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now? -- nm - Beaker Feb 18, 18:23
Not a redundant name but I always got a kick out of Moose Factory -- nm - zork Feb 18, 18:06 2
- Right next to Moosonee. -- nm - Reagen Feb 18, 18:15 1
  - And it's not the only Factory! -- nm - zork Feb 18, 18:19
Matt McConaughey almost played Jack in Titanic -- (link) - budice Feb 18, 18:05 2
- turns out the real story behind the audition is pretty boring. -- nm - mafic Feb 18, 18:10
- 🎵I was gonna sail on Titanic but then I got high 🎶 - zork Feb 18, 18:09
AOC is showing up Fled Cruz, by actually doing something to help his constituents -- (link) - TWuG Feb 18, 18:04
Our vaccines are stuck in Tennessee and Kentucky. No current ETA. Maybe that's where Kelly's shot is coming from ;) -- nm - Meg Feb 18, 18:02 2
- My parents' second dose is delayed (maybe a week? TBD) due to winter storm shipping issues -- nm - ty97 Feb 18, 18:04 1
  - Yup, they're trying to reassure us that a few days more won't matter but I want my second shot dammit!! -- nm - Meg Feb 18, 18:11
Rose Lavelle for President -- nm - prayformojo Feb 18, 18:02
Live shot of the Fled Cruz press conference -- (link) - Beaker Feb 18, 18:02
Here's a pretty ok video of the Perseverance landing moment for those who didn't catch it live -- (link) - con_carne Feb 18, 17:52 [youtube]
awwww, damn: Jeanette Lee, pool’s ‘Black Widow,’ reveals diagnosis of Stage 4 cancer -- (link) - prayformojo Feb 18, 17:52 2
- That sucks. She's awesome. -- nm - David Feb 18, 17:56 1
  - I felt bad when she had to retire because of the scoliosis. Now it appears that might have been something more sinister -- nm - prayformojo Feb 18, 18:01
Hyde - zork Feb 18, 17:51
I'm surprised CNN doesn't have an anchor at the Ritz Carlton talking to Heidi & the girls -- nm - Peglegpete Feb 18, 17:45 2
- The girls are off limits, Heidi knows better than to talk -- nm - zeitgeist Feb 18, 17:56
- wait, they are not in the MULTIPLE luxury resorts? mostly in Playa del Carmen -- nm - loosilu Feb 18, 17:49
David Lynch's impersonation of WS Burroughs: -- (link) - mud Feb 18, 17:40 [youtube]
generators FEMA sent to Texas are, as of this morning, sitting in a staging area in Ft. Worth waiting for delivery instructions. -- (link) - Budice Feb 18, 17:27 14
- Quite an improvement from parking them in an easily flooded field once the ice melts - zeitgeist Feb 18, 17:53
- seems the logical place for them to be really -- nm - tRuMaN Feb 18, 17:51
- Texas doesn't need your Federal handouts! -- nm - mafic Feb 18, 17:47
- I mean, naturally. -- nm - IAmQale Feb 18, 17:42
- If only there was someone from Texas at the federal level who could work to facilitate this interaction between governments. -- nm - Mop Feb 18, 17:39
- Dad informed me El Paso Weathered their generators 10 years ago and are operating at full capacity to handle the load -- nm* - Budice Feb 18, 17:34 8
  - El Paso as we know is on a different grid. -- nm - loosilu Feb 18, 17:38 7
    - That is correct. West Texas, a bit of the panhandle, and a sliver of East Texas close to Arkansas/Louisiana. -- nm - IAmQale Feb 18, 17:41 6
      - Confession: I have NEVER been clear on what part of TX is the panhandle, because there is more than one straight part. -- nm - loosilu Feb 18, 17:50 5
        
