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Band names from ST posts. I call dibs on "Dingo Boots". -- nm - Beryllium Jul 20, 13:55 1
- Pew Research -- nm - rollo Jul 20, 14:23
Mueller's on the trail of Trump's business dealings now. He's smelling blood. -- (link) - Mop Jul 20, 13:37 3
- Mostly it's just sitting back waiting to see what Trump tries to wave him off from. -- nm - Reagen Jul 20, 13:43
- Liberal fantasy or not, I hope Trump and Family do jail time. -- nm - TWuG Jul 20, 13:38 1
  - Next, on a very special episode of orange is the new black ... -- nm - Beryllium Jul 20, 13:40
Drop one cheesey food: Mac & Cheese, Nachos, Grilled Cheese Sandwich, Mozza Sticks -- nm - Beaker Jul 20, 13:33 20
- How about no, Scott? -- nm - Qale Jul 20, 13:55 1
  - Heh. Yup. -- nm - kelly Jul 20, 14:13
- Mozz Sticks (I can't stand them) -- nm - MDH Jul 20, 13:54
- Mac and cheese in an easy decision. -- nm - David Jul 20, 13:51
- I've never had mozzarella sticks, so that -- nm - con_carne Jul 20, 13:49
- Everything but nachos. -- nm - Reagen Jul 20, 13:47
- Mozza sticks, since I only really ever eat those at restaurants and hardly eat out anymore! -- nm - IrishStephen Jul 20, 13:44
- sticks. easy. -- nm - Andie Jul 20, 13:43
- M & C -- nm - Epiphany Jul 20, 13:42
- mozza -- nm - peglegpete Jul 20, 13:40
- mac and cheese. never liked it -- nm - oblique Jul 20, 13:40 3
  - how about fettuccini alfredo? -- nm - peglegpete Jul 20, 13:53 1
    - no. too creamy/cheesy -- nm - oblique Jul 20, 13:54
  - What the? - IrishStephen Jul 20, 13:48
- nachos. -- nm - amanda jones state university Jul 20, 13:38
- Mozza sticks easily. I could give up Mac & Cheese, too. But grilled cheeses are essential and nachos are too tasty to give up -- nm - TWuG Jul 20, 13:37 1
  - Grilled cheese and Mac & Cheese night is popular round our house. -- nm - IrishStephen Jul 20, 13:53
- bye bye mozza sticks -- nm - Beaker Jul 20, 13:34 2
  - Same here. Usually like 'em, but could certainly live without 'em. -- nm - ReluctantCynic Jul 20, 13:53
  - Yep, easy choice -- nm - Roger More Jul 20, 13:35
Quick! Remember that article about the magazine writer who'd just had a break up and she went to Italy and tried Tinder or something? - Mop Jul 20, 13:22 6
- you don't *need* an excuse to take a vacation to italy -- nm - zeitgeist Jul 20, 13:36
- Because I'm not entirely unhelpful -- (link) - Roger More Jul 20, 13:24 3
  - Huh, Elle. I was sure it was Town & Country mag for some reason. Thanks! -- nm - Mop Jul 20, 13:26 2
    - Horse & Hound. -- nm - Name Withheld by Request Jul 20, 13:27 1
      - Gardening and Guns - Epiphany Jul 20, 13:42
- Frances Mayes 2017 edition? -- nm - Roger More Jul 20, 13:23
I mean OJ's first tweet has to be "The Juice is loose" right? Followed by a Trump retweet -- nm - MDH Jul 20, 13:20 3
- CNN was already running that as a banner -- nm - zeitgeist Jul 20, 13:32
- Running to do Hertz commercials as we speak. -- nm - budice Jul 20, 13:24 1
  - don't forget he has on Dingo boots -- nm - peglegpete Jul 20, 13:27
If you knew that Trump sent secret hand signals to Putin during a state dinner, what do you think those motions would be? -- (link) - Mop Jul 20, 13:09 1
- my first thought was the chest nut tree song gestures King George VI did in the second half of this 1minute video -- (link) - peglegpete Jul 20, 13:15 [youtube]
This is cute and interesting. Foster parents use Mickey Mouse photo op at Disney World to reveal to the kids they're being adopted. - Mop Jul 20, 13:05 3
- thankz -- nm - peglegpete Jul 20, 13:30
- Cute. Now I need to know how they control what Mickey says -- nm - Guigue Jul 20, 13:11 1
  - Electric shocks and sleep deprivation. -- nm - Mop Jul 20, 13:13
Funny or Die - "The KellyAnne Conway Story" -- (link*) - Andie Jul 20, 12:59 1
- It's not funny if you're just showing reality. -- nm - Mop Jul 20, 13:13
What's eating Gilbert Grape had a pretty good cast - Amoxy Jul 20, 12:58 1
- my friend, we have different tastes. most of the cast is unwatchable to me. -- nm - peglegpete Jul 20, 13:39
Lots to digest in this Pew Research poll on institutional favorable/unfavorable polling, but the one that jumps to me is that more Democrats.... -- (link) - Name Withheld by Request Jul 20, 12:50 31
- I've seen polls recently that break out specific networks vs "the media" and there's a huge range - Reagen Jul 20, 12:56 1
  - I've seen some of those as well, though not broken out by party and certainly not when overlayed with religious institutions. -- nm - Name Withheld by Request Jul 20, 13:04
- The attached chart for the poll above... -- (pic) - Name Withheld by Request Jul 20, 12:51 [Attachment] 25
  - Also, the US is still a very religious nation - not sure why positive Dem support should be a surprise. -- nm - Reagen Jul 20, 12:57 2
    - Just ahead of news media was the surprise there. Not the overall number because I agree. (Wonder what ours would look like...) -- nm - Name Withheld by Request Jul 20, 13:14
    - African Americans, still churchy after all these years -- nm - con_carne Jul 20, 12:58
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    - It's not surprising to me given the high profile stories of "conservative" speakers being barred/protested (rioted) against at college campuses in - IrishStephen Jul 20, 13:02 12
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        Yes, Jack, it's always about the person whose opinion you disagree with being an asshole. - IrishStephen Jul 20, 13:14 8
        
