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So when does Michael Cohen get disbarred? -- nm - Jovian Aug 21, 17:14 2
- as soon as he agrees to go on tour with Sacha Baron Cohen -- nm - prayformojo Aug 21, 17:26
- After he gets out of prison? -- nm - Bacon Aug 21, 17:15
Picked- NWBR, Spawn, Baron up -- nm - Amoxy - 2017 Caveman Champion Aug 21, 17:12
I am finally able to watch Counterpart and so far it's *great*. nm - ralph wiggum Aug 21, 17:09
Now playing: Won't You Be My Neighbor. - David Aug 21, 17:09 1
- It’s well done. I held it together almost the whole time. -- nm - Volnelk Aug 21, 17:12
LOCKN Festival this weekend: expect to see a lot of John Mayer. He said sunday he plans to sit in with almost every band he can & jam -- (link) - peglegpete Aug 21, 16:56 3
- I never would've guessed how seamlessly John Mayer meshes with GWAR. -- nm - Surprised Attendee Aug 21, 17:00
- I feel personally attacked. nm - ralph wiggum Aug 21, 16:59 1
  - Alt: "YOU COULD HAVE SAVED THEM MISTER POLICEMAN. I GAVE YOU ALL THE CLUES." nm - ralph wiggum Aug 21, 17:00
Meg: Look what I found at Fry's Electronics. Box of 80 envelopes for $1. -- (link) - GregW Aug 21, 16:52 1
- Who would have thought of Fry's for envelopes?? Already found 150 in Walmart for ~$3.50 but thanks so much for thinking of me. -- nm - Meg Aug 21, 17:31
'Empire Strikes Back's' Cloud City Gets the Lego Treatment -- (link) - Remlik Aug 21, 16:50
I will make my next pick. No draft card, please. -- nm - Spawn: Blood Feud God Aug 21, 16:47 5
- oh well -- nm - Spawn: Blood Feud God Aug 21, 16:56 4
  - You have my blessing to swap out while we wait on Amoxy. -- nm - Name Withheld By Request Aug 21, 16:58 3
    - At least hold out for a case of Coffee Crisp. Some negotiator you are. -- nm - Baron Starr Aug 21, 16:58
    - thanks. on it. -- nm - Spawn: Blood Feud God Aug 21, 16:58 1
      - Done. Yahoo won't let me drop Alshon until my roster starting spots are full. - Spawn: Blood Feud God Aug 21, 17:02
‘Doom Patrol’: Brendan Fraser To Star As Robotman In DC Universe TV Series -- (link) - Remlik Aug 21, 16:22 2
- He was pretty bulky in the Getty series. Fits well with the more recent incarnations of Robotman. And, frankly, he was *really* good. -- nm - Mop Aug 21, 16:27 1
  - and he's bulky in "Condor" as well, and he was super creepy in it. -- nm - Remlik Aug 21, 16:29
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- Any chance they will retry those 10 indictments? -- nm - GregW Aug 21, 17:00
Former number 1 overall NHL draft pick Joe Murphy is homeless (nmbl) - Brian Aug 21, 15:42 4
- The Good Wife would figure out how to sue the NHL again and win. I've learned from my viewing that the law is easy. -- nm - crash davis Aug 21, 16:27
- Man, the sister in the trailer (linked in the article) looks pretty damn heartless. -- nm - Mop Aug 21, 16:16
- These concussion stories are always so sad -- nm - crash davis Aug 21, 16:00 1
  - It makes my heart ache to ever read about anyone suffering from long-term brain trauma results. -- nm - landbeck Aug 21, 16:08
I got him a round earlier than I wanted, I would have preferred waiting two rounds. And then a couple of you went nuts in the 3rd and made me nervous. -- nm - crash davis Aug 21, 15:37 4
- and jf got spooked too -- nm - crash davis Aug 21, 15:49 3
  - I was wanting to take him this pick or next. - the wrong element, bad guy Aug 21, 16:03 2
    - We all should have had a gentlemen's agreement of no QBs until round 5. But there are no gentlemen in a draft. -- nm - crash davis Aug 21, 16:21 1
      - The problem there is that would make round 5 the QB round. - the wrong element, bad guy Aug 21, 16:34
