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How crazy is Space Mountain? I hate roller coasters...I liked the Mummy ride at Universal...Does SM go upside down or twirl? -- nm - Beaker Feb 5, 13:46 4
- Space Mountain on a scale of 1-10 is about a 4 on my roller coaster scary scale. Pretty tame -- nm - Bacon Feb 5, 14:05
- I'm not a big coaster fan (I tend to get motion sickness on them). SM is pretty simple. No inversions. - ty97 Feb 5, 13:48
- There's a spin at the end that gives me a headache. -- nm - Reagen Feb 5, 13:48
- Pretty mild as coasters go, but it is in the dark -- nm - amoxy Feb 5, 13:47
So I've only seen 2 of the Best Picture nominees but right now my favorite is Lion (A). #2, La La Land (B+). - Covington Feb 5, 13:42 1
- my 5: Arrival (A), Hell or High Water (A-), Manchester by the Sea (A-), La La Land (B+), Lion (B+) -- nm* - mud Feb 5, 13:46
It appears either POTUS or VPOTUS is going to the Super Bowl. Someone I follow on Twitter is stuck on tarmac in Houston due to 'AF1' being in the area - ty97 Feb 5, 13:36 3
- It is Pence -- nm - amoxy Feb 5, 13:38 1
  - He couldn't miss Gaga. -- nm - Roger More Feb 5, 13:54
- (BTW, I don't think it is unusual for a politician to go and this not a compliant, just sharing a factoid) -- nm - ty97 Feb 5, 13:36
So not that it matters (and it sure don't matter to me) but *is* KSTEW gay or was that just a line? -- nm - ty97 Feb 5, 13:30 12
- and while I think she is almost too skinny a lot of the time, I agree she looked phenomenal in that Family Feud skit. - ty97 Feb 5, 13:45
- bi I thought -- nm - Beaker Feb 5, 13:41 1
  - I thought this too. -- nm - Bacon Feb 5, 13:41
- She dated Robert Pattinson, so yes? -- nm - JaxSean Feb 5, 13:39
- Gayer than a goose. Dating Cara Devigne's ex -- nm - Epiphany Feb 5, 13:34
- I saw someone tweet excitedly that this was her "coming out to middle America" moment. - Tim Feb 5, 13:33 3
  - Neither of us even noticed the swearing. But Dave was like ty.. "is she gay? Was she always? " -- nm - Andie Feb 5, 13:36 2
    - You and I read the celeb news -- nm - Epiphany Feb 5, 13:53
    - I vaguely recalled she might have dated a woman but haven't really paid attention - ty97 Feb 5, 13:37
- Very gay. -- nm - Reagen Feb 5, 13:31 2
  - but not for Moleman -- nm - prayformojo Feb 5, 13:32 1
    - *no one's* gay for Moleman -- nm - Reagen Feb 5, 13:49
So im gonna say NE 28 Atl 17 -- nm - eag Feb 5, 13:25 10
- Current Vegas Scoring Odds for each team has it 31-24 -ish in favor of NE -- nm - budice Feb 5, 13:40 1
  - NE: 31pts 10/1, ATL 24pts 12/1 -- nm - budice Feb 5, 13:41
- whoever wins will refuse the call from the President -- nm - Peglegpete Feb 5, 13:30 2
  - You do know Brady and Robert Kraft are long time friends with Trump -- nm - amoxy Feb 5, 13:32
  - Trump will sign an EO making them take the call. -- nm* - eag Feb 5, 13:31
- ATL 37 NE 34 -- nm - amoxy Feb 5, 13:28
- NE 38-30 -- nm - Beaker Feb 5, 13:28
- NE 35, Atl 31 -- nm - Will Hunting, King of Astronauts Feb 5, 13:27
- NE 34, ATL 27 -- nm - Bacon Feb 5, 13:26 1
  - Game ends on Matt Ryan drive for the tie, sack and fumble. Game over -- nm - Bacon Feb 5, 13:27
Superbowl: Total has dropped from 58.5 to 56.5 today -- nm - budice Feb 5, 13:23 1
- Over -- nm - Bacon Feb 5, 13:25
"courts are making the job very difficult! Bad!" -- nm - Pakled Prez Feb 5, 13:21
OMG, Pandora World opens soon. Spawn get your airline tickets booked now! -- nm - Bacon Feb 5, 13:18
So I am looking for the football pregame show but no station has it on? -- nm - Bacon Feb 5, 13:06 2
