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  party at my place!!! : sparkly
  • ★★★âËÂ... : sparkly
• is there any major difference between real / ultra / tight vnc ? : sikander
• I hadn't heard of that before, I'm gonna have to try that out : InfoBiter

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• maybe I don't visit the right(wrong) sites, but I haven't seen these pop-ups. : InfoBiter
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  You just need to whitelist the sites you want to be allowed to open popups and you should be fine. A f... : SilverSnake
  • hmm : Mondo
• Check your shackmessages. Anyone else who wants a solution, shack msg me. : mojoald

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• Wait in the airport to leave? : tsuba
• golf maybe, also there is this neat rock out there to look at or something, maybe its a cliff i dont reme... : bling1bling
• nice area in the fall. : tomatoactivator
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  The Builtmore estate is pretty damn cool. : Ben Barker
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    yeah. really depends on how mcuh time you have there. I actually can't think of anything to do IN ash... : thekidd
    • There's a hippy district, so coffee shops, fruity restaurants, etc. : Ben Barker
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  Is it sad that I read that as Ashenvale? : slax0r
  • yes, quite : RikiTiki2
  • Yeah, my wife keeps saying I'm going to Ashenvale...then we make some comment about looking out for any h... : mrwolf710
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  i read that as Ashenvale.. heh : g0nk
  • hehe same! : Sparhawk6
• I read that as Ashenvale. I need to stop playing WoW. : stelth
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  You could eat cheap sushi at my restaurant. Try to take a car up on the blue ridge parkway. The women, mu... : ghostnote
  • I'm back and your city sucks. The most boring slow place I've ever been in whole fucking life. Long liv... : mrwolf710

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• Servers are going to shit BF2 is coming in July I miss my friends : kanix
• cancelled, got bored once i was at level 35 =\ ironically i went back to eve : hobosapien
• I've been playing more CS:S and less WoW lately, but I still play it enough to keep my account up. BF2... : RikiTiki2
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  I am seriously considering because I hit 60 with my mage about a month ago, and real life started picking... : Supine
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    same here supine... being a lvl 60 kinda sucks (and a mage 2)... thought there would be alot more content... : th3po
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      Post-60 is the most fun I've had in a game in a while. :| Don't like MC/Onyxia much, or? : Zibro
      • mc just takes too much time ... i work from midnight - 8am in the mornings... so there isn't a time for m... : th3po
      • Doing the same thing over and over again = insanely boring. : Ratsofatsorat
• I cancelled mine. Two reasons, one, I've had serious issues with my internet connection going out rand... : Vincent Grayson
• cancelled, its flat out boring for me. : tomatoactivator
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  I've installed it 10 times today only to have to install it again. Ran great for a week and a half then ... : quietb0y
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    laffo : Pink0r
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      baffo : quietb0y
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        fappo : RikiTiki2
        • Spiderman, Spiderman...does what ever a diabetic-hating spider can! : MuaaSan
• I cancelled after the second month. Reasons being: 1) My level 37 warrior class was pretty much broken... : Nullzero
• I cancelled for about a week. And re-signed up a week later. : silent77
• I cancelled.. because the end-game is completely different than the 1-55ish game. I like being able to pl... : parker.ny
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  I cancelled a while back. I just got tired. The game was built to solo 90% of the time and not to group... : Crimsonbeak
  • And playing a Warrior had alot to do with it. As well as Blizzard as a company. They make great games b... : Crimsonbeak
• Considered cancelling around mid January. Didn't touch it for over a week and came back strong playing a... : Wombat Woo
• I wish you could do some instances without grouping. I've had terrible luck with the past 3 times I've tr... : PhoenixArisen
• I've mostly had my fill... went to 56 as a warrior, had a lot of fun, but raids don't appeal to me. Trie... : artillery
• probably going to cancel until battlegrounds/pvp stuff & more high level content is implemented. i have m... : pyide
• I cancelled...I was playing more CS:S : byorn
• I'm getting close, the more I approach 60, the less fun it seems (level 54 right now) : j33uk
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  Considering, I have been bored for a couple weeks. I was gonna hold out for battlefields but I think the... : tree8
  • battlegrounds are due out in June, I believe. : Supine
• I canceled my account because I didn't have time to play during the week and make any real progress (yay ... : jard
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  It's a game. When the game is no longer fun for you, stop playing. It's that simple. You don't need... : Ebu
  • You sir are a tard.. am I'm not considering cancelling. Nice stupid assumption. I was just getting an id... : ShadowRam

