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Happy 40th Anniversary: The Billboard Hot 100 for this week in 1984. This is like an A List of the 80s. - MDH Mar 26, 07:01 4
- I can instantly recall 1 through 7. Against All Odds is a great one to immediately make me feel a melancholy nostalgia -- nm - crash davis 😺 Mar 26, 07:05
- Everything in the 80s was better. -- nm - sycor Mar 26, 07:05
- Take that 1999 list! -- nm - ty97 Mar 26, 07:02 1
  - I know every song on this list, and honestly love them. Automatic is one of my favorite Pointer Sisters songs. -- nm - MDH Mar 26, 07:08
that was another great episode of DONDI last night. -- nm - Jovian Mar 26, 06:59
Happy 25th Anniversary: The Billboard Hot 100 for this week in 1999. #1 is still a banger. - MDH Mar 26, 06:50 3
- I remember all, though only vaguely on #8 (they were wearing aluminum foil or something in the video) -- nm - ty97 Mar 26, 07:08
- I only remember 1, 5, 6, & 10. Maybe if someone played the others, I'd say "Oh yeah". And for a dance song, yes, #1 is a banger. -- nm - crash davis 😺 Mar 26, 07:02 1
  - #2 was an R&B song, but the Hex Hector remix was a dance floor staple -- nm - MDH Mar 26, 07:04
So, we saw Ghostbusters Frozen Empire last night. Maybe a C? Like i wasn't bored. It was fine. Non spoilery thoughts inside. - Andie Mar 26, 06:48 10
- Also, it was a Monday, and it is playing on multiple screens, but there were 7 of us in the theatre, including us. We all did get pins though. - Andie Mar 26, 07:05 [Attachment]
- maybe Ghostbusters and Jurassic Park were just perfect one-off movies that can't and don't need to be repeated -- nm - hollywood big shot Mar 26, 07:03 1
  - OTOH, money. -- nm - Producer Guy Mar 26, 07:10
- My biggest complaint about the previous entry was that it was too much nostalgia in lieu of a plot. How's this one on that scale? - na-Baron Mar 26, 06:59 2
  - my complaint with the last one was they reused the villain. You can do literally ANYTHING and did that same thing again? This didn't do that/ -- nm - Andie Mar 26, 07:07
  - See my comment below. They overcorrected the opposite direction IMO. -- nm - oblique Mar 26, 07:00
- Damn. I was hopeful for it. -- nm - Loyola Mar 26, 06:53 2
  - it wasn't bad, by any means, but had more potential. -- nm - Andie Mar 26, 06:56 1
    - This. I had higher expectations because the previous movie was so much better than I expected originally. Felt they almost wasted the original cast in - oblique Mar 26, 07:00
- Dave's complaint doesn't bother me, but the latter part of yours does. -- nm - crash davis 😺 Mar 26, 06:51
Thanks to my IT staff for successfully bringing me back to classic Outlook this morning. That was a horrible 24 hours. -- nm - Strongbad Mar 26, 06:42 5
- You'll get Pine and like it! -- nm - BOFH Mar 26, 07:00 2
  - Elm is way better. -- nm - Strongbad Mar 26, 07:09
  - EMACS OR DEATH! -- nm - oblique Mar 26, 07:01
- When/if they actually force this on people, there is going to be pitchforks -- nm - oblique Mar 26, 06:45 1
  - The button click in my top right corner disappeared, but there is a registry edit they can do to force the issue. -- nm - Strongbad Mar 26, 06:54
Heaven's Gate cult victims discovered 27 years ago today. -- nm - Jovian Mar 26, 06:35
U.K. Court: Julian Assange Can't Be Extradited on Espionage Charges Until U.S. Rules Out Death Penalty -- nm - budice Mar 26, 06:26 1
- fair enuf -- nm - mud Mar 26, 06:31
NFL’s hybrid kickoff model has passed. Vote was 29-3. -- (link*) - budice Mar 26, 06:15 4
- bye bye onside kicks -- nm - Beaker 🍺 Mar 26, 06:36 2
  - bye bye 'surprise' onside kicks. -- nm - Volnelk Mar 26, 06:55
  - Thought they were back? At least late in the 4th when you are down. Just had to be declared. -- nm - VMan Mar 26, 06:38
- who were the 3 negative nellies ? -- nm - decline Mar 26, 06:31
300 days until *****'s inauguration. -- nm - mud Mar 26, 06:12
ABC is reporting that the ship that struck the bridge “lost propulsion” as it was leaving port and warned Maryland officials of a possible collision. -- nm - ty97 Mar 26, 06:06 4
