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huh, a friend emailed a few weeks ago and asked if she could stay at our place for 4 nights March 6 - 11. I said sure. She just texted that her train - Andie Feb 6, 06:29 7
- Oh I would not be happy. -- nm - MDH Feb 6, 06:31 3
  - Surprisingly, this isn't actually a disaster. Normally, I would be super busy and this would be pretty hard to pull off but - Andie Feb 6, 06:33 2
    - Just hope she doesn't bring her llama and tuba -- nm - Amoxy-2017 Caveman Champ Feb 6, 06:34 1
      - :) -- nm - Andie Feb 6, 06:34
- (also - I realize now, that assuming the day-numbers are correct, that's 5 nights!) -- (edited) - Andie Feb 6, 06:30 2
  - that's...a lot. -- nm - Diva Feb 6, 06:49
  - Whoa -- nm - Epiphany Feb 6, 06:31
NYC will not let Hawaii have all the fun -- (link) - ty97 Feb 6, 06:24
Solid Deadpool poster -- (link) - volnelk Feb 6, 06:17 2
- That's class -- nm - LMS Feb 6, 06:35
- L3! -- nm - Epiphany Feb 6, 06:32
F**king slimeball politicizes the death of Edwin Jackson -- (link) - Amoxy-2017 Caveman Champ Feb 6, 06:17
7 days until pitchers and catchers report! We're a week away, people! -- (pic) - Krusty Feb 6, 05:42 [Attachment]
TV PSA: America's Next Top Model, Lethal Weapon, Ellen's Game of Games, NBA, NCIS, Flash, Middle, Fresh off the Boat, Smackdown, Black Lightning, Bull -- nm - Beaker Feb 6, 05:26 1
- blackish, LA to Vegas, Challenge, Oak Island, This is Us, Mick, Baskets, NCIS NO, Kevin Saves the World, Drunk History, Chicago Med, Detour, other stu - Beaker Feb 6, 05:27
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- What are they up to now? -- (edited) - znufrii Feb 6, 06:23
- That's part of what has been so dangerous about the Trump regime. He has blurred the line and created so much distrust of the media..... - volnelk Feb 6, 05:54
Delta is opening a spa in one of its Sky Clubs at Hartsfield-Jackson airport in ATL -- (link) - Strongbad Feb 6, 05:15
100% calculated -- (link) - Reagen Feb 6, 02:36
My rapist is drunk posting on FB again and it's like weird beat poetry. Direct quote: - ralph wiggum Feb 6, 02:17 1
- He sucks at everything -- nm - Epiphany Feb 6, 04:41
Ooh, Martha Higareda is in Altered Carbon. - David Feb 6, 00:43 5
- As an actress, she's very pretty. nm - ralph wiggum Feb 6, 02:08 3
  - The best part of the whole thing -- nm - prayformojo Feb 6, 03:27 2
    - I’m going to assume you are talking about Poe. nm - ralph wiggum Feb 6, 03:55 1
      - yes -- nm - prayformojo Feb 6, 05:17
- she's very good but... (spoils) - colin Feb 6, 01:18
Business: Dow Futures setup for another 1,000 drop tomorrow -- (link*) - budice Feb 6, 00:04 4
- I spent some time last night doing research on what to buy. -- nm - Baron of the Rings Feb 6, 05:55 1
  - any stand outs in your opinion? -- nm - Epiphany Feb 6, 06:09
- btc this close to falling below 6k -- nm - zeitgeist Feb 6, 01:02 1
  - It should continue to go down until the Tether stuff gets cleared up. -- nm - David Feb 6, 01:03
Breaking News: McDonald's French Fries contain a chem that can grow hair on a bald guy (maybe....) -- (link) - zeitgeist Feb 5, 22:46 6
- Hmm... I wonder if the science checks out. Spoiler. - Mop Feb 5, 22:56 3
  - if only we hadn't scared off the poster who knew all about food chemicals! -- nm - mafic Feb 5, 23:39
  - yeah, its probably the same stuff.... - zeitgeist Feb 5, 23:01 1
    - It’ll grow all your hair back. But then you’ll lose it again. - Mop Feb 5, 23:02
