thanks for shattering my dreams, guys, no matter how off the left one looked :D

Interesting pics Stijn, I went to Ypres on a school trip in 1993. I think i've been in that Cathedral - is there a museum there?

you probably think of the Cloth halls, they are next to eachother

you have the market place, then the cloth halls to one side
and the Cathedral is behind that , along with the unknown soldier monument...

the cloth halls is the one with the In Flanders Fields museum
it's a really heavy on the senses ordeal, suddenly the lights go dark, and you hear shelling, with flashes... , or they have a green smoke suddenly come out through plexi tubes with lights under it
to simulate a gas attack...

i've been there several times , back when i still maintained the website, and every time i still noticed new things...it's not about the generals or tactics, it's about the misery

if you went on a school trip in 1993, then chances are you ate fries at the snack bar on the market place we get busloads of british schoolkids and it was the only fast food joint on the marketplace, no macdonalds,.... hell , it's possible that i was there working , it was my mothers place...

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this is opposite the cloth halls

hi paul... those are very nice though my personal prefrence goes w/ linen wrap. to respond to your previous question, my game has dropped off a bit now that i'm down to playing just once a week. my regular sparring partners aren't around as much. to keep it slightly on topic, here's my friend's handiwork:

a friend of mine in boston has aspirations of becoming a cuemaker.
in the meantime he can only afford a small lathe that lets him fix/refurb shafts and install tips.
i send my cue to him each time i need a new tip and after seeing it done, have sent at least 10 others

not really an ad, just amazing worksmanship.

this is before and after of the same cue

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here's the finished product. the tip is a multilayered Moori, from japan.
it has twice as many layers as any other which, once shaped, provides many more ridges
for the chalk to settle into. end result, more spin w/ less effort. the black pad under the tip
is a type of fibrous impact material designed to soften the hit. keeps the tip in contact w/ the ball longer, giving more control/spin.

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blindfolded it is impossible to distinguish where the cue/ferrule/tip meet

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Gangsta' pants and door bars - not a good mix

nah...he’s just setting up for the Fast and the Furious Part 3 - FLA Drift...

Did that car burn or is all that charred area from the turbo belching fire from the exhaust?

$750 worth of tires...

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thom:
money well spent. so very, very........................cool.

we should require a pic with any post
 

less chit chat and more pics. my bad...



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Wow, Thom. Looking GREAT!. Are you keeping it?

Caught fire the day before, but they got it back on track:D

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What is the cause of that tail pipe fire...FFR...??? FSOV...?

Jeff: Getting ready for the "inter-airline" air races? Seeing how many ponies are under the cowl?

Probably the lack of talent among the ranks of SWA's maintenance team.....:p :p :p

The fire is caused by the preservative in the motor. Those are new engines. It's always a show when we light one off for the first time. Funny thing is it only lights off like that when it's cold outside. In the summer its just a bunch of smoke.

Ed, I think we all know who is the King of the Air around these parts. SWA is just a little old regional carrier trying to scratch out a living.

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