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ST Poll: What does Reagen like? - TWuG Dec 15, 08:49 12
- breathable air? -- nm - Pippy Bells Dec 15, 08:58
- Prada snowshoes and strawberry Quik. -- nm - Krusty Dec 15, 08:56
- I take a Steve Martin in Roxanne view of those - Reagen Dec 15, 08:52 3
  - Verry underated movie IMO -- nm - eag Dec 15, 08:56
  - See, that's what I thought TWuG was cuing up, with his post--everyone tell a tall person joke -- nm - Flavorize Dec 15, 08:56
  - *throws a dart, makes a bulls-eye* -- nm - Spawn Dec 15, 08:53
- The middle olive in a three-olive martini garnish. - znufrii Dec 15, 08:51
- Tall people: where the family will meet if someone gets lost in a crowd. -- nm - Flavorize Dec 15, 08:51 1
  - Quite true, I'm the lodestar. - Reagen Dec 15, 08:54
- sex ed class -- nm - Beaker Dec 15, 08:50
- Long walks on the beaches? -- nm - Spawn Dec 15, 08:50 1
  - He's always the first in his family to get caught in the rain. -- nm - TWuG Dec 15, 08:58
Fun thing that happened after the screening of "Why Him"...I walked by another set of theaters within the megaplex on my way out. Saw they were screen - Mel Profit Dec 15, 08:36 7
- I absolutely love the final scene of The Right Stuff -- (link) - JD Dec 15, 08:42 [youtube] 1
  - I thought the tests were great imho, and poor Chuck Yeager -- nm - budice Dec 15, 08:45
- okay but why and who was seeing that? like was it a packed audience? private xmas party? -- nm - Pippy Bells Dec 15, 08:40 3
  - There were less than 10 people in the smallish theater. -- nm - Mel Profit Dec 15, 08:46
  - Heard on the radio that it (is/was) being shown in honor of John Glenn. -- nm - Max Dec 15, 08:44 1
    - makes sense and is cool. I don't know but it feels like he passed without much fanfare. Hopefully I am mistaken. -- nm - Mel Profit Dec 15, 08:48
- ~ Dum dum dum..dum dum dum dum dum .. dum..dum..dum..Flying High~ -- nm - budice Dec 15, 08:37
Vanity Fair trolls the president-elect with an article about the Trump Grill(e). -- (link) - mara Dec 15, 08:32 25
- that's delightfully vicious. -- nm - Mel Profit Dec 15, 08:45 5
  - it's actually a feud that goes back to the 80's.... - x Dec 15, 08:49
  - I do fear that playing rope-a-dope with a guy who controls nukes will end badly. -- nm - TWuG Dec 15, 08:47 3
    - I only hope there will be people in the chain of command who will think about their place in history if and when he throws a tantrum. -- nm - Mel Profit Dec 15, 08:51 1
      - I know there are good people in government and the military who will act as a brake, but the actual procedure for launching a nuke is - TWuG Dec 15, 08:53
    - "why can't we just nuke Variety?" -- nm - Trump Dec 15, 08:49
- "A poor person's idea of a rich person," is perhaps the single most accurate description of Trump I have ever come across. -- nm* - znufrii Dec 15, 08:38 4
  - that is a much more succinct version of something I took forever explaining to Trish a while back -- nm - crash davis Dec 15, 08:43
  - yep. -- nm - Diva Dec 15, 08:42
  - HE SITS ON CHAIRS OF GOLD! - Spawn Dec 15, 08:41
  - right? -- nm - university of amanda jones Dec 15, 08:40
- I'm just a plebian but even I know truffle oil is the devil and that hummus and ricotta don't go. -- nm - Reagen Dec 15, 08:34 5
  - fun fact: truffle oil doesn't contain truffles....nm - x Dec 15, 08:41 4
    - Although as a chemist, that sort of stuff doesn't really bother me - Reagen Dec 15, 08:49 3
      - the idea of the chemicals doesn't bother me. that they call it truffle oil does....nm - x Dec 15, 08:50 1
        
