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Booking/Reservation system at Disneyland Resort and Walt Disney World Resort is currently down -- nm - budice Sep 7, 12:02 4
- Tiana's Palace sold out its Mobile Ordering for today within 30 minutes of the park's opening. I don't *think* that's a factor here, but... -- nm - David Sep 7, 12:09
- What did you do?!?! -- nm - decline Sep 7, 12:07
- everyone getting Chartered this week -- nm - hollywood big shot Sep 7, 12:05
- The Boss said no bookings, so they're just following his lead -- nm - Beryllium Sep 7, 12:03
Bruce canceled September concert tour due to ulcers -- nm - zeitgeist Sep 7, 12:00 1
- bastard! -- nm - decline Sep 7, 12:01
I only got one right answer for all my student surveys on what their favorite dinosaur is. What is that correct answer? -- nm - Reagen Sep 7, 11:59 10
- 'My Teacher' -- nm - decline Sep 7, 12:08
- Liopleurodon. It's a magical liopleurodon. -- nm - 99 Luftbaron Sep 7, 12:08
- Triceratops. -- nm - loosilu Sep 7, 12:07
- Godzilla? -- nm - jnine Sep 7, 12:06
- Barney -- nm - hollywood big shot Sep 7, 12:04
- gallimimus? -- nm - Beryllium Sep 7, 12:04
- Edmontosaurus -- nm - TWuG Sep 7, 12:03
- Wait. Only one correct? The way more fun list is the wrong answers -- nm - JD Sep 7, 12:01 1
  - My favorite used to be Brontosaurus but I don't think he exists any more. -- nm - loosilu Sep 7, 12:08
- Raptor? -- nm - prayformojo 🐵 Sep 7, 12:00
70s show star Mast e rson sentence 30 years fir rapes 20 years ago. Msnbc -- nm - zeitgeist Sep 7, 11:58
Danny Masterson Sentenced to 30 Years in Prison After Rape Conviction -- nm - budice Sep 7, 11:57 2
- which in California at the moment probably means 15 if he's unlucky -- nm - hollywood big shot Sep 7, 11:59
- Good -- nm - TWuG Sep 7, 11:58
This one is for Krusty. Star Trek/Beastie Boys joke -- (pic) - Remlik Sep 7, 11:55 [Attachment] 2
- J'accuse! -- (link) - JD Sep 7, 11:59 [Backboard] 1
  - SORRY! that one just popped up in a group I'm in -- nm - Remlik Sep 7, 12:59
So I get to see one of the top rock and roll singers of all time in studio tomorrow. Guess who it is. We're talking a Top 10 pick (maybe Top 3) -- nm - Remlik Sep 7, 11:49 35
- Robert Plant -- nm - samara Sep 7, 12:08
- I'm trying to remember who's alive. -- nm - loosilu Sep 7, 12:06
- Jagger. Gotta promo the new album. -- nm - TWuG Sep 7, 11:57 1
  - oh shit that would be great. But no. Not in a room with 15 people. -- nm - Remlik Sep 7, 11:59
- Kylie Minogue -- nm - ty97 Sep 7, 11:53 4
  - Great answer. But Not Rock and Roll. -- nm - Remlik Sep 7, 11:58
  - this is your answer for *everything*! -- nm - prayformojo 🐵 Sep 7, 11:54 1
    - Kylie Minogue! -- nm - ty97 Sep 7, 11:55
  - *slaps you with a trout* -- nm - JD Sep 7, 11:53
- Peter Gabriel -- nm - JaxSean Sep 7, 11:51 23
  - (i am seeing him on Monday!) -- nm - Andie Sep 7, 11:56 1
    - very jealous of this -- nm - JaxSean Sep 7, 12:00
  - Chicago in a couple of weeks! -- nm - Remlik Sep 7, 11:55
  - Steven Tyler of Aerosmith? - JaxSean Sep 7, 11:54 19
    - Heh. Good thought but no. You're on the right track though -- nm - Remlik Sep 7, 11:56 18
      - Eddie Vedder? -- nm - JaxSean Sep 7, 11:57 17
        
        You're in the wheelhouse as far as Eddie being in a band from Seattle. So is this person. -- nm - Remlik Sep 7, 11:59 16
        
        Billy Corgan?? -- nm - JaxSean Sep 7, 12:00 2
        
        No he's from Chicago not Seattle. -- nm - Remlik Sep 7, 12:01 1
        
        ah, true -- nm - JaxSean Sep 7, 12:01
        
        Dave Grohl -- nm - Andie Sep 7, 12:00 12
        
        No. Older. -- nm - Remlik Sep 7, 12:00 11
        
        Jimi Hendrix -- nm - mud Sep 7, 12:02 1
        
        Hologram tour 2024! -- nm - Remlik Sep 7, 12:03
        
        Ann or Nancy Wilson -- nm - Andie Sep 7, 12:01 8
        
        Well which one? -- nm - Remlik Sep 7, 12:02 7
        
        Singer, has to be Ann. Nancy is good, but not great. (Great guitar player, tho.) -- nm - JaxSean Sep 7, 12:03 3
        
