Ace-Garageguy

Sounds like a winner. I'm sure some critical writer on Greate Arte could wax poetically for paragraphs on end as to how the addition of the foot in proximity to the banana is a visual commentary by juxtaposition on the tragically transient nature of both feet and bananas and what they represent to the cognoscenti, how the playful allusion of combining fruit parts into physical activities is a veiled reference to a society in decline, and how the model being built in the foreground is symbolic of the desperate need of some to cling to reminders of a no-longer-relevant world full of physical possessions that had quaint functions like transportation of the non-spiritual aspects of our beings. Should be worth at least a million.

Pretty cool, and it has the potential to be a real beauty. Back in around 2011 IIRC, somebody in the American Southwest had started a full-scale build of a '50s Caddy with a '65 Chevy roof graft. I saw the car in bare metal at a showroom in Kingman AZ. The proportions were spot on, and it was striking. Last I heard, again IIRC, it had moved to Oz.

Home mortgages will soon be available for cardboard boxes planted under bridges.

It makes perfect sense. The circuitry responsible for the flashing function is meticulously crafted from the highest quality Chinesium.

Try taping your week old bananas to a wall behind your model. Week-old bananas taped to walls are deemed to be Greate Arte in some circles, selling for hundreds of thousands of dollars. I can't guarantee that this will increase your viewer engagement, but ChatGPT thinks it's a good idea.

Fascinating thread...about which I know absolutely nothing.

Fingers of Kit Kat bars up your nose is still probably not entirely socially acceptable while fine-dining.

It just doesn't seem to matter much anymore, but anymore is a rotten word to leave the next guy with.

I hate Amazon, and refuse to buy from them if there's ANY other option. These (above) are just a couple of the reasons.

I have some work coming up that involves stuff in tubes like caulking comes in, and found some neat little 'rubber' caps for the schnozzles to keep them from drying out and clogging overnight. Pretty exciting, huh? Funny how the tubes used to come with something similar, but the global push to de-content every single thing to squeeze out every quarter-grain-of-rice profit has made that an obsolete concept.

Weeks from now, this Christmas will just be another sad memory.

Numbers are hard.

How about something like this? It eats everything it encounters, and if you don't like it, it goes on social media and tries to ruin your reputation by calling you out as 'fat phobic'.

I was having a recurring problem with one seller whose prices on model railroad stuff made dealing with him worth the hassle. Specifically, I'd make arrangements with him to wait until I'd had several auction wins before billing me, with combined shipping. Instead, what would usually happen is that it looked like he'd dump my earlier wins for "NON-PAYMENT" and eBay would give me disciplinary strikes...after a 100% perfect record on their damb site since 1999. All the while HE said it wasn't HIM doing it, that he'd repeatedly set his account to let me run, and that it automatically reverted to the auto-dump routine after a day. After a lot of persistent hoop-jumping, I finally got through to a live human who understood the software, the glitch, her job, and fixed everything. I'm pretty sure my experience is NOT the norm. They don't care. One guy with a problem just isn't worth anybody's time when they have millions of quietly bleating sheep to fleece.