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RKS

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I can make money open up a thrift store
I can make a living off a magazine
I can design an engine sixty four
Miles to a gallon of gasoline
I can make new antibiotics
I can make computers survive aquatic conditions
I know how to run a business
And I can make you wanna buy a product
Movers shakers and producers
Me and my friends understand the future
I see the strings that control the systems
I can do anything with no assistance
I can show you how to do-si-do
I can show you how to scratch a record
I can take apart the remote control
And I can almost put it back together
I can tie a knot in a cherry stem
I can tell you about Leif Ericson
I know all the words to "De Colores"
And "I'm Proud to be an American"
I can lead a nation with a microphone
With a microphone
With a microphone
I can split the atoms of a molecule
Of a molecule
Of a molecule
Look at me
Look at me
Driving and I won't stop
And it feels so good to be
Alive and on top
My reach is global
My tower secure
My cause is noble
My power is pure
I can hand out a million vaccinations
Or let'em all die in exasperation
Have'em all healed of their lacerations
Have'em all killed by assassination
I can make anybody go to prison
Just because I don't like'em and
I can do anything with no permission
I have it all under my command
I can guide a missile by satellite
By satellite
By satellite
and I can hit a target through a telescope
Through a telescope
Through a telescope
and I can end the planet in a holocaust
In a holocaust
In a holocaust
In a holocaust
In a holocaust
In a holocaust

I can ride my bike with no handlebars
 

LordMorpheus

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I'm working on a Ph.D. in engineering, so I'd say a whole lot of math and engineering.

Also I can fix cars.
 

lxskllr

No Lifer
Nov 30, 2004
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Originally posted by: CoinOperatedBoy

I used to play the uilleann pipes.

Very cool. I'd love to play those, but I'm not very good at music. A full set of uilleanns are amazing to listen to though. I've wanted to hear someone use them in a non Irish musical setting. With the right mic setup, and some digital effects, it would sound great as a synth replacement for electronic music.

How come you got out of playing?
 

lxskllr

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Nov 30, 2004
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Originally posted by: Fritzo
I know how to make haggas.


I'm not kidding.

haggis...

I've never had that. I'm funny about eating internal organs, and weird stuff from animals. I'd try it if I went to Scotland though.
 

kalrith

Diamond Member
Aug 22, 2005
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Computer knowledge
Business knowledge
Bible knowledge
[sarcasm]Beer knowledge[/sarcasm]
 

rbV5

Lifer
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all kinds of stuff....Whats REALLY in the water.....where I hid the bodies.....how to smoke meat...
 

CoinOperatedBoy

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Originally posted by: lxskllr
Originally posted by: CoinOperatedBoy

I used to play the uilleann pipes.

Very cool. I'd love to play those, but I'm not very good at music. A full set of uilleanns are amazing to listen to though. I've wanted to hear someone use them in a non Irish musical setting. With the right mic setup, and some digital effects, it would sound great as a synth replacement for electronic music.

How come you got out of playing?

The pipes were an expensive investment, both in terms of money and time. I ran out of both during college, not to mention the fact that the pipes are loud and especially obnoxious in the hands of a beginner (even without drones and resonators). Neighbors weren't appreciative.

A pretty awesome instrument, though. I would take it up again given the chance.
 

funkymatt

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most recently, the difference between RAID arrays. this is something some of our IT department is having problems with. RAID6 should not bring your volume size down 45%
 

Firsttime

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I have a decent amount of knowledge relating to musical equipment, particularly guitars/basses and amps/effects. I don't meet very many average people who can carry on a conversation about that stuff haha. I can weld and stuff too.
 

hanoverphist

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Dec 7, 2006
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modbus messaging.

and all kinds of industrial-specific programming, process and equipment information.

also most everything for my degree in digital animation production. average people dont really know specialized information.
 

Mday

Lifer
Oct 14, 1999
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Average person, as in, across the whole world? Everything during and after high school.
 

shortylickens

No Lifer
Jul 15, 2003
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In order to properly stimulate the prostate, you have to push real hard on that little triangle shaped divot in the forward part of the rectum.