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BCE shakes up management at CTV -- (link) - zork Feb 8, 13:29 4
- Didn't BCE already own CTV? -- nm - Mop (213 lbs) Feb 8, 13:32 1
  - ctv bought city a couple of years ago. bell made the takeover move on ctv last year but it hasn't had final approval yet. -- nm - zork Feb 8, 13:34
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  - do you get many canadian channels there? -- nm - zork Feb 8, 13:33
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- As Good As it Gets was one -- nm - Will Hunting Feb 8, 13:28 2
  - Coming Home, Network, ON Golden Pond. I know there are more. -- nm - Don Homer Feb 8, 13:29
  - Yeah, that was the last one I think. -- nm - Don Homer Feb 8, 13:29
- Quite a few actually. -- nm - Don Homer Feb 8, 13:28 1
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I wonder how often the Best Picture doesn't win/tie for the most Oscars in a year - Will Hunting Feb 8, 13:27 5
- It appears that the most wins without a BP pic are Cabaret (8 wins), Star Wars (6 wins), A Place in the Sun (6 wins) - ty97 Feb 8, 13:36 1
  - (Sources: I used this link combined with IMDB) -- (link) - ty97 Feb 8, 13:37
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- American Beauty won five awards that year compared to The Matrix's four -- nm - crash davis Feb 8, 13:34 1
  - You sure? I coulda sworn Matrix was tied. -- nm - Will Hunting Feb 8, 13:35
Costco PSA: (ours) has these new chocolate covered toffee squares. - JaxSean Feb 8, 13:26 2
- brand? where? - Epiphany Feb 8, 13:28 1
  - Kirkland brand. -- nm - JaxSean Feb 8, 13:41
Everyone knows The Color Purple has the record for most nominations without a win. Name the film it's tied with. -- nm - Reagen Feb 8, 13:26 5
- I know this. The Turning Point! -- nm - Don Homer Feb 8, 13:27 1
  - correct. -- nm - Reagen Feb 8, 13:28
- Gangs of New York? -- nm - Will Hunting Feb 8, 13:26 2
  - That only had 10, the others had 1 or 2 more. -- nm - Don Homer Feb 8, 13:27
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I'm not actually a fan of Community. Almost everyone else at BOP loves it. - David Feb 8, 13:25 16
- Joel McHale creeps me out. I can't explain it. nm - Dignan Feb 8, 13:35 1
  - I never liked him on Talk Soup and I think that's a lot of my problem with Community. -- nm - David Feb 8, 13:35
- Ignore Chevy Chase and it's perfect -- nm - con_carne Feb 8, 13:29
- Time for regime change. -- nm - Mop (213 lbs) Feb 8, 13:29 3
  - Kilbo was already overthrown as mayor. What more could you want? -- nm - David Feb 8, 13:30 2
    - did you watch the Mr Plinkett Star Wars review yet?! please? i linked it! -- nm - Mop si Feb 8, 13:33
    - For you to tell us your opinion on Community -- nm - Mop SI Feb 8, 13:31
- If you watched them all I'm pretty sure you'd fall in love with it. - JaxSean Feb 8, 13:28 6
  - I watched the pilot, the paintball one, the zombie one and the trapped in a room one. - David Feb 8, 13:29 5
    - Not sure why I thought you liked it. We seem to have similar tastes in television and I think you'd enjoy it but - Krusty Feb 8, 13:40
    - fwiw, lackluster is very meh on community, but saw 3 minutes of the d&d ep and said it was very funny. -- nm - TFox Feb 8, 13:35 1
      - Aww, I love Lackluster. How is she doing? -- nm - David Feb 8, 13:36
    - It's more of a character development show. - JaxSean Feb 8, 13:33
    - you watch the two christmas ones, too. -- nm - amanda jones Feb 8, 13:32
- I figured this was up your alley -- nm - Remlik Feb 8, 13:28
- Never seen it. -- nm - Don Homer Feb 8, 13:25
note to self: remeber to switch your outgoing vm message to not say that you're out of the office when you are in act in the office. -- nm - znufrii Feb 8, 13:21
Warren Beatty football film....Heaven Can Wait -- (link) - Remlik Feb 8, 13:16
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- Anyone else getting and error? - Mel Profit Feb 8, 13:16 9
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    - I was the foundation of that league, yes. -- nm - Mel Profit Feb 8, 13:22 2
      - Or if you're being serious. I thought so...I got the invite you sent. -- nm - Mel Profit Feb 8, 13:22 1
        
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  - Nope, just signed up again with no issue. -- nm - Krusty Feb 8, 13:19 4
    - must be an issue with work. - Mel Profit Feb 8, 13:21 3
      - Thast sucks. Time to get an tablet. :-) -- nm - Krusty Feb 8, 13:23 2
        
