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October 9th, 2022 at 7:56:51 AM
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Lately I keep thinking of trying to find some cheapo used MBA class textbooks. Have to be some out of print with little value. Mainly to learn more on stock options. Then I remember that most of what they teach on stocks is far above what I can use. Maybe I find one for $5 somewhere.
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The Goodwill Stores and other thrift shops have sections of cheap books and CD's, if you have occasion, walk in to one and review their selections.
tuttigym
October 9th, 2022 at 8:39:54 AM
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Here's a great stand-up set about old vs new technology
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GVVKUQmV5ZE&ab_channel=TeamCoco
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GVVKUQmV5ZE&ab_channel=TeamCoco
October 9th, 2022 at 9:00:48 AM
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Quote: AZDuffmanI wish the used bookstore was still around. No $1 books but sometimes for a few bucks you could find some books a few years old but still relevant.
There was a chain of bookstores called Crown Books ("If you paid full price for it, you didn't buy it at Crown Books") that specialized in outdated books. Every January, I would go there to check out the two-year-old Fodor's travel guides that had just arrived and sold for $2 each (up-to-date ones cost $8-10).
Quote: rxwineOur neighbor had cable TV in the 70s. Cable TV then was a series of local stations usually within a couple hundred miles. So, other than the 3 networks all stations were just other small-town stations with local budgets.
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When my house first got cable TV, there were no "cable boxes"; you hooked up an adapter to the VHF antenna input, and turned the dial normally. Originally, I got, in addition to the three major networks, PBS, and the three main independent stations in San Francisco, a handful of stations, including another NBC and ABC affiliate (back before the FCC cracked down on this), from Sacramento, plus San Jose's ABC station. (Yes, that's three ABC stations.) 50 years later, the three then-UHF stations still have the same cable channel numbers, even on different services. As an added bonus, you could also hook the cable up to the FM inputs on your stereo and get a number of low-power (mostly college) radio stations as well.
October 9th, 2022 at 10:22:21 AM
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There was a chain of bookstores called Crown Books ("If you paid full price for it, you didn't buy it at Crown Books") that specialized in outdated books.
I grew up with Bobby Haft - the owner of Crown Books who spoke that on those commercials
of course, he lived on the rich side of town and I didn't - he went to private school and I didn't - I'd see him on the playground playing hoops - he sucked at hoops
he was a snotty little rich kid about 5'4" tall
he always had a sickening smile on his face - a smile that said I'm rich and you're not
his wealth came from his Dad who owned and developed Dart Drugs
their relationship ended with a bitter family feud
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the foolish sayings of a rich man often pass for words of wisdom by the fools around him
October 9th, 2022 at 1:04:37 PM
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Lately I keep thinking of trying to find some cheapo used MBA class textbooks. Have to be some out of print with little value. Mainly to learn more on stock options. Then I remember that most of what they teach on stocks is far above what I can use. Maybe I find one for $5 somewhere.
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The Goodwill Stores and other thrift shops have sections of cheap books and CD's, if you have occasion, walk in to one and review their selections.
tuttigym
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Not a bad idea as I drive by a few of them. Once bought "Casino" at one for like $3 took me a few years but sold if for a couple bucks net profit. Profit is profit.
All animals are equal, but some are more equal than others
October 9th, 2022 at 1:53:08 PM
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I was 42 when I got my first computer in the early 90s so there's not a day that goes by that I don't remember what it was like not to have a smartphone. I will literally stop what I'm doing working Outdoors and find out information I need immediately. Or I need some math done I just ask Google. It never ceases to amaze me because I remember the days when I didn't have this wonderful thing. Like the first 42 years of my life. It's another one of those things that anybody born after 1990 is never going to know what it was like just like I don't know what it was like not to have a refrigerator and have to use an ice box. Or not to have a television or telephone. My parents knew full well, my dad's family didn't even get electricity till 1945.
"It's not called gambling if the math is on your side."
October 10th, 2022 at 6:56:11 AM
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Quote: EvenBob<snip>... just like I don't know what it was like not to have a refrigerator and have to use an ice box.<snip>
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EvenBob,
My mother still uses the term "ice box" even though she's had refrigerators since she was a teenager. I guess early habits are hard to change.
