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I say go for an old, run-down warehouse type setting, but play down your interests of sprucing the place up. If the landlord/seller sees a general lack of interest, he or she would be less likely to hold out for more dough. Play up any major damages, but don't itemize them in terms of a discount.

My family wound up getting the house we currently live in for less than half of the asking price because we thought it was such a dump. Nobody brought up the fact that for still cheaper than the asking price, we could totally makeover the place. We just poked at the stained carpetting and had a good chuckle when I slipped and fell on the wooden back deck (which was rotted and falling apart).

What the hell is my point? A young couple had put in a bid on the house not a week or two before we did, offering $350k as opposed to the asking $375k (which, in my neighborhood, is about the average price of a house). They thought this house was fabulous, just perfect for starting a family of their own in. The seller turned them down. My dad commented to the seller that the house was a bit of a shithole and looked to have had no repairs for the last 20 years that it had been rented out. He offered $160k and the bastard took it! Add roughly $40k in repairs (not all of which were neccessary- new hardwood floors, screened enclosure added) and we had a very nice house.

So, there's my real estate advice for the day. Find yourself a fixer-upper, but don't get too excited in front of the agent.

Frosted Chocolate Fudge is GOD, yo!
*happily chewing on one such Pop Tart as we speak*

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If you have AIM then invite yourself to NG is ghey right now.

You expect better conversation on a Sunday night?

At 9/11/02 03:11 PM, Fatboy_ wrote:

At 9/11/02 03:04 PM, MissTwidge wrote: In response to Fatboy: I'd rather not be born at all, actually.
-Allison

But you do not have the choice, it is the parents. so of the two, which would be your preference?

I'd rather adopt or just have no children, period. I wouldn't want to be the one who actually brought the child into the world.

At 9/11/02 02:58 PM, sirevil1024 wrote:

At 9/11/02 02:38 PM, MissTwidge wrote: I was thinking about this today, while looking at archive footage of the 9/11 attacks this morning on Fox News.
I had always told myself that I wanted to have kids some day, but I seem to have left that idea for the birds. I mean, why would anyone willingly bring a child into the world today?
I see pregnant women strolling around grocery stores and shopping malls and think, "I hope to God that was a mistake on your part."
Am I alone in thinking this?
-Allison

If you want to have a kid you can, but it would be best in your mid 20's to have one.

Actually, the average woman's body is in its prime for a baby-squeezing good time at about 18.
I'm not saying I want a family this very instant- I'm not even dating anyone, much less engaged/married/doing anything that would prompt me to think about having babies. I just know that if I were married right now, I would do everything in my powers to keep myself from bringing another human being into this mess.
In response to Fatboy_: I'd rather not be born at all, actually.
-Allison

At 9/11/02 08:44 AM, Fatboy_ wrote: You know the deal, what were you doing when you heard 'The news' one year ago?
I myself had just finished bowling. actually. Now I think about it the first plane must have hit just as I was leaving...

I had just popped into the NG chat to see what was happening and was greeted with,
"MissTwidge: You're American. So what do you think about this disaster?"
Me: "Think about what?"
Other Chatter: "TURN YOUR TV ON RIGHT NOW!"
I tuned in pretty early on- got to see the second plane hit, and all the mayhem that followed.
Pretty scary stuff then, and I was just as disturbed watching the archive footage this morning.
-Allison

I was thinking about this today, while looking at archive footage of the 9/11 attacks this morning on Fox News.
I had always told myself that I wanted to have kids some day, but I seem to have left that idea for the birds. I mean, why would anyone willingly bring a child into the world today?
I see pregnant women strolling around grocery stores and shopping malls and think, "I hope to God that was a mistake on your part."
Am I alone in thinking this?
-Allison

At 1/7/02 10:31 PM, Superabound wrote:


Well im sorry youre too fucking lazy to actually READ the goddamn thread before you put your unwanted 2 cents in, if you had you would know what the fuck the situation was. Fucking listen for a change.

You chat people are all alike, you never bother to read up before you open your traps.

Terribly sorry. I'll keep in mind next time that the basics of how IRC works are strictly objective. I never made any opinion-based statements directed at you in my original response. I was trying to HELP. A simple, "I already know this. Thanks anyway." would have been more than appropriate, or simply not replying at all. It's not like I started with, "Okay, idiot-boy. Listen. This is how thr NG chat works in compliance with IRC..."
-Allison

At 1/7/02 10:26 PM, traekwon_ wrote:
oh no, I make a habit of lying. didn't you know?

1) I didn't accuse you of lying and
2) I don't keep every kick written down. Sometimes I like to have my memory refreshed. Possibly you were warned beforehand by another operator?
Trae, you've hated me for as long as I can remember and I have no recollection of why. Sorry to say, but my opinion of any of your claims is so biased that it almost hurts.

