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April 16, 2010 5:00 AM

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Oh gosh, today is Friday. Finally! At long last it's almost Monday again.

Oh, and today is the first annual Charlie Chaplin Day for Democracy. Celebrate what would be the wonderful comic's 121st birthday by wearing a toothbrush moustache, reclaiming it for comedy and democracy from that Austrian fellow. 'tache up.

Alice O'Connor

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RikiTiki2

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April 16, 2010 5:06 AM

how come the story pic doesn't show up on the comments page?
- Alice O'Connor
  
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  April 16, 2010 5:10 AM
  
  I wish they did. We put far too much time and effort into those, only for no-one to see them.
  
  My personal favourites include:
  
  http://www.shacknews.com/images/generated/4abb7b1510088_featured_without_text_clown.jpg
  http://www.shacknews.com/images/generated/4bba5581d0e31_featured_without_text_0_pc_gaming_2.jpg
  http://www.shacknews.com/images/generated/49d0f42b7a083_featured_without_text_romerojuliet.jpg
  - chazums
    
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    April 16, 2010 5:11 AM
    
    I love the one of the woman shouting at the monitor
    - Alice O'Connor
      
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      April 16, 2010 5:12 AM
      
      That's PC gaming, pure and simple.
      - radula
        
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        April 16, 2010 5:14 AM
        
        she's flying that jet pretty low.
        
        zerog83
        
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        April 16, 2010 5:18 AM
        
        I'd fly my jet pretty low... right into her hangar
        
        Mad Brahmin Disease
        
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        April 16, 2010 5:45 AM
        
        I'd air refuel her.
        
        umegastar
        
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        April 16, 2010 6:09 AM
        
        I'd ramjet her
        
        tfsbrian
        
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        April 16, 2010 6:11 AM
        
        I'd barrel roll her
      - SpaecKow
        
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        April 16, 2010 5:43 AM
        
        I was just doing some of that PC gaming earlier tonight trying to get Witcher:EE installed
    - Rehevkor
      
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      April 16, 2010 5:14 AM
      
      Yeah, you can tell it's a scream of triumph. She's totally pwning some n00bs.
- FiReaNG3L
  
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  April 16, 2010 5:11 AM
  
  Doesnt even show up on the front page for that matter
- trOmblyj
  
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  April 16, 2010 5:18 AM
  
  probably smart it doesn't - to conserve bandwidth.
  - RikiTiki2
    
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    April 16, 2010 5:42 AM
    
    they hardly take up that much bandwidth, it's not like they're widescreen HD images
    - trOmblyj
      
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      April 16, 2010 5:59 AM
      
      1 small image multiplied by infinite page refreshes = a lot of bandwidth consumed
      - ThomW
        
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        April 16, 2010 6:03 AM
        
        Apparently, trOmblyj has never heard of caching!
        
        trOmblyj
        
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        April 16, 2010 6:04 AM
        
        I turn it off - I demand all my information to be fresh!
- homeboyJim
  
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  April 16, 2010 5:46 AM
  
  it should be possible to write a greasemonkey script that would grab that image and put it on comment pages ...
  
  you might even be able to grab the entire story too, instead of just the partial story ... although videos would be a little tricky