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IYC: Antenna TV is starting Murphy Brown tonight with Episode 1 (2x a night,5-6 days/week). I’m in season 5 and love it. -- nm - MDH Jul 19, 20:00
Looking up where the flooding in Germany was, yikes, west of Frankfurt, folks home area Koblenz right in the middle of the area map -- nm - zeitgeist Jul 19, 20:00
for an MLA citation would I do 1) Dogg, Snoop or 2) Broadus Jr., Calvin? -- nm - crash davis Jul 19, 19:58 4
- It's the capital S, oh, yes, I'm fresh, N, double-O, P D, O, double-G, Y, D, O, double-G, you see -- nm - Volnelk Jul 19, 20:40
- Cite what the source uses. If the reference uses Snoop Dogg then you should use that. -- nm* - Krusty Jul 19, 20:25 1
  - yeah, that is the direction I took..thanks -- nm - crash davis Jul 19, 20:40
- 3) Schnizzle, Fo -- nm - rollo Jul 19, 20:19
new article researched the domestication of Cannabis. it started about 10,000 years ago in China -- (link) - Peglegpete Jul 19, 19:43
What the hell did Keith Lee do wrong? - Will Hunting Jul 19, 19:30 2
- And Karrion as well. Pritchard has to go. - Will Hunting Jul 19, 20:19 1
  - Imagine telling people in the early 90s that Brother Love would hold considerable booking power in the company. - Tim Jul 19, 20:25
Ray Winstone should really not be tasked to do a Russian accent. -- nm - Reagen Jul 19, 19:12 2
- *deleted* whoops wrong Ray -- nm* - Jovian Jul 19, 19:31 1
  - Ray Romano's Russian accent is *flawless* -- nm - mafic Jul 19, 19:42
Hmm, not sure I can watch Jeopardy for the next two weeks. That voice is grating on me :/ -- nm - Meg Jul 19, 19:09 2
- They're only one week stints now. I missed almost all of George Stephanopoulos last week. I don't consider it a big loss. -- nm - Baron of the Rings Jul 19, 19:13 1
  - I've been missing a number of shows when they get preempted by basketball. I can't watch later. -- nm - Meg Jul 19, 19:21
A house just exploded in Plano, TX (North DFW area). No details yet, but looks like a gas leak. House is completely flattened. -- nm - GregW Jul 19, 19:05
what? -- nm - Remlik Jul 19, 19:05
So we should all go visit Andrea now, right? -- nm - ty97 Jul 19, 18:55 3
- Hell yeah! -- nm - Krusty Jul 19, 19:57 2
  - I'm hoping to make it to 2024 and the eclipse in Niagra. -- nm - Meg Jul 19, 20:04 1
    - potential awesomeness BUT not only 70% chance of cloudy, but a 15' drop in temp at the falls can cause fog.... - zeitgeist Jul 19, 20:32
Megan Thee Stallion Will Be A Sports Illustrated Covergirl -- (link) - Remlik Jul 19, 18:53 1
- didn't they just release a swimsuit edition earlier this year? -- nm - crash davis Jul 19, 20:04
hehe -- (link) - Jovian Jul 19, 18:22
I am typing this post on one of the silliest combinations of gadgets you could imagine. -- nm - Beryllium Jul 19, 18:12 5
- Spoilers - Beryllium Jul 19, 18:14 4
  - Red Green `thinks you don't have enough duct tape, you need a flattened coffee can for a satellite dish, and wire into a potato for a battery -- nm - zeitgeist Jul 19, 20:04
  - The input device is operated anally. -- nm - Mop Jul 19, 18:18 2
    - I won't be happy until he posts using a banana. -- nm - mafic Jul 19, 20:27 1
      - I'm pretty sure I've posted whilst eating a banana. That's as close as I'll get. -- nm - Beryllium Jul 19, 21:39
man, running a mock Kraken expansion draft is surprisingly difficult. - mafic Jul 19, 17:58 9
- I had visions of Excel spreadsheets dancing in my head all night thinking about this - Mop Jul 19, 18:17 8
  - I tried but then realised I didn't care enough to invest the hours it'd take to do it well. I did draft a $184 million team that hits all the other - mafic Jul 19, 18:35 7
    - Ovechkin is a free agent who can sign with whoever he wants on the 28th?...so he is out -- nm - crash davis Jul 19, 19:55 6
      - there's nothing stopping them from picking him though - Reagen Jul 19, 19:57 5
        
        yeah, I was just trying to trim mafic's $184 million and that seemed like a place to start. If Montreal can stay within cap and carry Price - crash davis Jul 19, 20:01 4
        
        oh, there are definitely problems. it'd be insane to pick any 2 of Price, Rask, and Bishop. - mafic Jul 19, 20:35
        
