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> ^,,^< Miracle, a lifetime [LD], DkAngel

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> I bought it. Yesterday.

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> It was only $19.99 at Best Buy.
>
> How on earth could I refuse Tribes for $20?

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> So now I've got T:V, but what to do with it?
> Save it as a collectible item? Install it just to check
> out the cool scenery? Hmmmmm..............

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> On 3 Apr 2005 18:12:41 GMT, >^,,^< wrote:
>
>
> Is it contagious?
>
>
> That depends on which version of Tribes it is.
>
>
> Are you in need of a doorstop? What about one half of a set of
> bookends? You might also use the CD alone as a bookmark thing.
>
> There's always paperweights as well.

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> ^,,^< Miracle, a lifetime [LD], DkAngel

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> The box looks cool..........fill it with sand for the doorstop?

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> On 3 Apr 2005 18:46:14 GMT, >^,,^< Miracle wrote:
>
>
> If the manual's not heavy enough, you'll have to fill the box with sand.
>
> --
> "There's violence to be done."
> R.L.U. #300033, running WM 0.80.1 under MDK9.1(and a half)

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> I bought it. Yesterday.
>
> It was only $19.99 at Best Buy.
>
> How on earth could I refuse Tribes for $20?
>
> So now I've got T:V, but what to do with it?
> Save it as a collectible item? Install it just to check
> out the cool scenery? Hmmmmm..............
>

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> Have I missed something with T:V - have they turned the master servers off
> or something, or is this just a general comment on its crapness?

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> skills. There is a required patch to play online though. And yes,
> they released a previous on-line-only game that could not play online
> until it was patched... Oops!
>
> Quixote

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>^,,^< Miracle

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> I bought it. Yesterday.
>
> It was only $19.99 at Best Buy.
>
> How on earth could I refuse Tribes for $20?
>
> So now I've got T:V, but what to do with it?
>Save it as a collectible item? Install it just to check
>out the cool scenery? Hmmmmm..............

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> For what it's worth, I've read that it is a decent single player game.
>
> I've done the sniper droid demo and had fun with it. But then, I've
> done the online demo and found it to be clunky, slow, and not very
> "Tribesy" at all.
>
> Install it and see how the single player game is. If you give it even
> a half-hearted endorsement, I'll have to get it meself.

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> ^,,^< Miracle, a lifetime [LD], DkAngel

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> (Uh-oh, does it auto-update, or do I need to hunt down that
> lone patch?)

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> Have I missed something with T:V - have they turned the master servers off
> or something, or is this just a general comment on its crapness?

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> ">^,,^< Miracle" <miracle@spamcop.net> wrote in news:4250e10e$1_7
> @galaxy.uncensored-news.com:
>
>
> http://tribesvengeance.com/us/downloads.html
>
> Look for "Update".
>
> Then jump on the Vengeance channel in MA's TeamSpeak and see if
> anyone's playing:
>
> http://matureasskickers.net/m/servers/teamspeak.php
>
> Fafhrd's got some nifty rover maps where he's populated the map with
> lots of rovers. Lots of silliness ensues. I was gonna post a link to a
> screenshot but he posted it in the private section of the forums. :/

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> ^,,^< Miracle, a lifetime [LD], DkAngel

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> (top posting fixed)
> "Cubzilla" <no@chance.co.uk> wrote in message
> news:4264065d$0$293$cc9e4d1f@news-text.dial.pipex.com...
>
> Focus on the phrase "So now I've got T:V,"
>
> Quixote
>
>

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Here he wonders what to do with his copy of T.V
[vbcol=seagreen]
> So now I've got T:V, but what to do with it?