Dog Hand
October 10th, 2022 at 7:12:42 AM
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I still use the term "ice box", although generally to reference an insulated plastic cooler.
I express a strong preference against most of the Peltier junction "plug in coolers", due to poor design, poor manufacturing quality, or both. I prefer dealing with meltwater and hearing the ice rattle to know it's cold, rather than hoping my bologna isn't roasting due to a malfunction.
I express a strong preference against most of the Peltier junction "plug in coolers", due to poor design, poor manufacturing quality, or both. I prefer dealing with meltwater and hearing the ice rattle to know it's cold, rather than hoping my bologna isn't roasting due to a malfunction.
May the cards fall in your favor.
October 10th, 2022 at 7:32:38 AM
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these tech advances mentioned above have made our personal lives - those of us who are middle class or above - much more enjoyable
but they didn't advance global society in terms of the hate, brutality, warmongering, extreme poverty, dictarorship, violence and criminality that is widespread
still there are many millions that are suffering and have miserable lives because of these things that have not been lessened by tech
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these tech advances mentioned above have made our personal lives - those of us who are middle class or above - much more enjoyable
but they didn't advance global society in terms of the hate, brutality, warmongering, extreme poverty, dictarorship, violence and criminality that is widespread
still there are many millions that are suffering and have miserable lives because of these things that have not been lessened by tech
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the foolish sayings of a rich man often pass for words of wisdom by the fools around him
October 10th, 2022 at 8:28:32 AM
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The Internet is both one of the best things and one of the worst things invented in the last 100 years.
October 10th, 2022 at 8:42:56 AM
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Lately I keep thinking of trying to find some cheapo used MBA class textbooks. Have to be some out of print with little value. Mainly to learn more on stock options. Then I remember that most of what they teach on stocks is far above what I can use. Maybe I find one for $5 somewhere.
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Get an SIE exam study guide.
October 10th, 2022 at 9:26:47 AM
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these tech advances mentioned above have made our personal lives - those of us who are middle class or above - much more enjoyable
but they didn't advance global society in terms of the hate, brutality, warmongering, extreme poverty, dictarorship, violence and criminality that is widespread
still there are many millions that are suffering and have miserable lives because of these things that have not been lessened by tech
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I watch a lot of travel food videos and everywhere they go I'm seeing smartphones in the hands of the poorest people in the world. Everybody has access to YouTube now everybody has access to everything and this can only be improving the circumstances worldwide. I saw a tribe in Africa the other day that raises cows for a living and they live in mud huts and wear traditional clothes and have no electricity but they have smartphones that they are always looking at and recharging with car batteries. This is not a bad thing this is a tremendously good thing for eliminating all the stuff you mentioned eventually.
"It's not called gambling if the math is on your side."
October 10th, 2022 at 10:26:04 AM
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Quote: TigerWuThe Internet is both one of the best things and one of the worst things invented in the last 100 years.
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The sum of all human knowledge is available at our fingertips and with the current state of communications technology, it's available almost instantly. Irrespective of the social ills that came about or perhaps even magnified because of the Internet, that puts us way up, big picture-wise.
Gene
October 10th, 2022 at 12:51:17 PM
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because of the Internet, that puts us way up, big picture-wise.
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yep, we're way, way up
unless somebody gets your s.s. no. and steals your identity and wipes out your bank and investment accounts thru his hacking
then you won't say we're way, way up
of if some psychopath uses computers to figure out how to build a powerful chemical weapon
and causes 50,000 people to get seriously sick or die
when that happens all of the tech cheerleaders will be real quiet
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the foolish sayings of a rich man often pass for words of wisdom by the fools around him
October 10th, 2022 at 12:56:08 PM
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I think the Internet has done way more harm than good overall, but there's no way we could even quantify this one way or the other, so we can only spout our opinions and disagree with each other.
October 10th, 2022 at 1:08:55 PM
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because of the Internet, that puts us way up, big picture-wise.
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what it really means is that you, Gene or Geno, are way up, and people like you
people in the towns getting shelled in Ukraine are not way up
women getting raped in the Congo are not way up
tech doesn't change the human heart - and it is or it least a large part of it is - a heart of darkness
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the foolish sayings of a rich man often pass for words of wisdom by the fools around him
October 10th, 2022 at 1:17:42 PM
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Quote: GenoDRPhQuote: TigerWuThe Internet is both one of the best things and one of the worst things invented in the last 100 years.
