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“Are you a $40M quarterback?” Dak : “You tell me.” -- (link) - budice Feb 11, 15:37 1
- no -- nm - ::whisper:: Feb 11, 15:38
Aerosmith Reunite With Drummer Joey Kramer Onstage in Las Vegas -- (link) - mud Feb 11, 15:33
Funko PSA: the new Stitch Pop with him reading to the ducks is up on Boxlunch. And the new Summer Stitch should be hitting Hot Topic this week. -- nm - sycor Feb 11, 15:08 1
- $40 -- nm - Spawn Feb 11, 15:40
PSA: Wegman's Garlic and Herb cheese spread is the bee's knees. - sycor Feb 11, 15:05 2
- You misspelled "urban cheese" -- nm - Beron Cherry Feb 11, 15:09 1
  - wouldn't this be Urban Garlic? -- nm - Beryllium Feb 11, 15:18
~females are strong as hell.....~ -- nm - prayformojo Feb 11, 15:03
Space Force says Russian satellites are following a US satellite in orbit -- (link) - decline Feb 11, 14:46 9
- I assume this has been well known in intelligence circles for ages but has only been announced now to make the Space Force look relevant. - Mop Feb 11, 15:32
- Space Force says a large grey rock in orbit is following the Earth. -- nm - Mop Feb 11, 15:28 2
  - "Sometimes it's following us from the front, and sometimes it's following us from the back. VERY suspicious." -- nm - Beryllium Feb 11, 15:38 1
    - Every now and then it tries to blot out the sun? What kind of evil James bond plot is that? -- nm - zeitgeist Feb 11, 15:42
- I believe we have actual footage. -- (link) - Qale Feb 11, 15:07 [Image]
- It's probably focused on Russia. -- nm - jnine Feb 11, 15:05
- "I'm not touching you. I'm not touching you" -- nm - Russian satellite Feb 11, 14:49 1
  - I bet the blinking lights say this in morse code -- nm - sycor Feb 11, 15:09
- And apparently, it has been going on for years. They just go round, and round, and round, and round. -- nm - IPOTUS Feb 11, 14:49
I just saw the announcement for my next musical festival that is the day before a half marathon I already registered for -- (link*) - JD Feb 11, 14:41 6
- Related - so far this summer, the Rolling Stones have been announced for the only day in June I have something planned... - Turd Ferguson Feb 11, 14:43 5
  - That's some pretty serious event conflicts 8( -- (edited) - JD Feb 11, 14:51 4
    - Nice. Last I looked, the general admission lawn tickets were $110. nm - Turd Ferguson Feb 11, 14:55 3
      - Alanis is playing at a venue I despise so I won't be going. -- nm - pmb Feb 11, 15:02
      - How small is your lawn? I am not sure I have ever seen resale lawn seats. -- nm - Spawn Feb 11, 14:58
      - Ouch. It must be resale for $110. That's crazy -- nm - JD Feb 11, 14:57
One local classifieds website just added a new section to their site, "Price Drops". On the one hand I think it's great. - Beryllium Feb 11, 14:14 7
- Ebay too, if you "watch" something you often get an offer ,5% to 30% off the BIN -- nm - zeitgeist Feb 11, 15:12 2
  - Ana Amazon stuff in your cart. -- nm - Spawn Feb 11, 15:35 1
