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According to FT, Albertsons is considering a bid to buy Whole Foods -- (link) - decline Apr 24, 10:36 1
- That's like a mega brewery like Busch buying dome little craft micro....oh yeah -- nm - zeitgeist Apr 24, 13:31
Kennedy Center 2017-2018 Season: An American in Paris, On Your Feet, The Humans, TBA Surprise, Hamilton (3 months), Color Purple - MDH Apr 24, 10:33
Oh, and I'm already looking forward to the next convention (Wizard World) in June, because... - IrishStephen Apr 24, 10:26 15
- a most excellent IM -- nm - crash davis Apr 24, 10:38
- The Comicon that im going in May has Jenna Coleman ,Danny Trejo, Ming Na , - eag Apr 24, 10:33
- Wizard World here is August, I am sure I will be going, but no clue who is gonna be there. -- nm - groiny Apr 24, 10:31 10
  - yup, she is scheduled here for then as well. - groiny Apr 24, 10:32 9
    - if Wizard is still in business then. -- nm - Remlik Apr 24, 10:34 8
      - the guest list is pretty sparce right now, so I would not be that upset. -- nm - groiny Apr 24, 10:35 2
        
        you go to C2e2? -- nm - Remlik Apr 24, 10:39 1
        
        no, I did not like the guest list. -- nm - groiny Apr 24, 10:40
      - Are they on the verge of going belly up? -- nm - eag Apr 24, 10:34 4
        
        They're headed that way, not quite yet...but they're headed that way -- nm - Remlik Apr 24, 10:38 2
        
        There monthly price guide was like the bible to me for some time back in the day -- nm - eag Apr 24, 10:42
        
        the Walker Stalker / Heroes and Villians fest had crazy turnout this year. - groiny Apr 24, 10:41
        
