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While discussing brackets, I mentioned “that Bird-Magic Final Four” at my partner meeting yesterday. No one knew what I was talking about. Only one of my partners had even been born yet. Still the most watched Championship game: image.png And one of the last final fours to be played on an actual co...

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Reading the comments (I know, always a mistake) on the WaPost story this morning, the two main takeaways were:

This isn't a crime!

and

Why doesn't he learn English?

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I think I'm in....it grabbed the bracket that I did for the Defector pool.

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M. Emmet Walsh Inspired this great bit from Roger Ebert: Critic Roger Ebert so admired him that he created the "Stanton-Walsh Rule," which states that "no movie featuring either Harry Dean Stanton or M. Emmet Walsh in a supporting role can be altogether bad." Ebert later admitte...

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This story stinks, and we are barely scratching the surface yet.

Yuck...

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L-Jam3 wrote: ↑Wed Mar 20, 2024 7:40 am Nickelback get a lot more than they deserve.

Shane Torres, in his bit about Guy Fieri, agrees with you...

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Shirley wrote: ↑Wed Mar 20, 2024 5:24 am Maybe this could have gone in the other thread. I’m not OK.

I turned on the game and saw the 14 points scored at halftime, and thought "Oh...poor Shirley"....

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Steve of phpBB wrote: ↑Tue Mar 19, 2024 2:32 pm I'm still a fan of WXRT but it gets difficult listening to commercials.

I always enjoyed WXRT when I lived in Chicago. The movie reviews "Going to the Show with the Regular Guy" were always great, delivered with the perfect thick Chicago accent.

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For those in the Bay Area...put 92.7 FM on your presets. KEXP bought the station and is now broadcasting live.

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Adrian Belew to play King Crimson shows centered around Discipline , Beat , & Three of a Perfect Pair LPs with Tony Levin, Danny Carey & Steve Vai. Apparently the first date is Sept 17 in San Diego. Rumors it will be a substantial tour. GIMME Adrien Belew is FANTASTIC to see live. Saw him p...

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I've been busy dealing with the fallout of one of our customers having trouble with their instrument last week, and deciding the best way to handle things was to start calling/emailing our CEO over the weekend.

So that's been fun...

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About the only way I can imagine intentionally watching Trump on television is if the Saudis threw a massive soccer contract at him as a humiliating bailout. I remember four years ago watching him give his "Covid is no big deal" speech just as the world was shutting down (NBA being cancel...

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The dinner scene with her high school classmate is so well done. So creepy...

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Giff wrote: ↑Mon Mar 18, 2024 10:10 am Super stoked to be in Lake Charles for the McNeese St. first-round game.

Gonzaga is definitely beatable....they got their shit together, starting with the Kentucky game, but they are still lousy shooting from the outside.

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brian wrote: ↑Mon Mar 18, 2024 11:05 am Trump says he can’t secure a bond for $454M in his NY civil suit. You hate to see it.

He can always sell one of his shitty golf-motels.

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https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/61+Ox2BoLrL._SY425_.jpg Wonderfully written book that just sticks with me. I finished it a few weeks ago and I'm still thinking about different parts of it. I've never read a Murakami book(and I've just about all of them) that I wasn't totally blown away by. That...

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We watched the doc about the making of "We Are The World" last night, and its fun.

Still can't figure out how the hell Dan Ackroyd was included, though.

[+] spoiler: Merle Haggard saying "yeah, I'm outta here" was funny.

And drunk Al Jarreau...

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My manager just stuck his head into my office and said "you're still here? Its sunny and 60 degrees, go home"...

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Bummer news...my friend's kid, who is a reliever for the Guardians, is having Tommy John surgery.. Guardians reliever Stephan to undergo elbow surgery Stephan reported elbow discomfort at the beginning of camp. What was first reported as a deep bone bruise that shouldn't be of much concern turned in...

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Yeah, that dude is being prosecuted now under what seem like incredibly bullshit pretenses. He "hacked" fox news by searching up pages that they didn't delete or encrypt or something like that. Defector had a story about this case a couple of weeks ago... Tim Burke’s Indictment Is A Polit...

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A couple of our Software Testers that were laid off back in November were hired back as contractors, starting yesterday. One of the guys, who'd been with the company for about 7 years, came in fully decked out in company SWAG...hat, polo shirt, hoodie, jacket. It was pretty funny. I was talking to h...

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Am I missing something about Kelvin Sampson? I know he’d blow up phones of his recruits, but I don’t see that as anything egregious. That’s not Penn State/Larry Nasser/Baylor players murdering their teammate bad. Yes, his violations seem quaint on that scale. But he got busted doing that at Oklahom...

