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sir a second JD Vance in drag at Yale picture has hit the towers -- (link) - mr mooch Aug 12, 09:59 3
- The eyeliner, the purse ... he put some thought into the look, didn't just throw a wig on -- nm - rollo Aug 12, 10:08 1
  - thirft shop wig, the eyeliner and lipstick was put on my a girlfriend. the litmus test is, did he buy high heel shoes... -- nm - zeitgeist Aug 12, 11:19
- I would *love* to have been in the room when AH was shown this. -- nm - Jovian Aug 12, 10:00
my first pass at an LA2028 plan would be for Metro run Olympics Express shuttle buses between the five/six major venue sites - mr mooch Aug 12, 09:57 1
- Interesting. I haven't done the map but that's interesting that the actual subway parts or dedicate crossing parts of the Metro aren't preferred - JD Aug 12, 10:04
ST Poll Round 1: You can only listen to 1 of these songs ever again. what you got? -- (edited) - Beaker 🍺 Aug 12, 09:56 34
- Regulate offers endless opportunities for alternate and ridiculous lyrics. -- nm - Max Aug 12, 12:41
- 5 but mainly because he's an artist who's work I can recognize without asking alexa to play something to remind me -- nm - zeitgeist Aug 12, 11:21
- 7 -- nm - eag Aug 12, 10:07
- Stay is a perfectly sweet pop ballad that would be underrated these many years later had it not caught the wave it did -- nm - rollo Aug 12, 10:06
- I’ll have to looks some of these up—but I’d go 4— Always thought it was a fun song and doesn’t need me to be in a specific frame of mind to enjoy -- nm - Trending Aug 12, 10:04
- 2. -- nm - Will Hunting Aug 12, 10:00
- Regulate. -- nm - MDH Aug 12, 10:00
- I'm good. -- nm - Reagen Aug 12, 10:00
- Regulate -- nm - Krusty Aug 12, 09:58
- 9 -- nm - JD Aug 12, 09:58
- 5. Elton John "Can You Feel the Love Tonight" -- nm* - Beaker 🍺 Aug 12, 09:57 1
  - This. -- nm - Walt_Disney Aug 12, 10:02
- Round 2: pick 1: - Beaker 🍺 Aug 12, 09:57 21
  - So Alive for reasons mentioned -- nm - rollo Aug 12, 10:08
  - 2 -- nm - eag Aug 12, 10:08
  - 2—continuing with my “fun theme”…one of the best moments of that movie, as well -- nm - Trending Aug 12, 10:06
  - Paula and Cold Hearted -- nm - Walt_Disney Aug 12, 10:03
  - 8 -- nm - Will Hunting Aug 12, 10:01
  - Cold Hearted. -- nm - MDH Aug 12, 10:00
  - Also pass. -- nm - Reagen Aug 12, 10:00
  - Toy Soldiers -- nm - Krusty Aug 12, 09:59
  - 1 -- nm - JD Aug 12, 09:58
  - Great White "Once Bitten Twice Shy" (just barely ahead of Bon Jovi Lay Your Hands on Me) -- nm - Beaker 🍺 Aug 12, 09:58
  - Round 3: Pick 1: - Beaker 🍺 Aug 12, 09:57 10
    - I Can Dream About You is the only one I could listen to today without a slight twinge of embarrassment -- nm - rollo Aug 12, 10:10
    - 4 then 6 -- nm - eag Aug 12, 10:09
    - 2–barely edging out Prince -- nm - Trending Aug 12, 10:08
    - A few good songs on that list but Prince has to be the pick. -- nm - Walt_Disney Aug 12, 10:04
    - 4 -- nm - Will Hunting Aug 12, 10:01
    - Prince, easy. -- nm - Reagen Aug 12, 10:01
    - Tina Turner "What's Love Got To Do With It" -- nm - MDH Aug 12, 10:01
    - When Doves Cry -- nm - Krusty Aug 12, 09:59
    - 10 -- nm - JD Aug 12, 09:59
    - Elton John "Sad Songs (Say So Much)" -- nm - Beaker 🍺 Aug 12, 09:58
Sportsbooks differ on settling bets for USA-China gold medal tie -- (link) - Beaker 🍺 Aug 12, 09:55 2
- This is a real "father of the boy who does not win" situation. -- nm - Baron of the Rings Aug 12, 10:01
- I would have guessed it was a push and everyone gets their money back. -- nm - Krusty Aug 12, 09:58
So what is the over/under for JD being swapped out? Now that pics of him dressed as a woman are starting to emerge. -- nm - Jovian Aug 12, 09:53 2
- Won't happen. -- nm - Reagen Aug 12, 09:54 1
  - Yay? - JD Aug 12, 09:57
More from below: The Billboard Hot 100 from this week in 1994 (30th Anniversary) - MDH Aug 12, 09:42 23
- They played I Swear during the D23 parks panel, and the crowd went nuts. -- nm - David Aug 12, 09:58
- Veto! -- nm - Mop🧹 Aug 12, 09:52
- Yeesh. This was my summer between HS and college. What a crappy week. -- nm - Krusty Aug 12, 09:49 3
  - *high five* same -- nm - oblique Aug 12, 10:03
  - Ace of Base AND Regulate and you're coming here with that noise? -- nm - ty97 Aug 12, 09:52 1
    - I despise Ace of Base. Regulate was a good song and the only one on that list I'd listen to today. -- nm - Krusty Aug 12, 09:53
- Hot 100 for this week in 1984 (40th Anniversary) - MDH Aug 12, 09:48 1
  - John Waite and later Bad English were my moody kid music big time. -- nm - sycor Aug 12, 09:55
- Wow. So maybe I was a mid (ish) type of 90's boy - JD Aug 12, 09:47
- Ace of Base! -- nm - Beaker 🍺 Aug 12, 09:46
- Hot 100 for this week in 1989 (35th Anniversary) - MDH Aug 12, 09:45 12
  - That Love and Rockets song got me to buy the album on cassette, and it was a weird one but I listened to it alot in my chevy celebrity -- nm - rollo Aug 12, 09:58
  - Approved. -- nm - Mop🧹 Aug 12, 09:52
  - Oh. Hell ya! I am ST relatively old and I know all of this - JD Aug 12, 09:50 5
    - Yeah that song was THE song played at dances that I asked my crush to dance with me. We "dated" for like 2 weeks (this was 7th grade. We dated again - sycor Aug 12, 09:53 1
      - 👏 At least you asked and dated 😊 -- nm - JD Aug 12, 09:55
    - I hadn't thought about that Dino song since 1989. It was so popular that summer. -- nm - Krusty Aug 12, 09:52 2
      - Yes and yes -- nm - ty97 Aug 12, 09:53 1
        
