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• ^^^ informative? ;) : rand04
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  you gotta be shitting me : drucifer
  • Yea, that is pretty dick. : askedrelic
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  that's just fucking ridiculous. You can carry a gun aroudn and shoot a field, but not spit.. : moshman
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    This doesn't make any sense. : mr.sleepy
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      well consider the spitter is an idiot and he was in a nice hotel, drunk and baked out of his little mind... : lordlobo
      • i think he'd have been asked to leave if he fired a gun too : mr.sleepy
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        Next time, try and not bring idiots with you. : suicidemachine
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          that's what the hotel sec. guys said to me as well :( The guy in question roomed with me last year and... : lordlobo
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            I would be PISSED at that guy. : suicidemachine
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              I'd kick him in the nuts and spit on his face while he's lying on the ground, quite honestly. : Mad Brahmin Disease
              • the thought had crossed my mind, but I really don't want to go to jail : lordlobo
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              my anger is overwhelming me, trust me. the 3 of us that were victims of this classless moron are beside ... : lordlobo
              • That guy can suck a bigass fucking cock. : headless
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        If you didn't spit, they must acquit! : MrMethane
        • Chewbacca, a wookie, living on Endor? : Mad Brahmin Disease
    • that's the point : moshman
• Time to whoop some ass. : TastyWheat
• No fucking way!! : Mad Brahmin Disease
• wonder if the Gaylord will have Quakecon back if sort of stuff went on. Not saying this is worthy of a bo... : byorn
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  So why did you have to leave if you weren't even in the hotel at the time? : quietb0y
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    because I was staying in that room. arguing wasn't an option, there were several large guards there ushe... : lordlobo
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      You should have snuck back in with a big amish hat and a fake amish beard. No one would have been the wis... : quietb0y
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        NO WAIT! a sombraro and a little mexican mustache sexninja probably would have helped with the mexican mu : quietb0y
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          El Paso! : acidnynex
          • that's my city : Break
• WTF? Thats it???? : Squirrely
• oh. my. god. one little fucktard ruins it for everyone... a timeless problem. thank you for squaring ... : Downforce
• I am much disappointed by this story : MrMethane
• doh that sucks : skynet
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  you have got to be shitting me. They kicked y'all out for spitting off the balcony? in Texas? : Degenerate
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    "y'all" ??? People actually say that? : Bull
    • Yes. My mom picked back up when they moved back down south a couple years ago. I want to reach through th... : Squirrely
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      it's no worse than: Youse guys. Every section of the country has it's little idiosyncracies. : Fyunch Click
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        Where do you here "youse guys?" I'll stab whoever says that. : Video Sex Pope
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          I "here" it every time I visit relatives in NY. : Old_Fart
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            no. because I live here and never hear it. : Video Sex Pope
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              "The two yoots" : quietb0y
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                the two what? : Degenerate
                • yoots : Stage
                • did you just say "youse guys?" I'm getting my knife : Video Sex Pope
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              As a fellow resident of the area, I can also say that this is true. : jwnin
              • youse guys better quit lying : Degenerate
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        Seattle doesn't have any! : joelaughlin
        • Lies. : Helter Skelter
    • yes. everyone except you. : Degenerate
    • Yeah we do. It's no worse than listening to Boston or NY people and their weird nasly sounds :) : Scotty22
• wow man that just plain sucks : cap n KRUNCH
• off the balcony into man-anus : Sze Ior
• I really preferred the versions of the stories my fellow shackers came up with than the real version. : br3akn3ck1
• http://www.shacknews.com/ja.zz?id=8352631 : MatthewPhillips
• DAIKATANA'D : Nighthavvk
• weak, man. that is lame as hell. do you blame your friend for being an ass or do you think the hotel was ... : eskimo spy
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  BIGGEST. LETDOWN. EVAR! : Phil
  • Seriously! I was expecting some funny story about a drunk lobo, a midget, and a bellhop or something! :... : FormerHPB
• Real men swallow... : carazy

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  Time I spend tweaking my websites to work in IE: 0 Time I spend tweaking my websites to work in Netscape... : MatthewPhillips
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    I made a few corrections to your post here... Time I spent learning the wrong way HTML works so I coul... : ieGod
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      When 90% of your visitors use IE, what's a "standard" again? : AtaR1
