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Burglary ring in NH targets Facebook users who weren't at home...using Places -- (link) - oblique Sep 10, 12:18 1
- *sets his as away...waits with shotgun* -- nm - Beaker Sep 10, 12:27
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The top 25 opening scenes of cinema... -- (link) - Don Homer Sep 10, 12:09 51
- Missing Scream -- nm - Dano Sep 10, 12:27
- I was thinking "if this list doesn't have Touch of Evil on it, its a list that is wrong" but yup, it had it - crash davis Sep 10, 12:17
- what about the first 10 minutes of Up? -- nm - znufrii Sep 10, 12:17 2
  - clearly not one scene. -- nm - TFox Sep 10, 12:17
  - great call. -- nm - Beaker Sep 10, 12:17
- The Matrix announced itself as well a Gioldeneye. -- nm - Max Sep 10, 12:16
- Citizen Kane seems kind of low. -- nm - Ender Sep 10, 12:14
- not sure it should be top 25, but the Dawn of the Dead remake opening scene was all kinds of awesome. nm -- nm - groiny Sep 10, 12:14
- Cliffhanger had a good one IIRC -- nm - oblique Sep 10, 12:13 9
  - the terror in her eyes still scares me to think about. -- nm - Mel Profit Sep 10, 12:15 6
    - I remember thinking "there's no way they go through with this." - Max Sep 10, 12:24 5
      - thinking back now and having just finished Dexter. Lithgow is underrated in my book. I write him off for 3rd Rock but he's been in some very solid - oblique Sep 10, 12:25 4
        
        he was badass in Santa Claus: The Movie. -- nm - TFox Sep 10, 12:31
        
        he was freaking in Raising Cain & terrific in in Garp -- nm - prayformojo Sep 10, 12:28
        
        always a great villain -- nm - Beaker Sep 10, 12:27 1
        
        Though Lithgow-Stallone must be one of the most lop-sided hero-villain match-ups ever -- nm - Roger More Sep 10, 12:28
  - Cliffhanger was the awesome from start to finish -- nm - Beaker Sep 10, 12:14 1
    - Sly? nm -- nm - groiny Sep 10, 12:14
- I really liked the opening to Grand Canyon, and the opening (I think it is) to Birth is mesmerizing. -- nm - Max Sep 10, 12:12 2
  - aka a vagina? -- nm - TFox Sep 10, 12:13 1
    - that's a big baby. -- nm - Mel Profit Sep 10, 12:16
- MI3 and Goldeneye? -- nm - Beaker Sep 10, 12:12 4
  - I agree that MI3 sticks out like a sore thumb, but Goldeneye was well-placed, IMO -- nm - Beryllium Sep 10, 12:16 2
    - I would say just the opposite. - Dr.Vermin Sep 10, 12:23 1
      - yeah, I did not like the MI 1 or MI2 movie, but MI3 I was interested from the get go. nm -- nm - groiny Sep 10, 12:24
  - take them off and the list is better -- nm - Beaker Sep 10, 12:13
- X-Men -- nm - Spawn Sep 10, 12:12 13
  - it's criminal that it's not on there. -- nm - Mel Profit Sep 10, 12:15 12
    - I can not remember what it was...... - groiny Sep 10, 12:17 11
      - I think - Max Sep 10, 12:18
      - That was the second movie. The first was the concentration camp. -- nm - Spawn Sep 10, 12:18
      - Magneto as a boy when he discovers his powers. -- nm - Mel Profit Sep 10, 12:17 8
        
        mah, I liked Nightcrawler better. nm -- nm - groiny Sep 10, 12:18
        
        Yes, that was pretty moving -- nm - Beryllium Sep 10, 12:18 6
        
        as I've said for years. After that scene I knew the franchise was in good hands. -- nm - Mel Profit Sep 10, 12:19 5
        
        speaking of, am I the only one who thinks the photos of Captain America suck? - groiny Sep 10, 12:22
        
        well, until X-Men 3 came along -- nm - Beryllium Sep 10, 12:19 3
        
        there were a few redeeming parts of X3. - groiny Sep 10, 12:23
        
        Yep. -- nm - Mel Profit Sep 10, 12:20 1
        
        I'm Juggernaut, bitch! nm -- nm - groiny Sep 10, 12:21
- /nominates Raising Arizona and maybe Blues Brothers -- nm - Dr.Vermin Sep 10, 12:11 2
  - I watched Blues Brothers last year for the first time in a while; the opening is really, really slow, dreary, and quiet. -- nm - Max Sep 10, 12:13 1
    - "One new prophylactic condom," - con_carne Sep 10, 12:17
- Saving Private Ryan, duh -- nm - oblique Sep 10, 12:11 5
  - yeah, that's a pretty bad one to leave out -- nm - znufrii Sep 10, 12:12 4
    - It's not really the opening scene. -- nm - Don Homer Sep 10, 12:13 3
      - that's their only excuse. -- nm - Mel Profit Sep 10, 12:15 2
        
