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The @nytimes Adds 41,000 New Subscriptions Since Election Day -- (link) - ty97 Nov 17, 09:19 1
- correction ty - that is "the failing NYT" -- nm - crash davis Nov 17, 09:23
Nikki Haley? Does she have any foreign policy experience? -- nm - amoxy Nov 17, 09:18 1
- crash can answer this because he's smrt. -- (link) - Diva Nov 17, 09:24 [Backboard]
Man I can't wait for those tax cuts to come my way - ty97 Nov 17, 09:18
Sophie Ellis Bexter's mother is a nominee for the Bad Sex in Fiction Award -- (link) - LMS Nov 17, 09:18
Thing I learned on a conference call just now: It snowed in Dublin today. -- nm - ty97 Nov 17, 09:14 1
- Just checked with my SIL who has a weekend cottage in Wales. They're about 50 miles from the area hit by tornadoes - weren't affected. -- nm - Meg Nov 17, 09:22
President Obama in Berlin: "If you want a model for what is possible" then "look at Germany" -- (link) - ML Nov 17, 09:12 2
- And could he talking about historical events in Germany - Mel Profit Nov 17, 09:20 1
  - Nah, he's talkin' bout Merkel. - ML Nov 17, 09:21
Have we discussed to execrable painting that Sean Hannity is giving Trump to hang in the White House? -- (link) - znufrii Nov 17, 09:07 9
- o.m.g. -- nm - Andie Nov 17, 09:16
- It lacks subtlety and technique, much like Hannity himself -- nm - crash davis Nov 17, 09:13 7
  - somewhat related, I saw this on a t-shirt here the other day and considered it -- (link) - ML Nov 17, 09:15 [Image] 6
    - Is that also a McNaughton? -- nm - znufrii Nov 17, 09:17 2
      - I'm going to guess not because shouldn't an authentic McNaughton have Clinton taking away guns, not using them? -- nm - crash davis Nov 17, 09:20 1
        
