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I do feel kinda bad that Diana's dreamboat fantasy at the end of Wonder Woman 1984 is back to doing Hallmark movies. -- nm - David Apr 17, 12:30 1
- He's never had a lot of luck. I remember him from North Shore and he was a pretty face but more soap opera-y acting. Like him in Better off Ted though -- nm - sycor Apr 17, 12:36
Senate just voted 51-49 that Mayorkas impeachment article I was unconstitutional. -- nm - budice Apr 17, 12:26
"Belichick to join Pat McAfee for NFL draft show" -- It's Revelations, people! -- nm - David Apr 17, 12:26 5
- Terrible begets terrible. -- nm - Mop🧹 Apr 17, 12:44 1
  - On the plus side, Belichick's dog might appear. He was the breakout star of the pandemic draft. -- nm - David Apr 17, 12:46
- Hmmm. These two or Mike Greenburg and Rece Davis hosting Booger McFarland and Adam Schefter and 20 other talking heads? - The Last Of My Kind Apr 17, 12:32 2
  - If they put McFarland on this one, it'd be that Simpsons episode that ended with the worst celebrities flying into the sun. -- nm - David Apr 17, 12:33 1
    - hahahaha -- nm - prayformojo 🐵 Apr 17, 12:35
sounds like MAGA Mike caved on the foreign aid package -- (link) - hollywood big shot Apr 17, 12:23
So I have a client who has, as a fundraising item, beer made by a local brewery called Canned Good. -- (pic) -- (link*) - tRuMaN Apr 17, 12:19 [Attachment]
Some fans are asking for the Sky/Fever game to be moved to the United Center -- (link*) - oblique Apr 17, 12:15 13
- June 23rd? The rapper/singer known as Russ has it booked. - The Last Of My Kind Apr 17, 12:26 3
  - And yesterday I posted Stubhub prices for the game in 10,000 seat Wintrust Arena. They're up slightly. - The Last Of My Kind Apr 17, 12:40
  - Another "that guy is playing the United Center?" post. I have no idea who that is. And somehow Missy Elliot (on her first tour), Timbaland and Ciara - pmb Apr 17, 12:37 1
    - I think Russ is Ciara's husband. -- nm - David Apr 17, 12:44
- *cue Cult of Personality* -- nm - David Apr 17, 12:19 2
  - yup -- nm - prayformojo 🐵 Apr 17, 12:23
  - heh -- nm - Tim Apr 17, 12:22
- When Clark played IU this year I knew people that lined up the night before so I knew this was coming, to an extent. - Spawn Apr 17, 12:18 1
  - She's probably made Disney/ESPN an extra $50 million in 2024 to date. -- nm - David Apr 17, 12:48
- They would be crazy not to do it. -- nm - pmb Apr 17, 12:17 3
  - Sorry Bulls, you are playing at Wintrust Arena tonight. -- nm - Spawn Apr 17, 12:19 2
    - Seasons don't really overlap. -- nm - pmb Apr 17, 12:20 1
      - I know, but would be hilarious. The Pacers are probably thankful for this. -- nm - Spawn Apr 17, 12:22
Balatro is awesome and only ostensibly a poker game for the first round. - Tim Apr 17, 12:04 1
- I’ve had the most success with flushes so far. -- (edited) - znufrii Apr 17, 12:13
Green Day at Echoplex. You are now in the queue. 3414 people ahead of you -- nm - JD Apr 17, 12:01 5
- I thought it was Green Day (but might have been Metallica) who a couple years ago announced a suprise show at The Metro in Chicago but you had to go - The Last Of My Kind Apr 17, 12:18 1
  - Prince did a lot of that, too. -- nm - Spawn Apr 17, 12:19
- Hopefully they each take a fourth of a seat. -- nm - Spawn Apr 17, 12:02 2
  - Made it to the 'front' of the virtual queue and... sold out -- nm* - JD Apr 17, 12:18 1
    - ugh -- nm - Spawn Apr 17, 12:30
AZ continues to relegate reproductive rights to 1864 -- (link) - hollywood big shot Apr 17, 11:58
