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Re: I need a good boffin.

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Heston wrote: All in an average night's chat. That place is like a loony bin.
When cretin is involved, nuttiness is inevitable.
Look, you have to establish context for these things. And I maintain that unless you appreciate the Fall of Constantinople, the Great Fire of London, and Mickey Mantle's fatalist alcoholism, live Freddy makes no sense. If you want to half-ass it, fine, go call Simon Schama to do the appendix.

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matedog wrote:
Heston wrote: All in an average night's chat. That place is like a loony bin.
When cretin is involved, nuttiness is inevitable.
As opposed to when Hoy is involved, when TERRORSCAPE is inevitable.

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Rat Patrol wrote:
matedog wrote:
Heston wrote: All in an average night's chat. That place is like a loony bin.
When cretin is involved, nuttiness is inevitable.
As opposed to when Hoy is involved, when TERRORSCAPE is inevitable.
His grandparents locked him in a box and made him shit. One of the many horrible things you'll learn when you join Hoy in chat.
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eumaas wrote:
Rat Patrol wrote:
matedog wrote:
Heston wrote: All in an average night's chat. That place is like a loony bin.
When cretin is involved, nuttiness is inevitable.
As opposed to when Hoy is involved, when TERRORSCAPE is inevitable.
His grandparents locked him in a box and made him shit. One of the many horrible things you'll learn when you join Hoy in chat.
It was a box on a ship. If we were on land, I would have had more space.
Look, you have to establish context for these things. And I maintain that unless you appreciate the Fall of Constantinople, the Great Fire of London, and Mickey Mantle's fatalist alcoholism, live Freddy makes no sense. If you want to half-ass it, fine, go call Simon Schama to do the appendix.

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matedog wrote:
eumaas wrote:
Rat Patrol wrote:
matedog wrote:
Heston wrote: All in an average night's chat. That place is like a loony bin.
When cretin is involved, nuttiness is inevitable.
As opposed to when Hoy is involved, when TERRORSCAPE is inevitable.
His grandparents locked him in a box and made him shit. One of the many horrible things you'll learn when you join Hoy in chat.
It was a box on a ship. If we were on land, I would have had more space.
What they weren't anticipating was that he'd FLOAT BACK TO LAND EVENTUALLY. And develop Stockholm Syndrome about his shitting box captors.

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Re: I need a good boffin.

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Rat Patrol wrote:
matedog wrote:
eumaas wrote:
Rat Patrol wrote:
matedog wrote: When cretin is involved, nuttiness is inevitable.
As opposed to when Hoy is involved, when TERRORSCAPE is inevitable.
His grandparents locked him in a box and made him shit. One of the many horrible things you'll learn when you join Hoy in chat.
It was a box on a ship. If we were on land, I would have had more space.
What they weren't anticipating was that he'd FLOAT BACK TO LAND EVENTUALLY. And develop Stockholm Syndrome about his shitting box captors.
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Question: Anybody use a laptop cooling pad? The one thing I hate about the MacBook Air is that it gets quite hot, so I'm thinking about a cooling pad to help it out. Recommendations, advice, thoughts?
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Dr. Medulla wrote:Question: Anybody use a laptop cooling pad? The one thing I hate about the MacBook Air is that it gets quite hot, so I'm thinking about a cooling pad to help it out. Recommendations, advice, thoughts?
RCS told me that a block of ice works really well to cool down them fancy electronic thingies.
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JennyB wrote:
Dr. Medulla wrote:Question: Anybody use a laptop cooling pad? The one thing I hate about the MacBook Air is that it gets quite hot, so I'm thinking about a cooling pad to help it out. Recommendations, advice, thoughts?
RCS told me that a block of ice works really well to cool down them fancy electronic thingies.
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I can't even remember the last time I had a really good boffin.
Who pfaffed the pfaff? Who got pfaffed tonight?

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Dr. Medulla wrote:Question: Anybody use a laptop cooling pad? The one thing I hate about the MacBook Air is that it gets quite hot, so I'm thinking about a cooling pad to help it out. Recommendations, advice, thoughts?
If you don't need a coolung pad for your lap, and don't want spend around a hundred bucks or whatever for a top-of-the-line item, this is a model which works well:
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Olaf wrote:I can't even remember the last time I had a really good boffin.
no shit...
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Can anyone give me a little phone help? I'm after something I can make calls and text on, also internet access (with QWERTY keyboard) and ability to watch Youtube vids etc. I've looked at the iPhones but they seem to have too much baggage I don't need. Is there a simpler version of the iPhone?
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Re: I need a good boffin.

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Heston wrote:Can anyone give me a little phone help? I'm after something I can make calls and text on, also internet access (with QWERTY keyboard) and ability to watch Youtube vids etc. I've looked at the iPhones but they seem to have too much baggage I don't need. Is there a simpler version of the iPhone?
I have a Droid phone (the Samsung Moment) which I like quite a bit. I'm actually posting on here from it right now.
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Re: I need a good boffin.

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Flex wrote:
Heston wrote:Can anyone give me a little phone help? I'm after something I can make calls and text on, also internet access (with QWERTY keyboard) and ability to watch Youtube vids etc. I've looked at the iPhones but they seem to have too much baggage I don't need. Is there a simpler version of the iPhone?
I have a Droid phone (the Samsung Moment) which I like quite a bit. I'm actually posting on here from it right now.
Cheers Flex, I've been looking at those, is it handy for watching YouTube stuff etc?
There's a tiny, tiny hopeful part of me that says you guys are running a Kaufmanesque long con on the board

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