Post #208,599
5/25/05 3:46:43 PM
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Look!! Another engineer for me!
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Eharmony Match Created: May 21, 2005
Match Name: \tDave
Location: \tBrighton, Michigan, United States
Occupation: \tMechanical Engineer
Height: \t6' 0''
Age: \t 43
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I'm not even gonna bother this time.
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Post #208,600
5/25/05 3:51:44 PM
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hey, this guy can actually fix things! fake it
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Post #208,601
5/25/05 4:16:20 PM
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Now, now
The job does not make the man.
[link|http://www.runningworks.com|
] Imric's Tips for Living
- Paranoia Is a Survival Trait
- Pessimists are never disappointed - but sometimes, if they are very lucky, they can be pleasantly surprised...
- Even though everyone is out to get you, it doesn't matter unless you let them win.
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Nothing is as simple as it seems in the beginning,
As hopeless as it seems in the middle,
Or as finished as it seems in the end.
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Post #208,620
5/25/05 7:37:45 PM
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...but the money does!
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Post #208,615
5/25/05 7:02:22 PM
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How many do you need to consume a month?
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Post #208,624
5/25/05 9:37:05 PM
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s/a/per/
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"In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for. As for me, I rejoice that I am not a Republican."
-- H. L. Mencken
Support our troops, Impeach Bush.
D. D. Richards
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Post #208,625
5/25/05 9:42:08 PM
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s/ a / per /; # Your substitution had a bug :-P
I have come to believe that idealism without discipline is a quick road to disaster, while discipline without idealism is pointless. -- Aaron Ward (my brother)
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Post #208,626
5/25/05 9:49:53 PM
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Don't even know the language the "s/" thingie is from
My only exposure to it is on these forums and I submit that with only that knowledge of usage, it was correct.
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"In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for. As for me, I rejoice that I am not a Republican."
-- H. L. Mencken
Support our troops, Impeach Bush.
D. D. Richards
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Post #208,629
5/25/05 10:09:29 PM
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It appears in several, including Perl
Here is your bug. That substitution on that subject line would give How mperny do you need to consume a month?
After you see why, you'll see why my version fixed it.
Cheers,
Ben
I have come to believe that idealism without discipline is a quick road to disaster, while discipline without idealism is pointless. -- Aaron Ward (my brother)
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Post #208,653
5/26/05 7:27:47 AM
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Gotcha
Need the spaces or all the a's get replaced.
Makes sense
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"In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for. As for me, I rejoice that I am not a Republican."
-- H. L. Mencken
Support our troops, Impeach Bush.
D. D. Richards
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Post #208,664
5/26/05 9:56:05 AM
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s/all the a's/the first a/
you can add a g at the end of the command to replace all the occurences:
s/oldtext/newtext/g will replace all occurences of 'oldtext' with 'newtext' in the set of text you feed it.
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Steve
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Post #208,673
5/26/05 10:24:32 AM
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Started in sed
Unix ed, ex/vi, and then Perl stole it from there.
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Post #208,630
5/25/05 11:18:57 PM
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Err: s/\\ a\\ /\\ per\\ / # I WOT
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Post #208,635
5/26/05 12:56:11 AM
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Why escape the spaces?
Save Fintlewoodlewix
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Post #208,655
5/26/05 7:38:42 AM
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I use sed.
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Post #208,721
5/26/05 3:08:24 PM
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That's the shell's behaviour, not sed's
Try it:
echo How many do you need to consume a month? | sed 's/ a / per /'
Cheers,
Ben
I have come to believe that idealism without discipline is a quick road to disaster, while discipline without idealism is pointless. -- Aaron Ward (my brother)
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Post #208,616
5/25/05 7:03:40 PM
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Give it a shot
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Post #208,617
5/25/05 7:15:33 PM
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Hey, Rowan Atkinson was an Engineer. Luck! :-)
So was Herbert Hoover.
[link|http://www.intelliot.com/blog/archives/2005/04/06/famous-engineers/|Famous Engineers].
Prizes - all of them! :-)
Have fun.
Cheers,
Scott.
(Who's an EE).
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Post #208,657
5/26/05 9:10:07 AM
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Great. The man of my dreams is Mr. Bean?
I think not! :-(
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Post #208,690
5/26/05 11:40:09 AM
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Maybe more like Black Adder?
