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[flatbutt]

Time for your sponge bath Mr FB.

[GH85Carrera]

I keep having to take my 911 back to my new Porsche mechanic. She seems pretty incompetent, using a Crescent wrench, pliers and Vice Grips under the gas tank but I keep taking the car back, until she gets it right.

[Racerbvd]

[GH85Carrera]

[GH85Carrera]

I see him in traffic almost every time I drive.

[GH85Carrera]

Something touched my foot!






James George Janos was a member of the U.S. Navy Underwater Demolition Team during the Vietnam War. After leaving the military, he embarked on a professional wrestling career from 1975 to 1986, taking the ring name Jesse "The Body" Ventura. He had a long tenure in the World Wrestling Federation (WWF) as a performer and color commentator, and was inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame class of 2004. In addition to wrestling, Ventura pursued an acting career, appearing in films such as "Predator" and "The Running Man" (both 1987).
While working on "Predator," Ventura was delighted to find out from the wardrobe department that his arms were one inch bigger than Arnold Schwarzenegger's. He suggested to Schwarzenegger that they measure arms, with the winner getting a bottle of champagne. Ventura lost, because Schwarzenegger had told the wardrobe department to tell Ventura that his arms were bigger.
Ventura retaliated in the parank department by pouring water over himself while at the gym before Arnold arrived. Thinking that Ventura was drenched in sweat, Arnold believed that Ventura was working out longer than he usually did. He resolved to begin his workouts sooner. He and Ventura both started arriving earlier to one up each other until they both started to arrive at 4 am.
Ventura first entered politics in 1991 when he was elected mayor of Brooklyn Park, Minnesota, a position he held until 1995. Three years later, Ventura was the Reform Party candidate in the Minnesota gubernatorial election of 1998, running a low-budget campaign centered on grassroots events and unusual ads that urged citizens not to "vote for politics as usual." Ventura's campaign was unexpectedly successful, with him narrowly defeating both the Democratic and Republican candidates. The highest elected official to ever win an election on a Reform Party ticket, Ventura left the Reform Party a year after taking office amid internal fights for control over the party.


In 1935, the world's first parking meter, known as Park-O-Meter No. 1, is installed on the southeast corner of what was then First Street and Robinson Avenue in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.
The parking meter was the brainchild of a man named Carl C. Magee, who moved to Oklahoma City from New Mexico in 1927. Magee had a colorful past: As a reporter for an Albuquerque newspaper, he had played a pivotal role in uncovering the so-called Teapot Dome Scandal (named for the Teapot Dome oil field in Wyoming), in which Albert B. Fall, then-secretary of the interior, was convicted of renting government lands to oil companies in return for personal loans and gifts. He also wrote a series of articles exposing corruption in the New Mexico court system, and was tried and acquitted of manslaughter after he shot at one of the judges targeted in the series during an altercation at a Las Vegas hotel.
By the time Magee came to Oklahoma City to start a newspaper, the Oklahoma News, his new hometown shared a common problem with many of America's urban areas--a lack of sufficient parking space for the rapidly increasingly number of automobiles crowding into the downtown business district each day. Asked to find a solution to the problem, Magee came up with the Park-o-Meter. The first working model went on public display in early May 1935, inspiring immediate debate over the pros and cons of coin-regulated parking. Indignant opponents of the meters considered paying for parking un-American, as it forced drivers to pay what amounted to a tax on their cars, depriving them of their money without due process of law.
Despite such opposition, the first meters were installed by the Dual Parking Meter Company beginning in July 1935; they cost a nickel an hour, and were placed at 20-foot intervals along the curb that corresponded to spaces painted on the pavement. Magee's invention caught on quickly: Retailers loved the meters, as they encouraged a quick turnover of cars--and potential customers--and drivers were forced to accept them as a practical necessity for regulating parking. By the early 1940s, there were more than 140,000 parking meters operating in the United States. Today, Park-O-Meter No. 1 is on display in the Statehood Gallery of the Oklahoma Historical Society.

