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Remember when grocery folks got a couple bucks thrown at them for a few months because they were ‘essential workers.’ Pepperage Farm remembers. -- nm - IAmQale Feb 24, 12:16 1
- Pepperidge Farms knows no king but a king in the north whose name is Milano Cookies. .......Summer sausage is coming. -- nm - crash davis Feb 24, 12:21
A seal in snow ... -- (link) - Beryllium Feb 24, 12:15
“There is no good path. I don’t know how you break up with someone like that. It’s like ridding yourself of a parasite that has its tentacles wrapped - spamlet Feb 24, 12:15
Henry Cavill = Commander Shepard? -- (link) - Shaun Feb 24, 12:13 1
- But... Commander Shepard is a woman... -- nm - Ender Feb 24, 12:46
So, the cops are saying Tiger won’t face charges. I mean, you don’t know how fast he was going...maybe get those details first? - Will Hunting Feb 24, 12:11 6
- They're desperately trying to assure us he wasn't impaired. -- nm - Meg Feb 24, 12:39 1
  - and they didn't take a blood sample, so, we will never know. -- nm - Andie Feb 24, 13:08
- is there a way that'll hold up in court to determine how fast he was going? - decline Feb 24, 12:20 1
  - Failure to control doesn't exist? -- nm - TWuG Feb 24, 12:23
- Maybe he was speeding, maybe he wasn't. We don't know. There's no way of knowing. Who can ever know? -- nm - The Cops Feb 24, 12:13
- ... -- nm - The Boss Feb 24, 12:12
I enjoy seeing stuff like this pointed out. The Texas Switch in various films. -- (link) - TWuG Feb 24, 12:05
whelp, probably gonna have to go through a job review. - tRuMaN Feb 24, 12:01 3
- oops -- nm - crash davis Feb 24, 12:05 2
  - to be totally honest, I shouldnt have reacted that way, and - tRuMaN Feb 24, 12:19 1
    - You need to get your groove back. -- nm - crash davis Feb 24, 12:22
Just added fracture to my block list. -- nm - . Feb 24, 12:01
Finnish country cover of You Shook Me All Night Long -- (link) - Max Feb 24, 11:59 [youtube] 2
- I'm beginning to think Finns have too much time on their hands. -- nm - . Feb 24, 12:18
- All in all, they fared better against their national women's hockey team than I would against ours -- nm - crash davis Feb 24, 12:05
I think whoever thought of that 21st b'day movie poll was a bitter Silent Generation crank who stopped liking movies when Psycho came out. -- nm - con_carne Feb 24, 11:52
"The leg fractures were "comminuted," meaning the bone was broken into more than two parts, and "open," meaning the broken bone was exposed to air" -- (link) - Reagen Feb 24, 11:34 14
- This is the worst thing since Alex Smith, maybe even Fred Taylor. -- nm - David Feb 24, 11:46 3
  - "Oh great, you made me miss Joe Theismann." -- nm - Fozzie Baron Feb 24, 11:55
  - Mackenzie Milton ranks up there. - Will Hunting Feb 24, 11:50
  - Marcus Lattimore deserves to be on that list. -- nm - Strongbad Feb 24, 11:48
- *..... touches it* -- nm - Max Feb 24, 11:44
- Hmm. I have never heard of a compound fracture being referred to as open. -- nm - Spawn Feb 24, 11:41 3
  - I have, but I've also done analysis using a large trauma database so.... - Fozzie Baron Feb 24, 11:48 2
    - There was mention this morning that they also had to 'open up' the muscles so that swelling would not cut off the circulation. -- nm - Meg Feb 24, 12:02 1
      - Fasciotomy to prevent compartment syndrome. That was actually the first study I used that database for. -- nm - Fozzie Baron Feb 24, 12:07
- (The rod in the leg is probably the more bothersome thing long term) -- nm - Reagen Feb 24, 11:39 1
  - I keep thinking about Ben Hogan and his near fatal accident. He won 6 majors after that, but he was also considerably younger than Tiger is now. -- nm - Fozzie Baron Feb 24, 11:58
