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Pretty sure I'm getting a case of bronchitis for Christmas. - IrishStephen Dec 24, 09:11 1
- Ugh! Feel better! -- nm - Krusty Dec 24, 09:32
STIS: Should fruitcake be soaked in rum or brandy? - ReluctantCynic Dec 24, 09:03 2
- Traditionally, brandy. Little late for that now, or is this for next year? :) -- nm - Mistletoe Meg Dec 24, 09:05
- Whatever makes it burn better. -- nm - Mop Dec 24, 09:04
So with the Carrie fisher story, I'm kind of getting the feeling that no news is good news. Like maybe she's in an induced coma or something. -- nm - Beryllium Dec 24, 08:57 2
- As long as she survived the heart attack there's not a lot else to say. - iSpam Dec 24, 09:24
- Or life support. -- nm - Mop Dec 24, 09:02
DEN@KC is expecting 20+mph winds -- nm - Seven Strongbads Swimming Dec 24, 08:57
Julio Jones: In Matt Forte: Out Brandon Marshall: In Michael Floyd: In Stefon Diggs: In Jordan Reed: Out Luke Kuechly: Out -- nm* - budice Dec 24, 08:51
Ice Cube has started a 3-3 Summer basketball league featuring retired NBA players -- (link) - Remlik Dec 24, 08:48
Guitarist for the band Status Quo, Rick Parfitt has passed away -- (link) - Remlik Dec 24, 08:46
Alien trailer on Christmas. -- nm - Remlik Dec 24, 08:43
The Best WWE matches of 2016 -- (link) - Beaker Dec 24, 08:23 1
- Enzo and Cass are the most over team, but The Revival really are the best tag team in years. Classic old school heels. -- nm - Tim Dec 24, 08:27
NFL Stat of the Day: Falcons are 27th in pass attempts and 3rd in passing yards -- nm - Seven Strongbads Swimming Dec 24, 08:03 6
- Sounds like they should be passing more. -- nm - Krusty Dec 24, 08:13 1
  - Sweep the leg! -- nm - David Dec 24, 08:13
- Sports talk radio must be so frustrated over their inability to run Kyle Shanahan out of town. - David Dec 24, 08:11 3
  - They think he'll be a HC next year. - Seven Strongbads Swimming Dec 24, 08:30 2
    - That's a shocking amount of backtracking in three months. - David Dec 24, 08:56 1
      - Their favorite playcall all year was the fade pass TD to Julio several weeks ago -- nm - Seven Strongbads Swimming Dec 24, 08:58
also, we're just hours away from this board going 24 hours without a roll. is that a record or what? -- nm - call me Kris Kringle Dec 24, 07:54 1
- Probably. -- nm - Beryllium Dec 24, 07:56
of those of you who play the game on that other site, who all was doing a 2nd YTD port this year? how's it doing? - call me Kris Kringle Dec 24, 07:54
MLB: Braves sign Ender Inciarte to 5yr $30M deal -- nm - Seven Strongbads Swimming Dec 24, 07:32
Adam Schefter: AJ Green doubtful to play today, despite positive news this week -- nm - Seven Strongbads Swimming Dec 24, 07:11 1
- (Reportedly it was a team decision, he wants to play) -- nm - Seven Strongbads Swimming Dec 24, 07:39
It occurs to me that the Blue Jackets' success is hockey doing what it can on the "screw the Browns" front. -- nm - Reagen Dec 24, 07:07 1
- Yeah.... it should have been predictable... Cavaliers, Indians, Blue Jackets -- nm - Dano Dec 24, 07:18
2016 is coming for me and I don't think I can stop her. Who gets sick on Christmas? I never get sick but here I am about to suffer an - Krusty Dec 24, 06:54 9
- This way you get to stay home and watch Christmas shows. Bring on Rudy! -- nm - jnine Dec 24, 08:32 1
  - I'm watching Top Gear and drinking tea. I have to go out to care for a cat later. :-( -- nm - Krusty Dec 24, 08:58
- I am also riddled with sick today -- nm - Beryllium Dec 24, 07:48 4
  - Sucks. Get well, buddy. -- nm - Krusty Dec 24, 08:03 3
    - You as well - eag Dec 24, 08:06 2
      - Thanks! I had more gifts to buy but that's out the window now. -- nm - Krusty Dec 24, 08:07 1
        
