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Question for our experienced travelers - I just booked a trip that has a 6 hour layover in Zurich. I'd that enough time to leave and do something? - Reagen Nov 27, 08:19 1
- Assuming you arrive on time into Zurich, yes. - ty97 Nov 27, 08:27
Joking About Buying MSNBC -- (link) - mud Nov 27, 08:19 3
- Until this, MSNBC at least still relied heavily on NBC News for the non-pundit part of the programming. I wonder if this will push the network… - Qale Nov 27, 08:24 1
  - Which one gets custody if Kornacki? -- nm - zeitgeist Nov 27, 09:44
- That's about how he wound up with Twitter. -- nm - pmb Nov 27, 08:22
Canadian PSA: Lotto Max is $80 Million with 20 $1M draws Friday; lump sum tax free -- nm* - Beaker 🍺 Nov 27, 07:46 4
- Australian powerball is $100 million tomorrow. -- nm - mafic Nov 27, 08:04 1
  - That's a lot of dollarydoos! -- nm - Reagen Nov 27, 08:08
- The odds of winning the jackpot are one in 33,294,800 -- nm - Beaker 🍺 Nov 27, 07:46 1
  - So you're saying there's a chance. -- nm - Beryllium Nov 27, 08:18
Vikings sign QB Daniel Jones to practice squad. -- nm - Strongbad Nov 27, 07:30 4
- Apparently it was down the Vikings and Ravens. Vikings make more sense for possible playing time. - Inigo Nov 27, 08:05 1
  - Your IM is exactly correct -- nm - Trending Nov 27, 08:23
- Someone on here predicted that correctly. -- nm - zunk takes things literally Nov 27, 07:37 1
  - Flavorize -- (link) - zunk takes things literally Nov 27, 07:56 [Backboard]
Amanda signal -- (link) - ty97 Nov 27, 06:53
ST Crowdsource: Looking for Songs for an "80s Deep Cuts" playlist. (criteria inside) - Dano Nov 27, 06:42 66 1
- Losing It, Rush -- nm - whisper Nov 27, 08:39
- Madness - Night Boat To Cairo, Embarrassment, House of Fun, Shut Up, Baggy Trousers -- nm* - con_carne Nov 27, 08:09
- Burn Rubber by the Gap Band. -- nm - pmb Nov 27, 08:03
- I’ll add a bunch of Springsteen - Out in the Streets, Point Blank, No Surrender, Atlantic City, Tougher than the Rest, Bobby Jean, The Ties that Bind. -- nm - pmb Nov 27, 07:59 1
  - nee-chay! ♡ ♥ ♪ ♫ -- nm - mud Nov 27, 08:01
- Dream Into Action, Howard Jones -- nm - Dark Callisto 🦊 Nov 27, 07:58 3
  - I Can See It in Your Eyes, Men at Work -- nm - Dark Callisto 🦊 Nov 27, 08:00 2
    - it's amazing to me how, after two decades (?) of marriage, so very very little of a person's exquisite excellent taste in music has rubbed off on their -- (edited) - mud Nov 27, 08:05 1
      - Yeah, but I keep trying to help her. -- nm - David Nov 27, 08:29
- Frankie Goes to Hollywood - Two Tribes! -- (link) - Remlik Nov 27, 07:54 [youtube]
- Is the "Top 40 of Billboard Pop Chart" different than the "Billboard Hot 100"? Just curious because I don't even find a top 40 for this week. -- nm - zunk takes things literally Nov 27, 07:52 1
  - Yeah. It's the top 40 songs of the Billboard Hot 100. -- nm - Dano Nov 27, 08:04
- Rage in the Cage, J Geils Band -- nm - Dark Callisto 🦊 Nov 27, 07:50
- Devo only had one song in the top 40. - Dark Callisto 🦊 Nov 27, 07:48
- 80s charts were weird. Eddie Murphy had as many top 40 songs as Beastie Boys. - the wrong element Nov 27, 07:47
- Ashes to Ashes, David Bowie -- nm - Dark Callisto 🦊 Nov 27, 07:47
- I cheated and googled cause I suck at dates and songs/artists, but try this list -- (link) - Beaker 🍺 Nov 27, 07:43 1
  - The most surprising to me on that list is Rebel Yell - JaxSean Nov 27, 07:48