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  I heard Counter-Strike: Source is rather fun. : johnsto
  • naw..got sick of CS and tried a little source..same crap. : IcomeINpeace
• Nothing awesome is out yet... but I am working on a mod with another dude who sometimes posts here, calle... : SpaecKow
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  hm, I'm at the beach in front of Nova Prospect and I'm disappointed about the story. No cool plot twists,... : matthaeus
  • There is a twist once you get inside nova prospekt : Toraz Chryx

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• yeah, that game was more emotional for me than any other game since ff4. : mindmann
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  I can get plats in cone challenges in PGR2, I can't pick up a fucking stick in this game. : kaibosh
  • Good thing the hot spots for the jumps were nice & efficient. That plus the slick camera really made it s... : Borzoi
• Yeah, that ending is just phenomenal. : helvetica
• What's ICO stand for again? : 98z28

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  DRM makes me cry =( : famine101
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    No see that's whining. You should be saying "DRM is inefficient, here's a better way of doing it:". Inste... : {Venger}
    • "DRM raped my kittens!" : Vorlonesque

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  well videogames are evil. That's just common knowledge. : sm00v3d
  • I'm gonna kill you. : Haku-Jin
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  One time I was walking down the street besides some cars that had stopped at a red light and I thought "I... : SpaecKow
  • Every once in a while I see a trailer with some sort of ramp on it and think "unique jump". : Haku-Jin
  • I was in a stockroom at work one day, and there was a foot wide gap inbetween two palettes of stock, and ... : thecray
• I suppose they got their gun from ammunation too. : Popedispencer
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  Whatever happened to parenting? The parents are just as liable as the kids if they commit an act conside... : Vic Viper
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    This is the united states, when there is money to be made, only the guys with it are liable. : esecasco
    • As soon as Bush put blame on the schools for kids not learning, things went downhill. No Child Left Behi... : omnova
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  Fuck that guy. Once I build more farms I am totally going to build enough units to defeat him. : CrazyPants
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    lol u fool - u got no towers, hes gon rush u and totaly PWNERIZE j000!!!!! : SpaecKow
    • I'm in your base, killing your dudes. : CrazyPants
  • Just build an ambulance to distract him and then counterattack. : SixDemonBag
• Law suits like this just piss me off. That guy was suing like a dozen different people. He's definately ... : tsuba
• Why can't they focus on going to Hell and killing Demons? Everyone just tell em that we're training to fi... : bostrov
• batshit insane kids don't kill people... videogames kill people. : thebigbeefsandwhich
• I think he needs to see goatse...I think it'd change his life! : Vorlonesque

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• srsly, guys. : brickmatt

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• a bomb! : jcutner
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  that's your warp coil. Looks like you ejected it. Good luck from here. : steelsamurai
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    oh shit : {Venger}
    • meh, it was obviously not working anyways....Not once did I achieve FTL travel. : Judicus
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  Where is it? Maybe some kind of accelerometer if it's an old car? : DinK
  • 91 Cavalier. Above driverside drive wheel (front). The cable coming out of it heads back across the e... : Judicus
• i think actually, it has something to do with the vacuum system with the A/C.. of course, i could be tota... : g0nk
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  Just making sure its got nothing to do with brakes, windshield washer pump, etc. (anything dangerous to ... : Judicus
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    ....ok, it appears to be somehow linked to the throttle...uhm...crap. Anyone have any ideas how much th... : Judicus
    • It's always a good idea to have a book for your car. http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/08019... : Silent Jay

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• I'm with you there, I love that game. Just played it two days ago. I wish it sold enough to justify a t... : atheist_uberboy
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  the song selection in amplitude is so much weaker than freq's. it seems like parent sony stepped in and ... : artillery
  • I wholeheartedly agree. Sadly, many people who see me playing Freq at my store think it's Amplitude and h... : prfectjon

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  Grant. : mojoald
  • http://www.mscomm.com/~ulysses/ : mojoald
• i am : csana
• A White Dude : pres589
• Thanks, mojoald. : MuaaSan

