Post #260,060
6/26/06 5:26:48 PM
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Who knew Penn Jillette used to write a PC column?
[link|http://www.pennandteller.com/sincity/penn-n-teller/pcc/sick.html|http://www.pennandte...ler/pcc/sick.html]
Found this searching for something else. I never knew about this.
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Post #260,068
6/26/06 6:09:43 PM
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Love. It.
..and Penn. No idea either, that this was a fellow-who'd-read-Proust, thus could share my barricade Gatling-gun nest, any old revolution.
Feed me, Penn .... Feed-me! {only 1\ufffd Points for speaker's ID}
And then - motorcycles too! Yeah indeed - the gold-leaf trim line on the distinctive black tank of a certain marque, along with just its stark Name on the sides - were hand applied and shellacked. Left alone and just occasionally waxed with light buffing, it was permanent. Then there was the occasional fool who didn't grok rubbing compound and.. and..
Pity I don't fly in zoos with brown-shirt attendants or, I'd like that autoexec thingy too. Maybe omit the final line. Since when is a nonspecific COUNTDOWN illegal:
why, my boot-virus check gives me the option to ESCape, all the time! Let the silly buggers argue with Mr. AGV, and try to make a boot-virus check into a ticket to The Inquisition ('specially with my lapel-cam transmitting the hoot to ravenous groupies, ready to post it on Al Geezer-a, The Thinking Curmudgeon Network.
Thanks for a scintillating antidote to the @$%^*#*% maudlin daily doomnews!
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Post #260,070
6/26/06 6:16:42 PM
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Now go read this one
Or at least the [link|http://www.pennandteller.com/sincity/penn-n-teller/excite/least.html|first two paragraphs]. Then tell me if any of it sounds familiar.
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Post #260,238
6/28/06 5:13:27 AM
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OK I was hasty
I think maybe.. 'stead of feeding me bandoliers - we make use of his Rugged Individualism - he gets to zig-zag across the intersection and bring more supplies.
I mean, if I got winged or somethin - spect he'd say - Hey, it's Your Problem. What is this, a Welfare State? Hire someone..
Oh well :-/
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Post #260,069
6/26/06 6:14:54 PM
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\\o/
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Post #260,111
6/27/06 7:21:20 AM
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Youngster.
I would always read his column. Once upon a time, a long time ago. Then I stopped gettting the dead tree issues and forgot about him. Thanks for the article.
A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort. (Herm Albright)
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Post #260,126
6/27/06 10:22:43 AM
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He started the PC Modding community... at least
This is about the earliest I've ever seen about doing it.
[link|http://www.pennandteller.com/sincity/penn-n-teller/pcc/paintit.html|Trash It]
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Post #260,128
6/27/06 10:56:00 AM
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ICLRPD (new thread)
Created as new thread #260127 titled [link|/forums/render/content/show?contentid=260127|ICLRPD]
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Post #260,136
6/27/06 12:24:46 PM
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*raises hand*
PC Computing IIRC. He would write the "back page" article. He had a Uma Thurman fixation and seemed to always work her name in to the article somehow.
----------------------------------------- Impeach Bush. Impeach Cheney. Do it now.
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Post #260,138
6/27/06 12:31:56 PM
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That's the one
He's got his whole archive available behind the link at the top of the article I linked above.
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