• Steve The Cynic (unregistered) in reply to JamesQMurphy
    JamesQMurphy:
    Steve The Cynic:
    Remy Porter:
    @Deprecated:
    The Sam Adams beer pic was taken in the first Quickie Mart on the ISS.
    First hint that one has been living in Pennsylvania too long: you forget that in civilized states, you can buy beer in a Quickie Mart.

    //I love living in Pittsburgh, but the fact that I can't buy beer in the grocery store like civilized people just kills me.

    In civilized places, you can buy beer in McDonalds.

    And in France, do you know what they call a Quarter Pounder with Cheese?

    Yup. Depends on whether you have it with cheese and cheese (Royale Cheese), cheese and bacon-instead-of-cheese (Royale Bacon), or cheese and other stuff (Royale Deluxe). And to add to the confusion, there is "Royale O' Fish", a Filet O' Fish with added stuff.

    See, I live in France, so I don't need to rely on Tarantino flicks for information about American burger joints in France.

  • Anonymouse (unregistered) in reply to operagost
    operagost:
    That's even more restrictive than PA, although less confusing. In PA, the state has a monopoly on retail wine and liquor. The state stores are called-- you guessed it-- "Wine and Spirits". Private stores can sell beer and wine coolers, but only in quantities of 24 or more. Restaurants can sell wine, liquor, and beer in small quantities, but I believe the wine and liquor must be consumed on the premises.

    The net result of this is that if you live in PA and want to buy a bottle of wine, a case of beer, and a six-pack of a different beer, you need to visit three stores.

    If you want to buy a case of beer from a restaurants or bottle shop, you need to but two six packs, take them out of the store, then come back in (w/o the beer) and make another purchase.

    There was also a fight a while back over hard cider. The state stores refused to sell it, but also said that the beer distributors couldn't because it was against the law.

  • Steve The Cynic (unregistered) in reply to jhfmkjhg,kjg,.
    jhfmkjhg:
    Crash Magnet:
    People in Norway travel to Sweeden to buy their liquor and beer because it is cheeper there.

    People in Sweden travel to Denmark to buy thier liquor and beer because it is cheeper there.

    People in Denmark travel to Germany to buy their liquor and beer because it is cheeper there.

    People in Germany don't feel the need to travel to buy liquor and beer.

    People in Finland travel to Russia to buy their liquor and beer for no reason.
    I remember a Uni instructor telling me of the time he spent in Finland, just across the water from Leningrad (these were the days of the USSR). The Finns would take single tickets on the ferry to Leningrad, get smashed out of their gourds on cheap vodka, and were then deported at the Soviets' expense back to Finland.
  • Buddy (unregistered) in reply to Jason
    Jason:
    Is David Connely a bug or a new feature? Now David-Connely ready!

    THERE IS NO DAVID CONNELY...

    Sorry, watched Logan's Run too many times on the weekend.

  • Quirkafleeg (unregistered) in reply to vindico
    vindico:
    David Connely's phone number is 2147483.

    He managed to get his name in the Zimbra Release Notes and his phone number into a weather forcast.

    Actually, that number's almost certainly 2147483647, that being 2³¹-1. But you knew that…

  • (cs)
    "Just my luck," Q.M. writes, "I picked all 32's."

    Gee, what are the odds? Oh... about the same as the odds of any other combination of numbers.

  • Max Kode (unregistered) in reply to JamesQMurphy
    JamesQMurphy:
    And in France, do you know what they call a Quarter Pounder with Cheese?
    No, but I do know that the French language has no word for "victory".

    What any of this has to do with 33 33 escapes me, however.

  • Buddy (unregistered) in reply to Steve The Cynic
    Steve The Cynic:
    I remember a Uni instructor telling me of the time he spent in Finland, just across the water from Leningrad (these were the days of the USSR). The Finns would take single tickets on the ferry to Leningrad, get smashed out of their gourds on cheap vodka, and were then deported at the Soviets' expense back to Finland.

