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"Nice" My latest wrong email is from a Nissan dealership. When I click Unsubscribe I get her full profile. - ♤Spawn♤ Aug 11, 18:10
It wouldn't take you this long to *walk* from Columbus to Tampa Bay -- nm - prayformojo Aug 11, 18:06 2
- It may seem like a long game,but it's about the same length as an average Yankees-Red Sox game. -- nm - Reagen Aug 11, 18:10
- Hahahahahaha -- (link) - Tim Aug 11, 18:08
There's an unofficial saves record of 92 from the longest ever game in 1936 - Reagen Aug 11, 18:06 2
- I remember that one -- nm - the ice Aug 11, 18:13
- Shots: 150+ -- nm - Beryllium Aug 11, 18:12
wap? What would happen to Harris’s Senate seat if she and Biden won? -- (link) - prayformojo Aug 11, 17:51 4
- Apropos of nothing, I wonder if Berniebros realized they are just dancing to Russian bots tune when they post shit about Biden and Harris having - Marlowe Aug 11, 18:05
- Katie Porter, please. -- nm - Tim Aug 11, 18:01
- A Kumite is used with the winner having to beat Harris to earn the seat or they run it again. - Krusty Aug 11, 18:01
- That was just mentioned on the local news. That Gov. Newsom would be the one to appoint a new Senator. -- nm - Meg Aug 11, 17:59
The murky, byzantine world of international shipping, shell companies, leases, subcontracts, forged papers, 3rd world registrations, nobody owns... - zeitgeist Aug 11, 17:49 3 1
- Afaik, most all shipping is like this, owned by Russian doll shell companies, leased to shell cos, crew hired by another, registered 3rd world -- nm - zeitgeist Aug 11, 18:29
- Thanks -- nm - con_carne Aug 11, 18:13
- Fascinating. Thanks for sharing. Man, if that death toll stays around 158, that'll be amazing. -- nm - Mopsy Aug 11, 17:58
maybe we'll finish this one tomorrow... -- nm - Beaker Aug 11, 17:48 10
- Boston Carolina has officially been moved to tomorrow -- nm - Reagen Aug 11, 17:50 9
  - NHL: We postpone games cause our guys are so healthy that they just keep playing -- nm - JD Aug 11, 18:02 1
    - Dwight-sore-jaw-it's-true.gif -- nm - Beryllium Aug 11, 18:05
  - That would be a terrible name for a city -- nm - Krusty Aug 11, 17:52
  - Yup -- (link) - JD Aug 11, 17:51 1
    - ... but they don't say which year -- nm - Beryllium Aug 11, 17:53
  - that's awfully optimistic -- nm - prayformojo Aug 11, 17:51 3
    - In each successive period,the goalies have to sacrifice a piece of their equipment. -- nm - Reagen Aug 11, 17:54 1
      - "nooo not the groin cup" -- nm* - the ice Aug 11, 17:55
    - heh -- nm - Beaker Aug 11, 17:52
They should alternate... one game plays while the other one is intermission. -- nm - Mopsy Aug 11, 17:48
And more OT -- nm - JD Aug 11, 17:48
There are a lot more Bass stans than I expected for someone I'd never heard of until last month. -- nm - TWuG Aug 11, 17:44 1
- I prefer Harp. -- nm - Reagen Aug 11, 17:48
*googles 'arenas in toronto'* -- nm - Gary Bettman Aug 11, 17:43 1
- Maple Leaf Gardens is still there. -- nm - Reagen Aug 11, 17:45
I love this so much! The Suns had their starting lineup announced by the families of the players from home. :-) -- (link*) - Krusty Aug 11, 17:41
all I'll saw is, thank God that was a short movie. there were several points when I realized I wasn't breathing -- nm - prayformojo Aug 11, 17:35
If you had started The Irishman at the beginning of this game, you would now be 1/6 of the way through. -- nm - Reagen Aug 11, 17:35 14
- The game or the movie? -- nm - . Aug 11, 18:14
- David’s mother tells us that one’s about the Mafia in Nebraska. -- nm - Judge Bane Aug 11, 17:44 7
  - I want to hear more about her thoughts on this. -- nm - Krusty Aug 11, 17:45 6
    - Over the course of a two-day discussion, we learned that The Irishman is a true story about mobsters. In Omaha, maybe? - Judge Bane Aug 11, 17:48 5
      - Heh. :-) - Krusty Aug 11, 17:50 4
        
