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discharge petition got enough names it would seem -- (link*) - hollywood big shot Feb 29, 12:19 2
- and yet Fitzpatrick is too chickensh!t to do it himself - decline Feb 29, 12:24
- excellent. -- nm - mud Feb 29, 12:20
Looking further at the backboard, I see KC & the Sunshine Band was mentioned. Now I want to put on my my my boogie shoes. -- nm - crash davis 😺 Feb 29, 12:15 4
- Agreed. Just to boogie with you. - Spawn Feb 29, 12:16 3
  - Get down, get down, get down tonight baby! -- nm - crash davis 😺 Feb 29, 12:18 2
    - why do you guys hate me? Where did we go wrong? -- nm - mud Feb 29, 12:19 1
      - I'm your boogie man. I'm your boogie man. Turn me on. -- nm - crash davis 😺 Feb 29, 12:20
Sexy Beast S1 finale is fanfuckingtastic, that is all. -- nm - mud Feb 29, 12:11
DocuSign, lawyer up -- (link) - hollywood big shot Feb 29, 12:07
Greg Abbott isn’t even good at kidnapping migrants to fuel a big city crime wave -- (link) - hollywood big shot Feb 29, 12:06
*overthinking his arbitrage on his car loan* - Znufrii, promoted Feb 29, 12:04
I object to today's connections. Spoils - pmb Feb 29, 11:49 11
- spoils - Baron the Wonder Horse Feb 29, 12:31
- spoils - Roger More Feb 29, 12:29
- Spoils - Beryllium Feb 29, 12:26 1
  - Spoils for the spoils - Beryllium Feb 29, 12:27
- Perfect reverse - Znufrii, promoted Feb 29, 11:54
- spoilers - ty97 Feb 29, 11:54
- spoiler - crash davis 😺 Feb 29, 11:51 4
  - Maybe, but I think that's really a stretch. Spoils - pmb Feb 29, 11:55 3
    - I have occasionally had that objection about other categories on other days. I just figure I'm dealing with NYers rather than English speakers. -- nm - crash davis 😺 Feb 29, 11:58 2
      - See, I often think they use that as a trick (spoils) - pmb Feb 29, 12:05 1
        
