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I can understand not being fired up about Avatar and maybe even not wanting to see it immediately, but I can't understand not seeing the appeal. - David Dec 2, 11:40 4
- It looked like a cartoon and I had lost all interest. The new ads have gotten me back though. -- nm - MDH Dec 2, 11:42
- I have zero interest in seeing it, not on my list at all. -- nm - Krusty Dec 2, 11:42
- it looks pretty. not sure about how stoked I am to see it though. nm -- nm - groiny Dec 2, 11:41
- Hmm, should have waited a couple of minutes to post that. - David Dec 2, 11:41
ouch. luke skywalker does not have game ... -- (link) - Beryllium Dec 2, 11:35
as far as avatar being a "must see" on the big screen ... I just got a 46" LCD at home. Watching avatar in 1080p on it would be fine for me, I think. -- nm - Beryllium Dec 2, 11:31 10
- That's not in 3D, though. -- nm - JaxSean Dec 2, 11:36
- If SheFox could never go to a theater again, and just watch movies in hi-def with surround, she'd be ecstatic. - TFox Dec 2, 11:33 1
  - Sunday nights after 7pm! -- nm - Remlik Dec 2, 11:35
- you should watch it in 480p! -- nm - hqmiser Dec 2, 11:32 6
  - Now that I have an HDTV, I can appreciate how batshit crazy his argument was. -- nm - Inigo Dec 2, 11:34 2
    - My favourite thing was him trying to tell people that work in video production for a living how things worked. -- nm - Reagen Dec 2, 11:38 1
      - Truly, a little knowledge is a dangerous thing. -- nm - David Dec 2, 11:41
  - It's so funny watching shows in 1080i and seeing extreme details for the first time - Beryllium Dec 2, 11:33 2
    - I find it kind of annoying actually. -- nm - Cuzzin Todd Dec 2, 11:38 1
      - well, it was occasionally distracting for about the first week, but now it's back to focusing on the story ... :) - Beryllium Dec 2, 11:39
can someone link me to the wiki for TT/ST -- nm - Hotkiss Dec 2, 11:31 2
- it's in the link list on the left -- nm - Beryllium Dec 2, 11:31 1
  - thanks I'm stupid -- nm - Hotkiss Dec 2, 11:35
I like the new image for IRMN2 with him and war machine very cool -- nm - Capstern Dec 2, 11:29 6
- I'm just very nervous that this will take away from Iron Man's time. - MDH Dec 2, 11:31 3
  - I think Warmachine comes in late and its confrontational and then has to switch to team up - will be awesome and I like Cheadle better -- nm - Capstern Dec 2, 11:36 2
    - Ah okay, thanks. And I like Cheadle over Howard. -- nm - MDH Dec 2, 11:37 1
      - I just never imagined Rhody with a foofoo voice like howards -- nm - Capstern Dec 2, 11:41
- Very cool. But we need more Black Widow cleavage shots. -- nm - Jovian Dec 2, 11:29 1
  - word! -- nm - Capstern Dec 2, 11:35
ok, so if you mail a package via the US Post office, and the recepient never gets it..... - groiny Dec 2, 11:28 27
- mail another one. -- nm - decline Dec 2, 11:38 4
  - well, that is not possible. - groiny Dec 2, 11:38 3
    - your sperm samples aren't *that* unique. -- nm - znufrii Dec 2, 11:39 2
      - this one was a Corgi/Dane mix, and it took him all day to milk it. -- nm - Max Dec 2, 11:42
      - have you seen my kids? - groiny Dec 2, 11:41
- ...does it make a noise? -- nm - Mop (228 lbs) Dec 2, 11:37
- Call USPS and tell them the guy never got the pot you mailed.. -- nm - CrankYanker Dec 2, 11:33 6
  - funny mailing story: in college, my dad heard I was sick, and to be nice, mailed me some vitamins. - TFox Dec 2, 11:35 5
    - Very funny! -- nm - Krusty Dec 2, 11:37
    - I still crack up when I remember getting that in the mail. I laughed twice just typing the story. -- nm - TFox Dec 2, 11:37
    - L3 -- nm - SyrDragon Dec 2, 11:37
    - that's a good one. -- nm - CrankYanker Dec 2, 11:37
    - geesh -- nm - Epiphany Dec 2, 11:37
- you learn to insure it next time. -- nm - loosilu Dec 2, 11:33
- Unless you insured it or had a tracking number, pretty much nothing. - Cuzzin Todd Dec 2, 11:29
- Consider it gone, never to be seen again. And don't expect the USPS to be at all helpful. -- nm - TWuG Dec 2, 11:29
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  - It's pretty much the entire point of insurance. -- nm - nubby Dec 2, 11:30
  - that is what I am afraid of. nm -- nm - groiny Dec 2, 11:29 1
    - Stuff does get lost. Sorry. -- nm - con_carne Dec 2, 11:31
- do you have a tracking number? Or was it just posted? -- nm - Remlik Dec 2, 11:28 6
  - just posted. nm -- nm - groiny Dec 2, 11:28 5
    - Contact USPS but I think you're out of luck. -- nm - Remlik Dec 2, 11:35 3
      - damn, Sorry David! nm -- nm - groiny Dec 2, 11:38 2
        
