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I am looking forward to the weekend. I have been looking around for a beamer for quite sometime and yesterday I ran into a special sale. Incredible bargin for a beamer, so before I move it, I will watch a movie with it this weekend. But this is not all, part of that offer was a nitendo station with a sports game. So no I am the lucky owner of a nitendo station. :-)

Ceebs, that yoga thing, does your girlfriend still like it?

by Fran (fran at eurotrib dot com) on Fri May 16th, 2008 at 01:38:04 PM EST
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What a wonderful word. I've not heard that used in the States... took me a moment to decipher what you meant. Turns out -- according to Wikipedia -- a beamer is slang for a video projector. It is a pseudo-anglicism in a number of languages including German, Dutch, and Latvian.

We just call them projectors here... I'm going to start using beamer though... what a great, descriptive word!

by Magnifico on Fri May 16th, 2008 at 01:48:46 PM EST
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you know, now that you mention it, we call the machine use to project dia-pictures also a projector and not a beamer. :-)

But the one used for computer presentations is called a beamer. weird. :-)

by Fran (fran at eurotrib dot com) on Fri May 16th, 2008 at 01:54:45 PM EST
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If I'd known I could have sold you one. I have one with very low hours - less than 5 - I'm trying to sell on eBay.
by ThatBritGuy (thatbritguy (at) googlemail.com) on Fri May 16th, 2008 at 02:04:14 PM EST
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Well, if I would have know that you want to sell one... :-)
by Fran (fran at eurotrib dot com) on Fri May 16th, 2008 at 02:06:58 PM EST
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: )  Thanks Magnifico...I actually thought that Fran had bought a BMW!!!  Here we call THEM beamers!!!  When I saw that she'd got a nintendo at the same time I was very confused...

We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars. Oscar Wilde
by Sam on Fri May 16th, 2008 at 05:48:44 PM EST
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You were not alone...

"This is nothing compared to how Putin rigged Eurovision."
by poemless on Fri May 16th, 2008 at 05:50:53 PM EST
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LOL - well, I wouldn't mind the BMW!
by Fran (fran at eurotrib dot com) on Fri May 16th, 2008 at 06:01:53 PM EST
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I vowed years ago never to own a BMW.  We had never had a car at home and always used bicycles or public transport...one day the boss in the 1st practice I worked in gave me his BMW keys to get a file out of the boot.  I'd never opened a car boot before...he said all I had to do was click the key at the car and it would open.  Fair enough says I and head out to get the file...15 mins later I returned with no file having spent the entire time clicking the key (and unlocking the car) and then sticking the key in the lock, twisting it and relocking the car!!!  I almost threw the keys back at him in frustration!

We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars. Oscar Wilde
by Sam on Fri May 16th, 2008 at 06:19:03 PM EST
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LOL, thanks for the bedtime story - time for me to get some sleep. :-)
by Fran (fran at eurotrib dot com) on Fri May 16th, 2008 at 06:25:41 PM EST
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My ex had BMWs for years.

My major issue with them, apart from the emissions and the terrifying servicing costs, was that, after three days in charge of one of them, I turned into a BMW driver.

I'm sure there's a mind-control chip in the driver's headrest...

But, as a woman driving one of those things, you get cut up, tailgated-the one time one of them got keyed was when I was driving it. And it seems like every moron in town wants to race you from traffic lights.  Not that I ever sank to that. Or could have done. The clutch was much higher than on my car, which meant that I frequently stalled it and looked silly anyway.  :)

by Sassafras on Fri May 16th, 2008 at 06:42:33 PM EST
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yes, she has a go every day. I have been known to have a go every now and then too.

although some of the other stupid games on there have been more to my taste. dropping balanced balls down holes, and ski jumping have been my preferred form of entertainment on it. (and I'm spectacularly rubbish at snowboarding)

Life should consist in at least fifty percent pure waste of time, and the rest doing what you please.

by ceebs (bunchofwankers (at) gmail (dot) com) on Fri May 16th, 2008 at 01:51:56 PM EST
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so maybe some time later on, I might look into it getting the yoga thing. The game that came with the station is for sports - but boxing is not my stil, tennis is also not my game, but maybe I look in to golf.
by Fran (fran at eurotrib dot com) on Fri May 16th, 2008 at 01:56:50 PM EST
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The Boxing is very good for working up a sweat, it's probably the best Aerobic exercise on the disk

Life should consist in at least fifty percent pure waste of time, and the rest doing what you please.
by ceebs (bunchofwankers (at) gmail (dot) com) on Fri May 16th, 2008 at 02:01:45 PM EST
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So you think it would be worth a try?
by Fran (fran at eurotrib dot com) on Fri May 16th, 2008 at 02:06:23 PM EST
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its good exercise

Life should consist in at least fifty percent pure waste of time, and the rest doing what you please.
by ceebs (bunchofwankers (at) gmail (dot) com) on Fri May 16th, 2008 at 02:14:27 PM EST
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...and being the most energetic of the sports on it you can also end up with painful injuries...like pulling things in your arms, shoulders...a cousin of mine even fell over a table!  Then again she also is left handed and in playing the tennis game hit her opponent in the head and knocked over a lamp...

We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars. Oscar Wilde
by Sam on Fri May 16th, 2008 at 05:52:03 PM EST
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always fasten the wrist strap to prevent the controller flying off in random directions, hitting people, or expensive televisions


Life should consist in at least fifty percent pure waste of time, and the rest doing what you please.
by ceebs (bunchofwankers (at) gmail (dot) com) on Fri May 16th, 2008 at 05:58:17 PM EST
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While we're on the topic, who's got MarioKart for the Wii?
by Colman (colman at eurotrib.com) on Fri May 16th, 2008 at 06:02:28 PM EST
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Oh my, what did I get myself into. :-D
by Fran (fran at eurotrib dot com) on Fri May 16th, 2008 at 06:00:44 PM EST
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: D
It'll be international ET MarioKarting next!
Or the 'ET Cup' in Tennis...or....

We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars. Oscar Wilde
by Sam on Fri May 16th, 2008 at 06:11:38 PM EST
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