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Hmm, the route that google recommends for driving to my mom's house is 5,967km and 99% of that is through the US. - Beryllium Mar 1, 17:37 1
- but it is a picturesque drive! :)) -- nm - peglegpete Mar 1, 17:43
Maybe I should buy one of these inflatable boats with a 9.8 or 20HP motor. They have a metal floor, so it's not the same sort of inflatable you'd get - Beryllium Mar 1, 17:32
Highlander reboot has a script. -- (link) - GregW Mar 1, 17:15 8
- SCENE: The top of a castle/skyscraper/barge/space station - Beryllium Mar 1, 17:19 1
  - Enter: KUNG FURY - Beryllium Mar 1, 17:20
- nice. I hope it's good -- nm - Remlik Mar 1, 17:17 5
  - It couldn't be any worse than the original. -- nm - Cuzzin Todd Mar 1, 17:21 4
    - bite your tongue. You probably hate the TV series too fool. -- nm - Beaker Mar 1, 17:26 1
      - The show that needs a reboot is Forever Knight -- nm - Beryllium Mar 1, 17:29
    - the original is fantastic film. the rest...eh. -- nm - Remlik Mar 1, 17:21
    - I beg to differ. - Beryllium Mar 1, 17:21
MGM pulls 'Valley Girl' from schedule. Featuring Logan Paul. -- (link) - GregW Mar 1, 17:12
QBert's about a big nosed creepy little freak that commits suicide when things get hard. -- nm - Cuzzin Todd Mar 1, 17:04
what about these people? -- (pic) - just oblique Mar 1, 16:57 [Attachment] 5
- Riding the stationary bike, on my phone, sir cannot do attachments. -- (link) - Spawndroid Mar 1, 17:33 [flickr]
- and these -- (pic) - mud Mar 1, 17:13 [Attachment]
- Bunch o' whipper snappers -- nm - con_carne Mar 1, 17:01
- and their goofy friends -- (pic) - just oblique Mar 1, 16:57 [Attachment] 1
  - It’s really unfair that Pippy ages in reverse -- nm - ty97 Mar 1, 17:03
Hey ST, if my options are driving 900 miles over 2 days, or flying Spirit nonstop for a steal of a price - which is better? - kelly Mar 1, 16:49 18
- If it is just one, fly...if you are talking family I'd drive...I'm waiting on my old friend the rose to decide if she's coming with to vegas - zeitgeist Mar 1, 18:25
- Do you have to pay for your seats on Spirit, or is that optional? -- nm - kelly Mar 1, 17:45
- Just be prepared that if there is any issue that prevents the plane from going you're not going to get put on another flight or another airline. Also, - jnine Mar 1, 17:10
- flying for sure. even an unpleasant 2 hour flight beats 16 hours driving. -- nm - mafic Mar 1, 17:07
- Fly, unless there are a lot of landmarks or theme parks or photo ops on the drive. - Beryllium Mar 1, 16:59
- Flying. Just expect to have to pay for everything, including picking seats in advance. -- (edited) - znufrii Mar 1, 16:53 9
  - before the extra charges, it's $254 for me and N to fly from ATL to BOS. - kelly Mar 1, 16:57 8
    - If Nathan's going, then how many states would you be driving through? -- nm - Roger More Mar 1, 17:03 2
      - Hey, they'd be flying over them too! -- nm - con_carne Mar 1, 17:04
      - ones he's already been through before. :) (TN, VA, MD, PA, NJ, NY, CT, RI) -- nm - kelly Mar 1, 17:04
    - So, $350 all in give or take? Worth avoiding a 2-day drive, I think. -- nm* - znufrii Mar 1, 17:00 2
      - I'll wind up renting a car too, and maybe a hotel for the night before in ATL so I don't have to leave the house at 5am, but still... - kelly Mar 1, 17:02 1
        