        you can get him Spawn Vol. 1,2,3 from me and mail it. I know he'd love it. -- nm - Remlik Dec 2, 11:41
        
        No worries. Seriously. -- nm - David Dec 2, 11:39
    - On to the next one. -- nm - Spawn Dec 2, 11:29
It's official the biggest US Sales week of the year: Susan Boyle debuts at #1 with 701,000 copies sold - MDH Dec 2, 11:26 7
- I still ike Allison Iraheta better than all of them. - JaxSean Dec 2, 11:32 3
  - I haven't seen her sales, but I guarantee Kris Allen gets dropped from his label (and Jordin Sparks too) -- nm - MDH Dec 2, 11:37 2
    - I thought Sparks was doing well? nm -- nm - groiny Dec 2, 11:38 1
      - Her second album has been a HUGE flop. It's sold less than 150,000 copies. Despite 2 singles being released -- nm - MDH Dec 2, 11:41
- Enjoys a world where Susan Boyle is easily compared to Snoop. -- nm - Diva Dec 2, 11:31 2
  - The followup album by Susan Boyle, aka "Sue Bizzle My Nizzle". - TFox Dec 2, 11:32
  - In the article she was also compared to Ashanti and AC/DC -- nm - MDH Dec 2, 11:32
I can understand being interested, intrigued, or even somewhat fascinated with Up In The Air, but I can't understand it being #1 most anticipated. nm - con_carne Dec 2, 11:25 6
- Police, Adjective -- nm - Dano Dec 2, 11:29
- Jason Reitman has earned my trust. -- nm - Reagen Dec 2, 11:29
- movies I'm looking forward to seeing in order of anticipation. - znufrii Dec 2, 11:28
- well, that much is obvious. I'm just saying it ranks higher on my list than Avatar. - Beryllium Dec 2, 11:27 2
  - (also, if Up In The Air is a biography of ty97 ... then which STer is Avatar a biography of? :) ) -- nm - Beryllium Dec 2, 11:28 1
    - mafic -- nm - con_carne Dec 2, 11:29
Hee! I love crazy emails. - Dano Dec 2, 11:25
Anyone else excited for the National Championship game on Saturday? I am. -- nm - TFox Dec 2, 11:24 5
- The UFL was last weekend, right? -- nm - nubby Dec 2, 11:28
- Whoa...TCU's playing Cinci?? nm - Jim Dec 2, 11:26 2
  - Don't forget Boise State!!! (nm) - crash si Dec 2, 11:33
  - Well, half right...... - Will Hunting Dec 2, 11:30
- They're only in the Quarterfinal Round. -- nm - Dano Dec 2, 11:26
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- I see no way to evaluate this one way or the other. It has no details. It just says this will work better. -- nm - pmb Dec 2, 11:49
- I will personally kill any law that applies any kind of sales tax, call it what you will. -- nm - Mop (228 lbs) Dec 2, 11:40
- I'm confused, who gets vouchers and what would they cover? -- nm - Krusty Dec 2, 11:36 1
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- they can't even get their heads around the insurance issues - start talking about " Taxes" and everyone will run for the hills - Epiphany Dec 2, 11:31
- *gets up to the part where they phase out Medicare and Medicaid, and stops wasting his time* -- nm - TFox Dec 2, 11:27 3
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    - totally the former. i'd need to think more about the latter. -- nm - TFox Dec 2, 11:29 1
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- I see the (political) flaw in this proposal - the word 'tax' -- nm - Roger More Dec 2, 11:26 6
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    - but the word 'tax'! doomed! - Roger More Dec 2, 11:35
    - it's easy to add whereas the article says deconstruct and rebuild it all. - Epiphany Dec 2, 11:34 3
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        why do I feel like I am going to get screwed in the New Health Reform deal?? I bet my premiums go up and not down. - Epiphany Dec 2, 11:38 1
        
