snoopy7548
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I've never had any Oreos besides the original flavor and Double Stuf, but every other flavor is just a cheap knock-off that tastes like crap IMO.
Yep. They got it right the first time and everything since then has been worse.
General Mills has invented like 100 new flavors of Cheerios since they started selling Honey Nut 40 years ago and those have all been worse too.
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IronWing
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The game cartridges that shipped with the original Odyssey video game contained no software, firmware, or circuit boards. The prototype console had a row of dip switches that the user was expected to flip to various configurations to enable different circuits within the console to play each game. Magnavox decided that the switches would confuse customers and replaced them with the cartridges which were nothing more than contact strips, each connecting the same circuits as the switches did.
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I did know this.
Kinda crazy when you think about it, since one of the cartridges was for a light gun game (fundamentally different game/controller than the others).Edit: I only have an Odyssey 2000 and an Odyssey² in my collection. Still need that original!
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IronWing
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I think my parents got rid of their Odyssey console when they moved in ~2003. I can ask my mom. They’ve kept more useless stuff longer.I did know this.
Edit: I only have an Odyssey 200 and an Odyssey² in my collection. Still need that original!
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Almost bought one in the box last year but ended up buying a bunch of other stuff from the guy instead. Hey, if you/they don't want I'll gladly make an offer.
Erland van Lidth is the actor who played the role of giant inmate Grossberger in the Richard Pryor and Gene Wilder classic "Stir Crazy". In addition to his acting career he was an Olympic caliber wrestler and a professional opera singer. The little known fact is that he graduated from MIT with a B.S. in Computer Science and Electrical Engineering. You can't see it well, but in this screen cap he's wearing his MIT class ring on his right hand. It's more clearly visible in a scene in the prison kitchen, but I wasn't able to find a good picture. Second fun fact is that he's famous for singing "Down in the Valley" in the movie and despite being a professional singer he didn't actually sing the song. He recorded his version, but an actor's strike prevented that cut from being used and another singer did the voice over.
He died in 1987 at age 34 shortly after filming "The Running Man". He did his own singing there, that's a cut from The Marriage of Figaro.
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Same reason the Caribbean and Mexico are busy during winters....beaches and warm weather, a little culture, great food.
Also it's cheap...
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I know a guy from Thailand and he's recommended going. I just had no idea how popular it was. I've never been out of the US (aside from Canadian trips when I was a kid), but I'd love to try traveling at some point. I don't even have a passport. Maybe I'll have to actually go sometime, but I don't know how fun it would be traveling alone.
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Same reason the Caribbean and Mexico are busy during winters....beaches and warm weather, a little culture, great food.
Also it's cheap...
Don't forget the ladyboys...
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I heard Thai weed is the best, that gets my vote if i ever go there!
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Sex changes and ladyboys.
I kid, but tourism of all kinds is huge there but the volume of medical tourism and sex tourism can't be ignored. Also, I'm told Chinese can go there even without a passport and can live there without a visa or something.
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Sounds a lot like school. "We do we have to do this and how does it apply to real life?" "Because it's in the curriculum".
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Depends on where you go to school.
In Minnesota public schools they actually taught us a lot that could be used in your life or job, provided you had higher aspirations than flipping burgers or shoveling manure. When I left home and joined the world I was surprised at how crappy most public education is in America and how little regard people have for it. Thats not the way a developed nation should operate.
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i wouldn't want to be caught with it though....unless you'd like to 'donate' a whole bunch of cash to the cops/sellers
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