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> I bought it. Yesterday.
>
> It was only $19.99 at Best Buy.
>
> How on earth could I refuse Tribes for $20?
>
> So now I've got T:V, but what to do with it?
> Save it as a collectible item? Install it just to check
> out the cool scenery? Hmmmmm..............
>
> --
>
>
>
> _______________________________________________________________________________
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> news:42503211$1_6@cosmos.uncensored-news.com...
(top posting fixed)
"Cubzilla" <no@chance.co.uk> wrote in message
news:4264065d$0$293$cc9e4d1f@news-text.dial.pipex.com...[vbcol=seagreen]
> But Tribes is a free download aint it ?
>
>

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> I read that as he has T.V, but purchased Tribes (1or 2) for $20

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> Here he wonders what to do with his copy of T.V

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> So 8P

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> On Mon, 18 Apr 2005 22:40:54 +0100, I heard the following crap spew
> forth from "Cubzilla" <no@chance.co.uk>:
>
>
> And by he, of course, you mean she.
>
> RagManX
> http://www.gamepatches.info/ - Are you up to date?

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> Sorry Miracle I've done it again :-(
>
>
> Love
>
> Cub

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>^,,^< Miracle

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> So you see why I'm fond of the "-zilla" part. Help me figure
> out my own "zilla" nick, would you? Grannyzilla? Ew, no, not that.....

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> ROFL You know what Cubby? It's really okay! I love that
> I've been around so long that some of you guys forget I'm a chick.
> Adrian's done the same, I believe, so you're not alone at any rate.

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> ">^,,^< Miracle" <miracle@spamcop.net> wrote in news:4264ae66$1_3
> @galaxy.uncensored-news.com:
>
>
> So will you be baking 'zilla wafers? :D

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> ^,,^< Miracle, a lifetime [LD], DkAngel

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> Adrian's a chick?
>
> Dude.

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>^,,^< Miracle

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> 'S okay. You're entitled, due to your job description.
> (It *must* be stress- idiocy isn't contagious.)

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>
> Sarcasm and deliberate stupidity are what I live on.
>
> I shall not be denied!
>
> Stress? School causes stress. First time ever, too. Large workload
> nowadays.

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>^,,^< Miracle

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> Frank van Schie wrote:
>
>
> *!* I knew you were young, but I honestly didn't remember
> you being young enough to still be in school!! Lie to appease an
> old lady (me) and tell me it's grad school.

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> (Oh shit- what do y'all call "graduate school" in the Netherlands?)

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> Well, I'm full as a tick and sleepy, so it must be bedtime...... you
> have a good day with little stress and easy work.

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>
> College. Went to university when I was a young lad of 18, dicked
> around for three years (never getting my first-year degree, a
> "propedeuse"), spent two years doing nothing scholastic, then got
> back into college (one step below university).
>
> So yeah, it's actually pathetically simple. It's almost impossible to
> actually fail a test, though some folk apparently manage it.
>
> But since the Dutch word for college would be "Hogeschool", or "High
> school", I refer to it as "school".

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>
> Beats me.

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>^,,^< Miracle

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> That's very different from our system! Here a college is pretty
> much the same as a university, except that a university includes
> several colleges.
> For example, in my hometown we have the university of Georgia,
> which has a college of veterinary medicine, a college of agriculture,
> a college of pharmacy, etc..
> What you describe is what we call a "junior college" or a "community
> college". It's a step between high school and college, with programs
> that are usually a maximum of two/three years, with modest degrees.
> You can complete nursing school, for instance, but there is no medical
> degree offered.

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> I teach part-time at our local community college- we offer a culinary
> arts certificate, and I teach the baking class. Ross teaches the hot foods
> section, and our mentor & friend teaches all the rest.
> Oops, sorry, didn't mean to go on, but I think the differences in the
> school systems is interesting!

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>
> How do you acquire a PhD? A Doctorate degree? Here, you continue
> on after college or university and go to graduate school. If you want a
> Masters degree, you also go on to grad school.

