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Jax: Mass Shooting. 4 dead at Jacksonville Landing. 10 victims. Madden Tournament. All hands on deck. Patients to multiple hospitals. -- (link*) - budice Aug 26, 11:18 3
- Jeez. It happened on a live steam. There Is Video. -- nm - Reagen Aug 26, 11:23
- Just spoke to Jaxsean, family is all fine. -- nm - Bacon Aug 26, 11:22 1
  - happened in an area they frequent... -- nm - zeitgeist Aug 26, 12:00
Next person who asks about Disney’s keepers gets kicked out of Blood Feud. - David Aug 26, 11:09 3
- I didn't realize it was such a touchy subject. - Krusty Aug 26, 11:26
- That is easy to figure out. ABC, ESPN, Disney Parks & Resorts, Lucasfilm, Marvel Entertainment. -- nm - crash davis Aug 26, 11:21
- What about Disney’s keepers? - Cuzzin Todd Aug 26, 11:19
First polls run with The Bernier Party involved: -- (link) - Reagen Aug 26, 11:03
Trump Accuses Voters of Meddling in Midterms -- (link) - con_carne Aug 26, 10:54
Second Fox News reporter leaves amid objections to network - crash davis Aug 26, 10:27
Smallest 2nd weekend declines, non-December releases, 3000+ theaters - Tim Aug 26, 10:16 14
- I look forward to the American remake using an all white cast. -- nm - Qale Aug 26, 10:42
- And 3 of those are 2nd weekend holidays (T-Giving) - Will Hunting, Ruler Supreme of Blood Feud Aug 26, 10:20 11
  - And the second weekend of Mother’s Day was (wait for it) Mother’s Day. -- nm - Dark Callisto Aug 26, 10:27 10
    - You're from Illinois, right? Were you ever a Bears fan growing up? -- (link) - crash davis Aug 26, 10:29 8
      - (That is super cute, though) - Dark Callisto Aug 26, 10:37 6
        
        I wasn't a Ditka fan but I like the little Funko-stache. On that one team, I did respect Payton and Singletary. -- nm - crash davis Aug 26, 10:40 5
        
        Yup, was in Chicago at the time. Had the pencil set and so on. Stopped short of the headband. -- nm - budice Aug 26, 10:41 3
        
        heh, pencils - my junior high school's office sold NFL pencils as a fundraiser one year...I had to collect all 28 teams -- nm - crash davis Aug 26, 10:47 2
        
        Pencil Wars were big back in the day. Bears and Steelers were highly coveted pencils. -- nm - budice Aug 26, 10:49 1
        
        My eighth grade social studies teacher used to play for the Raiders back in the AFL days. You got extra credit for having Raiders stuff (even a pencil - crash davis Aug 26, 10:53
        
