
ever since Nick got a text message from his friend saying "Nick, you're a shit midas. Do you know what that means? You know king midas, everything he touched turned to gold? Well everything you touch turns to shit!"
Our rule is that the insult is not complete unless you say "do you know what that means?" right after. :-P
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Our rule is that the insult is not complete unless you say "do you know what that means?" right after. :-P

Gronkpan's "future winner" remains one of my personal faves. I like it because it pretends to be kind.
www.b3ta.com/board/7066511
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www.b3ta.com/board/7066511

"I walked past him in the street and he was pretending to drive a bus while he went around a corner"
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i think i might actually do this one, just to annoy him... we only have a week left here anyway
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it's funny exactly as it is, seriously. When's the last time a worth1000 image made you laugh out loud? You'd probably just think "that's clever".
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have that green stripe just left of top centre?
it's not on the original, as far as i remember
/dull-as-shite blog
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it's not on the original, as far as i remember
/dull-as-shite blog

they're entertaining to read, to be sure... but they all have the same plot skeletons (ESPECIALLY angels and demons vs. the da vinci code)
Digital Fortress was pretty good.
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Digital Fortress was pretty good.

- a fun if unoriginal premise
- a cracking plot (for, as you say, an airport book)
unfotunately it was:
- so badly written that at times I dropped out of the literary trance that books drop you into because I noticed a particularly poor piece of prose. I am by no means a great writer or particularly discerning reader, but that book had some shit passages in it.
please take a ticket and wait for number to be called if you wish to laugh at the words "shit passages"
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- a cracking plot (for, as you say, an airport book)
unfotunately it was:
- so badly written that at times I dropped out of the literary trance that books drop you into because I noticed a particularly poor piece of prose. I am by no means a great writer or particularly discerning reader, but that book had some shit passages in it.
please take a ticket and wait for number to be called if you wish to laugh at the words "shit passages"

i never thought i'd ever see or hear that sentence.
the problem with Dan Brown books, is that he has no idea how any technology works. therefore all his books are riddled with errors regarding computers.
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the problem with Dan Brown books, is that he has no idea how any technology works. therefore all his books are riddled with errors regarding computers.

"People typing away on a computer will turn it off without saving the data. (See the opening credits for The Hunt For Red October) "
anachronistic at the time... but "hibernate" on any windows laptop now.
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anachronistic at the time... but "hibernate" on any windows laptop now.

most of it is tapping on keyboards with no thought for where the letters actually are...
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the most glaring error in it is at "Heathrow"...
all the cars have British plates, but are driving on the wrong side of the road!
another one from war games: after he severs the connection with joshua, his screen keeps updating the time to launch.
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all the cars have British plates, but are driving on the wrong side of the road!
another one from war games: after he severs the connection with joshua, his screen keeps updating the time to launch.

...is calculating the time based on the launch time.
How his display turns from raster to vector is the real mystery. Uber leet 80s video card?
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How his display turns from raster to vector is the real mystery. Uber leet 80s video card?

it's dan brown. the shameless appearance of factual accuracy is what's important
s'why I always point and laugh at fundamentalists that protested the da vinci code movie... it's just fucking fiction
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s'why I always point and laugh at fundamentalists that protested the da vinci code movie... it's just fucking fiction

Problem is, some people actually believe it and get the wrong idea.
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teams up with a beautiful female scientist?
to save the world from a conspiracy!
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to save the world from a conspiracy!

Now I know who you mean... I don't think there's any danger of Dan Brown having any new ideas, since he didn't have any of those ideas in the first place. They were all copied from other sources.
Edit: dammit, mindpissed
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Edit: dammit, mindpissed

it's a interesting question. I do think the original is damaged there. Some pics on the net show what looks like a crease, crack or tear just there, and others show the green stripe.
My guess: someone ineptly tried to digitally remove the crease and the badly shopped copy has been propogated over the web.
I'd be genuinely interested to know the real reason though.
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My guess: someone ineptly tried to digitally remove the crease and the badly shopped copy has been propogated over the web.
I'd be genuinely interested to know the real reason though.

Shit.
i'll have to amend the 4,000 forgeries in the cellar
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i'll have to amend the 4,000 forgeries in the cellar

see Doctor Who "City of Death"
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