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That whole MCAT thing sounds like a racket. Heh. -- nm - Beryllium Jul 28, 13:31 1
- they're amateurs -- nm - LSAT Jul 28, 13:38
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- if you only you'd seen a movie recently that would let you know how to graphically represent your frustration -- nm - crash davis Jul 28, 13:36
- ~To Life...To Life..L'chaim~ -- nm - Jack Dawsons Liver Jul 28, 13:32
"I'm pretty sure [Scaramucci] is a Yankees fan, because we Mets fans don't talk this way." -- nm - David Brooks Jul 28, 13:17 5
- uuuuuhhhhhhhhhh - ty97 Jul 28, 13:18 4
  - I think everyone can agree that he talks like a Phillies fan. -- nm - Max Jul 28, 13:19 3
    - Not sure about baseball -- I was thinking Jets. -- nm - mara Jul 28, 13:38
    - I already slammed the Phillies yesterday so I'll refrain from kicking them when they're down -- nm - oblique Jul 28, 13:22 1
      - They're from Philadelphia, getting kicked when they're down is how they say hello. -- nm - Beryllium Jul 28, 13:24
Happy July 2017. Democratic Rep John Delaney announces he is running for President -- (link) - ty97 Jul 28, 13:16 8
- My old congressman. He has a better chance than O'Malley. - Will Hunting Jul 28, 13:21 1
  - umm-hmmm..... -- nm - Hillary, hiding in the shadows Jul 28, 13:21
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  - MDH mentioned him yesterday, first time I'd heard of him. Apparently rep for MDH's old MD district. - ty97 Jul 28, 13:19 4
    - But beside that: JULY 2017 -- nm - ty97 Jul 28, 13:20 3
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        Are they actually polling that already? I guess they probably area, but no,no, and no. - ty97 Jul 28, 13:25 1
        
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Trump tells people in places where economy isn't working to move someplace else for jobs. Not a bad idea, but not as simple as he implies - ty97 Jul 28, 13:09 9
- that is the stupidest thing I ever heard. (not the 'consider moving' part, the 'don't worry about your house' part.) -- nm - Andie Jul 28, 13:27 1
  - exactly, that's the part that utterly baffles me -- nm - ty97 Jul 28, 13:31
- To someone who has experience with leaving other people holding the bag, sure it makes sense. -- nm - Reagen Jul 28, 13:21
- Ayn Rand thinking rules the White House. -- nm - Max Jul 28, 13:18 1
  - Setting trusted assistants against each other like pit bulls is a Steve Jobs move -- nm - zeitgeist Jul 28, 13:46
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- Duh, just move to your other house, or your vacation dacha...I mean cabin. -- nm - zeitgeist Jul 28, 13:14
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- he's a fucking moron. there explained. -- nm - Beaker Jul 28, 13:11
Utah woman killed on cruise ship during murder mystery dinner -- (link) - con_carne Jul 28, 13:07 7
- Or "Abusive husband murders wife in front of their three children." -- nm - Mop Jul 28, 13:25 4
  - during murder mystery dinner -- nm - con_carne Jul 28, 13:26 3
    - on a cruise -- nm - Mop Jul 28, 13:33 2
      - ~with Gilligan...~ -- nm - con_carne Jul 28, 13:34 1
        
