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Nice going dummy -- nm - Bacon Sep 6, 20:30
I just downloaded an app that shows raw data from all hardware sensors on my phone. Apparently I have a magnetic field sensor. Who knew? -- nm - colin Sep 6, 20:26 3
- cool! I can do geophysical surveys with your phone! -- nm - mafic Sep 6, 20:54
- The Shadow. -- nm - Beryllium Sep 6, 20:27 1
  - But HOW??? -- nm - colin Sep 6, 20:30
Philly Special!! -- nm - decline Sep 6, 20:14
there are 2 minor league pitchers named Brady Feigl, 1 is 22 and 1 is 27. They've both had Tommy John surgery by the same doc...look at them -- (link) - Remlik Sep 6, 20:02 1
- Face/Off. My hope is that they both end up playing for the Twins. -- nm - Beryllium Sep 6, 20:03
Should we give the Green Zone time??? -- (link) - budice Sep 6, 20:00 1
- heh -- (link) - budice Sep 6, 20:07
Voice actor Maurice LaMarche gives an Attenborough-style take on Forza Horizon 4: -- (link) - Max Sep 6, 19:56
PBS started a new show called 'The Great American Read'. How many of 100 books (or series of books) have you read? -- (link) - GregW Sep 6, 19:46 24
- 38 -- nm - Covington Sep 7, 03:29
- 19 -- nm - Beaker Sep 7, 03:00
- 56. I mean, as long as it's not supposed to be a *top* 100 list, it's not bad. it's a good swathe of pop and lit fiction over the last ~150 years. -- nm - mafic Sep 6, 21:00
- 47 -- nm - Flavorize Sep 6, 20:50
- 24 -- nm - zeitgeist Sep 6, 20:43
- 42 -- nm - Ender Sep 6, 20:20
- 27. Also, I take huge issue with some of the books on here. -- nm - colin Sep 6, 20:14 4
  - So do I. -- nm - . Sep 6, 20:29
  - I haven’t read Great Expectations, but I have read other books by Dickens. -- nm - Beryllium Sep 6, 20:20 2
    - He's... tough. I like some, but not all of them. -- nm - colin Sep 6, 20:24 1
      - I read David Copperfield. I know what you mean. -- nm - Beryllium Sep 6, 20:26
- 22 -- nm - decline Sep 6, 20:10
- Jesus ... 9. I’m a literary wasteland. -- nm - Beryllium Sep 6, 20:08 1
  - Ha! -- nm - Krusty Sep 6, 20:34
- 32 -- nm - Krusty Sep 6, 20:08
- 30, and one of my all time favorites is on there. -- nm - . Sep 6, 20:04
- 24. Disgusted as usual 50 Shades is on a list like this. -- nm - Qale Sep 6, 20:03 6
  - That and The Marian kind of balance each other out for works that are very much of this age - JD Sep 6, 20:07 5
    - The DaVinci Code though? What balances that out? -- nm - colin Sep 6, 20:17 4
      - Anne of Green Gables -- nm - Beryllium Sep 6, 20:21 3
        
        Could you be more wrong? -- nm - colin Sep 6, 20:24 2
        
        Not likely. -- nm - Beryllium Sep 6, 20:26 1
        
        Agreed. -- nm - colin Sep 6, 20:26
- 38 - JD Sep 6, 19:58
US Open Women's Final: Serena Williams vs Naomi Osaka -- (link) - budice Sep 6, 19:37
This is quite a week for big earthquakes. Japan, Fiji, and just now Ecuador, plus a few others I can’t remember. -- nm - Beryllium Sep 6, 19:33 9
- I saw the stats on that Fiji quake. 390 miles below the surface! I don't remember one being that deep but there have been 90 of them recorded -- nm - Bacon Sep 6, 20:12 1
  - The Core is angry this week. -- nm - Beryllium Sep 6, 20:22
- This is earth shattering news -- nm - crash davis Sep 6, 19:34 6
  - I set everyone up for a series of quake puns and no one responds? This is not my fault. -- nm - crash davis Sep 6, 20:11 5
    - Well, I for one did not grasp the magnitude of what you had done. -- nm - Beryllium Sep 6, 20:20 4
      - I shudder to imagine what you mighta said. -- nm - mud Sep 6, 20:22 3
        
