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Beacon 23 has been officially renewed for a second season at MGM+. -- nm - Beaker 🍺 Dec 19, 07:38
Nasa beams cat video from deep space with laser - LMS Dec 19, 07:19 4
- Hmm. I am not sure I am understanding something. - JaxSean Dec 19, 07:38 1
  - I also dont understand how that cat survived. - Jovian Dec 19, 07:46
- Lazer Cats! -- nm - Beaker 🍺 Dec 19, 07:27
- and here's the video -- (link) - LMS Dec 19, 07:20 [youtube]
Good news everyone! I should be working on a musical next year. - LMS Dec 19, 07:17 1
- *fist pump* -- nm - Spawn Dec 19, 07:46
Someone donated a pair of Air Jordan Retro 3 sneakers to the Portland Rescue Mission last spring. - ReluctantCynic Dec 19, 07:13 1
- Good thing the guy working at the mission realized what they were. -- nm - jnine Dec 19, 07:52
There Aren’t Too Many Endings in ‘The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King’ -- (link) - Beaker 🍺 Dec 19, 07:13 3
- Oh no. There are. There really are. But we have the Hobbit trilogy to smack around now. -- nm - Qale Dec 19, 07:33
- of course not -- nm - mud Dec 19, 07:16
- See? - ReluctantCynic Dec 19, 07:14
Joys of the US healthcare system. Anesthesia is required for the procedure under state law, but may or may not be covered by insurance. -- nm* - Znufrii, exceeds expectations Dec 19, 07:10
no *this* is a groaner -- (link) - prayformojo 🐵 Dec 19, 07:09 1
- bad, very bad, so horrid that I sort of admire it in a perverse way -- nm - crash davis 😺 Dec 19, 07:12
Not a terrible idea but I feel like if you need an outward warning to other drivers of this, that says something -- (link) - Reagen Dec 19, 07:00 2
- Isn't blue reserved for police? -- nm - zeitgeist Dec 19, 11:28
- Cool, it is like the lighter blue the Kraken use. -- nm - crash davis 😺 Dec 19, 07:08
Bad news: Hurricanes are filled with microplastics. -- (edited) - ReluctantCynic Dec 19, 06:55 2
- So if put a giant 3D printer extruder in the way of a hurricane we could get something other than destruction? -- nm - crash davis 😺 Dec 19, 07:07 1
  - We could produce destruction with *flair*. - ReluctantCynic Dec 19, 07:15
Xfinity breached through their Citrix appliances includes usernames, passwords, etc. -- (link) - oblique Dec 19, 06:40 3
- Now we know the reason for the forced password reset which happened for me on the 13th. -- nm - Qale Dec 19, 07:07
- Soooper. -- nm - Mop🧹 Dec 19, 07:00
- sweet -- nm - budice Dec 19, 06:44
Aquaman 2 nsy, Anyone But You nsy, Migration nsy, The Iron Claw 92% (60/5), All of us Strangers 98% (86/2), Society of the Snow 94% (30/2) -- nm - Beaker 🍺 Dec 19, 06:37 1
- Farewell Mr Haffmann 100% (12/0), Memory 93% (37/3) -- nm - Beaker 🍺 Dec 19, 06:40
Heh. Tuberville bought puts on US Steel. -- nm - Reagen Dec 19, 06:29 10
- Shocker. -- nm - Strongbad, Champ Champ Champ Dec 19, 07:12
- Gets more sketchy the more you hear about Congress owning stocks -- nm - budice Dec 19, 06:38 4
  - I mean, this lost him a bunch. -- nm - Reagen Dec 19, 06:38 3
    - They were well out-of-the-money puts, so not that much. He made more on the calls than he lost on the puts. -- nm - B'nai B'ron Dec 19, 06:51 2
      - I mean it depends how many be bought. $15000 of worthless puts is $15000 regardless of what the bid price was. -- nm - Reagen Dec 19, 07:19 1
        
        If he bought more puts than calls he deserves to lose his @$$, but it looks more like a simple hedge to me. -- nm - B'nai B'ron Dec 19, 07:51
