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wap? the face-licking florida politician resigned earlier this week. nm but: -- (link) - b. Feb 7, 19:54 3
- maybe she needed the salt? -- nm - zeitgeist Feb 7, 20:26
- Was it, like, sensual face-licking? Or jabba the hutt face-licking? -- nm - Beryllium Feb 7, 20:03 1
  - non-sensual. (the whole thing is grody gross gross.) -- nm - b. Feb 7, 20:20
Top news on Trib's front page is Bill Daley's passing an insurance test under suspicious circumstsnces. - . Feb 7, 19:43 1
- "Bill Daley's passing" caught my eye. heh. (Even though I don't know who that is.) -- nm - Beryllium Feb 7, 20:10
This is just wow too -- (link) - Jovian Feb 7, 19:40 7
- Wouldn't it be wild if 2019 turned out to be The Year of the Prosecutor and Rudy Giuliani of all people found himself on the losing side. -- nm - Max Feb 7, 20:03 2
  - that pos has been quiet as a church mouse lately hasnt he. -- nm - Jovian Feb 7, 20:16
  - Rudy has always been a self-serving son of a b—-t. It was bound to catch up to him eventually. -- nm - Mr. Havens Feb 7, 20:10
- I can guarantee agreements like those are going to catch more than a few Trump cronies - TWuG Feb 7, 19:51 3
  - imagine if this blackmail attempt was on behalf of DJT - Jovian Feb 7, 19:52 2
    - You may end up being right about that. -- (link) - TWuG Feb 7, 20:03 1
      - I dunno. Can you really trust an Eagles fan? Especially one that lives in Miami? -- nm - Beryllium Feb 7, 20:09
Lakers won the game tonight vs Celts fwiw -- (link) - budice Feb 7, 19:37
RC, how is the house? -- nm - peglegpete Feb 7, 19:33 3
- Progressing steadily. - ReluctantCynic Feb 7, 19:54 [Attachment] 2
  - I know that's just wallboard for the shower stall, but it kinda looks like an art design you wanted it that way -- nm - zeitgeist Feb 7, 20:28
  - nice! I thought of you this morning - story on local news about local gov't trying to ease the way to more ADUs being built to help with the housing - b. Feb 7, 19:59
Kavanaugh writes dissent, Roberts sides with the liberals. -- (link) - mud Feb 7, 19:28 19
- There's your out on the wall, Trump! Shiny new thing! Go get it, boy! -- nm - Max Feb 7, 20:08
- Is Roberts becoming the swing vote now? -- nm - Tim Feb 7, 19:30 8
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    - fwiw, I've read the thought here is that he didn't want to overturn on an emergency appeal; but he still might support in the future. I can't find - b. Feb 7, 19:45
    - Roberts is going to get pilloried tomorrow on rightwing radio. -- nm - Jovian Feb 7, 19:40 5
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        I should have refreshed. :) - this is basically what the post I couldn't easily find was saying. -- nm - b. Feb 7, 19:46
        
        oh fuck him. totally. - Jovian Feb 7, 19:43 1
        
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      - and also just wow. - Jovian Feb 7, 19:40
- Wonder how Sen Collins feels about supporting Kavanaugh now. -- (edited) - TWuG Feb 7, 19:29 8
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    - She is going to be voted out in a landslide in 2020 -- nm - Jovian Feb 7, 19:42 6
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        Just based on my brain telling me that. -- nm - Jovian Feb 7, 19:45 4
        
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        She is my 'Ted Cruz' of the next election cycle. - Jovian Feb 7, 19:55
        
        she hasn't actually said she's going to run again, said she'll decide towards the end of the year. with the targeting against her, it'll be - b. Feb 7, 19:49 1
        
