Evening Reading

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  if by modern you mean popular stuff then i highly recommend both the corrections and carter beats the dev... : Kiwi Man
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    Modern=present day setting. Sorry for confusion. : KungFuKenobi
    • Then stay away from Cater Beats the Devil, although you will be missing out on an excellent book. : fat mike
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  i saw enemy mine. good movie. was it originally a book? : vodor
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    Hell, I thought so. Now I look and I guess it wasn't. : KungFuKenobi
    • Too bad because it could have been ever better in book-form by showing more of the characters' thoughts. : KungFuKenobi
• Greg Bear's The Forge of God is really good (the sequel Anvil of Stars is also great, deals 98% with just... : IHateASU
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  you want to read The Forever War such a great book, read it a bunch of times. I think it fits what you ... : papaskot
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    Thanks for all the input, everyone. I think The Forever War and The Gap series are the ones that most in... : KungFuKenobi
    • vantage suggested the gap series to me and it really is very good. after i finish my current novel i'll l... : sikander
• the beach? i think that falls under lord of the flies/fight club/modern : ignatius
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  Orson Scott-Card's Ender's Game series. : iamgoat
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    I read and enjoyed Book1 of the Ender saga. Do the sequels follow the same writing style of being very m... : KungFuKenobi
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      Yes, very. The second book is my favorite. : iamgoat
      • disagreed...the only ones that I enjoyed were the first and the last enders game enders shadow : TheTick
• I would HIGHLY recommend Otherland by Tad Williams ... : GloriousCow
• Richard Preston--the Cobra Event. Just read the first chapter, it'll have you shitting bricks. Excelle... : veggie
• Read some Harlan Ellison! http://harlanellison.com/iwrite/index.htm : Vorlonesque
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  Fuck yeah I do. On Basilisk Station - David Weber It's the first book in a series about this spac... : geedeck
  • This series is great. Read them in order. : freqq28
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  The Gap Series by Stephen R. Donaldson my fav sci-fi series =) : sikander
  • its a power struggle kinda thing though although its also very character oriented its some of my fa... : TheTick
• Gary Jennings (Historical fiction) - Awesome violence and the craziest sex i've ever read in a book(s). H... : gorilla
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  Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson. It does get way into the whole political and ssocail aspect of the world,... : ttyRazor
  • yes, this guy's writing style is awesome. I'm reading Cryptoconimomonogmonomcodnom (bleah) and loving eve... : gorilla
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  All of the Dune books by Frank, NOT his son Brian, are quite well done. He also has quite a few other goo... : pharoah mike
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    the dosadi project owns. there's some common themes between it and the dune series, too. : vodor
    • As with God Makers, Frank was a great author :( : pharoah mike
• The Heechee series by Frederik Pohl. : lazarusb

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• XY man - XX is female : tachck
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  tomservo is XXY : sexninja
  • XXY = boobs and balls : boolean
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  what you say?? : gplusplus
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    if you add a side to the y it looks like x! : ansuble
    • that still makes no sense : gplusplus
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      OHNOS!! you figured it all out and now armaggedon is gonna start :( : strider_
      • O_O I AM SROYY!!!!! : ansuble
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  God didnt do DNA : mr brown
  • He wasn't smart enough :/ : brewsterdog
• sexninja is YY : Piotyr
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  all his offspring will be boys! : Dante
  • uhh, pretend this replied to Piotyr : Dante
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    that was all part of his master plan... : Piotyr
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      he likes boys : TheTick
      • thanks, I wasn't sure everyone was going to catch that GET IT? HE LIKES BOYS!!! : Piotyr
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    technicly, that would mean all my offspring would be girls : sexninja
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      nevermind ur right, im stupid :( : sexninja
      • good thing this is an old thread! : sexninja

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  WHO RUN BARTERTOWN?!?! : KungFuKenobi
  • masta blasta : Ryno
• There can be only one roadwarrior : Kashmir
• thunderdome hurt me in ways i'm too scarred to discuss : electric_monk
• sweet dude! : Shadore66
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  Oh no, some aging actor tried to be young again. [get Ben Affleck to play the part, he's so hot right no... : moshman
  • well d'oh! : moshman
  • uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh...no. : Poor Yurik
• Mad Max: SOMEWHERE AFTER THUNDERDOME! : afext
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  I think the only choice Hollywood (and this IS Hollywood) is to make something WORSE than Thunderdome.. ... : Maddog_Delphi97
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    We can only hope that Miller remembers how to do decent action scenes with little on no plot. He could al... : Fyunch Click
    • Umm, hello? John Woo made a movie called "Mission Impossible 2"? Granted, Woo has made some good movi : Maddog_Delphi97
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      I think that what they need to do is go back and watch the first two before making another modern John Wo... : Dreagon
      • Yeah, I'd have to agree with this. Of course, Hollywood hasn't ALWAYS bad movies, so it's kind of hard... : Maddog_Delphi97
• I liked the first half of thunderdome. After he met the kids it was all downhill. : Ben Barker
• i hated the first two, loved thunderdome : rosewood

