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I'm grilling steak for dinner tonight. On a charcoal grill. Outside. - ReluctantCynic Dec 17, 15:22
Larry Colburn, the hero who intervened in the My Lai massacre, has died at the age of 67. -- (link) - ReluctantCynic Dec 17, 15:21
I give up on Christmas shopping. I had my cart full on Amazon and while looking for another gift the whole thing emptied and now none of the items are - Krusty Dec 17, 15:20
can you name the top 10 National Parks based on average annual visitors over the last 20 years? Go! -- nm - Crashquick Dec 17, 15:15 29
- Independence -- nm - Dano Dec 17, 15:28
- #4 and #7 inside (spoils) - Crashquick Dec 17, 15:28 3
  - I knew it would be #1 from Bill Bryson - lots of people live within driving range -- nm* - Roger One Dec 17, 15:31 1
    - Yep and it's free of charge too. -- nm - Crashquick Dec 17, 15:32
  - Trump NP will draw much more bigly -- nm - VMan Dec 17, 15:29
- Zion, Precidio san fran, but they don't have a gate nor charge so they have no count, I'll bet same for the national mall -- nm - zeit spiced geist Dec 17, 15:27 1
  - Homer ism but mt rainier -- nm - zeit spiced geist Dec 17, 15:28
- Are the parks in Washington D.C. Part of this? - JaxSean Dec 17, 15:27
- Mount Rushmore -- nm - ty97 Dec 17, 15:25 2
  - Thought it was a park... Internet says memorial -- nm - VMan Dec 17, 15:26 1
    - I wasn't sure if it was a park, or in a park or what. -- nm - ty97 Dec 17, 15:26
- Grand Tetons? -- nm - ReluctantCynic Dec 17, 15:21 1
  - #9 -- nm - Crashquick Dec 17, 15:22
- Glacier -- nm - VMan Dec 17, 15:21 3
  - Acadia -- nm - VMan Dec 17, 15:23 1
    - #10 -- nm - Crashquick Dec 17, 15:23
  - nope -- nm - Crashquick Dec 17, 15:23
- Zion -- nm - Jovian Dec 17, 15:18 1
  - #8 -- nm - Crashquick Dec 17, 15:19
- Everglades. -- nm - ty97 Dec 17, 15:18 1
  - nope -- nm - Crashquick Dec 17, 15:19
- Yosemite -- nm - Roger One Dec 17, 15:17 3
  - Smoky Mts -- nm - Roger One Dec 17, 15:18 1
    - #1 -- nm - Crashquick Dec 17, 15:18
  - #3 -- nm - Crashquick Dec 17, 15:18
- Grand Canyon. Big Bend -- nm - ty97 Dec 17, 15:16 1
  - #2, nope -- nm - Crashquick Dec 17, 15:17
- Yellowstone. Rocky Mountain National. Redwood. -- nm - ty97 Dec 17, 15:16 1
  - #5, #6, nope -- nm - Crashquick Dec 17, 15:17
the weather has been weird. sleet overnight last night, when it was down to 26F. Since then the temp has climbed steadily - prayformojo Dec 17, 15:14
IU playing like IU plays -- nm - Remlik Dec 17, 15:03
Dallas area now below 40F, still heading for low 20s. -- nm - GregW Dec 17, 15:02 1
- Commence panicking! -- nm - ReluctantCynic Dec 17, 15:09
Our long, LONG national nightmare is over. - spamlet Dec 17, 14:43 5
- To the IM: When does the group text with Trish begin? -- nm - ty97 Dec 17, 14:46 4
  - 🤡 Horrifying -- nm - Roger One Dec 17, 14:53 3
    - 🖕🖕🖕 -- nm - iSpam Dec 17, 14:58 2
      - Also, when did they bring in skin-tone choice for emojis? 🎅🏿 -- nm - Roger One Dec 17, 15:17 1
        
