GM's thread about nothing (34 Viewers)

[guru_007]

If you went in cold and a dealer gave you a trade in of 17, list it on auto trader for 21.5, settle for 19.5 and pay off your note. Then do a 3-year lease, find a manufacturer running a special, I'd bet you could get a altima for 199/month with nothing down and 8k mile year lease. if you only need a weekend car, do a lease with low mileage.

 

[FDASv2.0]

I got draft slot 6. :(Mr. krista got 9. :(

I would go WR or Vick or Rodgers.

 

[mr. furley]

just wanted to say i am still drunk off of last night's super bowl win

16-0 baby!!

 

[Tiger Fan]

Got a company vehicle...about 2 months after I bought an Acura TL.Acura TL due to some unfortunate circumstances has a ####ed up bumper. I mentioned it in the thread but I crashed into a telephone pole at 5 miles per hour while trying to get my dog to calm down in the back seat. It's not in bad shape but scratched bad and definitely needs to be replaced.I owe 19K and change on it for 4 more years. It has 49K miles on it - a 2009. I drive MAYBE 250-300 miles per month so it will still have some value when paid off either way.What's the probability I could trade it in for something cheap like a Honda Civic and lower my monthly payment? I realize I'm upside down on the thing.Is it a complete ##### move to tack the difference on to a 12,000 dollar car and restart the loan at 5 Years? I learned my lesson about buying expensive cars - not worth the trouble and I'm just happy I settled on an Acura and not the BMW I was looking at.Any advice in here?

why do you think your upside down on this thing? I see an '09 accura tl for sale on ebay with 47k miles on it for 24k.used cars are in pretty good demand right now believe it or not. Bumpers are cheap, just cosmetic damage. I'd check around on auto trader and see trade in values. Why are you looking for another car though if you have a company vehicle? Why not just try to sell it and get rid of the note and drive the company car? Also, if you are only driving 5000 miles per year, you can probably get some pretty attractive leases with low mileage if you wanted to go that route.

I still need a vehicle for the weekend. Trade in value for my car would only be 17 according to dealer I went to today, I could probably work with that a little bit.I just sort of wondered how stupid it is to roll over a car you've had a year for a cheaper car. The main goal here is to get the payments down to around 300 bucks. 450 is ridiculous when you're trying to buy a house.

This is what I would do in the following order:1. Verify that you are truely upside down. If you can actually sell it and break even, do this ASAP. Put it on Craigslist, look online, etc. Once you do this, lease a Civic type car for as little mileage as possible. I'd bet you can get away with $200 or month (maybe less)2. If you are upside down, go talk to a few different dealers (but not the actual dealership of the car you are interested in). Figure out what you can get for your car on a trade in. This will give you a good benchmark of what you can get for the dealer you actually want to do business with.3. Once you know what you can get, go to the dealership for the car you want and start negotiating. Tell him you know you can get $XXX somewhere else, but you want to lease a car b/c you now have a work vehicle. You just need something to get around on the weekends, yada yada yada. You'll end up with low payments stillIIRC, you can lease a $25k vehicle with nothing down for about $400 a month. Since you only need the car on weekends, I think you can get an even reduced mileage lease

 

[John Bender]

Got a company vehicle...about 2 months after I bought an Acura TL.Acura TL due to some unfortunate circumstances has a ####ed up bumper. I mentioned it in the thread but I crashed into a telephone pole at 5 miles per hour while trying to get my dog to calm down in the back seat. It's not in bad shape but scratched bad and definitely needs to be replaced.I owe 19K and change on it for 4 more years. It has 49K miles on it - a 2009. I drive MAYBE 250-300 miles per month so it will still have some value when paid off either way.What's the probability I could trade it in for something cheap like a Honda Civic and lower my monthly payment? I realize I'm upside down on the thing.Is it a complete ##### move to tack the difference on to a 12,000 dollar car and restart the loan at 5 Years? I learned my lesson about buying expensive cars - not worth the trouble and I'm just happy I settled on an Acura and not the BMW I was looking at.Any advice in here?

why do you think your upside down on this thing? I see an '09 accura tl for sale on ebay with 47k miles on it for 24k.used cars are in pretty good demand right now believe it or not. Bumpers are cheap, just cosmetic damage. I'd check around on auto trader and see trade in values. Why are you looking for another car though if you have a company vehicle? Why not just try to sell it and get rid of the note and drive the company car? Also, if you are only driving 5000 miles per year, you can probably get some pretty attractive leases with low mileage if you wanted to go that route.

