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I'm from Tennesse, and I have every piece but of course the main ones;

I need Boardwalk, Penn(green) and a few others; if anyone has them please let me know and I will split the prize with you. I mean 500,000 dollars is alot, especially when you didn't have it in the first place! (link)
Hi there,

My understanding is that there is only one 1 Boardwalk, while there are millions of Park Place pieces.

Basically, if you have any of the rare piece, all you would need to do, if you didn't already have it, would be spend a few dollars on food and your missing McDonald's monopoly piece would appear. :-)

Nobody but the severely mentally handicapped would let you talk them into partnering up on a rare piece. Even if you did find someone and talk them into it somehow, it is probably illegal on top of being immoral.

Nevertheless... every year someone posts this here. ;-)

There are many thousands of people who are trying to find one person who is such an idiot that they don't get the math in this game, and can be conned into splitting their prize.

Your odds of finding a victim to take advantage of are pretty small, even without the many thousands of other people out there trying the same annual McDonald's Monopoly scam.

If you didn't realize what you were doing, that is fine, but you should know that this question makes you look like you are trying to find some poor mathematically challenged soul to take advantage of.

If you did realize that you were running a scam that has been going on since the 80s, then here is the proof that you aren't alone:

only search advicenators.com


... thousands and thousands of forum posts... just like your own. ;-)

I am curious, though... did you set out to scam someone, or did you not understand the math behind the piece distribution?


When you read the material on Maitreya, how can you know its true and accurate?? (link)
Well, sometimes you can line up one belief system against another.

For example: The person your are referring to here has long been held up as the most likely person to become the anti-christ when the time comes.

So, you could read both sides of that thought process and see what you think. You will not have any trouble finding things to read about him.

In all of this, try and use some common sense. If things seem too good to be true... they are. There is always a catch. With the belief in Christ, you know what the catch is right up front. Not so much with the other side of this case.

May wisdom be your guide.


Ok well im going trick or treating with my friends and I decided to b a nurse so like I got the costume and everything but i was wondering what I sould do with hair and make up well with my hair i was thinking a low pony tail and then clip it up with a clip but the prob is I have VERY thick hair and with the make up I have no idea what to do. Im wearing scrubs not that other kinda nurse outfit that not me at all I want to be an ultrasound technician when I get older even though u really dont need to know that but just though I put that out there. So please help if u can. Thanks. Remember I have an account here so if you need to ask a question I 'm always hear to help kk.:D (link)
Well, if you aren't going as a "sexy nurse" all you need to do is put your hair up in any way that it will fit under your scrub hat.

Scrub nurses don't typically wear makeup in the operating room, and nurses that wear scrubs around the rest of the hospital generally try to avoid makeup as well.

It is a hard job with long hours and you are usually so busy all the time that you can't fix your makeup every little while. More than that, some of your patients are going to be allergic to something you might be wearing, so it is best to skip it altogether.

Basically your costume is the easiest one on the planet: Put on some scrubs. Done.

If you can find a stethoscope to hang around your neck, that might sell the idea a little. Other than that... well, there just isn't much you can do with scrubs. :-)



So I've googled just about everything possible and unfortunately I'm to frazzled to even think straight right now! So can my fellow gamers help me out. I want to get a handheld like the new 3ds.

BUT! I would like it to be a Zelda edition? Yeah, I'm a dork. Anyway I had a ds lite LoZ PHG. (Legend of Zelda Phantom Hourglass)

But had to pawn it. Anyway, does anyone know of any 3DS zelda editions? I've seen fake ones online. But I'm confused. Link me if you do!

And or if there isn't one yet but have heard talk about one coming out, please do share in full detail! >.<

One more thing I know you can play regular ds games on a 3ds, but can you play a 3ds game on a regular ds lite?

Thank you to all that respond usefully!
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Sorry, the rumored zelda edition is the art project of a deviant-art user named "Wasa-bi-redux."