        That's why God created Amazon Prime. :) - Under the Influence Dec 24, 08:17
- By Grabthar's Hammer... YOU WILL BE AVENGED! -- nm - Cuzzin Todd Dec 24, 06:58 1
  - Much appreciated! The hits just keep on coming as I just stepped on a huge pile of cat vomit. I'm going back to bed. -- nm - Krusty Dec 24, 07:00
Good Morning and Happy Christmas Eve ST or first day of Hanukkah if you so celebrate -- (edited) - eag Dec 24, 04:45 9
- Merry Christmas to you, too! -- nm - ReluctantCynic Dec 24, 05:30
- I don't think that's how most people celebrate Haunkkah, but go with your feelings. -- nm - jnine Dec 24, 04:47 7
  - ~On the Fist Day of Hanukkah my true love gave to me...~ -- nm - Christmas Deeve Dec 24, 04:56 6
    - Its early I was on my way to work cause I have to work today plus I was posting from my smartphone -- nm - eag Dec 24, 05:23 5
      - Fine, make me look crazy with your editing skills. Diva knows the truth. -- nm - jnine Dec 24, 06:29 2
        
        It's the FIST DAY of Hanukkah! -- nm - Christmas Deeve Dec 24, 06:51
        
        I kind of almost wish it showed what was edited -- nm - eag Dec 24, 06:32
      - FIST DAY!!! -- nm - Christmas Deeve Dec 24, 05:36 1
        