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        Most of america uses the Imperial system for measurement, but what is standard in industry? Metric. ... : haiku
        • That's the most anal analogy I've ever heard applied to browsers. : Mad Brahmin Disease
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          Most of the world visits my websites in IE. Which means despite what computer dorks with books open have... : AtaR1
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            You really don't know what you're talking about. You're just assuming doing things the right way doesn't ... : haiku
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              As a quick example, I'll use the Dillinger Escape Plan review site I made the other day: http://www.fucks... : haiku
              • And to layer it on even thicker, I used the same exact structural markup as the review for Brother Daniel... : haiku
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                As someone who deals directly with the problems users experience (20,000+ users weekly) with a website i ... : headless
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                  You are absolutely, completely wrong. WRONG WRONG WRONG. : Clay
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                    Well there you have it, how can you argue with this statement. Just too many facts to even deal with ther... : MatthewPhillips
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                      I'm already into my second hour and a half meeting of the morning, so I really don't have the patience fo : Clay
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                        Since 98% of the people who view the site use IE, it doesn't MATTER which is technically correct or not. ... : headless
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                          So when Microsoft fucks you up the ass, do you apply the lube yourself or do you let them do it raw? : Clay
                          • LOL. : headless
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                          Wow. That was horrible. So what are you saying? Everyone should use IE for the rest of their lives and we... : personaljesus
                          • If your installed base uses IE, then you should develop for IE. Firefox is basically the first browse... : headless
                        • Thats all fine and good, but its not 100% correct. Clients don't give a shit what you have to do in order... : Reignman
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                  I wonder how www.fileshack.com does it then. : haiku
                  • file shack looks like shit and has bleeding text all over, even in IE. : headless
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                    Is everything supposed to blink like that when you hover? Is that an IE bug? : AtaR1
                    • lol : headless
                    • Obscure IE bug. Happens on some people's IE but not others. Gamespot apparently has the same problem. Not... : haiku
            • good explanation, bookmark'd : slickdoody
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              Another broad, baseless statement: ""Everyone uses IE, IE is the standard" argument are the same people : MatthewPhillips
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                CSS has been better supported by IE than all alternative browsers for years. : headless
                • Maybe it has, beats me. I think you replied to the wrong person ;) REMEMBER: I am "pro" IE (if you ca... : MatthewPhillips
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                  up until about two years ago, you are correct. but it's not true anymore. nowadays, ie holds the title ... : pupismyname
                  • The problem is that browsers are JUST NOW starting to support the functions that IE has supported for yea... : headless
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                  ia. and where the DOM standards leave room for interpretation (or on semi-popular features outside the st... : 60days
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                    BAM, you got it... and EVERY alternative browser decides that IT is correct and needs to render it differ... : headless
                    • I will concede that ie needs to catch up on alpha channels in CSS, and also special cases like 'classname... : 60days
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                It's not broad, or baseless. If you used CSS layouts in "100% of your websites" you wouldn't be sticking ... : haiku
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                  You have to conside the End Product, and how it will be used. Here is what I mean: Sometimes "progr... : MatthewPhillips
                  • I have to consider who is going to be taking over this website once I am done with it. If that person, sa : Piotyr
            • In all honesty, most of NWS, contentbin, NWSDeals, NWSGaming work with most browsers sans some minor form... : AtaR1
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            you assume that what works in one browser won't work in the other. this couldn't be further for the trut... : pupismyname
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              when it comes to dynamic interaction IE has all of the secondary browsers beaten horrifically. For a sim... : headless
              • really? give me an example please. : pupismyname
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                Right.. A majority of my stuff is HIGHLY interactive. It's a matter of what you are going to be doing a... : AtaR1
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                  OK, a document in a DB with 3 lists for people's names, addresses, phone #'s, and a distance in miles fro... : headless
                  • i don't see anything you're doing there that firefox would have a problem with. what aspect of that part... : pupismyname