        If they think they can contend right away, bit alone cheaper goalies available -- nm - Beaker Jul 19, 20:15 2
        
        I think he'd be my 3rd choice. Rask if you could sign him, Quick if you can't (plus not much else available from LA), then Price. -- nm - mafic Jul 19, 20:43
        
        Flicking phone -- nm - Beaker Jul 19, 20:16
Irish gymnast tests the anti-sex properties of the beds in the Olympic village. -- (link) - Dano Jul 19, 17:27 6
- Maybe this guy just doesn't have the thrusting power to exceed the bed's anti-sex tolerances that he expects. -- nm - Max Jul 19, 19:02 1
  - gymnasts do tend to be quite compact. -- nm - mafic Jul 19, 19:05
- I’ll trust the lack of an NSFW. But, seriously, nobody wants to see any Irish person anywhere near sex. Ask Feherty. -- nm - VMan Jul 19, 17:32 3
  - Clearly you've not seen Normal People -- nm - rollo Jul 19, 20:13
  - clearly you've never seen Colin Farr... no wait, Bono... no, Conor McGreg... Liam Nee... Michael Fassbender! yeah! Fassbender's pretty. -- nm - mafic Jul 19, 17:50
  - I dunno. This Irish lad is pretty strapping. -- nm - Qale Jul 19, 17:43
SpaceX test fires the 3 raptors on the Starship Super heavy booster. - TWuG Jul 19, 17:11 1
- I'm doing my part! -- nm - Qale Jul 19, 17:47
I swear almost this exact same article was written two years ago. -- (link*) - znufrii Jul 19, 16:33 3
- my kid's destined for a mongrel accent, so *shrug*. - mafic Jul 19, 19:42
- My daughter legitimately says things in an Australian accent because of Bluey. -- nm - Volnelk Jul 19, 17:29
- Oh wait, it was. -- (link) - znufrii Jul 19, 16:33
DTL: Big Tripwire matchup in about an hour -- nm - Dano Jul 19, 15:58 29
- For recruiting do you want to go hard immediately or kind of spread points around? - spamlet Jul 19, 17:47 4
  - The common strategy is to pick 2-3 stud recruits and put max recruiting points and scholarships on them. You don’t really know until week 3. - Dano Jul 19, 18:10 1
    - True, but you will know the Top 75 recruits at week 1 so that helps in case you want to bail out. -- nm - Baron of the Rings Jul 19, 19:11
  - If you don't offer a scholarship by Week 1, you will likely be trailing anyone worth much. The bonus points drop each week. - Will Hunting Jul 19, 17:56 1
    - Assigning any number of RP to a recruit week 1 also nets the 15 point bonus. It doesn't have to be a scholarship. - Baron of the Rings Jul 19, 18:03
- Spoilers - rollo Jul 19, 17:29 4
  - I made some adjustments from our scrimmage. They were the wrong adjustments. -- nm - Dano Jul 19, 17:46 1
    - And I may be 2-1, but I'm in last place in my bracket. -- nm - Dano Jul 19, 17:49
  - What is your team +/- wise? -- nm - Will Hunting Jul 19, 17:35 1
    - +56 -- nm - rollo Jul 19, 20:10
- Dumb question but what time zone is the game on? - spamlet Jul 19, 16:57 1
  - Yes? Eastern they play at noon, 5pm, and 8pm. All recruiting is due by the 5pm times. -- nm - Will Hunting Jul 19, 17:00
- I beat team 155 and lost to team 250. Team 6 is the last one and after what rollo did to me, I’m not hopeful. - spamlet Jul 19, 16:10 13
  - The gap between 150 to top 25 is significant. Until you can get 2-3 cycles through with top 100 recruiting classes, you'll be coin flips in much of - Will Hunting Jul 19, 16:19 4
    - Also, that #6 ranking is highly suspect. He was #131 last year and so far, he got by the #157 team by 2. - Will Hunting Jul 19, 16:22 3
      - His senior class was ranked 2 and his freshman class was top 25 is why but hopefully you’re right. -- nm - spamlet Jul 19, 16:52 2
        
        Oh, he's probably a solid team, but #6...I'm not seeing it based on his past history and 2nd game. - Will Hunting Jul 19, 17:01 1
        
