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the Post: "Look, the Capitals actually deserve to win the Stanley Cup this time" -- (link) - prayformojo Apr 12, 15:12
Jude Law has been cast as a young Albus Dumbledore in the upcoming sequel to Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them -- nm - Beaker Apr 12, 15:09 3
- I just figured they cgi Gambon to make him look younger -- nm - eag Apr 12, 15:13 2
  - Harris -- nm - Peglegpete Apr 12, 15:14 1
    - Gandalf -- nm - Beaker Apr 12, 15:15
Any STer picked up Timothy Zahn's Thrawn book yet? The reviws I've read say it is the awesome sauce... -- nm - Beaker Apr 12, 15:03 2
- Ill probably get it on Audible then pick up a physical copy to have him sign next month at our comicon -- (edited) - eag Apr 12, 15:12
- Bought it, haven't read it yet. -- nm - Ender Apr 12, 15:10
awww/wap - David Letterman's mom died -- (link) - prayformojo Apr 12, 15:02
survivor nonspoiler spoilers? -- (link) - windows jones Apr 12, 14:42 3
- I thought he was, but I feel badly that he was outed. -- nm - Callisto Buffalomeat Apr 12, 15:16
- Looking at the pictures of him, I always think it would be great to go to all those people who support bathroom laws and say, "ok, just to be clear, - pmb Apr 12, 15:00
- Hmm...Oh wait it was TAR I was thinking there was a trans woman on. Nevermind. -- nm - . Apr 12, 14:51
NYC peeps, if I wanted to impress some Seattle Microsoft bigwigs with a place to eat near MOMA, etc, where do we go? - Max Apr 12, 14:42 12
- not pizza, that's for sure. -- nm - groiny Apr 12, 14:54 4
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    - pfft, a good pizza is impressive. - groiny Apr 12, 14:58 1
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  - "oh, you West coast types wouldn't like it. That's pepperoni and real cheese." -- nm - Max Apr 12, 14:56
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  - or something like that...checks math..NYC drinks are expensive but I'm wondering if was something like 20 cosmos for $420 - JD Apr 12, 15:09 1
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  - I want to impress them less than that. -- nm - Max Apr 12, 14:47 2
    - 7 cosmos -- nm - Beaker Apr 12, 14:51
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- Hope she is OK -- nm - amoxy Apr 12, 15:24
- Jebus, that's awful! -- nm - Krusty Apr 12, 14:44
- Jesus, hope she is OK. Was she pushed? how did she fall? -- nm - Beaker Apr 12, 14:44 2
  - Kevin Spacey pushed her. -- nm - groiny Apr 12, 14:48
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- Terrifying. That's going to be a long recovery :( -- nm - Beryllium Apr 12, 14:41
- I hope she's okay, that sounds awful. -- nm - Epiphany Apr 12, 14:30
- Yikes! Best wishes. - Strongbad Apr 12, 14:29
- best wishes for her recovery -- nm - crash davis Apr 12, 14:27
- How awful. He and his other coworkers must be pretty distraught. -- nm - mara Apr 12, 14:27 1
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No, the media did not identify the wrong David Dao as United's passenger -- (link) - ty97 Apr 12, 14:26
I'll be conducting SlackerTalk performance reviews beginning tomorrow. Some of you have very little to worry about - prayformojo Apr 12, 14:17 15
