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Adam Schefter: Tyreek Hill is under investigation for battery of his son. -- nm - Strongbad Mar 15, 14:23 7
- Reminder: his NFL draft stock was terrible because he hit and choked a girlfriend. - David Mar 15, 14:29 5
  - So I wonder if the Chiefs having to dismantle themselves will make teams consider character more strongly. -- nm - Reagen Mar 15, 14:42
  - Choked his pregnant gf...who is now his wife. Kid whose arm he broke is that baby born. AP got a year suspension...Hill should probably be gone - Flavorize Mar 15, 14:36
  - Judas priest, he broke his five-year-old's arm. Fuck him to Hell. -- nm - David Mar 15, 14:34 2
    - :( - -- nm - b. Mar 15, 14:38
    - goddammit -- nm - prayformojo Mar 15, 14:37
- there are news stories about it. I don't want to click. nm but: -- (link) - b. Mar 15, 14:24
Washington Post: Rewatching ‘Game of Thrones’ before the final season? Here are 5 episodes you need to revisit. -- (link) - prayformojo Mar 15, 14:20 1
- from their list, I'd swap out - prayformojo Mar 15, 14:22
this is how you cite a statistic: "YIKES - record-challenging tree pollen today around DC for March. "Tree pollen is HIGH at 1412.46 which looks to be - prayformojo Mar 15, 14:18
NCAA BBall Championship Odds: Duke 12/5, Gonzaga 5/1, UVA 5/1, all others 10/1 or worse -- nm - Strongbad Mar 15, 14:15
.. what kind of car is this? :) -- (link) - Beryllium Mar 15, 14:12 [flickr] 17
- 1935-39, when cars could use the connected, not free floating headlights. not sure of maker or model coupe -- nm - peglegpete Mar 15, 14:40
- Look at the hood ornament - isn't that the Dodge ram? I'd say 2-door Dodge Coupe - early 1940's. YMMV :) -- nm - Meg Mar 15, 14:23
- nm but: -- (link) - b. Mar 15, 14:22 7
  - Different grill -- nm - decline Mar 15, 14:23 6
    - Yup, you search on 1940s 2-door coupe and they all look very similar. -- nm - Meg Mar 15, 14:26 1
      - 1942-6 no cars for people, just the armed forces -- nm - peglegpete Mar 15, 14:41
    - I think it's variation in color - the shape and shape of the windows looks the same to me. -- nm - b. Mar 15, 14:24 3
      - ah, now I see other coupes with similar - different curve of fenderish area. -- nm - b. Mar 15, 14:29 2
        
        hood ornaments & grills are what to look for to tell the difference of the maker of late 1930's coupes -- nm - peglegpete Mar 15, 14:41 1
        
