Get off my LAWN! "Grumpy Old Farts"

[GwenOnBass]

This is more my style>

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Harold and Maude approve.

Note to self: read all posts following the one you're quoting before you reply

 

[GwenOnBass]

There may be no dead sexier car than the E-type IMO

 

[Jeff Scott]

There may be no dead sexier car than the E-type IMO

Even, Enzo Ferrari though so, too, back when it was introduced.

 

[GwenOnBass]

Just on the topic of Enzo Ferrari, he was a chronic purple ink user.

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[Charlie Tango]

Just on the topic of Enzo Ferrari, he was a chronic purple ink user.

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Now, that's pretty cool. Ferraris are nice cars to look at, all the while knowing I'd never drive or own one. Nice info about the man.

 

[Jeff Scott]

Just on the topic of Enzo Ferrari, he was a chronic purple ink user.

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I'll have to watch that later, tonight. The Amish are back! And I learned that the youngest one and I share birthdays!

 

[GwenOnBass]

Friend of mine "always wanted" a Ferrari. Living with one changed her attitude.

She has to shut off the engine to order coffee on the way to work because they can't hear her over the rumble. She can't reach the window to pay for her coffee, or to take it. Stop lights all the way to work. Engine don't like that. Dump the Ferrari.

These days she just plain old hates cars, she says. But drives a Mercedes Benz SL 350 now after a long run with an Audi S4. Sometimes she'll show up in a Porsche of one variety or another <shrug>

 

[G-Dog]

This is more my style>

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Really nice! Quite an interesting story behind that Jaguar.

Building The ‘Harold and Maude’ Jaguar E-Type Hearse Was Quite The Undertaking

We-e-ell, doggies! Looks like it even comes with a banjo! They thought o' ever'thang.

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[GonePlaid]

Like the horn on that bus.

One of their hits in the 1940’s was called Smoke On The Water. I wonder if Texas kids played that song in music stores. They had a piano player, I imagine that it wasn’t easy to take a piano on the road. They must have had a trailer. Also of note, their bass player’s first name was Kermit, a name of Irish origin.


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I played piano in a small group in H.S. We'd play in places like VFW's, Legion, Elks, etc. We always carried a tuning hammer with us as the pianos were almost always so flat that the trumpet player had to change key. We'd tune the middle section that I actually used. Probably a bit tough on the next player, but not our problem.

 

[GwenOnBass]

We-e-ell, doggies! Looks like it even comes with a banjo! They thought o' ever'thang.

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But inside ... actually a banjo is worse.

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I like they included curtains (not shown in this photo). Classy.

 

[GwenOnBass]

I played piano in a small group in H.S. We'd play in places like VFW's, Legion, Elks, etc. We always carried a tuning hammer with us as the pianos were almost always so flat that the trumpet player had to change key. We'd tune the middle section that I actually used. Probably a bit tough on the next player, but not our problem.

As a kid I got slapped down (figuratively, not literally, but the trauma remained for, well until about now) for humming along with the piano tuner's fork.

 

[beans-on-toast]

Even, Enzo Ferrari though so, too, back when it was introduced.

I like the Ferrari from an engineering perspective. Most of the people that drive them are jerks.

 

[G-Dog]

But inside ... actually a banjo is worse.

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I like they included curtains. Classy.

Ho-o-oly ... Bluegrass Mafia! That makes the tommy gun in the violin case look plum civilized!
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[GonePlaid]

I like the Ferrari from an engineering perspective. Most of the people that drive them are jerks.

Entitled jerks, i.e. Karens(M or F).

 

[GonePlaid]

This is more my style>

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Reminiscent of a P1800 ES.

EDIT:The P1800 is/was the only sports car I ever realistically wanted. I doubt if I could get in&out of one now.

 

[GwenOnBass]

I like the Ferrari from an engineering perspective. Most of the people that drive them are jerks.

There's a joke that is probably toeing the line here about who drives a Porsche. Not all of them are the termination of a porcupine's quill. There is / was a very interesting guard's red 1967 Porsche Targa that lived across the street from me. My father refused to allow the gentleman to sell it to me. The history of that car is most interesting as it was Ferry's personal car before it was parked across the street.

