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I remember my first cell phone (‘95?) - I had a $100/month plan for 60 minutes. Man, I was calling everyone and anyone at the end of the month to use up that airtime…“Human beings are born with different capacities. If they are free, they are not equal. And if they are equal, they are not free.”
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I had a bag phone for my car. Damn expensive I remember. There was a hot girl she and I went for a long drive. She wanted to try it out. I let her. Frig. For the price of that call I could have taken her to Michelin Star restaurant. At least that's what it felt like. I was 17. Young dumb and full of ....
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I had a bag phone for my car. Damn expensive I remember. There was a hot girl she and I went for a long drive. She wanted to try it out. I let her. Frig. For the price of that call I could have taken her to Michelin Star restaurant. At least that's what it felt like. I was 17. Young dumb and full of ....
Back in the day, I called my GF at the time on a flight home. Had to swipe a credit card and I think it was like $40. It was worth it in the end, though! 😜
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Woke up for coffee and gas. Thought I was transported to Cantafordya.
New blend makes inflation tolerable...
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mhardy6647 wrote: »We have a friend who is a bit of a gearhead*.
Always interesting to see what he's driving. Last time he visited, he was driving a lovely, very early Mazda Miata, on his way to some sort of car thing in Vermont.
He stopped by last week driving another Japanese vee-hickel, but a much newer one.
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* he is, in fact, a retired mechanic, who had his own garage on Long Island for a long time.
Needs an LS swap.Don't take experimental gene therapies from known eugenicists. -
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They love grape jelly as much as oranges.
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The (rather battered -- thanks bears!) oriole feeder in the photo is triple-threat. Besides the oranges, it is full of nectar (which I make at 1:3 strength in the early season for hungry migrators) and the little side-cups are filled with store-brand grape jelly.
No boutique locavore stuff, sorry, birds! 
Mrs. H told me the sapsucker thing, too. We haven't seen sapsuckers in the yard yet this year, but we're hearing their syncopated tapping around the 'hood (and have been for several weeks).
Here's a legacy sapsucker picture from 21Apr2022.
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This one is also pretty good. It's on reserve so far this year, FWIW.
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In preparation for the decommissioning ceremony for the USS Enterprise NCC-1701D, we have the exceptional honor of being escorted by one of the newly re-engined Federation ships...the B-52X.
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This is like a Deep Thoughts bit on vintage SNL.
"This may not matter to you, but it does to me for various reasons, many of them illogical or irrational, but the vinyl hobby is not really logical or rational..." - member on Vinyl Engine
"Sometimes I do what I want to do. The rest of the time, I do what I have to." - Cicero, in Gladiator
Regarding collectibles: "It's not who gets it. It's who gets stuck with it." - Jimmy Fallon -
Most people just listen to music and watch movies. I EXPERIENCE them.
“Anger is an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured.”
--Mark Twain.
“If at first you don't succeed, then skydiving definitely isn't for you.” - Steven Wright -
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For 3s or 4s, you have to buy two other numbers and a 0 and 7 to make parentheses and break off minus signs.
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The iconic USCGC Eagle has arrived in Savannah! Docked along River Street
near the World War II Monument."Sometimes you have to look to the past to understand where you are going in the future"Harry / Marietta GA
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Here is a 1984 South African stamp commemorating the life of a man who invented a popular snack food:
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Most people just listen to music and watch movies. I EXPERIENCE them.
“Anger is an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured.”
--Mark Twain.
“If at first you don't succeed, then skydiving definitely isn't for you.” - Steven Wright -
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Hehe, got me good, Ken - deadpan skills are strong with you, sir 🫡SeleniumFalcon wrote: »Here is a 1984 South African stamp commemorating the life of a man who invented a popular snack food:
Victim of my favorite tomfoolery!
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Hehe, got me good, Ken - deadpan skills are strong with you, sir 🫡SeleniumFalcon wrote: »Here is a 1984 South African stamp commemorating the life of a man who invented a popular snack food:
Victim of my favorite tomfoolery!
Naah. It's really him. The lithograph predates his growing the iconic handlebar mustache.
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On the other hand. There really, truly was a Thomas Cr@pper.
His company and his legacy lives on.
https://thomas-crapper.com/
A proud name in plumbing fixtures -- to this very day.
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I hope this is all of them! I had five yesterday afternoon, found #6 last night in a lower kitchen drawer. Crazy me!
There was a very recent Thermos recall in late April. I was checking to see it I had one that was recalled. Had no idea I had as many.
