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So you can get Denny's delivered now. This Postmates "get absolutely anything delivered because you is high" culture has officially gone too far. -- nm - con_carne Jul 3, 06:17 3
- I've had Wendy's and donuts from a local place delivered from one of their competitors. I love it! - Krusty Jul 3, 06:28 2
  - I was surprised the first time I used Uber Eats that you could get delivery < $2 and sometimes free if other people were ordering from the same place - oblique Jul 3, 06:35 1
    - I'll check that out. We used them a couple of times. -- nm - Krusty Jul 3, 07:31
Autographed hockey stick from 2002 Woman's Gold Medal player washes up on beach in New Brunswick -- (link) - Beaker Jul 3, 05:39
FFS. Profesionnal orgnization that I volunteer with... one of our Executive board members - Strongbad Jul 3, 04:57 1
- Or she could be perfect for CEO -- nm - con_carne Jul 3, 06:11
I forgot to post this from Amsterdam. Looks like a refugee from Gotham. -- (pic) - Harry Tuttle on the road Jul 3, 04:07 [Attachment]
TV PSA: Big Brother, grown-ish, Property Brothers, Krypton, NOVA, Inbetween, Handmaid's Tale, WWC: SWE vs NED, other stuff -- nm - Beaker Jul 3, 03:43
WWE: Rumor sites say Corey Graves swearing on Raw was planned to add to the moment and not something he’ll be disciplined for. - Tim Jul 2, 23:41 2
- Of course it was; so blatantly planned. - Will Hunting Jul 3, 04:48
- Even when it’s trying to be unpredictable, WWE is 100% wholly predictable! -- nm - Qale Jul 3, 03:18
X2 is still pretty good, Kieran says it's his favourite so far. -- nm - Beryllium Jul 2, 23:06 5
- yep. This was my #1 favorite comic book movie for a couple years. -- nm - Jovian Jul 3, 06:38
- the Nightcrawler White House scene to open the movie was like a punch in the mouth. - groiny Jul 3, 06:36 2
  - I agreed (with your IM) until this last one, actually. For such a bad movie, they *finally* figured out how to have these guys fight. -- nm - Spawn Jul 3, 07:41
  - this and The Dark Night are probably my 2 favorite opening scenes -- nm - decline Jul 3, 06:45
- Probably my favorite X-Men movie. Not sure if it tops "Avengers of Justice: Farce Wars," starring Amy Smart - Flavorize Jul 2, 23:20
there's no feeling like the power coming back on -- nm - prayformojo Jul 2, 23:01
"Killing a synthetic is a waste of sport. He'll be sent to the brothels." *thoughtful pause* "I do not know what I am feeling." -- nm - Beryllium Jul 2, 22:54
You guys see this "Get Out" movie? It's great! -- nm - Mop Jul 2, 20:45 2
- Is it about baseball? Does it star Kevin Costner? -- nm - Baron D. Chastain Jul 3, 06:34
- Never heard of it. -- nm - Spawn Jul 2, 22:31
A local cafe that might be full of my kind of people. -- (link) - Beryllium Jul 2, 20:23 [flickr] 3
- Looks like a cafe that Hurley, from LOST, would be running. -- nm - Flavorize Jul 2, 23:22
- I see only 1 flaw - peglegpete Jul 2, 20:32 1
  - Needs more lens flare, too -- nm - Beryllium Jul 2, 20:36
Notorious Debt Collector in [NYC] Taxi Industry Is Arrested (following NYT investigation) -- (link) - ty97 Jul 2, 19:54 1
- East Coast rap sucks -- nm - Beryllium Jul 2, 20:05
Disney's live action MULAN remake reportedly won't feature Mushu or have the cast sing the classic songs of the animated film -- (link) - budice Jul 2, 19:39 11
- Outside of "I"ll Make a Man Out of You", is it being non-song a bad thing? - Will Hunting Jul 3, 05:54
- But will still have Emma Stone as the lead -- nm - Flavorize Jul 2, 23:12
- Eff that "I'll Make A Man Of You" or bust. -- nm - MDH Jul 2, 21:12
- But... who's going to make a man out of me?! -- nm - Mop Jul 2, 20:49
- I was literally just trying to remember if there was a live-action version in the works. - Super Daddy Princess Jul 2, 20:05
- So there's hope for some Akira Kurosawa level bleeding! -- nm - Max Jul 2, 19:57
- So, in a few years are they going to make an animated musical remake of the live action movie? -- nm - . Jul 2, 19:45 3
  - Mulan vs Dr Doom -- nm - Beryllium Jul 2, 19:47 2
    - Ooh, crossover. -- nm - . Jul 2, 19:51 1
      - Cross dressing? -- nm - Qale Jul 2, 20:10
- Well, it's Disney. They can do whatever they want. - Beryllium Jul 2, 19:44
WWE Ref Charles Robinson had a majority of his Horror collection stolen... -- (link) - Remlik Jul 2, 19:18
Mysterious Biblical-era Stronghold Was Actually a Phoenician Snail Dye Factory, Archaeologists Say -- (link) - Meg Jul 2, 19:12 2