        The cugines in my neighborhood loved that song. Though it was mostly freestyle music coming out of their Caddies and Lincolns until the mid 90s. -- nm - Krusty Aug 12, 09:56
  - Step by step, heart to heart, left right left, we all fall down -- nm - ty97 Aug 12, 09:46 1
    - *plays on repeat 10 more times* -- nm - sycor Aug 12, 09:48
  - stop trying to make me feel old MDH :) -- nm - Beaker 🍺 Aug 12, 09:46 1
    - Meanwhile I'm like "oh, we're finally get back into some good music now" -- nm - ty97 Aug 12, 09:49
when your softball cookbook hit on the Today Show has to clear up a few things first -- (link) - mr mooch Aug 12, 09:17 7
- "So, your new Mattress Firm campaign launched today, and your spokesperson is a man who cut the tags off mattresses and is currently a fugitive, ..." -- nm - Max Aug 12, 10:03
- Main question I have is.... - ty97 Aug 12, 09:40 1
  - And how was this appearance not canceled? -- nm - David Aug 12, 09:57
- "Anyway, this flan is just to die for" -- nm - Reagen Aug 12, 09:33 1
  - "... I mean, not To Die For to die for..." -- nm - rollo Aug 12, 09:36
- That's a great Vanessa Bayer sketch... wait what -- nm - Reagen Aug 12, 09:21 1
  - "snitches get stitches, Hoda . . ." -- nm - mr mooch Aug 12, 09:39
Stupid Justin Timberlake, playing at the O2 tonight where my screening is. Means I won't get a restaurant spot beforehand. - LMS Aug 12, 09:05 4
- Justin Timberlake fans don't have good taste, so you could still be in luck. -- nm - Roger More Aug 12, 09:11
- I adore that you've put all of that together and are mad about it -- nm - JD Aug 12, 09:07 2
  - I was at the O2 yesterday and he was also playing then. Tonight is an extra date by popular demand apparently. - LMS Aug 12, 09:19 1
    - 8-) -- nm - JD Aug 12, 09:51
never FedEx cash through Indiana -- (link) - mr mooch Aug 12, 09:04 12
- LegalEagle video please, this sounds like straight up theft. -- nm* - Max Aug 12, 09:54 1
  - civil forfeiture is a giant legalized racket in general -- nm - mr mooch Aug 12, 09:58
- Spawn, I fedex'ed you my rent, why isn't reflected in my balance? -- nm - ty97 Aug 12, 09:42
- Just a lot of Birthday / Holiday cards with $5 that dont get delivered -- nm - budice Aug 12, 09:07 8
  - Who FedEx's a birthday card? -- nm - oblique Aug 12, 09:09 7
    - I'm always surprised people use someone other than USPS. -- nm - Krusty Aug 12, 09:33 6
      - Like this moron who didn’t know how to use the post office, which he also thinks is an outdated concept. -- (link) - Tim Aug 12, 09:38 5
        
