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pop quiz inspired by a wiki-hole: Name the four celebrities with the most cover appearances on TV Guide - Max Jan 17, 12:49 33
- 1: Lucille Ball, 2: Johnny Carson, 3: Mary Tyler Moore, 4: Michael Landon -- (link) - Max Jan 17, 13:02
- Aniston, Courtney Cox, Kardashian -- nm - Loyola Jan 17, 12:59 1
  - Cox was only on twice for Friends (not as many as the other Friends), and once for Cougar Town. -- nm - Max Jan 17, 13:00
- Carol O'Connor. -- nm - Reagen Jan 17, 12:57 2
  - Oooo, great guess. -- nm - Baron Zero C Jan 17, 12:58 1
    - a quick search says he was on the cover 8 times during the 1970s. -- nm - Max Jan 17, 12:59
- Justin Bieber -- nm - decline Jan 17, 12:56
- Regis, David Letterman. A couple of guys that were on TV for decades. -- nm - GregW Jan 17, 12:56
- Me. - POTUST Jan 17, 12:56
- Robert Urich -- nm - Diva Jan 17, 12:55
- All our guesses seem couched in the 70s yet TV Guide still publishes today. -- nm - Mop Jan 17, 12:54 5
  - The remaining guess is in the 1970s, not mentioned yet, with 27 appearances. -- nm* - Max Jan 17, 12:56 4
    - Mary Tyler Moore? -- nm - Baron Zero C Jan 17, 13:01 1
      - ding ding -- nm - Max Jan 17, 13:02
    - Ted Lange -- nm - decline Jan 17, 13:00
    - Ricardo Montalban -- nm - decline Jan 17, 12:57
- Anthony Geary -- nm - groiny Jan 17, 12:54
- Bob Hope, Lucille Ball, Johnny Carson -- nm - Diva Jan 17, 12:53 1
  - Lucille is 1st with 34. -- nm - Max Jan 17, 12:54
- Bill Cosby, Alan Alda, Carroll O'Connor, and Carol Burnett -- nm - crash davis Jan 17, 12:53
- Merv Griffin? Carol Burnett? -- nm - mara Jan 17, 12:53
- Bill Cosby. -- nm - Baron Zero C Jan 17, 12:52
- Johnny Carson? -- nm - JaxSean Jan 17, 12:52
- Dick van Dyke, Andy Griffith -- nm - Roger More Jan 17, 12:52
- The Wheel of Fortune guys. -- nm - Mop Jan 17, 12:52
- Johnny Carson? -- nm - GregW Jan 17, 12:52 1
  - 2nd. at 28 times. -- nm - Max Jan 17, 12:54
- Aniston -- nm - prayformojo Jan 17, 12:51
- Michael Landon -- nm - Roger More Jan 17, 12:50 2
  - my next guess was Tom Selleck -- nm - oblique, SuperFeud Champion Jan 17, 12:51
  - 4th. His wiki page says 22 times, another site says 27. -- nm - Max Jan 17, 12:51
- Susan Lucci -- nm - oblique, SuperFeud Champion Jan 17, 12:50
- Paul Lynd -- nm - Epiphany Jan 17, 12:49
And the "forehead smack of the day" award goes to ... -- (link) - Beryllium Jan 17, 12:48 2
- No, there are whole mail order catalogs of stuff for elderly etc...someone just realized they could market this stuff to stupid people -- nm - zeitgeist Jan 17, 13:18
- Wow. -- nm - Spawn Jan 17, 12:56
After five years the Chinese have figured out how to make ballpoint pen tips. -- (link*) - iSpam Jan 17, 12:45 3
- DOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM!!! -- nm - Spawn Jan 17, 12:49
- that's actually kinda interesting. you'd think it'd just be easy -- nm - oblique, SuperFeud Champion Jan 17, 12:48 1
  - Lets see you do it. -- nm - Jina Jan 17, 12:49
Al Franken, Tammy Baldwin and Elizabeth Warren are calling for a delay on the Price confirmation because apparently they think insider trading is bad -- nm - decline Jan 17, 12:44 1
- I defer to the experts here, but is that actually insider trading? - Baron Zero C Jan 17, 12:51
Chowdah! -- nm - ML Jan 17, 12:17 1
- Show-daire. -- nm - Snooty butler Jan 17, 12:35
I have not seen any Fast and Furious films either. I sort of remember seeing a bit of the Tokyo Drift as I was channel surfing once. - CQ Jan 17, 12:10 10
- I've seen a few minutes and they just seem absurd to me. -- nm - pmb Jan 17, 12:23 7
  - my favorite take on those is from a reviewer that said the franchise celebrated the uniquely American view that any villain can be defeated by - crash davis Jan 17, 12:46
  - utterly and completely absurd. but fun with some heart to it. -- nm - Remlik Jan 17, 12:31
  - We sort of hate watch them for the absurdity " They are NOT going to drive that car out of that XXX" " Oh Lord! they just did!" -- nm - Epiphany Jan 17, 12:25 4
    - The most I watched was a the chase scene on the runway I think from 6. That runway had to be 20 miles long. -- nm - pmb Jan 17, 12:27 3
      - HA! yeah that was crazy.... -- nm - Remlik Jan 17, 12:31
      - 28.83 miles. -- (link) - ML Jan 17, 12:28
      - naturally. -- nm - Epiphany Jan 17, 12:28
- best of the series! -- nm - decline Jan 17, 12:17 1
  - it is quite good. -- nm - Remlik Jan 17, 12:22
Um. Nigerian military jet 'mistakenly bombs refugee camp', killing more than 100 including 20 Red Cross volunteers -- (link) - Andie Jan 17, 12:06 2
- uuugh, knowing how tribal and religious they can be (think afganistan/iraq) it was probably one commander realizing a chance to hit another group -- nm - zeitgeist Jan 17, 13:20
- :( - -- nm - b. Jan 17, 12:25
This was previously posted on ST but I just watched it. Morrissey and George Michael on Eight Days a Week review music and stuff. - Mop Jan 17, 12:06 [youtube]
Gloria Allred repping client suing Donald Trump. -- (link) - Andie Jan 17, 12:02 16
- Is Bill Cosby's victim not keeping her busy enough? -- nm - Epiphany Jan 17, 12:14 1
  - Next host of Celebrity Apprentice: Bill Cosby. -- nm - Spawn Jan 17, 12:17
- speaking of, aren't there a ton of outstanding suits against him? -- nm - Max Jan 17, 12:04 1
  - 75 or so -- nm - decline Jan 17, 12:05
- Where was she a few months ago? -- nm - Spawn Jan 17, 12:04 11
  - Backing out under threat of lawsuit. -- nm - Mop Jan 17, 12:06 9
    - Ah, same girl? -- nm - Spawn Jan 17, 12:09 8
      - Apparently not. This is a contestant on the Apprentice, not the girl who said she was underaged and raped. -- nm - Mop Jan 17, 12:14 7
        
