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Prufrock
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Posted: Mon Oct 05, 2009 9:31 am

On Friday I made my final college loan payment. Ended up paying off the $30,000 debt 4 years early. It feels sooooooo good.

Martin

benjoshua
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Posted: Mon Oct 05, 2009 10:24 am

Prufrock wrote:On Friday I made my final college loan payment. Ended up paying off the $30,000 debt 4 years early. It feels sooooooo good.

Martin

Congrats! Now you can afford all thost level 5 rarity items you've always wanted!

Truth is worth finding and life is too short to work for money.

Prufrock
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Posted: Mon Oct 05, 2009 10:34 am

Yeah, I might be harder to "push" off an auction that I really want. But level 5's are still a little to pricey for me.

Martin

jasonw1239
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Posted: Mon Oct 05, 2009 10:58 am

Prufrock wrote:On Friday I made my final college loan payment. Ended up paying off the $30,000 debt 4 years early. It feels sooooooo good.

Martin

Yay! More beer money in your pockets!

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SimperingToad
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Posted: Tue Oct 06, 2009 12:39 am

Prufrock wrote:On Friday I made my final college loan payment. Ended up paying off the $30,000 debt 4 years early. It feels sooooooo good.

Martin

When you can pay off your 30-year mortgage 14 years early, being the only one paying, only then, Grasshopper, may you leave.

Blackmoor
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Posted: Tue Oct 06, 2009 1:03 am

Prufrock wrote:On Friday I made my final college loan payment. Ended up paying off the $30,000 debt 4 years early. It feels sooooooo good.

Martin

Good job

Games can get you through times of no money but money can not get you through times of no games!!

Blackmoor
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Posted: Tue Oct 06, 2009 1:03 am

double post

Games can get you through times of no money but money can not get you through times of no games!!

Prufrock
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Posted: Tue Oct 06, 2009 9:41 am

Last night during the football game I saw this commercial: Lead star from Sapranos is standing next to a guy (nerdy looking) seated at a table on which is a bowl of pistachios. Toney Saprano picks one pistachio out of the bowl and places it on the table in front of the nerdy looking guy. There is a pregnant pause and then Toney grabs the back of the nerdy looking guys head and rams it into the single pistachio on the table. He then picks up the nut (now that it has been shucked) and eats it. The voice over is as follows: "Wise Guys do it with muscle."

Great commercial.

Martin

dsaunders
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Posted: Tue Oct 06, 2009 9:46 am

i was searching for ways to recover data off a bad dvd (don't ask..) and found the forum linked below. look at the image used by "t0nee1", look familiar to anyone?

http://club.cdfreaks.com/f34/dvd-burned ... nk-264448/

-dave

jasonw1239
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Posted: Tue Oct 06, 2009 9:57 am

Prufrock wrote:Last night during the football game I saw this commercial: Lead star from Sapranos is standing next to a guy (nerdy looking) seated at a table on which is a bowl of pistachios. Toney Saprano picks one pistachio out of the bowl and places it on the table in front of the nerdy looking guy. There is a pregnant pause and then Toney grabs the back of the nerdy looking guys head and rams it into the single pistachio on the table. He then picks up the nut (now that it has been shucked) and eats it. The voice over is as follows: "Wise Guys do it with muscle."

Great commercial.

Martin

Same pistachio campaign, different "spokesperson".
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3KQ_DBpEDDI

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mbassoc2003
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Posted: Tue Oct 06, 2009 10:11 am

dsaunders wrote:i was searching for ways to recover data off a bad dvd (don't ask..) and found the forum linked below. look at the image used by "t0nee1", look familiar to anyone?

http://club.cdfreaks.com/f34/dvd-burned ... nk-264448/

Nice find. It's not me though. I know bugger all about CD and DVD technology. At least, not enough to be a complete anorack about it. :lol:

This week I've been mostly eating . . . The white ones with the little red flecks in them.

FormCritic
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Posted: Tue Oct 06, 2009 10:57 pm

mbassoc2003 wrote: bugger all

Do the English consider that a good thing or a bad thing?

"But I have watched the dragons come, fire-eyed, across the world."

gyg
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Posted: Tue Oct 06, 2009 11:04 pm

both

You can never have too much of something you didn't need in the first place.

red_bus
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Posted: Wed Oct 07, 2009 5:35 am

Yes, 'tis context specific (I may not be English, but years of close anthropological study has given me some insight...) :lol:

Let's go fly a kite
Up to the highest height!

mbassoc2003
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Posted: Wed Oct 07, 2009 6:40 am

Can mean absolutely nothing, or a good celebration after a public school rugby match.

This week I've been mostly eating . . . The white ones with the little red flecks in them.

ashmire13
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Posted: Wed Oct 07, 2009 12:26 pm

mbassoc2003 wrote:Can mean absolutely nothing, or a good celebration after a public school rugby match.

Rolls a '3'

"Did I hit.....?"

ashmire13
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Posted: Wed Oct 07, 2009 3:11 pm

ashmire13 wrote:
From the last random chat thread, here is the latest pic for those interested...

http://s700.photobucket.com/albums/ww3/ashmire13/

well, it goes back a way in these discussions and the actual tattoo has taken 8, 4 hour sessions over the course of about 8 months, but today it was finally finished.

(I say finished, but I've got to go back in 6 weeks or so for the highlighting and fine-detail!)

I'm still trying to find the name of the original artist. I'll post the original artwork from the Dragon mag insert soon, just in case anyone recognises the style??

Rolls a '3'

"Did I hit.....?"

jasonw1239
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Posted: Wed Oct 07, 2009 3:34 pm

That is some pretty awesome paint! Kudos to the tattoo artist!

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