        that and the other distinctly shaped things are what I was looking at, to start. :) - -- nm* - b. Mar 15, 14:43
- A red one -- nm - decline Mar 15, 14:20
- There's some lettering above the wheel hub that I can't make out, but I think it says 'Dodge' -- nm - Roger More Mar 15, 14:20 5
  - And yeah, looks like a ram hood ornament -- nm - Roger More Mar 15, 14:22 4
    - Dodge Luxury Liner -- (link) - Roger More Mar 15, 14:26 2
      - That rear window doesn't quite match but this D11 "Business Coupe" does -- (link*) - Max Mar 15, 22:12
      - video -- (link) - Roger More Mar 15, 14:26 [youtube]
    - Bingo! :) -- nm - Meg Mar 15, 14:24
Cleveland Browns made an Infinity War hype video -- (link) - Remlik Mar 15, 14:09 [youtube]
I dislike both teams, but I'm going to root for UNC over Duke because every time I see Coby White, he reminds me of Crabman -- nm - prayformojo Mar 15, 14:08 1
- I can't root against Zion...he's like Shawn Kemp Part 2--Just a show every game. Massive dunks -- nm - Flavorize Mar 15, 14:09
Surviving Beastie Boys members Adam “Adrock” Horovitz and Michael “Mike D” Diamond will return to the stage in April for a trio of live events - JD Mar 15, 14:08
which had more of a negative impact - comicsgate or gamergate? -- nm - prayformojo Mar 15, 13:53 10
- gamergate started it. But Comicsgate is keeping that mindset going. It's vile. -- nm - Remlik Mar 15, 14:10 1
  - :( -- nm - prayformojo Mar 15, 14:13
- thanks, fellas. I was talking to Abby about the pre-release hubbub over Capt. Marvel tonight. - prayformojo Mar 15, 14:04 1
  - I saw Brie on Kimmel--Did you know she had to wait A YEAR(!) before telling anyone she got the Capt Marvel part? -- nm - Flavorize Mar 15, 14:06
- gamergate, mostly because it started first -- nm - Tim Mar 15, 13:54
- We're going to pay for Gamergate for years to come. It weaponized stupid. -- nm - David Mar 15, 13:54 4
  - and a gateway to the alt-right for many an idiot. -- nm - Tim Mar 15, 13:55 2
    - And we *still* don't have integrity with gaming reviews! -- nm - David Mar 15, 13:56 1
      - ethicsssssssssss -- nm - Tim Mar 15, 13:57
  - Yup. -- nm - ReluctantCynic Mar 15, 13:54
Zeitgeist. Yes there are dozens of contemporary Navajo weavers who do commission work. most start at $100/square foot -- nm - peglegpete Mar 15, 13:52 5
- ST Poll: What would be on an ST commissioned blanket? -- nm - Flavorize Mar 15, 13:58 4
  - no orange yarn -- nm - peglegpete Mar 15, 14:23
  - FSK in full detail -- nm - con_carne Mar 15, 14:06
  - cockneck, cheerleaders, 312.50 -- nm - oblique Mar 15, 14:03
  - Movie Ticket Stubs, Various Sportballs, A Ballot Box, -- nm - JD Mar 15, 14:02
What is Faye Dunaways signature role? - Amoxy Mar 15, 13:34 15
- My head goes Chinatown, but I would probably concede to Bonnie & Clyde. -- nm - Name Withheld By Request Mar 15, 13:58 1
  - Same here. (NM) - Marlowe Mar 15, 14:25
- a backup best role? Mrs. Peter Wolf of the J. Geils Band -- nm - peglegpete Mar 15, 13:55
- Chinatown -- nm - Flavorize Mar 15, 13:35
- Bonnie -- nm - Andie Mar 15, 13:34
- Those are the two. I'd take Mommy Dearest. -- nm - David Mar 15, 13:34 9
  - Network? -- nm - Flavorize Mar 15, 13:36 8
    - She's not even one of the first people who pops in my head when I think about Network. -- nm - David Mar 15, 13:40 7
      - Exactly -- nm - Amoxy Mar 15, 13:41
      - Didn’t she win an Oscar for it? -- nm - Flavorize Mar 15, 13:41 5
        
        Sure, but she wasn't mad as Hell and not going to take it anymore. - David Mar 15, 13:43 2
        
        I think it's more because not many people, under 40, have seen it--nor have they seen Mommy Dearest--Chinatown is her most rewatched flick - Flavorize Mar 15, 13:50
        
