Paul Watson wrote: cunning stunts a lot better than all the 'cunning runts' we have around here... or even the irish/german reversal... :omg: -John

Little red riding hood. Little Red Riding hood is skipping down the road when she sees a big bad wolf crouched down behind a log. "My, what big eyes you have, Mr. Wolf." The wolf jumps up and runs away. Further down the road Little Red Riding Hood sees the wolf again and this time he is crouched behind a bush. "My what big ears you have, Mr. Wolf." Again the wolf jumps up and runs away. About two miles down the road Little Red Riding Hood sees the wolf again and this time he is crouched down behind a rock. "My what big teeth you have Mr. Wolf." With that the wolf jumps up and screams, "Will you knock it off, I'm trying to poop." -John

brianwelsch wrote: so you could probably work it out yeah, once you figure out that 'ausfart' and 'einfart' are not rude jokes... ;) -John

MORBO LAUGHS AT YOU PUNY HUMANS! -John

nssone wrote: Programs being sneakily installed on your computer. http://security.kolla.de/[^] Spybot S&D - Stands for Search and Destroy a very nice program that looks for around 8000 annoying things and can prevent many really nasty things from happening. you will be very surprised when you run it for the first time. i had this 'puter for about two months then installed Spybot, it found 400 trackers and adcrap ware stuff (nothing malicious on me, but read some of the descriptions of what can happen, it will scare it out of you). [EDIT]I see David beat me to it.[/EDIT] -John

i'm always surprised that people don't know that the "windows" key is actually used for something (you know that key, lower left and right of the keyboard, next to the Alt key): - Win-M : Minimize all windows on screen (same as ShowDesktop icon) - Win-R : Run dialog (win-r, cmd, enter = command line) - Win-E : Windows Explorer open to MyDocuments there are prolly others, but these are the ones that i use -John

the greek people i knew used to say hhgyu-row with a really good glottal sound on the first syllable... that's how i pronounce it -John

the all time classic rofl movie... it's twue, it's twue! A bit of trivia: Heddy Lamar sued the studio over the Heddy/Hedley jokes and won a $3000 judgement. -John

Brit wrote: Smith = Judas right, smith isn't judas,, he's GOLLUM -John

we had a kitten that got it's head stuck under a door doing that,, he woke us up crying cats are great, we have six -John

Zachery wrote: Office Space the beatdown on the printer left me rolling i saw this when it opened and the theater was filled with teenagers who have never seen a cubicle. me and about six other ppl were laughing uproariously while the kiddies giggled at the "oh! face" -John

wesner, valid points, but you need to warn people if you say stuff like that... luckily, i saw it and can warn others away... ;) -John

while i was in the (US) army moer than 12 years ago ( :omg: how time flies ), i lived in South Korea for 2 years experiencing another culture, especially one as foreign as Korean, had a profound affect on me,, one that i have experienced in smaller degreres when visiting other countries it's fun to visit places, see the sights and whatnot, but the whirlwind stop in a country cannot give you the flavor of a people. recently, my wife and i took a cruise around the carribean and had a day in cozumel, mexico. it was a fun experience, but i had a more authentic "mexican" experience many years earlier when some friends and i had a car breakdown in front of a mexican prison than i did when perusing the tourist shops of cozumel. i would love to live in ireland or the uk for a year or two. -John

Brit wrote: supposed to come out for the PC and halo for the xbox was out in Nov 2001... i don't really care which platform is better than another, as long as there's a ton o fun involved, that's good enough for me. i chose the xbox over the ps2 because its target demographic is schmucks like me, mid 30's, pc gamer, tech oriented, where the ps2 is targeted at mid-teens and the game cube is targeted at early and pre-teens,, on average the games and marketing would appeal to me more than the other platforms,, if i want to play ps2 games i'll get them for my wife's 15-yr-old little brother -John

Ray Cassick wrote: Splinter Cell ROCKS! halo is reason enough to buy an xbox, and when you add on the ability to play MORE games, well the value proposition is undeniable splinter cell is pretty damn cool, and fusion frenzy is a blast at parties -John

kjessee wrote: How much $$$ was that? the power supply was about $60 the funny bit is that now my case doesn't have enough airflow to keep everything cool,, i added an extra fan and STILL the video card will overheat,, so i just leave the case open :omg: :cool: -John

kjessee wrote: The new one does the same thing. i had a similar problem, i upgraded my video card... after 3 cards, i swapped out my power supply for a 450w monster,,, bang, no problems... -John

benjymous wrote: Amazon's recommendations are really going nuts on my account now You can click on the "why was i recommended this crap?" link and rate or remove products from your profile. This will help make the recommendations somewhat more accurate. I had bought some toys for nieces and nephews recently and I started getting recommended more and more toys until I fixed my profile. -John

THUMP THUMP, is this mike on? :-D -John

the GOF requires at least two readings the first time you read it (if you're new to design patterns), it will blow your mind the second time you read it, it will start to make sense after that it becomes a great reference i bought the cd version and keep a copy of the book on my machine: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0201634988/qid=1036512765/sr=1-2/ref=sr_1_2/102-5550037-6398521?v=glance[^] -John