Dec. 16th, 2009

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Regardless of whether you think machismo if good or bad, and regardless of whether you think diet drinks are good or bad, and regardless of whether you think machismo ought to be correlated with diet drinks, I was impressed that recent pepsi max advert showed it was possible to associate them in your mind at all

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wg63xfMqEn0

Quotes

Dec. 16th, 2009 12:51 pm
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On movie inconsistencies

"I used to hate how the T1000 could fly a helicopter AND fire a gun. It wasn't until repeated viewings, that I noticed he had three arms."
-- sacramentalist

An obvious pun in wikipedia

"Fire play is a type of BDSM play ... if so intended, it can permanently brand the skin of the bottom. " --wikipedia

What I don't understand is, why it seems to actually work:

"Believing this statement will make you happier."
-- Ryan Lortie

More

"First I had my cookie therapist, who is a cookie therapist because she is made of cookies, which is like being made of awesome except better."
-- hatam_soferet

Ian J: "I think we should use a fusion reactor only in orbit, where the reaction can be gravitationally contained in a stable manner. We could beam the power down wherever people needed it, and collect it in vast banks of photoelectic cells in the desert or something."
Everyone: *long pause*
Everyone: *long pause* "Oh! You mean the sun?"

"You could create two databases, one called sitea and one called siteb, in your single MySQL process ... You can also use phpBB's $table_prefix feature for this purpose, but three out of four nerds agree that the two-database way is "better."
-- NearlyFreeSpeech.net FAQ

"I believe the iPhone will ultimately be judged a more important product than the original Apple Macintosh. ...Yes, I am dead serious. Just check back here in fifteen to twenty years to see if I was right. (Hint: I will be.)"
-- Jeff Atwood, Coding horror

Ferrett: Would Casablanca have been as cool if in Casablanca 2: Electric Boogaloo, Victor Lazlo died and Rick and Ilse got together? No. No. A thousand times, no.
Bradhicks: Actually, Ferret, [in As time goes by, the authorised sequel ] Victor Lazlo does die off and Ilsa marries Rick
Bradhicks: Satire is hard, eh?
Ferrett: ...
Ferrett: I FUCKING HATE THIS WORLD.
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Notwithstanding strong feelings by people who don't like the game, I started playing some Magic:TG at alextfish and woodpijn's games evening, and with livredor, but would like to test out some decks on some other occasion; would anyone like to join me to do so?

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