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  1. Suppose you're making a Time Machine;  What would you prefer?  A DeLorean, a Time Tunnel,  a 1960's British police box, A duffel bag, an 1870's sleigh with all kinds of whirling gizmos, or a hot tub?

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    2. carlsson

      carlsson

      I prefer trousers over mini-skirts, but it is your personal choice what to wear.

    3. carlsson

      carlsson

      Speaking of time travel devices, I just remembered that Find me in Paris uses clocks (which probably is rather straightforward for time travel).

       

      Also this year's julkalender in Sweden (daily Christmas TV series calendar) is called Mirakel and tells the story how two tween girls swap places, 100 years apart. The cause for that is an engineered black hole that came loose and installed itself into the antic of an old house where they both live. They only swap minds though, the bodies remain in respective era.

       

  2. There are those who believe...That Life Here...Began out There...

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    2. Keatah

      Keatah

      No But I remember the similar sounding name from it.

    3. CaptainCanadian

      CaptainCanadian

      The recruiter girl says to Alex "Keetar Keetar something something" when he's getting out of the starcar.

    4. GoldLeader

      GoldLeader

      My buddy has a keytar....Plays it in his synth style video game music band called Mr. Pacman.

  3. OK I'm getting freakin pissed at Firefox! It seems to have disabled my adblocker, Webroot (filtering extensions), and Yahoo Homepage (though it still works) claiming they "Could not be verified for use".

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    2. Flojomojo

      Flojomojo

      That's insane that this is broken (along with trust in them!)

       

      Active bug report here

      https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1548973

       

    3. OldSchoolRetroGamer

      OldSchoolRetroGamer

      All fixed now YAY !

    4. GoldLeader

      GoldLeader

      TBH, I'm just glad I know you guys! I tend to get answers and options...Some of these computer things are not my strong point haha...

  4. Does your phone identify music?  Or does GOOGLE  "Search a Song"  just instantly say "UNABLE TO FIND A MATCH"   (Try Again) ?

     

     

    Mine does that.  And NO,  restarting the Phone doesn't do anything...

     

    Maybe AI IS REAL!

     

    My Phone used to try....But I stumped it so much it has given up hope!

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    2. NE146

      NE146

      I actually downloaded and tried Shazam for the first time in my life just a couple months ago. So it does exist lol

    3. GoldLeader

      GoldLeader

      If it never comes back online I might just get Shazam (again) and try it...

    4. GoldLeader

      GoldLeader

      For the record,  My Google never did come back to where it could "Search a Song"...Piece of crap!

  5. It may be Thursday...But I still call it a Taco Bell Fry Day! (Today marks the First day of Taco Bell having french fries according to the ads...Don't know if it's Everywhere or regional)..Gonna check it out soon!

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    2. GoldLeader

      GoldLeader

      Americanized Mexican Fast Food? We know it's not the same but...Still good if you're in the mood...Actually one of my Favorite places here is like a Mexican food greasy spoon (if you will) called Rolando's (well there's 2 the other one is Rudolpho's)...They mostly speak Spanish and I really like their guac and chips, and cheese fries, and chile rellenos...Probably because they're cheap with giant portions and they're open 24 hours!

    3. Eltigro

      Eltigro

      There's a lady who comes by our work every Friday who sells homemade tamales out of a cooler.

    4. adam242

      adam242

      So I gave the Taco Bell fries a shot today. Not bad, reminded me of Checkers fries with just a hint of nacho flavor. I'll go back.

  6. Found an unmarked Parker Bros cart in a box of stuff...Cleaning it up now...Any guesses as to what game it is?

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    2. GoldLeader
    3. GoldLeader

      GoldLeader

      While I was hoping for something more off the wall, it was a fun mystery. Today I looked in the box and also found Reactor, Spiderman, and Empire; Complete with labels! I already had Empire (boxed) and from BITD I have Super Cobra and Amidar...Recently bought SW:TAG and Montezuma's Revenge of ebay...And an untested Frogger with label is in another lot of games I got...

    4. GoldLeader

      GoldLeader

      One cool thing is I never owned Frogger BITD and only ever played it once in the 80's...

  7. South Park got me thinking. Did you guys read "banned" books for high school? We read The Catcher in the Rye, Huck Finn, This Perfect Day and 1984...That's off the top of my head...

