That is not dead which can eternal lie, and with strange aeons bring us some web forums whereupon we can gather
http://garbi.online/forum/
Perhaps we have some DC OO'ers that could come by and pretend to be clients?Skinypupy wrote:Oh, I still have to be at the event, since I'm helping to staff it. I just won't have any actual clients there.
NJ is not messing around with clowns. (insert Governor joke here)Anonymous Bosch wrote:Speaking as someone that generally considered your locale as more of a reeking hellmouth than a denizen of dipsticks, I may have to revise my opinion. But at least you can now sleep safely, knowing that the long arm of the law is taking a stand against the fiendish criminal cruelty to *animals that has apparently swept the nation.Smoove_B wrote:I know we had a clown comment in this thread last month, but I don't know if it warrants a new thread. Then again, it seems to be an issue everywhere...if I'm to believe the news. What I wasn't expecting was this message from a local police agency:
If you spot a person dressed as a clown call 911.
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As a former Cingular/AT&T Mobility rep/manager, I agree. There were managers that I wouldn't have wanted touching my account. I can only imagine the hell that is their business services.hepcat wrote:How to ruin your day.
Step 1.
Call AT&T with a question
How many times do I have to tell you that we're just friends, and I'm not interested in "seeing where things go"?hepcat wrote:How to ruin your day.
Step 1.
Call AT&T with a question
Most of Marvel's stuff has been good. The only things that lost my attention were the many faces of The Hulk and Raimi's Spiderman 3 (never saw the reboot) but none of it really stands out and makes me say "now that is a comic book movie!"GreenGoo wrote:I'm not a huge xmen fan but the first one was decent. It treated the subject matter seriously (before that was the norm) and did a decent job of it.
ImLawBoy wrote:How many times do I have to tell you that we're just friends, and I'm not interested in "seeing where things go"?hepcat wrote:How to ruin your day.
Step 1.
Call AT&T with a question
LordMortis wrote:So I'm in bed last night and thinking what are the top 5 comic book movies of all time after seeing an ad knocking Shamalamdingdong.
In no particular order I got:
Tank Girl
Unbreakable
The Dark Knight
Deadpool
And then not wanting to include Batman Begins because I already put in The Dark Knight, I come up with nothing for a fifth. The cinema has been all about comic book movies for over a decade, and I can't come up with a 5th stand out of the crowd movie.
Yes but I thought it was terrible, even at the time. Casting Bennie as the villain was also distracting, but in general I just didn't find it very good.LordMortis wrote: Could you consider Dark Man a comic book movie?
It was really good, even top notch for the Marvel efforts but it just didn't stand out as being memorable for being the best for me.Max Peck wrote:
GeenGoo wrote:it was terrible
The cinematography in Dark Man was completely comic book and there was nothing to compare it to at the time. It was everything in cinema that Burton's Batman failed to accomplish.GreenGoo wrote:Guardians didn't stand out but Dark Man is a contender for top 5?
You, sir, suck.
Sin City broke ground but for reasons I can't explain was a disappointment. I can see where others would put it up there, though. 300 really wasn't that good and Watchmen didn't even begin to feel like it was accomplishing what the graphic novel did.Max Peck wrote:Watchmen? Sin City? Or do graphic novels not count as comic books?
LordMortis wrote:
The cinematography in Dark Man was completely comic book and there was nothing to compare it to at the time. It was everything in cinema that Burton's Batman failed to accomplish.
If tiny ships being blasted get credit, why not count everybody on Alderaan?
I used to wonder whether Orwell or Huxley's dystopian vision of the future was more prescient, and most likely to come true. But now that I'm an older, wiser chap, I've increasingly come to realise one can but wonder when the new season of "Ow! My Balls!" shall begin.Smoove_B wrote:NJ is not messing around with clowns. (insert Governor joke here)Anonymous Bosch wrote:Speaking as someone that generally considered your locale as more of a reeking hellmouth than a denizen of dipsticks, I may have to revise my opinion. But at least you can now sleep safely, knowing that the long arm of the law is taking a stand against the fiendish criminal cruelty to *animals that has apparently swept the nation.Smoove_B wrote:I know we had a clown comment in this thread last month, but I don't know if it warrants a new thread. Then again, it seems to be an issue everywhere...if I'm to believe the news. What I wasn't expecting was this message from a local police agency:
If you spot a person dressed as a clown call 911.