I still need a vehicle for the weekend. Trade in value for my car would only be 17 according to dealer I went to today, I could probably work with that a little bit.I just sort of wondered how stupid it is to roll over a car you've had a year for a cheaper car. The main goal here is to get the payments down to around 300 bucks. 450 is ridiculous when you're trying to buy a house.

This is what I would do in the following order:1. Verify that you are truely upside down. If you can actually sell it and break even, do this ASAP. Put it on Craigslist, look online, etc. Once you do this, lease a Civic type car for as little mileage as possible. I'd bet you can get away with $200 or month (maybe less)2. If you are upside down, go talk to a few different dealers (but not the actual dealership of the car you are interested in). Figure out what you can get for your car on a trade in. This will give you a good benchmark of what you can get for the dealer you actually want to do business with.3. Once you know what you can get, go to the dealership for the car you want and start negotiating. Tell him you know you can get $XXX somewhere else, but you want to lease a car b/c you now have a work vehicle. You just need something to get around on the weekends, yada yada yada. You'll end up with low payments stillIIRC, you can lease a $25k vehicle with nothing down for about $400 a month. Since you only need the car on weekends, I think you can get an even reduced mileage lease

Good stuff. Thank you very much.

 

[mr. furley]

Whenever I get a package of plain M&Ms

 

[mr. furley]

I wish there were roads that only white people could drive on.

I wish white people would stop backing into parking spaces.

Have you ever seen a black person back into a parking space? NEVER....not once.

been discussed and things got ugly

 

[McJose]

Bootney Lee Farnsworth alias rejected

Not sure if I'm proud or totally ashamed that I know what movie that's from.

 

[YSR]

First time in my life I got a warning instead of a ticket for something. Coming back from court today, a sheriff pulled up to me in the next lane and motioned for me to roll down my window. Told me my driver's side brake light was out. I said I'd take care of it, and he said "today, ok?" and left. I was so happy to not get a ticket that I actually stopped by a parts store, bought a replacement bulb and fixed it.

Krista>Adrian Peterson, Chris Johnson or Arian Foster.

fish is back!! Or fish are back?Anyway, thanks to you and gamera.

I'm mostly worried about what to do if god forbid I end up with the first pick. It just sucks mightily if I eff that up.

peterson's the safest.

Thanks. I was leaning that way and am happy to have some reassurance.Mr. krista is also going to be in the league this year and in my conference. He hasn't paid attention to a damn thing and is asking me who's good this year. Trying to decide how competitive I want to be here. My instinct is to tell him to go #### himself.

I guess my instincts aren't great.

Collusion

 

[Lieutenant Dan]

I had a bag of Skittles with my lunch. I eat a bag the same way everytime. Open it up completely, letting all the Skittles lay available on my desk. I don't seperate them into colors, but I eat them one at a time: all the yellow, then all the green, then all the red, then all the purple, then all the orange.I might have issues.

I do the same with M&Ms, except that I group them into pairs based on color. I then eat them pair by pair, so that my back teeth are getting an equal amount of sugar. Then, I have the scraps. It's tough, but I make it through.

Whenever I get a package of plain M&Ms, I make it my duty to continue the strength and robustness of the candy as a species. To this end, I hold M&M duels. Taking two candies between my thumb and forefinger, I apply pressure, squeezing them together until one of them cracks and splinters. That is the "loser," and I eat the inferior one immediately. The winner gets to go another round. I have found that, in general, the brown and red M&Ms are tougher, and the newer blue ones are genetically inferior. I have hypothesized that the blue M&Ms as a race cannot survive long in the intense theater of competition that is the modern candy and snack-food world. Occasionally I will get a mutation, a candy that is misshapen, or pointier, or flatter than the rest. Almost invariably this proves to be a weakness, but on very rare occasions it gives the candy extra strength. In this way, the species continues to adapt to its environment. When I reach the end of the pack, I am left with one M&M, the strongest of the herd. Since it would make no sense to eat this one as well, I pack it neatly in an envelope and send it to M&M Mars, A Division of Mars, Inc., Hackettstown, NJ 17840-1503 U.S.A., along with a 3x5 card reading, "Please use this M&M for breeding purposes." This week they wrote back to thank me, and sent me a coupon for a free 1/2 pound bag of plain M&Ms. I consider this "grant money." I have set aside the weekend for a grand tournament. From a field of hundreds, we will discover the True Champion. There can be only one.

