Making a run at the top 300 (Little Upsilon)

I know right? I ended up logging in today, and responded to like 7653763 pages of the oil crisis thread in nationalities, instead of checking out to see what my country is doing. Now I ran out of time and have to go to work in a half hour. GAWD!

Do what I do, be a free lance journalist/writer. As long as you meet deadlines, you work when you want to!

lol, actually, i'm opting to be a free-lance web designer.

Although, Lord knows I can bullshit with the best of them sometimes. As, I'm sure, you already have witnessed lol

I forgot, you're one of the "young bucks"! Al Gore hadn't gotten around to inventing the internet yet when I was your age!

And according to my girlfriend, if they ever gave out annual BS "Artist of the Year", no one would join the competition 'cuz they know they ain't got a chance against me! Woo-woo.

Lol..."young buck eh?" Imma be 30 in 5 years! And I think Al Gore would win the bullshitter of all time award! sorry to dissapoint ya JMR, but ya know that's true.

Al Gore didn't come up with the internet.
I'm still trying to understand where that american myth comes from.

The internet was invented by an european institution located in Switzerland: CERN.
http://public.web.cern.ch/Public/Welcome.html

Before you question me:
Necessity is the mother of all inventions.

Yup, that's why I credited Al Gore as the ultimate bullshutter of all time!

Where that myth came from is that Gore himself said so.

He DID introduced the idea to Congress of having a network that would have a bunch of computers be able to talk to each other in the Pentagon or some such thing.

But INVENT the internet? Not really....The military did that. Well, the military had a form of their own "internet," but CERN invented THE internet.

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Al Gore claimed it...No one believed him about that or global warming....

Thank you Quetzalcoatl, on BOTH counts. That was why I put that silly smiley face after my statement, because it's a crock of crap, just as was his fake polar bear picture in his movie.

MM, if you double your current age you'll have my current age. You're a young buck. And Gore couldn't whip me in a BS contest because the critical thing in BS'ing is to make it believable or at the least plausible, and he just doesn't have ANY credibility.

I have actually hung upside down and kissed the blarney stone in Ireland, so you're dealing with a pro here!

haha, should I believe that?

and JMR, your still a decade and a half younger than my dad. If that helps.....

I AM still in college, and still playing baseball.

BUT I finally got a REAL job with a 401k all set up, if that counts for anything!

Good, MM, you're catching on!

Actually though, it is true. My girlfriend took a 6 month sabbatical from her teaching job and went to live with an Irish girl she had met in Britain one summer, and I spent a week there visiting. Kissing the blarney stone is a trip. You actually do have to lean over to get to it.

I suppose being 15 years younger than your Dad should count for something. But you know the saying "Only the good die young"? I figure I'm good for at least 250 years! LOL

I was a political science/history double major in college. To show how times have changed, my tuition (out of state) at Mich. St. U. was 5000 dollars per year. Of course, back then 15k a year salary was considered middle class.

LMAO

out of state tuition @ MSU was only 5 grand?!

My school is 6 times that! and thats instate as well. course PA is pretty lousy with the expense of college compared to most other states...

Don't you believe it! Of course state universities will be cheaper than private ones, but the rise in tuition rates across the country is ludicrous. And totally unneccessary.

It's been covered in a thread somewhere else in the forum, but the dirty little secret is that the vast majority of the universities are sitting on so much cash in their investment funds that they could provide ALL their students with free tuition for generations. We're talking billions. And they would still have enough left over to pay for all the salaries and athletics, etc. and STILL show a yearly profit.

Putting that aside, 5k seems like chump change now, but putting things in perspective a little, my first job paid me minimum wage. One dollar and ten cents an hour. I left that job to move into the big time making a buck and a quarter.

On the other hand, gas was 33 cents a gallon, cheeseburgs at McD's were 29 cents, and I could take a chi

jeez.....your old!!!

I wonder if he's as perverted as the rest of us though. :p
So far, he doesn't seem to.
In the name of my personal God, Simcountry Tour Girl, I shall convert you, JMR! Mark my words! By the way... have you seen my pants?

Yeah....who is that girl Laguna? She has one hell of a nice rack!
Anyway - your pants? You didnt leave them here last night...

You can see her on the Simcountry Introduction Tour. A very accurate omen of all which is to be expected of some people on the forum. :-P

I wish I knew more, Stuart, I wish I knew more...
Jozi doesn't wish to share the details with me.
Com'on! Of all the people he could at least tell *ME*. I'm a harmless tanned south european. What threat could I pose to anyone? Besides, I always wanted a nice pair of boobs... she would fulfill that desire for me and complete me. LOL

*inner thoughts*hmmmm I wonder if I should turn the convo in another direction...*inner thoughts*

What? I didn't leave them here? But that was my only pair and I'm too poor to buy another.

You know - i'd never seen that tour. It's a bit basic though - I think that the SC gods should consider upgrading it a bit, and include a proper tutorial for new players.

Anyway - i wouldn't worry about walking around naked Laguna - from what i've heard, you don't have much to hide!

You know, you can see the tour girl if you go to Daconia's country Sex on the Beach (GR). Just moved a corp there and woo-woo. JR- I am definitely just as preverted (no, not a typo) as all the rest of you'ns, just a little shy! LOL

Oh, and check with Treasurer, he'll probably loan you enough to buy a new pair of pants, although being a southern Euro, why do you need pants? It's always hot there isn't it?

I started in January 2562 and I'm ranked 228 on white giant Feb 28 2565. I'm totally new to the game. Is that good?

Bob is a dirty creepy old man!

But anyway, I got two more years left before I can apply to be accepted to start on my Master's. Imma be well over 100 grand in debt by the time i'm finished. And it has to be paid off within 10 years, too. While I am going to be just a lowly high school teacher, I have no idea how the hell that is going to be possible on that kind of salary.....

Dirty greedy bastards with billions to spend, and just hoarding it all....

Oh well, at least I have the satisfaction of knowing I actually am working at a noble profession for living, instead of leaching off of others, like that Treasurer guy...those kinds of bastords always seem to be able to FORCE people to take out loans wihtout your actual approval, and sit there and just collect all the interest without doing any kind of productive activity....

Yeah, Treasurer, my Loan God...