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Huh, Rush Limbaugh retired officially.. -- nm - Reagen Dec 24, 13:29 1
- I've seen some people reading it that way, but not spotted anything official. -- nm - Baron the Bluenose Reinbear🐻 Dec 24, 14:36
Gronk: Florida man spots alligator at practice -- (link) - budice Dec 24, 13:19
We're going up to 62 tonight (midnight!), then rain, and dropping to 22 before dawn on Saturday morning. - Max Dec 24, 13:14
We are going to have a white Christmas. -- nm - Will Hunting Dec 24, 13:08
alright, time to go shopping. -- nm - Max Dec 24, 13:08
At the moment, in the work "chain of command", there is nobody signed on that's directly above me. Which make me CEO!!! - Cuzzin Fa-La-La-La-Todd Dec 24, 13:00 1
- Quick, pardon yourself. -- nm - mara Dec 24, 13:01
The Pittsburgh Pirates have traded first baseman Josh Bell to the Washington Nationals. -- nm - Beaker Dec 24, 12:59
WHITE CHRISTMAS!!! -- nm - David Dec 24, 12:58 1
- So pretty. It started snowing earlier than expected. -- nm - Will Hunting Dec 24, 13:08
now playing: Prep and Landing -- nm - 🦌sleighformojo🛷 Dec 24, 12:53 3
- This one hasn't become as enshrined as a "Christmas Classic" as it damn well should be. -- nm - Cuzzin Fa-La-La-La-Todd Dec 24, 12:55 2
  - it's so creative -- nm - 🦌sleighformojo🛷 Dec 24, 12:56 1
    - And sooooooo tinsel. -- nm - Cuzzin Fa-La-La-La-Todd Dec 24, 12:57
Michael Jackson's Neverland Ranch sold for knockdown price -- (link) - budice Dec 24, 12:48
Looks like the PRC is going to make an example out of Jack Ma -- (link) - spamlet Dec 24, 12:44
mmm turtles -- nm - Beryllium Dec 24, 12:36 4
- don't eat'm all at once or you'll have none left for Boxing Day! -- nm - mud Dec 24, 12:38 3
  - That's what the second box of turtles is for. -- nm - Beryllium Dec 24, 12:40 2
    - And I assume they're box turtles. -- nm - Cuzzin Fa-La-La-La-Todd Dec 24, 12:56 1
      - 1979 ad that isn't at all suggestive: -- (link) - mud Dec 24, 13:05 [youtube]
Has Trump pardoned Thanos yet? -- nm - mud Dec 24, 12:26 5
- *golf clap* -- nm - ♤Spawn♤ Dec 24, 15:05
- I don't think Thanos was formally charged under US federal law. -- nm - Beryllium Dec 24, 12:26 3
  - That's why we got the Space Force, man. *thinking.gif* -- nm - Max Dec 24, 12:31
  - But just in case, I'll pardon him. -- nm - Trump Dec 24, 12:28 1
    - "Also, the Sokovia Accords? Didn't read 'em. Too many words." -- nm - Beryllium Dec 24, 12:31
I like that this picture circulates every year, seemingly around the world. It's from just beside Victoria's Red Robin -- (link*) - Beryllium Dec 24, 12:15 1
- I think there are several, but I recognize that one. -- nm - loosilu Dec 24, 12:23
Matpat also did the math on which fries are the best value. -- (link) - Mop Dec 24, 12:15 [youtube]
Just learned the 1st-grader across the drive has a fever and tested positive :( -- nm - MistletoeMeg 🎄🎅🎄 Dec 24, 12:14 2
- :-( -- nm - mud Dec 24, 12:48
- Oh no :( Hoping for the best for them. And also hoping that you weren't exposed. -- nm - Beryllium Dec 24, 12:43
Do you remember that time in 1986 when Uranus blasted a huge gas bubble right in front of the visiting spacecraft? -- (link) - Baron the Bluenose Reinbear🐻 Dec 24, 12:09
important pizza video. someone went thru the top 4 chains and analyzed prices, toppings, weight, etc. the most interesting conclusion was cheese. - Peglegpete Dec 24, 11:32 [youtube] 5
- Cheese is basically cheddar. -- nm - Qale Dec 24, 12:03 2
  - Not according to the video, no. It's mozzarella except at Little Caesar's where they mix in munster to make it cheaper. -- nm - Mop Dec 24, 12:14 1
