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BREAKING JACK DAWSON NEWS: Harvey is no longer a member of the Academy or an Oscar voter. -- nm - Spawn Oct 14, 13:30 1
- he's been kicked out of the BAFTAS, too. Producers Guild vote on him is monday -- nm - peglegpete Oct 14, 13:34
Now playing: American Made -- nm - prayformojo Oct 14, 13:23
Corey Seager out for the NLCS with a back injury. These guys need to do some yoga. -- (link) - jnine Oct 14, 13:20
House of peanuts creator Charles Schultz burned last night, no word about the museum -- (link) - zeitgeist Oct 14, 12:49 4
- I have been there many times an sadly expected this to happen. I hope Jeannie got a lot of stuff out first. -- nm - peglegpete Oct 14, 13:03 2
  - "Everything's gone." “The fire went so fast,” Monte Schulz said, “I don’t think anybody anywhere got anything out.” -- nm - mara Oct 14, 13:11 1
    - the fire had been nearby for days and Santa Rosa is very dense with trees. I was really hoping she had done more. -- nm - peglegpete Oct 14, 13:33
- Well, not last night, I heard about it two days ago. The museum was "untouched by the fire." -- (link) - mara Oct 14, 13:02
Mich-Ind going into OT. Indiana scored 10 points in the last 3:27 to tie it at 20-20. -- nm - GregW Oct 14, 12:48 1
- ... or not. -- nm* - Spawn Oct 14, 13:04
Hurricane Ophelia strengthens to major Category 3 storm, barreling toward Ireland -- (link) - ty97 Oct 14, 12:35
If you bought a couch (or some other stuff) in Canada between 1999 and 2012 you could be owed $20 or more -- (link) - Beaker Oct 14, 12:32
Grindhouse Killer Burgers in Atlanta is legit. Very delicious taste without getting too messy with it. It was 8 but well worth the cash. -- nm - qATLe Oct 14, 12:23 2
- I think they have a location in the airport, in the T gates. - ty97 Oct 14, 12:24 1
  - I was at the location near Cheshire Bridge an area that's very close to losing its identity to development. -- nm - qATLe Oct 14, 13:17
Languish in Trent Reznor's Unsettling Rendition of The Halloween Theme -- (link) - Beaker Oct 14, 12:17
Actress recounts creepy "private audition" with kimono-clad Steven Seagal -- (link) - Beaker Oct 14, 12:15 1
- Domo -- nm - Spawndroid Oct 14, 12:18
9 pts? -- nm - JD Oct 14, 12:12 1
- Some coaches refuse to accept that three points is worse than seven. - David Oct 14, 12:16
Interesting tweet regarding Trumps recent attack on NBC credibility. -- (link) - Volnelk Oct 14, 11:55
someone watch this for me and let me know how bad it is... -- (link) - Beaker Oct 14, 11:48 2
- not so bad, just the tip, though the player writhes around alarmingly. PG13 -- nm - zeitgeist Oct 14, 12:28
- Not that bad. Of course, I see accident photos of dead people almost daily. -- nm - jnine Oct 14, 12:22
Take it, and go -- nm - $9 Million shows up on Butch's door Oct 14, 11:48 4
- Tennessee has SIX yards in the second half. What more can you expect? - Volnelk Oct 14, 11:59 3
  - Our offense reminds me of the year that Fulmer was fired. We have no decent QB and only two truly great offensive players. - David Oct 14, 12:15 2
    - I actually think it's a talented team. We get talented kids. We just don't coach them. - Volnelk Oct 14, 12:42 1
      - I just don't see any talent whatsoever on offense save for Kelly and Smith. - David Oct 14, 12:44
“Come to the dark side - we have cookies!” -- (link) - Beryllium Oct 14, 11:39 2
- ... ah, the 7 year old is a girl? -- nm - Spawn Oct 14, 12:38
- Kim has that t-shirt. -- nm - David Oct 14, 12:07
Harvey Weinstein threatened Fecility Huffman’s career if she didn’t wear his wife's Fashions. -- (link) - Mop Oct 14, 11:35 1
- This is the most monstrous thing yet! - Beryllium Oct 14, 11:35
Slow day today. I’m just chillin’. How about you folks? -- nm - Beryllium Oct 14, 11:22 4