- FOX -- nm - Beaker Feb 5, 13:11 1
  - I found it after cycling a few more times. Trump was on so I couldn't find it -- nm - Bacon Feb 5, 13:13
alot of killers around believe me -- nm - Beaker Feb 5, 13:00 6
- One of the fascinating things about Trump is his ability to say things that confront the Republican way of thinking and essentially go unchallenged - Roger More Feb 5, 13:35 1
  - Watching Pence try to defend him on Meet the Press was cringe worthy -- nm - amoxy Feb 5, 13:42
- quick, find out if any of them know OJ -- nm - zeitgeist Feb 5, 13:21
- It's time for another round of "Imagine If Obama Said It" -- nm - Reagen Feb 5, 13:06
- Bill O'Reilly's eyes look like they are going to roll out of his head -- nm - Beaker Feb 5, 13:01 1
  - When the water boys are agog, you've gone too far. -- nm - Will Hunting, King of Astronauts Feb 5, 13:28
So yeah 3 episodes in im sold on Taboo some thoughts and spoils - eag Feb 5, 12:42 3
- Spoils speculation - Epiphany Feb 5, 12:55 1
  - (spoils) - eag Feb 5, 13:19
- I caught up too. -- nm - budice Feb 5, 12:53
here is the Family Feud from SNL last night -- (link) - Beaker Feb 5, 12:38 [youtube] 7
- a better version -- (link) - Remlik Feb 5, 13:50 [youtube]
- Whoa, she looks amazing. -- nm - Will Hunting, King of Astronauts Feb 5, 12:56 1
  - Go watch the Totinos commercial, you will lose your mind -- nm - Epiphany Feb 5, 13:35
- smoke show -- nm - Spawn Feb 5, 12:49
- I could watch Stewart in that dress for anotehr hour or so -- nm - Beaker Feb 5, 12:42 2
  - Word if that was any shorter she would have triggered two FCC violations last night. -- nm - Bacon Feb 5, 13:00 1
    - The millimeter eyebrow raise she does in the Totinos ad would win over *every* person on Earth. -- nm - Reagen Feb 5, 13:18
Sitting here at the Superbook, zero reppin of the Falcons and about 40% have Pats gear on -- nm - budice Feb 5, 12:21 2
- Be a dear and drink their tears for me. -- nm - David, ST's Ultimate Lover Feb 5, 12:37
- People aren't buying bandwagon material off one title appearance. -- nm - Will Hunting, King of Astronauts Feb 5, 12:33
So... I have no desire to watch the game, even for the commercials. There hasn't been a great ad in years. - Cuzzin Todd Feb 5, 11:53 11
- I'm trying very hard to care about something. The only thing I vaguely desire is a crushing of the Patriots. - Mop Feb 5, 12:24 2
  - True, I would love to see the Pats lose. But then who wouldn't? -- nm - Cuzzin Todd Feb 5, 12:53
  - Pervert!! -- nm - Giselle Feb 5, 12:27
- Here's a history of USA Today's past Super Bowl AdMeter winners -- (link) - Max Feb 5, 12:19 2
  - Thanks, in the intervening 20+ years I'd forgotten the horror of "boy gets sucked into a Pepsi bottle." -- nm - Cuzzin Todd Feb 5, 12:53 1
    - "Mom, he did it again!" -- nm - Will Hunting, King of Astronauts Feb 5, 12:56
- The Puppy Bowl: Where Are They Now? -- nm - Spawn Feb 5, 12:19 2
  - Just 12 years later almost none of the original Puppy Bowl players are still with us - did we push them too far too fast? -- nm - Reagen Feb 5, 12:25 1
    - what a scandal, it's disgraceful. -- nm - mud Feb 5, 13:38
- Yeah. I'm planning on trying to catch up on my DVR tonight. -- nm - Dano Feb 5, 12:11
- Why do you want to make David cry? -- nm - Bacon Feb 5, 11:57
Word question. This tweet says that pro-Trump protesters are protesting in front of Trump Tower. Is protestor/protest the right word here? -- (link) - ty97 Feb 5, 11:52 10
- nuisance -- nm - Peglegpete Feb 5, 11:57