        Well it really wasn't his fault. -- nm - Meg Sep 6, 20:32 2
        
        This thread is starting to slip. -- nm - Bacon Sep 6, 20:34 1
        
        our plate is full now. -- nm - mud Sep 6, 20:35
Actor With Sex-Offender Status Pulled From 'The Predator' Film -- (link) - budice Sep 6, 19:32 3
- CGI replace him with James Roday. -- nm - Beryllium Sep 6, 19:52
- The bad news? His friend plays the Super Predator. -- nm -- Spawn Sep 6 '18, 12:05 -- nm - Spawn: Blood Feud God Sep 6, 19:43
- A long time ago I recall a comedian making a joke about there being a sequel called “Sexual Predator”. Or maybe it was a porn version? -- nm - Beryllium Sep 6, 19:34
Right there is what I'm talking about. I've only been watching football for 45+ years and Collinsworth explained the significance of third down to me. - crash davis Sep 6, 19:26 5
- Some viewers are new. More being born every day. -- nm - GregW Sep 6, 19:48 1
  - I'm doubtful newborns are viewers, but I concede it is possible. -- nm - crash davis Sep 6, 20:11
- Perhaps of the green zone changed, say, to orange on third down it would help illustrate his point. -- nm - colin Sep 6, 19:32
- now wasnt that nice of him? -- nm - mud Sep 6, 19:28 1
  - Yes. He is a full service dude. -- nm - crash davis Sep 6, 19:30
LocalNews just happened few block away: Man detained after saying he had a bomb in his vehicle outside Huntington Beach City Hall -- (link*) - budice Sep 6, 19:18 1
- stay safe, the world is going nuts -- nm - crash davis Sep 6, 19:21
Hey dummy. Take it at the 25, you almost cost your team a play before the two minute warning. -- nm - crash davis Sep 6, 19:14 3
- Goodell hates when we kneel though. -- nm - Bacon Sep 6, 19:15 2
  - I'm getting old. Bad special teams play makes me cranky. -- nm - crash davis Sep 6, 19:17 1
    - The game died when they banned horse collars! Gol darnit! -- nm - colin Sep 6, 19:24
That slide was horrid. -- nm - Bacon Sep 6, 19:07 4
- had to use a TO to fix the brace! -- nm - mud Sep 6, 19:08 3
  - That's why I am in the Hall of Fame -- nm - TO Sep 6, 19:13
  - I thought it was an emergency nikedectomy, cut that swoosh out -- nm - zeitgeist Sep 6, 19:13 1
    - 👏 -- nm - JD Sep 6, 19:17
colin: chocolate-dipped jujubes. In case you wanted an extreme texture clash to go with your flavour clash. -- nm - Beryllium Sep 6, 18:59 4
- I'm OK with this. Dipped gummy bears are too soft. That rock hard gummy with soft chocolate sounds nice. -- nm - colin Sep 6, 19:15 3
  - It was ... unpleasant. -- nm - Beryllium Sep 6, 19:35 2
    - I love chocolate but some things should not be dipped in it. -- nm* - . Sep 6, 19:43 1
      - Wrong, all things dipped. All. Things. Dipped. - colin Sep 6, 20:18
Holding #62, The Green Zone Gets Bigger, 2nd Down -- nm - crash davis Sep 6, 18:58
That is why beer sales are down -- nm - crash davis Sep 6, 18:55
DPI? -- nm - budice Sep 6, 18:54
Hey Bacon, can I get the details on that cruise again? -- nm - Meg Sep 6, 18:47 9
- 499 Days!! Also we have a private facebook page for anyone going or thinking about going. You are in our page already -- (link*) - Bacon Sep 6, 18:52 8
  - WillGuy Fieri be on the cruise? -- nm - Cuzzin Todd Sep 6, 19:42 1
    - His burger joint is -- nm - Bacon Sep 6, 20:04
  - Dude. A 499 day cruise is FAR too long.. -- nm - Ender Sep 6, 19:35
  - Thanks, I saw your posts but didn't think to go to the page..... - Meg Sep 6, 18:56 4
    - of course. 3 ports have docks, Half Moon Cay is a Tender but walker is fine, wheelchair is an issue. So stay with the walker. :) -- nm - Bacon Sep 6, 18:57 3
      - Jax and I will carry you -- nm - Bacon Sep 6, 18:58 2
        