        Maybe 9? -- nm - iSpam Dec 17, 16:16
I loved Rogue One. Loved it. -- nm - Volnelk Dec 17, 14:06 2
- Waiting to see it with my Mom as a Christmas present but your words and this make me excited. -- (link) - Spawn Dec 17, 14:15 1
  - Yep. It's great. -- nm - Volnelk Dec 17, 14:43
I'm being plied. It's awesome and delicious. Yay mel! -- nm - Diva Dec 17, 13:57
I'm out. - Mel Profit Dec 17, 13:53 3
- That is particularly heinous -- nm - Epiphany Dec 17, 15:28 1
  - It was. -- nm - Diva Dec 17, 15:48
- LOL -- nm - JaxSean Dec 17, 15:28
Another year and Vudu still doesn't have a gifting solution. -- nm - Dano Dec 17, 13:38
JackDawson now officially lives in Dallas. Pippy, need a roommate? -- nm* - ty97 Dec 17, 13:34 7
- The house is empty except for a grumpy cat. He is welcome to go drink the wet bar dry! -- nm - Epiphany Dec 17, 15:32
- Wait, what? Really? - JaxSean Dec 17, 15:29
- Make Texas a blue state! -- nm - budice Dec 17, 14:37
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  - yup, on standby -- nm - zeitgeist Dec 17, 14:01
  - No wonder you became a Texan. -- nm - Spawn Dec 17, 14:00 1
    - "2 things live in Texas...steers and ...." -- nm* - budice Dec 17, 14:38
FCS spoilers - Dano Dec 17, 13:08 2
- And in D-3, Mount Union lost in the semis last week --ending a 114-game road winning streak. -- nm - Will Hunting Dec 17, 13:17 1
  - Two losses in a season? Fire that coach. -- nm - Tim Dec 17, 14:44
Purdue beats Notre Dame in the Crossroads Classic. -- nm - Remlik Dec 17, 13:03 1
- God damn it -- nm - rollo Dec 17, 13:45
JackDawson was supposed to arrive at his final destination at noon. JackDawson missed his connection due to the NY weather. - ty97 Dec 17, 12:36 7
- The more important question is ... - ReluctantCynic Dec 17, 15:04
- damn it AA!! - Pippy Bells Dec 17, 12:54 4
  - Let's not so quickly dismiss he may have broken the plane to miss the cruise at this point. -- nm - spamlet Dec 17, 12:59 2
    - heh -- nm - Beaker Dec 17, 13:15
    - Jack Dawson would have broken the liquor cart -- nm - zeit spiced geist Dec 17, 13:14
  - Jack Dawson need to be on a cruise with *us* :) -- nm - Meg Dec 17, 12:57
- -when -- nm - Peglegpete Dec 17, 12:41
Everybody keeps telling me to watch The Crown, and I always give in to peer pressure. Am I going to like it? -- nm - prayformojo Dec 17, 12:08 9
- Have you finished Search Party? -- nm - Dano Dec 17, 13:07
- We're doing the same thing with Stranger Things right now. - David's iPad Dec 17, 12:15 4
  - give it several episodes to sink in -- nm - Pippy Bells Dec 17, 12:33 3
    - The performances are by far the best part. - Spawn Dec 17, 12:51 2
      - The kids especially. -- nm - ML Galaxy Dec 17, 13:06 1
        
