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Vikings are signing QB Kirk Cousins to a one-year, $35 million fully guaranteed extension. $40M in 2022! -- (link*) - budice Mar 13, 16:44 3
- It's like in the movie where somebody warns a character of the consequences of their actions. Then, the character foolishly, recklessly does it anyway -- nm - David Mar 13, 16:46 1
  - "why don't we take the car and drive away??!!" "Are you crazy!? Let's hide in the chainsaw graveyard" -- nm - Beaker Mar 13, 16:47
- poor poor ML -- nm - Beaker Mar 13, 16:45
Tulsi Gabbard spreading "treasonous lies" about Ukraine -- (link*) - znufrii Mar 13, 16:35 1
- Combining threads, I only have that weird Facto guy on ignore. I did it when he showed up talking up Tulsi Gabbard. - David Mar 13, 16:44
Dallas Cowboys keep WR Michael Gallup with five-year, $62.5 million deal -- nm - Beaker Mar 13, 16:22 2
- I'll remind people that contracts are never what they're announced to be. Otherwise, that deal would look *insane*. -- nm - David Mar 13, 16:43 1
  - $10M signing bonus -- nm - Beaker Mar 13, 16:52
Brady is returning to TB for one more season -- (link*) - Flavorize Mar 13, 16:17 6
- Bruce Arians, on Tom Brady coming out of retirement: “Total excitement." -- nm - budice Mar 13, 16:50
- Couldn't let college basketball players have their moment... -- nm - David Mar 13, 16:42
- The person that paid $518K for his last TD Pass ball, must feel like an ass -- (pic) - Flavorize Mar 13, 16:40 [Attachment]
- Note: NFL Free Agency kicks off Monday. TB has 24 FAs -- (link*) - budice Mar 13, 16:38
- This is my shocked face. -- nm - pmb Mar 13, 16:25
- 🤬 -- nm - Krusty Mar 13, 16:23
STer at the Critics Choice Awards tonight -- (link) - budice Mar 13, 16:04 50
- and what's he wearing? -- nm - Remlik Mar 13, 17:22
- At this point ST has attended multiple award shows. Go ST. -- nm - MDH Mar 13, 16:49
- Jamie Dornan -- (link) - budice Mar 13, 16:29 1
  - While I like the blue tie and shirt, the outer jacket makes it look like he is in the RAF going to HQ to report on the Luftwaffe -- nm - crash davis Mar 13, 16:39
- Kathryn Hahn -- (link*) - budice Mar 13, 16:25 2
  - Rock on Gold Dust Woman. -- nm - jnine Mar 13, 16:41
  - not a fan of the color on her or the big ass train -- nm - crash davis Mar 13, 16:38
- Alana Haim -- (link) - budice Mar 13, 16:24 1
  - much better color for her than the BAFTA dress -- nm - crash davis Mar 13, 16:36
- Hannah Waddingham (Ted Lasso) -- (link) - budice Mar 13, 16:22 1
  - No -- nm - crash davis Mar 13, 16:23
- Ariana DeBose -- (link) - budice Mar 13, 16:21 1
  - gorgeous -- nm - crash davis Mar 13, 16:22
- Elizabeth Olsen -- (link*) - budice Mar 13, 16:19 2
  - Wanda Wanda Wanda -- nm - eag Mar 13, 16:23
  - mixed feelings -- nm - crash davis Mar 13, 16:20
- Jean Smart -- (link) - budice Mar 13, 16:18 2
  - I love the skirt, but why is she wearing a tablecloth for a top? -- nm - jnine Mar 13, 16:31
  - interesting, I'm getting some sort of 60s retro vibe -- nm - crash davis Mar 13, 16:19
- Andrew Garfield making some kid's day: -- (link) - mud Mar 13, 16:18
- Lady Gaga heh heh -- (link*) - budice Mar 13, 16:17 3
  - She looks like she's topless and they're censoring the photo. -- nm - jnine Mar 13, 16:35 1
    - Should have gone with round blue censor bubbles. -- nm - Max Mar 13, 16:45
  - not a fan of this, at all. I thought she was at the BAFTAs -- nm - crash davis Mar 13, 16:18