        yes. they have been for months -- nm - Peglegpete Apr 24, 10:37
- I'll buy that for a dollar -- nm - prayformojo Apr 24, 10:27
- ooh, nice. -- nm - groiny Apr 24, 10:27
The Leafs were doomed last night as soon as they showed Bieber in the luxury box. -- nm - Reagen Apr 24, 10:23
NFL: 4-time Pro Bowler Jake Long, the guy Bill Parcells convinced MIA to take instead of Matt Ryan, retired today after 9 seasons -- nm - Strongbad Apr 24, 10:19 6
- 1 of my 5 favorite Jakes ever! - prayformojo Apr 24, 10:21 4
  - Jake the Snake! -- nm - groiny Apr 24, 10:22 3
    - Roberts? Plummer? Both? -- nm - Strongbad Apr 24, 10:28 1
      - both works in this case -- nm - groiny Apr 24, 10:29
    - jake gyllenhaal ! -- nm - eag Apr 24, 10:24
- Looking back at the 2008 NFL Draft - Strongbad Apr 24, 10:21
Triskaidekatrumpia - His 13th week. -- (link) - GregW Apr 24, 10:15
Ok groiny here's the real question: Could someone pay you enough to get into a shark cage in a Great White area? -- nm - Shaun Apr 24, 10:11 10
- i probably wouldn't but sharks aren't a big fear of mine. I've snorkeled with them a few different times. -- nm - Andie Apr 24, 10:16
- I would like to think that I could suck it up, in reality, I don't think so. - groiny Apr 24, 10:13 8
  - I will fully admit to having a second or so of pure panic the time we went swimming with a dolphin. - Shaun Apr 24, 10:18 2
    - see, I love looking at sharks, I think they are beautiful animals - groiny Apr 24, 10:22 1
      - Big time. Shark Week is hugely popular for a reason. -- nm - Shaun Apr 24, 10:24
  - I thought shark cages were real cool until I watched that video of the Great White that managed to wedge himself through the opening -- nm - crash davis Apr 24, 10:14 4
    - you mean Jaws? -- nm - Beaker Apr 24, 10:17 2
      - I saw one on TV where a couple was in the cage -- nm - crash davis Apr 24, 10:28
      - no, there is a scary youtube video where a guy in a shark cage has the shark join him in the cage. -- nm - groiny Apr 24, 10:21
    - for sure, I ain't chancing that shit. -- nm - groiny Apr 24, 10:16
I haven't been able to watch the episode yet, but I was just spoiled on last night's Leftovers plot. *slow clap* -- nm - Name Withheld by Request Apr 24, 10:06
Let's see if Spawn can spot what's wrong with this headline.... -- (link) - Remlik Apr 24, 10:04 1
- That is an epic troll. -- nm - Beryllium Apr 24, 10:05
Lettergrade the first round of the NHL playoffs - prayformojo Apr 24, 10:02 7
- hockey is still on ? -- nm - decline Apr 24, 10:07 1
  - til July -- nm - psilotum Apr 24, 10:13
- A+: Oilers advance and with very few exceptions, every game was competitive. -- nm* - Shaun Apr 24, 10:06
- B (my team lost, but with so mant OT games it was really fun to watch) -- nm - Beaker Apr 24, 10:06
- F- -- nm - groiny Apr 24, 10:03 2
  - That was not an expected result. -- nm - Shaun Apr 24, 10:06 1
    - it is not even that they got beaten, they got decimated. -- nm - groiny Apr 24, 10:24
Will, that was BvS's one germ of a good idea - Reagen Apr 24, 10:02
"The 19 Strangest Things Trump said in his 100 Days Interview" -- (link) - Andie Apr 24, 09:59 4
- So he also just learned that Canada is part of North America. -- nm - GregW Apr 24, 10:10
- Ah, this explains the frequent "unintelligible" in the transcript -- one of his aides kept talking at the same time as Trump! -- nm - mara Apr 24, 10:04 2
  - probably trying to correct him. -- nm - Andie Apr 24, 10:06 1
    - Yup, or just trying to restate more sensibly something they knew sounded stupid. -- nm - mara Apr 24, 10:41
Man, the day after a con seems like the longest day ever (and it's only 9:30 in the morning!), and I've got a bit of the con crud...but it was worth - IrishStephen Apr 24, 09:58 12
- Very nice review -- nm - Epiphany Apr 24, 10:55
- Very nice review -- nm - Epiphany Apr 24, 10:10
- then your wife tried to make him choke to death on a hotdog - Beaker Apr 24, 10:03 2
  - Oh, yeah, that! I guess Declan stepped on Felton's feet, like really stepped on them, and she didn't realize that it was him until they'd walked away - IrishStephen Apr 24, 10:07 1
    - Willa is awesome, super nice in person. -- nm - groiny Apr 24, 10:13
- Nice! always Vitamin C up before and after a con! -- nm - Remlik Apr 24, 10:00
- I'm not much of a fan of the way celebs do signings and photo ops these days, but that's just the nature of an industry that exploded since my early - Qale Apr 24, 10:00
- That photo of you guys with Flash is aces. -- nm - groiny Apr 24, 09:59 4
  - Thanks! Though I wish my boys knew how to smile! - IrishStephen Apr 24, 10:09 1
    - eh, I am not a big smile guy myself, so I can relate. -- nm - groiny Apr 24, 10:10
  - yup, really cool -- nm - Beaker Apr 24, 10:08 1
    - in a big group like that, someone always looks like a goof, that one everyone is on the ball. -- nm - groiny Apr 24, 10:10
NHL's Greatest NHL teams by fan vote. Can't say I agree with the top 3 but that Jagr pic is worth all the monies. -- (link*) - Shaun Apr 24, 09:58
To see adult results you've saved, change your SafeSearch setting. - Qale Apr 24, 09:57
*unsubscribes from ancestry.com mailing list...again* - znufrii, definitely not 40 Apr 24, 09:57
NHL Playoffs: #2 and #4 in League points played in first round; now #2 and #1 play each other in round 2. #Idiotic -- nm - Beaker Apr 24, 09:55 1
- Yep. Stupid. I don't get why they want to put so much emphasis on the divisions. -- nm - volnelk Apr 24, 09:57
In a bar? Flush the urinal with your elbow. -- (link) - Justin Trudeau life tip Apr 24, 09:50
ST Counter Poll: Name a fear that you have gotten over. -- nm - Beaker Apr 24, 09:47 21
- Also Bees/Wasps - until they get near my head / ears. - JaxSean Apr 24, 11:07
- I haven't totally gotten over it, but I'm much better re: thunderstorms. -- nm - kelly Apr 24, 10:43
- Rappeling? Almost. -- nm - Strongbad Apr 24, 10:17 1
  - (in case yall missed the pictures, there's some on FB) -- nm - Strongbad Apr 24, 10:18
- Volcanoes and/or earthquakes -- nm - znufrii, definitely not 40 Apr 24, 09:54
- Hights......I had to if I wanted shots like this. -- (link*) - Meg Apr 24, 09:52 [flickr] 1
  - And no, I won't edit again to correct 'Heights'! :) -- nm - Meg Apr 24, 09:55
- vampires - decline Apr 24, 09:50 8
  - when I was a kid, I watched a Christopher Lee Dracula movie and I remember going to bed really scared -- nm - crash davis Apr 24, 10:00 7
    - Oh! Does anyone remember that show about werewolves in the early days of Fox? - IrishStephen Apr 24, 10:25 3
      - ????? -- nm - groiny Apr 24, 10:27 2
        