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Post #208,697
5/26/05 12:28:34 PM
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Hey, don't be too hasty to turn him down...
He is -- or would be -- quite a catch financially: according to [link|http://www.chortle.co.uk/news/apr02/rich.html|Comedy's richest people], he has (or had, in 2002) a fortune of \ufffd60million.
Sure, he's "an engineer" also in the sense that [link|http://www.rowanatkinson.org/articles/00022.htm|he likes cars]; he [link|http://www.classicdriver.com/uk/magazine/3500.asp?id=11351|collects vintage cars], [link|http://www.carkeys.co.uk/columns/david_finlay/477.asp|races vintage cars], [link|http://www.classiccarsforsale.co.uk/classic-car-page.php?carno=1206|sells vintage cars], [link|http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/showbiz/1430754.stm|crashes hugely expensive cars] (see especially the note at the bottom), [link|http://www.mgcars.org.uk/cgi-bin/gen5?runprog=mgoc&a=&p=emg/emg100203.html|races some more vintage cars], and [link|http://www.octane-magazine.com/default.asp?ItemKey=5568&DisplayTitle=&NewsOpened=1|writes for car magazines] -- fuck, if I didn't have my Anki, *I* might try to catch him! ;-)
Oh, except [link|http://mpelembe.mappibiz.com/archives_05/Rowan_Atkinson.html|he's taken already]: "...personal fortune of more than 60 million, a beautiful wife, two delightful children, stunning homes in Oxfordshire and Chelsea..." [emphasis added]. So, OK, no mr Bean for you (or me! :-), then.
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(I live in Finland, and my e-mail in-box is at the Saunalahti company.)
Your lies are of Microsoftian Scale and boring to boot. Your 'depression' may be the closest you ever come to recognizing truth: you have no 'inferiority complex', you are inferior - and something inside you recognizes this. - [link|http://z.iwethey.org/forums/render/content/show?contentid=71575|Ashton Brown]
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Post #208,756
5/26/05 8:57:20 PM
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Hmmm.. Great Minds. Again.
Morris Minor!
Ergo - Rowan and I have something in common - my first Brit 'car' - the '52 side-valve 897? cc thingie (or was that 803, and the larger is for first OHV). Indestuctible engine and the gutlessness may well have enhanced my survival chances.
{chortle}
Somehow, the typical Porsche people - and I wish them no ill - are not, I feel, my kind of people. I don't go around saying that Porsches are a pile of dung, but I do know that psychologically I couldn't handle owning one.
..and he co-drives with Stirling Moss!
..OK, so it was in a Mk VII Jaguar. Still.
(whom I saw in action at Monte Carlo. Pity, never owned a BRG-color car. Yet.)
Wish Billy'd spent some of his bucks for a McLaren - and then rilly tried autistic-powered balls-out 'driving' in That sucker. (Gawd knoze what his other, commercial 'drivers' are like.) Naaah.. added to his other qualities: chicken-shit, too.
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Post #208,623
5/25/05 8:24:49 PM
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View it as a game...
How fast can you scare them?
Can you get pictures of them fleeing?
Amusing anecdotes are particularly appreciated.
Cheers,
Ben
I have come to believe that idealism without discipline is a quick road to disaster, while discipline without idealism is pointless. -- Aaron Ward (my brother)
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Post #208,660
5/26/05 9:22:41 AM
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Okay, I'll give it a shot
But only to keep you amused, Ben.
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Post #208,722
5/26/05 3:09:01 PM
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I'll need a report then :-)
I have come to believe that idealism without discipline is a quick road to disaster, while discipline without idealism is pointless. -- Aaron Ward (my brother)
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Post #208,639
5/26/05 1:39:22 AM
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Well, it is possible for an engineer . . .
. . to be a fine and fascenating person and a wonderful and supportive companion for a woman. It's not the way to bet, but it's still better odds than the lottery.
I suspect you're going to need to apply a little "résumé expansion" to your profile. To quote The Official MBA Handbook, "If you want to tell the unvarnished truth, that is your prerogative. So is unemployment".
[link|http://www.aaxnet.com|AAx]
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Post #208,659
5/26/05 9:21:29 AM
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Cant control who I'm matched with
I get matched based on my answers to a multi-page psychological profile. They match me on "29 key dimensions". They only let me take the psych test once. I can tweak the page my "matches" see once they've been matched with me, but I cant tweak the results of my test. Anyway, the profile results are fairly accurate. I should post them here and see who screams first.
