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  3. A Modern League of Extroardinary Gentlemen

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    snake plisken

     

    Yeah, you need a guy on the team that can get you out of any situation that you get yourself into. Snake is the man for impossible missions. Speaking of which, what about Ethan Hunt from the original Mission:Impossible series?

     

    Going back even further...Maxwell Smart from "Get Smart"

    The woman in the tight black leather in "The Avengers" just because you always need a girl on your team in tight black leather (name escaping me right now - Mrs. Emma Peel?)

    Mad Max for a true Road Warrior

    Indiana Jones to replace Quartermaine

     

    Pulling from literary works like the original League - Sherlock Holmes, James Bond was a good example, DaVinci code hero?, Finneas Fogg

  4. Jack-Jack Parr

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    You are worthy of every rep point. Very observant!! :thumbup:

     

    I thought the fact that the character powers were a metaphor for family life was pretty well known. The writer of Incredibles talks about it in interviews.

  5. Jack-Jack Parr

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    Is clinging an everyman skill for infants?

    I watched the movie four times today and got paid for it. It's the only perk I get in retail.

     

    A Super Power for infants should be the super stench from their super poo! That, and the ability to shoot pee as soon as they are exposed to air. No problems with Vapor Lock at that early age. They could attain release with six people watching over their shoulder.

     

    Infants have the disadvantage of no fear as well, thinking they can dive off of beds that are twice their height above the ground. Of course, once they hit the floor, they must have some form of damage resistance since they merely come away with bruises.

  6. Musings on Random Musings

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    Happy happy joy joy

    happy hoppy joy joy

    happy hoppy happy hoppy

    joy joy joy joy

    happy happy joy joy

    happy happy joy joy

    happy happy joy joy joy!!!!!

     

    Happy...Happy...Happy...Happy

     

    "Stimpy you Idiot!"

     

    Oh, to be back in college again watching things that were just for good quotes and wasting time.

  8. A Thread for Random Musings

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    I can't get to the boards for 5 days due to work and general family sickness over the weekend, and I am 430 posts behind. *sigh* Now, the posts I missed 5 days ago I would like to reply to, but the replies would be so dated that people would look at them and think, 'Yeah, that may have been funny and poignant...about 5 days ago.'

  10. Musings on Random Musings

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    Who' date=' me? Or is that who took away my inspiration?[/quote']

     

    It's...um....uh...hmmmm. :think:

     

    Well, all of a sudden the church lady's voice just popped in my head and I had to exorcise those demons. You were just the random target due to a random musing. I thought the whole "What is wrong with me?" deserved some kind of response.

     

    Let's see...oh, I know.

     

    Could it be...International Women's Day?

     

    It has been known to damper the frisky mood of many. :)

  15. Musings on Random Musings

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    You can do that? Is there a time limit to changing the auctions? Is there a limit to what you can change? When you can "yank it"? Does it cost extra or anything? Not that I'm sweatin' the buck-sixty I owe right now. Just curious. C'mon, Bill, gimme the scoop. Yer the pro.

    You can do it and there is no penalty when you relist the item later as long as it sells. You have to provide a reason for yanking the item, but the classic "Improper Item Description" is a nice catch all. This is off the top of my head, but I believe you have to yank the item before there is 12 hours left on your auction clock. After that you are SOL.

     

    I researched similar items and came in just under their price, and the descriptions are pretty basic. Since three are DVDs they auto-insert the info as soon as you type in the UPC number.

     

    I didn't start my auctions for under a $1, though. I just ramped it up to the minimum amount I wanted to get for it. I also added a relatively low "buy it now" number just to see if it would work. I figured it didn't hurt to experiment with higher-dollar starting points the first time out. That would be the first thing I change the second time around.

     

    I used stock photos of all the items since they're brand new. I'll be either scanning or taking pictures of future items, though.

     

    Sounds like a good plan. I eventually created an HTML script that I upload with each one of my items that gives each one of my auctions the same feel. This reduces the time to create and list an auction. The main reason I don't do a lot of auctions is because they are so time consuming. I'll put up 15 items at once and it usually takes me over 2 hours to scan all of the items and create descriptions for each one. It is well worth the time when they sell though.

     

    Oh, and having Paypal as a seller increases the amount of traffic to your auctions by at least double. I sell a lot more high dollar items with Paypal than I did without it.

