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Preacher looks good, but I am leery that they use "Hey Mickey" in their commercial - Amoxy Jun 23, 11:25 4
- spoiler - Spawn Jun 23, 11:26 3
  - agreed -- nm - Beaker Jun 23, 11:29
  - One of those is not like the other -- nm - Amoxy Jun 23, 11:29 1
    - One bloke and two gals? -- nm - Spawn Jun 23, 11:30
Oilers sign Kris Russell. -- (link) - Shaun Jun 23, 11:20 1
- Expected. -- nm - Reagen Jun 23, 11:23
Awww. For dismissal on the last day of school (!), Abby's school had all the teachers and students from other grades line the halls - prayformojo Jun 23, 11:16 4
- ... why 5th graders? Last year in that school? -- nm* - Spawn Jun 23, 11:25 1
  - I've noticed a bunch of kids "graduating" from the fifth grade. My guess is they do junior high in the sixth. Here it's the seventh and eighth. - Krusty Jun 23, 11:36
- aka "the Cersei" -- nm - groiny Jun 23, 11:23
- Then once they're outside, release the bees, right? -- nm - Reagen Jun 23, 11:19
"Amazon dreams of a giant drone "beehive" that could live in your neighborhood" -- (link) - Max Jun 23, 11:03
oof -- (link) - ty97 Jun 23, 10:54 1
- THIS IS FINE -- nm - Spawn Jun 23, 11:10
Some Wonder Woman StarBonds have some really nice dROIs going on right now, if you are still playing. -- nm - Shaun Jun 23, 10:47
If the Banksy news is true... -- (link) - David Jun 23, 10:37 [youtube] 1
- and the House theme. -- nm - Tim Jun 23, 10:38
Blackhawks Trade Artemi Panarin To Columbus For Brandon Saad -- (link) - Beaker Jun 23, 10:23 12
- HAWKAAAAA! -- nm - peglegpete Jun 23, 11:15
- Panarin Bread? -- nm - budice Jun 23, 10:35
- Artemi Panarin will help take down the Empire one day. - David Jun 23, 10:26 2
  - First Order. -- nm - Beryllium Jun 23, 10:27 1
    - (But it may as well be Norsefire.) -- nm - Beryllium Jun 23, 10:28
- I don't fully understand this deal. -- nm - groiny Jun 23, 10:24 6
  - That's really odd. Panarin has been very good (though Saad is too). Didn't we get Panarin in the original Saad deal? - pmb Jun 23, 10:39 2
    - we traded Saad away for a salary dump, now Saad and Panarin make the same $ - groiny Jun 23, 10:44 1
      - i'm guessing it has more to do with fit in the scheme/lines then anything else. -- nm - tRuMaN Jun 23, 10:59
  - well, Artemi Panarin will now play for Columbus and Brandon Saad will now play for the Blackhawks -- nm* - decline Jun 23, 10:26 1
    - that explains it, thanks! -- nm - groiny Jun 23, 10:28
  - They have funny names. -- nm - Beryllium Jun 23, 10:25
ST Drinking Poll: Are you a member of the Century Club? Have you done it with something other than beer? -- nm - Beaker Jun 23, 10:20 27
- Nope -- nm - Krusty Jun 23, 11:20
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- I think I did a Power Hour, not CC. -- nm - ty97 Jun 23, 10:50
- my college tv production crew went to a convention in vegas, I hit up the free drinks, got to 17 before falling over -- nm - zeitgeist Jun 23, 10:43
- Yes, in college, but with beer. It is ... not as easy as we thought. - JaxSean Jun 23, 10:33 3
  - I know what we're doing next time in Vegas!!!!! -- nm - ty97 Jun 23, 10:51
  - yup, sounds like a breeze then you hit a wall around 50-70 -- nm - Beaker Jun 23, 10:33 1
    - Yeah, the last quarter is rough but fun. -- nm - JaxSean Jun 23, 10:56
- No and no. Tried twice and got bored after 20 minutes so I quit. -- nm - Shaun Jun 23, 10:28 3
  - Well you're not supposed to do it alone. -- nm - Beryllium Jun 23, 10:29 2
    - You're not my supervisor. -- nm - Shaun Jun 23, 10:30
    - not according to George Thorogood -- nm - groiny Jun 23, 10:30
- i have no idea what this is. -- nm - tRuMaN Jun 23, 10:27 9
  - 100 shots of beer in 100 minutes (shot a minute); essentially it is almost 8 beer in and hour and forty minutes -- nm - Beaker Jun 23, 10:28 6
    - [deleted]
    - Oh, less than a double power hour. Then yes. -- nm - Ender Jun 23, 10:34
    - I never officially did it, but I can guarentee I had drank more than the amount mentioned in the timeframe. -- nm - groiny Jun 23, 10:31 3
      - this, in college -- nm - crash davis Jun 23, 10:40 2
        
