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Charlie is a mix of The Fighter, Black Swan, King's Speech, and The Fighter. -- nm - CrankYanker Feb 25, 09:55 1
- um, Social Network -- nm - CrankYanker Feb 25, 09:55
You don't see me post much about politics on here because I feel lost within it. I am moving towards more conservative financial/fiscal views but - HdnAgnda Feb 25, 09:54 2
- This is mostly me. Fiscally moderate to conservative, but socially pretty liberal. - TWuG Feb 25, 09:58
- sounds reasonable....nm - x Feb 25, 09:56
i think i will have to buy the woot shirt today. -- nm - tRuMaN Feb 25, 09:52
Historical innaccuracy in The King's Speech and other movies: does it matter? -- (link) - mara Feb 25, 09:52 5
- The first movie I experienced this debate over was Braveheart. The movie got me to go to the library to read up on the broader subject, so I found - Max Feb 25, 09:56 2
  - same -- nm - Beaker Feb 25, 09:57
  - The same thing happened to me with Braveheart. It absolutely kicked off my interest in Scottish history in general. -- nm - Mel Profit Feb 25, 09:57
- Well they all can't be a documentary like Inglorious Basterds -- nm - crash davis Feb 25, 09:55
- Depends on the error. -- nm - TWuG Feb 25, 09:54
Combine news: There's a WR that can run a 10.24 100m sprint - Strongbad Feb 25, 09:49 4
- err, 4.24 -- nm - Strongbad Feb 25, 09:50 3
  - That's Usain! - Beryllium (iPhone) Feb 25, 09:52
  - dang it, I had dreams of NFL glory -- nm - crash davis Feb 25, 09:51 1
    - only if it was 10.24 in the 40 - no way I can do a 10.24 100m -- nm - crash davis Feb 25, 09:53
Bah, so late for work. Why is this bus 40 minutes between routes? Geez. *maybe* I'll be under two hours late. Depends on the bridge. -- nm - Beryllium (iPhone) Feb 25, 09:49
We just had a chili contest at work. Four different chilis. Good stuff. #3 got my vote for being bold, hearty but #2 was close for - HdnAgnda Feb 25, 09:46 2
- did you enter one? -- nm - crash davis Feb 25, 09:47 1
  - No, it was another dept's contest but we were invited to be judges. -- nm - HdnAgnda Feb 25, 09:54
"Forget You" is such a fun song. -- nm - Strongbad Feb 25, 09:43 1
- *puts hands over ears* LA LA LA LA LA LA LA LA LA LA LA LA - JaxSean Feb 25, 09:44
Regarding crash's comment below, I was wondering if the new Oscar Best Picture voting rules will have any affect on The Kings Speech vs Social Network - JaxSean Feb 25, 09:39 2
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- True Grit as the compromise candidate! -- nm - crash davis Feb 25, 09:44
BBC news did a nice piece on Gaddafi's crazy speech-making. Mel, this is for you. -- (link) - loosilu Feb 25, 09:29 3
- I want to read Charlie Sheen's analysis of a Gadhafi speech. -- nm - pmb Feb 25, 09:35
- that's an interesting article too. -- nm - Mel Profit Feb 25, 09:33