This is the best post I've read in the GMTAN. I salute you sir, and your mad quest.

Waiting for Thorn to man-up and credit where he got this.

I wasn't going to call him out, but we can't stand for this caliber of plagiarism

 

[shamwow!]

So we got a dutch oven :snicker: and a cast iron grill press as wedding gifts. How the hell do I season these? I heard that bacon grease works so I have a ton of that (like 4 cups). I just coat these things with the bacon grease and "bake" them for like a half hour at 450?

Google turned up mixed results, with different oils, different temps, different time frames. TIA

 

[Good Posting Judge]

One of Thorn's friends just tried to spell "satellite" on FB, and would've been closer if she'd hit her keyboard with a hammer.

 

[YSR]

My very first post on these here forums was in 9/2007 as GSCGAL and I was looking for the same kind of help that T.R.E. is giving me now. I started a thread looking for help with college picks and I was promised BOATLOADS.

Where's that guy now? AZ---? Can't remember who he was, but he was great for entertainment.

 

[dharmapunk]

I had a bag of Skittles with my lunch. I eat a bag the same way everytime. Open it up completely, letting all the Skittles lay available on my desk. I don't seperate them into colors, but I eat them one at a time: all the yellow, then all the green, then all the red, then all the purple, then all the orange.I might have issues.

I do the same with M&Ms, except that I group them into pairs based on color. I then eat them pair by pair, so that my back teeth are getting an equal amount of sugar. Then, I have the scraps. It's tough, but I make it through.

Whenever I get a package of plain M&Ms, I make it my duty to continue the strength and robustness of the candy as a species. To this end, I hold M&M duels. Taking two candies between my thumb and forefinger, I apply pressure, squeezing them together until one of them cracks and splinters. That is the "loser," and I eat the inferior one immediately. The winner gets to go another round. I have found that, in general, the brown and red M&Ms are tougher, and the newer blue ones are genetically inferior. I have hypothesized that the blue M&Ms as a race cannot survive long in the intense theater of competition that is the modern candy and snack-food world. Occasionally I will get a mutation, a candy that is misshapen, or pointier, or flatter than the rest. Almost invariably this proves to be a weakness, but on very rare occasions it gives the candy extra strength. In this way, the species continues to adapt to its environment. When I reach the end of the pack, I am left with one M&M, the strongest of the herd. Since it would make no sense to eat this one as well, I pack it neatly in an envelope and send it to M&M Mars, A Division of Mars, Inc., Hackettstown, NJ 17840-1503 U.S.A., along with a 3x5 card reading, "Please use this M&M for breeding purposes." This week they wrote back to thank me, and sent me a coupon for a free 1/2 pound bag of plain M&Ms. I consider this "grant money." I have set aside the weekend for a grand tournament. From a field of hundreds, we will discover the True Champion. There can be only one.

This is the best post I've read in the GMTAN. I salute you sir, and your mad quest.

Waiting for Thorn to man-up and credit where he got this.

I figured he'd ripped it from somewhere. I vaguely remember hearing it before. I don't care. It made my day.

 

[Angry Beavers]

My very first post on these here forums was in 9/2007 as GSCGAL and I was looking for the same kind of help that T.R.E. is giving me now. I started a thread looking for help with college picks and I was promised BOATLOADS.Where's that guy now? AZ---? Can't remember who he was, but he was great for entertainment.

Azcards...... have not seen him around in a while

 

[krista4]

First time in my life I got a warning instead of a ticket for something. Coming back from court today, a sheriff pulled up to me in the next lane and motioned for me to roll down my window. Told me my driver's side brake light was out. I said I'd take care of it, and he said "today, ok?" and left. I was so happy to not get a ticket that I actually stopped by a parts store, bought a replacement bulb and fixed it.

Krista>Adrian Peterson, Chris Johnson or Arian Foster.

fish is back!! Or fish are back?Anyway, thanks to you and gamera.

