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PIEBALDconsult wrote: He knows I'm only a few hundred miles away.
Oh no! Quick, warn Santa!
(and thank you for breaking the monotony of fixing feature tests for a stats report that has undergone major surgery.  )
Marc
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Sand 'gators are a bigger problem here in the Mojave Desert than the government is telling people. I've seen 'em take down entire herds of burros in a single swallow, and after the wind blows the sand over the tracks, there's no sign that there was ever anything there.
Besides, there's a PIEBALDConsultant somewhere near here; I can sense it with my Jedi powers. Or maybe that's just a migraine coming on...
Will Rogers never met me.
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You get what you pay for. 
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I wonder if he had to return the picture when Ebay covered the fraud loss.
It was broke, so I fixed it.
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He could make a copy and sell it on Ebay. 
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Coffee-> screen moment! 
It was broke, so I fixed it.
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Wait, so a 19-year-old is trying to buy an X-Box for his 4-year-old son, and it turns out he's not particularly intelligent?
Well, that's a shock. 
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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Richard Deeming wrote: Wait, so a 19-year-old is trying to buy an X-Box for his 4-year-old son, and it
turns out he's not particularly intelligent?
Imagine that.
It was broke, so I fixed it.
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Who spends $734 on ANY game console?
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I have a PS2, my brother in-law gave it to us when he bought a new one. And we have a Wii that we bought used for $100 and it came with a bunch of games and a Wii fit board.
As of now they are both collecting dust.
I'm one of those guys that waits a year to buy games when I can buy them for $15 instead of $50 - $60.
It was broke, so I fixed it.
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S Houghtelin wrote: I'm one of those guys that waits a year to buy games when I can buy them for $15 instead of $50 - $60.
I'm in that club too. It's what SteamPowered sales are for. I decide what I'm willing to pay for a game and then twiddle my thumbs until I can buy it at that price (or at least on major sale--I'm not paying $59 for a game. Amazon often has nice discounts on relatively new games. Just bought two for my kids for 30% off one, 25% off the other.)
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Interesting that he's buying that for his 4-year old son who must have been born when he was 15. 
/ravi
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Gramma's probably 34 and great Gramma is 49.
Yeah, buying it for the 4 year old, like me buying a Telecaster for my duaghter when she was 4, I don't understand, she just can't figure it out. I guess I'll just have to play it myself and she can watch...
It was broke, so I fixed it.
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I bought a Telecaster last month (first electric). I got home, and my 7 year old (who bought a stratocaster knock off with his own money serval months before that) immediately starts playing it and says "Daddy, I want a telecaster too".
So, in my case, I could buy a $700 tube amplifier and claim it is for my son 
Edit:
Saw your profile, beautiful Les Paul... so, can you recommend me a good amp? Looking at VHT Special 6. Maybe VHT Classic 18 (as I see it on criagslist locally for cheap).
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The Les Pual is pretty at a distance but she's been played and the wear and tear is real "Road Worn".
For an amp it depends on what kind of sound your looking for, The VHT's will probably be just fine. The reviews tend to be favorable. For a tele, if you want that "spanky" tele sound there's no beating a Fender amp. You can probably pick up a Fender Champ XD combo or mini stack for the same price as the VHT. The Champ XD is a tube amp that has effects built in for extra sounds.
It was broke, so I fixed it.
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Let me hang on to that Tele until she grows up. Promise to give it back to ya. No, really.
/ravi
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Um, Ok, I'll need a deposit first, if you could just give me your account number and password I'll just take out what I need. 
Did I mention I will be sending a picture of my her Tele?
It was broke, so I fixed it.
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S Houghtelin wrote: Did I mention I will be sending a picture of my her Tele?
Perfect. I'll give you my account details as soon as my Nigerian buddy returns my card. 
/ravi
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Ravi Bhavnani wrote: my Nigerian buddy
Imagine that! I know a Prince from Nigeria who's having financial issues and needs to transfer all his money into my account.
It was broke, so I fixed it.
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S Houghtelin wrote: Did I mention I will be sending a picture of my her Tele?
Since we have members from across the pond: Tele[^]
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Was it a picture of the gold-plated one? 
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No, that was extra. 
It was broke, so I fixed it.
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In the past it was item really cheap, postage really really expensive that use to get those who didn't read properly.
EBay don't let this happen anymore now.
"Rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for people who can't read." Frank Zappa 1980
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Congratulations to Peter Jackson who has managed to unseat Francis Ford Coppola.
I'd actually stopped looking for bad movie to book adaptations, so it was a refreshing surprise to see that, yes, it is possible to c**k up a book more than Francis Ford Coppola's retarded offering Bram Stoker's Dracula(1).
I'm assuming Coppola is Jackson's mentor because I should think it would take years of training at the hands of a professional in order to learn how to suck every clever and imaginative thing out of a book and substitute in pure camp. You could have randomly sprinkled in scenes from Indiana Jones and the movie wouldn't have made less sense.
I know that after reading The Hobbit I was left with several unanswered questions about the backstory. For example, I'd always wondered what would happen if there were a love triangle composed of two elves and a dwarf - the book isn't the place to find the answer to that question, you have to see the movie because the book says nothing about it. Nothing.
In the book Biblo does several clever and funny things - none of these things make it into the movie. I was especially disappointed with Mirkwood as it seemed to rely entirely on a scary set without actually creating a mood. I've seen scary scenes in the woods without the need for such an over-wrought set - it makes me wonder if they picked most of it up at a Harry Potter fire sale. The whole thing was a total mess.
I've no interest in seeing the 3rd film.
I'll have to re-read the book to cleanse my imagination.
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1: Francis wouldn't have been the champ had his movie been a mere vampire film; however, he actually used Bram Stoker's name in the title of the movie.
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