        heh -- nm - Beaker Jul 28, 14:41
- Psych Movie -- nm - Max Jul 28, 13:21 1
  - Never date a method actor -- nm - zeitgeist Jul 28, 13:24
Porsche is following Audi out the door and will no longer be developing and racing LMP1 cars. Leaving Toyota alone in this class. - Mop Jul 28, 13:06
Best link on B10 -- (link) - Todd Manning Jul 28, 13:05 [Backboard]
i love that we have to get reminded monthly at work that our "excellent" pcs cant take being removed from the docking stations while powered on - tRuMaN Jul 28, 12:55 1
I know you will all be so excited - I bought a garage fridge today. (Now we just have to find a way to get it home. Ha.) -- nm - kelly Jul 28, 12:43 9
- strap it to the top of the car! -- nm - Epiphany Jul 28, 12:53 3
  - It's not a dog, Pippy. -- nm - Roger More Jul 28, 12:55 1
    - Grandma can hold it -- nm - zeitgeist Jul 28, 13:20
  - We are checking with a neighbor to see if we can use his truck. ReStore will hold it til Tuesday so there's time. -- nm - kelly Jul 28, 12:55
- is it wifi-enabled so it can tell Will when he's out of beer ? -- nm - decline Jul 28, 12:48 4
  - no but it will text him when he's down to 5 hungry man dinners and 10 frozen pizzas -- nm - Remlik Jul 28, 13:13
  - Heh. I'm the beer drinker in the family. - kelly Jul 28, 12:54 2
    - ^^ Lush ^^ *drinky drinky motion* -- nm - Will Hunting Jul 28, 12:55 1
      - 🙄 -- nm* - kelly Jul 28, 12:57
so far 45 mins on hold. so much fun! fun. fun. fun. fun! fun? fun. -- nm - tRuMaN Jul 28, 12:41 2
- till your Daddy takes your T-Bird away? -- nm - Strongbad Jul 28, 12:42 1
  - nope. still trying to get info out of the bank where my identity was used to create accounts. - tRuMaN Jul 28, 12:44
Putin is pretty fucking ballsy. -- (link) - Beryllium Jul 28, 12:28 8
- I was entirely through the article before I figured out they meant the room was paid for by the DOJ, not the death itself. -- nm - Ender Jul 28, 13:12 1
  - Wonders....a Drumph hotel? -- nm - zeitgeist Jul 28, 13:26
- That's some Двойной семь shit right there - zeitgeist Jul 28, 12:39
- damn, he hates RottenTomatoes -- nm - Max Jul 28, 12:30 3
  - Is emoji still at 0? -- nm - Beryllium Jul 28, 12:34 2
    - 3% 1/30 -- nm - Beaker Jul 28, 13:12
    - Too bad. -- (link) - Spawn Jul 28, 12:38
- Yeah, he is awesome. -- nm - SCPOTUS Jul 28, 12:30
"When you see these thugs being thrown into the back of a paddywagon, you just see them thrown in, rough. I said please don't be too nice," - Trump - MDH Jul 28, 12:24 1
- God, I hope the FBI agents doing his perp walk follow the same idea. -- nm - Will Hunting Jul 28, 12:29
