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Alert: ICYMI, there's a season 2 of Blown Away, the glass blowing competition show on Netflix. - JaxSean Jan 22, 20:37
John Green tells me that bears were once so feared that people never spoke the word. So all we have now is a corruption of the German word for brown. -- nm - Mop Jan 22, 20:25 2
- So, Voldemort is a bear? -- nm - zork Jan 23, 06:00
- Duh. -- nm - Ender Jan 22, 21:26
*sigh* so now playing Mamma Mia! - JD Jan 22, 20:23
Somebody spoil me on the Bernie meme reference where - con_carne Jan 22, 20:18 1
- LoFi Beats Girl? -- nm - Qale Jan 22, 20:26
I feel that everyone involved in the production of the Blacklist at this point is bored and/or phoning it in. Can this even be a spoiler..? - Mop Jan 22, 20:15
Testing -- (link) - Beryllium Jan 22, 20:04 [youtube] 2
- The embiggening appears successful -- nm - Beryllium Jan 22, 20:14 1
  - Hugening even :) -- nm - Meg Jan 22, 20:24
Aw yeah. Bright Lights Big City holds up pretty well IMO except mild sp - con_carne Jan 22, 20:01
TIL (from Jeopardy): That Good Times is a spin-off from Maude which is a spin-off from All in the Family. - Mop Jan 22, 19:50 5
- if you were older, you would have seen all that happen as it happened. and you forgot the Jeffersons :) -- nm* - Peglegpete Jan 22, 20:09
- I though Good Times was a spin-off from All in the Family. I've seen more Good Times than the other two. -- nm - . Jan 22, 20:04
- TIL: Jared Padelecki IS Walker, Texas Ranger -- nm* - crash davis Jan 22, 19:52 2
  - Dean from Gilmore Girls, but not-Dean from Supernatural. -- nm - Mop Jan 22, 20:08
  - I don't understand how anyone has the energy to remake this show, when I barely have the energy to stand up and get a drink of water. -- nm - Beryllium Jan 22, 20:05
Having just watched the latest Wandavision, I had chills (spoilers) - Mop Jan 22, 19:36 2
- And pretty sure Geraldine spoil - Spawn Jan 23, 00:10
- Except (spoils) - eag Jan 22, 20:02
The History of the Doughnut A look back at the men, women and machines that made America’s favorite treat possible - crash davis Jan 22, 19:03 14
- When I was little used to watch them make donuts at a local place,Yum-Yum. They used two methods, The rings of batter straight into the oil and cutting -- (edited) - . Jan 22, 19:55
- You guys crack me up. - Trisha Jan 22, 19:22 4
  - Woo hoo! Great to see ya 👋—🌼 -- nm - Flavorize Jan 22, 19:41
  - Hey hey!!! -- nm - Krusty Jan 22, 19:33
  - Hi hi! -- nm - zork Jan 22, 19:27
  - I sent a tech to your room, is your phone working? -- nm - crash davis Jan 22, 19:25
- Call me - Trisha Jan 22, 19:13 7
  - That explains why you haven't answered! -- nm - crash davis Jan 22, 19:21 3
    - Arggh - Trisha Jan 22, 19:28 2
      - Phone now working. Another crisis averted in Biden's America. -- nm - crash davis Jan 22, 19:36 1
        
        * puts away the carrier pigeons * -- nm - Pippy Jan 22, 20:12
  - Maybe... -- nm - Cuzzin Todd Jan 22, 19:15 1
    - I wouldn’t risk not to. -- nm - Qale Jan 22, 19:16
  - listen to her -- (link) - Beaker Jan 22, 19:14 [youtube]
No seriously. Were donut holes a thing before Dunkin Donuts I guess marketed it as Munchkins?? - Jovian Jan 22, 18:53 11
- Yep. -- nm - . Jan 22, 19:44
- Yup. -- nm - znufrii Jan 22, 19:15
