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Tiger tiger tiger tiger... -- (link) - Budice May 13, 14:11 1
- nope. Not gonna catch me! -- nm - webb May 13, 14:15
"shockingly soon" -- (link) - mud May 13, 13:58
I'm gonna tell you something that you're not gonna believe. You're not gonna believe me, but it's absolutely true - prayformojo May 13, 13:54
Chuck Knox has died. -- (link) - Will Hunting May 13, 13:50 1
- :( -- nm - Budice May 13, 13:53
Watching last night’s SNL, the closed captioner didn’t know what a “Thanos” was. - Mop May 13, 12:50 1
- I'm watching it now and he sounds like he's saying Bannos while she sounds like she's saying Thanos. -- nm - jnine May 13, 14:16
We found Seann William Scott! - Fox May 13, 12:48
the bad thing is, the Os will need about 5 games just like today (leading 17-0) to bring their season run differential to 0 -- nm - prayformojo May 13, 12:47 1
- Reds have won five straight and are still 14 below .500 and 10 games away from not being in last. -- nm - Volnelk May 13, 13:11
Believe me, after living life according to Kanye tweets (boy, I *really* did not think that one out), the Disco T*ts Challenge will be a piece of cake -- nm - prayformojo May 13, 12:43
Sports Illustrated will be airing a documentary this summer about the Yankees/Red Sox rivalry and the 1978 season when the good guys came - Krusty May 13, 12:16 1
- Awshum! -- nm - Diva May 13, 12:41
Solo review embargo lifts Tuesday 5/15 iirc -- nm - Budice May 13, 12:16
oh no Jacob deGrom -- nm - Tim May 13, 12:02 3
- "how's the arm?" -- nm - Budice May 13, 12:14 2
  - Good news: Phillies didn’t score. Bad news: he walked the bases loaded with no outs, threw 45 pitches to get out, pinch hit for in top of 2nd. -- nm* - Tim May 13, 12:21 1
    - Nice and yeesh! Chapman did the same thing the other game. Walked the bases loaded and then got out of it with no runs scored. - Krusty May 13, 12:27
This kid Newcomb might be pretty good. 3 consecutive starts, 19 IP, 5 H, 0 ER -- nm* - Strongbad May 13, 11:50
10 years ago in theaters: What Happens in Vegas, Speed Racer, (ltd): OSS 177 - Max May 13, 11:46 5
- 15 years ago: Daddy Day Care - Max May 13, 11:47 4
  - 20 years ago: Deep Impact - Max May 13, 11:47 3
    - 25 years ago: Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story, Dave, (ltd): Much Ado About Nothing, American Heart - Max May 13, 11:47 2
      - 30 years ago: Shakedown, Salsa, Dead Heat - Max May 13, 11:47 1
        
        35 years ago: Blue Thunder, Breathless - Max May 13, 11:48
I readily admit I'm not a comic geek. I don't know who's from what universe nor do I really care as long as I enjoy the movie. (spoils) - Covington May 13, 11:42 11
- Spider-Man spoils - Krusty May 13, 11:51 10
  - It’s true to the comics. Spoilers - Mop May 13, 13:34
  - yet this is exactly what they did with Spidey in the comics. -- nm - Remlik May 13, 12:40
  - I'm gonna suggest that this is exactly the place they're going with him - Reagen May 13, 11:58 7
    - I'm afraid we'll never get a great Spider-Man or Spidey movie. -- nm - Krusty May 13, 12:00 6
      - 1, 2, Homecoming. -- nm - Reagen May 13, 12:04 1
        
        I hated Tobey Maguire. Hate! The first was okay, the second was meh. Homecoming was very good other than the issues I mentioned previously. - Krusty May 13, 12:08
