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Fuzzrocious Club V.2

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Great morning! Got myself a cup of dark coffee and went to the post office. Mini RT#034 plus the killer Fuzzrocious T-shirt was waiting for me! Thanks again Ry!
 
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Only a week till I get my first paycheck.. Which brings the question what pedal to get? I've been wanting to try the Rat Tail, Grey 'Stache, and the Oh See Demon.

-Ryan, my only question is how long on average would it take for a pedal to be built and shipped?
 
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SVE said:
Only a week till I get my first paycheck.. Which brings the question what pedal to get? I've been wanting to try the Rat Tail, Grey 'Stache, and the Oh See Demon.

-Ryan, my only question is how long on average would it take for a pedal to be built and shipped?
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I should have a grey stache and rat tail ready to ship by tomorrow.
DD, trem, and OSD by mid-week.
 
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hah! i opened up the back, 'cause....

a) i'm a nerd
b) gotta make sure there's no battery
c) i'm a NERD

and i got teh giggles.....

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thanks Ry! about to plug it in, then i get some time with my Big Amp after i set up the DAW comp at practice.

noise AHOY!
 
#569
fwiw, i had a long talk with my Damn You Ship Stuff A Lot, What're All Those KNOBS??!? lady at the post office i go to. she was saying that the flat rate priority mail boxes are being stressed as BE CAREFUL boxes right now. 'cept my yarea the only one they have that'll fit a pedzal is big enough for like 6 pedals if you pack it right. but it's $10.95 no matter how many you jam in there.
 
#574
I`d say that USPS ignores "fragile" for sure. My Rat Tail box had a dent in the side when it showed up.
Also about every other time (read-50%) I buy a record online I come home to find the box jammed into my mailbox. It looks like someone tried to balance a pizza box by sticking the one corner into the mail box. It`s aggravating cause any one can just walk up and take it. At least the mailman could lay in on my porch. Yeesh.
 
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My only USPS disaster was at the beginning of the year. Like a big dummy I had my wife's wedding ring shipped to my PO BOX. When I had come in to pick it up (I was on the road and it was 5 days after it arrived to my box) it was not in my box. The post office records show it was "singed for" 10 minutes after it had arrived. No physical sig just the slip was left in my box and it was turned in at pickup, stolen or placed in wrong box? First time I really saw my wife cry. She rarely if ever does. She is sunshine.

Anyway it never appeared. I took it up pretty far up the chain. At least the shipper insured it and we just got our money back just a couple of weeks ago. I also found a ring that was perfect for her.

This issue, and also how my NETFLIX envelopes are always torn to peek at the movie titles.
 
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I`ll probably send my Rat Tail back to Ryan Monday or Tuesday to fix the problem(random cutting out of effected signal) which sucks cause this is a RAD pedal!
Let me say though that this little problem has not tarnished my view on Ryan or his work in the least bit!
As soon as I have some free cash I`ll be buying another pedal from him!

Let me just mention this while I`m here.
The Rat Tail going into my VT Deluxe sounds awesome. Like I just creamed my jeans awesome.
I really don`t want to send it back to get it fixed. I`m going to miss it too much!
 
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no worries at all! i know you'll take care of it lickety split!

....... that's such a weird phrase.
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Just cause I'm feeling nerdy...


"...the origin of this expression isn't entirely clear.

"Lickety-split," meaning fast or quickly, apparently arose in the 1830s and 1840s. One reference said that the term had been used by the Puritans back in the 1600s but gave no cite. I doubt it -- the earliest known appearance of lickety-split in print is 1843. "Lickety click," "lickety cut" and "lickety switch" were other terms from the 1840s meaning the same thing.

We don't know exactly where the expression came from, par for the course in etymological matters. One conjecture is that it derives from the verb "to lick" (with the tongue), whence "to go at great lick" or "to go at full lick," i.e., meaning to move at great speed. How licking aided in this process is not clear. I personally like the more amusing explanation that the word "lickety" is onomatopoetic, from the ticking of a clock or the clickety-clack of a train. After all, it was the early industrial revolution, and speed and time had new urgency. Steam engines, trains, and even household clocks made their appearance, changing the pace of society. Hence, a vocabulary arose to reflect the new era. Quite a few terms from the 1830s and 1840s, all meaning fast, speedily, quickly, are still in use today:

Quick as greased lightning (although "quick as lightning" dates to 1763, the grease was added in the 1840s)
Before you can say "Jack Robinson"
In a hustle
In a jiffy
Pronto
Like a house afire
Hell bent (the variation "Hell bent for leather" doesn't appear until the 1900s.)
Immediately if not sooner.
 
#580
i always imagine a quad-amputee crossing a room just under the power of their tongue pulling against the floorboards.

"i'll get there.... i'll get there.... LICKETY SPLIT. pleh. clean your floor more often please."
 
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