        and that she hasnt yet said is she is running yet, imo proves that she knows she has a tough road ahead. -- nm - Jovian Feb 7, 19:51
HQers, new to me, if you enter your username at this site, it gives your overall stats. it's not quite current - I hit level 7 last night, it shows 6. -- (link*) - b. Feb 7, 19:17
"her gimmick is she is a French aristocrat who "kidnapped" and brainwashed her tag team partner into thinking she's a French maid." - David Feb 7, 19:10
boy, the Patriots guy (works for the company we share the offices with and sits over the cube wall) is one of the bigger assholes I've ever met. - mafic Feb 7, 19:04 7
- All Patriots fans are like that. -- nm - David Feb 7, 19:09 6
  - Nathan is the worst! -- nm - Qale Feb 7, 19:37
  - he's also a Dodgers fan. I don't know where they sit on the spectrum. -- nm - mafic Feb 7, 19:10 4
    - Patriots fans are in a league of their own — nm - Mr. Havens Feb 7, 19:29
    - That is two major strikes against him in my book. Feel free to kick him in the nuts -- nm - Amoxy Feb 7, 19:24
    - Magic Johnson owns the Dodgers, so they're okay. Not great but okay. -- nm - David Feb 7, 19:10 1
      - X days since last deadly fan incident! -- nm - con_carne Feb 7, 19:13
Halloween costume idea for this year. - Beryllium Feb 7, 18:52
Fucking Alabama denies death row inmate the presence of an imam, says he can have a Christian priest or suck it. SCOTUS agrees. - TWuG Feb 7, 18:38 4
- Wait .. what? - ReluctantCynic Feb 7, 19:03 3
  - I hate to be flip, but this feels as obvious as that non-PI call. -- nm - Reagen Feb 7, 19:05 2
    - I'm reading the article and jay-zuss kee-rist. - ReluctantCynic Feb 7, 19:20 1
      - I'm amused the inmate wanted to see David Bowie's wife. -- nm - peglegpete Feb 7, 19:25
Congratulations to the National Enquirer on becoming the story. I'm pretty sure there were some illegalities in those written threats. - Mop Feb 7, 18:35 1
- They can’t get ahold of their lawyer, Michael Cohen -- nm - Mr. Havens Feb 7, 18:36
YOUR ALL MULCH BUTT HOS! -- nm - Cuzzin Todd Feb 7, 18:32
Anyone know what’s going on with Dingell? -- nm - Mr. Havens Feb 7, 18:21 3
- Flesh wound. -- nm - David Feb 7, 18:24
- ;p (nice to see you back, despite this kind of thing.) -- nm - b. Feb 7, 18:22 1
  - ;) -- nm - Mr. Havens Feb 7, 18:35
john dingell (former house rep, longest ever to serve there) has died at 92. nm but: -- (link) - b. Feb 7, 18:20
John Dingell, Democrat from Detroit and longest serving member of Congress ever, has died at 92. - TWuG Feb 7, 18:20 2
- twitter master -- (link) - Remlik Feb 7, 18:58
- oops, but he was worthy! -- nm* - b. Feb 7, 18:21
I kind of want to see the Jimmy Eat World / Third Eye Blind tour -- nm - Dano Feb 7, 18:17 1
- I would go. -- nm - Spawn Feb 7, 18:50
happy ending, but how the heck long was this cat outside before her humans found her buried in snow? poor fluffy. nm but: -- (link) - b. Feb 7, 17:49 3
- they're running Public service ads telling people to bring their pets in before they freeze to death, people just don't think of them -- nm - zeitgeist Feb 7, 18:29
- OMG. Reminds me of that Play Station commercial I loathe where the guy is singing about staying home and shows his cat frozen outside. -- nm - Spawn Feb 7, 18:15
- aw, kitty! my dumb cats have a cat door, but can't get outside our yard, or I'd probably worry about them when it rains. -- nm - mafic Feb 7, 18:13
2 things from CNN: 1) Anderson Cooper is incapable of pronouncing "colloquially" and 2) he is unwilling to say "dick pic." - Max Feb 7, 17:38 2
- he's worried if he says "dick" it'll throw him into one of his giggle-fits. -- nm - mud Feb 7, 17:43
- Did he say "below the belt portraiture"? (NM) - Marlowe Feb 7, 17:40
if I was a NYer & had voted for AOC, I may just play this vid on a loop for an hour or two: -- (link) - mud Feb 7, 17:24 9
- Not in love with her voice. But she builds a very fine case. (NM) - Marlowe Feb 7, 17:31 7
  - 94% of people under 30 have intolerable amounts of vocal fry. -- nm - Reagen Feb 7, 17:34 1
    - I just liked it for the shade it throws at donald and .. - mud Feb 7, 17:37
  - ... have you ever said that about a man? -- nm - Spawn Feb 7, 17:32 4
    - Why can’t a woman be more like a man? -- nm - Prof Higgins Feb 7, 18:26
    - No. I usually refer to a man's voice as "his". (NM) - Marlowe Feb 7, 17:39
    - I've said the first part about Trump, but not the second part. -- nm - Beryllium Feb 7, 17:33 1
      - [snork] - mud Feb 7, 17:34
- ~ bad girls do it well ~ -- nm - Max Feb 7, 17:26
So Gotham is going with the No Man’s Land storyline? I always thought it would be a cool movie. -- nm - Volnelk Feb 7, 17:13 1
- Rises -- nm - Spawn Feb 7, 17:24
Long-term care facility in Arizona where an incapacitated woman gave birth is shutting down. -- (link) - budice Feb 7, 16:41 3
- Leaving her homeless? -- nm - Spawn Feb 7, 17:33 2
  - I imagine they're giving her all of their money first. -- nm - mafic Feb 7, 18:59
  - She has a kid that can take care of her now -- nm - Bacon Feb 7, 18:54
Excel help needed... I can't seem to find a good way to ask Google - Dano Feb 7, 16:36 9
