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What did the horse say when he fell? - JD Mar 15, 21:41 1
- 👍 -- nm - crash davis Mar 15, 21:42
RANK MORE THINGS, CRASH!!! -- nm - Halo Thoughts Mar 15, 21:08 7
- Not to be confused with Janet Yellen’s words this past weekend: MORE BANK THINGS CRASH! -- nm - Mop Mar 15, 21:48
- #4 baseball HOFer Pee Wee Reese; #3 Reese's Peanut Butter Cups; #2 Perry Mason actor Matthew Rhys; ..........#1 by a mile, Reese Witherspoon -- nm - crash davis Mar 15, 21:28 5
  - I was with you until #1. Now you're my sworn enemy. -- nm - Halo Thoughts Mar 15, 21:29 4
    - where specifically are you broken? -- nm - crash davis Mar 15, 21:35 1
      - Go (Tracy) Flick Yourself. -- nm - Halo Thoughts Mar 15, 21:46
    - #5 Reece Davis -- nm - rollo Mar 15, 21:30 1
      - Weirdly, I heard this in Reece Davis' voice. -- nm - Halo Thoughts Mar 15, 21:46
I've always wanted to do one of those paint-and-sip events. This is Saturday down on the Village Green. I'm registered :) -- (link) - Meg Mar 15, 21:04 3
- Trish and I went to a few of those. They are great fun -- nm - crash davis Mar 15, 21:36
- That's a great price for it, enjoy, and post the final product! -- nm - MDH Mar 15, 21:05 1
  - Oh, I will. The promotional material features very bad images of the Village Green clock - -- (pic) - Meg Mar 15, 21:35 [Attachment]
Edwin Diaz had to be carried off the mound after injuring his knee celebrating the win today for Puerto Rico. -- nm - Krusty Mar 15, 21:01
Something in the Water Festival (VA Beach). Clipse, Lil Wayne, Grace Jones, Chic, Machine Gun Kelly, Skrillex, Wu Tang Clan, and... Wet Leg (and more) -- (link) - MDH Mar 15, 21:01 [Image]
More for Jax: "Louder than Life Festival" in Kentucky. This seems like a massive lineup for fans of the genre. -- (link) - MDH Mar 15, 20:59 [Image]
Maneskin announces a summer/fall arena/large amphitheater tour - MDH Mar 15, 20:47 1
- Any nudity? -- nm - Ender Mar 15, 20:50
For Jax's review, the "Oceans Calling Festival" in Ocean City Maryland. - MDH Mar 15, 20:46 10
- Leave Early Fest 2023 -- nm - con_carne Mar 15, 21:21 1
  - even if it wasn’t in Ocean City, which is a shithole -- nm - hollywood big shot Mar 15, 21:39
- Friday -- nm - Cocaine Owlbear Mar 15, 20:57
- Yup, I saw this one and would seriously consider all 3 days. -- nm - JaxSean Mar 15, 20:53
- A couple of maybes on Friday, better selection on Saturday, but Sunday wins. -- nm - Mop Mar 15, 20:49
- How in the heck is the Wallflowers best selling album from 2021? -- nm - psilotum Mar 15, 20:49 3
  - Huh? They are a band I just don't "get." To me they are had one album and disappeared yet still tour regularly, even if the band is just Jakob Dylan. -- nm - MDH Mar 15, 20:51 2
    - I said that wrong. It was their highest charting album. - psilotum Mar 16, 18:08
    - plus a truly terrible Heroes cover. -- nm - mafic Mar 15, 21:33
- Sunday i guess -- nm - hollywood big shot Mar 15, 20:46
My Morning Jacket is touring... - MDH Mar 15, 20:41
bah -- nm* - crash davis Mar 15, 20:34 1
- nm -- nm* - crash davis Mar 15, 20:35
Just filled in some upcoming streaming releases through April and I'd like to apologize in advance. -- nm - Mop Mar 15, 20:31 3
- Did you all ever discuss MLS Season Pass? -- nm - psilotum Mar 15, 20:33 2
  - When Apple locked them up, yes. - Mop Mar 15, 21:18 1
    - I listen to most episodes, but I must have missed that one. -- nm - psilotum Mar 16, 18:06
We went and saw Wicked tonight. As someone who doesn't really love musicals, I enjoyed it very much. A-. -- nm - JaxSean Mar 15, 20:30 2
- it fun -- nm - hollywood big shot Mar 15, 20:32 1
  - Defying Gravity is a great scene -- nm - rollo Mar 15, 21:23
Props to the producers of "The Last Thing He Told Me" for casting Jennifer Garner and Victor Garber. -- (link) - Mop Mar 15, 20:29 [youtube]
OMG! A CTA train is doing what it's supposed to do at Howard! - .☕ Mar 15, 20:22 1
- yep - annoying feature on the northbound red line. I'm an infrequent rider so I usually forget I have to cross over -- nm - rollo Mar 15, 21:22
Crash posted beer pairings for Madness. I disagree with Northwestern's. My choice would be Temperance. There's a story there. Evanston was dry -- (edited) - .☕ Mar 15, 19:47 [Backboard] 8
- Evanston started allowing beer and wine sales, with food, at a couple restaurants in the early 70's. A pizza place call The Spot sold the 1st - zunkskunk Mar 15, 20:05 1
  - It was the movie theaters that may have broken it wide open. They wanted a bar, they got one. The Spot is where I had my first deep dish pizza. -- nm - .☕ Mar 15, 20:09
- cool but I have to warn you, my cat picked Northwestern to lose to Boise State in the first round -- nm - crash davis Mar 15, 19:49 5
  - Only the second time they've ever been in the Madness. They were one of the futiles until a few years ago. - .☕ Mar 15, 19:51 4
    - My cat says "Boise is more of a State than Northwestern is in the Northwest" -- nm - crash davis Mar 15, 19:56 3
      - Named for what was once the Nortnwest Territory. - .☕ Mar 15, 19:59 2
        