        Lost by a dozen so I’d say probably overrated. -- nm - spamlet Jul 19, 17:20
  - Rollo can push a lot of people around. You look a little undersized at the forward positions. Are those big seniors on your bench not worth a start? -- nm - Baron of the Rings Jul 19, 16:15 4
    - They’re both 0s. I’m kind of rotating people in the exhibitions. -- (edited) - spamlet Jul 19, 16:33 3
      - Oh yeah pretty hard to leave a +6 on the bench. -- nm - Baron of the Rings Jul 19, 17:16 2
        
        Yeah this is what I’m working with. Like Will said, the pieces don’t quite fit. -- (pic) - spamlet Jul 19, 17:19 [Attachment] 1
        
        I'm impressed that you're a mid 100's team with that. - Will Hunting Jul 19, 17:24
  - Go Bulldogs! - JD Jul 19, 16:14
  - It took me to season 4 to have a winning record. -- nm - Dano Jul 19, 16:14 1
    - The scheduling gods smote me good. 4 NTT out-of-conference games. -- nm - Baron of the Rings Jul 19, 16:17
- I'm confused -- the brackets aren't playing intra? - Will Hunting Jul 19, 16:03 2
  - 6 games, 3 from each other table and 3 from in your table -- nm - rollo Jul 19, 17:23
  - This is my first time. I just scheduled the games I was told to. -- nm - Dano Jul 19, 16:06
This is one smart thing -- SEC says they'll do forfeits in teams don't up the vaccination rate. -- (link) - Will Hunting Jul 19, 15:44 1
- Vax or 401k...I dunno -- nm - zeitgeist Jul 19, 16:04
I've deleted the original post. I found a news story finally that was translatable. Thanks again for the advice. Back to regular broadcasting. -- nm* - Qale Jul 19, 15:41 3
- I would report, yes. -- nm - Dark Callisto Jul 19, 15:59 2
  - Harmful, dangerous acts is the best they got. So that's what I did. Thanks for the advice. I'm just kind of gobsmacked, really. -- nm - Qale Jul 19, 16:04
  - This -- nm - Krusty Jul 19, 16:04
McCarthy finally names his picks: -- (link) - mud Jul 19, 15:29 3
- Pelosi will veto Jordan no question about it. -- nm - Jovian Jul 19, 15:37 2
  - but he sounds so impartial! -- (link) - mud Jul 19, 16:18
  - MTG (iirc) is likely the sub for that -- nm - VMan Jul 19, 16:13
ancient Roman boundry stone news -- (link) - Peglegpete Jul 19, 15:23
Brittlestar has launched his butter tart flavoured vodka: Sex & Gold. -- (link) - Mop Jul 19, 14:54 2
- I smell sex and gold. Who’s that lounging in my chair. Who’s that casting devious stares in my direction. Momma this surly is a dream, yeah. -- nm - Qale Jul 19, 15:24 1
  - dig it -- nm - rollo Jul 19, 15:35
Senate Dems thinking of requiring women to register for the draft too. -- (link) - spamlet Jul 19, 14:52 12
- This topic makes me wonder - how do they find you after you've moved a dozen times from your initial registration? -- nm - Max Jul 19, 19:14 1
  - probably no better than voter registration, esp since there is no draft currently and so no money for a database other than HS school records -- nm - zeitgeist Jul 19, 19:41
- Fine with me. -- nm - Diva Jul 19, 15:40
- Yesh. Should have already happened. -- nm - Qale Jul 19, 15:25
- Oh, noes, our wimmens! -- (edited) - znufrii Jul 19, 15:22 4
  - Yep, abolishing it is the only other choice. -- nm - . Jul 19, 16:17
  - Abolishing the draft entirely would be a great concept, until you need it again. Which we can’t envision right now, but we’re not yet fighting China. - Qale Jul 19, 15:29 2
    - [nods] -- nm - mud Jul 19, 15:30 1
      - I don’t want to set the world on fire. I just want to start a flame in your heart. -- nm - Qale Jul 19, 15:48
- good -- nm - Peglegpete Jul 19, 15:18
- I've got no problem with it. The conservatives think it's a gotcha issue, but they're just deflecting. -- nm* - . Jul 19, 15:14
- Realistically, it’s right. Equality means good and bad. -- nm - Will Hunting Jul 19, 14:59
Indy runner Cole Hocker heading to Tokyo unvaccinated as Olympics grapples with COVID-19 -- nm - Remlik Jul 19, 14:42 9
- I mean I know how *I* want this turn to out. -- nm - Jovian Jul 19, 15:09