        And Ryder. -- nm - Spawn Dec 17, 13:11
- I enjoyed it quite a lot. Maybe not "top tier" TV that is utterly fantastic, but easily in the second "very good" tier. - ReluctantCynic Dec 17, 12:13 1
  - ^endorsed. -- nm - Remlik Dec 17, 12:18
- My wife and I enjoyed it -- nm - Bacon Dec 17, 12:09
The cold front is officially here. After hitting 76F a few minutes ago, it is down to 60 now, on its way to the low 20s by midnight. -- (link) - GregW Dec 17, 12:04
Brush with fame: Wait Wait Don't Tell me did a joke at the end of their show based on the same Tweet I posted earlier this week. -- (link) - ReluctantCynic Dec 17, 11:57 [Backboard]
I don't know why but Final Fantasy 15 is downloading to my Xbox right now. I didn't buy it and my account doesn't show that it's been paid for - Krusty Dec 17, 11:50 4
- Did you recently complete a quest? - Cuzzin Todd Dec 17, 12:11
- Lucky! -- nm - David's iPad Dec 17, 12:04
- Maybe it's a demo -- nm - Flavorize Dec 17, 11:54 1
  - *shrug* I didn't tell it to download the demo and it's like 50gb. It's odd. -- nm - Krusty Dec 17, 11:59
In case you haven't noticed.....It's KIVA day!! Get your funds reinvested before year end. -- nm - Meg Dec 17, 11:45
Honest College Football Headlines: Bowl Season Edition -- (link) - Beaker Dec 17, 11:38
‘Subway Therapy’ sticky notes will be preserved by the New-York Historical Society -- (link) - ty97 Dec 17, 11:03 1
- Awesome -- nm - znufrii Dec 17, 11:51
Horrifying video of Baltimore I-95 truck explosion this morning is shot in portrait mode -- (link) - Max Dec 17, 10:58
hey Jaxsean and Spawn...register for this.... -- (link) - Remlik Dec 17, 10:52 1
- Submitted. -- nm - JaxSean Dec 17, 15:25
So, yeah, Musk's definitely got an Evil Mastermind checklist he's ticking off boxes on. -- (link) - TWuG Dec 17, 10:47 2
- only a few years away from The Core! -- nm - prayformojo Dec 17, 10:53
- Elon Musk and Bored Elon Musk have crossed streams. -- nm - Reagen Dec 17, 10:48
WAR seems to be at hand on Ika.com lads and lasses -- nm - Beaker Dec 17, 10:47 2
- details? do we need to be concerned? -- nm - call me Kris Kringle Dec 17, 12:10 1
  - this is .com are you on that server too? We should take them but everyone needs to gearv up -- nm - Beaker Dec 17, 12:44
yesterday, i said i hadn't seen a fox for awhile... - x Dec 17, 10:47
man, I love the end of the office. dwight bullhorning at angela "this expresses how loudly I love you." -- nm - windows jones Dec 17, 10:45
Extreme Couponing - $50 gift card and $13.15 in groceries. Paid $44.19 total :) - Meg Dec 17, 10:45
Minnesota ends boycott, will prepare to play in Holiday Bowl. -- (link) - GregW Dec 17, 10:38
Henry Heimlich, surgeon who created life-saving Heimlich maneuver for choking victims, dies at 96. -- (link) - budice Dec 17, 10:31 7
- Never used it himself till just a few months ago -- nm - zeit spiced geist Dec 17, 15:24
- The first person he saved was named, Arti -- nm - Bacon Dec 17, 12:05
- I'm finding this news very hard to swallow. -- nm - ML Galaxy Dec 17, 11:56 1
  - Okay ... you win ... -- nm - ReluctantCynic Dec 17, 12:03
- Radiolab has a great episode about him. -- (link) - ReluctantCynic Dec 17, 11:03 [Backboard]
- of choking? -- nm* - Crashquick Dec 17, 10:32 1
  - This has me all choked up inside. -- nm - Bacon Dec 17, 10:32
Pagan priest wins right to wear goat horns in license photo -- (link) - budice Dec 17, 10:17 1
- outstanding. -- nm - mud Dec 17, 10:27
Huh. La La Land on 200 screens and we're one. We don't usually get that kind of consideration. -- nm - Mop Dec 17, 10:01 1
- 200 screens and it placed in 6th place at the Box Office yesterday -- nm - ty97 Dec 17, 10:03
Dr. Henry Heimlich, inventor of famed anti-choking Heimlich maneuver, dies -- (link) - amoxy Dec 17, 09:58 3
- 2016 can kiss my ass. -- nm - Spawn Dec 17, 13:03
- Radiolab has a great episode about him. -- (link) - ReluctantCynic Dec 17, 10:03
- of choking? -- nm - mud Dec 17, 10:00
Filipino President confirms he personally murdered people when he was a mayor -- (link) - Reagen Dec 17, 09:29 2
- *takes notes* -- nm - Trump Dec 17, 09:30 1
  - "I cannot lie." Oh, never mind. -- nm - Mop Dec 17, 10:03
Vikes: All-Day activated from IR, on the roster -- (link) - budice Dec 17, 09:27
Hey, is that the fourth 7.9 or higher quake in the past month? -- nm - Beryllium Dec 17, 09:24 1
- Answer: 5 6.9+, 2 7.8+, in the past 30 days -- nm - Beryllium Dec 17, 09:27
ty97, did you know that the architects who designed the Queen Alia International Airport in Jordan used Bedouin tents as inspiration? -- (link) - ReluctantCynic Dec 17, 09:14
Rogue One was good, I'm looking forward to the sequel. -- nm - Tim Dec 17, 09:11 5
- Don't get your hopes up. -- nm - David Dec 17, 09:57
- It's already on DVD -- nm - Bacon Dec 17, 09:14 2
  - And VHS and laserdisc. It was basically STV. -- nm - Beryllium Dec 17, 09:28
  - hahahahaha -- nm - ty97 Dec 17, 09:27
- *raises the dead* -- nm - The Night King Dec 17, 09:14
Go PV Vikings! Chico's Own, Pleasant Valley Vikings Football team is down in Long Beach for the Div 4a championship -- (link) - amoxy Dec 17, 09:05
I fly to my parents' place tomorrow night. It will be 88 on Monday there. I'm kinda not okay with this. -- nm - ty97 Dec 17, 08:57 1
- I never liked Christmas in California because it just didn't feel like Christmas. I would drive to Tahoe a few times to get in the mood. -- nm - Bacon Dec 17, 08:59
Don't forget Dolphins-Jets is tonight. -- nm - Volnelk Dec 17, 08:55 1
- Thursday Night Football! -- nm - Dano Dec 17, 09:06
Oh Stoke. -- nm - Volnelk Dec 17, 08:46
#unpresidented -- nm - Jovian Dec 17, 08:17
(sigh) - my STalker box mailed 12/12 for 2 day delivery - didn't happen Thursday, didn't happen Friday ... could today be the day??? -- nm - JenBro Dec 17, 08:12 4
- I think I timed my delivery this year purely by accident. Should arrive on my stalkee's doorstep on Friday morning. -- nm - ReluctantCynic Dec 17, 08:59
- Has it not been delivered yet? Or is it that your stalkee hasn't responded that it was received? -- nm* - kelly Dec 17, 08:49 1
  - It's just late being delivered 😉 -- nm - JenBro Dec 17, 12:21
- Weather related maybe -- nm - Bacon Dec 17, 08:17
Rogue One $71.1M FRI -- (link*) - budice Dec 17, 07:57 9
- is that good? -- nm - Diva Dec 17, 08:03 8
  - and what does it mean?! -- nm - ty97 Dec 17, 08:04 7
    - On HSX, it means it's underpriced by $80 or so (math inside) - Roger One Dec 17, 08:11 6
      - I really don't think it will behave entirely that way. -- nm - Beryllium Dec 17, 09:15 4
        
