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Yesterday I learned that "gabagool" on Sopranos meant "capicola". -- nm - Beryllium Jul 12, 09:01 1
- Gabagool predates that though - it's in the wedding scene of the first Godfather movie -- nm - Roger More Jul 12, 09:20
Here is the actual Statement of Emergency signed by the governor of Nevada. The emergency is they are running out of weed -- (link) - crash davis Jul 12, 08:48 4
- Bluntman and Chronic to the rescue! -- nm - Beaker Jul 12, 08:58
- Funyuns supplies are critically low! -- nm - Shardik the Baron Jul 12, 08:52 1
  - Let them eat Doritos! -- nm - Marie Anstonerette Jul 12, 08:54
- well, not exactly but I prefer to think of it that way -- nm - crash davis Jul 12, 08:49
I use the generic 'soda' but usually order 'cola' which then often results in the question "We only have Pepsi - is that okay?" - Meg Jul 12, 08:46 2
- Hah. Cola is the drink. Coca is the titan. -- nm - Beryllium Jul 12, 08:48 1
  - Then I specify "no ice" and watch their heads explode :) -- nm - Meg Jul 12, 08:53
how will Nolan find time to promote Dunkirk while going through this nomination process? -- (link) - mud Jul 12, 08:40
Super Bowl halftime rumor: Britney Spears -- nm - Strongbad Jul 12, 08:38 12
- It should be the Foo Fighters. -- nm - jnine Jul 12, 08:55 1
  - Always. -- nm - Spawn Jul 12, 08:56
- 172 other acts said no already? -- nm - Beaker Jul 12, 08:46 5
  - Well you know who 173 is right? - eag Jul 12, 08:58 2
    - Rick Astley? -- nm - Beryllium Jul 12, 08:59 1
      - I'm never gonna give up on seeing this happen. -- nm - ty97 Jul 12, 09:03
  - #171 was Sharon, Lois & Bram. They declined. -- nm - Strongbad Jul 12, 08:55
  - Up With People was already booked. -- nm - Shardik the Baron Jul 12, 08:50
- I...ummmm.......unless she lip syncs, um, no -- nm - ty97 Jul 12, 08:39 2
  - They all lip sync. They instrument sync, as well. -- nm - Spawn Jul 12, 08:40 1
    - Pretty sure this is true for all pregame and halftime. - Strongbad Jul 12, 08:44
- ugh -- nm - Spawn Jul 12, 08:38
Terms of endearment by region. -- (link) - Shaun Jul 12, 08:34 [Image]
New Black Panther pictures. -- (link) - Shaun Jul 12, 08:29 2
- That one dude is *cold*. -- nm - Spawn Jul 12, 08:31
- Very toight. Toight like a toiger. -- nm - Shardik the Baron Jul 12, 08:30
You can now use Paypal on the iTunes App Store. This strikes me as a big development. -- (link) - Shardik the Baron Jul 12, 08:27
GFW: Alberto Del Rio has been suspended until the investigation is finished -- nm - Remlik Jul 12, 08:24 2
- That's hysterical. - Will Hunting Jul 12, 08:54 1
  - I hope Paige wakes up and gets away from him -- nm - Remlik Jul 12, 09:05
Heh, I was going to drive in to the coworking space today. But there is a police incident on the way there. -- nm - Beryllium Jul 12, 08:21
sometimes sneakers, sometimes tennis shoes. I say both soda and pop! -- nm - Remlik Jul 12, 08:19 16
- I've used all terms at one point in time or the other, but 99% of the time its tennis shoes, and 90% of the time its soda -- nm - crash davis Jul 12, 08:39 1
  - actually, its tennis shoes if they are casual, running shoes or crosstrainers if they are actually bought for athletic use -- nm - crash davis Jul 12, 08:40
- I think I'm an outlier. I tend to refer to both by what they actually are (i.e. if I'm talking about athletic shoes of some sort I would refer to - pmb Jul 12, 08:33 1
  - Yeah, for drinks I am in this camp. Was for shoes as well until Logan. - Spawn Jul 12, 08:35
- sodapop is a thing. -- nm - Beryllium Jul 12, 08:21 8
  - Indeed. -- (link) - Andie Jul 12, 08:22 7
    - One of my wife's coworkers named a kid after this character. -- nm - Reagen Jul 12, 08:25 6
      - does he actually get called that? or did they nickname it? (and to what?) -- nm - Andie Jul 12, 08:26 5
        