You can read about it here:

http://www.zeldauniverse.net/zelda-news/this-zelda-box-set-is-epicly-unfortunately-unreal/

No, you can not play Nintendo 3ds games on a DSlite.



My boyfriend and I have our anniversary coming up soon and I wanted to do something special for him, he has always wanted a recording studio to recod his raps and stuff. I was wondering If anyone new like a cheep home recording studio package I could get for him to start out with? (link)
If you would respond in feedback with an idea of the price range you are looking at, I will do a little research for you and try to put something together in your price range.

To give you an idea of the bottom of the line, basic system:

For an actual mixing board, some decent studio monitors and a couple of budget microphones along with all the associated cables and misc electronics to make it all work, I would say you could put something that wasn't completely laughable together for about $5,000

If you add sound deadening to a dedicated stupid room in the house, along with a double insulated sound proof window in one wall, so that the engineer can sit in the other room, you are probably adding another $5,000 to do it the cheapest way possible without sacrificing too much quality.

I know this sounds like a lot, if you aren't into this... BUT, if you want to do it without sparing expense, and not shopping with price in mind over quality, it is almost impossible to do this even halfway right without spending $50,000.

Your best bet is to find out what he has in mind for a studio. Perhaps his needs and wants are more modest than I am thinking.

Ask him what his home studio will have in it when he has the chance to do it. Make mental notes, and come back here. Post the details in a question directly to me, and I will price something out for you.



I started to play a computer game called 4 Elements II. I'm on level 41 right at the last puzzle and I honestly cannot figure it out. If anyone has played this and passed this puzzle, can you PLEASE tell me how to do it?
Thank you. (link)
Hi there,

Here is the 4 elements II forum:

http://forums.bigfishgames.com/forums/show/2508.page

... and it looks like you aren't the only one stuck on level 41.

The game is new enough that I wasn't able to find a walkthrough for it yet, so I suggest you get involved in that forum and add your voice to the list of people who are stuck in 4 Elements 2! :-)

Have fun.


So ive been cantering for about 2 months, and according ti my teacher i have a great seat and when i am cantering i feel amazing! Bu the next morning i am so stiff i can hadly walk. How can i keep this from happening? (link)
Here are the things that spring to mind as far as reasons why your new equestrian adventures may be leaving you sore:

Your saddle may not fit you as well as it could.

You might want to seek a second opinion on your seat position, as well as your general progress. Not all riding instructors are good at all aspects of riding. This is why some people are specialized as saddle coaches.

You may be holding the canter for too long at a time, which may be more than your body can take right now.

If you are an adult I would find a chiropractor with good references, and go in for an examination/adjustment.

If you are a child, I would talk to your parents about that idea and see what they think.

No matter your age: Do NOT ever see a chiropractor who you haven't actually checked the references on. A bad one can hurt you more than you would even believe. A good one is a wonderful blessing, and someone you will treasure for life.

No matter what you do, yoru coach and your parents need to know about the fact you are having difficulty walking the next day.


http://www.coolopticalillusions.com/crazy/sausage_finger.htm


It won't work for me...how can I make it work?

I blur my vision but see nothing, I tried this for about 30 minutes and all I got was a terrible headache!

What am I doing wrong?


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Can't tell you why it doesn't work for you. It works for me.

The key may be that the illustration of the sausage finger trick shows a very distinct "chunk" of floating finger, and that isn't what you really get.

As for doing this for 30 minutes? Don't do that. Nothing is worth damaging your eyes.

The things I had to do to get the effect were move my hands closer or further away from my eyes, as well as varying the distance that my fingers were apart from one another.

If this is going to work, it takes only a few seconds to see the result. If you are doing it wrong, then staring at them for 10,000 years will not help.



my friends mom wants to send her daughter to her aunts house for the summer (link)
Ok. This is a statement not a question, so would you please tell us what you meant to ask?

Thank you.



What is going on with this website?

