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"Documentaries, they're like real movies but with ugly people." -- nm - nubby Oct 3, 11:51 1
- Michael Moore is hot!! -- nm - Nobody Oct 3, 11:55
hehe Flash Forward spoils... - Stephen Oct 3, 11:47 1
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- looks like he had his eyebrows done for the shoot. -- nm - Remlik Oct 3, 11:52
Nathan Fillion has hidden a Firefly Easter Egg on the set of Castle. -- nm - Remlik Oct 3, 11:34 2
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  - ha! might be. -- nm - Remlik Oct 3, 11:52
Define irony: Mahmoud Ahmadinejad revealed to have Jewish past -- (link) - BB Oct 3, 11:29
CJ SPILLER!!!!! -- nm - nubby Oct 3, 11:28 1
- Now the ACC all-time leader in all-purpose yards. -- nm - nubby Oct 3, 11:29
Our auto insurance from Progressive is going up $200 a year.....their reason? "cost of business increase" - CrankYanker Oct 3, 11:15 11
- Cost of business = those awful commercials -- nm - Spawn Oct 3, 11:35 1
  - ding ding ding -- nm - zeitgeist Oct 3, 11:37
- Mine went down $60 during the last renewal. -- nm - Stephen Oct 3, 11:28 3
  - I don't get it - we've had no incidents and we dropped a car. -- nm - CrankYanker Oct 3, 11:32 2
    - any traffic tickets? is your daughter still on your account? (maybe she got one she's not telling you about?) -- nm - zeitgeist Oct 3, 11:43
    - You have one less car to insure and it still went up?! If you don't mind me asking, what would the new premium amount to for the year? (I'm assuming - Loyola Oct 3, 11:37
- Prog has a no so good rep, you know the reason they offer that 'concierge' service is so they can steer your car to their own quick and dirty cheap as - zeitgeist Oct 3, 11:27 3
  - After I had an accident a few years ago that wasn't my experience with them at all. - Cuzzin Todd Oct 3, 11:31
  - this is true - we had one incident a few years ago and insisted on using our own shop that is owned by a friend....of course, even he said that the - CrankYanker Oct 3, 11:30
  - You still have the right to choose your own body shop, if you let them "steer" you to theirs it's kind of your own fault... -- nm - Stephen Oct 3, 11:28
- "Cost of business" means they've been playing the market and not doing so well. - BB Oct 3, 11:22
First Saturday morning at home all football season, and *these* are the college games I get? -- nm - ReluctantCynic Oct 3, 11:12 3
- what's going on? did you ever decide if you were coming to town for U2? -- nm - peglegpete Oct 3, 11:15 2
  - Can't make it for U2, but it's now looking like I'll be there for New Year's. -- nm - ReluctantCynic Oct 3, 11:47 1
    - RC FAIL! -- nm - Bono Oct 3, 11:48
ok, i'm going to have to go rent it now to find it in the movie ... but apparently elijah wood had a 1-line part as a kid in Back to the Future 2 -- nm - i'm not dead yet ! Oct 3, 10:56 2
- You have to use your hands!? -- nm - BB Oct 3, 11:07
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hey ty, you around? flash forward notes for you - TrUmAn Oct 3, 10:46 2
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  - hmm, maybe spoils - TrUmAn Oct 3, 10:57
Within hours of Chicago's exit "the United States Olympic Committee confirmed that it was withdrawing Denver's bid for the 2018 Winter Games." -- (link) - Loyola Oct 3, 10:35 3
- For the amount of commerce involved, they should have sent Peter Ueberroth not Obama. -- nm - CrankYanker Oct 3, 11:18
- Denver seems like a huge longshot anyway. I have to think the IOC still holds a grudge against Denver for being the only city to give a Games back. -- nm - Reagen Oct 3, 10:36 1
  - Seems petulant in any case, I thought. -- nm - Loyola Oct 3, 11:05
i need to go a computer today -- nm - TrUmAn Oct 3, 10:06 4
- buy a -- nm - TrUmAn Oct 3, 10:09 3
  - And while your at the computer store - eag Oct 3, 10:21 2
    - not really a computer store, more like a retailer who wants to give me 24 months of interest free financing - TrUmAn Oct 3, 10:27 1
      - I suspect that 'free' financing will cost you 2x as much as a cash deal - zeitgeist Oct 3, 11:45
Everyone who's still GM of the Blue Jays step forward! Not so fast, JP Riccardi.. -- (link) - Reagen Oct 3, 10:02 3
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  - It's hard to say he really made Moneyball moves. He threw a lot of money at Joe Carter-redux that he didn't have to. -- nm - Reagen Oct 3, 10:36
- I think we all saw this coming. I think Toronto's better off looking elsewhere. -- nm - Krusty Oct 3, 10:05
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- This is why you don't indiscriminantly hand this stuff out like candy. -- nm - Reagen Oct 3, 10:03 7
  - We need to develop water treatment practices that render these things inert. - TWuG Oct 3, 10:06 6
    - It seems a lot cheaper to fight this at the source. - Reagen Oct 3, 10:14 5
      - How do you prevent those legitimjately needing and using the drugs from excreting them into the sewer system? - TWuG Oct 3, 10:52 4
        