    When it comes to alcohol, human ingenuity and creativity seem to have no limits. If only we could tie more problems to getting boozed up...

  • anon (unregistered) in reply to PeriSoft
    PeriSoft:
    "Just my luck," Q.M. writes, "I picked all 32's."

    Gee, what are the odds? Oh... about the same as the odds of any other combination of numbers.

    Or in this case zero: numbers are not replaced once drawn.

  • (cs)

    Holy crap, Montgomery Village!

    Feels like when a celebrity interviewed on a late-night talk show mentions a town somewhere and one person in the audience claps and yells "wooo-hooo."

  • Quirkafleeg (unregistered) in reply to PeriSoft
    PeriSoft:
    "Just my luck," Q.M. writes, "I picked all 32's."
    Gee, what are the odds? Oh... about the same as the odds of any other combination of numbers.
    No – some of those require that you pick different numbers. For example, the Lotto game requires six different numbers between 1 and 49.

    The WTF is dummy data; and for those of us familiar with the UK National Lottery, there's a meta-WTF…

  • alsoanon (unregistered) in reply to anon
    anon:
    PeriSoft:
    "Just my luck," Q.M. writes, "I picked all 32's."

    Gee, what are the odds? Oh... about the same as the odds of any other combination of numbers.

    Or in this case zero: numbers are not replaced once drawn.

    Zero is about the odds of any other combination...

  • (cs) in reply to Steve The Cynic
    Steve The Cynic:

    See, I live in France, so I don't need to rely on Tarantino flicks for information about American burger joints in France.

    Whoopdee shit.

  • (cs) in reply to Your Momma
    Your Momma:
    A Møøse once bit my sister...

    Hey, that's the same dang møøse! Git 'im!

    ( http://www.thefump.com/lyrics.php?id=1108 since Akismet doesn't like links.)

  • (cs)

    Kevin Conroy should have kept going at least until he got it up to 3777893186310000000000000 miles. Surely there's an event going on somewhere in the universe.

  • Mark (unregistered) in reply to JamesQMurphy
    JamesQMurphy:
    Steve The Cynic:
    Remy Porter:
    @Deprecated:
    The Sam Adams beer pic was taken in the first Quickie Mart on the ISS.
    First hint that one has been living in Pennsylvania too long: you forget that in civilized states, you can buy beer in a Quickie Mart.

    //I love living in Pittsburgh, but the fact that I can't buy beer in the grocery store like civilized people just kills me.

    In civilized places, you can buy beer in McDonalds.

    And in France, do you know what they call a Quarter Pounder with Cheese?

    Gross?

  • (cs) in reply to alsoanon
    alsoanon:
    anon:
    PeriSoft:
    "Just my luck," Q.M. writes, "I picked all 32's."

    Gee, what are the odds? Oh... about the same as the odds of any other combination of numbers.

    Or in this case zero: numbers are not replaced once drawn.

    Zero is about the odds of any other combination...

    No, the odds of any other combination are infinitely higher than 0.

  • (cs) in reply to david connely
    david connely:
    this space intentionally left almost blank

    FTFY

  • FuBar (unregistered) in reply to Steve The Cynic
    Steve The Cynic:
    See, I live in France, so I don't need to rely on Tarantino flicks for information about American burger joints in France.
    Say what one more time....
  • Dan (unregistered) in reply to anon
    anon:
    Steve The Cynic:
    Remy Porter:
    @Deprecated:
    The Sam Adams beer pic was taken in the first Quickie Mart on the ISS.
    First hint that one has been living in Pennsylvania too long: you forget that in civilized states, you can buy beer in a Quickie Mart.

    //I love living in Pittsburgh, but the fact that I can't buy beer in the grocery store like civilized people just kills me.

    In civilized places, you can buy beer in McDonalds.

