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RDCanecutter

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  1. Look at Centro on GuadaLOOP. Hum a tune from 2001 back when it was already a coffee shop but seems like it was a different name. My last Austin hang-out before I shifted to a new career of annoying bartenders in other countries. Anyway, main thing I remember is they had loyalty cards where you'd get a freebie after so many stamps. Invariably when I go in for the freebie, my server would be a young woman who would refuse to give me black coffee and would badger me into whatever her favorite birthday-cake-dumped-into-a-cup was. I pretty much always folded. No idea where I got the money for boughten coffee.
  2. You oughta see her kill one of her toys.
  3. Ordering up 700 Marines is like ordering 700 french fries at McDonalds, just not done. They come in units. (Given a serious plan, sure, you could interview until you had 700 with some particular views, but no, this is last-minute flip-shit-at-the-wall.) Back to likely scenarios, whichever Infantry Battalion that last pissed off the post commander's wife will see a sudden change of training. Also units like Motor Pool and various Support staff. Say about 2/3 sitting on their butts, 1/3 doing law n order shit, one or two ticking time-bombs that hopefully don't blow.
  4. Truth, according to a friend at UT who moonlighted as a scripper and dominatrix. She said it was the control freaks who'd hire her for spankings with the old hair brush. She'd probably have hilarious stories about half of these guys, except she's dead now.
  5. For all we know, YGIF set this whole thing up from Club Cloud Nine.
  6. Jack Poso should does use purty words.
  7. The only thing saving Alabama (so far) is our innate resistance to all change, good or idiotic. Side note: contrails + sonic booms = prosperity in my childhood town back when the Air Force base was still dumping Federal pay checks on us all.
  8. A decade, huh? Y'all hear that? We got an entire decade of relevancy here!
  9. Escape from jail and head to a prison town.
  10. I'd get tired of so much green.
  11. Come on, friend, you haven't even tried. Sure we can measure it. The question is, how? But first, are we talking one sliding scale from zero possible stupidity to maximum, or are there multiple axes for like, say, a Juggalo Amway Maga Autotuned Speakerphone-in-Restaurant Spam-clicking Flat-Earther? Do we use some Godless French decimal system, or quirky medieval soup of twelves, eights, and body parts? In honor of the departed milking crew, maybe we should throw in some intricate wheel-within-wheel calculations.
  12. @Goredho just checked American Gold Eagle buy-back at a dealer who's kind of middle of the road. About 80 under spot. I saw similar at another one when gold first went over $2,000. Used to be an AGE would never sell for under spot, but used to be the numbers didn't shoot up like now. The best guy here for selling would probably be $50 better per coin, but you have to call him on a phone, and talk, like it's 1952. This is the variation where I live. Who knows, maybe you can find somebody who has a buyer on the other line, and you can do better.
  13. Call every coin shop within a comfortable drive, go to the one that offers the best price. Transaction should take about 5 minutes, cash or check. Others will be more versed in capital gains taxes. I think some states might be about to do away with it on precious metals, I'd ask the dealer.
  14. Good analysis, no mention of Pookie or Eyeball.
  15. Libertads have gone through the roof on premiums. I used to get them for the same premiums as ASEs and silver Maples, but no more. The prices you quote seem middle of the road, they were cool to lower the rate on the gold. Last time I sold silver I got about a dollar under spot for a lot of generic at the guy with the best prices in town. I see on the second-best-prices guy's website today that he's offering a dollar over spot for uncirc. silver Eagles, no info on others. But that's today. Back when you sold, he might have been the same as the guys you sold to. I wouldn't send metal through the mail to Apmex if I had local places to sell to. Not that I don't trust them, just that it'd be more work. Maybe I'd do it if I didn't want local riffraff to spot me walking into a brick and mortar shop with a box, then leaving without it.
  16. After a month+ on Welireg, it doesn't cause diarrhea (yet,) but it causes joint aches in shoulders, hips, ankles, etc. Or maybe that's being old. Went from being fried death a couple weeks ago to doing a long show yesterday with good energy. Greed heals a body.
  17. First Halloween dating the Future Mrs. Canecutter, I distinctly remember her dressed up as Joan Jett leading a chant denigrating AA people who applauded from their meeting house once we finished. Later, I threw a dude's hockey stick up on a roof. Pretty sure I was sober. Yep.
  18. Shave it. Let everybody see that 666 tattoo at last. [OK so I didn't read the whole damn thread first, and so I missed a detail. LaDEE freakin DAH. At least nobody on here has cancer, can't imagine how freakin weepy y'all'd all be if THAT happened.]
  19. I doubt I'll do it anytime soon. Nothing against Costco, but to go there I'd also go near several coin shops with decent prices and lots more choices. I do like that bar design though.
  20. The first rule of Alcatraz is, we don't talk about Alcatraz. This is fancier than what I had: https://www.hobbylobby.com/crafts-hobbies/basic-crafts/styrofoam/3-in-1-hot-wire-foam-cutting-tool/p/80916662?gad_source=1&gad_campaignid=21086060082&gbraid=0AAAAAC-IqNxFm6Ny52X6ub33icciVoQub&gclid=Cj0KCQjw5ubABhDIARIsAHMighbV7iKEdAfQ8LBIr-CCT9oevflnW29Tq7K78jB7Ji76jnEaoYg6frcaAtS9EALw_wcB You could spend ten times as much for quality, but who wants to melt styrofoam the rest of their life? Just buy a cheap one, use it once, then forget where you put it.
  21. Made a true International Sale of Mystery. 92 cents popped up in my checking account from something called "Amazon Mexico," I was like what is this, some scam trying to get access to my account? Called the credit union, turned out it was legit. About 12 years ago I had set up various "print on demand" cartoons, and one "e-book" of cartoons that personally I wouldn't have paid for, and most people agreed. But now, somebody in Mexico bought a coffee cup or something. 92 cents is 18 pesos. That's a beer*. *en México
  22. My first infusion I was next to a lady from Mississippi who would have been picked to play Sympathetic Sassy Character in Movie Set in Mississippi. She was on the phone telling a friend about her platelet count, which seemed low, but she was taking it in stride like a dog had tee-teed in her petunias. My first thought was that I needed to be half as tough as little old ladies. My second was that I was glad to live maybe three miles from the clinic.
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