Most Boring Thread

commercials
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1) i saw a commercial for finallyxxxxxx.com (i do not wish to promote the website) that promises to check your pc for spyware,adware,registry errors. it clearly states that it only works for windows computers. yet at near the end of the commercial you can clearly see a kid operating an IMAC, and the windows desktop looked like it was green screened in, the desktop looked simulated. it was slightly over scanned. they could of used bootcamp, but i guess simulating a windows desktop was cheaper in post production


2) snuggies is a blanket with sleeves! looks goofy! the material kinda looked like those absorbing towels they sell on commercials.. maybe those aren't selling so well, so they decided not to cut them up and sell them as a blanket

consumer reports in this issue reports that billy may's hercules hook can not hold 350 pounds like the commercial claims, but in reality can only hold 40 lbs. you have to use multiple hooks to distribute the load to get it to hold 350 pounds.

they also report that the awesome auger with its FREE bits and its FREE drill costs $65 in shipping and handling fees

 

Speaking of which, does anybody remember the TV show "Queen for a day"? It think it used to be on right after Roller Derby and before Bowling for Dollars. I remember watching it at my grandmother's house when I was little which was so cool 'cause we didn't have a TV at our house yet.

I guess the title of the show would imply a quite different sort of contest nowadays.

 

there needs to be more professional wrestling on itunes

 

I remember watching this when I was a little girl. Even at the age of 5 or so it offended my burgeoning feminist sensibilities. I hated how the woman (a housewife of course) had to look really battered and bedraggled and beaten down by life, and then they gave her a f__king washer and dryer, and she had to look all grateful.

To this day, my sisters and I will joke about being on Queen for a Day when one of us is acting all whiny.
(Hope that was still boring enough for y'all--I imagine it was.)

 

Guess I came into my feminism much later.
I adored Queen for a Day... I wanted to wear the gown, the tiara, and be adored!

I never noticed that the contestants were bedraggled. Of course, I was pretty young, and lived a rather bedraggled life myself...

 

It bugged me that there was this old, tired mom and a pretty young assistant gesturing at the appliances. Not to mention the fact that after the show the "Queen" has to go back to real life. Hmm. I wonder why it bothered me so much when I was so little?

 

40 - 50 years later, not much has changed in that regard.

Commercials and print ads for housework items continue to offend my feminist sensibilities a hundred times a day.

 

I had a muffin with cream cheese icing.

 

Surprisingly they're really not that widely available here (at least not that I've seen). Most cafes and restaurants only serve that bottled Lipton crap - in Lemon/Lime, Peach or "Sweetened". I had some real iced green tea at a Japanese stall in the Brisbane farmer's market last week (and oh man was that good) but other than that I haven't found anywhere that serves up fresh brewed iced tea.

To change the subject slightly, I filed an expense report today.

 

if you post enough boring messages featuring the forgotten specifics of various hayes AT commands it draws attention to you, and people from the past actually start looking you up.

because of this reason, today's post about using Acoustic Couplers will be delayed.


i would go into the fact that i was kicked off a bbs once, only to be let on for 30 minutes just do discuss
specifics about atari 800 emulators, but worry ill get more email from people from the past

 

I have a fully functional Atari 800 XL at home, floppy disk drive, modem (not the acoustic coupler type), and a lot of games... I also have a variety of different emulators on my PC, the best of which I find to be "Atari800win."

Because the emulator does such a faithful job, I rarely fire up the real thing anymore. I used to dial into BBS's to look for games, and people there always acted like I was just some dumb kid crashing their "serious" BBS party.

 

will the atari 800 emulator support the right cartridge port? is there a list of actual
stuff that came out for the right slot?

the 800 xl is missing the right cartridge port

will the emulator boot up to memo pad?

hahhaha

 

Radio shack wanted to sell the model I and the model III at the same time. they did not want to discontinue the model I until the FCC was threatening them with a recall drive, that they decided to discontinue the model I.

it put out a lot of rf interference.

 

Atari800win has several different "model" modes. I leave it set to "XL" because that's the hardware I was familiar with. I never really used cartridges though because most of the games I had were bootlegs on floppies. I guess it's all because of me that the computer gaming industry is doing so poorly now...

 

Heh, gosh Rigor, no need to delay on my account. It's sure a good thing we dont need all that ATX2&S0=0DT kinda stuff anymore though cause I really dont remember it.

Instead of acoustic couplers, today we have the joys of wireless to wireless (bluetooth->cdma) tethering for high speed data access, carried in ones pocket.

Interesting how I emulate too, the old amiga I had, as well as the atari ST I never had, on the same little device in my pocket.

Oh, and Ichabod, I forgive you for being such a leech on my bbs back then.

-Elf

Into.. The Wonderful.

 

Yup, posts # 450 - 455 are pretty boring.

 

I have a tiny piece of glass embedded in my right big toe.
It only hurts when I walk...

 

If I don't get up from here I am going to wet myself...again.

 

"i'm paging the sysop!!!!!"