        Yeah, Sweetness is different. -- nm - Dark Callisto Aug 26, 10:41
      - I am, but I wasn’t. My parents love them, though. - Dark Callisto Aug 26, 10:36
    - Yeah, that one's hilarious, the Mother's Day earnings were better than its opening Friday. -- nm - Tim Aug 26, 10:28
- Brother Bear was an absolutely charming movie that no one ever mentions. -- nm - crash davis Aug 26, 10:19
Jemele Hill’s last day at ESPN is this Friday. -- nm - David Aug 26, 09:47 2
- Trump! -- nm - Spawn: Blood Feud God Aug 26, 09:57
- Unfortunate, but prolly better in the long run. -- nm - budice Aug 26, 09:49
On the advice of Jake Jortles, I drafted Marqise Lee. Don't listen to Jake Jortles. -- nm - crash davis Aug 26, 09:40 5
- Your bad luck is causing me to chortle. -- nm - Jake Jortles Aug 26, 10:38
- When you posted it I nearly said something along those lines. -- nm - Spawn: Blood Feud God Aug 26, 09:58
- Also, reviewing my options for Astronauts, I see no clear path to the playoffs without a couple of criminals on my roster. -- nm - crash davis Aug 26, 09:41 2
  - It's the NFL. If you don't have a criminal on your roster, wait a month. -- nm - Will Hunting, Ruler Supreme of Blood Feud Aug 26, 09:58 1
    - I made my one and only stand in QV. I traded away Jameis Winston - crash davis Aug 26, 10:02
The best thing I can say about today’s long run is that I survived it. Not a small accomplishment but I was hoping for better than just survival. -- nm - Dano Aug 26, 09:30 6
- I think you've got it right. Have your goals / hopes heading out but recognize the accomplishment. Distance PR! - JD Aug 26, 10:08
- WTG!! -- nm - Meg Aug 26, 09:43
- Well done! -- nm - Krusty Aug 26, 09:39
- Surviving is key. -- nm - Spawn: Blood Feud God Aug 26, 09:33
- wtg -- nm - crash davis Aug 26, 09:32
- way to go -- nm - mud Aug 26, 09:31
RIP Neil Simon -- nm - Reagen Aug 26, 08:53 3
- More combined Oscar and Tony nominations than any other writer. -- nm - crash davis Aug 26, 09:35
- Paul and Carly still ok -- nm - budice Aug 26, 09:10
- GARFUNKLE VICTORIOU.... -- nm - no, wait Aug 26, 09:10
BoxOffice: Meg made its $400M back $13M, CRA with $25M, HappyTime $10M, MI Fallout $8M, Chris Robin $6M -- (link) - budice Aug 26, 08:19 14
- John Cho's Searching - 9 theaters w/ $360k, $40k per -- nm - budice Aug 26, 08:40
- Crazy Rich Asians is the new Sixth Sense. -- nm - David Aug 26, 08:33 10
  - Considering how much box office has changed in the past 19 years, I consider what Crazy Rich Asians is doing to be slightly more impressive... - Inigo Aug 26, 08:43 1
    - But it did make me look back at MBFGW and that’s still amazing even taking into consideration the box office era. -- nm - Dano Aug 26, 09:26
  - I see yellow people - JD Aug 26, 08:35 2
    - I think "I see dead Crazy Rich Asians" might've been the better choice. -- nm* - Cuzzin Todd Aug 26, 08:48
    - Oh no... -- nm - Qale Aug 26, 08:36
  - They're all dead? -- nm - Cuzzin Todd Aug 26, 08:34 4
    - Worst twist to a Rom Com ever -- nm - Pippy Aug 26, 09:17 3
      - The whole thing is actually just the flip side of a haunting, like The Others. -- nm - Beryllium Aug 26, 10:24
      - It is an idea though. I'd love to see a Six Feet Under style epilogue to a film like Love, Actually -- nm - JD Aug 26, 10:10
      - I dunno, I’d call it a happy ending for Sex and the City. -- nm - David Aug 26, 10:05
- I should've really wanted to see Happytime. But I didn't. - Cuzzin Todd Aug 26, 08:24 1