        As long as you don’t have high standards for air travel. -- nm - znufrii Mar 1, 17:05
    - I think I paid more than that just in hotel costs when I did such a drive. -- nm - Beryllium Mar 1, 16:59 1
      - this -- nm - just oblique Mar 1, 17:00
- fly -- nm - Beaker Mar 1, 16:53
- I’ve never flown Spirit. The legroom is apparently awful and they charge fees for everything but if the price is right? Go for it -- nm* - ty97 Mar 1, 16:51
- Gas up the car!! -- nm - Bacon Mar 1, 16:50
In local facepalms ... -- (link) - Beryllium Mar 1, 16:48
So what are the odds that the person mentioned in this article from 1996 about a grizzly bear poaching scheme is texx? -- (link) - Roger More Mar 1, 16:46
Hmm. Maybe, for the good of the nation, this convention should be extended. -- (link) - Beryllium Mar 1, 16:45
LOL. Just blew past the 500 song mark on my metal Spotify list (the one with the followers). To celebrate, here's the extremely fitting 500th track! -- (link) - con_carne Mar 1, 16:41 [youtube]
“We will have turbulence until at least Raleigh”. Thanks Captain -- nm - ty97 Mar 1, 16:40 7
- Okay, now tell us what Ironman said -- nm - Bacon Mar 1, 16:46 4
  - Maybe 21 years is too long? — nm - ty97 Mar 1, 16:47 3
    - I'm just getting started -- nm - Bacon Mar 1, 16:48 2
      - Waiter? My bacon is over cooked -- nm - ty97 Mar 1, 16:52 1
        
        Nostalgia -- (link) - Bacon Mar 1, 16:54 [youtube]
- And there is a dog whining in the row in front of me. Before even leaving the gate -- nm - ty97 Mar 1, 16:45 1
  - He probably just needs cuddles. Go give him a hug -- nm - decline Mar 1, 16:47
Hey STARF actually came out in 2018! That would have been one long hold -- nm - Banzai! Mar 1, 16:40 8
- I see that Disney will be releasing Artemis Fowl, I think I bought that at least 15 years ago. -- nm - crash davis Mar 1, 16:42 7
  - I just logged into my port for the first time in probably 10+ years - Banzai! Mar 1, 16:45 4 1
    - BPNTH 100,000 long H$16.71 H$528.54 H$0.40 (0 .08%) H$52,854,000.00 51,183,496.49 (3,063.96 %) -- nm - Spawndroid Mar 1, 16:50 3
      - Justice League may have been the one I had the longest before it delisted -- nm - eag Mar 1, 16:52
      - PPDM (since we're doing nostalgia) -- nm - crash davis Mar 1, 16:51 1
        
        ~Scribbled~ -- nm - Bacon Mar 1, 16:51
  - Yes I bought it long time ago was suppose to be as big as HPOT at the time -- nm - eag Mar 1, 16:44
  - Man, I hyped that one hard. -- nm - Spawndroid Mar 1, 16:44
Jeopardy spoils - znufrii Mar 1, 16:30
Wiggie killed Flash!?! - Spawndroid Mar 1, 16:28 3
- He knows what he did. nm - ralph wiggum Mar 1, 16:30 2
  - Did he? Did he actually? -- nm - Reagen Mar 1, 16:33 1
    - *blank look* Fetch? Play fetch now?!!! nm - Flash si Mar 1, 16:45
Ah, Rampage opens the week before Avengers (for now). -- nm - Spawndroid Mar 1, 16:20 3
- I would have betted big that Solo would be moved - eag Mar 1, 16:27 1
  - nope. that's close to the date Star Wars opened in 1977 -- nm - Remlik Mar 1, 17:18
- Aschus movie was moved up a week due to avengers -- nm - Budice Mar 1, 16:24
Wow. You wanna wayback HSX and TT? -- (link) - Banzai! Mar 1, 16:19 20
- Banz, the worst thing is I remember that page and those were high-quality photos in the page's time. - crash davis Mar 1, 16:46 3
  - Just wait until we get avatars -- nm - Bacon Mar 1, 16:47 2
    - Flying cars and avatars! -- nm - Spawndroid Mar 1, 16:51 1
      - The future is now! - Cuzzin Todd Mar 1, 17:12
- yay, nostalgia night!...nm - x Mar 1, 16:46 2
  - I got nothin' else to bring these days! -- nm - Banzai! Mar 1, 16:47 1
    - it's plenty...nm - x Mar 1, 16:51
- Aww, Ash. He was a cool dude. nm - ralph wiggum Mar 1, 16:29 1
  - I believe David was still in contact with Ash as of about a year or 2 ago -- nm - eag Mar 1, 16:56
- I like that Chasing Amy photo. Whatever happened to her? -- nm - crash davis Mar 1, 16:22 10
  - whatever happened to Ramon? He used to post a lot -- nm - crash davis Mar 1, 16:25 9
    - I forgot about Champ, Duke Fleed, and the guy that Mop inherited The Trades from? Many people still around, but so many that are just distant memories -- nm - Banzai! Mar 1, 16:27 7
      - feathers McGraw, overthetop -- nm - zeitgeist Mar 1, 16:36 1
        
