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Roll PLP alert: The Lion In Winter is now starting on TCM for their week of classic Christmas films -- nm - con_carne Dec 21, 14:32
EMbarrassed to be the last STer (i think) to get a booster. I couldn't get a Moderna appt this week. Maybe my brother will give me one over Christmas. - loosilu who Dec 21, 14:19 5
- nope. I can't get mine until late January. we're doing 6 months post-2nd dose here, and initial rollout was slooooow. - mafic Dec 21, 18:34
- Not yet eligible in my province -- nm - Beryllium Dec 21, 14:58
- I couldn't get one before travel so I'm scheduled 12/30. -- nm - Max Dec 21, 14:42
- I'm not boosted yet. There only seems to be Pfizer around here. -- nm - Dano Dec 21, 14:32
- You're definitely not last since some folks here aren't eligible yet. I only got in because of where I work. -- nm - Baron Please Come Home Dec 21, 14:31
DTL, lost a double OT game with him going 28-44 from the line and me going 10-15. My centers both fouled out after 44minutes. -- nm - Will Hunting Dec 21, 14:15
DTL: *throws up arms* - spamlet Dec 21, 14:05 3
- That's my best case scenario! I was on the verge of firing my entire team when they got down 13 to a terrible OOC foe. - Baron Please Come Home Dec 21, 14:27 2
  - We lost to a much worse team. Not interim bad, but a team we should have beaten. -- nm - spamlet Dec 21, 14:48
  - But I have a clear lead on a recruit! OMG! It's just a back-up plan for PG, but a clear lead with a great name. - Baron Please Come Home Dec 21, 14:32
Weddings & wedding receptions, bars, nightclubs (but not pubs/cafes/restaurants), gyms and fitness studios, all being shut down in BC -- nm - Beryllium Dec 21, 13:53 2
- Starting Dec 22 -- nm - Beryllium Dec 21, 13:55 1
  - But that's right before Christmas -- nm - con_carne Dec 21, 14:20
Booster Done - Maderna -- nm - budice Dec 21, 13:47 2
- Rapid test - Negative :) Guess I should start to pack. -- nm - Meg Dec 21, 13:50 1
  - Yes! go have fun. You deserve some joy -- nm - Pippy Dec 21, 14:16
Lance Stephenson has signed a 10 day contract with the Hawks -- nm - Remlik Dec 21, 13:40
Cole Beasley to the COVID list, replaced by bag of Scrabble tiles -- (link) - Reagen Dec 21, 13:36 4
- I wonder if there are discussions at NFL HQ re: altering the policy. -- nm - Baron Please Come Home Dec 21, 14:00 3
  - Good question, there's a danger of him actually returning. -- nm - Reagen Dec 21, 14:13
  - Well, he's famously not vaccinated so wouldn't affect him. -- nm* - spamlet Dec 21, 14:05 1
    - Oh yeah, I brain farted there. I was specifically thinking in terms of vaccinated players. -- nm - Baron Please Come Home Dec 21, 14:09
Rodgers wore a Cancel Culture hoodie on the Pat Macafee show today -- nm - Remlik Dec 21, 13:22 9
- That'll show them! -- nm - The Allfather Dec 21, 13:48
- What did Macafee wear? Let me guess. - zunk xometimes Dec 21, 13:37
- Interesting that he supports cancel culture. -- nm - Todd Manning Dec 21, 13:34 2
  - No, he's in the cancel culture club - Reagen Dec 21, 13:36 1
    - dammit -- nm - prayformojo Dec 21, 13:38
- Oh, is that what it's called now when society calls out Lying Liars Who Lie? -- nm - Beryllium Dec 21, 13:29 1
  - He meant " Coward Club" -- nm - Pippy Dec 21, 13:49
- 🙄 -- nm - Dark Callisto Dec 21, 13:27
- oh the poor baby -- nm - mud Dec 21, 13:27
Guess our trash was finally picked up - judging by the amount of debris in the driveway :/ -- nm - Meg Dec 21, 13:01
Tyler Lockett. OUT due to covid list -- nm - budice Dec 21, 12:59
