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Go Hubie! -- nm - Dano Jan 23, 19:34 1
- Yeah! -- nm - prayformojo 🐵 Jan 23, 19:39
Sundance: LA Times reporter there covering also part of layoff -- (link) - budice Jan 23, 19:24 1
- "I think it would be fun to own a newspaper" (until they have to start actually paying for it) -- nm - hollywood big shot Jan 23, 19:34
Congratulations! You solved a Tuesday Crossword in 15:35. YOU HAVE A 2-DAY STREAK -- nm - rollo Jan 23, 19:22 2
- 👍👍👍 -- nm - prayformojo 🐵 Jan 23, 19:26 1
  - I can feel my brain warding off dementia -- nm - rollo Jan 23, 19:34
IG/FB Official: Bucks are hiring Doc Rivers as HC -- nm - budice Jan 23, 19:06
Cillian Murphy is a cheese snob -- (link*) - budice Jan 23, 19:01 [Attachment]
Ride Your Bike to Work Day -- (link) - prayformojo 🐵 Jan 23, 19:00
Xfinity warns customers that the Affordable Connectivity Program could end in April. A $30 credit to low income people will run out of funds… - Qale Jan 23, 18:58
Billy Mitchell finally has his high score justice -- (link) - hollywood big shot Jan 23, 18:52 1
- Still a douche -- nm - Krusty Jan 23, 19:25
I sometimes wonder what people are expecting from a hotel - ty97 Jan 23, 18:42 7
- better breakfast. obvs. - mafic Jan 23, 18:59 3
  - Can't be English, there was no complaint about the tea supplies in the room - ty97 Jan 23, 19:40
  - also: rapour -- nm - prayformojo 🐵 Jan 23, 19:00 1
    - look, we all want rapour. -- nm - mafic Jan 23, 19:03
- A hook up, it would seem -- nm - Reagen Jan 23, 18:43 2
  - With a staff member ;) -- nm - Meg Jan 23, 19:03 1
    - with what they charge for an extra guest in the room they damn well be providing the guest -- nm - zeitgeist Jan 23, 19:10
better than Buchanan v Bush in 92 and that got him a prime time keynote at the convention -- (link) - hollywood big shot Jan 23, 18:38 2
- The infamous "better in the original German" speech. -- nm* - Reagen Jan 23, 18:43 1
  - when Eugene McCarthy got 42% in NH, LBJ quit the race in less than two weeks -- (link) - hollywood big shot Jan 23, 19:18
There’s a player in the Australian Open junior draw named Cooper Woestendick. Apparently one translation of woesten is ferocious. -- nm - Dano Jan 23, 18:37
Netflix: I bet they get the XFL to stream games....and then down the line they'll get an NFL game -- nm - Remlik Jan 23, 18:24
Belgravia: poor Freddie Trenchard...his father really messed him up -- nm - Remlik Jan 23, 18:21
WOW!!!!! - zunk takes things literally Jan 23, 18:03
I saw a guy this morning with a brazzers licence plate holder, and how is that a thing you want on your car? Nissan Z, fwiw. -- nm - mafic Jan 23, 17:42 16
- Performer? -- nm - David Jan 23, 18:23 1
  - looked more like a producer. -- nm - mafic Jan 23, 18:56
- Not sure if that's better or worse than playboy silhouettes -- nm - zeitgeist Jan 23, 18:14 2
  - It's a mathematical fact that silhouettes are classy af -- nm - Beryllium Jan 23, 18:24 1
    - it is known. -- nm - mud Jan 23, 19:09
- When Bill died one of the first things I did was to rip the NRA plate holder off his car :/ -- nm - Meg Jan 23, 18:07
- Theres a couple braz plate holders here too. See them at sbux sometimes. -- nm - budice Jan 23, 17:57
- Now if it had been "Brazzos"... -- nm - Beryllium Jan 23, 17:50 1
  - Which of the Pickwick triplets did it? -- nm - TWuG Jan 23, 18:38
- Still better than "[School] Alumni" -- Alumni is plural, doofus! -- nm - Baron the Wonder Horse Jan 23, 17:45 5
  - "The other alum was his wife." - Max Jan 23, 18:03
  - Rick and Morty fans should get "Plumbus Alumnus" plate holders -- nm - Beryllium Jan 23, 17:49 3
    - ...which I would interpret as someone who ate too much lead paint. :D -- nm - Baron the Wonder Horse Jan 23, 17:54 2
      - (And wouldn't that be Plumbum Alumnum?) -- nm - Beryllium Jan 23, 18:11
      - How They Do It: Plumbuses -- (link) - Beryllium Jan 23, 18:07 [youtube]
- Checks out, actually. -- nm - spamlet Jan 23, 17:44
DoJ making further inquiry into the Six Flags/Cedar Fair proposed merger -- (link) - hollywood big shot Jan 23, 17:33
Celebrity Jeopardy final starting now. Who you got? - Baron the Wonder Horse Jan 23, 17:02 4
- commercials, every time i flick it over it is on another fucking commercial -- nm - Beaker 🍻 Jan 23, 17:31
- Nolan. -- nm - zunk takes things literally Jan 23, 17:08 2
  - She is the youngest, and thus does have the quickest thumb. - Baron the Wonder Horse Jan 23, 17:11 1
    - Well that was fun. I hope they do another season. These tournaments are very entertaining. -- nm - Baron the Wonder Horse Jan 23, 18:02
sounds like NH gonna give Nikki the Margot/Greta snub too -- nm - hollywood big shot Jan 23, 16:42 16
- NBC projects Joe Biden will win Dem primary, despite having told NH to go later on the schedule or go home -- nm - hollywood big shot Jan 23, 17:03 5
  - Also he wasn’t even on the ballot. -- nm - Tim Jan 23, 18:15 2
    - and Dean Phillips/Marianne Rainbow still lost -- nm - hollywood big shot Jan 23, 18:17 1
      - Seriously...who? -- nm - zeitgeist Jan 23, 18:19
  - NBC reporter on a college shuttle bus gets a half dozen "cease fire" write in votes -- nm - zeitgeist Jan 23, 18:13 1
    - that's about the right proportion -- nm - hollywood big shot Jan 23, 18:17
- shorter Pudding Fingers: "no, it's the Iowa children who were wrong" -- (link) - hollywood big shot Jan 23, 16:49
- (but at least the early vote is closer to the 50/50% split she would need to make a plausible case for some kind of path) -- nm - hollywood big shot Jan 23, 16:44 8
  - 52-47 w/ 13% in -- nm - mud Jan 23, 17:05 7
    - Looks like it's stabilizing around 10 points, which is close enough for her to hang around for her home state primary. -- nm - Baron the Wonder Horse Jan 23, 17:31 6
      - Single digits would be a victory for her. - Strongbad Jan 23, 17:38 5
        