- Hard to pick an OMD song, but I'll go with Tesla Girls. - Dark Callisto 🦊 Nov 27, 07:42
- Don't Go Back To Rockville - R.E.M., Rock the Bells - LL Cool J - the wrong element Nov 27, 07:38
- The Walk by The Time. -- nm - pmb Nov 27, 07:36
- Prince - Baby I'm a Star -- nm - rollo Nov 27, 07:26
- U2 - Rattle and Hum album -- nm - budice Nov 27, 07:21
- INXS - lots of choices here, but Don't Change -- nm - Roger More Nov 27, 07:17 6
  - This and Listen Like Thieves are good INXS choices. -- nm - Jim Nov 27, 07:23
  - Icehouse - No Promises -- nm - Roger More Nov 27, 07:22 3
    - Doesn't strictly meet the criteria but Pleasure and Pain by Divinyls -- nm - Roger More Nov 27, 07:23 2
      - Power and the Passion - Midnight Oil -- nm - Roger More Nov 27, 07:25 1
        
        Crowded House - Better Be Home Soon -- nm - Roger More Nov 27, 07:38
  - this -- nm - budice Nov 27, 07:19
- Murder by Numbers, the Police -- nm - Dark Callisto 🦊 Nov 27, 07:16 1
  - Oooh - this a great one. -- nm - Jim Nov 27, 07:19
- Sonic Boom Boy by Westworld (not sure it meets the criteria) -- (link) - LMS Nov 27, 07:16 [youtube] 1
  - Pete Shelley - Homosapien -- (link) - LMS Nov 27, 07:17 [youtube]
- Siouxsie and the Banshees - Peekaboo -- nm - Bayronmax Nov 27, 07:12
- This might be super random, but I always liked Sailing Ships by Whitesnake from Slip of the Tounge. - oblique Nov 27, 07:06
- Erasure—Oh L’amour -- nm - Trending Nov 27, 07:03 2
  - good answer. good answer. -- nm - oblique Nov 27, 07:05
  - Erasure—Take a Chance On Me -- nm - Trending Nov 27, 07:04
- Miami Sound Machine's Hot Summer Nights from Top Gun soundtrack - I don't think it charted -- nm - prayformojo Nov 27, 07:03
- Motley Crue - Too Young To Fall In Love -- nm - Roger More Nov 27, 07:03
- Depeche Mode—Strange Love ‘88 -- nm - Trending Nov 27, 07:01
- Some of my favorite off top of my head: - Jim Nov 27, 07:00 1
  - Oooh - Beastie Boys - Shake Your Rump. Just gets in under the wire of the 80s. -- nm - Jim Nov 27, 07:10
- This doesn't feel like a deep track to me but qualifies apparently: Bringin' On the Heartbreak by Def Leppard -- nm - ty97 Nov 27, 06:58 1
  - My favorite of theirs - but I would think it qualifies. -- nm - Jim Nov 27, 07:00
- Thompson Twins—You Take Me Up -- nm - Trending Nov 27, 06:58 6
  - i was just the hugest Thompson Twins fan... -- nm - Andie Nov 27, 07:02 5
    - Me too—I can specifically remember torturing my family, by having my Walkman on, then singing at the top of my lungs, in the living room (to the TT) -- nm - Trending Nov 27, 07:05
    - Really? If you get the chance to, and haven't already...if Tom Bailey comes to town - you HAVE to see him. Saw him a couple years ago - Jim Nov 27, 07:03 3
      - he played as part of an 80s fest thing here earlier this year, but i couldn't go for some reason. I saw TT twice in concert, back in the 80s -- nm - Andie Nov 27, 07:10 2
        
        (My friend and I went as Tom Bailey and Allanah Currie for Halloween once!) -- nm - Andie Nov 27, 07:11 1
        
        Whoa - that IS a big fan. lol -- nm - Jim Nov 27, 07:14
- One Vision - Queen - JaxSean Nov 27, 06:57
- Nylons—Up The Ladder To The Roof -- nm - Trending Nov 27, 06:56
- San Jacinto, Peter Gabriel -- nm - Dark Callisto 🦊 Nov 27, 06:55
- The Unguarded Moment, by The Church -- (link) - Roger More Nov 27, 06:55 [youtube]
