Thanks for the insights, Incense! I don't mean to hijack the thread, but now that the subject has come up I just have to ask. What cars turn women on and what cars turn them off?
Mike.
Posts by Bendrr
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by Crystal intoday i had my jeep towed into the shop..i dreaded the ride in with the driver (im extremly shy).
but we ended up haveing a great conversation about what vehicle i should buy next.. what a perfect person to ask cuz of his job.
he said "dont get another jeep they roll too easy and they catch on fire.".
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Car Wars
by Crystal intoday i had my jeep towed into the shop..i dreaded the ride in with the driver (im extremly shy).
but we ended up haveing a great conversation about what vehicle i should buy next.. what a perfect person to ask cuz of his job.
he said "dont get another jeep they roll too easy and they catch on fire.".
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Bendrr
My favorite car was one I bought in '89. I was 17 and retired the old Mustang II (Pinto-Mustang) given me by my grandfather.
My dad and I went car-shopping one day and this bright silver behemoth at one lot virtually shouted to both of us. A 1978 Dodge Monaco. Same as a Plymouth Fury. Thousands of them died horrible deaths as police cars in shows like 'The A-Team' in the 80's. This one was a cherry. 32,000 original miles by one owner, an elderly couple. For real. The paint was like new, the interior was like new, the vinyl top was like new, the air conditioning worked. And back in the days those cars were made, Dodge made full-size sedans that rode much better than Ford or Chevy. Gotta love that torsion-bar front end! That car would cruise at 100. It handled like a car half its size, and that's outstanding for 70's automotive technology. Plus if I "kept my foot out of it" I could get around 20 mpg average thanks to that "voodoo" lean-burn system Chrysler put on their cars back then. I would kill to find another Monaco/Fury in similar condition now. Ahhhh the things I could do! Show those "Fast and the Furious" teenyboppers a thing or two!
Damn I miss that car! Now I have a 91 Geo Storm. Just for the hell of it I put on a header and MSD Ignition and while the gas mileage is great, it just doesn't have the low-end power I like. Top end is great though. I don't shift into 5th until around 60-70. But the car is so light that it gets pretty squirrely at high speeds. I need to lower it about an inch or so.
Next car I'm thinking maybe a retired Ford Crown Vic police cruiser. You can pick them up for next to nothing but count on rebuilding the engine and transmission. But believe me when I tell you, just as any cop will, that Crown Vics will go unbelievably fast (like 140 or 150 mph). And they ride and handle great - with the proper tweaking at the hands of a good tech. Hey that's me!
TeeJay, great truck! I've always preferred Chevy trucks. Have you had dual exhaust put on yet? I can't even count how many Chevy trucks I've run "cat-back" duals on. Once I got good at it, I could put on a set of cat-backs in 30 minutes by myself. When the 2000 models came out, I was the first tech in Macon to run duals on one.
Francois, I love Preludes. Ok, I love ALL Hondas but anyway. Oh.....THIS JUST IN: C. B. MITCHELL IS STILL DEAD!!!!
<<grin>>
Mike.
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i had my neighbours beaten up last night!
by josephus inmy neighbours have been having a party for the last two weeks.
they are both drunks, and spend the day drinking with their mates outside my brothers apartment where i currently live.
i tried to stop them, but as they are convicted violent crims i was at a loss.. now instead of tolerating it i asked the local terrorists for help.
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Bendrr
Dude, I think you went a little over the line with that one. I agree that noisy neighbors can drive you nuts. I also understand that many times the cops are very apathetic and leave you to deal with it yourself.
I'm not in 100% disagreement with your handling of the situation though. As in your case, there are those among us who are so dumb that they only understand our point once it is physically beaten into them. Do be prepared for reciprocal action though.
Mike.
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We're not going to take it anymore!!!
by Elsewhere in.
i find listening to this song works well with reading this forum!
twisted sister - we're not going to take it anymore
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Bendrr
Damn I just love those 80's rockers!
Elsewhere, how about "Screaming For Vengeance" by Judas Priest?
"Seek and Destroy" by Metallica, back when they actually were Metallica.
Any other additions?
Mike of the long hair keepin' the 80's alive class.
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My New Puppy
by Bendrr in(fluff advisory: yadda yadda yadda).
http://us.f1.yahoofs.com/users/7cfd2c28/bc/yahoo!+photo+album/trouble+the+puppy.jpg?bcjpbb9akc8pwoyl.
all together now: awwwwww!