        It already is. She’s going to get stomped in SC. - spamlet Jan 23, 17:45 4
        
        Get thrown in jail. Have the Courts start pulling him off the ballots in some states. - Strongbad Jan 23, 18:02 3
        
        Jail? DeSantis lost 10 points to him the day he was indicted and never recovered. - spamlet Jan 23, 18:12 2
        
        "He's not dead" you can hear it already...or... like Jesus he'll resurrect by inauguration day -- nm - zeitgeist Jan 23, 18:18
        
        I’m not joking when I say he will be the R nominee until he dies. - Tim Jan 23, 18:14
come to think of it, david ehrlich's 2023 video foreshadowed the Robbie snub -- nm - prayformojo 🐵 Jan 23, 16:10
The Top Ten Best Hit Songs of 2023 -- (link) - Tim Jan 23, 15:44 [youtube] 4
- 1.5/10 -- nm - Reagen Jan 23, 15:57 3
  - Billie and half point for Dial Drunk? -- nm - Tim Jan 23, 16:04 2
    - (I like some Billie but this one didn't do it for me) -- nm - Reagen Jan 23, 16:20
    - full for Noah, half for Olivia. -- nm - Reagen Jan 23, 16:16
"The goal for the Olympics for us is to enable all ticketed spectators to travel to the competition venues by public transit, or walking or cycling" -- (link) - hollywood big shot Jan 23, 15:35 15
- That seems very achievable for Paris *clicks on link* oh. -- nm - Roger More Jan 23, 16:58 1
  - LA should definitely look to Paris for their model - hollywood big shot Jan 23, 17:00
- I believe we were on a trip to Scandinavia for most of the last Olympics. -- nm - Meg Jan 23, 15:53 7
  - But I do have a Leroy Neiman litho of the surfing event, and a special bottle of California wine that I'm now afraid to open ;) -- nm - Meg Jan 23, 16:13 2
    - i remember getting some of his posters at BK in 1976 for the Habslympics. wild to imagine a fast food chain just handing this kind of stuff out today -- (link) - hollywood big shot Jan 23, 16:19 1
      - And back in those days you couldn't have a major sporting event without his paintings attached. -- nm - Meg Jan 23, 16:24
  - I was in Rhinestone. -- nm - Dwight Manfredi Jan 23, 16:04
  - i was in summer camp -- nm - hollywood big shot Jan 23, 15:55 2
    - I was in the LA area, not going to the Olympics - JD Jan 23, 16:10
    - ;-P -- nm - Meg Jan 23, 16:04
- what about swimming or rowing -- nm - Max Jan 23, 15:47 3
  - Swimming and diving will be held at USC's Baseball Field and USC is pretty accessible via Metro / Bus - JD Jan 23, 15:56 2
    - max was being a wiseass - hollywood big shot Jan 23, 16:07 1
      - Oh. Not on the Metro but continuing the options: public transit, or walking or cycling, swimming, rowing, skating (It's LA!) -- nm - JD Jan 23, 16:11
- I really am hoping that the Olympics will facilitate the push to finish some of the gaps in the current system - JD Jan 23, 15:43
Man runs sub-3.30 marathon while chain-smoking pack of cigarettes -- (link) - JD Jan 23, 15:34 3
- he's no Joe Strummer -- (link) - hollywood big shot Jan 23, 15:37 1
  - 🍻🍻🍻🍻🍻 I'm becoming less and less inspired to try to ever run a 'fast' race again - JD Jan 23, 15:50
- And cause we can't have fun things: A Chinese man who chain-smoked his way through a marathon was disqualified for smoking on the course -- (link) - JD Jan 23, 15:35