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>
> Yeah, that does sound different.
>
> Dutch education is very tiered, after primary school (like, up until
> age 11-12). After that, where you folks get your average "Junior
> High", I think, we get either either:
> 4 years of VMBO: Preparatory vocational school, these folks become
> blue-collar workers.
>
> 4 years of MAVO: This is where secretaries and other lower-schooled
> white-collar workers come from, can go on to MBO.
>
> 5 years of HAVO: Higher schooled white-collar workers, can continue on
> to HBO later)
>
> 6 years of VWO: Preparatory scientific school, who can go on to
> university.
> A reasonable enough review of this system:
> http://widjaja.us/kwidjaja/school.html
>
> Then at the 'higher' levels, you get:
> MBO: Very varied, very practical. Think low-tier programmers,
> technicians, possibly things like your nurses, or whatever.
>
> HBO: Not a TV channel. What I'm doing now. (I actually followed VWO,
> so should have done uni, but couldn't finish). Literally "Higher
> vocational education". Teachers, quality programmers, accountants,
> etc. Equivalent to a Bachelor, but because Holland is the only one which makes this
> distinction, I will not be able to claim a B. Sc., only a B. Stupid
> shit.
> University: Masters classes. Theoreticians, professors, rocket
> scientists, etc.
>
>
> Indeed. Hence my long tale.
>
>
> You can get a European Masters degree in about five years at a uni.
> Having a Bachelors means you can often go for Masters in about two
> years.
> Ah, a webpage:
> http://www.eur.nl/english/education...cational_system
>
> PhD's and doctorates, I have no clue. It involves being older than I
> am and doing obscure things, paying for your own examination and
> ensuing party (a lot of money), and doesn't sound like fun in the
> least.
> Me, I'm stopping after I get my title of 'ingenieur', and I'm gonna
> make some actual money for a time. I hear that's all the rage among
> kids, nowadays.

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>^,,^< Auntie Em <--- My nick in another group, given to me

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> (Sorry for not snipping, but this is cool stuff!)

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> Wow, that's a very different system indeed- so many different
> types of schools.

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> Of course, some things are different here as you
> go from state to state. In Georgia we went by a 4 quarter system,
> which were school periods of nine weeks. Out here in Arizona they
> use a 3 semester system, which is 16 weeks each. Go figure.

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> In Georgia, grades 7-9 are junior high school, while here they
> are "middle" schools. And in some other states, high school includes
> grade 9.
>
> So I suppose the whole world is doing its own thing as far as
> schooling goes! And I quit in grade 10, as I already knew everything.
> :D
> Yes, I really did quit, but later took the test to get my equivalency.

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> I find it amusing that I now teach kids who are high schol graduates
> who can't read or write. Hmmm, not amusing exactly.....more along
> the lines of totally disgusted. I mean, I even understand algebra, but
> these kids can't divide 2 into 4 and get a correct answer.

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> Which brings me to another point- almost every person I correspond
> with online is a foreigner- someone who was born and lives outside
> the U.S. Why? Because their grammer, spelling, and puctuation are
> decent. Even if it's in another language. And they can think without
> AOL telling them what they know.

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> The other folks I tappity-tap with are well-educated, like Troy and
> Bryan. And oddly, I only communicate with 3 women online- but
> all three share common interests and type properly.
> I'm not a snob by any means- I don't care what folks look like
> one bit, or how they dress, etc.. But I suppose I have a distaste for
> folks who can't flip to "adult" when they're online. I love being an XXX
> in here at times- it's so totally me! Good fun and silliness are a huge
> part of my Usenet activities, but sometimes I want to talk like an adult.

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> Oops. Oh well, we'll just call the above "Chapter Two" of the book
> I seem to be writing online..........

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>(Sorry for not snipping, but this is cool stuff!)

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> So I suppose the whole world is doing its own thing as far as
>schooling goes! And I quit in grade 10, as I already knew everything.
> :D
> Yes, I really did quit, but later took the test to get my equivalency.
>I find it amusing that I now teach kids who are high schol graduates
>who can't read or write. Hmmm, not amusing exactly.....more along
>the lines of totally disgusted. I mean, I even understand algebra, but
>these kids can't divide 2 into 4 and get a correct answer.