1. On my other account, I keep getting a message whenever I log in, to confirm my e-mail address. I don't have an e-mail, so I contact DangerNerd as it states, and Nothing! This has been going on for about 3 months +

2. The most stupid of questions are going through.

3. I contacted the administrators about an issue I had a month or so ago, but no help?

I mean...come on! (link)
Hello,

1) I have nothing in my inbox from you at this point.

2) The most stupid of questions are being asked. When people ask intelligent questions, they just sit there without answers. Why? Because the same people who complain about the quality of the questions don't bother to answer them. This is the single most discussed forum topic in history here. Each time it comes up, I provide a list of a dozen or so questions that either have no answers or one answer from someone who didn't even understand what was being asked.

3) As for anything you might have sent anywhere else... I have been in the hospital. I know that doesn't mean much to your situation, but I have been making an attempt to stay among the living so I hope you will forgive me for that. It seems all the L2 mods have gone missing at the same time... so when I am able to get on here with a more stable connection I will be getting things under control a little more, but until then please use only my inbox for communication. I don't have the time or energy to fight through my e-mail or the heavily spammed admin account.

Now, if you would be so kind, please drop a note in my inbox telling me your old account, and how you lost access to your old e-mail address along with anything else I need to know to resolve your problem.


Okay, well i have sims 2 with no expasion packs. Im wondering if you can make your own neighborhood with preset relationships from two diffrent familys.

Example:

Jenny from the Thompson Family is going steady with Jeff from the tyler family anf they live in two seprate houses.
I understand i can take time and get them to do that. But i would like to set up my own naborhood with again PRESET relationships. If you couls. Please help? Thanks! (link)
Hi there,

May I point you to a couple Sims2 forums where the true sim-heads hang out?

Neoseeker's Sims2 forum:

http://www.neoseeker.com/forums/5606/

SimsResource Forums:

http://forums.thesimsresource.com/

... and finally:

ModTheSims:

http://www.modthesims.info/forumdisplay.php?f=558

... which is where I expect you to have the best luck.

I hope it isn't too terribly difficult to create custom relationships in Sims2. Please, would you update your question with additional info when you figure this out?

Thank you!


Does any one know of any other good websites similar to craigslist? I was looking for a horse for my moms land. (link)
Hi there,

Talk about an easy answer... :-)

When you are looking for horses for sale, there are MANY sites to check out:

Horsetopia:

http://www.horsetopia.com/

EquineNow:

http://www.equinenow.com/

DreamHorse:

http://www.dreamhorse.com/

HorseClicks:

http://www.horseclicks.com/

Equine.com:

http://www.equine.com/

... and probably a hundred more. Check this google search if you want more choices than those:

only search advicenators.com


Good luck, and pick wisely... buying the wrong horse is always a costly mistake. If this is your first time buying a horse, may I suggest you talk to someone who has done it before? You will thank me later. :-)


I have about 55 things in my Queue on Tumblr. I have my settings to Automatically publish a queued post 5 times a day between 12pm and 3pm.

Now shouldn't it be publishing a total of 50 posts between 12pm and 3pm every day?
Or am I understanding this wrong?

Today it only posted THREE posts between 12pm and 3pm. (link)
Hi there,

As you probably already know, there isn't a lot of help on the tumblr site, but what you may not know is that there is a help page hidden away.

http://www.tumblr.com/docs/en/posting

... if you look in the upper right corner you will find an e-mail address for the tumblr community ambassador: Marc LaFountain.

This issue may be something they aren't even aware of yet.

Please consider e-mailing him and asking this same question directly to the tumblr staff.

When you find out what is going on, please return here and update your question with the details of what you found so that the next person who has thing problem will find the solution here.