- it is laid bare in the historical texts -- nm - prayformojo Jan 22, 18:58
- Of course. -- nm - Spawn Jan 22, 18:55 1
  - this is like when I found out about Santa and I was like I should have realized this awhile ago. -- nm - Jovian Jan 22, 18:57
- Yes, like hundreds of years before. -- nm - Reagen Jan 22, 18:55
- yes -- nm - crash davis Jan 22, 18:53 4
  - a piece of my childhood has just been ripped asunder. -- nm - Jovian Jan 22, 18:54 3
    - Is anything you think you know true?!?! -- nm - Cuzzin Todd Jan 22, 19:13
    - np, I imagine you grew up in Dunkin' country -- nm - crash davis Jan 22, 19:04 1
      - oh yea. and brought into them many many times as a kid -- nm - Jovian Jan 22, 19:09
Finished rewatching Voyager. - Beryllium Jan 22, 18:49 5
- Word to IM -- nm - Denise Crosby Jan 22, 19:01
- I really liked Voyager. Once 7 joined it was really really good with some exceptional episodes -- nm - Beaker Jan 22, 18:51 3
  - Seven had some really good character development. Too bad Mulgrew detested Jeri. -- nm - zork Jan 22, 19:29
  - nothing like DS9 though (I love Thursday nights on Space when they have DS9 marathons) -- nm - Beaker Jan 22, 18:52 1
    - Two completely different shows, yes. And I think voyager would have benefitted from shorter seasons with more time for writing fewer scripts. -- nm - Beryllium Jan 22, 18:55
cronyism/party hacks/hangers on... Biden takes WA security chief, this is woman who screwed up the unemployment system that let hackers get a billion - zeitgeist Jan 22, 18:33
I just read several depressing stories in the times, so here's Lana Del Rey - Chemtrails Over The Country Club -- (link) - crash davis Jan 22, 18:30 [youtube]
Question of the day -- (pic) - prayformojo Jan 22, 18:23 [Attachment] 15
- Answer (spoiler) -- (pic) - prayformojo Jan 22, 18:24 [Attachment] 14
  - Bzzzzzt 0/1 -- nm - JD Jan 22, 18:30 2
    - Crimea river. -- nm - Hibernating Baron Jan 22, 18:50 1
      - points! -- nm - crash davis Jan 22, 18:51
  - Bonus question -- (pic) - prayformojo Jan 22, 18:24 [Attachment] 10
    - Answer (spoiler) -- (pic) - prayformojo Jan 22, 18:24 [Attachment] 9
      - 2 of 2. the second one had a big hint. -- nm - . Jan 22, 20:00
      - 2/2, but spoiler - Peglegpete Jan 22, 19:12
      - 2/2 but semi educated guess on 2. -- nm - spamlet Jan 22, 18:37
      - 1/2 Stupid geography -- nm - Krusty Jan 22, 18:33
      - this should go on the test to see if one can join the ST Vexillology Club -- nm - crash davis Jan 22, 18:32
      - 2/2 -- nm - Ender Jan 22, 18:31
      - 1/2 - Beryllium Jan 22, 18:26
      - 2/2 -- nm - Beaker Jan 22, 18:25
      - 2/2 -- nm - znufrii Jan 22, 18:24
On a scale of 1 to 10, how sketchy is it for a recently opened urgent care clinic to market that it has rapid Covid tests available -- (edited) - znufrii Jan 22, 18:23 5
- Yes. -- nm - Qale Jan 22, 19:18
- the IM is the sketchy part... -- nm - zeitgeist Jan 22, 18:26
- If they start numbing your side, run! - spamlet Jan 22, 18:25 1
  - *smh* -- (edited) - znufrii Jan 22, 18:30
- In Canada, eleventy billion. In America, a three. -- nm - Beryllium Jan 22, 18:24
The NBCSN coverage of Prada Cup tonight so far has an audible producer/technical director speaking over the actual footage. -- nm - MDH Jan 22, 18:17 5