        I can see that. -- nm - crash davis 😺 Feb 29, 12:06
No one picked She's Gone as H&O's signature song? I'm disappointed in y'all -- nm - crash davis 😺 Feb 29, 11:48 6
- I picked it as their best song. I just don't think it's their signature song. I picked You Make My Dreams Come True, because it's become almost a - pmb Feb 29, 11:58
- Oates is lead on that one, so DQ. They ain't Oates & Hall, buddy! -- nm* - Spawn Feb 29, 11:56 2
  - and my favorite Fleetwood Mac song is one where Buckingham sings lead -- nm - crash davis 😺 Feb 29, 12:03 1
    - Fleetwood Mac is NOT Fleetwood Mac without Buckingham. Their best stuff. So I guess I can respect that! -- nm - Spawn Feb 29, 12:05
- seventies H&O were just one of many similar duos (Seals & Crofts etc). eighties H&O + MTV = hit machine go brrrr -- nm* - hollywood big shot Feb 29, 11:52 1
  - I intensely dislike their 80s sound. But you're right, I had Alexa play She's Gone and she followed it up with Summer Breeze by S&C -- nm - crash davis 😺 Feb 29, 11:55
'Rust' Set Footage Shows Alec Baldwin Rushing the Crew, Saying: 'One More! Right Away! Let's Reload!' -- (link) - budice Feb 29, 11:40 2
- This is unnecessarily inflammatory. -- nm - Mop🧹 Feb 29, 11:42 1
  - it's kind of his job to do that, and that's kind of normal on a set. - Andie Feb 29, 11:44
Sigur Rós Announce Fall Tour - MDH Feb 29, 11:39
A treacherous, life-threatening blizzard was targeting California’s mightiest mountain range Thursday, and forecast to hit the Lake Tahoe area by late morning -- (link*) - decline Feb 29, 11:15 3
- Just who did the blizzard stab in the back to become known as treacherous. -- nm - crash davis 😺 Feb 29, 12:23
- let it snow -- nm - hollywood big shot Feb 29, 11:17 1
  - (should vault us past 100% avg snowpack for April 1) -- nm - hollywood big shot Feb 29, 11:19
Co-worker, schedule for a C section next week, went into labor last night. Poor baby missed leap status by a whisker. -- nm - Baron the Wonder Horse Feb 29, 11:15 5
- she couldn't just hold it for a few hours? -- nm - decline Feb 29, 11:16 4
  - one of my best friends was born at 11:35pm on Dec 31. The doctor asked her mom if she wanted to hold out and go for the New Years baby. - Andie Feb 29, 11:43 1
    - She would've been fully justified in punching his heart out. No jury would convict. -- nm - Baron the Wonder Horse Feb 29, 11:48
  - As a dude, I don't pretend to come close to understanding the toll on a person. -- nm - budice Feb 29, 11:19
  - ik, r. our needs. -- nm - Baron the Wonder Horse Feb 29, 11:17
Meanwhile In Missouri -- (link) - hollywood big shot Feb 29, 11:05
Wonka (the movie, not the experience) March 8th, on Max. -- nm - Mop🧹 Feb 29, 10:56 2
- Considering it's still in the top 10 (no 7 this week) that seems premature. -- nm - LMS Feb 29, 10:58 1
  - Making money has not stopped people rushing stuff to Streaming. - Will Hunting Feb 29, 12:10
The AI generated headlines on Yahoo Finance are hilarious. "[Stock] down 0.3% since earnings report: can it rebound?" - Baron the Wonder Horse Feb 29, 10:56 1
- Nope, downhill to zero from here. -- nm - Reagen Feb 29, 11:33
Peak DC cherry blossom bloom predicted for March 21 - Max Feb 29, 10:41 1
- wow. that feels super early -- nm - prayformojo 🐵 Feb 29, 10:51
My dearest mother, God love her, made some mock Panera lemon drop cookies and shipped them to me. Candidate for sainthood right there. -- nm - Baron the Wonder Horse Feb 29, 10:36 4
- wash it down with some of that Panera lemonade -- nm - hollywood big shot Feb 29, 11:08
- yum -- nm - prayformojo 🐵 Feb 29, 10:56
- mmmm -- nm - Andie Feb 29, 10:55
- Very nice! -- nm - Krusty Feb 29, 10:45
Winklevoss twins agree to repay 1.1 billion to their crypto clients who got screwed in some 3rd party lending deal -- (link) - zeitgeist Feb 29, 10:36 1
- you know what's cooler than paying your crypto clients $1.1b dollars . . . -- nm - hollywood big shot Feb 29, 11:07
PS5? Still sucks! -- nm - David Feb 29, 10:32 2
- You're using it wrong. -- nm - J Feb 29, 12:22
- sweet! -- nm - budice Feb 29, 10:34
Have any sleuths figured out who Rebecca Ferguson was talking about? -- nm - Jovian Feb 29, 10:25 7
- what is this? -- nm - crash davis 😺 Feb 29, 11:48
- Tom Hanks, obvs -- nm - hollywood big shot Feb 29, 11:09
- 1) How many walkers have you killed? 2) How many people have you killed? 3) Were you the one who made Rebecca Ferguson cry? -- nm - The Hollywood Walking Dead Feb 29, 10:30
- Clearly Jacob Tremblay (Doctor Sleep) -- nm - MDH Feb 29, 10:30
- If I google "Rebecca Ferguson", the only name that autofills on the list is Hugh Grant. -- nm - Volnelk Feb 29, 10:30 2
  - thats one of the two she confirmed that it was not (T Cruise was the other) -- nm - Jovian Feb 29, 10:41 1
    - Phew, that's of the the films I worked on, and I didn't hear anything at the time. Sound like the tabloids spreading rumours because of his Hacked Off - LMS Feb 29, 10:50
