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So...did baseball’s finances change that much or did Mookie Betts hate Boston that much? - Will Hunting Jul 23, 08:08 1
- your owners are cheap -- nm - Beaker Jul 23, 08:11
It's okay to just have Mozzarella sticks for lunch, right? -- nm - sycor Jul 23, 08:07 1
- Not according to the Calif. Dept. of Alcohol Beverage Control. -- (link) - Blue Punch Baron Jul 23, 08:09
Shaun! you've got to read this!! -- (link) - decline Jul 23, 08:01 2
- It... ah... why? -- (pic) - Mop Jul 23, 08:09 [Attachment]
- It was a good lunch! -- nm - Shaun Jul 23, 08:01
Ted Nugent: “AR-15 Owners Are Just Like Rosa Parks“ 🤦🏼‍♂️ - Flavorize Jul 23, 07:56 3
- Wouldn't it be awesome if Rosa Parks had an AR-15? -- nm - loosilu Jul 23, 08:01 1
  - She's black, loosi. She'd be dead. -- nm - Mop Jul 23, 08:07
- Can we have some standing up to the federal police in Portland please? -- nm - Mop Jul 23, 07:59
LYC: Closing Twitter for duraiton of the Xbox thing. -- nm - Shaun Jul 23, 07:52
Question of the day -- (pic) - prayformojo Jul 23, 07:49 [Attachment] 3
- spoil - decline Jul 23, 07:53 1
  - you and me both -- nm - prayformojo Jul 23, 08:03
- Answer (spoiler) -- (pic) - prayformojo Jul 23, 07:49 [Attachment]
While I’ve not been paying attention Texas has decided to keep piling on the new cases 10k at a time in spite of mask orders. I presume this means... - Qale Jul 23, 07:36 3
- Too soon. Will take 1, probably 2 weeks to see it. -- nm - James Bond (aka Igor) Jul 23, 07:54
- It takes time for the results of a mask order to be felt. And if there are still crowds masks won't be enough... -- nm - Andie Jul 23, 07:49
- When did they come into effect? - Reagen Jul 23, 07:48
The third image here is why Matthew Modine is famous -- (link) - Reagen Jul 23, 07:31 11
- I think he was People's Choice Award nominated for that one -- nm - prayformojo Jul 23, 07:38 9
  - When I was going through these earlier, this one broke me -- (link) - Reagen Jul 23, 07:46 8
    - Wow. -- nm - znufrii still hasn't gotten a haircut Jul 23, 07:52
    - So is it in the sixth in the series? Fifth? Second? -- nm - spamlet Jul 23, 07:47 6
      - I looked it up - SAF3 is a TV series, so this is the 2nd disc in the DVD compilation -- (link) - Roger More Jul 23, 07:54 1
        
        oh, that's right. Mary Tyler Moore was the lead in the first season -- nm - prayformojo Jul 23, 08:04
      - 32nd. It's right there in the title -- nm - prayformojo Jul 23, 07:51
      - 32nd -- nm - Krusty Jul 23, 07:49
      - To ponder it is to tempt madness. -- nm - Reagen Jul 23, 07:49 1
        
