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    Eidetic Memory

    I don't, but I've known one single person who actually did. We were driving home and I decided to test him- While diving behind a red Toyota during a totally random portion of the trip, I wrote down the license plate number without mentioning what I was doing, or without him noticing anything. A minute or two later, the Toyota was gone. When we arrived home an hour later, I asked him "Say, when we were driving home, we were behind this red Toyota for about a minute- near the offramp to (town). What was the tag number?"He answered correctly.I don't think people understand how truly freakish and
  2. The guy didn't have a choice. He had a ding on his record, thus armed self defense wasn't an option (from what I gather on Wikipedia, due to probation conditions, not a felony).Being much in a similar boat myself, this is what I have to work with...It will cleanly remove an arm, a leg or a head without needing a follow-up whack (well, maybe on the leg) but yes, it would lose in a gunfight. If I ever have to use it, it will be in consort with the element of surprise. I will not challenge or confront anyone with it- they'll only know I'm there after they round the wrong corner and their head get
  3. 1) Anecdote, not "antidote"2) Not bullshit.I have other pictures, if you like.If you think that, you must suck at poker.
  4. In that case, mucho congrats on the final table, as it will likely be your last.
  5. Once upon a time, up until early 2004 or so, there used to exist a town called "Glenville, DE".It was within commuting distance of Wilmington, had lots of nice, staunchly middle class homes- basically, a typical picture of anytown middle class America. There was, however, a catch.Glenville was built smack dab in the middle of a very active floodplain- on a little island called "Bread and Cheese Island".Since 1937, there had been fourteen documented catastrophic flood events in Glenville- the last being in 2003, when the community of 180+ homes was basically destroyed.Everyone who owned a home
  6. On-the-spot made-up excuses are for midgets and fags. They fail most every time. Even if you don't get in trouble, no one believes them.The only way to go is have a "built in" go-to excuse that everyone at your work believes and is aware of.You simply trot it out when you need it and everyone understands because it's OK that you "had to give your wife a ride to work on Sundays" or "volunteer at the soup kitchen two counties over on Thursday mornings" or "visit with your sick mom who hasn't been doing too well lately, what with the cancer and all..."
  7. 59% Lech Walesa58% Larry Flint51% Syd Barrett49% Ralf Shumacher47% Freddie Prinze Jr. 47% Lou Reed45% Emmy Rossum45% Rob ThomasThese things are so insanely accurate...
  8. The crazy thing is, he could've gone on forever. It all boiled down to his nerve and confidence.If he had been a hard-core iceman type and knew he wouldn't fuck it up, he could've bagged them for $1,000,000 or more, although I'm sure if he had gone much further, they would've intervened figuring it for some kind of technical error.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xAHD_CIysFwhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TtNy-nuae10
  9. Wow. Stop the presses.Two blacks who look like each other.What a groundbreaking occurrence.
  10. Absolutely love it, play it all the time.Never even heard of it until I found myself in a place where I had a lot of 'free time' and puzzle books were the only option to keep your mind from rotting other than the bible and outdated periodicals .Got hooked and never looked back.Just getting into the higher level games and more advanced strategies. I do use pencil notes but the goal is to get to the point where I can crack high level puzzles without them (may never get there) No where in the same universe as this cat, but his youtube on a strat regarding discovering a thing called "X Wings" is r
  11. Sorry pal.When your name's "Barry Greenstein" and you look like this:your outlook on the afterlife doesn't negate what you are (Yes, Jews are a distinct ethnicity. It's why you have such things as "Christian Jews", etc and why there's an undeniable, totally identifiable aesthetic)
  12. They only took a 2nd Amendment case after a lower court struck down an existing, long standing (and popular in its area) law based on Second Amendment interpretations. If the Supreme Court didn't intervene, the DC gun ban would've been voided.For years, SCOTUS denied hearing cases from citizen petitioners who were proactively trying to fight the DC gun law, but they suddenly decide to hear such a case when DC is the petitioner, desperately trying to uphold a law that's been struck down?It doesn't necessarily bode well for gun owners, however, SCOTUS is thinking on legal levels that are way, wa
  13. No, not really.If I put you on Michigan Avenue at lunch randomly spraying with an "assault rifle" and me on the 5th floor of any random building with a scoped deer rifle, it's likely that I would not only kill more people, but I'd probably get 1/4 of every cop who responded to the scene and stand a real chance of getting away, whereas you would eventually be mowed down "blaze of glory" style, 100% for certain.There are situations where higher capacity with a rapid fire function is more effective (in small, enclosed spaces for example) and in urban type settings, when fired for accuracy, an AR
  14. .2% (point two percent) in violent crimes, less than 1% in all other crimes. They're substantially less likely than a handgun, deer rifle or an ordinary "Wal Mart" bird shotgun to be actually used in a crimeAt one time, they accounted for 10% of "traces" for crime guns, but the catch to that was the BATF only traces about 2% of guns used in crime- "scary looking" guns are a near certainty to be traced 100% of the time, while ordinary pistols, rifles and shotguns are about a 98-1 shot. This means that they are going to be grossly over-represented in the population of "crime gun" traces not beca
  15. Hmmmm... Two Jews and an Atheist who calls himself "Jesus"... Wonder where the loggerheads could *possibly* be in this troupe.
  16. Who were you using and who were you fighting?Character selection is key.
  17. Who cares what Phil "Please, Somebody Like Me" Gordon thinks about anything. Epic douche.I mean, from the "poker fan" side- with DN, there are those who dig him and those who don't.With Gordon, opinion is near universal; everyone thinks he's a cunt.
  18. When you make as much money as he does playing poker- not just playing poker but as a "poker celebrity"- it's pretty hard to turn that down for anyone.Really, any woman who marries him ought to know what she's getting in to. He's a C list celebrity, an A list celebrity in his field and makes lots of money by way of traveling all over the world. Not much of a shocker that there isn't a whole lot of "us" time.
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    Nintendo

    Speaking of obscure Nickelodeon 1990's live action kids shows, remember the Adventures of Pete and Pete?I had completely forgotten that show existed- like, not even a single sliver of recall about one iota pertaining to that show having existed in any way- until I stumbled across a reference to it in a Wikipedia article.
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    Nintendo

    Not really. That's the only one worth huge because it's so rare. It was given away to competitors in the Nintendo World Championships (kinda like a touring video game competition) in 1990- I think the semi-finalists got a gray, the finalists got a gold one. Every hobby has to have a "holy grail" of some kind- That's the one for Nintendo collectors. Other than that, as far as value, the non PAL Stadium Events is worth some bucks ($500-$700), the "adult themed" games (Hot Slots/Peek-A-Boo Poker, Bubble Bath Babes) are worth a few hundred. Flintstones Surprise at Dino Peak is worth a couple hundr
  21. Would've been better if you added that winner of the auction has the right to play you HU- winner takes the money, and the truck.
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    Nintendo

    Wow.Got caught up in a wikivortex researching some old NES games. The holy grail to NES collectors is the Nintendo World Championships cartridge which exists only in small handfuls- gray (more common) and gold (less common) varieties.Back in April, the father of a deceased Iraq vet decided to sell off his dead sons things, including a lot of 24 carts on some obscure ebay knock-off site.One of them was a gold NWC cart. "I think a dollar for each cartridge is fair so I'm starting off the bidding at $24..."It sold for $21K LOL. http://www.snesmaps.com/maps/NintendoPower...goldAuction.pdf
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