- a version you don't have to sign into -- (link) - peglegpete Jul 2, 19:17 1
  - Ah, I got to it through an Archaeological Conservancy link on FB and didn't have to unblock. Thanks. -- nm - Meg Jul 2, 19:21
Lee Iacocca is dead. 94. -- (link) - Beryllium Jul 2, 18:45 3
- like a true car enthusiest, he wished to be buried in his 1963 Split Window :) -- nm - peglegpete Jul 2, 18:50
- I am amused that the URL says 20181231 *and* "at-xx" -- nm - Beryllium Jul 2, 18:46 1
  - Dana Carvey impersonating Tom Brokaw could not be reached for comment. -- nm - Baron D. Chastain Jul 3, 05:46
OH - A suspected drunk driver drove straight into a stopped Franklin County deputy's cruiser. -- (link*) - budice Jul 2, 18:24 3
- He doesn't want to waste the officer's time with a prolonged chase. Good on him! -- nm - Max Jul 2, 19:10
- We just lost a patrol officer up here to a drunk driver. -- nm - Bacon Jul 2, 18:25 1
  - We had a pretty bad one here in Victoria a year or two ago, too :( -- nm - Beryllium Jul 2, 18:27
Young man at the door, here to drop off the free Lifeline device "someone in your household" qualified for. - Meg Jul 2, 18:11 2
- I bet he gets paid by the unit, so he’s just wandering and hoping. -- nm - mafic Jul 2, 18:56 1
  - No doubt. I'd love to know what he'd want me to provide on the form on his clipboard. Social Security and Medicare numbers? - Meg Jul 2, 19:04
I have a crypto currency ETF and they have over 1% of the bicoins out there. This week has been like playing a slot machine. - Bacon Jul 2, 18:10
In case you had a doubt, the SMFFH post credit scenes are labeled: MAJOR. - Spawn Jul 2, 17:59 1
- spoils - budice Jul 2, 18:03
"We are working to have your power restored between 11:00 PM on 07/02/2019 and 04:00 AM on 07/03/2019. " -- nm - prayformojo Jul 2, 17:52
Shocking but true: I haven't read a book in this decade. I might start with "Archaeology From Space" after hearing an interview - Max Jul 2, 17:50 8
- Since I’ve written three books this decade, I don’t take this as great news. -- nm* - David, Earth’s Mightiest Hero Jul 2, 19:02 2
  - Since I wrote my books last decade, I’m golden, right? -- nm - Qale Jul 2, 20:11
  - I get half credit for gifting your book to someone else to read! -- nm - Max Jul 2, 19:08
- a lot of shipwrecks will be found thru space sciences -- nm - peglegpete Jul 2, 18:10 2
  - That and new ROV tech. Heck, just a couple months ago the US Navy found a wreck by mistake while testing a new ROV -- nm - Beryllium Jul 2, 18:26 1
    - That may eventually answer some of the questions about Pacific coastal migration. The answers are out there somewhere - 300 feet down. -- nm - Meg Jul 2, 18:45
- Ooooh, that and LIDAR are where it's at in archaeology right now. No more digging in the dirt except to ground-truth the image. -- nm - Meg Jul 2, 18:06
- I heard that too. Fascinating stuff -- nm - decline Jul 2, 18:01
20 Best TV Dramas since The Sopranos -- (link) - Jovian Jul 2, 17:25 7
- As discussed in January. -- nm - Mop Jul 2, 17:40 4
  - And it still doesn’t have Justified. -- nm - David, Earth’s Mightiest Hero Jul 2, 17:42 2
    - I started watching it again this week.. - Marlowe Jul 2, 17:48 1
      - It would be great if they could all have musical talent and tour as The Deadwoods. -- nm - Max Jul 2, 19:11
  - The list had to be updated to include The Rookie, mop. -- nm - Beryllium Jul 2, 17:40
- nice list, let's add Fringe -- nm - mud Jul 2, 17:34 1
  - & Legion. -- nm - mud Jul 2, 18:45
Bertha!!! don't you come around here anymore!! -- (link) - peglegpete Jul 2, 17:24 [youtube]
Kieran wants to open a roadside smores stand. - Beryllium Jul 2, 17:10 14
- "I'm not drunk, officer, I just had smores all over my hands and lost grip on the steering wheel." -- nm - Max Jul 2, 19:20
- Uh, yes! -- nm - Qale Jul 2, 19:02
- I always want a smore. -- nm - mafic Jul 2, 18:57
- Maybe one of these would help, too -- (link) - Beryllium Jul 2, 18:25
- Related to this, what does the highlighted part mean vis-a-vis selling something like a can of coke, or a smores branded t-shirt? -- (pic) - Beryllium Jul 2, 17:40 [Attachment] 5
  - if using propane to melt the chocolate or cook the marshmallows you will need a separate safety inspection ... -- nm - peglegpete Jul 2, 17:48 3
    - I think he's planning on using a solar oven, but I don't know if the customer will have patience for such. -- nm - Beryllium Jul 2, 17:54 2
      - (Also, it's going to be cloudy all week) -- nm - Beryllium Jul 2, 17:59 1
        