        Alt: I didn’t realize Square Enix made films too. -- nm - spamlet Jul 23, 07:52
- Needs more Nic Cage Movies -- nm - the ice Jul 23, 07:38
SFT Poll: Create a question and answer, using a movie title, in this format Examples: My Turtles? Ninja—My dancing? Dirty—My Intentions? Cruel -- (link*) - Flavorize Jul 23, 07:30 32
- My vice? Miami. -- nm - Beryllium Jul 23, 08:12
- My nights? Talladega. -- nm - Beryllium Jul 23, 08:08
- My Blues? Varsity. -- nm - Diva Jul 23, 08:06 1
  - My Brothers? Step. -- nm - Diva Jul 23, 08:06
- My pool? Dead. -- nm - Blue Punch Baron Jul 23, 08:05
- My Swan? Black. -- nm - MDH Jul 23, 08:02 1
  - My Hustle? American. -- nm - MDH Jul 23, 08:03
- My redemption? Shawshank. -- nm - TWuG Jul 23, 08:01
- My Gun? Top. -- nm - Diva Jul 23, 07:54
- My Lagoon? Blue. -- nm - Diva Jul 23, 07:53
- My Book? Green. -- nm - Diva Jul 23, 07:53
- My Hope? Floats -- nm - Diva Jul 23, 07:51
- My runner? Blade. -- nm - Beryllium Jul 23, 07:50
- My Blonde? Legally. -- nm - Shaun Jul 23, 07:50
- Nm -- nm* - Mop Jul 23, 07:49
- My destination? Final. -- nm - znufrii still hasn't gotten a haircut Jul 23, 07:47 6
  - My troopers? Super. -- nm - znufrii still hasn't gotten a haircut Jul 23, 07:48 5
    - My tomatoes? Green and fried. -- nm - znufrii still hasn't gotten a haircut Jul 23, 07:54 3
      - My outdoors? Great. -- nm - znufrii still hasn't gotten a haircut Jul 23, 07:55 2
        
        My runnings? Cool. -- nm* - znufrii still hasn't gotten a haircut Jul 23, 08:00 1
        
        My dinosaur? Good. -- nm - znufrii still hasn't gotten a haircut Jul 23, 08:07
    - Our adventure? excellent. Our journey? Bogus. -- nm - Bill & Ted Jul 23, 07:51
- My fuzz? Hot. -- nm - Beryllium Jul 23, 07:47
- My Turn, Wrong. -- nm - Dano Jul 23, 07:46 1
  - My boogaloo? Electric. - Roger More Jul 23, 07:48
- My cabin? In the woods -- nm - Beaker Jul 23, 07:45
- My fright? Night. -- nm - Beaker Jul 23, 07:43
- My weapon? Lethal. -- nm - Roger More Jul 23, 07:43
- My lights? Out. -- nm - Beaker Jul 23, 07:43
- My Thunder? Tropic -- nm - oblique Jul 23, 07:42
- My Proposal? Indecent. -- nm - Qale Jul 23, 07:41
- My fiction? Pulp. -- nm - Krusty Jul 23, 07:37
YouPorn sends Dix letter offering BC $100K to ‘support the building of glory holes’ -- (link) - Reagen Jul 23, 07:13 5
- I rise in opposition on the grounds that the daily cleaning regimen would be too much of a burden on the janitorial staff. -- nm - Blue Punch Baron Jul 23, 07:20 4
  - Why do you hate job creators, baron? -- nm - spamlet Jul 23, 07:50
  - Are you talking about jizz moppers? -- nm - Qale Jul 23, 07:31 1
    - I was only thinking of the close work of sanitizing all the holes. Don't want to spread the rona. -- nm - Blue Punch Baron Jul 23, 08:07
  - On the other hand, we all know an easy/safe Halloween costume this year. -- nm - Spawn Jul 23, 07:23
sitwap, Big Brother: All-Stars premiere on Wednesday August 5. -- (link) - mud Jul 23, 07:07 9
- TBH, I have to confess that my subconscious manifested this. I was just thinking earlier this week about whether there would be BB this year. - Mop Jul 23, 07:48
- I don't watch, but I liked Bayleigh on The Challenge (and hated Paulie on The Challenge). -- nm - Judge Bane Jul 23, 07:14 3
  - Bayleigh is black, so of course she got screwed on Big Brother. -- nm - Dano Jul 23, 07:53
  - Oh, and Nicole was nice on TAR. -- nm - Judge Bane Jul 23, 07:15 1
    - But UGH Josh. - Judge Bane Jul 23, 07:16
- my wife and kids will be all over this. is there a list of who is on it anywhere? -- nm - Beaker Jul 23, 07:13 1
  - Rumors -- (edited) - Strongbad Jul 23, 07:20
- Yay! -- nm - Strongbad Jul 23, 07:12
- Oooh. Did we know this was coming? -- nm - Mop Jul 23, 07:11
The payroll tax cut is off the table -- (link) - decline Jul 23, 07:04
There you go...Bill & Ted Face the Music will go PVOD. Coming out the same day as Theatrical, but we know what that means -- nm - MDH Jul 23, 06:50 6
- Tenet already came out and you all have seen it, but have forgot the entire movie as you walked backwards out of the theater -- nm - decline Jul 23, 07:01 3
  - Dune actually came out in March and these last 4 months have been a collective hallucination as we all went mad from it. -- nm - Reagen Jul 23, 07:05 1
    - *likes, very much* -- nm - Spawn Jul 23, 07:23
  - whoa -- nm - mud Jul 23, 07:02
- It means Disney should release Mulan on Disney+ now, you cowards! -- nm - Shaun Jul 23, 06:55 1
  - and Black Widow! -- nm - Beaker Jul 23, 06:55
Oh man, I made a huge mistake this morning. - loosilu Jul 23, 06:48 3
- That makes my Jimmie’s Chicken Shack earworms sound stupendous in comparison. -- nm - Qale Jul 23, 07:09 1
  - It's ok, though, I'm going to listen to Jukebox Hero and everything will be better. -- nm - loosilu Jul 23, 07:12
- beams are gonna blind you -- nm - Beaker Jul 23, 06:55
More details on the Twitter hack including hackers accessing the DMs of an elected official in the Netherlands - oblique Jul 23, 06:36 1
- Ha! -- nm - Krusty Jul 23, 06:46
The federal government’s approach is like a hospital that invests in palliative care while abolishing the oncology department -- (link) - spamlet Jul 23, 06:28 5
- can you c&P? I almost never ask; sorry. -- nm - amanda Jul 23, 06:34 4
  - Sure but just so you know I only have a free account and I never seem to actually hit whatever limit they impose. - spamlet Jul 23, 06:36 3
    - It cut the article off for me too and I can't tell you when I last read an article from them. They just like you and let you in for free. :-) -- nm - Krusty Jul 23, 06:37 2
      - Do you have a login? I had to login but then it was fine. - spamlet Jul 23, 06:41 1
        