        Fair enough - don't get you started on vanilla extract? -- nm - Reagen Dec 15, 08:52
      - *reads IM, makes mind blown gesture* -- nm - TWuG Dec 15, 08:49
- And PEOTUS couldn't help himself from tweeting back -- nm - ty97 Dec 15, 08:33 7
  - I don't know how the rest of ST feels about it, but since I don't follow him, I'd like the tweet linked when he responds to media baiting. - crash davis Dec 15, 08:38 5
    - *holds nose and posts it* -- (link) - mara Dec 15, 08:55 1
      - Big Trouble! -- nm - Pippy Bells Dec 15, 09:07
    - I feel like we talk about him far too much. -- nm - Qale Dec 15, 08:54
    - I thought about it, the other part of me wondered if he deserved the 'eye' time - ty97 Dec 15, 08:53
    - me too -- nm - Pippy Bells Dec 15, 08:41
  - *smh* -- nm - znufrii Dec 15, 08:34
Shortbread is the most inferior of Christmas cookies. -- nm - Reagen Dec 15, 08:32 17
- It's pretty tasty. -- nm - Krusty Dec 15, 08:58
- ST is still reeling from The Battle for Gravy, and you bring this up now? -- nm - prayformojo Dec 15, 08:44 3
  - What if we put gravy on the shortbread cookies? -- nm - znufrii Dec 15, 08:46
  - I think we can all agree that gravy on shortbread would be disgusting. -- nm - TWuG Dec 15, 08:46 1
    - You could say that - eag Dec 15, 08:50
- what do you actually *like*? Just curious. -- nm - Diva Dec 15, 08:44 2
  - I'm not sure how to answer this question - Reagen Dec 15, 08:46 1
    - it's a Stalker Poll, yeah - that's it. - Diva Dec 15, 08:48
- i *love* shortbread. -- nm - Andie Dec 15, 08:43 2
  - It's the only Christmas cookie I want to eat. -- nm - David's iPad Dec 15, 08:58
  - Yeah, the cookies with the colored sprinkles (shaped like stars, bells, trees) are my fav Christmas cookie. -- nm - Spawn Dec 15, 08:52
- unless the backside is chocolate. then it gets a pass - Pippy Bells Dec 15, 08:41
- Shortbread is counterprogramming to cookies that try to get too interesting and become overwhelming. -- nm - Max Dec 15, 08:35 2
  - this is true. shortbread is the addition by subtraction of cookies. -- nm - university of amanda jones Dec 15, 08:52
  - We have perfectly good gingersnaps and sugar cookies for that. - Reagen Dec 15, 08:42
- Pfeffernüsse -- (link) - budice Dec 15, 08:34 1
  - I may be agreeing with boodechay here -- nm - crash davis Dec 15, 08:39
I saw an ad for Manchester By The Sea last night. It looks like there might be fishing in it. Is there? How much fishing? How much does talking - crash davis Dec 15, 08:29 8
- Limited fishing (not severely limited, but limited). Lots of talking. -- nm - ty97 Dec 15, 08:30 7
  - Even talking *while* fishing -- nm - ty97 Dec 15, 08:30 6
    - Stop scaring the fish! -- nm - Baron Zero C Dec 15, 08:32 1
      - damn straight -- nm - crash davis Dec 15, 08:35
    - hmmm, thanks ty! I'll have to think about this -- nm - crash davis Dec 15, 08:31 3
      - It's not my favorite movie of the year at all, but it is a good movie. -- nm - ty97 Dec 15, 08:32 2
        
        Next up - how much baseball is there in Fences? :) -- nm - crash davis Dec 15, 08:34 1
        
