Youse dufes are boring me to tears!
Youse dufes are boring me to tears!
"Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry and narrow-mindedness" - Mark Twain
I suppose we could be talking about cast iron.
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"Never try to fight an Old Dude. If you win, there's no glory; if you lose, your reputation is shot."
Go findme some more pocket knives.
BKB
Viva Renaldo!
I've been working all week (Mon-Sat) for a local estate sale company here. They have been doing estate sales for something like 30 years. They also "buy out" houses. Some people don't want to wait or take the time for a formal estate sale and want a house emptied immediately, so they'll make an offer to empty the house for them at an agreed upon price (which means the "stuff" is practically free as the time, labor and transportation to completely empty a house pretty much eats up any profit potential). Anyway, they had a large warehouse FULL of stuff that was left-over from sales through the years, or piled in after a house buy-out. They also have an antique store, so a lot of the stuff gets "cherry-picked" before going into storage. The problem is, they keep piling the stuff in, but never have the time to do anything with it, so it sits and the pile gets bigger. They have 2-3 of these warehouses full of stuff and they lost their lease on one of them this month. EVERYTHING has to be out of there by next Sunday (EOM). They have an estate sale to run this week, so yesterday was D-Day ... EVERYTHING had to go. Needless to say, I did a LOT of "picking" during the week and dug out some pretty cool "junque".
I brought home a couple truckloads of stuff all week that I "bought" for pennies on the dollar (traded for my labor helping with the sale). Plus I still picked up $500-$600 in cash for my effort. Such a deal, huh?
As I said, they'd pretty much cherry-picked the stuff before putting it in storage, but what I like and what they like, aren't necessarily always the same. I had them deduct $75 from my pay, in trade for crap that I should be able to sell for 2-3K. I'm just starting to dig through some of the stuff today. No pocket knives, but I did load up on edged tools ... antique chef's knives, axes and hatchets for example. In fact, I just finished listing a 1950-1955 Boy Scout hatchet with the original handle. It's in nice shape.
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"Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry and narrow-mindedness" - Mark Twain
Well shoot! That hatchet only lasted a few hours before it sold. That's the way I like it ... paid $1 ... sold it for $87.50!
I'll admit, it looked like crap when I bought it. The handle had been painted and the head was covered in rust. But ... I brushed some paint remover on the handle and wiped it off with a few paper towels, then hit the head with a wire wheel. 10-15 mins. later and after wiping it down with an oily rag, I had what you see above. Easy-peasy and a nice little profit to boot!
"Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry and narrow-mindedness" - Mark Twain
If you fucksticks are interested I’ll See if it’s possible to do a pool now that we’re down to 16 teams?
Typical Good Hunting! There ya’ go ... tryin’ ta’ Change the subject! 😉
Technically this thread is titled March Madness and it is March and most of us here are as mad as a hatter so I'd say we're all on topic.
sort of
"I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones"
Albert Einstein
on Dook!
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"When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro." Raoul Duke
Okay, I have one team in the final four, Texas Tech.
BKB
Viva Renaldo!
Okay, I have one team in the final four, Texas Tech.
BKB
Viva Renaldo!
Ps... I was right Penn won at Natty
Looks like its me and Hank left in the pool!
I forgot to ask, what do we win?
BKB
Viva Renaldo!
Bragging rights for the next year.
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"When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro." Raoul Duke
My joy in having the ACC come out on top (Again!) is somewhat tempered by all the UVA posts from the local alumni clogging up my FB feed this morning.
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"When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro." Raoul Duke
I didn't have a dog in that hunt, but that was one-day'um-hard-fought-brawl of a game.....VA very much deserved the win !!!
(however, please note that I was rootin' for TT.)
Southern Gentleman
March silliness, or March waste of time better describes basketball.
A Government that pays people to do nothing destorys their willingness to do anything!