I'm mostly worried about what to do if god forbid I end up with the first pick. It just sucks mightily if I eff that up.

peterson's the safest.

Thanks. I was leaning that way and am happy to have some reassurance.Mr. krista is also going to be in the league this year and in my conference. He hasn't paid attention to a damn thing and is asking me who's good this year. Trying to decide how competitive I want to be here. My instinct is to tell him to go #### himself.

I guess my instincts aren't great.

Collusion

This video is temporarily unavailable. :( Just finished our draft. I hate my team with the fury of a thousand suns. I don't remember a year where being in the middle of the draft sucked so badly. My strength is usually in drafting rather than waiver wire pickups since I don't have time to follow as closely every day. Fury. Thousands suns. Hate it.

 

[krista4]

One of Thorn's friends just tried to spell "satellite" on FB, and would've been closer if she'd hit her keyboard with a hammer.

Thorn might have the highest smart guy to stupid friend ratio on Facebook. No, actually, that might be mine. I have a lot of dumb friends.

 

[shamwow!]

One of Thorn's friends just tried to spell "satellite" on FB, and would've been closer if she'd hit her keyboard with a hammer.

Thorn might have the highest smart guy to stupid friend ratio on Facebook. No, actually, that might be mine. I have a lot of dumb friends.

LOOK AT ME, I'M SMART!!11!wun!

 

[krista4]

One of Thorn's friends just tried to spell "satellite" on FB, and would've been closer if she'd hit her keyboard with a hammer.

Thorn might have the highest smart guy to stupid friend ratio on Facebook. No, actually, that might be mine. I have a lot of dumb friends.

LOOK AT ME, I'M SMART!!11!wun!

Wait, I'm smart enough to know that that was a dig on the intelligence of my friends rather than an "I'm smart" post. So I'm smarter than you!!! ZING!!!!Except that, ####, you're a friend of mine as is Ms. shamwowie. ####.

 

[cosjobs]

college football opinion (more than likely wrong)This week's marquee matchup will be Utah @ USCUSC initially opened as a 10 1/2 point favorite and that number was quickly knocked down to 10, now 9 1/2 and 9 at some books. The reason for the Utah love is easy to see, as USC opened pretty uninspiring against an inferior Minnesota team, and won by just 2 (full disclosure I took the 24 1/2 points last week, way too many). Also, Utah has perennially been a pretty strong team, at least when you look at their overall won/loss record. But, in the now famous tag line of Lee Corso, not so fast my friend. Utah has enjoyed beating the lesser teams of the MWC over the past few years and now moves into a much tougher Pac-12. Utah has some decent talent, but are predominately under sized/under speed against the higher quality opponents. One game that sticks out in my mind from last year was when TCU rolled into town and thumped them like a red-headed step child, 47-7. Now, last year's TCU team was very good, but they absolutely flat out dominated them at Utah. Final result could have been much worse than it actually was, and it just goes to show what better athletes can do against mediocre teams. Jordan Wynn is not necessarily a world beater back there at QB, and the best player, second best player, third best player and probably 4th and 5th best player on the field are all going to be on USC's side. Matt Barkley has really rounded out to be a pretty decent quarterback and the boys from troy are bolstered with the return of suspended starting RB Marc Tyler. Now I'm not going to say last week's game vs Minnesota was basically a look ahead game for USC, but let's face it, Minnesota wasn't very good last year (USC went there and thumped them pretty good) so they may not have been quite as inspired as they should have been. The one thing working against USC's favor, imho, is the fact that Lane Kiffin is a ####### ### clown/buffoon. He goes for two point conversions like a #######, his clock management is piss poor at best, and his team management is horrendous. But, he has a tremendous defensive line, a decent secondary and I think they will easily control both lines of scrimmage with their superior athletes. If Coach Pete was at the helm, this would be an easy play at -17 or better. Even without, this should be a nice prime time victory for the Trojans.The play here USC -9.5(yes, I have been ice cold posting plays in here of late, so this is tremendous fade material for you)g'luck

IN

 

[shamwow!]

One of Thorn's friends just tried to spell "satellite" on FB, and would've been closer if she'd hit her keyboard with a hammer.

Thorn might have the highest smart guy to stupid friend ratio on Facebook. No, actually, that might be mine. I have a lot of dumb friends.