- In the article they also mention Michael Andrew is not vaccinated. He has HUGE medal chances in swimming. What is wrong with these people? -- nm - MDH Jul 19, 14:45 4
  - If they're not vaccinated they should be required to compete wearing a mask. Good luck, swimmers. -- nm - Dano Jul 19, 15:35
  - idiots. they're young and think it won't happen to them -- nm - Remlik Jul 19, 15:19 1
    - I expect this from Michael Andrew after the trials. Story inside. - MDH Jul 19, 15:31
  - "I don't know what's in that thing." "Here take these pills. They're... natural." "OK." -- nm - Reagen Jul 19, 14:46
- So... they're not requiring that athletes be vaccinated? -- nm - Mop Jul 19, 14:43 2
  - Neither USOC or IOC, which is completely stupid -- nm - MDH Jul 19, 14:44 1
    - People will get vaxxed for a Foo Fighters concert but the professional athletes can't be held to a standard? - Pippy Jul 19, 14:55
Billie Joe Armstrong - who still looks like he's 12-years-old - performs "I Think We're Alone Now" with his sons. -- (link) - Mop Jul 19, 14:39 [youtube] 3
- That was a fun cover to do -- nm - Krusty Jul 19, 14:54 2
  - He put out an episode of covers last year. This is on it. No Fun Mondays. -- (link*) - jnine Jul 19, 15:39 1
    - Cool. Thanks! I wound up watching him and Susanna Hoffs doing Manic Monday after that video. :-) -- nm* - Krusty Jul 19, 15:49
*NPVs the monthly payments for A’s after school care versus paying it all in advance for a 3% discount* - znufrii Jul 19, 14:17
Heh. Typical. (political compass for the NS election) -- (pic) - Reagen Jul 19, 14:13 [Attachment] 4
- All I know is my gut says 'maybe' -- nm - mafic Jul 19, 19:21
- so canadian. -- nm - mud Jul 19, 14:14 2
  - Doesn't want to hurt anyone's feelings. -- nm - Mop Jul 19, 14:30 1
    - or skeptical of ideology or idealism.. - mud Jul 19, 14:40
Trailer to the Woodstock 99 documentary. -- (link) - Mop Jul 19, 14:11 [youtube] 3
- 1999 was a pretty tumultuous year, but nothing like 69 or 2016 through the present. Like it’s not even close. - Qale Jul 19, 14:35 2
  - *nods* -- nm - Krusty Jul 19, 14:54
  - Agreed -- nm - JaxSean Jul 19, 14:50
Zach Lavine placed in protocols. Does not travel with team to Tokyo. The hope is he will be able to join later in the week. -- nm - Diva Jul 19, 14:03 2
- that's LaVine. my bad -- nm - Diva Jul 19, 14:04 1
  - ~The man they call Reveen~ -- nm - Reagen Jul 19, 14:12
I think I'm going to walk the whole way home. it's nice out. I'm bored. why not. -- nm - amanda jeans Jul 19, 14:01
Bootleg Fire 4th largest wildfire in Oregon since 1900 - and growing -- (link) - Mop Jul 19, 13:54
NWBR, please yell when you're around. -- nm - David Jul 19, 13:47
Oops - Weight of explosives in South LA fireworks blast likely exceeded Bomb Squad truck's capacity. NSS :/ -- (link) - Meg Jul 19, 13:42 8
- I often underestimate the amount of explosives I have in my bomb squad truck. I dunno about you guys. -- nm - Qale Jul 19, 13:49
- Capacity was 15 lbs or a one time load of 25 lbs (that would pretty much kill the truck). LAPD estimated 16.5 lbs. They actually loaded 42 lbs. -- nm - Mop Jul 19, 13:47 6
  - even if they had loaded it correctly, the insanity of driving a bomb truck into the middle of a neighborhood to detonate can't be overlooked -- nm - chicken daddy Jul 19, 13:52 3
    - even if I accept that it was necessary, I can't believe that only 16 of the 32,000 pounds was so unstable that it had to be detonated. - mafic Jul 19, 19:39
    - Though there is the initial insanity of storing 32,000 pounds of fireworks in a house in the middle of a neighborhood -- nm - JD Jul 19, 14:00
    - When you have an unstable explosive, sometimes that's the only option. - Mop Jul 19, 13:55
  - Life, the Universe and *kablammo* -- nm - TWuG Jul 19, 13:49
  - If we given them estimates in "New Yorks" rather than lbs, they wouldn't have gotten this wrong. -- nm - Mop Jul 19, 13:48
New (ish) French Dispatch trailer. -- (link) - Mop Jul 19, 13:38 [youtube] 1
- Big Dr. Strangelove Energy -- nm - rollo Jul 19, 13:43

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