The next stop on that car's journey (reads a bit like Black Beauty) was in the stewardship of a cardiac surgeon who was also a Gene Krupa wannabe. He was a distinct personality, as ... call it single mindedness. Jim would rush to the hospital for a surgery and never give any thought to anything but getting to surgery. (My good friend was his scrub nurse.) Which is why he drilled holes in the floorboards. The car would fill with rain, right? That sort of guy. Jam sessions in his living room ... in fact

speaking of Harold and Maude, Jim, the third owner of the guard's red Targa, calculated the cost of his funeral and bought a stereo system. Macintosh tube amp is what I recall. If you asked Jim (I did) he would give you his slide presentation on the lives and deaths of the jazz greats. Are their lifestyles contributory factors in their deaths? I ask. "Absolutely."

In unrelated news I just bought a skirt on closeout that's printed with proofreader's symbols. I fully intend to wear it to my journalism school's founding anniversary dinner in December. Trusting that's still going to happen ....

 

[GonePlaid]

There's a joke that is probably toeing the line here about who drives a Porsche. Not all of them are the termination of a porcupine's quill. There is / was a very interesting guard's red 1967 Porsche Targa that lived across the street from me. My father refused to allow the gentleman to sell it to me. The history of that car is most interesting as it was Ferry's personal car before it was parked across the street.

The next stop on that car's journey (reads a bit like Black Beauty) was in the stewardship of a cardiac surgeon who was also a Gene Krupa wannabe. He was a distinct personality, as ... call it single mindedness. Jim would rush to the hospital for a surgery and never give any thought to anything but getting to surgery. (My good friend was his scrub nurse.) Which is why he drilled holes in the floorboards. The car would fill with rain, right? That sort of guy. Jam sessions in his living room ... in fact

speaking of Harold and Maude, Jim, the third owner of the guard's red Targa, calculated the cost of his funeral and bought a stereo system. Macintosh tube amp is what I recall. If you asked Jim (I did) he would give you his slide presentation on the lives and deaths of the jazz greats. Are their lifestyles contributory factors in their deaths? I ask. "Absolutely."

In unrelated news I just bought a skirt on closeout that's printed with proofreader's symbols. I fully intend to wear it to my journalism school's founding anniversary dinner in December. Trusting that's still going to happen ....

You'll need a matching mask.

 

[GwenOnBass]

You'll need a matching mask.

Far as I know everyone holds hope we are well clear of The Thing That's Going Around by December.

 

[Charlie Tango]

I like the Ferrari from an engineering perspective. Most of the people that drive them are jerks.

I've long thought that some men drive them and cars of similar ilk as compensation for <ahem> lack of, well, a certain *quality* they're sensitive about.

 

[beans-on-toast]

There's a joke that is probably toeing the line here about who drives a Porsche. Not all of them are the termination of a porcupine's quill. There is / was a very interesting guard's red 1967 Porsche Targa that lived across the street from me. My father refused to allow the gentleman to sell it to me. The history of that car is most interesting as it was Ferry's personal car before it was parked across the street.

The next stop on that car's journey (reads a bit like Black Beauty) was in the stewardship of a cardiac surgeon who was also a Gene Krupa wannabe. He was a distinct personality, as ... call it single mindedness. Jim would rush to the hospital for a surgery and never give any thought to anything but getting to surgery. (My good friend was his scrub nurse.) Which is why he drilled holes in the floorboards. The car would fill with rain, right? That sort of guy. Jam sessions in his living room ... in fact

speaking of Harold and Maude, Jim, the third owner of the guard's red Targa, calculated the cost of his funeral and bought a stereo system. Macintosh tube amp is what I recall. If you asked Jim (I did) he would give you his slide presentation on the lives and deaths of the jazz greats. Are their lifestyles contributory factors in their deaths? I ask. "Absolutely."

In unrelated news I just bought a skirt on closeout that's printed with proofreader's symbols. I fully intend to wear it to my journalism school's founding anniversary dinner in December. Trusting that's still going to happen ....

Take a close look at what those proofreader’s symbols are saying. Maybe they are commenting on the garment in some way.

I once bought a sofa with a floral print on it. It took months for me to realize that it was a jungle scene with cats in it.