Danno

So this thread is the follow up to this thread? http://www.modelcarsmag.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=66851

Good job.

Antenna/s?

I thought it was when you put extra wide wheel wells in a car so you could put extra wide tires on it.

Uhhhhh, Greg. It says "New for 2013" on the card. It's still 2012. 2013 is the next one. You gotta wait a little bit, dude!

I had an assistant once who was from "Chick-aw-ga." {Never figured that one out.} But then, she drove a "Tie-ota."

I love it when they ask, 'Is everything Okay?' If you say, "Well, since you asked, the food is cold, it's not what I ordered, and I had to wait too long to get it," their eyes glaze over and they just stare blankly at you and say, "Oh. Okay." And then they kinda walk off. Guess no one trained them what to do if they don't get the automatic warm-fuzzy response they expect.

Here's two similar BUT NOT modeling terms that will get me going every time: 'Models' and 'Kits.' They are not synonyms and they are not interchangeable. A "model" is a representation of a real article, (in our realm, a vehicle or aircraft or watercraft or motorcycle, etc.). A "kit" is a group of individual parts that, once assembled, form a model. But once they parts are assembled, it is no longer a kit. It is a model. As an example, it drives me nuts to hear someone say "I brought several kits to enter" at a model car show registration. No you didn't, you brought several models to enter. This is not a swap meet. We do not display or judge boxes of unassembled parts. There are no kits on the tables. Those are models. Like saying an egg is a chicken. No it's not. It could be ... but it isn't yet. And once it's a chicken, it cannot be an egg again.

True dat, Mike!!!

Not a modeling term, per se, but last night I heard a television commentator say, "People just want to conversate about it." Huh? Since when was "conversation" perverted into the act of 'conversating' rather than conversing?

"Agree 100%. Regarding the use of "scratchbuilt," it's like the old saying goes... you're entitled to your own opinion, but not your own set of facts."

I didn't read all the extra specifications. I didn't realize we were to limit responses to only annoying but properly-used phrases or to assess fault to the phrase not the usage. What I find annoying about that phrase is that it is ALMOST always misappropriated, ALMOST always fraudulently claimed, and then the ne'er-do-well screams like a mashed cat to defend its misuse and all the wringy-handed warm-fuzzies jump on the bandwagon to rationalize or justify its misuse in order to save the feelings of the miscreant. Otherwise, the phrase itself doesn't annoy me at all. It's not unlike tracing a picture, filling it in with crayon rubbings and calling it original art, is it?

My nomination: "completely scratchbuilt" or its alter-ego "100% scratchbuilt" {Flame suit on, entering bomb shelter . . .}

Too kewl! (after I unbunched my red 'spenders!)

Depends on what vintage the rivets are.

Looking very good!

KewL!!

Outside my box ... but looks nice.

Nice!

Nasty ... good nasty!

Very good!

Nice job, grasshopper.

Whoa, that's nice!!

Very nice! Love the stripes.

Superb!