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AUinHsv

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  1. The new preferred term is "Death by Powerpoint". That way you can include pages of acronyms. (retired from big blue after 30 years)
  2. slightly related but while filming a TV special in 1968 the British singer. Petula Clark held Harry Belafonte's arm. One of the sponsors representatives demanded they shoot the scene again. She and he producer (who was her husband) declined but it shows the mindset of some people in 60's
  3. Golfwrx.com has an article showing excellent game improvement sets for something like 200 bucks or so. Best bet was x20's. I had them and loved them but traded them at Golfsmith demo day to get back to Pings - which I also love.
  4. No kidding. Drove by a local gun store on friday afternoon and it was overflow parking into another lot
  5. May have posted this before but dad bought a couple of those - unfired still in cosmoline - for 5 bucks each in the 50's when he was in the Army. Sold one before he died for about 500 bucks. The other was converted to more traditional hunting rifle.
  6. Yes - lots. In addition to Reagan there was Nixon in 72 and pretty close to that was Johnson in 64
  7. I can't remember where I read it bit wasn't something like 200K voters taken off the rolls? Need to get them back in a hurry. You know the powers in that state are already working overtime to reduce minority voters.
  8. Lemon twist with a mod power vinyl roof. Everything was wild/bold/mod then. Kinda surprised no one came out with Leisure Suit Lime or something like that.
  9. Big draw is a swinging hook for me. I mean 30 yards or more movement. I actually practice it with irons every now and then. The bets shot I ever hit in my life was two years ago. Left handed and 18th hole is hard right to a green over 20 foot moat. I am off to left with trees all down the side in the rough. I channel the inner Bubba and hit a 5 iron about 170 with a 40 yard draw/hook. All I wanted was over the water - I will scramble back from anywhere past the green. I can't see the shot after hitting but laying partner up by the green is going crazy. Stopped four feet from hole. Of course I missed the birdie putt.... As far as where to play it - I am very old school and play my irons in different locations depending on the iron. My 5 irons is middle of stance. For the swinging hook I move it back about 2 inches to make sure I hit down and deliberately rotate wrists over to exagerate the draw.
  10. Practice on a vacant lot. Dad made us back the boat all over the school parking lot down the street from our house
  11. I have the same gen 4Runner (2001) and 4WD also and no way I would tow anything close to 5000 pounds. Before buying it new I took the demo model up and down 360 and finally decided it could get up and down the hills - that was without any additional weight. I can't imagine towing anything bigger than a bass boat around the hills of Austin and even then I would have trailer brakes. IIRC it has about 185 HP and 220 ft lbs of torque. That might get the boat out of the water but you are assuming you can get it to the water. Even though you mentioned no highways I would sure take a test run with the 4Runner before buying.
  12. Before throwing everything out - try a couple of things 1. Make sure all cables are connected. Then disconnect devices not needed like CD drive etc 2. Boot into the BIOS (maybe F1 key after powering on) and check the boot order. You want the new disk drive to show up at top 3. If this fails then google the error - there are a couple of pretty simple solutions. The problem is that this is not a specific error other then bootmgr is missing. There are different reasons it could be missing. One is you didn;'t define the new drive as bootable. Again the solutions are a lot easier than new computer 4. This is also why several people recommended reloading windows - it avoid this issue
  13. I hope that doesn't have a clock spring or if it does you replaced it while you the column apart.
  14. I would hope you have backups of your important stuff. The you just move things over to new computer. Never liked cloning between totally different computers versus a new install. If you don't have backups then now is a great time to do it - hard drives fail all the time
  15. I was going to say the Citadel was the last one and maybe the first one also.
  16. No kidding.. The people working in getting my 62 MGA back on the road are in Michigan and their quote for entire paint is 20K. The paint currently on it was done by my Dad in the garage. He stripped everything down and did all the body work and then the paint. May have cost 1K and part of that was tools and compressor and it lasted 30 years. A bigger classic is probably 25-30K...
  17. That was odd. Considering the national sport i Tae Kwon Do I expected a Check Norris kick or two in there.
  18. People got paid to do that in Live and Let Die. I looked up an article on this - driver fled scene and beer cans found in boat
  19. I was told there would be no math
  20. Not correct. at least for me Rolex will not replace the dials and hands unless you tell them to. I had my tritium lume Sub done by Dallas RSC in 2015 and no issues with keeping it original. They will however decline to work on it if they feel it needs replacement. ie lume is flaking off and would mess up the movement.
  21. No love for 427 Camaro? Wondering if that was a COPO or just added by owner
  22. parents had that on Ford Galaxy500. Absolutely horrible design or assembly. The two windows never sealed and constantly has 1/4 in gap even after the dealr tried to fix them. Lots of fun at a carwash - get both inside and outside at same time
  23. Really like the sword hands and dark blue bezel. Can't stand the date position.
  24. Dad bought three new in cosmoline surplus rifles in the 50's for 5 bucks each. They were WW1 Springfields and never fired. He sold one for 500 and told me he wished he had the same offer for Garands. Five bucks each for unfired Garands would printing money. I remember in the late 80's i almost bought an IBM built rifle for 100 bucks (worked for IBM and thought it would be cool). Advertised in Shotgun News
  25. Sure does - and IIRC for anything in the 80's - buy about a half mile of vaccum hose.
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