"No choice either, there are no $1 or $2 bills anymore."
In Australia there are $1 and $2 coins. 1c and 2c coins ae no longer legal tender. The smallest denomination is now 5c, and has been for some time.
I really like Monopoly but I just find the playfield to be too cluttered. There's just too much stuff crammed into too small an area for me. I feel the same about TSPP (The Simpsons Pinball Party).
If they had made it as a widebody (Twilight Zone, Addams Family, etc. width) then it would be an awesome machine.
"perhaps they followed the mantra that any business that "merely" turns a decent profit isn't profitable enough"
Actually that is what happened to Williams. They were only making a small profit from their pinball division, but their slot machine division was a license to print money.
So they closed the pinball side because it wasn't profitable enough in comparison.
15 years ago I was travelling around the US, having entered on a Visa Waiver with my British Passport.
I was up near Canada and decided to go and visit Toronto. So I drove across some bridge (with US Immigration at one end and Canadian Immigration at the other) and rocked up to the office.
I gave the guy my Passport which he checked over and duly stamped. He then tells me: 'You know you can't get back into the USA now, right?'
Apparently there is/was some very peculiar rule whereby if you leave the USA via a different means than you entered (eg. I flew into the USA but exited by car) then your Visa was no longer valid for USA entry.
After a brief panic attack on my part the Canadian Immigration guy called up the Yanks at the other end of the bridge and they discussed it for a few minutes. The Yanks said it should be okay to get back in, which I eventually did at Niagra Falls. The Yank there looked at the Passport and Visa and just waved me through.
I just can't believe the Canadian Immigration guy stamped my Passport and *then* told me the consequences of him doing that.
"make something a)funny b)intelligent c)full of hot scantily clad women or d)all of the above"
The best cinema ad was the 'Haagen Dazs' ice cream ad with the guy and the hot chick (in her underwear) getting down and dirty while eating some ice cream.
They run out of ice cream so the guy goes to get more from the freezer. He finds lots of Haagen Dazs in the freezer but opens the fridge door, and finds a can of Fosters.
Back to the girl who is waiting for him to return, when you hear a beer can opening and sport come on the tv. "Don't you just hate it when that happens?"
"English or any language is bound to change given new discoveries and ways of life."
Personally I think that the English language being taught in schools in the USA is devolving.
Kids are taught to identify syllables in a word and then to simply 'say' those syllables. The traditional pronunciation (based on derivation and history) is simply ignored.
This is turning the language taught in schools into a purely mechanical method of communication.
'Street' versions of the language are certainly evolving, but the officially taught stuff is being dumbed down.
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"I still like to do the 'switch the N and M keys' trick to annoy people who can't touch type.'
I did that about 20 years ago to a guy I worked with before he arrived for the day.
The following day I arrived at work to find all of my keyboard keys sitting in a little pile on my desk!
... there was a similar story in this morning's Seattle Times:
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http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/artsenterta
I did two of his Islington tours many years back when I lived in London. His tours were not only extremely informative but also very entertaining.
As a fan of his work it was really enjoyable getting to spend time with him in that kind of setting.
"because really, who sits at home every Friday night?"
umm...
"hot, throbbing lightsaber ACTION!"
Reminds me of a radio ad back in the late 70's in Australia:
'Girls. Do want something hot, red, and throbbing between your legs?
Then get yourself a Honda motorbike!'
"No choice either, there are no $1 or $2 bills anymore." In Australia there are $1 and $2 coins. 1c and 2c coins ae no longer legal tender. The smallest denomination is now 5c, and has been for some time.
"I think stoning and crucifixion needs to come back as possible sentences for some crimes"
I volunteer to get stoned.
Any takers for crucifixion?
I really like Monopoly but I just find the playfield to be too cluttered. There's just too much stuff crammed into too small an area for me. I feel the same about TSPP (The Simpsons Pinball Party).
