 11:38 2
        
        #Bear4Cub if they were Bears tix -- nm - budice Oct 24, 11:39 1
        
        you gotta be real careful using this hashtag -- nm - mr monkey Oct 24, 11:47
  - it'll be like beaver canyon after a penn state win! (I would link video but it's all been taken down.) -- nm - university of amanda jones Oct 24, 11:32
- if that series goes seven games, Chicago will burn -- nm - mr monkey Oct 24, 11:31
I hope someone does some kind of edit with Nick Cage in a bearsuit for this -- (link) - kilbooooo Oct 24, 11:24
I want to change a return flight so I come home one day early. Nothing's free in life. Dammit. -- nm - Mop Oct 24, 11:22
westworld poll: if you played the game, would you be white hat or black hat? -- nm - mr monkey Oct 24, 11:19 6
- White hat with a touch of gray. -- nm - Remlik Oct 24, 11:24 2
  - DLC: hair -- nm - mr monkey Oct 24, 11:27 1
    - Trevor style from GTA then hell yeah! -- nm - Remlik Oct 24, 11:38
- I'd want to perfect the art of getting arrested for bank robbery and then breaking out of jail. - Max Oct 24, 11:21 1
  - " Tip of the spear. Edge of the knife. Crack of my ass" -- nm - budice Oct 24, 11:25
- Always be a paladin. -- nm - David Oct 24, 11:21
And also, Idris Elba should be the next Bond. Make it happen, Internet! - con_carne Oct 24, 11:18 5
- Is it 2014 again? -- nm - Qale Oct 24, 11:55 1
  - Yes, longing for the good old days when life was simple, hill was the most admired woman, Drumpf was a joke -- nm - zeit spiced geist Oct 24, 14:05
- He'd be great...but man I'd love him as Bonds former best friend now enemy -- nm - Remlik Oct 24, 11:39
- agreed. If nothing else part of the internet will explode. -- nm - Mel Profit Oct 24, 11:36
- Totally agree. -- nm - RCynic and Old Lace Oct 24, 11:30
Is that Schwarber's music I hear? -- (link) - kilbooooo Oct 24, 11:18 3
- On the one hand I love the story of this. But, I find it hard to believe he'll have the timing he needs to hit major league pitching after about 8 at - pmb Oct 24, 11:20 2
  - I think it is kinda shitty for the guys who have been there all year, someone is getting ousted for him to MAYBE be able to hit. -- nm - ghouly Oct 24, 11:43 1
    - There is no way you put him in the lineup unless you feel comfortable he really can hit now. But the impression I got from some of the team talking - pmb Oct 24, 11:45
"Smartwatch shipments are down 51.6 percent year-over-year for the third quarter of 2016" -- (link) - ML Oct 24, 11:17
"Drones delivering peanut-butter pellets could save endangered ferrets: Video shows a copter firing gumball-size bait to vaccinate prairie dogs, - prayformojo Oct 24, 11:13 3
- one of my favorite critter stories in recent memory. :) - -- nm but: -- (link) - b. Oct 24, 11:21 [Backboard]
- that's pretty cool -- nm - kilbooooo Oct 24, 11:17
- Sounds like they could be easily converted to terrorize humans with peanut allergies. aka mutants aka inhumans. -- nm - Max Oct 24, 11:15
NYT buys Wirecutter/Sweethome (don't look p4m) -- (link) - kilbooooo Oct 24, 11:12
I know we've done this before but I still want to talk about it. What actor should play Cable in 'Deadpool 2'? Other than Keira Knightley? -- nm* - Diva Oct 24, 11:04 16
- Mads Mikkelsen -- nm - Diva Oct 24, 11:57
- Stephen Lang has the right look, but I'd love to see someone with more onscreen presence, who can be goofy too---Matt Damon -- nm - Flavorize Oct 24, 11:52
- I always liked Jason Beghe for it because the voice works too, but I doubt it would ever hit the radar. -- nm - Name Withheld by Request Oct 24, 11:41
- Bryan Cranston -- nm - David Oct 24, 11:22
- I really think that Stephen Lang should play Cable -- nm - con_carne Oct 24, 11:14
- gonna go out on a limb here and say Stephen Lang -- nm - decline Oct 24, 11:13
- JDM -- nm - budice Oct 24, 11:13
- Francis. -- nm - Scaryllium Oct 24, 11:12 1
  - Fine. Jaden smoth. -- nm - Scaryllium Oct 24, 11:22
- Stephen Lang -- nm - VolnHELLk Oct 24, 11:08 1
  - I see Dolph Lundgren mentioned too. That would be ok. -- nm* - VolnHELLk Oct 24, 11:08
- I know nothing about the character other than what he looks like so I'll go with Rutger Hauer -- nm - ML Oct 24, 11:07
- Steven Lang -- (link) - Remlik Oct 24, 11:07
- Steven Lang. -- nm - Reagen Oct 24, 11:07 1
  - They'll have to cgi some bulk onto him but I think this is the right choice. -- nm - Mel Profit Oct 24, 11:12
- Jon Hamm -- nm - hellSpawn Oct 24, 11:07
Hillary doesn't want to compete for low wage jobs (read: factory jobs), she wants to compete with Germany - con_carne Oct 24, 11:02 15
- Which are fantastic if you have an education. -- nm* - iSpam Oct 24, 11:08 6
  - Those damn elitist, educated liberals with their fancy jobs! -- nm - znufrii Oct 24, 11:47
  - My guess is that it's not, "Go get that job...for which you're not qualified." It likely entails funding for education to guide people towards thejobs -- nm - Mel Profit Oct 24, 11:17
  - Not necessarily, the real problem is that there are fewer of these jobs. - Roger More Oct 24, 11:16
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    - The purge -- nm - JD Oct 24, 11:16 1
      - colon Election Year! -- nm - prayformojo Oct 24, 11:18
- it's not a compelling closing argument speech - mr monkey Oct 24, 11:04 7
  - Wait...is that Bubba's...no wait...POTUS? No...wait...FLOTUS? - Mel Profit Oct 24, 11:13 5
    - none of them are on the ballot, but she's already made the intellectual case and is winning on it. give us the speech they'll play 20 years from now -- nm - mr monkey Oct 24, 11:18 2
      - It takes a village, pixie. -- nm - hellSpawn Oct 24, 11:55
      - The people I've listed are more than capable of broad stroked, inspirational speeches... - Mel Profit Oct 24, 11:21
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      - You even have Gore doing some work. - Mel Profit Oct 24, 11:27
  - Wait for it -- nm - con_carne Oct 24, 11:06
RIP Peter Burns (lead singer Dead or Alive - ironically) -- (link) - Candie Apple Oct 24, 11:01 2
- 2016 can kiss my ass. -- nm - hellSpawn Oct 24, 11:05
- so that question is answered, anyway -- nm - ML Oct 24, 11:02
IMPORTANT: -- (link) - ML Oct 24, 10:58 2
- Emergency meeting, stat! -- nm - Andes Candies Oct 24, 11:00
- Tagalong flavor or nothing -- nm - kilbooooo Oct 24, 10:59
You will believe a cat can fly. -- (link) - mara Oct 24, 10:53
LYC: Hired a "junk guy" to come and take a bunch of stuff out of the house. Should've taken a picture of it all -- (edited) - kilbooooo Oct 24, 10:52 7
- Kijiji! -- nm - Beaker Oct 24, 10:54
- yard sale that shit, bruh! -- nm - mr monkey Oct 24, 10:52 5
  - no! get it *gone*. -- nm* - Candie Apple Oct 24, 10:53 4
    - Yes, this. -- nm - Scaryllium Oct 24, 10:55 3
      - I think the "whole truck" is < $600 and they do all the hauling, etc. I told my wife, just point to anything you want gone -- nm - kilbooooo Oct 24, 10:57 2
        
