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#1 ·
Those who remember all the trouble I had with the old farts behind
me a couple years back should appreciate this.

A quick recap: 80-something couple were real nice neighbors until
they decided to sell their place. The real estate agent convinced them
that nobody would buy their house for their absurd asking price because
they could see the cars I had in *my* back yard. So, the assholes
complained to the city and I had to move them elsewhere. They failed to
sell their house in the ensuing three years. Last year they rented it
out to a guy named Andy while they stayed up north in their regular
residence, and put it up for sale once again a couple months ago.

Today, Andy told me that the old woman called him to inform him the
house had been sold, and that he would have to move by escrow closing,
scheduled April 26th. But it gets better. Turns out the old man is
literally on his deathbed, losing the battle with the big C combined
with heart problems. He is expected to die at any time. In addition,
his obese wife is having health problems and *her* condition is rapidly
failing.

So, my buddy Grim is going to provide me with the last laugh. After
such long lives, they are going to croak being hated by myself and the
other neighbors around here, and god only knows who else up where they
are now. What a way to go. The moral here: live and let live.

The other good part is the woman and her son that are moving in. I
had a chance the other day to talk with them for about a half hour.
They are from San Jose, Cal, and dig classic cars and motorcycles. She
is eager to tie in the theme I'm doing on the side fence into our
common boundary, staggering some queen palms for that tropical effect.
I advised her to make a lower offer on the house, and she got it 15
thou cheaper. Kool beanz.

With the rear house (this is a 3-in-a-row flag lot) bought 4 months
ago by a hip 60-something woman from San Francisco, this newest deal
eliminates the last people that can complain about anything around
here. I'm jazzed.

CobraJet

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#102 ·
one80out@hotmail.com wrote:
> Whole Lotta Tom wrote:
>
>> Are you seriously trying to imply that "A "28" broken in half is a
>> "2."" is a metaphor?

>
> Oh brother, not another Usenet semantics debate.
>
> See, it's like this. Over there in RAMFM someone typed that Limp Rick
> had "been there done that." I responded that this was mistaken. Limp
> Rick of course took exception to the affront, and it escalated from
> there, to where I typed up what I had concluded about Rick Brown from
> my reading of his posts beginning in December 2000.
>
> As you know just as well as I do, Rick Brown is in fact an emotionally
> immature desert hermit who, in his early 20's, was a hanger-on in the
> San Fernando Valley street racing scene of the '70's; that he started
> with a poseur 289-2v '68 Mustang GT/CS; that he moved on to an Olds
> 4-4-2 into which he dropped a purpose-built 455, but still couldn't
> break 12.5 in the quarter; that from the time he switched his 4-4-2 to
> "race-only" status in the late '70's to the present day, his daily
> drivers have been a Courier mini-truck, a 3.8 Fox-body Cougar, a Honda
> Accord, and his current 2-ton taxicab; that he's probably never even
> driven on a drag strip; and that of the 30 cars he presently owns, no
> more than one or two have been in running condition within the past
> four years; some have not run for decades.
>
> Brown responds by "stripping" my TS number. (Remember, none of what I
> posted about Brown had anything to do with ahpbbfm; it had only to do
> with your Fearless Leader's ego.) I mocked this absurd action with
> the metaphor of the opening sequence in a 1965 TV western called
> "Branded," in which the star Chuck Connors -- an officer who was
> wrongly convicted of desertion under fire during an Indian attack --
> is mustered out by having the C.O. rip his insignia off his tunic,
> then break his sword in half and throw it out the stockade gate. On
> his way out, Chuck picks up the handle part of the broken sword and
> takes it with him. That broken sword then becomes his gimmick
> weapon, much like Chuck's fancy rifle in his previous series, "The
> Rifleman."
>
> Thus, yes, Chuck's use of half of his broken sword is a metaphor for
> my use of "TS 2" being half of "TS 28."
>
> So now I've answered your question, Tom,


Did you? I started to read it, but it just went on and on about some
personal obsession of yours. As it seemed to be a self-indulgent rant, I
skipped it.

> I wonder if you could you
> return the favor.


