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Texas Wedding Photographers Have Seen Some Shit -- (link) - Reagen Dec 16, 12:12 1
- interesting sidebar link about how research into llama's antibodies (apparently half the size of ours) led to that new treatment bamalamavi whatever -- (link) - zeitgeist Dec 16, 12:43
I didn't realize yesterday that when Trish said she would get transferred next Thursday that that was Christmas Eve. That is a nice little gift. -- nm - crash davis Dec 16, 12:02 8
- yonh! -- nm - Diva🎅🏾 Dec 16, 12:16
- sweet -- nm - mud Dec 16, 12:07
- Yay! -- nm - Krusty Dec 16, 12:05
- !!! -- nm - 🦌sleighformojo🛷 Dec 16, 12:04
- I can't believe Christmas is next week. -- nm - Andie Dec 16, 12:04 3
  - Wait, what? -- nm - znufrii Dec 16, 12:10 2
    - exactly. -- nm - Andie Dec 16, 12:10 1
      - More like April Fools. -- nm - 🎅Spawnta🎅 Dec 16, 12:12
Wow, expect this to be big: ‘Heroes’ Was Supposed to Be Leonard Roberts’ Big Break. Instead, It Nearly Broke Him. -- (link) - MDH Dec 16, 11:59 1
- ugh. I feel bad for him. Tim Kring and Ali Larter can take a fucking leap -- nm - Remlik Dec 16, 12:58
The backup gift I ordered for my niece has arrived. The original gift is still somewhere in China. -- nm - Baron the Bluenose Reinbear🐻 Dec 16, 11:53 4
- I’m very stressed out. N asked for 3 small items for Christmas. I ordered one before Thanksgiving, supposedly from California. Nooope. As of 2 days - kelly Dec 16, 11:57 1
  - That's one of donny's complaints about china, it costs less to mail a box from shanghai than for us to mail a letter...but no tracking -- nm - zeitgeist Dec 16, 12:03
- along with amanda's couch? -- nm - kilbowl full of jelly 🎅 Dec 16, 11:55 1
  - They're probably hanging out together eating good dan chao fan and mocking our expectations. -- nm - Baron the Bluenose Reinbear🐻 Dec 16, 11:57
SCOTUS has agreed to hear two cases as to whether the NCAA can limit a university's pay of student athletes. -- (link) - Mop Dec 16, 11:46
"I can't find the album Piano Concerto #1 by Chicago Bee Ski" -- nm - stupid Alexa Dec 16, 11:42 7
- You should have paid for the smart alexa. -- nm - 🎅Spawnta🎅 Dec 16, 11:43 6
  - but stupid Alexa was only $20 -- nm - crash davis Dec 16, 11:45 5
    - I just said my post out loud and she replied "$20 is 16 Euros and 41 cents" -- nm - crash davis Dec 16, 11:46 4
      - She's pretty stupid. -- nm - loosilu Dec 16, 11:49 2
        
        She only treats you badly because you didn't wish her happy birthday on Nov 6. - Baron the Bluenose Reinbear🐻 Dec 16, 11:52 1
        
        you might be right -- nm - crash davis Dec 16, 12:02
      - LOFL -- nm - 🎅Spawnta🎅 Dec 16, 11:48
MLB has declared the Negro Leagues to be Major League Baseball. -- (link) - Will Hunting Dec 16, 11:28 1
- Can I replace Barry Bonds with Josh Gibson as the all time HR man? I'm in favor of that. -- nm - crash davis Dec 16, 11:50
Jaromir Jagr will suit up for the Czech Elite League, at age 49. -- nm - Reagen Dec 16, 11:14 1
- If he is still in shape, I'm impressed. -- nm - crash davis Dec 16, 11:52
This board reminds us that 2020 is not yet over. - 🎅Spawnta🎅 Dec 16, 11:13 19
- Hows that Nor-Easter doin? -- nm - budice Dec 16, 11:23 17
  - I learned today that it's not a Nor'easter which is directional as well as needing high winds. I had no idea what it really meant before that -- nm - Krusty Dec 16, 11:28 13
    - High chance of tie-dyed eggs raining down on everyone -- nm - JaxSean Dec 16, 11:48
    - BUt .... the name. -- nm - loosilu Dec 16, 11:31 11
      - Nor'easter, which as everyone knows, means "in the NE." Just like Florida locals call hurricanes "Sou'easters." -- nm - Ron Burgundy Dec 16, 11:35 3
        
