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Unread postby PenultimateManStanding » Fri 10 Oct 2008, 11:41:01

Good idea, Mr. Bill. So, ah, yeah. Hey! I'm going to pass Monte and be Peakoil.com poster numero uno! Won't be long now, if I can get it done before the world ends. When I see St. Peter at the Gate I'll say, well, I raised some really good kids and I was poster numero uno at Peakoil.com!
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Re: My New Thread

Unread postby dinopello » Fri 10 Oct 2008, 12:04:36

Hey, I just did a search for "New Threads" and found this one from way back at 10:41. Great thread !
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Re: My New Thread

Unread postby PenultimateManStanding » Fri 10 Oct 2008, 12:08:05

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('dinopello', 'H')ey, I just did a search for "New Threads" and found this one from way back at 10:41. Great thread !
Groovy. So how's things with the local government scene? Are they freaked out yet over the credit market freeze-up?
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Unread postby dinopello » Fri 10 Oct 2008, 12:22:47

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('PenultimateManStanding', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('dinopello', 'H')ey, I just did a search for "New Threads" and found this one from way back at 10:41. Great thread !
Groovy. So how's things with the local government scene? Are they freaked out yet over the credit market freeze-up?


Funny you should ask. Definately affecting the county budget.

But, ours is a very fiscally conservative government (extremely socially liberal), is monitored vigilantly by its citizens and advisory groups and it has the highest bond rating you can have.

Businesses still seem to be doing well...

but they've got the trikes ready to go...

I was just at an advisory group meeting this week trying to decide how to spend a half million account that is set aside for certain neighborhood improvements. It's not being spent because the neighborhoods it was designated for can't come to concensus on what they want done. So someone said that if they didn't spend it soon, the price of construction would go up and up until they couldn't do anything - AND THEN, I was able to say cheerfully that the coming global depression should knock the floor out of asphalt and streetlamp prices so it would go further than we think. We all got a chuckle out of that !
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Re: My New Thread

Unread postby PenultimateManStanding » Fri 10 Oct 2008, 12:38:12

I read something amazing the other day. Los Angeles County has 18 billion dollars. The State is drowning in red ink but L.A. county is as rich as Croesus.
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Unread postby dinopello » Fri 10 Oct 2008, 12:58:38

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('PenultimateManStanding', 'I') read something amazing the other day. Los Angeles County has 18 billion dollars. The State is drowning in red ink but L.A. county is as rich as Croesus.


LA county has the problem of being too big (10 million people). That's crazy. My county has 200,000 people.

The other problem I see in poorly governed jurisdictions is really low or no participation by the citizens in actual governance. It's hard work to participate - and requires at least several hours a week set aside for canvassing, organizing, attending meetings etc. Voting is not the most important part of being a citizen. A lot of areas elect people, get pissed at what they do and elect someone else but never really participate in the process of government or maybe they have no opportunity to or something.

anyway, sorry, didn't mean to hijack your new thread.
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Re: My New Thread

Unread postby PenultimateManStanding » Fri 10 Oct 2008, 13:14:11

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anyway, sorry, didn't mean to hijack your new thread.
yeah, you bum. This thread was supposed to be about how I am downloading all 53 of the movies based on Steven King's writings. It's a huge file and I won't have it for a few more days. Gonna watch The Stand and Tommyknockers and get all creeped out.
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Unread postby MD » Fri 10 Oct 2008, 13:26:21

Speaking of The Stand, you all should see the nifty new lemonade stand I have set up for post apocalypse... Now if I can just figure out how to get lemons from Florida to Ohio with no trucks running... I know! I'll have my cousin in Orlando hijack one!
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Unread postby Pops » Fri 10 Oct 2008, 13:51:04

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('PenultimateManStanding', ' ')This thread was supposed to be about how I am downloading all 53 of the movies based on Steven King's writings.


53! Crap, I didn't know there were that many!

I read most of his stuff except some of the Dark Tower stuff.

The only movies I liked better than the books were certainly The Shinning and possibly Delores Clayborn, Pet Semetery and Thinner.


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Once, after being gone for several weeks he came home all torn up, skinny and matted and I told the kids the Pet Semetery was in our woods.