You guys won't understand what a big deal this is, but I completely reorganized my linen I closet. -- (pic) - Pocket Jones Dec 21, 12:46 [Attachment] 18
- excellent! -- nm - loosilu who Dec 21, 13:47
- Very nice! -- nm - MDH Dec 21, 13:06
- Why do you have more than one towel? -- nm - Dano Dec 21, 13:00
- There are 11 categories. -- nm - Baron Please Come Home Dec 21, 12:50 1
  - Beach, guest, fancy guest ... -- nm - kilbowl full of jelly Dec 21, 12:52
- this is awesome. -- nm - Diva Dec 21, 12:49
- Nice! -- nm - Krusty Dec 21, 12:49
- lol. 1k is a nice amount unless you have non-furred housemates. -- nm - Spawnta Dec 21, 12:48
- *cries* -- nm - chubbers, trapped in the top basket Dec 21, 12:47
- Need to do this with garage storage -- nm - budice Dec 21, 12:47
- Bottom here. -- (pic) - Pocket Jones Dec 21, 12:46 [Attachment] 7
  - very nice -- nm - Peglegpete Dec 21, 13:29
  - Nice. I'm jealous. (Our house is ~1100 sq ft and with 3 people, we need more organization like this.) -- nm - JaxSean Dec 21, 13:18 1
    - Those plastic containers are from the container store and very affordable. The size options are great. -- nm - Pocket Jones Dec 21, 13:22
  - oh my -- nm - mud Dec 21, 12:49
  - are all your towels white? -- nm - decline Dec 21, 12:47 2
    - Of course. Aren't all towels white? Note that I have different textured to differentiate which bathroom gets which. -- nm - Pocket Jones Dec 21, 12:50
    - heh -- (link) - Spawnta Dec 21, 12:49 [Backboard]
WFT: Neither WFT QB Taylor Heinicke nor Kyle Allen tested out. So while they remain on the Reserve/COVID list, Garrett Gilbert starts -- nm - budice Dec 21, 12:37
Garrett Gilbert is going to play!! -- nm - decline Dec 21, 12:37 2
- I wish this game was starting earlier... -- nm - Diva Dec 21, 12:44 1
  - It’s a war crime. - Will Hunting Dec 21, 13:06
ZZ Top catalog sells to BMG + KKR Investment for $50 million: -- (link) - Remlik Dec 21, 12:34 6
- everything after Tres Hombres was crap. -- nm - mud Dec 21, 12:48
- Everyone is cashing out! -- nm - Pippy Dec 21, 12:41 1
  - Soon, we'll be hearing Tush (Taylor's Version) - prayformojo Dec 21, 12:43
- A third of Motley? Wow. Did Sting sell yet? -- nm - Spawnta Dec 21, 12:41 2
  - This made me Google up who the Police songs are credited to, the group or individuals. Sp: yup, it's mostly to Mr. Sumner - con_carne Dec 21, 14:27
  - no not yet. He's got the Police catalog as well to consider. -- nm - Remlik Dec 21, 12:45
CBC: Tories boycott security committee -- (link) - mud Dec 21, 12:33 1
- Chance of contracting COVID in said Committees drop 115% -- nm - Beaker Dec 21, 12:39
Question of the day -- (pic) - prayformojo Dec 21, 12:30 [Attachment] 11
- 0 -- nm - Peglegpete Dec 21, 13:30
- 1/1 (wrong place in the thread, but whatever ... ) -- nm* - ReluctantSanta Dec 21, 13:03
- Answer (spoiler) ( I know what you're gonna say so just go ahead and say it) -- (pic) - prayformojo Dec 21, 12:31 [Attachment] 8
  - Today was my first ever Alexa question of the day and I got it wrong! -- nm - Dano Dec 21, 13:03
  - 1/1 -- nm - JD Dec 21, 12:59
  - My mom and I watched it last night, so it was a gimme. -- nm - Dark Callisto Dec 21, 12:51
  - 1/1 -- nm - loosilu who Dec 21, 12:38
  - 1/1 -- nm - JaxSean Dec 21, 12:38
  - I hesitated but guessed correctly. (spoilers) - Baron Please Come Home Dec 21, 12:32 1
    - spoils - JaxSean Dec 21, 12:39
  - 1/1 -- nm - decline Dec 21, 12:32
1/4 of the NBA players are now out with Covid -- nm - decline Dec 21, 12:29 1
