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WordDaily = Prorogue VERB Discontinue a session of (a parliament or other legislative assembly) without dissolving it. (Of a legislative assembly) Be - crash davis 😺 Jan 25, 06:24 4
- what was the subject of your email? -- nm - prayformojo 🐵 Jan 25, 06:26 1
  - Prologue and I was thinking "Everyone knows prologue!" -- nm - crash davis 😺 Jan 25, 06:29
- I thought it was a D&D word. "I thought about being a paladin, but I am prorogue" -- nm - crash davis 😺 Jan 25, 06:26 1
  - 18/00 Baron points. -- nm - Baron the Wonder Horse Jan 25, 06:35
My company beat Chris Nolan and a few other nation-states to win Arms Control People of the Year - Will Hunting Jan 25, 06:12
Anyone listening to some new or new to you podcasts that they're enjoying? I started listening to "5 Good News Stories" which is a short 5-8 minute - Krusty Jan 25, 05:59 9
- by no means new, but I've been regularly listening to Pod Save America recently. -- nm - decline Jan 25, 06:28
- I haven’t listened yet but got recommended A Place to Sleep which is a case about homelessness that’s working its way through the courts. -- nm - spamlet Jan 25, 06:23
- Empire. Best history podcast out there! -- nm - mafic Jan 25, 06:16
- My current unrelatable problem is that now that my commute is only 7 minutes, that's not enough time to get through podcasts or audiobooks. -- nm - Reagen Jan 25, 06:09 1
  - Heh that’s the one positive I’ve thought of for our office move. I’ll get through more podcasts. -- nm - spamlet Jan 25, 06:24
- I love the town with matt belloni lately. he's kind of a blowhard but it's really interesting and right up our alley. -- nm - 🏳️‍🌈 mandy chem 🏳️‍🌈 Jan 25, 06:07 2
  - I saw that and like his bits on the Business but I think the 5 minutes on there is all I could take. -- nm - spamlet Jan 25, 06:22 1
    - yeah -- again, a little blowhard. but if you can get pasit it, really good info. -- nm - 🏳️‍🌈 mandy chem 🏳️‍🌈 Jan 25, 06:26
- not that new to me, but Tony Robinson's Cunningcast is fantastic, with Season 2 starting next month. -- (edited) - Dark Callisto 🦊 Jan 25, 06:06
Missed that Just Like Heaven fest post - just stick it in my veins!!! -- nm - Reagen Jan 25, 05:52 1
- yeah. Warpaint, Metric, Broken Social, Tegan and Sara -- nm - mud Jan 25, 06:18
Peacock lost $825m in the last quarter of 2023. -- (link) - Krusty Jan 25, 05:46 1
- "Peacock is the fastest-growing streaming service in the U.S." -- nm - decline Jan 25, 05:59
Man pulls gun during screening of ____________ after being told to quiet down -- (link) - Reagen Jan 25, 05:30 4
- Barbie -- nm - Andie Jan 25, 06:05 1
  - Thinking in the right direction, but not quite. -- nm - Reagen Jan 25, 06:21
- he gets the firehose -- nm - Beaker 🍺 Jan 25, 05:35
- Hukkle? -- nm - prayformojo 🐵 Jan 25, 05:33
TV PSA: L&O, L&O SVU, L&O OC, Son of a Critch, Hell's Kitchen, Children Ruin Everything, SEAL Team, Griselda, Sexy Beast, The Traitors, - Beaker 🍺 Jan 25, 05:14
Cease Fire write ins were dwarfed by cross party write ins i.e. Trump for D, Biden for R -- (link*) - Reagen Jan 25, 05:11
somebody else say somethin -- nm - prayformojo 🐵 Jan 25, 05:10 1
- Hundreds. Of. Beavers. -- nm - Beaker 🍺 Jan 25, 05:45
this week's Good Climate News - prayformojo 🐵 Jan 25, 05:01
assuming Crash gets the same Word of the Day email I do, let's see if he notices something odd about today's -- nm - prayformojo 🐵 Jan 25, 04:33
Connections Puzzle #228: Handsome Hippo In Charge! - prayformojo 🐵 Jan 25, 03:55 5
- I'm - dum Jan 25, 06:24
- Connections Puzzle #228 - crash davis 😺 Jan 25, 06:16
- no mistakes - decline Jan 25, 05:30
- Two oopsies. - VMan Jan 25, 05:14 1
  - same pattern - rollo Jan 25, 05:22