At 1/7/02 10:23 PM, traekwon_ wrote:

That's funny, traekwon. I haven't seen you in there in months. Have you a log of this?

At 1/7/02 04:16 PM, Superabound wrote:
First of all, i would like to say that i am so infalliable it hurts. The successful removal of the VOPs (at my suggestion) did EXACTLY what i wanted it to. Props to me.

Props to Wade. How often have you been on the channel since this incident? The whole vOP thing was directed at whiteguyz, who was a vOP when we still had the list.

Also, i would like to clarify this "nick stealing" fiasco once and for all, since for some reason none of you can read:

I FUCKING KNOW HOW IRC WORKS. I KNOW. Ive used it MANY times before.

Well, I saw no evidence of this in any previous posts. Please calm down, as I was trying to be friendly and explain this to you, as 99.9% of daily visitors in the chat are Java users, most of whom do not know who or what IRC is. Nick-regging is something the OPs try to keep a lid on, however, there is little we can do if no one is ghosting you and the registering doesn't happen while you're on the channel, as there is no immediate finger pointing to the culprit (wheras with ghosting, we can crawl someone's ass ASAP and tell them to de-reg the nick).
I'm guessing you either bumped into one of our frequent nick-reggers (who are punished, if not a-kicked for ghosting/regging), or you rubbed off on someone the wrong damned way.
Judging from your fucktard reply to my friendly/helpful reply (terribly fucking sorry if I was not aware that you were an IRC guru), I'm guessing it was the latter of the two.
Jesus, I try to help clear things up for another user who is irate with the chat in an effort to make him or her feel welcome to come back and visit again and this is the thanks I get.
-Allison
P.S.- Impersonation is when you mimick or steal an already registered nick (i.e., coming onto the channel as Wade_Fulp or W@deFulp)(bottom line: you didn't reg it first. While I am in no way defending the nick-stealer's actions, there wasn't anything to steal). Ghosting/nick-regging isn't in the NG rules, but believe me, we're probably more strict on that than we are regular NG rules.

At 12/5/01 02:36 PM, whiteguyz wrote: Hell, go with the topic. Just shut down the chat. All the vops are removed and scripts are against the law, or some shit. I don't even care anymore.

And that's the reason why you won't chat? Because you have no visible status, nor can your computer tell us what MP3 you're playing?
Come on.
vOPs don't do anything, other than denote importance. I think the deletion of the vOPs really showed some true colors, amongst both vOPs, regulars, and OPs.
A lot of folks packed up and jumped ship as soon as they no longer had any special status, which pretty much weeded out the chatters from the status whores.
yeah, I know what your thinking, "Quoth the operator...", but it's true. Once the vOPs list was trashed, a lot of people who were in there every single day just stopped showing up. Like they had no reason to be in there if they hadn't a + beside their name.
It's not like we stopped recognizing people since the vOPs list was canned. 2 new OPs have been added since (EastFatal and BadMeetsEvil-). It's pretty sad, but again, it showed some true colors.
As for Superabound: Did you ever fully understand the bit with names being registered on IRC?
If not, I'll explain a little (I don't think I was in when you were on, so I'm removed from the situation).
Your name, Superabound, is registered on the Newgrounds.com website. It's for your NG account, and no other account.
The Newgrounds chat is run on a program called IRC, which is not affiliated with Newgrounds. IRC has thousands of users, and apparently someone beat you to the nick name Superabound.
No one in the chat room, not even the red spiders, changed your nick. It's automatically taken care of by the IRC program.
For example, let's say you come into the room under the name MissTwidge. You'll be given 60 seconds notice to give the program my password before your nick is changed into Guest1234 (numbers vary).
I had my name MissTwidge on NG, but when I went onto the chat, I had to perform a separate registration of the nick through IRC. Had someone already taken the name MissTwidge, I'd have been shit outta luck.
Does this make any sense at all?
-Allison

At 1/7/02 03:55 AM, Anarchy_Penguin wrote: That's pretty sick. I never thought that Copy cat's would do something like THAT.

I wouldn't call it a copy-cat so much as I would call it an "inspired suicide". Pretty creative, if you ask me, but whatever happened to a simple gun to the head? If you want to off yourself, leave the Bank of America building out of it and don't crash a plane that isn't your's (the kid was waiting for his flight instructor to arrive when he sacked the plane).
Osama pity or not (he never said Osama was "cool", but only said that he felt bad for the guy), the kid had issues and wanted to end his life.
We can be thankful that his genes have been removed from the pool.
-Allison, a Tampa native

At 9/25/01 08:29 AM, EvilGeishaWoman wrote:

Don't you DEAR WOMAN me, Twidgy.You always were an arrogant prick, like Taekwon said.