You did me no favors with whatever the hell you went on about. Obviously,
your posts are worth more to you that to those who read them.

I sense another self-indulgent rant ahead.

>Something that I'm really curious about is, what is
> the deal with you and Stu and Bill Beyer? I thought you three were
> good guys, but the minute this miserable slob Rick Brown turns on me,
> you're right there shoulder to shoulder. It's a real wonderment to
> me. I mean, what the f**k is it to you guys if Brown has a problem
> with me, and vice versa? He needs you a hell of a lot more than you
> need him. In fact, without this NG he's nothing; well, he's nothing
> even with it, but more so without you guys constantly sucking his
> worthless dick. So what's the deal? Why don't you guys just tell him
> to f**k himself, that you're not shunning anyone on his command?


I was right.

Stu and Bill can speak for themselves.

I come to this NG to discuss car stuff.

If Rick has hooked another self-obsessed borderline personality, and is
amusing himself by toying with his victim, I can choose to read the posts or
not. I don't need this NG, or the attention of posting to it.

You do.

I can't help it if I find that funny.



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#103 ·
Tom C. wrote:

> If Rick has hooked another self-obsessed
> borderline personality, and is amusing
> himself by toying with his victim, I can
> choose to read the posts or not.  I don't
> need this NG, or the attention of posting to it.


> You do.


> I can't help it if I find that funny.


You're right, that IS funny.

180 Out
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#104 ·
My end of that thread, Trebek

> Get back here ya good fer nuthin prick!

RIGHTEEO, man, righteeo.

> This is the way it works.
>
> You unsubsrcribe from RAMFM.


Ah, but me wheezer is OT. I guess there's the ghost town called AAMC, but I
dunno who reads it. I might yet ditch RAMFM.

> You killfile all the worthless troublemakers.


Holstered, and ready for my first victim!

> We talk about immoral shit like tractors and intermittent wipers and 1157
> bulbs and ignore the big old shit hole around us, ya know why? cuz we
> didn't make it and any damn thing we say in here sure as hell ain't gonna
> change it.


Damn straight.

> You drive that fuckin fastback till the wheels fall off it ya hear. Drive
> it up here and the dark ales on my me good man!


Aye, sir! It's a coupe, but I will indeed. And screw the $2.30 for 89.

Back in 1991, I filled my Golf GTI in Niagara, ONT (drinking age was 19) for
$0.54C/liter. The exchange rate at the time was $1.36C/$1.00US, pretty
good, eh? I bought $19C of regular gas, and was confused when the dude gave
me a coin in change. He looked at me, then just laughed at my CT plates.

> Got that? ARE WE CLEAR?


Yes, undoubtedly. We're as clear as a pisswater American lager.

Wound Up
ThunderSnake #65
 
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#105 ·
Re: My end of that thread, Trebek

"Wound Up" <none@your.disposal> wrote in message
news:Ec63e.4641$oy3.279@newssvr30.news.prodigy.com...
>> Get back here ya good fer nuthin prick!

>
> RIGHTEEO, man, righteeo.


Welcome back yah filthy bashtard.

>
>> This is the way it works.


>>
>> You unsubsrcribe from RAMFM.

>
> Ah, but me wheezer is OT. I guess there's the ghost town called AAMC, but
> I dunno who reads it. I might yet ditch RAMFM.


I did, they're bloody cawd readers I don't mind tellin ya. '67 Mustangs are
on topic here because they came with 390's in them...
>
>> You killfile all the worthless troublemakers.

>
> Holstered, and ready for my first victim!


Ah, Well met, they'll rue the day the met your killfile.
>
>> We talk about immoral shit like tractors and intermittent wipers and 1157
>> bulbs and ignore the big old shit hole around us, ya know why? cuz we
>> didn't make it and any damn thing we say in here sure as hell ain't gonna
>> change it.

>
> Damn straight.
>
>> You drive that fuckin fastback till the wheels fall off it ya hear. Drive
>> it up here and the dark ales on my me good man!

>
> Aye, sir! It's a coupe, but I will indeed. And screw the $2.30 for 89.