Wordle 950 3/6 - my unlikely run of 3s continues (streak=140 pb) - prayformojo 🐵 Jan 25, 03:48 3
- Wordle 950 5/6 - crash davis 😺 Jan 25, 06:21
- 5 - decline Jan 25, 05:29
- 3 - rollo Jan 25, 05:19
It’s been raining here for four days making me a very soggy and sad Qale. -- nm - Qale Jan 25, 00:09
Ed Harris doing his side of an overwritten phone call in The Rock -- (link) - hollywood big shot Jan 25, 00:08 2
- One of my all time favorite villains. -- nm - Will Hunting Jan 25, 04:55 1
  - great movie. -- nm - Beaker 🍺 Jan 25, 05:36
Train service to San Diego canceled again due to landslides. -- nm - Meg Jan 24, 23:11
Equalizer 3: It was good. - Beryllium Jan 24, 22:39 1
- Iron Man 3 is the best Iron Man. -- nm - mafic Jan 25, 02:19
One of the players in our campaign got vaporized - JD Jan 24, 21:50 1
- 👍 -- nm - crash davis 😺 Jan 25, 04:12
I'm still new but it seems to me that if you have a team suffering a 4 game losing streak, a game against the Blackhawks is a good cure. - crash davis 😺 Jan 24, 21:14 3
- I hope you catch LA. -- nm - Reagen Jan 25, 04:53
- the Blackhawks were great WW II pilots. -- (pic) - Peglegpete Jan 24, 21:25 [Attachment]
- Leafs beat the Jets in OT - hollywood big shot Jan 24, 21:15
MAGA Mike should probably move to Texas if he wants to stand up for states' rights -- (link) - hollywood big shot Jan 24, 20:59
Hudson Whiskey: This Is Your Favorite Whiskey - znufrii Jan 24, 20:47
Congratulations! You solved a Wednesday Crossword in 32:32 - 2 mistakes, 1 avoidable -- nm - rollo Jan 24, 20:44 1
- 👍👍👍 -- nm - prayformojo 🐵 Jan 25, 03:44
I just wrote a very polite "fuck off and stop bothering me with your BS" email. I love writing those. -- nm - mafic Jan 24, 20:20
We watched Twister tonight. It's such a fun film, you kind of forget how nice it is. My partners first time seeing it. -- nm - colin Jan 24, 20:08 1
- Jonas is in it for the money, not the science! That son-of-a-bitch stole my design! -- nm - Bill Jan 24, 21:16
quake? building just got a good little shake it felt like -- nm - hollywood big shot Jan 24, 19:44 4
- 4.2 San Bernadino -- nm - Meg Jan 24, 19:51 3
  - Didn't feel it here. -- nm - Meg Jan 24, 19:52 2
    - always interesting which ones travel and to where -- nm - hollywood big shot Jan 24, 20:10 1
      - San Berdo is snubbed and ignored by nearly everyone so its no surprise they have a rumble and nobody noticed -- nm - zeitgeist Jan 24, 20:12
West Wing 25th anniversary this year, an announcement is coming next week -- (link) - Remlik Jan 24, 18:42 5
- Read your own article, Pete. -- nm - David Jan 24, 19:21 2
  - I did. you should as well. -- nm - Remlik Jan 24, 19:25 1
    - "The West Wing The West Wing NBC UPDATED, 1/24: Well, it’s a book." -- nm - David Jan 24, 19:39
- "Sure Martin Sheen has been arrested 66 times, but is that really disqualifying?" -- nm - campaign ad Jan 24, 18:58
- Jon Stewart was bad enough -- nm - hollywood big shot Jan 24, 18:51
White Lotus' Star Tom Hollander Recalls Accidentally Receiving Tom Holland’s 'Astonishing' 'Avengers' Bonus Check -- (link*) - budice Jan 24, 18:20 5
- "how can this keep happening to me?!" -- nm - Tom Holland Jan 24, 18:22 2
  - This would have been funnier if you had used "tom hollandaise." (Right?) -- nm - amandaphone Jan 24, 18:34 1
    - all the hollandaise -- nm - budice Jan 24, 19:37
- wow, a reverse Remlik -- nm - Tim Jan 24, 18:21 1
  - Texas GOP gonna have to ban that too. -- nm - Qale Jan 24, 18:23
Bills teams plane headed to Cancun -- (link) - budice Jan 24, 18:17
read the room, whoopi -- (pic) - mud Jan 24, 18:15 [Attachment] 5
- enh, we don't have to have group think on this, reasonable people can disagree - Reagen Jan 24, 18:22 4