If they had made it as a widebody (Twilight Zone, Addams Family, etc. width) then it would be an awesome machine.
"perhaps they followed the mantra that any business that "merely" turns a decent profit isn't profitable enough"
Actually that is what happened to Williams. They were only making a small profit from their pinball division, but their slot machine division was a license to print money.
So they closed the pinball side because it wasn't profitable enough in comparison.
"some other companies would want to compete with these guys"
As a matter of fact just a few days ago an Australian company bought the rights to the Bally name and to reproduce most of Williams' parts.
They are also developing their first pinball machine which should be out later this year.
There's life in the silver ball yet!
(and for you RGP'ers out there: TZ, CFTBL, Farfalla, Firepower, Gameshow, Zac Circus)
15 years ago I was travelling around the US, having entered on a Visa Waiver with my British Passport.
I was up near Canada and decided to go and visit Toronto. So I drove across some bridge (with US Immigration at one end and Canadian Immigration at the other) and rocked up to the office.
I gave the guy my Passport which he checked over and duly stamped. He then tells me: 'You know you can't get back into the USA now, right?'
Apparently there is/was some very peculiar rule whereby if you leave the USA via a different means than you entered (eg. I flew into the USA but exited by car) then your Visa was no longer valid for USA entry.
After a brief panic attack on my part the Canadian Immigration guy called up the Yanks at the other end of the bridge and they discussed it for a few minutes. The Yanks said it should be okay to get back in, which I eventually did at Niagra Falls. The Yank there looked at the Passport and Visa and just waved me through.
I just can't believe the Canadian Immigration guy stamped my Passport and *then* told me the consequences of him doing that.
A friend in Perth told me recently that they only got the last episode of ST:Voyager a few months ago.
Now that's late.
"make something a)funny b)intelligent c)full of hot scantily clad women or d)all of the above"
The best cinema ad was the 'Haagen Dazs' ice cream ad with the guy and the hot chick (in her underwear) getting down and dirty while eating some ice cream.
They run out of ice cream so the guy goes to get more from the freezer. He finds lots of Haagen Dazs in the freezer but opens the fridge door, and finds a can of Fosters.
Back to the girl who is waiting for him to return, when you hear a beer can opening and sport come on the tv. "Don't you just hate it when that happens?"
"I was told that joke by an Australian temp who managed to make up (or reuse) an insult for everyone in the office"
Insulting people from other countries is a national sport for us Aussies!
Poms and Kiwis especially. It is fun to insult Yanks, but they just take it all so seriously.
"US obviously still enjoys the first of April"
After all of this I am not sure if 'enjoys' is the right word...
At least that was better than the World Cup telecast being interupted because OJ Simpson was driving on a freeway in Los Angeles...
"English or any language is bound to change given new discoveries and ways of life."
Personally I think that the English language being taught in schools in the USA is devolving.
Kids are taught to identify syllables in a word and then to simply 'say' those syllables. The traditional pronunciation (based on derivation and history) is simply ignored.
This is turning the language taught in schools into a purely mechanical method of communication.
'Street' versions of the language are certainly evolving, but the officially taught stuff is being dumbed down.
Come on now people.
The ultimate TV science guy was Professor Julius Sumner Miller.
He was a wild haired, wild eyed scientist whose catchphrase was 'Why is it so?'.
Ebay only allows charity auctions through 'MissionFish', and will pull any other auction that mentions charity contributions.
He did *what* to light bulbs?
Ewwwww!!
Has anyone actually managed to download it?
I tried a few days ago and after about an hour it had managed about 8MB out of 800+MB
"how dare you insult the King of Beers!?! :)"
King? I didn't vote for it!
>>Humbug?
Yes please! I love humbugs!
"Let's do a story on his nixie tube clocks... Gotta love the tubes..."
I second that. Nixies are just too cool! One of these days I am going to do a nixie conversion on one of my pinball machines.
I though it was:
Two birds in the hand is worth one in Kate Bush!