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Offline TheVirtu

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on: August 14, 2002, 04:01:22 pm
...look at the picture...

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Offline Thor

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Reply #1 on: August 14, 2002, 04:13:05 pm
ROFLOL :lol:
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Reply #2 on: August 14, 2002, 04:13:29 pm
LOL - good one. :)

Personally, I use WebWasher. I couldn't ask for more - it's great. :)
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Reply #3 on: August 14, 2002, 04:44:01 pm
:lol:


Cool my nick on IRC is also there:D

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Reply #4 on: August 14, 2002, 05:57:02 pm
I had a pop-up stopper pop-up that wouldn't go away.  I clciked close but it popped back up saying "this could be your last pop-up"  The only way I could get rid of it was to ctrl-alt-delete out of iexplorer. :mad:
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Offline WMCoolmon

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Reply #5 on: August 14, 2002, 06:00:19 pm
:lol::lol::lol::lol:
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Offline an0n

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Reply #6 on: August 14, 2002, 07:02:27 pm
There's a fine line between multi-tasking and overkill.
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Reply #7 on: August 14, 2002, 07:10:51 pm
My favorite advertisment thing was when I bought a bunch of multiple CD jewel cases and on the case it said, and I quote:

"Automatically become portable when carried."
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Offline vadar_1

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Reply #8 on: August 14, 2002, 07:36:02 pm
I dont see whats wrong with the ad... Its very effective, it annoys you with something you see constantly, and offers a solution. Its just like a carpet stain remover guy spilling a wine on your carpet then cleaning it up. You recongize something that happens constantly, and an example is put fresh in your mind, then a solution is offered.
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Offline Alikchi

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Reply #9 on: August 14, 2002, 08:44:05 pm
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Originally posted by Eishtmo
My favorite advertisment thing was when I bought a bunch of multiple CD jewel cases and on the case it said, and I quote:

"Automatically become portable when carried."


If that isn't a poorly translated Japanese thing then..whoa.
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Reply #10 on: August 14, 2002, 09:56:10 pm
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Originally posted by Sandwich
LOL - good one. :)

Personally, I use WebWasher. I couldn't ask for more - it's great. :)


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Offline Kellan

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Reply #11 on: August 15, 2002, 03:43:44 am
The most ironic Ad I ever saw was in a photograph. It was in Jerusalem, and a big billboard selling cigarettes had the headline "The Big Taste Of America". In front of the billboard an M1A1 tank was bearing down on the photographer. ;)
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Reply #12 on: August 15, 2002, 05:02:43 am
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Originally posted by Kellan
The most ironic Ad I ever saw was in a photograph. It was in Jerusalem, and a big billboard selling cigarettes had the headline "The Big Taste Of America". In front of the billboard an M1A1 tank was bearing down on the photographer. ;)


:lol: - Yeah, we get quite a few of those pics with interesting weapons of war placements ... ;)
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"The very essence of tolerance rests on the fact that we have to be intolerant of intolerance. Stretching right back to Kant, through the Frankfurt School and up to today, liberalism means that we can do anything we like as long as we don't hurt others. This means that if we are tolerant of others' intolerance - especially when that intolerance is a call for genocide - then all we are doing is allowing that intolerance to flourish, and allowing the violence that will spring from that intolerance to continue unabated." - Bren Carlill
 

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Reply #13 on: August 15, 2002, 07:22:24 am
:lol: :lol:

That's quite a lot of PoP-ups

on the other hand... that's quite a lot of windows you have there open Virtu :D
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Offline Kazashi

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Reply #14 on: August 15, 2002, 09:08:14 am
Although I can't find the link anymore, the most ironic ad, and probably the ad with the worst possible placement, that I've ever seen was an ad for Iomega products. They were advertising a burner with the catch phrase "Burn, Baby, Burn". Unfortunately, the banner was placed on top of a local news story about a baby being killed in a house fire....
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Reply #15 on: August 15, 2002, 09:13:53 am
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Originally posted by Kazashi
Although I can't find the link anymore, the most ironic ad, and probably the ad with the worst possible placement, that I've ever seen was an ad for Iomega products. They were advertising a burner with the catch phrase "Burn, Baby, Burn". Unfortunately, the banner was placed on top of a local news story about a baby being killed in a house fire....


:(
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Reply #16 on: August 15, 2002, 10:38:26 pm
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Originally posted by Kazashi
Although I can't find the link anymore, the most ironic ad, and probably the ad with the worst possible placement, that I've ever seen was an ad for Iomega products. They were advertising a burner with the catch phrase "Burn, Baby, Burn". Unfortunately, the banner was placed on top of a local news story about a baby being killed in a house fire....


OMFG!!! LOL!!!!  ROFLOL!!! HAAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!


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Reply #17 on: August 16, 2002, 04:28:13 am
Oh.... My.... God... What a screw up! :lol::lol:
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Reply #18 on: August 16, 2002, 04:56:26 am
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Originally posted by Kazashi
Although I can't find the link anymore, the most ironic ad, and probably the ad with the worst possible placement, that I've ever seen was an ad for Iomega products. They were advertising a burner with the catch phrase "Burn, Baby, Burn". Unfortunately, the banner was placed on top of a local news story about a baby being killed in a house fire....


.......Ouch...!:shaking: :eek2:
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"The very essence of tolerance rests on the fact that we have to be intolerant of intolerance. Stretching right back to Kant, through the Frankfurt School and up to today, liberalism means that we can do anything we like as long as we don't hurt others. This means that if we are tolerant of others' intolerance - especially when that intolerance is a call for genocide - then all we are doing is allowing that intolerance to flourish, and allowing the violence that will spring from that intolerance to continue unabated." - Bren Carlill
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