    - Makes a note -- nm - zeitgeist Feb 11, 15:36
- And actually, you just game the system like stores. Price it high so you can drop it and get people to think it is a deal. -- nm - Spawn Feb 11, 14:20 1
  - It could encourage that, yes. -- nm - Beryllium Feb 11, 14:23
- A 99% drop in power washing pricing? Wow. -- nm - Spawn Feb 11, 14:19 1
  - Highlights a UX issue that causes people to type in incorrect prices. -- nm - Beryllium Feb 11, 14:23
Smolett indicted on (edit: 6, not 16) counts by special prosecutor. -- (edited) - spamlet Feb 11, 14:12 6
- I'd like to know what the special prosecutor has to say about how the police and DA's office handled the case. -- nm - Mop Feb 11, 15:26
- Called it -- nm - Jurnee, Jazz, JoJo, Jake and Jocqui Feb 11, 14:27
- Wow! -- nm - Pippy Feb 11, 14:17 3
  - All the years that were going to be given to Roger Stone should be added to Smollett's sentence. - Trump Feb 11, 14:20 2
    - also, can we have him tarred and feathered? Thank you, make it so. -- nm - Trump Feb 11, 14:32
    - And I like prosecutors that don't quit! -- nm - Spawn Feb 11, 14:21
Jfc, Facebook, put down the crack pipe. Stop serving me ads for ED, libertarian children’s books and concealed firearm accessories. -- nm - znufrii, human scum Feb 11, 13:52 3
- Concealed weapons and ED seem like the same demographic -- nm - zeitgeist Feb 11, 15:14 1
  - Right? -- nm - znufrii, human scum Feb 11, 15:27
- You must choose... two. -- nm - Spawn Feb 11, 14:09
getting caught up on the bb's (sorry no internet access while at work today), apparently i'm Chaotic Good on the bookmark alignment charts, which is - call me ishmael Feb 11, 13:43 1
- Not here. -- nm* - Mop Feb 11, 13:58
second Assistant US Attorney resigns from Stone case -- nm - Jovian Feb 11, 13:41 24
- They should resign en mass from DOJ - JackDawson Feb 11, 15:10 1
  - What would force you to resign? Besides being assigned totally committed assistants who can't do overtime, weekends, 6m pregnant.... -- nm - zeitgeist Feb 11, 15:23
- And now the fourth and final prosecutor has resigned -- nm - decline Feb 11, 14:42 2
  - Mistrial! -- nm - Mop Feb 11, 15:10
  - This is all fine. Nothing to worry about. The economy's great. -- nm - Turd Ferguson Feb 11, 14:44
- I look forward to how the judge responds. -- nm - Mop Feb 11, 13:59 2
  - Must be the first time the prosecutor asks for less time than the defendant -- nm - zeitgeist Feb 11, 15:30
  - ... death penalty. -- nm - Judge Feb 11, 14:14
- Hmmm... -- (link) - Roger More Feb 11, 13:52 [Backboard]
- Tuesday Afternoon Massacre -- nm - Spawn Feb 11, 13:42 14
  - a third just withdrew (-> C N N <-) -- nm - mud Feb 11, 13:50 5
    - I'm sure there won't be anymore and Trump will realize how damaging this is and not do it again. -- nm - Susan Collins Feb 11, 13:55 4
      - It's impossible not to laugh and think about this every time something new happens. -- nm - David Feb 11, 13:55 3
        
