It looks like PayPal is finally getting some competition. GreenZap is now taking pre-registrations for their Summer 2005 launch. Pre-register now and your account will start with a $25 balance.

Better yet, pre-register through the link above and I'll get a $5 referral bonus too! Woo hoo!

Even without the free start-up and referral cash I'm keen on a non-eBay-owned money transfer system. And since they're just starting up there's the side bonus of 100% less phishing, account theft and fraudulent emails compared to your eBay account. Can't beat that with a stick.

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To make ammends for my earlier posting?

No?

Well then let me tell the world (or at least the 60% of the world that reads Jim's site) about the amazing eBay challenge. Anyone can enter (provided you have an Bay seller account) and the closing date for entries is the 26th April.

Basic intro can be found here and you may wish to peruse the rules.

Rob (XSet.co.uk)

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1 Now THAT is pimping. Blatant advertising with extreme prejudice. I am impressed.

Posted by: Jim at April 20, 2005 11:21 AM (tyQ8y)

2 I just know you'd do the same for me ;-) You gonna play along?

Posted by: Rob at April 21, 2005 06:07 AM (kXZI6)

3 I'm having a hard time finding anything worth less than a dollar here. Almost everything is gold or silver plated or made of the skins of endangered animals.

Posted by: Jim at April 21, 2005 10:51 AM (MDLz3)

4 But surely you get it easier than the rest of us UK peeps? £2 is about $3.5 last I checked

Posted by: Rob at April 21, 2005 12:47 PM (kXZI6)

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Have I also mentioned lately how annoying I find some of you?
Not to mention obnoxious and irritating??
Yeah,needed to be said,sorry.:-)
LW

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What movies have made you hyper-macho manly guys cry (since the age of 12 or so, besides Old Yeller)? Or at least watery-eyed, if not out-and-out bawling?

C'mon, don't be shy, let's show the ladies that there really are sensitive men out there!

And ladies, if your men are too ashamed to admit so, how about enlightening us with some of your hunky mate's tearjerking moments?

I'll tell you some of mine if you tell me some of yours:

more...

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Ok, fine, I'll stop with the French.

Do you ever wonder what people are thinking when they steal someone's cellphone and then stick it up their vagina? Yeah, I do, I also wonder what happens next... do they then whistle to try and cover up the *bring* from their no-no region?

What were they going to do once they got home with the thing, were they going to use it to call their friends? Sell it? Give it as a gift? Let their friends borrow it and then say "You're talking into my twat!" then laugh hysterically?

I could probably go on for hours in this vein, but I'll let someone post, and just sign off saying "Happy Snoozebob Day!".

Oh, I almost forgot the inevitable whoring

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Technically, this isn't francophile - more germophile (hmm... I like that word).

I just want to make sure that everyone gets to share in the phenomenon that is Schnappi - the small Egyptian crocodile that's taking Germany (and Rob) by storm!

Check out his single, and then the remixes...

NB: Dafyd* does not claim any reponsability for any loss of sanity incurred by listening to Schnappi. Listen at your own risk.

*Here there be whoring

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I had one of those days yesterday where, if it was a movie, you would have laughed your ass off. Instead, it was real and you came this close to turning off the safety on that AK you keep in your bottom desk drawer.

I came into the office at 7am. Got situated and walked out my door to get a drink from down the hall. As soon as I step outside my office, the woman who ALWAYS bugs me about my ID badge is standing there: "You GOTTA wear that badge." I push out something resembling a laugh, but really, I wanted to cry - the blasted water fountain is fifteen feet from my door. It was the equivalent of the observation that somebody's got a case of the Mondays.

I get back to the office and realize I don't have the keys to unlock the file cabinet under my desk. Crap. I walk to the car, no keys. Check my shoulder bag, no keys. I sit there for a few minutes and decide to break the lock on the filing cabinet. The cabinet is one of those modular deals that slides out from the desk, but it sits on a little wooden frame. So I pull it out from under the desk, and it slides off the wooden frame. Crap. The thing weighs like 80lbs, so I have to squat and lift it fromt he floor back onto the frame. In all the heaving and hoing, I eventually get it back on the base and under the desk. Which is when I realize that in all that grunting, I had COMPLETELY forgotten to pop the lock off. Crap. Again. And it's not even 8:30am.