        Actual name. Sodapop. -- nm - Reagen Jul 12, 08:59
        
        "Curtis" is bad? -- nm - Spawn Jul 12, 08:28 3
        
        No, Curtis isn't. - Andie Jul 12, 08:29 2
        
        The only Curtis I know is Cowboy. -- nm - Spawn Jul 12, 08:31 1
        
        Curtis "Booger" Armstrong. -- nm - Roger More Jul 12, 08:54
- Gotta keep 'em guessin'. -- nm - Spawn Jul 12, 08:20
- Get off the fence! -- nm - ty97 Jul 12, 08:20 1
  - I think he's trying to, what with all that wiggling he's doi.....oh. Carry on. -- nm - Will Hunting Jul 12, 08:21
Muller/Cilic spoilers - David's iPad Jul 12, 08:14 4
- Spoilers - David's iPad Jul 12, 08:34
- See folks, we ain't so bad. -- nm - MLB Jul 12, 08:27
- "Once, long ago, I think that this was a tennis match. " -- nm - Reagen Jul 12, 08:22
- spoiler - Diva Jul 12, 08:17
Here's a clip of President Gollum. -- (link*) - Beryllium Jul 12, 08:13
Atlanta Hawks CEO Steve Koonin will be paying for all wedding expenses for a couple that met at the Hawks' "Swipe Right Night" in 2015. -- (link) - Strongbad Jul 12, 08:12 1
- Okay, that's cool. -- nm - David's iPad Jul 12, 08:13
*withdraws nomination* -- (link) - Reagen Jul 12, 07:58 2
- He better have that letter ready the first day. -- nm - jnine Jul 12, 08:26
- "Rancor at the White House" -- (link) - Beryllium Jul 12, 08:08
In-ear headphones are horrible. -- nm - Shaun Jul 12, 07:56 3
- where else you going to put them? -- nm - groiny Jul 12, 07:57 2
  - what what? -- nm - Spawn Jul 12, 08:01 1
    - supposa-sound -- nm - groiny Jul 12, 08:07
Murray/Querrey outcome spoilers - David's iPad Jul 12, 07:53 3
- spoiler - Diva Jul 12, 07:57 1
  - Spoilers - David's iPad Jul 12, 08:03
- damn, that sounds like it was a hell of a thing to watch -- nm - prayformojo Jul 12, 07:56
The plane scheduled to take me to Florida tonight is currently getting ready to fly to Boise. - ty97 Jul 12, 07:52 2
- Say hi to your mother for me -- nm - Plane Jul 12, 08:17
- you should fly to Boise instead -- nm - decline Jul 12, 07:54
The super super soaker. -- (link) - Beryllium Jul 12, 07:52 5
- The fire hose -- nm - Mop Jul 12, 08:04 1
  - no, see, I repeated a word. -- nm - Beryllium Jul 12, 08:06
- so he went from a NASA engineer to a youtuber -- nm - decline Jul 12, 07:55 2
  - Trump! -- nm - Spawn Jul 12, 07:55
  - Pays better. -- nm - Beryllium Jul 12, 07:55
Wonder Woman's box office numbers get some love. -- (link) - Shaun Jul 12, 07:45
It's never not funny to me to see someone try tailgating in gridlock - Reagen Jul 12, 07:44 1
- I thought you meant get out the lawn chair and grill. -- nm - Mop Jul 12, 08:04
Speaking of amazing technologies.... - David's iPad Jul 12, 07:38 9
- There's a giant alien space snake on it right now! -- nm - decline Jul 12, 07:58
- I wonder if they pass over the part of China where the giant panda is -- nm - decline Jul 12, 07:50
- I thought it was going to be the Futurama stream. -- nm - Reagen Jul 12, 07:44 1
  - I did too! -- nm - Krusty Jul 12, 07:47
- Science is amazing and Earth is beautiful. -- nm - Krusty Jul 12, 07:41 2
  - And we are all going to die. - Spawn Jul 12, 07:43 1
    - Heh. :-) -- nm - Krusty Jul 12, 07:47
- very cool. -- nm - Andie Jul 12, 07:41
- I can see my house. -- nm - Spawn Jul 12, 07:39
I finished Fargo S1 last night. Now my office-mate needs to get back from his honeymoon so I can borrow S2. - Shardik the Baron Jul 12, 07:37 1
- just go over to his house and borrow it. It's not like he's watching it right now -- nm - decline Jul 12, 07:44
Here, have a profile of the college sophomore who founded the We Rate Dogs twitter and probably makes more money than you -- (link) - ty97 Jul 12, 07:32
Hey Spawn, I played Batman VR for like 2 hours last night just messing around the Batcave and getting collectibles. - Shaun Jul 12, 07:31 5
- Why are you here? - Spawn Jul 12, 07:39 2
  - I am a quality poster. -- nm - Shaun Jul 12, 07:58 1
    - Always be yourself unless you can be Batman. -- nm - Spawn Jul 12, 08:00
- Spawn, this will be my first VR purchase - I'll make sure to post screen caps for you! -- nm - decline Jul 12, 07:33 1
  - 🙏 -- nm - Shaun Jul 12, 07:37
Someone should ask the trumps what sound a chicken makes -- (link) - Beryllium Jul 12, 07:30 3
- the horrifying reality is that there is no jason bateman in the white house cast. -- nm - amanda jones state university Jul 12, 08:32
- "I may have committed some light treason." -- nm - Reagen Jul 12, 07:47 1
  - .5 past light treason -- nm - Spawn Jul 12, 07:48
KICKS -- nm - Spawn Jul 12, 07:21 2
- ASS -- nm - Bacon Jul 12, 07:22 1
  - You got ass on your feet, son. -- nm - Spawn Jul 12, 07:26
I used to say pop, now it's soda. -- nm - Callisto Buffalomeat Jul 12, 07:16 9
- Refined people say "soft drink". -- nm - Mop Jul 12, 08:05
- I've tried to hold on to pop like grim death for the past 30 years, but soda creeps in once in a while - prayformojo Jul 12, 07:34
- It's always been soda to me, but pop at least makes sense to me. When I moved to Texas - ty97 Jul 12, 07:25 5
  - Like if you want a Sprite, just say that! - Reagen Jul 12, 08:18
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  - Then you're supposed to say a Mexican Coke! -- nm - Qale Jul 12, 07:34 1
    - exactly - what a newb -- nm - Epiphany Jul 12, 07:50
- Me, too. -- nm - mara Jul 12, 07:24
Wait, what? "Chinese researchers have teleported a photon from the Gobi desert to a satellite orbiting five hundred kilometres above the earth." -- (link) - Andie Jul 12, 07:11 14
- From what I read yesterday it's not what we think of as teleportation. They didn't make it disappear here on Earth and reappear in space. -- (edited) - Krusty Jul 12, 07:18 5
  - I supposed the technical description is "quantum teleportation" which as I understand it transfers the state (ie: information) between two entangled - oblique Jul 12, 07:25 4
    - "spooky action at a distance". -- nm - Reagen Jul 12, 07:46
    - That's what I got from my reading which is to say I kind of understood what they were saying but not really. :-) - Krusty Jul 12, 07:27 2
      - yeah. this is one of those areas where I'm completely lost in the "why" of it but I'll accept the "what" -- nm - oblique Jul 12, 07:29 1
        