- But he also bought calls the month before so ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ -- nm - B'nai B'ron Dec 19, 06:37 2
  - He also might've mistook it for Twitter. :D - B'nai B'ron Dec 19, 06:39 1
    - That did occur to me, although I think it's a long shot. -- nm - Reagen Dec 19, 06:41
- Of course he did -- nm - Pippy 🏳️‍🌈 aka lady on the plane Dec 19, 06:36
Aquaman 2 Premiere: No Red Carpet, No Afterparty. Just a pre-reception, Momoa/Wan appearance. -- (link) - budice Dec 19, 06:29
Wrex(w)ham? -- (link) - JD Dec 19, 06:27
buying picture frames is like the thing that breaks my brain. why cant there be like normal increments - tRuMaN Dec 19, 06:24 2
- It's frustrating. Also, why are frames so insanely expensive? Considering the materials used it makes no sense to me. -- nm - Krusty Dec 19, 06:48 1
  - You can get inexpensive ones at Michael's, but it's the glass that's expensive. -- nm - Reagen Dec 19, 07:03
I'm so old I remember when Motley Fool put out interesting and thoughtful articles. Now it's garbage like this. - B'nai B'ron Dec 19, 05:59
Atlanta: Taylor Heinicke takes over as QB -- nm - budice Dec 19, 05:01
Every NFL Fan's Reaction to Week 15 -- (link) - Beaker 🍺 Dec 19, 04:53 [youtube] 1
- The comment the Seahawks fan made to the Broncos fan is accurate -- nm - crash davis 😺 Dec 19, 06:51
TV PSA: Voice, NBA, NHL, LEGO Masters, WWE NXT, Curse of Oak Island, Who's Line is it Anyway?, Big Brother Reindeer Games, FBI True, Fargo, - Beaker 🍺 Dec 19, 04:49
lost power at 9:30 or so. still out. 106,000 out in NB currently. 60.500 out in Nova Scotia -- nm - Beaker 🍺 Dec 19, 04:42 1
- I sure hope Frankie McDonald took his own advice. -- nm - Qale Dec 19, 07:45
Blood Feud reminder - if you are out you cannot add players. Only the 4 remaining teams may pick someeone up. -- nm - Beaker 🍺 Dec 19, 04:41 3
- I now possess the 3 highest weekly scores in Vampirates this year... and the lowest. - B'nai B'ron Dec 19, 05:54
- Congrats to all the remaining teams. Astronaut semis are 8v5 and 6v7. -- nm - Strongbad, Champ Champ Champ Dec 19, 05:11 1
  - Also nmbDavid - Strongbad, Champ Champ Champ Dec 19, 05:21
Happy birthday, Guigue! Woo hoo!!! 🥳🎂🎉 - Krusty Dec 19, 04:40 4
- Happy birthday -- nm - decline Dec 19, 07:57
- cheers! -- nm - mud Dec 19, 07:07
- indeed -- nm - crash davis 😺 Dec 19, 06:47
- Don Homer! -- nm - Beaker 🍺 Dec 19, 04:41
Wordle 913 4/6 - crash davis 😺 Dec 19, 04:10 3
- 4 - decline Dec 19, 06:09
- 3 - the very hungry caterpillar - rollo Dec 19, 05:52
- 3/6 - prayformojo 🐵 Dec 19, 04:12
Connections Puzzle #191 - crash davis 😺 Dec 19, 04:06 6
- purple last. (of course) - mud Dec 19, 07:14
- no mistakes - decline Dec 19, 06:11
- same - oblique Dec 19, 05:39
- One oopsie and a long stare at blue and purple. - VMan Dec 19, 05:37
- Did not care for it spoil - Znufrii, exceeds expectations Dec 19, 04:39
- I had a hard time getting started with this one - prayformojo 🐵 Dec 19, 04:22
Rarely is the question asked, is our business journalists learning? -- (link) - Reagen Dec 19, 03:43
A pair of Air Jordans, originally custom made for Spike Lee, was dropped off at a Rescue Mission donation bin, sells 50k at auction -- (link) - zeitgeist Dec 19, 01:11 3
- Nice! Also, they had Tinker Hatfield authenticate them?!?! He's a legend who designed some of the best Nike sneakers of all time. That's like having - Krusty Dec 19, 04:43 2
  - Was he in the movie? -- nm - rollo Dec 19, 06:19 1
    - Nope. He wasn't involved in designing the Jordan 1. He started working on them with the Jordan 3. His design kept Jordan from leaving Nike -- (edited) - Krusty Dec 19, 06:54