        I bet your premiums go up and not down too. They were going up anyway, so it might be hard to tell how much is this bill's fault... - TFox Dec 2, 11:39
On the way to the bank I stopped to check out a limo company's fleet for futrue reference. Horrible condition; cracked paint, torn upholstery....how - CrankYanker Dec 2, 11:22 3
- Usually it's dark when you work, right? -- nm - OAE Dec 2, 11:52
- Pick 'em up drunk, drop 'em off passed out? -- nm - TWuG Dec 2, 11:24 1
  - would be the only way I'd get in these cars. -- nm - CrankYanker Dec 2, 11:31
I've been trying to keep my Windows 7 machine as clean of software as possible while also spending as little as possible. I think I've done well - oblique Dec 2, 11:21 6
- DVDFab question - Will Hunting Dec 2, 11:27 2
  - I was pretty sure though you could set the target to a disk folder. I like RIPIT4ME better because it lets me rip as a single VOB instead of - oblique Dec 2, 11:36
  - I'm not sure that it does. It depends on what I'm doing with it. RIPIT4ME is probably the best to hard disk -- nm - oblique Dec 2, 11:33
- How do you like MS Security Essentials? Is it robust? Effective? -- nm - TWuG Dec 2, 11:23 2
  - Mop will chime in here also but it is very good. I've used it at work to clean machines that otherwise I had trouble cleaning. Great combination - oblique Dec 2, 11:24 1
    - Cool. I may ditch my pay stuff for it, then. -- nm - TWuG Dec 2, 11:27
I want to watch Avatar on the big screen for the same reason I'd like to see Halo tournaments on a theater screen. -- nm - Max Dec 2, 11:20 6
- live near Cinemark HQ and going to see it in their Digital Extreme threter -- nm - Capstern Dec 2, 11:28
- Yup. Glad we have a digital projection theater up here, but sad we don't get our IMAX until next year. -- nm - Dr.Vermin Dec 2, 11:22 3
  - I hope it will be a "true" IMAX, but hate to burst your bubble if it's not -- nm - con_carne Dec 2, 11:24 2
    - Yeah, hard to predict. All I know is that it will be a Regal theater. -- (link) - Dr.Vermin Dec 2, 11:33 1
      - I mean, it's still a great experience, even if it's not strictly Imax. -- nm - con_carne Dec 2, 11:38
- Which, to me, goes back to what znufrii and others have said about it basically being a gigantic video game cutscene. :) -- nm - Beryllium Dec 2, 11:21
Of course, I give hot chicks all kinds of exemptions... -- nm - con_carne Dec 2, 11:20 2
- I have friended a few ex-gf's, but not the really hot one. -- nm - Dr.Vermin Dec 2, 11:21 1
  - mt friends list is full of exes. - groiny Dec 2, 11:27
n-when (nm) - musubi Dec 2, 11:19 2
- Remember WENN -- nm - con_carne Dec 2, 11:20
- (n+1)-when -- nm - Beryllium Dec 2, 11:19
I can understand being interested, intrigued, or even somewhat fascinated with avatar ... but I can't understand it being #1 most anticipated. - Beryllium Dec 2, 11:19 41
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- Exactly. -- nm - Spawn Dec 2, 11:23
- The last James Cameron movie made 1.8billion dollars and was a technical masterpiece in my mind. - Will Hunting Dec 2, 11:22 15
  - And the first one was Piranha 2: The Spawning -- nm - Dano Dec 2, 11:34 1
    - *Spawn tested and Spawn Approved!* -- nm - Jimmy Spawn! Dec 2, 11:37
  - See, I'm jaded. I look at Cameron, and I see the same ego issues as Speilberg; they cloud the storytelling and ruin the attempts, IMO. - Beryllium Dec 2, 11:25 1
    - It was awful. Almost unwatchable. - Cuzzin Todd Dec 2, 11:36
  - But he also made Strange Days. -- nm - Spawn Dec 2, 11:24 10
    - bzzzt. wrong. He wrote it. but did not direct it. -- nm - Remlik Dec 2, 11:31 4
      - it's james cameron. Even if there was a regular director attached, I'm sure he had some involvement. :) -- nm - Beryllium Dec 2, 11:32 3
        