        Apparently you were not there? - hellSpawn Oct 24, 11:09 1
        
        "Maam, we're going to need a bigger truck" -- nm - kilbooooo Oct 24, 11:11
Monday Motivation: Charli XCX from the weekend -- (link) - Boodice Oct 24, 10:45 1
- Was for a good cause tho -- (link) - Boodice Oct 24, 10:46
WTF is wrong with Ron Howard? How can he flail from Oscar caliber films to utter garbage? Is he so beholden to bad scripts? -- nm - Mop Oct 24, 10:44 17
- Pet bloopers make him giggle! -- (link) - hellSpawn Oct 24, 11:04 [youtube]
- I wonder if he did this in order to get Dark Tower made. -- nm - Roger More Oct 24, 11:00
- Inferno is some pretty bad source material -- nm - JD Oct 24, 10:57 1
  - yonh. I couldn't even get thru it. -- nm - Diva Oct 24, 11:03
- He's always been a bit of a hack.. (NM) - Marlowe Oct 24, 10:54
- Backdraft. Ransom. Far and Away. - Scaryllium Oct 24, 10:53 1
  - I liked 'Cinderella Man' and 'A Beautiful Mind' and thought they were well done. -- nm - Diva Oct 24, 10:56
- he's always bounced between oscar films to blockbusters to comedies. -- nm - Remlik Oct 24, 10:53
- beep beep beep -- nm - the money truck Oct 24, 10:50 5
  - I accept this for Tom Hanks. He can't shape the film. But Ron Howard's behind the camera. His name's on the film. - Mop Oct 24, 10:53 4
    - Your mistake is in thinking Howard's anything but a perfectly adequate director - Reagen Oct 24, 10:56 3
      - No, that's what I'm implying. Give him Akiva Goldsman and it's gold. Give him Dan Brown and it's crap. Ron Howard is a non-entity, right? -- nm - Mop Oct 24, 11:02 1
        