- I'm totally going as him for Halloween. -- nm - Mel Profit Feb 25, 09:29
I love the Oscars. - crash davis Feb 25, 09:25 11
- Well, *now* she will look at you like you're a perv. -- nm - JaxSean Feb 25, 09:40 2
  - truth be told, that ship sailed already - especially after the Catwoman casting news -- nm - crash davis Feb 25, 09:42 1
    - well, even before then -- nm - crash davis Feb 25, 09:45
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  - Nice -- nm - con_carne Feb 25, 09:38
  - this is pretty funny - thanks! - crash davis Feb 25, 09:33
- I do too. -- nm - loosilu Feb 25, 09:31
- i can't say i do. i love the olympics, though...nm - x Feb 25, 09:27 3
  - for some reason, I love the winter olympics more than the summer ones -- nm - crash davis Feb 25, 09:29 1
    - For some reason I always view the winter olympics as "not the real olympics" -- nm - Loyola Feb 25, 09:35
  - Mmmm, Kiira Korpi. -- nm - Will Hunting Feb 25, 09:27
Recovering data from a server that evidently has bad sectors on the drive is an entertaining exercise in frustration. - Mop (212 lbs) Feb 25, 09:21
I watched a couple episodes of Beyond Scared Straight, it's strangely compelling. - musubi Feb 25, 09:16 5
- does it follow the original kids, or new kids? -- nm - Hotkiss Feb 25, 09:28 4
  - New batch of kids each episode. I've only watched a handful of eps. - musubi Feb 25, 09:29 3
    - Now I can't help but think the show is like Keenan Thompson's bit on SNL. -- nm - pmb Feb 25, 09:37 1
      - With less movie references and younger kids and in an actual prison. - musubi Feb 25, 09:50
    - I love Intervention so I'll try to pick this up, thanks! -- nm - Hotkiss Feb 25, 09:31
I'm definitely see Biutiful at 1:20 and The Illusionist at 4:35 at The Charles Theatre in Baltimore tomorrow, FYI. -- nm - Dano Feb 25, 09:12
why not just replace him with Emilio Estevez and pretend nothing ever happened? -- nm - moles Feb 25, 09:12 35
- Russell Brand doing Sheen doing the character. -- nm - Max Feb 25, 09:51
- Actually, it's pretty simple. The kid on the show is 18 now. Uncle Charlie dies a horrific death, kid starts carousing and putting down his father's - pmb Feb 25, 09:32
- New Darren! -- nm - Amy Feb 25, 09:23
- I'm sure there are plenty of actors who know how to sit on a couch and be a wisenheimer. Big stretch there. -- nm - Diva Feb 25, 09:21 16
  - But it'd be *Emilio*. That's funny stunt casting right there. (nm) - musubi Feb 25, 09:23 15
    - fine, whatev. They could also do flash forward sequences starring Jed Bartlet. -- nm - Diva Feb 25, 09:25
    - How about Ramon Estevez? -- nm - Reagen Feb 25, 09:24 13
      - Gloria Estefan. nm - Dignan Feb 25, 09:27
      - Y'all are missing the funniest option: Martin. "Holy crap! That was a wild weekend! I feel like I aged 30 years!" -- nm - TWuG Feb 25, 09:26 4
        