- Run a pivot table and for each unique value in A, figure out how to divide the sum of E by the count of E. -- (edited) - Super Daddy Princess Feb 7, 17:05 2
  - It actually worked! -- (edited) - znufrii Feb 7, 17:27
  - (This assumes that E is numbers) -- nm - Super Daddy Princess Feb 7, 17:11
- Here's my thought: - Roger More Feb 7, 16:44 3
  - spreadsheet solution buddies! -- nm - prayformojo Feb 7, 17:13 1
    - Bump protractors! -- nm - David Feb 7, 17:16
  - That may work (you and pfm have the same solution) I’m okay with multiple rows being highlighted. All of the BBBBBBBB rows in my example would be fine -- nm - Dano Feb 7, 16:46
- Maybe a pivot table with Rows for A and Values for E using COUNTA to identify A with more than one value. -- nm* - Max Feb 7, 16:41
- to evaluate row 5, you could try..... - prayformojo Feb 7, 16:41
"On February 7, 1973, the United States Senate voted 77-to-0 to approve 93 S.Res 60 and establish a select committee to investigate Watergate" - Max Feb 7, 16:34 1
- I remember it more like there was nothing on TV at the time besides the hearings. At least during the day. -- nm - GregW Feb 7, 17:06
Lego prosthetics! -- (link) - mud Feb 7, 16:22 1
- Lego-Man, Lego-Man, Does Whatever A Lego Can. Builds an arm, out of bricks. Catches badguys, does some tricks. Look out, here comes the LEGO-Man! -- nm - Beryllium Feb 7, 16:27
I'm not saying I don't like it but an 18 minute big beat track is not what I expected out of the new Phoenix album. -- nm - Reagen Feb 7, 16:13 2
- (I'm thinking this has to be mislabled and/or a different Phoenix) -- nm - Reagen Feb 7, 16:31 1
  - "This is *not* Mel Tormé." -- nm - Max Feb 7, 16:46
Deadly Class spoilers - Beaker Feb 7, 16:10
Link from Daughter..... -- (link) - Meg Feb 7, 16:09 7
- And isn't even spring yet. *sigh* -- nm - . Feb 7, 18:19
- WTF? We have flood warnings, ton of rain for days. Now we have a tornado warning? -- nm -- Spawn Feb 7 '19, 12:43 - Spawn Feb 7, 17:32 3
  - yeah it's crazy they're calling off schools tomrorrow -- nm - Remlik Feb 7, 17:46 1
    - The annoying thing is that school is not like it was when we were kids. A couple of snow days used to mean a couple days off. Now, they make them up. -- nm - Spawn Feb 7, 18:52
  - And about 15 minutes ago I informed Logan that it would be 15F when he gets on the bus in the morning. -- nm - Spawn Feb 7, 17:35
- "Tidal wave!" "But we're not even-" "Fire hurricane!" -- nm - Max Feb 7, 16:19 1
  - Maybe I should rethink moving to Kansas? :/ -- nm - Meg Feb 7, 16:24
Oops, trash truck falls in sinkhole in Torrance. -- (link) - Meg Feb 7, 16:03
Amazon: Jeff Bezos publishes article about theats he received from Natl Enquirer regarding private pics/texts -- (link*) - budice Feb 7, 15:32 33
- I wonder if Lauren Sanchez is a honeypot given her brother's association with Trump's buddies. - Mop Feb 7, 18:39
- One has to wonder what the people at the National Enquirer we’re thinking... - Mr. Havens Feb 7, 18:21 4
  - I assume they're very afraid that Bezos has real substantial dirt on them. And they just made things so much worse for themselves. -- nm - Mop Feb 7, 18:50
  - I totally thought you were going here with this... -- (link) - Beaker Feb 7, 18:26 [youtube]
  - Owner of Enquirer is a friend and supporter of the president. -- nm - . Feb 7, 18:23 1
    - Yep, and talk about picking the wrong side of the battle -- nm - Mr. Havens Feb 7, 18:38
- I really hope Bezos got the woman's permission before releasing the details of her selfies. - TWuG Feb 7, 17:00 5
  - She's his girlfriend, so...probably? nm - ralph wiggum Feb 7, 17:03 4
    - It should go without saying. -- nm - TWuG Feb 7, 17:18 1
      - "If you'll read our contract, you'll see you specifically signed off on this." - Reagen Feb 7, 17:27
    - "So sweet baby, I gots a question to ask ya....." -- nm - The Beez Feb 7, 17:12
    - He's just using this as an opportunity to brag about his hot girlfriend! -- nm - Max Feb 7, 17:06
- I wonder if the strategist that had this brilliant idea has been fired. (NM) - Marlowe Feb 7, 16:58
- "Name as Destiny" rears its head once again. -- nm - Reagen Feb 7, 16:21
- Good for him. nm - ralph wiggum Feb 7, 16:19 14
  - The Enquirer creeps zeroing in on the "wedding ring" ... are there bonus points for double-extortion? -- nm - Beryllium Feb 7, 16:21 13
    - He's already getting divorced, I don't know why they think that detail is going to scandalize anyone. nm - ralph wiggum Feb 7, 16:25 12
      - when the story was first out, they tried to make it seem more salacious than it was. the response was like "yah, we're together, the spouses we're - b. Feb 7, 17:19
      - Because US, sex, you know... - Marlowe Feb 7, 17:18
      - probably cause the blackmail that was ultimately used to flip Lindsay Graham into Trump's personal bitch was probably something along the same lines. - Jovian Feb 7, 16:28
      - It's sort of against the spirit of the thing, but wouldn't you want to be a fly on the wall for both of these lawyers meetings? -- nm - Reagen Feb 7, 16:28 8
        