- Maybe they don't care since they just found out there are out of jobs later this year -- nm - ty97 Jan 22, 18:31 1
  - 😏 -- nm - JD Jan 22, 18:33
- 15 minutes in and they still haven’t figured it out. This is wild. -- nm - MDH Jan 22, 18:21 2
  - “This is what it looks like when we’re all getting fired and DGAF” -- nm - spamlet Jan 22, 18:21 1
    - LOL reminds me of the Everton match I watched on Peacock and for the first 15 minutes, they hadn't turned on announcers track - JD Jan 22, 18:24
ST Pastry experts: Some debate on Twitter, today, about this...what do you call these... -- (pic) - Flavorize Jan 22, 18:12 [Attachment] 22
- Munchkins -- nm - kelly Jan 22, 19:31
- The source of all a donut's calories. It is known that all the calories around found in the hole. Donuts have no calories. -- nm - Hibernating Baron Jan 22, 18:41 3
  - Uh, I've heard it the other way around. The holes have zero calories cause they're holes -- nm* - JD Jan 22, 18:48 2
    - Ridiculous. The donut itself is shaped like a zero. QED. -- nm - Hibernating Baron Jan 22, 18:51 1
      - Huh. I stand corrected - JD Jan 22, 18:57
- Schweddy Balls -- nm - Max Jan 22, 18:41
- Were donut holes a thing before Munchkins? If not, then they are Munchkins. -- nm - Jovian Jan 22, 18:34
- Munchkins -- nm - Krusty Jan 22, 18:28
- Donut holes -- nm - Ender Jan 22, 18:27
- they're fucking timbits -- nm - Beaker Jan 22, 18:24
- Donut holes -- nm - Pippy Jan 22, 18:21
- Donut holes -- nm - con_carne Jan 22, 18:19
- Timbits -- nm - budice Jan 22, 18:18
- Timbits. - Reagen Jan 22, 18:17
- Timbits -- nm - J Jan 22, 18:16
- Munchkins, or donut holes. -- nm - znufrii Jan 22, 18:15 3
  - Oh, Munchkins..that's Dunkin, right? I have vague memories back to Kindergarten when I was in Texas and there was a Dunkin Donuts - JD Jan 22, 18:29 1
    - Yup. -- (edited) - znufrii Jan 22, 18:31
  - This -- nm - JaxSean Jan 22, 18:19
- Delicious. - Cuzzin Todd Jan 22, 18:14
- No expert but I call them donut holes -- nm - JD Jan 22, 18:13 1
  - ditto -- nm - Peglegpete Jan 22, 18:14
Electric Eels Hunt in Packs, Shocking Prey and Scientists The behavior, used by wolves and orcas to run down fast prey, is rarely seen in fish. - crash davis Jan 22, 18:09
Mamma Mia, c’est la weekend -- (link) - JD Jan 22, 18:08 3
- heh, my kids are watching mama mia now -- nm - Beaker Jan 22, 18:09 2
  - That's cruel. Just ground them if they did something deserving of punishment. -- nm - Cuzzin Todd Jan 22, 18:13 1
    - Now playing: Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again - JD Jan 22, 18:19
I know late to the party and all but Palm Springs was fantastic. - spamlet Jan 22, 18:06 4
- TBF it's her 8000th time watching it. -- nm - Reagen Jan 22, 18:09 2
  - Lol -- nm - Pippy Jan 22, 18:22
  - I was afraid (spoilers) - spamlet Jan 22, 18:21
- I thought it was great. In fact, maybe I'll rewatch it this weekend. -- nm - Cuzzin Todd Jan 22, 18:07
Now playing: Bright Lights Big City -- nm - con_carne Jan 22, 18:05 1
- "Is that clear?" "Crystalline." Heyyyy now, wait just one goddamn minute! -- nm - con_carne Jan 22, 18:12
Some lady in upstate New York keeps using my email for her spam, so I just cancelled her Acura service. - mafic Jan 22, 17:59 1
- The kid who keeps signing up for quizizz seems to have figured it out. -- nm - Reagen Jan 22, 18:02