      - I don't have an issue with the actor playing him, just how they've changed Spidey. -- nm* - Krusty May 13, 12:00 3
        
        matches the comics quite a bit -- nm - Remlik May 13, 12:41 2
        
        It's awful. -- nm - Krusty May 13, 13:01 1
        
        You are getting old, then. -- nm - Spawn: Blood Feud God May 13, 14:40
TV PSA: American Idol, Genius Jr, Killing Eve, Sweetbitter, The Circus, Simspons, Into the Badlands, Real HW, Brooklyn 99, Billions, Vida, NCIS LA, -- nm - Beaker May 13, 11:17 3
- Nine-nine! -- nm - Krusty May 13, 11:51
- Family Guy, Bob's Burgers, Fear the Walking Dead, Timeless, Arrangement, Westworld, Unforgotten, I'm Dying Up Here, Madam Secretary, Snoop Dogg, Trust -- nm - Beaker May 13, 11:19 1
  - Deception, Royals, Silicon Valley, Barry, Worst Cooks, Caps/Lightning, other stuff -- nm* - Beaker May 13, 11:20
Hollywood salaries revealed -- (link) - Remlik May 13, 11:15 6
- Ouch. $15 million to Jennifer Lawrence for Red Sparrow? -- nm - Mop May 13, 13:36
- You won't believe #8 -- nm - Dano May 13, 12:01
- Seth gets more than tom cruise? -- nm - zeitgeist May 13, 11:58 3
  - The article talks about bonuses, “back end”, and “social media fee”, but isn’t explicit if any of that is included in the quote #s. -- nm - Mop May 13, 13:39 1
    - I suspect “back end” gooses those numbers considerably. -- nm - Mop May 13, 13:39
  - For something called "Flarsky?" -- nm - Dano May 13, 11:59
Wrestling: live presser for All In on FB -- (link) - Remlik May 13, 11:10 1
- ROH involved. Billy Corgan and NWA involved -- nm - Remlik May 13, 11:20
Since it's the last two films that can get away with it, I want either the marketing budgets for Infinity War and/or Episode IX to consist of 1 tweet. - Tim May 13, 10:44 4
- Avengers Forever. -- nm - Remlik May 13, 11:04
- nmbt - prayformojo May 13, 10:46 2
  - nmbpfm - Tim May 13, 10:47 1
    - kthxbye -- nm - prayformojo May 13, 10:47
And oh my god, I thought we were done with it, but there's a movie out next weekend that simply wouldn't exist if Fifty Shades of Grey never happened. - Tim May 13, 09:27 5
- Wait for the reboot. -- nm - Dano May 13, 11:14 1
  - "Now with leads that like each other!" -- nm - Reagen May 13, 12:02
- Oh my god indeed. Actually, we can blame Twilight for this. -- nm - Beryllium May 13, 09:55
- Show Dogs? -- nm - Mop May 13, 09:52
- Deadpool 2, we know. -- nm - Beryllium May 13, 09:38
Only one London team in the Champions League next year. Go Spurs! -- nm - Volnelk May 13, 09:10 1
- Arsenal and Chelsea in Europa, hoo boy. -- nm - Budice May 13, 09:18
Deadpool 2 is next weekend and I feel like nobody's talking about it. - Tim May 13, 09:08 12
- ads all over social media -- nm - Remlik May 13, 10:26 4
  - I'm with Tim. It seemed like Deadpool spots were everywhere for four months. This one seems much quieter. -- nm - David May 13, 10:37 3
    - on tradition media I agree. -- nm - Remlik May 13, 11:24
    - “Omg, they know they have a stinker” vs “I guess they don’t want to oversaturate the viewers” -- (edited) - Beryllium May 13, 10:42 1
      - As I said below, there is no way they can out Infinity War Infinity War. So they are KIS. -- nm - Spawn: Blood Feud God May 13, 10:43
- I ALREADY HAVE TICKETS -- nm - Beryllium May 13, 09:38
- Is it just me (and apparently amoxy and krusty) or have the ads been meh for it? - Cuzzin Todd May 13, 09:25 1
