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Bruins announcer has got some Harry Caray in him. -- nm - Reagen Feb 19, 13:02 2
- he's curious like a cat so they call him Whiskers? -- nm - Beaker 🍻 Feb 19, 13:03 1
  - I'm pretty sure he's got a bottle of Wild Turkey in the booth. -- nm - Reagen Feb 19, 13:04
ESPN is close to useless. I don't know why I keep it around -- nm - crash davis 😺 Feb 19, 12:55 4
- If you have cable you might not be able to get rid of it...or at least avoid paying for it. -- nm - zeitgeist Feb 19, 13:51
- You need to be watching the dodgeball tournament on the Ocho. ESPN 8. - Spawn Feb 19, 12:58
- because reasons. -- nm - tRuMaN Feb 19, 12:58 1
  - I need to set a goal of getting rid of most all of my TV by the end of March. I have Prime mainly for shipping so it stays - crash davis 😺 Feb 19, 13:11
So maybe this explains why Ben Savage isn't talking to the rest of his BMW castmates? -- (link) - Reagen Feb 19, 12:46 4
- My goodness. That is really something. -- nm - David Feb 19, 13:03 2
  - Straight from his IMDb page: "He frequently collaborated with Bryan Singer and Dan Schneider." -- nm - David Feb 19, 13:05 1
    - Nightmare rotation, as they say. -- nm - Reagen Feb 19, 13:07
- the rest of the cast has no idea why, so maybe. -- nm - Dark Callisto 🦊 Feb 19, 12:55
was there ever a time when the NBA All Star Game was actually good? (not in my lifetime that I recall) -- (link) - hollywood big shot Feb 19, 12:45 7
- I remember back in the glory years when the stars took it seriously in terms of effort - Will Hunting Feb 19, 12:53 6
  - A few years ago they tried a really funky format (I don't remember the details), but it turned into a real game by the end. - pmb Feb 19, 12:59 2
    - It was this one, the year Kobe Bryant died. - pmb Feb 19, 13:02 1
      - That was the weirdest day. We were on a Disney VIP Tour with PFM's family. I don't remember whether someone at Disney told us or vice versa. -- nm - David Feb 19, 13:07
  - League needs to pay the winners or something. - Spawn Feb 19, 12:56 2
    - They do. Winners get 100k, losers get 25k. -- nm - Reagen Feb 19, 12:58 1
      - How about that, plus losers have to pay winners $250k (each)? -- nm* - Spawn Feb 19, 13:03
BOOM! Contract signed. Thank you all, for your positive thoughts, good vibes, prayers and smoke signals. -- nm - Spawn Feb 19, 12:42 3
- drinks on Spawn! -- nm - Beaker 🍻 Feb 19, 13:13
- Woohoo! Funko Pops for all! -- nm - David Feb 19, 12:56
- 🐯🐯🐯🐯🐯🐯🐯🐯🐯🐯🐯� �� -- (link) - crash davis 😺 Feb 19, 12:52 [youtube]
why if CNBC could do that to your portfolio, imagine how the rest of cable news could shape viewer's opinion-based behaviors . . . -- (link) - hollywood big shot Feb 19, 12:14
Maybe it's a Canadian thing, but I appreciate how you (I?) know how to pronounce St. George vs. St-George. -- nm - Mop🧹 Feb 19, 12:00 7
- It might be an east coast thing, because I would pronounce it like Prince George. - Beryllium Feb 19, 12:08 5
  - The hyphen signifies the French grammar so your IM is correct. -- nm - Mop🧹 Feb 19, 12:41 4
    - did you listen to the Wiki page though? -- nm - crash davis 😺 Feb 19, 12:50 3
      - They are fairly different - Reagen Feb 19, 12:54 2
        
        I'm just saying, wikipedia has it as saynt and they are Mop's people so he should have them correct that -- nm - crash davis 😺 Feb 19, 12:58 1
        
