Steve V. wrote:My girlfriend has been acting real sketchy and aloof lately. I really don't like it.

Do you know who the other dude is? It is like, a friend of yours or just like, some dude she works with?

Try and look on the bright side, if he's taking her out to eat and dancing and shit that's less cash you have to lay out on her. Plus she won't be nagging you to like, go do shit.

It's a win/win.

Well, not for you....win/win for her and the new dude....for you it kind of sucks.

dontfeartheringo wrote:

itchy mcgoo wrote:

Arson Smith wrote:PINBALL ORGY TONIGHT (AND TOMORROW NIGHT) - SOUTH ROXANA, IL - OH YEAH

http://www.riverfronttimes.com/2007-12-12/news/flipper-fanatics/ wrote:In a former woodworking shop that he bought out of foreclosure, Sanderson has created the kind of pinball playground that he and his buddies have in their homes. He collects a $10 admission with apologies and immediately points to a refrigerator that's stocked with cans of soda and Bud Light. The games, most from his own collection, are set for unlimited play.

(So apparently for $10 it's all the pinball you can stand from 6pm to Midnight and help yourself to beverages while you're at it - THIS MAN IS MY NEW HERO)

http://www.cppinball.com/

That'd be funnnnnnnnnn.

[Comic snob voice]Even if they are all new-ish games.[/Comic snob voice]

What? No KISS ALIVE? No CAPTAIN FANTASTIC?

That's not pinball, then. Sorry.

We hit the monthly pinball thing last night (and I will go again tonight).

Which leads me to saying this - I know KISS pinball, for example, gets a high nostalgia "ooh and ahh" factor for those of us of a certain age... but when is the last time you actually played one? I got to play around on one for a few minutes last summer in Las Vegas. Most likely your memories of playing KISS pinball are way cooler than actually playing KISS pinball. It's got the flashy backglass art and all that, but the actual playfield is kinda primitive and it gets old real quick (unless maybe you're some kind of old-school purist?).

Now flash forward just a few years from 1978 to 1982 and you've got something jazzy like Haunted House, which we got to spend some time on last night, and I would argue has a much higher "playability" factor "with its industry first of 3 playfields" (thanks, Wikipedia).

Depends on what you like about pinball, I guess... I like lots of shit happening all over the place... I usually prefer something with a potential for multiball craziness somewhere along the way... Fun House* still rules my world for 90's pinball (with Medieval Madness a close second)... and for the super-NEW games... laugh if you want to if this sounds "square" but I am finding that Wheel Of Fortune pinball to be super fucking addictive.

* Yes bonus points for being named "Fun House" to begin with... but also - you've got a pinball game where a ventriloquist dummy (ahem, "figure", pardon me) talks smack to you throughout the whole game, and one of the objectives is to bash it in the chin with your balls and/or stuff your balls in its mouth while it is asleep... NOW TELL ME, WHO COULDN'T GET BEHIND THAT?

"RIDE THE FERRIS WHEEL!"

I think the best pinball games are carnival-based. Just a theory.

Ty Webb wrote:"RIDE THE FERRIS WHEEL!"

I think the best pinball games are carnival-based. Just a theory.

Yea, verily - Comet and Cyclone are alfo qvite vnfvckwithabyle...

Last night I had a dream that NASA were sending me on a one man mission to space and the moon. It was incredible.

I got up this morning with a severe hangover and noticed my towel was on the floor outside the bathroom instead of on the radiator where it normally is. I figured it had fallen off the radiator.
I went to pick it up and it was soaking wet. This puzzled me, I hadn't used it.

Then the smell hit me: piss.

I did not piss on my own towel. Unlike Simmo I do not find myself in comedy piss-based situations when drunk.

My housemate gjhardwick pissed on my towel or pissed somewhere and used my towel to clean it up. There, I've said it.

Yesterday, I accepted a job at the University of Chicago, Ob/Gyn, Department of Family Planning and Contraceptive Research as a Geek.

I even argued my salary up.

If I don't blow this job off, I could really make a home for myself there.

I need to buy a car. Shit.

Edit: best moment of many: "So, you'll need to be evaluated for TB and stuff since you'll be seeing patients. They'll also do a drug test, so if we need to put that off for like, oh, five weeks, that's cool."

bumble wrote:I need to buy a car. Shit.

Faiz mentioned owning three.

Yeah, they're spoken for/not functioning well enough for Faiz to feel good about selling to me.

i received in the mail yesterday, four months late and re-posted as i have moved, a "Millennium Scholarship Bursary" from the Govt. of Canada for the amount of $7280.00. totally random free money that pays off about a third of my debt.

hopefully chicks for free will be next...

Happy Saturday y'all!