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> Which brings me to another point- almost every person I correspond
>with online is a foreigner- someone who was born and lives outside
>the U.S. Why? Because their grammer, spelling, and puctuation are
>decent. Even if it's in another language. And they can think without
>AOL telling them what they know.
> The other folks I tappity-tap with are well-educated, like Troy and
>Bryan. And oddly, I only communicate with 3 women online- but
>all three share common interests and type properly.
> I'm not a snob by any means- I don't care what folks look like
>one bit, or how they dress, etc.. But I suppose I have a distaste for
>folks who can't flip to "adult" when they're online. I love being an XXX
>in here at times- it's so totally me! Good fun and silliness are a huge
>part of my Usenet activities, but sometimes I want to talk like an adult.

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> Oops. Oh well, we'll just call the above "Chapter Two" of the book
>I seem to be writing online..........

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>
>
> Beats me.

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> Oh, speaking of venomous teachers:
> http://www.nebulous.nl/misc/Berkeley_Laptop_Thief.mp4

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> (and while I'm pimping video's, two important ones:
> http://www.nebulous.nl/misc/Torn.wmv
> http://www.big-boys.com/articles/pokerroom1.html

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> ^,,^< Miracle, a lifetime [LD], DkAngel

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> On 21 Apr 2005 06:39:38 GMT, ">^,,^< Miracle" <miracle@spamcop.net>
> wrote:
>
>
> Allow me! [Snip!]

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> Same here, Miracle. And I'm staggered to see how many degree holders
> are dumb as bricks in any given field. But, like Frank Sinatra, I was
> determined to do it My Way. So I dropped. But by no means discontinued
> my education.

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> I loath net-speak. English, even though an aggregate language cobbled
> from various sources, has conventions for correct grammar, punctuation
> and syntax.
>
> u no wut im talkin bout???????????

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> ^,,^< Miracle, a lifetime [LD], DkAngel

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> No one's complaining. Partly because it's not dull as of yet. And
> we're afraid of invoking thy wrath.

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> Frank van Schie wrote:
>
>
>
> Damn. That's a very weird name for a school.

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> Frank van Schie wrote:
>
>
> Dammit- it won't open. Seems I've got a borked QuickTime
> plug-in or something.

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> Paydirt! And yes, both funny as hell.
> I liked "Torn" the most.

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> As well you should. The first mime ever who is actually funny.

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> On Fri, 22 Apr 2005 12:29:02 +0200, Frank van Schie wrote:
>
>
>
> I take it you're not including the early silent comedians in that one?
>
> ... or even "Harpo Marx".

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>On Fri, 22 Apr 2005 12:29:02 +0200, Frank van Schie wrote:
>
>
>I take it you're not including the early silent comedians in that one?
>
>... or even "Harpo Marx".

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> Harpo! The Marx brothers! A Night at the Opera! Hilarious stuff.

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> Let me qualify that by changing that sentence to:
> "The first mime I've ever seen who is actually funny."

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> All the rest should be bludgeoned to near death, and then shot in the
> kneecaps.

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> Which, of course, makes for approximately two discomfited no-talent XXX
> clowns, since mimes aren't so common around these parts.

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> On Fri, 22 Apr 2005 23:40:14 +0200, Frank van Schie wrote:
> Ah.
> Good call.
> ... although it'd be a shame to waste the ammunition.

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>Mr K wrote:
>
>Let me qualify that by changing that sentence to:
>"The first mime I've ever seen who is actually funny."
>
>All the rest should be bludgeoned to near death, and then shot in the
>kneecaps.
>
>Which, of course, makes for approximately two discomfited no-talent XXX
>clowns, since mimes aren't so common around these parts.

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>On Fri, 22 Apr 2005 23:40:14 +0200, Frank van Schie wrote:
>
>
>Ah.
>
>
>Good call.
>
>... although it'd be a shame to waste the ammunition.
>
>
>I've always wondered how they'd react to an actual eyepoke.

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> Mimes and their inbred cousins circus clowns are seriously -not- funny
> in my estimation. Even as a kid I took no joy in clowns.