        Talk about yer airing of grievances ... -- nm - ReluctantCynic Dec 24, 06:13
2016: Joey Boots, (howard stern wack pack) -- (link) - zeitgeist Dec 24, 01:19 1
- The wack packers have been having a hard time ever since Eric the Actor died. -- nm - jnine Dec 24, 04:46
"Yay! Daddy! Tomorrow we can make snowballs, and then Santa comes, and we can punch him in the face..." -- nm - My 3yr niece be crazy Dec 23, 22:39 8
- While last night, my brother dressed as Buddy the Elf for a bar crawl and was very popular -- (link) - Max Dec 23, 22:41 [Image] 7
  - "This is like discovering plutonium by accident!" -- nm - Reagen Dec 24, 08:37 1
    - Though discovering plutonium by accident is not something you want to do -- nm - Roger More Dec 24, 09:45
  - TREEmendous. -- nm - David Dec 24, 08:11
  - Very nice! -- nm - Krusty Dec 24, 06:54
  - Well done. -- nm - Seven Strongbads Swimming Dec 24, 06:25
  - ha! -- nm - Christmas Deeve Dec 24, 05:07
  - That's great. -- nm - Andie Dec 24, 04:57
Rumoured trade between the Yankees, Pirates and White Sox. Pittsburgh gets Quintana, Yanks get McCutchen and the Sox get prospects. -- (link*) - Krusty Dec 23, 21:26
Oof, starting to get a cold :( -- nm - Beryllium Dec 23, 21:23
technical / tech / computer software question for the smart ST'ers out there ... - call me Kris Kringle Dec 23, 19:23 3
- Sadly, no. That's not how Windows software works. But you can recover the key used in the installation. - Mop Dec 23, 19:43
- When software is installed on windows, it generally digs deep into the system and isn't easy to back up. - Beryllium Dec 23, 19:29
- retrieve the keys is the best way -- nm - budice Dec 23, 19:23
Black Mirror's San Junipero is off to a great - albeit bittersweet - start. - Mop Dec 23, 19:03 4
- I started with the very first episode. I would like to see what Trump would do if that were Ivanka. -- nm - Jovian Dec 23, 20:36
- Okay JD it was good. The twist was clever as it wasn't what I expected. - Mop Dec 23, 19:50 2
  - Yeah, if that one doesn't sell you on the concept, nothing will. -- nm - David Dec 23, 20:35
  - 🙂 I'm just happy you watched that episode. It is anthology and that episode is enough unlike the rest that you can stop 😉 -- nm - JD Dec 23, 20:09
Chris Kluwe has something to say to Donald Trump. -- (link) - Mop Dec 23, 18:56
12! -- nm - Dano Dec 23, 18:40 3
- It's insane. -- nm - Volnelk Dec 23, 18:42 2
  - The last time they lost in regulation play was November 23rd. -- nm - Volnelk Dec 23, 18:43 1
    - Blue Jackets / Wild on New Year's Eve -- nm - Dano Dec 23, 18:44
holy crap, i think we have all our presents wrapped a day early!!! -- nm - Beaker Dec 23, 18:40 5
- Wrapped all but two (the two that arrive tomorrow) -- nm - ty97 Dec 23, 20:41
- I am going to start shopping tomorrow. Wrapped by tomorrow evening. -- nm - Bacon Dec 23, 18:47 3
  - I don't know how you do it. I had to go buy something yesterday (last minute guest) and the stores are so picked over and still crowded. -- nm - Andie Dec 24, 04:59 2
    - My wife buys for her family, mine are getting gift certs so really I am only shopping for the wife and she got the cats stocking stuffers this year -- nm* - Bacon Dec 24, 07:02 1
      - My family are all out of town hence gift certs. Sister's family in Hawaii, brothers in California this year -- nm - Bacon Dec 24, 07:04
*makes an ST joke on twitter, realizes that that's probably dumber than usual* -- nm - Beryllium Dec 23, 18:38
they both drive me batty, but I'd watch a show where Katsuji & John Tesar have to run a restaurant together -- nm - prayformojo Dec 23, 18:27 3
- Katsuji's come back Pet Sematary style. - David Dec 23, 19:03 2
  - Yep. He's a jerk now. -- nm* - Diva Dec 23, 19:34 1
    - Agreed. -- nm - Seven Strongbads Swimming Dec 24, 07:58
They killed the word stollen on the Great American Baking Show. - . Dec 23, 17:46 2
- sh-tull-en? -- nm - Beryllium Dec 23, 18:22 1
  - more o -- nm - . Dec 23, 18:42
First tax document of the year has arrived! -- nm - ty97 Dec 23, 17:46 1
- I check the fund that killed me with capital gains last year. Only about half as much this year. -- nm - Mistletoe Meg Dec 23, 18:04
ML!!! -- (link) - Spawn Dec 23, 17:44 1
- the second half of this season has been great - ML Dec 23, 17:49
depsite it being the day before the day before Christmas, i am not in the Christmas spirit ... - call me Kris Kringle Dec 23, 17:22 2
- Get a dog. It will make the whole year better. -- nm - jnine Dec 24, 06:31
- Listen to the Little Drummer Boy 10 times in a row. - Bacon Dec 23, 17:23
reminder...NFL games all day tomorrow, NOT sunday. -- nm - Peglegpete Dec 23, 17:11 4
- Last heartbreak game of the year. -- nm - JaxSean Dec 23, 19:21
- But there are games also on Sunday -- nm - Bacon Dec 23, 17:12 2
  - yes, but the bulk of the weekly games will be played tomorrow -- nm - Peglegpete Dec 23, 17:16 1
    - I get it. You said NOT Sunday, and that might confuse people to not knowing there is football on. -- nm - Bacon Dec 23, 17:19
I was signing off but I have to share the glories of the new administration with you. Trump! MAGA, MAGA, MAGA! I've been liberated from the tyranny -- (edited) - crash davis Dec 23, 17:10 6
- They started here before he was elected. Another instance of Trump riding on Obama's coattails. Just like he will with the fall of Mosul, - jnine Dec 24, 08:35
- It's truly a Trumpmas miracle! -- nm - Mop Dec 23, 19:52
- They started a couple months ago here. I've been getting sausage biscuits every couple weeks. -- nm - . Dec 23, 17:26
- question. don't you have your own perfect biscuit recipe yet? -- nm - Peglegpete Dec 23, 17:14 1
  - I've got one hour between jobs tonight. I don't have time to make fresh cat head biscuits -- nm - crash davis Dec 23, 17:15
- and if you dare bring up McGriddles, you have no friends other than Dr. Jill Stein -- nm - crash davis Dec 23, 17:13
I assume there are Sherlock fans on TT. here is stuff about Mary Watson in s4. -- (link) - loosi Dec 23, 16:46 3
- Did you see they RL split? -- nm - Spawn Dec 23, 16:55 2
  - what? NO -- nm - loosi Dec 23, 17:18 1
    - Yup. 15 years together. No more. -- nm - Spawn Dec 23, 17:43
Trish and I wish each and everyone of you a Merry Christmas or Secular Best Wishes or Whatever Is Appropriate For You. I hope to Overwatch - crash davis Dec 23, 16:39 4
- all my best -- nm - Peglegpete Dec 23, 17:08
- Merry Holidays! -- nm - Spawn Dec 23, 17:04
- cheers! -- nm - philip k mud Dec 23, 16:43
- Happy Festivus -- nm - Bacon Dec 23, 16:42
Springsteen releases Clarence Clemons final show -- (link) - Peglegpete Dec 23, 16:26 2
- A 7 song encore. Was that concert played over a weekend? -- nm - Mop Dec 23, 18:45 1
  - those might have run 20 minutes total. he's not the Grateful Dead where every song is 8 minutes minimum -- nm - Peglegpete Dec 23, 18:58
5000 year old rock art -- (link) - Peglegpete Dec 23, 16:20 2
- Anything... buried around there? -- nm - Mop Dec 23, 18:57
- Mick Jagger! -- nm - Spawn Dec 23, 18:04
Booked our Gatlinburg stay tonight! - iSpam Dec 23, 15:59 1
- ~smokey mountain rain, it keeps on falling~ -- nm - Crashquick Dec 23, 16:26
Carrie Fisher is in stable condition after suffering a medical emergency aboard a flight Friday, her brother tells AP -- (link*) - budice Dec 23, 15:59 9
- Me to my brother: "Carrie Fisher had a heart attack but you don't know who she is". Brother: "Yeah I do, she was on Celebrity Rehab" -- nm - ty97 Dec 23, 17:48 1
  - Punch him for me. -- nm - Mop Dec 23, 18:48
- Her brother, Todd Fisher, told The Associated Press that she was "out of emergency" and stabilized at a Los Angeles hospital Friday afternoon. -- (link) - budice Dec 23, 16:02
- Stable is awesome. Media has been saying critical. May the Force be with her. - loosi Dec 23, 16:01 5
  - I would interpret 'stable' as not getting any worse. Could still be critical? -- nm - Mistletoe Meg Dec 23, 16:05 4
    - I think that's an "official" designation? -- nm - loosi Dec 23, 16:07 3
      - Apparently not - it's a qualifier. (Wiki but obviously I'll defer to any medical professional) -- (link) - Roger More Dec 23, 16:26 2
        