        pee in a jug for a couple days and dispose of it as a biomedical hazard -- nm - zeitgeist Oct 3, 11:14
        
        death panels -- nm - dogbert Oct 3, 11:05
        
        reduce dosages, for one. -- nm - Reagen Oct 3, 10:57 1
        
        Again, that won't eliminate from the water supply, just reduce it. - TWuG Oct 3, 11:25
Where are they now: Former WCW wrestler Lenny Lane.... -- (link) - Remlik Oct 3, 09:56
Olympian carnival in Rio de Janeiro -- (link) - Danedukenuuk Oct 3, 09:20
Former prosecutor says he lied about Polanski case -- (link) - Danedukenuuk Oct 3, 08:54
Happy Belated Birthday, LMS! - JaxSean Oct 3, 08:28 2
- and it's Clive Owen's birthday today. -- nm - Remlik Oct 3, 08:30 1
  - M,F,... -- nm - psilotum Oct 3, 08:35
Amazon mp3 special of the day: Jason Mraz Mr. A-Z for $2.99 -- (link) - JaxSean Oct 3, 08:26 1
- Related: "I'm Yours" hangs on for a 76th week on the Hot 100. -- nm - Tim Oct 3, 09:20
crap. Left my phone at home -- nm - Remlik Oct 3, 08:09
when the hell did ESPN2 get EPL games on? cool -- nm - CQ Oct 3, 08:05 12
- A few weeks ago, I see bars all over the cith with signs advertising drink specials during the games. - Krusty Oct 3, 08:13 11
  - there were a couple of places I watched the games while in the city. It does seem to be getting a bigger following. -- nm - CQ Oct 3, 08:18 2
    - either that or this a bunch of limey bastards everywhere -- nm - CQ Oct 3, 08:34 1
      - Most likely it's the limey bastards or the border jumpers. ;-) - Krusty Oct 3, 08:41
  - cith = city -- nm - Krusty Oct 3, 08:13 7
    - you guys got rain in there? we're getting slaughtered -- nm - CQ Oct 3, 08:20 6
      - Not yet, I guess it's coming. Rained a bit last night but nothing heavy. I guess I should close the windows before I head out. -- nm - Krusty Oct 3, 08:22 5
        
        My front yard is a lake, heh -- nm - CQ Oct 3, 08:23 4
        
        Yikes...do you have flooding problems in your house or on your street? -- nm - Krusty Oct 3, 08:25 3
        
        naw, not so bad. This one spot doesn't get good drainage, but overall it's fine. -- nm - CQ Oct 3, 08:29 2
        