  - less umbraged by Margot (though really it's Emma v Lily and Greta Lee probably a bigger actual snub). but the dir. branch is 80% male and had no prob - hollywood big shot Jan 24, 18:39 2
    - I've seen them all except Poor Things, and I don't think I could justify pulling any of those off the list for Greta. -- nm - mafic Jan 24, 20:48
    - Barbie was a directing achievement, this was a true snub -- nm - rollo Jan 24, 20:46
  - agreed! (I shoulda had the smiley on the outside mebbe) -- nm - mud Jan 24, 18:28
FAA has approved inspection plan for Max 9 airplanes. Alaska expects it first planes back in the air on Friday. -- (link) - ty97 Jan 24, 18:10 2
- FAA halts Boeing 737 production expansion; allows MAX 9 to fly -- (link) - ty97 Jan 24, 18:18
- reopen those beaches Chief Brody -- nm - hollywood big shot Jan 24, 18:11
Texas was only about 1/3 of the 64k pregnancies it turns out -- (link) - hollywood big shot Jan 24, 17:35
so if Mitch agrees that the border deal is dead, he's open to decoupling the Ukraine/Israel aid? -- (link) - hollywood big shot Jan 24, 17:33
Walking back from work just now, I heard the calls of Canada Geese. I feel slightly worried as it seems too soon to come back. - crash davis 😺 Jan 24, 17:23 10
- Those things so asking to be shot and eaten out of the sky. -- nm - con_carne Jan 25, 03:48
- There is a variety of Canada Geese that don't migrate. - . Jan 25, 03:06
- it can see you. run. -- nm - mafic Jan 24, 20:13
- My understanding is you can use either Canada Goose or Canadian Goose with both referring to the same animal. The plural is geese. -- (edited) - Krusty Jan 24, 18:53 1
  - get his librarian ass! -- nm - hollywood big shot Jan 24, 19:04
- It appeared at least one flew over my car while I was in the bookstore today. Wipers really weren't very effective :/ -- nm - Meg Jan 24, 17:46 4
  - And the ones down at the city park no longer migrate so they're Californian Canada Geese. -- nm* - Meg Jan 24, 19:12 3
    - and then they start arguing about the best migration routes. -- nm - Reagen Jan 24, 19:14 2
      - "Does anyone know how to get from Wilshire to the PCH?" -- (link) - Beryllium Jan 24, 23:06 [youtube]
      - They're not going to be happy when this becomes the site of the new police station. -- (link) - Meg Jan 24, 19:25 [flickr]
anybody wanna buy Aaron Spelling's house? -- (link) - hollywood big shot Jan 24, 17:08 4
- last person to sell it made almost $35 million. like 40% return in 8 years. -- nm - mafic Jan 24, 20:17 2
  - even for BH everyone always warned him it was too big. I think you have to be oil-rich to be in the market for this -- nm - hollywood big shot Jan 24, 20:24 1
    - (poor Tori is still stuck in some Studio City shack last I checked. he really did her dirty with his estate) -- nm - hollywood big shot Jan 24, 20:25
- I'm not paying $155 mill for only one pool. -- nm - amandaphone Jan 24, 19:39
Whoever beats Josh Allen in the playoffs always loses their next playoff game. -- nm - Beaker 🍻 Jan 24, 17:05 1
- Hmmm, I require a large scale and a duck.... -- nm - Baron the Wonder Horse Jan 24, 17:19
Dutch court rules in favor of shooting at wolves with paintball guns -- (link) - Znufrii, promoted Jan 24, 16:59 1
- "Hey, you wanna piss off a wolf, that's your funeral," says Ditch judge. -- nm - Mop🧹 Jan 24, 23:24
"A villager in China unknowingly used a hand grenade....." -- (link) - prayformojo 🐵 Jan 24, 16:49 1
- Surname is Ran? Since Chinese names are surname first, it would be cool if his given name was Sofar Away -- nm - crash davis 😺 Jan 24, 17:26
basically -- (link) - hollywood big shot Jan 24, 16:42 1
- Seriously? or is this a spoof? -- nm - zeitgeist Jan 24, 20:31