- My first thought was why didn’t they drop anchor, but then remembered a documentary I saw about container ships and how the anchor only works best if - Loyola Mar 26, 06:52 1
  - was reading that they did drop anchor, then just before the engines came on, they tried to reverse, the anchor had pivoted them TOWARDS the bridge. -- nm - zeitgeist Mar 26, 10:36
- “We know that there were individuals working on the bridge,” Baltimore County Executive John Olszewski told CNN. -- nm - ty97 Mar 26, 06:10 1
  - Sonar has detected vehicles in the river, CNN reported, citing Baltimore Fire Chief James Wallace. -- nm - ty97 Mar 26, 06:10
Bad Boys: Ride or Die trailer -- (link*) - budice Mar 26, 06:06 [youtube] 1
- The last one was okay. This one looks like it's going to be worse than that. -- nm - sycor Mar 26, 07:03
B2: Bery, you can't stop now. You haven't even gotten to, you know, RW. -- nm - na-Baron Mar 26, 05:54
Awww man. My comfy socks have a hole in them. How are they going to keep my feetsies warm now? - sycor Mar 26, 05:23 4
- Sucks. Might I recommend some Darn Tough socks. If and when they get a hole you can return them and they'll give you credit to buy a new pair. - Krusty Mar 26, 05:43 1
  - Very cool info, I'll check them out. I think these are Thorlo and probably 5 years old at least. I really just wear then around the - sycor Mar 26, 06:59
- NNNNNNNOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!! -- nm - ty97 Mar 26, 05:41
- Darn it -- nm* - decline Mar 26, 05:27
Harvest Festival lineup (Fredericton, NB) this September - Beaker 🍺 Mar 26, 04:57 7
- Broken Social Scene, Jim Cuddy Band, and Skydiggers are all awesome. I may have to look into tickets for some of them. -- nm - Walt_Disney Mar 26, 06:27
- Um. 1, maybe -- nm - oblique Mar 26, 06:27
- 9 -- nm - Dano Mar 26, 06:10 1
  - Same. And I can't recommend Half Moon Run live at some point highly enough. -- nm - JaxSean Mar 26, 06:23
- Wow. Colin James. That takes me back. -- nm - Mop🧹 Mar 26, 05:23 2
  - To say goodbye? -- nm - Reagen Mar 26, 06:28
  - Skydiggers, Jim Cuddy, Feist; Jason Isbell is supposed to be amazing too -- nm* - Beaker 🍺 Mar 26, 05:27
I wonder if The 1975 have started covering “Not The 1975” during their shows -- nm - Tim Mar 26, 04:48 2
- I like that song. -- nm - MDH Mar 26, 05:05
- cataclysm! -- nm - prayformojo Mar 26, 04:49
TV PSA: Shogun, Will Trent, FBI, The Cleaning Lady, Extended Family, Night Court, Voice, FBI International, Rookie, FBI Most Wanted, Good Doctor, - Beaker 🍺 Mar 26, 04:36 3
- 3: Shogun, Will Trent, Oak Island (we'll get it Sunday) -- nm - Beaker 🍺 Mar 26, 04:37 2
  - Will Trent is pretty good, I need to catch back up on that one. -- nm - Krusty Mar 26, 05:45 1
    - I really enjoy it -- nm - Beaker 🍺 Mar 26, 06:30
Strands #23 - spanagram first - prayformojo Mar 26, 04:18 5
- yellow third - VMan Mar 26, 06:37
- no hints - oblique Mar 26, 06:08
- One hint - znufrii Mar 26, 06:00
- yellow second - decline Mar 26, 05:47
- same - rollo Mar 26, 05:42
Connections Puzzle #289 - prayformojo Mar 26, 04:12 7
- No oopsies - VMan Mar 26, 06:33
- Connections Puzzle #289 - crash davis 😺 Mar 26, 06:11
- purple first - oblique Mar 26, 06:09
- Mine - znufrii Mar 26, 05:51
- ugly - decline Mar 26, 05:42
- purple 2md - rollo Mar 26, 05:39 1
  - me too - mud Mar 26, 05:42
Wordle 1,011 4/6 - prayformojo Mar 26, 04:08 3
- Wordle 1,011 4/6 - crash davis 😺 Mar 26, 06:14
- 5 - decline Mar 26, 05:40
- 4 - my own private idaho -- (edited) - rollo Mar 26, 05:35
BBC News - Baltimore: Key Bridge collapses into river after being hit by cargo ship. -- (link) - LMS Mar 26, 00:49 26
- Ouch! -- nm - Karl_S Mar 26, 05:45
- Expect this to be offline for months. This isn't a quick 28-day job to replace a few sections like Atlanta few years ago. -- nm - Strongbad Mar 26, 05:41 5
  - I think they’ll clear enough of the fallen debris quick so the commercial ship traffic can get to the harbor quickly, but replacing the bridge - Landbeck Mar 26, 05:45 3