On the same note, I wake my kids up every morning by singing them a song. The selection this morning was "The Lion Sleeps Tonight". My son told me I need help and should see a therapist. I told him I am a therapist. Then he said I should see a psychiatrist. The kid has a point. Skip the yackety-yack talk therapy and go straight for the meds!
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Post #208,693
5/26/05 11:59:44 AM
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No wonder you're getting engineers.
That's the kind of service an engineer would go for. A "scientific" evaluation with as little personal involvement in the results as possible. Better to find a service that lets you lie a little - that's more true to life anyway.
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Post #208,890
5/27/05 11:14:17 PM
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I put them to bed with a song
Typically it's "Hubba Hubba Zoot Zoot", but Aidan got "Lullaby" sung as an operatic tenor tonight.
Regards,
-scott anderson
"Welcome to Rivendell, Mr. Anderson..."
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Post #208,920
5/28/05 10:08:06 AM
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You sound a lot like me!
This morning the selection was Iron Man by Black Sabbath. Whatever pops in my head, they get. I do the opera thing, too. Nothing gets them out of bed faster.
I dont do much singing at night, though. Too darn tired.
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Post #208,641
5/26/05 2:23:38 AM
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Oh give him a try
"Whenever you find you are on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect" --Mark Twain
"The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them." --Albert Einstein
"This is still a dangerous world. It's a world of madmen and uncertainty and potential mental losses." --George W. Bush
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Post #208,650
5/26/05 5:10:05 AM
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That's friendly
Half this board are IT engineers. Is this a subtle hint that we're casual friends but we'll never get any closer? Or is it merely a rant against mindless, dating computers?
Matthew Greet
But we must kill them. We must incinerate them. Pig after pig, cow after cow, village after village, army after army. And they call me an assassin. What do you call it when the assassins accuse the assassin? They lie. They lie and we must be merciful to those who lie.
- Colonol Kurtz, Apocalypse Now.
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Post #208,661
5/26/05 9:32:26 AM
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You havent been following my lack of success with engineers
It's not me doing the rejecting- It's them!
I'm darn friendly. I smile, I make witty conversation, I laugh, I bat my eyelashes... I'm a real catch.
And as for you guys, well, I dont see any of you knocking on my door.
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Post #208,675
5/26/05 10:26:21 AM
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My arms aren't that long
And my wife would kill me.
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Post #208,677
5/26/05 10:27:44 AM
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Ditto the wife thing.
Sorry dear. I bet you are "da bomb"
If you push something hard enough, it will fall over. Fudd's First Law of Opposition
[link|mailto:bepatient@aol.com|BePatient]
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Post #208,681
5/26/05 10:44:05 AM
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Whattaya mean bet
We've seen her and we've had extensive interaction with her projected
persona (and she's kept it up, so even if it is not her real one
she could probably maintain it in "real" life, which means the same
thing).
You should be able to rate right now.
I'd give her an 8.5. Smart, yet not obnoxious. Pretty, not stunning.
Decent body - dunno - I assume based on the limited pictures. Responsible,
professional, financially independent, ie: not a clinger or someone who
can be easily manipulated.
Kids can be either a plus or minus depending on the person doing the
rating - I don't think they should count against the number. She seems
to have loving interaction, which is a plus.
At what point does "da bomb" start? I figure around 7.6 , ie: better
than 3/4s of the choices. And since no matter how attractive some woman
are, intellectually or personality wise they suck, they fall under the 7.5
mark if you can't stand being around them for more than a week.
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Post #208,682
5/26/05 10:55:16 AM
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I don't do AC...I like the "sure thing" bets. Sue me :-)
If you push something hard enough, it will fall over. Fudd's First Law of Opposition
[link|mailto:bepatient@aol.com|BePatient]
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Post #208,698
5/26/05 12:35:59 PM
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You're DC?
/ducks
A good friend will come and bail you out of jail ... but, a true friend will be sitting next to you saying, "Damn...that was fun!"
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Post #208,789
5/27/05 8:06:45 AM
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Hmmmm.....
There\ufffds something vaguely unsettling about being meticulously reduced to the parts of your sum. At least I got a passing score.
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Post #208,793
5/27/05 8:23:32 AM
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*chuckle* You got way more than a 'passing grade'.