        I tried explaining that earlier. I only got a "talk to the paw" -- nm - crash davis Mar 15, 20:02 1
        
        Cats....*smh* -- nm - .☕ Mar 15, 20:05
Crash, we had a Friends of the Library meeting this afternoon and I took copies of your story for the branch managers. They all know that patron :) - Meg Mar 15, 19:44 1
- Karen is the worst, isn't she? 😺 -- nm - crash davis Mar 15, 19:47
DOJ warns DC dist ct a shitton more Jan 6 cases coming this year, and more serious charges -- (link) - hollywood big shot Mar 15, 19:33 4
- Trying to increase the proportion of white inmates in federal prison is always a noble cause. -- nm - Mop Mar 15, 20:51
- C'mon, don't we have enough going against us already? Do you *need* to hit WB with more shit? (NM) - James Gunn Mar 15, 19:45 1
  - DOJ would be happy to file charges against Peacemaker -- nm - Beryllium Mar 15, 20:09
- excellent. -- nm - mud Mar 15, 19:37
Who's got two thumbs and a Bort keychain? -- nm - this guy, also named Bort Mar 15, 19:31 9
- Also it took until today for my first ~awkward conversations with Americannnnns~ - Reagen Mar 15, 19:39 8
  - "not nearly terrible enough" -- nm - hollywood big shot Mar 15, 19:42
  - ugh -- nm - mud Mar 15, 19:39 6
    - To his credit he realized he hit a nerve and we switched to taking about fishing. "we don't have to take about politics" -- nm - Reagen Mar 15, 19:46 5
      - Fishing 😺 -- nm - crash davis Mar 15, 20:07
      - We were at Disney on 2020 election day. Other than a few hats, nobody talked about it. - Halo Thoughts Mar 15, 20:04 3
        
        Was it their meet-queued? -- nm - Beryllium Mar 15, 20:13 2
        
        *picks up the You Tried cake and throws it in the trash* -- nm - Qale Mar 15, 20:46 1
        
