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How often does an NHL team not get a shot on goal during an entire period of play? - Will Hunting May 30, 05:33
Must be the beginning of the work week -- (link) - ty97 May 30, 05:27 3
- Our infrastructure is in a pathetic shape -- nm - ty97 May 30, 05:28 2
  - Yes, it is. - Strongbad May 30, 05:30 1
    - Here it has the people's attention and we're complaining constantly. As for the politicians, they're hearing it regularly these days. -- (edited) - Krusty May 30, 05:46
Stupid Kentucky fans identified and referred to FBI after threatening referee -- (link) - Strongbad May 30, 05:26
So Chuck Woolery is still a thing. -- nm - ty97 May 30, 05:08 4
- You mean besides the catheter commercials? -- nm - Baronwatch May 30, 05:46 1
  - I've never been happier that I don't have cable. -- nm - ty97 May 30, 05:51
- LYC: Andy Cohen is hosting a Love Connection reboot -- nm - Strongbad May 30, 05:22
- (Make former mid-level TV personalities great again) -- nm - ty97 May 30, 05:08
POTUS Communications Director, Mike Dubke, has resigned. -- nm - Strongbad May 30, 04:40 4
- Tendered his resignation before the foreign trip but offered to stay on to handle it -- (link) - ty97 May 30, 04:42 3
  - "Trump has also been in talks with former campaign aides Corey Lewandowski and David Bossie about taking on more formal roles." -- nm - Strongbad May 30, 05:07
  - Aside: When did Axios become a thing? - ty97 May 30, 04:43 1
    - It was only founded last year - by Politico people who wanted a simple but not clickbait-y news website -- nm - Roger More May 30, 05:19
GA-6: Early voting begins today. Election is 3 weeks from tomorrow. -- nm - Strongbad May 30, 04:18 2
- UK election 8 days to go and Jeremy Corbyn is on The One Show tonight. -- nm - LMS May 30, 04:34
- so 2 weeks 6 days till someone chokes out a reporter? -- nm - Beaker May 30, 04:31
TV PSA: America's Got Talent, Downward Dog, Pretty Little Liars, Challenge, Smackdown, Below Deck, American Epic, Deadliest Catch, Prison Break, iZombie, -- nm* - Beaker May 30, 03:52 1
- Imaginary Mary, Team Ninja Warriors, Americans, World of Dance, Fear Factor, other stuff -- nm - Beaker May 30, 03:53
A wrinkle in the BC election deal (this had occured to me): They need a Speaker. Who normally can't vote, but must in case of a tie - Reagen May 29, 23:33 4
- just means the speaker would have to vote a lot, or they could throw the libs a bone. there have been opposition speakers. - mafic May 30, 00:11 1
  - I wonder how much money the libs are going to quietly spend on oppo over the next few years? - Beryllium May 30, 00:15
- I wonder who Horgan would appoint as speaker ... probably not weaver, or any green ... Sims? Dix? Fleming? James? -- nm - Beryllium May 30, 00:02
- So that puts Clark in even more of a bind if she tries to form government... -- nm - Beryllium May 29, 23:54
The moral of the story is ... don't hire toothless contractors on bicycles, I guess? -- (link) - Beryllium May 29, 23:02 5
- Only buy a fixer upper if you can fix things yourself (where did they get 1.1m to do it if they were strapped for cash? -- nm - zeitgeist May 30, 00:16
- The contractor nearly collapsed the house with his bobcat. That's why they're insured and bonded. -- nm - Mop May 29, 23:34 1
  - but he told them he was a structural engineer! at least she acknowledges how continually stupid they were through the process. -- nm - mafic May 30, 00:06
- also: stupid decisions cost lots of money. -- nm - mafic May 29, 23:23 1
  - also (according to twitter): bad things happen to bad people. -- nm - Beryllium May 29, 23:27
But more importantly, how does it wear its pants? -- (link) - Beryllium May 29, 22:41