    Not sure I'd qualify chasing down a Big Mac with a pint to really be 'civilized'.

    I'm not sure I'd qualify anything to do with a Big Mac as 'civilized'

  • re:me (unregistered) in reply to PeriSoft
    PeriSoft:
    "Just my luck," Q.M. writes, "I picked all 32's."

    Gee, what are the odds? Oh... about the same as the odds of any other combination of numbers.

    That depends. If all of the numbers are drawn from the same set of non-repeating sequential numbers, like most lotteries, I'd say the odds of getting all of any one number are pretty slim.

  • sd (unregistered) in reply to Billy The Squid
    Billy The Squid:
    Beer is also sold at a store owned and operated by the Ontario Government. And it's called (I kid you not): "The Beer Store".

    It's called 'The Beer Store' because it used to be called 'Brewers Retail' and that was too highbrow for people.

    "Hey, guys, nobody understand that this is a retail outlet for breweries. We need to change the name." "How about 'The Place where you buy Beer'?" "No, too long." "The Beer Store." "Perfect!"

  • (cs) in reply to ContraCorners
    ContraCorners:
    alsoanon:
    anon:
    PeriSoft:
    "Just my luck," Q.M. writes, "I picked all 32's."

    Gee, what are the odds? Oh... about the same as the odds of any other combination of numbers.

    Or in this case zero: numbers are not replaced once drawn.

    Zero is about the odds of any other combination...

    No, the odds of any other combination are infinitely higher than 0.

    In the case of Lotto 6/49, the odds of winning the jackpot are 0.00000007151 higher. http://www.math.mcmaster.ca/fred/Lotto/

  • Chip (unregistered)

    The Sam Adams is more expensive than usual due to the unavoidable costs incurred while making it look like Heineken.

  • (cs) in reply to Mark
    Mark:
    JamesQMurphy:
    Steve The Cynic:
    Remy Porter:
    @Deprecated:
    The Sam Adams beer pic was taken in the first Quickie Mart on the ISS.
    First hint that one has been living in Pennsylvania too long: you forget that in civilized states, you can buy beer in a Quickie Mart.

    //I love living in Pittsburgh, but the fact that I can't buy beer in the grocery store like civilized people just kills me.

    In civilized places, you can buy beer in McDonalds.

    And in France, do you know what they call a Quarter Pounder with Cheese?

    Gross?

    Le Gross

  • (cs) in reply to akatherder
    akatherder:
    Mark:
    Gross?

    Le Gross

    Win.

  • Tonsil (unregistered) in reply to BentFranklin

    I've been there! And it opened since I left the area, but isn't there at least one Giant Eagle that sells beer now?

    It took me some getting used to when I moved to Baltimore that I didn't have to buy my beer by the case.

  • Tonsil (unregistered) in reply to Tonsil

    Whoops, meant to quote:

    BentFranklin:
    Remy Porter:
    @Deprecated:
    The Sam Adams beer pic was taken in the first Quickie Mart on the ISS.
    First hint that one has been living in Pennsylvania too long: you forget that in civilized states, you can buy beer in a Quickie Mart.

    //I love living in Pittsburgh, but the fact that I can't buy beer in the grocery store like civilized people just kills me.

    Bizarrely, there actually is one convenience store in Pittsburgh where you CAN buy beer, the 7-Eleven on Friendship Avenue. It's because they have a liquor license left over from a bar that used to be in the same location.

    I've been there! And it opened since I left the area, but isn't there at least one Giant Eagle that sells beer now?

    It took me some getting used to when I moved to Baltimore that I didn't have to buy my beer by the case.

  • G (unregistered) in reply to PeriSoft
    PeriSoft:
    "Just my luck," Q.M. writes, "I picked all 32's."

    Gee, what are the odds? Oh... about the same as the odds of any other combination of numbers.

    And still, once every week a number is drawn, against a chance of one in a billion.

    Isn't it amazing?