        *shrugs* I don't really think of it as one scene, per se, anyway. One sequence of scenes, or act, certainly. -- nm - Don Homer Sep 10, 12:16 1
        
        As soon as they pull back to reveal Tom Hanks that's one scene I would think. - Mel Profit Sep 10, 12:17
- Jaws? nm -- nm - groiny Sep 10, 12:10 1
  - ok, good, at least it is in there. nm -- nm - groiny Sep 10, 12:13
If you are going to kill someone, do it in San Francisco cause I swear they have the dumbest jurors who will follow a defense anywhere to reasonable.. -- (link) - zeitgeist Sep 10, 12:07 2
- *uses the Wookie Defense* -- nm - Beaker Sep 10, 12:08 1
  - Yo, I wasn't anywhere near there! -- nm - TFox Sep 10, 12:08
Every line spoken by Chris Klein in Street Fighter: the Legend of Chun-Li -- (link) - Mop (222 lbs) Sep 10, 12:07 1
- How do you condense a movie into 2 minutes. Holy crap that must be a really bad movie -- nm - oblique Sep 10, 12:10
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- Fashion Night! Fashion Night! Fashion Night with drinks! -- nm - TFox Sep 10, 12:08
- drinking, looking pretty... - znufrii Sep 10, 12:06 2
  - Get a room. - Spawn Sep 10, 12:07 1
    - C! nm -- nm - groiny Sep 10, 12:07
- it is called "Treat Jack as a human mr Potato Head" and dress you up in weird shit everywhere. nm -- nm - groiny Sep 10, 12:05
- What does it matter when the bottom line is always the same: get smashed. -- nm - Mop (222 lbs) Sep 10, 12:05 2
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    - *Models* don;t. -- nm - Spawn Sep 10, 12:06
- free booze and food and lots of snooty people? -- nm - decline Sep 10, 12:04
- Wear something fashionable. -- nm - Spawn Sep 10, 12:04
From BB's for Jax regarding Doctor Who and Van Gogh..... - Walt_Disney Sep 10, 12:02
scientific study of what moves make a man a good dancer -- (link) - Max Sep 10, 11:57 3
- "start working on the variability and amplitude of movements of your neck and trunk" -- nm - crash davis Sep 10, 12:00
- now I'm thinking of that scene in Hitch. heh. -- nm - oblique Sep 10, 12:00 1
  - so was I! -- nm - crash davis Sep 10, 12:00
theoretically, I'll get Reach on release day - yet, I'll have a big learning curve as I never played the beta -- nm - crash davis Sep 10, 11:52 24
- I only played 2 games on the beta. The thing to get used to will be the maps. -- nm - JaxSean Sep 10, 12:02 7
  - And the powers. And compensating for the other team using various powers. - Spawn Sep 10, 12:03 6
    - Bah. I never learned those before. The *first* thing to learn will be the new maps (for me). - JaxSean Sep 10, 12:05 3
      - Since everyone will be learning the maps, I go for the quicker learns. -- nm - Spawn Sep 10, 12:07
      - just point me to the sticky grenades. - groiny Sep 10, 12:06 1
        
        Yeah, that thing is cool. -- nm - JaxSean Sep 10, 12:14
    - and compensating for Spawn sucking. nm -- nm - groiny Sep 10, 12:04 1
      - *flies over groiny and crushes him from above* - Spawn Sep 10, 12:05
- bah, I expect the game to be quite a bit different than the Beta. - groiny Sep 10, 11:53 15
  - even if it isn't, I hope to not have as huge a learning curve as I did on Halo 3 - crash davis Sep 10, 11:57 14
    - some of the weapons are different, the multi tiered maps are fun. - groiny Sep 10, 12:01 9
      - I like the idea of being able to vote on game types. And also to escape people who think calling other folks gay is the height of witty put-downs -- nm - crash davis Sep 10, 12:04 7
        
        Your cousin's mother is an invertebrate who likes to watch Glenn Beck while eating oleo. -- nm - Max Sep 10, 12:09 5
        
        you clearly have never played Halo..... - groiny Sep 10, 12:10 4
        
        Why don't you guys play with yourselves? -- nm - Max Sep 10, 12:22 3
        
        serious answer, I think we all know how we play, and the games are generally close. - groiny Sep 10, 12:26 1
        
        My brother and I tried a random team in Red Dead. All that effort was wasted 10 minutes in when then douche turned on us. -- nm - Max Sep 10, 12:28
        