Some trifecta: Chris Cornell, Frank DeFord, Manuel Noriega -- nm - budice May 29, 22:34
Being jealous of France does not sit well with me. -- (link) - Spawn May 29, 22:11
I guess the studio imposed embargo ended midnight eastern. Wonder Woman reviews are hitting the web. -- nm - Peglegpete May 29, 21:25 4
- So far, they have been raving. Not just good, but great. -- nm - GregW May 29, 22:17 1
  - And there parts that are genuine. Also theres an undertone fear of backlash for criticizing a female driven film like this. - budice May 29, 22:24
- 35/1 97% at RT -- nm - budice May 29, 22:11 1
  - 96% now (43/2) -- nm - Beaker May 30, 03:09
Trump and Bannon convinced they're victims of a "deep state" conspiracy. -- (link) - Mop May 29, 20:56 6
- They're not really, but this strategy is testing well with their extremely paranoid base. -- nm - David May 29, 21:21 4
  - I mean, they're not wrong in the sense that lots of lifelong civil servants are leaking things, but what do you expect when you spend all your time - mafic May 30, 00:41
  - I think Bannon truly believes it. Maybe the syphilis talking. -- nm - Mop May 29, 23:36
  - I mean its not like they having 8 congressional investigations of the same thing in a row -- nm - zeitgeist May 29, 21:25
  - Yeah, but he was supposed to rally in Iowa. That cancellation does the opposite. -- nm - Spawn May 29, 21:25
- He is not having his rally in Iowa. That is big. -- nm - Spawn May 29, 21:06
I do not want to go to there. -- (link) - Beryllium May 29, 20:39 2
- That's what I always get at Firehouse. -- nm - JaxSean May 29, 22:00
- Could be worse, it could be Cleveland -- nm - J May 29, 20:41
I'm doing Relay for Life for the American Cancer Society this weekend, but I sort of forgot about the fundraising. Please consider donating if you can -- (link) - Dano May 29, 20:13
I either never heard of or had forgotten about Task Rabbit. Thanks Kimmy Schmidt! -- nm - Mop May 29, 20:08
Audioslave plays "Like a Stone" for Chris Cornell.... -- (link) - Remlik May 29, 20:03 1
- Bawwwwwwwww.... -- nm - Qale May 29, 22:04
If you have 9 shots on you, I feel like you should save at least, say, 6 of them. -- nm - Reagen May 29, 19:57 3
- Especiallly if you are like top 5 best goalie during the hyear. - TRuMaN May 29, 20:12
- *skates toward you* -- nm - goalie May 29, 20:01
- Mind boggling -- nm - JD May 29, 20:00
🙁 -- nm - JD May 29, 19:52 1
- 🙄😟 -- nm - JD May 29, 19:57
Good time for your first career NHL goal. -- nm - Volnelk May 29, 19:47
Soooooo. Air horn. -- nm - Volnelk May 29, 19:45
This is going better. -- nm - Reagen May 29, 19:39
🏒🙂 -- nm - JD May 29, 19:39
Emmy Rossum got married yesterday -- (link) - Peglegpete May 29, 19:37
This story is sorta random: Trump's delay of calorie-posting rule jolts restaurants -- (link) - ty97 May 29, 19:20
Curtis Armstrong dishes about his time on the set of Risky Business and Rvenge of the Nerds - Mop May 29, 19:11
Pika...wtf? -- (link) - Beryllium May 29, 19:07 2
- Uh...That ain't right -- nm - JD May 29, 19:42 1
  - Alien xenomorph. -- nm - Mop May 29, 20:05
I'm glad it took Trump three days to issue the most boilerplate condemnation of the Portland attack. - Mop May 29, 19:02 6
- Like Trump did it. Or did he finally do one on his account? -- nm - Spawn May 29, 20:35 5
  - Multi-syllable words - couldn't have been him. "unacceptable" not "bad" -- nm - Meg May 29, 20:52
  - no, @POTUS account and it wasnt him, a lackey obviously posted it. -- nm - mud May 29, 20:43
  - It was an @potus tweet so a lackey must have done it. -- nm - Mop May 29, 20:42 2
    - Ah, then here. -- (link) - Spawn May 29, 20:47 [Backboard]
    - ! -- nm - mud May 29, 20:44
ST, What Are You Reading? -- nm - Beaker May 29, 18:49 22
- American Gods. -- nm - Baronwatch May 30, 05:46
