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Let's get Jar-Jar to say the stupid line today and then maybe everyone will stop.

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Anyone of y'all brave enough to ask your friends what they put you in their phone as?

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You know, it never occurred to me to even think about it. I just list people by the name I know them by. - Jennifer D. - -

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One thing that kills me in watching Korean variety shows is when people are annoyed when they're saved in someone's phones with their full name. From what I understand, it indicates a degree of closeness. One actress was mocked because her husband was saved with his full name-ssi instead of 'honey' or at least name-oppa. I don't care what others have me saved as, but I think many will dislike the names I've given them like 'boring talker', 'do not answer', 'waste of minutes'. My family is Mr. Grumpypants, Miss Bossypants and Mr. Lazypants. - faboomama - -

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The internet more or less traded Talk Like A Pirate Day for May the Fourth. Small upgrade but better than nothing, I guess.

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[THING X] is like [THING Y], but also differs in [SURPRISING JUXTAPOSITION]. [WORDPLAY PUNCHLINE]

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Superpowered people in today's world would make far more money in professional sports than robbing banks.

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I've always assumed that a fully legit gladiatorial style fighting franchise would spring up - either WWF style, or more like the actual gladiator games. The gambling money would be insane. Big names wouldn't necessarily need/want that, but the mid to lower level talents (and those who are humans with gadgets) I could totally see doing this if the whole hero gig didn't pay the bills. - Jennifer D. - -

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The Fremen cared so much about water, even tears, but I don't recall if they attached any cultural significance to sneezes.

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Well, you'd be sneezing into a face mask when you were out in the desert, so I'd assume it's reclaimed like the moisture from your breath? - Jennifer D. - -

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To be fair to the film, the whole full hood with face covered would've been difficult to act effectively in. - Jennifer D. - -

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Every Questions In Every Q&A Session Ever (http://the-toast.net/2015... )

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1. "I'd like you to know that I'm particularly smart. Here are some subjects I consider myself to be very smart about. There is no question." - Andrew C - -

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Almost passed up a bagel at work because I thought it had raisins. It actually had chocolate chips.

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New ACLU Cellphone App Automatically Preserves Video of Police Encounters | The Nation (http://www.thenation.com/... )

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"The ACLU in California today released a free smart-phone app that allows people to send cellphone videos of police encounters to the ACLU, automatically--and the ACLU will preserve the video footage, even if the cops seize the phone and delete the video or destroy the phone. The app, "Mobile Justice CA," works for both iPhones and Android users. It's available at Apple's App Store and at Google Play." - Andrew C - -

"The Mobile Justice CA app complies with California law. ACLU affiliates in other states have developed other versions for use in those states: residents of New York should use the "Stop and Frisk Watch" app; in New Jersey, it’s the "Police Tape" app; in Oregon and Missouri it’s the "Mobile Justice" app. These work in different ways: with the New York app, shaking the phone stops the filming; the New Jersey app does not transmit the video automatically--the user must choose to send it to the ACLU-NJ for backup storage. Not all of them are available on all platforms and not all are available in Spanish, as the California app is. However, video submitted from anywhere via the California app will be stored and available to those who submitted it, an ACLU SoCal official said." - Andrew C - -

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If I really set my mind to it, I'm sure I could talk myself out of anything.

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...but, are you really sure? - Jennifer D. - -

Hmmmmm. - Andrew C - -

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That how-old website estimated me at 3 years under my actual age. Sad to announce that I look close to my age, y'all.

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Baby pulled from Nepal earthquake rubble after 22 hours - CNN.com (http://www.cnn.com/2015/0... ) http://i2.cdn.turner.com/...

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"The soldiers, having returned as well, resumed digging. And, miracle of miracles, 22 hours after the earthquake, the mother saw a soldier pull her baby out of the debris. His face was coated with dust. But he was alive. A photo of him being lifted from the rubble has become the defining image of a disaster that has devastated the country. His unlikely rescue has given hope to a nation that has experienced so much loss." - Andrew C - -

I love that picture at the end, where he's just sitting up and smiling. It's amazing that he and his sister both made it through, and that the rescuers were able to find him. - Jennifer D. - -

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I'm usually not much for 80s nostalgia, but I'm listening to Janet Jackson's Rhythm Nation right now and I kinda get it, y'all.