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The sum of all human knowledge is available at our fingertips and with the current state of communications technology, it's available almost instantly. Irrespective of the social ills that came about or perhaps even magnified because of the Internet, that puts us way up, big picture-wise.
Gene
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Absolutely. When the printing press was invented and newspapers started to circulate the world changed for the better because information access is always a good thing. With radio it changed again, and with TV. You can track modern progress by studying how communication improved. What we're going to see now is change worldwide on an unprecedented level because literally every day we get smarter because we're all talking to each other now. The world has gotten to be a very small place. Since I got a computer and then a smartphone my life is improved immeasurably. I built a garage all by myself this summer and totally relied on my phone for all kinds of information that I would have had to go look up somewhere else. If I see that I needed something I stopped what I was doing and ordered it on the spot from Amazon and usually I had it the next day. This is a way of living I could not even have dreamed of 30 years ago
"It's not called gambling if the math is on your side."
October 10th, 2022 at 1:23:11 PM
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computers are used to build and design atomic weapons
right now there is a lot of Cold War style bluff and bluster about a certain country threatening to detonate a nuclear weapon
who is going to jump up and down about tech if and when that happens
all of the tech cheerleaders will disappear
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computers are used to build and design atomic weapons
right now there is a lot of Cold War style bluff and bluster about a certain country threatening to detonate a nuclear weapon
who is going to jump up and down about tech if and when that happens
all of the tech cheerleaders will disappear
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the foolish sayings of a rich man often pass for words of wisdom by the fools around him
October 10th, 2022 at 1:27:47 PM
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Quote: lilredroosterQuote: GenoDRPh
because of the Internet, that puts us way up, big picture-wise.
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what it really means is that you, Gene or Geno, are way up, and people like you
people in the towns getting shelled in Ukraine are not way up
women getting raped in the Congo are not way up
tech doesn't change the human heart - and it is or it least a large part of it is - a heart of darkness
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I see videos all the time of street food vendors in India who are dirt poor and they live in squalor in their neighborhood. They aw have smartphones, their customers have smartphones, they are using these phones just like I use mine to improve my life everyday. The vast majority of humanity wants to improve their living conditions and communicating with themselves and the outside world is a sure way to do it. In 1900 most of the world had no way to talk to each other so they were isolated. I'm constantly amazed today that in the poorest countries places like Bangladesh and Sri Lanka and India how much modern technology is there. And it's growing by the day. There is now less worldwide poverty than any time in Mankind's history and much of it is because of the internet and communication
"It's not called gambling if the math is on your side."
October 10th, 2022 at 3:05:19 PM
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The internet has decreased the mystery of distant lands I had as a child.
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October 10th, 2022 at 3:53:20 PM
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Quote: rxwineThe internet has decreased the mystery of distant lands I had as a child.
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The Internet has taken the joy out of collecting a lot of things for me, so I don't really collect things any more. You can buy an entire collection of whatever you want at the click of a button and have it at your doorstep in less than a week. Most of the fun in collecting stuff was hunting it down.
I can't complain, though... at least it's saving me money and space. But I agree with you, rxwine, the Internet has taken a lot of magic and mystery out of life.
October 10th, 2022 at 4:34:30 PM
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Quote: rxwineThe internet has decreased the mystery of distant lands I had as a child.
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As has every medium ever invented. The invention of photographs shrunk the world hugely. Motion pictures did even more to shrink it.
"It's not called gambling if the math is on your side."
October 10th, 2022 at 4:37:22 PM
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Quote: TigerWuQuote: rxwineThe internet has decreased the mystery of distant lands I had as a child.
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The Internet has taken the joy out of collecting a lot of things for me, so I don't really collect things any more. You can buy an entire collection of whatever you want at the click of a button and have it at your doorstep in less than a week. Most of the fun in collecting stuff was hunting it down.
I can't complain, though... at least it's saving me money and space. But I agree with you, rxwine, the Internet has taken a lot of magic and mystery out of life.