        Enters the house quoting scripture, all involving prostitutes. -- nm - Martin Sheen Feb 25, 09:29 1
        
        "Gratias tibi ago, domine. Haec credam a deo pio? A deo iusto, a deo scito? Cruciatus in crucem. Tuus in terra servus, nuntius fui. Officium perfeci. - TWuG Feb 25, 09:39
        
        Martin: "It's like I spent a few months in Thailand and had a heart attack." [nm] - Mel Profit Feb 25, 09:26 1
        
        this -- nm - Diva Feb 25, 09:27
      - Martin Sheen would be an automatic Season Pass. (nm) - musubi Feb 25, 09:25
      - How about Corbin Bernsen? -- nm - Strongbad Feb 25, 09:25
      - rotate between then and Marty. -- nm - loosilu Feb 25, 09:24 4
        
        that would be funny. a roving set of names. -- nm - Mel Profit Feb 25, 09:25 3
        
        The Call Sheet will just read: Sheen -- nm - Diva Feb 25, 09:27 2
        
        get the unknown brother in on it too. -- nm - Mel Profit Feb 25, 09:28 1
        
        Michael Sheen. -- nm - Will Hunting Feb 25, 09:29
- reverse Spin City and replace him with Michael J Fox -- nm - crash davis Feb 25, 09:19
- I like your thinking, kid! Get him a bungalow on the lot! -- nm - Mop (212 lbs) Feb 25, 09:19
- I might be tempted to watch if they did that. - musubi Feb 25, 09:16 9
  - Right, like if they did what Roseanne did when they replaced the daughter with no mention of it. - Mel Profit Feb 25, 09:19 7
    - Roseanne actually made a few jokes about it. -- nm - miss amanda phones Feb 25, 09:22 1
      - I remember some of the wink and nod jokes which were very funny. -- nm - Mel Profit Feb 25, 09:24
    - I mean in general I don't think it's a good idea, but this once as stunt casting? I'd totally watch. (nm) - musubi Feb 25, 09:22
    - For some reason, I think modern audiences are far less receptive to that. -- nm - loosilu Feb 25, 09:20 3
      - I think they could make it work as some kind of on going gag. -- nm - Mop (212 lbs) Feb 25, 09:23
      - yeah, this isn't TV from the olden days of Roseanne! -- nm - crash davis Feb 25, 09:21 1
        
        ..... - crash davis Feb 25, 09:22
  - I'd watch a few if they replaced him. Just out of curiosity. -- nm - miss amanda phones Feb 25, 09:18
- His contract? -- nm - mara Feb 25, 09:14 2
  - without seeing it, there are probably nineteen ways he's in breach or default at this point -- nm - moles Feb 25, 09:15 1
    - is there a " bite the hand that feeds" clause? -- nm - Epiphany Feb 25, 09:16
all these columns about The King's Speech vs. The Social Network makes me want to see a True Grit win -- nm - crash davis Feb 25, 09:11
We'd better just go ahead and elect a Republican for President in 2012 so that deficit spending will once again be okay -- nm - con_carne Feb 25, 09:06 37
- No, see, then the left would say it's not ok... -- nm - Stephen, Enemy of the RNC Feb 25, 09:17 18
  - In the 8 years of W's presidency, I know the left complained about a nearly everything W did, but honestly, deficit spending wasn't one of them. - musubi Feb 25, 09:19 15
    - There was all kinds of complaining that Clinton's surplus had turned into a staggering $500 billion deficit. -- nm - Ender Feb 25, 10:48
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      - that you did....nm - x Feb 25, 09:44 2
        
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        being serious for once may have been too much....nm - x Feb 25, 09:54
      - You? -- nm - Dr.Vermin Feb 25, 09:35 1
        
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    - They did, in the "we should pay for our own damn wars" kind of way -- nm - con_carne Feb 25, 09:26
    - Bush's irresponsible tax cuts, on the other hand... -- nm - znufrii Feb 25, 09:25
    - I complained -- nm - crash davis Feb 25, 09:22 4
      - Really, about deficit spending? - musubi Feb 25, 09:25 3
        
        Yes I did. But I'm not the established left. All that work Clinton did and it got flushed away. - crash davis Feb 25, 09:26 2
        
        we really really muffed that up. That was our chance. -- nm - Mel Profit Feb 25, 09:41
        
        This. -- nm - con_carne Feb 25, 09:37
    - and when they duid complain about spending, it was only in the context of authorizing emergency military spending outside of the budget - znufrii Feb 25, 09:21
  - nah, the left would go back to blaming them for warmongering, Gitmo, and chipping away at our rights in the name of fighting terrorism. - znufrii Feb 25, 09:18
  - No, they would say it's being spent on the wrong things -- nm - Roger More Feb 25, 09:17
- I'm just glad that with a Dem in the White House, bombing terrorists and keeping Gitmo open are okay. - Dr.Vermin, sincerely Feb 25, 09:15 3
  - not with Glenn Greenwald it isn't... -- nm - znufrii Feb 25, 09:47
  - I'd say Obama has disappointed a lot of people on both sides. - JaxSean Feb 25, 09:43
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- since both parties are cut from the same cloth, it really doesn't matter...nmh - x Feb 25, 09:12 11
  - Maybe, but at least the HSR systems will get built :) -- nm - con_carne Feb 25, 09:27
  - hyde, being cynical? Say it ain't so! - musubi Feb 25, 09:17
  - I regard to deficit spending, sure. But there are plenty of other ways the GOP would fuck the country up that have little to do with - TWuG Feb 25, 09:16 5
    - other than belligerent foreign policy pursued by the Bush administration, I can't imagine anything the GOP would do - znufrii Feb 25, 09:24
    - your mileage may vary. i think they're almost entirely the same, which is one reason i never vote for either of them.....nm - x Feb 25, 09:21 3
      - My mileage definitely varies. - TWuG Feb 25, 09:25 2
        