Cormier weighs in with no issues. Looks like we have a fight. -- nm - Strongbad Jul 28, 12:23 3
- If they wanted these things to have real drama, they'd do immediate drug test results. -- nm - David Jul 28, 12:24 2
  - That's... kind of impossible due to the labs. But in the past they've had no issue with cancelling fights with only 24-48 hours notice. -- nm - Strongbad Jul 28, 12:28 1
    - draw blood, inject it into a mouse right there, if the mouse flips out and attacks people you've got a positive -- nm - Max Jul 28, 12:29
YDC- we have finalized terms on the sale of the remodeled house -the very last demand from them was: kegorator stays with the house - Epiphany Jul 28, 12:16 9
- congrats, I won't even make a Texas joke :) -- nm - crash davis Jul 28, 13:42
- I care -- nm - decline Jul 28, 12:49
- ha! congrats! -- nm - Diva Jul 28, 12:20 1
  - thank you - I'm glad to be done with this part of it. - Epiphany Jul 28, 12:22
- This isn't the one you were building, right? -- nm - kelly Jul 28, 12:19 3
  - no, we had to sell the one we lived in to finish the one we started to build - the market is hot right now - Epiphany Jul 28, 12:21 2
    - Gotcha. Congrats!! -- nm - kelly Jul 28, 12:42 1
      - thanks -- nm - Epiphany Jul 28, 12:53
- lol -- nm - budice Jul 28, 12:18
How do you pronounce "Feige" as in "Kevin Feige"? - Mop Jul 28, 12:14 3
- Fei-gee. First syllable rhymes with "eye", hard "g" on the second. -- nm - Ender Jul 28, 13:09
- Like Tiger without the "r". -- nm - TWuG Jul 28, 12:17
- in my head just reading that it rhymes with 'beige.' -- nm - Andie Jul 28, 12:14
Speaking of Curry (from Bwhatever), tried StarKist Tilapia with curry sauce - amoxy Jul 28, 12:13
Guys, I always knew to fear Aussies, but ummm....now I'm really scared -- (link*) - ty97 Jul 28, 12:07 2
- Meh, it's just Dan Brown's favorite when he's on a book tour -- nm - zeitgeist Jul 28, 12:18
- This only makes my disavowal of all things Outback Steakhouse even more suspicious. -- nm - Roger More Jul 28, 12:14
10 years ago in theaters: The Simpsons Movie ($74m), No Reservations, I Know Who Killed Me, Who's Your Caddy? - Max Jul 28, 11:55 17
- "I was chosen to lead, not to read!" -- nm - David Jul 28, 11:58
- 15 years ago: Austin Powers in Goldmember ($73m), The Country Bears - Max Jul 28, 11:55 15
  - Country Bears is the forgotten Disney film. -- nm - David Jul 28, 11:58 5
    - Wait, they released a movie a month after Lilo and Stitch? WTF? -- nm - Will Hunting Jul 28, 12:12
    - It's also a must-see stop in Adventure Land. -- nm - Strongbad Jul 28, 12:04 3
      - All the guys who turn me on turn me down! - David Jul 28, 12:22 2
        