        These words are very arbitrary, we never really use them internally. The media seems to like to use them however. -- nm - James Bond (aka Igor) Dec 23, 19:58
        
        I honesetly don't know, thanks for the link. -- nm - loosi Dec 23, 16:40
Jets have ruled out RB Matt Forte for tomorrow against the Pats. -- nm - budice Dec 23, 15:47
Three years ago my older bro was flying to Rome, someone had a heart attack, he ordered plane diverted to Newfoundland. - loosi Dec 23, 15:46
most strip hotels will be charging for parking [even to locals] by early next year :((( -- (link) - Peglegpete Dec 23, 15:45 5
- Another reason to stay downtown -- nm - JD Dec 23, 15:58
- I could see them charging to locals and visitors, but if you're staying there, it should be included, but I'm sure will not. -- nm - jnine Dec 23, 15:53 3
  - we just raised the visitor hotel tax to partially pay for the new stadium the Raiders hopefully will be playing in soon. -- nm - Peglegpete Dec 23, 16:02
  - tack it onto the resort charge -- nm - budice Dec 23, 15:56 1
    - which is now more than some hotels charge for the room -- nm - Peglegpete Dec 23, 16:00
daughter Billie Lourd and Carrie's dog Gary arrive at the hospital -- (link) - budice Dec 23, 15:40
So if I hadn't already had a ticket for Rogue One show that I was late for by the time La La Land credits started....I would've been back at the box - JD Dec 23, 15:38
A&E is changing the name of its series on the KKK to Escaping the KKK, to show it is a serious documentary. -- (link) - jnine Dec 23, 15:30 5
- good for them. -- nm - loosi Dec 23, 15:48
- Neither Arts nor Enertainment -- nm - Crashquick Dec 23, 15:32 1
  - But extremely ampersand. -- nm - Qale Dec 23, 19:21
- What a great holiday first! -- nm - jnine Dec 23, 15:31 1
  - Definitely white. -- nm - VMan Dec 23, 15:33

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