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    2. GoldLeader

      GoldLeader

      ^True! Our teacher really explained things to us. I think in high school, it's not that we were dumb, but we were caught up in our own lives...Barely had time to think deeply on literature, or seek out hidden meanings and metaphors etc.

    3. frankodragon

      frankodragon

      I actually did a book report on Cujo back in the 90s which now it's been banned.

    4. GoldLeader

      GoldLeader

      ^ha! I remember one teacher saying don't pick Stephen King for book reports cuz you're gonna read those anyway.

  8. So Folks,  What do ya call'em?  Soda?  Pop?  Soda Pop?  Cokes?  Soft drinks? ... Beverages?

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    2. GoldLeader

      GoldLeader

      The one I find funny is when it's all COKE.   "What Kind of Coke you want?"

      I'll take a Pepsi.  OK  "You?"   Make mine a Dr Pepper or R.C.  OK... and so on haha...

    3. Eltigro

      Eltigro

      Soda.  And I'm in Texas where people tend to lean to toward the "everything is a Coke" end of the spectrum.

    4. pacman000

      pacman000

      Down South "coke" is used as a generic term for all soft drinks, but it's rare for someone to ask what type of Coke you want. Usually they ask "what would you like to drink?" After all, most places have other, non-carbonated options.

  9. Reading this book and one character tells another that the 80s show Joanie Loves Chachi was Huge in Korea because Chachi means penis in Korean.  

     

    No idea if that's true, by the way...

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    2. Rogerpoco

      Rogerpoco

      Regardless, I just named mine Chachi.

    3. thanatos

      thanatos

      I saw Phantasm 2 in the theater as a teenager.  I remember the scene where he bolted two double-barrel shotguns together and then fired, and didn't even move from recoil.  Even back then I thought "That would have broken his arms!"  :D

       

    4. GoldLeader

      GoldLeader

      Re: Phantasm   I think the first one as a self contained movie is just Awesome!  But I like the ideas so much that I enjoyed the sequels too,  Esp. Ravager (If you've ever read behind the scenes about it) as it's a small miracle that it even got made, and it wraps things up nicely with interdimensional explanations.

  10. Remember this? Ya hop in your muscle car to go to one of the dozens of video rental places.  Don't forget your membership card. Pick 2 or 3 movies out, and if you're feeling frisky, rent one of their VCRs too.  Now you can dub these uncensored movies onto your own blank VHS tape (SP, LP, or SLP).  Now you're buckin' the system!  You can watch YOR: Hunter from the Future anytime you want!  Even if there's nothing on TV but boring soap operas.

  11. So what music do you guys have going in the background today? Relaxing music for Spas and massage? 80's hits? Some nice Punk Rock? Funky 70's sitcom soundtracks? Maybe some pure Heavy Metal? Classic Rock? Electro? Goth?

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    2. adam242

      adam242

      Been on a bit of a ska kick lately

    3. CaptainBreakout

      CaptainBreakout

      I still do a lot of early 2000's trance. For some reason I go back to Paul Van Dyk when I'm trying to concentrate.

    4. Trip2018

      Trip2018

      A bit of techno, dubstep, and some trap.

  12. Got a TeleMarketer call yesterday. She kept going on and on, so I said, "Shut up! Listen!...My friend just arrived...I gotta go! He's an astronaut and he's on his Launch Break!"

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    2. frankodragon

      frankodragon

      Tell them to reach you at 307-632-6224. That's the number to the Wyoming FBI office.

    3. CPUWIZ
    4. GoldLeader

      GoldLeader

      ^FBI Office! That's rad! Funny you should say that because another time I kept telling them to "Please stay on the line" no matter what they were saying...on the Do Not Call list too...I wanted them to think I was tracing the call.

  13. What's your Favorite song that lasts 4:37?  Sort your iTunes by Time and let me know.   I'll go with His Eyes by Pseudo Echo (as seen/heard in Friday the 13th: A New Beginning)....Lots of Honorable Mentions for this category though :)

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    2. Joe C.

      Joe C.

      He probably just picked a random number just for kicks.. or maybe a better reason behind it.