        I mean, they call it Springs for a reason. :) -- nm - CQ Oct 3, 08:33 1
        
        Funny. I figured the small lake you used to call a front yard might cause an issue if it ran back towards your house. -- nm - Krusty Oct 3, 08:42
Court reveals Polanski settlement -- (link) - Danedukenuuk Oct 3, 06:38 1
- polanski doesn't honor a legal agreement he made? no way! -- nm - dogbert Oct 3, 07:52
so i downloaded the demo of new EA football game - Danedukenuuk Oct 3, 06:10
not fair for the bear .. -- (link) - marcel Oct 3, 06:02 1
- hey Marcel there is a presentation of Armin Muller Stahl on ARD - Danedukenuuk Oct 3, 06:13
Last night's episode of Dollhouse won't help its cause. Sure it revealed (spoils) - HdnAgnda Oct 3, 05:35 3
- It was an exceptionally poorly written episode. Very disappointing. - Callisto Oct 3, 09:27 1
  - I didn't like the A-plot, but the B-plot and underlying themes were strong. - Reagen Oct 3, 10:34
- yeah that one sucked. -- nm - Remlik Oct 3, 08:02
Speaking oif Blair Witch, DMac posted on the Movies Board that the guys behind are working on a sequel... -- nm - Beaker Oct 3, 05:04
The battle for the NHLPA leadership could take a nasty turn (multiple lawsuits) -- (link) - Beaker Oct 3, 05:00
Embezzler wins $96,000 lottery prize. -- (link) - CovingtonCat Oct 3, 04:05
Seahawks fashion accessories for Breast Cancer Awareness Week. -- (link) - psilotum Oct 2, 23:54
late night poll re Cocoon: was Brimley cruel or understandable? spoiler - Max Oct 2, 23:09 10
- admirable - Spawn Oct 3, 09:20
- cruel. -- nm - amanda Oct 3, 08:59
- I vote for admirable. -- nm - ReluctantCynic Oct 2, 23:12
- the answer with wilford brimley is always cruel. he's a mean old diabetic coot -- nm - shamu Oct 2, 23:11 6
  - Talented, tho -- (link) - Reagen Oct 3, 06:46 [youtube]
  - stop projecting just cuz you've got the mean and old part down pat -- nm - 'lia Oct 2, 23:14 4
    - i'm pretty sure he was the one beating on Ted Williams's frozen head with a monkey wrench - shamu Oct 2, 23:21 3
      - projecting - 'lia Oct 2, 23:25 2
        
        fly away back to jack crawford now, little starling. fly fly fly. -- nm - shamu Oct 2, 23:26 1
        
        been at the majic potion pop rocks again, have you? - 'lia Oct 2, 23:33
$8.5 million or so for Zombieland. The other three new releases are all in the $1.7-$2.2 million range...so, bombs. -- nm - David Oct 2, 23:07 10
- I thought that Gervais movie had a great chance cuz of a good concept. -- nm - Will Hunting Oct 3, 08:21 8
  - I thought "That looks funny but it's a shame nobody is going to go see it." -- nm - Cuzzin Todd Oct 3, 08:33 6
    - Same here. It should be huge, but it won't. -- nm - not2fast Oct 3, 09:54
    - I thought, "Didn't Jim Carrey already do that movie? He didn't? It looks like something he would do." -- nm - Spawn Oct 3, 08:35 4
      - well it's kind of the opposite plot of Liar, Liar, but tone is everything. -- nm - Reagen Oct 3, 08:49 2
        
        The tone RGERV is something that most of the movie going public does not get. -- nm - Spawn Oct 3, 09:22 1
        