        And ott's sister, bonnie (the other b!). And everyone from the original fansites -- nm - Banzai! Mar 1, 16:37
      - I'm about 50/50 on recognition. Like Dark Lord? No clue -- nm - crash davis Mar 1, 16:33 3
        
        I remember a DarkLord from IRC. Canadian, went to work for Schneider Transport. -- nm - Meg Mar 1, 17:46
        
        And a guy named Joseph. NO clue. (NM) - Marlowe Mar 1, 16:48
        
        Yep. Him and Carson, and Chavez and Doug Tabb I have no clue. - Banzai! Mar 1, 16:36
      - Duke has 3(? maybe more) kids now. -- nm - Reagen Mar 1, 16:29
    - probably burned up by his rage - Reagen Mar 1, 16:27
bwahahaha! -- (link) - mud Mar 1, 16:17 2
- I was reading a top 5 list of hotels in canada .. trump was the last one. I was like, why did I waste my time? -- nm - Beryllium Mar 1, 16:36
- (4 blocks north of me) -- nm - mud Mar 1, 16:18
Disney pulls 'Noelle' from schedule, plan to stream it. NICOL still trading near $H30 today after dropping more than 5 points. -- (link) - GregW Mar 1, 16:10 1
- Thx dood -- nm - Budice Mar 1, 16:17
i admit i'm a little mad that wigs' fake death rumor wasn't about me...nm - x Mar 1, 16:06 4
- I was thinking about one goofball thing Flash used to post. As it has been years since I thought of him, I have to thank mumblemumblemumble -- nm - crash davis Mar 1, 16:19
- Keep mouthing off to me and I can arrange something. nm - ralph wiggum Mar 1, 16:16 2
  - Hyde wakes up next to horse head -- nm - Budice Mar 1, 16:20 1
    - It’ll be a kangaroo head - ty97 Mar 1, 16:44
You people are not allowed to kill Flash! And Ween got married?! -- nm - ty97 Mar 1, 16:05
This June 6th I will have been around HSX and you people for 21 years -- nm - Bacon Mar 1, 15:52 28
- Oh yeah, last week would have been my 20-year HSXiversary . -- nm - Ender Mar 1, 16:56
- Anyone remember when Entertainment Weekly mentioned HSX? 2000? I joined then. -- nm - Covington Mar 1, 16:51
- 19 years on the 22nd -- nm - eag Mar 1, 16:41
- late 98 or early 99...summer of sam was my first adjust and tanked my port to 1.1m -- nm - zeitgeist Mar 1, 16:39
- 15 years on hsx this fall. -- nm* - znufrii Mar 1, 16:32
- 16 years for me but I don't remember the month I started. -- nm - Krusty Mar 1, 16:30
- I started HSX around 1997, but wasn't a regular on TT/ST until early 2003. -- nm - ReluctantCynic Mar 1, 16:26 3
  - I was on IRC a lot more than I was on TT -- nm - Banzai! Mar 1, 16:31 2
    - Me too -- nm - Beryllium Mar 1, 16:32 1
      - And WBS before that. -- nm - Meg Mar 1, 17:38
- I don't know for sure when I started, but pretty confident it was sometime in 2017 -- nm - Banzai! Mar 1, 16:25
- I started the week after the Titanic Oscar, so roughly 20 years as well, but I didn't show up in TT until that Summer at the very least.. (NM) - Marlowe Mar 1, 16:09 1
  - I got Titanic early and that sucker was a huge payday -- nm - Bacon Mar 1, 16:10
- i have pretty much zero idea when i started at ticker talk...nm - x Mar 1, 16:07 2
  - www.baconthoughts.gov.www\baconthoughts - just oblique Mar 1, 16:08 1
    - *added to ban list*....nm - x Mar 1, 16:11
- ty97 denies you -- nm - just oblique Mar 1, 16:06 2
  - Your sun was -17 back then! -- nm - ty97 Mar 1, 16:06 1