        True. -- nm - znufrii Nov 17, 09:20
    - If that is supposed to be Monica, I got to say Dayam -- nm - crash davis Nov 17, 09:17 2
      - I just noticed his fly is open - ML Nov 17, 09:23
      - Agreed. - Doctor Spawn Nov 17, 09:22
Who would you start? Landry or Snead. -- nm - Crashquick Nov 17, 09:02 7
- I'm biased since I have Snead on my team and not Landry, but I'm hoping Snead has a big game -- nm - crash davis Nov 17, 09:15
- Snead--Over/Under is 52 for this game. -3 spread for CAR--25 Implied points for NO--Snead will get his. Landry has a tough matchup - Flavorize Nov 17, 09:14 1
  - ppr by the way :) -- nm - Crashquick Nov 17, 09:24
- Do laundry or listen to Sinead? I say, why not both? -- nm - Beryllium Nov 17, 09:03 3
  - also Luck or Mariota? -- nm - Crashquick Nov 17, 09:06 2
    - Very tough--Luck--Demarco Murray has a dream matchup and they are going to run the ball all day---Luck will have to pass for the Colts to stay in it -- nm - Flavorize Nov 17, 09:15 1
      - Wouldn't blame ya for going Mariota--kid has been on a roll--It's probably going to be close, points wise between the two -- nm - Flavorize Nov 17, 09:18
The Heidi Bowl was this date in 1968 -- nm - Beaker Nov 17, 08:54
KIVA repayment day! We need $1,700 by year end to match last year. Check your balances. -- nm - Meg Nov 17, 08:54
This was easily the best thing I saw on tv last night. -- (link) - Doctor Spawn Nov 17, 08:54 1
- awesome -- (link) - Beaker Nov 17, 08:56 [youtube]
Axis of Time/John Birmingham readers...a couple of new short stories are available... -- (link) - Remlik Nov 17, 08:50 7
- That's another &%$# thing about President Trump...we'll never get the USS Clinton. - Mel Profit Nov 17, 08:53 5
  - I would still like a taco truck on my corner. Please. -- nm - crash davis Nov 17, 08:54 4
    - me too....nm - x Nov 17, 09:02
    - I've got a halal cart, will that do? -- nm* - ty97 Nov 17, 08:57 1
      - honestly, I could do tacos every day - halal would be once every week or so -- nm - crash davis Nov 17, 09:08
    - Lol, no. Trump Tower taco bowls for everyone! -- nm - znufrii Nov 17, 08:57
- huh, cool -- nm - ML Nov 17, 08:52
Nice. My video I did on our youth retreat in 2013 for the Harlem Shake just got copyright claimed -- nm - oblique Nov 17, 08:49
Fantastic Beasts 82% (83/18), Edge of 17 93% (38/3), Bleed for This 63% (22/10), Nocturnal Animals 74% (68/24) -- nm - Beaker Nov 17, 08:49 2
- Early: Moana 100% (16/0), Bad Santa 2 25% (2/6) -- nm - Beaker Nov 17, 08:52
- Bleed For This is too high but at least trending in the right direction - ty97 Nov 17, 08:51
PlayStation is the new sponsor of the Fiesta Bowl -- (link) - budice Nov 17, 08:48 1
- Can we make this retroactive? I'd rather that Boise State be the winner of the Playstation Fiesta Bowl than the Tostitios Fiesta Bowl -- nm - crash davis Nov 17, 08:51
Season 11 will be the last for Duck Dynasty. -- nm - Beaker Nov 17, 08:46 1
- cursing your hidden IM -- nm - crash davis Nov 17, 08:54
Here's a bunhc of Beasties remixes using Daft Punk samples. -- (link) - Reagen Nov 17, 08:45 2
- Awesome, thanks. -- nm - LMS Nov 17, 09:16
- This is fantastic--Thanks! -- nm - Flavorize Nov 17, 08:50
my acquaintances shelby and sharon are identical twins. both of them have narcilepsy. my friend jim has identical twin daughters. - spy cookie amanda jones Nov 17, 08:44 38
- thanks guys! kiss! -- nm - spy cookie amanda jones Nov 17, 08:57
- *Shrugs* -- nm - Danny Devito and Arnold Schwarzenegger Nov 17, 08:48
- Even identical twins can have slight differences because of mutations - Reagen Nov 17, 08:48 4
  - There's also something called epigenetics - twins can have the same genes, but they express themselves in different ways (don't ask me to explain what - Roger More Nov 17, 08:52 3
    - that's usually in the environmental factors. -- nm - Reagen Nov 17, 08:53
    - thatis why one Wonder twin could transform into an animal, and the other could turn into water. -- nm - groiny Nov 17, 08:53
    - SCIENCE! *waves hands for added emphasis* -- nm - oblique Nov 17, 08:52
- I also have a pair of identical twin friends who are both narcoleptic... -- nm - Ender Nov 17, 08:48 4
  - are they named shelby and sharon? (I wonder if narcolepsy is common in twins.) -- nm - spy cookie amanda jones Nov 17, 08:48 3
    - Josh and Zach -- nm - Ender Nov 17, 08:52 1
      - I'll take this as a maybe. -- nm - ty97 Nov 17, 08:53
    - (haven't read this but) -- (link) - ty97 Nov 17, 08:50
- They only vaccinated one of them obviously - ty97 Nov 17, 08:46
- SCIENCE! -- nm - oblique Nov 17, 08:45 5
  - I'm serious. is autism a different kind of disease than something like narcilepsy? where is james bond? -- nm - spy cookie amanda jones Nov 17, 08:47 4
    - we're not even certain that there are genetic dispositions to autism, though it seems likely. -- nm - Reagen Nov 17, 08:52
    - I think there's a lot about autism we still don't know. -- nm - znufrii Nov 17, 08:49
    - I would guess the answer is that even genes can "go bad" in identical twins assuming autism is a genetic disorder (I think it is) - oblique Nov 17, 08:49
    - fighting spectre -- nm - decline Nov 17, 08:48
- it is all because of one retarded sperm going the wrong way -- nm - groiny Nov 17, 08:45 18
  - That's... not how identical twins work. -- nm - Doctor Spawn Nov 17, 08:45
  - in identical twins, it's the same sperm... -- nm - Andie Nov 17, 08:45 7
    - groiny is sort of stupid. -- nm - Doctor Spawn Nov 17, 08:46 1
      - Sort of? -- nm - znufrii Nov 17, 08:51
    - jeez - groiny Nov 17, 08:46 4
      - Make better ones next time. -- nm - znufrii Nov 17, 08:52 2
        
