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I bought this kitty planter for $3 at target but I thought it would make a better vase than a planter. -- (pic) - Kellyanne Scrabblestats Mar 9, 06:13 [Attachment] 2
- oh, it's great as a vase. Not sure i'd love it as a planter, too tall, i think? -- nm - Andie Mar 9, 06:48
- I like how you have utilized it -- nm - Epiphany Mar 9, 06:36
I was today years old when I realized Goldfish crackers are just flavored oyster crackers. -- nm - TWuG Mar 9, 06:12 1
- Oysters are not even real fish! -- nm - St. Louis BaronHawks Mar 9, 06:18
Reminder-ST Oscars PickEm Group 2023 - budice Mar 9, 06:10
Framed: 3/6. Moviedle: 1/6. Actorle: X/8. - Marlowe Mar 9, 05:40
Adidas Is Wondering What to Do With $1.3 Billion in Yeezy Sneakers - crash davis Mar 9, 05:09 11
- Send them the same place that all the Super Bowl losing team apparel goes -- nm - TWuG Mar 9, 06:14
- Elon buys them and makes a Tesla Shoe -- nm - budice Mar 9, 06:13 1
  - heh heh heh. -- nm - judge indianapolis jones Mar 9, 06:35
- 1.3 billion is a tax number - there is a material loss that is probably a tenth of that, if even that much. -- nm - colin Mar 9, 06:11
- "Sell" them, online, but the person buying chooses which charity their money goes to. "Cost $250, please choose which charity from the list below 100% -- (edited) - Andie Mar 9, 06:03 3
  - Probably can’t do that without paying Kanye the royalties. I’m guessing he gets a percentage of sales or a fee per pair sold. -- nm - spamlet Mar 9, 06:09 2
    - right, that makes sense. -- nm - Andie Mar 9, 06:10
    - He does so that's an issue with selling them. -- nm - Krusty Mar 9, 06:10
- dump 'em at Kanye's house -- nm - decline Mar 9, 05:36
- You would think they'd have better options for recycling them somehow -- nm - budice Mar 9, 05:32
- IMO, they shouldn't sell them but I also don't have to deal with a billion dollar loss. Tough situation. -- nm - Krusty Mar 9, 05:19
It's supposed to rain the first day we're at DW until the afternoon. Which park is best for that situation? -- nm - Reagen Mar 9, 04:39 3
- When going? Hollywood studios has a lot of shows and a lot of rides are indoors and is a smaller park -- nm - Beaker Mar 9, 05:07 2
  - Next week. -- nm - Reagen Mar 9, 05:48
  - Magic Kingdom. Animal kingdom and epcot are all a lot of walking outdoors -- nm - Beaker Mar 9, 05:09
Fred Van Vleet went off on NBA reffing -- (link) - Reagen Mar 9, 02:59 4
- Yeah, that's going to cost him. Sometimes I bet it's worth getting that off your chest. -- nm - Krusty Mar 9, 05:25 3
  - Vleet not Fleet 🤦🏻‍♂️ -- nm* - spamlet Mar 9, 05:40 2
    - Fred and not Greta -- nm - Epiphany Mar 9, 06:37 1
      - It was a joke about getting a loan from his sister. -- nm - spamlet Mar 9, 08:07
Pretty cool animated visualization of mobile phone market share over the last 30 years -- (link) - prayformojo Mar 9, 02:44
Good morning. Spelling Bee. -- (pic) - prayformojo Mar 9, 02:35 [Attachment] 4
- x - prayformojo Mar 12, 08:29
- Aquaman's weird sidekick: AQUA NUDE LAD -- nm - rollo Mar 9, 06:01
- QUEENLAD - Currently Adam Lambert? -- nm - .☕ Mar 9, 03:29
- quaaladen - to be loaded up with more psychoactive drugs than you can carry. -- nm - Reagen Mar 9, 02:48
I feel like if I were a little smarter I'd think that Aftersun were the best picture of the year... -- nm - Ender Mar 9, 02:29 1
- Everyone I've spoken to who saw it said they were emotionally underwhelmed so it's not just you. - LMS Mar 9, 02:47
