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Veteran curator at the British Museum has been stealing artifacts -- (link) - TWuG Aug 17, 11:13 3
- he was just borrowing them -- nm - decline Aug 17, 11:20
- does she look like an 80-year old Phoebe Waller Bridge? -- nm - hollywood big shot Aug 17, 11:16
- Weird…they use that term…now. -- nm - Will Hunting Aug 17, 11:16
AEW: that was a *terrible* Dynamite. -- nm - Remlik Aug 17, 11:05 16
- Me last night: That was a damn-near perfect episode of Dynamite. -- nm - David Aug 17, 11:08 11
  - in the ring. Terrific. Story wise. A mess. -- nm - Remlik Aug 17, 11:24 3
    - Good lord, no. They've been building everything for months. -- nm - David Aug 17, 11:31 2
      - Last night. Story wise was terrible. Just terrible. Yes I understand they've been building up. I get they threw the whole show out - Remlik Aug 17, 11:38 1
        
        You'll need to be more specific because I don't even know what you're referencing. - David Aug 17, 11:51
  - must have been really bad -- nm - decline Aug 17, 11:13 5
    - Leatherface even appeared! -- nm - David Aug 17, 11:18 4
      - That was literally an advertisement but looks like TK said they’re donating whatever they got for it to Hawaii relief efforts. -- nm - Tim Aug 17, 11:20 3
        
        Right, they did this and Outback specifically to increase charitable donations to Hawaii. The Leatherface was for six figures. -- nm - David Aug 17, 11:22 2
        
        For Maui Food Bank. Ok since it was done for charity I can forgive all of that. -- (link) - Remlik Aug 17, 11:25
        
        They kept that part fairly short, too, so it wasn't overly egregious. - Dark Callisto 🦊 Aug 17, 11:23
  - good call, Remlik -- nm - hollywood big shot Aug 17, 11:10
- Cole and MJF are carrying the entire company right now. -- nm - Tim Aug 17, 11:08 3
  - yup. -- nm - Remlik Aug 17, 11:23
  - Michael J Fox is wrestling now? -- nm - TWuG Aug 17, 11:14 1
    - heh. Maxwell Jacob Friedman. Current champion and normally has the character of an colossally entitled prick asshole. - Tim Aug 17, 11:17
USWNT coach resigns after embarrassing World Cup performance -- (link) - znufrii Aug 17, 10:56
not that a guy who sends ricin to public officials doesn't deserve 22 years in prison but if he had merely brought it to the Capitol on 1/6/21 . . . -- (link) - hollywood big shot Aug 17, 10:53 1
- ? what's the plan, send a note: Dear 45 please mix this powder into your next diet soda, don't worry its not poison or anything.... -- nm - zeitgeist Aug 17, 11:19
indiewire: ‘Fargo’ Season 5 First Look - starts Nov. 21 -- (link) - mud Aug 17, 10:50
Do any of our Funko collectors happen to own one of Gossamer, the looney tunes character? #263 -- nm* - Beryllium Aug 17, 10:49 4
- I do not, I wanted one but never found one. But interested to see your project -- nm - sycor Aug 17, 11:00 1
  - It's a bit of a skunkworks-style thing loosely related to work ... low usefulness for most people, but very high usefulness for some. - Beryllium Aug 17, 11:04
- there's also a spacejam one (#1186 I think) which might also work for what I have in mind -- nm - Beryllium Aug 17, 10:51 1
  - (What I have in mind: I'd like an artistically-posed photo of Gossamer for a project I've named after it) -- nm - Beryllium Aug 17, 10:59
I'm supposed to met the Rose halfway. Looking at a calendar of activities I see a half dozen worship services and... - zeitgeist Aug 17, 10:47
WestJet plane wing tip hits tail of parked military Hercules at Comox airport -- (edited) - JD Aug 17, 10:30 3
- That Hercules was scheduled to do a flyover near my house later that day. It was cancelled. -- nm - Beryllium Aug 17, 10:47 2
  - but if you had stopped to watch it fly over head, maybe you would have missed your train or bus that morning -- nm - hollywood big shot Aug 17, 10:56
  - bastards! -- nm - decline Aug 17, 10:49
the Coens’ inspiration for Barton Fink’s look wrote jokes for Groucho -- (link) - hollywood big shot Aug 17, 10:29 2
- Needed that chuckle -- nm - con_carne Aug 17, 16:14
- Barton Fink! Barton Fink! -- nm - prayformojo 🐵 Aug 17, 10:32
Sounds like Pudding Fingers campaign has already transitioned to Running Mate status: -- (link) - Jovian Aug 17, 09:49 9
- He’s running this way tone the 2nd choice if Trump actually goes down for any of these trials. - Will Hunting Aug 17, 11:05 1
  - he'll be out of the race and/or out of money long before that happens (if ever) -- nm - hollywood big shot Aug 17, 11:10
- I don’t think he can …. Both are Floridian. I don’t think you can run same state tickets iirc. -- nm - Will Hunting Aug 17, 10:52 4
  - You can, you just can't get the EC votes from that state for both P and VP. -- nm - Reagen Aug 17, 11:05
  - I wasn't able to find the exact rule, but it seems like it's never happened as far back as wikipedia knows -- nm - Beryllium Aug 17, 10:57 2
    - Article II and Twelfth amendment, electors are not permitted to cast votes for two candidates from the same state as themselves. -- (edited) - znufrii Aug 17, 11:06
    - It would actually invalidate the Floridian Electoral vote. - Will Hunting Aug 17, 11:03
- Leaks! -- nm - Flavorize Aug 17, 10:22
- it's like none of these chumps ever watched Ric Flair talk up a title match next week in Tallahassee FL - hollywood big shot Aug 17, 09:57
When I was a lad you could enjoy spider season without being rushed, but now... -- (link) - TWuG Aug 17, 09:45
Trump is big mad at Fox News this morning, apparently -- (link) - znufrii Aug 17, 09:34 9
- he's already setting himself up to not debate -- nm - oblique Aug 17, 09:56 5
  - nah, just doing his usual "will he or won't he" for the next week to suck up all the attention - hollywood big shot Aug 17, 09:58 4
    - no way he shows up! -- nm - Jovian Aug 17, 10:03 3
      - CNN agrees with you -- (link) - znufrii Aug 17, 10:09 2
        
