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OTD 40 yrs ago: The Go-Go's released their debut album "Beauty and the Beat" -- (link) - mud Jul 8, 07:36
Dano: Nadal is playing in the Citi Open. -- nm - MDH Jul 8, 07:31 1
- Dano Nadal would be a good alias. -- nm - Spawn Jul 8, 07:40
Speaking of Twilight, I just got a notification that they will be on Netflix next week. ....yay? -- nm - kelly Jul 8, 07:26 3
- will the first one be top ten? I bet yes. -- nm - amanda jeans Jul 8, 07:48
- See what you did Ender? This! This is you! -- nm - Will Hunting Jul 8, 07:29 1
  - Wake his ass up! -- nm - Spawn Jul 8, 07:32
SummerStalker package = sent! -- nm - prayformojo Jul 8, 07:10 2
- Yay! -- nm - kelly Jul 8, 07:24
- just need 1 more thing -- nm - Beaker Jul 8, 07:17
Tokyo Olympics to be held without fans -- (link) - budice Jul 8, 07:05 14
- Heh. For reference, São Paulo is about 10% less populated and our best 7-day average for the past year is near where Tokyo is right now. - Marlowe Jul 8, 07:54 1
  - Damn. :-( -- nm - Krusty Jul 8, 08:00
- Bruce Springsteen's daughter is on the US team and he has a break in his Broadway show when she's competing, so he seems to think he's going. -- nm - jnine Jul 8, 07:32 6
  - equestrian? -- nm - amanda jeans Jul 8, 07:48 5
    - yup -- nm - decline Jul 8, 07:49 4
      - how do horses get to the olympics? like who pays for that plane ticket? -- nm - amanda jeans Jul 8, 07:50 3
        
        they FedEx them -- nm - decline Jul 8, 07:52
        
        They fly... -- (link) - oblique Jul 8, 07:52 [youtube] 1
        
        and boy are their wings tired by the time they get there. -- nm - tRuMaN Jul 8, 07:55
- i thought that was decided ages ago (hence why they didn't sell tickets?) -- nm - Andie Jul 8, 07:06 4
  - I think the State of Emergency killed any hope at all for fans -- nm - Beaker Jul 8, 07:09
  - They had wanted up to 10k local fans for each event. -- nm - spamlet Jul 8, 07:08 2
    - oh, i missed that. that seems like it was an insane idea. -- nm - Andie Jul 8, 07:17 1
      - (Or 50% capacity, whichever was less, as a rough rule of thumb.) (NM) - Marlowe Jul 8, 07:48
Gettr sounds wonderful (very nsfw article) -- (link) - decline Jul 8, 07:01
As a Red Wing fan, seeing the Lightning win back-to-back Cups gives me hope. - spamlet Jul 8, 06:43 1
- nice -- nm - budice Jul 8, 07:53
An English fan used a laser pointer and had it on the face of the Danish goalkeeper during the penalty kick. -- (link) - Krusty Jul 8, 06:29 2
- I saw that in an article here a few hours ago - it's bad, but did not seem to affect his performance in the slightest -- nm - ori-o Jul 8, 06:57
- (another double, deleted - experiencing some lag issues) -- nm* - ori-o Jul 8, 06:57
I am so tired this morning and I dont know why. -- nm - tRuMaN Jul 8, 06:20 7
- How long, can this, go on? -- nm - Spawn Jul 8, 07:28
- Did you stay up late watching vampire movies? -- nm - oblique Jul 8, 06:24 1
  - nope. -- nm - tRuMaN Jul 8, 06:48
- Perhaps some king kong (large gorilla) took you for a wild ride around town, in your sleep. - ori-o Jul 8, 06:22 1
  - its true, I dont know. the same probability exists that Meg made me go through some type of assassin training -- (edited) - tRuMaN Jul 8, 06:49
- A shot of whisky will pick you right up -- nm - Baronnoo Jul 8, 06:21 1
  - i have rum, no whiskey. -- nm - tRuMaN Jul 8, 06:49
DTL NotSoHumbleBrag: I claimed the 3 seed in my conference tournament. 8-7 regular season, 7-3 in conference. - Baronnoo Jul 8, 06:17 1
- Well done! -- nm - Will Hunting Jul 8, 06:35
Shucks, says here this domain will expire in 7 days (on the 13th birthday). -- (link) - ori-o Jul 8, 06:13 9
- "This domain will expire in 372 days on Saturday, July 16, 2022" -- nm - decline Jul 8, 06:44 7
  - It was changed in between my post and your reply. I still had it open in one tab, here, so I took a screen shot, now, of what I saw -- (link) - ori-o Jul 8, 06:57 4
    - most likely Bery has the registration on auto-renew and you saw a cached version of the whois registration. -- nm - decline Jul 8, 07:00 3
      - that could be - sounds logical - ori-o Jul 8, 07:04 2
        