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I used to be in the collectible business what the internet did was brought realism to it. Some things people collected that they thought were rare turned out not to be rare at all. What the internet did is it got rid of all the amateurs and the professionals took over.
"It's not called gambling if the math is on your side."
October 10th, 2022 at 5:35:27 PM
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Quote: EvenBobQuote: TigerWuQuote: rxwineThe internet has decreased the mystery of distant lands I had as a child.
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The Internet has taken the joy out of collecting a lot of things for me, so I don't really collect things any more. You can buy an entire collection of whatever you want at the click of a button and have it at your doorstep in less than a week. Most of the fun in collecting stuff was hunting it down.
I can't complain, though... at least it's saving me money and space. But I agree with you, rxwine, the Internet has taken a lot of magic and mystery out of life.
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I used to be in the collectible business what the internet did was brought realism to it. Some things people collected that they thought were rare turned out not to be rare at all. What the internet did is it got rid of all the amateurs and the professionals took over.
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Collecting things has gone down for a number of reasons. One is after around 1980 people started saving things because they would be rare, or so they thought. I started keeping a few things, but lots of people did. Before 1980 or so you did not have as much space and at the same time said "this is junk, toss it!" Also, about this time the quality of stuff fell. Toys made of plastic, not metal for example. License plates had stickers not issued new every year or couple years.
I swore off collecting as part of trying to keep myself kind of minimalist. This year the last of the sports themed Coke bottles go to nieces and nephews. Had them 20 or more years, probably worth a couple dollars each. If I get rich I will still not collect stuff. Living small is so great.
All animals are equal, but some are more equal than others
October 10th, 2022 at 5:43:42 PM
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Quote: AZDuffmanLiving small is so great.
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Hear hear. Indeed it is.
If i don't use it, I probably don't need it as a decoration or lifestyle item.
Decorating with "negative space" is much healthier for my mind and productivity.
May the cards fall in your favor.
October 10th, 2022 at 5:45:41 PM
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Quote: EvenBobQuote: rxwineThe internet has decreased the mystery of distant lands I had as a child.
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As has every medium ever invented. The invention of photographs shrunk the world hugely. Motion pictures did even more to shrink it.
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I thought about that before I posted, but movies and books often still fictionalized the world as exotic. Tom Swift, Tarzan, Casablanca... I don't think Life Magazine really made the pictures of world like the place next door.
Now you can talk to real people practically anywhere in the world. Or conversely, you can talk to total imposters anywhere in the world.
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October 15th, 2022 at 5:37:11 PM
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Remember When you could put yourself through a State College by just having a regular job and paying for it yourself. I know because I did it and I knew a lot of other people who did it. I went to college from 1967 until 1971 and I lived at home and paid $60 a month in rent which was coincidentally what my dad's mortgage payment was. I had a full-time job on the third shift in a cookie factory and I worked there for 4 years and put myself through four years of college. It wasn't very expensive, I think it was like $350 per year if you lived off campus. It was easy to do, I worked all night took a couple early morning classes, and then took a couple more in the evening before I went to work. If there were student loans I wasn't aware of them. I imagine if you went to an expensive private school student loans were available.
Liberal Arts degrees where huge in the sixties so I got a degree in American history because I wanted to be a history teacher. I love American history especially between 1860 and 1950. When I got out of school I found out that not only did teachers make jack squat for money, good luck getting hired as a white male teacher. It was the early 70s and I remember in high school I had very few women teachers they're all men. That changed in the late sixties early seventies when schools realized there was a ton of new female teachers on the market and they could pay them less than they paid the men. So I never did anything with my degree, it never got me a job, it wasn't even fun to get. I didn't live on campus I lived at home so I missed the whole college experience. But I put myself through school with a factory job and who could do that today.
Liberal Arts degrees where huge in the sixties so I got a degree in American history because I wanted to be a history teacher. I love American history especially between 1860 and 1950. When I got out of school I found out that not only did teachers make jack squat for money, good luck getting hired as a white male teacher. It was the early 70s and I remember in high school I had very few women teachers they're all men. That changed in the late sixties early seventies when schools realized there was a ton of new female teachers on the market and they could pay them less than they paid the men. So I never did anything with my degree, it never got me a job, it wasn't even fun to get. I didn't live on campus I lived at home so I missed the whole college experience. But I put myself through school with a factory job and who could do that today.