  - They don't really need to give us anything in the ads. Those of us going don't care what was in the ads. And once again, WOM will drive it. - Spawn: Blood Feud God May 13, 10:23
- SOLO!!! It's getting all the attention lately -- nm - Bacon May 13, 09:22
- I have been whelmed by the trailers -- nm - amoxy May 13, 09:10 2
  - *keeps quiet on the subject* (NM) - Marlowe May 13, 10:07
  - Same but I'm definitely going to see it. -- nm - Krusty May 13, 09:13
wtf -- (link) - Beryllium May 13, 08:55
JOhn Bolton says that US may impose sanctions against European allies for upholding the Iran treaty -- (link) - amoxy May 13, 08:34 7
- I'm sure European countries are ready to put sanctions on US for being aholes with nukes -- nm - zeitgeist May 13, 12:01
- Good luck with that. Just go ahead and build that wall *ALL* around the country. - Mop May 13, 09:48
- .... -- (link) - Beryllium May 13, 08:56 2
  - of for gods sake. We could have done both! -- nm - Remlik May 13, 09:27
  - and commentary -- (link) - Beryllium May 13, 08:56
- Isn't America great? Or, at the very least, a great bully? (NM) - Marlowe May 13, 08:52
- By God, Trump *will* have his trade war! -- nm - TWuG May 13, 08:42
Damnit. - znufrii May 13, 08:14 2
- FWP -- nm - amoxy May 13, 08:26 1
  - And - znufrii May 13, 09:30
And since I'm hogging the board, I've apparently become the type of person who has a preferred brand of running shoe: Saucony - Dano May 13, 07:51 2
- +20 SB Points -- nm - Strongbad May 13, 10:29
- I like them and they make some nice colorways. I don't think they hold up as well as other sneakers but I've had a few - Krusty May 13, 08:21
I complete my first long* run of the year in prep for a marathon - Dano May 13, 07:38 1
- very nice -- nm - prayformojo May 13, 07:43
Well now this is a thing that exists -- (link) - Reagen May 13, 07:31 [youtube] 6
- I like this more. -- (link) - mafic May 13, 08:11 [youtube]
- Related: Thought while running: This is America is an odd song thematically to be the song of the summer. -- nm - Dano May 13, 07:47 4
  - We can't trust Billboard to not fuck up their Hot 100, how can we trust them with something as important as this? -- nm - Qale May 13, 10:52
  - It’s not summer yet -- nm - Beryllium May 13, 07:50 2
    - It became summer pop culturally the day Infinity War came out. -- nm - Dano May 13, 07:52 1
      - “That’s not how this works! That’s not how any of this works!” - Beryllium May 13, 08:13
Wow Mamma Mia 2 looks awful -- nm - ty97 May 13, 07:29 2
- To be fair, so did the first one. So consistency. -- nm - Cuzzin Todd May 13, 07:58
- And seriously, they couldn't get one of Skarsgaard's kids to play the young Skarsgaard? -- nm - Dano May 13, 07:39
Avengers IW spoils -- (link) - Bearded Cap May 13, 06:05
Tiger shot a 65 yesterday at TPC. Cool. There are currently 6 stories about him on the front of mESPN.com. He is tied for 9th going into today. - Diva May 13, 04:22 10
- it's the same here. Everyone keeps making everything about when Tiger's gonna come back and smite their enemies - Reagen May 13, 07:20
- Plus, Jordan Speith did the exact same thing and nobody cares. -- nm - Strongbad May 13, 06:55 2
  - I get the idea that a guy with busted knees shooting that is more impressive.. - Marlowe May 13, 07:39
  - Ik,r? Only in passing. -- nm* - Diva May 13, 07:04