        or that website's code is broken and is just giving you bad information -- nm - decline Jul 8, 07:06 1
        
        but I am seeing the same as you see - it just happened to change between two hours ago and now? -- nm - ori-o Jul 8, 07:12
  - There's still time to register sl*ckertalk for the other choices of vowels. - Baronnoo Jul 8, 06:47 1
    - Dibs on SlyckerTalk -- nm - Qale Jul 8, 07:02
- Bery Alert -- nm - Beaker Jul 8, 06:35
“Mask up to keep it up”: Preliminary evidence of the association between erectile dysfunction and COVID- 19 -- (link) - mara Jul 8, 06:09 3
- This chart is telling fellas -- (link) - decline Jul 8, 06:47 2
  - heh "I also encourage you to subscribe to The Why Axis, the internet's premiere destination for charts shaped like dicks" -- nm - oblique Jul 8, 06:50
  - Talk about your mixed messages.... -- nm - Baronnoo Jul 8, 06:49
Disney's Encanto - teaser trailer -- (link) - Shaun Jul 8, 06:06 [youtube] 10
- I'm in. -- nm - Qale Jul 8, 07:12
- Is she Coco's cousin? -- nm - JaxSean Jul 8, 06:49 3
  - Are Disney and Pixer allowed to cross the streams? -- nm - Shaun Jul 8, 07:21
  - from the Coco trailer: -- (pic) - JaxSean Jul 8, 06:53 [Attachment] 1
    - Yeah, I will pass. -- nm - Spawn Jul 8, 07:37
- The animation is amazing, but the song sounds so much like Under the Sea. -- nm - Inigo Jul 8, 06:42
- wow, that looks beautiful -- nm - prayformojo Jul 8, 06:40
- Me: It looks like LMM, the animated adventure. Me 1 minute into trailer: Oh. -- nm* - Baronnoo Jul 8, 06:34 1
  - That made me watch it. Yay! -- nm - mara Jul 8, 06:37
- This is great -- nm - budice Jul 8, 06:30
Did I see the other day someone mention they'd dress in orange for Denmark, for the semi-final? - ori-o Jul 8, 05:50 1
- I got confused with Netherlands..but forgot anyways -- nm - zeitgeist Jul 8, 10:32
I still haven't fallen asleep, but if I'm not up by noon poke me. You have no way of doing that, but still... -- nm - Ender Jul 8, 05:42 5
- I took a long nap Sunday afternoon and a couple of days earlier a close buddy said he'd call me Sunday, on his way home from the cabin or later. - ori-o Jul 8, 05:48
- Twilight watch has destroyed your sleep cycle! -- nm - Beaker Jul 8, 05:43 3
  - Tomorrow's my last day off work. More than 3 days off totally throws me into chaos. -- nm - Ender Jul 8, 05:50
  - Or it turned him into a sparkly vampire that shines too brightly to sleep. -- nm* - Inigo Jul 8, 05:45 1
    - I'd point out they only sparkle in sunlight, but during vacation that's exactly when I sleep... -- nm - Ender Jul 8, 05:51
ST day count: 4740 (today) -- (edited) - ori-o Jul 8, 05:12 3
- Turns 13. Ok, so I think this is worth noticing: This site and forum becomes a teenager next Friday :-) - ori-o Jul 8, 06:12 2
  - We can go back to being TT - Krusty Jul 8, 06:13 1
    - lol -- nm - ori-o Jul 8, 06:14
CRT is when an white person feels bad -- (link) - Reagen Jul 8, 05:02 26
- Technically the truth. -- nm - Qale Jul 8, 07:14
- Republicans are so *delicate* -- nm - mafic Jul 8, 06:48
- Chawl, I had to explain white privilege to my FIL over the holiday weekend. That was fun. - Diva Jul 8, 05:37 1
  - Sorry you had to do that, but I'm glad he seemed to get it. -- nm - Inigo Jul 8, 05:39
- The true story of a black girl desegregating a public school delineated too harshly in saying a large crowd of white protestors opposed her. Also, - Will Hunting Jul 8, 05:14 20
  - I feel bad for the native Americans ("indians"). Seems to me they weren't exactly given a fair shake. It used to be their land - all of what is now - ori-o Jul 8, 05:36 13
    - This is something you're just now coming to realize? -- nm - Inigo Jul 8, 05:59 5
      - no - why would you assume that? - ori-o Jul 8, 06:02 4
        