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(fluff advisory: yadda yadda yadda)
http://us.f1.yahoofs.com/users/7cfd2c28/bc/Yahoo!+Photo+Album/Trouble+the+puppy.jpg?bcjPBb9AKC8pwOyl
All together now: Awwwwww!
My housewarming present, a six-week old Chihuahua-Daschund puppy. Named "Trouble" by the parents' owners. I adopted him Saturday. I haven't had a dog in many years. My cockatiel was pretty upset Saturday night when I brought Trouble home, but she's warmed up to him today. Trouble was in my lap and Bendrr walked over and got in my lap right next to him, checking him out I guess. Then she nibbled his ear a little and then went back to her cage.
Just thought I'd share that.
Mike.
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The Rich Get Richer......
by VioletAnai inhttp://news.ninemsn.com.au/world/story_36095.asp
i think you know where i'm headed with this....... i just don't understand how many praise our economic system and yet it leaves millions behind.
it denies many necessities from many people all for the sake of the comforts of the rich nations.
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Bendrr
I'm starting to wonder how many closet communists we actually have around here.
Why not just have everything provided to us by the government free of charge? Why not, I mean really? We all need food, housing, education, health care, it should all be provided by the government.
Fine. Let's have all that.
That makes the government the number one supplier of goods and services. Ok actually it makes the government the only supplier of goods and services.
And now we all live in government housing. Meaning you may not be able to continue living in that dream house you spent all that money on should the Federal Bureau of Housing assign you to different living quarters and some other family said dream house based on the paperwork you both filed. Now as far as that plum job, well sorry but the Federal Department of Labor may reassign you to a different task but don't worry since all jobs are now government jobs.
And when you retire, you'll have your basic needs cared for. Food (government rations), a place to live (government retirement facility), health care (government doctors).
Cradle-to-grave entitlements, just like the....oh hell you all know where I'm going here....SOVIET UNION!
Crownboy, your assessment of the tax burden leaves me to think that you haven't seen the football since the kickoff. Hey, why don't you ask Bill Gates how much of a tax refund he got last year?
Mike.
p.s. Tax The Poor!
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Road Rage
by teenyuck inwriterpen's thread on "what irritates you?
" seemed to be leaning towards the automobile as a major source of irritability.
" i looked up into the face of the ceo.
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Hey Detective, aren't you from Georgia? (maybe I'm thinking of another poster so if you aren't then my bad)
If so then you know that around here if you get out of the car with a crossbow you're likely to be in the obits as the dumbass that brought a crossbow to a gunfight.
Y'all gotta understand something about what road rage is really all about. I don't mean road-rage in the way the media portrays it, when a couple of dipsticks go postal in traffic. I refer to road rage as in righteous indignation. When some other driver displays a selfish and careless disregard for the safety of others that one must take action. If there are no law enforcement present, it is your duty to call attention to the acts of said dumbass.
These people that drive like they own the road are not only endangering you, they're a threat - a clear and present danger - to all other motorists they share the road with. That includes our kids folks!
As a side point, should said dumbass decide to escalate the situation....I've got a loaded .45 and a license to carry. Bring it on!
Mike.
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hot dogs and tacos
by larc ini was wondering, are hot dogs and tacos unchristion??
hot dogs do look like, well i can't say that, and tacos do look like another thing i can't mention.
so, my basic question is this - are hot dogs and tacos unchristian?
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Larc, would you prefer Jehovah's spiritual provision?
A HOAGIE?!!!
Mike.
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Road Rage
by teenyuck inwriterpen's thread on "what irritates you?
" seemed to be leaning towards the automobile as a major source of irritability.
" i looked up into the face of the ceo.
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Puffs, don't lose the road-rage entirely. Regardless of the circumstances you shared, they still pulled some dumbass moves that could have hurt or killed someone. That has to be brought to their attention and since a cop is not handy to do so, someone has to. Namely you.
Let me put it in a different light. I used to love motorcycles. Rode one everywhere I went for a long time. My last bike was 3 years ago. I saved up the money and bought a cherry Suzuki Intruder. That's not one of those "crotch-rockets" by the way. I spent hours cleaning and polishing and maintaining my pride and joy and hours riding everywhere I could. It all ended in just a few seconds. Some idiot pulled right out in front of me and I had to choose between the choice of road-rash or a head-on collision. I took the road rash.