Alright, the dear woman thing is a term. Rather than refer to you as a child, a pet, a pretty, or whatever, I said woman. You're 18? 19? 20? Exactly. A woman. If you wish to be referred to as "girl", I will be happy to oblige.
I replied the way I did because you got rather defensive- nothing to defend. I'm not attacking.
Geisha, you've hardly interacted with me. I hardly post. Since you've decided I'm an arrogant prick and I've deduced that you're gay, let's call it even.
Though, on a side note, since I honestly don't know you, I'd like to add a little something.
Geisha, I can honestly say I've never been a huge supporter of your's. I'm not anti-Geisha, but I haven't exactly signed up for your fan club.
The first time I was ever aware of your existance was your first (and one of few) visits to the chat. Your first action was to beg Wade for OPs. First impressions are lasting and I was none too impressed.
While I fully believe in second and third and fourth chances, you've yet to demonstrate any redeeming qualities.

-Twidge

At 9/24/01 12:55 PM, traekwonz wrote:

MissTwidge = stewpid, and there's nothing humble about you, you've always been a self-righteous prig.

Ah, I can always count on you for such insight, traekwonz. How is it that I'm self righteous when you've read maybe 3 posts of mine?

At 9/20/01 11:59 AM, EvilGeishaWoman wrote:

At 9/20/01 08:22 AM, MissTwidge wrote:

At 9/20/01 08:05 AM, EvilGeishaWoman wrote:

There's three types of people: People who are heterosexual, people who are homosexual, and people who are homosexual and just won't admit it.

Four, actually. fourth being assholes like you who make assumptions about people like me because they are too afraid to open up and explore their own sexuality and THEN take out their ignorance on people like myself.

I didn't take anything out on you, dear woman. No need to get defensive about your sexuality. Exploring is one thing- that would be bi curious. Bisexuals, in my humble opinion, are homosexual persons who've yet to come to terms with their sexuality.
I've had many a homosexual friend put up the "I'm bi" front for a while before just sucking it in and admitting they're gay. It nothing to be ashamed of.

At 9/20/01 08:05 AM, EvilGeishaWoman wrote:


First of all I'm not a lez, I'm BI, there's a fucking difference.

I was not aware. I always looked at it like this: There's three types of people: People who are heterosexual, people who are homosexual, and people who are homosexual and just won't admit it.

At 9/19/01 08:22 AM, SafetyCrew wrote:
Was it the Chuckle Shuffle, or Chunkle Shuffle? I could never figure it out, then again i never tried to. Booby Traps!

It was the Truffle Shuffle.

At 9/17/01 03:19 AM, PReMeeR wrote:

Orgy eh? Got a webcam? ;p

Good, you've already forgotten our little "deal".
No, I haven't a webcam, nor anyone to really have an orgy with...save for that nasty guy I went on a date with, but I don't want him. Maybe I could drug the guy from class and rape him...Think he'd mind?

At 9/14/01 06:21 AM, PReMeeR wrote: It's friday! I get off work in a few hours! WHOO!
What are you up to for tonight? Please share your plans:)

Well, there's a hurricane coming today, so class has been canceled, as has work. Other than some mild sand bagging, I'll probably call up my friend Michael and make it a BlockBuster night. I might make a run for the mall before it closes for the 'cane to pick up my touch base eyeshadow, as I'm almost out.
I wish I could say that I have bigger plans, but people generally stay in their houses when big storms hit and even if they do choose to leave their homes, nothing's open.
Maybe I'll bake some brownies or have an orgy, or something.

At 9/12/01 01:18 PM, PReMeeR wrote:


I can't even begin to imagine how that must feel. I'm damn sorry T. If shit gets too hot, get on a boat to Sweden, you can live here for a while;) Ain't shit going to happen' in little old Sweden.

Considering that the Tropical Storm is supposed to be a hurricane touching land just shy of Tampa come Saturday, I'm seriously considering taking a bus somewhere like Minnesota. While I've calmed down considerably since yesterday, I can't stand to be in Tampa this week. Aside from visiting the post office and going to class and then to work, I haven't left my house.
My Philosophy professor was excited- incorporating this event into our study of Behaviorism. He was ready to move on and shrug it off. What he got was silence.
My communications professor- god bless him- was so sensitive. He wanted nothing more than for everyone to be comfortable and and content as was humanly possible.

I really feel like watching some bad-ass missiles hit the ground somewhere 'over there'...But what good would that do? Think about the reaction(s) it would cause... I sure hope that Nostradamus would score a WRONG on this...
-Marcus.

This is one of those damned if you do, damned if you don't type of deals. We're all fucked either way.
I think the only thing left to do at this point is stick our heads in the sand like little ostrich, and pray for a miracle.
That said, my feathers need smoothing and my pile of sand calls.
What terrorist attack? Huh?
Night night!