        I certainly had alcohol poisoning, as I was hung over for 3 days. -- nm - groiny Jun 23, 10:46 1
        
        I punished myself so much in college as I had quick recovery and very little wisdom -- nm - crash davis Jun 23, 10:53
  - One shot of beer per minute. -- nm - Andie Jun 23, 10:28
  - 1oz of beer per minute for 100 minutes. -- nm - Shaun Jun 23, 10:28
- Yes, on second try. No. -- nm - VMan Jun 23, 10:27
- no. -- nm - Andie Jun 23, 10:20
- Yes and no. -- nm - Beaker Jun 23, 10:20 2
  - at University some guys tried it with the old super strong Molson Ice (was 7% or something insane), they got around an hour in and it devolved - Beaker Jun 23, 10:21 1
    - I was going to mention in the other post, that unless it was something non-alcoholic you are probably risking death. -- nm - VMan Jun 23, 10:28
What's for lunch? I just had Stacy's Everything Bagel Chips and Garlic Kale Hummus (from Aldi). - Covington Jun 23, 10:18 13
- 2x hotdogs + fries -- nm - oblique Jun 23, 11:08 3
  - Gene n Judes? -- nm - groiny Jun 23, 11:24 2
    - how many times do I have to tell you - oblique Jun 23, 11:28 1
      - loser -- nm - groiny Jun 23, 11:32
- no idea yet, but I'm starving - Beryllium Jun 23, 11:05
- Some pepperoni I slice off a stick of it with Italian bread. Some mozzarella on the side. -- nm - Krusty Jun 23, 10:34
- new mom and pop burrito place that just opened up a second location locally. gigantic burrito, really good! -- (link) - Tim Jun 23, 10:27
- potbelly sammich -- nm - tRuMaN Jun 23, 10:27 1
  - Me too. -- nm - pmb Jun 23, 10:41
- Wendys -- nm - Beaker Jun 23, 10:26
- chinese food -- nm - decline Jun 23, 10:24
- a pepper jack cheese stick, and a fruit smoothie. -- nm - groiny Jun 23, 10:24
- Chick Fil A! -- nm - David Jun 23, 10:22
Just met Patrick Norton and I'm very excited! -- nm - Mop Jun 23, 10:08 2
- That's awesome. - David Jun 23, 10:12 1
  - (Was he wearing a kilt?) -- nm - David Jun 23, 10:14
Weather's bad enough here that a Thunderbirds F-16 flipped over onto its top while taxiing post-landing. -- nm - Ender Jun 23, 10:06
Teen Fatally Shot by Calif. Police After Bullet Aimed at Pit Bull Bounces off Concrete - crash davis Jun 23, 10:04 2
- what an awful story. :( -- nm - Jovian Jun 23, 10:09
- damn pit bulls -- nm - groiny Jun 23, 10:07
I have a keypad lock. It has 2 codes. I use one for myself and give the other to anyone who needs access, then I change it. - Covington Jun 23, 09:58 2
- that sounds like a good system -- nm - crash davis Jun 23, 10:04 1
  - agreed -- nm - Beaker Jun 23, 10:19
ST Poll: Dawson City has strange drinking rituals. What would your city have as its claim to fame? -- nm - oblique Jun 23, 09:46 6
- The Aroma of Tacoma (was from a paper processor, no longer there) Galloping Gerty, the bridge that collapsed -- nm - zeitgeist Jun 23, 10:40
- I dunno. Nanaimo has Nanaimo Bars, though. -- nm - Beryllium Jun 23, 10:29
- Gambling for 21 and younger -- nm - Amoxy Jun 23, 10:17