- *casually walks in wearing a taupe business suit and Wayfarer sunglasses straight out of Miami Vice circa 1986* - Bear Lawyer Apr 12, 15:14 1
  - whatever Mel pays you, it ain't enough -- nm - crash davis Apr 12, 15:16
- I'd quit, but I got nowhere else to go! -- nm - amoxy Apr 12, 14:54 1
  - "I'VE GOT NOWHERE ELSE TO GO!!!!!!" -- nm - Weepy Richard Gere Apr 12, 14:55
- dammit, I was just starting to enjoy it here. -- nm - groiny Apr 12, 14:47
- TV PSA: NHL, Black Ink Crew, Shots Fired, Survivor, Criminal Minds BB, Empire, Major Crimes, Storage Wars, Magicians, Bering Sea Gold, Nobodies, -- nm* - Beaker Apr 12, 14:44 2
  - Designated Survivor, Expanse, Lopez, other stu -- nm - Beaker Apr 12, 14:45 1
    - Fate of the Furious 70% (37/16) -- nm - Beaker Apr 12, 14:46
- I've got this meeting with the Bobs... -- nm - Qale Apr 12, 14:43
- I got a thing and I'll be late -- nm - crash davis Apr 12, 14:23 1
  - "I locked my keys in the boot of my car and then there were delays on the bloody Underground" -- nm - ty97 Apr 12, 14:24
- Will this be before or after the boyfriend draft? -- nm - ty97 Apr 12, 14:20
- Cool. -- nm - Strongbad, meets expectations Apr 12, 14:19 2
  - only inasmuch as I always expect you to have awful and wrong opinions about college sports - prayformojo Apr 12, 14:21 1
    - Good. I continually strive to keep people's expectations of me as low as possible. -- nm - Strongbad, meets expectations Apr 12, 14:26
Damn lawyers. St. Louis sues NFL, teams over Rams' relocation -- (link) - Strongbad Apr 12, 14:17 1
- I wonder how you value a 4-12 season -- nm - crash davis Apr 12, 14:31
This is the Canadian version of "don't compare things to Hitler". -- (link) - Reagen Apr 12, 14:16 1
- Wow. -- nm - Beryllium Apr 12, 14:34
These masks are *way* too realistic. -- (link) - Andie Apr 12, 14:15
Star Wars new Thrawn book spoilers at the link.... -- (link) - Remlik Apr 12, 14:08 1
- Timothy Zahn will be at our comicon next month - eag Apr 12, 14:15
I am off to see one of the films LMS worked on, "Their Finest." Ta ta. -- nm - Andie Apr 12, 14:04
Farewell cold and flu season, hello allergies! - znufrii, definitely not 40 Apr 12, 14:00
Bloomberg side bar, US and France introduced UN resolution to investigate Syrian gas attack, Russia vetoes -- nm - zeitgeist Apr 12, 13:54
As of tomorrow's paycheck, I assume we are all getting COL raises. Yet, like last year, I got no review - Andie Apr 12, 13:40 10
- Had my review a few weeks ago just need to get our big boss to aprove my raise -- nm - eag Apr 12, 14:09
- hah, no raise for us this year. -- nm - groiny Apr 12, 13:57
- I am sort of in the same boat - had a review and the increase is in the next check but we don't know what it is - Epiphany Apr 12, 13:54
- I report to the company president. I haven't had a review...since I took this position I think -- nm - oblique, SuperFeud Champion Apr 12, 13:53 3
  - We stopped doing them years ago -- nm - decline Apr 12, 14:13
  - this is me too, i report only to the owners. i used to get little 30 second reviews with a VP, that were like "Good?" "Good." "Great." - Andie Apr 12, 13:55
  - do you just get extra money each year? -- nm - Epiphany Apr 12, 13:54
- I had my performance review in December, and received my compensation statement in February, raises are effective July 1. -- (edited) - znufrii, definitely not 40 Apr 12, 13:43