LOOK AT ME, I'M SMART!!11!wun!

Wait, I'm smart enough to know that that was a dig on the intelligence of my friends rather than an "I'm smart" post. So I'm smarter than you!!! ZING!!!!Except that, ####, you're a friend of mine as is Ms. shamwowie. ####.

I'm not smart enough to make a joke like that

 

[krista4]

One of Thorn's friends just tried to spell "satellite" on FB, and would've been closer if she'd hit her keyboard with a hammer.

Thorn might have the highest smart guy to stupid friend ratio on Facebook. No, actually, that might be mine. I have a lot of dumb friends.

LOOK AT ME, I'M SMART!!11!wun!

Wait, I'm smart enough to know that that was a dig on the intelligence of my friends rather than an "I'm smart" post. So I'm smarter than you!!! ZING!!!!Except that, ####, you're a friend of mine as is Ms. shamwowie. ####.

I'm not smart enough to make a joke like that

Let's just have a(nother) drink, then?

 

[cosjobs]

My very first post on these here forums was in 9/2007 as GSCGAL and I was looking for the same kind of help that T.R.E. is giving me now. I started a thread looking for help with college picks and I was promised BOATLOADS.Where's that guy now? AZ---? Can't remember who he was, but he was great for entertainment.

Azcards...... have not seen him around in a while

wish he was still here. I could use a 30 star lock of the bicentennial

 

[shamwow!]

One of Thorn's friends just tried to spell "satellite" on FB, and would've been closer if she'd hit her keyboard with a hammer.

Thorn might have the highest smart guy to stupid friend ratio on Facebook. No, actually, that might be mine. I have a lot of dumb friends.

LOOK AT ME, I'M SMART!!11!wun!

Wait, I'm smart enough to know that that was a dig on the intelligence of my friends rather than an "I'm smart" post. So I'm smarter than you!!! ZING!!!!Except that, ####, you're a friend of mine as is Ms. shamwowie. ####.

I'm not smart enough to make a joke like that

Let's just have a(nother) drink, then?

Ok, twist my arm

 

[dharmapunk]

One of Thorn's friends just tried to spell "satellite" on FB, and would've been closer if she'd hit her keyboard with a hammer.

Thorn might have the highest smart guy to stupid friend ratio on Facebook. No, actually, that might be mine. I have a lot of dumb friends.

Really? I'll admit I haven't read you page enough to notice, but I'm surprised at this. Midwestern yokels from your high school days?

 

[krista4]

One of Thorn's friends just tried to spell "satellite" on FB, and would've been closer if she'd hit her keyboard with a hammer.

Thorn might have the highest smart guy to stupid friend ratio on Facebook. No, actually, that might be mine. I have a lot of dumb friends.

Really? I'll admit I haven't read you page enough to notice, but I'm surprised at this. Midwestern yokels from your high school days?

The largest single grouping of friends on my FB is high-school "friends", and that group has a lower-than-average IQ, I suspect. But somehow they are balanced by the people from the other aspects of my life (including here) such that I actually do think they're higher than average overall...so I suppose what I said wasn't true.

 

[cosjobs]

Ok, 10-9 first week, let's see if we can do better this time. I had some chat help on this one, so if these picks are worse, it's all their fault.

Iowa (1-0) -6.5 Pick: Iowa

IOWA ST. (1-0) +6.5

#16 Mississippi St. (1-0) -6.5 Pick: Miss St

AUBURN (1-0) +6.5

X AUB +180

Rutgers (1-0) +10.5

NORTH CAROLINA (1-0) -10.5 Pick: UNC

#25 TCU (0-1) -2.5 Pick: TCU +1

AIR FORCE (1-0) +2.5 -1

12:30 PM FSN

#3 Alabama (1-0) -10.5 Pick: Bama -10

#23 PENN ST. (1-0) +10.5



Utah (1-0) +10.5 9

USC (1-0) -10.5 9 Pick: USC -9

Connecticut (1-0) -1.5 +2.5 Pick: Uconn +2.5

VANDERBILT (1-0) +1.5 -2.5

Boston College (0-1) +6.5 7.5 Pick: BC +7.5

CENTRAL FLORIDA (1-0) -6.5

I like these, esp with the line changes (except I had to go ML with auburn at home.)