        It is the part that’s close to Oklahoma’s. - IAmQale Feb 18, 19:07
        
        I always assumed it was the top, rectangular bit -- nm - zork Feb 18, 17:52 3
        
        That's a top hat, Oklahoma has a pan handle -- nm - zeitgeist Feb 18, 17:54 2
        
        Correct. FL does also. -- nm - Strongbad Feb 18, 18:14 1
        
        I like to think of it as a cock ring -- nm - zeitgeist Feb 18, 20:09
Huge fish processing ship docked in Tacoma burns over night, had a huge tank of ammonia they were lucky to prevent leaking, our own Bopal -- (link*) - zeitgeist Feb 18, 17:22
oooh, gossip at my wife's company. seems her subordinate and a geologist have been having a secret affair on site (both married with kids). - mafic Feb 18, 17:13 8
- Secret Affair -- (link) - mud Feb 18, 17:35 [youtube]
- Seems the laundry list of violations was long. Firing seems appropriate. - Mop Feb 18, 17:19 3
  - Sorry honey, they got mad when I drilled the wrong hole... -- nm - zeitgeist Feb 18, 17:58 1
    - HEY-O! -- nm - Mop Feb 18, 18:55
  - IM is what I'm wondering. I imagine they could say they violated the safety protocols while in town for meetings, and they take it very seriously. - mafic Feb 18, 17:23
- Love On The Rocks -- nm - con_carne Feb 18, 17:18 2
  - Nice. -- nm - loosilu Feb 18, 17:45
  - Stripmining -- nm - Beryllium Feb 18, 17:28
My first 6 minutes of Mr Mayor aint selling it well enough. -- nm - Max Feb 18, 17:07 1
- If you don't like the third one, it probably won't work for you. -- nm - Reagen Feb 18, 17:10
A guy at work just got Gunpei Yokoi'd, and it couldn't have happened to a better candidate. -- nm - Mop Feb 18, 17:04 2
- he's had his back catalogue updated for Switch? -- nm - mafic Feb 18, 17:44 1
  - HEY—O? -- nm - Mop Feb 18, 18:55
Patrick Stewart is trending and I had a mini heart attack for a second. - Jovian Feb 18, 17:03 1
- Don't scare us like that! - ReluctantCynic Feb 18, 17:07
hi hyde! Missed you! -- (pic) - ty97 Feb 18, 17:02 [Attachment]
Fate: The Winx Saga gets season 2 from Netflix -- nm - Beaker Feb 18, 16:57 4
- ...why? - znufrii Feb 18, 17:07 2
  - I literally lasted 90 seconds. -- nm - amanda jeans Feb 18, 17:15 1
    - That’s what he said. -- nm - spamlet Feb 18, 17:18
- Congratulations... I guess? -- nm - Mop Feb 18, 17:03
sick -- (link) - mud Feb 18, 16:56 4
- Oh sure but when I do it - HR oppresses my 2nd amendment rights -- nm - rollo Feb 18, 19:17
- I'd take better care of my guns than that. -- nm - Mop Feb 18, 17:09 2
  - That display looks like fecal material -- nm - crash davis Feb 18, 17:10 1
    - I like that they clearly thought "no, three guns isn't enough, get the .22" -- nm - Reagen Feb 18, 17:12
Bill Paxton, for all his many talents, was not the guy you went to for "subtle". -- nm - Reagen Feb 18, 16:53 1
- Oh come on -- (pic) - zork Feb 18, 18:02 [Attachment]
Seems Ted has done a nice job of distracting from the fact he tried to help overthrow the government a few weeks ago. -- nm - zunk xometimes Feb 18, 16:47 1
- Eh, I think it's more how much of a dick can this guy be? Overthrowing democracy or leaving constituents behind to freeze and fend for themselves? -- nm - Diva Feb 18, 17:04
go USWNT! -- nm - prayformojo Feb 18, 16:17
Against all odds, that Mortal Kombat movie doesn't look like shit. -- nm - Reagen Feb 18, 16:14 3
- Looks low budget to me -- nm - Budice Feb 18, 16:52
- "But why doesn't it have Chun-Li???" --- someone who later printed a retraction -- nm - Beryllium Feb 18, 16:15 1
  - I was always a Gen-an player myself. -- nm - Fozzie Baron Feb 18, 16:25
Lolo Jones exhausts me. -- nm - David Feb 18, 16:13 2
- She is terrible at the Challenge. Terrible. -- (edited) - Volnelk Feb 18, 17:12
- me too, but not in the way I wish she would -- nm - rollo Feb 18, 16:43
That's the thing -- (link) - Beryllium Feb 18, 16:12
Even Fled Cruz' neighbors don't like him -- (link) - TWuG Feb 18, 16:12 5
- Al Franken said in an interview, I like Ted Cruz more than most other Senators, and I *hate* Ted Cruz. - loosilu Feb 18, 16:33 1
  - "Why did you take an instant dislike to Ted Cruz?" To save time -- nm - zeitgeist Feb 18, 17:17
- MOMMY!!! We want to go to Mara Lago and spend some time with uncle Donald. -- nm - Cruz Kids Feb 18, 16:27
- The Ritz-Carlton. Oh that's gonna leave a mark. -- nm - Reagen Feb 18, 16:17
- Ahahah Fled Cruz. Like that B movie "Fled". -- nm - Beryllium Feb 18, 16:14
"Tahoe" means "lake". So Lake Tahoe means "lake lake". - Reagen Feb 18, 16:09 18
- don't even get him started on ATM machines and PIN numbers. -- nm - mafic Feb 18, 18:11
- Table Mesa -- nm - Flavorize— Feb 18, 17:59
- Mount Fujimoto - zork Feb 18, 17:45
- Mr Mister -- nm - zeitgeist Feb 18, 17:19
- French Lick In. was named for a French fort near a salt lick. -- (link) - Peglegpete Feb 18, 16:43
- Nevada means snow capped [re: in the Sierra Nevada mountains] -- nm - Peglegpete Feb 18, 16:41
- Sahara Desert means desert desert. -- nm - loosilu Feb 18, 16:38
- in what language? -- nm - loosilu Feb 18, 16:34 2
  - Washo, apparently. -- nm - Reagen Feb 18, 16:44 1
    - gesundheit -- nm - mud Feb 18, 17:37
- And don't even get me started on Walla Walla and Baden Baden! -- nm - mara Feb 18, 16:12 7
  - Ho Ho Kus. -- nm - loosilu Feb 18, 16:34 3
    - Ho Ho Kus was where I got my haircut every month as a kid. -- nm - Max Feb 18, 16:40
    - Always amused me as a kid. -- nm - Tim Feb 18, 16:35 1
      - Still funny. -- nm - loosilu Feb 18, 16:35
  - Bora Bora! -- nm - TWuG Feb 18, 16:12 2
    - The La Brea Tar Pits - Reagen Feb 18, 16:14 1
      - Pairs well with The Los Angeles Angels. - Fozzie Baron Feb 18, 16:20
Hyde, it's kind of impossible to know where the Hawks are at since all their new guys have gotten hurt. - David Feb 18, 16:07 3
- i think whatever you do with Collins is fine.... - x Feb 18, 16:13 2
  - wait. Is this hyde? really? - loosilu Feb 18, 16:35 1
    - haha...nm - x Feb 18, 16:40
Kelly, do you need to borrow our couch tonight? - David Feb 18, 15:51 1
- Oh, hi Olive. -- nm - kelly Feb 18, 17:32
Goddamnit. - znufrii Feb 18, 15:48 3
- And that one would’ve been great - znufrii Feb 18, 15:58 2
  - Fix it in post. -- nm - spamlet Feb 18, 16:03 1
    - I just might have to. -- (edited) - znufrii Feb 18, 16:07
Happy "Jessica Jones and Punisher are owned by Marvel again" Day! -- (link) - Reagen Feb 18, 15:48
tRuMaN, if you think starting on HSX in 1998 being half your life ago is bad, imaging how i feel...nm - x Feb 18, 15:48 18
- Got rich on GME? -- nm - Budice Feb 18, 16:50 4
  - no...nm - x Feb 18, 17:00 3
    - Ty discovered stocks recently and is driving himself insane. -- nm - Reagen Feb 18, 17:05 2
      - I have to give Ty some credit. When he gets obsessed with something, he really does go all in. As a Libra, I can’t handle that. -- nm - IAmQale Feb 18, 17:44 1
        
