One sentence game

[NOBLNG]

Many times I’ve gotten frustrated with a model and then it winds up back on the shelf, then I take it down and start over, only to get annoyed again, and then it winds up back in the box again.?

[Ace-Garageguy]

Again and again and again, what start out for me as "simple, quickie" builds run off the rails when I get bogged down in period-correct research.

[Classicgas]

Research is key when building factory stock models.

[Ace-Garageguy]

"Models" is what some practitioners of less salubrious trades bill themselves as.

[Classicgas]

As The World Turns was a old soap opera.

[BeakDoc]

Opera glasses are just bedazzled binoculars.

[Ace-Garageguy]

Binoculars are rated as "power" with an "X", as in 30X means 30 power, but I routinely see folks call the "X" wrongly "times".

Edited April 7, 2023 by Ace-Garageguy

[NOBLNG]

Times tables is what we called multiplication in elementary school.

[Ace-Garageguy]

School has certainly changed since I was a lad, with much less emphasis on useless things like basic arithmetic or being able to read and understand a printed paragraph.

Edited April 8, 2023 by Ace-Garageguy
CLARITY

[NOBLNG]

Paragraph structure “rules” dictate that it have an opening sentence, followed by supporting sentences and a closing sentence….assuming of course that the composer can form a proper sentence.

[BeakDoc]

Sentence diagramming was the entirety of my seventh grade English class taught by the much beloved German immigrant, Mr. Umholtz.

[Little Timmy]

Umholtz  is no relation to Imhotep.

 

[stitchdup]

imhotep is reputed to have been among the cruelest of pharaohs to rule egypt if they correctly interpeted the hyroglyphics

Edited April 8, 2023 by stitchdup

[thatz4u]

hyroglyphics, that's what my handwritting looks like....

[1972coronet]

"Like a man snapping a shingle -- hurts like a b_st_rd.", recounted Eddie "Fingers" while relating the story of how his hand was broken by the Irish Mafia

[thatz4u]

Mafia, doesn't exist said Joe before the Court..

[Ace-Garageguy]

Court cases used to be concerned with silly things like jurisdiction, statutes of limitation, and the concept of "innocent until proven guilty"; today, not so much.

[thatz4u]

much is said by politicians, though little is accomplished

[Big John]

Accomplished builder know the many uses for their materials and their Limitations.

[stitchdup]

limitations in materials hold beck advancements in technology

[Ace-Garageguy]

Technology has made it possible to flush a toilet in Peoria from a cafe in Paris.

[1972coronet]

"Paris France, not Paris Texas !", joked Johnny Thunders during a live set at The Speakeasy

[Ace-Garageguy]

Speakeasy days would have suited me just fine: at least you could kinda tell who the crooks were without a scorecard.

Edited April 8, 2023 by Ace-Garageguy

[Classicgas]

Scorecard use in golf or bowling is a necessity 

[BeakDoc]

Necessity, it’s said, is the mother of invention.