  • Pierre (unregistered) in reply to Quirkafleeg
    Quirkafleeg:
    vindico:
    David Connely's phone number is 2147483.

    He managed to get his name in the Zimbra Release Notes and his phone number into a weather forcast.

    Actually, that number's almost certainly 2147483647, that being 2³¹-1. But you knew that…
    I vehemently disagree. It's the first seven digits of 2,147,483,648, or 2^31.

  • Long (unregistered) in reply to Coyne
    Coyne:
    Kevin Conroy should have kept going at least until he got it up to 3777893186310000000000000 miles. Surely there's an event going on somewhere in the universe.

    Maybe, just maybe, Kevin wasn't invited to any of those events. Why do you think expanding the search radius would help? (Everybody knows that nothing travels faster than the speed of light with the possible exception of bad news, which obeys its own special laws.)

  • ARMed but harmless (unregistered) in reply to badcaseofspace
    badcaseofspace:
    Jason:
    Is David Connely a bug or a new feature? Now David-Connely ready!
    He was a problem that is now taken care of.
    Remember the error box "You should never seen this string"? http://thedailywtf.com/Articles/Make-Sure-That-You.aspx

    Well, poor Dave did.

  • moz (unregistered) in reply to Coyne
    Coyne:
    Kevin Conroy should have kept going at least until he got it up to 3777893186310000000000000 miles. Surely there's an event going on somewhere in the universe.
    That won't prove anything, as an event may have been scheduled somewhere outside the event horizon of the observable universe. It may not have made it into the database Kevin Conroy checked yet.
  • Herby (unregistered)

    I suspect that nobody got the "33" lottery because they all were going 45 or 78 (rpm).

    As for liquor stores, I am reminded that in a town in Oregon (where the state sells booze), the store was at the corner of 5th and Grape (it is no longer there).

  • An Obnoxious Frog (unregistered) in reply to Max Kode
    Max Kode:
    No, but I do know that the French language has no word for "victory".

    "Victoire". Actually the English word is derived from Old French -- Latin root of course, so I really don't see how you came to believe that.

    <speculation> It is quite possible that your comment was meant as a joke and that I simply failed to appreciate its awesome funniness. It might be because Frenchmen do not have a sense of humor. But who needs that when you have French fries and French kisses? </speculation>
  • KMan (unregistered)

    Service events - most hilarious!

  • Grumpy (unregistered) in reply to Crash Magnet
    Crash Magnet:
    People in Norway travel to Sweeden to buy their liquor and beer because it is cheeper there.

    People in Sweden travel to Denmark to buy thier liquor and beer because it is cheeper there.

    People in Denmark travel to Germany to buy their liquor and beer because it is cheeper there.

    Funny enough, that is not quite true. Some kinds of beer (REAL beer, not the making-love-in-a-canoe stuff Carlsberg makes) is cheaper and more plentiful in Sweden - the state-owned Systembolaget has a monopoly so they must by law carry it all or something like that. So we go to Sweden to get the good stuff and they come here to get the bad stuff. Go figure.
  • (cs) in reply to An Obnoxious Frog
    An Obnoxious Frog:
    Max Kode:
    No, but I do know that the French language has no word for "victory".

    "Victoire". Actually the English word is derived from Old French -- Latin root of course, so I really don't see how you came to believe that.

    <speculation> It is quite possible that your comment was meant as a joke and that I simply failed to appreciate its awesome funniness. It might be because Frenchmen do not have a sense of humor. But who needs that when you have French fries and French kisses? </speculation>

    Oh, it's definitely a joke. A very true joke.

  • Swedish tard. (unregistered) in reply to Crash Magnet
    Crash Magnet:
    People in Norway travel to Sweeden to buy their liquor and beer because it is cheeper there.

    People in Sweden travel to Denmark to buy thier liquor and beer because it is cheeper there.

    People in Denmark travel to Germany to buy their liquor and beer because it is cheeper there.

