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| QuirtEvans | Jan 12 2010, 06:07 AM Post #1 |
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I Owe It All To John D'Oh
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http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/12/technology/personaltech/12gesture.html?hp |
| It would be unwise to underestimate what large groups of ill-informed people acting together can achieve. -- John D'Oh, January 14, 2010. | |
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| Mikhailoh | Jan 12 2010, 06:40 AM Post #2 |
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If you want trouble, find yourself a redhead
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Oh, now this is cool. |
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Once in his life, every man is entitled to fall madly in love with a gorgeous redhead - Lucille Ball | |
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| Kincaid | Jan 12 2010, 09:17 AM Post #3 |
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HOLY CARP!!!
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Sorta. Now your TV is watching you. Terminator 3: The Rise of the Machines. |
| Kincaid - disgusted Republican Partisan since 2006. | |
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| Aqua Letifer | Jan 12 2010, 09:19 AM Post #4 |
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ZOOOOOM!
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We've come a seriously long way.
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| I cite irreconcilable differences. | |
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| Klaus | Jan 12 2010, 09:30 AM Post #5 |
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HOLY CARP!!!
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On an unrelated note, did anybody watch "Predator"? I'm always laughing my ass off when the predator has to press buttons on his own arm to start the self destruction. |
| Trifonov Fleisher Klaus Sokolov Zimmerman | |
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| Red Rice | Jan 12 2010, 10:31 AM Post #6 |
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HOLY CARP!!!
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Wasn't there a kid in one of the X-Men movies whose sole power was the ability to change TV channels by blinking his eyes? Now we can all be like him! Sweet. |
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Civilisation, I vaguely realized then - and subsequent observation has confirmed the view - could not progress that way. It must have a greater guiding principle to survive. To treat it as a carcase off which each man tears as much as he can for himself, is to stand convicted a brute, fit for nothing better than a jungle existence, which is a death-struggle, leading nowhither. I did not believe that was the human destiny, for Man individually was sane and reasonable, only collectively a fool. I hope the gunner of that Hun two-seater shot him clean, bullet to heart, and that his plane, on fire, fell like a meteor through the sky he loved. Since he had to end, I hope he ended so. But, oh, the waste! The loss! - Cecil Lewis | |
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| Red Rice | Jan 12 2010, 10:33 AM Post #7 |
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HOLY CARP!!!
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Even dumber is the fact that it has a countdown. I would think that if you've made the decision to self-destruct, you'd want it to happen immediately, rather than give your opponent a chance to escape. |
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Civilisation, I vaguely realized then - and subsequent observation has confirmed the view - could not progress that way. It must have a greater guiding principle to survive. To treat it as a carcase off which each man tears as much as he can for himself, is to stand convicted a brute, fit for nothing better than a jungle existence, which is a death-struggle, leading nowhither. I did not believe that was the human destiny, for Man individually was sane and reasonable, only collectively a fool. I hope the gunner of that Hun two-seater shot him clean, bullet to heart, and that his plane, on fire, fell like a meteor through the sky he loved. Since he had to end, I hope he ended so. But, oh, the waste! The loss! - Cecil Lewis | |
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| JBryan | Jan 12 2010, 10:34 AM Post #8 |
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I am the grey one
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I always thought precisely the same thing. It should have been: 1. Evil Laugh. 2. Boom. |
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"Any man who would make an X rated movie should be forced to take his daughter to see it". - John Wayne There is a line we cross when we go from "I will believe it when I see it" to "I will see it when I believe it". Henry II: I marvel at you after all these years. Still like a democratic drawbridge: going down for everybody. Eleanor: At my age there's not much traffic anymore. From The Lion in Winter. | |
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| Aqua Letifer | Jan 12 2010, 10:35 AM Post #9 |
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ZOOOOOM!
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I'm a fan of the modified digital clock countdown, myself. "Sonofabitch is dug in deeper than an Alabama tick!" That's high art, sir. They don't make films of that caliber anymore. |
| I cite irreconcilable differences. | |
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| Red Rice | Jan 12 2010, 10:37 AM Post #10 |
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HOLY CARP!!!
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Civilisation, I vaguely realized then - and subsequent observation has confirmed the view - could not progress that way. It must have a greater guiding principle to survive. To treat it as a carcase off which each man tears as much as he can for himself, is to stand convicted a brute, fit for nothing better than a jungle existence, which is a death-struggle, leading nowhither. I did not believe that was the human destiny, for Man individually was sane and reasonable, only collectively a fool. I hope the gunner of that Hun two-seater shot him clean, bullet to heart, and that his plane, on fire, fell like a meteor through the sky he loved. Since he had to end, I hope he ended so. But, oh, the waste! The loss! - Cecil Lewis | |
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| Klaus | Jan 12 2010, 12:16 PM Post #11 |
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HOLY CARP!!!
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By the same token, it always amuses me when the James Bond villain does not simply kill James Bond but instead always prepares some evil machinery which is supposed to kill him while James is alone. |
| Trifonov Fleisher Klaus Sokolov Zimmerman | |
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| Nobody's Sock | Jan 12 2010, 01:29 PM Post #12 |
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Fulla-Carp
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This is news? I've been waving my hand to change channels for years. I wave my hand, my honey switches the channel. (most of the time) |
| "Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known." | |
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| Luke's Dad | Jan 12 2010, 03:55 PM Post #13 |
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Emperor Pengin
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No, you still use the digital countdown, just set the device to go off with a 1:13 still left on the timer. Just to screw with the hero. He thinks he has plenty of time, get's the casing off and BLAM! |
| The problem with having an open mind is that people keep trying to put things in it. | |
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| Luke's Dad | Jan 12 2010, 04:39 PM Post #14 |
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Emperor Pengin
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http://www.eviloverlord.com/lists/overlord.html
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| The problem with having an open mind is that people keep trying to put things in it. | |
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| CHAS | Jan 12 2010, 05:19 PM Post #15 |
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Middle Aged Carp
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This could eliminate the hunt for the remote and the dog chewed remote.
Edited by CHAS, Jan 12 2010, 05:20 PM.
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| "You want to be Nice, or you want to be Effective? Make the law or be subject to it?"-Roy Cohn | |
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