        It's one of the Trump cycles. *horrible thing* "What he meant to say was..." "Nope, *horrible thing x2*." -- nm - Reagen Feb 11, 15:09
        
        Yep. Laugh, cry. Some of both. -- nm - pmb Feb 11, 14:01 1
        
        rinse, repeat. -- nm - Spawn Feb 11, 14:02
  - yep. Im sure this was the desired outcome. -- nm - Jovian Feb 11, 13:45 7
    - and if it werent for Twitter no one would be talking about it. CNN and MSNBC certainly arent. -- nm - Jovian Feb 11, 13:48 6
      - You remind me of when my 80-year-old father used to forward articles that a simple Snopes article would discredit. -- nm - David Feb 11, 13:53 1
        
        okay -- nm - Jovian Feb 11, 14:45
      - you don't actually ever watch CNN, do you? -- nm - mud Feb 11, 13:50 3
        
        I watch it every night. Ill call you tonight when they spend more that 5 minutes on this. Let Santorum spout his nonsense for another 5. And then they - Jovian Feb 11, 13:52 2
        
        you just changed the subject. We were talking about live, during the day stuff, who's 1st (usually CNN) -- nm - mud Feb 11, 13:59 1
        
        sorry. I thought you meant in general. not right now atm. -- nm* - Jovian Feb 11, 14:35
50 years ago this week Black Sabbath released their 1st record -- (link) - Remlik Feb 11, 13:37 5
- 50 year old music is good :) -- nm - Peglegpete Feb 11, 14:00 1
  - 50 year old scotch, as well. -- nm - Spawn Feb 11, 14:09
- 50 years before that, Al Jolson was big on Broadway and Irving Berlin was churning out music from Tin Pan Alley. -- nm - Max Feb 11, 13:50
- I love that album. A lot. -- nm - Dark Callisto Feb 11, 13:42
- Hope I die before I get old - zork Feb 11, 13:41
2/11/70. Duanne & Gregg Allam and Peter Green sat in with the Grateful Dead. enjoy listening -- (link) - Peglegpete Feb 11, 13:35
High winds forced jets landing at SFO to fly low over local neighborhoods/freeway, 'scary low' -- (link) - zeitgeist Feb 11, 13:25 8
- *dumps fuel over schoolyards* -- nm - Honeybadger Airlines Feb 11, 13:34
- I think that is an unusual landing pattern for SFO, but not an unusual low flying of a plane near a major international airport -- (link) - ty97 Feb 11, 13:29 [youtube] 5
  - Pretty sure in America we avoid housing being that close to the that low flying. -- nm - Spawn Feb 11, 13:31 4
    - LA and San Diego fly that low. -- nm - jnine Feb 11, 14:40
    - Hmmmm -- (link) - ty97 Feb 11, 13:46 2
      - errrrmmmm -- (link) - ty97 Feb 11, 13:47 [Image] 1
        
        Chicago is on crack. -- nm - Spawn Feb 11, 14:03
- LYC: When Logan was *very* small when we were outside whoever saw an airplane first would point and say "booplane". There it would be *awesome*. -- nm - Spawn Feb 11, 13:28
Oh my. -- (link) - Beryllium Feb 11, 13:18 14
- *stands and applauds* -- nm - Mop Feb 11, 13:58
- Pretty sure I knew where it was going from the thumbnail, was not disappointed. -- nm - Tim Feb 11, 13:41
- This is talent you can't teach. -- nm - Qale Feb 11, 13:31 2
  - Yes indeed, I remember trying. -- nm - Spawn Feb 11, 13:32 1
    - you bad boy you -- nm - Pippy - Janky Jinx Feb 11, 15:03
- This legitimately might not be safe for work. -- nm - David Feb 11, 13:26 2
  - But David, *work is where I got it from*. -- nm - Beryllium Feb 11, 13:29 1
    - "I learned from watching you, dad!" - Spawn Feb 11, 13:30
- That sure took a turn. -- nm - Spawn Feb 11, 13:24 5
  - It's times like this that I have to remind myself that I am enlightened and some jokes must be said only to myself -- nm - rollo Feb 11, 13:25 3
    - I had this thought as well -- nm - crash davis Feb 11, 13:26 2
      - he'll have quite a career in porn...if he lives, I'mm sure his arteries are halfway to looking like that inside -- nm - zeitgeist Feb 11, 13:28 1
        