- I mowed and edged the entire yard. First time I have mowed the backyard in about 2 months (odd year). I was doing okay. Then I saw a rabbit hole, - Spawn Oct 14, 12:52 3
  - sweet -- nm - mud Oct 14, 13:14 2
    - We all held him last night. There was nearly nothing left to him. Like a feather in your hand. - Spawn Oct 14, 13:23 1
      - degus are amazing. We sold them at the shop and I almost got one a couple times. -- nm - mud Oct 14, 13:31
why does my subject box have the word subject in it? after almost 20 years of slacking how could there be any confusion about that, oh, and did you do - zeitgeist Oct 14, 10:41 8
- nm -- nm* - Beaker Oct 14, 12:15
- Subject line placeholder axed :) -- nm - Beryllium Oct 14, 11:03
- Idea....how about a count down for the number of characters left in the subject line? -- nm - zeitgeist Oct 14, 10:46 5
  - These are all points I will consider. Except the 280. We don’t need that, we’ve got inside messages. 😂 - Beryllium Oct 14, 10:57 4
    - Might also want to make the subject box show 2 lines default -- nm - budice Oct 14, 11:03 3
      - This works for Chrome on iOS and it’s great! It’s impossible to spellcheck and edit a subject line on iOS otherwise. -- nm - Mop Oct 14, 11:36
      - Yeah, probably. I didn’t do a full cross browser test, so there could be some oddities. -- nm - Beryllium Oct 14, 11:18 1
        
        Thank you for everything you do to keep this place running!! -- nm - kelly Oct 14, 11:33
-- nm* - con_carne Oct 14, 10:17
test test test testy test testtesttest testicle testy -- nm - mud Oct 14, 09:55 3
- test test test testy test testtesttest test test test testy test testtesttest test test test testy test testtesttest test test test testy test testtes -- nm - mud Oct 14, 09:56 2
  - oh I get it ...I misunderstood .....again -- nm - mud Oct 14, 09:57 1
    - Also you kinda said testes -- nm - Beryllium Oct 14, 10:35
Hustler Magazine founder Larry Flynt offers $10 million for info to impeach Trump -- (link) - budice Oct 14, 09:28 7
- like we don't have a thing now? like a dozen women claiming sexual assault ain't enough? like admitting he's a literal con artist with the university - zeitgeist Oct 14, 10:44
- Tom Arnold should take him up on that -- nm - Remlik Oct 14, 09:32 3
  - I don't think what Trump said while shooting The Apprentice is impeachable. -- nm - mara Oct 14, 09:35 2
    - Ha!!! Wanna BET?!!! -- nm - tom Arnold Oct 14, 09:49
    - good point. -- nm - Remlik Oct 14, 09:36
- Can I send him a link to Trump's Twitter feed? -- nm - Dano Oct 14, 09:31 1
  - snort -- nm - zeitgeist Oct 14, 10:46
“Rewriting the DaVinci Code from memory as a sleep aid” ... the follow-up versions are great, too. -- (link) - Beryllium Oct 14, 09:26 5
- Funny, but I'm not sure it's a good idea to admit he read it. -- nm - mara Oct 14, 09:28 4
  - Because why? -- nm - Beryllium Oct 14, 09:41 3
    - Oh, I just mean it's junk. I'm probably being snobbish. -- nm - mara Oct 14, 09:43 2
      - No, you’re right, it is. I was just wondering if you were talking plagiarism or something head-scratching like that. :) -- nm - Beryllium Oct 14, 10:21
      - Well, the Da Vinci Code doesn’t have any scenes in Rome so maybe he didn’t? -- nm - Roger More Oct 14, 09:57
An Arabian colt bred with an extremely concave head led to an outcry among social media users and vets about the dangers of extreme breeding -- (link) - mara Oct 14, 09:24
The word "quality" has been used more in EPL broadcasts that it has in all other cases, combined - prayformojo Oct 14, 09:22
Ah, yes, the primal scene. -- (link) - mara Oct 14, 09:10
Gambit Movie....Valentines Day 2019 -- (link) - Remlik Oct 14, 08:35 1
- Gambit and Deadpool, sitting in a tree ... -- nm - Beryllium Oct 14, 09:41