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I’d be fine with them winning it. They were the funnest team around when I started following, and seeing The Dream and The Glyde at the Final Four would be boss as hell. Bust out the red and white polka dot towels while they’re at it. Houston is still coached by Kelvin Sampson, right? Fuck that guy...

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Now that its a big story, NBC has discovered that Britt has been telling this same story for a while. Sen. Katie Britt has told her misleading anecdote about sex trafficking multiple times Sen. Katie Britt, R-Ala., has come under fire in recent days over allegations that she misrepresented the story...

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Pruitt IV wrote: ↑Wed Mar 13, 2024 3:29 pm
Pruitt IV wrote: ↑Sun Feb 25, 2024 8:15 am Bonanas for Bonanza is hilarious.
Honest to God, Episode 24 is one of the funniest things I have heard in a long time.

[+] spoiler: I listened to the first few minutes...is that Paul F Tompkins doing the Werner Herzog voice?

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Oooooof....poor Luton.

(up 3-0 at halftime....end up losing 4-3 to Bournemouth)

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Instead, he stuck around, died after the cutoff date for a special election, allowed the Republican governor Doug Ducey to appoint John Kyl to serve out his term, and kept the Republicans from ceding control of the Senate. And then when Kyl stepped aside, Ducey appointed Martha McSally, who had pre...

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Gotta love how Rep. Ken Buck (R-CO) dropped a huge giant "Fuck You" to Boebert on his way out the door. Boebert slams Buck’s decision as ‘weak sauce,’ says she won’t run in special election Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-Colo.) called Rep. Ken Buck’s (R-Colo.) decision to resign early “weak sauce”...

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https://twitter.com/earlywormnews/status/1767264854031650825?s=46&t=EE1Ye28Yvhgf1Mr4AtYGWQ Similar question...why did it take a blogger/reporter out of Alabama to figure out that Katie Britt was lying about the trafficking story she told in her SOTU rebuttal? Don't the NYTimes/WaPost or any of ...

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That's awesome. Very cool.

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The Onion can't keep up these days... Aaron Rodgers and Jesse Ventura Top R.F.K. Jr.’s List for Running Mate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has recently approached the N.F.L. quarterback Aaron Rodgers and the former Minnesota governor and professional wrestler Jesse Ventura about serving as his running mate ...

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Perfectly normal stuff here... Biden effigy beaten at GOP event in Kansas; ex-official calls for resignations Attendees at a Kansas county Republican Party event punched, kicked and took a baseball bat to an effigy of President Biden on Friday, sparking backlash from former party officials. The John...

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sancarlos wrote: ↑Mon Mar 11, 2024 10:53 am
tennbengal wrote: ↑Mon Mar 11, 2024 8:35 am Watching Russ try and suck up to Steelers fans in his genuinely weird way is gonna be so fun.
In Denver, he said, “Let’s ride.” What will it be in Pittsburgh? “Let’s steel”?

"Let's put french fries on sandwiches!"

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A white knight! Patient Square Capital, a Leading Health Care-Focused Investment Firm, Agrees to Acquire NanoString Technologies NanoString Technologies, Inc. (OTC: NSTGQ) ("NanoString" or the "Company"), a leading provider of life science tools for discovery and translational re...

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We went and saw Dune 2 this afternoon....and while it was good, and incredibly well made (Javier Bardem was a bad ass)...I got a big question: How the fuck did the Sand Worms go from a terrifying creature, to being able to be used a freakin' GreyHound bus? Complete with the wicker basket carriage fo...

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So you know the horrific story that Sen Britt told about a woman being sex trafficked? Turns out it happened 20 years ago...in Mexico. Not while Biden was President, but while GW Bush was President. https://www.tiktok.com/@katzonearth/video/7344090454985624862 https://www.tiktok.com/@katzonearth/vid...

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UW Huskies fire men’s basketball coach Mike Hopkins Shortly after Thursday’s 74-68 win over No. 18 Washington State, which was one of the biggest wins in his career and only the second time he’d beaten a ranked team on the road, Washington men’s basketball coach Mike Hopkins talked with optimism ab...

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govmentchedda wrote: ↑Fri Mar 08, 2024 3:41 pm Isn't he a massive Liverpool fan too?

Yes, he is.

His book "The Anthropocene Reviewed: Essays on a Human-Centered Planet" is a great book.

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Finished this a couple of days ago... https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/81FS3wyevDL._AC_UL232_SR232,232_.jpg And its fantastic. About 1/2 way through I was think "Ok...where is this going?", but it totally came together in the end. Very highly recommended. I read this a few...

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Finished this a couple of days ago...

And its fantastic. About 1/2 way through I was think "Ok...where is this going?", but it totally came together in the end. Very highly recommended.

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