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Be the Youtube video you wish to see in the world. @monroealy

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LIFE HACK: you can make any joke 75% less funny by adding #PointsMe . Trust me, I'm not only the president, I'm also a client.

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Went to a hot pot restaurant last night where they refilled the pot with more stock instead of water. Way too salty by the end.

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13 half-hour episodes for a Green Eggs and Ham TV adaptation? REALLY? http://deadline.com/2015/...

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"Vancouver’s downtown library […] is approaching its 20th anniversary," - http://www.vancouversun.c... - Time flies. I remember when it opened.

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What Other Cool Stuff Can We Extort From an Increasingly Desperate Jay Z in Exchange for a Tidal Subscription? ÃÂ« (http://grantland.com/holl... )

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"But this does lead to the question, What /would/ be enough to make you sign up for Tidal? Not so long ago, we here at Grantland asked a similar question, vis-a-vis Tidal's price point. Now, one wonders: If Tidal keeps on sinking, what kind of stuff might we get out of Jay Z next? We've already gone from "annoying phone call" to "intimate deep-cut NYC show." Can we, like, get a visit to the Tribeca loft next? And Beyonce has to be home, with freshly baked cookies shaped like the Roc-A-Fella diamond?" - Andrew C - -

Or, Desus Nice, much shorter: https://twitter.com/desus... ""Yo homie, do you like hiphop?" *avoids eye contact while passing Jay Z holding a Tidal clipboard*" - Andrew C - -

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In improv scenes, the ratio of calling to texting is the inverse of what it is in real life.

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It's OK for me to use the occasional Britishism because I'm Canadian and Commonwealth citizens get a half-pass.

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Out On The Weekend: In which we learn about Mitt Romney, Chinese striptease funerals, supervolcanoes and other things that are hard to believe. (http://www.esquire.com/ne... )

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"And thus do the Irish finally fall into second place as far as funeral rites go. Why are the Chinese so far ahead of us in everything, dammit? Strippers at funerals? Where do they put the pole? No, wait, don't answer that." - Andrew C - -

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David Simon on Baltimore's Anguish | The Marshall Project (https://www.themarshallpr... )

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"The part that seems systemic and connected is that the drug war -- which Baltimore waged as aggressively as any American city -- was transforming in terms of police/community relations, in terms of trust, particularly between the black community and the police department. Probable cause was destroyed by the drug war. It happened in stages, but even in the time that I was a police reporter, which would have been the early 80s to the early 90s, the need for police officers to address the basic rights of the people they were policing in Baltimore was minimized." - Andrew C - -

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"There’s a real skill set to good police work. But no, they were just dragging the sidewalks, hunting stats, and these inner-city neighborhoods — which were indeed drug-saturated because that's the only industry left — become just hunting grounds. They weren’t protecting anything. They weren’t serving anyone. They were collecting bodies, treating corner folk and citizens alike as an Israeli patrol would treat Gaza, or as the Afrikaners would have treated Soweto back in the day. They’re an army of occupation. And once it’s that, then everybody’s the enemy. The police aren’t looking to make friends, or informants, or learning how to write clean warrants or how to testify in court without perjuring themselves unnecessarily. There's no incentive to get better as investigators, as cops. There’s no reason to solve crime. " - Andrew C - -

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Seems to me that the lesson police nationwide learned from Ferguson was they can use all the tear gas and rubber bullets they want.

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The @Twitter app for iPad still doesn't do multi-user DMs, the new quote tweet function, or notifications about the latter.

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.@Hollywood Hope the New Coke movie is just the first entry in a "cinematic universe"! Then Crystal Pepsi, Vitamin Water, …

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