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              ...and who isn't? Go back to the original 2 posts. I build all of my websites withn (basically) Photos... : MatthewPhillips
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                that's because you learned how to code on ie, which allows you to get away with a lot of incorrect stuff.... : pupismyname
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                  incorrect? What's incorrect about it? Your alternative browser can't handle it so it's incorrect? : headless
                  • the major differences between ie and firefox's rendering engines lies in how they deal with broken code. ... : pupismyname
              • Perhaps the problem is instead of learning about how browsers work and how they render pages, you are jus... : haiku
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          That's not true. I work "in industry" and typically a horribly bastardized mix of English and metric unit : Dante
          • your robot is going to crash into Mars : Degenerate
          • Ok, the analogy sucked. It's early. I just made my point in a different manner anyway. : haiku
          • Personally, I'm baffled anyone would measure temparatures so high in Fahrenheit. : ieGod
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      Please show me some of the "correct" websites that you have built, and I will show you some of the "incor... : MatthewPhillips
      • I'm mostly playing devil's advocate and have made many a site catered towards IE that are not standards c... : ieGod
• I love Zeldman. Back in the day he was my Web Idol. I am such a nerd : personaljesus
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  "web standards" are just arbitrary, useless definitions created by CS degree dropouts who are trying to c... : Intaglio5
  • oh christ. you're dead to me. : erotic sock
  • You = Wrong :( : personaljesus
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    I dont know what you just said but I bet its gonna piss nerds off. awesome. : Degenerate
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      I think he was trolling. You should perma-ban him and report him to Web Standards Police so that they can... : personaljesus
      • I'll let pup and haiku handle him : Degenerate
  • Not true. I can prove it to you by creating a single 3-mile long, non-linking .html document on a Geocit... : nachowray
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    Web design is about aesthetics and information architecture. Web PRODUCTION is about how you put that tog... : haiku
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      ok, look at what you just said: "Web design is about aesthetics and information architecture. Web PRODUC... : Intaglio5
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        Seriously - and I am being serious here. I would reply to you and further explain whatever position I nee... : haiku
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          then...why....even...post. : MatthewPhillips
          • Was hoping for clarification, but instead I was being trolled. Oh well! : haiku
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          i think he's trying to say that web "programming" is very easy and that even those with low skills could ... : carnivore
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            This is the most god damn ignorant thing I've ever seen. Seriously. Standards are created in (the app... : Clay
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              It is absolutely futile to try and defend our position. These other people "KNOW", so they can't be bothe... : haiku
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                No, I can fully understand your position and where you would need to adhere 100% to standards. I'm just ... : AtaR1
                • but what if you could do that same project in less time and cover another 9.5% of the userbase? what w... : pupismyname
  • oh shi, so flamed... : Mad Brahmin Disease
  • No. Standards exist to ensure designers can create consistent sites across all browsers, and so users are... : node
  • hahahahahahhahahaha : pupismyname
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  And to throw a little humour into this stiffling thread, I find it ironic that the guy telling me that de : MatthewPhillips
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    Have fun. :) Take your precious browser with you too. :( : personaljesus
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      Where I am going, there Are No Browsers. Just me, family, a quiet river and a camp in the middle of nowhe... : MatthewPhillips
      • Needs more laptop with wireless access :) : personaljesus

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  since when do goats need that kind of entertainment? i figured a can was enough. : draconic
  • On the opposite side of the room is a 4'x4' dirtbox with real grass and a tin-can dispenser (multiple fla... : iamgoat
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  nice ... it would be cool if you had some kind of baffle or something to conceal the wires i like that... : Mansmells
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    Got it for $399 (on sale, regularly $499, I think): http://www.blueprintfurniture.com/entertain.htm M... : iamgoat
    • Did you actually buy it from blueprint? : smacknca
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  a goat doesn't need all that! send it to me. : dodob
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    You guys apparently haven't seen the Shackmeet pictures. It seems that he's not really a goat. I know, I ... : UtilityMaximizer
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      His name is iamgoat, not iamagoat. : Kerath
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        Goats don't always have the best typing abilities or grammar. : UtilityMaximizer