    - Qale's brilliant wordplay was lost on the Mopster. -- nm - JaxSean Dec 24, 12:42
- Interesting point about how adding more toppings to the pizza appears to make for a "lighter" pizza. -- nm - Mop Dec 24, 11:41 1
  - Of course, no surprise that Little Caesars is the "better value". -- nm - Mop Dec 24, 11:43
Producer working with Game Of Thrones team on Three-Body Problem poisoned in alleged murder plot -- (link) - Beaker Dec 24, 11:17 2
- "There's one body, now we just need to find the other two." -- nm - znufrii Dec 24, 11:24
- AV Club should be pilloried for that non-sensical headline. -- nm - Mop Dec 24, 11:20
For those of you not on the Discord, Verizon's got more Pokemon Go and Roblox codes. If you're a Verizon subscriber and don't play either, please consider sharing the codes. -- (link*) - Mop Dec 24, 11:16
A rather odd Question of the day -- nm - 🦌sleighformojo🛷 Dec 24, 10:56 12
- Here -- (pic) - 🦌sleighformojo🛷 Dec 24, 10:56 [Attachment] 11
  - Answer (spoiler) -- (pic) - 🦌sleighformojo🛷 Dec 24, 10:57 [Attachment] 10
    - 1/1 -- nm - Diva🎅🏾 Dec 24, 12:56
    - 1/1. -- nm - Beryllium Dec 24, 12:23
    - 1/1, 4 semesters of German paid off. -- nm* - loosilu Dec 24, 12:22
    - 1/1 - Will Hunting Dec 24, 12:05
    - 1.1 -- nm - Peglegpete Dec 24, 12:01
    - 1/1. Knew it because of The Tick animated series. -- (edited) - Baron the Bluenose Reinbear🐻 Dec 24, 11:59
    - 1/1 in a half-informed guess. (NM) - Marlowe Dec 24, 11:26
    - 1/1. That is super-weird. -- nm - David Dec 24, 11:06
    - 1/1 on a guess -- nm - decline Dec 24, 10:59 1
      - Yup -- nm - Krusty - Diamond Dog Dec 24, 11:54
one good thing: I haven't gotten a b*mb*s sock ad in 5 days! - Diva Dec 24, 10:45 1
- You think the *s are going to fool Google/Facebook/Amazon algorithms? Risky move. -- nm - Dano Dec 24, 10:46
Election 2020: Dominion Voting Systems suing everyone for defamation -- (link*) - budice Dec 24, 10:22 7
- GOOD. -- nm - Mop Dec 24, 11:21
- That's good -- nm - James Bond (aka Igor) Dec 24, 10:50 5
  - The judges will probably dismiss the cases -- nm - Beryllium Dec 24, 10:53 4
    - that's bad -- nm - Beaker Dec 24, 11:01 3
      - The defense will give them a free frogurt. -- nm - Beryllium Dec 24, 11:04 2
        
        That's good -- nm - James Bond (aka Igor) Dec 24, 11:33 1
        
        The frogurt contains potassium benzoate. -- nm - Beryllium Dec 24, 11:46
A Matthew McConaughey Christmas Carol -- (link) - budice Dec 24, 10:14 4
- The key to a good impression of him is to achieve a laminar flow of dialogue. -- nm* - Beryllium Dec 24, 10:39 2
  - (It's true of Trump, too) -- nm - Beryllium Dec 24, 10:40 1
    - Don't confound laminar flow with projectile diarrhea. -- nm - Mop Dec 24, 11:18
- It’s almost creepy, how that voice sounds. It’s him! -- nm - Pippy - Dec 24, 10:29
I’m only doing this as a favor to Worf, but he wanted me to mention his new self help book “Today Is A Good Day To Diet” is now available for those - The Same Photo Of Chief O'Brien Every Day Dec 24, 10:08 1
- Chief Conan -- nm - ♤Spawn♤ Dec 24, 15:33
One more week!! -- (pic) - MistletoeMeg 🎄🎅🎄 Dec 24, 09:56 [Attachment] 2
- Yep. (Quoting the summation at the end of this WaPo article) -- (link) - Beryllium Dec 24, 10:53
- Yep. -- nm - Diva Dec 24, 10:13
Video of the "jetpack guy". I think it's either a drone that looks like a man or something Space X has developed and is testing out. All of the - jnine Dec 24, 09:52 4
- SpaceX would be putting the whole company at risk by doing that w/o flight clearance. -- nm - TWuG Dec 24, 09:56 2