-Allison

At 9/12/01 09:00 AM, shorbe wrote:

Well said, shorbe.
Yesterday's fiasco seemed completely surreal. Watching on live television as a fucking airplane crashed into The World Trade Center, I kept hearing Spielberg somehwere in the background saying, "I'd like to thank the Academy..."
It was our worst nightmare come true. The US has raised many of us to believe that we are perfectly safe and that people don't just attack the United States. We're America, damnit! People don't just invade.
Well, now it's become apparent that people can and will attack us.
I wouldn't really know how to respond to that kind of message. The NewYork skyline is jacked over. What do you say to something like that?
That's why I'm not president. Had I been president to a country that's just been attacked, I would have probably addressed the nation by just standing at the podium, eyes wide and mouth hanging open.
This is a hard one to call. Do we simply retaliate and wipe out an entire nation? Do we just send troops over to fight it out the old fashioned way? Do we *gasp* negotiate?

At 9/11/01 02:32 PM, PReMeeR wrote:

Bah! Surely you must remember me saying that? Or maybe not... Shit, I'm very sorry if that's the case. Creepy shit with the terrorism eh? I have to watch some more TV...

-Marcus.

Jesus, don't get me started. This is so fucking scary for me you cannot even begin to imagine. I've been raised in a world that just does not go under attack. I watch other countries get bombed to high hell, succeeded by terrorists, and destroyed alltogether on television. Now my country is on someone else's TV set for all to gape at.
But anyways, back at the ranch. Class has been canceled, as has work, so I have the day off. Unfortunately, the mall is closed as well, so I'll have to find some other means by which to occupy my time. Ritual suicide, perhaps? :)

-Allison

At 9/11/01 03:31 AM, PReMeeR wrote:

At 9/10/01 03:12 PM, MissTwidge wrote:

At 9/10/01 06:37 AM, PReMeeR wrote: Thought I'd check things out. So..umm...How are you all??

I'm just faboo.
Where ya been, old man?

Hey you:) New town, new flat and a new job.. Remember?









I have some actual work to do now..I'll check up on this in a few hours.
Do take care T.

Negative on that, commander. New town? New flat? New job? Huh?
Anyways, you take yourself, Premmie.

-Allison

At 9/10/01 06:37 AM, PReMeeR wrote: Thought I'd check things out. So..umm...How are you all??

I'm just faboo.
Where ya been, old man?

At 8/29/01 10:07 AM, lk6 wrote: And soon it may be the same for my cat :(

shes 12 years old

*sniffle* Poor puss-puss.

When I think of a napkin, I think fo soemthing you wipe your mouth with, not line your panties with.
I call them "pads", and I prefer Always Ultra Thin OverNight Protection with wings

*clipped from this morning's Ann Landers:

"Dogs Don't Have Souls, Do They?"

By Chuck Wells of Palmyra, NY

I remember bringing you home. You were so small and cuddly with your tiny paws and soft fur.

You bounced around the room with eyes flashing and ears flopping. Once in a while, you'd let out a little yelp, just to let me know this was your territory.

Making a mess of the house and chewing everything in sight became a passion, and when I scolded you, you just out your head down and looked at me with those innocent eyes as if to say, "I'm sorry, but I'll do it again as soon as you're not watching."

As you got older, you protected me by looking out the window and barking at everyone who walked by.

When I had a tough day at work, you would be waiting for me with your tail wagging just to say, "Welcome home. I missed you." You never had a abd day, and I could always count on you to be there for me.

When I sat down to read the paper and watch TV you would hop on my lap, looking for attention. You never asked for anything more than to have me pat your head so you could go to sleep with your head over my leg.

As you got older, you moved around more slowly. Then, one day, old age finally took its toll, and you couldn't stand on those wobbly legs any more. I knelt down and patted you lying there, trying to make you young again.

You just looked at me as if to say you were old and tired and that after all those years of not asking for anything, you had to ask me for one last favor.

With tears in my eyes, I drove you one last time to the vet. One last time, you were lying next to me.

For some strange reason, you were able to stand up in the animal hospital; perhaps it was your sense of pride.

As the vet led you away, you stopped for an instant, turned your head and looked at me as if to say,"Thank you for taking care of me."

I thought, "No, thank you for taking care of me."

The End.

* MissTwidge cries.
Damned hormones making me all emotional.

-Allison

At 7/30/01 02:48 PM, GameboyCC wrote: Tell NG which movie you think has the best ending/climax!

Okay, so a lot of you thought the ending to "Fight Club" was all that and a bag of corn nuts. Am I the only one who thought the movie ending blew nuts compared the book ending?
Anyone other than me actually read the book?
The ending in the book was along the same lines as the movie ending, only it didn't just stop with Marla and Tyler holding hands and watching buildings blow up. In fact, it never lets you know if the buildings actually did blow up. However, it goes a little bit past the self shooting incident and kind of ties things up while still leaving you hanging at the end. But I won't give it away ;)

How long will it last this time?