        Seemed an off topic thing to bring up in a CRT discussion thread. - Inigo Jul 8, 06:14 1
        
        The mind wanders - seemed tangential. - ori-o Jul 8, 06:21
        
        Really makes you think. -- nm - mara Jul 8, 06:07 1
        
        It does. -- nm - ori-o Jul 8, 06:09
    - If they wanted a fair shake, they probably should have built up a better military and immune system. -- nm - Will Hunting Jul 8, 05:56 5
      - And had a flag. No flag, no country! -- nm - Krusty Jul 8, 06:13 2
        
        They believed in harmony…suckers. -- nm - Will Hunting Jul 8, 06:39 1
        
        Ha! -- nm - Krusty Jul 8, 06:50
      - "Yeah! Oo-rah!" -- nm - ori-o Jul 8, 06:02
      - (sorry, double) -- nm* - FactoFail Jul 8, 06:02
    - "Seems to me they weren't exactly given a fair shake." Yeah, definitely. That's an understatement even. -- nm - ty97 Jul 8, 05:48
  - *smh* -- nm - znufrii Jul 8, 05:31
  - "They're saying my gram grams was racist!" Listen, I've got some news for you... -- nm - Reagen Jul 8, 05:18 4
    - (the bit in Clerks 2 about this always cracks me up, especially Wanda Sykes husband "baby the food ain't racist!") -- (link*) - Beaker Jul 8, 05:21 [youtube] 2
      - I like the kid struggling with opening the bag and holding the broom at the same time (also, why doesn't Randall have to clean that up?) -- nm - Reagen Jul 8, 05:38 1
        
