[M.D. Holloway]

I find that hundred dollar bills chafe my a$$ so I have gone to using tens and twenties but I don't dive but I think that is the safest route and you know my brother worked on a dive boat and he pulled a dead body out of the water about once a month and there are more bikini's on this thread than the bikini thread as a matter of fact I'm going over there and b1tch and moan because as a Hyundai owner I guess I shouldn't talk cuz I don't want to be a negative Nellie but we are in a war with no foreseeable end and the real estate and gas prices are through the roof (the average middle class single income family cannot afford a house), the doom sayers say a crash is just around the corner (I'm not saying it is) and jobs are moving overseas, our economy is dependent on China and Mexico, the Third world counties are developing nuclear capabilities and sure we don't have the black plague but life ain't a walk in the rose garden and wouldn’t you know that now Israel is going to war and we have more STD's than you can shake a stick at, some will stay with you forever, some that will kill you with more people seem to be dieing of cancer but to me tools are like, watches, guns, and automobiles... to a degree you get what you pay because I like the feel of a good tool (boy am I leaving my self open) but then I am a technician and work mostly with screwdrivers and needle nose pliers where precision is more noticeable but you know I do have a set of Chinese sockets that have been know to crack under heavy use... very annoying when your in the middle of a project and have to stop, wash the grease off your hands, and go buy another socket (at premium price because you are buying only one socket) and I am also a big fan of adopting cats from the shelter and have two that are such but as far as Bengals being mean - some of the meanest cats I have known were mixed breed house cats, my neighbors orange tabby is the meanest cat I have ever met, I saw him chase a dog out of the yard the other day (and he is pushing 15 or more) and one day I took in a Siamese stray that I found in my yard... she wasn't very big but she could do that sitting on the floor leap to the top of the fridge, freaked my friends out and I have a though time of getting a pure bred cat but you can find just about any type you want at the shelter... hardest part is leaving the others behind and having said that there are times when cheap tools make sense when you know the tool is going to be abused such a vice grips that are going to be used for welding which isn’t to say I wouldn't use my German screwdriver to open paint cans and at some point there is a diminishing amount of return on your investment where to use my watch, gun, automobile analogy, If I were rich I would probably be just as happy with my Seiko as a Rolex, a Ruger works just as well as a HK, and I would be just as happy with GT3 as a CGT not that I wouldn't love to have a Rolex, HK, or a CGT just that you are paying two to three times as much money for something that is just a little bit nicer/well made.









OK….so when am I going to see any sort of competition?