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  1. joeatari1

    My current status is that I am married with two children and I am employed.  In case anybody was wondering.  What's your status?

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    2. retrorussell

      retrorussell

      Single, employed, paying my house off bit by bit with rent money, and making YT videos and eating well.

    3. carlsson

      carlsson

      I read that as "married to two children" and was about to call social services.

    4. Swami

      Swami

      "I wanted to have a baby, not marry one" --the glowering wife

  2. joeatari1

    I am nowhere near Queens but I found this on Craigslist.  Looks like a great haul for the money.  https://newyork.craigslist.org/que/sys/d/jackson-heights-atari-800/7219256392.html

  3. joeatari1

    Join the 2020 Atari Age Secret Santa today!!!  Thousands of AA members and only 20 participants so far.  It's fun to give!

     

    1. Torr

      Torr

      I'm interested. PM me the details please.

  4. joeatari1

    Holy crap!  Sega Nomad prices are through the roof!  Guess I haven't checked prices on them in a while.

    1. GoldLeader

      GoldLeader

      Sticker shock, huh?  I have 2 of them,  bought back when they were only ridiculous, not ludicrous ...One needs work (Power supply maybe) but it has the LCD mod,  the other is bone stock...I used to love to kick back and play some Ultimate Qix (I left it plugged in) but now on the broken one if ya tilt it just a little the damn thing resets!  (Power goes off and back on) ...Arrrrrrrrrg!

    2. joeatari1

      joeatari1

      Oof.  That's frustrating.  And yes, sticker shock.  I now have two in good condition physically (except for scratched screens) and one that is missing the battery box and has the start button about ripped out of the case.  Need to get them all recapped and I am thinking about new LCD screens on the two that are nicer.  I think I only paid $20 for the beat up one and like $40 or $50 for the nicer one (many years ago).  The second nicer one I just received as a gift from my sister and brother in law today.

    3. thanatos

      thanatos

      Yeah, I sold my completely perfect CIB one in 2009 on eBay for like $80.  Ouch.

  5. joeatari1

    Can I get the Barth burger?

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    2. Rogerpoco

      Rogerpoco

      If you have enough quarters left over from Blip's Arkaid!

    3. Cobra Kai

      Cobra Kai

      what is that from? I'm guessing You Can't Do That On Television?

    4. retrorussell

      retrorussell

      Duhh... Iiii heard that.

  6. joeatari1

    Miss, whats the old 96er?

    1. retrorussell

      retrorussell

      96, dudes!

    2. GoldLeader

      GoldLeader

      Miss:  Bend over and I'll show you!

    3. joeatari1

      joeatari1

      Oh, that's our world famous Paul Bunyons blue ox steak.  It's a 96 ounce prime aged beef steak

  7. joeatari1

    This day is...

    Dragon | Monster Wiki | Fandom

    And so is my...

    Donkeys are natural heat lovers and prefer Bethlehem to Britain

    1. GoldLeader

      GoldLeader

      Ya know,  before I clicked on this....I was trying to go all day without thinkin'...(And I'd have gotten away with it too if it wasn't for you meddling kids)

  8. joeatari1

    I just saw an Uber Eats commercial with Patrick Stewart and Mark Hamill.  There was almost a fight between them with Cricket bats of all things.  It was epic!

    1. eddhell

      eddhell

      Mark Hamil??  I thought it was Oliver Reed....oh yeah, he's dead...

  9. joeatari1

    I got a package from Songbird today and it had half of a newspaper page in it from what looks like Sweden.  Maybe @carlsson can translate for us.

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    1. GoldLeader

      GoldLeader

      Lemme Try!

       

      I may be a little rusty...

       

      So Vasteras is Carlsson's city...I think a Krog is a half crocodile, half dog;  And a Snart is when you've got a snot that smells like a fart...

       

      OK, Maybe you better get Carlsson.

    2. carlsson

      carlsson

      Cool. That must be a rather old newspaper, about February 2020. The upper article mentions a music festival intended to be held on June 25-27, but due to Covid-19 it was cancelled altogether on May 15. The big news was about a female artist, Veronica Maggio making her only planned concert in this area at the festival. Alas that never happened.

       

      The bottom article is about yet another of those trendy restaurants opening and closing all the time. For a short while there was a low-end fastfood burger joint at the address at Sturegatan, but slow serving plus even more boring burgers than McDonald's meant it didn't last long. Now this Blackstone Steakhouse was about to open, with game, beef, pizza, swordfish, vegetarian and vegan choices on the menu. The guest gets a raw piece of meat to the table and decides for how long to cook it.

       

      Apparently this restaurant at least still is open, seven months later in a period of many places closing down (even here where we never had a full lockdown). However, I've never been there. For a price point, the pizzas and vegan dishes are ~$17-$21 each and meat dishes $28-$41. That might be typical for that kind of restaurant, but then again at that price point the city is crowded by existing and new restaurants, so they got a lot of competition.

  10. joeatari1

    How strange, in todays birthdays there are 9phoneman and 10phoneman.  Both of them are 48 today.  What are the odds?  Maybe they are twins?

    1. GoldLeader

      GoldLeader

      Maybe a phoneman traded in his iPhone9 (is that a thing) for an iPhone10, and ...I dunno...

  11. joeatari1

    Saturday night TV update:  Dr. Cyclops on Svengoolie tonight.

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    2. GoldLeader

      GoldLeader

      Hey it's back!    And Buck Rogers is on!! SCORE!