    - Correct. Restoring the waterway won't take long. -- nm - Strongbad Mar 26, 06:03 2
      - Depends on the type. They could speed it up by constructing a different type of bridge. -- nm - Strongbad Mar 26, 06:04 1
        
        True doctrine. Engineering and construction have changed in the past half century since this bridge was built, it took five years then. -- nm - Landbeck Mar 26, 06:16
  - I'd imagine years. that whole bridge is toast -- nm - Beaker 🍺 Mar 26, 05:45
- Yikes. -- nm - znufrii Mar 26, 05:39
- Closeup shot -- (link) - budice Mar 26, 05:20
- I feel like it should have all collapsed like that, but I'm not an engineer. - ty97 Mar 26, 05:14 4
  - very common for bridges to fail in this way. Especially ones with large spans -- nm - Karl_S Mar 26, 05:41 1
    - It was a continuous truss, meaning the weight was distributed across the entire structure instead of each individual span. -- (edited) - znufrii Mar 26, 06:30
  - Decline is correct. Failure type is going to depend on how it was constructed. This is very rare but not impossible -- nm - Strongbad Mar 26, 05:37
  - not an engineer, but from my vast experience with bridge building apps on my phone, suspension bridges are all interconnected -- (edited) - decline Mar 26, 05:20
- that is crazy. lucky it was 1:30 AM and not PM for sure though -- nm - Beaker 🍺 Mar 26, 04:27
- Trying to be optimistic, early in the video you can see trucks moving along the bridge but at impact I couldn't see any vehicles. - Max Mar 26, 04:03 2
  - CNN is saying at least 7 missing people. -- nm - Inigo Mar 26, 04:06 1
    - There was a construction crew doing pavement repairs on the bridge but also reports of multiple cars in the water -- nm* - decline Mar 26, 05:14
- Holy crap. I saw the video 5 minutes ago and just assumed it was fake. -- nm - Strongbad Mar 26, 03:58
- With the amount of sea faring cargo that goes in and out of the Baltimore harbor, I’m surprised this hasn’t happened before. - Landbeck Mar 26, 03:13 2
  - Oh, man. I didn't know your IM. I've driven across that bridge hundreds of times. -- nm - Inigo Mar 26, 05:27 1
    - Yeah, that day there was an accident in the tunnel, so the bridge was faster. And I usually went south on I-97, but the state road - Landbeck Mar 26, 05:43
- wtf, the ship had two pilots.... -- nm - zeitgeist Mar 26, 02:07 2
  - The ship appeared to be losing power in the time leading up to the inpact, lights on and off. Likely they couldn't steer and just drifted. -- nm - colin Mar 26, 04:19
  - So is that too many or not enough? -- nm - mafic Mar 26, 03:30
- That video footage is intense. Good thing it didn't happen at a busier time. -- nm - Beryllium Mar 26, 01:00
Twitter/X was selling user data for government surveillance at the exact same time it was fighting government surveillance in court -- (link) - zeitgeist Mar 26, 00:27 1
- Isn't that every tech company's side gig? -- nm - colin Mar 26, 04:20
No powerball winner, Tomorrow 3/26 1.1b MM draw closes noon, PB wednesday 3/27 is now open, please check your payfriend for recent submissions before - zeitgeist Mar 26, 00:13 1
- sent for 3/27 -- nm - JaxSean Mar 26, 06:21
having a new team owner who is online and dad-jokey is gonna be new -- (link) - hollywood big shot Mar 25, 23:57 1
- More like Ump Day, am I right? -- nm - Max Mar 26, 00:01
sailboats moored at sunset -- (link) - Beryllium Mar 25, 23:21 [flickr]
Deal or no Deal. I am shocked nobody has made a counter offer to the banker yet. -- nm - Peglegpete Mar 25, 23:01 1
- I watched the first episode but I just can't get into that kind of show :( -- nm - Meg Mar 25, 23:13
Why does a chicken coop have two doors? - JD Mar 25, 22:09
someday they're actually gonna go to war on Shogun - hollywood big shot Mar 25, 21:56 8
- I much prefer the slow burn. Make me care about the players involved. then it means something and isn't just a bunch of killing with no meaning -- nm - Beaker 🍺 Mar 26, 04:36 1