- Trump's master plan comes to fruition. -- nm - Beryllium Feb 5, 22:53 1
  - This... this is the funny. -- nm - Baron of the Rings Feb 6, 05:43
Speaking of the Kindle Fire 8.... - IrishStephen Feb 5, 22:36 1
- Hmm. This one is also for Declan. (heheh). Our iPad has stood up to much punishment, including being stomped on. I hope the Kindle will last. -- nm - Beryllium Feb 5, 22:54
So on Sunday night I ordered a Kindle Fire HD 8 kidproof case, because the one I ordered on Jan 8th still hasn't arrived. - Beryllium Feb 5, 22:00
BSG Season 2.5 episode 8 spoilers -- (edited) - Amoxy-2017 Caveman Champ Feb 5, 21:30 3
- I think my favorite episode ever is S3 E4 -- nm - Strongbad Feb 6, 05:23
- F'n Dee. -- nm - David Feb 5, 21:50 1
  - Literal worst -- nm - Jovian Feb 6, 07:55
Internet meme, double checked: The Berlin Wall stood for 10,316 days. Today it’s been gone for 10,316 days.` - Mop Feb 5, 21:29 3
- Someone on ST should have mentioned it! -- nm - David Feb 5, 21:50 2
  - At least it wasn't on this very board. -- nm - spamlet Feb 6, 04:05
  - I just did. -- nm - Mop Feb 5, 22:50
Nikkei getting ready to close down 7% -- nm - Bacon Feb 5, 21:10 19
- C) How does a plunge like this affect USD/CAD conversion rates, typically? -- nm - Beryllium Feb 5, 22:15 10
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    - I think it's never been more the case that the stock market is not the economy. -- nm - Reagen Feb 6, 05:47 7
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        I also think it's fair that if they've been crowing about the run up, they get to eat the fall off. -- nm - Reagen Feb 6, 05:54 5
        
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        I'm amused at some of the investing forums I'm reading and people throwing millions at volatility indexes they don't even understand - Reagen Feb 6, 06:01 3
        
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        So it's *you* that's holding me back from being able to invest in dectuple leveraged bear funds! -- nm - Reagen Feb 6, 06:08 1
        
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  - not much, probably? oil price is a bigger driver, and vague NAFTA worries. both likely to drive CAD lower in the near to mid term, but who the hell - mafic Feb 5, 23:36
- A) I wonder if this is the beginning of a bear/contraction. B) I wonder what the needle was that caused it to pop? -- nm - Beryllium Feb 5, 21:21 6
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  - U.S. inflation winds, and bonds rising higher -- nm - Bacon Feb 5, 21:28 4
    - I had a banker say to me the other day “I feel like the economy was sort of humming along and they came in with this big tax cut/shakeup, and we just - pmb Feb 5, 21:52 3
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      - its likely true, every time they cut corp taxes, Reagan, Bush, now Dumbo, the economy goes to hell, usually from overheating....loosing gov regulation - zeitgeist Feb 5, 23:00
      - "We are TAX BOB-OMB, and we are here to FUCK SHIT UP!" -- nm - Tax Bob-Omb Feb 5, 21:58
- cue: -- (link) - mafic Feb 5, 21:13
Schatzee used to come running when she heard me scraping the bottom of my dessert yogurt dish - now Minnie does the same thing :/ -- nm - Meg Feb 5, 21:05
is anybody here play 7 Days to Die? -- nm - colin Feb 5, 20:54 1
- is anybody here teach my grammar? -- nm - colin Feb 5, 20:59
Sceire, from b2, I think that's a legit email - I'd send a note back saying she used the wrong address. - b. Feb 5, 20:25 2