    3. Giles N

      Giles N

      Guess all this are just for fun, for a holidayish-, or personal taste-, or just dumped-into-my-head-kind-o-thing...

       

      Just didn’t get Apple Music to sort my fave-music by time.

      (perhaps I’m a tech-imbecile; such things may occur man).

    4. Giles N

      Giles N

      I think Norwegian metal band

      ’Extol’s 

      ‘Another Adams Escape’ is quite precisly 4:37 in lenght (sorry if I’ve overlooked a second), and is a track with heavy punch, still melodious, - at times almost soft - like inviting,- but having a unique atmosphere and also quality-sound worth listening to...

  14. The Orville is on Tonght!! Wooooooo! Anyone else stoked?

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    2. save2600
    3. GoldLeader

      GoldLeader

      ^Case In Point!

    4. Iwantgames:)

      Iwantgames:)

      Just watched it on the FOX NOW app. Pretty good

  15. What's your Top 3 Anime (in no particular order)?

     

    Me:   Cowboy Bebop, Death Note, FLCL (first series only).

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    2. Trinity

      Trinity

      I'll add one, Hi-Score Girl.

    3. Skippy B. Coyote

      Skippy B. Coyote

      My Top 5 Favorite Anime, because I like the number 5.

       

      1. Rurouni Kenshin

      2. Cowboy Bebop

      3. Trigun

      4. Hellsing

      5. Samurai Champloo

       

      Honorable mentions to Gunslinger Girl and Strike Witches, because reasons, and Vampire Hunter D for being the first anime I ever saw.

    4. ClassicGMR

      ClassicGMR

      I was a huge fan of Gaiking/Grendizer in the 80's so I had to watch Daiku Maryu Gaiking when I found a sub of it online. Excellent re-imagine of the series. :)

  16. Who has moths? Our state is on the migration path. I've got 5 in my bathroom right now...And earlier tonight I threw out 4 of them. Gotta catch'em all!

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    2. retrorussell

      retrorussell

      Had a ginormous one in my kitchen the other day.. flew right by my face-- yikes! I hate when you kill them with a kleenex.. POP! Ick!!!

    3. frankodragon

      frankodragon

      Talk about "fast" food.

    4. save2600

      save2600

      I've seen 2-3 the last few days. Should check my closet now that you mention it! lol

  17. I just read an article on (Dangerous) Toys we don't have today...Lessee (from the list) I had a Water Wiggle, Clackers, Lawn Darts, and of course a Battlestar Galactica Viper.

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    2. GoldLeader

      GoldLeader

      What I'd do with my most high powered Dart Gun is put in chopsticks which I had sharpened in the pencil sharpener! Those things would stick in our curtains from about 25 feet away!

    3. GoldLeader

      GoldLeader

      Also remember candy cigarettes? LOL

    4. Skippy B. Coyote

      Skippy B. Coyote

      I remember playing cowboys and indians with my cousins when I was probably 6 or 7 years old, and the indians always won on account of us taking the suction cups off the ends of the arrows and sharpening the wooden shaft in a pencil sharpener. XD And yeah, I ate tons of those candy cigarettes as a kid! I liked the Target brand ones, which tasted oddly like Pepto-Bismol but in a good way.

  18. When I was a kid I had this pinball machine.  It was It was maybe 3-4 feet long or so, elevated about 4-6 inches above the ground, had what looked like 3/4 scale balls, but it had Real Bumpers and Real Flippers.  The bumpers lit up when hit, too.  Unfortunately I can't remember what it was called.  Once, I got a ball forever stuck under the rubber band triangle and the company sent me a free 5 pack of balls.  It seemed a lot cooler than all the toy pinballs ya can buy now,  and was almost like the real thing.  And I've never seen one on eBay, but like I say I can't remember what it was called, or the company that made it.  (Kinda wish I still had it)...

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    2. GoldLeader

      GoldLeader

      The main difference, and again, it could be I'm misremembering, was that I had 2 flippers, and I know there were areas on the playfield that were triangles fenced off by big rubber bands, but if you hit the ball hard enough it could go under the rubber band and get stuck, which happened to me...

    3. Keatah

      Keatah

      There were so many of these. The one I had as a kid was item (B) and possibly (C):

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    4. GoldLeader

      GoldLeader

      ^That Item C looks familiar (seems like the same form factor anyway)!  I bet it wasn't that the bumpers themselves lit up, just that triangle light in the middle!  That's probably it.  Thanks Keatah!