        Got it. Yeah she's in town for Jim Irsay Colts Kickoff concert and she's coming in studio w/her band. -- nm - Remlik Sep 7, 12:03 2
        
        well done -- nm - mud Sep 7, 12:06
        
        That's very cool! -- nm - JaxSean Sep 7, 12:06
        
        Nancy -- nm - Andie Sep 7, 12:03 2
        
        Nancy was on the Melissa Etheridge Cruise we did. - JaxSean Sep 7, 12:05
        
        ooo I'm sorry. -- nm - Remlik Sep 7, 12:04
- Mike Patton - Krusty Sep 7, 11:51
- gotta be him -- (link) - hollywood big shot Sep 7, 11:50 [youtube]
since it's a meme going round: most iconic phone call scene in da movies (not sure if HDS' closing monologue in Paris, Texas counts as a "phone call") -- (link) - hollywood big shot Sep 7, 11:36 [youtube] 11
- other worthy contenders: the Sam Wainwright call in IAWL; ET phones home; Show Me the Money! -- nm - hollywood big shot Sep 7, 12:03
- "I have had people walk out on me before, but not... when I was being so charming." -- nm - Deckard Sep 7, 11:59
- Front page: hello darling get me rewrite -- nm - zeitgeist Sep 7, 11:59
- The President calls Dimitri from Dr Strangelove. -- (link) - TWuG Sep 7, 11:56 [youtube]
- Scream -- nm - prayformojo 🐵 Sep 7, 11:56
- Going way back, Ernest Borgnine in Marty. Heartbreaking. -- nm - 99 Luftbaron Sep 7, 11:54 1
  - More recently (but not that recent) Sneakers "Can you guarantee my safety?" -- nm - 99 Luftbaron Sep 7, 11:59
- Even more stretching the definition, Before Sunrise -- (link) - JD Sep 7, 11:51 [youtube]
- "We're in." -- (link) - Beryllium Sep 7, 11:50 [youtube]
- opening of Scream -- nm - Beaker 🍺 Sep 7, 11:38 1
  - (the orig. twitter post started with Taken) -- nm - hollywood big shot Sep 7, 11:40
Shot: a video offering advice on buying a 40K USD boat to cruise the Caribbean -- (link) - Beryllium Sep 7, 11:21 [youtube] 3
- Chaser: Chardonnay -- (link) - Beryllium Sep 7, 11:22 2
  - Are you buying it? :D -- nm - JaxSean Sep 7, 11:41 1
    - Would that I could. It ticks almost all the boxes. -- nm - Beryllium Sep 7, 11:50
Workers at Lighthouse for the Blind seek union recognition -- (link) - zeitgeist Sep 7, 11:06
what you get when you go into business with Elon Musk -- (link) - hollywood big shot Sep 7, 11:04
I'd really have to see the math to believe this. Mortgage payment rises by $2,700 a month after interest rate increases ($6,300 / month now) -- (link) - Beaker 🍺 Sep 7, 11:01 8
- "five-year term" for a mortgage? -- nm - hollywood big shot Sep 7, 11:02 7
  - Canadians do weird mortgage things -- nm - decline Sep 7, 11:10
  - ... yes? that's how they work? a 30-year mortgage is 6 five-year terms. 5 renewals. -- nm - Beryllium Sep 7, 11:07 5
    - but if it's basically six 5-yr mortgages bundled into one, i could see how someone would get killed with a variable rate within any given 5-yr term -- nm - hollywood big shot Sep 7, 11:12 4
      - So far I've successfully avoided variable-rate shenanigans. - Beryllium Sep 7, 11:19 2
        
        we were variable for our first 5 years and we never went over 2.54%. Got nervous and locked in for current term JUST before rates started to rise. - Andie Sep 7, 11:29 1
        