        Is this the same one we heard from during the campaign? -- nm - Spawn Jan 17, 12:18 2
        
        It's one woman alleging sexual misconduct in the past. Is it a new one, or one of the many in the past? *shrug* -- (link) - Mop Jan 17, 12:22 1
        
        I meant we heard from a CA contestant during the election (met at his hotel room). -- nm - Spawn Jan 17, 12:43
        
        just the distinction every American wants to hear about their incoming President's lawsuits -- nm - Beaker Jan 17, 12:17 3
        
        Trumpites, to the Twitters! A woman must be put in her place! -- nm - Mop Jan 17, 12:23
        
        Exactly. This stuff any day over that uppity nasty woman. -- nm - Diva Jan 17, 12:20 1
        
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  - at home, probably -- nm - decline Jan 17, 12:05
Pierce Brosnan - Cable in Deadpool 2? *strict* rumor based on Instagram pic. -- nm - Diva Jan 17, 11:48 9
- Link. Includes Hugh Jackman in the picture. -- (link) - Mop Jan 17, 12:07
- not a bad choice. -- nm - Remlik Jan 17, 11:56 5
  - Cable is a massive guy. I don't see him playing the part but with technology today I guess they can make him look huge. -- nm - Krusty Jan 17, 12:29 3
    - no one's really big enough for most of these roles if they aren't wrasslers. -- nm - Diva Jan 17, 13:26
    - maybe he'll be Cable's skinnier cousin, Rope -- nm - decline Jan 17, 12:31 1
      - I would have went with Thread or maybe Strand, but will accept that. -- nm - Spawn Jan 17, 12:52
  - I don't think he is either. He can obvs do both action and humor. -- nm - Diva Jan 17, 11:57
- Nope nope nope nope -- nm - Beaker Jan 17, 11:48 1
  - *snort* -- nm - Diva Jan 17, 11:48
So, i watched The Meddler while commuting the last couple days. It's fine, but what strikes me most is that it seems like a two hour ad for Apple. -- nm - Andie Jan 17, 11:41
Iron Banner: Clash. - Spawn Jan 17, 11:40 2
- I need to get gear to infuse more than anything. -- nm - groiny Jan 17, 11:42 1
  - Thanks to SRL, I have at least 8 400s in all spots now. -- nm - Spawn Jan 17, 11:46
my dad left some silver coins when he died. ann and I each took half. does anyone (here) know about silver coins? - university of amanda jones Jan 17, 11:36 25
- Are they just general circulation coins or are the special mint products? - TWuG Jan 17, 11:43 4
  - they're special mint. in protective boxes. I wonder if they have labels. I'll look tonight if someone reminds me. -- nm - university of amanda jones Jan 17, 12:36
  - agree totally with your IM ... most culled from general circulation aren't worth a great deal. That being said, i recently came across... - call me Ishmael Jan 17, 11:50 2
    - a dime for a dime. My brother always replaces old bills when he finds them at his store. - Beaker Jan 17, 11:55 1
      - i hear ya. moments like that aren't often, but I always enjoy the rare pleasant find. - call me Ishmael Jan 17, 12:06
- a few thoughts of my own here, IM ... - call me Ishmael Jan 17, 11:43 6
  - one more quick follow-up, again, just as a point of reference ... i'm holding onto a few of my mom's older coins, a couple of them are worth... - call me Ishmael Jan 17, 11:46 5
    - When society collapses in the next couple of years, you'll be all set -- nm - decline Jan 17, 11:46 4
      - I never know when you guys are being sarcastic or when you're being serious. - call me ishmael Jan 17, 11:47 3
        
        If society collapses, foods and medicines are going to be way more important than gold and silver. -- nm - TWuG Jan 17, 12:01 2
        
        well, in that regard at least, i completely agree with you. but i was talking before more about ... - call me Ishmael Jan 17, 12:07
        
        and weapons! a good solid knife will be worth your first born child -- nm - decline Jan 17, 12:01
- we get flyers from people (companies that do shows in hotels and such) buying coins all the time...avoid them like the plague. -- nm* - Beaker Jan 17, 11:41 3
  - word -- run from these people post haste. they will cheat and swindle you out of everything. -- nm - call me Ishmael Jan 17, 11:44 2