        It was a completely contextually appropriate callback! -- nm - Beryllium Mar 15, 22:31
Drummer Jim Gordon who co-wrote Layla, worked on George Harrisons All Things Must pass, died. -- (link) - Remlik Mar 15, 19:27 8
- Well, all things must... something... -- nm - Ender Mar 15, 20:41
- one of the albums I had to buy several times as a teen because I wore it out was Delaney & Bonnie & Friends on tour with Eric Clapton -- nm - Peglegpete Mar 15, 20:02 1
  - SHout Factory did a big box set of that TOUR they did with Clapton it's fantastic. -- nm - Remlik Mar 15, 20:29
- He had quite a story. Those two records (All Things Must Pass, Layla and Other...) are two I still play. Really sad what happened with his mental heal -- nm - zunkskunk Mar 15, 19:37 2
  - my fave of his album work: -- (edited) - mud Mar 15, 19:51 1
    - oh that's right he was in Traffic. man he played with everyone -- nm - Remlik Mar 15, 20:29
- He's also the drummer for the Bongo Band who did the song Apache, which contains the most sampled drum beat ever -- (link) - Remlik Mar 15, 19:28 [youtube] 1
  - Apache makes me think little crash is in the movie theater about to watch some 1970s movie trailers - crash davis Mar 15, 19:37
oh COME ON -- (link) - Tim Mar 15, 19:26 3
- “during Puerto Rico’s celebration” -- (link) - hollywood big shot Mar 15, 19:56
- ouch, hopefully he is okay. -- nm - crash davis Mar 15, 19:33 1
  - Hurt himself celebrating -- nm - Flavorize Mar 15, 19:41
14:16 for a Thursday NYT xword. I picked up the theme right away, but I'd take that any day of the week - prayformojo Mar 15, 19:19 6
- 13:13, which is about a minute below my average for the last 6 months. would've been like 12:45, but I can never remember - mafic Mar 15, 19:43 2
  - oof. that's impressive -- nm - prayformojo Mar 15, 19:58 1
    - it's come down a lot. when I started it was more like 20 minutes for Thursday. -- nm - mafic Mar 15, 21:12
- Cool. You're about ready for the big leagues, like People Magazine's crossword. -- nm - crash davis Mar 15, 19:23 2
  - In time. Highlights for Children is giving me a run for my money - prayformojo Mar 15, 19:24 1
    - I almost said TV Guide or Parade magazine, but I don't know if those are still made. -- nm - crash davis Mar 15, 19:28
Evil Dead: Campbell says he'd come back only if Sam Raimi directs it... -- (link) - Remlik Mar 15, 19:16
when you need to rid your DCU of the Snyder stench you don’t fuck around with one more useless Batreboot. you get The Cape -- (link) - hollywood big shot Mar 15, 18:38 14
- SUperman is the one most in dire need of fixing. So I understand that. -- nm - Remlik Mar 15, 19:35
- Who is playing Superman? -- nm - crash davis Mar 15, 18:58 12
  - William Jackson Harper -- nm - Beryllium Mar 15, 19:02 3
    - I recognize each of those three words as a name. But when you run them together? I got nothing -- nm - crash davis Mar 15, 19:03 2
      - Chidi from the good place -- nm - Beryllium Mar 15, 19:04 1
        
        oh, okay, I know Chidi :) -- nm - crash davis Mar 15, 19:06
  - not Henry Cavill (hopefully Nic Cage) -- nm - hollywood big shot Mar 15, 19:00 7
    - c'mon man, Nic Cage is my age (after checking he is actually older than me) -- nm* - crash davis Mar 15, 19:01 6
      - Old Man Kal El -- nm - hollywood big shot Mar 15, 19:03 5
        
        I wonder if there's ever been a story where Supes lost his powers but Jonathan Kent gains them ... -- nm - Beryllium Mar 15, 19:05
        
        I was thinking yesterday. You hate billionaires. But have we ever had a fair and honest assessment of the value of the Fortress of Solitude and the trophies within? -- nm* - crash davis Mar 15, 19:05 3
        
        i hate narcissistic asshole billionaires who pretend to be superheroes when their only superpower is spending money on toys -- nm - hollywood big shot Mar 15, 19:09 1
        
        Or you just hate billionaires whose assets are solvent -- nm - crash davis Mar 15, 19:11
        
