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Hope it will still be helpful to you and good luck with that therapy!*

*I say this knowing full well you will probably have to have a double session because of the stress caused by the pleasantness.

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Ingenius Friday attack. Be nice to the guy who fears it. Well done.

Synthetic Diamonds
 

Good point. Good point. There's always Carver (the camaro of hi-fi).

The FB: All Texas, All the Time
 

Isn't there some sort of Minister of Cultural Exports? I thought I read about that in connection with shipping the big caddies with the horns on the front and red shag carpeted seats to Colorado.

How do I get these avatar things working?

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I'll preface this by saying I've never been to Texas, but I was told by a person who travelled to the Houston area that they paint the tunnels green to simulate plant-life. Is that part of the recreation effort of which you speak?

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The walls aren't painted green - that's mould. Mould is plant life.


And I prefer my recreation outside of the tunnel.

Synthetic Diamonds
 

I am now feeling distinctly low-rent for being too cheap to cough up the extra 20 bucks for the special earphones with the controls on the earphone wire for my Walkman.

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That's odd, because it really sounds like one of the enormous "waterbugs" has crawled up your ass.

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http://www.alltel.net/~petronski/bunny2.jpg

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Are you starting again? Is this your Friday thing? Random unpleasantness? I asked a freaking question and you're getting all defensive.

Synthetic Diamonds
 

I like your response but would like to add that my big screen, and other tech toys are each just as much an investement, IMHO, as buying stock or bonds because I am "investing" in my pleasure and happiness and the returns I get from laying out a few thou for a tech toy far surpass the greatest gains in the market. As an added bonus, I am so happy at home with my tech toys that I generally don't feel the need to go out and spend money on other things -- for example, before I got my huge screen I went to more baseball games and now, although I still go to a fair number, I am happy to sit home and stare at my boys of summer larger than life with theatre sound and not get robbed for a beer. So I am happy and have more money in my pocket to boot.

Synthetic Diamonds
 

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Originally posted by NotFromHere
Also, if you're going to invest in the electronics, you're absolutely stupid not to invest in the best surge suppressor/line conditioner you can afford. Those people in New York will be sad to find out that when the power comes back on, a lot of their electronics will have blown out. The service departments will be packed with people with dead computers, TV's and stereos from the surge - all which could have been avoided with a $100 (NOT $10) surge protector. NO, I don't work for a surge protector company, but have many many friends in "the business."
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Four points:

One, your silly agression and erroneous Timmification suggests that you tie a lot of your self-worth up in your possessions and knowledge about them. Have you though about trying to better your life in ways that can't be summed up in a page on some home theater website?

Two, When you're talking about how someone is going to "invest in the electronics," you surely are not talking about an "investment." Is that what you're saying? Because, if that's what you're saying, I don't really need to respond to that.

Third, I'm not arguing that there is not a difference or misunderstanding your simple point that there is. I was making a different point, which you seemed to miss in your desire to lash out at me for what you perceived to be a personal attack. I'm simply arguing that most people don't think that additional quality is worth all that extra money, and that a lot of people who are into home theater and premium sound don't get that some people choose to spend their money on other things, even though it might mean that their systems don't sound as good. I do know how fantastic high-end stuff sounds; I just have better ways to spend $50k or so.

Four, since this is all in good fun, I will only bite you if you moan a lot and talk about my "amp" and your "receiver."

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That's lovely third hand knowledge of a place.

I am not a native Texan. I was here before the boom and I am here after the bust, so I think that makes me a Texan and not one of those Californians who have now returned from whence they came.

Houston is a lovely city, with big beautiful parks, world-class museums, outstanding restaurants. It's cosmopolitan and the people are friendly. What more could you want in a big city?

Even(some of my best friends are Houstonians)Odds

Synthetic Diamonds
 

Well, that whole law of diminishing returns thing is sort of like the conservation of energy one. At some point, shortly after you find yourself wishing that the backup guitarist had purchased higher-quality strings, and would put that damn sound-absorbing paperback book behind his stool, you realize that a chain is only as good as the weakest link.