        *That* -- nm - Krusty Feb 8, 13:24 1
        
        *a tablet* What the hell is going on with my typing today. - Krusty Feb 8, 13:24
I think I'll skip the classifieds today. -- nm - ty97 Feb 8, 13:12
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- there is at least four, Kim and pfm's answers combined, and Grand Hotel which won Best Picture and had no other nominations :) -- nm - crash davis Feb 8, 13:21
- LOTR3 -- Last Emporer -- nm - Will Hunting Feb 8, 13:16
- I know this from doing TDiFH several years ago - prayformojo Feb 8, 13:16 3
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    - It Happened One Night went 5 for 5, per IMDB. -- nm - Reagen Feb 8, 13:21 1
      - That's right. One of just three to win the 5 biggies. -- nm - Don Homer Feb 8, 13:23
- I thought of Schindler's List but it's not one. -- nm - zork Feb 8, 13:15
- It Happened One Night. -- nm - Reagen Feb 8, 13:13 3
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    - You did at least say you weren't sure! -- nm - Reagen Feb 8, 13:22 1
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- Silence of the Lambs? -- nm - Roger More Feb 8, 13:12 1
  - The Best Years of our Lives? -- nm - Roger More Feb 8, 13:14
- ROTK -- nm - Kim Pine Feb 8, 13:12 1
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Holy cow, the Langham Huntington in Pasadena is massive and gorgeous. How has someone not torn it down yet and built something terrible? -- nm - Mop (213 lbs) Feb 8, 13:11 2
- nobody cares about pasadena -- nm - cupixie Feb 8, 13:12 1
  - *whistles innocently* -- nm - Disney Imagineers Looking for Something to Pave Feb 8, 13:19
out of the blue craving: those thin 3 inch long pretzel sticks that we used to get as kids in the yellow box with cellophane on top. -- nm - Max Feb 8, 13:11
Love & Basketball is one of my hundred favorite movies of all time. -- nm - David Feb 8, 13:10
Because I know you all care, I can finally put weight on my foot again without it feeling like it's in a vice - Reagen Feb 8, 13:08 8
- So, your wife finally convinced you to remove the vice? -- nm - loosilu Feb 8, 13:15
- wait, your canadian health care didnt fix it instantly? well, that must mean - tRuMaN Feb 8, 13:14
- doesn't that like .. you know .. hurt? -- nm - marcel Feb 8, 13:11
- but wiggums still has to watch what the gym nazis want her to when she treadmills -- nm - cupixie Feb 8, 13:10
- Yao Ming thought he had recovered from that first foot injury, too. -- nm - David Feb 8, 13:09
- the bigger they are, the harder doors kick back. -- nm - Max Feb 8, 13:09
- just in time for your gout to act up! -- nm - zork Feb 8, 13:08 1
  - attack-free for six months! -- nm - Reagen Feb 8, 13:09
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- tempting - znufrii Feb 8, 13:09 7
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    - hmmm... -- nm - znufrii Feb 8, 13:11 5
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        are you that desperate for another venue in which to make fun of me? -- nm - znufrii Feb 8, 13:22 3
        
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        I will warn you, I am a really sore winner. -- nm - znufrii Feb 8, 13:25 1
        