  - Maybe if I really were 14 years old. -- nm - Qale Aug 26, 08:33
With last night's win the Yankees have secured their 26th consecutive winning season. Longest streak in MLB and second longest ever behind - Krusty Aug 26, 08:07
Lee Child set to adapt Jack Reacher novels for TV (but with a taller star) -- (edited) - crash davis Aug 26, 08:00 4
- TV TV? Like, *broadcast* tv? How quaint. -- nm - Max Aug 26, 09:25
- As much as Cruise didn't fit the physical description, I really liked him in the role. - Will Hunting, Ruler Supreme of Blood Feud Aug 26, 08:10 2
  - I hadn't read any of the novels before the first movie so I really liked Cruise in the role as well. -- nm - crash davis Aug 26, 08:17 1
    - I actively don't like the books -- his writing style is painful to me. - Will Hunting, Ruler Supreme of Blood Feud Aug 26, 08:33
McCain requested Obama and George W. Bush deliver eulogies at funeral - crash davis Aug 26, 07:52
"All words are pegs to hang ideas on." -- nm - David Aug 26, 07:33
go ahead and rate my money league live draft. Lots of drinking involved fwiw. ppr 6 points or a QB td -2 for int - CQ Aug 26, 07:20 2
- I'd be happy with that team. B+ -- nm - Krusty Aug 26, 08:15
- i was 8th pick. 12 team -- nm - CQ Aug 26, 08:07
The World Responds To Me Winning HQ Trivia -- (link) - Reagen Aug 26, 05:48 7
- I just called Amy, "Tom". -- nm - Spawn: Blood Feud God Aug 26, 09:23 1
  - of course you did, Tom -- nm - mud Aug 26, 09:27
- I love this -- nm - crash davis Aug 26, 07:48
- That's fantastic - Will Hunting, Ruler Supreme of Blood Feud Aug 26, 07:06 2
  - All of it was great, but the third grade bully was fantastic. -- nm - crash davis Aug 26, 07:49
  - Naturally. I like that not only was it funny to start, it really becomes clever when it follows the rules of comedy. -- nm - Qale Aug 26, 07:11
- Tom is clever -- nm - Epiphany Aug 26, 06:38
Power Outage at Dodger Stadium during last night's ballgame. -- (link) - budice Aug 26, 02:19
Prince's family sues the doctor -- (link) - peglegpete Aug 25, 23:28
Heavens. ! -- (link) - Facto Aug 25, 23:24 1
- They are just that friendly!! -- nm - Epiphany Aug 26, 06:50
Big Brother HOH, nominees and POV winner spoilers - peglegpete Aug 25, 23:20
I'm sure that a certain someone can neither confirm nor deny the truth of this tweet. -- (link*) - Beryllium Aug 25, 22:39 16
- I'd like to be the Dominic Purcell character on Jack's crew. -- nm - crash davis Aug 26, 09:38
- Why do you think we're getting Space Force? They're looking for the wormholes. -- nm - jnine Aug 25, 23:11 1
  - don't forget looking for asteroids made of diamonds -- nm - peglegpete Aug 25, 23:14
- if I were to time travel expressly to manipulate the market, I'd be going to late summer 1929 to short a lot of stocks over then next year. -- nm - peglegpete Aug 25, 22:53 12
  - Just avoid anything that has dividends :) -- nm - Beryllium Aug 25, 23:03 1
    - I'll have lots of notes on what drops when, or rises. -- nm - peglegpete Aug 25, 23:14
  - least suspicious way: go back, buy something that'll be huge in the future, put it in a trust, go forward. -- nm - mafic Aug 25, 23:03 9
    - Surprised that buzzfeed hasn't done a listicle of the best opportunities for this. -- nm - Beryllium Aug 25, 23:04 7
      - I'm going to marry Hedy Lamar, and make sure she renews all of her patents. -- nm - peglegpete Aug 25, 23:17 5
        