        this sounds dirty. - tRuMaN Feb 18, 17:52
- it IS YOU!!!!!!!! -- nm - loosilu Feb 18, 16:36
- Hey, great to see ya! (NM) - Marlowe Feb 18, 16:30 2
  - hey...nm - x Feb 18, 16:42 1
    - Heh, talk about a few lifes ago.. (NM) - Marlowe Feb 18, 16:45
- I think I was in my mid-50s when I started. And HSX was about a year old :/ -- nm - Meg Feb 18, 16:28
- Yeah, but you keep putting in quarters to get more lives. No fair. -- nm - IAmQale Feb 18, 16:26
- Now come on! Making a dmuck is old joke on yourself isn’t fair. - spamlet Feb 18, 16:05 2
  - ah, it's just true now... - x Feb 18, 16:09 1
    - Thanks, staying healthy which is all I can ask for. -- nm - spamlet Feb 18, 17:17
- Ha! 40% of my life. I have been with Amy more than I have been without her. That blows me away. -- nm - Spawn Feb 18, 15:54 2
  - amazing...nm - x Feb 18, 15:58 1
    - Indeed. - Spawn Feb 18, 16:20
- I mean, it makes you a wise sage compared to my relatively boring life... - tRuMaN Feb 18, 15:50
Best post on B4 -- (link) - Todd Manning Feb 18, 15:47 [Backboard] 1
- It's never my posts. -- nm - Mop Feb 18, 17:12
So what’s everyone doing on Monday evening? - kelly Feb 18, 15:46 15
- nice! -- nm - Remlik Feb 18, 18:17
- I changed it. Now it’s on Friday. But still... yay. -- nm - kelly Feb 18, 17:31
- WOOO FUCKING HOO -- nm - loosilu Feb 18, 16:37
- Booking the next week of airbnbs. The most road life in a while. -- nm - colin Feb 18, 16:31 2
  - And hella jelly of you -- nm - colin Feb 18, 17:11 1
    - Don’t be. I’ve been working in a giant Petri dish since August - where I caught covid from last month! -- nm - kelly Feb 18, 17:33
- Seems good. -- nm - IAmQale Feb 18, 16:27
- :-) -- nm - mara Feb 18, 16:12
- Not that. - spamlet Feb 18, 15:54
- good... looks at the local compiled board...refresh...refresh..... - zeitgeist Feb 18, 15:53
- yeah! -- nm - prayformojo Feb 18, 15:53
- yay! -- nm - Dark Callisto Feb 18, 15:51
- Nice! -- nm - Krusty Feb 18, 15:49
- what the hell? i can't even get one yet...nm - x Feb 18, 15:49
- Nice! -- nm - znufrii Feb 18, 15:48
I don't suppose it's worth the price, worth the price that I would pay...but I'm thinking it over anyway... -- nm - zeitgeist Feb 18, 15:45
Word. -- nm - Johnny Lawrence Feb 18, 15:45 2
- Perseverance. -- nm* - con_carne Feb 18, 15:46 1
  - Incorrigible -- nm - tRuMaN Feb 18, 15:51

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