- I realized I'm a few miles up the road from the crash site. Hawthorne Bl. is one of the main drags outside my house. RPV is like our Beverly Hills. -- nm - con_carne Feb 24, 11:38 1
  - ~livin in Beverly Hills~ -- nm - Strongbad Feb 24, 11:44
- Thanks. I hate it. -- nm - IAmQale Feb 24, 11:34
And like I said, I have incredible impostor syndrome and I still think it shows. -- nm - Tim Feb 24, 11:33 15
- Disagree. I love what you bring, from the episodes I’ve heard. I will discount you for being a Mets fan...although as a Rox fan, I’ve got no room to - Flavorize— Feb 24, 12:21
- I find your voice to be so refreshing. I find that everyone else is so pro disney and you're like "ehhhh maybe I'll get there." - amanda jeans Feb 24, 11:37 12
  - I totally agree with this. -- nm - Inigo Feb 24, 11:59 3
    - I admire Disney for what they've done as a business and put together as a package, and despise them for what they've inflicted on me. -- nm - Reagen Feb 24, 12:16 2
      - Let it go. -- nm - IAmQale Feb 24, 12:19 1
        
        (laughing) -- nm - amanda jeans Feb 24, 12:26
  - I bet HBO Max paid you to say this. -- nm - IAmQale Feb 24, 11:44 7
    - miss peacock jones -- nm - Max Feb 24, 11:45 6
      - Oh that's right. My bad. I'll go slither off to Paramount Mountain now. -- nm - IAmQale Feb 24, 11:51
      - I haven't watched trashy nurses yet! (I will paramount this weekend. work has been SFC. sorry.) -- nm - amanda jeans Feb 24, 11:47 4
        
        I would not have picked this month to be the worst in C19. Tuesday I started work at 3pm and worked nonstop* until 5pm Wed. - Max Feb 24, 11:50
        
        Nurses is in hot water right now. -- nm - David Feb 24, 11:48 2
        
        no!!!! why??? -- nm - amanda jeans Feb 24, 11:58 1
        
        Apparently, “ JEWISH HUMAN RIGHTS GROUP: NBC DRAMA UGLY DEPICTION OF ORTHODOX JEW CROSSES THE LINE INTO BIGOTRY” -- nm - David Feb 24, 12:13
- Well for my comment, it's more about how cozy you guys are with one another. Blessing and curse kind of thing. You have to imagine new people... - IAmQale Feb 24, 11:35
Hey, sycor Re: your post last week about what's leaving Netflix. I just found this website which I plan on bookmarking and using weekly - con_carne Feb 24, 11:33
In line with what we discussed re: J&J vaccine -- (link) - ty97 Feb 24, 11:32 1
- that last stat, *big* if true... I wonder how the other 2 shot ones compare on the end result? -- nm - zeitgeist Feb 24, 11:34
Anyone on ST doing Topshot? -- nm - Flavorize— Feb 24, 11:32
So, I’m having a surreal two weeks. My big boss off project (one of 5 people in the company at her level) has gotten to know my name a lot - Will Hunting Feb 24, 11:32 1
- good luck -- nm - zeitgeist Feb 24, 11:37
Bioware: Anthem is dead. Long live Dragon Age & Mass Effect -- (link) - decline Feb 24, 11:22 3
- Good. -- nm - Strongbad Feb 24, 11:40
- Remind me what killed Mass Effect: Andromeda... -- nm - David Feb 24, 11:31
- Outriders demo tomorrow!! -- nm - Shaun Feb 24, 11:30
U2 - All I Want is You was played at my wedding by cello. -- nm - Volnelk Feb 24, 11:06 5
- Our walk up music was "Crazy Fingers" from the Blue Light Rain album by Jazz Is Dead. - zunk xometimes Feb 24, 11:45
- Beautiful Day, for us. -- nm - Spawn Feb 24, 11:11
- for some reason all I can hear is the Beatles -- nm - zeitgeist Feb 24, 11:07 2
  - Nah. The one from Reality Bites. -- nm - Volnelk Feb 24, 11:09 1
    - More directly U2 it was also featured during the closing credits to the Rattle and Hum movie -- (link) - JD Feb 24, 11:33 [youtube]
WWE: Largest class ever for NXT coming in...Rick Steiner's kid, Taya Valkyrie (John Morrison's wife) and others.... -- (link) - Remlik Feb 24, 11:05 1