        • Test.. test.. : iamgoat
• cool, i prolly woulda gotten a bigass normal TV tho : esky
• well... you gonna give the specs or not? Your talking to a goddamned HT and audiophile nut here. : mavmavv
• Bravo! you win! : byorn
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  villagers demand exact specifications : monohydrate
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    SPECS: TV - Panasonic TH-42PWD6UY (42 inches of love) http://www.visualapex.com/plasma/Plasma_details : iamgoat
    • Jesus, the PDA, lmao, you geek ;) : iawake
    • Very nice... excellent choice of plasma screen and speakers... Though for subwoofer I would select someth... : ghjkghjk
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      jesus that's sweet... do you mind my asking how much overall? : rand04
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        $5,200 for the electronics and wiring not including the PDA which I bought 2 years ago. ghjkghjk, I would... : iamgoat
        • sweet, thanks for sharing. good choices. : rand04
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      What's the system you're using on the PDA to get your PC playing stuff? : node
      • It's written in ColdFusion which has the ability to execute programs on the PC. I wrote a script for bro... : iamgoat
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  Also, how does that TV hang on your wall? Is it bolted down? It must weigh a ton... : monohydrate
  • he used his voodoo goat magic to get it to float there : themelon
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  That shit better be high def or I'm smacking you. : Halen
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    EDTV... Har har... I helped him set it up >: | : krym3
    • :( /SMACK : Halen
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    I don't watch regular TV, just DVDs. When a higher resolution DVD format becomes standard I may upgrade,... : iamgoat
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      Incidentally - it'll be GREAT for Xbox as well. I don't think you made a bad choice. If you're on a li... : DKo5
      • Ill be invading that TV with my boxen soon enough... best time to be friends with a goat. : krym3
• nice, but those wires look ugly : fsck
• sweet entertainment system. : ariakaz
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  I can respect that. Should have gone front projecter + screen instead of flat panel tho. : johnny rotten
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    replacing expensive bulbs SUCKS : rasputinreborn
    • with a life of 2000 hours, you can expect to be upgrading your projector anyways when the bulb dies. : moshman
  • I don't think I could get the room dark enough during the day to use a projector. Plus my living room is... : iamgoat
• Animatrix has awsome sound. My fav DVD to watch in 5.1. : SexualAvenger
• bookmarking for cabinet. that thing is fucking awesome. I'm so going to get one of them. : edgewise
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  I recommend a black plastic wire hose for the wires. You can get them at like Kragen or Target. : not work safe
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    I think white would be better, since his walls are white... : xilulus
    • Oh right, well sometimes a single black ribbed tube looks ok. lol thats what your mom said. : not work safe
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  You need a Cable Raceway. Here: http://cableorganizer.com/surface-raceways/#A. They are cheap, you can... : GeorgeB3DR
  • What type of local store would usually sell this stuff? : iamgoat
• better still wire it through the wall. : frosty

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• watch an olympic match. You wouldn't believe how insane those matches are. : Prozium
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  i actually really want to watch the olympic table tennis. as if they're going to show it on tv though.... : stamps
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    They are. Saturday evening on Bravo. : Kryn
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      I don't understand this 'Bravo' you speak of. I'm in Australia. : stamps
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        Bravo is where we in america get all of our gay-programming from. Oh, and they also have West Wing (which... : sgtsanity
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          Celebrity Poker Showdown! : orgcaptainnemo
          • Yes, but that is crushed under the mighty onslaught of ESPN World Series of Poker. And I hate Dave Foley.... : sgtsanity
      • Then you had a Summer Games four years ago and should have watched the table tennis then. >:( : Kryn
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  I was in atlanta in 96 for the olympics, and that was one of the events we saw. Its lots of fun to watch,... : suicidemachine
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    Not as crazy as the fins (as in from finland) : tostador
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      http://www.ittf.com/worldranking/WR/2004/WR_6-Jul-2004_No_7.pdf page 8, asians own it except for the M... : AllYourBase
      • Ah, how I long for ye olde days of Swedish challengers. Since they're the same ones doing it now that did... : woddemandred
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  And Squash still isn't. Oh well, at least I have Ballroom dancing to tide me over. : Anti_dentite
  • I think that has to do with the problems of televising squash games more than anything. : moshman
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  why not add sport fucking? : Kitty__Kong
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    how do you ... win? First couple to both orgasm? Or is it like figure skating with judges on form and t... : orgcaptainnemo
    • should be judge on form and technique obvously! : Kitty__Kong
    • orgy marathon! : egg5hen
