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    ”Simpy Great Collectros”

    Has that forum headline thing always said Simpy[/b] Great Collectros and I'm just now noticing? Was that original quote? I guess it kinda fits.
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    Did anyone post this yet?

    "We'll be teaching them a new way to think."Yeah, God forbid we do that.
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    What you know about the wax??? (NRR)

    So evidently the Hollywood Wax Museum is auctioning off a bunch of statues. http://www.liveauctioneers.com/catalog/18666/page3 Some of these are kind of cool, but others are like whoa. The Julia Roberts one is straight hideous.I'm cool with 6" figurines, but who wants a life-size figure...
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    How do you pronounce this word?

    Via. As in, you can exit via the back door. I thought you pronounced it "VEE-uh," but my coworker repeatedly pronounces it "VY-uh," like a long I. I find it incredibly annoying. This goes along a number of other mispronunciations he does all the time that sort of roll up into a larger ball of...
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    The IT corner: VMware edition (question-related)

    Again, I need a bit of IT-related help. Are any of the IT heads here knowledgeable about VMware? Particularly Workstation? If so, please PM me. I have some somewhat basic questions that are still way too technical to be shown in a thread. I appreciate it muchly.
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    Anyone else checking for iPhone software 3.0?

    Cnet.com's got a live blog of Apple's press conference here. They haven't said when it's available yet. I'll probably wait and let fools crash their phones with it before I jump in and update. I'm excited to know if they're adding all the new features people have been speculating that they would.
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    Dear Miss Manners,

    I am in a bit of a 21st-century quandary and am in need of your advice.Recently, my younger brother broke up with a young lady he had been dating for the better part of two years. Everyone in our family liked her very much, so much so that we hoped that we would be hearing wedding bells in the...
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    Got your Tivos set? (Tip-related)

    We on award tour, with Martha my man, going each and every place with a delightful homemade centerpiece in our hand
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    Question for the IT heads (Cisco router-related)

    Feel free to hit me on the PM's, as this is fairly real headz-related. So I've gotten stuck at working having to configure a Cisco 2801, and all we have around here to do it are MacBooks.If I make my own rollover cable (RJ45 jacks on both ends with reverse pinouts) is that safe to use between...
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    It'll be ok Pickwick. Here's a tissue (LL-related)

    "There's one more girl you won't be gettin!"
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    Home recordists holleur! (audio-interface-r)

    Sorry to start another product recommendation thread, but I'm looking to get a little USB audio interface for a sibling for christmas for about $100. Just one of those little two-channel joints. <b, 21<b, 21It'll be mainly for guitar and vocal-type into a laptop. <b, 21<b, 21I have an M-audio...
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    Cable TV: What's really good? (provider-related)

    So my wife cosigned on me getting an iPhone but only with my promise of cable TV in the future. I held out as long as I could, but she's put me on the case and now we're in the market.<b, 21<b, 21What cable service do you guys have? hot or not? Prize czech? <b, 21<b, 21<b, 21I'd rather not...
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    Startin up a posse (Chicago Obama rally-related)

    So Pickwick and I were talking on Saturday (at his ill soul night, real heads know the deal) about perhaps having a SoulStrut meetup somewhere down in the Grant Park area tomorrow. Me and the wife will be roaming about since we don't have tickets.<b,121<b,121I don't know if any of you are down...
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    Fix my car, batches! (philly-related)

    Pardon me if this got posted already...<b,121<b,121<b,121 <a href="http://www.citypaper.net/blogs/clog/2008/10/30/philly-you-broke-my-car-please-help-me-fix-it/" target="_blank"1I want my car back, fools!</a1 <b, 21<b, 21<b,121So not gonna happen, but I admire dude for trying to hold somebody...
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    Compliance Fund?? (McCain-related)

    Did you guys see that banner? It asked me to "Invest in Victory" and was paid for by the McCain-Palin Compliance Fund. <b,121<b,121Compliance with what? That shit sounds kinda ominous and Orwellian. Is this a normal political term I'm just unfamiliar with?
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    NYC tonite, what's poppin?

    me and the wife are in the apple tonight and lookin to get into sumpn. Manhattan is preferred, but BK could also work.<b,121<b,121Feel free to get at me on the PM's
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    Nelly falls flat (non-classique-related)

    I don't know if anyone cares about this: <b,121<b,121<b,121I could give two shits about Nelly, but I didn't even know he had a new album out. I'm disconnected from the clurb and the streetz for sure, but I figured I'd hear something on the radio or see a Best Buy ad on TV or something. Does he...
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    Graemlin origin plaese (potato-related)

    Can someone direct me to the thread that gave rise to this?<b,121<b,121<b,121 <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/potatoworthyyz3.gif" alt="" 21<b,121<b,121<b,121I'm intrigued, as I am with most graemlins and their origins. <b,121<b,121<b,121Thank you.
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    Been on a Crystal Gayle binge

    I don't have any pictures of her so I can't really prove it's happening. I am wearing a cowboy hat though.
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    I feel the earth move...

    ...under my ass. Anyone else in Illinois feel that fuckin earthquake last night? I'm in Chicago and the rumbles we felt were pretty minor, but I guess it was 5 point something in Southern Illinois.The fucked up shit was I was in the middle of a nightmare where me and my wife were being hunted...