- Fight and Flight, from the Magic 2.0 series. -- nm - Ender May 29, 22:27
- Dodge City - Wyatt Earp, Bat Masterson, and the Wickedest Town in the American West - GregW May 29, 22:23 1
  - is this a colection or by one author? I may have to find this one... -- nm - Beaker May 30, 04:52
- The Wrong Side of Goodbye. Connelly...I think its the last Harry Bosch -- nm - zeitgeist May 29, 21:11
- Just finished In The Woods by Tana French. It's a mystery set in Ireland that focuses on - TWuG May 29, 20:04 3
  - All her books are grrrrrrreat. nm - ralph wiggum May 29, 20:15 2
    - Spoils - TWuG May 29, 20:34 1
      - Minor high level series spoilers - ralph wiggum May 29, 21:22
- Just finished This Is Your Brain On Parasites and just started Dark Matter. -- nm - Cuzzin Todd May 29, 19:15 2
  - How was This is Your Brain... -- nm - JD May 29, 19:17 1
    - I thought it was extremely interesting. - Cuzzin Todd May 29, 19:23
- Everything has teeth -- nm - Epiphany May 29, 19:02 2
  - Er, what? So how was that? -- nm - JD May 29, 19:43 1
    - Odd. I'm a sucker for horror short stories. Some are funny. Some are creepy weird -- nm - Epiphany May 29, 20:14
- Rise of the Dungeon Master which is a graphic novel about Gary Gygax -- nm - JD May 29, 18:59
- Seveneves nm - Jovian May 29, 18:57
- Peak TV has been *killing* my reading recently. I've been mostly audiobooking: Behind Her Eyes was a recent standout. nm - ralph wiggum May 29, 18:55 1
  - That end threw me for a loop - Epiphany May 29, 19:09
- Just finished Rachel Wentz's Life and Death at Windover and Moving Target by J.A. Jance. Starting Jance's Kiss of Bees. -- nm - Meg May 29, 18:54
- Finished a pippi longstocking book last night, and several Captain Underpants books before that. -- nm - Beryllium May 29, 18:51
- rereading Last of the Breed by Louis L'Amour (finished rereading The Walking Drum last weekend) -- nm - Beaker May 29, 18:50
I have spent so much time in the various Filppers arcades in the Calgary airport. they've been there since I was a kid. -- nm - mafic May 29, 18:42 4
- As have the same games. -- nm - Mop May 29, 19:04 2
  - pinball never gets old. -- nm - mafic May 29, 19:06 1
    - They'll get around to fixing that one Terminator 2 pinball any day now. -- nm - Mop May 29, 19:13
- What would an Australian be spending so much time in Calgary for? - ty97 May 29, 19:01
I wonder if The Daily News and NY Post folks get angry at themselves when they discover they picked the same cover title. -- nm - ty97 May 29, 18:35 1
- At themselves? What are they - Canadian? -- nm - Beryllium May 29, 18:35
Anthony Hopkins brands Transformers director Michael Bay 'genius,' compares him to Martin Scorsese -- (link) - Remlik May 29, 18:34 6
- Perhaps he needs some of that light therapy? -- nm - ty97 May 29, 19:13
- Trump thinks this is crazy. -- nm - Mop May 29, 19:01
- take the place on the South of France paycheck and keep your head down, tony. -- nm - Mel Profit May 29, 18:36
- OK, now we can. -- nm - Beryllium May 29, 18:34 2
  - Well, if his genius is figuring out to make popcorn movies that bring in the money, I don't think you can argue that. -- nm - TRuMaN May 29, 18:36 1
    - It was novel at first, perhaps even genius, when he cracked that formula - but these days it feels like a tired shtick. -- nm - Beryllium May 29, 18:50
Before it was sodium taboo, I actually willing bought canned ravioli. It was a vague treat as a child - JD May 29, 18:27 3
- canned chili -- nm - zeitgeist May 29, 21:29 2
  - I used to enjoy canned chili on camping trips but the gang decided to replace it with chicken soup. - Meg May 29, 21:49 1
    - its ok if you're a single, couple tortillas, make quesodilla/burritos quickly, cheaply NOT as sad as canned ravioli -- nm - zeitgeist May 30, 01:58