        So far, so good, but I'm getting older all the time and January 2020 is a long way off. Don't count on me for snorkeling or zip-lining though :) -- nm - Meg Sep 6, 19:11 1
        
        I don't do zip-lines, no no no no -- nm - Bacon Sep 6, 19:12
Stephen, don't buy Spiderman or your thumb might fall off -- nm - Bacon Sep 6, 18:44 1
- But I’ve already pre-ordered it! -- nm - IrishStephen Sep 6, 18:55
also, the greatest softball episode of any TV show ever (The DS9 episode is baseball if wondering) -- (link) - Beaker Sep 6, 18:43 [youtube] 13
- If you ignore Homer at the Bat? -- nm - Krusty Sep 6, 19:03 6
  - This -- nm - Ender Sep 6, 19:36
  - 1-1 and 1-2 -- nm - Beaker Sep 6, 19:07 2
    - and see the Baseball HOF recogniesn the simpsons, so it invalidates them for softbal -- nm - Beaker Sep 6, 19:09 1
      - But they play softball. :-) -- nm - Krusty Sep 6, 19:13
  - MATTINGLY. -- nm - Beryllium Sep 6, 19:04 1
    - "I still like him better than Steinbrenner." -- nm - Beryllium Sep 6, 19:05
- I like how he wears super-tight jeans playing softball... -- nm - Beaker Sep 6, 18:45
- I liked the DS9 where they played the Vulcans in baseball -- nm - crash davis Sep 6, 18:44 4
  - Don't TOuch the Umpire! -- (link) - Remlik Sep 6, 19:30 [youtube]
  - I...literally mention it! -- nm - Beaker Sep 6, 18:44 2
    - Ok... but what about that DS9 episode where they play baseball? -- nm - Ender Sep 6, 19:37
    - Yeah, I thought I'd say I liked that one -- nm - crash davis Sep 6, 18:45
tomorrow is T-minus 60 days til your midterms (and it's Friday, so ..) poll: y/n -will there be indictment(s)? -- nm - mud Sep 6, 18:42 4
- Well, there already have been so... yes. -- nm - Cuzzin Todd Sep 6, 19:06 2
  - (I meant tomorrow) -- nm - mud Sep 6, 19:06 1
    - Ahhh because of that 'no indictments within x days of an election' thing... got it. -- nm - Cuzzin Todd Sep 6, 19:49
- Nothing major, I'd assume -- nm - crash davis Sep 6, 19:02
Feels like another Preseason game. -- nm - budice Sep 6, 18:42
Jones got Alligator Arms there, but I don't blame him -- nm - Bacon Sep 6, 18:42 2
- I've seen Gronk and Tony Gonzalez get them, but I've never seen it happen to Julio. -- nm - David Sep 6, 18:45
- okay not as bad in slomo -- nm - Bacon Sep 6, 18:42
Jalen Ramsay saying he could play in the NHL in 6 months might be the absolute stupidest fucking thing I have ever seen - Beaker Sep 6, 18:38 4
- skating's too specialised a skill. if he's a good lacrosse player he might have the sense for it, but no way he's an NHL-calibre skater in 6 months. - mafic Sep 6, 18:46 3
  - never skated, apparently. -- nm - Reagen Sep 6, 18:55 1
    - I would pay to see his tryout. -- nm - mafic Sep 6, 19:18
  - I'm sure he thinks he is better than Patrick Chan -- nm - crash davis Sep 6, 18:47
Darren Sproles is eternal. -- nm - David Sep 6, 18:36 1
- I was shocked when they had him run it out of the end zone earlier, up the middle. -- nm - Bacon Sep 6, 18:38
Still have the sound down while Pod Save America plays. Are they saying Hooper was interfered with? -- nm - crash davis Sep 6, 18:35 3
- They're saying it was bang-bang but yes. We don't get and goal calls against Philly, though. - David Sep 6, 18:37 2
  - and now Collensworth is talking about it. -- nm - Bacon Sep 6, 18:42