        Just have a blowtorch ready as a backup -- nm - decline Jul 2, 21:33
  - In context - selling only stuff for immediate consumption, not take home products. -- nm - Reagen Jul 2, 17:45
- Actually does sound good -- nm - budice Jul 2, 17:22
- have him add lemonade so Country Time will help with the local business & insurance fees -- (link) - peglegpete Jul 2, 17:17
- Make sure you swing by city hall to get your roadside smores stand permit first. -- nm - Strongbad Jul 2, 17:17
- Maybe the freemium model would work. - Beryllium Jul 2, 17:11
It's raining harder than Ive ever seen it outside of a hurricane -- nm - prayformojo Jul 2, 16:56 1
- Inside of a hurricane it... wait. -- nm - Reagen Jul 2, 16:59
So the reason I know that SMFFH opens today is because a bunch of my coworkers are seeing it ... at Tanforan Mall. -- (link) - Beryllium Jul 2, 16:28
"It's time to reclaim this ship ... the Ventrexian way!" -- nm - Beryllium Jul 2, 16:20
happy 28'th birthday to the woman dating Jimmy Page. -- (link) - peglegpete Jul 2, 16:04
I found this gem from 2016: 360 video of a behind the scenes look at a Google Data Center. -- (link) - Mop Jul 2, 16:01 [youtube]
Android's co-founder Andy Rubin accused of cheating wife out of fortune while running a sex ring -- (link) - budice Jul 2, 15:19 5
- "This is a garden variety family law dispute..." how much money do you have to pay a lawyer to stick their own head that far up their ass? -- nm - Beryllium Jul 2, 15:37
- That headline writer can now retire happily. - David Jul 2, 15:33
- They founded that sex ring *together*! -- nm - Reagen Jul 2, 15:25 2
  - So she should have known she was getting screwed -- nm - zeitgeist Jul 2, 15:52 1
    - Well she would have if she still had her Google+ account. -- nm - Qale Jul 2, 16:28
What the hell is that accent Daniel Craig is doing in Knives Out? -- nm - Reagen Jul 2, 15:01 2
- It's Scotch-Romanian -- nm - prayformojo Jul 2, 15:15
- yes -- (link) - Spawn Jul 2, 15:02 [Backboard]
This. Is. Priceless. -- (pic) - Volnelk Jul 2, 15:00 [Attachment]
a 1500 year old baptismal font has been found -- (link) - peglegpete Jul 2, 14:56 2
- Serif or sans serif? -- nm - Beryllium Jul 2, 15:01 1
  - Times Born Again Roman. -- nm - Baron D. Chastain Jul 2, 15:51
John Sterling has called every Yankee game radio broadcast for the last 30 years. Thursday will be the first game he's missed since 1989. :-( -- (link) - Krusty Jul 2, 14:47 4
- he's no Robert Merrill :(( -- nm - peglegpete Jul 2, 15:41
- Sad but he’s terrible. Suzyn Waldman stinks too. - Tim Jul 2, 15:33
- Deion Sanders was in the outfield! -- nm - Jovian Jul 2, 14:57 1
  - Ha! -- nm - Krusty Jul 2, 15:03
View outside my window - Where am I? -- (pic) - Harry Tuttle on the road Jul 2, 14:30 [Attachment] 8
- Time's up - I'm in Nuremberg on Market Square, famous for its Christkindlmarkt. -- nm - Harry Tuttle on the road Jul 2, 14:44
- Genoa -- nm - Jovian Jul 2, 14:41
- Notre Dame? -- nm - budice Jul 2, 14:34
- Detroit? -- nm - decline Jul 2, 14:32
- Another -- (pic) - Harry Tuttle on the road Jul 2, 14:31 [Attachment] 3
  - In Brugges -- nm - David, Earth’s Mightiest Hero Jul 2, 14:44
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  - Hmm, I'm pretty sure this was on Amazing Race a few seasons ago -- nm - Beryllium Jul 2, 14:32
Correct your wife and say, "No, SMFFH opens *TODAY*!" -- nm* - Spawn Jul 2, 14:29 9
- Right. But our anniversary is Saturday. And I doubled down and made dinner reservations AND got movie tickets. IMAX. -- nm - Volnelk Jul 2, 15:00
- I think you mean toady -- nm - Beryllium Jul 2, 14:31 7
  - *today -- nm - Beryllium Jul 2, 14:31 6
    - Whatever you say, kid. -- nm - Spawn Jul 2, 14:40 5
      - I'm going Thursday -- nm - eag Jul 2, 14:56 4
        
