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    I Can Relate

    In 1911 Bobby Leach, originally from Cornwall, declared that he wanted to cross Niagara Falls closed in a barrel The widely publicized event occurred on July 25 at Table Rock: Using a cylindrical steel drum with wooden bumpers at each end, Leach, tied to a tight harness, was drifted to the...
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    General humor

    The folks in Wuppertal, Germany, take their LEGOs very seriously.
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    Recommendations for Guild Dreadnought Cutaways?

    So you roll it around on a cart, eh? :D
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    Dream cars

    Grain Truck Races! All the way to Tumwater!!!!
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    Signs of the Times

    Based on one o' them invalid premises: That kids will read voluntarily.
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    Discontinued Guild models

    Those 2 on the solid bodies were always my favorites. Too bad they couldn't get Mickey and Sylvia And looks like a young Richard Pryor on the F50. :p
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    Safety first

    If it was photoshopped it would have had the same end sticking out both sides. :p
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    Trying a previously unknown string brand

    I used to eke around 40-50 hours out of Ej-16's, but they were pretty well notched up by then, and the "sweet spot" was really only from around a couple to 25 or maybe 30 hours.
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    Safety first

    How do you know it wasn't cut in half and mounted that way just to mess with people?
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    Recommendations for Guild Dreadnought Cutaways?

    The True Americans were simply a TRC and a marketing campaign more than anything else. The DCE's were the first "True Americans", '92 catalog: Eventually seen on the 16" F-body ce's and even plain old instruments, '97 catalog: My '96 D25 has one. I think they had a surfeit of TRC's and...
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    How Dirt Makes You Happy

    Never woulda believed it if I hadn't read it on the internet: https://www.gardeningknowhow.com/garden-how-to/soil-fertilizers/antidepressant-microbes-soil.htm "Prozac may not be the only way to get rid of your serious blues. Soil microbes have been found to have similar effects on the brain and...
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    Dream cars

    BY golly, I see Crowley's car is accurate, got fooled by the big lights and the hood ornament. Forgot Bentley had these: And thought it had a Spirit of Ecstasy:
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    Recommendations for Guild Dreadnought Cutaways?

    Hi Geoff: Purpose built in the '90's: IIRC member @Guildedagain has a DCE-5 up for sale currently.
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    Dream cars

    They always flunk the safety inspection.
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    Dream cars

    Never been to one in my life. I'm allergic to hay. Made it a point to see at least one demolition derby, though:
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    Mundane Thoughts or Comments

    Keeps 'em from melting, right?
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    Dream cars

    Yes, with later versions getting 2-stage. Crowley's car or the Bentley with a Merlin? Ah, Google is my friend: But it's the version of the Merlin that was adapted for the British tanks, the Meteor: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rolls-Royce_Meteor 0-100kmh in 2 minutes and it can pull 3...
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    Mundane Thoughts or Comments

    Surely you've got a couple of these lying about?:
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    Mundane Thoughts or Comments

    It's a little known fact that the word"pizza" derives from the typical Roman gustatorium customer's order: "Gimme a pizz-a that", while pointing to the desired morsel.
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    Dream cars

    It never hit production. But this did, and I have never seen or heard of it before: The Fairmont Durango. o_O
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