"It's not called gambling if the math is on your side."
October 17th, 2022 at 4:31:33 PM
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1963 my dad forced me to join JROTC and I hated it and I only lasted one semester. All the officers we're seniors in high school and they were jerks. In later years I pictured them not doing well in Vietnam as officers. But my point is once a week we would go to the south side of town to one of the old high schools and we would have drill practice and afterwards we would go to the hamburger shop, Malt Shop, whatever across the street and wait to be picked up. 1963 was still the late 1950s it wasn't the sixties yet. It was 50's haircuts 50s clothes 50s attitudes. It was not the hamburger joint from Happy Days. There was always a threat of violence in the air from the guys with the DA haircuts and the leather jackets. In the late 50's we would go to the local roller rink on Saturdays, this is like 1957 1958. In the bathroom it would literally be a line of guys in front of the mirror all combing their hair straight back. Cigarettes hanging out of the mouths, and there was always that thinly-veiled threat of violence in the air. You didn't make eye contact because you might get the crap pounded out of you. This is why I always thought that show Happy Days which came on TV only 10 years later then this, was such a joke. Happy Days in the late 50s, not for me and the kids I knew, it was more like constantly avoiding getting beat up.
"It's not called gambling if the math is on your side."
October 24th, 2022 at 9:51:51 PM
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I remember looking at Norton antivirus list of known viruses (maybe Windows 3.1?). There were probably just over a 100.on that list. I was kind a wistful about not being able to make a virus, just to be able to give it a cool name.
Google says there are over a billion now.
Google says there are over a billion now.
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October 25th, 2022 at 6:36:29 AM
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the hula hoop thing - was great for girl watching___________________(~:\
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the hula hoop thing - was great for girl watching___________________(~:\
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the foolish sayings of a rich man often pass for words of wisdom by the fools around him
October 25th, 2022 at 7:02:37 AM
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1953 Buick Roadmaster Skylark
General Motors positioned this car as a luxury car just below Cadillac in swag
for those who maybe thought a Cadillac was too show offy
it was a beautiful car imo -
Chrysler attempted to compete with the Imperial
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1953 Buick Roadmaster Skylark
General Motors positioned this car as a luxury car just below Cadillac in swag
for those who maybe thought a Cadillac was too show offy
it was a beautiful car imo -
Chrysler attempted to compete with the Imperial
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the foolish sayings of a rich man often pass for words of wisdom by the fools around him
October 25th, 2022 at 8:26:25 AM
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But did the '53 Buick Skylark have independent rear suspension and Positraction?
October 25th, 2022 at 8:38:36 AM
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As a teenager, one of my friends used to drive his Dads late 1960s Buick Electra. That thing was a tank and could hold its own against any Cadillac of its day. It was the widest car I've ever seen and had rear seat leg room that went on for miles.
The older I get, the better I recall things that never happened
October 25th, 2022 at 8:59:18 AM
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Quote: TigerWuBut did the '53 Buick Skylark have independent rear suspension and Positraction?
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Great movie
Son you ain’t paying attention
I’m cutting you but you ain’t bleeding
- Foghorn Leghorn
October 25th, 2022 at 9:13:02 AM
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the hula hoop thing - was great for girl watching___________________(~:\
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She has a really nice Hula Hoop.
At my age, a "Life In Prison" sentence is not much of a deterrent.
October 25th, 2022 at 10:34:28 AM
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If you go into a sauna these days, the warning sign will always advise against consumption of alcohol.
But my parents had a sauna that had been installed in the 1980s in their house, where the Helo (made in Finland) sauna warning sign advised relaxing with beer in between or after the sauna sessions.
Tempora mutantur, nos et mutamur in illis.
But my parents had a sauna that had been installed in the 1980s in their house, where the Helo (made in Finland) sauna warning sign advised relaxing with beer in between or after the sauna sessions.
Tempora mutantur, nos et mutamur in illis.
I tell you it’s wonderful to be here, man. I don’t give a damn who wins or loses. It’s just wonderful to be here with you people.
https://wizardofvegas.com/forum/gambling/betting-systems/33908-the-adventures-of-mdawg/
October 25th, 2022 at 10:45:27 AM
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So it says relax with a beer IN BETWEEN or AFTER sauna sessions, but not IN it.