        ah, didn't think of that. -- nm - loosilu Dec 16, 11:39 2
        
        Thank you, Ron Burgundy!!! -- nm - 🎅Spawnta🎅 Dec 16, 11:42 1
        
        Dammit, who put three exclamation points on the TelePrompTer -- nm - Baron the Bluenose Reinbear🐻 Dec 16, 11:54
      - If the winds come from the northeast it will be considered a nor'easter. This is coming from the west -- nm - Krusty Dec 16, 11:35 5
        
        This looks like a classic nor’easter weather pattern to me. Winds are from the NE here. Not sure where you’re seeing otherwise. -- (edited) - znufrii Dec 16, 12:05 1
        
        The storm is moving in from the south west on the radar not down from the northeast -- nm* - Krusty Dec 16, 12:12
        
        That's what I'm saying. IT's right there in the name. -- nm - loosilu Dec 16, 11:39 2
        
        Foot of snow. Windy. That's a Nor'easter, I don't care where the winds are from. -- nm - ty97 Dec 16, 11:42 1
        
        YOu, sir, are no Yankee. -- nm - loosilu Dec 16, 11:44
      - meaning from, not towards. -- nm - Reagen Dec 16, 11:34
  - Looks like the dreaded wintry mix here. -- nm - loosilu Dec 16, 11:24
  - It's snowing! -- nm - decline Dec 16, 11:23
  - Flurries have resumed. - 🎅Spawnta🎅 Dec 16, 11:23
- word. -- nm - mud Dec 16, 11:17
Hey Mop -- (edited) - eag Dec 16, 11:09 1
- OH MAN! You just made my day! -- nm - Mop Dec 16, 11:15
ESPN: Louis Roddick is interviewing for HOU GM today. DET GM on Friday. -- nm - Strongbad Dec 16, 10:59
Hip-hop: You're old.... -- (link) - Remlik Dec 16, 10:58 4
- Nice! -- nm - Krusty Dec 16, 11:29
- But is he sippin' on Gin and Juice? -- nm - JaxSean Dec 16, 11:11 2
  - Laid back. -- nm - 🎅Spawnta🎅 Dec 16, 11:12 1
    - Play some rap music. -- nm - Joe Hallenbeck Dec 16, 11:18
Premier Lacrosse League and Major League Lacrosse have merged. Only one MLL team will join the merged league. -- (link) - MDH Dec 16, 10:54 4
- I never met anyone who actually played lacrosse until I went to college. There were enough east coasters there that it made inroads. - Baron the Bluenose Reinbear🐻 Dec 16, 11:08 3
  - II did not know it was a coastal thing. -- nm - loosilu Dec 16, 11:13 1
    - It's made a lot of gains in the past 20 years, but from Virginia up the coast is still the hotbed. -- nm - Baron the Bluenose Reinbear🐻 Dec 16, 11:51
  - I played 2 years in High School. -- nm - JaxSean Dec 16, 11:10
‘Night Court’ Sequel In Works At NBC With John Larroquette As Dan Fielding, Harry Stone’s Daughter As Focus & Melissa Rauch As EP -- (link) - Remlik Dec 16, 10:53 3