  - i don't mind a slow burn. this is just two sides talking about war for six episodes without much actual fighting -- nm - hollywood big shot Mar 26, 07:02
- You'll be shedding your tears -- (link) - JD Mar 25, 22:12 [youtube] 5
  - i never watched the NBC one back in the day but amazing they got Toshiro MFin Mifune to be Lord Toranaga, and didn't make him speak english for US -- (link*) - hollywood big shot Mar 25, 22:15 [youtube] 4
    - yes, cause Japanese in the 1600's were known for their English speaking -- nm - Beaker 🍺 Mar 26, 04:28 1
      - no but NBC executives in the 80s weren't known for their scrupulous fidelity to historical accuracy -- nm - hollywood big shot Mar 26, 07:05
    - I haven't seen very many of his films, but enough to know that that is, as they say, a good get. -- nm - Beryllium Mar 25, 22:41
    - I remember my parents watching that and had no idea about the significance of the casting -- nm - JD Mar 25, 22:22
Dear ST, you should have received an email last week with instructions on how to obtain your parking pass. Please allow me to re-send you that email. -- nm - Mop🧹 Mar 25, 21:32 5
- *replies all* I don't see anything in my spam folder. Are you sure you sent? -- nm - David Mar 25, 22:28
- didn't anyone tell you? we don't have cars anymore. we upgraded. -- (pic) - Peglegpete Mar 25, 21:52 [Attachment]
- Way to rub it in that I still am lacking a car! (My apartment complex did this exact thing recently.) -- nm - Qale Mar 25, 21:46
- You know nobody reads anything any more unless it's an answer to a question about something they've already been told ;) -- nm - Meg Mar 25, 21:40 1
  - no kiddin, I can't read more than a page or two of a book at a time, the newspaper we still get is mostly unread, -- nm - zeitgeist Mar 25, 23:22
We won’t be happy until kids are considered children until 25 in this country, I’m sure of it. -- nm - Qale Mar 25, 21:19 8
- It's a natural effect of longer life spans. People marry and have kids at later ages too -- nm - rollo Mar 26, 05:46
- If they are in college a 'kid' can stay on the 'rents health insurance plan till 25 -- nm - zeitgeist Mar 25, 23:26
- When I think I was working full time at 15 and paying my Mom rent. But she did still bust me for smoking *in public* when I was 17 :-) -- (edited) - Meg Mar 25, 21:23 1
  - I always knew you were a naughty Meg. -- nm - Qale Mar 25, 21:45
- From b2: Cigarettes are now 21, mind you, not 18. -- nm - Qale Mar 25, 21:19 3
  - smartphones have been as harmful to kids' mental health as Joe Camel getting them hooked on smokes -- (link) - hollywood big shot Mar 25, 22:09 2
    - Sure, smartphones allow us to have real time access to information. Younger folks can see the world they're inheriting. - colin Mar 26, 04:28
    - I can think of at least five to twenty additional reasons why Gen Z’s mental health ain’t great. - Qale Mar 25, 22:30
This is kind of cool. The April 6th Blackhawks game will have a live animation version of the game on a sub channel. -- (link) - pmb Mar 25, 20:37 2
- "I am a hockey player. I am not a cat." -- nm - Max Mar 25, 21:14
- Will it put a terrible strain on the animators wrists? -- nm - Beryllium Mar 25, 21:03
My counterpoint to Pippy: Futurama. - David Mar 25, 20:21 3
- lol to the IM - Pippy Mar 25, 22:05 1
  - I dig ya. -- nm - David Mar 25, 22:11
- Ted Williams? - mafic Mar 25, 20:32
They're tearing up the avenue outside my apartment tonight. I guess sleeping won't be happening later. -- nm - Krusty Mar 25, 19:56 7
- This sounds like the opening lyric to a Joni Mitchell song. -- nm - David Mar 25, 20:22 2
  - I thought it was going to be Springsteen. -- nm - jnine Mar 25, 20:51 1
    - and the gambling commission's hanging on by the skin of it's teeth -- nm - rollo Mar 26, 05:44
- I thought they started jack hammering at 7am -- nm - zeitgeist Mar 25, 20:10 1
  - No, that was my block last week ;) -- nm - Meg Mar 25, 20:45
- Well, in fairness, it’s “The city that never…”.you know. -- nm - Volnelk 🍊 Mar 25, 20:02 1
  - Fair. -- nm - Krusty Mar 25, 20:35

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