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mynamesafad
01/15/09

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for $40,000 I could make a lot better tech set up in my room.
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weatherman
01/16/09

@mynamesafad: for $40,000, in most parts of the country these days you could buy an entire HOUSE, outfit every room with a Alienware PC and Dell 24" widescreen monitor, and still have enough money left over for a year's supply of Cheetos.
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mkat_tdc
01/16/09

@weatherman: wow. I need to see these parts of the country
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weatherman
01/16/09

@mkat_tdc: Contact any of these folks and I'll bet they'll even buy your plane ticket out. :)
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FrankenPC
01/15/09

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I dunno. I might be convinced to buy it if it played the Darth Vader theme song each time it opened.
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OMG! Ponies!
01/15/09

@FrankenPC: Are you referring to the Imperial March or the theme song from "Darth Vader", the short-lived 70's sitcom about a pretty Sith Lord from a small backwater planet who, at age 30, moves to Boulder, CO after breaking off an engagement with her boyfriend of two years, and lands herself a job as a beat reporter on the city desk.

There's her tough-but-likeable boss Darth Sideous; sympathetic, long-suffering copy editor Grand Moff Tarkin; and buffoonish admiral Kendal Ozzel who was as clumsy as he was stupid.
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sqeakytoy of the apocalypse
01/15/09

@OMG! Ponies!: did'nt they have Burt Reynolds as Tarkin and Dom DeLouise as Ozzel in that series?
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OMG! Ponies!
01/15/09

@sqeakytoy of the apocalypse: You're thinking of the Kashyyyk Run movies. "Darth Vader" had Dick van Patten, Pam Dawber, and Bob Newhart.

There was also a couple of spin-offs, notably "Needa" about a failed Admiral and divorcee who moves with her young son to start her life over again, and finds a job working at a roadside diner on the outskirts of Ord Mandell.

It was partly based on the feminist 1972 novel "Apology Accepted, Admiral Needa". However, to make it more appealing to television audiences, Admiral Needa's physically abusive husband is toned down a bit and is just a somewhat belligerant drunkard (ably played in a guest appearance by a young Sam Elliot).

I'm on a classic American lit kick right now. I'm almost done with my copy of "They Shoot Tauntauns, Don't They?"
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Fuji-kun
01/15/09

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this is stupid.
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IN THE FACE!
01/15/09

@Fuji-kun: Don't strain yourself.
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