Did no one in the Magic: The Gathering corner of the internets do a Bernie meme featuring the upcoming Kaldheim snow-covered lands? -- nm - Qale Jan 22, 17:57
I did not realize that Buffalo traded down and KC used the pick they got from the Bills for Mahomes. -- (link) - Tim Jan 22, 17:48
Whaaaaat? -- (link) - Beryllium Jan 22, 17:47 1
- Twug linked the story, but you kids with your Tweeters and Instakilos just don't -- nm* - crash davis Jan 22, 17:50
here are 44 facts and stats to try to encapsulate Aaron’s prodigious career -- (link) - Beaker Jan 22, 17:41 1
- sitwap - ‘When Baseball Mattered’: Hank Aaron’s 1997 Op-Ed on Jackie Robinson - crash davis Jan 22, 17:48
This is fine, right? No laws broken? -- (link) - TWuG Jan 22, 17:21 1
- and now we know why Barr resigned -- nm - Jovian Jan 22, 18:15
Well, this'll keep us busy for a while. The YouTube accent guy breaks down the regional accents of the United States. -- (link) - Mop Jan 22, 17:13 [youtube] 8
- Bob Woodward has a feature in his speech where he drags words and presses his tongue high and forward that I think is local to N OH/IN/IL. - Max Jan 22, 17:40
- "North American accents" Ctrl+F "Canada" ... hmmm. -- nm - Reagen Jan 22, 17:25 6
  - Little brothers always trying to make themselves the center of attention. Step aside, your big sibling has the stage. -- nm - ty97 Jan 22, 17:42 2
    - you're two days back "to normal" let's not get all high and mighty just yet. -- nm - Reagen Jan 22, 17:44 1
      - The United States claims this new decade! Woo! -- nm - Max Jan 22, 18:00
  - OK, so it's coming but that last 2 seconds was ...no. -- nm - Reagen Jan 22, 17:41 2
    - Hoose! -- nm - Mop Jan 22, 19:18 1
      - the second most common mistake in imitating the Canadian accent is over applying the flat a - Reagen Jan 23, 05:38
That White House head usher story.... -- (link) - . Jan 22, 17:05
Haven't watched 30 Days of Night this season, yet. I tend to watch it once every winter, or at least every other year. -- (edited) - ori-o Jan 22, 17:03 2
- 🤩 -- nm - Flavorize Jan 22, 18:07
- This year - now - I think I'll watch The Grey, first. It's available on a streaming service I subscribe to and I haven't seen it before. -- nm - ori-o Jan 22, 17:24
Bery, not with the monkey but my job is programming surveys -- nm - zork Jan 22, 16:58 2
- this is an issue with their plan selections not matching our use case (not at ALL) & effectively holding our data hostage as a result -- nm - Beryllium Jan 22, 17:14 1
  - Ugh -- nm - zork Jan 22, 17:29
Oslo shutting down tomorrow. Figures, I had planned to do my January sales shopping then.. -- nm - ori-o Jan 22, 16:57 2
- Now you won't have to deal with the crowds! -- nm - Mop Jan 22, 17:14 1
  - All joking aside, it seems that I can order most of the items I wanted online - the campaigns are there, also, which is nice. -- nm - ori-o Jan 22, 17:21
Mud, not sure your point on that. - zork Jan 22, 16:56 2
- I misunderstood something there, sorry. -- nm - mud Jan 22, 17:16 1
  - *first bump* -- nm - zork Jan 22, 17:26
[an error occurred while producing this MixPix directive] -- nm - Qale Jan 22, 16:52 1
- - this + any -- nm - Spawn Jan 22, 17:36
Trypophobia shout out on Mr Mayor! -- nm - Reagen Jan 22, 16:48

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