"That's who we is." heheh -- nm - Beryllium Dec 18, 23:42
St Louis police SUV crashes into a gay bar, starts fight with owners when they video the damage, arrests (apparently beats one) -- (link) - zeitgeist Dec 18, 23:23
Remains found in the Encino trash bin have been identified as the wife. Her parents are still missing. -- (link) - Meg Dec 18, 23:19
YouTube TV had a $49 deal for the rest of the season of NBA League Pass. It is *spectacular*! - David Dec 18, 22:47
sorry Joe, new MAGA Xmas banger just dropped -- (link) - hollywood big shot Dec 18, 22:20
if Miami-Dade Co. Dems can't make political hay from this crook and, now, a revealed Saudi enabler. . . -- (link) - hollywood big shot Dec 18, 22:19
Iceland eruption: jump about 12 minutes into this video to watch lava erupting from the earth. -- (link) - Mop🧹 Dec 18, 21:59 [youtube] 2
- looking at the map of this got me to compare iceland to ireland ... and then ireland to vancouver island - Beryllium Dec 18, 22:56 1
  - Don’t know how the distance compares, but probs like 10 times the people in Ireland as Vancouver Island. -- nm - mafic Dec 19, 03:55
Maddow: synagogues, temples and jewish cultural centers around the country are getting lots of ominous bomb threats and vandalism -- nm - zeitgeist Dec 18, 21:09 4
- probably should get the white supremacists off all the police forces -- nm - hollywood big shot Dec 18, 21:46 1
  - and out of the government -- nm - Beaker 🍺 Dec 19, 04:33
- I don’t think Maddow is giving us any breaking news here. -- nm - Mop🧹 Dec 18, 21:43
- I can’t speak for the whole country, but I can confirm that it has occurred at our synagogue, my MIL’s in St. Louis, the Jewish day school that my - pmb Dec 18, 21:20
This documentary about how they make Cadbury videos has me asking some questions about how they do they contest. - Mop🧹 Dec 18, 20:44 [youtube]
Pete Carroll is 8-0 against the Eagles. -- nm - budice Dec 18, 20:44 1
- Win Probability -- (pic) - budice Dec 18, 20:50 [Attachment]
K for the win -- nm - oblique Dec 18, 20:27
Caveman sneak attack on Kim. Survive and advance. -- nm - Volnelk 🍊 Dec 18, 20:23 5
- Barring stat corrections (please no Stat corrections) it looks like the top seeds in Cavemen and lower seeds in Astronauts win. - the wrong element Dec 18, 20:28 4
  - I love fantasy football. Woody is actually the best team in the league anyway. -- nm - David Dec 18, 21:06 1
    - That's not what I want to hear about the team I hopefully play next week. - the wrong element Dec 18, 21:35
  - Yes, if there are 50 points worth of stat corrections I might lose! -- nm - Bacon Dec 18, 20:46 1
    - I have no idea what happened in Vamps. I take it you won. -- nm - the wrong element Dec 18, 21:37
Who do I play next in Vamps? Send them to me! -- nm - Bacon Dec 18, 20:20 1
- word -- nm - Spawn Dec 19, 07:47
Jake Bobo: 1 catch, 4 yards, 1 victory. - David Dec 18, 20:19 2
- master of efficiency -- nm - prayformojo 🐵 Dec 18, 20:23 1
  - "His game was a lock?" -- nm - Xword Dec 18, 20:31
wow -- nm - prayformojo 🐵 Dec 18, 20:11
sweet TD -- nm - mud Dec 18, 20:11
Are you ready for Hot Santa Cosy Farm Wars? -- (link) - Beryllium Dec 18, 20:08 [youtube]
hold on, let me check a calendar…oh…oh no… -- (link) - Tim Dec 18, 20:02
My iPad keyboard has died. I’m typing this on the virtual keyboard like a peasant. I need a new keyboard. - Mop🧹 Dec 18, 19:46 4
- I bought a zagg keyboard for my iPad on sale for under $50 that works just fine. -- nm - pmb Dec 18, 21:28