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  FYI, I'm referring to there being no update yet. : Zehobbit
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    Neither of whom live in Eastern time and they both do alot of stuff that you don't see. So there's nothin... : geedeck
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      Does that matter? Most of their audience is in the United States. : Zehobbit
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        Anyway, it's 9:40 in Texas now, where Steve lives. : Zehobbit
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          Yeah, and Shugamom is in town. Have you met her? Do you know how cool she is? Steve's probably being a... : geedeck
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            Dude, no business can use, "The mom was in town" as an excuse. It's just not very professional for a busi... : Zehobbit
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              when was the last time you paid steve a sum of money for him putting up news? I sure as hell can't think... : multisync
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                I pay him $6.95 monthly and I'd love to have a pre-10 a.m. update every day. Asking too much? I think n... : s_dubya
                • mercury != comments in any way : Paranoid Android
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                  but you are not paying for news, you are paying for download speeds. All the content on this site is 100... : multisync
                  • Actually, it's not free... ads must be viewed by non-mercury members. Those using ad-removing software o... : s_dubya
              • lets send them xmas gifts! I can spare $20. : gorilla
    • Like hard drugs. : xvdl
    • True.. for one of them, it's the middle of the afternoon.. ;) : Vantage
  • and this affects you how? : synaptic revolt
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  Layoffs. : mrtony
  • "Sorry Maarten we just can't afford you're expenses, with the whores and the pot, here's a 2 months supp... : multisync
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  you read the front page? ...but i agree, its not a smart way to run a business when so many people on ... : bullet
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    but his business is running fine, cuz every time you refresh, or post to comments and read them you are b... : multisync
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      yeah but there is competition (Blues) who update their pages with new content faster than the shack which... : bullet
      • also, just some CONSISTENCY of when the site is updated in the morning could go a long way, even if it is... : bullet
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  its early even where maarten is.. no reason for an update to be this late but whatever.. its not my s... : OverBurN
  • early EVENING that is : OverBurN

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  whoh. How much space does it take up and where'd you get it from? : Scotty22
  • The answers to both of your questions is right here http://www.ziosoft.com/product.html?n=28 : sharpie

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  I have a stiff neck this morning :D : Q-ball
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    I think I slept on my arm wrong for part of it :D : tomservo
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      Ahh cool! Then your sleep was not a total loss. scuse me I'm gonna go grab some tylenol fdsfkjdoifjslkd : Q-ball
      • no you know its REALLY good sleep when you sleep on something the wrong way :) : tomservo
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  Tell us the disrobing part again. Only this time do it painfully slow. : dognose
  • aaaaannnndd thhhhheeeennnn I toooooook offffff mmmmyyyyyy chhhassssttiiittttyyy beeellllttttt annnnddddd ... : tomservo

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• Twice I still need a job :\ : alacious
• Yes. 1 time when I was considered a part-time worker yet when they gave me severence pay they treated me... : Scotty22
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  due to financial issues? or being a black man brought up in white suburbia hehe : multisync
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    down with the whitey devil! damn opressors! wait. i'm white. *damn it* : loco3kgt
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      I one time watched a video in my Native American class that showed a picture of a whiteman that slowly de... : Scotty22
      • Do they teach you to be a Native American in that class? : Vorlonesque
  • the vp of my last company wanted a mini, so he laid off all the IT department :( : Silent Wolf
• negative. Haven't graduated college yet, so I probably don't count. : loco3kgt
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  Yes. once, in 2001. For 8 months I couldn't get a job. : Fyunch Click
  • same here, laid off Oct '01, didn't get a new job till May '02 : multisync
• Three times. One from United Nuclear Homestake mill, once from Human Resource Center of New Mexico, once ... : Dreagon
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  nope, still a virgin ;/ : skold
  • I was waiting for this. :] : Zehobbit
• Never because I am teh besto I've also only had one job : theGREATpandaman
• Nope. : StuMan1337
• I made vingar & baking soda bombs, threw just about every object that flies, towel whipped, & drank at my : esky
• Only once so far. : s_dubya
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  Does the neighbors dog count? : Vorlonesque
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    Shit, I read that as "laid" rather than "laid off" : Vorlonesque
    • ATTN GHEY DOGZ : nyranger66
• I have quite twice.... but never been cut :(. : Q-ball
• Never, I have my own company. : b00tsauce
• yup... once. Summer of 2001. sucked :( : uberp00