        Talk to Constance Bannister (Bannister Babies) she invented flash sync that every camera used, gave it to some lens maker for a collection of lenes - zeitgeist Aug 25, 23:31 4
        
        you marry her. I'm quite happy with Hedy and the stock market money I will make before meeting her. -- nm* - peglegpete Aug 25, 23:50 3
        
        I mean, you both realize that you're going to have to kidnap your younger selves - creating massive paradoxes - to pull that off, right? :D -- (edited) - Beryllium Aug 26, 00:03 2
        
        if I can find a way to go back in time, I can also de-age my current self, but retain the knowledge. Justin Timberlake & Bruce Dern will play me. -- nm - peglegpete Aug 26, 01:01 1
        
        Brain transplant into your younger self. No fear of rejection, because it's the Same Brain. -- nm - Beryllium Aug 26, 09:42
      - I read a thing a while back that did something like this. Exxon, GE, IBM were all over 10% annualised return for like the last 90 years. - mafic Aug 25, 23:16
    - aka the Timecop. -- nm - mafic Aug 25, 23:04
"When the US government tried to replace migrant farmworkers with high schoolers." -- (link) - . Aug 25, 22:37 1
- They really should make that movie. Cool link. -- nm - Beryllium Aug 25, 22:44
Heh. A restaurant for sale: "Big Daddy's Fish Fry". Cash only. What is this, Ozark? -- (link) - Beryllium Aug 25, 21:48 7
- well, Tofino, so yes but with hippies. -- nm - mafic Aug 25, 22:18 1
  - ... the time has come for a dark and gritty Beachcombers reboot. -- nm - Beryllium Aug 25, 22:21
- Man that website is NOT mobile friend. -- nm - Mop Aug 25, 22:04 1
  - They have an app. -- nm - Beryllium Aug 25, 22:21
- I just so happen to have $695,000 in my pocket! -- nm - Spawn: Blood Feud God Aug 25, 21:54 2
  - Cash only for the food, not the ... actually, they'd probably prefer cash, you're right. -- nm - Beryllium Aug 25, 21:57 1
    - how big of a duffle bag would you need? -- nm - zeitgeist Aug 26, 01:38
Bery, the new logo is wonderful, but my twisted mind needs a circus clown, maybe a giant Chucky puppet, a Predator or some other nifty evil poking their nose around a tree. -- nm* - peglegpete Aug 25, 20:52 8
- like this? -- (pic) - Beryllium Aug 25, 21:33 [Attachment]
- I do object the structure of your sentence making seem as you think Bigfoot is evil. -- nm - crash davis Aug 25, 21:06 5
  - I have adjusted the offensive language -- nm - peglegpete Aug 25, 21:15 3
    - though he would have accepted 'clown' in the original message. -- nm - mafic Aug 25, 21:20 1
      - Remlik was another possible replacement :) -- nm - peglegpete Aug 25, 21:21
    - I thank you on behalf of the Sasquatch of BC -- nm - crash davis Aug 25, 21:17
  - That is why he can not see him. -- nm - Spawn: Blood Feud God Aug 25, 21:12
- Uh, look closer. -- nm - Spawn: Blood Feud God Aug 25, 21:01
You're welcome -- (link) - Dano Aug 25, 20:42 [youtube] 2
- Takes me back a few years. -- nm - Spawn: Blood Feud God Aug 25, 21:03
- heh. I know this song well. there are a lot of other "verses" - prayformojo Aug 25, 20:48
I'd not heard about the German wildfires. At least we don't have to worry about unexploded munitions in California. -- (link) - Meg Aug 25, 20:24 1
- And Sweden had a fire burning through a bomb range, with so much UXB they figured the best way to blow it out was to bomb it.literally -- nm - zeitgeist Aug 25, 22:53
Venus De Milo threatened me, but I felt secure. She was unarmed. -- nm - crash davis Aug 25, 20:15 6
- I like dillos, but I don’t support giving them guns. I would never armadillo. -- nm - Flavorize Aug 25, 20:26 5
  - armadildo???? kinky :))) -- nm - peglegpete Aug 25, 20:45
  - I hate it when ursines get amputations. I think they have the right to bear arms. -- nm - crash davis Aug 25, 20:29 3
    - My friend broke his left arm -- He said he was all-right -- nm - Flavorize Aug 25, 20:39 2
      - Did you hear about the man who had his whole left side amputated? -- nm - . Aug 25, 21:57
      - Did you hear about the two men from the monastery who opened a fast-food seafood restaurant? One was the fish friar, the other was the chip monk -- nm - crash davis Aug 25, 20:42
Today I met two of Disney's early animators. They were at the museum for the monthly meeting of Friends of the Mouse and asked to see the garage. -- nm - Meg Aug 25, 20:08 1
- Cool. I've seen some clips of how they did early animation effects, pretty impressive stuff. -- nm - Beryllium Aug 26, 09:44
New foods at the 2018 Minnesota State Fair. I kind of want to go to there. -- (link) - Beryllium Aug 25, 19:52 21
- Some good sounding food there. Also some weird shit -- nm - Karl_S Aug 25, 22:31
- heh. Nothing I would eat on that list. -- nm - Spawn: Blood Feud God Aug 25, 21:57 1
  - Strawberry shortcake? -- nm - jnine Aug 25, 23:16
- I was there in the mid 90s. I still remember that they made a sculpture of the queen of the fair out of butter. And then sculpted a cow out of butter - crash davis Aug 25, 20:36 4
  - at my university in the late '90s one of the dining hall cooks would make lard sculptures on special occasions. -- nm - mafic Aug 25, 22:17 2
    - for dinner tonight, I had spicy fried chook - crash davis Aug 25, 22:23 1
      - the vernacular is insidious. I find I also say "mate" now. -- nm - mafic Aug 26, 15:46
  - I suppose butter sculptures and stuff on a stick are commonplace now, but I give Minnesota credit as the first place I'd seen them -- nm - crash davis Aug 25, 20:46
- 1/3 look good, 1/3 don't register on my radar either way, and the final 1/3 seem weird and must be tried to see if the flavors really work together. -- nm - peglegpete Aug 25, 20:00
- Things I would not eat: Poke bowl (raw tuna in Minnesota? nope), cobbler (I can make that), float (shrug), rainbow cloud roll (gross). -- nm - mafic Aug 25, 19:59 4
  - You're saying Minnesota doesn't know how to handle fish. -- nm - . Aug 25, 21:55 1
    - I'm saying Minnesota is a long way from anywhere tuna is caught. -- nm - mafic Aug 25, 22:38
  - Ive tried poke once. Was not a fan. And that was on the west coast, with essentially dock-fresh tuna. -- nm - Beryllium Aug 25, 20:13 1
    - I've definitely had good poke, but the popularity explosion has definitely killed the quality at most places. -- nm - mafic Aug 25, 20:20
- earth wings? punches. -- nm - mafic Aug 25, 19:54 6
  - I'd still eat them, I just don't like the name. -- nm - mafic Aug 25, 19:55 5
    - CauliWings -- nm - Beryllium Aug 25, 20:18 3
      - “ Look Karen, if I spend 30 days on Keto and grab what I think is a hot wing and it turns out to be albino broccoli covered in barbecue sauce, I’m - Epiphany Aug 25, 20:41 2
        
        They just need a name that is derivative of Buffalo Wings, but causing California or Portland (Oregon) to spring immediately to mind. -- nm - Beryllium Aug 25, 21:03
        
        you live in Texas. that sort of meatless offence, shooting to kill is not only sanctioned, but rewarded with a lot of cash. -- nm - peglegpete Aug 25, 20:49
    - it's a really bad name -- nm - peglegpete Aug 25, 20:00

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