thanatos

The only I-shouldn't-be-watching-this-movie moment in my childhood was when my mom brought me to Batman in 1989 (PG13, I was 9). The violence was not much more than the DC comic books I was reading at the time, but seeing it on the screen was different. I vividly remember "the taste of cool violence" when the Joker was killing people for fun.

Dune is kind of scary even for some adults and I found it disturbing the times I watched it on the TV as a kid, so watching it at 10 years old on the big screen must have been a traumatic experience.

As a kid, I don't think my parents ever brought me to a movie that was too complex or without enough action. In retrospective, it would have been cool.

Oh, I don't mean trauma or scariness, that stuff I thought was neat.  Most of the movie was so slowly paced I slept for at least half of it.

Didn't see Dune in the theaters.  Hope to remedy that with the next Dune movie. 

Hehaa!  All the time!     Seems like something that would be easy huh?

Ah, the story about how Jesus fed 5000 people with five loafs of bread and two fishes, and had plastic containers ready to put away the leftovers.

Awesome!   Now,  I don't know who that is...At first speed read,  I thought it said Kenny Loggins, but then I read it again even quicker, and came up with Henry Rollins...So I read it regular speed instead of trying to get through it in .04 nanoseconds and thought Cool!  Who's Kent Rollins?   (heh)

You're talking about that cowboy chef, right?

@SlidellMan Yup!  His recipes always look amazing.  I got to meet him and his wife, and try the food in person.  They are the nicest people you could imagine.

Such a fantastic unit the PS2 is thanatos. It's one of my favorite units of all time. 8^)

At least it's not a Diner's Club card!

The science is sound.

The sound of silence in preferable.

He'll probably offer to compromise and watch it with you, since otherwise he'd desert you.

Haaaa!  Fun stuff...I decided to vote...No!  It's worth Way more than $50!! 

Believe it or not someone threw out some games/DVDs when they moved (Air Force guy-reassigned), and my friend found them in the trash.  He gave me everything he didn't want.   Right on top was a copy of Earthbound!  It was worth at least $90 loose back then!

OK, @BydoEmpire -

That was likely where I initially heard it, probably in and around when I was studying mixtures in nursing school, realized that it was , in fact, "correct", tho a "silly".

Ozzy has all the answers.

"to alcohol, the cause of, and solution to, all of life's problems." -Homer Simpson

Grew up on HBO in the early 80's so Midnight Madness, Beastmaster, and Fandango are etched into my brain for life.

Sounds like I've got another classic to look up,  Thanks!!

Definitely a goofy, fun "guilty pleasure" sort-of film. I reviewed it some years ago: http://cheeptech.com/arcade/reviews/midrev/middvd.html

I wish she'd stop calling me! 

NOT GUILTY!

Why would anyone want to sell the greatest console ever made, with so many exclusive games?

*I am not a Fartari-made AI or marketing department intern

haha- not me!  (I live in SW MO)

"SCORE! Now I can go buy booze with this ID!"

....then I remember I came of age to drink 16 years ago.

I didn't even look at the birthdate.  It was a younger person, and it was pretty apparent the dad was the one answering the door.  Needless to say he was shocked and very thankful.

look on the bright side, your heating bill should end up lower

Probably not much, sadly.  The heating bill in winter is half what the AC summer cost is.  But maybe this will help with that too.

Ours would just randomly lock up from time to time.  Needed a reset.  Had it repaired a few times, but it never fixed it.  Was just old.  We did the reset method for years..    Finally replaced it last year...  The newer ones are much more efficient, so that is nice.  But of course, it will take ages to offset the cost of a new one.  But that wasn't the driver to replace it, just a nice benefit.  Good luck!

Big sad

I had a big toe nail removed because it was ingrown on both sides.  But the doctor missed part of the root so it halfway grew back on one side.

You don't have to have the whole nail removed. I had just the sides cut out where they chronically grow into the skin. Then had the chemical burns just to those spots so that part of the nail never grows back. I have not had any problems since I had the procedure.

My doc recommended removal, cutting the bad part would probably have just let it do it over again later.

And as for @CPUWIZ - I did take a picture, but no, not going to send that one to anybody.  :D

It's about quality, not quantity!

Awesome but can we party like it was 1999?

"I got your crack pipe , bitch" 

Still have my parallel and usb zip drives. They're an integral component of my vintage computing experience from back then!

Me too, have an internal IDE one as well.

I still have my Zip drives, too; a bunch of 100MB drives (internal and external) and an internal 750MB drive, with plenty of media for both.

(I wonder if Zip is more reliable than flash drives for long-term backups of small files?  I know Zip had some quality control problems, but I seem to recall that was early on.)

That happens all the time to me. I'm just not in the habit of checking the OP date - if the thread is a the top of the forum and it looks relevant I'll check it out.

At first I read "I just liked a 16 year old" and pondered if she's a bit too young. 😛

Oh yeah, now I remember, there were likes, it was the new smiley reactions that are fairly new.

I somehow missed the last sentence, haha...  A)  Tips are Great!    B)  Big tips are Really Great!   C)  Cash tips Rule!    D)  I am not at liberty to say why...

@GoldLeader As to part D - I did not give any particular reason why cash tips may or may not be preferred. 

Kinda funny,  I'll often get, like a 4 or 5 dollar tip in quarters!   And for some reason there was this house that ordered about 3-4 times in One Week, and each time paid for about $40 (of cheese steaks, hot dogs, pierogies etc.) ALL in quarters!  They give me a bag of quarters and say there's $45 there.  Yay!  I don't count it til later...Once it was $44.75  Close enough, Yay!

Years ago, I once tried to sign up Just for the sweepstakes online and it was a bigger joke than that crap they used to send out in the mail.  It's like tangent after tangent,   You're caught in a downpour of torrential ads trying to get your attention, because they think you'll eventually click on just one.  I also remember some of those same type of ads spammed up Amazon's M-Turk system too.  You were supposed to get paid (to test their system) just by clicking to get through all of the ads, but you could never reach the end.  It just kept going around in circles.  They wasted your time and then wouldn't pay.  After one try I said Never Again!   It's not worth it.   I'm not sure it'd be worth it if I was guaranteed to win haha...Just get to the end to win!  (Except you can Never reach the end!)...

In the movie Knight And Day, IIRC it's explained that Publishers Clearing House is just a front group, and Tom Cruise uses it to set up his parents with income. I can't exactly remember all the details, but the meat of it is that his parents 'won' the Publishers Clearing House Sweepstakes twice. Lol.

I'm a bit baffled by the amount of magazines people are buying or subscribing to nowadays.  Sure the numbers have to be way down but there are still a lot of magazines that people subscribe to (nothing I would want - good housekeeping and people type mags).  I would love to see some old video game mags in print but it isn't viable.  I guess the magazines still in print have some decent numbers to warrant their existence.

As for the whole Publisher's Clearing House stuff... again I see a lot of their print material and I'm thankful it isn't going to my mailbox!  lol  I remember in the 80's when my parents would subscribe to a magazine and would be guaranteed a 'prize'... it was always some gimmick trinket that would be the prize... and then the mail would continue on and on.  The best part was the magazine subscription... as it was the one thing I wanted (it was a hockey magazine of some sort that was much more interesting that the junk mail they would send!).