        I see. I'll try that next time. -- nm - Krusty Jul 23, 06:45
TS Gonzalo will probably hit Barbados as Cat 1 hurricane before losing power in the Caribbean. Meanwhile Hurricane Douglas, a Cat 3 will hit Hawaii as a Cat 1 this weekend -- nm* - decline Jul 23, 06:21 1
- and TD 8 will give Houston a good soaking over the weekend as well (hurricane season is ramping up) -- nm - decline Jul 23, 06:23
Unemployment: 1.41M New Claims, 16M continuing -- (link) - the ice Jul 23, 06:10 4
- According to the NYT this is the first time in months that the weekly claims has risen. I expect it to keep rising over the next few weeks -- nm - Krusty Jul 23, 06:17 3
  - On the other hand it could just be noise in the data, but yeah. It's not great. -- (edited) - znufrii still hasn't gotten a haircut Jul 23, 06:56 2
    - It could be a wash with the South seeing more people lose jobs or get furloughed while up here more and more people are going back to work. - Krusty Jul 23, 07:00 1
      - And by Trump logic, if someone dies from Covid-19, they no longer count as unemployed. -- nm - Dano Jul 23, 07:52
Robert Kirkman and other Walking Dead producers suffered a legal loss as a judge ruled that AMC did not breach its duty in their profit sharing deals -- (link) - Beaker Jul 23, 05:59
Baseball is back!!! Woo hoo!!! -- (link) - Krusty Jul 23, 05:55 [youtube] 7
- Did you buy your cardboard cutout for Yankee stadium yet? -- nm - eag Jul 23, 07:51
- Lol. -- (link) - Shaun Jul 23, 07:00 5
  - and they'll do the wave! -- nm - decline Jul 23, 07:16
  - Huh. That's odd but maybe it'll work -- nm - Krusty Jul 23, 07:08
  - Any nudity? -- nm - Mop Jul 23, 07:04 2
    - all white and they all stand for the anthem! -- nm - Beaker Jul 23, 07:11 1
      - also a virtual Pence will storm out of the building if any players kneel during the anthem -- nm - decline Jul 23, 07:17
Someone thought this story was a sunny, happy story -- (link) - ty97 Jul 23, 05:53 1
- *smh* -- nm - Krusty Jul 23, 05:55
Oh my. New T-Swizzle album drops at midnight. -- (link) - Shaun Jul 23, 05:17
FYI: The Xbox Games Showcase is at Noon Eastern, with a Summer Games Fest pre-show at 11am. -- nm - Shaun Jul 23, 05:03
TV PSA: Cannonball, Celebrity Watch Party, Arena, Killer Camp, Flip or Flop, Real HW, Blindspot, Restaurant Impossible, Lost Resort, Alone, -- nm - Beaker Jul 23, 04:54 25
- HBO has announced that it’s renewed Perry Mason for a second season -- nm - Beaker Jul 23, 05:40 21
  - They brought back Perry Mason? -- nm - Krusty Jul 23, 06:24 20
    - set before he was a lawyer -- nm - Beaker Jul 23, 06:31 10
      - spoils - Diva Jul 23, 06:32 9
        