        Ah, it was called...Werewolf. Only ran one season in '87. -- nm - IrishStephen Apr 24, 10:29 1
        
        that is original. -- nm - groiny Apr 24, 10:30
    - Me, too! Was it "Dracula Has Risen from the Grave"? -- nm - mara Apr 24, 10:08 1
      - I'm not sure of the title. I do remember how he was killed though Spoilers - crash davis Apr 24, 10:37
    - reading Salem's Lot as a kid was not the best idea -- nm - decline Apr 24, 10:01
- Roller Coasters. Had so much fun at Seaworld/Disney on them this year. -- nm - Beaker Apr 24, 09:47 4
  - Same. I was in my 20s and went to Great Adventure with a girl I liked. The first ride she wanted to go on was - Krusty Apr 24, 10:37
  - Can't wait for front row on the Kracken again. How's their new one? -- nm - Shaun Apr 24, 09:59 2
    - The Mako. We only did it once as it is insane. Mako > Kraken > Manta. It is like you are weightless at times. awesomesauce -- nm - Beaker Apr 24, 10:04 1
      - Good to hear! -- nm - Shaun Apr 24, 10:08
ST Poll: Name your Irrational Fear. -- nm - Beaker Apr 24, 09:44 30
- Bees/Wasps -- nm - JaxSean Apr 24, 11:05
- getting stuck in traffic on top of or underneath an overpass/bridge. -- nm - kelly Apr 24, 10:42
- But for completely irrational, I will freeze up when a sports mascot gets near me. -- nm - Max Apr 24, 10:36
- No problem: planes, hanggliding, skydiving. Weak knees: just looking at photos of the Dubai hotel tennis court -- (link) - Max Apr 24, 10:36
- Drinking from a bottle/can/glass I haven't had direct control over the entire time (same for food). -- nm - IrishStephen Apr 24, 10:00
- I have this strange fear that my country is being run by a bunch of ignorant, incompetent buffoons, lead by a delusional, corrupt, vile fool. - GregW Apr 24, 09:58
- Drinking from a bottle in a bar, someone hitting the bottle and breaking my teeth. -- nm - volnelk Apr 24, 09:50 2
  - what kind of bars are you going to? -- nm - groiny Apr 24, 09:53 1
    - I mean, just accidentally. I freak out that someone's going to turn and elbow the bottom of the bottle. Look, it's irrational. - volnelk Apr 24, 09:57
- To live forever.. (NM) - Marlowe Apr 24, 09:50
- I can't camp in the woods any more. Meth head killer tweakers will get me -- nm - Epiphany Apr 24, 09:49 3
  - too much Rob Zombie. -- nm - groiny Apr 24, 09:56
  - I now have a fear of Mexican Cartels, thanks to End of Watch, Breaking Bad, Sons of Anarchy, the news, etc etc -- nm - crash davis Apr 24, 09:55 1
    - I'd like to add No Country For Old Men to that, but that movie makes you more afraid of bad haircuts -- nm - crash davis Apr 24, 09:57
- Calling people on the phone. -- nm - znufrii, definitely not 40 Apr 24, 09:48 1
  - this is one of my biggest phobias -- nm - decline Apr 24, 09:49
- I'll go on them - most of the time - but I hate hate hate escalators - prayformojo Apr 24, 09:47
- heights. -- nm - groiny Apr 24, 09:47 2
  - that's not irrational, studies show smrt people hate heights -- nm - Beaker Apr 24, 09:48 1
    - oh, I am no good on planes, when there is a miniscule chance of crashing. -- nm - groiny Apr 24, 09:53
- i have gotten more claustrophobic as i get older. Not like in elevators or anything. - Andie Apr 24, 09:46 1
  - I felt that for the first time in the CT Scan machine a few months back. -- nm - groiny Apr 24, 09:55
- Stupid people. -- nm - David's iPad Apr 24, 09:46
- giant clouds will fall and crush us all -- nm - decline Apr 24, 09:46
- Sleep. -- nm - Beryllium Apr 24, 09:46
- there was a bridge over a river back home; I was always happy when a car was coming the other way when I crossed as I knew God wouldn't take us both - Beaker Apr 24, 09:45
- snakes -- nm - crash davis Apr 24, 09:45 3
  - Mrs Beak for this. She freaks out just seeing them on the TV -- nm - Beaker Apr 24, 09:46 2
    - I went to a kids birthday party and the parents had hired a reptile handler. Trish praised me for handling a 8 foot boa. She said "I know you have - crash davis Apr 24, 09:50 1
      - heh, we went to a kids animal show and they brought the sankes out and she was full on George Costanza pushing kids aside to get away -- nm - Beaker Apr 24, 09:51
crash, I still will not go into the ocean. -- nm - groiny Apr 24, 09:36 17
- yeah, open water freaks me out a bit to -- nm - Beaker Apr 24, 09:44 2
  - even watching shit like River Monsters. - groiny Apr 24, 09:44 1
    - I think I've got the new season premier of River Monsters waiting for my on my DVR -- nm - crash davis Apr 24, 09:46
- I am amazingly reluctant now. I love the movie but I'm fairly terrified of the ocean now... - Mel Profit Apr 24, 09:43 2
  - If I go to where you live, I'd want to chase a Wicked Tuna -- nm - crash davis Apr 24, 09:51
  - that's some bad hat, Harry -- nm - prayformojo Apr 24, 09:44
- because of Jaws? -- nm - crash davis Apr 24, 09:37 10
  - plus, I was born in 1971, and I saw Jaws in the theater. - groiny Apr 24, 09:43 1
    - I was 11 that year. That was probably a bit too young to watch it. -- nm - GregW Apr 24, 09:59
  - well, sharks are real. - groiny Apr 24, 09:41
  - this makes me think, surely someone has done a sea monster in Lake Michigan movie? -- nm - crash davis Apr 24, 09:39 6
    - where was Lake Placid set? -- nm - Beaker Apr 24, 09:43 4
      - " fictional location of Black Lake, Maine," -- nm - groiny Apr 24, 09:47 1
        
