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Where's Ram and the gerbil?!?!?! I need some details on a TV brand, some new one, goes by TCL, I haven't googled to see who makes them, likely another one of those Chinese companies!

Nice job danm!

Yep! Smoke up!

That had to be a blast! At least for you, LOL.

I remember driving by that building when I had to go over to the Scottsdale PO-PO office for my set of fingerprints.


NO, I didn't get arrested, I had to do that JUST to buy silver and gold coins, etc. for the big Buying group I worked for during the recession. BEST MONEY I ever made!!!

WE usually just set up at the Best Western in Tempe, right beside 202 and "caddy cornered" from the IN and Out burger, as well as across from Town Lake. But we decided to do 3 locations by the time we went back about 6 month later. Seems like I was there three different times while working for them. I could see the dates for the Scottsdale show and that was a NO-NO, but I asked the Big Cheese if it was ok to bring my wife and go to the Grand Canyon after the show was done. He knew he could trust me, so we got to knock off a few bucket list items that I NEVER thought this ole country boy would do or even afford. Sedona is a lovely place to stay as well. We had an schedule, but had no clue where we would be until about a day or so before we flew out. That was to keep another group that had worked for the Big Cheese for a few years and then broke off and started doing the same thing, except they knew his regular schedule and would set-up a week before he got to the larger cities. I have MANY, MANY wild episodes I can tell about that job!!!!

DED, wonder if you remember seeing our BIG 3 page ads in the paper, or even funnier, when we had the infamous "sign wars" with a local jewelry and pawn shop owner that HATED us so badly that he tried to do a show on the other side of the 202. We actually paid a homeless guy to hold a sign and they were having fender benders, etc. It was HOT AS HELL, too! But, still didn't seem as bad as our humidity here, as well as South FL in the worst months. BUT, I was inside, although the Best Western rooms on the side I had to sleep were/are brick and it would be 2-3 am before the damn room would cool down to below 80!!!

Congrats, Danm.

Nice work, danm. Welcome back to vitamin N

Drive by Philadelphia MS. Tried to avoid stopping.
This is a very .... Interesting... Place

No bueno

How did the beans come out? I just finished a bowl of beans and ham, still a touch chewy even though I parboiled them and cooked the bejeebers out of them. Danged if that doesn't chap my hide.

sitting in my grow room in my underwear watching the simpsons and eating pineapple sausages on hoagie rolls...

I've got a Vizio that's over 10 years old. Still works great.

I've got a couple Sonys a Samsung and a Panasonic Plasma that's close to 15 years old... all work great.. I've got surge protectors on all of them...

Consumer reports says lg or Sony. I do t really put much faith in that though.

Find someone that works at Best Buy. They pay cost plus. You’d be amazed the markup.

Frank and me might know a guy that found an abandoned truck.... just sayin..

Thanks, Teedub, I do know that they also have open boxes that they discount heavily. There's almost no, if any use on the TV, some were immediate returns, some just got shifted around in shaping and popped the box open, so they have difficulty selling those with open boxes.

Funny. I bought my current Panasonic plasma at Best Buy before my son started working there. (He is assistant store manager while he is going to school).

I bought it because it was a good deal and my wife was out of town (I told her). but it was still expensive. I set it up and watched it for one day then got buyers remorse and returned it.

When she got home she asked what happened to the tv and why. I then changed my mind. I bought the open box I returned lol. It still had my zip code in the setup.

It was a great deal.

But if you find a Best Buy employee they get great pricing.

Oh and before I’m accused of being cousin Eddie I told them I returned it but they still sold it back at open box price. I guess it’s a hassle to change it.

maybe just take inventory...

and found!

Time to talk to that financial planner and JAX real estate agent?

$179 and on our way home... Could've been worse for sure...

I have 3 RCA TV's from 1985 that are still going strong. Got them all free for opening CDs at a bank. No deals like that any more.

victor809 wrote:
Drive by Philadelphia MS. Tried to avoid stopping.
This is a very .... Interesting... Place

8trackdisco wrote:
Requesting a further definition of Interesting.


Interesting story about that area, seems like it was a "burg" near Philadelphia. Back in the late 70's, I was riding South with my brother and we started through a small town, noticed a black couple on front of us in a truck, as we neared a stoplight, I saw hooded and others without their hoods, we're talking hard core KKK. They were honestly holding plastic buckets, like those ice cream buckets with some tape on them and writing that said some unkind stuff, asking for money for their "cause". Needless to say when that light turned red, the poor folks in front of us ran that light!!! I don't think they desired to donate to the "cause" OR stick around to roll down the window. I wasn't raised with any prejudices, EXCEPT against STUPIDITY, and that wasn't allowed unless you tried to politely help folks out of their ignorance and they chose to continue being stupid. You know, those "sharp as a circle" type. SO, I was rather surprised by seeing that open and brazen situation. It's changed for the better now, but there are still some of the kids of those guys that still secretly hold onto that same sort of stupid.

I'm thankful that I was NOT raised in a racist home. We had a couple of small towns that were still pretty bad here in West TN in the late 70's, so I honestly would tell some of my friends to ride with me to baseball games, since we didn't have the budget at our little "Podunk" school to take the bus for HS baseball games. Some of us with vehicles were allowed to gas up at one of the local Service Stations to cover our gas. I had an old 4 DR deuce and a quarter, and we could get 6-7 of us in that big '69 bomb. I just recently explained to an old friend that asked why I always demanded that he ride with me to certain towns, and I told him that I was doing that to protect him. I actually had words with some old white guy at a service station at the top of the hill after a game, because he saw that guy in the back of my car. Old man told me "DOn't be bringing his kind back here!" TO which I replied, we've got your old ass outnumbered, do you really want to have to tell your buddies that a handful of kids beat your old ass, LMAO! Then walked off.


Similar situation would ALWAYS occur at another town that was even worse! They would always keep a stop sign, painted black, and mounted just below the city limits sign. Hand painted with white letters, "N*****, don't let the sun shine on your ASS in THIS town!" The State would take the sign down and within a few days, a new one would go right back up. Needless to say, when we phad to play a Basketball game there, out bus would be surrounded by the locals, throwing rocks, mud balls, or snow, whatever was on the ground, ALL the while, they would be screaming, DON'T be brangin' them so-and so's back here!! Horrible folks, just horrible.

Friday.