        even Derek Jeter pops out every now and then. -- nm - groiny Nov 17, 08:53 1
        
        Continuing the baseball metaphor, sometimes you just have to take a pitch. -- nm - znufrii Nov 17, 09:12
      - Filling the pixie vacuum? -- nm - Doctor Spawn Nov 17, 08:47
  - hey come on -- nm - Max Nov 17, 08:45 8
    - Groiny gonna groin. -- nm - znufrii Nov 17, 08:46 7
      - That's no reason to use the R word in a discussion that touches on autism. -- nm - Beryllium Nov 17, 09:07 6
        
        the 2 are really not related, that I am aware of at least. - groiny Nov 17, 09:11 4
        
        no, but do you see how a couple of people that regularly post on this board reeeeeealllly wouldn't like that association? -- nm - Reagen Nov 17, 09:14 3
        
        frankly, I can't keep track about what topics offend which ST people.... - groiny Nov 17, 09:20 2
        
        I don't think "not calling people retards, or associating unrelated concepts with it" is a hard one, personally. -- nm - Reagen Nov 17, 09:22 1
        
        I did not call anyone a retard. - groiny Nov 17, 09:24
        
        No it is not. -- nm - znufrii Nov 17, 09:09
Prediction: Monster Trucks will be the surprise hit of 2017 -- nm - Beaker Nov 17, 08:43 1
- Deplorables will eat it up? -- nm - Doctor Spawn Nov 17, 08:45
EVE Valkyrie now available on three VR platforms -- (link) - oblique Nov 17, 08:42
DeAndre Levy's Proudest Moment In College: Breaking "Dirtbag" Joe Paterno's Leg -- (link) - Beaker Nov 17, 08:39
in times like these, what i think we all need is a vine of a crosscountry runner being taken out by a deer.... - x Nov 17, 08:39 4
- Now that's a good tackle.. (NM) - Marlowe Nov 17, 09:12
- This should be a requirement for all XC races -- nm - decline Nov 17, 08:45
- no games! -- nm - Goodell Nov 17, 08:44
- like a damned missile, that deer -- nm - ML Nov 17, 08:43
You always know I'm in town because the complaining ramps up considerably. -- nm - Mop Nov 17, 08:38
Your depressing article of the day, vox.com edition -- (link) - znufrii Nov 17, 08:35 1
- no doubt, there is so much garbage circulating on there. -- nm - groiny Nov 17, 08:37
Civ 6 gripe - there's no score bonus for winning early - Reagen Nov 17, 08:34 2
- Yeah, I haven't done better than Henry VIII yet. But... things I do like about Civ 6 - Roger More Nov 17, 09:11
- it is never good to finish early. -- nm - groiny Nov 17, 08:36
Just a guess - HRC would have nailed down the transition. - Mel Profit Nov 17, 08:33 13
- and the above was really just a good natured dig at HRC. Like...of course she had this shit nailed down. that's what she does. she makes lists and - Mel Profit Nov 17, 08:50
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  - I don't disagree. -- nm - Mel Profit Nov 17, 08:46
- read some stories in the last days of the election that she really wanted Secretary of State Biden -- nm - crash davis Nov 17, 08:38 3
  - she may have wanted it, but he turned it down pre-emptively -- (link) - ML Nov 17, 08:46 2
    - If it became real, I think he would have had to think more on it. Secretary Clinton turned President Obama down at first... -- nm - crash davis Nov 17, 08:48 1
      - I mean, sure--but he already turned down running for POTUS for the same reasons he's espousing in the interview. - ML Nov 17, 08:50
- woulda shoulda coulda -- nm - philip k mud Nov 17, 08:36
- That would be an interesting list to read. "Come on, it doesn't matter now, just tell us who you would have picked." -- nm - Max Nov 17, 08:35
- it is easy for her, she just has to see who gave her the most money. -- nm - groiny Nov 17, 08:35 2
  - Which makes her unique among politicans -- nm - ty97 Nov 17, 08:37 1
    - she is a unique flower. -- nm - groiny Nov 17, 08:37
- She probably started transition in October - ty97 Nov 17, 08:34
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- you compared people discussing politics on the board to people discussing TWD on the boards. IIRC you came out in favor of the importance of - Diva Nov 17, 08:38 21
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    - I stand by my observation. The Bernie thing is something people want to talk about for various reasons and it is an aspect of politics. -- (edited) - Diva Nov 17, 08:56 1
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  - I need to go back to B2 and re-read, but that wasn't my read on what he said - ty97 Nov 17, 08:40 17
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      - no different than analyzing anything, we all have varying thoughts on the same things. - groiny Nov 17, 08:57
    - we spent a year discussing hypotheticals up to and including the election. - groiny Nov 17, 08:41 14
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        we discussed every angle from every debate, we discussed what we thought they each did well - groiny Nov 17, 08:58 5
        