apropos of San Diego's wettest day ever, 100 years ago they hired a rainmaker during a drought. he would only get paid $1k/inch when it rained. it did -- (edited) - hollywood big shot Jan 24, 16:37 4
- Obviously you need to bring suit against SD on behalf of his descendants. Inflation, interest, and punitive damages. -- nm - crash davis 😺 Jan 24, 17:36
- Lesson being: don't consult for the city of san diego -- nm - Beryllium Jan 24, 17:00 2
  - he gave them exactly what they paid him for (and then some) -- nm - hollywood big shot Jan 24, 17:01 1
    - They. Didn't. Pay. Him. -- nm - Beryllium Jan 24, 17:44
Pentagon moving to lower classifications on space programs -- (link) - TWuG Jan 24, 16:22
Idaho Librarians are considering quitting due to legislation -- (link) - Remlik Jan 24, 16:18
Chargers finalizing a deal with Jim Harbaugh -- (link*) - budice Jan 24, 15:47 7
- Baltimore at sofi again next season would be the Harbaugh Bowl (don't make me buy fucking chargers tickets guys) -- nm - hollywood big shot Jan 24, 16:31
- TSN saying Schefter confirms -- nm - Beaker 🍻 Jan 24, 16:28
- The Chargers confirm (?) -- (link) - spamlet Jan 24, 16:22 1
  - Heh, that's clever. -- nm - David Jan 24, 16:36
- Sadly, Josina is no longer reliable as a reporter. -- nm - David Jan 24, 16:08 2
  - For optics, I wouldn't share that viewpoint too wide -- nm* - budice Jan 24, 16:57 1
    - Why? Ben Johnson's agent destroyed her a few weeks ago. - David Jan 24, 18:28
Skydance making their Paramount move (may get into a bidding war with Apollo Capital tho if the reports from last week are true) -- (link) - hollywood big shot Jan 24, 15:44 2
- Just so long as no one forgets the Rules of Acquisition ... -- nm - Beryllium Jan 24, 15:52 1
  - Dignity and an empty sack is worth the sack. -- nm - Baron the Wonder Horse Jan 24, 16:48
Abbott wants a war. Biden should give it to him -- (link) - hollywood big shot Jan 24, 15:36 1
- Maybe they could downgrade Texas to a territory. (NM) - Marlowe Jan 24, 15:45
LIR Qale - Epiphany Jan 24, 15:31 1
- I mean, yeah… That’s also on the list for them. -- nm - Qale Jan 24, 17:13
AZ GOP chair resigns after allegedly trying to pay off Kari Lake to stay out of US Senate race -- (link) - Znufrii, promoted Jan 24, 15:23 3
- The conversation sounded so contrived like she had a script. See how incorruptible she is. Maybe he wanted to quit anyway. -- nm - zeitgeist Jan 24, 16:09
- Seems like he was doing the Lord’s work there. -- nm* - spamlet Jan 24, 15:40
- guessing that was a no from Kari then -- nm - hollywood big shot Jan 24, 15:32
How You Dune? -- (link) - prayformojo 🐵 Jan 24, 15:12
211,919 That's the estimated number of rapes in Texas used to get the 26,313 number from last board. Thanks for source link Roger Moore - JD Jan 24, 15:12
Actor Tom Hollander once received Tom Hollands bonus check for the Avengers -- (link) - Remlik Jan 24, 15:02 7
- What does Tom Hollandest get? -- nm - Reagen Jan 24, 15:44 3
  - Golf clap. -- nm - amandaphone Jan 24, 17:40
  - A really challenging to make sauce? -- nm - Qale Jan 24, 17:13
  - a bouquet -- nm - Max Jan 24, 15:46
- This headline, tho... -- nm - David Jan 24, 15:24
- that's a Poker Face -- nm - hollywood big shot Jan 24, 15:09
- "I'll give it back, but I want a date with Zendaya." -- nm - Baron the Wonder Horse Jan 24, 15:08
LOL Whoops! -- (pic) - Jovian Jan 24, 14:52 [Attachment] 3
- ~ you are sixteen going on seventeen, doing it for the gram ~ -- nm - hollywood big shot Jan 24, 14:58
- whoa.... isn't that something she could be disbarred for? -- nm - zeitgeist Jan 24, 14:54 1
  - as if she cares. She's the goomah to the biggest mobster this planet has ever seen. -- nm - Jovian Jan 24, 14:55

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