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• Maybe you fell down and broke your funny bone. : jahulio2
• I agree with you on many things sir. This however, is pure madness. Arrested Development is the funniest ... : j33uk
• hey xoc check out teh sexiness: http://www.shacknews.com/ja.zz?id=9660780 also, I agree with you. ... : thekidd
• U S A! U S A! : Pink0r
• ^^ Finally! IAWTP!! ^^ *Holds Xoc under flame retardent blanket* : theo20185
• Was it the first episode you've seen? If so I'd say watch another and you should be hooked, I was. : Tincan
• I felt this way initially; I watched some random episode and didn't think much at all. However, when I s... : Rasnowl
• I hope you are watching the one on now. This one is much funnier than the one right before it. The whol... : Crimsonbeak
• you have to watch each episode in order from start to finish to understand what the hell is going on. : Luminair
• It is a very unique kind of humour and you have to watch the series in order to understand how fucking re... : kaibosh
• I was th inking the same thing. : dilutedq
• The first season was hillarious. This season has only had a few good ones imo. : tree8

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• I liked it. I don't really have high standards for Simpsons anymore, so I just enjoy nearly every episode... : yoonix
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  Must be Sunday. : Entity
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    sundays have jumped the shark. i mean, sunday after sunday, bleh. you know, i remember 10 years ago when ... : porp
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      naw, don't do that. what we need is another saturday. that would be much better. : mindmann
      • I could go for a quasi Friday Saturday: Nothing to do all day like a Saturday, but the want to blow off s... : mojoald
• Wouldn't it be job du semaine, technically? : slax0r
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  I've said this before, and I'll say it again. Simpsons sucked after season 8. I dont know why people watc... : scrub6969
  • generally i agree with you, but the gay wedding episode a couple weeks ago was pretty funny :( : cygnus

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• That would be 4 HDDs and 4 optical drives. : Omaha
• and I never even said the words "power supply" WTF : Omaha
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  700 is overkill. 500 should give you elbow room in fact. : Draugluin
  • I'd agree with this one. : themelon
  • Really? Wow, interesting, thanks a bunch. : Omaha
• 500-600 should do you . . . : InfoBiter
• Well, I have a dual 250 with 4G mem, a Quadro FX4000, 3 hdd's (one is a 10K U320 SCSI) and 2 optical driv... : themelon

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• why thank you. : DonkeyPopsicle

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• Buffering.... : awoihjaweohr
• I uppercutted a cat? : DinK

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  sweet, robot chicken is quickly becoming my fav show! : cygnus
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    I didn't think last week's was as good as number one but I can't wait for tonight's :D : sparkly
    • yea, but that voltron dance competition had me crying w/ laughter :D : cygnus
• new sealabs? sweet! : Polysorbate

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• No way, somebody else types in dvorak? : cajuncook
• are you still high? : jcutner
• anyone who hates shaolin soccer is a communist. also you are banned for calling it crappy : sexninja!!!!
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  people here hated it? And what do you mean its so crappy you will laugh at it? Its GREAT! : Toxy
  • the acting and also because i watched it in french but crappy in a good way. i think they wanted to do... : Utopia
• that movie is fan-fucking-tastic, and that's all there is to it : itsjames
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  The humor was horribly retarded. Retarded, in a sad, pathetic way. I have no time for such nonsense. : scener
  • Stephen Chow is the Rob Sheiider of Asia. THERE I SAID IT : scener
  • no time for it but enough time to post a rant on a internet forum ^_^ : darkT
• Yeah, that movie is fucking hilarious! I watched it first with English subtitles before the US release..... : Don Vito Corleone

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• They what?! Blasphemy!! Thats my favorite book of all time, and the shadow series is amazing as well. The... : InfoBiter

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  Thats fucking awful, but god damn it I love meat. : smdever
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    The best we meat addicts can do is try to buy humanely treated meat-- there are a good number of sources ... : celerity
    • Usually a local meat market or butcher shop. You can get meat from local farmers there which are usually... : Crimsonbeak
    • Kosher meat and products are also much stricter in which way animals are raised and killed. I guess it... : Porkasaurus
• As scary as that looks, I bet they're right. A couple seconds of getting bumped around has to be better ... : DinK
• but did they get to drink a glass of raw eggs afterwards? : Old_Fart

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• I spent 2 weeks in ireland at the end of november beginning of december, beatiful country, but the fact o... : InfoBiter