nm -- nm* - budice Jan 23, 15:22 2
- 13 or more? (Ben Hur, All About Eve, La La Land, Titanic, Oppenheimer) -- nm - hollywood big shot Jan 23, 15:25 1
  - Gone with the Wind -- nm - zeitgeist Jan 23, 15:29
*sigh* I guess I clicked on a couple of restaurant ads on FB, just to see where they were located. Now every 3rd or 4th post is restaurants. -- nm - Meg Jan 23, 15:18
NFL meeting divisional round with Annie Agar -- (link) - Beaker 🍻 Jan 23, 15:14 [youtube] 1
- L3! America’s sweetheart indeed -- nm - Pippy Jan 23, 16:44
218 ballots were tracked before the official announcement, coming shortly. Beltre, Mauer and Helton are in, imo. -- (link) - Tim Jan 23, 15:07 12
- Yup and Wagner will have to wait another year. I'm a small hall guy so I would only vote for Beltre and Mauer. - Krusty Jan 23, 15:27 4
  - The guys who don't reveal their ballots publicly are definitely small hall guys because of these drops from tracked % to actual % - Tim Jan 23, 15:31 3
    - it would be antithetical to baseball, but I wonder if it would better for the hall to not have the stats - Reagen Jan 23, 15:34 2
      - they'd find other stupid reasons. -- nm - mafic Jan 23, 17:10
      - Not have the stats?? Doesn't compute. -- nm - Krusty Jan 23, 15:43
- Yup, just those three. -- nm - Tim Jan 23, 15:19 1
  - official results! Sheffield 63.9% in his final year. -- (link) - Tim Jan 23, 15:27
- Margot Robbie will be snubbed twice in one day. -- nm - Reagen Jan 23, 15:18 1
  - Somehow Ryan Gosling was also elected. -- nm - Tim Jan 23, 15:19
- (The drop from the top 7 to Utley is very funny to me for some reason.) (nm) - Tim Jan 23, 15:14
- Helton fell 6.6% from the tracking to the official results last year. If that happens again, he's in with 76%. -- nm* - Tim Jan 23, 15:10 1
  - Wagner fell 4.2%, which would give him 73.9%. -- nm - Tim Jan 23, 15:11
So as the Coachella 2024 research continues, I'm reminded that Hatsune Miku was supposed to be at the 2020 Coachella that never was - JD Jan 23, 15:07 [youtube]
Contender for Song Title of the Year: Danzig With Myself -- nm - Reagen Jan 23, 15:01 1
- oh hell yeah -- nm - prayformojo 🐵 Jan 23, 15:12
a set of Winston Churchill's false teeth are being sold in auction next month. -- (link) - Peglegpete Jan 23, 14:57
lol Ted: "you studio guys just go make nine seasons of a lot more crap and we'll let you wet your beaks" -- (link*) - hollywood big shot Jan 23, 14:48
*hoping Andruw gets in* - Strongbad Jan 23, 14:45
LOL. Joe Biden introduces Terry McAuliffe as "the real Governor" -- (link) - Strongbad Jan 23, 14:38
Just out from The Colour Purple. I think it'll mainly appeal to fans of the stage musical, it didn't work as a film for me. - LMS Jan 23, 14:36
Disney is developing HoloTile, and omnidirectional flooring for VR. -- (link) - TWuG Jan 23, 14:29 13
- Yeah, the Imagineer who did this just won a lifetime award that only Walt Disney had received. -- nm - David Jan 23, 14:33 12
  - I'm surprised Ub Iwerks isn't in the HOF. -- nm - Peglegpete Jan 23, 14:47 11
    - Do you think of him as an inventor? -- nm - David Jan 23, 14:49 10
      - Didn't he invent optical printing? That would seem to HoF worthy. -- nm - JD Jan 23, 14:55 7
        
