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There's a better class of vermin in the underground version.

With the shipping box?

If you like your plan, you can keep it. Only, it'll cost you more and not cover what it used to. I was lucky when I broke my neck. I didn't spend one thin dime out of pocket for anything, including surgery. Workman's Comp and the company's employee insurance plan covered everything including the associated physical therapy.

Shouldn't this be in the "What did you get today" thread? Yeah, it's really claustrophobic. I had two done after my accident. Oh, you were provided with noise-cancelling headphones? Lucky you. The sound is like being jammed into a steel pipe and someone is using a jackhammer on the outside.

Saw this a few minutes ago: RAREST MODEL KIT EVER! Original ©1962 SMP/AMT 1911 Chevrolet Model Car Kit w/Bag Anybody got a spare $1724.49 lying around?

Wow! R2 hit a homer with this kit.

It's a mystical, magical subterranean wonderland full of adventure, thrills and excitement. And lots of bums and annoying panhandlers. No need to go to Six Flags when you can experience the same, if not better, for the price of a slice of pizza.

You live in a city that has a smaller population than my neighborhood. Who you see, work with or live among is an insignificantly small percentage compared to me. That means I have a larger sample from which to observe and comment on. Et tu Steve? You're being judgemental about someone you never saw, worked with or lived near. How do you square that?

To be accurate, that is a subway ventilation grating. This is a sewer (manhole) cover A New York sewer is like a box of chocolates. You never know what's inside until you open it

Back in the 1950's, TV and other media cooperated with the government in promoting American economic prosperity and cultural values of the average American, sort of psychological warfare directed at the USSR. That's why Jim Anderson, Ward Cleaver and a host of other TV husbands/fathers would be wearing a friggin suit and tie on a Saturday afternoon and TV wives/mothers would be decked out like they were going to a formal dinner while cooking breakfast. Who wanted to wear Mao jackets or babushkas? They'd work. So would this

I checked at Frigidaire's website. There are options for drawers. Nothing for colors, except the previously mentioned options. not even avocado green, fer Pet's sake!

It comes right back to the "cars are just appliances" mindset. At one time, you could even get a new range, washer or refrigerator in something other than white or stainless.

You can't ignore what surrounds you.

Enough to trigger a seizure if you stare at it long enough. It would compliment the blue plastic of one of my Turbine Cars nicely.

If anyone is interested, Model Car Mountain has an open unbuilt '63 Starfire available for $49.99.

Yeah, but this is original custom crud. Seriously though, people will sell at what some consider a ridiculous price because somebody will bite and buy. Sometimes, it's a matter of "If I don't jump on it now, it'll cost more later" mentality. Also, notice that it wasn't offered at auction. If he did, he'd be lucky if he'd pocket twenty bucks, maybe.

The majority are the rule rather than the exception. Visit NYC to see this postulate borne out. Oh, btw, why would Dodge discontinue Sublime? One would think that Chargers and Challengers, at least, would have high impact colors available.

Those are the four things you need to go grate fishing. Kids used to fish for change dropped down the gratings. Best locations were gratings near bars and by bus stops. Drunks and people rushing for the bus always drop a lot of change.

That beauty sure would look purty displayed next to one of your Pochers.

@Merkur XR4Ti: Since you neglected to indicate where you live, i'll make a guess and say it's not a city popular with millennials of this ilk. Heck, it might not even be a real city. Are there more than two traffic lights in you burg? i observe these refugees from NorthSouthWiscoTuckyVaniaBraskaSotaGon daily. I see how they spend their time. The difference is that most of us work, or are retired, and pursue whatever hobby as a leisure activity, not as a lifestyle. I carp on millennials because they deserve it. They are narcissistic, self-entitled parasites and woefully lack any knowledge of anything more important than where the next music venue will be opening. Want to blame somebody for them? look in a mirror. They're the result of over-indulgent parents who didn't know how to say "no" to their precious snowflakes. I carp about what I see in my pied de terre. You couldn't keep them at home in that tract housing community located in the flyover state you're from because they were starting to annoy the living hell out of you; so, you shipped them out to, and financed their four year playcation to my neck of the woods to annoy the hell out of everyone here, right? Working, and having to earn a living, interfere with their busy schedules filled with mirth and merriment. You can't spend six hours a day stealing Wi-Fi at an organic, fair trade artisanal coffee bar while blogging about buying loose cigarettes at the only bodega left in the neighborhood that hasn't yet been displaced by another trendy tee shirt boutique and hanging out until 3 A.M. at your newly favorite microbrew lounge if you work. That is, like yah, so not kewl. So, you pay their rent and give them a monthly stipend so they can enjoy their waking hours in a perpetually Peter Pan-like state of bliss without having to worry about insignificant distractions like employment. That is, until the middle of the month. By then, your little urban explorers have completely pissed through their allowance and are broke until the first of the month. The most telling sign of that is the trendy bars and eateries these less than useless wastes of resources frequent close three to four hours earlier than in the beginning of the month due to the abject lack of clientele. They rummage through restaurant and supermarket trash for dinner, looking like pipe cleaner physiqued raccoons wearing 25 foot long neck scarves and ski caps in August, or living on Fruit Loops and ramen until you make that next deposit into their bank accounts. Your non-employed, limitless free time, parentally subsidized me-monkeys are responsible for the dramatic increase in drug use and overdose deaths over the past ten years, due especially to a marked increase in heroin use, in my neighborhood. Robberies, burglaries and muggings have also increased since you palmed off your problem to another place. Aren't you glad that your subsidies are being put to good use? P.S. Why are you playing kickball? Can't hit? Use a lighter bat.

Free stuff, and promises of more, paid with money from other people's pockets has destroyed personal initiative and the incentive to succeed on one's own.

Get a cheap airbrush and use aluminum oxide abrasive powder. Same stuff as used to etch glass and metals.

You know.

If you don't comment, we'll kill the dog!

It was a way of augmenting a kid's ability to obtain important kid stuff.