        while these are very important distinctions, they are marginal issues that don't really speak to the overall running of the country as a whole. - znufrii Feb 25, 09:35
        
        hey, that's super....nm - x Feb 25, 09:26
  - no, Pepsi and Coke means i have a choice of soft drinks! -- nm - moles Feb 25, 09:12 2
    - both contain the deliciously cloying flavor of high fructose corn syrup!....nm - x Feb 25, 09:14 1
      - nice. -- nm - znufrii Feb 25, 09:15
- We'd better just stay the course, so that deficit spending will continue to be okay. - Strongbad Feb 25, 09:09
- Heh, well put. -- nm - mara Feb 25, 09:08
*Fire-breathing fist attack!!!!* -- nm - Strongbad Feb 25, 09:06 6
- Oh man, if someone isn't developing a flash game of Charlie Sheen Street Fighter right now, the Internet has lost all credibility. - Reagen Feb 25, 09:11 1
  - there must be a dance mix of his radio rants in the works if not already on youtube. -- nm - Diva Feb 25, 09:12
- Yay!!!! (it's my new favorite.) -- nm - miss amanda phones Feb 25, 09:07
- uh, are you in his octagon? -- nm - crash davis Feb 25, 09:07 2
  - actually this could all make for a fun M rated video game -- nm - crash davis Feb 25, 09:07 1
    - Ground and Pound! -- nm - Strongbad Feb 25, 09:09
sweet. The babysitting episode of Corner Gas. -- nm - Beaker Feb 25, 09:04
Shane Battier for Hasheem Thabeet and a protected first round pick? - Will Hunting Feb 25, 09:03 4
- (motherfucking Jeff fucking Green.) -- nm - TFox Feb 25, 09:07 2
  - I love that you're still angry. - Mel Profit Feb 25, 09:10 1
    - Quite honestly, Jeff Greem makes me a little mad and I had *nothing* invested in that game. (nm) - musubi Feb 25, 09:29
- *flops* -- nm - Player from Duke Feb 25, 09:05
A victim in all this - Ducky from Pretty in Pink. Poor Ducky -- nm - crash davis Feb 25, 09:01 11
- none of them ever need to work again with the money they have already made -and syndication royalities -- nm - Epiphany Feb 25, 09:15 4
  - Seriously. Carlos spent $800k on cars *last week.* -- nm - miss amanda phones Feb 25, 09:17 2
    - yeah, with his tendencies he might not be set for life -- nm - crash davis Feb 25, 09:18 1
      - he has at least two more sets of alimony payments in his future -- nm - crash davis Feb 25, 09:19
  - of course, but I imagine Jon Cryer holed up somewhere astudiously not taking sides -- nm - crash davis Feb 25, 09:17
- Ducky is never a victim - moles Feb 25, 09:15 5
  - off topic - I read somewhere that Pretty Woman was originally offered to Molly Ringwald and she passed. -- nm - crash davis Feb 25, 09:16 4
    - smart girl -- nm - moles Feb 25, 09:16 3
      - dumb ass -- nm - crash davis Feb 25, 09:17 2
        
        i doubt it's the same hit with her in the role as it was with Julia. and then it's just another middling early 90s Molly thing that diminishes her - moles Feb 25, 09:19 1
        
        possibly -- nm - crash davis Feb 25, 09:20
a paper monster is attacking my desk -- nm - tRuMaN Feb 25, 09:01 1
- use the mystical power of Bic -- nm - crash davis Feb 25, 09:03

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