Weinstein: went after Eva Green -- (link) - Remlik Oct 14, 08:30 3
- I think the only way this story gets shocking now is if he went after Bea Arthur. -- nm - qATLe Oct 14, 08:35 2
  - He was at Miramax when they did the Pokémon movies - eag Oct 14, 08:45 1
    - Vanilluxe doesn't want to talk about it. - qATLe Oct 14, 11:09
California Becomes First State to Ban Puppy Mill Thingy -- (link) - con_carne Oct 14, 07:57 1
- Yep. They were already banned in L.A. Thanks to Gov. Brown for signing of on state-wide ban. -- nm - Meg Oct 14, 08:01
Good morning Slackers. Do you want another excerpt from my new novel in progress? Yes you do! -- (edited) - Qale Oct 14, 06:49
St Helena's airport gets first flight today. -- (link) - Covington Oct 14, 06:24 2
- (I am a dork for knowing this). A plane (at least one) has landed there before. - ty97 Oct 14, 06:26 1
  - Yes, commercial. I wouldn't have referenced STers otherwise. :) -- nm* - Covington Oct 14, 09:25
More fun with similar email names... - Covington Oct 14, 05:36 1
- What utter crap. I've stopped trying to tell people they used my email address in error, FWIW. -- nm - mara Oct 14, 09:27
GSP and Bisping creating heat is funny. GSP usually starts laughing at the shit Bisping keeps throwing at him (Bisping can talk shit very well) -- nm* - Beaker Oct 14, 04:44 1
- Bisping is solidly Tier 2... nobody comes close to Conor. -- nm - Strongbad Oct 14, 05:17
Walk on, walk on, with hope in your heart. Come on Pool -- nm - CQ Oct 14, 04:27 1
- Yes, please. -- nm - Volnelk Oct 14, 04:55
TV PSA: Boxing on FOX, College Football, Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency, MLB, Halt & Catch Fire, Showtime Boxing, Graham Norton, -- nm* - Beaker Oct 14, 04:21 1
- Hockey Night in Canada, SNL (Kumail Nanjiani with Pink), other stuff -- nm* - Beaker Oct 14, 04:22
ISIL is on the verge of defeat in Syria's Raqqa and the city may finally be cleared of the group's fighters on Saturday or Sunday -- (link) - zork Oct 14, 03:57
Magic mushrooms can 'reset' depressed brain -- (link) - zork Oct 14, 03:55
Cargo plane carrying supplies for French army crashed into the sea off Ivory Coast in heavy rain -- (link) - zork Oct 14, 03:46
Shiny new thing for ST today. Hope it works. -- nm - Beryllium Oct 14, 01:42 12
- About time! Thank you! -- nm - Spawn Oct 14, 09:53
- While you're looking at things - Reagen Oct 14, 08:51 4
  - I have to turn my phone to the side and use the left/right arrows when that happens. (Which it now looks like I won't have to do any more! Yay!) - kelly Oct 14, 11:33
  - Holding and scrolling the cursor inside the text box doesn’t work? -- nm - Beryllium Oct 14, 10:36 2
    - Nope. -- nm - Reagen Oct 14, 11:11 1
      - K. I’ll see about making that autoexpand, too. Except for David. -- nm - Beryllium Oct 14, 11:19
- (Spoiler alert: It's the subject box on the main site. Coming soon to beta.) -- nm* - Beryllium Oct 14, 01:47 5
  - Cool, although with... - zork Oct 14, 04:04 4
    - Good to know. There’s a math thing there that makes it ... rough. -- nm - Beryllium Oct 14, 08:19
    - Would be handy in the link boxes too -- nm - zork Oct 14, 04:06 2
      - Heh. Forgot about that. Thanks :) -- nm - Beryllium Oct 14, 08:20 1
        
        Thank you -- nm - zork Oct 14, 09:30
Today I learned that "Lake of the Woods" exists, and has a weird border. Thanks to xkcd. -- (pic) - Beryllium Oct 14, 00:49 [Attachment] 3
- I had an aunt and uncle living in Kenora Ont, on the northern end of Lake of the Woods. -- nm - Meg Oct 14, 07:53 2
  - formerly Rat Portage! -- nm - Reagen Oct 14, 07:54 1
    - She was an English war-bride (my Dad's sister). Can you imagine the culture shock? :) -- nm - Meg Oct 14, 08:03
