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    Image of infmom infmom
    10/19/09

    In reply to GPS Puzzle Box Only Opens In One Specific Location
    It would have been nicer if enough money to cover all travel expenses had been stuffed inside the box. #puzzles
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    Image of brobot brobot
    10/19/09

    In reply to GPS Puzzle Box Only Opens In One Specific Location
    Hi. I'm wondering if anyone can help me out here. I got this present for my wedding - it's a GPS Puzzle box. I'm having a little problem with it... You see, for years I have had a strange fascination with button-pushing... I mean...TV remote buttons, elevator buttons, ejection seat buttons.... Anyway, when I got this gift I pushed the button A LOT because it was a really great button as far as buttons go (and I know my buttons). The thing is, there's apparently a 50 push limit before it doesn't tell you where to go anymore... and now I'm lost in France of all places, and I don't know where to go to get the box open! I tried using LeGooglé to see if I could find some help forums or something, but I forgot that there's an invisible uselessness bubble encircling all of France - and even google turns useless once you're France. Also, now that I'm in France, I'm pretty useless. If anyone outside (and not french) could help, that would be great. #puzzles
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    Image of A Pimp Named DaveR A Pimp Named DaveR
    10/19/09

    In reply to GPS Puzzle Box Only Opens In One Specific Location
    Before I saw the spoiler, I was going to guess "the place where you keep the axe".... #puzzles
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    Image of Curves Curves
    10/19/09

    In reply to GPS Puzzle Box Only Opens In One Specific Location
    What a fun idea...and it gives them something to do on the hornymoon. #puzzles
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    Image of LolpantsofArabia LolpantsofArabia
    10/19/09

    @Curves: If that's what you need to spice up your honeymoon, you married the wrong broad. #puzzles
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    Image of Curves Curves
    10/19/09

    @LolpantsofArabia: I was joking, and, if you marry a man who calls you a "broad" you married the wrong one. #puzzles
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    Image of Allwheeldriveturbosportwagon Allwheeldriveturbosportwagon
    10/19/09

    @Curves: How about "dame"? And I don't mean like Judy Dench.
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    Image of yougottabekidding yougottabekidding
    10/19/09

    @Curves: One way or the other, someone is getting into a box! #puzzles
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    Image of Curves Curves
    10/19/09

    @Allwheeldriveturbosportwagon: Whereas "broad" has a derogatory connotation (based on a term used by butchers for a piece of meat with a hole in it), the term "dame" is one based in honor , and being a classy dame myself (in the best Mickey Spillane fashion) I dont have a problem with that. #puzzles
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    Image of LolpantsofArabia LolpantsofArabia
    10/20/09

    @Curves: Wow, someone really was paying attention in feminism 101, weren't they?

    Still - broad, dame, whatever. I was going for anything that worked with a typewriter and a cigarette. #puzzles
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    Image of LolpantsofArabia LolpantsofArabia
    10/20/09

    @LolpantsofArabia: btw, I'm not convinced by your derivation of 'broad'. I can find suggestions that it's simply a reference to width, or that it comes from 'abroadwoman' (ie. not with her husband, and therefore a slave or prostitute), but nothing about meat. I'd be curious to see a reference, if you have one. #puzzles
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    Image of Allwheeldriveturbosportwagon Allwheeldriveturbosportwagon
    10/20/09

    @Curves: Srsly? Meat with a hole... Frucci would totaly tap that. #puzzles
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    Image of Curves Curves
    10/20/09

    @LolpantsofArabia: Wiki defines it as derogatroy while text copied from the Urban Dictionary defines it as "a butchers term for a slab of meat with a hole in it.
    men use it to classify women". I cant seem to paste links, but you can look either one up, in case you dont consider slave or prostitute to be bad enough. #puzzles
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    Image of LolpantsofArabia LolpantsofArabia
    10/20/09

    @Curves: I'm still not buying it, and I can't find any other reference to it as a term for meat. I'm not wholly sold on the 'abroadwoman' thing, either.

    No question, though, that it's in some way derogatory – but the fact that it's fallen out of use for that reason makes it usefully evocative of a certain genre. Still, best to jump on any words you don't like, eh? #puzzles
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    Image of Curves Curves
    10/20/09

    @LolpantsofArabia: Since you responded to my comment, yes, I felt quiet justified in it and I still stand on my opinion that marrying a man who calls you broad is a bad idea. #puzzles
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    Image of Allwheeldriveturbosportwagon Allwheeldriveturbosportwagon
    10/20/09

    @Curves: What if he wants you to call him a sausage? #puzzles
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    Image of Curves Curves
    10/20/09

    @Allwheeldriveturbosportwagon: I somehow dont think I would marry a guy named "sausage" but if thats what he wants, fine.
    Behind closed doors, all bets are off. ;) #puzzles
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    Image of BergenCountyJC BergenCountyJC
    10/19/09

