Ken Cook

USMC Vet. Retired. Hobbies are history, literature, tech, and hiking. I value intelligent, civil discourse, with a touch of humor and occasional sarcasm.

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@Emotion78687 She's pretty darn good but I would not say better than the original done by Stevie Nicks.

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@marklevinshow They have a team on it.

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I remember going on vacation before there were cell phones and email and being utterly and totally out of reach by the office.

I would leave the office on a Friday afternoon and not have any idea what happened at work until I went back - usually a week from that Monday.

It was something we did not fully appreciate at the time.

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@SamaHoole When I was growing up, us kids wanted them to come out because we were supposedly put on an ice cream diet for several weeks after the procedure.

At least, that was the schoolyard rumor.

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@Unfiltered_Ray @atensnut May I facetiously add "and sometimes y" for extra credit?

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@brockpierson There was a subwoofer under the desk that really made the room shake when you used the nail gun in Doom.

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@brockpierson I was a big fan of doing the "clean install" of Windows every so often. It really did make the computers back then run a little faster.

It did suck though when it was 1am in the morning and you are being asked to insert "disk 11 of 37".

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Tell me about it. This is usually how it goes down at Christmas time:

Divorced parent A invites my wife and I over for a Christmas Eve dinner. We think PERFECT! We can get them out of the way early and have all Christmas Day to visit with divorced parent B.

Then divorced parent B decides to invite us over for Christmas Eve. We have to say we already commited to divorced parent A.

"Oh, I guess I know where your priorities are" says divorced parent B.

You just can't win with divorced parents.

[Sean McLaughlin, NLD 📈 @SeanHasOptions]

A) This is absolutely amazing. And,

B) Hollywood is so fucked.

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@SeanHasOptions At first, I thought for sure Jensen Huang would make his first move on Pam. Well, "The Office" was always unpredictable.

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@luis_garci71455 @SelfMadeMastery I am reduced to playing scrabble tonight. With an actual board and physical tiles.

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@televisionaryZW When your wife pilfers a valuable stamp from your collection to mail a letter, you know you can't trust her.

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@bostonradio This was when The Beatles realized they were going to have to step up their game.

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@bostonradio When a carnival owner gets mixed messages from a young woman on the Love Boat, you just know that hijinks will ensue.

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@LaughAtLefties To all those with a Friday morning project deadline, you have been granted a reprieve from all those annoying "just checking in" emails from your bosses.

Take advantage!

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Been reading some of Raymond Chandler's short fiction the past few days. Great stuff.

This is hard-boiled detective writing at its best, inspiration for a lot of film noir movies of that era.

Common denominator so far: Every time Philip Marlowe goes back to his apartment, it seems people are waiting for him there with a loaded gun.

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@televisionaryZW Can't believe I missed the segment on how the Orientals used cormorant birds for fishing.

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@snicklink Video brought to you by using technology invented by Jenson Huang.

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Even funnier is Tyler's mom saw this on the Internet and did not realize it was a doctored photo.

Poor Tyler spent a lot of time trying to convince his mom that no, he did not have a bunch of girls actually performing oral on him in high school.

As for Tyler's dad, his reaction was more along the lines of "That's my boy!"

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@LarryWild2028 Too funny, I meant that as a reply to another thread but it ended being a post!

Yes, Howard Jones is another guilty pleasure.

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Just don't let it get around the cellblock you are a closet Tears for Fears fan.