        Me innocently sitting on the couch right now... -- (pic) - David Aug 11, 18:02 [Attachment] 1
        
        :-) - Krusty Aug 11, 18:03
        
        She had to pull it up and tell us what it was because we couldn’t figure it out. -- nm - Judge Bane Aug 11, 17:56 1
        
        I love it so much. -- nm - Krusty Aug 11, 18:02
- Playoff Beards will be awfully long after this one -- nm* - the ice Aug 11, 17:42
- Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhh. Hockey. -- nm - loosilu Aug 11, 17:40
- Douglas Adams wrote about this game in one of his books. It's still being played at the end of times. -- nm - Mopsy Aug 11, 17:37 1
  - Who taught Isner and Mahut to play goalie? -- nm - Reagen Aug 11, 17:38
- Just decided to play the whole series in one night -- nm - the ice Aug 11, 17:36
Today I learned: YouTube has a CMS platform for big content creators. YouTube Studio is for peasants like you and me. -- nm - Mopsy Aug 11, 17:33
Great news, everyone! All of our problems have now been solved! -- (link) - prayformojo Aug 11, 17:31 1
- I feel like that's the exact opposite of what you just said it was. -- nm - Mopsy Aug 11, 17:44
Joe Biden would be the first President born in Pennsylvania since James Buchanan. Both have initials JB & both would be president in times of discord. -- nm - Dano Aug 11, 17:20 3
- Except when Buchanan was president, discord wasn't a social media service. -- nm - Beryllium Aug 11, 17:21 2
  - All they had was MySpace. -- nm - Reagen Aug 11, 17:39 1
    - Heh. Several of the returning Big Brother HGs were talking about how it was only MySpace when they were last in there. -- nm - Jovian Aug 11, 17:42
Who knows what a derecho is? No, it's not a villain from an old Zorro movie. - CT Aug 11, 17:10 20
- Is it Spanish for Derek? - Strongbad Aug 11, 17:49
- It's a weather thing that is not a tornado but is something you don't really want like a tornado. - ty97 Aug 11, 17:41 3
  - It's straight line strong winds. Extremely destructive. -- nm - loosilu Aug 11, 17:44 2
    - I've experience a straight line wind in Texas that we thought was a tornado. - ty97 Aug 11, 17:45 1
      - We had that in my neighborhood in 2010, I was sure it was a tornado, I went to the stairwell. It was EXTREMELY destructive in a small patch. - loosilu Aug 11, 17:51
- I've known ever since yesterday. -- nm - zunk takes things literally Aug 11, 17:30
- they were talking about it last night -- nm - zeitgeist Aug 11, 17:23
- it's what blew threw Iowa, Illnois and Indiana yesterday -- nm - Remlik Aug 11, 17:20
- First I'm hearing of it. -- nm - Krusty Aug 11, 17:19 10
  - Yes you did. June 2012, power outages from hell, in some cases weeks. -- nm - loosilu Aug 11, 17:21 9
    - Must have missed us or I just don't remember it. -- nm - Krusty Aug 11, 17:22 8
      - We had Superstorm Sandy but I don't remember that name being used in conjunction with the storm. -- nm - Krusty Aug 11, 17:23 1
        
        Not a derecho. It was tropical storms/hurricanes that joined up. -- nm - loosilu Aug 11, 17:24
      - Could be. It was hell in DC area. The cause was a heatwave, so, we were living in the same heatwave with no power. -- nm - loosilu Aug 11, 17:23 5
        
        Ugh! No A/C in a heat wave is my nightmare. I've been bitching about Con Ed recently because of power outages. - Krusty Aug 11, 17:27 4
        
        Here's the story about the derecho. I was definitely posting that night and so was Max. It was SCARY. The most violent thunderstorm I ever saw. - loosilu Aug 11, 17:34 2
        
