Everything posted by RDCanecutter
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Are you in Marketing? Looking for a gig?
Thanks for the opportunity, but I never postured myself as a three-piece suit type.
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I Blindly Dive Into Buying and Selling Antiques
Working plan: Piece out the five chairs aiming to recoup initial outlay and push to make some profit. KEEP the table. It is both useful and beautiful to me. Maybe sell it in a couple of years. But for now, I still have lots of collectible gaming items I never got around to selling because my old eBay photo/shipping room got turned into a painting/printshop studio, and the two don't mix. But for now, newly dry well-lighted basement + classy table = eBay Glamour Shots studio. To sell what? Well here's the tip of the iceberg. A gift from a happy collaborator, her uncle's box of vintage games, almost all with unpunched counters, near mint. I downsell them and the customer gets better than they expected. These have been blocking one end of the hall because the studio is choked with art in progress. Conservatively, I think this box alone is $900 profit if I slow-sell them high after three days' photography. Thanks little non-antique table. If any of y'all have active geek-boners over never-to-be-seen-again SPI classics, háblame and I'll do you right.
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I caught the cancer
Mmmmm MMMMmmmmm.
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USN beats USN
Seems like it'd be the least they could do.
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USN beats USN
Friendly fire isn't.
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The Leopards Eating Faces and Unlubed Dildo of Consequences Thread
There are two kinds of armies. Ones where the leaders make sure the troops eat before the officers (eg US, British, German, Israeli,) and those where it's typical for the officers to lord it over their flunkies (Most of the rest.) It's not hard to imagine where Elon's Army would shake out. He could, like a proper 3rd world warlord, trick it out with gobs of gear and guys who flinch while trying to impress him. It could cause some trouble until dismantled by guys who know the basics.
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The Leopards Eating Faces and Unlubed Dildo of Consequences Thread
Hook a brother up with some whale-head stew?
- 2024 Playoffs Round 1: Tennessee at Ohio State
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Watching ESPN (the Peach Bowl) in Germany?
It's not my fault he abandoned me. Also, the lock on the liquor cabinet was broken when I found it.
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Watching ESPN (the Peach Bowl) in Germany?
When I'm breaking into your Texas house I'll try to set it up for you.
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I caught the cancer
Next time, for only $250, I will pretend to be your vet. Anyway, the dog is completely normal. Didn't droop or get hyper. We ate leftover turkey together and watched Ohio State cast paralysis spells on Tennessee.
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I caught the cancer
For the Texas-Clemson game, instead of beer I took whatever insulin dose the numbers called for, then grabbed 1/3 of a shrinkflated Snickers Bar (est 17g) to enjoy it over 4 hours nibbling while listening to the game on a clock radio because our entertainment system is stalled out like a Tiger tank in a tar pit. All was good, no "popped eyeball" high blood sugar symptom. Then I remember I forgot to take my Prednisone, the whole thing that once I take it all maybe my kidney heals and I get off this insulin. Alright already. Get back upstairs, and my feral Chihuahua is acting like a failed silent film star in an opium den. She got into my last smidge of Snickers Bar. I snatch the remnants of the candy intact out of her gullet. There wasn't much left for her to eat, like a finger-tip joint size nub. I am guessing maybe a gram or two was chocolate, and it's crappo waxy American chocolate so actually less than that. I'm like "What the hell's the matter with you, dog? You're not supposed to eat chocolate." "You ain't shposed eat chocolate either motherfucker," she astutely ripostes Tried contacting various money-extraction machines, I mean, vets. Then I'm like "she eats full candy bars worth of cat shit logs and is still here, harden the fuck up Australia." Now she watches me, and I watch her.
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Tulum, Mexico
How much did they get for him, what was their approach and technique, and would they apprentice a gringo assistant because all the gringos trust the gringo...
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Tulum, Mexico
Well it's not as if the ruins are going anywhere.
- 2024 CFP Playoffs Round 1: Texas vs. Clemson - 3:00pm on TNT
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I Blindly Dive Into Buying and Selling Antiques
We have reconnaissance results. I went to nearby furniture restorer I know, and he took me into the shop section and gave me a Welcome-to-the-Matrix 5 minute condensed do and don't of restoring basics. Saved me from ruining something, and now I know Kung-Fu. Got some Howard Neutral Restor-A-Finish and some 4x0 steel wool. Dude said I could keep it really simple and basically just carefully clean the pieces. He didn't commit to a value for the table, said it was a shame I only had 3 of the leather seat chairs because they look like actual antiques, and with 4 chairs I got a dinette set, 3 chairs I got dick. For the two fabric seat chairs I said I'd be happy for $30 each. He told me to list them at $75 each.
- 2024 CFP Playoffs Round 1: Texas vs. Clemson - 3:00pm on TNT
- 2024 CFP Playoffs Round 1: Texas vs. Clemson - 3:00pm on TNT
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Elonia Trump - how does this all play out?
But for whom? For all we know, Elon cloned some of Trump's cells and has grown a living Trump mask that he dons and practices talking through in the mirror.
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Birmingham Bowl, Vandy vs Georgia Tech Dec 27
Lookin to warm up by the 27th, but of course some showers.
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I Blindly Dive Into Buying and Selling Antiques
Finally got the car unloaded. My first thought is that if I want to keep doing this, I need to jump back 20 years in time and get a big-boned girl pregnant so I can have a 19-year-old Offensive Lineman on call to help me for "free." Second thought is that I either got snookered or got a treasure. Maybe a little of both. Table's nice, but not near as old as I assumed. OK. But then I google the Henkel-Harris company and find the same thing offered for a highly-aspirational $7K. I have also seen bog-standard pocket change offered on eBay for $99, so I doubt that. Keeping the eye on the donut, our goal is maybe a few hundred profit, so I think I still got a shot. 2 fabric-seat chairs are solid but Hickory Chair Manufacturing Co seems widely available. Seeing as how I got them for maybe $10 each, I like my odds. Three remaining leather-seat chairs seem older, but going off my appraisal track record, wtf do I know? There was a 4th one but her boyfriend sat in it and broke it. I asked for pieces to repair it, but long gone. She says she thinks they were old Sears & Roebucks issues and are plentiful, me I got no earthly. Leather buttons missing on all. I have crafty wife who'll know how to fix that.
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Alabama Football - Now Featuring Kalen DeBoer
Not bad. Extra credit if it's his grandaddy's last name so he's carrying it around like a geneological signpost. His girlfriend will be some variation on Mary Margaret Claire duBose Honeycutt (extra names depending on how short she is.)
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Tipping a valet
Well he didn't get to 91 being no dummih, obviously.
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Tipping a valet
For a serious answer to your original question, looks like your answer is to acquire a bunch of fives, and give 1 or 2 of them out as the spirit takes you. Extra cred if you fold them inside your hand and give them out as a handshake like a Big Cigar buying Bear Bryant another running back.
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Hunting 24/25: big bucks and a lot of ducks!
I ate so much venison one year in college that I almost started rubbing my head on trees. Made some into meatballs for a Rotary party at the International House. Told the exchange students they were "Deer Balls."