Crazy Rich Asians A. Very funny, touching movie (spoilers) - Amoxy - 2017 Caveman Champion Aug 21, 15:35 4
- and for related but kind of an aside, CRA is the first movie that's inspired an architectural crush ;-) *spoils* - JD Aug 21, 15:49 2
  - FWIW I got super-cheap tickets to Singapore last year on United, flying from LAX. So it's do-able for a week vacation. - Roger More Aug 21, 17:22
  - I haven't seen it yet, but I know how good cinematography can leave you wanting to go to a place. -- nm - crash davis Aug 21, 15:53
- Spoilers - David Aug 21, 15:39
Lol more Breaking News: Republican Congressman Duncan Hunter indicted for campaign finance violations. -- nm - MDH Aug 21, 15:28 4
- spent over $138,000 in trips to liquor stores, bars, and cigar lounges, and even airfare for his pet rabbit. - decline Aug 21, 17:15
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  - yup -- nm - Remlik Aug 21, 16:06
- So much winning. -- nm - . Aug 21, 15:30
What is that obnoxious gif Bacon has on the BOP boards? Is that famous or just obnoxious? -- nm - crash davis Aug 21, 15:25 12
- Whatever it is, it should be banned. -- nm - ReluctantCynic Aug 21, 15:40 3
  - Does J. Merk know about this conservative streak of yours? Going to vote for the Republican running next go around. They would be for banning it too -- nm - Bacon Aug 21, 17:12
  - It is not something I can leave open at the workplace, but then again, I probably can't leave kilbo's open either -- nm - crash davis Aug 21, 15:44 1
    - I can't look at kilbo's only because it gives me nightmares. -- nm - ReluctantCynic Aug 21, 15:51
- It's got to be better than Kilbo's... -- nm - David Aug 21, 15:34 7
  - it is less .....freakish? -- nm - crash davis Aug 21, 15:36 6
    - Wait, are you talking about the Wonder Woman one? -- nm - David Aug 21, 15:36 5
      - Yeah, it's Gal Gadot. So of course it's better than kilbos. - the wrong element, bad guy Aug 21, 15:41
      - It is some lady sassing me in her underwear -- nm - crash davis Aug 21, 15:39 3
        
        Yes, Crash. That's the actress who plays Wonder Woman. -- nm - David Aug 21, 15:40 2
        
        It is a little square so it doesn't look Gal to me. But I'll take your word -- nm - crash davis Aug 21, 15:42 1
        
        It's Gal Gadot goofing around between shoots for Keeping UP With the Jones's, you quack!!! -- nm - Bacon Aug 21, 17:13
Sixteen nurses who work in the intensive care unit of the Banner Desert Medical Center in Mesa are pregnant. -- (link) - Mop Aug 21, 15:24 3
- I have gone to the ER there a couple of times -- nm - eag Aug 21, 15:55 1
  - You sure seem to know a lot about this hospital, eag. What are you not telling us? -- nm - Mop Aug 21, 16:06
- I think you should sit this one out, Scully. -- nm - Agent Mulder si Aug 21, 15:25
NWBR, I'm going to go to the hospital in Boise tonight, so I'll make one long draft card for the fifth round but I assume we'll shut down later? -- nm - crash davis Aug 21, 15:17 1
- Yeah, I would like to try and make it through five and then I'll be pleased and let it limp overnight. -- nm - Name Withheld by Request Aug 21, 15:22
Hmm. I hadn’t read any of these books at 18. -- (link) - Beryllium Aug 21, 15:16 14
- 1984 -- nm - Amoxy - 2017 Caveman Champion Aug 21, 17:25
- 4/6 - decline Aug 21, 17:05
- Potter wasn't around then. Gatsby and Animal Farm were highschool required reading. Communist Manifesto was college class reading. Didn't read 1984 - . Aug 21, 15:37 2
  - 1984 is the only one I've actually fully read, and it was only in the past couple of years. -- nm - Beryllium Aug 21, 15:41 1
    - I've seen the movie. ;) -- nm - . Aug 21, 15:45
