Path's lead is shrinking..

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deuist said:
I went to see The Da Vinci Code last night. It's was pretty good---not as good as the book---but still a good entertainment.
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same here, not as good as the book, but hard to try to put every bit of info in the movie.

maybe it was hyped too much, but I think it was ok.
 
JackBauERfan said:
same here, not as good as the book, but hard to try to put every bit of info in the movie.

maybe it was hyped too much, but I think it was ok.
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I did see a group of Christians protesting the film. I wonder how many of them actually knew what the book was about.
 
deuist said:
I did see a group of Christians protesting the film. I wonder how many of them actually knew what the book was about.
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A psychologist once told me to be happy one must not ponder others.

In other words, people spend too much of their time minding other people's business. You don't like a movie, don't watch the movie.
 
deuist said:
I did see a group of Christians protesting the film. I wonder how many of them actually knew what the book was about.
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Just watched Brokeback Mountain. That probably gave them a whole lot to protest about.
 
If you are wondering what a double response to the same post is all about, it is something I call...

+pad+ dialup style! 😀
 
FOR BKN

http://www.cnn.com/2006/AUTOS/05/17/shelby_over_sticker/index.html

NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) - Ford hasn't yet announced the price of the 2007 Shelby Cobra GT500. But, whatever it is, buyers have already indicated a willingness to pay at least $20,000 more.

The Shelby Cobra GT500 is a version of the popular Ford Mustang equipped with a 500-horsepower supercharged V-8 engine. The original Shelby GT500s, made in the late 1960s by race driver turned sports car maker Carroll Shelby, are now highly coveted collectibles that can sell for hundreds of thousands of dollars. (Far fewer of those cars were built than the approximately 8,000 per year a Ford spokesman says will be made of the new version.)

On eBayMotors.com, one Texas dealership is advertising a 2007 Shelby GT500 with a "Buy it now" price of $99,999. So far, no-one's paid that much, but bids in that auction were already over $65,000 as of Wednesday afternoon.

The first 2007 Shelby GT500s are expected to arrive in dealerships at the end of May with most dealerships getting just one or two to sell.

Ford's sticker price for the car is expected to be about $40,000. Some dealers advertising on eBayMotors are asking for bids in terms of the amount over the sticker price the buyer would agree to pay.

Currently, bidders are offering to pay $20,000 or more over the car's sticker price.

Shortly after the GT500 was unveiled in April, 2005, an interested buyer went into Corey's Northgate Ford in Binghamton, N.Y. with a check for $1,000 for the right to buy a GT500 for sticker price whenever the car became available, said Scott Prancue, the dealership's general manager.

"Thank God I didn't take it," he said. "I would have been fired."

In early May, Prancue's dealership accepted a bid of $13,000 for the right to buy one of the cars at its full sticker price. Had the auction been held today, the price would almost certainly have been higher.

Buyers who are willing to pay $20,000 or more for the car are trying to get the first ones produced as those are always the most desirable, said John Aguire, Ford's brand manager for the GT500. While Ford sets suggested retail prices for its cars, the manufacturer cannot ultimately control the amount dealers will sell them for, he pointed out.

"I'm not surprised at how high demand has been," he said.

Dealers who are auctioning the rights to buy the cars are just trying to get a fair market value for them, said Prancue.

While it's not unusual for certain trendy cars to sell at prices higher than the manufacturer's suggested retail price, the amounts over the sticker price are usually a few thousand dollars at most. There have been cars that have regularly sold for tens of thousands of dollars over their suggested retail price, but those have been exotic cars with prices well over $100,000 to begin with.

Ownership of the the first 2007 Ford Shelby Cobra GT500 available for sale was purchased for $600,000 at the Barrett-Jackson collector car auction in Scottsdale, Ariz. in January. Proceeds from that sale went to charity.

The GT500 benefits from its relationship to the original, highly collectible Shelby cars as well as to the current Mustang, which has turned out to be a hit for Ford in its own right.

Still, actual selling prices will eventually come down to something at least closer to the sticker price, said Jim Hossack, of the automotive industry consulting firm AutoPacific.

"It's a handful of people willing to pay that much," he said.
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On another car note, I vacuumed (is that spelled right? I swear, it's the ONE WORD I can not spell!) and shampooed the carpets in my car. It now smells like carpet shampoo (EWWW!) but it looks pretty. I ran it through the car wash, but it needs ANOTHER run through - I guess I just waited to long between washings!!
 
I owe the guy who sold it to me one when I graduate and can afford to buy a new car, so it'll be back to the Volvo dealer for this chica.
 
I'm still driving the same car that I was when I was 16-years-old. It's a 1992 Chevy Lumina with 188,000 miles on it. It's been through three air conditioners and four alternators. Yet it still runs faster than most cars on the market today.
 
deuist said:
I'm still driving the same car that I was when I was 16-years-old. It's a 1992 Chevy Lumina with 188,000 miles on it. It's been through three air conditioners and four alternators. Yet it still runs faster than most cars on the market today.
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I was going to keep the same car from the beginning of undergrad through med school and probably beyond (my beloved 2000 Toyota Camry) but a lady going the wrong way down a divided highway sort of threw a wrench (or a mazda) into those plans.
 
I continue to suffer.. remodeling is hard painful work.
 
Im not even doing the labor.. im talking about picking the stuff out... i dont know if i will ever be able to leave the house once we are done... too much work put into it..Got people lined up.. all we have left is to close and pick out the stuff.. we know who is gonna do it..
 
Congrats to the Pistons.. I am :scared: to play them.. maybe a minor miracle can occur.
 
BUMP... man how come my padders have let >24 hours come and go.. my excuse was I was traveling!
 
We're starting to lose ground. There's a thread in the pre-allo forum about Florida School interviews that has 3,000 real posts and 60,000 views (compare to this thread's 40,000 views). We need to kick it into high gear and find a way to make this thread more attractive. Maybe a discussion about getting wood during a physical exam would liven things up a bit.
 
deuist said:
We're starting to lose ground. There's a thread in the pre-allo forum about Florida School interviews that has 3,000 real posts and 60,000 views (compare to this thread's 40,000 views). We need to kick it into high gear and find a way to make this thread more attractive. Maybe a discussion about getting wood during a physical exam would liven things up a bit.
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its gonna be hard to beat the florida pre allopathic stuff, but we can always try!!

how about corny, lame jokes.

What ever happened to the man that lost his whole left side?

he's allright now!

haha, that has to one of the corniest. I got kicked out of my anatomy dissecting group for saying that one day.
 
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