    3. BydoEmpire

      BydoEmpire

      Son of Dracula next week!

    4. frankodragon

      frankodragon

      If you're into that Twitter thing, then you can live tweet during Sven.  Just use the #Svengoolie hashtag.

  12. joeatari1

    Some people have an electric personality.  Mine runs on gas.

    1. Rogerpoco

      Rogerpoco

      I had so many fart jokes running thru my brain that they all just ran together, so I'll let it go, insert your own.

      :)

  13. joeatari1

    If you were an Atari game, which one would you be?

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    2. Nathan Strum

      Nathan Strum

      Miner 2049er, because I can't jump, I walk really slow, have bad collision detection, and can't sing on key.

       

      And I look like a blob.

    3. Joe C.

      Joe C.

      M.U.L.E. a new planet!

    4. GoldLeader

      GoldLeader

      Sometimes,  when I'm in the bathroom...Assteroids.

  14. joeatari1

    Playing Godzilla by B.O.C. while watching Godzilla on TV.  Awesome.  Annoying the wife while doing it.  Priceless.

    1. DragonGrafx-16

      DragonGrafx-16

      Should have been playing one of the Godzilla video games at the same time. lol

    2. GoldLeader

      GoldLeader

      While in your Godzilla costume! :lol:

    3. MrMaddog

      MrMaddog

      I remember when watching Godzilla movies on TBS back then, they would have a customized music video made with the Blue Oyster Cult song and clips from the actual movies.  Really cool stuff...

  15. joeatari1

    Started playing the Native demo on Jaguar last night.  WOW!  That is probably the most visually stunning game on the Jag.  I really wish it was completed.

  16. joeatari1

    I saw a Subaru BRAT on my way home today.  You don't see that every day anymore.  I thought they all rusted away!

    1. GoldLeader

      GoldLeader

      I do see those from time to time, but not often...I've seen both the later versions w/ the 2 tone paint jobs and the really old ones with the seats in the back.  (Something tells me they couldn't do that nowadays)...

    2. joeatari1

      joeatari1

      I used to enjoy seeing the old versions with the seats in the back.  I always thought that was cool.  I live in the northeast (salt belt) so most of the ones around here have rusted away or been scraped years ago.  The one I saw yesterday was a later one but was just dark blue with a white BRAT logo on the pillar at the back of the cab.  Still neat to see though.

  17. joeatari1

    Yea!  Status updates are working again!  Anyway, check out my give away thread for some neat stuff from time to time.

  18. joeatari1

    Happy Birthday @bennybingo. looking forward to your next Shatner or corn thread post!

    Stephen Sandoval on Twitter: "Happy Birthday, William Shatner!… "

    1. bennybingo

      bennybingo

      Thank you!!!

  19. joeatari1

    "i" before "e" except after "c".  Unless you are spelling caffeine.

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    2. carlsson

      carlsson

      As a secondary language, I've mostly learned it word by word instead of any particular grammar rules. Perhaps native speakers should as well?

    3. Keatah

      Keatah

      I don't give a rat's ass how stuff is spelted. Or even if it's a word.

    4. Swami

      Swami

      American English is a language of exceptions

  20. joeatari1

    Do banned members still get happy birthday wishes here on Atari Age?

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    2. Joe C.

      Joe C.

      Don't see why not. 

    3. carlsson

      carlsson

      "We hope you're happy, wherever you are now"

    4. Cebus Capucinis

      Cebus Capucinis

      "Happy Birthday, and don't let the door hit ya on the way out!"

  21. joeatari1

    Werewolf of London on Svengoolie tonight.

    1. GoldLeader

      GoldLeader

      Got it on my DVR!  Just finished Billy the Kid Vs. Dracula the other day...

  22. joeatari1

    Why is there no barking in Ozzy Osbournes' "Bark at the Moon"?  There is only some howling at the end of the song.?  When there is a song about barking, I want barking damn it!

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    2. Zoyous

      Zoyous

      Fishbone's "Bonin' in the Boneyard" has got barking and howling.

    3. GoldLeader

      GoldLeader

      Wow!  I saw Mortification play in 1993 in Illinois :)

    4. Giles N

      Giles N

      @GoldLeader

      Thats cool.

       

      I met the vocalist at NordicFest in Oslo in 2005 or 2007.

       

      He drank a non-alcoholic beer and mentiond responsible drinking.

       

      I mentioned I thought ‘Nocturnal’ was a really cool track.

  23. joeatari1

    Your mother was a hamster and your father smelt of elderberries!

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    2. Lord Innit

      Lord Innit

      When danger reared it's ugly head
      He bravely turned his tail and fled.

    3. digdugnate

      digdugnate

      it's far too perilous!

    4. joeatari1

      joeatari1

      Now go away or I will taunt you a second time!

  24. joeatari1

    I need to go clear my head.  I'll be in the restroom.

    1. Rogerpoco

      Rogerpoco

      So do you use your left hand, or your right hand for that?

      (Sorry, watched Stand by Me a couple days ago, semi-stole a joke from it...)

      :P

    2. Rogerpoco

      Rogerpoco

      Haha, pretty sure on my "main site", my profile status, "Currently Playing" is word for word the same as yours here...

      :D

      So many games, so little time...

    3. joeatari1

      joeatari1

      Just a bit of self deprecating humor.  Some days it feels this way though.

  25. joeatari1

    Hard.

    1. _The Doctor__

      _The Doctor__

      REHARDEN

      https://youtu.be/2wb3rKKCjAw

      Get the Bass hook up that stereo!

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