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  1. On ‎5‎/‎15‎/‎2018 at 4:37 PM, Paper_jam said:

    Did 70's Pintos and Mavericks come in any other color than puke green?   Wait, I think I remember seeing some Mavericks in white.

    The first new car my dad ever bought was a silver 1978 Pinto, 3 door wagon. It somehow lasted 10 years.

  2. I was talking to a buddy on the phone back in high school, he was trying to make a hot fudge sunday and he was bitching because the fudge was too hard from being in the fridge. I said, "Duh, microwave it".  Then he complained because his ice cream melted. Dumbass had already put the fudge on his ice cream, then he microwaved it.

  3. 8 hours ago, pearlandhorn said:

    My parents took my wife (then fiance) and I to fucking Olive Garden in Austin when I graduated.  Fucking Olive Garden.

    We went home and ordered pizza after HS graduation. I was fine with that.

  4. People that list a car for sale on Facebook or craigslist but they list it by the down payment instead of the full price. So when I'm looking for an old project for under $3000, I get late model cars/trucks on the list for $2500 but that's the down payment. Fuck you assholes.

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  5. 15 hours ago, Druggist said:

    My wife and I discussed and agreed that she would do most of the laundry, etc if she quit work to stay home with the kids.  Eight years later, she has not gotten a job and guess who washes his own shit most of the time.  Good luck with your agreement.

    I do all of the laundry because if I don't, it won't get done. Her track record on doing the dishes is more than enough evidence.

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  6. 16 hours ago, TexasEd said:

    Found this 1913 Model A while driving through my neighborhood. 

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    A few years back I took my now 98 year old grandma to a car drive in and we saw a Model A similar to this one and she hopped over as fast as she could because she said that was the first car she ever drove.  Here is a 1929 Model A and my 1919 model grandma.

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    My wife's grandfather was a model A fanatic. He was a member of the model A club in Oklahoma and he owned several of them over his 95 years. He had one left in storage at my mother-in-law's garage when he died about 18 months ago. She sold it a few months later, it was a sad day. This one was a 1929 as well.

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  7. 4 hours ago, High Plains Drifter said:

    Couple of nights ago I'm up late working at the dining room table. Its quiet, kids are asleep, wife is asleep. Wife wakes up, comes into dining room, we exchange pleasantries. She goes to bathroom, gets some water from the kitchen, sits on the couch for five minutes while she looks at her phone, goes back to bed.

    I get up and turn off the kitchen light, bathroom light, and two lamps in the living room that she turned on and left on.

    Our hallway is about 25 feet long but you enter it about in the middle. Every time my wife goes in there, she HAS to turn on the light. It's like she's exploring the world's deepest cave or something. Of course, the light doesn't get turned off unless I do it. Every time I call her on it: Tone. We even have a night-light in there, at her demand. Still too dark.

  8. We had DQ in Oklahoma back in the 80s & 90s but they quietly vanished. We just got them back 2-3 years ago, and they serve everything, not just ice cream. I've always hated Dennis the Menace, so that put a damper on getting a blizzard when I was a kid.

    We stopped at the DQ in Waco a few years ago. I felt like I had walked into a time capsule from 1987. The floor was so greasy, we could hardly walk. The ceiling tiles were yellowed from smoke and water damage. It was disgusting.

  9. 11 hours ago, Lhorn said:

    I don't disagree with a student walking out, but I was their age too once and I know that if there was "walk out" where there going to be zero repercussions, I probably would have joined to just get out of a class for a day.  To pretend that all the kids walking out are passionate social activists who care deeply about the cause, is giving them a bit too much credit.  I'd also be fine with my kids suffering whatever consequences of their walk out.  

    That's why I took the ASVAB, just to get out of class.

  10. On ‎4‎/‎6‎/‎2018 at 8:54 PM, fattyflattie said:

    I work with about 50 of them. 

    They don't mince words, at all. 

    They are tall af. 

    Ive yet to find a good looking Dutch woman. 

    If you aren't Dutch, you aren't much. 

    And as they will tell you, on the 8th day, God created the Dutch. 

    They are also tremendously smarter than Americans, legends in their own minds. 

    "If you aren't Dutch, you aren't much" - Bas Rutten

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  11. People that bring their kid(s) to work. I get it, we had a teacher strike, and sometimes school is out due to the weather. But either find a daycare or a babysitter or stay home. We work for the state, I know you have annual leave!

    Instead, I have to dodge 7 year olds as I walk to the copier.

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  12. Saw my dad over the weekend. He had a procedure to put a stent in his leg, he's not getting circulation and his feet are falling apart. Once they got in there, the doc realized he has to have a bypass. They're gonna try to salvage some veins but will use cadaver veins if the have to. He doesn't seem too bothered by it but I think he's putting on a good front. I'm worried as hell.  He'll be in the hospital for a week, then bedridden for god knows how long.

    I was talking to someone about it (NOT A DOCTOR) who was of the opinion that people with those sorts of problems don't last more than a couple of years. I don't even know how to process that. He's my dad, I just assumed he'd trudge on forever. 

  13. My wife's money trick is to round down (a lot) for something she likes/wants and to overestimate things I want/she doesn't like. So she wants something that is marked $38.99, she says, "Well, it's only 30 bucks!", as if the last $10 just gets waived off at the register. Or if I want some new gadget, she'll say "That's probably 50-60 bucks, too expensive" and I show her the price tag of $22 and she just turns up her nose at it. 

    She does the same thing with store hours. If I tell her we need to get the car to the dealership first thing on Saturday, she'll say "Well, they probably don't open till 11." I say, "Yeah, a car dealer is gonna give up 2-3 hours of possible sales on the only weekend day they can be open, sure thing." Tone. She just doesn't want to get up at 8 on a Saturday but won't admit it.

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  14. Andy Williams singing "Sweet Little Jesus Boy". Hit me like a ton of bricks last christmas, started thinking about my mom, who's been gone for 10 years. Started weeping as I drove down the interstate during rush hour.

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