- I get it, but kids wouldn’t flock to buy Webb Simpson Golf for the XBox. Golf is trapped. Tiger gets ratings/clicks on a scale that nobody else can. -- nm - Volnelk May 13, 05:09 5
  - All of this is understood and inherent in the meaning of my post. - Diva May 13, 05:22 4
    - Oh I agree that it’s absurd. -- nm - Volnelk May 13, 06:49
    - I got that reference. -- nm - Bearded Cap May 13, 05:50 1
      - I think I just felt a kick. -- nm - Diva May 13, 07:05
    - You're right--definitely. -- (edited) - Flavorize May 13, 05:38
Follow up to last night's post about the kid trying to get 530,000 retweets to get a free plane ticket, it worked..... -- (link) - zeitgeist May 13, 03:24
Kanye's Yeezy launch show in Sydney was cancelled when no one showed up, 2 years ago there were lines down the block to get in. -- (link) - zeitgeist May 13, 01:42 2
- Good. I wonder if that would have happened if it was a sneaker release instead of overpriced, ugly clothing. -- nm - Krusty May 13, 06:42 1
  - $400 shorts? sure, let me go find my wallet -- nm - zeitgeist May 13, 12:05
That's a lot of undertakers. -- (link) - Beryllium May 13, 01:10 2
- I mean that's a New use of the Broken Windows Fallacy, I'll give her that. -- nm - Reagen May 13, 04:55
- ER docs/nurses, EMTs helicopter pilots. police detectives, lawyers -- nm - zeitgeist May 13, 01:47
UFC: Nunes/Pennington--Google this in the morning--some bulls*t (spoils)--(spoils in the link too)--i.e. don't click here if you don't want to be spoiled -- (edited) - Flavorize May 12, 22:28
Stan Lee sends a tweet. -- (link) - Beryllium May 12, 21:27 4
- I'm pretty sure he didn't write that. -- nm - Remlik May 12, 21:29 3
  - dammit -- nm - Beryllium May 12, 21:32 2
    - this -- (link) - Spawn: Blood Feud God May 12, 22:40 1
      - Is Stan Lee going to be up at 9pm? -- nm - Flavorize May 12, 22:45
American League ERA leaders: Justin Verlander (1.21) Gerrit Cole (1.43) Charlie Morton (2.03) Sean Manaea (2.11) -- nm - budice May 12, 21:20 1
- . -- nm* - JaxSean May 12, 23:58
So meet Natalie Lynn. -- (link) - Name Withheld by Request May 12, 20:34 15
- Congrats -- nm - Karl_S May 13, 17:10
- Congrats!! -- nm - colin May 13, 05:18
- Congrats!! -- nm* - Strongbad May 13, 03:15
- Congrats! -- nm - JaxSean May 12, 23:59
- awe...some....so cute -- nm - zeitgeist May 12, 22:26
- Woo hoo! Congrats! -- nm - Krusty May 12, 22:04
- So pretty! -- nm - jnine May 12, 21:19
- 😄👍 -- nm - JD May 12, 21:01
- Mazel Tov! -- nm - peglegpete May 12, 20:55
- Congrats! -- nm - MDH May 12, 20:54
- Well done! -- nm - Remlik May 12, 20:44
- grats -- nm - budice May 12, 20:40
- Don Homer! -- nm - Beryllium May 12, 20:39
- Saw that on FB - Congrats!!! -- nm - Meg May 12, 20:38
- WOOOT!!! -- nm - Spawn: Blood Feud God May 12, 20:37
Donkey balls. The app for reading library ePub books is shitty and always crashes on the same page of Leviathan Wakes. - Beryllium May 12, 20:27 1
- Apparently it only crashes on portrait mode. -- nm - Beryllium May 12, 20:38
When your Sedan becomes a Subcompact. -- (link) - budice May 12, 20:02 3
- Heh, just coming up on 10:00pm local news here. -- nm - Meg May 12, 20:22 2
  - Probably alongside the “earthquake” -- nm - Beryllium May 12, 20:23 1
    - Meg and the race are both in Kansas -- nm - budice May 12, 20:27

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