[link|http://www.runningworks.com|
] Imric's Tips for Living
- Paranoia Is a Survival Trait
- Pessimists are never disappointed - but sometimes, if they are very lucky, they can be pleasantly surprised...
- Even though everyone is out to get you, it doesn't matter unless you let them win.
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Nothing is as simple as it seems in the beginning,
As hopeless as it seems in the middle,
Or as finished as it seems in the end.
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Post #208,904
5/28/05 4:59:50 AM
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It's a digital thing; think 'IQ'
It's pretty hard to get away from the mercantile habit of assigning stupid fucking Numbers to every -thing and -one. Maybe it's the "when you learn to use a hammer.." syndrome or possibly.. by now, the spreadsheet has done permanent damage to the collective neuronal nexus (?)
[OT: ever look into any of the stuff one Carver Mead (Cal Tech) was doing, trying to synthesize neural networks? Just curious if such material ever gets into the field, actual-workers' territory -- or it's just too surreal..?]
But I think you'll find that most here don't Really 'mean it', y'know?
People who understand how "significant digits" (and their frequent misuse) relate to the precision or probability of some measurement - know better. It's the ones who really Believe that the numbers (never mind their 'units') Mean something re humans : watch out for Those.
But then - you knew that. Right?
(I sure hope that modrin psych or psyche repairfolk don't assign numbers to their charges. Tell me they don't! write stuff like "87.3% paranoid/delusional, 13.26% BPD, ___")
Yours for writing all dossiers in longhand, sans arithmetic - but enough adjectives.
(Ok.. maybe.. a few video clips of the client telling her story. Animatedly.)
PS, re your field - a friend is dealing with a family member who is skirting the territory of bipolar (a term it's difficult ever to use 'with Any precision', I gather from several long-winded essays). She found the book, Stop Walking on Eggshells. It is even in English. Enter: how best to test the pharmchem soups -VS- realizing how little is done ($$ spent) to study the cross-interactions of the many popular soups. Etc.
It is clear that she will be of vastly more importance in any outcome than - the (pridefully way-overbooked) #1 shrink. Fortunately she has also learned tact, the creative evasion of ego-induced testiness. 'Computer Science' is trivial (hell, it's ALL mere logic) compared with This Gig.
Why.. I'd bet it's 87.15% harder than say, designing say, some old Linux kernel?
:-\ufffd
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Post #208,921
5/28/05 10:12:42 AM
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I read what you wrote
and only understood about 1/3 of it. *Groan* Will have to respond back after I've showered and had my coffee and have the brain power to decipher.
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Post #209,028
5/29/05 11:08:57 PM
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Better get used to it.
That's how he ALWAYS speaks. He's like the anti-Box.
Aleph-null bottles of beer on the wall, aleph-null bottles of beer.
You take one down, you pass it around,
Aleph-null bottles of beer on the wall!
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Post #209,031
5/29/05 11:17:45 PM
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Re: Better get used to it.
Now there's a choice, eh? One who barely writes Engrish and another who's prose looks more like the path of a pinball going for the high score.
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Post #209,034
5/29/05 11:37:41 PM
5/29/05 11:39:59 PM
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Oops - double submit - read other
Edited by broomberg
May 29, 2005, 11:39:59 PM EDT
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Post #209,035
5/29/05 11:38:06 PM
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Close
Remember, Ashton is usually juggling 3 or more concepts at once.
So it's like the pinball game that goes beserk, and puts several balls into play at once.
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Post #209,058
5/30/05 10:48:09 AM
8/21/07 5:42:18 AM
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Balls-A-Poppin was the first of the multi-ball machines IIRC
"Whenever you find you are on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect" --Mark Twain
"The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them." --Albert Einstein
"This is still a dangerous world. It's a world of madmen and uncertainty and potential mental losses." --George W. Bush
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Post #209,067
5/30/05 12:09:12 PM
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The Batman machine was, imho, just about perfect.
The one that was released to coincide with Burton's film, that is.
Like this: [link|http://www.boomersamusements.com/batman_pinball_machine.htm|http://www.boomersam...nball_machine.htm]
Peter
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Post #209,088
5/30/05 6:25:55 PM
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My favorite was the Addam's Family
[link|http://www.gameroomwarehouse.com/pinball/addams_family.html|http://www.gameroomw...ddams_family.html]
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