        Live fast, die young... -- nm - Spawn Feb 11, 13:33
  - Yarp. -- nm - Beryllium Feb 11, 13:25
NFL Fact of the day: QB Taysom Hill has 0 career TD passes -- nm - Strongbad Feb 11, 13:18 2
- You may be surprised to find out that that equals my career total. -- nm - crash davis Feb 11, 13:21 1
  - 4 less than WR Mohamed Sanu -- nm - Strongbad Feb 11, 13:52
as I sit here in this conference room at a client, I am pondering - tRuMaN Feb 11, 13:13 4
- Kansas has some loose approximation of barbeque, right? -- nm - Beryllium Feb 11, 13:16 1
  - they serve it at gas stations! and it's awesome. -- nm - Remlik Feb 11, 14:41
- I would suggest avoiding the milkshakes -- nm - decline Feb 11, 13:14 1
  - sage advice. -- nm - tRuMaN Feb 11, 13:14
pmb, that loan thing is disturbing in how undisturbing such a thing has become -- nm - zork Feb 11, 13:12 1
- I think there's a good chance the lenders don't go forward. But the brazenness of his response is amazing. -- nm - pmb Feb 11, 14:25
Did I sleep through Samsung Galaxy S11 through S19? -- nm - zork Feb 11, 13:11 2
- They finally gave into rationality and it was changed to be the year like cars. -- nm - spamlet Feb 11, 13:18
- nope, they realized the price point on those would be just too low so the skipped right over them to over charge people as much as possible -- nm - decline Feb 11, 13:13
A second AUSA, Jonathan Kravis has resigned -- (link*) - decline Feb 11, 13:11
AMC Premiere Picks Up US Rights To BBC One’s ‘War Of The Worlds’ Miniseries -- (link) - Remlik Feb 11, 13:08
If Alaska is about twice the size of Texas, why doesn't the geographic center move north a distance about the size of Texas? and West also? -- nm - rollo Feb 11, 13:08 8
- Here is the best way I can explain it. -- (edited) - Beron Cherry Feb 11, 13:45 1
  - I think I get it. I wasn't accounting for the relative size of AK to the entire US so the impact is not ... linear, or whatever -- nm - rollo Feb 11, 14:16
- this doesn't answer the question, but it at least tells you who said it was in SD -- (link) - crash davis Feb 11, 13:20
- Hawaii is wayyyyyyy out in the Pacific -- nm - TWuG Feb 11, 13:11 4
  - Yep, two weeks by sailboat is a lot of distance. 2300 nautical miles, ish. -- nm - Beryllium Feb 11, 13:13
  - It's only one more time zone -- nm - zork Feb 11, 13:13 2
    - Honolulu is two hours behind LA> -- nm - Andie Feb 11, 13:34 1
      - But one behind Alaska -- nm - zork Feb 11, 13:36
FWIW, When my girls were in scouts they would sell in front of DD and Starbucks with the store's permission - SyrDragon Feb 11, 13:07 2
- Girl Scouts are goddam every where in our town. They're like the local gang demanding your money for being on their turf. -- nm - Turd Ferguson Feb 11, 13:09 1
  - ~when you're a scout you're a scout all the way~ -- nm - SyrDragon Feb 11, 13:11
CNN: Stone prosecutor has quit the case. -- nm - Mop Feb 11, 12:59 4
- Oh, Mop. -- nm - Spawn Feb 11, 12:59 3
  - heh, blame CNN! "CNN! We will get you the news 25 minutes after everyone else!" -- nm - Jovian Feb 11, 13:04 2
    - B2 link was Manu Raju (CNN) -- nm - mud Feb 11, 13:12
    - and keep calling it BREAKING NEWS days later -- nm - zeitgeist Feb 11, 13:07
Hmm. I hadn't noticed slowness. -- nm - Beryllium Feb 11, 12:57 2
- Everything is better in Canada. -- nm - Mop Feb 11, 12:59
- I did not get the notice of a First for like, three minutes. -- nm - Spawn Feb 11, 12:59
I thought Cora was fired because he used to be part of the Astros. Were other coaches from the Astros as well? -- nm - crash davis Feb 11, 12:54 6
- Nope. Their coaches are getting away with cheating as well. MLB is putting it all on the managers -- nm - Krusty Feb 11, 14:19
- The Red Sox also cheated during their World Series championship the year after the Astros. - David Feb 11, 13:00 4
  - I did not realize that. This is confirmed? -- nm - crash davis Feb 11, 13:05 2
    - The Athletic confirmed the story with three sources. I'm not sure whether any of the Red Sox ever acknowledged it. -- (link) - David Feb 11, 13:10 1
      - thanks, I hadn't paid as much attention because the thought of Yankees as victims instead of villains is too much for me to take - crash davis Feb 11, 13:17
  - Little Buzzer Boy - Jovian Feb 11, 13:05
The worst kind of bad news in good news/bad news is that there is no good news! -- nm - David Feb 11, 12:48 4
- But then the bad news is meaningless, so ... no news! - zork Feb 11, 13:38
- Are you sure this isn't a classroom transcript? -- nm - Beron Cherry Feb 11, 13:01
- Good news for people who love bad news. -- nm - Tim Feb 11, 12:49 1
  - *deletes extended post where he overshares* -- nm - Mop Feb 11, 12:56

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