        and man that Byron Donalds really is in competition with Scott for best Django Unchained character impression. -- nm - Jovian Aug 17, 10:24
        
        Its also why Ron has been told to defend DJT at every turn by his PAC. -- nm - Jovian Aug 17, 10:18
- apparently he does not own a mirror or never uses one. (I mean even a cursory glance and you can see he is an old make-up wearing disgusting slob) -- nm - Jovian Aug 17, 09:43 1
  - It's not like dressing as a Roger Stone dandyman would make him less evil. -- nm - TWuG Aug 17, 09:48
- So, the unflattering picture from the other day has gotten to him... - David Aug 17, 09:37
win a trip to the GOP debate to meet Pudding Fingers -- (link*) - hollywood big shot Aug 17, 09:17 3
- "Sorry, sir. The only entries we've received were from I.M.A. Weiner, Ollie Tabooger, and Hugh Jass." -- nm - Dark Callisto 🦊 Aug 17, 09:31
- I'd pull the Joel Olsteen " you know you are a piece of shit right? " -- nm - Pippy Quintas Aug 17, 09:21
- "Sound interesting?" - Spawn Aug 17, 09:18
54 years ago on Max Yasgur's farm -- (link) - hollywood big shot Aug 17, 09:16 1
- Reject proposed title of concert: Hit It, Max! -- nm - prayformojo 🐵 Aug 17, 10:39
25 Overlooked 80s Films That Have Faded from Memory: (seen only 9 of these) - Jovian Aug 17, 09:10 18
- Every day I see a car with Turk 182 in big letters on the rear window. -- nm - Krusty Aug 17, 10:25
- 26: Taps -- nm - rollo 🐙 Aug 17, 10:15
- The Night Before (1988): Keanu Reeves, Lori Loughlin. - Mop🧹 Aug 17, 10:03 4
  - Random quote from that film, "You know you don't actually blow when you do it!" -- nm - David Aug 17, 10:20 2
    - Now I really need to see this. - Jovian Aug 17, 10:22 1
      - Judging from the trailer, it's Taken, but as a comedy! -- nm - Mop🧹 Aug 17, 11:02
  - I think I've found ST's Friday Night Movie. -- nm - Mop🧹 Aug 17, 10:04
- I *LOVE* Fandango. -- nm - Mop🧹 Aug 17, 09:56
- I saw Ice Pirates twice in the theater. Saw Turk 182, but I think on HBO -- nm - TWuG Aug 17, 09:55
- During the earliest days of The-Money.com, we'd sing the praises of The Night Before, North Shore, and Night of the Comet. -- nm - David Aug 17, 09:30
- i own one of those that I remember. -- nm - tRuMaN the science guy Aug 17, 09:30
- Square Dance. I didn't that think anybody other than me has seen and would remember that movie -- nm - JD Aug 17, 09:22
- about half of them deservedly so -- nm - hollywood big shot Aug 17, 09:15 5
  - yep. These are imo the five best of this list: - Jovian Aug 17, 09:23 4
    - ah come on, My Science Project is cheesy goodness with Dennis Hopper and Solarbabies will always hold a special place. -- nm - sycor Aug 17, 09:42 1
      - I do love My Science Project too (it would actually be #6 of the 9 Ive seen) -- (edited) - Jovian Aug 17, 09:44
    - Yeah, I was about to post four of those as my list. Had forgot which one Miracle Mile was so I will add that! -- nm - Spawn Aug 17, 09:34 1
      - of course you would forget the best one - hollywood big shot Aug 17, 09:48
sitwap. I guess the sky has a question? JWST photo viewers found a question mark in the sky. -- (link*) - tRuMaN Aug 17, 09:09 1
- One of these days they'll find something that looks like a cross. We'll never hear the end of that, though NASA funding might get boosted -- nm - zeitgeist Aug 17, 10:13
This is a *terrific* trivia question: The NBA team with the longest active streak of consecutive winning seasons is - prayformojo 🐵 Aug 17, 08:47 2
- That's unpossible -- nm - Bari Seldon Aug 17, 08:54 1
  - right? -- nm - prayformojo 🐵 Aug 17, 08:54