 

[Drifter]

Saw this on a trolley ride through Anchorage today. Can't imagine dealing with these things in rush hour.

That's an ugly dog

 

[Osaurus]

Saw this on a trolley ride through Anchorage today. Can't imagine dealing with these things in rush hour.

That's an ugly dog

Lol. Now in Seattle. Two more flights and I am home....tomorrow...joy

 

[YSR]

wat

 

[Drifter]

Saw this on a trolley ride through Anchorage today. Can't imagine dealing with these things in rush hour.

That's an ugly dog

Lol. Now in Seattle. Two more flights and I am home....tomorrow...joy

Airport or overnight layover?

 

[shamwow!]

Saw this on a trolley ride through Anchorage today. Can't imagine dealing with these things in rush hour.

That's an ugly dog

Lol. Now in Seattle. Two more flights and I am home....tomorrow...joy

Airport or overnight layover?

Aren't redeyes pretty common on the west coast? I've flown from SFO to MKE twice in the past 6 months starting at midnight PDT and landing at 6am CDT...on a Friday night/Saturday morning no less

 

[Thorn]

I got draft slot 6. :(Mr. krista got 9.

fixed

 

[Thorn]

I had a bag of Skittles with my lunch. I eat a bag the same way everytime. Open it up completely, letting all the Skittles lay available on my desk. I don't seperate them into colors, but I eat them one at a time: all the yellow, then all the green, then all the red, then all the purple, then all the orange.

I might have issues.

I do the same with M&Ms, except that I group them into pairs based on color. I then eat them pair by pair, so that my back teeth are getting an equal amount of sugar. Then, I have the scraps. It's tough, but I make it through.

Whenever I get a package of plain M&Ms, I make it my duty to continue the strength and robustness of the candy as a species. To this end, I hold M&M duels. Taking two candies between my thumb and forefinger, I apply pressure, squeezing them together until one of them cracks and splinters. That is the "loser," and I eat the inferior one immediately. The winner gets to go another round.

I have found that, in general, the brown and red M&Ms are tougher, and the newer blue ones are genetically inferior. I have hypothesized that the blue M&Ms as a race cannot survive long in the intense theater of competition that is the modern candy and snack-food world.

Occasionally I will get a mutation, a candy that is misshapen, or pointier, or flatter than the rest. Almost invariably this proves to be a weakness, but on very rare occasions it gives the candy extra strength. In this way, the species continues to adapt to its environment.

When I reach the end of the pack, I am left with one M&M, the strongest of the herd. Since it would make no sense to eat this one as well, I pack it neatly in an envelope and send it to M&M Mars, A Division of Mars, Inc., Hackettstown, NJ 17840-1503 U.S.A., along with a 3x5 card reading, "Please use this M&M for breeding purposes."

This week they wrote back to thank me, and sent me a coupon for a free 1/2 pound bag of plain M&Ms. I consider this "grant money." I have set aside the weekend for a grand tournament. From a field of hundreds, we will discover the True Champion.

There can be only one.

This is the best post I've read in the GMTAN. I salute you sir, and your mad quest.

Waiting for Thorn to man-up and credit where he got this.

I wasn't going to call him out, but we can't stand for this caliber of plagiarism

Wait are people really not aware that this is internet history? I thought this was a savvy crowd.LINK

 

[shamwow!]

I got draft slot 6. :(Mr. krista got 9.

fixed

 

[Thorn]

One of Thorn's friends just tried to spell "satellite" on FB, and would've been closer if she'd hit her keyboard with a hammer.

LOOK AT ME I CAN SPELL BETTER THAN THORN'S HOT FRIENDS WHO HAVE TWO EYEBROWS

 

[Thorn]

One of Thorn's friends just tried to spell "satellite" on FB, and would've been closer if she'd hit her keyboard with a hammer.

Thorn might have the highest smart guy to stupid friend ratio on Facebook. No, actually, that might be mine. I have a lot of dumb friends.

I'm a man of the people

 

[Good Posting Judge]

One of Thorn's friends just tried to spell "satellite" on FB, and would've been closer if she'd hit her keyboard with a hammer.

LOOK AT ME I CAN SPELL BETTER THAN THORN'S HOT FRIENDS WHO HAVE TWO EYEBROWS

Or any friends with fewer than two eyebrows, for that matter.