    - I will have been married for 23 years this August. Stick that in your pipe and smoke it. -- nm - just oblique Mar 1, 16:08
- You were before me? July 97 -- nm - Will Hunting Mar 1, 16:00 4
  - by a month. That said, the first two years I spent chatting mainly on the movies board -- nm - Bacon Mar 1, 16:03 3
    - My very first trade: 06/06/1997 16:29 Buy MYBST 3000 H$31.75 H$95,250.00 Success -- nm - Bacon Mar 1, 16:06
    - That was THE board back then, before they kicked us to Misc -- nm - ty97 Mar 1, 16:06 1
      - well 'back then' when I joined. I'm a baby compared to you people. -- nm - ty97 Mar 1, 16:06
- This month, it will be 20 years for me. -- nm - Beryllium Mar 1, 15:59 1
  - next month for me -- nm - mud Mar 1, 16:09
- speaking of HSX, am I correct in remembering SJOHA, CHEMS, LHEMS, RDOWN, JANDR, SMGEL, DCRAI, and AJOLI have passed away? -- nm - ralff Mar 1, 15:57
- This July is 15 years for me. I was 16 when I started playing. -- nm - MDH Mar 1, 15:57
Heh, checking my old file directory for HSX info...... - Meg Mar 1, 15:48 2
- Heh. Nice -- nm - Budice Mar 1, 15:50
- I remember when that was posted. That was a small BLAIR increase so it must have been a week after opening. -- nm - crash davis Mar 1, 15:50
Well, Atlanta just took itself out of the running for HQ2 with that bill passing today. Sorry to all of the young hardworking folks there. -- nm - MDH Mar 1, 15:46 1
- Wait, I thought the Gay Adoption bill did that? -- nm - Strongbad Mar 1, 16:37
36 Funkos, 3 Dorbz. - Beaker Mar 1, 15:44 8
- One Funko, but it's a cool one. - ReluctantCynic Mar 1, 16:25
- I know ST loves these things. I just have no idea what you all do with them, or where you store them!? -- nm - MDH Mar 1, 15:46 5
  - The ones I love are open on shelves or on my desk at work ( Swanson) -- nm - Will Hunting Mar 1, 15:59
  - Mine are on my desk at work -- nm - Ender Mar 1, 15:53
  - the kids have a display shelves; I have mine on top of a filing cabinet (just to the right of where I am typing right now :) ) -- nm* - Beaker Mar 1, 15:47 2
    - You must have me kill-filed... - IrishStephen Mar 1, 15:58 1
      - yeah I saw it, but only had time to check it out today :) -- nm - Beaker Mar 1, 16:10
- thanks for that site Remlik; setup the whole works. easypeasy -- nm - Beaker Mar 1, 15:45
Major news story in Dallas: After 2 homes explode and 1 catches fire, Atmos is cutting off natural gas to a huge part of NW Dallas for 3 weeks. - GregW Mar 1, 15:43
Check out this prediction of the Bush presidency from the Movies board in Nov. 2000 -- (link) - Max Mar 1, 15:42 2
- "The founding fathers set things up so even an idiot couldn't screw up things up too much as president" ... prescient. -- nm - Beryllium Mar 1, 16:26
- gee Dano, you were spot on -- nm - crash davis Mar 1, 15:45
THE NOT BEST -- nm - crash davis Mar 1, 15:42
Texx Board -- nm - Bacon Mar 1, 15:37 3
- The other 2 things I most remember about texx was how much he loved his dog Murphy and the time he tased a rando at the gas station. nm - ralph wiggum Mar 1, 15:39 1
  - omg, the tasing story...I'd forgotten that. (you've gotten a slight increase in the atonement meter) -- nm - crash davis Mar 1, 15:48
- Hear hear! (NM) - Marlowe Mar 1, 15:38

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