- 1984, Animal Farm -- nm - mud Aug 21, 15:19 3
  - I think its cheating to have two Orwells on the list. Also, Harry Potter? LOTR should be offered as a sub for us older folk -- nm - crash davis Aug 21, 15:21 2
    - Agreed. -- nm - Beryllium Aug 21, 17:02
    - Yep -- nm - . Aug 21, 15:38
- Ditto, except for the Bible which I read for clues about the Lost Ark. -- nm - Max Aug 21, 15:19 3
  - did you find it? -- nm - crash davis Aug 21, 15:20 2
    - I followed the trail as far as I could without a plane or boat. -- nm - Max Aug 21, 15:30 1
      - good effort -- nm - crash davis Aug 21, 15:31
- I'd read Animal Farm by then, but I don't talk about it much. I think there are some bits of the Old Testament that I still haven't read. -- nm - crash davis Aug 21, 15:18
Bawk bawk bitches -- nm - Amoxy - 2017 Caveman Champion Aug 21, 15:11
Andrew Luck Says It's 'Fun' To Be Sacked By Terrell Suggs Again - crash davis Aug 21, 15:08
Illegal immigrant charged in murder of that cute Iowa girl - crash davis Aug 21, 14:58 9
- Being the cynical Chicagoan I am due to the numbers of exonerated "murderers" formerly in our prisons, I'd want to make damn sure that every single le - . Aug 21, 15:56
- I wonder which of the news headlines today the President will choose to tweet about. -- nm - Mop Aug 21, 15:18 2
  - ... -- (link) - Beryllium Aug 21, 15:22 1
    - Top story on Foxnews.com -- nm - Mop Aug 21, 15:30
- If this were a tv show ... you know what, I just shouldn’t comment. Never mind. -- nm - Beryllium Aug 21, 15:04
- Which just makes an awful local story even worse. -- nm - Cuzzin Todd Aug 21, 15:03 3
  - yes, because I'm afraid one of our political leaders won't treat the tragedy the way it should be treated -- nm - crash davis Aug 21, 15:05 2
    - And you'll never guess who is holding a rally tonight - Brian Aug 21, 15:20 1
      - Yeah. I'll put it around 99% -- nm - crash davis Aug 21, 15:22
There's a lot going on above the fold on the Post right now -- (pic) - prayformojo Aug 21, 14:53 [Attachment] 1
- CNN words it as 1) PLEADS GUILTY, 2) GUILTY OF SOME CHARGES. I feel like the next one in the sequence should be "Florida Man Guilty Somewhere" -- nm - Max Aug 21, 15:14
Veronica Mars revival starring Kristen Bell in the works at Hulu -- (link) - Remlik Aug 21, 14:50 8
- Finally some big news today - was kind of a slow news day otherwise. -- nm - Cuzzin Todd Aug 21, 14:53
- Can Duncan come back from Australia? -- nm - Teddy Dunn Aug 21, 14:53 4
  - NO! Once you're banished to Australia, you can never come back! -- nm - David Aug 21, 15:10 3
    - Fun fact: Teddy Dunn is now a law clerk for a federal judge in New Jersey. nm - ralph wiggum Aug 21, 16:57 1
      - I'm 100% sure he's better at that than acting. - David Aug 21, 17:08
    - unless you sneak out on occasion to poison randos -- nm - crash davis Aug 21, 15:13
- Because she doesn't have enough gigs already. -- nm - Mop Aug 21, 14:51 1
  - If one of the gigs isn't Veronica Mars then she doesn't have enough gigs. - the wrong element, bad guy Aug 21, 15:45
7.0 in venezuela. Time to take more zeroes off the bolivar. -- nm - Beryllium Aug 21, 14:48 2
- I'm sure the Americans are to blame. -- nm - Mop Aug 21, 14:51 1
  - I believe that was literally the plot of the movie Conspiracy Theory. -- nm - Beryllium Aug 21, 14:51
10TaW Category review: Music: 37/53 = 69.81 - prayformojo Aug 21, 14:47
Hmmm...if the WH has a press conference today, the media should just send a note saying they're "elsewhere". -- nm - . Aug 21, 14:45
I really want to open the window to cool the house down, but then I'd be letting the smoke monster in. -- nm - Beryllium Aug 21, 14:35 3