  - Maybe it's a secret defense project. Or Elon on psychedelics. -- nm - jnine Dec 24, 10:00 1
    - Adam Savage and his Iron Man suit -- nm - zeitgeist Dec 24, 12:36
- Yup, looks like a YouTube stunt. -- nm - Mop Dec 24, 09:55
Pixar and death -- (link) - znufrii Dec 24, 09:45
Here's your latest list of Disney Movie Insider (previously Disney Movie Rewards) codes... -- (link) - Mop Dec 24, 09:39
The more I watch "Planes, Trains & Automobiles", the more frustrated I get by it. - Mop Dec 24, 09:31 4
- I still love every bit of that movie from start to finish -- nm - Krusty - Diamond Dog Dec 24, 10:14 1
  - Mop in 2150 "Why didn't these people simply reload their consciousness from the nearest memory deposit bank? This movie's stupid." -- nm - Reagen Dec 24, 10:49
- would you not - Reagen Dec 24, 09:44 1
  - Don't judge, maybe Mop wouldn't. -- nm - jnine Dec 24, 09:53
oh -- (link) - ty97 Dec 24, 09:29 3
- They're working hard to be underdogs again, because that's where the money is. -- nm - Beryllium Dec 24, 09:33 1
  - (A small note) - Beryllium Dec 24, 09:35
- He can't get over something shady a Republican did? -- nm - Mop Dec 24, 09:32
Bery - thx so much for posting that banner. - Diva Dec 24, 09:25 1
- 👍👍👍 -- nm - 🦌sleighformojo🛷 Dec 24, 09:26
NPR: Millions of Christmas gifts may arrive late due to overload at the Postal Service -- (link*) - budice Dec 24, 09:22 6
- That's why you should shop at Amazon. Just sayin'. -- nm - Jeff Bezos Dec 24, 09:31
- Some delivery service here (UPS maybe?) is even using UHauls to deliver this year. -- nm - ty97 Dec 24, 09:26 4
  - The woman who delivered Nathan’s trampoline pulled it from her Subaru Outback trunk. -- nm - Will Hunting Dec 24, 10:47
  - Had a UPS man deliver using his own car. He had on a UPS safety vest and had a scanner but he was driving a beat up 4 door Toyota. -- nm - zunkskunk+ Dec 24, 09:54
  - A lot of the 3rd tier services do this that partner with Amazon. - Reagen Dec 24, 09:54
  - I watched an Amazon delivery in the driveway yesterday. Huge van and the driver was virtually running from door to door with packages. - MistletoeMeg 🎄🎅🎄 Dec 24, 09:53
I trust that all the people who were outraged by the pardon of Mark Rich will stand up in outrage at all of Trump's pardons. -- nm - Mop Dec 24, 09:12 3
- This is rotten to the core. -- nm* - B. Sasse si Dec 24, 10:15
- of course not. Donnie's criminal friends are victims of the left wing media. -- nm - loosilu Dec 24, 09:36
- No, that will be the "what about . . ." excuse (even though now over 90% of Trump's pardons are either for family, friends, political allies or - pmb Dec 24, 09:16
Dec. 24 Birthdays: Pierre Soulages (101), Anthony Fauci (80), Nicholas Meyer (75), Timothy Carhart (67), Anil Kapoor (64), - Max Dec 24, 08:54 6
- What would Fauci's name recognition have been exactly a year ago? Sub-10%? -- nm - Tim Dec 24, 09:44 1
  - Sub 10 - Will Hunting Dec 24, 11:47
- You know how I know we are all getting old? Even the birthday reports are getting to be all old people -- nm - ty97 Dec 24, 09:06
- Bubblewrap Fauci along with Biden -- nm - budice Dec 24, 09:02
- any word if Michael Moorcock is still with us? -- nm - 🦌sleighformojo🛷 Dec 24, 08:55 1
  - I imagine Mr. Moorcock is filling his Christmas stocking as we speak. -- nm - Max Dec 24, 08:58
I just realized I mentioned Paxton when we were discussing Patrick on b2. I can't keep my assholes straight. - Qale Dec 24, 08:51 3
- Has no one ever ripped you a new one? -- nm - loosilu Dec 24, 09:12 2
  - Yes. And it was as useful as the one on my elbow. -- nm - Qale Dec 24, 09:13 1