        I haven't seen it yet :( -- nm - ty97 Dec 15, 08:35
Democratic state attorneys general will be out primary defense against the Trump administration, it looks like. -- (link*) - znufrii Dec 15, 08:27
New from LEGO. I'll be skipping these sets. -- (link) - TWuG Dec 15, 08:15 [youtube] 2
- Lego 50 Shades of Grey? -- nm - pmb Dec 15, 08:28 1
  - 50 Shades of Orange -- nm - TWuG Dec 15, 08:30
Additional Pippy News Network: Your mans' plane is on time for now. - ty97 Dec 15, 08:12 7
- I require more mansplaining on the man's plane. -- nm - Baron Zero C Dec 15, 08:16 3
  - It's an A321-200 series (technically A321-231) with winglets, delivered to American Airlines in November 2015 - ty97 Dec 15, 08:19 2
    - hee!! -- nm - Pippy Bells Dec 15, 08:42
    - Thanks, Rico. -- nm - Baron Zero C Dec 15, 08:22
- Ha!! you totally did get it right. Thank you so so MUCH!! - Pippy Bells Dec 15, 08:13 2
  - You're very welcome! - ty97 Dec 15, 08:16 1
    - And the DFW ATC program ended, so that's good news -- nm - ty97 Dec 15, 08:16
My interviewee is now 3 minutes late I think. I can't remember if they go up to HR first to fill out various forms/applications -- nm - kilbowl full of jelly Dec 15, 08:04 3
- Don't even bother interviewing. -- nm - spamlet Dec 15, 08:05
- they're keeping you in suspense -- nm - ML Dec 15, 08:04 1
  - I cleaned my office for nothing -- nm - kilbowl full of jelly Dec 15, 08:05
It just hit me that a Calzone is basically an enclosed panini -- nm - ty97 Dec 15, 08:03 1
- It's a pizza in non euclidian geometry. -- nm - Reagen Dec 15, 08:07
ST Polls: What is the highest number of times you have seen a single movie in the theaters, and which movie was it? -- nm - ty97 Dec 15, 08:02 53
- Probably Avatar at 3 (because of the Best Picture Showcase) -- nm - JaxSanta Dec 15, 08:52
- Either The Dark Knight or Jurassic Park. I can't recall one trip that may or may not have happened. -- nm - Name Withheld by Request Dec 15, 08:50
- Twice is it, I think. Pretty sure I saw Star Wars twice when it was first released. Saw Ice Pirates twice. Saw Cap 3 twice. - TWuG Dec 15, 08:29 1
  - I don't think I've ever seen anything more than twice myself. And that counts rereleases a couple decades later. -- nm - crash davis Dec 15, 08:33
- Heathers 3 -- nm - JD Dec 15, 08:25 1
  - Martha Dumptruck's Revenge -- nm* - Reagen Dec 15, 08:30
- twice for Return of the Jedi and a half dozen others. Jedi we stayed for the next showing and didn't get kicked out. -- nm - Max Dec 15, 08:21
- Outside of RHPS, a number of movies would be tied at 2 viewings each. - Baron Zero C Dec 15, 08:19 1
  - I mean, yeah, Rocky Horror wins easily for me at nearing 75 times or so. -- nm - Qale Dec 15, 08:57
- I think LotR is my personnel best. Saw each 4 times in the movies. - Mel Profit Dec 15, 08:16
- Mad Max: Fury Road, about 5 times -- nm - con_carne Dec 15, 08:15
- Probably Brokeback Mountain 3x. Once by myself, twice with others who wanted to see it. -- nm - kelly Dec 15, 08:14
- I'm pretty sure I saw Magic Mike three times -- nm - Pippy Bells Dec 15, 08:12
- Never have seen a movie twice in theaters. Never understood why people do this. -- nm - Crashquick Dec 15, 08:11
- I'm guessing A Christmas Story. Probably 4 or 5. -- nm - Dark Callisto Dec 15, 08:10 1
  - This wins most adorable response -- nm - ty97 Dec 15, 08:10
- Probably 3 for The Matrix -- nm - Reagen Dec 15, 08:06
- I actually think it's Grease at somewhere north of 25. My friend worked at the theater where it was playing the summer it came out and we would go - pmb Dec 15, 08:06
- I'm not sure I've ever gone over two... -- nm - Ender Dec 15, 08:05
- Seen twice for 3 movies: Serenity, Tobey's Spiderman and The Phantom Menace -- nm* - Beaker Dec 15, 08:05 6
  - I saw Phantom Menace twice also but it was for a BOP article -- nm - kilbowl full of jelly Dec 15, 08:20 3
    - Take that up with HR. -- nm - Reagen Dec 15, 08:40
    - Remind me. -- nm - David's iPad Dec 15, 08:37 1
      - No, not BOP. I meant MOP - kilbowl full of jelly Dec 15, 08:48
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    - Serenity is awesome, Spiderman was great and Phantom Menace I had to double check -- nm - Beaker Dec 15, 08:17
- I think my answer, no joke, is Love Actually at 3 -- nm - ty97 Dec 15, 08:05
- 2, The Mask of Zorro. :-) -- nm - mara Dec 15, 08:04
- Pulp Fiction four times. -- nm - Krusty Dec 15, 08:04
- probably The Matrix, four times I think - ML Dec 15, 08:04
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  - I am disappointed by how low this number is -- nm - ty97 Dec 15, 08:04 2
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      - Even without them, they are over 50. I did not see the re-releases over twice. -- nm - Spawn Dec 15, 08:08
- Star Wars, Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi are all over 50 each. -- nm - Spawn Dec 15, 08:03 18
  - I saw each of those somewhere between 5 and 10 times at the theater. -- nm - pmb Dec 15, 08:08
  - thread closed -- nm - kilbowl full of jelly Dec 15, 08:04
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    - Drive in and theater, yes. -- nm - Spawn Dec 15, 08:04 14
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        Sadly, my parents divorce had a lot to do with it. - Spawn Dec 15, 08:11 2
        