Why isn't Kamala Harris at the chair? -- nm - zeitgeist Apr 17, 11:54
Man, have you guys thought about 1982 recently? What a year! -- nm - oblique Apr 17, 11:54 1
- indeed! -- nm - mud Apr 17, 12:11
Okay ST Ornithologists, any idea on what species this is? - Jovian Apr 17, 11:53 [Attachment] 4
- Yes, specifically a Northern Flicker -- (link) - Roger More Apr 17, 11:58 3
  - and it just flew away. Guess it just needed to rest up. :) -- nm - Jovian Apr 17, 12:05
  - Yup. - znufrii Apr 17, 12:03
  - Oh thank you! -- nm - Jovian Apr 17, 12:00
ST Poll: Rank these 1982 movies: Blade Runner, The Thing, E.T., Poltergeist, The Road Warrior, Wrath of Khan, Conan & Tron -- nm - Beaker 🍺 Apr 17, 11:52 24
- Poltergeist... then the rest in some random order. -- nm - Cuzzin Todd Apr 17, 12:40
- E.T., Wrath of Khan, Poltergeist, Blade Runner, Road Warrior, Tron, The Thing, Conan. -- nm - pmb Apr 17, 12:20
- The Thing, Blade Runner, Conan, Tron, Poltergeist, Khan, RW, ET -- nm - sycor Apr 17, 12:15
- The Thing, ET, Blade Runner, Poltergeist and skip the rest. -- nm - Krusty Apr 17, 12:12
- The Thing, The Road Warrior, Blade Runner, ET, Poltergeist, Tron, Conan........................................ ...................................Kahn -- nm - decline Apr 17, 12:03 3
  - I finished listening to a Shatner interview at lunch, so that might have bumped it up a spot or two. - Spawn Apr 17, 12:15 2
    - nope - decline Apr 17, 12:24 1
      - What... do you MEAN.... by OVER-actor? -- nm - Shatner Apr 17, 12:27
- Wrath of Khan, Blade Runner, The Road Warrior, Tron, The Thing, Poltergeist, Conan, n/a. -- nm - David Apr 17, 12:02 8
  - Blade Runner, The Road Warrior/ Wrath of Khan (tie), The Thing, Tron, E.T., Poltergeist, Conan. -- nm* - Spawn Apr 17, 12:04 4
    - I was surprised to find myself ranking Road Warrior last. And I think its probably because how recent (and superior) Mad Max Fury Road was. -- nm - Jovian Apr 17, 12:12 1
      - Your are doing it wrong! - Spawn Apr 17, 12:13
    - this is the only correct response. -- nm - mud Apr 17, 12:05 1
      - In the RoboDoc I learned that they really wanted RoboCop to be set in more of a Blade Runner world. But, limited budget got poured into the Robo suit. - Spawn Apr 17, 12:09
  - ummm, I dont see E.T. ranked here.. - Jovian Apr 17, 12:04 2
    - I said n/a. -- nm - David Apr 17, 12:04 1
      - lol I know -- nm - Jovian Apr 17, 12:05
- Blade Runner .......................... the others -- nm - mud Apr 17, 12:00
- Khan ET Blade Runner Thing Poltergeist RW Tron Conan -- nm - hollywood big shot Apr 17, 11:56
- whoa now thats a list!: The Thing, Poltergeist, Wrath of Kkan, E.T., Tron, Conan, Blade Runner, and The Road Warrior. - Jovian Apr 17, 11:55 3
  - E.T. being the reason at least three of those movies failed at the box office. -- nm - Roger More Apr 17, 12:06
  - (I stole it from pixie's link :) ) -- nm - Beaker 🍺 Apr 17, 11:57 1
    - I mean...every single one of these I consider an 80's classic and would give all of them an A grade. -- nm - Jovian Apr 17, 11:59
- Conan, Wrath of Khan, Blade Runner, The Thing, Road Warrior ET, Tron, Poltergeist -- nm* - Beaker 🍺 Apr 17, 11:54
let’s see which studio execs read this book about the real birth of summer movie season in 1982 and what lessons they might actually learn -- (link) - hollywood big shot Apr 17, 11:50 1
- Lesson one: It's no longer 1982. Lesson two: season lesson one. -- nm - David Apr 17, 12:03
he Commodores and The Pointer Sisters co-headline tour, with The Spinners or El Debarge as the opener. - MDH Apr 17, 11:40 3