- (note: question is not a dig at the actions these folks are taking nor at the news source) I've just been struggling with if the word is the best fit -- (edited) - ty97 Feb 5, 11:53 7
  - maybe demonstrators is the word I was looking for. Either way, as I said it's just a language usage nit - ty97 Feb 5, 12:01 3
    - Supporters -- nm - Beryllium Feb 5, 12:03 2
      - But what's the verb then? Demonstrators demonstrate. Protestors protest. - ty97 Feb 5, 12:05 1
        
        "Trump supporters are rallying outside of Trump Tower" -- nm* - Roger More Feb 5, 12:06
  - boosters -- nm - mud Feb 5, 11:55 2
    - Actors -- nm - Beryllium Feb 5, 11:56 1
      - there good -- nm - Pakled Prez Feb 5, 11:58
- it a rally not a protest imo -- nm - Beaker Feb 5, 11:53
Good luck with your team, friends/Trump fans! - David, ST's Ultimate Lover Feb 5, 11:46 4
- Two national title fails recently. I know how awesome the hope feels like before the game. Enjoy it -- nm - Bacon Feb 5, 11:52
- Go Falcons! -- nm - Krusty Feb 5, 11:49 2
  - The President is actually a huge Falcons fan, the biggest -- nm - Sean Spicer Feb 5, 11:51 1
    - Period. -- nm - Cuzzin Todd Feb 5, 11:52
has anyone discussed the Puppy Bowl in all of this? -- nm - call me Ishmael Feb 5, 11:45
DMac future endevoured the Sequels fund manager -- nm - Beaker Feb 5, 11:44
A former Missouri SoS and a former MLB pitcher (Red Sox, etc) are fighting on Twitter - ty97 Feb 5, 11:30 1
- Most exciting thing to happen in MLB in 20 years! -- nm - Bacon Feb 5, 11:41
LYC: we went 2-2 in our BBall Tournament and 1 of the wins was for 3rd place! - Beaker Feb 5, 11:21 1
- Whoo!!!!! Coach of the appropriate time period! -- nm - JD Feb 5, 11:26
TV PSA: Super Bowl, Mercy Street, Black Sails, Young Pope, Victoria, 24: Legacy, Worst Cooks, other stuff -- nm - Beaker Feb 5, 11:19 1
- Divorced, Beheaded, Survived. the last 3 wives of Henry VIII on PBS with Lucy Worsley -- nm - Peglegpete Feb 5, 11:21
So my advice is if anybody tries to talk you into running a race with the incentive that there's free beer at the end - JD Feb 5, 11:17 4
- Amy loves those. And I have even done Wine At the Line. -- nm - Spawn Feb 5, 12:20
- Are you at the Huntington Beach one now? -- nm - James Bond (aka on phone) Feb 5, 11:22 2
  - I am indeed. Specifically in the Sam Adams beer garden -- nm - JD Feb 5, 11:24 1
    - Cool. I am at the marathon too (as a supporter). Now in the hotel. -- nm - James Bond (aka on phone) Feb 5, 12:12
6 days to John Wick. -- nm - Beryllium Feb 5, 11:12 6
- 26 days to Logan -- nm - mud Feb 5, 11:15 5
  - 313 days to Rey -- nm - Spawn Feb 5, 11:31 4
    - 7 years to Avatar 2 -- nm - Bacon Feb 5, 11:39 3
      - heh -- nm - mud Feb 5, 11:46 2
        
        He just had to take it too far. -- nm - Spawn Feb 5, 12:30 1
        
        Another 20 years till PINK2,SEXY seniors discover love -- nm - zeitgeist Feb 5, 12:45
What time is kickoff, anyway? -- nm - Beryllium Feb 5, 11:09 8
- 3:42 pt -- nm* - mud Feb 5, 11:11
- Pregame: 5:00. kickoff: 6:20. -- nm* - Spawn Feb 5, 11:10 6
  - So actual kickoff 6:32pm -- nm - Will Hunting, King of Astronauts Feb 5, 11:59
  - So 3:20 pacific ... thanks -- nm - Beryllium Feb 5, 11:11 4
    - And tour starts at 1:00 and lasts 90 min to 2 hours. Then there's lockup time. I'm not gonna make it for kickoff, am I? - Meg Feb 5, 11:42 1
      - You don't get Volunteer of the Year awards by slacking off and watching Superbowls. -- nm - Bacon Feb 5, 11:45
    - Yes, real time -- nm - Bacon Feb 5, 11:12 1