        "I learned to read!" -- nm - Kate Winslet si Mar 15, 13:45
        
        She did, but I think of Peter Finch first -- nm - Amoxy Mar 15, 13:43
        
        Yes -- nm - Roger More Mar 15, 13:42
I know, SB, imagine a Republican presidential candidate having a DUI! They'd never support it. - Reagen Mar 15, 13:27 2
- Indeed. -- nm - Strongbad, Astronauts Champion Mar 15, 13:38
- Imagine if a Supreme Court nominee had such a sordid background! -- nm - David Mar 15, 13:34
Whiskey Cavalier ... - Beryllium Mar 15, 13:22
Have we seen this yet about the confirmation that Beto O’Rourke was in the Cult of the Dead Cow hacker group?! -- (link) - Name Withheld By Request Mar 15, 13:21 7
- I heard that in college, *spoils* - Strongbad, Astronauts Champion Mar 15, 13:57 2
  - ...he didn't need to sexually assault women to get laid. -- nm - David Mar 15, 13:58 1
    - Let's hope that's the case. -- nm - Strongbad Mar 15, 14:17
- Just makes me slightly more likely to favor him as a candidate. -- nm - ReluctantCynic Mar 15, 13:54 1
  - Yup -- nm - decline Mar 15, 14:21
- "All right, now that I'm in the Oval Office... *tappita tappita tap* and Russia's nukes are all off line." -- nm - Reagen Mar 15, 13:36
- And here I though we’d already plumbed the depths by listening to his terrible punk band Foss, where he cross-dressed. -- nm - Qale Mar 15, 13:23
I don't want to live on this planet anymore. -- (link) - Tim Mar 15, 13:16 10
- God I miss pizza flavored chips--totally out of style now. I had some ketchup potato chips the other day...pretty good! -- nm - Flavorize Mar 15, 14:04
- dill pickle chips are great. i would eat these. -- nm - Andie Mar 15, 13:34 3
  - Yeah, this seems to be a weird cross-border divide - Reagen Mar 15, 13:47 2
    - I've tried and liked ok the regular pickle and the ketchup, it's the specific flavor profile of the new one that's icky to me. - b. Mar 15, 14:07
    - re: your im - *deep fried* potatoes! - Andie Mar 15, 13:59
- I'd at least try those -- nm - prayformojo Mar 15, 13:21
- I saw an ad for all three of this year's flavors this morning - has to be the worst set yet. nm but: -- (link) - b. Mar 15, 13:20 1
  - Lime and sea salt seems almost quaint. -- nm - Qale Mar 15, 13:32
- How is this any worse - any worse at all - than Doritos Cheeseburger? -- nm - Beryllium Mar 15, 13:19
- Roger More praises it in 3...2...1... -- nm - David Mar 15, 13:18
My dad texted me something during the Oscars and I don't know where he got it, but it's an interesting discussion. - Tim Mar 15, 13:07 53
- Wolf! - Reagen Mar 15, 14:19 2
  - You are technically correct, the best kind of correct. -- nm - Number 1.0 Mar 15, 14:34 1
    - And on that theme, The Witches of Eastwick starred Nicholson, Cher and Susan Sarandon -- nm - Roger More Mar 15, 14:36
- This year robbed us of Hook - Reagen Mar 15, 14:07
- "bad" is in the eye of the beholder but Batman - Reagen Mar 15, 14:05 1
  - DO NOT EVEN JOKE -- nm - David Mar 15, 14:29
- Fast Times at Ridgemont High (Sean Penn, Forrest Whittaker, Nick Cage (one of his first roles and I'm not sure he had a line). Also a nominee in - pmb Mar 15, 13:41
- For a moment I thought you were calling Miss Congeniality a "bad movie" and was about to let you have it. - Cuzzin Todd Mar 15, 13:39
- Big Lebowski: Jeff Bridges, Julianne Moore, PSH. -- nm - Baronan the Accuser Mar 15, 13:31 6
  - I will cut you if you call this bad. -- nm - Reagen Mar 15, 13:36 4
    - It is one of the few movies I've seen that disliked so much it made me angry watching it. - Cuzzin Todd Mar 15, 13:40 2
      - You're wrong than an electrified wronging machine started up on the wrong day. -- nm - Reagen Mar 15, 13:46 1
        