        spoilers - Randall never does anything -- nm - Beaker Jul 8, 05:43
    - “He’s 65 from South London, of course he’s a bit racist!” -- nm - Will Hunting Jul 8, 05:19
- Not sure what the issue is, but I think I prefer this article. -- (link) - ori-o Jul 8, 05:10
Richard Donner paid for Jeff Cohen's tuition (Chunk from The Goonies) -- (link) - Beaker Jul 8, 04:18
Spelling Bee -- (pic) - prayformojo Jul 8, 04:17 [Attachment] 11
- Colaroid, the new alternative to colonoscopy. Faster and no sedation required. -- nm - Baronnoo Jul 8, 06:04
- Coloradoic - the feeling of being mountainous and square -- nm - Reagen Jul 8, 05:12
- DildoLordCard. You know what it's for. (NM) - Marlowe Jul 8, 05:07
- COLORAID: a service where those with perfect vision describe things to the cor blind. -- nm - amanda jeans Jul 8, 05:06
- DoorLica - England's hottest new Grime rapper -- nm - Reagen Jul 8, 05:02
- ACIDLORD. my next door neighbor senior year of college. -- nm - amanda jeans Jul 8, 04:59
- Orcadrill - my whale-monkey hybrid. -- nm - Reagen Jul 8, 04:56
- Roadicil -- when the only cure is a long drive. -- nm - Will Hunting Jul 8, 04:51
- Croc-O-Dial, the nation's third leading reptile vending machine manufacturer -- nm - prayformojo Jul 8, 04:31 2
  - Yeah I’m not going to top this. -- nm - spamlet Jul 8, 04:58
  - Good answer! Good answer! -- nm - amanda jeans Jul 8, 04:58
Happy Birthday Liioulu! - Beaker Jul 8, 04:14 3
- Happy Birthday! -- nm - JaxSean Jul 8, 07:11
- Happy b! (NM) - Marlowe Jul 8, 05:08
- Happy birthday! Woo hoo!!! - Krusty Jul 8, 04:55
So…aleister black got to AEW so quick because WWE didn’t update his contract to the 90-day non-compete after promoting him from NXT -- nm - Will Hunting Jul 8, 04:01
TV PSA: NBA, Beat Shazam, Making It, Cube, Good Girls, Alone, Gossip Girl (HBO Max), Why Women Kill (Paramount+), RuPaul’s Drag Race All Stars (P+), -- nm - Beaker Jul 8, 03:57 2
- Grown-ish, Shark Week, Resident Evil: Infinite Darkness (NF), The Dog House (HBO Max), Genera+ion (HBO Max), other stuff -- nm - Beaker Jul 8, 03:59 1
  - When Nature Calls With Helen Mirren, Holey Moley, Top Chef, Love Island, Hustler -- nm - Beaker Jul 8, 05:14
Overlooked birthday - Norwegian-American actor/writer Kirsten Vangsness,flirtatious BAU-agent "Garcia" in the "Criminal Minds"-franchise; 49 yesterday - ori-o Jul 8, 03:27 2
- (the name is as Norwegian as they come, as opposed to Michele Bachmann. Debra Haaland, however, could easily live in the southwest, here. "Our" first -- (edited) - ori-o Jul 8, 03:57
- btw is it still 7th in Hawaii? I'll never forget calling the office in Norway before heading out on the town in Waikiki a Sunday evening - to get more - ori-o Jul 8, 03:28
#BB23 first impressions: I like Derek F and Sarah Beth. I don't expect them to win, but I like them. -- nm - Ender Jul 8, 03:11 6
- Collette Lala claims she doesn't know who Taran Armstrong is and I don't know if I believe her. -- (link) - Ender Jul 8, 03:25 5
  - I don't believe her at all. As a big brother podcaster blogger expert whatever, part of your job is knowing what the other experts are saying. - amanda jeans Jul 8, 05:01 2
    - This is my thinking -- nm - Ender Jul 8, 05:18 1
      - Though, TBF, she is no longer a BB podcaster... -- nm - Ender Jul 8, 05:21
  - Do you believe me when I say I have no idea who either of them are? - spamlet Jul 8, 04:58 1
    - I've already flashed the memory of these names from my brain. -- nm - Reagen Jul 8, 04:59
Now to catch up on Big Brother. -- nm - Ender Jul 8, 02:02
Robert Downey *Sr* film maker died today -- (link) - zeitgeist Jul 8, 01:52 1
- (misposted reply removed) -- nm* - ori-o Jul 8, 05:16
Now Playing: The Twilight Saga: Eclipse (2010) -- (link) - Ender Jul 7, 23:26 7
- I applaud your goodwill about all this. -- nm - Diva Jul 8, 05:32
- She should not be making decisions about getting married or becoming a vampire at 18. She should at least wait till she's like 25. -- nm - Ender Jul 7, 23:31 3
  - being 18 forever sounds *exhausting* -- nm - mafic Jul 7, 23:56
  - I think I'm "Team Edward in 7 years". -- nm - Ender Jul 7, 23:39 1
    - Buwhaaa! Right?! Get a nose ring or something else less permanent -- nm - Epiphany Jul 8, 07:10
- man, remember when Taylor Lautner was a thing? -- nm - mafic Jul 7, 23:30 1
  - I'm pretty sure he's not native American, yet... -- nm - Ender Jul 7, 23:32
What's the internal temperature of a Tauntaun? - JD Jul 7, 22:56
Figures. Got to thinking it was time for a new phone. Talked to a Verizon rep and he recommended one. Looked it up online, looked good, currently - Meg Jul 7, 22:49 3
- What did they recommend? -- nm - Ender Jul 7, 22:55 2
  - It's a cheapie Samsung Galaxy, similar to what I already have. I don't need anything more. - Meg Jul 7, 23:03 1
    - Sometimes they have the phones in the store but not online. You should check back with the store to see if they have it in stock. -- nm - Krusty Jul 8, 04:58
In hindsight, sometimes going to see a movie is a little bit like climbing aboard a rollercoaster. By the time you realize how it's gonna go, - Beryllium Jul 7, 22:37 1
- Heh, I don't think I could watch it again, but it was worth watching -- nm - Beryllium Jul 8, 00:47

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