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    Re: Well, ain't that a hole in the boat...

    Long heal time. I am just really feeling recovered from a shoulder incident one year ago. It will pass, but if anything like my injury was, sleeping on it will be a bitch for weeks. Heal well!
  2. Re: From the Amazing Coincidence Department.......

    I heard that, though mine was built in Italy. I wonder how the Thais will do? I expect they will be OK. $35K is a bt more than they cost here ($22K for the GT and PP) but not terribly so. In...
  3. Re: Good Morning Jamie/Arlie/Uncas! Good luck today, thoughts and prayers.

    Heal fast, feel well, live long!
  4. Re: From the Amazing Coincidence Department.......

    The lower image looks amazingly like a lady who used to come to the beach club I worked at while in high school.
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    Re: Like Motorcycles and Airplanes?

    Here's a twin that has actual aeronautic connection:


    http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=ND4EA0dnAM8

    Allen Millyard again.
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    Re: chasing classic cars

    I'll stand by my comments on his command of language and note that the show lacks "something" that allows the addition of humor and insight into what goes on behind the scenes. It needn't be a...
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    Re: Tesla

    I can't imagine very many independents setting up for service at the levels of sale currently forecast, though they are selling many times that number here.
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    Re: chasing classic cars

    We're being jealous jerks and you are completely right; he has a great job. Still, I wish his command of English was a bit better. It's painful when the spokesman for a business/hobby/avocation...
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    Re: Like Motorcycles and Airplanes?

    Indeed, a rotary. As for lubrication, I don't know, but "total loss" seems very, very apt at several levels.

    As you are an engineer, I know you can appreciate the challenge. For the rider,...
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    Re: I predict political upheaval in Minnesota

    I'll continue to stand by my deductions, and agree with Emily here:

    ".....I find myself led to wonder about your assertion and even about what is beginning to seem like a problem you are having...
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    Re: I predict political upheaval in Minnesota

    Other contributors have contested this claim.





    I'll stand by my assumption, certainly tacitly offered as speculative, unless or until you care to clarify your position. I don't expect such...
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    Re: Sales tax in internet purchases

    I confess I have not followed the details of this argument (that is, the technicalities of implementation) all the way through. I get that there are thousands of individual tax codes to be accounted...
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    Re: another cool cafe racer

    Mine was a low mile (18,000) one owner when I bought it, and I paid a small premium for its quality. So did the guy I sold it to, and I'd say it was worth the cost to both of us. I had several good...
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    Re: Sales tax in internet purchases

    Complex it may be, but there is a way to sort this out, and if anybody likes the idea of a level playing field, local sourcing of goods and the ability to walk into a store to see and touch...
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    Re: Like Motorcycles and Airplanes?

    He did one, there have been a few others. In essence, an HD can be said to be two cylinders of a radial engine. Here's (probably) the most famous of all radial engine motorcycles. It wasn't any...
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    Re: Tesla

    I imagine Tesla will "win" its right to sell direct in almost all of its major markets, and I would like to say that "everybody knows what is driving the automobile dealers to oppose the direct sales...
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    Re: chasing classic cars

    If I recall, driving an Isetta (as Wayne might say) "back in the day," was a lot less fun than doing so today. But like most people, I have always been somewhere between amused and engaged by...
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    Re: I predict political upheaval in Minnesota

    In respect to gay marriage, you have made your position clear through your leading question. I don't really know or care about how you define representative decisions in a republic, but I have a...
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    Re: chasing classic cars

    There are plenty worse, but if you watch him over a period of months, he cloys. His speech is very cliched, he says the same stuff over and over and over, in exactly the same words and every now and...
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    Re: another cool cafe racer

    '75, they were drilled. I no longer have the bike, sold it two years ago. Nice clean original condition. The photo does it scant justice, taken in the sun it has neither the proper color balance...
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    Re: another cool cafe racer

    http://i240.photobucket.com/albums/ff76/LewBarrett/maroon2_zps9833f882.jpg

    http://i240.photobucket.com/albums/ff76/LewBarrett/cafe_zps3dbd8789.jpg
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    Re: another cool cafe racer

    Seen at Backfire Moto.

    http://i240.photobucket.com/albums/ff76/LewBarrett/BlueHonda_zps74962874.jpg

    http://i240.photobucket.com/albums/ff76/LewBarrett/blue_zps394de171.jpg
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    Re: Tesla

    Bless you my son. Say five Hail Marys. Take the weekend off starting Thursday and buy your wife something you want. Also do some gardening.
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    Re: chasing classic cars

    You are not alone.