        He invented several things, but no matter how much I write about him, people call him an illustrator. - David Jan 23, 15:10 2
        
        Fucking tracer. -- nm - Krusty Jan 23, 15:59 1
        
        Randomly, that was on the other night. -- nm - David Jan 23, 16:04
        
        He did Mary Poppins. -- nm - Spawn Jan 23, 15:02 2
        
        gross -- nm - hollywood big shot Jan 23, 15:06 1
        
        It's true that Mavis and Sybil have ways that are winning and Prudence and Gwendolyn set your heart spinning, Phoebe's delightful, Maude is disarming - JD Jan 23, 15:18 [youtube]
        
        the multiplane camera is his most important animation invention. -- nm - Peglegpete Jan 23, 14:58
      - Of course. -- nm - Spawn Jan 23, 14:53
      - yes -- nm - Peglegpete Jan 23, 14:51
I processed some new library cards for a lady and her three kids. The kids names are - crash davis Jan 23, 14:27 4
- Is it too late to say I'm sorry? -- nm - LMS Jan 23, 14:37
- Next semester I have a Cache. -- nm - Reagen Jan 23, 14:36
- Not good but I'm guessing the boys go by Mac and Mav. Still, not good. -- nm - Krusty Jan 23, 14:34
- I now have quotes from Talladega Nights running through my head. - ReluctantCynic Jan 23, 14:31
The politicians are fighting over something called Zyn now. -- nm - Strongbad Jan 23, 14:23 11
- Didn't he chase after Jonny Quest? -- nm - Baron the Wonder Horse Jan 23, 15:01
- shocking as well: Dems want to ban them and Republicans think they're just fine. -- nm - Jovian Jan 23, 14:37
- Don't take Zyn if you've ever been allergic to Zyn. - ReluctantCynic Jan 23, 14:33 1
  - And possible hot flashes. -- nm - Meg Jan 23, 14:48
- Everything Zyn, I don’t think so. -- nm - Qale Jan 23, 14:31
- And the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance? -- nm - crash davis Jan 23, 14:28 1
  - +20 SB Points -- nm - Strongbad Jan 23, 14:29
- Isn't that some Star Trek currency ? -- nm - eag Jan 23, 14:24
- A cool liquor store? -- (link) - Reagen Jan 23, 14:24
- nicotine packs that kids are using now instead of vaping -- nm - Remlik Jan 23, 14:24
- Everybody needs a moment. -- nm - Spawn Jan 23, 14:24

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