- Just like a fourth of the country is not vaccinated. Wild. -- nm - Spawnta Dec 21, 12:52
this guy's pencil art is something else (IG) -- (link) - prayformojo Dec 21, 12:19 1
- That's great! -- nm - loosilu who Dec 21, 12:38
Not quite a vaccine, but FDA approves an injectable HIV preventative (needed every 2 months) vs current daily pills -- (link) - zeitgeist Dec 21, 12:18
I've ruthlessly whittled my inbox down to 50 messages (from 1500). I call that a win. -- nm - Baron Please Come Home Dec 21, 12:18 4
- those are rookie numbers. -- nm - JaxSean, 625,290 emails Dec 21, 12:40
- I'm 1 email away from have 6,500 emails in my inbox -- nm - decline Dec 21, 12:31 1
  - I am down to 18k as I deleted everything more than 10 years old last night. -- nm - Spawnta Dec 21, 12:53
- 👍 -- nm - JD Dec 21, 12:19
Biden looks like he aged 20 years, lost half his hair -- nm - zeitgeist Dec 21, 12:08 2
- He looks like he has covid. -- nm - jnine Dec 21, 12:52
- I've heard rumours that his job has a lot of stress, and ages some people faster. -- nm - Peglegpete Dec 21, 12:19
Vehicle fire in Atlanta on I-75/85 NB has all lanes blocked. -- (link) - budice Dec 21, 12:08 1
- Nice. -- nm - Strongbad Dec 21, 12:45
The flight path, elevation and speed of the plane that caused the sonic boom -- (link) - TWuG Dec 21, 11:58 11
- top speed was 1140 mph -- (link*) - decline Dec 21, 12:10
- Sonic boom over land? Someone's getting a talking to -- nm* - spamlet Dec 21, 12:09 3
  - Thinking like that is what made the Concorde flights so expensive -- nm - JD Dec 21, 12:10 2
    - Eff you, pal -- nm - Tulsa Dec 21, 12:14 1
      - Dang, it was Oklahoma City. Had a 50/50 shot. -- nm - spamlet Dec 21, 12:25
- He seems lost -- nm - decline Dec 21, 12:03 5
  - Nah, they build fighter jets here in STL. They were taking it out for a test. -- (edited) - spamlet Dec 21, 12:11 1
    - We sometimes get flights of heavy transports out of Los Alamitos. Those are impressive. -- nm - Meg Dec 21, 12:59
  - Shoulda taken that left turn at Albuquerque -- nm - prayformojo Dec 21, 12:09
  - It's a big sky. - Spawnta Dec 21, 12:05 1
    - The Big Sky -- (link) - mud Dec 21, 12:12 [youtube]
KC: Chiefs’ WR Tyreek Hill, CB Rashad Fenton and TE Blake Bell are being placed on Reserve/COVID list. More pending -- nm - budice Dec 21, 11:58
20years since Dick Schaap passed. Added some legit to SportsReporters Program back in the day. -- (link*) - budice Dec 21, 11:53
Honest Trailers | How the Grinch Stole Christmas -- (link) - Beaker Dec 21, 11:49 [youtube]
Can we just move past the omnicron variant and get to Pi - eag Dec 21, 11:46 10
- We shall be skipping past pi and rho to avoid offending bakers and sailors, respectively. -- nm - CDC Dec 21, 11:55 8
  - wait till they get a load of me! -- nm Posted by sigma (aka mud) Dec 6 '21, 09:03 -- nm - mud Dec 21, 12:14
  - But then we can't have pi-rho mania! -- nm - loosilu who Dec 21, 12:05 2
    - Did someone call me? No? I thought I heard "chi-rho." -- nm - Book of Kells Dec 21, 12:17 1
      - That's a deep cut. -- nm - spamlet Dec 21, 12:19
  - Well you might want to skip S as to not offend Frats and Sorities -- nm - eag Dec 21, 12:04 3
    - If you're going to do that, might as well chuck the whole Greek alphabet and move on to Hebrew. Aleph Variant coming right up! -- nm - Baron Please Come Home Dec 21, 12:16 2
      - If that's pronounced the way I think it does then it's too close to Elf and you'll offend Will Ferell -- nm - eag Dec 21, 12:22 1
        