    - I hate people who use flyers -- nm - decline Jan 17, 11:46 1
      - then I'll start using drones. -- nm - unscrupulous coin buyer hanging out at the hotel Jan 17, 11:46
- "VNA Virginia Numismatic Association Convention & Coin Show" - I'd poke around their links/articles and for similar in PA. -- (link) - Max Jan 17, 11:40
- melt 'em down and make a necklace out of 'em -- nm - decline Jan 17, 11:40
- take 'em to a coin shop -- nm - ML Jan 17, 11:39 1
  - (good to have an idea of what you have first though so you don't get ripped off) -- nm - Beaker Jan 17, 11:41
- I apparently have some in my parents' safe deposit box somewhere. They're from my grandmother. - znufrii Jan 17, 11:39
- I used EBay when pricing mine as a gauge. I got around 50% on average of that value when I sold to a local coin shop and was pleased -- nm - Beaker Jan 17, 11:39 2
  - This is the link I used to value Canadian coins, I'm sure there is a similar US one -- (link) - Beaker Jan 17, 11:40 1
    - this is good. i too have coins from my dad i've just got sitting in a drawer. -- nm - Andie Jan 17, 11:40
- sentimental value -- nm - budice Jan 17, 11:38
WWE: The Network is very close to bringing the ICW independent promotion to be on the Network. -- nm - Remlik Jan 17, 11:33
We're getting through Black Mirror. Really enjoying the morality tales about technology. Then we watched *that* episode. (spoils) - Inigo Jan 17, 11:33 1
- i had to think which one that was. - Andie Jan 17, 11:36
Ruh-roh - my colleague is out sick this week and they're leaving me in charge of our dept.'s allocation of AFC Championship Game tickets. (heh-heh...) -- nm* - Diva Jan 17, 11:32 4
- Welcome to Diva's Tickets. You may bid up to $50,000. -- nm - budice Jan 17, 11:36
- I'll pay for a limo...*dimples beaming* -- nm - Mel Profit Jan 17, 11:34 1
  - and I'll dress up like Mr. Kraft. -- nm - Mel Profit Jan 17, 11:40
- 1 for you. 1 for me. 2 for you. 1, 2 for me. -- nm - oblique, SuperFeud Champion Jan 17, 11:33
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- ALL OF THEM! -- nm - Spawn Jan 17, 12:44
- reintsate travel ban with Cuba -- nm - Beaker Jan 17, 12:13 1
  - uncross those fingers -- nm - Roger More Jan 17, 12:21
- Undoing Obama's executive orders regarding deportation. -- nm - pmb Jan 17, 11:44
- something about borders -- nm - Epiphany Jan 17, 11:42
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- Marshall Law -- nm - decline Jan 17, 11:33
- Rescinding Obama's Exec Orders (protecting Osamacare, etc) -- nm* - budice Jan 17, 11:33
- Tax Cuts. Cut of Nato Funding. Trade Tariffs raised. -- nm - Remlik Jan 17, 11:33
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- I sure hope so! Those poor people need to eat too! -- nm - decline Jan 17, 11:34
The Good Place spoilers - Beaker Jan 17, 11:23 2
- "I'm just now realizing why that didn't work" -- nm - Reagen Jan 17, 11:47
- Indeed. -- nm - Spawn Jan 17, 11:24
Jurassic World the RKO edition.... -- (link) - Remlik Jan 17, 11:20 [youtube] 1
- I can't be the only person who thought this was going to be an old timey newsreel -- nm - con_carne Jan 17, 12:26
oh Mel....you gotta watch those movies (except 2). -- nm - Remlik Jan 17, 11:19 2
- It seems to be highly regarded for sure. I would not have expected that. -- nm - Mel Profit Jan 17, 11:21 1
  - oh it started off as a meathead movie no doubt, but turned into the premiere action franchise with the most diverse cast out there...which director - Remlik Jan 17, 11:23
Apparently Tessa Violet (whom you've never heard of) started as a 17-year-old fashion model who moved to Hong Kong to be a fashion model. - Mop Jan 17, 11:19 11
- any more than someone moving from another country to NYC or LA? -- nm - Max Jan 17, 11:21 4
  - But see, they speak a foreign language there. Even easier to confuse/take advantage! -- nm - Spawn Jan 17, 11:28 3
    - At the DC storytelling thing I went to this weekend, this was one of the stories: mistaking a date for networking. -- (link) - Max Jan 17, 11:34 [youtube] 2
      - That's great! But she sure loved that punchline, didn't she? -- nm - Mop Jan 17, 11:44 1
        
