Harry P.

A guy sits down at the bar, orders a beer, and asks the barmaid if she wants to hear a blonde joke. The barmaid takes a shotgun out from under the bar and says: "I'm blonde and I have a gun. The two girls sitting to your right are blondes and they are professional tag team wrestlers. The girl sitting to your left is a blonde and is covered with tattoos and rides a Harley. The girl standing behind you right now is my bouncer, and she is also a blonde and has a black belt in karate. Are you sure you still want to tell that joke?" The guy replies: "Well, geez, not if I'm going to have to repeat it five times."

More progress... The firewall and toe board are made of basswood, stained with the same stain I used on the wheels, then sprayed with several coats of Rustoleum 2x Gloss Clear. I made the brass edge trim on the firewall/dash out of 1/16" square K&S brass rod. I surprised myself by bending it to shape perfectly on the first try! I flowed a tiny bit of CA between the edges of the firewall and the brass trim, then sprayed the unit with more Rustoleum 2x Clear Gloss to help "lock" the brass trim in place. The kit has no decals for the instrument faces, so I found gauge faces online and printed them to size and glued them to the kit gauges. I added bezels that are rings cut from K&S brass tubing, and the "glass" on the gauges is clear 5-minute epoxy. The "brass" sill plates on the sides of the floorboard are gold BMF.

The stores could save a lot of time and effort if they just left the Christmas stuff up all year. They're pretty close to doing that already, anyway...

Art, have you ever built a Pocher kit? Like a 1930s Rolls or Mercedes Benz? If not, then you obviously have no idea how much bodywork is necessary to get the various body panels to line up correctly and to get the body to look right. I would go so far as to say the typical Pocher kit requires some very serious body work. Much more than a "horseless carriage" needs...

Another beauty, Rich.

Yes sir. But Brett critiqued the model in the same exact way (in his case, to show that the model is correct). I guess using that technique is ok as long as the results are what you want them to be.

But you just said customer support is nonexistent. http://www.alps-printer.com/

That could be due to the fact that Alps printers went out of production four years ago. Just a guess... From their website: IMPORTANT NOTICE As previously posted on March 31, 2007 Alps Electric North America, Inc. no longer offers any support for the MD Series Printers models MD-2010/ 4000/ 2300/ 1000/ 1300/ 5000 respectively. The end of support also includes the retail version of product(s) such as keyboards, glidepoint keyboards, laser printers, serial and ps2 mouse, external desktop and portable glidepoints.

Very nice! What's the source of the Coke bottles?

Not for long...

The guy had amazing foresight! He knew exactly how big the diameter of the tree would wind up to be, exactly when the tree would stop growing, and he pre-cut the exactly correct sized hole, placed exactly in the correct spot, all those years earlier. Amazing...

If you ever go back to that restaurant, aren't you afraid they'll spit in your food?

Yeah, but isn't it killing you to think that maybe he would have taken $30 for it?

Think about it. How would you do it? How would you place a car down over a full grown tree?

Only me? Or Brett, too?

All you have to do is think about this logically for a moment. Suppose the car was parked there years ago. Suppose there was a baby tree growing there under the car. What baby tree would be able to break through sheet metal? What baby tree would be able to break through sheet metal, enlarge the hole as it grows, and leave a perfectly round hole with perfect edges? Answer: Photoshop.

Brave... or very smart. Smart to take comments and input before the tooling is cut rather than after. Even if the criticisms (including mine) are wrong, the fact remains that Moebius puts it out there for our feedback.

Photoshop?

Q: What do you call 100 lawyers at the bottom of the ocean? A: A good start! Q: What do you have if there are three lawyers buried up to their necks in cement? A: Not enough cement! Q: What's the difference between a bad lawyer and a good lawyer? A: A bad lawyer can cause a case to drag on for months. A good lawyer can cause a case to drag on for years!

A clever lawyer, a doctor, and an accountant were sitting three abreast on an airplane, with the lawyer on the aisle. After takeoff, the lawyer took off his shoes, reclined his seat, and relaxed. A few minutes after the drink cart came by, the doctor said "You know, maybe I do want a drink after all. Excuse me, can I get out and go get a coke?", he asked his seatmates. "I'm already on the aisle... I'll get your coke," offered the clever lawyer. While the clever lawyer was gone, the doctor put a tack in one of the lawyer's shoes as he smiled at the accountant. Soon after the clever lawyer got back with the doctor's drink, the accountant said "I think I'd like a coke, too!" Again, the clever lawyer offered to get the accountant's coke, and while he was gone, the accountant smiled at the doctor as he put a tack into the lawyer's other shoe. The lawyer returned with the accountan'ts coke, and the rest of the flight was uneventful. Just before landing, the clever lawyer slipped on his shoes and felt a sharp pain from the two tacks. Rolling his eyes, he said to the doctor and the accountant, "Really, gentlemen. We are all professionals. Just how long must this silly behavior go on? The practical jokes... the spitting into your drinks..."

Isn't it a shame how just 99% of lawyers give the whole profession a bad name?

A lawyer's client is found guilty in court. The next day, the lawyer rushes into the judge's chamber, all excited. "Your Honor! I have just found out new information about my client and I demand to file an appeal!" "What new information have you discovered?" "My client still has another $5,000!"

A little boy and his mother were in the cemetery paying their respects to a departed relative when the boy asks his mother "Do they ever bury two people in the same grave?" "Of course not!", replies his mother. "Why would you think that?" "Well, on that tombstone over there it says 'Here lies a lawyer and an honest man.' "

A kid has just moved into a new neighborhood and meets the boy next door. "Hi, I'm Billy. What's your name?" "Tommy," replies the boy. "Hey Billy, what does your dad do?" "He's an accountant," replies Billy. "What about your dad?" "He's a lawyer." "Honest?" asks Billy. "Nah," replies Tommy. "Just the regular kind."

A truck driver who had been taken for all he had by his ex-wife and her divorce lawyer made a habit of running down lawyers whenever he saw them walking along the side of the road. Whenever he saw a lawyer, he would swerve and plow into the lawyer with a loud THUMP, then swerve back onto the road and continue on. One day he saw a priest walking along the side of the road and pulled over. "Where are you headed, Father?" "To the church about five miles down the road." The trucker told the priest he would be happy to give him a lift to the church, and the grateful priest hopped in. A few minutes later the trucker saw another lawyer walking along the side of the road, and instinctively swerved to hit him. But realizing he had a priest in his truck, he swerved back onto the road at the last minute… yet he still heard a loud THUMP. The trucker was sure that he had missed the lawyer, but he felt uneasy and guilty. "I'm so sorry, Father! I almost hit that lawyer!" "Don't worry about it," replied the priest with a smile. "I got him with the door!"