        Seriously? He couldn't figure out how to go to the post office, buy a stamp or mail a letter? How does he dress himself in the morning? - Krusty Aug 12, 09:48 4
        
        Thus is a lot of college students claimed reason for not voting. They're registered at their home address and don't know how to mail an absentee - jnine Aug 13, 07:18
        
        Idiot tax is quite literally in this case. -- nm - Reagen Aug 12, 09:54
        
        We mailed a scholarship check to a student and she held it because she didn't need to pay her tuition right now. Had no idea how checks worked :/ -- nm - Meg Aug 12, 09:52
        
        His parents should be ashamed of themselves. -- nm - Mop🧹 Aug 12, 09:51
The forecast said 60% chance of rain, but my looking out the window made it happen. -- nm - Baron of the Rings Aug 12, 08:54
so: Empire Strips Back. Grade: A. A very fun show, easily worth the price of admission - prayformojo Aug 12, 08:49 3
- I am your daddy! -- nm - Spawn Aug 12, 09:11
- My brother saw this a couple weeks ago and said it was excellent, really funny. -- nm - Max Aug 12, 09:07
- Thanks for the show report 8-) - JD Aug 12, 08:54
Ad Rock and Mike D are the guests on Conan this week. Small spoiler from the episode about one of their gold records. -- (edited) - Krusty Aug 12, 08:47 3
- 🤣 That's epic. Given that this is the first I've heard of it, I'm guessing that nobody else thought to play their gold records. -- (edited) - JD Aug 12, 08:57
- Whoa—that’s interesting—wonder if that’s a wide thing that always happens -- nm - Trending Aug 12, 08:48 1
  - They were thinking that they just grabbed any record, threw on a sticker and coated it in gold or platinum paint. I'm guessing they didn't expect - Krusty Aug 12, 08:53
From B2: Skibidi Toilet is a key cultural thing of Gen Alpha. Its dumb and makes no sense but a movie done right will get those kids out in numbers.. - Walt_Disney Aug 12, 08:41
'Queer', based on William S. Burroughs novella, directed by Luca Guadagnino and starring Daniel Craig, to premiere Oct. 6 @NYFF -- (link) - mud Aug 12, 08:30 3
- Did we talk about Joaquin Phoenix backing out, last minute, of his NC-17 gay detective movie? -- nm - Trending Aug 12, 08:46 2
  - maybe I'll wait to hear his side of that. -- nm - mud Aug 12, 09:22 1
    - it was his own project, brought to Christine Vachon for him to co-lead -- nm - mr mooch Aug 12, 09:33
IYC: The Billboard Hot 100 for this week in 2000 - MDH Aug 12, 08:25 13
- Wow. Seems I didn't really like this particular week of top 40 music -- nm - JD Aug 12, 08:58
- I liked Vertical Horizon and Matchbox. There I said it. -- nm - sycor Aug 12, 08:52
- I literally had forgotten about the existence of that #1 song -- nm* - ty97 Aug 12, 08:35
- I don't know how true it is but I was listening to a UK podcast and they mentioned how the number of bands that make the Billboard Hot 100 - Krusty Aug 12, 08:32 7
  - See here -- (link) - oblique Aug 12, 09:02 [Backboard]
  - bands are not a financially viable business model in the streaming era - mr mooch Aug 12, 08:37 5
    - Uh, wait. So you think solo artists are touring like ummm Howard Jones or something? Just set off a bunch of triggered loops and backing tracks? - JD Aug 12, 09:01 3
      - drummers are usually the most expendable these days -- nm - mr mooch Aug 12, 09:11 1
        