So, I pull it back out and it of course slides off it's base. Incidentally, it sliced my finger at the cuticle too; insuring that I was indeed completely awake at this point. So I wrap my wound in a napkin and secure it with a little scotch tape (office first aid, I earned that merit badge at the management retreat last fall). I pull the panel off the top of the cabinet, remove the cotter pin that holds the lock in place, punch the lcok core out, and release the lever locking all the drawers in place. With all this racket, I was beginning to draw the attention of a few passers-by.

I lift the heavy bastard back on it's base and slide everything under my desk. I'm sweating. That's when I get a call from one of the nursing units. Apparently a pipe above them in the hematology room had busted, and salt water was leaking through the ceiling onto people, computers, and filling light fixtures. It was like that all day yesterday.

shank

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And so I have tried very hard to ensure this post is neither french or spammy ...

(Rob from XSet)

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Results: Pylorns has posted the answers. The only one that nobody got was #3, Gold Finger. Here are the folks who won points (1 per each correct answer):

Helen: #5 and #9
Tiffani: #4
tommy: #2, #6 and #8
Rob: #10
Clancy: #1 and #7

Ok I'll let Jim award the points when I get back. 10 movie quotes for your guessing enjoyment. And don't google them or I'll come to your house and take a dump on the hood of your car. Name the movie, and preferably the actor that said it.

1. "You're crazy man, I like you, but your crazy."

2. "We get caught laundering money, we're not going to a white collar resort prison, we're going to a federal pound-me-in-the-ass prison."

3. "Run along now dear, Man talk."

4. "...high school hasn't changed. There's still that one teacher who marches to her own drummer. Those girls are still there, the ones that, even as you grow up, will remain the most beautiful girls you have ever seen close up. The smart kids, who everyone else knew as 'the brains,' but I just knew them as my soul mates, my teachers, my friends. And there's still that one guy with his mysterious confidence who seems so perfect in every way. The guy you get up and go to school for in the morning. ... High school would not have been the same without him. I would not be the same without him. I lived a lifetime of regret after my first high school experience." (girls you'll get this one quick)

5. "Um, ok. That's the little boys' room and that's the little girls' room. Where are you going? Going to the mens' room." (my fav movie)

6. "Oh, now be honest, Captain. Warrior to warrior. You do prefer it this way, don't you, as it was meant to be. No peace in our time. Once more unto the breach, dear friends."

7. "A-B-C A-Always. B-Be. C-Closing. Always be closing. Always be closing!!"

8. "I've got a lot of fond memories of that dog."

9. "I'm not even supposed to be here. I'm just crewman number six. I'm expendable. I'm the guy in the episode who dies to prove the situation is serious. I gotta get out."

10. "Hey Terrorists, Terrorize this!"

-pylorns
http://www.wetwired.org

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I finally got a chance to ruin Jim's blog a bit and then nothing comes up.Total brain fart.
Yaaaawn......I think I'll go back to bed.
Happy Snoozebob day everyone!
LW
flaptrap.mu.nu

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I can't believe it...Now I've had a chance to live the impossible dream! A post in Jim's blog! My life is now complete....Wait....that was the morning constitutional on the toilet that did it... Mitzi

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I knew there was something I forgot. What's the absolute worst thing that a guy can forget? Yeah, that's right. An anniversary.

Not mine, of course. That's tattooed on my forehead in backward numbers like an ecnalubma so I'm reminded of it every time I look in the mirror. Safety first, yo.

No, I meant to post a happy anniversary post for Harvey and Smiling Dynamite. I even had a made up fairy tale story in the works about how Harvey the Troll kidnapped the beautiful Princess Dynamite and forced her to choose between marrying him or a Frenchman and then she kicked the shit out of him but then felt sorry for him and married him after all and they all lived happily ever after. With pictures in there too - that's what was planned.

So anyway, happy anniversary!

(6 years she's been married to Harvey, y'all. Every woman who reads this should go thank her for that 6 years of peace.)

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