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  1. Vintage Le Menu microwave dinner plates. These are from early microwave dinners and almost indestructable. Mom gave me a dozen or so years ago. Work perfectly for anything i don't need a "real" plate for. Breakfast pastry etc. Can still microwave them today
  2. In the 90's you were not allowed to buy cold beer in Starkville. Only room temp. I guess they finally figured out that college students knew that refrigerators existed.
  3. Be glad they didn't settle on vuvuzelas
  4. Good point. I only saw the original so that was my reference
  5. Back in the 80's Pat Dye commented on playing Alabama. If it's 4 and 1 you better get 3 yards
  6. No - he drilled Ray Nitschke who was playing a LB. Twice
  7. Ha.. My old british MGA has a crank just in case you do that. Last car I know of that allows that. Now getting to actually work in dead of winter is a different issue.
  8. Not a fan of black - too hard to keep clean.
  9. Can't remember all the details but there was a story about him and Newman when Newman died. They were friends off camera and Redford got tired of Newman always talking auto racing so he found an old wrecked Porsche and had it delivered to Paul's house with no explanation. Later Newman returned it as some sort of a lump of car. Redford had it made into a lawn ornament and sent it back
  10. Was going to post this. Excellent choice.
  11. One other item just hit me. There really isn't anything like a current back cover. That cover is on a spring and you can reach right into the works. Nothing screwed down and no gasket. Nothing to keep dust, moisture etc out. Granted it has been in a drawer but I am amazed that a 125 year old watch could still run after winding.
  12. And this is just darn interesting. Next month Huntsville has an event called Maple Hill Cemetery Stroll where over 70 of us play various people buried in the cemetery. I am playing the former head of Studebaker and building an early 1920's outfit. I decided I needed a pocket watch. For some reason I have my Dad's old jewelry box which has items from his dad. I found the Longines below. All it needed was a new crystal. It still ran and kept time. The serial number is from late 1890's so 125 year old. My real question that can't be answered is why it was there. Dad never wore it and my Mom made a shadow box years ago with a pocket watch from my grandfather. Also my grandfather probably would not have paid the price for a Longines. My only theory is that Dad acquired it because he played the same person in the stroll 20 years ago.
  13. Seems like the current trend here..
  14. I did yesterday. With everything being rebuilt (engine, transmission, suspension) it is literally a "brand new" 63 year old sports car. Forgot that you can drive fast with top down when you have 105 HP pushing only 2000 pounds. Which is why the first Miata used the MGA as a model. As far as avoiding police - I have a "friendly" speedometer. We did not rebuild it and it seems to think 55 is 45.
  15. I hate to wonder what you were doing. The car only had about 100 hp.
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