motels are disappearing, first the run down road side places that turned into hooker/druggie joints, now most chains are gone from tacoma - zeitgeist Mar 9, 00:29
It is shockingly hard to Google for a list of all movies nominated for multiple Oscars this year... -- nm - Ender Mar 8, 23:57
Mitch McConnell hospitalized after a fall in a hotel -- (link) - zeitgeist Mar 8, 23:21 3
- Please don’t be the Washington Hilton -- nm - Pippy Mar 9, 01:45
- Falls are dangerous, especially if he winds up on his back. Then he has to wait for someone else to come along and flip him over. -- nm - Ender Mar 8, 23:29 1
  - Precious few senators would pass the voight kampff test. Not because they're replicants, just because they're dicks. -- nm - Reagen Mar 9, 02:15
Waffle - x and I needed at least 3 more moves -- nm - prayformojo Mar 8, 23:03 3
- 4/5, took me a while to get started though - znufrii, promoted Mar 9, 06:23
- 5 - 412 - GregW Mar 9, 06:17
- 4/5 - decline Mar 9, 05:35
Wordle 628 5/6 - prayformojo Mar 8, 23:01 5
- 5/6 - Marlowe Mar 9, 06:27
- 4 - 628 - GregW Mar 9, 06:16
- 3/6 - znufrii, promoted Mar 9, 05:45
- 5 - rollo Mar 9, 05:43
- 5 - decline Mar 9, 05:32
So, last year I talked about the formula to get the NCAA BB champ—7 teams and Kansas was one of them—-here’s this year -- (edited) - Flavorize Mar 8, 22:51 3
- Yesterday I posted the ESPN thing that lists 8 teams. It's the same list + 2 teams. - Volnelk Mar 9, 05:37 1
  - Crieghton and Texas are the bubble ones for this formula—not sure what Tenn and Marquette are missing -- nm - Flavorize Mar 9, 06:00
- Thanks -- nm - Pippy Mar 9, 01:47
A weasel walks into a bar. The bartender says, “What can I get for you?” - JD Mar 8, 22:37 2
- ha! -- nm - ty97 Mar 9, 05:56
- Booo -- nm - Pippy Mar 9, 01:47
Scientists (who apparently have never seen a movie) have revived a virus nearly 50,000 years old from defrosting permafrost of the artic -- (link) - zeitgeist Mar 8, 22:31 1
- So preoccupied with whether they could lick the science, that they didn't stop to ponder whether or not they should lick the science. -- nm - DO NOT LICK THE SCIENCE. Mar 8, 22:36
Oh no. I liked a James Patterson novel. - Beryllium Mar 8, 22:19 1
- And with that, I've finished my Christmas books. Time to find some new ones. -- nm - Beryllium Mar 8, 22:39
If I wasn't so apprehensive about long flights I might just consider this. Getting old sucks :/ -- (link) - Meg Mar 8, 21:45
Shawn Kemp has been arrested for a drive-by shooting -- (link*) - Flavorize Mar 8, 21:02 4
- ^ this is another case in point that cocaine isn't actually very funny -- nm - Beryllium Mar 8, 23:03 2
  - He's into pot, owns 2 shops in Seattle, maybe more. -- nm - zeitgeist Mar 8, 23:20 1
    - Yes, but it sounds like it was cocaine that derailed his career -- nm - Beryllium Mar 9, 00:02
- happened at the tacoma mall... no victim found, they fled before the police arrived. -- nm - zeitgeist Mar 8, 21:41
SNAP: That Nimrod card is sorta an extra annoying version of Doctor Doom—fits too well with the folks who overuse Venom -- nm* - Flavorize Mar 8, 20:56
Is there supposed to be a difference in pronunciation between "Bill Nighy" and "Bill Nye"? -- nm - Ender Mar 8, 20:45 7
- Bill Nye did have to forward some congrats to Bill Nighy when nominations were announced. -- nm - .☕ Mar 8, 23:08
- The Knights that Say Nye. -- nm - Spawn Mar 8, 21:43
- I always have read in an extra “i” beat for Nighy—“Niei” and Nye=Nie -- nm - Flavorize Mar 8, 20:54 2