        This is the look I am going for once I retire -- (link) - Strongbad Jul 28, 12:26 [Image] 1
        
        I have a friend who didn't wait until retirement to try it out. - David Jul 28, 12:28
  - 20 years ago: Air Force One, Good Burger - Max Jul 28, 11:56 8
    - 25 years ago: Mo' Money, Mom and Dad Save the World - Max Jul 28, 11:56 7
      - 30 years ago: Summer School, Superman IV: The Quest for Peace, La Bamba - Max Jul 28, 11:57 6
        
        You get a chubby every time you post about Summer School, admit it -- nm - con_carne Jul 28, 12:29 2
        
        Completely unrelated, I wish Dean Cameron had been in more comedies during that era. -- nm - Max Jul 28, 12:39 1
        
        Would have needed more calls for "highly punchable face" -- nm - con_carne Jul 28, 12:53
        
        35 years ago: The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas, The World According to Garp, (ltd): Zapped! - Max Jul 28, 11:57 2
        
        i need to watch Garp again. -- nm - Andie Jul 28, 12:19 1
        
        I've never seen it. I imagine pixie's comment here would be "Dammit, Max." -- nm - Max Jul 28, 12:41
Good read from the reporter who was outside the Capitol last night where a few hundred protestors gathered during the vote. -- (link) - ty97 Jul 28, 11:49 1
- Listen to baby Xiomara! -- nm - con_carne Jul 28, 11:58
(ummmmmmmmm) Trump just said that human trafficking may be worse now than it has ever been in the history of the world -- (link) - ty97 Jul 28, 11:45 10
- It may be, it may not be, who knows? -- nm - znufrii Jul 28, 12:26
- Wow, what a waste of time. A bunch of Twits pretending to know the entire history of human trafficking so they can score some points - con_carne Jul 28, 12:25 1
  - Welcome to Twitter. Are you new there? - IrishStephen Jul 28, 12:27
- I can't believe I'm going to do this, but he likely isn't wrong. - Will Hunting Jul 28, 12:05 3
  - depends what you consider 'worse' - ty97 Jul 28, 12:09 1
    - Right. But it's at least not a politicaly-talking indefensible point like most of his garbage -- nm - Will Hunting Jul 28, 12:12
  - Hmm, good point. -- nm - mara Jul 28, 12:08
- The stupidity in the White House may be worse now than it has ever been in the history of the United States. -- nm - mara Jul 28, 11:54
- Except for that time when entire economies were based on it. -- nm - Mop Jul 28, 11:47 1
  - But he would have prevented the civil war, so, you know. -- nm - Spawn Jul 28, 11:47
Wednesday is a holiday in Newfoundland and Labrador as it is the annual Royal Scottish Regatta, commonly known as Regatta Day. - Mop Jul 28, 11:45 1
- Am I legally obligated to give a Retriever a day off? -- nm - crash davis Jul 28, 11:56
Fucking phone - amoxy Jul 28, 11:41 4
- sorry about that - if it helps, I dropped mine and it did the same thing. -- nm - Epiphany Jul 28, 12:13
- hang in there man, meditation sounds cool -- nm - crash davis Jul 28, 11:49
- :( -- nm - Andie Jul 28, 11:42
- I shall call you Amooch now.. (NM) - Marlowe Jul 28, 11:42
Scientists Take to the Sea to Study a Lost Land: Zealandia (crash note - I'm hoping for aquatic hobbits) -- (link) - crash davis Jul 28, 11:41
McCain's office says he will return to Arizona to start radiation and chemotherapy; will return to D.C. in September. -- nm - budice Jul 28, 11:39 7
- I wish him well with his health. I do wonder if he thinks last night was his last act, or at least thinks it possible. -- nm - ty97 Jul 28, 11:43 6
  - Probably his last main act - eag Jul 28, 12:55
  - I think this is what he was going for. - Mop Jul 28, 11:52
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  - I will take what time I have left, however short or long it is, and make Donald Trump's life a living hell. - John McCain Jul 28, 11:44 2
    - wouldn't be the worst legacy. -- nm - Andie Jul 28, 11:48
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- He's... not my favorite Republican. - Strongbad Jul 28, 11:35 15
  - Who is your favorite Republican? I want to say mine is Teddy Roosevelt because of the outdoors, but I feel obligated to say Lincoln. -- nm - crash davis Jul 28, 11:38 14
    - Jon Anderson -- nm - zeitgeist Jul 28, 12:33
    - I like Ana Navarro - she's spunky and twitter happy -- nm - Epiphany Jul 28, 12:11
    - I tend to like - Strongbad Jul 28, 11:47 7
      - and FWIW, my favorite Democrats - Strongbad Jul 28, 12:19
      - How many of those exist on the national stage nowadays (not a dig, just curious, it seems limited) - ty97 Jul 28, 12:03 4
        
        Safe seats + primary system place barriers against those people. - Roger More Jul 28, 12:28 1
        
        In the House maybe. Doesn't really explain the Senate to me. -- nm - ty97 Jul 28, 12:55
        
        (not very many) -- nm - Strongbad Jul 28, 12:05 1
        
        on a national stage - Strongbad Jul 28, 12:20
      - I can respect your statement. I don't really know those local guys -- nm - crash davis Jul 28, 11:54
    - Susan Collins. Has not missed one vote since 1997, didn't vote Trump -- (link) - budice Jul 28, 11:46
    - Ah-nuld! -- nm - con_carne Jul 28, 11:40
    - Mine is Will McAvoy - Guigue Jul 28, 11:40 1
      - YEAH! -- nm - David Jul 28, 11:54
"Bears RB Jeremy Langford suffered an ankle injury during last night's walk thru practice." -- nm - budice Jul 28, 11:32
VACATION! -- nm - Beaker Jul 28, 11:30 5
- ~It's a long way down the holiday road~ -- nm - Strongbad Jul 28, 11:33
- ~ all i ever wanted, vacation had to get away ~ -- nm - Andie Jul 28, 11:31
- All I ever wanted. -- nm - Mop Jul 28, 11:31 2
  - ST so white -- nm - con_carne Jul 28, 11:32 1
    - Since 1997! -- nm - Mop Jul 28, 11:40

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