Can we retroactively take the knighthood of Anthony Hopkins away for doing a Transformers sequel? -- nm - David May 29, 18:26 3
- No. He's got to get the money too. -- nm - TRuMaN May 29, 18:30
- I keep seeing the trailer and his presence is the cincher. I proactively know I'll regret the decision to see it and feel dirty for it. -- nm* - Mel Profit May 29, 18:30
- Sting was knighted even *after* he did that insipid Three Musketeers song. -- nm - ty97 May 29, 18:28
McDonald's now has "fancy" signature burgers? I blame you America for causing this. -- nm - TRuMaN May 29, 18:26 8
- this is the first I have heard of it, and I still have no intention of going to one of their places to try it. -- nm - Peglegpete May 29, 18:44 2
  - Y'all need to quit blocking me. -- (link) - Mop May 29, 19:27 [Backboard] 1
    - blocking you? I'm blocking any memory of McDonalds. I answered you in the link and didn't remember it :))))) -- nm* - Peglegpete May 29, 20:02
- They had build your own burgers for a month. Didn't catch on. - Beryllium May 29, 18:33 1
  - Yup. That's the place i was thinking of with those recipies. -- nm - TRuMaN May 29, 18:34
- I feel like they tried this in the not-to-distant past as well? Can't recall for sure though. - ty97 May 29, 18:26
- They've had the Angus forever, this is basically a half step up. -- nm - Reagen May 29, 18:26 1
  - Seems like more than that. -- nm - TRuMaN May 29, 18:30
So, I'm making another futile effort to try to cook...some. (more? What's more than zero?). Not over-selling it, but trying. - ty97 May 29, 18:25 1
- And they all serve at least 4 people...the main reason I don't use recipes. -- nm - Meg May 29, 18:39
Wait. What was that commercial? A jacket that turns into a tent? Huh. -- nm - TRuMaN May 29, 18:23
No, Tiger drank while on meds. -- nm - Spawndroid May 29, 18:22 10
- As if this is any solace to that poor Zookeeper's family. -- nm - Jovian May 29, 19:00
- Lawyer-types, is that still DUI? -- nm - ty97 May 29, 18:23 8
  - the way the law works most places you don't actually have to be over the limit. - mafic May 29, 18:28
  - I'm guessing it wouldn't unless his blood acohol level was over the min -- (edited) - TRuMaN May 29, 18:24 5
    - I'm sure it varies by state, was wondering if there was another statue related to drugs and/or drug/alcohol mix - ty97 May 29, 18:26 4
      - the point 08 level is the legal definition of intoxication, before they had limits you could argue that you were lucid enough to function - zeitgeist May 29, 21:24
      - Didn't I see/hear somewhere he refused a field sobriety test? Could explain the 4 hour delay in booking him - waiting for the blood test results? -- nm - Meg May 29, 18:37
      - DWI - driving while 'impaired' rather than 'intoxicated' -- nm - Meg May 29, 18:28 1
        
        This. And for modern example Colorado has a THC limit -- nm - JD May 29, 18:30
  - yes, but worse. -- nm - Peglegpete May 29, 18:24
Worst food product I ever probably I ate was liver and onions. -- nm - ty97 May 29, 18:19 1
- Liver here is generally beef or pork - not near as good as the lambs(sheep) liver I ate as a kid. -- nm - Meg May 29, 18:34
Aw man, now I wish I'd gotten Spaghetti-oh's when I was food shopping. - ty97 May 29, 18:19 2
- They're great! You guys suck. -- nm - Mop May 29, 19:33
- I got a free box of instant ramen the other day and couldn't bring myself to eat it. Sent it to a food bank. -- nm - Meg May 29, 18:26
the sour stout thing reminds me of the "Pizza Beer" I once had - Reagen May 29, 18:16
This could be going better. -- nm - Reagen May 29, 18:09 1
- Ya think? - J May 29, 18:18

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