- Wang Chung, "To Live and Die In LA" technically qualifies (only hit 41 on the US chart) -- nm - mr mooch Nov 27, 06:55 5
  - Tears for Fears "Change" -- nm - mr mooch Nov 27, 06:56 4
    - I was about to say this, but Mad World and Pale Shelter -- nm - Roger More Nov 27, 06:58 3
      - Mad World - 10000% -- nm - Jim Nov 27, 07:02
      - I was going to suggest Sewing The Seeds of Love, except it looks like it was a big hit -- nm* - LMS Nov 27, 07:00 1
        
        MTV was definitely on that one. -- nm - con_carne Nov 27, 08:22
- Lagartija Nick (1982) -- (link) - mud Nov 27, 06:49 [youtube] 2
  - Does not meet criteria #3 -- nm - Dano Nov 27, 06:55 1
    - meets it in UK -- nm - mud Nov 27, 07:08
Crayola should bring back dandelion now -- (link) - mr mooch Nov 27, 06:38 1
- ♪ ♫ -- (link) - mud Nov 27, 06:45 [youtube]
So—some IG spoiler speculation for the Disney/Star Wars series “Skeleton Crew”… - Trending Nov 27, 06:28
Elon Musk publicized the names of U.S. government employees he wants to cut. It's terrifying federal workers -- (link) - Beaker 🍺 Nov 27, 06:28 5
- All four people whose names/job descriptions he posted were women? Concerning. -- nm - Roger More Nov 27, 07:36
- Sounds like the fulton county election worker lawsuit. -- nm - Strongbad Nov 27, 07:32
- Jentucky fried chicken. -- nm - znufrii Nov 27, 06:36
- Well, for his sake I hope none of them is a wetworker. (NM) - Marlowe Nov 27, 06:31 1
  - If only. I am starting to conclude that Musk is his Himmler or Heydrich -- nm - Jovian Nov 27, 06:37
Charlie Jatinder says $14 million for Moana 2 Tuesday previews. -- (edited) - Inigo Nov 27, 06:07 6
- Frozen 2 @ $125M is the 5-day Tgiving weekend record -- (edited) - budice Nov 27, 06:28 1
  - Also Moana 2 tickets were sold at full-price on Tuesday, no discount -- nm* - budice Nov 27, 06:40
- Is that good? -- nm - Diva Nov 27, 06:27 2
  - Terrible. Disney is doomed! -- nm - Inigo Nov 27, 06:34 1
    - go woke go broke! -- nm - Beaker 🍺 Nov 27, 07:20
- whoa -- nm - prayformojo Nov 27, 06:08
DidDukeWin.com -- (link) - Krusty Nov 27, 05:52
Strands #269 Yellow 1st - decline Nov 27, 05:00 1
- 5th, 1 hint - prayformojo Nov 27, 05:01
TV PSA: NHL, NBA, Survivor, Sullivan's Crossing, Ink Master, The Summit, Shrinking, Silo, Bad Sisters, Before, - Beaker 🍺 Nov 27, 04:55
Connections Puzzle #535 Y[spend next 20 minutes figuring out what purple could be]xPBG - prayformojo Nov 27, 04:12 3
- xxYGxx - mud Nov 27, 05:14
- Blew it - decline Nov 27, 04:58 1
  - I couldn't make sense of anything for the longest time -- nm - prayformojo Nov 27, 04:58
I can’t recommend “Interior Chinatown” on Hulu. It just doesn’t deliver in the end. (spoilers) - Mop🧹 Nov 27, 03:59 2
- we enjoy it quite a bit. we're not finished but we like it -- nm - Remlik Nov 27, 07:29
- my mileage varied .. a lot. It wrapped up nicely for me. -- nm* - mud Nov 27, 05:16
Murdle: 9;20 - prayformojo Nov 27, 03:48 1
- 1:30 - Fuzzy Nov 27, 04:16
Wordle 1,257 4/6 - ngtag - prayformojo Nov 27, 03:31 2
- 4 - rollo Nov 27, 07:23
- 4 - decline Nov 27, 04:54
It's Yule Log Time. Here's a cozy fireplace ... from NASA. -- (link) - Beryllium Nov 26, 23:01 [youtube] 1
- The SpaceX version burns a hole in the bottom of your monitor. -- nm - Mop🧹 Nov 27, 04:47
I was busy making sauce and rainbow cookies for Thanksgiving but... Rock, Chalk, Jayhawk! Always nice to beat Duke. -- nm - Krusty Nov 26, 23:00 3