  - I've always added an e at the end nigh-e. But apparently that's wrong. -- nm - Ender Mar 9, 00:04
  - Same, though I have no idea if that's correct. -- nm - Beryllium Mar 8, 21:08
- Nay. -- nm - Roger More Mar 8, 20:49
- Nope. -- nm - Krusty Mar 8, 20:46
Brando challenged Paul Newman to an egg eating contest (at a party)… -- (link) - Flavorize Mar 8, 20:10
EPCOT is a top 2 Disney Park now. Fight me. - Beaker Mar 8, 20:05 4
- It's always the first park I visit. -- nm - Jovian Mar 8, 20:53
- If by top two, you mean THE best one, yes. -- nm - Halo Thoughts Mar 8, 20:47
- It’s my top Disney park because it’s the only one I’ve been to! -- nm - Qale Mar 8, 20:32
- Food and Wine Fest in the fall. Forget drinking around the world - Desserts around the world is it. - gort Mar 8, 20:28
I've seen Mavis Staples twice. I'll Take You There is of course a classic, but my favorite for several years has been You Are Not Alone. -- (link) - psilotum Mar 8, 19:46 1
- That's a good one. Love her. -- nm - .☕ Mar 8, 19:52
New York geography lesson -- (link) - psilotum Mar 8, 19:39 1
- Ha! -- nm - Krusty Mar 8, 20:17
I need a new British procedural. Tell me your faves, please. -- nm - crash davis Mar 8, 19:32 10
- Endeavour, Death in Paradise, Vigil, Strike, Sherwood, Father Brown, Happy Valley, Line of Duty, Grantchester. -- nm - LMS Mar 9, 00:46 1
  - plus Life on Mars/Ashes to Ashes. -- nm - LMS Mar 9, 04:09
- Giri/Haji -- nm - hollywood big shot Mar 8, 20:31 1
  - yeah! -- nm - mud Mar 8, 20:45
- Marcella, Line of Duty, Prime Suspect -- nm - mud Mar 8, 19:39 1
  - danke -- nm - crash davis Mar 8, 19:43
- Anyone seen Collateral with Carey Mulligan? -- nm - crash davis Mar 8, 19:34 3
  - twice! -- nm - mud Mar 8, 19:35 2
    - I'm guessing a repeat viewing is ultra-positive :) -- nm - crash davis Mar 8, 19:36 1
      - Billie Piper! -- nm - crash davis Mar 8, 19:48
Starfield better not suck after this long a wait. -- nm - Tim Mar 8, 19:24 2
- Also this is my other extremely anticipated game of 2023. -- (link) - Tim Mar 8, 19:26 1
  - Yep, that has been on my radar as well. (NM) - Marlowe Mar 8, 20:03
It's probably The Morning Show, no? nm - ralph wiggum Mar 8, 19:22 9
- It might be harder for a star to go on long vacations if there’s another equally big star in the cast -- nm - Roger More Mar 8, 20:41
- I don't even now what we're talking about -- nm - ty97 Mar 8, 19:51 1
  - this.. -- (link) - .☕ Mar 8, 21:34 [Backboard]
- Though I guess that's not at a "major network" nm - ralph wiggum Mar 8, 19:24 5
  - Is Showtime a major network? Lena Waithe and Chi—would be a Showtime thing to not pay -- nm - Flavorize Mar 8, 19:34 4
    - Does it have a star with that kind of pull? I'm inclined to think Lena Thwaite's the one with the pull here. -- nm* - .☕ Mar 8, 19:38 3
      - Yeah—I thought about Abbotts Elementary—showrunner thing fits—I’m not sure if there’s a big enough star there too -- nm - Flavorize Mar 8, 19:46 2
        
        Quinta Brunson's a producer, writer and star of the show. That would be awkward. -- nm - .☕ Mar 8, 19:50 1
        
        They also said they'd already let the writers go. -- nm - .☕ Mar 8, 19:53
even spawn isn’t this stupid about Batman -- (link) - hollywood big shot Mar 8, 19:20 1
- "How could I have made those scenes any clearer?" -- nm - C. Nolan Mar 8, 19:26
I’m in the lounge at a hotel there are TVs right next to each other showing MSNBC and Fox News. The two headlines: -- nm* - MDH Mar 8, 19:15 3
- Fox: COVID vaccine turning to major scandal/ WHO pushes dystopian pandemic treaty -- nm* - MDH Mar 8, 19:16 1