        Logan & I, 1:45 Friday. Homecoming is the only Marvel movie he has seen in the theater. We went while Amy was working and are doing so again. -- nm - Spawn Jul 2, 15:01 3
        
        hope it's as good, or in the ballpark. Homecoming was damn funny -- nm - mud Jul 2, 15:21 2
        
        I think Logan about to start 7th grade makes it a lot... closer to home for him. -- nm - Spawn Jul 2, 15:36 1
        
        nice -- nm - mud Jul 2, 15:59
on this day in 1986 I was at the Akron Rubber Bowl watching Bob Dylan & Tom Petty open for the Grateful Dead -- (link*) - peglegpete Jul 2, 14:12 [youtube] 10
- Yesterday the All Out 70s surprised me with Hurricane, a killer Dylan track I had never heard before off an album I'm unfamiliar with -- nm - con_carne Jul 2, 14:57 2
  - that song helped get Carter released. I remember when it came out. -- nm* - peglegpete Jul 2, 15:31 1
    - That's cool -- nm - con_carne Jul 2, 17:15
- 7/2/85 I was down the road at the Pittsburgh Civic Arena seeing the Grateful Dead -- (link) - peglegpete Jul 2, 14:36 [youtube]
- On this day in 1991, I was sitting 2nd row center for the Guns n Roses riot. Oph yeah! -- nm - Severus Snape Jul 2, 14:20 5
  - On this day in 2019, I was sitting at my desk, working late. -- nm - Spawn Jul 2, 14:21 4
    - call it a day, bub. the open road beckons -- (link) - mud Jul 2, 14:29 [youtube] 3
      - It is like 34C right now. Waiting until the sun goes down is not a bad thing. -- nm - Spawn Jul 2, 14:41 2
        
        ugh -- nm - mud Jul 2, 14:45 1
        
        It was literally spring weather until Amy's birthday last week. Made someone realize, "One week until the 4th of July!?! Time to heat this mutha up." -- nm - Spawn Jul 2, 15:15
Now here's a house with character. -- (link) - Beryllium Jul 2, 14:02 2
- Looks like a former firehouse. -- nm - . Jul 2, 19:50
- it's cute, i like it. -- nm - Andie Jul 2, 14:03
Word. -- nm - Severus Snape Jul 2, 13:58 1
- Up. -- nm - mud Jul 2, 14:02

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