- Also, with the sauce, I started to make it last night but couldn't stay up to let it simmer as long as necessary so I let it cool and - Krusty Nov 26, 23:02 2
  - But enough about sauce...more about these rainbow cookies! -- nm - JaxSean Nov 27, 06:16 1
    - These aren't mine but these are the cookies I made. I'll post a pic of mine later after I cut them. -- (link) - Krusty Nov 27, 06:45 [Image]
160 years ago Charles Dodson presents his neighbor's daughter with a handwritten story that became Alice in Wonderland -- nm - zeitgeist Nov 26, 21:06 1
- Creep. -- nm - Mop🧹 Nov 27, 04:48
Blake Snell to the Dodgers 5y/$182m, some deferred (maybe the O's can resign Burnes) -- (link*) - mr mooch Nov 26, 21:05
I need to know who the dancer is in this Old Navy holiday commercial. No reason given. -- (link) - Mop🧹 Nov 26, 20:39 [youtube]
Local NBC news on California's migrant farmworkers - -- (link) - Meg Nov 26, 20:21
There are only two more The Twenty lists this year before the Best of The Twenty 2024 happens. One of them will be posted tomorrow. It has new music… - Qale Nov 26, 19:49 1
- Let me rock you, Chaka Khan! -- nm - Mop🧹 Nov 27, 04:55
CFP rankings -- (pic) - budice Nov 26, 19:28 [Attachment] 1
- I guess bacon is happy -- nm - zeitgeist Nov 26, 19:37
John Carpenter now on Bluesky -- (link) - budice Nov 26, 19:02 [BS] 1
- Her Drumpf will have an easy time knowing who to persecute, methinks. (NM) - Marlowe Nov 26, 19:06
Fun fact: Besides his writing/producing, Jim Abrahams helped a lot of people in the epilepsy community with his Charlie Foundation - ralph wiggum Nov 26, 18:58
LinkedIn objects to Australia's social media age limits, saying that they are too boring for teens -- (link) - zeitgeist Nov 26, 18:35 3
- If the Internet has taught us one thing, it’s that if you get kids access it, they’re going to ruin it. -- nm - Mop🧹 Nov 27, 04:43
- teen social media hotbed LinkedIn? -- nm - mr mooch Nov 26, 18:37 1
  - LinkedIn is skibidi toilet -- nm - Dano Nov 26, 18:42
Alona Tal doesn't look like Alona Tal -- nm - prayformojo Nov 26, 18:10 7
- On what? -- nm - David Nov 26, 18:23 5
  - I just googled. She's in cross apparently. (I quit the show before she showed up.) -- nm - amanda Nov 26, 18:28 4
    - (she's in the first episode :) - Like I said, I wouldn't have recognized her) -- nm - prayformojo Nov 26, 18:30 3
      - Ohhhh I didn't make it all the way through episode one even. - amanda Nov 26, 19:18
      - Spoils for later - Pippy Nov 26, 18:55 1
        
        Worst post on B1. -- nm - Jim Nov 27, 07:25
- She's so beautiful. -- nm - amanda Nov 26, 18:18
Local friend points out that the only car entirely made in the US is Tesla so that explains a lot -- nm - zeitgeist Nov 26, 18:10 4
- But the EV subsidy is probably going bye-bye, so that’ll be fun. -- nm - Mop🧹 Nov 27, 04:49
- He paid a lot for that right. (NM) - Marlowe Nov 26, 18:42
- None of those chips are imported? -- nm - Meg Nov 26, 18:12 1
  - Well a thousand dollars of chips now costs 1,250 vs 50k car now 62,500 -- nm - zeitgeist Nov 26, 18:16
My shopping list is down to one! Update your scorecards! -- nm - David Nov 26, 18:06 3
- I could use some new running headphones if you're struggling. -- nm - mafic Nov 26, 18:07 2
  - Sorry, I just got headphones. - David Nov 26, 18:09 1
    - that's just the mine bars. the mint bars look like what you're imagining. -- nm - mafic Nov 26, 18:41

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