[GH85Carrera]

Vulture City Arizona:
Soon after Henry Wickenburg discovered the Vulture Mine in 1863, the small mining town of Vulture City sprang to life. Holding at one time around 5,000 people, Vulture city also had its own Assay office for the gold and silver that came from the mine, as well as a security vault for the gold and silver's safe keeping until it could be transported to Prescott or Phoenix.
The Vulture Mine yielded over 340,000 ounces of gold and 260,000 ounces of silver from 1863 until 1942. As does most mining town's in the wild west, Vulture city was no different when it came to being a deadly place to call home. The brothels and saloons were a regular place to visit at the end of a long day in the mine and on the claims. With mine cave-ins Yavapai raids, lynchings, gunfights, disease and the elements were all common killers. It was even said that during 1870-1875 it was practically a death sentence for anyone, even the lone prospector to venture alone outside of town. Vulture City also had its very own hanging tree where 18 souls were strung up for stealing.
This mining town was so deadly that the U.S. Army had to dispatch soldiers to this mining town to bring order and security, but it actually did very little to stop the violence and death.
One simply can't walk through the old Ghost Town without hearing about the Glory Hole. Back in 1923, 7 miners were working inside of the mine at night and were loading up 12 burros with gold ore. The only catch is that they were mining it out of the stone pillar support beams and things didn't turn out so well... All 7 miners and 12 Burros were killed, forever entombed with the very gold ore they were trying to steal. - This tunnel was never re-opened, the gold and bodies were still there!
Many of the building go this old town are still standing to this very day. The Ironwood hanging tree also still stands and is located right by the old ruins of Henry Wickenburg's house.
Today the old building’s & the mine are privately owned and tours are offered for anyone who wants to catch a glimpse into our states past. There are so many cool things to see here!

[RBNetEngr]

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[Steve Carlton]

[Por_sha911]

Originally Posted by GH85Carrera

OMG, is that a 10mm socket she is using?

[Por_sha911]

Oops, forgot a random pic

[craigster59]

[asphaltgambler]

Originally Posted by RBNetEngr

That's range is part of a very high-end vintage look appliance line. Also available in custom colors. Last time I checked, the range was @$6500...

[GH85Carrera]

Nope, not for sale. I am going to fix it up real soon!

[Racerbvd]

[GH85Carrera]

The circa-mid-1940 photograph depicts the “Hoot Hoot I Scream” ice-cream parlor, which was built in 1927 on East Valley Blvd. in Rosemead, California, but owing to lack of customers the building was moved to Long Beach Blvd. in South Gate. The “Hoot Hoot” building was constructed in the shape of an owl -- with a rotating head & blinking eyes made from Buick headlamps. In 1930, it was transformed into the Hoot Owl Café, serving workers of the Firestone Tire & Rubber Co. through World War II. The Hoot Hoot building was eventually demolished in 1979.


Montezuma Castle National Monument In Arizona, USA

[GH85Carrera]

Except she needs a nose ring, and and a neck tat.






Good taste kid!


It will take a long time to cook with no heat on the skillet.

[Danimal16]

Originally Posted by Adrian Thompson

Damn gas is cheap these days.
If we assume that pic is 1970, that's 8.17/gal today
If we assume that pic is 1971, that's 7.83/gal today
If we assume that pic is 1971, that's 7.58/gal today
If we assume that pic is 1971, that's 7.17/gal today

Gasoline was not 109/gallon in 1970. I recall gas wars and regularly paid 25 cents or less. At MCB El Toro and LTA I recall paying UNDER 20 cents.

So the equivalent cost at 36 cents a gallon is 2.70. And remember that was for 100% gasoline, not this diluted stuff we have today.

[GH85Carrera]

In 1970 at Hickam AFB in Hawaii, I remember pushing my dad's lawn mower to the gas station and getting a gallon of gas, and a Coke, for 30 cents. I then went and mowed yards for money all day. Usually $2 per yard. 3$ for the big yards.