I'm halfway (possibly further through, who knows) a Civ4 game - max world size, 16 civs, and it's a to-the-death game. My alliance (started with 7 civs, now down to 4) has been at war with the other alliance (was 6 now 4) for about 300 years (18 months on and off in real time), with no end in sight. There's really only one significant enemy in the other alliance, the rest can be safely ignored.
I long ago gave up on a quick victory, so for the last 100 years or so, I have concentrated on bombing the crap out a city with about 20 bombers, immediately following that up with an attack by 20 or 30 tanks, and hopefully eventually take the city. Of course, you need to give other reachable cities similar treatment regularly, just to keep them manageable. I haven't actually succeeded in capturing a city for at least 50 years though, as whenever I get ready for a sustained bombing-and-tanking campaign on a city, the enemy send a pile of units towards me, so I then have to divert the bombers and tanks to crushing these constant raids. I keep softening up his cities though, in preparation.
I had some outpost cities on another continent, but the place was just too rocky and arid, so I gave up sending reinforcements to them, and abandoned them to their fate probably 150 years ago. They're still there, though, hanging on.
I have all the techs but haven't gone nuclear - I still feel that I can eventually wear the other guys down.
All the while, I keep churning out missionaries or whatever they're called, along with spies etc, just because they're cheap, set-and-forget, and they may make some small difference in the long run.

Anyway, the point I'm making is that I really need to finish this game before number 5 comes out.

I DID marry her - now I play Farmville to block out the pain of my ruined life.

Why charge a third when you could charge two thirds? It's still cheaper...

Seeing as there's no images, I doubt you'd need a towel, or tissues, or anything like that really.

Something like this happened for real - the band Black Sabbath wanted a Stonehenge-style stage set for their 1983/84 tour, but someone got confused between imperial and metric measurements (I don't know, maybe they used metres instead of feet) and they ended up with a Stonehenge replica much larger than the original (and too large to fit in most venues). From what I could figure out, they still have it in a (big) warehouse somewhere. And apparently this was the inspiration for the Spinal Tap Stonehenge bit.

Or you can do what I do, which is an extension of the above - use some sort of virtual desktop manager thingy (but keep it's very existence hidden, of course), then you can have your normal stuff in Firefox on the main screen, and have your other stuff in Chrome on the secret second screen... just be ready to flick screens at a moment's notice.

I need it to be able to run System Shock - I've been trying for a while, and damned if I can get it going any other way.

Have you seen the 'butcher' cover? I don't think that's the sort of thing Microsoft would do.