I wonder if that sign prohibiting alcohol has more to do with someone spilling alcohol on the hot stones and it starting a fire, or burning off the alcohol and causing irritation???
I wonder if that sign prohibiting alcohol has more to do with someone spilling alcohol on the hot stones and it starting a fire, or burning off the alcohol and causing irritation???
October 25th, 2022 at 10:53:52 AM
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The first atomic weapon was made in 1945. The first thermonuclear weapon made made in 1952. The neutron bomb was first designed in the 1960s. Powerful computers are not required to design or build a nuclear bomb. They are old technology.
October 25th, 2022 at 10:57:34 AM
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Quote: TigerWuSo it says relax with a beer IN BETWEEN or AFTER sauna sessions, but not IN it.
I wonder if that sign prohibiting alcohol has more to do with someone spilling alcohol on the hot stones and it starting a fire, or burning off the alcohol and causing irritation???
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Yes the old signs used to advocate beer in between or after.
The new ones advise against alcohol in the sauna, but also do not advocate use of alcohol at all. I think this mostly has to due with health hazards of getting dehydrated from drinking alcohol, or losing your senses and passing out in the sauna from drunkenness.
I tell you it’s wonderful to be here, man. I don’t give a damn who wins or loses. It’s just wonderful to be here with you people.
https://wizardofvegas.com/forum/gambling/betting-systems/33908-the-adventures-of-mdawg/
October 25th, 2022 at 12:16:07 PM
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I don't know if new sauna's have regs, but years ago I used one you could set high enough to cook yourself. And we drank beer.
Youth is where you risk your life.
Youth is where you risk your life.
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October 28th, 2022 at 3:20:14 PM
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crazy Eddie commercials - quite entertaining - legendary actually - were the brainchild of Eddie Antar who owned and operated an electronics chain. At its peak Crazy Eddie had 43 stores in 4 states and $300 million in sales
but Eddie was a fraudster - he engaged in various forms of fraud - and was eventually prosecuted and went to prison - he died in 2016
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crazy Eddie commercials - quite entertaining - legendary actually - were the brainchild of Eddie Antar who owned and operated an electronics chain. At its peak Crazy Eddie had 43 stores in 4 states and $300 million in sales
but Eddie was a fraudster - he engaged in various forms of fraud - and was eventually prosecuted and went to prison - he died in 2016
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the foolish sayings of a rich man often pass for words of wisdom by the fools around him
October 28th, 2022 at 3:25:02 PM
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The man in those commercials was a very well-known DJ- Doctor Jerry Carroll, but for some reason they played that down. He did literally thousands of ads, while maintaining his radio jock career, as well.
The older I get, the better I recall things that never happened
October 28th, 2022 at 3:33:17 PM
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Crazy Eddies was also the first chain I'm aware of that opened on Thanksgiving and even on Christmas. The year they opened on Christmas, they opened from 9-1, paid all their employees triple time, and gave them eight hours pay for the half day.
They also tolerated Cruise nights in their parking lots, at a time when other businesses were cracking down on similar events. Buying a car stereo at Crazy Eddies was a right of passage.
They also tolerated Cruise nights in their parking lots, at a time when other businesses were cracking down on similar events. Buying a car stereo at Crazy Eddies was a right of passage.
The older I get, the better I recall things that never happened
October 29th, 2022 at 4:56:56 AM
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I remember seeing Crazy Eddie's ads on cable (back in the dark ages when they just played the non-local station's raw broadcast feed) in SoCal back in the 80's. I think they were on WOR-TV.Quote: billryanCrazy Eddies was also the first chain I'm aware of that opened on Thanksgiving and even on Christmas. The year they opened on Christmas, they opened from 9-1, paid all their employees triple time, and gave them eight hours pay for the half day.
They also tolerated Cruise nights in their parking lots, at a time when other businesses were cracking down on similar events. Buying a car stereo at Crazy Eddies was a right of passage.
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October 29th, 2022 at 9:41:05 AM
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some other great commercials from the wayback machine:
"the full rich flavor comes clean thru to you for real smoking enjoyment"________________and:
"you don't see many wild stallions anymore. Come to where the flavor is. Come to Marlboro Country."
the Marlboro man was a REAL MAN. you don't find real men like that anymore.