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        Yes Jack, we certainly have a problem with conservatives shutting down speech they disagree with on college campuses, which is what we were talking - IrishStephen Jul 20, 13:43 6
        
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        Don't forget dismissive, Jack! - IrishStephen Jul 20, 14:11 4
        
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        My resentment at what, exactly, Jack? - IrishStephen Jul 20, 14:41 2
        
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        Nah, I'm pretty sure that it's your overinflated ego that's oozing that slime. -- nm - IrishStephen Jul 20, 15:35
      - The article that most horrified me recently was this story: Republicans Increasingly Say Higher Education Has A Negative Impact On The U.S. -- (link) - Andie Jul 20, 13:04 1
        
        It cites the poll I linked to above. (I had just noticed it online.) -- nm - Name Withheld by Request Jul 20, 13:16
    - I think it's impossible to parse that one effectively based on this data alone. - Name Withheld by Request Jul 20, 12:55 6
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        No, I wasn't trying to sandbag your comment. It's fair. It was just a fresh anecdote for me as it was just last night. -- (edited) - Name Withheld by Request Jul 20, 13:02 4
        
        How much of the arts do you consume in a day? It's probably quite a lot. -- nm - Reagen Jul 20, 13:27
        
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        I think it's too complicated to sum it up as straight education though. I would bet that if one asked about STEM programs vs. liberal arts, that.... -- (edited) - Name Withheld by Request Jul 20, 13:13 1
        