  - Thanks, for some reason it is vital to me to find out what Cynthia Nixon thinks about NYC subway funding. -- nm - crash davis Sep 6, 18:40
Weird. Black Rabbit and Team Autodraft both have Julio and Bryant. -- nm - Spawn: Blood Feud God Sep 6, 18:33
Dammit I want my sack points -- nm - Bacon Sep 6, 18:30
Shaun if you are around, I know you are going to EB Games: they have a bunch of Funkos in the $5 Friday sale tomorrow -- nm - Beaker Sep 6, 18:30
Without googling, do you know who Gary Sandy is? -- nm - David Sep 6, 18:28 16
- Yep -- nm - . Sep 6, 19:25
- Baby if you ever wondered... wondered who Gary Sandy is. -- nm - Cuzzin Todd Sep 6, 19:04
- Nope -- nm - Krusty Sep 6, 19:01
- Is he living on the air? -- nm - TWuG Sep 6, 18:43
- yes -- nm - peglegpete Sep 6, 18:40
- He wore REALLY tight jeans -- nm - Dano Sep 6, 18:33
- no -- nm - prayformojo Sep 6, 18:32 1
  - oh, hell. I shoulda known that. -- nm - prayformojo Sep 6, 18:33
- no. photo was familiar (I am familiar with his work though). -- nm - mafic Sep 6, 18:32 1
  - meaning: didn't put it together until I read the wikipedia blurb google provides. -- nm - mafic Sep 6, 18:35
- of course - Beaker Sep 6, 18:31 3
  - Very good. He just kind of vanished after it went off the air. -- nm - David Sep 6, 18:33 2
    - He did a lot of live theatre after WKRP. I saw him perform in 'Best Little Whorehouse in Texas'. -- nm - Diva Sep 6, 19:08
    - he plays a part, in, like the most famous Thanksgiving scene of all time!! - Beaker Sep 6, 18:34
- does Binging it count? -- nm - Reagen Sep 6, 18:31
- HE was the star of the Larry Sanders Show. No I don't -- nm - Bacon Sep 6, 18:29
oh shit, here comes the catch or not music.... -- nm - Beaker Sep 6, 18:26 1
- its a catch, tell them to keep it moving along -- nm - crash davis Sep 6, 18:28
Bacon actually did start the Philly D against me. Lets go Matt Ryan *clap clap clap* lets go! -- nm - crash davis Sep 6, 18:23 1
- I am beating you 12 to .4, if you bench your players now I will call off the dogs -- nm* - Bacon Sep 6, 18:23
PLAID ZONE!!! -- nm - Cuzzin Todd Sep 6, 18:22 9
- TWILIGHT ZONE! -- nm - Bacon Sep 6, 18:23 8
  - RADAR LOVE! -- nm - Reagen Sep 6, 18:25 7
    - SHIT, ANOTHER GOLDEN EARRING SONG! I ONLY KNOW TWO! -- nm - crash davis Sep 6, 18:27 4
      - ONE MORE THAN ME! WHY ARE WE YELLING? -- nm - mafic Sep 6, 18:35 3
        
        I THOUGHT IT WAS THE THING TO DO IN AUSTRALIA! -- nm - crash davis Sep 6, 18:41 2
        
        YEAH, TOO MUCH AND YOU'LL GET THE BOOT! -- nm - mafic Sep 6, 18:47 1
        
        TOO RIGHT, MATE! -- nm - Reagen Sep 6, 18:55
    - Oh Black Betty, Bam da lam -- (edited) - Beaker Sep 6, 18:27 1
      - I mean, it was just utter nonsense what you were saying. -- nm - Reagen Sep 6, 18:31
GREEN ZONE! -- nm - Beaker Sep 6, 18:21 4
- the Yellow Zone will be the 10 yards behind the line of scrimmage/ -- nm - Beaker Sep 6, 18:22 3
  - Don't you tell me which zone is for loading, and which zone is for stopping! -- nm - Qale Sep 6, 18:23 2
    - don't you want to know what zone is for pooping? - spoilers - Beaker Sep 6, 18:26
    - Thank you! I saw that post and thought exactly that. -- nm - Bacon Sep 6, 18:24

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