NYT: Here are the top 10 U.S. markets for buyers ages 25 to 34 (My family is from Irondequoit - all I'll say is blech) -- (link) - decline Feb 29, 10:24 [Image] 4
- How is that pronounced? - Baron the Wonder Horse Feb 29, 10:50 3
  - Surprisingly, “Bon Iver” -- nm - Znufrii, promoted Feb 29, 10:59 1
    - 5 points for znu. -- nm - Baron the Wonder Horse Feb 29, 11:05
  - spoil - decline Feb 29, 10:52
it’s all happening Falcons Nation -- (link) - hollywood big shot Feb 29, 10:14 1
- Woohoo! Now, let's figure out what to do at QB! -- nm - David Feb 29, 10:32
it was four years ago today… -- (link) - hollywood big shot Feb 29, 10:05
The latest episode of SITV had a higher than 100% consumption rate at Apple Podcasts. *People listened to the episode more than once* - Mop🧹 Feb 29, 09:55 5
- That’s far too many people that have heard me speak. -- nm - Tim Feb 29, 10:30
- Just curious, how many listeners do you guys typically get? -- nm - oblique Feb 29, 10:13 1
  - Not many, but they're high value listeners! - Mop🧹 Feb 29, 10:42
- Based on my own podcast usage, it could be 'people who fell asleep and had to re-listen' -- nm - Roger More Feb 29, 10:00
- I've listened to episodes of what's new in streaming more than once. - Krusty Feb 29, 09:59
GitHub is struggling to contain an ongoing attack that’s flooding the site with millions of code repositories. -- (link) - decline Feb 29, 09:54
WcDonalds, to me, is about the dumbest marketing thing I could think of. -- nm - tRuMaN Feb 29, 09:47 4
- Yes, they like making money. -- nm - Beryllium Feb 29, 09:48 3
  - They made the mascot a clown and people still showed up -- nm* - budice Feb 29, 09:49 2
    - still a better choice than subway -- nm - zeitgeist Feb 29, 10:04 1
      - Jared was too, a clown. But in disguise. -- nm - Spawn Feb 29, 11:31
From Daughter - -- (pic) - Meg Feb 29, 09:41 [Attachment] 2
- twas 78 on Tuesday at noon and twas snowing before midnight that day. -- nm - tRuMaN Feb 29, 09:46 1
  - Yesterday was like that here, beautiful in the morning, horrible by evening. -- nm - Andie Feb 29, 09:47
the weird thing about border deals/politics is there really isn't a "crisis" to fix other than streamlining asylum claims but Fox N*** has gaslit half -- (link) - hollywood big shot Feb 29, 09:30
Ohtani just broke the heart of an entire country by saying he got married in the offseason. -- nm - David Feb 29, 09:26 4
- This dude will do anything to lower his California tax rate. -- nm - Will Hunting Feb 29, 09:43 3
  - You join the West Coast Yankees, you get what you get. -- nm - crash davis 😺 Feb 29, 11:49
  - The Dodgers will play all their games this season in Primm, Nevada. -- nm - Mop🧹 Feb 29, 09:45 1
    - The A's might have too -- nm - eag Feb 29, 09:52
Glasgow Willy Wonka Experience in Animal Crossing: New Horizons -- (link) - budice Feb 29, 09:25
Olivia Colman, 50, is praised by fans as she reveals she's had 'LOADS' of Botox -- (link) - budice Feb 29, 09:20 1
- I love her so much. This is so much in line with her idiom. -- nm - Baron the Wonder Horse Feb 29, 11:08
Huey Lewis & The News, guess his voice is gone (?) -- nm - budice Feb 29, 09:12 2
- I think it was hearing loss so he can't perform. -- nm - MDH Feb 29, 09:14 1
  - Yep he can't hear.the notes right -- nm - eag Feb 29, 09:25
It's too hot for February. -- nm* - Max Feb 29, 09:10
crash, looks like you get Mark DeBarge as your separated at birth music twin. -- nm - Spawn Feb 29, 09:09 1
- Thanks but you went three years in the wrong direction. I'm younger than Paula. -- nm - crash davis 😺 Feb 29, 11:54
LIR - Budice, I worked for a trust company in Canada. Our client profiles had a setting to change their address to Florida in the winter. -- nm - Meg Feb 29, 08:55
student body got a bad reputation, oh yeah - hollywood big shot Feb 29, 08:50
ST has a greater diversity of Hall & Oates opinions than I expected. -- nm - Roger More Feb 29, 08:47 32
- I still don't know who they are or what they sang. I thought they were a 2010s band, like Saint Motel. -- nm - Beryllium Feb 29, 09:43 1
  - A quick scan of their singles seems to show some recognizable songs, though I think I only know them from covers. -- nm - Beryllium Feb 29, 09:46
- In the early 2000's (might have been late 90's) I went to a conference and Hall & Oates played at the reception. I kept thinking how demoralizing that - pmb Feb 29, 09:22 7
  - And You Make My Dreams Come True is their signature song, though not their best song. - pmb Feb 29, 09:23 6
    - It's the song that I first think of but that's from much later in life reinforcement -- (link) - JD Feb 29, 10:34 [youtube]
    - ~Twist and shout my way out and wrap yourself around me~ may be my favorite song moment of theirs. - Spawn Feb 29, 09:26 4
      - Their only good song is Adult Education. -- nm - David Feb 29, 09:29 3
        