  - Covid doesn’t care what someone believes, so I guess it wins. -- nm - Qale Mar 8, 20:33
- MSNBC: New Dominion Filing Fox Needs to Retract Lies -- nm* - MDH Mar 8, 19:16
new Marvel Snap bundle! Mister Sinister vs. Bishop - Tim Mar 8, 19:14 2
- The start of the season caches have been good to me. - the wrong element Mar 8, 19:57 1
  - Collector's reserve, I should've said. - the wrong element Mar 8, 19:58
Flipping the bird is a "god-given right" in Canada, says judge -- (link) - Beryllium Mar 8, 19:13 1
- "they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness..and also" -- nm - crash davis Mar 8, 19:21
Love that people are making up their meme/words for this video... -- (link) - Flavorize Mar 8, 19:06
I told y'all Will Hobbs was gonna be a champion one day soon! - Halo Thoughts Mar 8, 19:03 4
- (Also they really think people are gonna boo Moxley now?) -- nm - Tim Mar 8, 19:09 1
  - For a time. They got people to boo Danielson when he went up against Hangman, too. - Halo Thoughts Mar 8, 19:13
- Wardlol -- nm - Tim Mar 8, 19:08
- nice -- nm - Remlik Mar 8, 19:05
A Hitter Who Is Happy to Go His Own Way - crash davis Mar 8, 19:03
a brief cricket primer - mafic Mar 8, 19:02 12
- All I know about cricket comes from "Chinaman: The Legend of Pradeep Mathew", by Shehan Karunatilaka, which was a fascinating read. (NM) - Marlowe Mar 8, 20:09
- that was a wicked googly! -- nm - Tim Mar 8, 19:10
- a crumpet is like a thick small pancake, right? -- nm - crash davis Mar 8, 19:09 5
  - Pretty much. Cooked on just one side so that there are holes (from the air bubbles) on the top side for all that butter to soak in. -- nm - Meg Mar 8, 19:12 4
    - lots of butter means I have to try it :) -- nm - crash davis Mar 8, 19:14 3
      - This is a basic recipe. A little more involved than pancakes. -- (link) - Meg Mar 8, 19:33 1
        
        I appreciate it! -- nm - crash davis Mar 8, 19:35
      - That reminds me I have to look for a decent hot cross bun recipe. They destroyed my favorite. -- nm - .☕ Mar 8, 19:16
- Nice! -- nm - Flavorize Mar 8, 19:07
- thx -- nm - mud Mar 8, 19:06
- thank you -- nm - crash davis Mar 8, 19:05 1
  - And, in general, it's not a sport but a social event ;) -- nm - Meg Mar 8, 19:10
Alright, now it’s time for my favorite idol growing up. Signature song of Paula Abdul. -- nm - Qale Mar 8, 18:57 12
- Straight Up -- nm - MDH Mar 8, 19:18
- It really probably is Straight Up. Forever Your Girl is certainly one of my favorites. -- nm - Qale Mar 8, 19:11
- Also: “idol” I see what you did there -- nm - ty97 Mar 8, 19:03 1
  - I remember the good days watching early seasons of that show at Heretic Atlanta on Wednesday night, I think, before the music started. -- nm - Qale Mar 8, 19:12
- It has to be Straight Up. DJ Scat Cat’s signature is Opposite attract though -- nm - ty97 Mar 8, 19:02 3
  - Rush Rush is the only Rush I like. -- nm* - Qale Mar 8, 19:13 2
    - Rush Rush is a bad song - ty97 Mar 8, 19:26 1
      - 13-year-old me would run you down for saying that! -- nm - Qale Mar 8, 20:31
- Cold Hearted Snake--But, I will always love the Keanu Reeves (Rebel ripoff) video for that one song of hers. Corny, but always dug it the video -- nm - Flavorize Mar 8, 19:01
- Straight Up -- nm - Tim Mar 8, 18:59
- Straight Up -- nm - hollywood big shot Mar 8, 18:58 1
  - duh -- nm - mud Mar 8, 19:01
You like-a da juice, huh? -- (link) - Beryllium Mar 8, 18:50 [youtube]

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