- Mandy Moore -- (link) - budice Mar 13, 16:15 3
  - I'm trying on mommy's dress which I is too big for me. -- nm - Max Mar 13, 16:46
  - I forgot to change out of my dressing gown. -- nm - jnine Mar 13, 16:36
  - not a fan of this dress -- nm - crash davis Mar 13, 16:16
- Kristen Stewart -- (link) - budice Mar 13, 16:13 2
  - I like this look on her -- nm - crash davis Mar 13, 16:15 1
    - Word -- nm - Spawn Mar 13, 17:03
- Juliette Lewis -- (link) - budice Mar 13, 16:12 2
  - We have a winner -- nm - zeitgeist Mar 13, 17:05
  - I've no complaints -- nm - crash davis Mar 13, 16:15
- Squid Games - Lee Jung-jae and Jung Ho-yeon -- (link) - budice Mar 13, 16:12 4
  - I left the hanger in my dress. It's my homage to Carol Burnett's Scarlett curtain rod. -- nm - jnine Mar 13, 16:40 1
    - Omg, you're right -- nm - zeitgeist Mar 13, 17:04
  - nice good safe choices -- nm - crash davis Mar 13, 16:14 1
    - But they missed the opportunity to dress as envelopes! -- nm - Beryllium Mar 13, 16:25
- Zoey Deutch -- (link) - budice Mar 13, 16:11 2
  - I would have gone at best 6/6 trying to guess Deutchle from this pic. -- nm - Max Mar 13, 16:47
  - I like that -- nm - crash davis Mar 13, 16:14
- Will and Jada -- (link) - budice Mar 13, 16:09 1
  - His suit is too brown. Looks like something he would have worn in WIld Wild West -- nm - crash davis Mar 13, 16:14
- Elle Fanning -- (link) - budice Mar 13, 16:08 1
  - I think someone with such a fair complexion should go for darker colors but that is just me -- nm - crash davis Mar 13, 16:13
- Jered Leto -- (link) - budice Mar 13, 16:08 1
  - Fail -- nm - crash davis Mar 13, 16:12
- Meanwhile Selena Gomez -- (link) - budice Mar 13, 16:06 1
  - I like the cape with the dress -- nm - crash davis Mar 13, 16:12
David Ignatius's book review of Marie Yovanovitch's memoir Lessons From The Edge - crash davis Mar 13, 16:01 6
- Ok, are you trying to go for most wordy poster? Every time I click on your posts, I get 40 paragraph Crash. David must be turning green. -- nm - jnine Mar 13, 16:04 5
  - I hereby deputize Crash to fulfill my verbosity duties. -- nm - The Allfather Mar 13, 16:17
  - I find some articles interesting but I know some people are blocked by paywalls. -- nm - crash davis Mar 13, 16:09 3
    - It is much appreciated. -- nm - znufrii Mar 13, 16:32 1
      - Ditto - thank you -- nm - rollo Mar 13, 22:02
    - Thoughtful. -- nm - jnine Mar 13, 16:29
Shenzhen just went into total COVID lockdown. That’s not gonna make supply chains better. -- (link) - spamlet Mar 13, 15:55 1
- Nm -- nm* - eag Mar 13, 16:01
STIS - our museum eBay guru is trying to identify this photo. I haven't a clue. -- (pic) - Meg Mar 13, 15:53 [Attachment] 7
- I’d say it’s Maurice Gibb of the BeeGees -- nm - J Mar 13, 17:42
- I see it is framed and matted. Is there any year visible if removed from the frame? -- nm - crash davis Mar 13, 16:11 1
  - I suggested he check. He's generally pretty good about researching things, but really prefers historical research :) -- nm - Meg Mar 13, 16:20
- Is it George Michael? -- nm - jnine Mar 13, 16:02
- Herb Albert? Total shot in the dark -- nm - Pippy Mar 13, 15:55 2
  - He has a thin, almost pretty face with great cheekbones. His music school is close to where I live, so see his picture often. -- nm - jnine Mar 13, 16:08
  - I believe he is still alive -- nm - crash davis Mar 13, 16:03