        I find it more fun to work as a team (usually) - crash davis Sep 10, 12:24
        
        voting? that's gay! -- nm - oblique Sep 10, 12:06
      - I adore the two main maps from beta. -- nm - Spawn Sep 10, 12:02
    - Agreed, but as was said form the beta, it is very much the same. - Spawn Sep 10, 12:00 3
      - is this cheater the same one who has an illegal console? :) -- nm - crash davis Sep 10, 12:01 2
        
        yes -- nm - Spawn Sep 10, 12:02 1
        
        what a weiner -- nm - crash davis Sep 10, 12:03
the villain for the Spiderman musical is "Swiss Miss." Cause she's made up of Swiss Army knives -- (link) - bugsy Sep 10, 11:50 4
- this makes the bottled city of Kandor look absolutely brilliant in comparison -- nm - crash davis Sep 10, 11:54
- "Remember that villain... from the Spider-Man musical.... *gasp* Jean-Luc!!!" -- nm - women in a cafe in Europe Sep 10, 11:52
- Spider-Man versus the Swiss Industrial Spies? -- nm - Beryllium Sep 10, 11:51 1
  - (SPOOOOOOOOOOOOOON!!!!) -- nm - Beryllium Sep 10, 11:52
over 230,000 Japanese citizens older than 100 may be missing -- (link) - Beaker Sep 10, 11:50 2
- that's a lot of pension cheques being cashed by their families -- nm - zork Sep 10, 11:56
- I remember in grade school when the books made a point of mentioning that Japanese families stuck together and helped care for the elder generations. - Beryllium Sep 10, 11:52
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- A few, no no hopefully. -- nm - JaxSean Sep 10, 12:04
- A. Of course. B. No. C. Eating out a what? D. No. E. Yes. -- nm - mara Sep 10, 12:02
- yes yes yes no maybe -- nm - amoxy Sep 10, 12:00
- BCE -- nm - Dr.Vermin Sep 10, 11:59
- (a) every day. (b) yes. (c) yes. (d) no, (e) if i have time. -- nm - Andie Sep 10, 11:56 3
  - I only need a few seconds for (e) -- nm - Mr. Andie SI Sep 10, 11:58 2
    - i think he's actually coming out with us tonight. *no-one say anything incriminating about me!* -- nm - Andie Sep 10, 12:10
    - the catapult isn't going to assemble itself. -- nm - Max Sep 10, 12:03
- yes, negatory, negatory, negatory, yes -- nm - CQ Sep 10, 11:55
- a) no b) no c) yes d) yes. youth football e) probably -- nm - oblique Sep 10, 11:55
- yesnoyesnohopefully -- nm - decline Sep 10, 11:51
- jack and ice. I want to go see The American. -- nm - Max Sep 10, 11:51
- c! - Spawn Sep 10, 11:51
- fuck yeah probably sure no and sigh highly unlikely -- nm - zeitgeist Sep 10, 11:51
- yes, no, yes, no, no -- nm - znufrii Sep 10, 11:51
- no, no, no, no, hopefully -- nm - Beaker Sep 10, 11:51
- Yes, no, yes, no and no comment. -- nm - Roger More Sep 10, 11:51
- yesnoyesnoyes -- nm - TFox Sep 10, 11:51
- eating out a what? nm -- nm - groiny Sep 10, 11:50 8
  - a JackDawson -- nm - zork Sep 10, 11:53 3
    - c) yes -- nm - znufrii SI Sep 10, 12:00 2
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        I fear you would be too much man for me -- nm - oblique Sep 10, 12:03
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    - I was hoping the a for for angelina jolie. nm -- nm - groiny Sep 10, 11:52 2
      - you'd look like the right half of Two Face after that. -- nm - TFox Sep 10, 11:53 1
        
        probably worth every drop. nm -- nm - groiny Sep 10, 11:53
kill all jus -- nm - zork Sep 10, 11:49 2
- jus don't know what jus talking about -- nm - crash davis Sep 10, 11:51 1
  - well, I didn't really mean it -- nm - zork Sep 10, 11:52
Word of the Day: enfilade. (can you define this word w/o googling?) -- nm - Dr.Vermin Sep 10, 11:49 13
- no -- nm - mara Sep 10, 12:03
- maginot line! -- nm - CQ Sep 10, 11:54
- an Escalade for infants -- nm - zork Sep 10, 11:51
- isn't it (guess inside) - crash davis Sep 10, 11:50 5
  - what is... - Mel Profit Sep 10, 12:09 2
    - I'm not sure. I know defenstrate, but not defilade. -- nm - crash davis Sep 10, 12:22 1
      - ah, defilade is using natural obstacles (like hills) to shield or conceal yourself -- nm - crash davis Sep 10, 12:25
  - DING! - Dr.Vermin Sep 10, 12:02
  - I this is it, yes. -- nm - Mel Profit Sep 10, 11:54
- sort of - Roger More Sep 10, 11:50 1
  - Sorry, DING to you as well. - Dr.Vermin Sep 10, 12:04
- It's a mexican salad made from salsa and legal documents. -- nm - Beryllium Sep 10, 11:50
- that is something at Taco Bell. nm -- nm - groiny Sep 10, 11:49

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