        pixie? -- nm - Spawn Feb 29, 09:33 2
        
        2 hours -- nm - David Feb 29, 09:34 1
        
        student body got a bad reputation, oh yeah Posted by hollywood big shot (aka pickmix) Feb 29 '24, 11:50 oh yeah - Spawn Feb 29, 09:35
- Mentioned this recently when it came up but after 40+ years I'm still not confident I know which is Hall and which is Oates. -- nm - Cuzzin Todd Feb 29, 08:51 18
  - Hall is the one with the epitome of white guy hair in the 80s. The trickier challenge is identifying when you actually hear Oates sing. -- nm - Max Feb 29, 09:11 1
    - She's Gone and You've Lost that Lovin' Feelin'. -- nm - Spawn Feb 29, 09:14
  - i always knew this instinctually. Daryl Hall looked like a "Daryl", John does NOT look like a Daryl. -- nm - Andie Feb 29, 09:07
  - I had DHall's Three Hearts in the Happy Ending Machine album cover poster on my wall in college. - Spawn Feb 29, 08:56 2
    - I'd forgotten that album was a thing that existed. -- nm - Cuzzin Todd Feb 29, 09:24 1
      - That video was one of a few dozen I recorded for the visual aspect and ran it continuously in my bedroom in the condo I lived in my freshman - Spawn Feb 29, 09:33
  - someone on this board solved this for me: Oates has Oates in his Beard -- nm - Pippy: of the Meat Lover's Court Feb 29, 08:54 11
    - No one ask her how she tells the difference between Loggins and Messina -- nm - Roger More Feb 29, 09:01 2
      - heh. Loggins is still around? -- nm - Spawn Feb 29, 09:03 1
        
        he looked odd in the We Are the World doc -- nm - prayformojo 🐵 Feb 29, 09:11
    - this all came up in December. My post then: -- (link) - mud Feb 29, 09:01 [Backboard]
    - But... neither had a beard... (in the 80s). -- nm - Cuzzin Todd Feb 29, 08:58
    - ... beard? -- nm - Spawn Feb 29, 08:57 5
      - at times. though he's probably most recognizable when he just had a moustache -- nm - prayformojo 🐵 Feb 29, 08:58 4
        
        maybe oats in the stache? is that even correct? -- nm - Pippy: of the Meat Lover's Court Feb 29, 09:00 1
        
        If you love eating something enough it gets all over your face. - Spawn Feb 29, 09:01
        
        I think he might have way back in the beginning? But yeah, the 'stache is what I know him as. I know Hall has had a beard for a while now. -- nm - Spawn Feb 29, 09:00 1
        
        okay, resolved: Oats in his stache -- nm - Pippy: of the Meat Lover's Court Feb 29, 09:01
- Right? This is fascinating. Throwing my vote for signature song to Maneater. -- nm - MDH Feb 29, 08:49
- ~Whoa oo oo here she comes...~ - Pippy: of the Meat Lover's Court Feb 29, 08:49
- Karma Chameleon -- nm - budice Feb 29, 08:49
We refuse. -- nm - Spawn Feb 29, 08:45 9
- We built this city. -- nm* - budice Feb 29, 08:45 8
  - please do not let this stick, please do not let this stick - Pippy: of the Meat Lover's Court Feb 29, 08:48 5
    - What did they build it on? -- nm - Cuzzin Todd Feb 29, 08:51 4
      - I hate you - Pippy: of the Meat Lover's Court Feb 29, 08:55 3
        
        What are we knee-deep in? -- nm - mara ❄️ Feb 29, 09:29 1
        
        HOOPLA!! - Pippy: of the Meat Lover's Court Feb 29, 09:59
        
        Hate. - Spawn Feb 29, 09:00
  - To celebrate Beyonce's new country song! -- nm - Strongbad Feb 29, 08:48
  - DANCE ON YOUR KNEES! -- nm - Spawn Feb 29, 08:46

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