- I saw The Pointer Sisters open for Wham! (!) a million years ago. -- nm - Andie Apr 17, 11:43 2
  - That must have been a blast. -- nm - MDH Apr 17, 11:50 1
    - word -- nm - Spawn Apr 17, 12:12
Marc-Andre Fleury re-signs for one last year with Minnesota. 2.5M. -- nm - Reagen Apr 17, 11:39
All Things Go Festival in Maryland (and yes there is different font sizes). This lineup does nothing for me. -- (link) - MDH Apr 17, 11:38 [Image] 12
- I've heard of 1 act, and think maybe I've heard or 1 other one. - Cuzzin Todd Apr 17, 12:36
- 3. Remi Wolf being the one I'd be most inclined to see just out of weirdness. -- nm - Qale Apr 17, 12:31
- I like about half of them. -- nm - Reagen Apr 17, 12:07 3
  - I've heard of one of them. -- nm - mud Apr 17, 12:08 2
    - Two, for me. -- nm - Spawn Apr 17, 12:21
    - Well, get to googling then! -- nm - Reagen Apr 17, 12:14
- Oh wow. There are enough acts that I like/love and it's close enough that I would seriously consider buying tickets. -- nm - Dano Apr 17, 12:06
- how long them sets? 15 minutes?? -- nm - hollywood big shot Apr 17, 11:48 1
  - At least half an hour if last year is any indication -- (link) - JD Apr 17, 12:00
- So that’s how you spell Laufey? I love her. Though I always thought it was spelled - znufrii Apr 17, 11:47 1
  - She had me from the start -- (link) - znufrii Apr 17, 11:53 [youtube]
- Nothing to me -- (link) - JD Apr 17, 11:44 [youtube]
Boston Dynamics’ new Atlas robot is a swiveling, shape-shifting nightmare -- (link) - decline Apr 17, 11:02 6
- Everything's fine until they make a liquid metal one. -- nm - David Apr 17, 12:04
- Now let's put some guns on it!! -- nm - Diva Apr 17, 11:56
- They cut away just as the bot was supposed to cross the single Plank bridge...wonder why -- nm - zeitgeist Apr 17, 11:27
- Welp, we had a good run -- nm - ty97 Apr 17, 11:19 1
  - Did we? -- nm - Reagen Apr 17, 11:20
- It's like some people see bad ideas from movies and think, yeah that's awesome let's build the eventual destroyer of mankind. -- nm - sycor Apr 17, 11:12
I should buy one of those mouse movers right? To move my computer mouse. That way I can go play video games. -- nm - sycor Apr 17, 11:02 1
- Of course! -- nm - Krusty Apr 17, 11:52
Jontay Porter's bets netted $21,965. Porter's one-year contract pays $2,019,706. -- nm - David Apr 17, 11:00 6
- say it ain’t so, Jontay -- nm - hollywood big shot Apr 17, 12:30
- So he Pete Rose'd it? -- nm - sycor Apr 17, 11:14 1
  - To be fair, he's probably never heard of Pete Rose. -- nm - Mop🧹 Apr 17, 11:25
- He's an online gambler -- they are not known for their intellect. -- nm - Will Hunting Apr 17, 11:08
- Honestly having him up as a parlay option feels like a honeypot. -- nm - Reagen Apr 17, 11:03
- not a very well thought out plan to be certain -- nm - Beaker 🍺 Apr 17, 11:02
New LongLegs Trailer (just as wtf as the first one) -- (link) - decline Apr 17, 10:49 [youtube] 1
- Yeah, but in this one the veiled critique of trickle-down econonics is much more pronounced. -- nm - prayformojo 🐵 Apr 17, 11:01
middle kitty is the one we found and brought to the SPCA (they named her Apricat) -- (link) - Beaker 🍺 Apr 17, 10:49 11
- your kids are correct. (those ears!) -- nm - Andie Apr 17, 11:04 10
  - Indeed they are! And I love the comment "if you can't decide on a color" :) -- nm - Meg Apr 17, 11:09 9
    - why is he even still here!? go get that kitty! -- nm - 🏳️‍🌈 mandy chem 🏳️‍🌈 Apr 17, 11:14 8
      - 2 already. 1 with health issues. other cat would fucking destroy her as hates the smell of the vet/spca - Beaker 🍺 Apr 17, 11:27 7
        