        Yup. :-) -- nm - Krusty Jul 12, 07:30
- *fires the nubby signal* -- nm - oblique Jul 12, 07:18
- I read that last night. Might lead to super fast encrypted communications networks that beam signals across the globe at light speed. - Bacon Jul 12, 07:14 6
  - Hmm. I thought quantum entanglement was "instant", which would imply FTL? - Beryllium Jul 12, 07:32 5
    - I think this is the theory, but it hasn't been tested in practice yet. -- nm - Roger More Jul 12, 07:40 3
      - Except, the Millennium Falcon travels at .5 passed light speed. -- nm - Bacon Jul 12, 07:43 2
        
        25,000 light-years per day or 1,041.66 light-years per hour. That's a top speed of 2.74 x 1015 meters per second. -- nm - Spawn Jul 12, 07:45 1
        
        I'm guessing that should be 10^15? -- nm - Beryllium Jul 12, 07:53
    - In this case, the way I read it, it's light speed. But I would love your scenario to be true. -- nm - Bacon Jul 12, 07:35
This might restore your faith in humanity - Work experience teen takes over Southern Rail's Twitter -- (link) - LMS Jul 12, 07:10 6
- Nice! And definitely rollerblades for feet over chopsticks for hands. Life would be very difficult with chopstick hands. -- nm - Krusty Jul 12, 07:23
- that's fun. -- nm - Andie Jul 12, 07:13 4
  - Here's today's feed. Looks like he's about to be on Radio1 -- (link) - LMS Jul 12, 07:16
  - Speaking of fun - ty97 Jul 12, 07:14 2
    - grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr -- nm - Andie Jul 12, 07:20 1
      - :) -- nm - ty97 Jul 12, 07:29
Happy birthday, psilotum! Woo hoo!!! -- nm - Krusty Jul 12, 07:06 1
- HBD -- nm - zeitgeist Jul 12, 11:35
"But you do handle the mimeographing, right?" -- nm - Reagen Jul 12, 06:58 1
- Ha ha! The new kid doesn't know how to use the three seashells! -- nm - Max Jul 12, 07:00
soda, sneakers, and not a bubbler. -- nm - ty97 Jul 12, 06:56 9
- What kind of shoes are they talking about? Runners? -- nm - Beryllium Jul 12, 06:59 6
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    - I've got runners and hiking shoes. Tennis shoes are for computers. -- nm - Beryllium Jul 12, 07:01 4
      - Two of those are sneakers and the other is a type of boot. :-) - Krusty Jul 12, 07:03 3
        
        foot ravioli. -- nm - Reagen Jul 12, 07:05 2
        
        *BLGHRH* -- nm - Max Jul 12, 08:46
        
        It's true. -- nm - Beryllium Jul 12, 07:32
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  - LIES -- nm - ty97 Jul 12, 06:57

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