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Sorry, I thought this earned it's own thread, and this is the last I will comment on it-- <br Washertalk, your statement <br "republicans - racist, scandal riden, fear mongering, sexist, fiscally irresponsible, truth blocking, global warming deniars, fox news propagandists, drug addict...

...this seems insane. I have this EXACT same TV in just a tad slightly different cabinet (it amazes me that they made so many cabinets that were just a touch different). Look at the price it went for! I don't care what he replaced, my picture looks just the same. Shill bidder or what? Old...

Ok, this is my third POS mower, and I have been babying it along. Since I bent my blade, followed by some smoking, the mower never was the same. I can't say I didn't abuse it, but these MTD Yard Machines from Home Depot are not real quality devices. The first one I got, on my first mow, the...

When you were really young, say 2-5, did you have a toy that scared you? I wondered about one thing for years and just happened upon it. If I remember correctly, you pulled the front of this gruesome thing and it would come along, leaving the back of it behind until the slinky stretched enough...

I shared pics last year of my 1964 Oldsmobile Starfire. It is up and running, needs a new distributor advance but is drivable. I was doing routine "get it going again" tasks and was repairing my remote trunk release. This is an interesting mechanism in that it is not electrical, but uses...

Good Heavens, what could this thing be? A sub-particle matter duetronium phase inductor?

Sometime I want to add one of these to the collection. Growing up, in two of our homes, Dad would put up a steel "T" on the lawn in concrete. Across the the T, on the house under the eaves, he would install one of these. About two feet wide, ours was a steel, non-painted canister with a flip...

the down side of double standards? I noticed that both my ex-inlaws, some friends and on occasion even my parents seem to have/had less regard sometimes for our wishes and our items than we have for theirs. I wonder if that is typical. I love my dad, but he is a coffeeholic, and we have a...

I added an updated version of this very odd and rare toy recently to the collection. I had heard of "Transogram's Operation Orbit" from ads in the Toy Shoppe when I first started collecting toys, and to me, it appeared to be a space console toy like Jimmy Jet or something, and I found it...

We are supposed to be enjoying "June Gloom" here in CA, which many people don't like but I love. June Gloom usually is a good part of June, and they are overcast days, maybe some morning mist, followed by cool sunny afternoons, but not too sunny. I love them. Alas, we have only had a few of...

As you may remember, I love trying to remember what appliances my parents had when I was little. The first fridge I remember retired about 1967. I have attached a terribly drawn picture of it. What I can remember is the gleaming chrome pull open handle. It was hinged on the side closest to the...

Don't know if this was covered before. Did not know Crosley was still around. Unfortunately, I get the vibe that they are just using the name and plunking it on Asia made cr@p. Thoughts? http://www.crosley.com/

Geez I am angry! As some may remember, we redid all the appliances with KA last year with the exception of a Viking cooktop. I have ranted on about how terrible a design I think the KA trash compactor is. I may have already mentioned that for a third time the vent on the microwave venting unit...

We all have friends who just can't imagine why we are not more like "Brazil" and don't simply run our cars on sugar cane! I actually called in a radio talk show (KABC in Los Angeles) where that totally numb wife of Larry David, Laurie with her enviro-nuts campaign, was a guest. I called in and...

Using your unrestored but fully functional 1961 Pontiac Safari for runs to the hardware store! Happy Easter!

I thought this was interesting. http://austin.craigslist.org/zip/149282274.html

Does anyone else find that picture oddly comforting? A clean cut appliance delivery guy. You know he is going to set that up really nice. The bay window house, with stone in front and flagstone walk. The girl getting excited about the automatic appliance. The cool truck. I feel lucky I got to...

Every year there is a huge Chrysler (and AMC is invited too!) car show in Van Nuys, California. I always seem to miss it, have never gone. This time, I just happened to find out accidently that it started today! So I grabbed by 12 year old son and off we went. The event was interesting (aside...

For something completely different.... My oldest son made a day of it at the Peterson Automotive Museum in Los Angeles, California. This is one of the finest car museums in the world. It is housed, believe it or not, in what used to be the old Orbach's departnment store, so central escalators...

Well, we continued to use our 1963 GE "Bottom Freezer" model about two years past the point that I wanted to. We were going to get a new KA matching unit when we first moved in, but other priorities came up and we waited. We went out yesterday and got the new KitchenAid side by side Superba...