Thank you, and good luck!


my ex left me for someone else

up in till a few weeks ago we thought she might have cancer thank god she don't she has something but nothing that bad

anyway i'm young just 22 we was having to talk about nasty things her asking me like will i still love her if she loses her hair and other things that

you shouldn't need to think about at are age she is 18

anyway i was needing to be strong and do all the hard things but there was someone else who could make her feel good cos of not needing to talk about this stuff

i think he might of been easy to talk to or something he keeped telling her he loves her and how happy they would be together and thinks like that when i was saying we need to stop drinking and eat better cos of her health(

both of us i wouldn't ask her to do anything like that if i wouldn't do it myself)
what chance did i stand haha

but the point is he is a snake

to go thru that for any one is hard it makes it impassable when theres a fun guy who's not needing to think about the hard parts and can just be fun

anyway she left me for him like a week after we found out she don't have cancer

i hate him i feel a bit like now should be the time her a i should be making happy good plans and getting on with are life but instead she is doing that with him

and i'm drained and on my own

i know beating him up might be wrong but its all i can think of he came into her life at a hard time and took her (he knew about me and didn't care)

i don't see why he can just have nothing for what he has done to me any advice ?

sorry about my poor spelling i think its all readable

thank you for taking the time to read this and reply

its approached its nice to know strangers are nice

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One thing to remember here:

You are angry at the wrong person.

You weren't in a relationship with this other guy... you were in a relationship with HER.

SHE is the one you should be angry at, and by projecting your anger onto him you are allowing your mind to still think of her as a nice person.

You shouldn't beat her up either, but you should place the blame where it belongs. If you don't, then you are going to waste away wondering how "he took her away" when in fact, she broke your heart to be with him.

Some people cheat, some people don't. Anyone who can be smooth talked out of a relationship, like you think she was, will only do that if they didn't want to be in the original relationship.

I wish this had never happened before, but people using you to get through a hard time in their life is more common that you would even believe. :-(

I know, from experience, that this hurts and I wish I could take that pain away from you.

Maybe my situation will help you feel better about one thing: If this had to happen, and since this is the kind of person she turned out to be, it was going to happen sooner or later...

... at least it happened now, and not, say, after you had been married 10 years and built a life together. That is what happened with me. I wish she would have wandered off to be with someone else a lot sooner than she did.

I know you don't want to hear this, but I have to say it again:

He didn't "take her away" she decided to be with him instead of you. It was her choice, and nothing you do to this guy would ever change that.

So stay out of jail, and find someone who isn't a cheater at heart. Someone who loves you as much as you love them. She is out there for you.

Take care.

P.S. You are welcome to contact me if you need to talk through this situation.


Lately, I have been obsessed with the fun smileys that the iphone has. I was able to get them by downloading ChompSMS and emoji. I love using them and haven't had a problem yet but I am debating on turning the notifications off on my native messaging because everytime I get a text, it tells me twice because I have two messaging systems. Is that okay to do? If chomp stops working for some reason, I will still be able to go back to my native messaging source, right? (link)
The best thing to do is experiment here.

As a rule, anything that you can disable in software can also be re-enabled... so go ahead and disable the notifications and see if all goes the way that you want it to. If not, re-enable it and try something different.

You can always go back to your default messaging service any time you want to, so there is no risk here.

Have fun with your android powered smiley factory. ;-)


I have a 1997 Hitachi Model No. 6OUX54B if it'll help any. My dell is Dimension 1100/B110 system model DE051. I was wondering if it was possible to connect the two together. I have looked and cannot see proper color ports for the RGB plugs, and this cord was bought without instructions as to which one is which. So, I was wondering if they are compatible to add together, or will I need to purchase a different cord? Thanks for your time and help.


Also, would a DVD player be capable of transferring the picture? I noticed my DVD player had RGB hookups. (link)
Hi there,

The DVD player's video ports are OUTPUT ONLY; so plugging an input in there is a really bad idea.

The rest of your question I can't really answer without seeing the ports on the back panel of your Hitachi television.