        Damn! That sounds so bad and when it was 104 is just awful. - Krusty Aug 11, 17:48 1
        
        we definitely talked about it here, but it's natural to forget if you weren't affected. -- nm - loosilu Aug 11, 17:52
        
        When I say heat wave, I mean 100 and humid as a bathtub. I've been thru NYC heat waves too. They suck in different ways. -- nm - loosilu Aug 11, 17:28
- Everyone who lived in the Midatlantic in 2012. -- nm - loosilu Aug 11, 17:11
No cable and no internet make Cuzzin Todd something something... -- nm - CT Aug 11, 17:05 1
- Clean the house? -- nm - loosilu Aug 11, 17:06
Thank you all for the sweet birthday wishes❤❤❤ - Meg Aug 11, 16:59 7
- Happy Birthday Meg!!! -- nm - Jovian Aug 11, 17:29
- Happy Birthday! -- nm - CT Aug 11, 17:27
- Happy Birthday, young lady! -- nm - Dano Aug 11, 17:11
- Happy Birthday to ST's favorite elder stateswoman! -- nm - TWuG Aug 11, 17:05
- Add one more! Happy birthday! -- nm - loosilu Aug 11, 17:04
- All my love, Meg. Happy birthday! -- nm - Mopsy Aug 11, 17:00
- Of course we were sweet - ty97 Aug 11, 17:00
Moar OT -- nm - JD Aug 11, 16:59 7
- the guys playing after *looks at watch...taps foot* -- nm - Beaker Aug 11, 17:01 6
  - I think it's rather considerate for them to keep playing until I was done working - JD Aug 11, 17:04 2
    - 73 is the record. -- nm - Reagen Aug 11, 17:07 1
      - Please, please don't let us have jinxed Korpisalo -- nm - JD Aug 11, 17:10
  - "Guys, we booked the rink" -- nm - Reagen Aug 11, 17:02 2
    - Relevant -- (link) - JD Aug 11, 17:07 1
      - NHL social media is on point this season. -- nm - Mopsy Aug 11, 17:38
now playing: Host on Shudder -- nm - prayformojo Aug 11, 16:52 2
- I think I need Shudder. -- nm - Judge Bane Aug 11, 16:55
- 😃 -- nm - Andie Aug 11, 16:53
Dave and i just tried to remember Hilary's VP running mate. We failed completely. -- nm - Andie Aug 11, 16:50 23
- It’s like you people don’t even know me. -- nm - Tim Aug 11, 18:02 1
  - *slaps desk* So *that's* who the other Tim is! -- nm - prayformojo Aug 11, 18:06
- I referenced him earlier today. -- nm - Reagen Aug 11, 17:32
- oddly, i remember -- nm - zeitgeist Aug 11, 17:25 1
  - here -- (link) - zeitgeist Aug 11, 17:31
- He's one of my senators. If not, I might have done the same. -- nm - loosilu Aug 11, 17:05
- Heh. - Beryllium Aug 11, 17:02 10
  - Your first letter game is tops. -- nm - loosilu Aug 11, 17:10 9
    - Oh, right. See? I wouldn't even know I was wrong. -- nm - Beryllium Aug 11, 17:12 8
      - Kasich is former Ohio governor and he is GOP. -- nm* - loosilu Aug 11, 17:13 7
        
        hah -- nm - Beryllium Aug 11, 17:16 6
        
        My next guess would've been Kucinich -- nm - Beryllium Aug 11, 17:16 5
        
        Getting closer -- nm - Krusty Aug 11, 17:20 4
        
        Oh, I googled the answer after loosi replied and indicated my suspicion that I was wrong was correct. -- nm - Beryllium Aug 11, 17:21 3
        
