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nmb Dawson - MDH Dec 14, 08:53 1
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LYC: I finally experieced, for the first time, the Star Wars Holiday Special. - znufrii Dec 14, 08:48 5
- Did you get to the Boba Fett cartoon? That was pretty solid, the rest of it...not so much. -- nm - Remlik Dec 14, 08:52 4
  - Leia rocks the Tree of Life song! -- nm - HdnAgnda Dec 14, 08:53 2
    - we're definitely adding that to our caroling repertory for next year... -- nm - znufrii Dec 14, 08:54 1
      - you must post video of that please. -- nm - Remlik Dec 14, 08:55
  - I had pretty much stopped paying attention by the time that come on... -- nm - znufrii Dec 14, 08:53
ST Poll: Song that brings you back to a specific time/person/memory. Share if you like. -- nm - oblique Dec 14, 08:45 6
- One of these Nights - Eagles -- nm - amoxy Dec 14, 08:53
- Centerfold by J. Geils Band. My first middle school dance. -- nm - Dano Dec 14, 08:52
- Billie Jean & Beat It - taking limousines to lunch with fellow B of A employees going to Tommy's and Mrs. Fields Cookies. -- nm - CrankYanker Dec 14, 08:52
- Let's see: Open Arms takes me back to Jr High dances. Ice Ice baby takes me back to the college fraternity days. - Jim Dec 14, 08:48 1
  - You Oughtta know takes me back to summer (95?) in college. - adventy97 Dec 14, 08:50
- not specific, but Bad Romance has a very 80s feel and brings on strong melancholy feeling for some reason. - adventy97 Dec 14, 08:47
Huh.....WWE had a pay per view last night.... that's surprising. Huh...that was the result? - Will Hunting Dec 14, 08:44 2
- well as I pointed out last night this is the time of year where they will test the new guy... - Remlik Dec 14, 08:53 1
  - i'm not even giving him that long ... i'm thinking he coughs it up to someone at the Rumble -- nm - i'm not dead yet ! Dec 14, 09:06
If this does not get you in the X-mas spirit, nothing will. -- (link) - Spawn Dec 14, 08:44 2
- Is it a link to Billy Mack? -- nm - Shaun Dec 14, 08:45 1
  - Better. -- nm - Spawn Dec 14, 08:46
Poll question from below post - Actors & Accents - do it bad or skip it if you can't do it? - JenBro Dec 14, 08:44 7
- So Tom Cruise did it right then? -- nm - Shaun Dec 14, 08:49
- This is usually the sort of detail I never notice in a movie until others point it out. There are egregious exceptions, though. -- nm - con_carne Dec 14, 08:48 1
  - Heh. -- nm - Costner si Dec 14, 08:48
- Who needs an accent? -- nm - Kevin Costner Dec 14, 08:47
- Skip it if you can't/don't want to do it. Too distracting. And don't skip it in the middle of the performance like - Diva Dec 14, 08:46 2
  - Word - Robin Hood is the BEST example! -- nm - JenBro Dec 14, 09:03
  - Ahah! Another reason to hate Star Wars! That accent! - David si Dec 14, 08:47
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- What I find interesting are the calls from politicians to the banks to resume/increase their supply of credit to viable SMEs, but it's never (and I - Loyola Dec 14, 08:49
- It should be reported, yes, but no one knew up from that this would happen for sure, so the skepticism was warranted. -- nm - adventy97 Dec 14, 08:49
- Not quite - the gov't still had to step in at considerable risk to the taxpayer, and regulatory change is still required to ensure there's no repeat -- nm - Roger More Dec 14, 08:46 4
  - and there are still a number of support programs other than the "bailout" that still need to be unwound. -- nm - znufrii Dec 14, 08:49
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    - Well, to be fair the incentives were all screwed up before too :) -- nm - Roger More Dec 14, 08:54 1