Quick, names of women cosmetics starts with. Or sounds like startsxwuth A -- nm - zeitgeist Mar 13, 15:51 9
- I have no clue. Armani? Iman? Chanel? Anastasia? Westmen Atelier? Aucoin? Aveno? -- nm - Beryllium Mar 13, 15:58
- We're in MAcys, mom's seniority is making her melt down cause she can't ask for what she wants -- nm - zeitgeist Mar 13, 15:52 7
  - Anastasia? Yses St. Laurent? Armani? -- nm - Pippy Mar 13, 15:57
  - Avon? -- nm - The Allfather Mar 13, 15:54 5
    - Turns out it was Chanel -- nm - zeitgeist Mar 13, 15:57 4
      - I feel tricked. -- nm - The Allfather Mar 13, 16:01 3
        
        Just knowing how my own memory works, I was expecting this outcome, so I don't feel tricked at all. -- nm - Beryllium Mar 13, 16:23 2
        
        Mom has this thing of losing the one word most important, just gone even when trying another tack, that disappeared -- nm - zeitgeist Mar 13, 16:30 1
        
        I was in a car crash with a semi, then a median barrier and then another car. I couldn't say the word I wanted to for almost a year. I would describe - jnine Mar 13, 16:47
perfect: -- (link) - mud Mar 13, 15:23
Mmm…mushroom risotto… - znufrii Mar 13, 15:23
That region sets up the possibility of of David(son)-Duke matchup. -- nm - Reagen Mar 13, 15:19
heh -- (link) - Beryllium Mar 13, 15:13
ST Poll: (Without naming names) How many STers have another STer blocked on ST? Got one. Thinking about unblocking and also unmuting random Twitter - Flavorize Mar 13, 15:09 15
- I have everyone blocked -- nm - rollo Mar 13, 21:59
- Never blocked, never will. Free speech. The really bad stuff exposes itself for what it is. -- nm - VMan Mar 13, 16:46
- I've never blocked anyone. Not even Spawn. -- nm - Cuzzin Todd Mar 13, 16:21
- I used to do that but not in recent years. It's kinda lame, really -- nm - mud Mar 13, 15:42 3
  - It's a useful intervention to disrupt toxic feedback loops. -- nm - Beryllium Mar 13, 15:43 2
    - Or toxic people. -- nm - spamlet Mar 13, 15:54
    - oh is thats whats youse calls it :-) -- nm - mud Mar 13, 15:45
- Have never blocked anyone -- nm - Dano Mar 13, 15:37
- I do. Some at their own request -- nm - spamlet Mar 13, 15:33
- None now. Quite a while ago, I blocked one person for a few months. -- nm - ReluctantCynic Mar 13, 15:30
- never have -- nm - crash davis Mar 13, 15:29
- I haven't blocked anyone -- nm - Krusty Mar 13, 15:28
- Nope. -- nm - znufrii Mar 13, 15:20
- have never blocked anyone -- nm - Beaker Mar 13, 15:16
- I only have one blocked. I checked and they have no posted since last Fall. -- nm - Spawn Mar 13, 15:13
My wife's car just died on the way back from Kentucky. She's stuck in Waynesville, IN waiting for AAA. -- nm - TWuG Mar 13, 15:05 4
- AAA tow on its way. She'll ride with them back to Springfield. -- nm - TWuG Mar 13, 15:54
- Spawn and Remlik about 45mins from there -- nm - budice Mar 13, 15:10 1
  - I hit a pothole and they can not take the car in until Tuesday, so keeping my fingers crossed until then. -- nm - Spawn Mar 13, 15:25
- Oof, that sounds a bit frustrating. -- nm - Beryllium Mar 13, 15:08
Ertz getting 3 year deal from Cards -- nm - Flavorize Mar 13, 15:05
Sunday project: Downloading my Dropbox content so I can unsubscribe. -- nm - Beryllium Mar 13, 15:02
Reunifying the Russian Orthodox Church just got a little harder -- (link) - Reagen Mar 13, 14:44 1