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    - higher education is terrible, yo! -- nm - decline Jul 20, 12:54
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  - I really think we need to bring back the Fairness Doctrine. -- nm - Krusty Jul 20, 12:55 1
    - this -- nm - zeitgeist Jul 20, 13:05
The Little Hours, B- (what a cast). The Big Sick, B. Wish Upon is pushing A- territory. Entertaining. -- nm - con_carne Jul 20, 12:49
Morning board, refers can be wrapped in extra insulation on the sides top and front, get an energy star one - zeitgeist Jul 20, 12:45
Rogue One is now streaming on Netflix - decline Jul 20, 12:35 3
- Dr. Strange too I noticed (though maybe that has been there a while) -- nm - oblique Jul 20, 12:41 1
  - yep, been out for a little while. I did watch that one. It was ok -- nm - decline Jul 20, 12:49
- Uh-uh... - IrishStephen Jul 20, 12:36
I look forward to the media explosion when OJ Simpson tweets to Donald Trump. -- nm - David Jul 20, 12:32 8
- This is great! If I'd had Twitter in my day, I would have just tweeted them instead of-- I mean, back to work, right? -- nm - O.J. Jul 20, 13:07
- "Juice Was Here" -- nm - Reagen Jul 20, 13:01
- Snort, oj has been in jail for 10 years, never had a smart phone, no Twitter, no fb, he'll send an email from his Hotmail acct -- nm - zeitgeist Jul 20, 12:35 5
  - I can't wait to visit his Myspace page. -- nm - Shardik the Baron Jul 20, 12:58 4
    - I bet he has a Geocities homepage stored somewhere. -- nm - Strongbad Jul 20, 12:59 3
      - You laugh....... -- (link) - Meg Jul 20, 13:28 2
        
        nice -- nm - zeitgeist Jul 20, 13:35 1
        
        And considering the thread below, what are the odds I had a page honoring the Columbia crew? -- nm - Meg Jul 20, 13:41
When OJ was found not guilty of the murders, I watched it on a TV in a bowling alley -- (edited) - ty97 Jul 20, 12:21 42
- Listening to it on a radio in the Finance Office conference room -- nm - Amoxy Jul 20, 12:54 5
  - Were there ticker tape machines and watch fobs? -- nm - con_carne Jul 20, 12:55 4
    - Yyp. And we were all our green eyeshades. Some of the girls showed their ankles - Amoxy Jul 20, 12:59 3
      - Pappy Schmecklenberger!!! -- nm - Diva Jul 20, 13:02 2
        
        L5! -- nm - Amoxy Jul 20, 13:05 1
        
        ~I'm baaaaaaack!~ -- nm - Pappy Jul 20, 13:19
- At a TGIFriday's with work friends. -- nm - Diva Jul 20, 12:50
- I was in the aprking lot of mcdonalds in hellertown PA. I had just looked at an apartment I loved and was having lunch with my then boyfriend, jim, - amanda jones state university Jul 20, 12:43 2
  - didn't know you lived in Hellertown for a spell. It's a nice little town -- nm - decline Jul 20, 12:55 1
    - yeah, from 1996 to 2001. I lived right across the street from what's now slainte. it was the cellar bar at the hellertown hotel. I loved that town. -- nm - amanda jones state university Jul 20, 13:39
- 3rd Grade Classroom. I actually remember it. -- nm - MDH Jul 20, 12:38 2
  - Child, go sit in the corner - ty97 Jul 20, 12:40 1
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- Eating lunch in the school cafeteria. -- nm - Name Withheld by Request Jul 20, 12:32 10
  - When the space shuttle exploded, we were eating lunch in the cafeteria, and at the end of lunch, the principal, Sister Gregory, told us. - ty97 Jul 20, 12:37 9
    - I was in Central FL at the time, 1st/2nd grade, we were watching it from outside. -- nm - Strongbad Jul 20, 12:43 3
      - eeesh -- nm - Andie Jul 20, 12:46 2
        
        pretty much every school in FL was watching it, due to Christa McAuliffe -- (link) - Strongbad Jul 20, 12:50 1
        