      - Heh, not gonna lie, I almost called it that -- nm - Beryllium Feb 5, 11:13
And here's why collaboration might turn out to be worse than condemnation. -- (link) - Beryllium Feb 5, 11:03
Oh look, my town is more expensive to buy a home in than ... NEW YORK CITY?! -- (link) - Beryllium Feb 5, 10:32 1
- NY price average lowers because it includes places way out in the counties, manhattan itself? -- nm - zeitgeist Feb 5, 13:28
FOX studio A team planted outside surrounded by screaming fans cannot hear the studio B team inside the stadium because of the screaming fans. - zunk xometimes Feb 5, 10:28 3
- Paid fans. They're all paid. -- nm - Beryllium Feb 5, 10:30 2
  - Is this a Trump rally? -- nm - budice Feb 5, 10:31 1
    - Trumpball™, which is Trumpmerica™'s #1 biggliest pastime -- nm - Beryllium Feb 5, 10:33
lil cute thing in the MelDeevs... - Mel Profit Feb 5, 10:20 3
- Does she ever sing you to sleep? I bet that's awesome. -- nm - David's iPad Feb 5, 10:21 2
  - it's happened yes. and it's as special as it gets... - Mel Profit Feb 5, 10:27 1
    - ha! that's been going through my head since the Globes last week - prayformojo Feb 5, 10:28
Elon Musk, telling it like it is. -- (link) - Beryllium Feb 5, 10:03 8
- And this -- (link) - TWuG Feb 5, 10:10 7
  - There's an argument to be made that these particular advisors are better due to their incompetence. Makes things easier to challenge. - Beryllium Feb 5, 10:16
  - I don't think he listens to moderates. -- nm - Mop Feb 5, 10:13 5
    - He parrots whatever he hears last. Boycotting people trying to be that last person is counterproductive. -- nm - iSpam Feb 5, 10:22 2
      - Though what he parrots and what he does are two separate things. Even when he says what someone last said to him, he does what he wants. -- nm - Roger More Feb 5, 11:24 1
        
        And a plus - his CoS and his strategic advisers are almost always going to be that last person. -- nm - Roger More Feb 5, 11:27
    - "We should try our best" -- (link) - TWuG Feb 5, 10:15 1
      - And we can't sit here bitching about Trump not nominating "moderates" for the courts, his cabinet, etc, then bitch that he includes moderates in - TWuG Feb 5, 10:17
#WhatIWatchedInThe90s -- (link) - Max Feb 5, 09:57
Free 8x10 print at Walgreens using the code "FEBFREE" -- nm - CQ Feb 5, 09:56
Energizer Bunny, Spuds McKenzie, Miller Lite/Miller High Life... some ad agency is going big time nostalgia. -- nm - Mop Feb 5, 09:28 1
- It worked for Trump. -- nm - Beryllium Feb 5, 09:48
As rumored, Alex Mack is going to play with a broken leg. - David Feb 5, 09:22 4
- How is that possible? -- nm - Krusty Feb 5, 09:48 3
  - It's a bone chip where he already has a plate from a previous leg break. -- nm - David Feb 5, 10:05 1
    - I hope he can go without being limited but that has to be painful. - Krusty Feb 5, 10:38
  - Perhaps it's just a loaner. -- nm - Beryllium Feb 5, 09:48
So Leicester can potentially get relegated AND win the Champions league. -- nm - Volnelk Feb 5, 09:22
I wonder if anyone has invented a microwave that can send you a text message when you've forgotten your item in it? -- nm - Beryllium Feb 5, 09:16 4
- "Hey mfer, you left a Hot Pocket in da Wave." -- nm - Eddie Murphy voice overlay Feb 5, 09:49
- Mine just beeps every few minutes......damned annoying :/ -- nm - Meg Feb 5, 09:40
- Probably Samsung. -- nm - Mop Feb 5, 09:34 1
  - But it blew up.. (NM) - Marlowe Feb 5, 09:41

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