After he healed up he took off again, never to return...
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Re: My New Thread

Unread postby PenultimateManStanding » Fri 10 Oct 2008, 13:57:54

There is a movie in there about an evil car. Turns a nice kid into an evil maniacal killer. Another one is about an evil government experiment that turns most of the participants into vegetables but a few develop amazing psychic talents and have a daughter that can start fires with her mind. Another one is about a man who can see person's future by touch and sees a President who is crazy and launches all the nukes. Another one is about a steam cleaning machine that comes to life and kills. Then there was that original one with Sissy Spacek where she had those psychokinetic abilities and used them to kill all her High School classmates in the gym at the prom. Those creeps had it coming. Steven King is the bomb!
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Unread postby MD » Fri 10 Oct 2008, 14:00:42

What's that in the drain? Is that a clown?

What is IT?

That one kept me up at night. Great stuff.
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Unread postby Pops » Fri 10 Oct 2008, 14:25:02

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('PenultimateManStanding', 'T')here is a movie in there about an evil car. Turns a nice kid into an evil maniacal killer. Another one is about an evil government experiment that turns most of the participants into vegetables but a few develop amazing psychic talents and have a daughter that can start fires with her mind. Another one is about a man who can see person's future by touch and sees a President who is crazy and launches all the nukes. Another one is about a steam cleaning machine that comes to life and kills. Then there was that original one with Sissy Spacek where she had those psychokinetic abilities and used them to kill all her High School classmates in the gym at the prom. Those creeps had it coming. Steven King is the bomb!

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It scared the crap out of me.

We just watched Stand By Me a couple of nights ago.

And the Green Mile was a great movie but a crappy way to publish a novel.
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Re: My New Thread

Unread postby Pops » Fri 10 Oct 2008, 14:27:53

Oh, and what was the short story where the guy dug a hole in the road and waited for the (guy who was cheating with his wife???) to come along and drive int the hole and then buried him?

And what was the one set in a little mining town in Nevada?
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Re: My New Thread

Unread postby PrairieMule » Fri 10 Oct 2008, 15:02:38

I think I need to put Maximum Overdrive on my que. Great doom!
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Unread postby dinopello » Fri 10 Oct 2008, 15:15:00

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('PrairieMule', 'I') think I need to put Maximum Overdrive on my que. Great doom!


And an AC/DC soundtrack that I know makes PMS all giddy.
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Re: My New Thread

Unread postby PenultimateManStanding » Fri 10 Oct 2008, 16:17:59

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('dinopello', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('PrairieMule', 'I') think I need to put Maximum Overdrive on my que. Great doom!


And an AC/DC soundtrack that I know makes PMS all giddy.
Now you know that's slander. We spent two years comparing musical tastes. I like Sam Cooke, not AC/DC.
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Re: My New Thread

Unread postby dinopello » Fri 10 Oct 2008, 16:24:15

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('PenultimateManStanding', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('dinopello', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('PrairieMule', 'I') think I need to put Maximum Overdrive on my que. Great doom!


And an AC/DC soundtrack that I know makes PMS all giddy.
Now you know that's slander. We spent two years comparing musical tastes. I like Sam Cooke, not AC/DC.


Sorry I forgot the :razz: !
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Unread postby TheDude » Fri 10 Oct 2008, 18:57:24

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('PenultimateManStanding', 'A')nother one is about a man who can see person's future by touch and sees a President who is crazy and launches all the nukes.


Dead Zone. Kind of a shootout for most over-the-top performance - Walken, Herbert Lom, Martin Sheen all going quite wild eyed. "YOUR SON'S GOING TO FALL THROUGH THE ICE!" Cronenberg previously directed Scanners, with Patrick McGoohan chewing up the scenery in similar fashion.

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Quite liked Stephen's acting in Creepshow, too. "Jody Verrell, you munkhead!" Is he still in that band with Dave Barry?
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Re: My New Thread

Unread postby PenultimateManStanding » Fri 10 Oct 2008, 21:57:22

Interesting. I start a thread with nothing particular in mind, just a response to Mr. Bill, and it gets a stronger response than a previous thread about my daughter going to Finland. Go figure.
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Unread postby dinopello » Fri 10 Oct 2008, 23:41:16

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('PenultimateManStanding', 'I')nteresting. I start a thread with nothing particular in mind, just a response to Mr. Bill, and it gets a stronger response than a previous thread about my daughter going to Finland. Go figure.


I thought that was very cool about your daughter! Coincedently, I have a friend who raises Finnish Sheep

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