Ace-Garageguy

Equivalent masses/weights, lengths, and volumes can be expressed in several different measuring systems.

Time without accomplishment is for rocks and their intellectual equivalents.

They do it because they can. Some sellers are really great about shipping the same day they get payment. Some take their sweet time, often not getting the item to their local PO for several days. Not much you can do as far as I'm aware. I've had to become pretty patient over the years, and have seriously cut back buying anything online because a lot more people seem to be jerks now. It's just the brandy new oh-so-mo-better world of muh technology we live in today.

"Wrong 'un" typically means a bad fella in British slang, but apparently has a couple more meanings I didn't know about until I did a little research.

Nope.

Shelf models don't exist in my house, 'cause I never finish anything.

PayPal is pushing a subscription for an AI-powered "Christmas shopping assistant". Really? I mean R E A L L Y ??? Nothing says "I care about you deeply and understand you well enough to know what you'd like" as much as getting some numbnutz AI to select your gifts. I've never understood people who have "trouble" shopping for somebody else. Oh wait...the totally self-absorbed and generally clueless about anything but their own one-dimensional little existences.

Noid on a pizza be hanged, I just read that Five Guys burgers are the "unhealthiest", so I think I know what's for dinner.

Most helpful. I have one of these around here somewhere, but hadn't even looked it over carefully yet. I'll put a note in the box to check back here if/when I ever build it. Thanks.

Been there, done that, but not for a while. I have some of the old mags featuring his work (though I don't have the enginehouse issue), but every time I see some of it again, I'm always blown away. I don't know of anybody who's currently any better. There are some in the ballpark, like Howard Zane, Rod Stewart, a fair number of others, but nobody who's really surpassed John Allen. And considering Allen was working his magic in the late 1940s, that's saying a lot.

Say...whatchoo talkin' about?

Geez, he was good.

Them that's got shall get more, usually, while many working plebes find it hard just to keep up.

Entirely true, but that doesn't stop hundreds of millions from trying it...whether prescribed or self-administered.