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RDCanecutter

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  1. That's what I'm saying-- Mexican gold was common, not much mark-up. Libertads weren't any more expensive than Maples or Eagles. Now they are, dunno why. /OldManStories
  2. Well, the Democrats currently compare poorly to French Generals in 1940, so you aren't really an outlier around here if you feel contempt for them.
  3. ^^^One of the side-effects of Inlyta.
  4. The writing would require him to lean out in some semi-physically-fit sort of way. He had an intern do it, one that he'd already caught doing something creepy so he knows the kid won't rat.
  5. Good spirit, high morale. Now if they'll just guard the Ardennes better this time.
  6. I have smashed up my right shoulder so many times (including, ironically, being on the "winning" side of a fight scene in a no-budget movie) that I must pass up all roles that involve: --sword fights [incl. spears, knives, and similar] --stick shifts --crucifixions I am open for harem scenes or anything else where I can lie on a bed, if he wants to branch out.
  7. Things you do when you are going crazy being a Theatre Professor in Arkansas but are too attached to steady paychecks to just quit. I totally get it, Darren. Start hitting the gym, and good luck at the Tec de Monterrey in Mexico.
  8. I think I may have some hidden Cheddar Man ancestry because my ruddy white self tans up from pink to brown in a few weeks. In Mexico my students thought I was the same color as them, until I took off my watch and the bright white skin underneath had them diving for cover like vampires from sunlight. Now the drugs have me kinda perma-wind-burned on the face. Sorta like drunk-face, with fewer DUIs.. One day, great x 100 grandfather, I shall be you:
  9. Yep. Back when I jumped in (2012) Mexican gold was bargain basement compared to other types. Silver Libertads weren't that bad either.
  10. I took a hit for the team, and laid down 100 bucks on 90% yesterday. Got $3.45 in silver quarters and a couple of Mercuries. I think spot was about 41.60 so maybe I squeaked in under melt. I expect silver to drop immediately, though oddly it has risen. On the way out I noticed two old-style Libertads for "only" $4 mark-up. I am kinda glad I didn't see them-- I love the Mexican stuff and can't bear to sell it. Silver quarters are just widgets, like generic Buffaloes.
  11. Are you still near Austin? If so, I will send out word that you are to be rescued by an ambulance stocked with 17 types of dice and an EMT who will explain, in detail, how his house rules for Richtofen's War where players break each turn into alternating semi-turns with extra charts truly capture the instantaneous excitement of air combat.
  12. Friend of mine had a game shop in Dobie for a bit, later moved up toward Koenig. Blanking on the name but doesn't matter now because he sold it then it closed. We used to have painting parties in the Dobie store, knock out a few minis and get jacked up on giant Taco Bell drinks.
  13. Closest I came was Royalist Cavalry for an English Civil War campaign we were playing at the UT miniature wargaming club late 90s/early aughts. The UT miniature wargaming club was totally non-UT students who wanted to use the big tables inside UT buildings. As a student, I was made President. I demanded to be called Caesar. UT required two more student officers, so my girlfriend was Vice-Prez and a grad-student in the French Department who never touched money became Treasurer. We played many games, but that ECW campaign was golden. Battles consisted of people showing up with whatever they had painted. I painted up an officer figure customized as swinging a bottle, named "Lord Bristletwit," I'd drink a double whiskey and launch cavalry charges on pike blocks, 90% it shouldn't work but Bristletwit would always pull up the other 10%. I went off to France and left my toys behind for the group, they kept playing Lord Bristltwit the way I had, some people were flinchy when facing that miniature toy horseman, as if he was a Chucky doll.
  14. I left a VW Camper Van on the side of a hill in North Carolina with a blown #3 cylinder because I had a new job 2 states away, was broke, and was in a foolish hurry. Life is bad car decisions, regrets, and solo drinking to Pogues albums. But the sun always rises, and you may find yourself behind the wheel of a fine automobile, once again.
  15. Well if they're Cherokees they sorta kinda had a reason back then. Oh you don't mean back then...
  16. 11th Generation American quite likely means British Subject if you go back that far. Only a small percentage of whom, so I am told, fought for independence. For all we know, this man is bragging about his prisoner-killing, King-George-sucking-up-to, flee-to-Kentucky Tory ways. In fact I am not sure he isn't actually a Hessian. Yes, I said it. Hessi McHessianTits.
  17. Napoleon had a better time in Russia than I did in Chattanooga. No complaints about the organizers or the venue. The wet weather was a beat-down, knocking the projected 5k crowd down to a few hundred, all while air-drying in the occasional non-rain. We did at least get a visit from some off-brand Westboro Baptist Church types. I asked one of them how he was doing, and he said "BETTER THAN YOU," so, like ,duh. I just wonder how he knew.
  18. Which gang?
  19. Hey y'all. We are now 4runner people. 2012, still fun to drive. It gets quieter the faster I go so I've got to learn to watch that or I'll get tickets. Right now it's packed full of gear for a jaunt from Birmingham to a Chattanooga art show. Gonna be my new work horse so my wife doesn't get her car stolen.
  20. Got accepted in 3 more Atlanta shows in Sep, Oct, and Nov. Seriously need some painting elves because most of my big paintings are gone. I have started on 3 more big paintings but I probably need to do 12 more and my brain has not accepted that yet. Big two-day show in downtown Bham this weekend but I am not in it because I was a disorganized wuss. But all is not lost-- I stuffed a new (to us) 4runner full of art gear and shortly will roll up to Chattanooga for their Odd Market show. Hopefully turning a profit and checking Tennessee off the Imperial Conquest list.
  21. Stopped by my coin dude yesterday. He's kinda weirded out by the numbers, people selling but nobody buying the dips. Me personally I got no reason to sell just to sell, because what would I spend it on? And I can't see buying a $41 oz of silver. Sure it might go up, hell it'll probably go up. But any number of events might knock the legs out from under it. I am just not feeling it.
  22. The one with bananas on the cover, mit Niko. I always listen to "Shiny shiny, shiny boots of leather, whiplash girl-child of the night." Like, duh. Yeah, early this year multiple doctors were setting up opposing stacks of pills for me, each stack pushing back on what the other stack was causing. Like foot-to-the-floor on the gas while also stomping the brakes. Me, being a student of the Keith Richards school of drugs, analyzed what each did and started peeling back each stack, first by lowering doses, all the while telling the doctors, and then with their approval, dropping them one-by-one as my numbers improved. I would not have tried this the first couple of years of treatment. At this point they're probably surprised I'm not dead, so I get privileges.
  23. I know the feeling. Apparently I have some occasional use for insulin, but insulin is the main cause of wooziness if it drops me too far.
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