        listen to that again. There's no t. -- nm - Reagen Feb 19, 12:58
- if this is it, it sounds the same to me, just slightly french -- (link) - crash davis 😺 Feb 19, 12:05
US will introduce a UN resolution basically telling Bibi to quit it in Gaza -- (link) - hollywood big shot Feb 19, 11:52 1
- Veto by Russia in 3...2...1 -- nm - zeitgeist Feb 19, 11:56
Looks like Trump, Inc. has opened a new Trump Tower in Portland's Pearl District. Kinda caught me off guard. - ReluctantCynic Feb 19, 11:51 5
- Now just pass a law strictly limiting the size of the signage -- nm - zeitgeist Feb 19, 13:49
- Now it's five billion. - Beryllium Feb 19, 12:30
- Instantly solving Portland's problem with rampant drug use on the streets. -- nm - Mop🧹 Feb 19, 11:57 2
  - Trump, Inc. certainly wouldn't tolerate an open fentayl market in their buildings! -- nm - ReluctantCynic Feb 19, 11:59 1
    - But will E. Jean Carroll...? -- nm - Mop🧹 Feb 19, 12:01
Jerry Garcia. 1978. Rhapsody in Red. -- (link*) - Peglegpete Feb 19, 11:40 [youtube]
USPS - Early days of Parcel Post. Children were shipped to their relatives. -- (link) - budice Feb 19, 11:36 10
- 73 miles which direction from Grangeville, ID ? -- nm - crash davis 😺 Feb 19, 11:58 6
  - likely Lewiston -- nm - Max Feb 19, 12:27 5
    - It took me until last year to realize that on the Washington side of the Snake River is Clarkston. -- nm - Mop🧹 Feb 19, 12:44 2
      - Somewhere I may visit in the next couple of years. The Columbia river trip I'd like to take ends or begins in Clarkston. - Meg Feb 19, 12:59
      - Much better than having Kansas City in two states -- nm - crash davis 😺 Feb 19, 12:54
    - That would work except the Amazon book description talks of mountains and no road. I guess I'll just request the book tomorrow -- (link) - crash davis 😺 Feb 19, 12:36 1
      - I looked into Ancestry. In 1920 Charlotte May was living with her family in Nez Perce County in the "Orchard Precinct" southwest of Lewiston. -- (edited) - Max Feb 19, 14:32 [Attachment]
- "RTS" -- nm - Max Feb 19, 11:48
- How long were they lost for? -- nm - Spawn Feb 19, 11:45 1
  - Google orphan trains -- nm - zeitgeist Feb 19, 11:55
NYT critic Iverson - The Worst Masterpiece: ‘Rhapsody in Blue’ at 100 - crash davis 😺 Feb 19, 11:28 5
- John McWhorter - No, ‘Rhapsody in Blue’ is not ‘the worst’ - crash davis 😺 Feb 19, 11:30 4
  - McWhorter is one of my dudes. He is going to join the gang I'm forming along with Ken Burns and Malcolm Gladwell. -- nm - crash davis 😺 Feb 19, 11:35 3
    - Hearing Gladwell's constantly shilling in Podcast ads is terribly offputting. -- nm - Mop🧹 Feb 19, 11:58 2
      - One way for it to slow down is for you to start buying. -- nm - crash davis 😺 Feb 19, 11:59 1
        
        Get kilbo on this, stat! -- nm - Spawn Feb 19, 12:16
Kathryn Hahn gets it -- (link) - hollywood big shot Feb 19, 11:28 6
- I caught some red carpet comments, he sounded just like that Drew Barrymore SNL parody. OMG that is SO awesome -- nm - zeitgeist Feb 19, 12:04
- She's wearing a Ms. Marvel sash! -- nm - David Feb 19, 11:44
- I mean, how many AUSTRALIAN DISCO QUEEN GODDESS MOTHERS are there? 3 or 4, max. -- nm - Mop🧹 Feb 19, 11:30 3
  - and MDH just got really angry -- nm - JD Feb 19, 11:41 1
    - Sorry, I didn't realize MDH was Australian. 5, then. -- nm - Mop🧹 Feb 19, 11:54
  - And how many of them can do THAT with ping pong balls? -- nm - Baron the Wonder Horse Feb 19, 11:33
If you have any familiarity with Rhapsody in Blue, and any appreciation for Bela Fleck, his Rhapsody in Blues and Rhapsody in Bluegrass are fun. - mara Feb 19, 11:07 [youtube] 1
- oh very cool - I, being a philistine, love Rhapsody -- nm - crash davis 😺 Feb 19, 11:19
Reason #31,250 why Gillian Anderson so great -- (IG pic) -- (link*) - budice Feb 19, 11:03 [Attachment]
Money Heist’ Spin-Off ‘Berlin’ Renewed For Season 2 By Netflix -- nm - Beaker 🍻 Feb 19, 11:00 1
- Seven seasons and a movie. You know it. -- nm - Mop🧹 Feb 19, 11:06
That small electrical fire I mentioned that my BIL had in his garage? They are going to have to gut the entire house from the smoke damage and the - pmb Feb 19, 10:41 12
- I'm very sorry for your BIL but at least he and his whole family can move into your place -- nm - crash davis 😺 Feb 19, 11:23
- Ugh! What a shame. :-( So sorry for them. -- nm - Krusty Feb 19, 11:07 1
  - On the plus side, new everything! -- nm - Spawn Feb 19, 11:09
- Sounds like the insurance company is on board, though? I can imagine the insurers saying "Naw, man. Enjoy the flavor. You're living with it." -- nm - Mop🧹 Feb 19, 10:54 6
  - My understanding is that it's all covered. -- nm - pmb Feb 19, 10:59 5
    - Our insurance company fought us tooth and nail on smoke damage replacement, but we ultimately won. -- nm - David Feb 19, 11:00 4
      - Yeah, I was about to ask him, "pmb, do you know what company? That is better service than I have seen from most and might switch." -- nm - Spawn Feb 19, 11:11 3
        