- Well, Cheese Cake Facotory alone will warrant an increase, so... -- nm - Spawn Apr 12, 13:42 1
  - How can she expect a raise when she's getting a Cheesecake Factory? - ty97 Apr 12, 13:43
new Stonehenge findings -- (link) - Peglegpete Apr 12, 13:39 6
- They found the Pandorica? -- nm - znufrii, definitely not 40 Apr 12, 13:57
- From a 2013 PCAS presentation by Dr. Steve Waller. He studies auditory phenomena in archaeological sites. - Meg Apr 12, 13:56 4
  - that's kind of a radical way to analyse the area. Is this getting taken seriously? -- nm - Mel Profit Apr 12, 14:01 2
    - This guy has some good theories but early on he was really hilarious. - Meg Apr 12, 14:04 1
      - Actually in this presentation he referred to using mouse traps to create sound....... - Meg Apr 12, 14:09
  - So it's an ancient Druid make out site? -- nm - Reagen Apr 12, 13:58
Dear P: I see you will be in our office in Boston tomorrow. Will you require office space? - Diva Apr 12, 13:34 10
- he has to wait and see if he needs a nap after lunch. He might be sleepy enough to need the office space. -- nm - Max Apr 12, 13:37
- I just envision you staring at the monitor, whispering, "focus. just focus. concentrate for 2 mins and then this will be over..." -- nm - Mel Profit Apr 12, 13:36 4
  - I was planning to leave about 30 minutes ago, but hot pressing items like these keep presenting themselves. nmbmel - Diva Apr 12, 13:38 3
    - Oh no! -- nm - Mel Profit Apr 12, 13:40
    - I know tone can be heard to read in text sometimes -- (edited) - ty97 Apr 12, 13:40 1
      - and now someone has booked travel for herself to London and her effing corporate card got rejected. I hate everything today. - Diva Apr 12, 13:42
- WOW -- nm - ty97 Apr 12, 13:35 3
  - i need a real vacation so badly. Like 2 weeks. -- nm - Diva Apr 12, 13:36 2
    - All I can say is - ty97 Apr 12, 13:37 1
      - Officer Thinking!! -- nm - Diva Apr 12, 13:38
Last month with our HOA dues billing we received a reminder of the 'house rules' including the prohibition on noisy dogs. - Meg Apr 12, 13:29 4
- "Screw your prohibition!" *sets up a barkeasy* -- nm - Ender Apr 12, 14:12
- They must have received complaints and hoping the memo will take care if it before someone has to actually do something -- nm - zeitgeist Apr 12, 13:40 1
  - One board member lives next door to the unit and another 3 door down. And sound reverberates around the complex. -- nm - Meg Apr 12, 14:02
- And the wild parties, Meg. You know what I'm talking about. -- nm - Mop Apr 12, 13:32
Don't hold me beer -- (link) - ty97 Apr 12, 13:28
A hahaha -- (link) - Reagen Apr 12, 13:24 15
- I'm sorry to say this but a few months ago, Carson getting stuck would have sufficed. But now, I want more follies more glorious than yesterday's - crash davis Apr 12, 13:38 14
  - I could link Trump forgetting what country he bombed but not the cake he was eating while he did it, but it would mean listening to him talk -- nm* - Reagen Apr 12, 13:41 13
    - Cripes, you're not kidding. -- (link) - Roger More Apr 12, 13:47 11
      - Not in that article, Maria Bartiromo remarking at the idea that the missiles fired at Syria were unmanned - Reagen Apr 12, 13:57 7
        