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> I remember my family watching prime-time mime team Shields and Yarnell
> back in the late 70's. Even at about 12 years old, I had contempt for
> the entertainment "stylings" of this dismal duo.

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>Smeghead wrote:
>
>As Terry Pratchett puts it so wonderfully in _Men At Arms_:
>"People laughed at clowns, but only out of nervousness. The point of
>clowns was that, after watching them, anything else that happened seemed
>enjoyable."
>
>Excellent book, and here's more quotes:
>http://ozdw.homes.com.au/DiscQuotes/MaA.htm
>
>
>Actually, either Penn or Teller is a mime. Mimes can be funny (as
>displayed in the Torn video), but not in their stereotypical routines.

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>
> Well then:
> http://www.boingboing.net/2005/04/2...aptop_thie.html

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> ^,,^< Miracle, a lifetime [LD], DkAngel

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> On Fri, 22 Apr 2005 23:40:14 +0200, Frank van Schie
> <frankNOSPAM@email.it> wrote:
>
>
> Mimes and their inbred cousins circus clowns are seriously -not- funny
> in my estimation. Even as a kid I took no joy in clowns.
>
> I remember my family watching prime-time mime team Shields and Yarnell
> back in the late 70's. Even at about 12 years old, I had contempt for
> the entertainment "stylings" of this dismal duo.

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> ^,,^< Miracle, a lifetime [LD], DkAngel

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> It is now my mission in life to make an undetectable barrier that I
> can trap a mime in. Placed in public, no one would ever be the wiser
> that they are actually encased in an invisible box, starving to death!
>
> "Get a new routine, XXX hole!" passers-by would scream abusively to
> the poor mime feeling around for an exit to the imperceptible prison.
>
> After that, I'd construct an undetectable, inescapable wind tunnel...

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> ^,,^< Miracle, a lifetime [LD], DkAngel

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> The stereotypical mime is the loathsome ilk of which I focus my
> contempt. Physical humor is great. As Mr. 15K pointed out, Harpo Marx
> is a great exception to the "mime" rule.

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> I understand that The Blue Group is also *beyond* mime, that
> folks pay huge money in Vegas to see them. I won't, but I would
> try to watch them on TV to see if they're as good as Mummenschantz
> was.

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>
>
> Ah, now *this* is good stuff! :D
>
> /me wonders if I sound that dull when lecturing........

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>">^,,^< Miracle" <miracle@spamcop.net> wrote in news:4269f2d4$1_5
>@galaxy.uncensored-news.com:
>
>
>Haven't seen Mummenschantz, but I've seen the Blue Man Group on TV and
>they're fun to watch. Kind of like Salvadore Dali in motion and
>technicolor.

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> On Sat, 23 Apr 2005 05:44:17 -0500, I heard the following crap spew
> forth from ScratchMonkey <ScratchMonkey.blacklist@sewingwitch.com>:
>
>
> I have a Muppets Show on DVD with Mummenschantz. Odd performers, but
> very good at what they do.

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> ^,,^< Miracle, a lifetime [LD], DkAngel

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>Smeghead wrote:
>
>
> I really like the way your mind works! :D

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>
>
> I go back to Charlie Chaplin's antics, and I couldn't stand him
>even as a small child. Ditto Shields & Yarnell.
> But you know, there was one group that was so innovative, I
>would sit mesmerized and watch them. They had an odd name which
>I'll attempt to type: Mummenschantz. (I have no idea if thats right.)
>
> I understand that The Blue Group is also *beyond* mime, that
>folks pay huge money in Vegas to see them. I won't, but I would
>try to watch them on TV to see if they're as good as Mummenschantz
>was.

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>">^,,^< Miracle" <miracle@spamcop.net> wrote in news:4269f2d4$1_5
>@galaxy.uncensored-news.com:
>
>
>Haven't seen Mummenschantz, but I've seen the Blue Man Group on TV and
>they're fun to watch. Kind of like Salvadore Dali in motion and
>technicolor.