        In a Quibi. -- nm - Mop Jul 23, 07:19 2
        
        Gretchen, stop trying to make Quibi happen! -- nm - Reagen Jul 23, 07:22 1
        
        Gretchen Mol is in it. -- nm - Diva Jul 23, 07:24
        
        Ahh. Him not a lawyer would be odd and a big change from the original. - Krusty Jul 23, 06:34 3
        
        it makes fine sense as it's interesting, well done and spoil - Diva Jul 23, 07:10 2
        
        Hmmm... I'll check it out this weekend. -- nm - Krusty Jul 23, 07:17 1
        
        it takes its time but things are done so well I don't mind. -- nm - Diva Jul 23, 07:23
        
        huh (spoilers) (I don't watch it :) ) - Beaker Jul 23, 06:33 1
        
        big PM spoil - Diva Jul 23, 07:12
    - It's not at all like the TV series. It's like Chinatown as a mini. -- nm - Reagen Jul 23, 06:28 1
      - Huh -- nm - Krusty Jul 23, 06:31
    - Yes with the guy from the Americans. -- nm - spamlet Jul 23, 06:28 6
      - I didn't watch that but people seemed to really like it. -- nm - Krusty Jul 23, 06:32 5
        
        it was awesome -- nm - Beaker Jul 23, 06:32 4
        
        I got the impression it was a heavy show and I haven't watched many of those the last few years. - Krusty Jul 23, 06:35 3
        
        yeah it does certainly have its moments for sure -- nm - Beaker Jul 23, 06:40 2
        
        It's definitely a show I would have enjoyed in the past and will check out when I'm feeling up for a good drama. - Krusty Jul 23, 06:47 1
        
        It's excellent. -- nm - mud Jul 23, 06:53
- Blindspot is the 100th episode and the series finale. -- nm - Beaker Jul 23, 04:55 1
  - Did this get any better? I stopped when (spoilers) - sycor Jul 23, 06:41
- The Dog House (HBO Max), other stuff -- nm - Beaker Jul 23, 04:55
Not a fan of the fact that the national polling average on 538 is down to a 7.7% lead for Biden. - Inigo Jul 23, 04:29 2
- Couple of really high undecided polls yesterday. - Reagen Jul 23, 04:38 1
  - (I'm annoyed with how many partisan polls, from both directions, are flooding the data stream in the last week or so) - Reagen Jul 23, 04:44
"Pineapple, pen, apple, pen." -- nm - Reagen Jul 23, 03:51
I hope today is a peaceful, pleasant, inclusive, neighborly, kind day. - landbeck Jul 23, 03:28 1
- I like this -- nm - ty97 Jul 23, 04:30

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