- The price is to distinguish the worthy from the peasants. -- nm - crash davis 😺 Dec 18, 20:36
- Oh, but that keyboard is GLORIOUS. I mean, it really, really is. -- nm - Qale Dec 18, 19:58
- there are almost 73,000 keyboard option on Reverb. -- (link) - Peglegpete Dec 18, 19:51
“I don’t want to be in a hbomberguy video” is one of my favorite takes of all time. -- (link) - Mop🧹 Dec 18, 19:37 [youtube]
Former KLOS and radio legend Jim Ladd passed away.... -- (link) - Remlik Dec 18, 19:22
Bright Sun Travel went to the Chateau Frontenac! Bask in the beauty! - Mop🧹 Dec 18, 19:21 [youtube]
Tuesday's xword was kinda tough for a Tuesday -- nm - prayformojo 🐵 Dec 18, 19:16 4
- yes -- nm - crash davis 😺 Dec 18, 20:19
- a little faster than average for me. solved the theme reveal well after all the theme clues. almost the last clue I got. -- nm - mafic Dec 18, 19:28 2
  - I usually get (sp) - prayformojo 🐵 Dec 18, 19:32 1
    - I just started with verticals and progressed NW-SE. got it once I got there, just very near the end. - mafic Dec 18, 20:30
Seahawks offense finally came out of the locker room -- nm - zeitgeist Dec 18, 18:58 1
- Jake Bobo was the key to that drive. -- nm - samara Dec 18, 19:00
Marvel has a chance to do the funniest thing ever when they recast Kang -- nm - Tim Dec 18, 18:50 15
- Bob Mortimer? -- nm - LMS Dec 19, 07:11
- Donald Glover, but using the Principal Voice so he sounds exactly like Timely -- (link) - Beryllium Dec 18, 20:14 [youtube]
- Tom Brady? -- nm - Peglegpete Dec 18, 19:41
- Sith emperor Yoda? -- nm - Peglegpete Dec 18, 19:39
- Ezra Miller is waiting by the phone. -- nm - Mop🧹 Dec 18, 19:38
- Sir Edmund Blackadder? Baldrick? -- nm* - Peglegpete Dec 18, 19:37
- Amber Heard? -- nm - Peglegpete Dec 18, 19:36
- Rosanne Barr? -- nm - Peglegpete Dec 18, 19:35
- Gumby? -- nm - Peglegpete Dec 18, 19:35
- Boris Badenoff? -- nm* - Peglegpete Dec 18, 19:34
- Cast a middle aged white guy? -- nm - Mop🧹 Dec 18, 19:23
- Terence Howard? -- nm - Reagen Dec 18, 18:51 3
  - one internet for you -- nm - Tim Dec 18, 18:55 1
    - just write his 1+1 rant into the script verbatim. -- nm - Reagen Dec 18, 18:56
  - Terence Trent D'Arby? -- nm* - budice Dec 18, 18:52
for me Stalker*: Three words: Lake. Making. Kit. --nm - prayformojo 🐵 Dec 18, 18:42 2
- dude that's just water -- nm - mafic Dec 18, 18:42 1
  - send a hose -- nm - budice Dec 18, 18:44
OC: Nonprofit that got $4M in Pandemic Funds cannot produce a financial statement/audits. Currently Led by OC Supervisor's daughter. -- (link) - budice Dec 18, 18:33 2
- keep giving them COVID until they find it all -- nm - hollywood big shot Dec 18, 18:36
- Have they checked her home and driveway? Perhaps some of the money accidentally found it's way there? -- nm - Mop🧹 Dec 18, 18:36
Poorly named athletic conferences isn't just limited to Division I. The Empire 8 Conference will have 11 members next year. -- (link) - Tim Dec 18, 18:13 4
- no, the 8 stands for....."8 times more....exciting than if....we just had....1.375 members!" -- nm - prayformojo 🐵 Dec 18, 18:20
- Division III final football rankings. -- (link) - Tim Dec 18, 18:14 2
  - What are the criteria for a team to be Division I, etc? -- nm - Mop🧹 Dec 18, 18:35 1
    - Let me Google that for you, Mop. -- (link) - Mop🧹 Dec 18, 19:48
Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables certified gold record. -- (link) - Dano Dec 18, 18:12 2
- I still have the poster that came with the album -- nm - samara Dec 18, 18:14
- ~40 years? -- nm - mud Dec 18, 18:14

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