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- All? Including AIG? -- nm - mara Dec 14, 08:44 4
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  - technically they're an insurance company. -- nm - mafic Dec 14, 08:45
  - AIG isn't a bank. - decline Dec 14, 08:44 1
    - Ah! No, probably not really a nitpick. -- nm - mara Dec 14, 08:45
- It should never happen again. I don't want the gov't to use taxpayer $$$ to fund largescale failure as a result of greed, collusion and - HdnAgnda Dec 14, 08:43 2
  - "Too big to fail" should equal "too big to exist." -- nm - mara Dec 14, 08:44 1
    - Word. And if that marks me as socialist or libertarian so be it. -- nm - HdnAgnda Dec 14, 08:54
- I've seen tones of coverage on it. CNBC has pretty much talked about nothing else this morning. - decline Dec 14, 08:42 3
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  - tones? - tons -- nm - decline Dec 14, 08:42 1
    - tonnes! -- nm - mafic Dec 14, 08:43
- Why, it's almost "revenue neutral". -- nm - TWuG Dec 14, 08:41 2
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    - Not "Why?". Search Google for "Why, it's almost" for the usage I intend. - TWuG Dec 14, 08:52
I think STers *know* how to be interesting, at least more than your average Facebooker or Tweeter -- nm - con_carne Dec 14, 08:39 2
- And that's why we -- nm - OAE Dec 14, 08:44 1
  - -- are here w/you, eh? -- nm - OAE Dec 14, 08:44
Does ST know of a website that has all of the aggregate winners of this year's critic's choice winners? - MDH Dec 14, 08:38 3
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  - Nice, thanks. - MDH Dec 14, 08:40 1
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- Who is their backup QB now? -- nm - amoxy Dec 14, 08:54
- I wish they'd wait a week, and then rest everyone. - the wrong element, bad guy Dec 14, 08:49 1
  - It'd help the Broncos if they beat Jacksonville, too. -- nm - Jim Dec 14, 08:55
Nintendo 2010 lineup includes pink and blue wiimotes with wiimotion plus -- (link) - oblique Dec 14, 08:34 3
- Pink is understandably a girl's color, but sometimes I think boys get blue simply because... it's a color that's not pink. - con_carne Dec 14, 08:37 2
  - Pink used to be a boys' colour up until about the 30s and 40s. -- nm - Reagen Dec 14, 08:48
  - (*Are* they.) -- nm - con_carne Dec 14, 08:40
So my contractors were supposed to be here between 8:00 and 8:30 :/ -- nm - MojaveMeg Dec 14, 08:34 5
- What are you having done? - OAE Dec 14, 08:45
- Suck it up Princess, they're only 4 minutes late so far. - CrankYanker Dec 14, 08:37
- You know what else I like about home improvements? It never, ever fails that the people doing work on something now remark that the last people did it - HdnAgnda Dec 14, 08:37 2
  - yep, and I've never seen them show up before 10:30am -- nm - CrankYanker Dec 14, 08:40
  - I used to do summer work in construction when I was a teenager. We always rubbished the last guys work. It was like "just hire us next time" -- nm - Loyola Dec 14, 08:39
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- You make it sound dirty. -- nm - mara Dec 14, 08:37 1
  - he makes it sound illegal -- nm - dogbert Dec 14, 08:44
Huh. This week's winner of the SB+ giveaway on MouseHunt has my brother's first name and last initial. I'm gonna have to call him and - TWuG Dec 14, 08:33 1
- wow ... lucky duck if it is him!!! -- nm - JenBro Dec 14, 08:42
That was easy. Lasik consult: tomorrow. (Thanks guys!) -- nm - adventy97 Dec 14, 08:32 2
- *Dances to that Naked Eyes song in support of ty97.* -- nm - HdnAgnda Dec 14, 08:34