        Wildly so. -- nm - loosilu Aug 11, 17:22 2
        
        Which, IMO, makes it even funnier. -- nm - Beryllium Aug 11, 17:25 1
        
        You were rock solid with the K. -- nm - loosilu Aug 11, 17:29
- There was a video of him here recently! (I don't recall hearing him speak ever before that!) -- nm - ty97 Aug 11, 16:59
- He just made news about a week or so ago so he was in my head but I'm not sure I would have remembered him otherwise -- nm - Krusty Aug 11, 16:58
- (Even after googling we were like, huh, so forgettable.) -- nm - Andie Aug 11, 16:51 3
  - I like him as my Senator. -- nm - loosilu Aug 11, 17:05
  - I can see his face. He’s a white guy with a goofy grin. -- nm - Mopsy Aug 11, 16:59 1
    - He's fluent in Spanish. -- nm - loosilu Aug 11, 17:12
Dr. Pepper tastes like carbonated prune juice, change my mind. -- nm - Bacon Aug 11, 16:48 4
- BACONATOR! - loosilu Aug 11, 17:13
- An honourable beverage. -- nm - Worf si Aug 11, 17:03
- hrrrmmm, carbonated prune juice .. -- nm - homer Aug 11, 16:56
- You’ve figured out one of our 23 flavors! You get a free Dr. Pepper! -- nm - Dr. Pepper Aug 11, 16:55
*tapping impatiently on glass* -- nm - Carolina/Boston Aug 11, 16:48 3
- CGY/DAL started 2.5 hours later than CBJ/TBL, but will in all likelihood finish before it. -- nm - Reagen Aug 11, 17:00 2
  - and you called it -- nm* - JD Aug 11, 17:11 1
    - granted it wasn't hard at that pont. -- nm - Reagen Aug 11, 17:18
Biden/Harris will be attempting to be the 1st winning ticket since 1976 with 0 Ivy degrees. -- (edited) - Strongbad Aug 11, 16:45 11
- That's pretty remarkable. (What Ivy League degrees do Trump/Pence have?) -- nm - mara Aug 11, 16:49 10
  - Trump's Econ from Wharton. -- nm - Reagen Aug 11, 16:51 9
    - We need to get these elites out of the White House! -- nm - Mopsy Aug 11, 17:04
    - Trump cheated at Dartmouth. -- nm - Diva Aug 11, 17:00 2
      - probably simpler to list the places he didn't cheat. -- nm - Reagen Aug 11, 17:02 1
        
        "I, uh,... I got nothing..." -- nm - TWuG Aug 11, 17:04
    - I forgot it's part of Penn. Ugh! -- nm* - Krusty Aug 11, 16:59 3
      - That’s Penn “We’re Ivy League Too!” State to you, Mister! -- nm - Mopsy Aug 11, 17:03 2
        
        I just want to stand up here and say that Cornell is generally considered the lowest Ivy. Because it's an ag college. -- nm - loosilu Aug 11, 17:09
        
        Ha! :-) They're no dunces but they're not at the UPenn level. -- nm* - Krusty Aug 11, 17:08
    - Which should collapse Wharton. -- nm - David Aug 11, 16:54
Xbox next gen curious people: it's quite possible that the Series X/S release date is November 6th. -- nm - Shaun Aug 11, 16:44 9
- Breaking with tradition! Xbox 360 and Xbox One both released on Nov. 22 in their respective years. -- nm - Max Aug 11, 17:30 1
  - Although the Xbox One X release was Nov. 7. Scorpio Pre-orders were announced on the Sunday before gamescom, which would = Aug. 23 this year. -- nm - Max Aug 11, 18:01
- I feel it’s poor branding to call the new Xbox “Series X” and “Series S” because it makes it feel very evolutionary rather than revolutionary. -- nm - Mopsy Aug 11, 16:58
- Until I upgrade my TV to 4K I don’t think I need this. -- nm - Qale Aug 11, 16:49 5
  - Or in Mop terms: I need to buy a new TV when I buy my new Xbox. -- nm - Mopsy Aug 11, 16:57
  - Hey Pete, Qale needs a new tv... - David Aug 11, 16:54 3
    - how big is his wall? -- nm - Remlik Aug 11, 17:31 1
      - We need more data, Qale! -- nm - David Aug 11, 17:41
    - Don’t you dare! -- nm - Qale Aug 11, 17:18

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