        Reagen's so mad that he's making typos! -- nm - David Mar 15, 13:52
    - I would never. It really ties the board together. -- nm - Baronan the Accuser Mar 15, 13:37
  - excellent. -- nm - Tim Mar 15, 13:33
- Thin Red Line has four future winners (Penn, Brody, Leto and Clooney), but that's probably not the type of bad we're looking for -- nm - Roger More Mar 15, 13:29 2
  - Bad is just a bonus. I imagine the list of movies that qualify isn't that long. -- nm - Tim Mar 15, 13:31 1
    - -bad, here's a page from 2008 with some. nm but: -- (link) - b. Mar 15, 13:35
- Rat Race-Whoopi Gilbert, Cuba Gooding Jr., Kathy Bates -- nm - Amoxy Mar 15, 13:28 2
  - all pre-movie winners. -- nm - Reagen Mar 15, 13:30 1
    - Got it -- nm - Amoxy Mar 15, 13:34
- The Village - William Hurt, Adrien Brody, Joaquin Phoenix as winners. Sigourney Weaver, Jesse Eisenberg acting as nominees. - Name Withheld By Request Mar 15, 13:26 7
  - (Phoenix never won, and Brody won his prior to The Village anyway.) -- nm - Tim Mar 15, 13:30 1
    - heh, I was just about to look that up, thanks! -- nm - b. Mar 15, 13:31
  - joaquin phoenix hasn't won, just been nominated, I think. -- nm - b. Mar 15, 13:30 4
    - Huh. I had him winning for Cash but I guess that was Reese I was thinking of. (Though he'll get one is my bet.) -- nm - Name Withheld By Request Mar 15, 13:31 1
      - PSH for Capote beat him. - Tim Mar 15, 13:32
    - yah. nm but: -- (link) - b. Mar 15, 13:30
    - He'll win for Joker -- nm - Beryllium Mar 15, 13:30
- Valentines Day has 6 -- nm - Flavorize Mar 15, 13:20 4
  - not future winners though. -- nm - Reagen Mar 15, 13:21 3
    - Bradley Cooper -- nm - Flavorize Mar 15, 13:26
    - yet! - prayformojo Mar 15, 13:25 1
      - I can see Topher maybe getting a directing or editing one...maybe 20 years from now. Seems to be his path -- nm - Flavorize Mar 15, 13:27
- Tiptoes! - Reagen Mar 15, 13:19 8
  - I had not heard of this and it sounds insane. -- nm - Tim Mar 15, 13:37
  - and not a bad movie but the list is probably fairly short anyway: Dazed and Confused counts on a technicality -- (edited) - Tim Mar 15, 13:26 1
    - Of all the places you could have used the word 'short' ....... -- nm - Beryllium Mar 15, 13:30
  - I was just coming to post this and now I have to go find something worse -- nm - Roger More Mar 15, 13:21 3
    - impossible. -- nm - Andie Mar 15, 13:21 2
      - *looks up Mo'Nique's filmography on Wikipedia* -- nm - Roger More Mar 15, 13:24 1
        
        Phat Girlz! -- nm - Tim Mar 15, 13:37
  - that movie is just insane. -- nm* - Andie Mar 15, 13:20
- Movie 43 has like 8 Oscar winners in it -- nm - Flavorize Mar 15, 13:17 2
  - Does Movie 43 really count as a movie though? I mean, it’s got more in common with The Kentucky Fried Movie which also doesn’t seem like a movie. -- nm - Qale Mar 15, 13:20 1
    - If the Legend of Buster Scrubbs is a movie—so is Movie 43—-just big quality differences -- nm - Flavorize Mar 15, 13:23
- August: Osage County. -- nm - Reagen Mar 15, 13:13 3
  - (also I always remember this one since you once described it as Yelling: The Movie) -- nm - Tim Mar 15, 13:15
  - But are there movies with three actors who went on to win Oscars in the future? -- nm - Tim Mar 15, 13:15 1
    - ah, I read that wrong. -- nm - Reagen Mar 15, 13:16
- Legally Blonde 2 (though it shares two actors in common with Miss Congeniality 2 - and it also has Sally Field) -- nm - Roger More Mar 15, 13:11 2
  - nm but: -- (link) - b. Mar 15, 13:17 [Backboard] 1
    - (although, re-reading Tim's post, I don't think it was terrible.) -- nm - b. Mar 15, 13:18
Next we'll find Beto wrote a novel about how he spent a magical night in Vienna with a young French woman and never saw her again. -- nm - Roger More Mar 15, 13:07 1
- And that he was the 1st AD on The Matrix and singlehandedly conceived and built bullet time. -- nm - Beryllium Mar 15, 13:15
I had pancakes for lunch - Amoxy Mar 15, 13:04 1
- There was a kid on MasterChef Junior that made Japanese pancakes. I want to try to make them sometime. -- nm - Strongbad Mar 15, 13:06
Former US Senate candidate Don Blankenship (WV) is suing a bunch of news organizations for $12 Billion -- (link) - Strongbad Mar 15, 13:00 2
- So, he's suing them for Semantics? -- nm - David Mar 15, 13:02 1
  - He is also accusing the NRSC and Mitch McConnell of a clandestine campaign to damage his candidacy, using contacts in the media -- nm - Strongbad Mar 15, 13:04
"People hate the word invasion, but that’s what it is.” -- (link) - mud Mar 15, 13:00

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