- I swear, I’m gong blind, I looked at the docket twice and didn’t see her name there. - IrishStephen Feb 5, 22:20
- First the wrong mailing address, now this. Not sure I'd want her representing me :/ -- nm - Meg Feb 5, 21:14
filming has started for Shazam, The Rock is exec producer... -- (link) - Remlik Feb 5, 20:09 2
- and... Shaq? -- nm - mafic Feb 5, 20:26 1
  - costarring with Sinbad in Alakzam! -- nm - Remlik Feb 5, 20:32
March 13 is the next election that can’t come soon enough. -- nm - Mop Feb 5, 20:01
Contestants have had a lot of trouble with the last two Final Jeopardy questions yet I got them instantly. - Mop Feb 5, 19:59 4
- .. or it could be that it's not as easy on the spot, standing up, being filmed. -- nm - b. Feb 5, 20:27 2
  - I certainly know that feeling. -- nm - Mop Feb 5, 21:28 1
    - ... and this is how we found out about Mop's porn career. -- nm - mafic Feb 5, 23:39
- Look at the big brain on Mop! -- nm - Spawn: Six Time Blood Feud Champion Feb 5, 20:03
So, the Russians hacked Equifax? -- nm - . Feb 5, 19:39 1
- like we'll ever know, they cancelled the investigation...nothing to see here, move along -- nm - zeitgeist Feb 5, 20:41
WWE: Lita Auctioning Royal Rumble Ring Gear to Benefit #TimesUp Movement - Remlik Feb 5, 19:26
McDavid's 2nd goal tonight was riducballs. -- nm - Reagen Feb 5, 19:11 4
- To wit: -- (link) - Reagen Feb 5, 19:14 3
  - Doesn’t matter how much they slow it down, that stick is a blur. -- nm - Mop Feb 5, 19:54
  - wtf -- nm - mud Feb 5, 19:23 1
    - like how do you roof it from there. -- nm - Reagen Feb 5, 19:26
Tarantino talks -- (link) - Remlik Feb 5, 19:10
I saw someone mowing their lawn this weekend. And it actually needed mowing. I feel like we skipped winter. -- nm - Mop Feb 5, 19:00 1
- After what we had last year I will take this year as a break -- nm - Bacon Feb 5, 20:25
Creed 2 idle speculation: Creed loses to Drago Jr. -- nm - Mop Feb 5, 18:59 3
- ~with arms wide open~ -- nm - Strongbad Feb 6, 05:32
- He dies. I don't think this franchise can go on. -- nm - Flavorize Feb 5, 21:09 1
  - Maybe Rocky dies in Creed 2 and his nephew, the Rock-y, trains Creed in Creed 3. -- nm - Mop Feb 5, 22:54
Tomorrow at 1:30 Eastern, SpaceX will launch the Falcon Heavy. Watch it here - TWuG is not a Tide ad Feb 5, 18:56
yeah, well Perth teams have won the AFL, NBL, *and* the Big Bash League. - mafic Feb 5, 18:56
Bell Biv DeVoe gon' sue someone -- (link) - Reagen Feb 5, 18:46 [youtube] 5
- Is that the set for In Living Color? Does that make him one of the Fly Boys? -- nm - Baron of the Rings Feb 6, 05:46 1
  - Oh LOL, I should've waited until the end. :) -- nm - Baron of the Rings Feb 6, 05:47
- Isn’t that a standard New Jack Swing beat? I can imagine that’s a button on one of those old Yamaha’s. -- nm - Qale Feb 5, 20:03
- I gotta say, all around, that's a hell of a good job doing a 90s throwback video and song. -- nm - Krusty Feb 5, 18:53 1
  - Bruno is really raiding the Solar Records style... -- nm - Remlik Feb 5, 19:03
you will see the save Pekke Rinne just made in OT many times this week me thinks -- nm - Beaker Feb 5, 18:41 1
- and Halak just stopped two breakaways -- nm - Beaker Feb 5, 18:42
If you're gonna count CFL, MLS may as well be in there. -- nm - Reagen Feb 5, 18:38 1
- If Toronto gets to count it, the Baltimore does too. -- nm - Dano Feb 5, 18:45
I know it's not unusual but this is first time *my* doctor's ordered.... - Meg Feb 5, 18:31 3