        I don't know. I'll try to find out. -- nm - pmb Feb 19, 12:09 2
        
        I mean, *maybe* David's fight changed the entire system for good! - Spawn Feb 19, 12:21 1
        
        I am Erin Brockovich! -- nm - David Feb 19, 12:31
- That sucks -- nm - David Feb 19, 10:51
- whoa. that's awful -- nm - prayformojo 🐵 Feb 19, 10:50
Worldwide Box Office Update (see IM): Wonka hits $600M, Migration $250M, Wish/Trolls $200M, Beekeeper nears $125M, Mean Girls $100M - MDH Feb 19, 10:40 13
- The legs on Anyone But You are crazy. It'll probably get to $100 million domestic. -- nm - Inigo Feb 19, 10:53 10
  - lol “the highest grossing live-action William Shakespeare adaption” (I guess they charitably count Lion King as a true Hamlet adapt) -- (link) - hollywood big shot Feb 19, 11:22 1
    - da fuq? -- nm - Mop🧹 Feb 19, 11:28
  - studios should make more rom-coms for theaters, actually -- nm - hollywood big shot Feb 19, 11:09
  - Sydney Sweeney is gonna pretend like her Marvel movie never happened. -- nm - David Feb 19, 10:58 6
    - I thought from Mop's post that the whole point of this was to set her up with her own movie. -- nm - crash davis 😺 Feb 19, 11:11 5
      - And the Black Adam movie was going to set up a Superman vs. Black Adam sequel, until it didn't. -- nm - Mop🧹 Feb 19, 11:28 2
        
        I still haven't gotten around to viewing Black Adam -- nm - crash davis 😺 Feb 19, 11:40 1
        