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  goto any website like bestbuy.com or buy.com whatever and just serach for personal surround sound systems... : Scotty22
  • I appreciate the help i was looking for brand suggestions in this range,yknow to avoid buying a crap bran... : noxv1
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  Go to BestBuy (or other electronics chain) and look at surround setups for about $300. At that price poi... : Carnivac
  • What I just said :) : Scotty22

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  I can't download shockwave. : StuMan1337
  • you are one of the lucky few : multisync
• OTHERSHACK IN REVIEW: some people just dont get it: http://www.wrecked.net/d/meadow.jpg : skold

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• scuttle! : nyranger66

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• Racist Alert! yes, i'm joking : Zehobbit
• Just look up modeling agencies in google or yahoo. THey should have glossies online. : Odoyle
• http://isky.deviantart.com/thumbnails/?PHPSESSID=3842df27cfc826d219c09f20dba3f813 Give those a look ov... : Toraz Chryx
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  explain why for curiosity's sake :D : tomservo
  • bukakke fakes. : Vantage
  • For great fappage of course. : Phil
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    Im at art school and i'm not happy with the work i did in the studio today so im going to start again wit... : disembodied potato
    • I see :) yeah right, I think you're doing bukakke fakes gl :D : tomservo
• You know if you average out a lot of faces the end result will look better. : Vorlonesque

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• I MUST HAVE ONE! : Stormrider
• I PITY THE FOO THAT DROP MY SOAP!!!! : Mad Brahmin Disease

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  Remixes by Chemical Brothers. : MuaaSan
  • Or Propellerheads : Mad Brahmin Disease
• oh yeh and albums will be mixed by flood (maybe remixes by reznor+chem bros) : CoRDS
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  Aren't there two drummers in slipknot? not a fan : vigilante
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    three, iirc : synaptic revolt
    • correct : rainbowsheep
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  WHAT ABOUT RAY WATTS, SASCHA AND SKOLD?! : skold
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    They are the OTHER uber-band. : KungFuKenobi
    • I just recently heard some of Skold's Shotgun Messiah stuff. Having been a pretty big KMFDM fan for a wh... : KungFuKenobi
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  Here's mine.. :) Ole Borud + Devin Townsend + Mikael Akerfeldt + Johnny Maudling + Steve Wilson + John... : Vantage
  • Remixes by Hybrid and Infected Mushroom of course. : Vantage
• all those creative forces / big egos would fuck shit up and they'd break up after a week. : patdoody
• more like UBER GAY BAND. : Lawgiver
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  UBER BAND = The guitarist from Rush, the Bass player from Rush, and finally the drummer.....from Rush : Ra5putin
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    man that band would almost be as bad as that Rush crap! : patdoody
    • HEHEHE LOL CHIPMUNK ROCK!!! OMG! : KungFuKenobi
  • Agreed. : Fyunch Click
  • I wouldn't object too loudly if you replaced Alex Lifeson, actually. He's not that great. Put in, say, ... : UtilityMaximizer
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  Get rid of reznor and the slipknot guy and you got a good band ;) : alacious
  • heretic : skold
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  my perfect band would be a combination of the lo-fidelity allstars and groove armada, except they wouldn'... : pupismyname
  • remixes by alex gopher, fatboy slim, and the chemical brothers. : pupismyname

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  holy cow old skool : prime8
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    \m/ Cocteau Twins \m/ : freakord
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      \m/ Afghan Wigs \m/ ??? : prime8
      • ooo....nice one :) : freakord
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        \m/ Happy Mondays \m/ : freakord
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          \m/ Pursuit of Happiness \m/ : prime8
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            \m/ King Missile \m/ detachable penis..... : freakord
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              \m/ Minutemen \m/ : Fyunch Click
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                \m/ Therapy? \m/ : Lawgiver
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                  \m/ New Fast Automatic Daffodils \m/ : prime8
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                    \m/ Soup Dragons \m/ : prime8
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                      \m/ The Sundays \m/ : freakord
                      • \m/ Limp Biskut \m/ : Nullzero

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• oh nos!! T_T : Nullzero

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• why? its not unexpected, MS announced a long ass time ago .NET for apache (on any flavor of *nix) this is... : multisync
• uhhh....world ends in 2004? : nyranger66

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  your what expired? i take it this is some electronic device.... : skold
  • sticker : X-GOUKI