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  i don't think i'd be very good at it. it's been far too long since i've played that game. : mindmann
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    If enough ppl were up to it (and could find the cd's) it wouldn't really matter . . . I mean, shit I've b... : InfoBiter
    • Hey I'd be up for some Shack-on-shack StarCraft, I mean hell, there has to be at least a few other people... : Omaha
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  This could be fun... I used to be pretty decent, but I haven't played in ages. ;) And I know where my ... : SilverSnake
  • Oh yah, must be broodwar! (btw, on pvpgn I'm rather sure *not 100%* that the cd keys aren't checked w/ bl... : InfoBiter
• Thats 4 . . . : InfoBiter
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  I still play, almost every day. Usually on US-East. Why play an a seperate server? : scatti
  • I for one get tons of lag on b.net for some reason, and it's just more fun for it to be completely privat... : InfoBiter
  • i'll play, i love starcraft : evil-cow

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  shift top neutral and then pump the brakes unless they are ABS, or downshift (but dont brake) : hobosapien
  • Downshift and break simultaneously. : tums
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  Umm.. Depress the Clutch than the Brake Pedal.. : RookieCAF
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    There's really no need to depress the clutch unless you are downshifting or almost stopped (to avoid a st... : riptyde
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      so just brake, and shift down at a stop? when would i need to downshift while braking? : dodob
      • If you wanna slow down a bit when going into a lower speed area? Then you can downshift while breaking to : SilverSnake
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        it's not really necessary to shift down each individual gear, you can just pop it into 1st from wherever ... : cygnus
        • And breaks WANTS to be used plenty to work well when you really need them. :D : SilverSnake
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  CONFEWS'D! so: 1) let go of the accelerator 2) depress the clutch and shift to neutral 3) hold the bra... : dodob
  • not quite. just mash the brake as you would on an automatic car, and push in the clutch (and optionally, ... : warpdude
  • stick to automatic : systatic
  • Just hit the brakes. If you're coming to a stop, press in the clutch first so that you don't stall the c... : DinK
• A: Lift off the gas and drift to slow down while in gear. Go into neutral and use brakes if have to act... : DinK
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  i usually push the clutch in, coast then stop when i need too, its not hard : snowwolf
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    Don't push the clutch in until you nearly come to a stop, you will burn the clutch out that way. : smdever
    • you don't have to downshift or anything if its like 100 feet away : snowwolf
    • How do you burn out a disengaged clutch? : DinK
• 2 car lengths? You press the clutch and stomp the brake. : g.lee
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  Heel-toe braking and clutching at the same time is crazy hard and you have to be wearing the right shoes ... : kaibosh
  • Keep on double clutching like you should, Vin. : DinK
• If you have to ask this you need more experience driving a manual :) A) If you need to stop over a lo... : 98z28

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• HEAD ASPLODE!!!!!!! : g0nk
• how shot web? : hobosapien
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  it's something like: z = (mean - std deviation) / n in this case, work backwards -- find out what z c... : itsjames
  • yeah, I found it in her book. Thanks. I think we have the problem solved. : Don Vito Corleone
• Ok...the story problem says that a "grad school will only accept students with a GRE math proficiency sco... : Don Vito Corleone
• I was with you until the top 20 part. : RikiTiki2
• find the zscore for 20 and then use that to find the top 20% of scores... i dont know the formula off han... : snowwolf

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  I was *JUST* about to post that! : Intaglio5
  • I was about to have a heart attack thinking I'd get yelled at tomorrow : mr brown

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• Aren't we all? :) : SilverSnake
• FEAR SUCKS : g.lee
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  $13 via PayPal, Shackmsg if your intrested. : mojoald
  • Or we could hold out for Steve and pay half that for a month of mercury! : megarust32
• I will. lol. but I don't feel like paying for a beta :P : dilutedq
• Would love it! : Crankladon