Great story about David Bowie. -- (link) - Mop Oct 14, 00:15
Ryan Hansen Solves Crimes on Television: this might be a YouTube series worth watching -- (link) - Mop Oct 13, 23:55 [youtube]
That’s it, Oregon. You can quit separating your trash from your recycling. It’s all going to landfills now. -- (link) - Mop Oct 13, 23:20 1
- Weird. I had no idea that stuff was going to China. -- nm - Volnelk Oct 14, 04:57
Inhumans writing does seem to have improved slightly. -- nm - Beryllium Oct 13, 23:00 4
- Aaaand now we're back. -- nm - Beryllium Oct 13, 23:00 3
  - Spoilers - Beryllium Oct 13, 23:01 2
    - I was just going to ask if it has improved any. - . Oct 13, 23:04 1
      - In some ways, yes. I think it's safe to say that it also hasn't worsened. So overall it is improving. -- nm - Beryllium Oct 13, 23:13
Wazzu in trouble -- nm - budice Oct 13, 22:27 5
- Fans rushing the field. -- nm - Mop Oct 13, 23:08
- Cal showed up tonite -- nm - budice Oct 13, 22:50 3
  - Well that's just insult to injury. -- nm - Mop Oct 13, 22:50 2
    - 7 TOs by Wazzu, like Cal had their playbook -- nm - budice Oct 13, 22:59
    - Jesus. -- nm - Mop Oct 13, 22:59
Amazon’s got this British-Canadian co-production where Tim Roth plays a small town police chief in Alberta. So, that’s weird. -- nm - Mop Oct 13, 20:39 13
- Well, that was depressing. -- nm - Mop Oct 13, 22:47
- I’m beside myself with how well this Heyerdahl Guy nails the French-Canadian accent. - Mop Oct 13, 20:59 7
  - He is Canadian. -- nm - . Oct 13, 22:35 5
    - By that logic, Bery could pull off a perfect French-Canadian accent. -- nm - Mop Oct 13, 22:46 4
      - My stepson, who was raised in Montreal and French is his first language can't even do the accent when he is speaking English. - Andie Oct 14, 04:12
      - Oui. Qu'est-que ce. Tabernac. -- nm - Beryllium Oct 13, 22:55 2
        
        Tabernac! -- nm - Max Oct 14, 07:43
        
        Bery isn't a trained actor. Though he plays one on ST. -- nm - . Oct 13, 23:05
  - Hell on wheels. He’s very good. -- nm - Beryllium Oct 13, 21:42
- doubly weird since it would all be RCMP at that level. -- nm - Reagen Oct 13, 20:41 3
  - That certainly occurred to me but I figured they slide by with it being a municipal police force. -- nm - Mop Oct 13, 20:55
  - Except in Taber and (formerly) Lacombe. -- nm - Beryllium Oct 13, 20:52 1
    - And camrose is fairly small, too. -- nm - Beryllium Oct 13, 20:53
10 years ago in theaters: Tyler Perry's Why Did I Get Married, We Own the Night, Elizabeth: The Golden Age, (ltd): Lars and the Real Girl - Max Oct 13, 20:17 6
- Doesn't seem that long ago for Lars. Really liked that one. -- nm - Cuzzin Todd Oct 13, 20:37
- 15 years ago: Brown Sugar, The Transporter, White Oleander, Tuck Everlasting, Knockaround Guys, The Rules of Attraction, (ltd): Punch-Drunk Love, - Max Oct 13, 20:17 4
  - 20 years ago: Seven Years in Tibet, Rocket Man, Most Wanted, Gang Related, (ltd): Boogie Nights, The Sweet Hereafter - Max Oct 13, 20:18 3
    - 25 years ago: Under Siege, 1492: Conquest of Paradise, (ltd): A River Runs Through It - Max Oct 13, 20:19 2
      - 30 years ago: Someone to Watch Over Me, Surrender, Three O'Clock High, (ltd): Baby Boom - Max Oct 13, 20:19 1
        
        35 years ago: My Favorite Year, (ltd): Lookin' to Get Out -- (edited) - Max Oct 13, 20:20
MDH, it's entertaining but in a fairly cornball way - Reagen Oct 13, 20:16
Beaker, FWIW, your NCAA post on B2 is misleading. - Mop Oct 13, 20:08 1
- I know, I just love that quote -- nm* - Beaker Oct 14, 04:19
Wow, if you want to learn some weird geopolitics, read about Andorra. It’s got two heads of state, a priest from Spain and the French president. - Mop Oct 13, 19:59

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