- This is nuts -- nm - Pippy Mar 13, 17:51
Retropolis - "The painful, cutting and brilliant letters Black people wrote to their former enslavers" - crash davis Mar 13, 14:39 3
- "P.S.— Say howdy to George Carter, and thank him for taking the pistol from you when you were shooting at me." -- nm - mud Mar 13, 14:56 2
  - that was the exact line that made me LOL -- nm - crash davis Mar 13, 15:05 1
    - Bitch Better Have My Money -- (link) - mud Mar 13, 15:12 [youtube]
I've never seen Broadcast News *OR* Network. (I know only one is a Hurt movie, but for some reason my head links them together) -- nm - Beryllium Mar 13, 14:39 3
- Get on one, preferably both. Good movies. -- nm - VMan Mar 13, 16:47
- Broadcast News is great, Network is one the best films ever made. -- nm - Reagen Mar 13, 14:41 1
  - Paddy Chayefsky (who also wrote Altered States) -- nm - mud Mar 13, 14:46
Pete Carroll: He regrets not signing Kaep, in 2017, and that a team called the other day to ask about Kaep (since SEA were last to evaluate) -- (link*) - Flavorize Mar 13, 14:38
I would not have remotely said this three weeks ago but if Tennessee is a 3 seed, I’ll be furious. -- nm - Volnelk Mar 13, 14:31 7
- Sorry -- nm - Krusty Mar 13, 15:15 3
  - Oh well. Go win em. -- nm - Volnelk Mar 13, 15:27 2
    - They got a nice path to the sweet 16–will be interested to see how far they go -- nm - Flavorize Mar 13, 15:36
    - You guys should have been the 2 over Kentucky and the Big 10 got too many teams in. -- nm - Krusty Mar 13, 15:35
- That's what I'm expecting. I'd love a two, but I think they started too slowly in the SEC. -- nm - David Mar 13, 14:32 2
  - ESPN is currently arguing for them as the fourth #1 -- nm - Dano Mar 13, 15:10 1
    - One of the hottest teams, since Feb, with some massive wins -- nm - Flavorize Mar 13, 15:17
fave William Hurt: Altered States -- nm - mud Mar 13, 14:31 18
- Altered States, absolutely. But I'd put a History of Violence a close second. -- nm - ReluctantCynic Mar 13, 15:32 2
  - Oh, that's a good one. -- nm - Beryllium Mar 13, 15:39 1
    - yep -- nm - mud Mar 13, 15:42
- The accidental tourist was so much better than it should have been. -- nm - amanda jeans Mar 13, 15:06 1
  - never read the book but went to it w/ my mom, who had. I think it confused me. -- nm - mud Mar 13, 15:16
- Recently rewatched Eyewitness. He managed to make being a stalker charming. -- nm - LMS Mar 13, 14:54 1
  - I think I saw that opening weekend, enamored with Sigourney. -- nm - mud Mar 13, 14:58
- Michael, maybe? -- nm - Beryllium Mar 13, 14:40 3
  - ?? -- nm - mud Mar 13, 14:43 2
    - From the 90s, with Travolta. -- nm - Beryllium Mar 13, 14:45 1
      - My second choice is Lost in Space. -- nm - Beryllium Mar 13, 15:03
- Broadcast News, which I'm sure is awfully norm of me. -- nm - Reagen Mar 13, 14:39 2
  - Yep—so good -- nm - Flavorize Mar 13, 14:45
  - Brooks got so much praise then, but Hurt was great. -- nm - mud Mar 13, 14:41
- 13 year old me was unsure at the time, but agreed. -- nm - Spawn Mar 13, 14:34 3
  - went to the theater, so baked (we'd seen the trailer) -- nm - mud Mar 13, 14:36 2
    - Him pounding the wall became ingrained in my psyche. -- nm - Spawn Mar 13, 15:36 1
      - you know that trick some anxiety attack sufferers do with the snapping elastic on the wrist? well, I've never .. - mud Mar 13, 15:40

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