        She had a much more refined presentation at the show this weekend. It was hysterical. -- nm - Max Jan 17, 11:45
- it's like the plot for Taken 4 just wrote itself...(or the new TV show pre-Taken movies) -- nm - Beaker Jan 17, 11:20
- there are plenty of people who do that and have good experiences. if they go with reputable agencies who protect them, etc. (and I remember when she won a yt contest several years ago.) -- nm* - b. Jan 17, 11:20 4
  - "They're a perfectly reputable agency and not at all involved in white slavery. It says it right there on their web site!" -- nm - Mop Jan 17, 11:21 3
    - Where does Hong Kong rank on the [UN?]'s monitoring of slavery around the world? -- nm - Max Jan 17, 11:23
    - not everyone is stupid, Mop. the big agencies, not random ones. -- nm - b. Jan 17, 11:23 1
      - Only 1/3 of Americans. -- nm - Mop Jan 17, 11:25
A counter point to the OxFam study. -- (link) - iSpam Jan 17, 11:18 1
- yeah, Tapper linked this article this AM so I saw it then - ML Jan 17, 11:30
From yesterday SWGOH discussion: Lumi Vs JC -- (link) - iSpam Jan 17, 11:14 6
- I just started playing this, and have no idea what I'm doing. - Inigo Jan 17, 11:19 5
  - One of things you'll want to do is "farm" characters by hitting the same battle over and over (simming helps this). - spamlet Jan 17, 11:28 4
    - Thanks. I don't think I fully understand everything you said, but it gives me a starting point. -- nm - Inigo Jan 17, 11:36 2
      - this is also a good link that gives you an idea of the characters you should be focusing on -- (link) - ML Jan 17, 11:39 [youtube] 1
        
        Thanks, and Cantina doesn't seem to be open for me yet. -- nm - Inigo Jan 17, 12:00
    - is Cantina even open for him at this point tho? - ML Jan 17, 11:36
LIR: RC: Delicious. I got pep, my son got a cheese and we got a loaf of bread that we ate in the hotel room with butter - oblique, SuperFeud Champion Jan 17, 11:13 1
- My bosses kid looked at Bradley. I only gave her one instruction... -- nm - iSpam Jan 17, 11:14
Pobody's Nerfect -- nm - Beaker Jan 17, 11:11 2
- I would wear one of those shirts. -- nm - Spawn Jan 17, 11:12 1
  - yup -- nm - Beaker Jan 17, 11:13

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