        likely not house trained or neutered. fuck that shit -- nm - Beaker 🍺 Apr 17, 11:28 6
        
        Aren't adoptees required to be neutered before you can bring them home? -- nm - zeitgeist Apr 17, 11:35 5
        
        beats me. of the 3 one says specifically that it is spade, the other 2 do not. they may do it before you take them, but doesn't say that -- nm - Beaker 🍺 Apr 17, 11:37 4
        
        I would be shocked if they were adopted without being fixed and with their shots. No shelters really do that. - Andie Apr 17, 11:45 3
        
        Yep - their site says: - Andie Apr 17, 11:47 2
        
        thanks for checking! don't tell my wife or girls though... -- nm - Beaker 🍺 Apr 17, 11:47 1
        
        :) -- nm - Andie Apr 17, 11:47
Neighbor kitty thinks he’s hidden from me - Baron Kills World Apr 17, 10:46 [Attachment]
Sweet Tooth | Final Season | Official Teaser Trailer | Netflix June 6 -- (link) - Beaker 🍺 Apr 17, 10:43 [youtube] 1
- "That bear is FUCKED!" -- Sweet Tooth on Cocaine Bear -- nm - Qale Apr 17, 10:48
Connections - znufrii Apr 17, 10:30 1
- Strands - znufrii Apr 17, 10:33
Very weird story from last night (may be a bit graphic at times, to warn you) - colin Apr 17, 10:23 14
- Another take is: the guy is confessing to murder, someone in LE should be told -- nm - zeitgeist Apr 17, 11:37 1
  - There is always one parole officer in charge of sex registration and would know if there are involuntary missing - zeitgeist Apr 17, 11:42
- The rule about nazis in bars is, if you let one hang out then you will soon have a nazi bar. Barkeep needs to 86 him or close -- nm - zeitgeist Apr 17, 11:23 1
  - "But he's not a nazi, he's a tr.... oh." -- nm - Beryllium Apr 17, 11:29
- Sounds like a supreme bullshitter. Like, what's the equivalent to "stolen valour" but for pretending to be a MAGA asshole? -- nm - Beryllium Apr 17, 11:15
- Don't breathe... -- nm - oblique Apr 17, 11:05
- Operating under the assumption that every accusation is a confession, I do wonder what skeletons are in his closet. -- (edited) - znufrii Apr 17, 10:52
- I'd have noped on outta there pretty hastily. But I'm also not as street at you and yours. Ultimate Warrior as favorite wrestler fits the bill. -- nm - Qale Apr 17, 10:46 5
  - I would have said The Iron Sheik -- nm - Jovian Apr 17, 10:48 4
    - Pat Patterson. Not because it'd be true, but to just eff with him on the pedo thing. -- nm - Qale Apr 17, 10:48 3
      - all fun and games till you come too and he's cut your eyelids off -- nm - Beaker 🍺 Apr 17, 10:49 2
        
        Until he wakes up strapped to *my* chair and I tell him removing eyelids is what I do with maga filth. - Jovian Apr 17, 10:54
        
        I question his ability to perform such a precise sort of procedure. -- nm - Qale Apr 17, 10:52
- he should be put down like the animal he is -- nm - Jovian Apr 17, 10:45
The Caitlin Clark salary thing reminded me of one of my favorite bits of writing from BOP - Reagen Apr 17, 10:07 1
- that totally sounds like rollo -- nm - prayformojo 🐵 Apr 17, 10:09
Senate impeachment trial of Mayorkas about to begin. -- nm - budice Apr 17, 10:07 1
- roll call vote, all in favor (all republicans) all against (all democrats) so 49-50 -- nm - zeitgeist Apr 17, 10:09
This is a pretty brutal take down of Kari Lake lol -- (pic) - Jovian Apr 17, 10:03 [Attachment]
ohhh maga is bigly mad at Alan Ritchson from Reacher - Jovian Apr 17, 09:58 3
- I'm am extremely tired of the MAGA fake Christians using my religion to hate on people. so good for Alan Ritchson!! -- nm - Pippy: Bugs Bunny Apr 17, 11:18 1
  - this. so this. -- nm - Diva Apr 17, 12:15
- his podcast from a few years ago with Michael Rosenbaum is a great listen. Gets into a lot of mental health issues. -- (link) - Beaker 🍺 Apr 17, 10:06 [youtube]
James McCartney and Sean Ono Lennon (sons) release new single "Primrose Hill" -- (link) - Beaker 🍺 Apr 17, 09:57
Family dinners at the Porter house gonna be awkward as Hell -- nm - Beaker 🍺 Apr 17, 09:55 2
- I thought you meant Katey Porter until I backboarded.... -- nm - zeitgeist Apr 17, 10:11 1
  - me too -- nm - Pippy: Bugs Bunny Apr 17, 11:13

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