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        all of our "opinions" - groiny Nov 17, 09:02 3
        
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        Opinions about what a movie will open to, whether it will be successful though, can be tested and proven/disproven -- nm - Roger More Nov 17, 09:12 1
        
        the arguements will have merit, but in the end, there are no guarentees. - groiny Nov 17, 09:15
      - oh to the contrary, much of it was proven to be true -- nm - ty97 Nov 17, 08:42 6
        
        I think I must have been reading differrent boards than you. -- nm - groiny Nov 17, 08:43 5
        
        You were reading the same boards, just reading them differently. -- nm - ty97 Nov 17, 08:47 2
        
        maybe, I was too busy fending off the HRC lovers telling me I was wrong about her. -- nm - groiny Nov 17, 08:49 1
        
        You were, but water, bridge, etc. -- nm - ty97 Nov 17, 08:54
        
        you are posting to the STer most convinced that a Trump Presidency was going to happen for what it's worth. -- nm - Mel Profit Nov 17, 08:47 1
        
        oh, I know, but it was not really like that from the beginning IIRC. -- nm - groiny Nov 17, 08:48
So we've made jokes about celebrities for president in the future, like President Kanye etc.Here is my nightmare scenario for a real candidate in 2040 - crash davis Nov 17, 08:29 14
- why is that a nightmare? He seems like a good guy or is he a nutter behind the scenes? -- nm - Beaker Nov 17, 08:31 13
  - joke answer - Press Secretary Marshawn Lynch - crash davis Nov 17, 08:37 12
    - Q: Can you comment on President Wilson's decision to tactically nuke portions of New England? A: I'm just here so I won't get fined. -- nm - ML Nov 17, 08:44 4
      - Q: Why did Aaron Rodgers get sent to a re-education camp? A: Yeah -- nm - crash davis Nov 17, 08:47 3
        
        Still the greatest interview moment I've seen in the last year -- (link) - ML Nov 17, 08:49 [youtube] 2
        
        if that was on Chappelle Show, no one would blink. -- nm - Reagen Nov 17, 09:19
        
        some people are unique snowflakes -- nm - crash davis Nov 17, 09:02
    - whatever Richard Sherman gets you know he will have a hand's on management style -- nm - Beaker Nov 17, 08:41 2
      - And be closely watched yet remaining effective at an incredible level...plus he'll tell you the truth about what he is thinking -- nm - crash davis Nov 17, 08:43 1
        
        why does he keep putting his hands all over me when he is trying to make a point? -- nm - groiny Nov 17, 08:44
    - Secretary of Defense Kam Chancellor -- nm - crash davis Nov 17, 08:39
    - Press Secretary Wallace Shawn -- nm - Max Nov 17, 08:38 2
      - outstanding. -- nm - philip k mud Nov 17, 08:40 1
        
        "But the most famous mistake is asking a followup question that the Press Secretary can use to ignore your first question! You've lost! HaHaHaHaHa!" -- nm - Press Secretary Wallace Shawn Nov 17, 08:48
A compass does not point to the geographical North or South Pole, but to the magnetic poles. -- nm - Beaker Nov 17, 08:29 1
- Pfft! Then what good is it? -- nm - Mop Nov 17, 08:39
Chuck Norris DID warn us about a thousand years of darkness. - David Nov 17, 08:28 1
- And miscalculated the cause, as well. -- nm - Beryllium Nov 17, 09:08

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