        Although, now that I see Akiva Goldsman's filmography, my theory may be flawed. -- nm - Mop Oct 24, 11:03
      - He's certainly not an M Night Shyamalan ... or a Michael Bay ... or even a JJ Abrams. - Scaryllium Oct 24, 10:57
- other than Apollo 13, "Oscar caliber" is up for debate -- nm - mr monkey Oct 24, 10:45 2
  - Say what you will about "A Beautiful Mind", I don't think "Inferno" is going to get any Oscar nominations. -- nm - Mop Oct 24, 10:48 1
    - never saw it because, Ron Howard -- nm - mr monkey Oct 24, 10:51
and like the BMW film series...now FORD has gotten into it with Mads Mikkelsen as an assassin -- (link) - Remlik Oct 24, 10:44 1
- That gets weird about halfway through. -- nm - Mop Oct 24, 11:24
Not quite two weeks to go Election Contest Announcement - Reagen Oct 24, 10:44 21
- what are the prizes? -- nm - kilbooooo Oct 24, 11:13
- can someone just make a google doc where we plug our numbers in? -- nm - mr monkey Oct 24, 10:51 15
  - I thought about making a form but I don't know enough about how to do that. -- nm - Reagen Oct 24, 10:52 14
    - Google doc forms are super easy FWIW -- nm - ty97 Oct 24, 11:40
    - max! -- nm - mr monkey Oct 24, 10:54 12
      - dude. we say "hit it, max!" -- nm - university of amanda jones Oct 24, 11:01
      - I could set that up tonight for easy data collection but the tricky part is if you want to allow players to adjust their votes after first submitting. -- nm - Max Oct 24, 10:57 10
        
        I've done this in Google Docs for a contest I've been running - you can set it up so that people can change their answers. However... - Roger More Oct 24, 11:08 7
        
        Plus, have you found any way for them to get a summary of their submitted answers? Seems that's only available for Google Business. -- nm - Max Oct 24, 11:12 6
        
        There's a button under Settings (the cog) where respondents can see summary charts and text responses - I think that gives access to everything -- nm - Roger More Oct 24, 11:22 2
        
        I've done a test - this gives a summary of all submitted answers. But allowing them to edit their response allows them to see how they responded in - Roger More Oct 24, 11:24 1
        
        Really the Calvins method is the best form submission I've used. Flexible multiple choice, ranking, saved for easy viewing. -- nm - Max Oct 24, 11:41
        
        can't they access a printable form? "show me a pdf?" (I have google apps for business; I could make you an account if you want to look.) - university of amanda jones Oct 24, 11:16 2
        
        I don't think there's such a thing for free personal Forms, but I'm interested in getting access to your business -- nm - Max Oct 24, 11:20 1
        
        I have the paid version of google apps from when it was free. I'll make you an account. you know what your password is, right? -- nm - university of amanda jones Oct 24, 11:21
        
        They could always submit a second, overriding ballot. But I'd ask people to wait until close to the end. - Reagen Oct 24, 10:59 1
        
        potential solution if you create a form in google docs -- (link) - mr monkey Oct 24, 11:03
- Tie breaker 2 is the question I find most interesting right now. -- nm - Max Oct 24, 10:51
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  - Yup. :-) -- nm - Krusty Oct 24, 11:31
- Should be fun, thanks for putting this together. -- nm - Strongbad Oct 24, 10:46
I was sure that BMW Films: The Escape was filmed in Quebec or maybe Ontario. Ontario it is (confirmed in the end credits). -- nm - Mop Oct 24, 10:44
such a nasty woman -- nm - mr monkey Oct 24, 10:41 1
- don't mean a thing. bum bum badada bum bum - kilbooooo Oct 24, 10:41

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