        It was better than Aquaman. - Spawn Feb 19, 12:11
      - There were plans for three spinoffs from this film. There's just one little problem... -- nm - David Feb 19, 11:15
      - But if only a dozen people saw it... -- nm - Spawn Feb 19, 11:11
- The Beekeeper has been a major hit for Statham (it's his best in years). The Argyle number though, oof. -- nm - MDH Feb 19, 10:44 1
  - John Cena = Box Office death. -- nm - David Feb 19, 10:44
Breaking Bad in one minute -- (link) - JaxSean Feb 19, 10:39 4
- Pretty much, yeah. -- nm - Mop🧹 Feb 19, 11:56 3
  - The chemical acquisition episodes were some of the best, though. -- nm - Spawn Feb 19, 12:01 2
    - I'm partial to the episodes that taught me how to dispose a body. Very helpful. -- nm - Mop🧹 Feb 19, 12:02 1
      - I was pleased with the house scene for that reason! -- nm - Spawn Feb 19, 12:10
ap: ".. with a black hole devouring a sun a day" -!!! - mud Feb 19, 10:36 2
- And if you look at it directly, you'll get sucked right into it! -- nm - Mop🧹 Feb 19, 10:46
- For Star Wars lore, isn't that the place that they stashed the super secret labs / production facilities to build the Death Star lasers? -- nm - JD Feb 19, 10:39
WSJ-Credit Cards: Capital One is buying Discover -- (edited) - budice Feb 19, 10:27 3
- Wonder how that will effect their deposit accounts? I have money market and CDs with them at pretty good interest rates. -- nm - Meg Feb 19, 11:13 1
  - I wouldn't expect a huge difference on the rates. They look pretty comparable, but no harm in shopping around. -- nm - Baron the Wonder Horse Feb 19, 11:26
- Lina Khan is already firing up her Epson. - Baron the Wonder Horse Feb 19, 10:28
Oh SiriusXM Onederland, how I missed you. -- nm - Baron the Wonder Horse Feb 19, 10:25
TV PSA: America's Got Talent, Ride, Neighborhood, Bob Hearts Abishola, America's Most Wanted, NCIS, NCIS Hawaii, The Irrational, Bachelor, Raw, - Beaker 🍻 Feb 19, 10:24
THR: Madame Web - “advance purchase sales declining in real time as buyers were refunding their tickets” on opening night. -- (link) - budice Feb 19, 10:17 1
- But hey, let's give it up for this great picture from the red carpet. -- (link) - Mop🧹 Feb 19, 10:58
YMMV: I've loved Ray Ratto from his days writing for the San Francisco Chronicle so I'm biased. However I think is particularly genius. - JD Feb 19, 10:17
Canadian politics/law question: is their a term for a law that when passed can't be reversed by subsequent governments? - Beaker 🍻 Feb 19, 10:14 4
- One of the principles of parliamentary sovereignty is that one government can’t bind a future government. In other words, any law can be undone by a - Roger More Feb 19, 10:25 3
  - thanks. that is what I thought, but wife and the girls thought there was something Trudeau did for the First Nations. - Beaker 🍻 Feb 19, 10:51 2
    - The federal govt passed a law on indigenous child welfare, essentially saying that indigenous peoples have jurisdiction over child welfare. - Roger More Feb 19, 11:08 1
      - merci -- nm - Beaker 🍻 Feb 19, 11:14
LA Rain: LA River on the rise -- (link) - budice Feb 19, 10:11
Variety: Disney+ Unveils Four Korean Series - mud Feb 19, 09:56
Atlanta Falcons fans are demanding the team trade for Mac Jones -- (link) - hollywood big shot Feb 19, 09:50 2
- Is that a white faced photoshop? 🤦‍♂️ -- nm - JD Feb 19, 09:54
- I mean, he's been better than Justin Fields. -- nm - David Feb 19, 09:54
welp Matthew Sheppard, Brandon Teena, now Dagny Benedict -- (link) - hollywood big shot Feb 19, 09:40 6
- And the family put up a GoFundMe, too (in case anyone is interested) -- (link) - ReluctantCynic Feb 19, 11:20
- JFC -- nm - mara Feb 19, 11:11
- Pick an adjective that describes you. "Man". "Canadian". "Nerd". Then imagine a headline that says "(adjective) killed for being (that adjective)." - Mop🧹 Feb 19, 11:06
- Fuck this shit. -- nm - Mop🧹 Feb 19, 10:27 1
  - nonfeasance of government duties is generally a crime and/or a civil action (but Oklahoma these days who knows) -- nm - hollywood big shot Feb 19, 10:50
- This is horrible -- nm - crash davis 😺 Feb 19, 09:50
Today on ESPN 1pm eastern Maple Leafs vs Blues; 3:30 Eastern Red Wings vs Kraken. -- nm - crash davis 😺 Feb 19, 09:24
Can someone give me the ROI on this? In 2003 Moreno bought the Angels for 184 million. One valuation has them currently at 2.7 billion. TIA -- nm - crash davis 😺 Feb 19, 09:20 11
- Anthony Rendon says baseball has never been a top priority for him. -- (link) - budice Feb 19, 10:21 1
  - That’s a helluva thing to criticize him for saying everything people should think are more important than a job. - Will Hunting Feb 19, 10:29
- 14% annualized, which is very good but not amazing. -- nm - Reagen Feb 19, 10:03 1
  - I would take it every day, twice on Sunday, and three times in Smarch. -- nm - Baron the Wonder Horse Feb 19, 10:27
- 1,367% -- nm - Krusty Feb 19, 09:26 5
  - So from a very limited perspective Arte could possibly think he is doing okay -- nm - crash davis 😺 Feb 19, 09:31 4
    - He could though most people would believe that winning championships is what a team is supposed to do not just make money. -- nm - Krusty Feb 19, 09:38 3
      - I agree but the decisions made in this case point to other possible conclusions. -- nm - crash davis 😺 Feb 19, 09:53 2
        
        Sure. Owners driven by maximizing profits over winning are the majority. Though, winning really bumps those profits as fans like to spend money to see - Krusty Feb 19, 10:05 1
        
        But the Angels are "special". They have among the higher payrolls but there's significant parts of it that are mis-spent. -- (edited) - JD Feb 19, 10:10
- and he still won't sell. 😭 -- nm - JD Feb 19, 09:25
NASCAR-Daytona: Two Jet Dryers collided into one-another. Fuel spill and others to cleanup -- (link*) - budice Feb 19, 09:20 7
- They moved the Xfinity race to AFTER the Daytona 500 tonight. That's insane. -- nm - JaxSean Feb 19, 09:28 6
  - That's a new one to me. Has that ever happened before? -- nm - JD Feb 19, 10:11 5
    - Occasionally. I can think of a few times where the Xfinity race was moved into the evening after the Cup race due to weather. - ReluctantCynic Feb 19, 10:22 4
      - Though the venue does host an annual 24 hour endurance event so it's not like they're completely unprepared for night racing -- nm - JD Feb 19, 10:38 3
        
        Also true. -- nm - ReluctantCynic Feb 19, 10:39
        
        I would be concerned with the mindset of the drivers. "You're driving on Saturday. No wait, Monday morning. No wait, Monday at 10pm." -- nm - JaxSean Feb 19, 10:39 1
        
        Denny Hamlin talked about this briefly on Actions Detrimental. -- (edited) - ReluctantCynic Feb 19, 11:45
it's raining again -- nm - hollywood big shot Feb 19, 09:19 2
- Falling on your head like a memory? -- nm - Cuzzin Todd Feb 19, 09:52
- is your love at an end? -- nm - Dano Feb 19, 09:21

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