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I was happy with his opinion of me. Sorry some of your patients die...I can see why, they want to get away from you....kinda like they had to burn the school house down to get you out of the third grade. :D

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Vrede wrote: This is your norm when you screw up®, as we're currently discussing in another thread.
It also is entirely irrelevant that your customer was a Jew. "Rube Goldberg devices" are a part of American culture.
Yep...American Jews.

"Reuben Lucius Goldberg was born July 4, 1883, in San Francisco, California, to Jewish parents Max and Hannah (Cohen) Goldberg."
I didn't coin the phrase, dummy, that's your screw up®. According to my late friend, (not customer...you screwed up® again) in the Jewish community, a Rube Goldberg design or repair was what is now commonly called jerry-rigging, jury-rigging, or (heaven forbid!) Afro-engineering.
(I could have added n----- rigging, but you might not have had a clean diaper handy, and I didn't want to take a chance of your fouling up the forum.)

Add this to your "Something else to piss and moan about" book.

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I only just realized...

Maximum Overdrive is the prequel to Pixar's CARS.

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Vrede wrote: "Add this to his whiny and irresponsible book."
Who are you telling to add this to my book? Those you hope you've impressed?
You're so stupid you'd climb over a glass wall to see what's on the other side.

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If I were in a hurry and liked what was on the other side of the glass wall, I'd just break it.

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Vrede wrote:Anyone that wants to read it, of course. You're too insecure, whiny and irresponsible to keep your own book.
Vrede wrote:As always, Mr.B messes up and is so delicate that he just can't handle admitting it even when documentation that he's flubbed is provided.
You're so stupid you'd climb over a glass wall to see what's on the other side instead of using the door.
You're so stupid for thinking doors are built into a wall...or even attempting to think.

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Vrede wrote::lol: Most doors are built into walls, idiot, and I've even seen glass doors in glass walls, as have you.
..Depends on the type of wall...where's the door(s) in the Great Wall?

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Mr.B wrote:
Vrede wrote: This is your norm when you screw up®, as we're currently discussing in another thread.
It also is entirely irrelevant that your customer was a Jew. "Rube Goldberg devices" are a part of American culture.
Yep...American Jews.

"Reuben Lucius Goldberg was born July 4, 1883, in San Francisco, California, to Jewish parents Max and Hannah (Cohen) Goldberg."
I didn't coin the phrase, dummy, that's your screw up®. According to my late friend, (not customer...you screwed up® again) in the Jewish community, a Rube Goldberg design or repair was what is now commonly called jerry-rigging, jury-rigging, or (heaven forbid!) Afro-engineering.
(I could have added n----- rigging, but you might not have had a clean diaper handy, and I didn't want to take a chance of your fouling up the forum.)

Add this to your "Something else to piss and moan about" book.
OferPetesSake - Rueben Goldberg might have been Jewish - or non-practicing, or Orthodox, or converted to Christianity. It doesn't matter, because the name "Rube Goldberg" and its meaning has nothing to do with his being Jewish, either in name or heritage. And it has nothing to do with "jerry-rigging" or whatever, that means doing something in a half-hazard manner with whatever materials are available. Read what his own (no, not really his since he's dead) says "Rube Goldberg" means.n... http://rubegoldberg.com/about

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Mr.B wrote:So much for stereotyped Alabamians, huh.

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Stereotypes are usually earned, but that doesn't mean everybody within a given demographic meets it. This was a very nice and honest guy, to whom I have been grateful over the years.

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One guy's opinion of the 10 most beautiful cars. I don't know that I agree all belong on the list, but they are some magnificent machines...
http://www.businessinsider.com/the-most ... 015-3?op=1

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One guy's opinion of the 10 most beautiful cars. I don't know that I agree all belong on the list, but they are some magnificent machines...
http://www.businessinsider.com/the-most ... 015-3?op=1

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Is it my imagination or are a disproportionate share of sub-speed limit vehicles, 10 or more cars stacked up behind, noncommercial, bed-empty pickups, often 8 bangers (compared to my 4)? If so, why do you think that is?
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Vrede too wrote:Is it my imagination or are a disproportionate share of sub-speed limit vehicles, 10 or more cars stacked up behind, noncommercial, bed-empty pickups, often 8 bangers (compared to my 4)? If so, why do you think that is?
I haven't noticed that. At the front of the train, I usually expect to find some male or female Q-tip, hunched over, with a death grip on the wheel. Or sometimes a cop in an, ahem, ummm, "unmarked" car.

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O Really wrote:
Vrede too wrote:Is it my imagination or are a disproportionate share of sub-speed limit vehicles, 10 or more cars stacked up behind, noncommercial, bed-empty pickups, often 8 bangers (compared to my 4)? If so, why do you think that is?
I haven't noticed that. At the front of the train, I usually expect to find some male or female Q-tip, hunched over, with a death grip on the wheel. Or sometimes a cop in an, ahem, ummm, "unmarked" car.
Sometimes its not even really a cop, its a crown Vic with the spot light thing someone bought at an auction.
You aren't doing it wrong if no one knows what you are doing.

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Interesting:
Toyota Camry Tops Ford F-150 as the Most American Made Car

Cars with at least 75 percent domestic content are becoming an endangered species, and for the first time in the American-Made Index’s nine-year history, the list has fewer than 10 cars.

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I wonder who making a killing off all the plastic and Styrofoam for cars? I bought a 2012 Toyota Camry; if I had looked close and saw what I found after I bought it, it wouldn't have come in my yard.

Like most all cars today, the "bumpers" are Styrofoam covered in plastic, secured to the "metal" fenders with plastic push-pins. Several of the push-pins or the tabs that secure them, have broken off (out of warranty, of course). The only repair option I was given is to replace the "bumpers". I would have to take a second mortgage on my house to buy them!

My ingenuity, a drill, a few Tinnerman™ clips, Image some sheet-metal screws, and I was back in business.

The metal in the fenders is so thin, it only has one side. I have a roll of Reynolds foil that is heavier gauge than the "metal" in those fenders.
Cheap, cheap, cheap Japanese-owned American-made junk! :cussing:

It's unfortunate, and sad, that our manufacturing quality has come to this. I've been considering buying a new F-150 pickup. I saw a beautiful maroon truck at the local Ford dealer that really appealed to me. After I woke up in the hospital, I decided that truck would never be mine...
$48,769 ...!!

Uhhh...on second thought, I'd better hurry on down and buy it, especially after seeing the prices on the trucks listed on their website!
Here is their website
The one I want is the fourth one down....holy mackerel!
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"American" vs. "foreign" used to have some meaning when 'Detroit iron" was a product of US based companies, doing final assembly as well as parts manufacturing in the US and BMW, for example, being owned by Germans and built in der Black Forest somewhere. With changing corporate ownership, parts manufactured worldwide, and final assembly done all over, the term has little practical meaning. To me, the "American car" is the one that provides the most jobs within the US, no matter who owns the company.

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O Really wrote:"American" vs. "foreign" used to have some meaning when 'Detroit iron" was a product of US based companies, doing final assembly as well as parts manufacturing in the US and BMW, for example, being owned by Germans and built in der Black Forest somewhere. With changing corporate ownership, parts manufactured worldwide, and final assembly done all over, the term has little practical meaning. To me, the "American car" is the one that provides the most jobs within the US, no matter who owns the company.
Well put! Did you look at the link? :wtf:

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I'd hate to see their least "valuable resource".
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He didn't believe his signage.
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