        nice! -- nm - Beryllium Sep 7, 11:30
      - It's amortized over 20, 25 years, etc (i think 30 is less common.) You just have to renew at the end of your term. -- nm - Andie Sep 7, 11:16
HUGE BREAKING NEWS - David Sep 7, 10:56 2
- start the Draft! -- nm - Beaker 🍺 Sep 7, 11:02
- By the way, this story is nuts... -- (link) - David Sep 7, 10:57
has Eric Adams even been to the Statue of Liberty or Ellis Island Museum? -- (link) - hollywood big shot Sep 7, 10:41 1
- if you ask him he'll say yes regardless of what the real answer is. -- nm - colin Sep 7, 10:43
Stagecoach 2024 -- (pic) - JD Sep 7, 10:32 [Attachment] 11
- If I'm Clint Black or the Beach Boys, I'm not happy. I don't listen to country but I couldn't tell you who Hardy or Bailey Zimmerman are. -- nm - MDH Sep 7, 11:18 1
  - But that's why there's streaming music services ;-) - JD Sep 7, 11:33
- i'm no country expert.. but.. -- nm - colin Sep 7, 10:54
- gross -- nm - JaxSean Sep 7, 10:46 4
  - I dunno, I've seen Jelly Roll, Elle King, Miranda Lambert (several times) and Maddie & Tae and had a great time at each of the shows - JD Sep 7, 11:13 3
    - I do like Jelly Roll a lot, but overall that's a pass. - JaxSean Sep 7, 11:22 2
      - I'd make an effort to be there at opening for Lola Kirke's set -- (link) - JD Sep 7, 11:27 [youtube] 1
        
        This ought to be fun moment in the set. Indio's not exactly LA but still -- (link) - JD Sep 7, 11:30 [youtube]
- Post Malone? -- nm - Dano Sep 7, 10:37 2
  - and Nickelback -- nm - hollywood big shot Sep 7, 10:49 1
    - Fun Fact: I am meeting Dawson for a very quick drink between movies tomorrow evening, I will be exactly where Nickelback is playing a free outdoor - Andie Sep 7, 11:17
coulda had Beto, Texas -- (link) - hollywood big shot Sep 7, 10:24 2
- thanks Obama -- nm - Beaker 🍺 Sep 7, 11:39
- He’d have been unable to do much against ERCOT as it is heavily fortified in the GOP controlled house and senate. - Qale Sep 7, 11:19
Salma Hayek's husband just bought CAA -- (link) - budice Sep 7, 10:19 13
- “husband” -- nm - hollywood big shot Sep 7, 10:23 12
  - what does that mean? -- nm - rollo 🐙 Sep 7, 10:28 11
    - he's a 61-year old French billionaire - hollywood big shot Sep 7, 10:38 10
      - and she's a 57 year old actress. It's not like she's Anna Nicole-Smith -- nm - JD Sep 7, 10:41
      - So he’s a whole four years older than her. -- nm - Dano Sep 7, 10:40 8
        
        But they've been married for 14 years, and if my math is right, it means that when they got married - Guigue Sep 7, 10:42 7
        
        that's not how time works. -- (edited) - colin Sep 7, 10:43 6
        
        They got married in 2009, so with your math he was (2009/2+7) 1011 years older than her -- nm - Guigue Sep 7, 10:46 1
        
        shoot. forgot to carry the 9. -- nm - colin Sep 7, 10:47
        
        or how actors marry - hollywood big shot Sep 7, 10:45 3
        
        and that's why Julia Robert had to buy her husband out for daring to marry a behind the camera guy -- nm - JD Sep 7, 11:08 2
        
        a director is okay in a pinch but NEVER a writer -- nm - hollywood big shot Sep 7, 11:09 1
        