DTL: Huh, I thought Tripwire was group record then overall, not the reverse. -- nm - spamlet Aug 17, 08:38 2
- sorry, no -- nm - rollo 🐙 Aug 17, 08:41 1
  - Otherwise those first 3 games would be essentially meaningless -- nm - rollo 🐙 Aug 17, 08:41
Jeebus: Taylor Swift’s ‘Eras’ tour could break $2 billion in North American ticket sales alone -- (link) - decline Aug 17, 08:30 5
- my station gave awya tickets for a show this week. Not lying...it broke the phone system 6 different times already -- nm - Remlik Aug 17, 10:50 1
  - well maybe it's time to upgrade from having to go out to the box on the Hooterville telephone pole Green Acres style -- nm - hollywood big shot Aug 17, 11:02
- "The average price of pre-sale and first sale tickets was $455.78" Whoa. I guess I got really lucky as I didn't pay much more for a pair of tickets -- nm - JD Aug 17, 08:36 2
  - Yep. When my students were buying tickets online as they released, they were each spending thousands of dollars. -- nm - Volnelk Aug 17, 09:06
  - i think by the sixth LA show you could get nosebleeds at SoFi for cheap actually -- nm - hollywood big shot Aug 17, 08:39
THR: Godzilla Roars in First Look at Apple TV+ and Legendary’s Titans 10-part Series, 'Monarch: Legacy of Monsters' w/ Kurt Russell. -- (link*) - mud Aug 17, 08:08 2
- WTF. Another "school bus stuck on a bridge as Godzilla attacks" scene? I hope that's some kind of flashback, because that's a scene from the 1st movie. -- nm* - Mop🧹 Aug 17, 09:24
- Neat. I'll watch it. -- nm - Beryllium Aug 17, 08:17
Hmm, early estimates put Social Security COLA at 3% for 2024. Whoopee!! -- nm - Meg Aug 17, 08:08 7
- How does that compare to recent years? -- nm - prayformojo 🐵 Aug 17, 08:08 6
  - here - Spawn Aug 17, 08:10 5
    - Interesting -- nm - James Bond (aka Igor) Aug 17, 09:22
    - Yup, last year was a bonus. I well remember those -0- years. -- nm - Meg Aug 17, 08:15 1
      - Yeah, I told my mom after you posted! -- nm - Spawn Aug 17, 08:17
    - thanks! very interesting! -- nm - prayformojo 🐵 Aug 17, 08:11 1
      - more, then! - Spawn Aug 17, 08:11
oh you don't say?: "Former Pres. Trump's promised press conference to refute the allegations in the indictment handed up by the - Jovian Aug 17, 07:48 4
- Oops, lol@NYTimes -- (link) - znufrii Aug 17, 09:03 [Backboard] 1
  - the occupational hazard of carrying all that water -- nm* - hollywood big shot Aug 17, 09:13
- Don't you see? IF he could release it he would be totally exonerated. But the deep state conspiracy is preventing this -- nm - rollo 🐙 Aug 17, 07:58
- I'm beginning to question everything I've ever truly believed in. -- nm - Volnelk Aug 17, 07:49
Looks like an awesome weekend here - starting at 7am tomorrow the dew point divebombs from 70 down to 50 (!!!) and it stays under 60 til Monday eve -- nm - prayformojo 🐵 Aug 17, 07:17 15
- It’s been really nice here the past couple of days. That ends Saturday and it’s back to Hell’s front porch. -- nm - spamlet Aug 17, 07:54
- I will never understand Dew point and how it related to stuff. -- nm - sycor Aug 17, 07:27 13
  - you know how a can of coke will sweat when you take it out of the fridge? Dew Point is the temperature that anything below that will do that at - Reagen Aug 17, 07:34 11
    - But will a can of Dew do?? -- nm* - Beryllium Aug 17, 08:14
    - So a dew point below the current temp is good? Normally I just look at the humidity. And in the south, it's always humid. -- nm - sycor Aug 17, 08:02 4
      - It can't go above the actual temp (outside of some rare and weird conditions). when Dew Point = temp that means 100% humidity. -- nm - Reagen Aug 17, 08:10 2
        