        I don't know about the AMI in house lawyer, but Marty Singer is a scary mofo. nm - ralph wiggum Feb 7, 16:40 7
        
        But yes, a whole legal negotiation about whether they will publish dick picks and mildly racy selfies would be surreal. nm - ralph wiggum Feb 7, 16:42 6
        
        "Send em back a picture of my taint." -- nm - Reagen Feb 7, 16:50 3
        
        literally almost did a spit take at this. -- nm - b. Feb 7, 17:20
        
        Seems like this strategy probably came from Gavin de Becker (nmblink) - ralph wiggum Feb 7, 17:04 1
        
        Right, that's what I was doing. "But Liam, no one was..." "THAT'S WHAT I WAS DOING" -- nm - Liam Neeson Feb 7, 17:07
        
        or an episode of Suits! -- nm - Max Feb 7, 16:44 1
        
        Actually, this was an episode of The Practice -- (link) - Max Feb 7, 17:05 [youtube]
- Yes yes, go ahead and try to blackmail and extort the richest man on Earth. - Jovian Feb 7, 16:10 2
  - This might be why Bezos confessed the affair and now why the divorce, so he's splitting 120B and is now vulnerable to board of directors out voting - zeitgeist Feb 7, 18:27
  - Yep. -- (link) - Beryllium Feb 7, 16:14 [youtube]
- He probably employs dozens of editors between all the properties ... maybe hundreds of editors. Ah well. - Beryllium Feb 7, 15:34
Lego Movie 2 85% (100/18), What Men Want 46% (18/21), The Prodigy 52% (12/11), Cold Pursuit 81% (48/11), -- nm - Beaker Feb 7, 15:21 1
- Next Week: Alita Battle Angel 60% (40/27), Fighting With My Family 88% (22/3) -- nm - Beaker Feb 7, 15:22
TV PSA: Supernatural (300th episode), Grey's Anatomy, Ex on the Beach, Siren, Big Bang Theory, Titan Games, Top Chef, Young Sheldon, BB Celebrity, NBA -- nm - Beaker Feb 7, 15:19 6
- Brooklyn 99, Flip or Flop, Legacies, Million Little Things, Swamp People, Will & Grace, Floribama, Million $ Listing, HTGAWM, Broad City, L&O SVU, -- nm - Beaker Feb 7, 15:19 5
  - SWAT, The Other Two, Star Trek Discovery, other stuff -- nm - Beaker Feb 7, 15:19 4
    - 2 BB Celeb & Top Chef -- nm - peglegpete Feb 7, 16:09
    - 3: Grey's for the wife, Supernatural for moi, BBT for us both (adding what we all watch is a new favorite ongoing thing of mine) -- nm - Beaker Feb 7, 15:57
    - 4. BBT, Sheldon (which I usually bail on halfway), Broad C, ST: Disco -- nm - mud Feb 7, 15:55
    - 2. (B99 and Disco) -- nm - Beryllium Feb 7, 15:44

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