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From: elag <elag@cloud9.net>
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Subject: Re: 14 July 1789
Date: Wed, 27 Aug 2003 00:49:30 -0400
Organization: de mortuis nil nisi bonum
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Paul Heslop wrote:
>
> elag wrote:
>
> > > >
> > > > Ned (distraught): Reverend... emergency! I - it's the Simpson kids -
> > > > eedily - I, uh, baptism - oodily - uh - doodily doodily!
> > > > Rev. Lovejoy: Ned, have you thought about one of the other major
> > > > religions? They're all pretty much the same.
> > >
> > > :O)
> > >
> > > Homer: Okay, okay, don't panic. To find Flanders, I just have to think
> > > like Flanders. "I'm a big four-eyed lame-o, and I wear the same stupid
> > > sweater every day." The Springfield River!
> >
> > Ah... I miss the days when the Simpsons contained biting social satire...
> > here's another of my favorite quotes:
> >
> > Lisa: Solitude never hurt anyone. Emily Dickinson lived alone, and she
> > wrote some of the most beautiful poetry the world has ever known...
> > then went crazy as a loon.
> >
> heh heh! Or
>
> Bart, with $10,000, we'd be millionaires! We could buy all kinds of
> useful things like...love!"
That reminds me of a tv lottery commercial in which there is a song
which goes: "If I had a million dollars I would buy you a house..."
which I changed to "If I had a million dollars I could spit in your
eye... I could spit in your eye... I could spit in your eye..."
It's really rather catchy.
>
> > > Have you tried looking online to see if your player has a secret menu?
> > > My son's had only PAL DVD but a search online brought the way into the
> > > menu and switched off the region control, aswell as the thing which
> > > stops you playing copies, and his is only a cheap dvd. You just type
> > > something like 'goodmans 137dvd secrete menu' or 'sony 345dvd hack' etc
> > > etc.
> >
> > I don't even own one yet... I'm having too much fun w/ all the cheap VHS
> > equipment & tapes... these days the bargains are everywhere... One of
> > these days I'll have to convert but until then, 87 cent tapes are not
> > to sneeze at.
>
> You're like me then. Actually you can pick dvd players up here for like
Yes, but the DVDs are not so cheap. The Image quality is a great leap
forward compared to VHS, though. It's like going from super 8mm to 70mm film.
>
> > > > Po.
> > >
> > > :O) Each one has gone through an absolute craze for it, then graduated
> > > onto harder stuff.
> >
> > What, smurfs?... puke-e-mon?... Dostoevsky?
>
> Oh definitely Film Noir. :O)
>
> Sophia, smallest, moved on through Tweenies into Thomas the tank Engine
> and others and now an Aussie singing group who do a kids show called
> High 5.
> Jordan, middle one, ditched tubbies quickly as he has short attention
> span... prefers stuff like the Mr Bean animation.
> Lauren is into Tom and Jerry and real movies, and she's only 7. She'll
> be on the whiskey and cigars next.
>
> > > I found a website but it made me install the latest flash player and I
> > > have to reboot before I can see it, so I'll just give you the addy
> > > http://www.monkey-dust.co.uk/
> >
> > Ah!!!... I can't see it either... I'll have to come back to it... I'm
> > sick of upgrading every diddling piece of software every 10 minutes...
>
> Bloody annoying isn't it. The worst ones are 'your browser is out of
> date blah blah you must update to see the site..' oh, well I won't
> bother then.
I definitely boycott anything that tries to force me to use Micr0s0ft products.
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