        😂 -- nm - JD Sep 7, 11:14
Haven't done this in a few weeks, how many #1/Top 10 hits on the Hot 100 do you think Jennifer Lopez has? Can you name them? -- nm - MDH Sep 7, 10:13 11
- Top 10s: Waiting For Tonight, Love Don't Cost a Thing, I'm Gonna Be Alright (Remix), Jenny From the Block, Control Myself, On the Floor -- nm - MDH Sep 7, 11:12
- Her #1s: If You Had My Love (debut single), I'm Real Remix, Ain't It Funny Remix, All I Have (with LL Cool J) -- nm - MDH Sep 7, 11:10
- Hit and Run -- nm - zeitgeist Sep 7, 11:01 1
  - No idea what this is. -- nm - MDH Sep 7, 11:09
- Jenny From The Block -- nm - hollywood big shot Sep 7, 10:46 1
  - Peaked at #3 -- nm - MDH Sep 7, 11:09
- 0/0, because I can't even think of any. -- nm - JaxSean Sep 7, 10:43
- I can literally only remember Waiting For Tonight which went top 10 but not #1 -- nm - Tim Sep 7, 10:43 1
  - Yep, peaked at #8. -- nm - MDH Sep 7, 11:08
- 2 / 5 -- nm - Beaker 🍺 Sep 7, 10:41 1
  - Low and Low. She's had 4 #1s and 6 Top 10s. -- nm - MDH Sep 7, 11:08
September 7th is National Beer Lover's Day -- nm - budice Sep 7, 09:58 6
- every day is beer lover's day in my house. -- nm - colin Sep 7, 10:53
- have a stout from the Holy Whale I may have tonight to celebrate! -- nm - Beaker 🍺 Sep 7, 10:08
- I apologize to everyone for missing August 28th, National Red Wine Day -- nm - crash davis Sep 7, 10:07 3
  - This might be controversial but beer Sucks -- nm - eag Sep 7, 10:35 2
    - Might be? -- nm - Volnelk Sep 7, 10:48 1
      - Hey I know there are people that might agree with me - eag Sep 7, 10:52
Ukraine: In this assessment, the upcoming Battle of Tokmak will be a key to the counteroffensive - crash davis Sep 7, 09:54 1
- don’t tell Elon -- (link*) - hollywood big shot Sep 7, 10:12
Larry Sanders is basically what the Carson writing room was like by most accounts. insecure and mercurial but not a raging asshole -- (link) - hollywood big shot Sep 7, 09:47 2
- The idea that you could create an hour of original television every single weekday and it NOT be stressful is absurd. - Volnelk Sep 7, 09:50 1
  - or, maybe to do that job you have to be a bit of an asshole... But there is a difference to being an asshole and expecting a lot from people and - Beaker 🍺 Sep 7, 10:01
Endeavor will complete WWE purchase on September 12th. -- nm - David Sep 7, 09:47 5
- See if they try to fuck it up with personnel mandates. - Will Hunting Sep 7, 09:50 4
  - LA Knight: they've either just agreed to a new 5 year deal or he just singed. -- nm - Remlik Sep 7, 11:39
  - Ari Emmanuel from the top rope! -- nm - spamlet Sep 7, 10:57
  - Given Endeavor's current debt, they're gonna clean WWE to the bone. - David Sep 7, 09:52 1
    - Ugh. - Will Hunting Sep 7, 09:54
Pick 'em and Survivor signups at the link. Don't forget to set your FF lineups too -- (link) - Beaker 🍺 Sep 7, 09:46 [Backboard] 1
- thanks. I'm in! -- nm - oblique Sep 7, 09:49
today in "Elon is a [Nazi, Russian collaborator]". personally ordered Starlink switched off to thwart Ukranian attack -- (link) - hollywood big shot Sep 7, 09:40 10
- And just keep in mind that Bery could do the same to ST if we ever get too mouthy ;-) -- nm - JD Sep 7, 10:29
- I do love the Bond Villain photo the Daily Beast used. Or is it more Dr. Evil from Austin Powers? -- nm - crash davis Sep 7, 10:20
- only clientele that are Blessed from Upon High, by the Sovereign Hand of Musk, are allowed to use Starlink for drone warfare. -- nm - Beryllium Sep 7, 09:53
- holy crap. -- nm - colin Sep 7, 09:52
- I wonder if he reads the news of all the assassinated Russian Generals and gets a little worried... -- nm - Beaker 🍺 Sep 7, 09:47 4
  - billionaires don't kill other billionaires. - colin Sep 7, 10:34
  - we should be so lucky -- nm - hollywood big shot Sep 7, 09:48 2
    - seriously. -- nm - Jovian Sep 7, 09:48 1
      - you guys both said the quiet part out loud! -- nm - Beaker 🍺 Sep 7, 10:08
- yes yes, he was 'very worried' if he didnt intercede it would have caused a nuclear war! -- nm - Jovian Sep 7, 09:46
Your 6 2023 Seahawks captains will be Bobby Wagner, Quandre Diggs, Geno Smith, Tyler Lockett, Nick Bellore and Jason Myers. -- nm - crash davis Sep 7, 09:40 3
- Jamal Adams contract restructured to give Seahawks 6.61M more cap space this year. -- nm - crash davis Sep 7, 09:41 2
  - More Bobo? 'Unique Weapon' Continues to Marvel DK Metcalf, Seahawks - crash davis Sep 7, 09:45 1
    - He's so fun to watch. -- nm - jnine Sep 7, 12:02
Well, the most anticipated album of the year has been announced, and has an album cover... -- (link) - MDH Sep 7, 09:39 3
- Is that from 1980? -- nm - JaxSean Sep 7, 10:45
- Looks like a CA state prisoner with her hands cuffed to a waist chain -- nm - zeitgeist Sep 7, 10:24
- anticipated by who? -- nm - decline Sep 7, 09:48
YDC (well maybe Qale?): Charlie Puth is engaged to his girlfriend. -- nm - MDH Sep 7, 09:39 1
- he has perfect pitch -- nm - Beaker 🍺 Sep 7, 09:43

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