 

[Josie Maran]

I truly love you people.

 

[Josie Maran]

And yes, I'm insanely hammered and the sun is abut to com up. What of it?

 

[madhatter]

Frosty> please report to shamwow's fb page

 

[Hawks64]

So the wife and I watched Black Swan last night. Other than the awesome scenes with Mila and Natalie making out the movie was a pile of steaming crap.

 

[Thorn]

 

[dharmapunk]

One of Thorn's friends just tried to spell "satellite" on FB, and would've been closer if she'd hit her keyboard with a hammer.

Thorn might have the highest smart guy to stupid friend ratio on Facebook. No, actually, that might be mine. I have a lot of dumb friends.

Really? I'll admit I haven't read you page enough to notice, but I'm surprised at this. Midwestern yokels from your high school days?

The largest single grouping of friends on my FB is high-school "friends", and that group has a lower-than-average IQ, I suspect. But somehow they are balanced by the people from the other aspects of my life (including here) such that I actually do think they're higher than average overall...so I suppose what I said wasn't true.

I have a few people like this, but I don't really consider them "friends" - they're more like just 'there.' Yea, they're on my friends list, but I have all their inane posts blocked from my news feed and I wouldn't notice or care if they ever defriended me. Actually, now that I think of it, I have no idea why they're FB friends......oh yea, so I can look at how terribly they all aged and feel better about myself.

 

[dharmapunk]

I truly love you people.

Back at you, big guy. I was about to add "cocaine is a hella of a drug," but then I read your next post and

 

[dharmapunk]

I had a bag of Skittles with my lunch. I eat a bag the same way everytime. Open it up completely, letting all the Skittles lay available on my desk. I don't seperate them into colors, but I eat them one at a time: all the yellow, then all the green, then all the red, then all the purple, then all the orange.

I might have issues.

I do the same with M&Ms, except that I group them into pairs based on color. I then eat them pair by pair, so that my back teeth are getting an equal amount of sugar. Then, I have the scraps. It's tough, but I make it through.

Whenever I get a package of plain M&Ms, I make it my duty to continue the strength and robustness of the candy as a species. To this end, I hold M&M duels. Taking two candies between my thumb and forefinger, I apply pressure, squeezing them together until one of them cracks and splinters. That is the "loser," and I eat the inferior one immediately. The winner gets to go another round.

I have found that, in general, the brown and red M&Ms are tougher, and the newer blue ones are genetically inferior. I have hypothesized that the blue M&Ms as a race cannot survive long in the intense theater of competition that is the modern candy and snack-food world.

Occasionally I will get a mutation, a candy that is misshapen, or pointier, or flatter than the rest. Almost invariably this proves to be a weakness, but on very rare occasions it gives the candy extra strength. In this way, the species continues to adapt to its environment.

When I reach the end of the pack, I am left with one M&M, the strongest of the herd. Since it would make no sense to eat this one as well, I pack it neatly in an envelope and send it to M&M Mars, A Division of Mars, Inc., Hackettstown, NJ 17840-1503 U.S.A., along with a 3x5 card reading, "Please use this M&M for breeding purposes."

This week they wrote back to thank me, and sent me a coupon for a free 1/2 pound bag of plain M&Ms. I consider this "grant money." I have set aside the weekend for a grand tournament. From a field of hundreds, we will discover the True Champion.

There can be only one.

This is the best post I've read in the GMTAN. I salute you sir, and your mad quest.

Waiting for Thorn to man-up and credit where he got this.

I wasn't going to call him out, but we can't stand for this caliber of plagiarism

Wait are people really not aware that this is internet history? I thought this was a savvy crowd.LINK

I knew I saw it somewhere. Then I googled it.I think it's pretty funny that it made it to the NYTs. That's how you know your internet shtick has "made it."

 

[Tiger Fan]

Bootney Lee Farnsworth alias rejected

Not sure if I'm proud or totally ashamed that I know what movie that's from.

 

[dharmapunk]

Bootney Lee Farnsworth alias rejected

Not sure if I'm proud or totally ashamed that I know what movie that's from.

http://www.facebook.com/pages/Bootney-lee-farnsworth/114682448598885

 

[shamwow!]

Frosty> please report to shamwow's fb page

 

[YSR]

Frosty> please report to shamwow's fb page

so hard