- Steiner's kid looks more like Randy Orton than Steiner -- nm - Dano Feb 24, 11:25
The Fed system that allows inter-bank transfers is down -- (link) - decline Feb 24, 10:59 12
- Have they tried turning it off and back on again? -- nm - spamlet Feb 24, 12:02 1
  - pretty sure that's what they did and flipped the switches one at a time as each service is coming back online -- nm - decline Feb 24, 12:09
- Fedwire has two back up facilities. Bitcoin has (checks notes) 10,195 backup facilities in over 100 countries -- (link*) - budice Feb 24, 11:25 1
  - Yeah but BitCoin is made up and the points don't matter. -- nm - IAmQale Feb 24, 11:42
- *shakes fist at Fidelity* -- nm - ty97 Feb 24, 11:05
- Truckloads of cash in its place -- nm - budice Feb 24, 11:04
- Hadley! -- nm - Fozzie Baron Feb 24, 11:04
- INVASION! -- nm - Mop Feb 24, 11:02 1
  - Canada? -- nm - Cuzzin Todd Feb 24, 11:16
- That’s not good. -- nm - znufrii Feb 24, 11:02 2
  - whoopsie -- (link) - decline Feb 24, 11:10 1
    - Just kidding! -- (link*) - Johnny Feb 24, 11:28 [youtube]
Les Miles offered a secret settlement an LSU student intern who he was accused of "hitting on" about a decade ago. -- (link) - budice Feb 24, 10:56
Jerry Dipoto is an idiot too. He’s saying that the kid the CEO of the Mariners quit over, Jared Kelenic isn’t being held down because in Dipoto’s - Will Hunting Feb 24, 10:45
Look for bonds to take off in the near term - I just closed a bond mutual fund :/ -- nm - Meg Feb 24, 10:42
1999 was so tremendously stacked when it comes to movies, I refuse to believe only The Phantom Menace counts for me. -- nm - IAmQale Feb 24, 10:42 8
- I was 3 days early on Mummy and 17 early for Phantom Menace. - Strongbad Feb 24, 11:38
- Mine was Rocky. Not sure if that's a good omen or a bad omen. -- nm - sycor Feb 24, 11:18 1
  - He accepts his limitations at one point in the film, right? So just don't do that. Easy peasy. :) -- nm - con_carne Feb 24, 11:44
- Also from backboards: I know he wants it but we're going to see Big Show choke slamming Marko Stunt within a month, aren't we? -- nm - IAmQale Feb 24, 10:46 2
  - That's Marko's favorite wrestler. He can't wait.... -- (link) - Remlik Feb 24, 11:19 1
    - Like I don't already follow all of Jurassic Express. Come on, Remlik. -- nm - IAmQale Feb 24, 11:43
- Looks like to do well in that poll, your movie has to 1) have a happy ending, 2) be a good movie and 3) have mostly good things happen in it. - con_carne Feb 24, 10:45 1
  - I figure I might as well as live it up with the Marked for Death forecast -- nm - JD Feb 24, 10:57
YouTube is launching more than 30 kids originals in 2021. -- (link) - Mop Feb 24, 10:41
Does anyone use blue light glasses? -- nm - JaxSean Feb 24, 10:35 7
- My girls have them. They wanted them. I have no opinion on them. -- nm - Mop Feb 24, 10:57
- I have a pair with zero prescription. I never thought they did much. -- nm - Reagen Feb 24, 10:57
- curious about this too.. does it mess with anything if you apply to prescription glasses? -- nm - colin Feb 24, 10:56 1
  - I have it on my glasses and everything looks normal. It does block out a lot of the blue light but not all. - Krusty Feb 24, 11:12
- nope, but I use the Kindle blue light mode every night -- nm - decline Feb 24, 10:54
- I’ve looked at them but haven’t ever pulled the trigger. -- nm - spamlet Feb 24, 10:45
- No, but I have Night Light turned on at all times on my phone. -- nm - Shaun Feb 24, 10:37
also, the BBC Earth slides of Etna erupting are incredible -- (link) - prayformojo Feb 24, 10:31
"Russia contains Spain's largest river" -- nm - Classroom Transcripts Feb 24, 10:31 2
- Containment is the only thing stopping Spain's water dominance. -- nm - Max Feb 24, 11:13