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  Marinating chicken breasts in Italian dressing and then BBQing them is also good (and really simple) :) : timmie
  • Italian dressing is a good marinade for flank steak, too : riptyde
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  Can't be too high or I for one would have died many times over from it by now. : trove
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    The bacteria couldn't withstand your fearsome debate tactics. : darweidu
    • he stonewalls them into submission : Mr.Fusion
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  In my Advance Microbiology course last semester, we were taught to treat ALL chicken like it had salmonel... : placebo effect
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    As you should. I will continue to, but if I stopped for a month and ate chicken daily, how long would it ... : {Venger}
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      Symptoms would probably start in around a 3-4 days....thats if you took the dead chicken from the store, ... : placebo effect
      • mmmm......chicken sushi. : mindmann
      • That sounds like a dare. : smdever
  • Treat every woman like she has AIDS, use condoms! : dodob
• That's why you cook the chicken, and wash your hands and counter top. : DinK
• Those look like ladybugs. : mofo
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  those vagina's have terrible std's... : jcutner
  • Yeah but I still wana just stick my face in there and go to town. : smdever
  • just a little extra toppings amirite : Mr.Fusion
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  Let's put it this way, I recieved salmonella from a fast food place and from there onwards i treat every : idmud
  • yep. nothing quite like food poisoning. : ventro
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  The lab I work at does Salmonella testing on chicken products on a very routine basis. We average about ... : amankhan
  • Thank you, this is the answer I was after. : {Venger}
• that is such a euro-looking dish. More like art than food! I can't tell what any of that stuff is. : Luminair
• whoa tintin you are a good cook :D : Utopia
• I did chicken stir-fry last night; used Worcestershire sauce. It was good. : the archvile
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  Some more chicken/meat hygiene: Unwrapping the meat and putting it in glass storage container w/ cover ri... : Borzoi
  • Thank you for your advice. : {Venger}
• moldy cheese? eeeeewww cheese is never meant to be eaten with mold on it :( : Morgin
• I read an article (in men's health, I think) that said that chicken is the most contaminated meat on the ... : Supine

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• Hellblazer is definately not a kiddie-comic. : mem
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  What? Extra part? CRAP. : Hexyn
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    You wanna know what it was? Constantine was at his apprentice's grave, and then the apprentice showed up : sgtsanity
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      Sweet. :) Note to self: Hang around after credits from now on. : Hexyn
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        HINT TO ALL MOVIE GOERS: After the movie ends pay attention to the lights. If the houselights come on a... : Crimsonbeak
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          Not always at the Regal Theatre here sadly :( : j33uk
          • yeah this isn't true in all cases. The lights came on during the Dawn of the Dead credits but sicne ther... : Crimsonbeak
        • wrong. theatre lights came on at the start of the credits of constantine. we stayed anyway. i dont th... : ventro
  • I hate when movies do this. Sitting through 5 minutes of credits scrolling is almost never worth the 30 ... : boredguy
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  Is it a comic "for kids" (compare: Superman, Spiderman and so on) It makes me sad that people can't ta... : Yabrodan
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    Perhaps you just give comic books too much credit. : FlatlineDixay
    • I'm not a comic book afficionado by any means, but from what little I've read; The Authority, Earth X, Th... : lightly inclined
    • No, comic books have evolved while in general people's perception of them has not. : amankhan
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    What I mean with "for kids" is that the stories (in my experience) in those comics were *very* simple and... : SilverSnake
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      Superhero comics arn't necessarily like this anymore more so since the comics code has been pretty much a... : Yabrodan
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        The movie is based on a comic named Hellblazer and the main character is named Constantine? They just did : SilverSnake
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          I believe there was some nonsense about the name being too similar to Hellraiser. : Vincent Grayson
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            that was the comic book wasn't it? i'm guessing the movie was called constantine because they didn't want... : dodob
            • Alright... Thanks! :) Will try to manage a trip down to my comic book store yes, I got one in my town. : SilverSnake
    • DC Vertigo comics are your new best friend. http://www.dccomics.com/vertigo/ : amankhan
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      Go and read The Watchmen. Now. : sgtsanity
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        I'm reading it right now, and it's quite fantastic (and clearly rated R!). This is truely art meant for a... : kevp
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          Interestingly enough (and there's no reason that you should know this from just reading Watchmen) all the... : Sexpansion Pack
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            No, that's nightowl. Rorsharch is based off of "The Question". Here's a great essay on the Watchmen: http... : sgtsanity
            • Quite right, thanks for the correction. The Question actually had a new series, I believe. I have not... : Sexpansion Pack
• The comic is dark. The movie kind of conveyed the general feeling of it. But John is much much more cyn : Crimsonbeak
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  To go from Constantine the movie to Hellblazer the comic: Take the movie. Add in about 100 parts of d... : amankhan
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    Are Tim(Books of Magick) and John enemies now? It seemed as if it was going that way Tim being irrespons... : Crimsonbeak
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      I'm just now getting into the new Books of Magic series. I honestly don't know what's going on between t... : amankhan
      • From poking around the forums a bit I guess Tim made a new universe of all magic and dreams. And Constan... : Crimsonbeak
• Fray has NOTHING on Hellblazer, not the first 40 issues by Jamie Delano. Hellblazer makes Fray look like ... : dodob