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It's time for another one... What American accent do you have? My Results: Northern You have a Northern accent. That could either be the Chicago/Detroit/Cleveland/Buffalo accent (easily recognizable) or the Western New England accent that news networks go for.

The commercial is real, no cheats except that it is two takes stitched together b/c they couldn't get a studio long enough to handle the entire sequence at once. The stitching point is where the muffler roles down the ramp. As for tires rolling uphill: http://www.snopes.com/photos/advertisements/hondacog.asp

Uh, that's why it's in the Just Plain Silly forum. :blink:

At the 1994 annual awards dinner given by the American Association for Forensic Science, AAFS President Don Harper Mills astounded his audience in San Diego with the legal complications of a bizarre death. Here is the story. "On 23 March 1994, the medical examiner viewed the body of Ronald Opus and concluded that he died from a shotgun wound of the head. The decedent had jumped from the top of a ten-story building intending to commit suicide (he left a note indicating his despondency). As he fell past the ninth floor, his life was interrupted by a shotgun blast through a window, which killed him instantly. Neither the shooter nor the decedent was aware that a safety net had been erected at the eighth floor level to protect some window washers and that Opus would not have been able to complete his suicide anyway because of this." "Ordinarily," Dr. Mills continued, "a person who sets out to commit suicide ultimately succeeds, even though the mechanism might not be what he intended. That Opus was shot on the way to certain death nine stories below probably would not have changed his mode of death from suicide to homicide. But the fact that his suicidal intent would not have been successful caused the medical examiner to feel that he had homicide on his hands. "The room on the ninth floor whence the shotgun blast emanated was occupied by an elderly man and his wife. They were arguing and he was threatening her with the shotgun. He was so upset that, when he pulled the trigger, he completely missed his wife and the pellets went through the window, striking Opus. "When one intends to kill subject A but kills subject B in the attempt, one is guilty of the murder of subject B. When confronted with this charge, the old man and his wife were both adamant that neither knew that the shotgun was loaded. The old man said it was his long-standing habit to threaten his wife with the unloaded shotgun. He had no intention to murder her - therefore, the killing of Opus appeared to be an accident. That is, the gun had been accidentally loaded. "The continuing investigation turned up a witness who saw the old couple's son loading the shotgun approximately six weeks prior to the fatal incident. It transpired that the old lady had cut off her son's financial support and the son, knowing the propensity of his father to use the shotgun threateningly, loaded the gun with the expectation that his father would shoot his mother. The case now becomes one of murder on the part of the son for the death of Ronald Opus." There was an exquisite twist. "Further investigation revealed that the son had become increasingly despondent over the failure of his attempt to engineer his mother's murder. This led him to jump off the ten-story building on March 23, only to be killed by a shotgun blast through a ninth story window. "The medical examiner closed the case as a suicide."

Turned on HTML options for this forum. Should be able to resume trying to embed YouTube videos.

Datin' forum? I've had a nude picture of myself on here forever, doesn't seem to generate much interest.

I've had enough of this also. Don't care what happens on another forum. Don't care if someone agrees with Paw or not. The person in question violated the forum rules here and was shown the door. Same would happen for anyone else doing the same. Topic closed. Further posts on the subject will just be deleted. Don't like it, go start your own forum (I'm not as gracious as Paw).

Great thread. Learned a couple things from it. Thanks.

Last I looked at their web site, it was ripe for being hacked (old versions of software, frontpage extensions, etc)-- which is probably what happened. Some kid in Korea probably took it over and started using it for his own purposes. Kind of funny if you think about it. TWI preaches diligence, taking care of what you own, everything in order, yet their web site was atrocious from a security stand point (not to mention that it looked like crap).

Funny. I could probably help them with it but I won't.

Boston to London (google.com). Be sure to note step 5 of the turn-by-turn instructions.

Go To My PC bypasses firewalls. Last company I worked at we had to blacklist them in our firewall config because people were setting it up on company PCs. Basically, the way it works is you install their software on your PC. This software initiates a connection to Go To My PC's servers. When you want to connect to your pc, you connect with GTMPC's servers, which loops you back over the open connection from your PC. You're giving GTMPC full remote access to your PC. If you trust the company and are sure they have proper security measures in place, then it's fine. But it really doesn't belong in a corporate network unless some pretty detailed NDA's and security agreements with GTMPC are in place. The reason it can bypass a firewall is because the PC initiates a connection to GTMPC over port 80. This port is supposed to be for web surfing. Web servers listen on this port and return web pages back to whichever PC requested it. GTMPC uses port 80 since it is usually open for outbound traffic on a firewalled network (so people can surf the net), but they violate it's use by allowing 3rd party traffic to come back over the connection. Even worse, that traffic has full access to the PC.

When you viewing a topic, click on the Options button (top right of the topic) and select "Switch to: Standard"

You may be underestimating the power of Google.

Put quotes around it to get an exact phrase search. "Peter Wade"

The story has since been updated and TWI put back in. New link to the article: http://www.montgomeryadvertiser.com/apps/p...0/1002/SPORTS03 Hmm...

This one's got me stumped. Got this news alert in my email today: But if you go to the article, MA sweeps Hitchcock Awards, no mention of The Way International appears. For Google to have picked up on it, it would have originally been there. The Way International is mentioned in the video of the awards presentation, which you can watch at: Amelia McCall wins Jimmy Hitchcock Memorial Award So what gives? Did she request that TWI be removed from the article? Or does Rosalie "I'm in charge" Rivenbark have a rule that TWI cannot be mentioned in a press article without it being cleared by them first -- thus the hammer coming down and they insist McCall have the paper remove mention of them? Or did the newspaper visit GreaseSpot and realize they shouldn't be promoting a cult?

svchost is a generic program loader for background services. The number you have running depends on what you have installed on your computer.

I usually use KVMs, but this looks pretty useful. I'll have to take it out for a spin.

Go to http://www.funny-potato.com/read-this.html, try to read it, and report back.

No, I'm saying, as Wikipedia states, that the word is changing meaning and losing it's former status. You have to keep on your derogatory words. The list changes frequently. Are you serious? I'd recommend looking over this: http://www.greasespotcafe.com/main2/waydal...iginal-sin.html And this: waring: Craig's language is very graphic here http://www.greasespotcafe.com/main2/waydal...mosexuals..html He gets into lesbians in the last paragraph.

Better now? For the record:

Hello I'm a Christ follower -- and I'm a TWIt.... Nice find Satori.