- Prove me wrong! -- nm - Mop Feb 24, 10:51
Just a SitV reminder that you should try to use one another's names more often. Kim and David, you're good. Others, step it up! -- nm - IAmQale Feb 24, 10:30 4
- I tried and caught Mop completely off guard! -- nm - Tim Feb 24, 11:24
- and Regan wherever you were recording last week sounded like you were in a box. -- nm - Remlik Feb 24, 10:41 1
  - as in the most recent one? -- nm - Reagen Feb 24, 11:43
- (Good reminder!) -- nm - Dark Callisto Feb 24, 10:40
Scotties Spoil -- (edited) - mud Feb 24, 10:30 2
- I assume they were phoning it in. Were they already locked into their spot in the next round? -- nm - Mop Feb 24, 10:42
- Go, Turks and Caicos! -- nm - Fozzie Baron Feb 24, 10:38
this photo from Jimmy Chin's IG makes my head spin -- (link) - prayformojo Feb 24, 10:29 1
- [Nope. Nope Nope Nope Nope.] -- nm - JaxSean Feb 24, 10:31
Did we see that Fry's is going away? -- nm - Spawn Feb 24, 10:28 1
- dammit! i love those stores. -- nm - colin Feb 24, 10:50
for those who have flown inside the US - did you have to produce a negative COVID test before flying? - Diva Feb 24, 10:27 5
- In the continental US, we did not. I know that we would have for Hawaii, though. I'm not sure about Alaska. -- nm - David, Horny New Guy Feb 24, 10:29 4
  - BTW, I don't know if we ever mentioned this on ST. Back in October, we sat on the tarmac for 45 minutes because the co-pilot tested positive. - David, Horny New Guy Feb 24, 10:30 3
    - yikes. - Diva Feb 24, 10:53
    - yeesh -- nm - prayformojo Feb 24, 10:31
    - Should have used that blow up pilot. -- nm - IAmQale Feb 24, 10:31
J&J will apparently only have 3 to 4 million doses of the vaccine ready to ship next week, if it does get FDA approval, not the 10 million that was expected -- nm* - znufrii Feb 24, 10:25 3
- But that is up from the 2 mil the WH said. -- nm - Spawn Feb 24, 11:17
- Any and all welcome. -- nm - budice Feb 24, 10:26 1
  - You know Johnson really needs to stop Johnson from making all of these bold claims. -- nm - IAmQale Feb 24, 10:31
It's our oldest's 7th birthday today. She wanted a koala themed birthday. Check out her cake. -- (pic) - Shaun Feb 24, 10:24 [Attachment] 15
- cute -- nm - zeitgeist Feb 24, 11:10
- aww, that's real nice. -- nm - colin Feb 24, 10:58
- noice! -- nm - Beaker Feb 24, 10:44
- Nice! Love the ears especially! -- nm - Flavorize— Feb 24, 10:38
- :-) -- nm - mud Feb 24, 10:33
- Just cut me off an ear of frosting, plox. -- nm - IAmQale Feb 24, 10:32 1
  - It's a Jos. Louis covered in vanilla buttercream. -- nm - Shaun Feb 24, 10:36
- Phenomenal! -- nm - David, Horny New Guy Feb 24, 10:31
- very cool -- nm - decline Feb 24, 10:30
- i love it!! -- nm - Diva Feb 24, 10:28
- Totes adorbs. -- nm - Fozzie Baron Feb 24, 10:28
- Awesome -- nm - budice Feb 24, 10:28
- That's fantastic. -- nm - ReluctantCynic Feb 24, 10:27
- that's pretty great -- nm - prayformojo Feb 24, 10:27
- *bookmarks* -- (edited) - znufrii Feb 24, 10:26
Beautiful batch of Oilers stats from the last 12 games. -- (link) - Shaun Feb 24, 10:16 2
- They better resign Nuge. -- nm - Reagen Feb 24, 10:23 1
  - I don't usually pay attention to cap space and what not, but where are they at? Nuge won't be cheap. -- nm - Shaun Feb 24, 10:31
IIIIIIIII'MMMMMM GONNA SWING FROM THE CHANDELIER -- nm - ty97 Feb 24, 10:15 6
- Sia is canceled, ya know... -- nm* - colin Feb 24, 10:49 1
  - Yes, but toad isn't. - Beryllium Feb 24, 11:47
- Thx Maddy. -- nm - Diva Feb 24, 10:36
- Omg. -- nm - znufrii Feb 24, 10:34
- when you come down and sober up, please read emails. -- nm - Diva Feb 24, 10:24
- I prefer the Puddles version but that was great too. -- nm - Fozzie Baron Feb 24, 10:18

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