- Our city next-door neighbor is famous for it's symbolic mandatory gun law -- (edited) - Strongbad Jun 23, 09:58
- There's a mixed drink called a Dave Matthews that was invented here. -- (link) - Shaun Jun 23, 09:58
- spill some of your shot "for the fallen". -- nm - Reagen Jun 23, 09:51
Cassius Marsh Competes In Magic Tournament, Gets Wrecked -- (link) - Beaker Jun 23, 09:45 2
- "3,150th place out of 3,400 players", well, at least it wasn't 3,400th :) -- nm - crash davis Jun 23, 10:24
- Hee, like the mention at the end about that Las Vegas hockey player sharing a name with a very popular Magic player. -- nm - Tim Jun 23, 09:48
Would your pet eat you if you died? Probably. (National Geographic.) -- (link) - Andie Jun 23, 09:38 2
- 2 probably would, the 3rd would crawl into the hole the others made. She always needs to be close to me. -- nm - Covington Jun 23, 10:13
- One would. The other one is too lazy/stupid/scared. -- nm - Beryllium Jun 23, 09:55
21 years ago today, Austin 3:16 was created. -- nm - Strongbad Jun 23, 09:34
And to think, Kate Beckinsale could be dating someone her own age... - IrishStephen Jun 23, 09:32 3
- Is she super short? Maybe the dude is shorty tolerant. -- nm - Max Jun 23, 09:36 1
  - She's 5'7" - IrishStephen Jun 23, 09:52
- I feel like she may be an actual vampire. -- nm - Reagen Jun 23, 09:33
Record 2-mile sniper shot kills ISIS militant in Iraq -- (link) - Strongbad Jun 23, 09:30 7
- I keep thinking about this in terms of playing Battlefield and you're the guy who gets killed in PvP, and then you see the kill cam afterwards. - Shaun Jun 23, 09:42 2
  - it's like the sniper shots in Wanted come to life -- nm - Beaker Jun 23, 09:43 1
    - That was my first thought when I heard about it. -- nm - Beryllium Jun 23, 09:54
- (Canada!!) -- nm - Beaker Jun 23, 09:33 1
  - Canadian snipers are the bomb -- nm - crash davis Jun 23, 09:40
- more - Strongbad Jun 23, 09:31 1
  - just the optics required on a scope to be able to see that far blow me away -- nm - crash davis Jun 23, 09:33
More on the Sears news. -- (link) - Shaun Jun 23, 09:24 2
- Just "watched"? -- nm - Beryllium Jun 23, 09:53
- heh -- nm - Beaker Jun 23, 09:34
Blood Drive is the and is my guilty pleasure show for the summer. -- nm - Jovian Jun 23, 09:23
Shorter Trump: "Comey was lying so I used the "tapes" strategy to make sure he told the truth even though I didn't know he'd testify at that point. - Reagen Jun 23, 09:22 6
- he basically said the same thing in 2007 in a libel case where he kept telling the author he was taping phone calls - crash davis Jun 23, 09:31 4
  - His brilliant strategy directly led to a special counsel being appointed so there's that. -- nm - Reagen Jun 23, 09:34 3
    - take a look at the c/p paragraph inside here from WaPo - am I right that the reporter's sloppy use of articles got me initially excited then deflated? - crash davis Jun 23, 09:36 2
      - I phrased that poorly while complaining about the reporter's poor phrasing. But only one of us got paid -- nm - crash davis Jun 23, 09:42 1
        