        8( but I think kind of true no matter how much Nick and Nora's Infinite Playlist made fun of that point - JD Aug 12, 09:54
      - and I guess that perhaps they're too young to worry about the money but there's the Linda Linda's ;-) -- nm - JD Aug 12, 09:02
    - Whether that's true or not doesn't mean that people aren't forming and playing in bands. Bands just don't seem to be as popular as they once were. -- nm - Krusty Aug 12, 08:44
- And the Hot 100 this week in 1999 (25th Anniversary) - MDH Aug 12, 08:29
- this is what Al Qaeda took from us -- nm - mr mooch Aug 12, 08:26
DNA From 'Lost European Prince' Solves a 200-Year-Old Conspiracy......(link) - Walt_Disney Aug 12, 08:20
Kendrick Perkins is my new Chuckster: "Team USA needed that gold medal like old people need soft shoes" -- (link) - mr mooch Aug 12, 08:11 [youtube] 1
- I don’t understand what happened with the rotation…Tatum and Haliburton couldn’t get in any games…despite matchups… -- nm - Trending Aug 12, 08:47
Op-Ed: Arrest Elon -- (edited) - znufrii Aug 12, 08:03 3
- repeal Sec 230 -- nm - mr mooch Aug 12, 08:09 2
  - That too. -- nm - znufrii Aug 12, 08:23
  - relatedly: fucko will sit down with him for whatever shitshow that livestream ends up being tonight -- nm - mr mooch Aug 12, 08:10
Bank of America CEO no longer sees the recession that's been on the horizon for the last four years on the actual horizon -- (link) - mr mooch Aug 12, 07:55 2
- Biden can't even cause a recession. Kamala no help.-NYT -- nm - jnine Aug 12, 07:59
- ugh, now we're gonna go into a recession -- nm - ty97 Aug 12, 07:57
I've got a 'secret screaming' tonight (secret horror film) - any guesses on what it could be? -- nm - LMS Aug 12, 07:51 7
- Blink Twice or AfrAId. -- nm - Inigo Aug 12, 08:19
- Speak No Evil -- nm - Reagen Aug 12, 08:02
- Alien Romulus -- nm - Beaker 🍺 Aug 12, 07:54 3
  - maybe The Crow? -- nm - Beaker 🍺 Aug 12, 08:00 2
    - They have been showing that trailer a lot - LMS Aug 12, 08:04 1
      - Ohhh I just watched the trailer for cuckoo. Freaky! -- nm - sycor Aug 12, 08:10
- Ryan's World -- nm - Baron of the Rings Aug 12, 07:54
Oh, if it's 1990, it's gonna be Ghost and Die Hard 2. I was thinking more in the 1992-1994 range. - David Aug 12, 07:49 7
- Yup, good job! One thing I didn't remember. For two years, Ghost was the second biggest worldwide movie ever behind E.T. -- nm - Inigo Aug 12, 07:59 2
  - that was my summer working at AMC. it's crazy how big that was (and how hard Dick Tracy ate shit the year after Batman blew up) -- nm - mr mooch Aug 12, 08:02 1
    - I liked Dick Tracy. But I was also like 12 or 13. -- nm - sycor Aug 12, 08:04
- 1994 I think is the year. spoiler - sycor Aug 12, 07:54 3
  - I was thinking along those lines, but that's not more than 30 years ago (yet), and he said 1990 after the board rolled. - David Aug 12, 07:58 2
    - Oh I missed that he said 1990. -- nm - sycor Aug 12, 08:02 1
      - Completely understandable. It was a later add because none of us were getting it without that hint. -- nm - David Aug 12, 08:09
David, is my assumption correct that the Riverboat and Tom Sawyer's Island are DOA for the new Car's Land? We floated that here on ST a while ago - Beaker 🍺 Aug 12, 07:44 11
- Yes. In fact, they broke the news on the Parks Blog this morning. -- (link) - David Aug 12, 07:49 2
  - That always felt like a wasted area of Magic Kingdom to me -- nm - ty97 Aug 12, 08:38
  - my daughter messaged me about it as we were talking about it this weekend :) -- nm - Beaker 🍺 Aug 12, 07:52
- then you get a 5 minute walk from Haunted Mansion to Big Thunder Railroad instead of a 20 minute one too -- nm - Beaker 🍺 Aug 12, 07:49 7
  - IT'S. ABOUT. DAMN. TIME. -- nm - Mop🧹 Aug 12, 07:57
  - Yup. You've got this figured out perfectly. Fans are gonna say they hate it, but it's looooooong overdue. -- nm - David Aug 12, 07:50 5
    - I'm possibly Samuel Clemens' biggest fan and I think this is the right move. -- nm - Dark Callisto 🦊 Aug 12, 07:51 4
      - it was soooooo out of date. where does the river go out past Big Thunder? could they use the riverboat there maybe? or even use it at the entrance -- nm* - Beaker 🍺 Aug 12, 07:53 3
        
        They have to do something with the riverboat. It'd be sin if it was just torn down. -- nm - Jovian Aug 12, 08:28 2
        
        it's established canon that all vehicles in the Cars-verse have achieved sentience. maybe ask what Riverboat wants -- nm - mr mooch Aug 12, 08:31 1
        
        To have a working retirement as part of the grand finale of Fantasmic -- nm - JD Aug 12, 09:04
How about Dennis Quaid and Meg Ryan? -- nm - Turd Ferguson Aug 12, 07:40
Here's something people should always remember about the Men's Olympic Basketball team. -- (link) - David Aug 12, 07:39 2
- A couple of them were wide open for the game winning shot. -- nm - Spawn Aug 12, 07:42 1
  - But that's like using a wipe other than star wipe. -- nm - Baron of the Rings Aug 12, 07:50
Word. -- nm - Turd Ferguson Aug 12, 07:36 1
- Shaboozey is a word -- nm - Beaker 🍺 Aug 12, 07:38

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