MadIce

MadIce

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Reply to Email SPAM: Fun Facts in Misc JoeUser Forums

Let's hope some of your Useless Facts do not enter LickServ's Facts database. ;) Here are some explanations of true facts you listed, but some in your list are false. http://www.dcmsoft.com/rumor/story/stuff1.htm

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Reply to Email SPAM: Fun Facts in Misc JoeUser Forums

Hey! Don't fool the Master of Useless Facts... The Creator of LickServ... Marilyn Monroe didn't have 6 toes. Sorry. ;) http://www.snopes.com/movies/actors/mmtoes.htm

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Taxi driver brain study earns team spoof Nobel prize. in Pure Technology JoeUser Forums

The Ig Nobel awards, a spoof of the Nobel Awards, have been presented in the US. Among the winners were a University College London team who showed the brains of London taxi drivers were different from average people, because they become enlarged in the zone associated with navigation. The annual awards, for people whose achievements "cannot or should not be reproduced", were presented at a spoof ceremony at Harvard University. They are handed out by the science/

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Reply to How many times do you curse a week? in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

BTW: We in Amsterdam had a problem when the guilder disappeared and made room for the euro. The slang word for guilder is now only to be found in the dictionary. We wondered how people would call the new currency. It turned out we now call the euro very creatively the pleuro. Which is a combination of "pleuritus" and "euro". This indicates we hate it, because most prices went up. Of course you wouldn't use t

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Reply to How many times do you curse a week? in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

@ #35 Erm. Cursing is a true art in the Netherlands. Especially Amsterdam. And yes, a curse sometimes (ahum) passes my lips when I can't find a bug in time, when I hit my knee to a table or when the coffee cup I am carrying is too hot. Some of these might cross my lips after I disconnect a phone call, when I try to decribe the tax collector or when a car tries to hit me while crossing the street.

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Reply to Today's Music Critics in Art JoeUser Forums

I think I understand what you mean. Since I am not a musician and have no real knowledge of music other than parts of its history, it would mean I would belong to group A, because the only thing I can say about the music I like is that it makes me feel good, or it gives me another feeling that I enjoy. But, I am sorry. Although I think that I understand what you mean, I do not agree. I have same problem as you. I am not really able to tell my view gently either. Sorry again. I

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Reply to Is Health Insurance a Basic Human Right? in Politics JoeUser Forums

"If more people in an economic unit (that includes marriage and partnership) then..." should read: "If more people in an economic unit (that includes marriage and partnership) are working then..." Sorry about that.

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Reply to Is Health Insurance a Basic Human Right? in Politics JoeUser Forums

In our tax system the percentage of tax you pay partially depends on the height of your income. The reason is that for people who have a low income - of lets say $1000 a month - a tax of 25% (like you suggest) is felt as a greater burden than the same percentage of $5,000. So, the percentage of tax increases when you earn more. Also, the percentage depends on whether you have a partner (that includes marriage ;) ) or not, or whether you have children or not, or whether you are divorced

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The United States of America and the Netherlands. in History JoeUser Forums

On the internet one meets people from all of the world. Sometimes I am interested in the history of a country of the people I meet. A few months ago I stumbled on an internet link about the small role of the Dutch in the time around your Declaration of Independence. I read it with interest. Tonight I was giving some tips to a lady on another website about her possible visit to Amsterdam. Because she was also interested in our history I brought that link back and for first time I noticed there wa

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Microsoft promotes sharing files and music. in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

Found on the following http://groups.msn.com/people when using the Dutch language: "Deel bestanden of muziek, bel een vriend mobiel - je gaat naar MSN Messenger downloaden." This roughly translates to: "Share files or music, call a friend on a cellular - you download MSN Messenger." Isn't that interesting? After all the fuzz this has caused lately, MSN/Microsoft now actually promotes sharing files and music. <img src="http://images.stardock.com/images/smiles/lol.gif" border=0 A

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Reply to winamp controls stopped working. in Stardock Software WinCustomize Forums

WBAmp supports several players. If none of these are running then it will try to load the following players in the given order: - ObjectMedia - CoolPlayer - WinAmp If none of these players is installed then nothing happens. Try running WinAmp and see if WBAmp starts working again. WBAmp won't work if a player has been moved. In case WA has been moved reininstall it. The other players will "reinstall" themselves by just running them. WBAmp supports WinAmp 2 and d

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