- It's not unusual.. -- nm* - Tom Jones Feb 5, 18:38
- hip flask for the car afterwards. -- nm - mafic Feb 5, 18:35 1
  - Heh, a little early in the day even for me. I'll be heading to Jack in the Box for breakfast. -- nm - Meg Feb 5, 18:40
What do you call a group of Newfoundlanders? -- (link) - Beaker Feb 5, 18:29 5
- A yarn of newfs -- nm - Beryllium Feb 5, 20:06
- Roofers - J Feb 5, 19:24
- Eh, buddies. -- nm - budice Feb 5, 18:37
- You don't if you know what's good for you. -- nm - Reagen Feb 5, 18:36
- a screech. -- nm - mafic Feb 5, 18:33
the genius part of that fake viral trump tweet from last board.... - x Feb 5, 18:17 2
- and the random capital letters. -- nm - mafic Feb 5, 18:32
- You know you've hit the core of the man when the absurd cannot be discerned from the actual. -- nm - TWuG is not a Tide ad Feb 5, 18:21
David Tennent returns as The Doctor along with Georgia Moffet -- (link) - Remlik Feb 5, 18:06 [youtube]
Mop!! Have you seen this :-) -- (link) - Meg Feb 5, 18:02 1
- *gasp!* -- nm - Mop Feb 5, 22:53
I love Rachel McAdams' delivery of "oh no he died!" from the Game Night ad. -- nm - Tim Feb 5, 17:58 6
- She's an underrated hottie. -- nm - spamlet Feb 5, 18:05 5
  - She is my brothers #1 -- nm - Jovian Feb 5, 18:30
  - Spoiler from trailer - Epiphany Feb 5, 18:20 1
    - I've only seen the commercial, not the trailers. I anticipate it will probably suck. - spamlet Feb 5, 19:26
  - word -- nm - Tim Feb 5, 18:08 1
    - Its Regina George -- nm - budice Feb 5, 18:11
Laugh at me if you will, but sometimes I get frustrated with working with folks half my age. - Qale Feb 5, 17:53 10
- its' weird, right? every time i meet someone in their early 20s, i'm usually okay with their work, but god.. i don't want to hear about your - colin Feb 5, 20:54
- And tell them to GET OFF YOUR LAWN!!! -- nm - Cuzzin Todd Feb 5, 18:29
- children, children, future, future...nm - x Feb 5, 18:21 1
  - And sometimes we despair of our future. -- nm - Meg Feb 5, 18:26
- it's....always interesting. -- nm - Remlik Feb 5, 18:08
- Only half? ;) -- nm - Meg Feb 5, 18:04 1
  - They haven’t repealed child labor laws...yet. -- nm - Qale Feb 5, 18:27
- Yup, damn whippersnappers -- nm - Amoxy-2017 Caveman Champ Feb 5, 18:02
- Damn millennials -- nm - Dano Feb 5, 17:56 1
  - I look forward to working more with the ones after that. -- nm - Qale Feb 5, 18:04
Mets and Todd Frazier, 2yr $17M -- nm - budice Feb 5, 17:47 8
- *sad face* - Jovian Feb 5, 17:50 3
  - He just doesn't hit well enough and he wasn't taking a one year deal. Andujar is likely ready to make the team out of spring training. - Krusty Feb 5, 17:59
  - Didn't he have a terrible year, last year? -- nm - Flavorize Feb 5, 17:59 1
    - He hit .213. He was great in the clubhouse and pretty good in the field but he was a bad hitter. - Krusty Feb 5, 18:00
- Astros, OF George Springer agree to 2-year, $24 million deal -- nm - Beaker Feb 5, 17:50 3
  - That's a steal--less than what Riddick is being paid. He'll be a $25M/yr guy after those 2 years are up. -- nm - Flavorize Feb 5, 18:05 2
    - He'll have one more year of arbitration left. They just bought his next two years of arbitration at what's a fair rate based on what other guys - Krusty Feb 5, 18:46 1
      - If he went to arbitration he likely would have gotten less than what he's getting in this deal by about a million or two. -- (edited) - Krusty Feb 5, 18:49

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