I am going to guess that at the very least it will have an s-video port. With that in mind, please check out this PC to TV adapter (also called VGA to TV adapter:)

http://www.amazon.com/PC-To-TV-Video-Converter/dp/B001CJOLBW

... for the simplest way to get this done.

If your TV has component video inputs, and you want to spend the money, there are other adapter boxes which will do that as well.

That is about all I can tell you without all the info about ports.

Here is a website with a step by step quiz to help you make the right connections:

http://hookpctotv.com/

... and here is a video tutorial that covers the common connection options:

"How to connect my PC to TV"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X9P3iulnN4Y

Whoever sold you that cord didn't do you any favors. If you can return it, I would.

Have fun playing with your big screen!

P.S. Don't forget to always have a screen saver active when you are running through the TV. Screen burn can leave your TV pretty useless if you aren't careful.


(Pretty gross yeah i know...)
Past month or two I've been getting bumps around my anus and around my vagina..

They're itchy and painful.

At first I thought maybe my partner had given me herpies, but I went to the doctor and got tested and they haven't called me to come in or anything yet so I don't think it's that... And the bumps look nothing like the pictures I've seen on google for herpies.

I also looked up other things it could be like Pin Worms. And yet again they look nothing like the pictures.

The bumps sort of look like a mix between hidradenitis suppurativa and a smaller version of hemmroids.
The bumps are itchy and painful, and from what I can tell sort of have a smell. When I notice them their seems to be lots of fluids around them, such as sweat, discharge, and sometimes I think they have stuff coming out of them, if they do however it is clear. I also thought maybe they were just pimples because my pimples (no matter the location) always itch, even on my face. But I don't know...

I was wondering if they could have something to do with my hair follics and fluids because I have had a history of such especially if I shave. I went to the doctors once because I had itchy painful bumps on my armpits and top of pubic line on vagina and near inner thighs because of me shaving, and sweat, etc.
However these bumps are a bit larger and sometimes come open like lesions and aren't red, but are more so pink.
They are less than the size of a dime. Sometimes they almost look like cysts. (Which I've had 3 before removed from my inner mouth.)

Could this be Pruritus Ani?

Any ideas what this could be? How to treat it? Or what kind of doctor I should see (gyno, dermo, regular doc.?)?
Thank you for all input! (link)
Hi there,

First, let me congratulate you on the best written medical question ever posted in the entire history of this site!

The problem is that nobody here is a doctor. With the wide variety of things this could be; well, it would be unwise for anyone to really throw anything out there as an answer when they haven't a clue.

The one part of your question I can answer is this: Start with your gynecologist if you can get an emergency appointment.

The amount of time they spend probing around people's nether regions gives them a vast wealth of knowledge about various outbreaks that can occur down there.

If they don't know exactly what it is or how best to treat it, they will know the right person to refer you to next.

As for the STD issue: There are several tests for herpes, as not all of them work for all people, or at all stages of infection... So, let the doctor have a look and go from there.



If anyone knows where to buy fake tree branches near Naperville Illinois, please point me where to. I've looked online but nothing comes up. Not even in Chicago! I'm well aware of websites to order from but I'm not looking for ordering. So please don't suggest it. Thank you to all that provide useful advice. (link)
Hi there,

Please contact a couple local florists and wedding planners in your area. If they aren't able to help you, they will know where to look.

Also, "Just Say Yes Events" is rumored to rent them. I would think they would also sell them.

Contact them here:

http://justsayyesevents.com/contact.html

... and see what they have to say.

Good luck.

P.S. If you are doing this for centerpieces, think long and hard about it. I have been to many weddings, and don't remember the centerpieces from any of them. Kind of pointless considering what these things cost. Just a thought.


so many people are trying to give nice gifts.

i wonder who will have a true and uniquely real gift instead of jump thru tons of hoops to get the gift ? (link)
What does this even mean?

Could you ask this again and phrase it differently?

Thank you.


how to do a center split (link)
Be more polite, and add more detail to your question, and someone might answer you. ;-)




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