He said (predictably) "I didn't see you". Now I was in full road-rage at the time. Threw my helmet across the street and everything. I told him that if he was so fuXXing blind as to not see a bike with the high-beam on in broad daylight then he needed to retest for his license. The officer on the scene was also a motorcycle cop so the other driver got a further treatment in guilt. (we bikers do indeed stick together)
To cut to the moral of that story, I gave up riding because of that. I could have been killed because this fool was just too oblivious to other traffic to wait to pull out of the Home Depot parking lot. What if I had had one of my little neices riding with me?
I summed it up pretty succinctly (sp?) last year when I was explaining my decision to quit riding to a friend of mine. He had just bought a sweet Harley. I told him "dude, someday you'll be riding down the road without a care in the world but somewhere out there some dumbass soccer mom is gonna be barrelling down the road in her SUV yakking away on her cell-phone and she'll never see you".
I don't have road-rage, I AM road-rage. When someone does something stupid on the road that affects me, I let them know. I don't care what power you have over me, when you f*** up on the road with me, you'll do it to someone else - maybe a car full of kids - and I'm damn well going to say something.
As far as cell-phones and driving, I say get them off the road. This civilization has made it this far without phones on the road and we can continue to make it without them. Hang the damn phone up and drive!
Mike.
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The Rich Get Richer......
by VioletAnai inhttp://news.ninemsn.com.au/world/story_36095.asp
i think you know where i'm headed with this....... i just don't understand how many praise our economic system and yet it leaves millions behind.
it denies many necessities from many people all for the sake of the comforts of the rich nations.
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Puffs, I appreciated your story very much. I have a similar story to share.
My dad (stepdad, but he's my dad regardless of that silly cult barrier). He never graduated high school, only made it as far as the tenth grade. And that was in Georgia of the 60's when students walked barefoot to school and one wouldn't think a farm tractor out of place in the dirt parking lot.
With that 10th grade education, he busted his skinny ass to support our family, starting out with a micro-sized trailer (excuse me, manufactured home), a 1960's model Ford Falcon bought for $25, and his job as a welder at some crappy shop in the slums of nearby Perry. He moved on to the insurance industry, running the old "policy routes" common in the rural south where folks like us paid for their insurance by the week but not by the U. S. Postal Service. With his 10th grade education he used that crummy policy route to move up to General Agent of a company he started with another dub. He passed every single necessary certification and licensing test with flying colors. He had awards hanging on his office wall and probably still has them boxed up somewhere. Still doesn't have a high school diploma though, but I garantee you that he has a better work ethic than your average college graduate. And I respect him so much for that.
I can say that I have at least some of his drive. I've had times when I slept in my car, slept in a utility room of a friend's apartment, and many times had no dinner to come home to. I've worked for what I have. Last year I did my taxes and saw that I paid $9,000 in Federal taxes alone (this year even more) and only got a refund of $1600 while I saw co-workers getting refunds of $3,000 or more. Their friends were coming by bragging about refunds of over $6,000 and how they got it by "renting a kid or two".
THAT'S OUR MONEY!!!
I have absolutely no sympathy left for "the poor". Not when I have to stand behind them in line at the convenience store while they blow $20 on that damn lottery. Not when I have to stand behind them in line at the grocery store while they fumble with their EBT card (welfare funded debit card) with groceries that they then load into a Cadillac. Nor when they come into my shop with said Cadillac and the state welfare agency pays for any necessary repairs. That's my damn money, not theirs. When they say welfare what they really mean is they want someone to earn it, bring it home, put it on the table, and feed them. Sorry, but that ain't in the Constitution.
I say emphatically: Tax The Poor!
Let the bottom 50% pay theirfair share! Give the big refunds to us middle-class working folks who have been supporting this country all these years. And I don't mean that $300/$600 check they sent out last year either. Let us keep more of our money to spend and invest and then you'll see a real boost to the economy that benefits everyone! Get rid of that criminal "Earned Income Tax Credit" because it is definitely not earned nor is it fair considering the actual taxes paid by the recipients.
Ok that was a rant, but I had to get it off my chest. No apologies though. It had to be said, and needs to be repeated.
Mike.