    In reply to GPS Puzzle Box Only Opens In One Specific Location
    It opens up in France? I hope there is also a free ticket out of France inside. #puzzles
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    Image of GitEmSteveDave_IsSlacking GitEmSteveDave_IsSlacking
    10/19/09

    In reply to GPS Puzzle Box Only Opens In One Specific Location
    Does someone die every time you press the button? #puzzles
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    Image of QuarterToTomorrow QuarterToTomorrow
    10/19/09

    @GitEmSteveDave_Hates #DoucheDad: I sure hope so! #puzzles
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    Image of BergenCountyJC BergenCountyJC
    10/19/09

    @GitEmSteveDave_Hates #DoucheDad: No, France brings home 10 soldiers from foreign conflicts #puzzles
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    Image of liebermojo liebermojo
    10/19/09

    @GitEmSteveDave_Hates #DoucheDad: No, but bald germ-a-phobe pops out to tell you that you just accepted a deal from the banker and traded in your dignity which is what was in the case to begin with. #puzzles
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    Image of Nick Nick
    10/19/09

    @GitEmSteveDave_Hates #DoucheDad: and where is my million bucks #puzzles
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    Image of GitEmSteveDave_IsSlacking GitEmSteveDave_IsSlacking
    10/19/09

    @Nick: You'll get it during next years MillionModo contest. #puzzles
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    Image of Curves Curves
    01/20/09

    In reply to Metal 'Portraits' Make an Optical Illusion Out of Your Face
    Imagine the thin spindle of persons with more a generous proboscis than most people. (Not naming anyone but ACertainWriterAtGiz comes to mind...)
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    Image of Xeno Xeno
    01/20/09

    @Curves: Hay! It's not polite to talk about such things. Men are often sensitive about the size of their 'proboscis'.
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    Image of Curves Curves
    01/20/09

    @Xeno: There is a saying about men with big noses. (Cyrano had it going on.)
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    Image of Jrsy Devil's Advocate® Jrsy Devil's Advocate®
    01/20/09

    @Curves: I think you're thinking of men with big hands/big feet...
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    Image of strider_mt2k strider_mt2k
    01/20/09

    In reply to Metal 'Portraits' Make an Optical Illusion Out of Your Face
    Plenty of money going around for THIS shit, right?


    (!)

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    Image of GitEmSteveDave_IsSlacking GitEmSteveDave_IsSlacking
    01/20/09

    In reply to Metal 'Portraits' Make an Optical Illusion Out of Your Face
    What is you have no chin?
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    Image of BeautifulAgony BeautifulAgony
    01/20/09

    @Mr.B-Natural_GitEmSteveDave: Then your candlestick holder gets an extra wide base. Bonus!
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    Image of infmom infmom
    01/02/09

    In reply to Stand Aside N64 Kid, Someone Else Goes Nuts for a Wii
    That kid looks like the Bat Boy from Weekly World News.
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    Image of Jrsy Devil's Advocate® Jrsy Devil's Advocate®
    01/02/09

    In reply to Stand Aside N64 Kid, Someone Else Goes Nuts for a Wii
    Well that's certainly annoying but at least it's better than the adult dbag who pimp-slapped his grandparents for giving him a Wii..
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    Image of the_Sleepwalker the_Sleepwalker
    01/02/09

    In reply to Stand Aside N64 Kid, Someone Else Goes Nuts for a Wii
    Again. With feeling this time.


    (I kind of did the same thing when I got my 360 this year).

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    Image of halozcalling halozcalling
    01/02/09

    In reply to Stand Aside N64 Kid, Someone Else Goes Nuts for a Wii
    i think it's fake due to how late the reaction is.
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    Image of OMG! Ponies! OMG! Ponies!
    01/02/09

    @halozcalling: I don't think any part of the video is real.


    The child is an animatronic puppet. The parents are actually human-sized cockroaches capable of mimicking the general appearance of a human. The house is a soundstage at Silvercup Studios in Queens. And the Wii is an empty box filled with bricks.

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    Image of reddingofish reddingofish
    01/02/09

    In reply to Stand Aside N64 Kid, Someone Else Goes Nuts for a Wii
    This is why I don't feed my kids a sugary breakfast before we open presents on Christmas morning.
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    Image of IN THE FACE! IN THE FACE!
    01/02/09

    @reddingofish: meh, sugar highs are hardly an excuse, I use horse tranquilizers on mine...


    (j/k, I don't have kids, I just tranq myself...)

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    Image of Rob Alicea Rob Alicea
    01/02/09

    In reply to Stand Aside N64 Kid, Someone Else Goes Nuts for a Wii
    Someone call a young priest, and an old priest!
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    Image of IN THE FACE! IN THE FACE!
    01/02/09

    @Rob Alicea: The power of Christ compels you!
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