Ah ya bloody brigand I thought ya had a Fashtback! Well so do I sho yer in
good company.
>
> Back in 1991, I filled my Golf GTI in Niagara, ONT (drinking age was 19)
> for $0.54C/liter. The exchange rate at the time was $1.36C/$1.00US,
> pretty good, eh? I bought $19C of regular gas, and was confused when the
> dude gave me a coin in change. He looked at me, then just laughed at my
> CT plates.


Ah coin eh? Did you peel of the gold foil for the chocolate under it?
>
>> Got that? ARE WE CLEAR?

>
> Yes, undoubtedly. We're as clear as a pisswater American lager.


Ah, true very true. I'm dricking a nice Waterloo Dark as I type this ,
Cheers!
>
> Wound Up
> ThunderSnake #65
>
 
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#106 ·
Re: My end of that thread, Trebek

"STUK" <BLOODYBRIGAND@TREBEK.COM> wrote in message
news:NO6dnXFIaoDZWdDfRVn-hw@golden.net...
> "Wound Up" <none@your.disposal> wrote in message
> news:Ec63e.4641$oy3.279@newssvr30.news.prodigy.com...
>>> Get back here ya good fer nuthin prick!

>>
>> RIGHTEEO, man, righteeo.

>
> Welcome back yah filthy bashtard.


Couldn't stay away. This makes me a masochist. Another minor pathology
never hurt much.

>>
>>> This is the way it works.

>
>>>
>>> You unsubsrcribe from RAMFM.

>>
>> Ah, but me wheezer is OT. I guess there's the ghost town called AAMC,
>> but I dunno who reads it. I might yet ditch RAMFM.

>
> I did, they're bloody cawd readers I don't mind tellin ya. '67 Mustangs
> are on topic here because they came with 390's in them...


Yeah, full of trolls and the like now. RAMFM has really gone downhill
lately.
The car is definitely on-topoc... I guess I'll just use the Cougar group for
OT engine questions... not gonna have many this year!

>>> You killfile all the worthless troublemakers.

>>
>> Holstered, and ready for my first victim!

>
> Ah, Well met, they'll rue the day the met your killfile.


We all need less noise. Knowing this, I scoured the local machine shops,
found one, and then ritualistically beat myself unmercifully with my new,
rusty 390 cam. The neighbors almost called the cops. It was my jusht
penitence to the Group for being such a whiner.

>>> We talk about immoral shit like tractors and intermittent wipers and
>>> 1157 bulbs and ignore the big old shit hole around us, ya know why? cuz
>>> we didn't make it and any damn thing we say in here sure as hell ain't
>>> gonna change it.

>>
>> Damn straight.
>>
>>> You drive that fuckin fastback till the wheels fall off it ya hear.
>>> Drive it up here and the dark ales on my me good man!

>>
>> Aye, sir! It's a coupe, but I will indeed. And screw the $2.30 for 89.

>
> Ah ya bloody brigand I thought ya had a Fashtback! Well so do I sho yer in
> good company.


Nice... yeah, jusht a plain ol coop for me. How I like 'em, plain and old.
Not my women, mind you.

>> dude gave me a coin in change. He looked at me, then just laughed at my
>> CT plates.

>
> Ah coin eh? Did you peel of the gold foil for the chocolate under it?


Damn, duped again!

My friend thought we'd crossed the border on the -NY- side of the bridge.
So here we come to the ON side, and he just rolls through the border. WHOOP
WHOOP WHOOP, sirens go off, people get out with weapons drawn, the car gets
searched, we get screamed and laughed at. At every possible turn, I call my
friend "idiot" for two days. At McDonalds, "now don't take the food without
paying, idiot". Still much fun. Niagra Falls has some good ...
entertainment clubs.

>>
>>> Got that? ARE WE CLEAR?

>>
>> Yes, undoubtedly. We're as clear as a pisswater American lager.

>
> Ah, true very true. I'm dricking a nice Waterloo Dark as I type this ,
> Cheers!


Cheers. Waterloo Dark, eh? Now you're making me thirsty... gotta behave,
'tis only Monday.

Well met. Seems like the storms have quieted.

Wound Up
ThunderSnake #65
 
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