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winterfate · Unread postby **winterfate** » 18 Dec 2006, 06:35

The Vatican fielding a football team. I HAVE to ask this

....

Will the clergy be using their robes during playtime?

God is my witness...I couldn't help myself

.

As for the James Bond article...wow...and they say movies DON'T influence people

.

DaemianLucifer · Unread postby **DaemianLucifer** » 18 Dec 2006, 08:04

winterfate wrote: As for the James Bond article...wow...and they say movies DON'T influence people .

To be honest,movies dont influence smart people.Incidentally...

Mytical · Unread postby **Mytical** » 18 Dec 2006, 08:20

Ok there is a bill being considered to make melting pennies and nickels illegal. Why? Because the value of the metal in them is more then the face value of the coin...(1.12 cents for a penny, 6.99 c for a nickel). There will be a $10,000 fine and shipments of coins to outside america will be limited to $100 dollars worth of the coins (or a fine will be levied, perhaps another 10 grand?).

Caradoc · Unread postby **Caradoc** » 18 Dec 2006, 08:23

winterfate wrote:The Vatican fielding a football team. I HAVE to ask this ....

Will the clergy be using their robes during playtime?

Wasn't there a Monty Python sketch on this?

ThunderTitan · Unread postby **ThunderTitan** » 18 Dec 2006, 12:20

Mytical wrote:Ok there is a bill being considered to make melting pennies and nickels illegal.

How "land of the free"...

asandir · Unread postby **asandir** » 18 Dec 2006, 23:59

that's hilarious Myst

Italian village basks in reflected glory
Sun deprived people might consider moving to the northern Italian village of Viganella, where residents are now basking in sunlight thanks to a giant mirror.

The village's 185 residents are normally plunged in chilly darkness during winter months as surrounding mountains cut off direct sunlight.

Viganella Mayor Pierfranco Midali says he has been looking forward to the innovation since an architect friend began pondering ways to help the sun-challenged hamlet.

"I've waited for this moment for seven years," he told Italy's ANSA news agency.

The village now has a towering mirror measuring eight metres by five metres installed on the flank of one bluff.

The mirror is computer-driven to follow the sun's path and cast its rays back on Viganella.

The Mayor says the project, which cost almost 100,000 euro ($A167,000), has spawned envy from Swiss and other Italian mountain villages.

"It wasn't easy, we had to find the proper material, learn abut the technology and especially find the money," he said.

DaemianLucifer · Unread postby **DaemianLucifer** » 19 Dec 2006, 01:27

Futurama did it!

winterfate · Unread postby **winterfate** » 19 Dec 2006, 01:31

I don't know what to say....

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167,000 dollars so 185 residents can get sunlight (don't get me wrong, I'm glad for them...I just think it's a bit...excessive).

DaemianLucifer · Unread postby **DaemianLucifer** » 19 Dec 2006, 02:07

winterfate wrote:I don't know what to say.... .

167,000 dollars so 185 residents can get sunlight (don't get me wrong, I'm glad for them...I just think it's a bit...excessive).

You think thats expensive and bizzare?How about $75,000,000 for a video game?

winterfate · Unread postby **winterfate** » 19 Dec 2006, 02:33

Someone get the Battle Rifle...we're going idiot hunting

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Seriously now...come on! $75,000,000 for a game? (I don't even want to know the break-even point for that game's profits).

I can see it now...subscriptions starting at $100 per month...

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They'll have to rename it:
" The Post Apocalyptic Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous".

Now, THAT is bizzare.

asandir · Unread postby **asandir** » 19 Dec 2006, 02:41

my understanding is that some games now are costing that much to make .... it's not unique

winterfate · Unread postby **winterfate** » 19 Dec 2006, 02:45

Well, if that's true, then it explains a lot

(mostly why XBOX 360 games cost 60-65 dollars on release and take forever to drop).

That can't be true though...can it? (well, actually it's mathematically probable, but...wow...that's a huge number

).

I miss the good old days of gaming

(back when M:tG was the only Trading Card Game and 16-bit gaming was the Next Big Thing

).

asandir · Unread postby **asandir** » 19 Dec 2006, 02:47

ditto winterfate, but bear in mind that this is only for the upper echelon of games, still ridiculous though .... ah the days of yesteryear

DaemianLucifer · Unread postby **DaemianLucifer** » 19 Dec 2006, 02:50

And long time ago you could buy a horse for 2 dollars,or rent a room at the best of all hotels.Money losses value,simple as that.

asandir · Unread postby **asandir** » 19 Dec 2006, 02:56

indeed, but the sums of money we are talking about are still ridiculous

winterfate · Unread postby **winterfate** » 19 Dec 2006, 02:59

indeed, but the sums of money we are talking about are still ridiculous

Exactly! Imagine what I could do with 75 million...

And long time ago you could buy a horse for 2 dollars,or rent a room at the best of all hotels.Money losses value,simple as that.

Tell me about it (the American dollar is nosediving in terms of monetary value

, and even so, there are many countries that are worse off). The Euro is doing relatively well though, at least from what I've heard.

asandir · Unread postby **asandir** » 19 Dec 2006, 03:03

The aussie dollar is doing ok too

but enough of this boring business talk

winterfate · Unread postby **winterfate** » 19 Dec 2006, 03:06

Agreed.

(this economy conversation is shaving years off my life

...makes me feel old since I remember when less money bought more).

OK...promised to stop

.

DaemianLucifer · Unread postby **DaemianLucifer** » 19 Dec 2006, 04:05

winterfate wrote: Exactly! Imagine what I could do with 75 million...

75 million what?With 75 million dinars you couldve bought a single bread here some 15 years ago(big inflation).And dont let me even go to the german inflatio in the 20es.Or were you talking about fallout bottlecaps

asandir · Unread postby **asandir** » 19 Dec 2006, 04:07

to get back on track

Traffic ticket helps elderly man find car
A 78-year-old German man needed the help of a traffic warden who had given him a ticket to find his car after a day of fruitless searching.

German police in Kaiserslautern, south of Frankfurt, say the man parked his car in the town centre before an appointment with his tax adviser and then forgot where he had left it.

After wandering aimlessly for hours, he turned to the police for help.

Authorities searched in vain until late at night.

"We then sent him to a hotel and resumed the search in the morning. We asked our traffic wardens whether they had any clue about the car," a spokeswomen for Kaiserslautern police said.

"Fortunately, one woman remembered putting a ticket on his car."

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