- Ooh, nice! -- nm - con_carne Dec 14, 08:33
PS3ers: God of War 3 is going to be an EB/Gamestop Gaming Guarantee game when you preorder. Darksiders is as well (for 360/PS3). Up here anyway. -- nm - Shaun Dec 14, 08:21 1
- very nice. -- nm - Remlik Dec 14, 08:55
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- Just checked my theatre. We don't have an IMAX but it's going to be shown in Real3D. Awesome. -- nm - Shaun Dec 14, 08:38 2
  - awesome! -- nm - Beaker Dec 14, 08:52 1
    - I'm seriously close to wanting to go to the midnight show. -- nm - Shaun Dec 14, 08:52
- There. This weekend. Hooray! -- nm - HdnAgnda Dec 14, 08:34
- i just am not excited about Avatar. i think it looks... okay. -- nm - Andie Dec 14, 08:20 10
  - 91% on RT so far (45 reviews). Only increases the hype for me. -- nm - Jelly Dec 14, 08:47
  - Ditto. I'll see it in the theaters to "see it in the theaters" because it looks like the main draw (only draw IMO) is the visuals. - Cuzzin Todd Dec 14, 08:43
  - agreed (but then, I'm not a sci-fi type) -- nm - adventy97 Dec 14, 08:31
  - Yeah, I'm with you on this one. -- nm - kelly Dec 14, 08:30
  - yeah, I think it looks like the plots from about 4 episodes of next generation all thrown together, but I'll give it a shot. - mafic Dec 14, 08:23
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  - I think it *looks* incredible, but the story is way too familiar and preachy. -- nm - Inigo Dec 14, 08:22 3
    - Hey, a movie used "You are not in Kansas anymore" as a reference. Never seen that before! -- nm - con_carne Dec 14, 08:31 1
      - Swingers! -- nm - Shaun Dec 14, 08:32
    - that's actually more accurate. -- nm - Andie Dec 14, 08:22
Finally saw Thirteen Days. Very good movie. - Inigo Dec 14, 08:18 26
- It's apparently a peek into how these 'things' operate... - OAE Dec 14, 08:50
- Agreed. The guy who played Robert Kennedy was very good. -- nm - Loyola Dec 14, 08:26
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  - My vote would have gone to Culp as RFK. -- nm - Reagen Dec 14, 08:26 1
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- It would have been five full places higher on my best of list that year if not for Costner's accent. -- nm - Reagen Dec 14, 08:24 8
  - I think that accent just sounds fake on film to me. Even Matt Damon in The Departed seem forced. -- nm - Inigo Dec 14, 08:26 7
    - You'd be surprised. The accent is so thick up here I sometimes have to ask the natives to repeat themselves cuz i friggin' don't understand - Diva Dec 14, 08:43
    - speaking of accents, have you seen Mel Gibson's new trailer? -- (link) - Max Dec 14, 08:29 4
      - Oh good, Danny Huston. -- nm - Reagen Dec 14, 08:33
      - That was only the 2nd most grating accent I heard in 48 hours...Julianne Moore's from 30 Rock was nails on chalkboard to me. -- nm - Will Hunting Dec 14, 08:30 2
        
        Though there it was suppossed to be ridiculous. -- nm - Reagen Dec 14, 08:33
        
        yes, that was annoying -- nm - dogbert Dec 14, 08:31
    - yeah, that it's a hideous accent doesn't help. -- nm - Reagen Dec 14, 08:27
- I liked when future Robert McNamara came back. -- nm - Dano Dec 14, 08:21 4
  - No!!!! Primer will not confuse this movie too. -- nm - Inigo Dec 14, 08:23 2
    - In JFK future John F. Kennedy came back and assassinated original John F. Kennedy. -- nm - Dano Dec 14, 08:25 1
      - Then suggested a daytrip to Dallas a year later? -- nm - Will Hunting Dec 14, 08:32
  - Oh boy. -- nm - Viet Cong si Dec 14, 08:22
- I've read several books on the subject, and seems to have been pretty close to accurate. words like "coup" -- nm - Don Homer Dec 14, 08:21 5