        I can't imagine it having the same legs as TFA which is so rewatchable. - mud Dec 17, 10:04 1
        
        Yeah, this is not a multiple view movie. -- nm - JaxSanta Dec 17, 10:07
        
        If it acts more like the first two Hobbit movies, which skewed younger and were less appreciated by fans, it will delist around $470-$480 -- nm - Roger One Dec 17, 09:36
        
        It won't be far off. Star7 had the massive unsustainable open but also Xmas. It performed as a reasonably normal - Will Hunting Dec 17, 09:20
      - Wow. -- nm - Mop Dec 17, 09:06
okay, folks ... on a serious note (i hate that it's morning for this) ... this may be a bad Christmas for my family this year ... - call me Kris Kringle Dec 17, 07:36 5
- (((hugs))) -- nm - zeitgeist Dec 17, 11:09
- This sounds tough for everyone involved, sorry you are all dealing with this. -- nm - ty97 Dec 17, 09:26
- Sorry -- nm - amoxy Dec 17, 09:06
- :( - znufrii Dec 17, 09:01
- I'm sorry to hear that your family is going through this right now and hopefully it has a peaceful ending. Good thoughts for you and everyone that - Krusty Dec 17, 08:13
Brad Ziegler signs 2 year $16 million dollar deal with Marlins -- nm - Beaker Dec 17, 07:30
Last Chance to sign-up for College Bowl pick 'em!!! No experience necessary, but fun nonetheless!!! (link and PW above) -- nm* - Beaker Dec 17, 07:28
TV PSA: UFC Fight Night, Bernard Hopkins (55-7-2, 32 KOs) faces Joe Smith Jr. (22-1, 18 KOs), Dolphins @ Jets, some Bowl games too probably, other stuff -- nm* - Beaker Dec 17, 07:27

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