        oh, i remember Christa McAuliffe. :) -- nm - Andie Jul 20, 12:52
    - Pro photo workshop, a hotel in Santa cruz, on a break went to the bar for a coffee -- nm - zeitgeist Jul 20, 12:41
    - On a school bus to go to swimming lessons sixty miles away. Just before pulling out of the school parking lot, our science teacher came on to tell us. - Name Withheld by Request Jul 20, 12:40 1
      - I vaguely remember getting off the bus after school and walking into my house and mom was watching the news, which was looping the video. -- nm - ty97 Jul 20, 12:42
    - I went to my friend Leanne's house for lunch. Her dad told us. Then when Columbia blew up in 2003 I was with that same friend in Cuba when we saw - Andie Jul 20, 12:39 1
      - One of my good friends lives in East Texas, near where the pieces of Columbia landed. - ty97 Jul 20, 12:41
- I have no idea where I was -- nm - decline Jul 20, 12:31 1
  - This. -- nm - Strongbad Jul 20, 12:34
- I was at work at my part time job at a legal recruiter, all lawyer staff. One scolded another for laughing at Marcia Clark - con_carne Jul 20, 12:31
- i was at work. they put it on. -- nm - Andie Jul 20, 12:30
- I was babysitting. -- nm - kelly Jul 20, 12:29
- it was my birthday and moving day to a new apt. -- nm - peglegpete Jul 20, 12:28
- I was with one of Ron Goldman's best friends. She couldn't believe it. I kept telling her I thought it was going to be not guilty, but she always - jnine Jul 20, 12:28 1
  - oooof -- nm - ty97 Jul 20, 12:30
- I was in my freshman year dorm, watching raging coke fiends smash up ceiling tiles while chanting *N-words must die." - Will Hunting Jul 20, 12:26
- where you drinking cans of PBR too ? -- nm - decline Jul 20, 12:24 2
  - White Russians -- nm - zeitgeist Jul 20, 12:25
  - I was too young to drink - ty97 Jul 20, 12:25
- I was at home I think -- nm - eag Jul 20, 12:23
- Archery class at the community college I attended. -- nm - IrishStephen Jul 20, 12:22 2
  - That was one of my other PE classes, that I took at 8am daily in summer (what was I thinking?) - ty97 Jul 20, 12:24 1
    - The campus was situated on like a bluff, separating the inland area from the coastline. Spring and Summer weather was always very mild. - Dems Jul 20, 12:56
- I was in Bethel, Alaska. -- nm - crash davis Jul 20, 12:22
I can't say I was ever deep into Linkin Park, but I liked their songs that got airplay. And the Jay-Z collaboration was reminiscent of - ty97 Jul 20, 12:18
Tennessee Democrat filed a 'no confidence' resolution that lists 88 reasons why Trump is unfit to serve as President. -- (link) - GregW Jul 20, 12:17
Have we gotten Kim K's reaction to OJ being paroled ? -- nm - eag Jul 20, 12:16 2
- Something like, "He already made my name famous, why the hell does he still exist?" -- nm - Will Hunting Jul 20, 12:28
- "it's not cocaine!" -- nm - ty97 Jul 20, 12:19
Did Ron Goldman's parents ever get the civil award money? or did OJ skirt it, even after all this time? -- nm - Epiphany Jul 20, 12:15 5
- Doesn't that debt sunset, unless they can show he hid those assets? -- nm* - zeitgeist Jul 20, 12:48 1
  - You can refile your lien every 7 years in CA. I don't know if other states honor it. -- nm - jnine Jul 20, 12:56
- They chase after it any time he legally makes money. He used to go to memorabilia events and do signings for cash. They had people looking for these - jnine Jul 20, 12:32
- OJ fled to Florida where it's so much easier to keep a million dollar house etc, pensions are untouchable -- nm - zeitgeist Jul 20, 12:27
- Bits and pieces of it -- nm - eag Jul 20, 12:16
I don't know what the children are doing to cause this, but its frequency has increased massively this past year. -- (pic) - Beryllium Jul 20, 12:14 [Attachment] 2
- It's mine, give it to me...No it's mine, let go...no you let go, no You let go -- nm - zeitgeist Jul 20, 12:40
- "I'm your dog....eating your cable shielding" -- nm - Mayhem Jul 20, 12:21
[an error occurred while processing this directive... but in the end, it doesn't even matter.] -- nm - Qale Jul 20, 12:12 1
- ~Cover up your face, you can't run the race, the pace is too fast, you just won't last~ - Epiphany Jul 20, 12:16
'lost' Holst manuscripts found in New Zealand -- (link) - peglegpete Jul 20, 12:09 3
- +20 SB Points - Strongbad Jul 20, 12:12 2
  - I like Jupiter from The Planets. It's a good pick me up -- (link) - con_carne Jul 20, 12:24 [spotify] 1
    - I'm going to be humming 1st and 2nd Suites for the next week. -- nm - Strongbad Jul 20, 12:25

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