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Not that Bob

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  1. Please give me suggestions on how to sell 6 60's and 70's era VW's. One would likely drive home with battery and maybe tires replaced. 3 would need battery, tires and some interior (the seats are removed but available). 2 are essentially parts cars. They are parked on some land I inherited. 

  2. 13 hours ago, PRONG HORN said:

    Water fast = winning

    If you can't do a month straight, look into intermittent fasting.  

    When I try to fast, my stomach says "What am I going to do with all this acid that I used to use for digesting stuff? Oh yeah, I'll just send it to your esophagus."

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  3. 1 hour ago, TwiceHorn said:

    Sure, the personnel has changed somewhat from the mindfucked teams of the past, but a lot of that change involves people who've never played this game before and quite a few whose only experience was last year's dooky stomp together with some fairly inexplicable losses.

    This. 

  4. 2 hours ago, FirstTimeCaller said:

    Go to the Cotton Bowl. Take notes on atmosphere in the stadium. Replicate. That's what I want.

    Speaking of Cotton Bowl...

     

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  5. I think the designers code of ethics is "Form over function at all costs!" I called our last "designer" house a "Show Boat"...all show, no go. Some of the most impractical stuff you can imagine. Impractical. Delicate. Useless. I have to check myself to keep from shouting "How in the fuck did you think *that* was a good idea!!!??"
     

  6. 2 hours ago, RDCanecutter said:

    I'd give it a Gentleman's C if you showed up to class and didn't spit in my coffee. (Just joking-- I never leave my coffee alone with students.)

    You've definitely got some Latin there. The first three are the singular conjugation, I you, he/she/it.

    Amare is the infinitive "to love, and Amatus means "loved" as a past participle.

    I freaked when I saw "Amawe" then I realized you did a phonetic spelling of Amavi "I loved," back when the v meant a w sound.

    The main thing I want to know is how you took all that French yet what pops out is Latin?

     

    I can only postulate that Latin stuck with me, although misspelled, because that I studied with my girlfriend. I suppose I did what I could to impress her hoping for a handy on the weekend. I also remember quid ficit muse which I think means "What'd the mouse do."

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  7. I had to have 12 hrs of French to graduate. Through some miracle I passed 9 and only had to pass the last 3 the first half of my senior year. I took it with a friend who was much more language savvy than I. I did homework with him every night and essentially just wrote down the same thing he did. Not exactly copying, I tried to add what I could...who am I kidding? I copied all his work. He and I went to the prof to get our final grades. He made a B or something. Prof looks at me and says, "You made a C-. I hope you are not too disappointed." "Disappointed"? I say. "Ma'am (she was a cute female prof), I am ecstatic!"  The part of my brain that learns language is dead. Same part of my brain that learns to read music. Dead.  You guys speaking several languages amaze me. You might as well tell me to flap my arms and fly to Dallas as tell me to conjugate a verb...in any language. Well, maybe amo, amas, amat. Amare, amawe, amatus. Is that right?

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  8. I got  up this morning and couldn't wait to put on O Isis und Osiris sung by Ezio Pinza, the 1929 recording. It has become a bit of an ear worm, in a good way.  I would never, in a million years, have known about this piece of music without John Aielli introducing me to it. So much of the music I listen to I found via his morning program. I'm pondering the huge influence this man, whom I never met, had on my life. My life and the lives of friends and family that I shared the music with. I remember with fondness the look on the face of a casual friend as he and I listened to this piece of music. A look of intense joy, appreciation and happiness while being introduced to this song. A look that said he "got it", just as I "got it" when John Aielli introduced me to it. Something to be grateful for. 

  9. I have Jandy pumps. Don't remember number, but top of the line, variable speed, etc. Guy who put it in says don't worry if line gets plugged up because Jandy has a thermal cut off so they don't overheat and destroy themselves. Had a problem, pump got very hot and repair man says no, Jandy's do not have heat protection. Who is right?

  10. 10 hours ago, Sbbruin said:

    Man I have to get on top of this fainting thing.  Get lightheaded every day and faint at least once every other day,  low blood pressure and  a little dehydration and I faint.  Weirdest feeling too.

    I know that you know you need to work with your physician on fluid and electrolytes. In addition, consider getting a badass cane for stability. Maybe a Bat Masterson with sterling silver head, or gold if you really want to strut. I always thought a shillelagh would be cool.

  11. On 8/10/2023 at 6:52 PM, WhatTheBuck said:

    Look what I found today.

    Apple Jacks were my favorite as a kid. I want to like these. They’ll probably be okay. They probably won’t remind me of Apple Jacks and I’m afraid I’ll be disappointed. But I think my heart skipped a beat when I saw them.

    My morning routine currently involves half a toasted bagel with cream cheese and apple butter so I didn’t buy a box. Anybody try them yet?

    IMG_7741.thumb.jpeg.8328552b160dd1ecdb315fa4746021f9.jpeg

    Dude, treat yourself. Life is short. 

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  12. On 8/8/2023 at 10:40 AM, Brisketexan said:

    And a corollary that has happened in several instances recently, with my wife and with women I work with -- the sudden statement/question out of nowhere with zero context.

    Just sitting there working, and my office manager sticks her head in my office - "do you want to meet with Bob?"  WTF?  Who? Meet? About what?  Which is pretty much what I said to her with a puzzled look on my face.  She says "oh, Bob, our realty consultant [refreshes my recollection as to who she's talking about a last name in the first instance would have helped].  He stopped by the office today to visit with me about something, and I thought maybe you'd want to talk with him about issue X that we'd discussed last week."  Yeah, sure, let's meet.  OR, she could have started with "hey Brisket, Bob Smith, our realty consultant, stopped by the office -- do you want to visit with him about issue X while he's here?"  You know, give me the relevant information when you ask the question.

    My wife does this all the time.  Some version of that question, with no predicate or context, so I have no idea who she's talking about, why they came up, or what she's even asking about.  It takes 2 seconds to formulate the question in a way that gives me SOME context, but nope, not gonna do that.

    Sometimes I say, "You do know I can't hear that voice in your head, right?" I only say that sometimes because the tone stare sort of ruins the day for me. 

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