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OT: Make your predictions and then say if you believe them.

post #1 of 25
12/14/06 at 8:09pm
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Prediction:
Zune will be hacked to xbox-like usefullness (sending any ole mp3, such).
Do I believe it?
Sorta.
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post #2 of 25
12/15/06 at 7:41am
Prediction:
Democratic Senators and Congressmen from states with Republican Governors will keep succumbing to unusual illnesses until the Republican majority is restored...
Do I believe it?
Doesn't matter - they do!
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post #3 of 25
12/15/06 at 11:29am
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Originally Posted by nded View Post

Prediction:
Democratic Senators and Congressmen from states with Republican Governors will keep succumbing to unusual illnesses until the Republican majority is restored...
Do I believe it?
Doesn't matter - they do!

Happens the other way too... Remember Paul Coverdale (R: Georgia)
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post #4 of 25
12/15/06 at 1:00pm
Prediction:
DNNA will abandon RTV PC Edition by end of next year due to lack of consumer interest (and features). Believable? Maybe.
Subs for existing Replays will be cut off (or sold off) as of the analog-to-digital switch date in 2009. Believable? Hmmm....
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post #5 of 25
12/15/06 at 6:25pm
People really do care about price of a console and the Wii will do great despite being inferior in almost every way...
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post #6 of 25
12/15/06 at 6:39pm
Santa Claus is real and the Reindeer DO fly.

HELL YEAH!
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post #7 of 25
12/16/06 at 4:25pm
The Cubs will win the World Series.

-No
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post #8 of 25
12/16/06 at 6:35pm
Gators over the Buckeyes 21-17

-Not really
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post #9 of 25
12/16/06 at 6:45pm
Prediction:
Bose will one day come out with a decent product.

Do I believe it?
When hell freezes over I might.
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post #10 of 25
12/17/06 at 4:47am
icecow's postcount will break 7,000 in '07.

-Sure bet.
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post #11 of 25
2/7/07 at 2:20pm
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Originally Posted by icecow View Post

I hope the plan covers spilled grape juice.

I had to look that one up for myself.
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post #12 of 25
2/7/07 at 2:39pm
Pediction: This forum will cease having useful posts and will be filled with useless/meaningless threads like "Will you click green links" and meaningless replies like "42"

believe it: It's already happening.
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post #13 of 25
2/7/07 at 2:55pm
It doesn't take a prediction to know this subforum is headed in the same direction as ReplayTV.

But in the nearterm we still have icecow and the Senior Curmudgeon.
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post #14 of 25
2/7/07 at 6:22pm
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My ear is numbered
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post #15 of 25
2/8/07 at 9:13am
I think the worst part is, when you actually ask a question in those threads like I did asking what green links are / are about you don't even get replies.

It's like some inside joke that a bunch of people are laughing at and you are on the outside. Some of you may find it funny, but after you've had your initial fun at least let the rest of us in on the joke. Otherwise it's just rude and makes me not want to bother coming back to this subforum at all, and in particular it makes me leary of reading threads started by certain people.
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post #16 of 25
2/8/07 at 9:46am
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Originally Posted by djdementia View Post

...It's like some inside joke that a bunch of people are laughing at and you are on the outside. Some of you may find it funny, but after you've had your initial fun at least let the rest of us in on the joke.

Because that's probably what it is. Sorry you feel on the outside. But it's one of those things (kind of like Lost) where you had to be there, and get the references, to appreciate it. This subforum has been like that almost since the last millennium.

The only easy answer? I'm sure you were familiar with 42.

The little green links? Your guess is as good as mine... but I have to say I enjoyed the mystery. Got me to thinking. I too am leaning toward the (herbivoratious) green snow theory.

Don't even get me started on Zimbabwe!

(I'd say just relax put a dozen people on *ignore* and carry on)
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post #17 of 25
2/8/07 at 10:22am
Well usually when i'm with my coworkers and someone makes a refrence to an 'inside joke' and one person doesn't get it and asks what the joke is about... we clue him in. We don't just act like we are a bunch of superior people because we 'get it' and he doesn't.

It's elitest and frustrating.
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post #18 of 25
2/8/07 at 10:36am
Frustrating? Yes. Elitist, Superior? I suspect not.

(sum it up most succinctly: Clueless)

I mean if there was a Clue to spare, I'm sure it would usually be forthcoming.
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post #19 of 25
2/8/07 at 11:02am
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I said in the 3rd link or so I wasn't clear what green links were--it's an abstraction looking for concretion (if that's a word), and sorry I didn't thank you for your good info in the NAS thread. I thanked a few people before realizing if I continued to individual thank everyone it would turn in to a weird thanking ceremony.

There's no inside jokes here except 'zimbabwe' and I've yet to infiltrate the ranks. When I respond 'zimbabwe' people just ignore me, and if I put 'zimbabwe' in a poll it gets an unusually lower number of votes than when some elitist like BaysideBas put puts zimbabwe in his poll.

And if it helps, I understand less than half of KenL's references. I hope people understand most of mine.
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post #20 of 25
2/8/07 at 11:22am
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Furthermore, I accuse KenL's of making me look like a big inside joke with his zealotness. Oh sure I like to see myself lit up in headlights, but it's not all about me.
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post #21 of 25
2/8/07 at 8:36pm
Switch to digital in 2009 will be wildly optomistic, government lets the free market decide when to switch all by itself...
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post #22 of 25
2/8/07 at 10:33pm
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Originally Posted by icecow View Post

...Oh sure I like to see myself lit up in headlights, but...

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post #23 of 25
2/8/07 at 11:09pm
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I was thinking more along the lines of a stage set up in front of a drive-in theater.
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post #24 of 25
2/9/07 at 11:05pm
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Originally Posted by KenL View Post

(I'd say just relax put a dozen people on *ignore* and carry on)

a dozen?? how many cats do you own?
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post #25 of 25
2/12/07 at 12:46am
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Originally Posted by icecow View Post

...There's no inside jokes here except 'zimbabwe' and I've yet to infiltrate the ranks. When I respond 'zimbabwe' people just ignore me, and if I put 'zimbabwe' in a poll it gets an unusually lower number of votes than when some elitist like BaysideBas put puts zimbabwe in his poll...

I don't offhand recall the Senior Curmudgeon putting Zimbabwe! in his poll. Perhaps you were thinking of the AVS Special Amphisbaenia?



And file this under: hiding under the pot to call the kettle black
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Originally Posted by icecow View Post

Beware of Zimbabwe references (a country in africa that isnt doing too well. English speaking, 70% christian, aids problem, rhino poaching problem, inflation problem...), especially the polls.

Other references I can't figure out:
>Soylent Green(see status bar) (I do understand the joke).
>Cudgeonmon(a cranky old person, there's some tripping web board related to it).
>ankle biting (possibly discontinued with the nonsense..I mean absense of the founder of the reference(dude split)

If you ever figure anything out let me know.

The forum also seems to be sensitive to 'post padding' whose definition reaches beyond meaning short "hi", "uh huh", "really?" posts. It also includes leaving more then one reply in a row even if you are responding to different posts and it logically makes sense to break down the replies into different posts.

wait. disregard everything I said. You're on your own.

How quickly the swamp is on the other hoof?
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