        but does a Dew Point of 0% mean that if you pour out a stream of water, it instantly vaporizes into the air? - tRuMaN the science guy Aug 17, 08:22 1
        
        dew point would be a temperature. at a theoretical relative humidity of 0%, yes, it would all evaporate almost instantly. -- nm - Reagen Aug 17, 08:26
      - Dew point is always below the current temperature unless it’s raining. - spamlet Aug 17, 08:06
    - ha! -- nm - prayformojo 🐵 Aug 17, 07:41
    - He said *never*, Reagen. -- nm - Spawn Aug 17, 07:39 3
      - Never Say Never Again -- nm - SCONN Aug 17, 08:00 2
        
        Never say never - Romeo Void Aug 17, 08:02 1
        
        No Means No -- nm - mud Aug 17, 08:03
  - its all about how pointy the dew drops are, duh. -- nm - tRuMaN the science guy Aug 17, 07:32
Two brands suspending advertising on X after their ads appeared next to pro-Nazi content. -- (link) - decline Aug 17, 07:11 3
- all by design. these arent accidents. this is who Elon Musk is. -- nm - Jovian Aug 17, 07:29
- but has Elon sued them yet for leaving the brand formerly known as Twitter. -- nm - tRuMaN Aug 17, 07:24
- U of Maryland football hasn’t paid to advertise in 2 years and showed up next to it. Cutter is going to get sued for destroying value - Will Hunting Aug 17, 07:19
Good trailer. A Million Miles Away. -- (link) - Mop🧹 Aug 17, 07:01 [youtube] 1
- Looks very interesting. -- nm - Krusty Aug 17, 07:10
Owners of Ford vehicles made after 2015 should check if their infotainment systems use the company's Sync 3 software and, if so, deactivate Wi-Fi. -- (link) - decline Aug 17, 06:09 3
- I got a little drive to update my infotainment system for the Kia. I had no idea what they were talking about. - Pippy Quintas Aug 17, 09:20
- Is that bad? -- nm - spamlet Aug 17, 06:32
- Whoops -- nm - oblique Aug 17, 06:26
Hurricane season is ramping up. The Pacific has 2 tropical storms Fernanda and Greg and 1 hurricane Hilary. Meanwhile there are 2 potential storms brewing in the Atlantic -- nm* - decline Aug 17, 05:57 10
- It's been such a nice quiet season so far -- nm - prayformojo 🐵 Aug 17, 06:03
- Hillary looking more likely to make landfall in SoCal as a Tropical Storm -- (link) - decline Aug 17, 06:02 [Image] 7
  - Please don't let Hillary become a big thing. I can't take the Hillary Clinton related jokes. -- nm - Andie Aug 17, 06:10 6
    - i'm okay with naming hurricanes after women, just not *this* woman -- nm - hollywood big shot Aug 17, 06:59
    - Just checked and Andrea is in 2025. Do not expect us to ignore that one. -- nm - loosilu Aug 17, 06:21 3
      - I've been in rotation a while. As the first named storm, it doesn't ever amount to much! -- nm - Andie Aug 17, 06:42 2
        
        Andrews feel your pain. - Will Hunting Aug 17, 07:20 1
        
        *fingers crossed* -- nm - Andie Aug 17, 07:33
    - Amen. -- nm - loosilu Aug 17, 06:19
- yay? -- nm - mud Aug 17, 05:59
Read ONE article about the LK99 superconductor and now my news feeds is full of headlines like this. -- (link) - TWuG Aug 17, 05:56 2
- well yeah, *obviously* in a skyrmion lattice. -- nm - mafic Aug 17, 07:02
- *ASYMMETRIC?!* Big, if true! -- nm - Mop🧹 Aug 17, 06:45
Patagonia is having a big summer sale with items up to 50% off. -- (link) - Krusty Aug 17, 05:42

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