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- I would like a vote....can we do weekly head to head? - Will Hunting Feb 8, 13:08
It's not clear what the pain threshold of the average NFL fan is: Thirty-two owners digging relentlessly in our pockets haven't found the bottom yet. -- (link) - mara Feb 8, 13:06 1
- We're gonna have to put towlels on the leather seats in our private jets! -- nm - NFL Owners Feb 8, 13:07
Not the Onion: Public breastfeeding advocates stage 'nurse-in' at Hirshhorn Museum -- (link) - MDH Feb 8, 13:03 9
- Public breastfeeding advocates stage 'nurse-in' at Hiroshima Museum -- nm - what con_carne saw Feb 8, 13:08 1
  - coincidentally, casting for the Total Recall remake was happening at the same time -- nm - zork Feb 8, 13:10
- Can't believe people still try to stop moms from breastfeeding. This is a fight they will never win. -- nm - Mop (213 lbs) Feb 8, 13:07 1
  - It's like people forget how the human race survived before 1850. -- nm - Amy Feb 8, 13:33
- add this to the list of "we really need more awareness on this issue?" - TFox Feb 8, 13:05 3
  - I don't think it's an anti-formula thing. But then, I did read the article. -- nm - Mop (213 lbs) Feb 8, 13:08 2
    - heh. -- nm - loosilu Feb 8, 13:17
    - touche, Moppicle. -- nm - TFox Feb 8, 13:08
- "do you have any plans for lunch today?" -- nm - maxine to his intern Feb 8, 13:05
do Black Sunday as a football movie? The Sum of All Fears? -- nm - zork Feb 8, 13:03 3
- Was Little Giants mentioned? -- nm - MDH Feb 8, 13:04
- Does the Naked Gun count as a baseball movie? -- nm - Roger More Feb 8, 13:04 1
  - The Untouchables! -- nm - prayformojo Feb 8, 13:06
Question: why is it obvious she wants custody of the children. Does she mean sole custody? Why couldn't the father have fair access to his children? -- nm - Guigue Feb 8, 13:02 3
- my friend? - tRuMaN Feb 8, 13:10
- having custody /= cutting off the other parent's access. -- nm - TFox Feb 8, 13:03 1
  - I understand that, that's why I said "fair access". Obviously sole custody does means more access to them if that's she wants -- nm - Guigue Feb 8, 13:04
meems. -- nm - Mel Profit Feb 8, 13:00
any given sunday is the one I love. how did I screw that up? -- nm - amanda jones Feb 8, 12:59 3
- yeah I gotta watch that everytime it's on. Replacements as well -- nm - Remlik Feb 8, 13:20
- Amanda Fumble -- nm - Bacon on a droid Feb 8, 13:00 1
  - *point>8 -- nm - amanda jones Feb 8, 13:07
SI Swimsuit Edition Promotional Poster -- (link) - prayformojo Feb 8, 12:58 9
- i actually don't think her face looks great there (and i think, in general, she's gorgeous.) -- nm - Andie Feb 8, 13:30
- I keep telling myself I'm interested in more than just physical appearance in women, but she makes it really, really hard. -- nm - David Feb 8, 13:13 1
  - she also makes mine har... errr, never mind. -- nm - zork Feb 8, 13:17
- The "Just Go With It" girl. -- nm - Mop (213 lbs) Feb 8, 13:09 1
  - is that her? -- nm - Remlik Feb 8, 13:20
- I think I really hate Andy Roddick. -- nm - decline Feb 8, 13:06
- when boobs are compressed like that I always hear balloon animal squeaking noises in my head. -- nm - Max Feb 8, 13:01
- i've got half a mind to write an outraged letter cancelling my subscription....nm - x Feb 8, 12:59 1
  - Can I get his too? -- nm - Will Hunting Feb 8, 13:30
Oscar trivia - last X-rated film to be nominated for Best Picture? -- nm - crash davis Feb 8, 12:57 18
- Clockwork Orange? -- nm - Will Hunting Feb 8, 13:03 2
  - ding! -- nm - crash davis Feb 8, 13:03
  - Damn. - con_carne Feb 8, 13:03
- Crying Game -- nm - con_carne Feb 8, 13:02 1
  - nope -- nm - crash davis Feb 8, 13:03
- I know the answer, and the film doesn't deserve an X rating. -- nm - Inigo Feb 8, 13:02 5
  - if it's the one I'm trying to think of it also doesn't deserve a nomination. -- nm - Max Feb 8, 13:03 2
    - "Choose your next words carefully" -- nm - con_carne Feb 8, 13:04 1
      - It turned out not to be Henry & June. -- nm - Max Feb 8, 13:08
  - and a lot of STers really like the answer -- nm - crash davis Feb 8, 13:02 1
    - Driving Miss Daisy -- nm - con_carne Feb 8, 13:04
- Debbie Does the Academy -- nm - Dr.Vermin Feb 8, 13:01
- My guess would be Last Tango in Paris, and it would be wrong - prayformojo Feb 8, 12:59 1
  - Brando and Bertolucci got nominations, but the film itself didn't -- nm - crash davis Feb 8, 13:01
- that's a catagory the oscars need (and would certainly spice up the red carpet too) -- nm - zeitgeist Feb 8, 12:58
- Malcom X -- nm - Bacon on a droid Feb 8, 12:57
- Midnight Cowboy -- nm - cupixie Feb 8, 12:57 1
  - nope, but it is the only X-rated film to win Best Picture -- nm - crash davis Feb 8, 12:58
zap2it: Cancelation Bubble for ABC: Detroit 187 and No Ordinary Family surely gone, and V and Off The Map (?) very likely. - JaxSean Feb 8, 12:57 6
- who's still watching Desperate Housewives? -- nm - Reagen Feb 8, 13:04 4
  - Disparate housewives. -- nm - con_carne Feb 8, 13:06 1
    - heh. check my IM below -- nm - zork Feb 8, 13:08
  - desparate housewives? -- nm - zork Feb 8, 13:05 1
    - err, desperate housewives - zork Feb 8, 13:07
- I tried watching another episode of V after the break and realized they hadn't changed. -- nm - Mel Profit Feb 8, 13:01
clearly we need more pictures of amanda's drawers -- nm - cupixie Feb 8, 12:57
*posts ad divorcing ty97.* -- nm - amanda jones Feb 8, 12:57

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