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Oct. 25th, 2006 06:23 amDead fat man causes fire...
Too many cloacae prove fatal...
Woman has lightning shoot out her butt...
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Someone has found an unknown racing car. Perhaps Loganberry or Stu might have some idea? The owner thinks it's English. It's pretty obviously from the late 50s/early 60s, and looks like it's had the left side involved in a major crash and rather amateurishly repaired. It kind of has the overall look of one of the hobby racer Elvas, but it isn't. It's interesting that the cockpit is narrow and sits dead center too. If you look at the back, the exhaust is being brought out high. I wonder if it might have been an open wheel racer that someone decided to cover over?
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Today at the Damnation Navy I found (in addition to a cool rubber eagle that squeaks and a bunch of Stephen James books) a set of 230V German fairy lights. I snapped 'em right up, of course. While I'm glad to have them, it raises some questions. The local DN routinely throws away old C6 sets when they're sorting, which cuases me anguish. Their reasoning is that they don't want to sell them to anyone, because replacement bulbs can't be had anymore, and they're primarily selling stuff to poor people, who want stuff that works, and not collector's items. It's stupid reasoning, but at least internally consistent. But what then is the rationale for selling a set with a German plug, that runs on 230V, and most assuredly can't be rebulbed in the States, or even operated without a converter?
Actually, in general with fairy lights, they don't seem to really look at them, but just lump them all in together. I once got a set of 1950s Italian hand blown screw-base fairy lights there. I don't think anyone in the world still makes bulbs for those. They're magnificent lights, individually blown from coloured glass (not just dipped in dye, but actual coloured glass) and were probably uber-expensive when they were new.
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Someone got sent to prison for forging McDonald's gift certificates. People are going to ask her why she's there, and she'll either be too embarassed to say, or else she'll tell them, and they'll think she's lying.
Too many cloacae prove fatal...
Woman has lightning shoot out her butt...
*****
Someone has found an unknown racing car. Perhaps Loganberry or Stu might have some idea? The owner thinks it's English. It's pretty obviously from the late 50s/early 60s, and looks like it's had the left side involved in a major crash and rather amateurishly repaired. It kind of has the overall look of one of the hobby racer Elvas, but it isn't. It's interesting that the cockpit is narrow and sits dead center too. If you look at the back, the exhaust is being brought out high. I wonder if it might have been an open wheel racer that someone decided to cover over?
*****
Today at the Damnation Navy I found (in addition to a cool rubber eagle that squeaks and a bunch of Stephen James books) a set of 230V German fairy lights. I snapped 'em right up, of course. While I'm glad to have them, it raises some questions. The local DN routinely throws away old C6 sets when they're sorting, which cuases me anguish. Their reasoning is that they don't want to sell them to anyone, because replacement bulbs can't be had anymore, and they're primarily selling stuff to poor people, who want stuff that works, and not collector's items. It's stupid reasoning, but at least internally consistent. But what then is the rationale for selling a set with a German plug, that runs on 230V, and most assuredly can't be rebulbed in the States, or even operated without a converter?
Actually, in general with fairy lights, they don't seem to really look at them, but just lump them all in together. I once got a set of 1950s Italian hand blown screw-base fairy lights there. I don't think anyone in the world still makes bulbs for those. They're magnificent lights, individually blown from coloured glass (not just dipped in dye, but actual coloured glass) and were probably uber-expensive when they were new.
*****
Someone got sent to prison for forging McDonald's gift certificates. People are going to ask her why she's there, and she'll either be too embarassed to say, or else she'll tell them, and they'll think she's lying.