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Just two years after the blood-testing company Theranos was valued at $9 billion, the company has announced that it will close its clinical labs and blood-test centers and cut more than 40 percent of its staff.
Theranos says it is shifting its focus to a product it calls the miniLab, with the goal of commercializing "miniaturized, automated laboratories."
The company once seemed poised to revolutionize the blood-testing industry, with low-cost tests that used only a few drops of blood. But then, "the government began to scrutinize the company after experts found that the results of the blood tests were inaccurate," as NPR's Laura Sydell has reported.
The fall from grace was dramatic. Walgreens cancelled a lucrative contract with the company in June. The following month, federal regulators told Theranos that "they will bar the company's dynamic founder and CEO Elizabeth Holmes from owning or operating a lab for at least two years," as The Two-Way has reported.
The company has appealed the ban against Holmes, which has not yet been imposed, according to The Wall Street Journal.
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The company will now "return our undivided attention to our miniLab platform," according to Holmes. The miniLab — billed as a small laboratory "capable of small-volume sample testing, with an emphasis on vulnerable patient populations" — was announced by the company in August.
When Holmes presented the new initiative at the annual meeting of the American Association for Clinical Chemistry, she "chose not to defend the company against the widespread skepticism over its testing methods," The New York Times reported.
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When the ban was announced, Theranos said it accepted "full responsibility" and "vowed to work non-stop to resolve the issues identified." As we've reported, the company denied that any patients were harmed by its tests and said Holmes would remain at the helm.
O rly?
Humble Comic BundleDaehawk wrote:I know I mentioned movies that need to be made and some of them have been. I think I said Deadpool, Dr Strange, ROM, Micronauts, and Lobo and maybe something else. Now IGN has posted a story on 80's toy franchises that need movies and two of the mare in it too..ROM and Micronauts lol.
Google map of all the recorded scary clown sightings. Stay vigilant!LordMortis wrote:
Not even the ball park. Two sets of robberies and slashing a child need to be added to SE Michigan in addition to merely creepy clown sightings that were precursors. After one the shooting today, I rather doubt too many pranksters will just hang out being creeper around here any more. Though I don't doubt the crime will continue.Smoove_B wrote:Google map of all the recorded scary clown sightings. Stay vigilant!LordMortis wrote:
On Wednesday, clown-related news dominated the region:
• Officials at a San Marcos apartment complex said they were increasing security patrols after someone reported seeing a chainsaw-carrying individual dressed as a clown Tuesday evening.
• In Austin, a 17-year-old high school student was arrested after police say he made “terroristic” clown threats on social media.
• Lake Travis school district authorities informed parents that Hudson Bend Middle School had been mentioned online as part of a wider “suspected internet and social media hoax” that “has been circulating nationally regarding comments about schools by clowns.”
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• Round Rock school district officials told parents that the Williamson County sheriff’s department “determined the threat to schools from an anonymous clown is a hoax.” The note continued: “Williamson County identified the source of the specific threat in our area and will take appropriate action.”
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On Tuesday, police at Texas State University said they were investigating an allegation that a man in a clown costume chased and a grabbed a woman who was walking out of a dormitory on Monday evening.
Also on Tuesday, Austin school district police Chief Eric Mendez wrote parents that his officers were “investigating multiple social media threats made by people dressed as clowns against several of our middle and high schools.”
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And on Monday, a Twitter user called @wisetheclown13 said he was “coming for easy targets” at Bastrop, Smithville and Cedar Creek high schools, and had a gun. Bastrop school district officials, however, said the threat was not credible but the district was operating under heightened security measures.
I hope he doesn't start trying to tell me he was expecting to be tested, and just wanted to see what it looked like - because I never told him I was sending a test, and certainly didn't tell him what it would look like (I didn't even know).