Synthetic Diamonds
 

OK.

And I will only "receive" your "amp" if you're properly "hardwired."

Edited to say - all you dice guys are confusing me.

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Who determines whether you are an -ian, -an, -er, -ite, etc. and how do they do it? I mean, why are there Atlantans, Angelenos (or is it Angeleans), Houstonians, New Yorkers and not Atlantites, Angelites, Houstoners and New Yorkans? Somebody? Anybody? :confused:

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Snow. Lots of snow. Don't you guys keel over from the heat?

But Houston sounds very lovely. If you tell me who makes good ice-cold lemonade, I will go for a visit someday.

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Just funnin with ya. There was too much Texas love going on and I was trying to shake things up. Actually I have a very good friend who lives in Houston and he loves it. Says Woodland Hills is a great place, I've seen pictures - it's nothing how I envisioned Texas.

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I really don't understand how they do it. It's not even ninety degrees here today, and I'm dyin'.

Synthetic Diamonds
 

Right on Sista! You're OK for a Atlantite.

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I'd like them to keep George Bush there. Must you always export your rejects?

Synthetic Diamonds
 

I feel the same way about my car. I know that it lost half of the value when I drove off the lot but I am so happy when I drive it that nothing else matters. I guess it all depends on what a person likes and the value they place on things. I don't like to vacation and can't see laying out a few thou to go to Europe but I tell people that spending the money on season tickets to hockey is the same as having 42 mini vacations for me and my family.

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I am an Austinite. I grew up on the east coast, but I fell in love with the hill country.

When I was in law school, I was here interviewing for jobs and found the friendliness disconcerting. People talked to me everywhere -- the waiting area in firm offices, elevators.

Now when I travel back east, I wonder what's wrong with everyone else.

Synthetic Diamonds
 

[insert moronic, asinine, sentence fragment of a response to long quoted post here.]

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God bless hockey - and the fans with such heart. Much more so than pansy baseball fans.

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I just call them all assholes. It's much simpler. :D

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I love the hill country 'cauz hill county in Texas is measured in cup sizes....




HOORAY FOR BOOBIES!

Synthetic Diamonds
 

I would think that is a risky proposal, especially if there is a notably phallic 6 foot tall Dunleavy VI in the same room. Talk about performance anxiety.

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See. It's not just me. Friendly people are (were) a bit scary. Of course, growing up in the north I learned that if someone starts getting friendly to strangers they are usually some sort of freak or escapee.

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Don't go outside unless you absolutely have to. Plus, if you are not outside terribly long, the heat feels kinda good because everything is air-conditioned to meat locker temperatures.

Synthetic Diamonds
 

I used to do this too, but now I just run down to the store and buy my utils there directly. It's more efficient that way.

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She said "disconcerting" not "scary." What the hell kind of wuss are you?

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Back from your vacation in the Bahamas spending all of the virtual money you took from me at Hold 'em I see.

I think it is assholian.

Synthetic Diamonds
 

I suspect that, when your ratio of masturbatory experiences to actual sex experiences gets too out of whack, you grow morose.

Either that, or your response macro failed.

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We all wonder that.

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A lot of people forget that Houston is where the gulf coast of the southeast meets the prairies of the northwest meets the piney woods of the northeast meets the wetlands of the southwest. It's flat, but it's generally green, and there are lots of trees.

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assholio. related to bunghole.

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Fair enough.

For the record, it was not scary as in sharks but rather scary as in Don King's hair.

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Fringey, that's it, I'm moving. Our love child is going to be reared in Texas. None of this uptight limited east coast crap for our darling.

All Things Whacking
 

I get it. Masturbation. Out of "whack". Nice touch, Bilmore.

(You had no idea you did that, did you?)