        I'd agree with that. But wasn't that Kathryn Bigelow who directed that? she doesn't take much crap. -- nm - Remlik Dec 2, 11:34 1
        
        I wonder if there was a behind the scenes documentary shot during filming? :) -- nm - Beryllium Dec 2, 11:36
        
        More likely, if he wasn't director that left more room for clueless studio execs to louse up the production -- nm - con_carne Dec 2, 11:34
    - That might be the least favorite of his for me and I'll gladly stack it next ot Aliens, Abyss, Terminator, T2 and Titanic. - Will Hunting Dec 2, 11:28
    - I'm confused - why are you continuing to list positives? -- nm - Reagen Dec 2, 11:26
    - Wait a minute...is that the Ralph Fiennes/Angela Bassett flick? - Jim Dec 2, 11:25 2
      - yes - produced & cowrote the screenplay -- nm - Roger More Dec 2, 11:28
      - Ugh. It was okay while I was watching it, but then I was like, WTF? -- nm - Spawn Dec 2, 11:28
- It's not like there's much else coming out this month. -- nm - Cuzzin Todd Dec 2, 11:22
- I'm not sure what my most anticipated movie is, but I can easily understand someone highly anticipating the next James Cameron movie. -- nm - Reagen Dec 2, 11:21 2
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  - ding -- nm - Jovian Dec 2, 11:23
- until you look at all the other movies being released these holidays - Roger More Dec 2, 11:21 5
  - *ding* -- nm - con_carne Dec 2, 11:22
  - honestly, I'm more looking forward to "Up in the Air" than Avatar, and I plan to watch that one on DVD -- nm - Beryllium Dec 2, 11:22 3
    - I'm not even remotely interested in Up In the Air. -- nm - JaxSean Dec 2, 11:24
    - I'd agree, but of the movies coming out, Avatar looks like a "must see" on the big screen if you're gonna see it. - Cuzzin Todd Dec 2, 11:23 1
      - yep - I agree with this. I wasn't sold on Avatar until I saw the trailer in the theatre -- nm - Roger More Dec 2, 11:24
- I was not interested in Sherlock Holmes until I saw the trailer on the big screen. Now, very interested. -- nm - TFox Dec 2, 11:21 8
  - The more marketing I see for this one... - Cuzzin Todd Dec 2, 11:24 1
    - You are dumb. -- nm - Chasing Amy Dec 2, 11:38
  - I only realized the other day that it's a Guy Ritchie movie. My anticipation increased significantly. -- nm - Dr.Vermin Dec 2, 11:21 5
    - It is? Interesting... -- nm - con_carne Dec 2, 11:27
    - Hence part of Amy's excitment. -- nm - Spawn Dec 2, 11:25
    - I had forgotten this very important fact until just now. -- nm - Beryllium Dec 2, 11:22 1
      - Same here. -- nm - Krusty Dec 2, 11:23
    - I'm not particularly a fan, but it definitely seems like his sensibilities are a good match for the material here. -- nm - znufrii Dec 2, 11:22
- Latent Smurf adoration being revived and rechannelled. -- nm - Dr.Vermin Dec 2, 11:20
- Avatar is my #1 most anticipated video game of the year. -- nm - znufrii Dec 2, 11:20 1
  - I can't even understand *that*. (heheh) -- nm - Beryllium Dec 2, 11:20
- Word. -- nm - Jim Dec 2, 11:19
zoom zoom -- nm - oblique Dec 2, 11:18 1
- *flops* -- nm - Beaker Dec 2, 11:19

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