    • a better question is how do you LOSE? Count me in! : gndagger
  • "I think blowjobs should be an Olympic sport. Because if you're any good at it, you deserve a medal." ... : draconic
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  There are people trying to get foosball to be an olympic event : scatti
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    http://www.drewdavies.com/video/Posts/Foosball.mpg : shyguy74
    • DUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUDE that is jawesome wtf : jrock
    • WHA WHA WHAT!?!?!!!!? That's impressive!!! : FormerHPB
• I just found out water polo is an olympic sport. Does that make any sense? : monohydrate
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  Are you kidding me? Try actually watching one of those matches and tell me it doesn't deserve to be a spo... : asdf
  • I agree. I used to play competitively(second place in the sooner state games 4 years ago!) : AllYourBase
  • http://www.megaspin.net/media/vid-osaka2001.asp : asdf
• God damn, curling is one, what do you expect? : Mad Brahmin Disease
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  Pretty cool: Some of the best points of all time (according to them) http://tabletennis.about.com/libra... : woddemandred
  • 2 and 7 are badass. : woddemandred
  • Too bad I don´t got Real Player. Waldner was great. : Spike Spiegel
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  Table tennis is like the best sport at the Olympics. Just watch it, the ball moves faster than you can se... : peanut-
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    ia. Table tennis is the curling of the summer olympics. : Video Sex Pope
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      no way, table tennis can get insanely fast and exciting, unlike curling. Synchronize whatever is the m... : Mad Brahmin Disease
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        curling rules! : Video Sex Pope
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          it looks like a sport for janitors. : foo the feeble
          • why else would someone become a janitor if they didn't have the Olympics to look forward to? of course it... : Video Sex Pope

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  $150 for a throw? : Magitek
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    I'd give her $150 to stfu : AllYourBase
    • i'd give you a million. : virus
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  yeah, its badass having to hear her jabber on. : vashts
  • yeah, her little piece of grammar to get everyone "back to fragging" was pretty awful. I don't have any ... : thejayjay
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  Who the hell is Cat Schwartz? (She has a snazzy name.) : Rice-Rocketeer
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    some whore from techtv. she "accidently" posted nude pictures of herself on her blog and bam, got famous.... : AllYourBase
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      ugh she's getting a show on comedy central?!? WEAK. and the nude pics aren't even that great. >:... : virus
      • yeah, she's not really attractive : AllYourBase
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  whore this and whore that... what makes her a whore? : -TKF-
  • I was wondering this too. : bostrov
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    she was yelling intot he mic at 3:00 a.m. : lacker
    • 3am is late at qcon ? : prostitute
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      ohh sounds like a whore! : -TKF-
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        we are next to the speakers :( : lacker
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          so what exactly is everyone doing in there? chillin' talkin'? : tommysgun
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            all of these faggots have gone to sleep. i am currently the only one in BYOC right now and Yes the woman ... : mr.sleepy
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              go up there and pull your wang out and shake it at her : khaosman
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                why do you think she was talking so loud? : mr.sleepy
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                  man... you needs some fireworks stat... : tommysgun
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                    i'm supposed to be sleeping in crimsonbeaks room but i can't for the life of me remember what his room nu... : mr.sleepy
                    • kill yourself and no one else : Video Sex Pope
                    • go to frontdesk and ask for crismonbeak's room i'm sure they'll know. : khaosman
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                      hahahahahaha : dynokill
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                        found the thing. it's room 9084. i just went up to room 9084 and tried the key that crimson gave me earli... : mr.sleepy
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                          bake an apple pie : Video Sex Pope
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                            how am i gonna do that now : mr.sleepy
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                              first you need some apples : Video Sex Pope
                              • mcdonalds make their apples pies without apples. why can't i? Fuck the PRL. Fuck the PRL in its stupid... : mr.sleepy
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        I'm sure you really care about cat schwartz : AllYourBase
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          Nope, you seem to though. : -TKF-
          • IAWTP : personaljesus
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  get her drunk and shackbang her. : iawake
  • ^ This one is the best : tommysgun
  • At Qcon, Cat Schwartz shackbangs YOU : MrMethane
• how was the baseball game? : Degenerate
• Take pics. : Mad Brahmin Disease