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  Where the fuck are you that it's 2AM? : Toraz Chryx
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    why dont you click on the little clock in windows and find out : multisync
    • You assume I'm sat at a Windows machine >:( sadly, I am >:( : Toraz Chryx

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  Eminem grabbed album of the year for "The Eminem Show." HAHAHAHA what a fucking joke. Queens of the... : smdever
  • i think i should probably take a listen to that album. I havent heard it yet. : uberp00
• carnivore. Enjoy your new subject status! : xvdl
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  *NSYNC singer-turned-solo artist Justin Timberlake performed while sitting down since he was still nursin : Scotty22
  • Were they infact actual nurses? : Toraz Chryx
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  Nelly was artist of the year, hahahahaha : alacious
  • I AM #1 : Scotty22

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  I could help you, but I need women in return. : KungFuKenobi
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    You got it, unfortunatly I won't be able to do that until I get off of work today :) : Scotty22
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      Fair enough. Are you familiar with using recordsets? : KungFuKenobi
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        Pretty much. I am not the end all, know all but I can manage. : Scotty22
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          just google for ADODB.Recordset tutorial : multisync
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            Yeah, much easier that way. All my knowledge is straight-VB anyways. : KungFuKenobi
            • its pretty much the same thing in VBA/Access : multisync
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            Now the ADODB.recordset type feature I've seen used a lot in ASP and vbscript etc... And granted Access f... : Scotty22
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              its all the same : multisync
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                Whenever they hit the yes button do I basically have to create a SQL statement for each field that I want... : Scotty22
                • No, you should be able to use a single insert statement (if the fields are in the same table) to insert t... : malevolence
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                  you can update more then one field in an update stmt : multisync
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                    Awesome. Yes the fields are all in the same table. But what about if a subform exists on a form? : Scotty22
                    • i presume you can find the index of the subform and the values of all its fields thru simple enumeration.... : multisync
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  more like msgboxresult = msgbox("body", vbYesNo) if msgboxresult = vbYes Then STORE DATA : electric_monk
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    Ya I know that's the proper way, but I just wrote out some quick pseudo code =P I know how to code the... : Scotty22
    • hehe... i never really got into the vb/access database stuff. i'm more into web-based databases, php. : electric_monk
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  shack msg'd : dist0rti0n
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    hey! why not post? we have a need to criticize your poor code writing skillz. : TERATOGEN
    • hey, not on the first date, baby. : dist0rti0n
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  is Access Vb based? : Nation
  • ya all the code for storing data etc... is VB : Scotty22

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• buahahahaha : futant
• awesome. : geedeck
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  Um, I don't think the pope sends out e-mail. I think it's a scam. : Maddog_Delphi97
  • No fucking way. Totally legit. : Phil
  • NO WAY!!! i could have sworn this was real...i was about run out of my house and go donate to my closest... : davi00a1
  • Lies. you're the antipope. : thekidd
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    Thanks for the heads up : Vis Inack
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      I mean, it was kind of obvious from the way it was worded.. "here, give us lots of cash, in small unmarke... : Maddog_Delphi97
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        It totally had me fooled. I mean, the Pope can barely keep his eyes open and is unable to sit up straigh... : Phil
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          Do you think he builds his own? Or does he have a Cardinal do it? (in between humping young boys, that is... : Fyunch Click
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            He posts reviews at Newegg, so clearly he's a builder. "This 120 GB Western Digital is the shiznit" ... : Phil
            • LOL! I just got a mental image of the pope saying shiznit. : Fyunch Click
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  baby jesus etc etc : Magitek
  • Give that kid a hamburger! : Mad Brahmin Disease
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  I wish I got emails like this : Vis Inack
  • i thought the nintendo isketch was fun, now i want to try some xxx words, so how bout it?!? room shack... : davi00a1

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  gl : X-GOUKI
  • thx : Q-ball
• kb : TERATOGEN
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  you are not supposed to rub viagra on your neck. : Lawgiver
  • BUT IT FEELS SOOOOOOO GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOD! : Q-ball
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  GODDAMNIT PEOPLE USE VOWELS WHEN YOU REPLY TO THIS MAN : Paranoid Android
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    Yea, I am still wondering about some that "Kb" one :P : Q-ball
    • the current status of everything is peachy, please, let you and god both take good care of yourself until... : xvdl

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• only if you were rosewood : multisync

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• I think Ice Baubles III is my fav. : Bull
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  Bah! Tried to sign up as a user at DeviantArt but 'Bull' is taken! : Bull
  • Bah, that's a load of bull.... er.... : Toraz Chryx