    People in Germany don't feel the need to travel to buy liquor and beer.

    And people in denmark also travel to sweden to buy booze and stuff since the swedish governent booze monopoly store has a world class range of products at a decent price with exceptional service. How the hell something run by the government managed to end up having good service and a good range of products is one of the great mysteries of the universe though. srsly.

  • (cs)

    The 2147483...° for tonight's low would explain, why there is now weather for tomorrow.

    [image] (Source)
  • the beholder (unregistered) in reply to moz
    moz:
    Coyne:
    Kevin Conroy should have kept going at least until he got it up to 3777893186310000000000000 miles. Surely there's an event going on somewhere in the universe.
    That won't prove anything, as an event may have been scheduled somewhere outside the event horizon of the observable universe. It may not have made it into the database Kevin Conroy checked yet.
    Also, any event happening on the inside of a black hole would go unnoticed by Kevin Conroy. Whoever organizes those events there sure don't want the information to leak.
  • Hatterson (unregistered) in reply to Steve The Cynic
    Steve The Cynic:
    anon:
    Steve The Cynic:
    Remy Porter:
    @Deprecated:
    The Sam Adams beer pic was taken in the first Quickie Mart on the ISS.
    First hint that one has been living in Pennsylvania too long: you forget that in civilized states, you can buy beer in a Quickie Mart.

    //I love living in Pittsburgh, but the fact that I can't buy beer in the grocery store like civilized people just kills me.

    In civilized places, you can buy beer in McDonalds.

    Not sure I'd qualify chasing down a Big Mac with a pint to really be 'civilized'.

    Perhaps not, but it shows a place that has a relaxed, not-uptight attitude to public drinking, and a gratifyingly small amount of blatant public drunkenness.

    Or it shows a place that has a ton of raging alcoholics...hard to tell the difference sometimes.

  • (cs) in reply to Ed
    Ed:
    Over in lovely sunny England we can buy 4 cans of Stella for less than a fiver!

    And they're 500ml cans (nearly a pint) or 4 cans of 9 percent beer for the same price - that's 180ml of pure ethanol, and the same strength cider is even cheaper. No wonder there's a huge binge drinking problem in the UK.(and you can buy beer & spirits in petrol(gas) stations)

  • (cs) in reply to sd
    sd:
    Billy The Squid:
    Beer is also sold at a store owned and operated by the Ontario Government. And it's called (I kid you not): "The Beer Store".

    It's called 'The Beer Store' because it used to be called 'Brewers Retail' and that was too highbrow for people.

    "Hey, guys, nobody understand that this is a retail outlet for breweries. We need to change the name." "How about 'The Place where you buy Beer'?" "No, too long." "The Beer Store." "Perfect!"

    Before you know it people will be purchasing Apple products from... wait for it... The Apple Store!
  • Casey (unregistered)

    With all those 3s how has nobody mentioned that this is obviously Commander Data trying to relay information to us in order to prevent a causality loop? Seriously, I thought this was a site full of geeks and nerds!

  • z f k (unregistered) in reply to Your Momma
    Your Momma:
    A Møøse once bit my sister...
    - ??? - Profit! - long live Møøse

    CYA

  • Holden McGroin (unregistered)

    LOL

  • Pedants R Us (unregistered) in reply to Max Kode
    Max Kode:
    JamesQMurphy:
    And in France, do you know what they call a Quarter Pounder with Cheese?
    No, but I do know that the French language has no word for "victory".

    What any of this has to do with 33 33 escapes me, however.

    1. victoire
    2. triomphe

    Oh, you were making a joke.

  • Quirkafleeg (unregistered) in reply to Casey
    Casey:
    With all those 3s how has nobody mentioned that this is obviously Commander Data trying to relay information to us in order to prevent a causality loop? Seriously, I thought this was a site full of geeks and nerds!
    But they're all 33s, not 3s.
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