     

    -Bill

  16. Musings on Random Musings

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    Dave' date=' Bill, how do I find your items on Ebay?[/quote']

     

    I don't have anything up right now. When I do have something for sale, I use the name Novarth. You can do a user lookup on eBay and see some of the items I have sold in the past from my profile I believe. You look at the feedback rating and there is a link to each item from that.

  18. Musings on Random Musings

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    Hrmph. Halfway through my first five auctions on eBay and nary a bid to be seen. So much for instant economic and ego gratification.

     

    This happens to me A LOT. I just watch the time tick away and the bids start flying ehrn there is less than 24 hours to go. Many times, when there is 14 hours left and still no bids, I will yank the auction and change something in it - perhaps the title - to see if it will garner bids. The people that are holding off their bids until the bitter end will bid earlier the next time when they see that I have relisted the item because it did not receive any bids with 14 hours to go.

     

    Since I sell sports cards, I do a lot of research on eBay to see what players are moving and what the bidding patterns are for each item. I'll see what auction descriptions receive more bids than a similar item with a different description. Before I put items up on eBay, I want to know what to expect so that I will have a feel for when the bids will start flying. It also saves me money since I can start my auctions for under $1 and be sure they will sell for what I am expecting.

     

    Do you take digital pictures and post them with the item or do you scan the item if it is flat? This helps me a lot since a picture is worth 999 words. Due to inflation, 1000 words is not what it used to be.

  21. A Thread for Random Musings

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    If you don't laugh out loud after you read this you are in a coma!

    This is even funnier when you realize it's real! Next time you have a bad day at work...think of this guy..

     

    Rob is a commercial saturation diver for Global Divers in Louisiana.

    He performs underwater repairs on offshore drilling rigs. Below is an E-mail he sent to his sister. She then sent it to radio station

    103.2 on FM dial in Ft. Wayne, Indiana, who was sponsoring a worst job experience contest. Needless to say, she won.

     

    Hi Sue,

     

    Just another note from your bottom-dwelling brother. Last week I had a bad day at the office. I know you've been feeling down lately at work, so I thought I would share my dilemma with you to make you realize it's not so bad after all. Before I can tell you what happened to me, I first must bore you with a few technicalities of my job. As you know, my office lies at the bottom of the sea. I wear a suit to the office. It's a wetsuit. This time of year the water is quite cool. So what we do to keep warm is this: We have a diesel powered industrial water heater. This $20,000 piece of equipment sucks the water out of the sea. It heats it to a delightful temperature. It then pumps it down to the diver through a garden hose, which is taped to the air hose. Now this sounds like a darn good plan, and I've used it several times with no complaints.

     

    What I do, when I get to the bottom and start working, is take the hose and stuff it down the back of my wetsuit. This floods my whole suit with warm water. It's like working in a Jacuzzi. Everything was going well until all of a sudden, my butt started to itch. So, of course, I scratched it. This only made things worse.

     

    Within a few seconds my butt started to burn. I pulled the hose out from my back, but the damage was done. In agony I realized what had happened. The hot water machine had sucked up a jellyfish and pumped it into my suit. Now, since I don't have any hair on my back, the jellyfish couldn't stick to it. However, the crack of my butt was not as fortunate. When I scratched what I thought was an itch, I was actually grinding the jellyfish into the crack of my butt. I informed the dive supervisor of my dilemma over the communicator. His instructions were unclear due to the fact that he, along with five other divers, were all laughing hysterically. Needless to say I aborted the dive. I was instructed to make three agonizing in-water decompression stops totaling thirty-five minutes before I could reach the surface to begin my chamber dry decompression.

     

    When I arrived at the surface, I was wearing nothing but my brass helmet. As I climbed out of the water, the medic, with tears of laughter running down his face, handed me a tube of cream and told me to rub it on my butt as soon as I got in the chamber. The cream put the fire out, but I couldn't poop for two days because my butt was swollen shut. So, next time you're having a bad day at work, think about how much worse it would be if you had a jellyfish shoved up your butt.

  25. Musings on Random Musings

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    DOn't' date=' please! If you do, everyone will start comparing notes on him and we will discover he isn't real.[/quote']

     

    He's real since I have met him. Now you need to ask yourself, am I real? Then, after you ask yourself that and have a good answer, ask yourself if you are real. What IS real? How many philosophers does it take to determine if something is real?

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