- And I'm worried about the humidity. -- nm - . Aug 21, 14:46
- Camping might be a bit smokey -- (pic) - Beryllium Aug 21, 14:41 [Attachment]
- and it is freakier than the polar bear -- nm - crash davis Aug 21, 14:41
"Shaka when the walls fell indeed Darmok." -- nm* - Jovian Aug 21, 14:31 4
- tonight's tweeting session: "Zinda, his face black, his eyes red." -- nm* - crash davis Aug 21, 14:36 3
  - top 5 for me for damn sure. -- nm - Remlik Aug 21, 14:37 2
    - yeah, I'll skip some of them, but if I see that one is coming on I'll set the DVR. That and when Corbin Bernsen makes Q human. - crash davis Aug 21, 14:39 1
      - heh, in 2014, The Atlantic paid a professor for a huge overlong analysis of the Tamarian episode -- (link) - crash davis Aug 21, 14:50
Jim is my *ultra* friend now. Jealous? -- nm - Mop Aug 21, 14:30
Heh. -- (link) - Beryllium Aug 21, 14:20 2
- buwhaa -- nm - Epiphany Aug 21, 14:45
- also good: -- (link) - Beryllium Aug 21, 14:40
Can somebody Check Yahoo for me? Traveling. Who is the high player that isn’t Jerick McKinnon? -- nm - Name Withheld By Request Aug 21, 14:08 3
- not on Yahoo, but I'm willing to bet it is LeSean -- nm - crash davis Aug 21, 14:14 2
  - I don’t think he’s high man, but Beaker vetoed McCoy already. -- nm - Name Withheld By Request Aug 21, 14:18 1
    - ah, yes, I did read that earlier -- nm - crash davis Aug 21, 14:20
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- I don't know if we can do pessimist/optimist on this. We should all be sad. A little boy - crash davis Aug 21, 14:13 3
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    - The little boy section was supposed to make you laugh. -- nm - crash davis Aug 21, 14:17
  - your IM - peglegpete Aug 21, 14:15
Cohen pleads guilty to 8 felonies. (Isn't 8 a lucky number in Chinese mythologies?) -- nm* - Andie Aug 21, 14:06 1
- A felony isn't a felony! -- nm - Max Aug 21, 14:08
For a moment there I felt like I should get to work on my 2018 resolutions. Fortunately I don't remember what they were. -- nm - Max Aug 21, 14:05 1
- 4K? -- nm - Beryllium Aug 21, 14:15
Coal is declining again. - crash davis Aug 21, 14:04
Shocked face. -- (link) - David Aug 21, 14:04 10
- "does not include cooperation" He's just spilling the beans out of the kindness of his own heart. -- nm - Mop Aug 21, 14:29 2
  - IIUC, if he pleads guilty, he has to allocute, so cooperation isn't really required if he's got to admit in open court - TWuG Aug 21, 14:43 1
    - Even with a pardon from Trump, the damaging info has already been admitted to under oath. -- nm - TWuG Aug 21, 14:55
- WHAAAA? -- nm - Shocko Aug 21, 14:11
- I wonder who the candidate was? - Epiphany Aug 21, 14:07 4
  - How long until the standard line is "he didn't name the candidate. We think it was Hillary." -- nm - Tim Aug 21, 14:13 1
    - oh, i guarantee it's already out there. -- nm - Andie Aug 21, 14:14
  - She tells you in the tweet, pippy! -- nm - David Aug 21, 14:09 1
    - I can't read - duh -- nm - Epiphany Aug 21, 15:01
- So...only following orders? -- nm - zeitgeist Aug 21, 14:05
Tag - B-, everyone was horribly miscast except for Renner - Epiphany Aug 21, 14:04
One was a Yellow Bellied Marmot. The other was a Bushy Tailed Woodrat. -- nm - crash davis Aug 21, 13:59 5
- This board is a No Marmot zone. -- nm - Dark Callisto Aug 21, 14:26 3
  - <3 -- nm - rollo Aug 21, 14:55
  - But we always need Marmots :( -- (pic) - Meg Aug 21, 14:53 [Attachment]
  - Then you need the services of a marmot hunter -- nm - crash davis Aug 21, 14:35
- And both were filmed in 480i. -- nm - ReluctantCynic Aug 21, 14:26

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