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In today's news that just made me throw up a little in my mouth

AT&T is going to buy Time Warner for $86 bil (assuming it's approved).
Included on the TW side is HBO, DC Comics and hella more stuff: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_Warner#Divisions
http://www.bbc.com/news/business-37742991
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The Chicago Cubs are playing in the World Series for the first time since 1945.
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9021amyers wrote:The Chicago Cubs are playing in the World Series for the first time since 1945.
And the Cubs better win to put all that 1908, goat, 1945, 1969, 1984 and Bartman stuff to bed once and for all. Cleveland already had their glory for the first half of the 21st c.
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Negan wields a bat wrapped in barbed wire named Lucille on The Walking Dead. Yes the barbed wire's name is Lucille. :) You know what I mean. Anyway, he's a bad guy, played by Jeffrey Dean Morgan.
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Tom Hayden, political activist, died at age 76. He was a founder of Students for a Democratic Society and a member of the "Chicago Seven", and he was married to Jane Fonda for 17 years.

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Had to check the date and the site and the source a few times to make sure this wasn't some weird joke...

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-37765900
The ashes of cremated Catholics cannot be kept at home, scattered or divided among family members, the Vatican has announced in new guidelines.

The two-page instruction by the Vatican's department on doctrine said ashes of the dead must be kept in "sacred places" such as cemeteries.
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Paul Beatty became the first American to win the Man Booker Prize for his satirical novel "The Sellout". Until 2014, only writings by authors from Britain, Ireland, or the British commonwealth were eligible for the prize.
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Antonio Guterres, former Prime Minister of Portugal, will become the Secretary-General of the United Nations at the start of the New Year.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ant%C3%B3nio_Guterres
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AIDS/HIV "Patient Zero" Gaetan Dugas is definitively not "Patient Zero" anymore. DNA analysis now shows the outbreak came from the Caribbean to NYC in the early 1970s.

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Twitter is killing the six-second video host Vine along with 9% of its staff.

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Volante wrote:Twitter is killing the six-second video host Vine along with 9% of its staff.

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Metlife Insurance is dropping Snoopy and the Peanuts gang from its advertising.

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In October 2016, the Museum of Modern Art announced that it had acquired the 176 originals of these, designed by Shigetaka Kurita in 1999
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Volante wrote:Twitter is killing the six-second video host Vine along with 9% of its staff.

http://arstechnica.com/business/2016/10 ... -the-vine/
Killing 9 percent of staff is an awfully harsh way to enforce a non-compete agreement.
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Blue Lion wrote:
Volante wrote:Twitter is killing the six-second video host Vine along with 9% of its staff.

http://arstechnica.com/business/2016/10 ... -the-vine/
Killing 9 percent of staff is an awfully harsh way to enforce a non-compete agreement.
They didn't want #Decimation to trend.
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Clue Jungry wrote:Paul Beatty became the first American to win the Man Booker Prize for his satirical novel "The Sellout". Until 2014, only writings by authors from Britain, Ireland, or the British commonwealth were eligible for the prize.
Thus proving how low the standards for the Booker Prize have fallen. I read "The Sellout". It was neither well-written, nor was it funny or even all that satirical or original.
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Armandillo wrote:
Clue Jungry wrote:Paul Beatty became the first American to win the Man Booker Prize for his satirical novel "The Sellout". Until 2014, only writings by authors from Britain, Ireland, or the British commonwealth were eligible for the prize.
Thus proving how low the standards for the Booker Prize have fallen. I read "The Sellout". It was neither well-written, nor was it funny or even all that satirical or original.
When would you trace its decline to? I haven't read enough of their selections to judge, personally; The Blind Assassin, which won in 2000, was great, Life of Pi, which won in 2002, was good, and Wolf Hall, which won in 2009, was poor. However, that's a small sample size, among the last 17 selections.
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The C___ ____s ended their drought of __8 years by winning the 2016 World Series.
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MarkBarrett wrote:The C___ ____s ended their drought of __8 years by winning the 2016 World Series.
for some reason, a George Carlin routine just popped into my head.
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Woppy T wrote:
MarkBarrett wrote:The C___ ____s ended their drought of __8 years by winning the 2016 World Series.
for some reason, a George Carlin routine just popped into my head.
And in 8,9 hours, the heads of a lot of other people too.
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