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>">^,,^< Miracle" <miracle@spamcop.net> wrote in news:4269f121$1_3
>@galaxy.uncensored-news.com:
>
>
>I'm betting he was grandstanding for his clients, since it's possible the
>laptop was stolen by some biotech industrial espionage types (or by a
>student hired by same). Can you imagine someone leaving millions of dollars
>of sensitive data where someone can easily steal it? (Alas, I can, all too
>easily.)

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> On 23 Apr 2005 07:02:44 GMT, ">^,,^< Miracle" wrote:
>
> I don't know whether to be flattered or frightened by that compliment.

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>^,,^< Miracle

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>Smeghead wrote:
>
>
> Definitely flattered, then frightened. :D

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>Smeghead wrote:
>
>
> I hear that!!!! Death would be no punishment in my opinion,
>unless it was I who got to do it. Long and slow......in public.
>
> I just don't know why "we" keep letting them out of jail. But
>that's a rant for another time. I'll add that there's a Level 3 who
>is moving to my neighborhood in May, and all I can think about
>is how many children now live in this area.

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>Smeghead wrote:
>
>
> I hear that!!!! Death would be no punishment in my opinion,
>unless it was I who got to do it. Long and slow......in public.
>
> I just don't know why "we" keep letting them out of jail. But
>that's a rant for another time. I'll add that there's a Level 3 who
>is moving to my neighborhood in May, and all I can think about
>is how many children now live in this area.

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> On 27 Apr 2005 09:07:24 GMT, I heard the following crap spew forth
> from ">^,,^< Miracle" <miracle@spamcop.net>:
> Yikes. My proposal for dealing with our prison population is to have
> a pay-per-view executions channel. Every four minutes, a new prisoner
> gets executed. The proceeds from the channel pay for the prisons.
> When we run out of death-row inmates, we hit the hard core lifers and
> pedophiles. When we run out of them, we start down the chain. I
> won't make up the chain, but I include car thieves high up, since I've
> had to deal with that problem lately. I truly feel that 15 executions
> an hour will quickly put a dent in the prison problem, as well as
> likely reducing the number of first offenders. At the very least, we
> will reduce the number of repeat offenders.

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>On 27 Apr 2005 09:07:24 GMT, I heard the following crap spew forth
>from ">^,,^< Miracle" <miracle@spamcop.net>:
>
>
>Yikes. My proposal for dealing with our prison population is to have
>a pay-per-view executions channel. Every four minutes, a new prisoner
>gets executed. The proceeds from the channel pay for the prisons.
>When we run out of death-row inmates, we hit the hard core lifers and
>pedophiles. When we run out of them, we start down the chain. I
>won't make up the chain, but I include car thieves high up, since I've
>had to deal with that problem lately. I truly feel that 15 executions
>an hour will quickly put a dent in the prison problem, as well as
>likely reducing the number of first offenders. At the very least, we
>will reduce the number of repeat offenders.

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>Randy Graham's last words before the Sword of Azrial plunged through his
>body were:
>
>Only thing is we'd run out of death row inmates in about 10 days, however
>total prison pop would take about 16 years to run through, but that
>includes white collar criminals, drunks, etc.
>
>Imagine about 15-20 years from now when we start running out of people;
>"I'm getting executed? BUT I WAS ARRESTED BECAUSE I SHOWED UP DRUNK FOR MY
>DIVORCE! I AM ONLY BEING HELD TILL TOMORROW MORNING!"

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>Randy Graham's last words before the Sword of Azrial plunged through his
>body were:
>
>Only thing is we'd run out of death row inmates in about 10 days, however
>total prison pop would take about 16 years to run through, but that
>includes white collar criminals, drunks, etc.
>
>Imagine about 15-20 years from now when we start running out of people;
>"I'm getting executed? BUT I WAS ARRESTED BECAUSE I SHOWED UP DRUNK FOR MY
>DIVORCE! I AM ONLY BEING HELD TILL TOMORROW MORNING!"