See, this is why nobody laughed at my Predator t-shirt at Allentown.

I too am getting married this summer, to a pinhead. I proposed at the beginning of the year but without a ring, knowing darn well I knew nothing about jewelry and she never wears any so I had nothing to go on. We're kinda plain that way on purpose - no jewelry, cable TV, air conditioning, etc.

So after she said yes, I took her ring shopping to figure out what she wanted. After the first store, when we got back to the car she expressed her sticker shock and said, "Wouldn't you rather buy an AC/DC? The ring can wait..." She got the ring instead.

Congrats to you & yours!

Actually we frequently enjoy Jay's AC over at PinCrossing, which is a pleasant 20 min drive through the forest from us. It is, however, one of the machines that will eventually be on location here. =)

Gonna start with an EM though, I finally decided. Work my way up while I refresh my soldering skills.

edit: oh wait, you meant air conditioning, not AC/DC. lol yeah i broke that habit about 6 years ago. a dehumidifier and a fan, man... you don't sweat nearly as much once your body acclimates to it.

LEO and FBI are not going to do the legwork on what sounds to them like a civil case rather than criminal because they have priorities and this isn't one of them. Major applause for Enaud and his efforts - sounds like the fuse may finally be lit.

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too soon? hoping for the best...

You made me flash back to growing up in Lancaster county PA... most of the guys I remember competing with for time on the pinball machines back then were old-order Amish & Mennonite kids, smoking and cussing in Dutch. A-holes would set lit cigs down on the arcade machine buttons and forget about them so many machines had buttons that looked like the burnt cheese on a pizza. They were all older than me but all of us were on bicycles. =) Also not unusual to find a bunch of Amish bikes hidden behind a bar with a table full of Amish kids crushing pitchers of beer in the dimmest corner near the back door. They rock out pretty hard until they join the church.

Low German, to be precise. I'm aware and speak a little just from living here. High German speakers visit and get frustrated I'd imagine about as much as 2nd-3rd generation Mexican-Americans do with Spanglish. I suck at pretty much every language but the one I use every day and the one I make my paycheck in.

Those are the ones that tried to do it elsewhere. I lived near the ones who didn't.

I'd be curious what all he lists as exempt assets.

As if he wasn't responding to a post alluding to prison rape? A number of posters in here could stand to dial it down a notch.

Sure you will.

Nothing about correctional facilities makes financial sense. Unless you're a publicly traded company who runs for-profit prisons of course, but don't get me started on that.

I'm glad I don't know the current rate but I did know a guy who got sent to the county prison for inability to pay his fines (drug and DUI stuff) about a dozen years ago and I think he was getting $25 credit per day. Conversely I've heard if you're not indigent, the same county prison tacks roughly the same amount per day that you're incarcerated onto your balance of fines and costs. No idea how true that is but obviously the 'guests' aren't bearing even a fraction of the actual costs.

We went the unlimited tech route at first too, until I caught the young'n under her bunkbed watching Minecraft porn. Now the firewall blacklist is updated and no unsupervised interweb nonsense.

Rule 34 of the Internet.

Apostrophes, commas and turn signals. How do they work?

At least send 'em an email, make sure they know how many cans of Duster is too many! They've all got laptops, right?

Hoo boy, I'd almost forgotten that historic exhibit y'all got over in Petersburg. Where'd all that ole come from if not the enormous pressures caused by a world-wide flood?

And we all know that can't be rigged, even by the likes of Tim Fife!

Ever read any Joe Bageant? I have a feeling you'd find him interesting...

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I've heard this line of reasoning before. The only problem with it is that the grammatical structures of those languages evolved that way prior to the ideologies you associated with them. One could argue that the form influenced the mentality at least as much as the other way 'round.

I'm gonna guess that GravitaR read that as "on his own" rather than "of his own".

Short version: $50K in cash or we take the RV?

Those are best possible materials costs, I haven't seen assembled ones sell for less than $750 new so probably more like 100 games to hit that $70K number. Not implausible to me.

I wouldn't think so but in talking to a few people who run those things on route, I find they tend to be secretive or flat out liars about it most of the time. Probably because the software is unlicensed and they're very much a grey-market item.

Amanda translates on paper exactly like the sort of clueless twit her husband has been accused of being all along. Who the brains of the operation was still remains a mystery to me.

Ooooh, can we see the scathing email from Ms. Knickerbocker?

today's awesome word is 'scintilla', as in NO SCINTILLA OF FACT BITCH.

But guys, she's OVER it! She GETS it!

I think based on the quick-witted testimony we've heard from the Kuleks thus far, it's a safe bet those pipes are not copper but lead.

Man, this guy is just driving around in the cornfield. Ehhh, never responded to my voicemail. Ehhh, was gonna but waited for a response to my email. Ehhh, I know you don't have to but thought it would be common courtesy. Didn't want to cause undue prejudice, uhhh. We incurred expenses, uhh, relied on the debtor.

What kind of lawyer talks or thinks like this?

Well yeah, Fox required him to get his 503(c)(3) before they'd grant his license so he MUST be a nonprofit right?

Instead of pinball, he should've gotten into dominoes.

More of a Bottom fan myself.

Always fun when people start telling the judge what rights they think they have and how perceive those rights being violated.

MCI/Worldcom employee here, many of my co-workers have a framed picture of the Oakdale Federal Correctional Complex on their desk.

Nouveau Riche

I don't think she's clever enough to hide a meaning. She doesn't seem to be able to find meaning either.

I too feel the judge is being a bit too lenient but I have to assume he knows what he's doing. He doesn't seem fooled by the noise.

I think PA even has a form the notary makes you sign if the selling price is way off the value of the vehicle, essentially saying "I promise I'm not lying about the sale price to avoid sales tax."

(dad was a notary for many years)

I'm only halfway through, your Honor, but she sounds flustered. I can't help but think she's nervous and near tears, your Honor.

We "lauded" Keith and he "relished" it though, your Honor. On Pinside, your Honor.

"Which my clients couldn't, weren't going to respond to because they didn't even respond to the complaint. So it's basically that they knew there would be no response to it and then just put whatever I feel like in there, that's what it feels like your Honor."

Like arguing with my wife.

Just because you are a character, doesn't mean you have character.

I dunno, people are pretty nice to each other on those adult websites.

This is true, but it's kind of like how running from the police doesn't make you guilty. You wind up looking guilty if you have mud on your shoes.

Christ, this dumpster is like one of those gag birthday candles that just keeps relighting itself.

A lot of people don't know how to drink. They drink against the grain of the liquor. And when you drink against the grain of the liquor, you lose.