  19. Dear RADIO, Ozzy has Many, Many, Many, Many, Many, Many, Many more songs besides "Crazy Train" so next time, How 'bout you mix it up a bit? ~The Entire World

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    2. GoldLeader

      GoldLeader

      And just once instead of playing Dream On, they could play Kings and Queens, or maybe The Immigrant Song instead of Stairway...

    3. GoldLeader

      GoldLeader

      And songs Other than Sweet Home Alabama, Wayward Son, and Hotel California...

    4. GoldLeader

      GoldLeader

      **((End of Rant))**((Maybe just once I'll stop replying to my own Update hahaa))**

  20. Did you guys open your ValPaks? Might be $100 in there.

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    2. Flojomojo

      Flojomojo

      They send out 39 million envelopes every month! How many trees is that?

       

      https://www.valpak.com/blog/win

    3. GoldLeader

      GoldLeader

      Trees are a renewable resource! If they cut down more ahead of approaching forest fires, the fires would stop...OK Oversimplified...It's about carbon flow and forest management...

    4. GoldLeader

      GoldLeader

      DZ-Jay yep! Sums it up nicely...Though someday I may need custom blinds for my sunporch so there is that...

  21. Things can all but disappear from human consciousness...for example, in 1984 for a period of about 12 minutes I thought maybe it'd be a good idea to see Streets of Fire. And nobody has really thought about that movie since 1984. Until right now.

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    2. Random Terrain

      Random Terrain

      It was on HBO a lot in the middle of the 1980s. I'm guessing around 1986. Yep, that was long before the year 2000. Look what I just found:

       

    3. Random Terrain

      Random Terrain

      "The Future's So Bright, I Gotta Wear Shades" by Timbuk3 stuck out in my head because they supposedly used an Amiga computer to make some of the stuff in the video:

       

       

      It also sticks out because it was used in various movies as a happy future fun time song when it was really about the upcoming nuclear holocaust:

       

      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Future's_So_Bright,_I_Gotta_Wear_Shades

    4. GoldLeader

      GoldLeader

      Now I want an Amiga and have a newfound respect for Timbuk3!!

  22. What's your Favorite Song right now? Please list song/artist ... No Judgement ... GO!

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    2. GoldLeader

      GoldLeader

      Awesome! Keep'em coming! I think I'll download these, then burn a new CD known as the AtariAge Comp.

    3. Thorsten Günther

      Thorsten Günther

      Lord of the Lost - Blood for Blood

       

    4. Skippy B. Coyote

      Skippy B. Coyote

      One more for your AtariAge Comp! =)

       

      Touch Fluffy Tail - Ken Ashcorp

  23. Yesterday,  I parked behind a car that had a big custom made bumper sticker that said  ASSENTIAL  WORKER

  24. Still digging out...We got 31 inches of snow here from Saturday to Monday.

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    2. GoldLeader

      GoldLeader

      I use the internet to calculate hehahhaa...Figure our temperatures range from about -25 C to  35 C.  (Give or take)...

    3. Giles N

      Giles N

      @GoldLeader

      I envy you those 35C!

      (I can do fine without those minus 35)

       

      Here’s back in January:

       

      Even if cold, its pretty.
       

      4CE36F52-B1E4-4127-A023-F8651542F7ED.jpeg

    4. GoldLeader

      GoldLeader

      ^Very Nice!

  25. Today:  I went in for a cough, Ended up in the ER! Also had my first ambulance ride.  I'm fine, BTW.  It's just (well just a pneumonia, but I've had worse ;)  While talking to the doc he took my heart rate twice then they gave me an EKG,  Then he said, He had no idea how I was functioning, that I should be passed out, and I needed to go to the ER immediately, and he wouldn't let me drive...

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    2. retrorussell

      retrorussell

      Yikes!  Hope you're okay.

    3. frankodragon

      frankodragon

      Yeah, that's scary when the doc says you have to get into the ER. But at least there are meds which will help control BP and other heart ailments. Yours truly is on bpmeds but they're very affordable.

    4. Keatah

      Keatah

      Keep us updated.

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