        shit, right next door to me...now I gotta worry about lake gators -- nm - Beaker Apr 24, 09:48
      - New England. -- nm - groiny Apr 24, 09:43 1
        
        nv -- nm* - decline Apr 24, 09:45
    - not really a lot of sea monster type movies that I can recall. -- nm - groiny Apr 24, 09:42
Wow. I had missed what all Megyn Kelly had ahead. -- (link) - Spawn Apr 24, 09:35 3
- I'd tap that -- nm - Bill O'Reilly Apr 24, 09:56
- It looks like she's about to have her own one woman show on Broadway. -- nm - Reagen Apr 24, 09:55 1
  - or join the cast of 'Chicago' playing Roxie for 8 weeks. -- nm - Diva Apr 24, 09:56
oh wow -- (link) - ty97 Apr 24, 09:31 4
- heh -- nm - prayformojo Apr 24, 09:39
- *snork* good point... -- nm - Mel Profit Apr 24, 09:37
- BTW, Happy Confederate Memorial Day. - ty97 Apr 24, 09:33 1
  - hmph. -- nm - Mary Phagan si Apr 24, 10:03
RC, do NOT read B2. -- nm - ty97 Apr 24, 09:27 1
- It's a blood bath. - Epiphany Apr 24, 09:51
If clouds are so freakin' heavy, how do they float? -- nm - decline Apr 24, 09:26 3
- "They float down here...they all float down here. -- nm - Scary Cloud Apr 24, 09:58
- Gravitational pull of the aliens' spaceships. -- nm - Will Hunting Apr 24, 09:33
- They're not not just one big, cohesive thing. They're a grouping of water droplets or crystals that aren't connected to each other. The droplets - mara Apr 24, 09:30
B1. Cheerio. -- nm - ty97 Apr 24, 09:26 1
- no thanks. i'm not much of a cereal person ... -- nm - call me Ishmael Apr 24, 09:55

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