- I love this. -- nm - Todd Manning Dec 16, 11:59
- It's still okay to laugh about hookers, right? -- nm - con_carne Dec 16, 10:54
- loved the original...be interesting to see Dan Dan Fielding again and how they do him in this era -- nm -- nm - Beaker Dec 16, 10:54
Night Court relaunch in the works -- (link) - Beaker Dec 16, 10:53 9
- What about Bull!?! -- nm - 🎅Spawnta🎅 Dec 16, 11:23
- Hoping for a Brent Spiner cameo. -- nm - Baron the Bluenose Reinbear🐻 Dec 16, 11:01 1
  - I was just thinking that. -- nm - Remlik Dec 16, 11:03
- Take THAT, Disney! -- nm - Mop Dec 16, 10:57
- loved the original...be interesting to see Dan Dan Fielding again and how they do him in this era -- nm - Beaker Dec 16, 10:53 4
  - Michael Avenatti -- nm - Max Dec 16, 11:18
  - Indeed. -- nm - 🎅Spawnta🎅 Dec 16, 11:12
  - I believe you mean Reinhold Elmore. -- nm - Reagen Dec 16, 11:10
  - With a horse whip and a bottle of canola oil, hopefully. -- nm - Dan Fielding Dec 16, 11:04
Friend of mine in the education world posted pictures of his house burning down yesterday. Merry f*cking Christmas. -- (link) - Mop Dec 16, 10:49 7
- This is an awful reminder for everyone to check if they can grab important stuff in a moment's notice. -- nm - Max Dec 16, 11:07 1
  - Just upload everything to the cloud. We got you. Don't worry about it. It's not like it'll get hacked. Monetized? No idea what that even means! -- nm - Google Dec 16, 11:17
- god, so sorry. -- nm - Andie Dec 16, 11:03
- what the hell, 2020? -- nm - loosilu Dec 16, 11:01
- ugh. sorry. -- nm - Remlik Dec 16, 11:00
- No way Joe Way -- nm - Roger More Dec 16, 10:57
- Jesus. -- nm - Volnelk Dec 16, 10:56
Wrestling: Tokyo Police To File Charges Against Man Who Cyberbullied Hana Kimura - Remlik Dec 16, 10:40
So I kinda bumped into the most amazing thing this morning. - Marlowe Dec 16, 10:28 [youtube] 1
- Very cool. -- nm - Volnelk Dec 16, 10:56
Jeebus. Lions center Frank Ragnow did not practice today because he suffered a fractured throat in the 1st Q of Sundays game - he finished that game.. -- (link) - decline Dec 16, 10:24 7
- yeesh, how do you break your throat? -- nm - 🦌sleighformojo🛷 Dec 16, 10:35 6
  - Painfully, would be my guess -- nm - ❄TWuG 🚀 Dec 16, 10:37
  - Judo chop to the hyoid? -- nm - Baron the Bluenose Reinbear🐻 Dec 16, 10:37 4
    - Hiiii-Ya! *judo chop* -- nm - Miss Piggy Dec 16, 10:37 3
      - You know why Miss Piggy talks funny? - ❄TWuG 🚀 Dec 16, 10:39 2
        