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        But don't get me wrong, I still watch at least one of three each year. -- nm - Spawn Dec 15, 08:51
        
        This - ty97 Dec 15, 08:09
      - The judges will allow drive-ins to count -- nm - ty97 Dec 15, 08:05 6
        
        I can say that I never had sex during any of *those* movies at the drive in. - Spawn Dec 15, 08:07 5
        
        I never doubted you would choose Star Wars over sex -- nm - ty97 Dec 15, 08:10 4
        
        Drive-In newb! Double features mean you choose which movie you want to miss a lot of! -- nm - Spawn Dec 15, 08:12 2
        
        I've only been to a drive-in once. -- nm - ty97 Dec 15, 08:12 1
        
        TMI - Spawn Dec 15, 08:19
        
        "chose". Right. -- nm - Reagen Dec 15, 08:12
      - That runs into money. -- nm - mara Dec 15, 08:05 1
        
        Tickets for Star Wars were $2.25!!! -- nm - Spawn Dec 15, 08:05
Rogue One 84% (172/32), Collateral Beauty 18% (8/33), Manchester by the Sea 97% (149/5), Sing 78% (14/4), Passengers 20% (2/8) -- nm - Beaker Dec 15, 08:00 4
- what happened to Will Smith? -- nm* - decline Dec 15, 08:04 2
  - Scientology? -- nm - ML Dec 15, 08:05
  - spoiler - Spawn Dec 15, 08:05
- Sing is probably just *slightly* too high, but the kids will love it. -- nm - ty97 Dec 15, 08:01
LIR: so I had this dream last night that I was trapped in a house of dolls (more like androids, not like Chuckie dolls) where me and whoever I was - kilbowl full of jelly Dec 15, 07:58 1
- Kilbo. Analysis. -- nm - Reagen Dec 15, 08:13
Pippy news network: Alaska Air Group closes acquisition of Virgin America, becomes the 5th largest U.S. airline -- (link) - ty97 Dec 15, 07:58
REB2: I know that I am getting old in that twice is the most I ever want to see movies in the theater now. - Spawn Dec 15, 07:57 5
- I've never seen the same movie twice in a theater -- nm - decline Dec 15, 07:59 1
  - You need an epic time out for that. -- nm - Spawn Dec 15, 08:04
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- I almost never watch movies multiple times, particularly in theatre. Deadpool and Force Awakens are the only two recent ones. -- nm - Beryllium Dec 15, 07:59

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