        It's Friday, I don't want to deal with SAT-style questions! -- nm - Max Jun 23, 10:03
- Brilliant. -- nm - Trump Supporter Jun 23, 09:26
flippin' toasters -- nm - prayformojo Jun 23, 09:17
I fell off a mountain -- (link) - znufrii Jun 23, 09:16
hotel booked for universal studios trip. just need to buy the pass. -- nm - tRuMaN Jun 23, 09:14 2
- Undercover Tourist has them for cheaper than Universal. -- nm* - David's iPad Jun 23, 09:21 1
  - about $10 a day cheaper. but if I just go for the 1 park a day pass, I would save like $100 over two days. - tRuMaN Jun 23, 11:00
I actually like how all 3 of my characters look, although I'm lacking an Exo character, which hoses me on easy Grimoire points. -- nm - Shaun Jun 23, 09:12 11
- I hope there are more options in the new one, and also an option to change it at some point. -- nm - groiny Jun 23, 09:12 10
  - I may just sacrifice my warlock for a new Exo character. -- nm - Shaun Jun 23, 09:14 9
    - so, what, do you bring over the characters from 1 then or no? - groiny Jun 23, 09:15 8
      - Yeah, I am reading this thread and wondering WTF I missed. -- nm - Spawn Jun 23, 09:16
      - the only thing that will transfer is your character setup - tRuMaN Jun 23, 09:16 6
        
        so why not just start over? -- nm - groiny Jun 23, 09:16 5
        
        There are small incentives to port your characters, like some D1 veteran emblems. -- nm - Shaun Jun 23, 09:21 4
        
        meh -- nm - groiny Jun 23, 09:25 3
        
        I'm really only concerned with properly keeping my hunter since I've logged 67% of my D1 time on him. -- nm - Shaun Jun 23, 09:33 1
        
        heh, the Hunter is the one I probably will not even bother to port. -- nm - Spawn Jun 23, 11:09
        
        Port 'em and then delete them. -- nm - Spawn Jun 23, 09:29
One of the things that gets me about the healthcare debate is the comments of "we can't risk one sixth of the economy!" - Reagen Jun 23, 09:10 2
- eh, we'd just blow it on a war someplace -- nm - zeitgeist Jun 23, 10:47
- fix up a few levies, a few dams, some bridges, maintain some parks, build a wastewater treatment plant, - you know, basically waste it -- nm - crash davis Jun 23, 09:13
secretslacker won the B2 outrage poll walking away -- (link) - crash davis Jun 23, 09:10 [Backboard] 12
- I'm not even getting a tax cut! -- nm - ty97 Jun 23, 09:12 5
  - Do you pay Additional Medicare Tax? I think that's one that could go away. -- nm - Covington Jun 23, 10:02
  - Or maybe that's just what you want us to think. -- nm - znufrii Jun 23, 09:20 3
    - We all know he is already planning at least 4 more vacations for next year than he would have. -- nm - Spawn Jun 23, 09:29 2
      - I don't have enough vacation days to do that! -- nm - ty97 Jun 23, 09:37 1
        
        Or maybe that's just what you want us to think. -- nm - znufrii Jun 23, 09:43
- Amoxy gets an honorable mention. - Spawn Jun 23, 09:12 3
  - yeah, especially because of the location -- nm - crash davis Jun 23, 09:14 2
    - yup -- nm - Spawn Jun 23, 09:16 1
      - it is kind of unfortunately hilarious. - groiny Jun 23, 09:17
- boom goes the dynamite! -- nm - Remlik Jun 23, 09:12
- ~cool guys don't look at explosions~ -- nm - Reagen Jun 23, 09:11

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