        Which makes him kind of the opposite of Jim Carrey. - Cuzzin Todd Oct 3, 09:23
      - Hmmmm... nope. Never got that from it. -- nm - Cuzzin Todd Oct 3, 08:46
  - Hmm. I thought the opposite. -- nm - Spawn Oct 3, 08:28
- all of them or the other 3? -- nm - Remlik Oct 3, 08:07
pixie: what's a "date date" ? you mean the coffee thing doesn't count as a date? - 'lia Oct 2, 22:50 14
- "Coffee" isn't a date, it's part of a pre-date screening process. -- nm - Cuzzin Todd Oct 3, 08:35
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- Yeah I don't count coffee or tea or anything like that as a date. -- nm - Loyola Oct 3, 02:23 2
  - A girl invited me to her house for coffee. I almost did not go, as I hate coffee. - Spawn Oct 3, 08:20 1
    - House is different. If she was waiting for you naked in Starbucks, well, that'd be different. -- nm - Loyola Oct 3, 10:00
- well - shamu Oct 2, 22:53 8
  - damn, here I thought I went on a date last night but now I see technically she asked me to dinner and wanted to talk to me during the meal about stuff - dogbert Oct 3, 06:36
  - OMG.. Pixie went on a date!!! :) -- nm - James Bond (aka Igor) Oct 2, 23:05 5
    - cof. fee. -- nm - shamu Oct 2, 23:13 4
      - she asked you out - 'lia Oct 2, 23:15 1
        
        no, i just don't want to give it any more meaning than it really has - shamu Oct 2, 23:16
      - Did you try the coffee mustache? ("This burns terribly, but I have faith that I look cute as a button right now. Go for puppy dog eyes.") -- nm - Max Oct 2, 23:15 1
        
        *makes note for next time* -- nm - shamu Oct 2, 23:17
  - what i see is she asked you out on a date and y'all went - 'lia Oct 2, 23:03
There's been an arrest in the Erin Andrews peeper case. -- (link) - Reagen Oct 2, 21:40 3
- that's our dignan -- nm - shamu Oct 2, 21:42 2
  - I dunno I was thinking more of a Redmond thing -- nm - eag Oct 2, 22:17 1
    - true. he wasn't covered in feces -- nm - shamu Oct 2, 22:27
Dear Zachary: A Letter to a son about his father. Holy hell, I haven't cried this much over a movie since Whale Rider. -- nm - Hotkiss Oct 2, 21:23 6
- it's just about the most awful thing ever -- nm - shamu Oct 2, 21:25 5
  - Oh great ... that movie is arriving tomorrow. I was hoping for a nice little weekend movie. -- nm - ReluctantCynic Oct 2, 21:40 3
    - i mean it's a great documentary but jeesh - shamu Oct 2, 21:42 2
      - relatedly, I was listening to an interview of his where he said when asked about being out of the mainstream - Reagen Oct 2, 21:45 1
        
        i really really hope i'm able to do that rogue film school some day -- nm - shamu Oct 2, 21:52
  - well it's no Lorne Green movie, so it can't be that bad. -- nm - Remlik Oct 2, 21:36
Also, the trailer for A Nightmare on Elm Street. - nubby Oct 2, 21:14
so ... I bull dozed a park and added a hazard on the 3rd to the top player in my local area for Monopoly City Streets ... how long before I get hit? -- nm - JenBro Oct 2, 21:13
LIR: Most excellent. -- nm - ReluctantCynic Oct 2, 21:12 3
- fun pixie fact: she was in the same acting class as Chris Pine once - shamu Oct 2, 21:22 2
  - That's actually a pretty cool story. - ReluctantCynic Oct 2, 22:42 1
    - crumby -- nm - shamu Oct 2, 22:44
Zombieland: A+ - Verminland Oct 2, 21:01 7
- I think Dano said it perfectly. - nubby Oct 2, 21:07 1
  - That is pretty perfect. -- nm - Dr.Vermin Oct 2, 21:24
- You are dumb. - Spawn Oct 2, 21:04 4
  - I'm sick of the 30 second scene you have to sit through 10 minutes of credits for. - Cuzzin Todd Oct 2, 21:10 2
    - spoil - Spawn Oct 3, 08:33
    - how else are you going find out who was the assistant to the second director? -- nm - Reagen Oct 2, 21:46
  - cool or otherwise - just always stay - only exception is when the movie is so bad you don't stay -- nm - JenBro Oct 2, 21:07

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