    There is something annoying about his speaking style too.
    "You never know......anyways
    It doesn't get any better than this.
    But yet...... "
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    Re: The Second World War

    Yes, a good point, a valid point, and an oft dismissed one as well. Except for the incontrovertible proof Germany offered to the world in 1945. The Allies of course could not be bothered to divert...
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    Re: Tesla

    It could even get better, despite flattening share prices today (I expect more of that in the near future). My total returns (on paper) plus my realized gains from my sale are almost identical to...
  27. Re: From the Amazing Coincidence Department.......

    No kidding! (But......weren't there two threads he was referring to)?
  28. From the Amazing Coincidence Department.......

    http://i240.photobucket.com/albums/ff76/LewBarrett/greatseat_zpsc30f87ac.jpg


    I bought another saddle.
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    Re: Tesla

    Bless you my son. Say three Hail Marys and meet me at Thrive (with your lovely daughter) for lunch next time you are in town. My treat.
    Note, this means "next time you are in town." No slipping in...
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    Re: Tesla

    This is excellent news!
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    Re: I predict political upheaval in Minnesota

    You could be but I don't think so this time. My impression is that we know where the OP stands just because he posed the question. People rarely complain or comment about decisions they agree...
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    Re: Tesla

    This number ($45,000) is certainly not visible in respect to what California offers. You may check their rebate program here. In addition, here is the complete list of available California benefits...
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    Re: Tesla

    You cannot strictly speaking be guilty here, but you can be wrong. What if the electric car actually shows some legs or as may be more likely the case leads through evolution to the next step? I...
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    Re: The Second World War

    Very interesting thread to which I have little to add, but why should that stop me?

    Going back to Gary's initial post:

    The Gleiwitz incident that became one of the phony excuses for the...
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    Re: Tesla

    You don't know me very well.;)

    By the way, there is no possibility that I will get rich because of it, or at least not rich as I define the term.
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    Re: Tesla

    No, I jumped on a good deal in good time. Being right in the investment game is about making the stake pay off. That was my bet and so far it has worked out. Although there is still room for me to...
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    Sticky: Re: Dave Hadfield your brother is my hero.

    Thank you! Excellent!
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    Re: Tesla

    I have none of my original stake at risk (my simple math: I invested $X, it tripled and became $3X, I sold my original $1X stake and the remainder rides for now). It is tempting to take a bit more...
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    Re: Tesla

    Thanks.

    This morning I sold one third of my position. I had several motivations, none really related to my faith in the company (well, maybe just a little as a hedge). First, the stock has (a...
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    Re: Benghazi: The beginning of the end

    No doubt. Quoting the NRA on any matters relating to gun control (which is far off the focus of this topic in any case) is like asking Charmin who makes the best paper towels. The answer will be...
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    Re: Benghazi: The beginning of the end

    You rolled over too easily. A cite from the NRA has to be examined. For instance, they were outraged that:

    On a number of different occasions, Kerry has voted to regulate gun shows by imposing a...
  42. Re: Wall of ice rises out of lake and destroys homes in Canada

    Aliens.
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    Re: Benghazi: The beginning of the end

    Snopes on Benghazi



    Under Reagan:

    1983: Bomb Blast At U.S. Embassy In Beirut Killed More Than 60, Including 17 Americans. From an ABC News article on the 25th anniversary of the April 18,...
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    Re: Benghazi: The beginning of the end

    One is a nut when one presses the notion that the standing government is somehow complicit in this event, fails to rue the outcome, or that by some magic act it could reverse the hands of time, go...
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    Re: Benghazi: The beginning of the end

    Don't expect a reply.
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    Re: Happy Birthday Spindrift

    Happy Birthday to the Birthday Girl herself!
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    Re: Happy Birthday to Duncan Gibbs....

    Happy Birthday, Dunc!
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    Re: Can humans survive?

    TED Talks on the subject.

    I don't think science has been mute on the topic.
  49. Re: Democrat Cummings - Death is a part of Life.

    Distortion of the most banal and naive sort.



    More or less a single blade of Astroturf attempting to cover the entire outfield.
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    Re: Linseed oil over epoxy

    But not easily corrected with a tissue.
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