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some other great commercials from the wayback machine:
"the full rich flavor comes clean thru to you for real smoking enjoyment"________________and:
"you don't see many wild stallions anymore. Come to where the flavor is. Come to Marlboro Country."
the Marlboro man was a REAL MAN. you don't find real men like that anymore.
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the foolish sayings of a rich man often pass for words of wisdom by the fools around him
October 29th, 2022 at 12:35:18 PM
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Remember when you were a kid and you wondered where your Grandpa got all those tools from? I've been a grandpa for about 10 years and I now know where we get all those tools from. Everywhere. A lifetime collection. I have so many tools I can't inventory all of them. I have small tool boxes full of tools everywhere. I have a large professional-grade Craftsman tool chest with seven drawers in it that are completely full.. Just yesterday in the hall closet I found a plastic tool box 6 inches high by 6 in wide 16in long the was about 25 lb and it was full of tools that I don't remember ever seeing before. I used to buy stuff at farm auctions for five bucks this has a bunch of really nice tools in it. I'm recently trying to get organized and so far I found 7 retractable tape measures. There are probably more. Ridiculous.
A friend of mine who died 2 years ago would be 90 this year and he had every tool known to man. An incredible collection, if you want to borrow something you automatically went to him because he had it. So that's where Grandpa got all his tools from and where my dad got all his tools was from his dad which was my grandpa. Where my tools will go I have no idea because my son lives in an East Coast State and he has no use for them and no place to store them. Too bad. Tools are a legacy every man should pass down
A friend of mine who died 2 years ago would be 90 this year and he had every tool known to man. An incredible collection, if you want to borrow something you automatically went to him because he had it. So that's where Grandpa got all his tools from and where my dad got all his tools was from his dad which was my grandpa. Where my tools will go I have no idea because my son lives in an East Coast State and he has no use for them and no place to store them. Too bad. Tools are a legacy every man should pass down
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October 29th, 2022 at 1:21:39 PM
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Quote: EvenBob. Tools are a legacy every man should pass down
My father passed away about six weeks ago and since their house flooded during hurricane Ian we had to gut the complete house. I threw away hundreds of tools and probably kept 5. Why does any man need 11 different drills, 4 chainsaws, 6 jugsaws, multiple rotary saws, etc. I probably threw away what new would have costed $10,000.
At my age, a "Life In Prison" sentence is not much of a deterrent.
October 29th, 2022 at 1:35:10 PM
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Quote: DRichQuote: EvenBob. Tools are a legacy every man should pass down
My father passed away about six weeks ago and since their house flooded during hurricane Ian we had to gut the complete house. I threw away hundreds of tools and probably kept 5. Why does any man need 11 different drills, 4 chainsaws, 6 jugsaws, multiple rotary saws, etc. I probably threw away what new would have costed $10,000.
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I probably have 15 complete ratchet sets of all kinds. I don't need 15, I just ended up having 15. Throwing away tools, brilliant. Good grief
"It's not called gambling if the math is on your side."
October 29th, 2022 at 1:39:55 PM
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If I can't fix it with my Swiss Army Knife, either it doesn't need fixing, or I'll pay someone to do it. I'd much rather pay someone to do it right than buy a bunch of tools and do it wrong anyway.
When my Dad died, he left a garage full of tools. My Mom wouldn't throw them out so they sat for years as my cousins and neighbors "borrowed "them
When my Dad died, he left a garage full of tools. My Mom wouldn't throw them out so they sat for years as my cousins and neighbors "borrowed "them
The older I get, the better I recall things that never happened
October 29th, 2022 at 2:06:51 PM
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crazy Eddie commercials - quite entertaining - legendary actually - were the brainchild of Eddie Antar who owned and operated an electronics chain. At its peak Crazy Eddie had 43 stores in 4 states and $300 million in sales
but Eddie was a fraudster - he engaged in various forms of fraud - and was eventually prosecuted and went to prison - he died in 2016
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Did you just listen to the Motley Fool podcast featuring this? If not listen for good info. He did bait and switch for lesser brands with higher margins among other bad practices.
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