NOBLNG Posted April 7, 2023 Author Share Posted April 7, 2023 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.🥴 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ace-Garageguy Posted April 7, 2023 Share Posted April 7, 2023 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. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Classicgas Posted April 7, 2023 Share Posted April 7, 2023 Research is key when building factory stock models. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ace-Garageguy Posted April 7, 2023 Share Posted April 7, 2023 "Models" is what some practitioners of less salubrious trades bill themselves as. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Classicgas Posted April 7, 2023 Share Posted April 7, 2023 As The World Turns was a old soap opera. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BeakDoc Posted April 7, 2023 Share Posted April 7, 2023 Opera glasses are just bedazzled binoculars. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ace-Garageguy Posted April 7, 2023 Share Posted April 7, 2023 (edited) 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 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NOBLNG Posted April 8, 2023 Author Share Posted April 8, 2023 Times tables is what we called multiplication in elementary school. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ace-Garageguy Posted April 8, 2023 Share Posted April 8, 2023 (edited) 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 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NOBLNG Posted April 8, 2023 Author Share Posted April 8, 2023 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. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BeakDoc Posted April 8, 2023 Share Posted April 8, 2023 Sentence diagramming was the entirety of my seventh grade English class taught by the much beloved German immigrant, Mr. Umholtz. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Little Timmy Posted April 8, 2023 Share Posted April 8, 2023 Umholtz is no relation to Imhotep. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stitchdup Posted April 8, 2023 Share Posted April 8, 2023 (edited) 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 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thatz4u Posted April 8, 2023 Share Posted April 8, 2023 hyroglyphics, that's what my handwritting looks like.... 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1972coronet Posted April 8, 2023 Share Posted April 8, 2023 "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 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thatz4u Posted April 8, 2023 Share Posted April 8, 2023 Mafia, doesn't exist said Joe before the Court.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ace-Garageguy Posted April 8, 2023 Share Posted April 8, 2023 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. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thatz4u Posted April 8, 2023 Share Posted April 8, 2023 much is said by politicians, though little is accomplished Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Big John Posted April 8, 2023 Share Posted April 8, 2023 Accomplished builder know the many uses for their materials and their Limitations. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stitchdup Posted April 8, 2023 Share Posted April 8, 2023 limitations in materials hold beck advancements in technology Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ace-Garageguy Posted April 8, 2023 Share Posted April 8, 2023 Technology has made it possible to flush a toilet in Peoria from a cafe in Paris. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1972coronet Posted April 8, 2023 Share Posted April 8, 2023 "Paris France, not Paris Texas !", joked Johnny Thunders during a live set at The Speakeasy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ace-Garageguy Posted April 8, 2023 Share Posted April 8, 2023 (edited) 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 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Classicgas Posted April 8, 2023 Share Posted April 8, 2023 Scorecard use in golf or bowling is a necessity Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BeakDoc Posted April 9, 2023 Share Posted April 9, 2023 Necessity, it’s said, is the mother of invention. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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