        chatgpt failed me on this. it wouldn't even pretend that zuckerberg was fictional. - Beryllium Mar 15, 19:08
goddamnit skiing is expensive. -- nm - znufrii Mar 15, 18:38 2
- That is to keep the filthy snowboarders out. -- nm - crash davis Mar 15, 18:45
- can you really put a price on freezing your ass off all day to repeatedly run the risk of grievous bodily injury though? -- nm - hollywood big shot Mar 15, 18:44
I let my cat pick. My cat picked Boise State to beat UCLA, I didn't pick Boise State -- nm - crash davis Mar 15, 18:36 4
- Your cat probably thinks the Kraken are good, too. -- nm - Halo Thoughts Mar 15, 18:37 1
  - Well, what can I say. He is only a cat. -- nm - crash davis Mar 15, 18:41
- if the cat wins, it gets the pajamas for 2 weeks. -- nm - Peglegpete Mar 15, 18:37 1
  - heh, the cat's pajamas. Boise State beating UCLA would be the cat's pajamas. -- nm* - crash davis Mar 15, 18:40
someone never watched the SNL Celebrity Jeopardy sketches -- (link) - hollywood big shot Mar 15, 18:31 2
- or arrested development -- nm - rollo Mar 15, 21:11
- Or any Benny Hill -- nm - St. Louis BaronHawks Mar 15, 18:44
YDC: one of the programs I use sometimes treats capital letters like the most important thing in the world, and sometimes just ignores them. - mafic Mar 15, 18:00 5
- That's not user-friendly. That's user-surly. -- nm - St. Louis BaronHawks Mar 15, 18:42 2
  - it once gave me an error message that was "Error: no error has occurred." -- nm - mafic Mar 15, 18:49 1
    - if user==mafic then set mode=fleek -- nm - Beryllium Mar 15, 18:51
- guess mining's not so easy is it, tough guy? -- nm - Datamine Mar 15, 18:02
- like right now. *crash* "Input Density field DENSITY does not exist..." yeah, because you changed it to density for some reason, asshole! -- nm - mafic Mar 15, 18:02
I heard about this rare body Chibson last summer. I found one on ebay in Jan. it arrived from China an hour ago. -- (pic) - Peglegpete Mar 15, 17:55 [Attachment] 6
- So weird I had to do a little dive on this. Found one for sale. Doubt it plays. I love guitars as art - zunkskunk Mar 15, 19:20
- An actual one, or a knock off copy? -- nm - zeitgeist Mar 15, 18:29 1
  - this YT video will give you the whole story. they corrected the top left tuner problem by the time they made mine. -- (link) - Peglegpete Mar 15, 19:01 [youtube]
- The head looks like Squidward -- nm - TWuG Mar 15, 18:01
- That's funny :) -- nm - Beryllium Mar 15, 17:58 1
  - agreed. what's not funny is it's 43" long and I just had to buy a bass case. none of my regular cases would fit. -- nm* - Peglegpete Mar 15, 18:25
we need more to join the ncaa tourney group. The '19' is bugging me. -- (link) - mud Mar 15, 17:39 10
- I joined so currently we are at 23 -- nm - crash davis Mar 15, 18:35 1
  - now we need another! (prime #s .. [shudder]) -- nm - mud Mar 15, 18:55
- It's a perfectly cromulent number. Here's 100 pages why. -- nm - Stephen King Mar 15, 18:11
- PRIME NUMBER! -- nm - Mop Mar 15, 17:59
- it only lets you join once or I'd add my random bracket as well. -- nm - mafic Mar 15, 17:45
- ah. That's better. -- nm - mud Mar 15, 17:44 4
  - Forgot I need to fill mine out -- nm - Flavorize Mar 15, 17:45
  - You’re welcome. -- nm - Will Hunting Mar 15, 17:45 2
    - Didn’t you win last year’s STBracket Challengr? -- nm - Flavorize Mar 15, 17:46 1
      - I don’t think so last year. Ive done well for the last 6/7 but don’t think I won last year. -- nm - Will Hunting Mar 15, 17:48
LIR - Bery, re: electric bikes. I was surprised to see them in Best Buy the other day. -- nm - Meg Mar 15, 17:34 6
- I was surprised to see an ebike store in a local shopping mall in December. -- nm - Beryllium Mar 15, 18:37 5
  - I was surprised to find my mom had one down in Arizona, so I rode it around her little gated community. I want one now. - crash davis Mar 15, 18:40 4
    - I haven't been able to ride mine for 3 weeks now and I'm getting frustrated. - Beryllium Mar 15, 18:44 3
      - get well soon! -- nm - crash davis Mar 15, 19:12 2
        
        indeed! -- nm - mud Mar 15, 19:38
        
        Thanks -- nm - Beryllium Mar 15, 19:36
~ am I a Jet, a Jet yet today? ~ -- nm - Aaron Rodgers Mar 15, 17:31 2
- I thought he would be a lady suffragette -- nm - zeitgeist Mar 15, 18:31 1
  - the only lonely place is on the moon -- nm - rollo Mar 15, 21:08
The fifth anniversary AEW PPV is apparently gonna be a Four Pillars match for the title: Darby vs. Sideshow Jack Perry vs. MJF vs. Sammy G. -- nm - Halo Thoughts Mar 15, 17:30 6
- None of the other 3 are worthy of that spot (yet) - Will Hunting Mar 15, 17:40 5
  - Your AEW takes are so bad that foodchem could do better. -- nm - Halo Thoughts Mar 15, 17:56 2
    - But you love story-telling except when WWE does it so… - Will Hunting Mar 15, 18:10 1
      - It's cute you think the WWE does it. -- nm - Halo Thoughts Mar 15, 18:28
  - Sammy seemed primed to get the mega babyface push when he broke away from Jericho but I think he’s still a bit immature. - Tim Mar 15, 17:50 1
    - Darby's Jeff Hardy, both good and bad. -- nm - Halo Thoughts Mar 15, 17:57

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