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[Onime No Kyo]

I was watching Dirty Jobs last night where Mike Rowe went to some zoo to commune with penguins. It seems that penguins are ornery creatures that poop everywhere....who knew. [:D][;)]

[fabertong]

ORIGINAL: Onime No Kyo

I was watching Dirty Jobs last night where Mike Rowe went to some zoo to commune with penguins. It seems that penguins are ornery creatures that poop everywhere....who knew. [:D][;)]

Propaganda.............

[DuckofTindalos]

Notice how he didn't deny it...[:D][:'(]

[BrucePowers]

Home from a long day at work tithe[:)]

[BrucePowers]

Good evening Robert.

[rtrapasso]

Working the weekends again??

[rtrapasso]

i MIGHT have fixed my computer - i am hoping so - at least the 30 minute boot cycle is gone...

[BrucePowers]

Yes.[:)]

[BrucePowers]

So, who won the football games today?

[BrucePowers]

How much did you have to take off of your computer to correct that?

[rtrapasso]

ORIGINAL: BrucePowers

So, who won the football games today?

No idea... i gave up watching football some years ago...

[rtrapasso]

ORIGINAL: BrucePowers

How much did you have to take off of your computer to correct that?

I took off 5 or 6 programs - the big difference came when i removed everything from the STARTUP folder...

[rtrapasso]

Here's something for your amusement:

"
Yes, it's that magical time of the year again when the Darwin Awards are bestowed, honoring the least evolved among us. Here then, are the glorious winners:

1. When his 38-caliber revolver failed to fire at his intended victim during a hold-up in Long Beach, California, would-be robber James Elliot did something that can only inspire wonder. He peered down the barrel and tried the trigger again. This time it worked.....

And now, the honorable mentions:

2. The chef at a hotel in Switzerland lost a finger in a meat-cutting machine and, after a little shopping around, submitted a claim to his insurance company. The company expecting negligence sent out one of its men to have a look for himself. He tried the machine and he also lost a finger. The chef's claim was approved.

3. A man who shoveled snow for an hour to clear a space for his car during a blizzard in Chicago returned with his vehicle to find a woman had taken the space. Understandably, he shot her.

4. After stopping for drinks at an illegal bar, a Zimbabwean bus driver found that the 20 mental patients he was supposed to be transporting from Harare to Bulawayo had escaped. Not wanting to admit his incompetence, the driver went to a nearby bus stop and offered everyone waiting there a free ride. He then delivered the passengers to the mental hospital, telling the staff that the patients were very excitable and prone to bizarre fantasies. The deception wasn't discovered for 3 days.

5. An American teenager was in the hospital recovering from serious head wounds received from an oncoming train. When asked how he received the injuries, the lad told police that he was simply trying to see how close he could get his head to a moving train before he was hit.

6. A man walked into a Louisiana Circle-K, put a $20 bill on the counter, and asked for change. When the clerk opened the cash drawer, he man pulled a gun and asked for all the cash in the register, which the clerk promptly provided. The man took the cash from the clerk and fled, leaving the $20 bill on the counter. The total amount of cash he got from the drawer...$15. (If someone points a gun at you and gives you money, is a crime committed?)

7. Seems an Arkansas guy wanted some beer pretty badly. He decided that he'd just throw a cinderblock through a liquor store window, grab some booze, and run. So he lifted the cinderblock and heaved it over his head at the window. The cinderblock bounced back and hit the would-be thief on the head, knocking him unconscious. The liquor store window was made of Plexiglas. The whole event was caught on videotape.

8. As a female shopper exited a New York convenience store, a man grabbed her purse and ran. The clerk called 911 immediately, and the woman was able to give them a detailed description of the snatcher. Within minutes, the police apprehended the snatcher. They put him in the car and drove back to the store. The thief was then taken out of the car and told to stand there for a positive ID. To which he replied, "Yes, officer, that's her. That's the lady I stole the purse from."

9. The Ann Arbor News crime column reported that a man walked into a Burger King in Ypsilanti, Michigan, at 5 A.M., flashed a gun, and demanded cash. The clerk turned him down because he said he couldn't open the cash register without a food order. When the man ordered onion rings, the clerk said they weren't available for breakfast. The man, frustrated, walked away.

***A 5-STAR STUPIDITY AWARD WINNER***

10. When a man attempted to siphon gasoline from a motor home parked on a Seattle street, he got much more than he bargained for. Police arrived at the scene to find a very sick man curled up next to a motor home near spilled sewage. A police spokesman said that the man admitted to trying to steal gasoline and plugged his siphon hose into the motor home's sewage tank by mistake. The owner of the vehicle declined to press charges, saying that it was the best laugh he'd ever had.

In the interest of bettering human kind please share these with your friends and family .... unless of course one of these individuals by chance is a distant relative or long lost friend. In that case be glad they are distant and hope they remain lost.

****** Remember ... they walk among us! ******"

[rtrapasso]

Note especially this last one:

When a man attempted to siphon gasoline from a motor home parked on a Seattle street, he got much more than he bargained for. Police arrived at the scene to find a very sick man curled up next to a motor home near spilled sewage. A police spokesman said that the man admitted to trying to steal gasoline and plugged his siphon hose into the motor home's sewage tank by mistake. The owner of the vehicle declined to press charges, saying that it was the best laugh he'd ever had.

Hmm - the guy wasn't arrested... could it be someone we know???

[BrucePowers]

No No Nik lives in Fleattle[:D]

[BrucePowers]

ORIGINAL: rtrapasso

ORIGINAL: BrucePowers

So, who won the football games today?

No idea... i gave up watching football some years ago...

I don't watch it. I just follow the scores sometimes.[:)]

[BrucePowers]

Where is the startup folder? There are some things I would like to remove, like realplayer.

[rtrapasso]

ORIGINAL: BrucePowers

Where is the startup folder? There are some things I would like to remove, like realplayer.

Well, there are various ones... the best way is to run a SEARCH for "START*" and then check the various results. i think the one i was concerned with was in "\Documents and Settings\All Users\Start Menu\Programs" - i created a new folder and moved the unwanted icons into it.

Another possibility is to right click on the Realplayer icon in the bottom "tray" and see if there is an option to not run it on startup.

[BrucePowers]

Realplayer does not like to be ignored.

[rtrapasso]

ORIGINAL: BrucePowers

Realplayer does not like to be ignored.

[:D] [:D]
True enough... it used to be even worse, but they did modify it. At one point when the program was much younger, i resorted to deleting the thing. Later versions were not as intrusive, but it is still pretty bad. i forget what i did to make sure it didn't start, but i finally did manage it (some time ago). i might have deleted it from the STARTUP folder as well