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We had a fun little derailment in the Covid-19 thread about conspiracy theories. It would be fun to hear about the conspiracy theories you all either believe in or just find oddly compelling. So put on your tin foil hats and cue the theme music for "The X-Files." Here's one to start. The...

Happy St. Patrick's Day to all of the Irish and wish-you-were-Irish members of the IE community. Go forth and celebrate. Gobble down some corned beef. Knock back some uisce beatha. Watch "The Quiet Man." Do your best Irish brogue. Harass some snakes. Have fun. Be safe. God bless ya. Slainte!

After this recent presidential election, the Electoral College is a hot topic again. I’d like to see where IE posters stand on it and try to get some good pro and con discussion going. Let me say first that I don’t want this thread to turn into a partisan, feces-throwing brouhaha. We already...

Yes, I know, September 17th doesn't have any actual significance. But it's a beautiful day, so why not get out there and hit some Irish pubs? Good craic is where you find it. And if I see any yellow jackets, bees, wasps, or other pesky buzzing creatures, I'll give them a vicious swat to let them...

My wife just got offered a job in Tysons Corner, VA. She's very excited, but it means we would have to move. We know a little about it, but I can use some more detailed advice. I know some cons: moving costs, higher cost of living, traffic congestion. Pros: upscale area, more public...

A silly thread to take people's minds of the troubles. My new favorite Redundant Phrase: "Straight Line." Well, it's a line. It's supposed to be straight. If it wasn't, then you'd have an arc, a squiggle, or a check mark. Oxymoron: "Partially Full." Something is either full or it's not. As...

The third Expendables film is coming out on August, and I was pretty pumped for it. I really liked the first two, despite their flaws (weak script in the 1st, too much goofy self-reference in the 2nd). But it was great to see old-school, ass-kicking action movies again that were made for adults...

I'm curious how many of our esteemed (ahem) members would go to tailgate at a big game, ND or not, even if they knew there was little to no chance they would get into said game. Would you travel to a gameday just for the tailgate experience even if it meant you had to watch the actual game in a...

This is the counter-point to the "Most Overrated Movies" thread since half of that thread was about under-appreciated film work. I'll get it rolling. "The Color of Money." This movie gets a lot of knocks without being called outright bad. I concede that it isn't as good as "The Hustler" and...

I'm watching the second half of one action movie and will watch as much as I can of a second. I'm also drinking booze. 50 million vbucks goes to the first poster who can guess what 2 movies I'm watching and what booze I'm drinking. Only one guess per post but post as many times as you want...

My boss has been wanting us to make our social media marketing more dynamic at work, so I've gotten the green light to start doing video clips that we can post on our social media channels. So I downloaded Windows Movie Maker and have been playing around with it a bit. I'm also planning to pick...

This St. Patrick's Day, I am going to step up my game and do a really memorable pub crawl. Instead of just hitting a few pubs in one town, I'm going to turn my pub crawl into a road trip. I'm going to hit 15 pubs across 4 states & Washington D.C. all on 3/17. It's one of those bucket list things...

I am starting a passive job hunt right now. I'm not in desperate need, but I would like to find something better. My concern is that if I update my resume on Careerbuilder and Monster, it could well pop up my bosses' radar, and it's hard to explain away a resume update as anything but a "I'm...

With college football kickoff right around the corner, I'm getting more and more excited. It'll soon be time for whiskey and fried food every Saturday (well, more than usual). There aren't too many interesting match-ups in week 1, though (surprise). Most of Notre Dame's opponents for this...

I am surprised that I'm the first one posting about this. Phil Steele's 2013 SOS list is out and the Irish are sitting at #13. Three of our opponents make the list and all of them have more difficult schedules, according to Steele: Oklahoma #2, Perdue #4, & Stanford #8. Notre Dame also ranks as...

This month marks the 25th anniversary of "Die Hard." As a reasonable man who is not given to hyperbole, I can state that "Die Hard" is inarguably one of the greatest works of artistic creation in all of recorded history. This thread is for fellow IE members to pay homage to this cinematic jewel...

Great movies are chock full of great scenes; terrific bits that make the whole greater than the sum of its parts. Then there are also the irredeemable failures; the movies that make you wish you had spent 2 hours slapping yourself in the face with a bag of pebbles instead. But not all bad movies...

Okay, let's call this thread pretty self-explanatory; you discuss films you've just seen recently (either for the first time or for the umpteenth time) I just saw "Confessions of a Dangerous Mind." It's George Clooney's directorial debut about the (supposed) life of Chuck Barris, television...

I always liked Regis Philbin, but I never knew that he is a Notre Dame man. He did a phone interview with ESPN this morning talking about the 11-0 Irish. He was talking about how so many people knock Notre Dame. The best part was when he said (I'm paraphrasing, but not much) "people have called...

So what do the rest of you expect and/or want to see out of this game? I'm in a similar position on this game as I was on USC versus Stanford. I never root for a USC win and I would love to see them get smacked around by an unranked team. And the Irish beating the Trojans is always sweet whether...