        Oh man what a "Very few cartoons are broadcast live, Homer" moment. -- nm - rollo Apr 12, 14:53
        
        I'm trusting you to not be pulling my leg on that -- nm - crash davis Apr 12, 14:00 5
        
        Proof of Stupid -- (link) - Reagen Apr 12, 14:01 4
        
        (maybe she's just a big Asimov fan -- The Feeling of Power) -- nm - Reagen Apr 12, 14:04 3
        
        she probably knows those stupid Saturn Vs had three guys in a capsule on top of them -- nm - crash davis Apr 12, 14:11 2
        
        Rocket, not a missile! -- nm - Reagen Apr 12, 14:16 1
        
        are you saying she can tell you the difference? -- nm - crash davis Apr 12, 14:28
      - one thing I just thought of looking at the last picture. I wish Trump would get himself a tailor who would stand up to him. - Mel Profit Apr 12, 13:52
      - I love how it's all about him in the end. " Don't act like you're not impressed" -- nm - Reagen Apr 12, 13:52 1
        
        "it's the pleats." [nm] - Mel Profit Apr 12, 13:53
    - I'm worried that we are entering a peak incompetence era and we shall soon be depleting our national strategic reserves of incompetence. -- nm - crash davis Apr 12, 13:46
Trump currently praising NATO, at length -- nm - ty97 Apr 12, 13:21 10
- No longer obsolete!! Thanks Trump!!! -- nm - Jovian Apr 12, 13:44
- and -- (link) - ty97 Apr 12, 13:24 7
  - and -- (link) - ty97 Apr 12, 13:24 6
    - It's the Kushner White House at this point. Bannon is dead man walking. -- nm - Mop Apr 12, 13:31 5
      - We've pretty much always known that this is how Damien: Omen II would attain power, right? Like since forever, right? -- nm - Diva Apr 12, 13:36 4
        
        I'm going to be amused if Bachmann is right, there is an Anti-Christ and it turns out to be someone from this Administration. -- nm - Mel Profit Apr 12, 13:37 3
        
        and while you folks chase and exorcise the obvious suspects, it turns out it was really Ivanka -- nm - crash davis Apr 12, 14:15 1
        
        No. She's just a Lizard Person Illuminati. -- nm - Mel Profit Apr 12, 14:46
        
        chawl. -- nm - Diva Apr 12, 13:38
- and -- (link) - ty97 Apr 12, 13:22
Crash News: Bigfoot comes to BRanson! - Remlik Apr 12, 13:21 2
- And a Nickelodeon Resort Hotel may come to Garden Grove in the Disney Anaheim Resort area. -- (link) - Meg Apr 12, 13:45
- STARTS PACKING FOR BRANSON! YEEEEEEEEE-HAW! - crash davis Apr 12, 13:33
*running in...nekkid and crazy...wearing nothing but bits of whopper and cheese crumb...screaming through...wildly eyed...disappearing out the other - Nekkid Crazy Mel Apr 12, 13:06 7
- *rolls in shortly afterward riding a Segway wearing a chic black open-faced motorcyle helmet, a pair of aviator sunglasses, and a Lycra bicycle suit* - Bear Lawyer Apr 12, 13:12 5
  - I'm ready for the series of Avengers style movies where you two align to fight evil - ty97 Apr 12, 13:17 2
    - no, the Fight Movie comes first and *then* the Combine to Fight Evil Movie. -- nm - Mel Profit Apr 12, 13:35 1
      - brilliant thinking that the 'buddy road trip' film, only being set in bars and other related establishments -- nm - Peglegpete Apr 12, 13:41
  - here, you're gonna need this. *hand over Wonder Woman's golden lasso* -- nm - Peglegpete Apr 12, 13:16
  - Get EM! -- nm - Epiphany Apr 12, 13:13
- Looks up from my phone....wtf was that? Wonders if the door was left open...sniffs, hmmm I'm hungry, oh yeah it's lunch time -- nm - zeitgeist Apr 12, 13:10
~cheese, glorious cheese~ -- nm - decline Apr 12, 13:03
Burger King just hacked Google Home and Google just shut them down. -- (link) - Mop Apr 12, 13:00 10
- This happened to us accidentally not long ago. Someone on the tv called out to "Alexa" and she chimed in. They really just need... - Mel Profit Apr 12, 13:44
- I find all these instances of voice technology going awry quite interesting. This never happened on Star Trek :) -- nm - oblique, SuperFeud Champion Apr 12, 13:06 8
  - "It does, however, still respond with the top result from Wikipedia when someone else (i.e., a real user) other than the advertisement asks the... - Spawn Apr 12, 13:41
  - its enough for me not to consider upgrading - any type of " ad" hacking is going to keep it out of my house until they get a handle on it -- nm - Epiphany Apr 12, 13:27 2
    - solution: only watch porn -- nm - oblique, SuperFeud Champion Apr 12, 13:27 1
      - like I don't do that now? -- nm - Epiphany Apr 12, 13:56
  - but it did on Babylon 5 -- nm - Peglegpete Apr 12, 13:15
  - "Kirk! You'll regret the day we crossed---" "Computer! Self-destruct!" -- nm - Mop Apr 12, 13:09
  - that's 'cause the cameras started rolling after they got all the kinks out -- nm - decline Apr 12, 13:07 1
    - Better voice recognition technology, esp after that incident with lt broccoli -- nm - zeitgeist Apr 12, 13:18

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