        Closer to "olive" a similarity a professor in the math dept used to great effect. - Baron Please Come Home Dec 21, 12:31
- mmmmmmmm Pi -- nm - Beaker Dec 21, 11:47
Lightning Lane Prices Jump More Than 150% for Christmas Week at Disneyland -- (link) - budice Dec 21, 11:45 1
- bastards -- nm - decline Dec 21, 11:47
The Athletic reporting via sources that NHL, NHLPA agreed to no Olympics. -- nm - Name Withheld By Request Dec 21, 11:41 8
- We basically never get Connor or Austen in the Olympics in their prime. -- nm - Reagen Dec 21, 12:24 2
  - Tell me about it -- nm - NHL Playoffs Dec 21, 12:26 1
    - May you suffer a million Bertuzzis. -- nm - Reagen Dec 21, 13:31
- there was no way in Hell the NHL were risking their players for a month if they tested positive over there -- nm - Beaker Dec 21, 11:47
- Ugh. - The Allfather Dec 21, 11:44 3
  - So I get to live in DisneyLand? -- nm - Dano Dec 21, 11:53 2
    - ~It’s a Small World Afterall~ -- nm - Will Hunting Dec 21, 12:41
    - Yeah, I don't see the downside to this one. -- nm - Qale Dec 21, 11:55
Huh. I had not heard this about The Matrix (or maybe I did and just didn't pay attention). -- (link) - JaxSean Dec 21, 11:38 4
- Oh, about Spiderman spoils - budice Dec 21, 11:43 1
  - A technicality. -- nm - Spawnta Dec 21, 11:46
- It seems The Matrix was directed by two Wachowskis. One of them directed this one, and one of them did not. -- nm - Qale Dec 21, 11:41
- It is known. -- nm - Spawnta Dec 21, 11:38
why didn't the NFL stagger the start times today? Could of had an earlier game like yesterday -- nm - Beaker Dec 21, 11:33 15
- I need lots of fantasy points today. Come on shootouts! -- nm - Shaun Dec 21, 11:35 14
  - they can't all be barnburners like the games yesterday or the Sunday night game...or any game I had Fantasy players playing in -- nm* - Beaker Dec 21, 11:48 2
    - Ha. I wonder how many fantasy seasons were ruined by the 9-0 Saints/Bucs game. -- nm - Shaun Dec 21, 11:52 1
      - Unless I get 46 tonight from Sanders, OBJ, and McLaurin mine will be. - spamlet Dec 21, 12:13
  - If this includes handing the Eagles D a -25, I can get behind it. -- nm - Baron Please Come Home Dec 21, 11:47 1
    - I see no problems here. -- nm - Shaun Dec 21, 11:53
  - word -- nm* - decline Dec 21, 11:43
  - I would like to subscribe to your newsletter. -- nm* - spamlet Dec 21, 11:42
  - I need at least 12.4 from JHurts, and I am good. - Spawnta Dec 21, 11:40 5
    - Specifically, I would really like to have Kupp and Sanders go nuts. -- nm - Shaun Dec 21, 11:44 4
      - I can use either RWilson or JHurts tonight. I am still watching for an update overturning JHurts availability. - Spawnta Dec 21, 11:48 3
        
        He's playing. The Q is gone from his Yahoo status. -- nm - Shaun Dec 21, 11:51 2
        
        I could still see Krusty messing this up for me. He *is* the commish. -- nm - Spawnta Dec 21, 12:01
        
        Bluepilled! -- nm - Baron Please Come Home Dec 21, 11:52
  - YOU SHUT YOUR WHORE MOUTH!!! -- nm - The Allfather Dec 21, 11:36
Frontier is doing a big status match until the end of the year from 30+ airlines and hotel programs -- (link) - kilbowl full of jelly Dec 21, 11:33 2
- What does their status program provide I wonder? They are an all coach airline, right? -- nm - ty97 Dec 21, 12:11 1
  - Hyatt Explorist/Globalist matches to Frontier 50k: Carry-on, seat assignment, family pooling, priority boarding, waved redemption fees, last seat - kilbowl full of jelly Dec 21, 12:16

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