        "Bah, that joke's older than Eddie Murphy." "That joke's older than _Audie_ Murphy." *raucous laughter* -- nm - Statler and Waldorf Dec 16, 10:44 1
        
        L3 -- nm - Max Dec 16, 12:01
" I don’t think the people complaining truly understand the power of subscription economics. This will be good for creators, for studios..." - David, Horny New Guy Dec 16, 10:17 1
- Maaaybe. This feels a bit like newspaper website paywalls. - ❄TWuG 🚀 Dec 16, 10:34
This is insane: HHS appointee Paul Alexander: "Infants, kids, teens, young people, young adults, middle aged...so we use them to develop herd…we want them infected" -- (link*) - decline Dec 16, 10:00 6
- He was saying that over the summer, so it's possible he's changed his mind. -- nm - mara Dec 16, 10:21
- It's like they're in a Supervillain competition - Reagen Dec 16, 10:08 2
  - Reminded me of this. -- (link) - Volnelk Dec 16, 10:10 [youtube] 1
    - I correctly guessed what this was. -- nm - Tim Dec 16, 10:11
- And then they'll infect everybody else ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ -- nm - JD Dec 16, 10:03 1
  - not just that. You can't build herd immunity like that. There is no such thing as herd immunity without a vaccine. -- nm - loosilu Dec 16, 10:30
*clear throat* INFRASTRUCTURE WEEK! -- (link) - ty97 Dec 16, 09:53 3
- We'll need to rebrand. We'll call it "Highways, roads, bridges, and dams week" or just "High Week" for short. -- nm - Mop Dec 16, 10:39 1
  - How about "Dam It?" -- nm - Cuzzin Fa-La-La-La-Todd Dec 16, 10:41
- Palin's bridge finally getting built w00t -- nm - budice Dec 16, 10:00
The only countdown that matters: Kerrang!'s 50 greatest albums of 2020 -- (link) - JaxSean Dec 16, 09:49 12
- I'm not ready for a world where Deftones are relevant again. -- nm - Reagen Dec 16, 10:22 2
  - It's a pretty good album. I'm not ready for Smashing Pumpkins to be a thing again. -- nm - JaxSean Dec 16, 10:45 1
    - But we all think Toad's new song is amazing. So what happened to us? - Pippy Bells Dec 16, 11:03
- Clicked to see Biffy Clyro. Was not disappointed. -- nm - con_carne Dec 16, 10:20
- With only a few exceptions, this could easily be a completely made up list and I would be none the wiser. -- nm - Volnelk Dec 16, 10:08 4
  - I haven't even looked yet but it's Kerrang, so I figured as much -- nm - ty97 Dec 16, 10:19
  - True story. I've only heard of 8 artists on the list. 1 is only because of JaxSean. And I've heard none of the actual music. nm - Johnny Lawrence Dec 16, 10:18 2
    - Well, Kerrang also is geared towards heavy/metal rock, so it's understandable. There's a lot I don't know. - JaxSean Dec 16, 10:43 1
      - Kerrang are the most "on it" of hard rock (i.e. not doing it in their pajamas). They also recognize British hard rock, which are the originator - con_carne Dec 16, 10:53
- I'm going to assume that TomCattt was #51. -- nm - Baron the Bluenose Reinbear🐻 Dec 16, 09:56 2
  - I think you mean #5 - #1 -- nm - 🦌sleighformojo🛷 Dec 16, 09:57 1
    - They invented new numbers less than 1 just for him. -- nm - Baron the Bluenose Reinbear🐻 Dec 16, 09:59
Fuck COVID, man. - Yuletide Callisto 🎄🎄 Dec 16, 09:45 20
- I'm very sorry. And I agree with the IM -- nm - crash davis Dec 16, 12:00
- :—[ -- nm - mud Dec 16, 11:18
- :( -- nm - kelly Dec 16, 10:58
- Sorry to hear. -- nm - Cuzzin Fa-La-La-La-Todd Dec 16, 10:42
- Oh man. So sorry to hear. -- nm - loosilu Dec 16, 10:30
- sorry to hear. Big hugs. and yes - Pippy Bells Dec 16, 10:25
- very sorry to hear -- nm - Remlik Dec 16, 10:20
- So sorry. -- nm - Andie Dec 16, 10:06
- Sorry -- nm - eag Dec 16, 10:02
- so sorry -- nm - decline Dec 16, 09:58
- People, we're the worst. -- nm - Reagen Dec 16, 09:52
- I’m sorry Callisto. -- nm - spamlet Dec 16, 09:51
- So very sorry. :-( -- nm - Krusty Dec 16, 09:51
- :( -- nm - Tim Dec 16, 09:50
- sorry :( -- nm - JaxSean Dec 16, 09:50
- Really sorry to hear this. -- nm - 🦌sleighformojo🛷 Dec 16, 09:50
- oh no, I'm sorry -- nm - ty97 Dec 16, 09:47
- I'm so sorry. It's just all so horrible. -- nm - Diva🎅🏾 Dec 16, 09:46
- :( -- nm - budice Dec 16, 09:46
- Sorry to hear. -- nm - Will Hunting Dec 16, 09:45
I love that theater idea. WB already gets the vast majority of money from tickets so give them less. - Will Hunting Dec 16, 09:44 1
- I'm not sure people are making good decisions already and for them to race to pay $ 3 a ticket and bring the family - Pippy Bells Dec 16, 11:05
Hell = This conference call. Right now. I'm in Hell. -- nm - Diva🎅🏾 Dec 16, 09:42 5
- It's the Showstopping centerpiece of the hit musical 2020. -- nm - Reagen Dec 16, 09:44 4
  - Oo, I can't wait for the Robot Devil's number. -- nm - Baron the Bluenose Reinbear🐻 Dec 16, 09:48
  - IT REALLY IS. -- nm - Diva🎅🏾 Dec 16, 09:46 2
    - If someone out there isn't writing this then Broadway is missing a bit - Reagen Dec 16, 09:48 1
      - I have lots of pockets of pals who are doing just this. -- nm - Diva🎅🏾 Dec 16, 09:51
Starbucks really is everywhere -- (link) - kilbowl full of jelly 🎅 Dec 16, 09:41

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