  - Wow, pretty crazy stuff. Any of those books you'd like to recommend? -- nm - Inigo Dec 14, 08:22 4
    - and One Minute to Midnight -- (link) - Don Homer Dec 14, 08:28 1
      - Thank you, sir. -- nm - Inigo Dec 14, 08:28
    - also from the kennedy tapes on missile crisis -- (link) - Don Homer Dec 14, 08:27
    - one the movie was based on -- (link) - Don Homer Dec 14, 08:26
- it's a movie, so it's 100% accurate - dogbert Dec 14, 08:20
lir: pmb - that's awesome!!! Congrats!! -- nm - Diva Dec 14, 08:17 5
- Thanks. And thanks everyone else. And Congratulations to you too. Very excited for you. - pmb Dec 14, 08:51
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  - did I miss something? - znufrii Dec 14, 08:27
- And to you as well!! Best wishes together. ;)) -- nm - Don Homer Dec 14, 08:18 1
  - Thx Everyone!!! -- nm - Diva Dec 14, 08:21
sycor, I don't really get Twitter either. (that's not a knock on people who use it) - adventy97 Dec 14, 08:14 6
- I use it basically in place of an RSS feed for movie news. -- nm - Dano Dec 14, 08:28
- I dunno. Maybe I'm just boring. Or don't care enough. -- nm - sycor Dec 14, 08:20
- my brother's girlfriend uses it more than anyone I know, and she basically uses it like an unthreaded ST. -- nm - mafic Dec 14, 08:20
- Well, it lets you update your FB status while away from a computer, if you have a dumb phone -- nm - con_carne Dec 14, 08:19
- And to the people saying that 140 characters isn't necesarily enough to be interesting... - Jim Dec 14, 08:18 1
  - This post bores me ^^^^ -- nm - Roger More Dec 14, 08:26
My 120gb XBox 360 has 34 gigabytes free. The space is full of game demos and trailers, full game downloads, game add-ons, and expansion packs (maps) -- nm - Beryllium Dec 14, 08:14 11
- How much of that is Halo? -- nm - con_carne Dec 14, 08:20 1
  - three map packs plus game screenshots and saved videos ... probably a few percentage points of it. -- nm - Beryllium Dec 14, 08:21
- Not sure about my 60gb 360 drive, but some PS3 games tend to have massive game updates. I think Uncharted 2 had something like 125mb worth. -- nm - Shaun Dec 14, 08:17 3
  - HAWX had a horrible install on the PS3, it was like 5 GB. -- nm - Ender Dec 14, 08:19
  - the XBL Arcade game "Splosion Man" is a 340MB download -- nm - Beryllium Dec 14, 08:19 1
    - That's not too bad. But then you add demos and game videos on top of those and space fills up fast if you don't delete often. -- nm - Shaun Dec 14, 08:23
- I didn't realise this until the other day but, when you purchase a film off xbox live, download it, watch it, after the time allowed for viewing it - Loyola Dec 14, 08:17 1
  - That's probably why a bit of my space is taken up, I've done that a few times. I know I've deleted one once, but maybe the other one is hanging around -- nm - Beryllium Dec 14, 08:18
- yeah putting the game on the HDD really is the only way to play. -- nm - sycor Dec 14, 08:15 2
  - actually, that's with only *one* game copied to the hard drive (GTA:IV) -- nm - Beryllium Dec 14, 08:15 1
    - ... the rest is entirely downloads -- nm - Beryllium Dec 14, 08:15
11 days until Christmas -- nm - adventy97 Dec 14, 08:12 7
- i feel totally ready. bring it on! -- nm - Andie Dec 14, 08:19
- Not counting today, I have 5 working days left this year. -- nm - Shaun Dec 14, 08:18 1
  - 6. -- nm - Diva Dec 14, 08:24
- yikes -- nm - znufrii Dec 14, 08:18
- Uncredible. -- nm - Loyola Dec 14, 08:13
- boo!!!! -- nm - decline Dec 14, 08:12 1
  - I think you are confusing it with Halloween. -- nm - adventy97 Dec 14, 08:12

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