    - See, you can keep them straight! -- nm - loosilu Dec 24, 09:15
Dano's Top 50 Songs of 2020 - Dano Dec 24, 08:46 13
- I can't properly rank them this year, so here's Songs I Kinda Liked 2020 (this year has ruined everything!) - Tim Dec 24, 10:13 1
  - CVS is one of the most unlikely heroes of 2020. -- nm - Qale Dec 24, 11:27
- My personal rule is even if it was released in the previous year, if it doesn't reach your ears until the following year, you can count it. -- nm - Tim Dec 24, 09:43
- *blink* a Biffy Clyro song! I'm getting through! :D -- nm - JaxSean Dec 24, 09:32 2
  - I probably picked the “wrong” song but I did like the album. -- nm - Dano Dec 24, 09:33 1
    - Sweet! End Of has worked it's way into my top 5 BC songs, but The Champ is a rallying cry song. - JaxSean Dec 24, 09:55
- ("wow, I can't believe I didn't see No Time to Die in theaters. oh, right.") -- nm - Max Dec 24, 08:57
- 10.333333% of this list is something I can agree on. Though technically I'm pushing Material Boy by Sir Sly into next year. - Qale Dec 24, 08:54
- I've heard one of these, and have heard of one other -- nm - 🦌sleighformojo🛷 Dec 24, 08:48 2
  - I know *OF* them... -- nm - Mop Dec 24, 08:54
  - They're not *all* Canadian -- nm - Dano Dec 24, 08:49
- I doubt I could name 5 songs from 2020 let alone 50. - Cuzzin Fa-La-La-La-Todd Dec 24, 08:48 1
  - Working from home meant a lot more listening to music for me in 2020. -- nm - Dano Dec 24, 08:48
Mad Max: Fury Road prequel, Furiosa, set to release in 2023 -- (link) - Reagen Dec 24, 08:39 1
- Just watched Fury Road again yesterday. It still floors me that it worked. It really had no business being that incredibly good. -- nm - Name Withheld By Request Dec 24, 09:17
ST is smarter WHERE can I see Die Hard without commercials for free? -- nm* - Pippy - Dec 24, 08:37 14
- How does everyone not own this? -- nm - jnine Dec 24, 10:42
- 7.99 in UHD on Vudu today -- nm - David Dec 24, 09:18 1
  - That’s how we did it. Cant believe we didn’t own it already -- nm - Pippy - Dec 24, 10:06
- C'mon over to my place! - Cuzzin Fa-La-La-La-Todd Dec 24, 08:47 2
  - I’m on my way, got my own hamster ball. -- nm - Pippy - Dec 24, 08:48 1
    - not ironically, "I’m on My Way, Got My Own Hamster Ball" is Dano's 53rd favorite song of 2020 -- nm - 🦌sleighformojo🛷 Dec 24, 08:50
- Not free: HBO Max. -- nm - Qale Dec 24, 08:45 7
  - Netflix? Prime? How in the world in this day and age is there not a website we can use for this task? -- nm - Pippy - Dec 24, 08:47 6
    - www.justwatch.com if you prefer a website to an app -- (link) - mara Dec 24, 09:02 2
      - Thanks to everyone! -- nm - Pippy - Dec 24, 09:04
      - Also reelgood.com -- nm - mara Dec 24, 09:03
    - JustWatch is the app I use for this purpose. -- nm - Qale Dec 24, 08:58
    - HBO owns the rights so they're the only place to watch it. I just Google a movie/tv show + streaming and it tells you where you can find it -- nm* - Krusty - Diamond Dog Dec 24, 08:53 1
      - A 20th Century Fox movie... is it on Hulu? Disney+? Nope! -- nm - Mop Dec 24, 08:55
On a technicality I'm still IN, and "won!" - Cuzzin Fa-La-La-La-Todd Dec 24, 08:21 3
- I DQed myself yesterday, I just had to hear Bing Crosby and David Bowie sing "Peace On Earth / Little Drummer Boy." -- nm - Under the Influence Dec 24, 09:16
- We are the champions of the world! -- nm - David Dec 24, 08:41
- Somebody on the force get CT's grieving widow the horn and tell her that CT's comin' home! - 🦌sleighformojo🛷 Dec 24, 08:24

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