Expand Your Vocabulary - Page 5

Gravdigr · 02-24-2016, 02:22 PM

Go here, and sign up. Again.

There's a small link to the right of the word of the day, under the definition.

fargon · 02-24-2016, 09:37 PM

I did.

Gravdigr · 02-29-2016, 12:09 PM

Happy Bissextus Urrbody!!!

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BigV · 04-27-2016, 02:29 PM

I have one of those, except it's not a vintage Beemer, like the one in the picture.

glatt · 04-27-2016, 02:59 PM

We have one too. My wife spotted it up on the lift this afternoon, presumably getting the exhaust system welded.

We made the perhaps foolish decision to put $3k into a $1.5k car yesterday. Love that car and want to get another 100k miles out of it. I took it in with a 16 item repair list, and they added two items to my list. It's OK though, we talked it over and took about 6 items off my list of 16.

xoxoxoBruce · 04-27-2016, 04:00 PM

Quite often it's the right decision to spend money on them. It's not whether to spend $3k on a 1.5k car, it's whether to spend $3k on this car or $20k on another car.

glatt · 04-27-2016, 04:22 PM

It was time to do the timing belt. That's a big one and is making a statement. So you might as well do some other needed things.

BigV · 04-28-2016, 08:17 AM

Timing belt... That's one of those things that you can't function without, and is cheaper to fix before it breaks. And where it lives in a lot of engines makes the replacement of others stuff "in the neighborhood" much cheaper than if you had to make a special trip for just that part. They are often equally old..

glatt · 04-28-2016, 08:46 AM

Yeah. The timing belt, or "are you feeling lucky, punk?"

We maybe could have gotten 5 more years out of it, or maybe 5 more days. 20 year old car with 125k miles. But having to call a tow truck from god knows where by the side of some road when the engine suddenly dies and won't start up again regardless of how much I crank it would suck. And then towing it to some unknown rip-off shop and having it be kind of urgent to get it fixed in a hurry. Maybe having to rent a car to get home. Buy a hotel room for a couple days while they do the work. Ugh. I feel like they have made movies about this kind of scenario. And then I meet the wife of some powerful business man in the one bar in the little desert town where I broke down, and after having an affair with her, everyone wants to kill me. But I can't leave because my car is still in the damn shop.

Much better to do it now.

BigV · 04-28-2016, 09:37 AM

I'll say this for you, glatt. You do not lack imagination.

I like that about you.

Gravdigr · 04-28-2016, 02:23 PM

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And then I meet the wife of some powerful business man in the one bar in the little desert town where I broke down, and after having an affair with her, everyone wants to kill me. But I can't leave because my car is still in the damn shop.

U Turn!!

Quirky flick, man, quirky flick.

xoxoxoBruce · 04-28-2016, 02:33 PM

glatt is really Sean Penn?

Gravdigr · 05-24-2016, 01:38 PM

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02-24-2016, 02:22 PM	#61
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02-29-2016, 12:09 PM	#63
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04-25-2016, 03:44 PM	#65
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04-27-2016, 02:29 PM	#66
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04-27-2016, 02:59 PM	#67
glatt ™ Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: Arlington, VA Posts: 27,717	We have one too. My wife spotted it up on the lift this afternoon, presumably getting the exhaust system welded. We made the perhaps foolish decision to put $3k into a $1.5k car yesterday. Love that car and want to get another 100k miles out of it. I took it in with a 16 item repair list, and they added two items to my list. It's OK though, we talked it over and took about 6 items off my list of 16.

04-27-2016, 04:00 PM	#68
xoxoxoBruce The future is unwritten Join Date: Oct 2002 Posts: 71,105	Quite often it's the right decision to spend money on them. It's not whether to spend $3k on a 1.5k car, it's whether to spend $3k on this car or $20k on another car. __________________ The descent of man ~ Nixon, Friedman, Reagan, Trump.

04-27-2016, 04:22 PM	#69
glatt ™ Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: Arlington, VA Posts: 27,717	It was time to do the timing belt. That's a big one and is making a statement. So you might as well do some other needed things.

04-28-2016, 08:17 AM	#70
BigV Goon Squad Leader Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Seattle Posts: 27,063	Timing belt... That's one of those things that you can't function without, and is cheaper to fix before it breaks. And where it lives in a lot of engines makes the replacement of others stuff "in the neighborhood" much cheaper than if you had to make a special trip for just that part. They are often equally old.. __________________ Be Just and Fear Not. Last edited by BigV; 04-28-2016 at 09:39 AM. Reason: corrected typographical error

04-28-2016, 08:46 AM	#71
glatt ™ Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: Arlington, VA Posts: 27,717	Yeah. The timing belt, or "are you feeling lucky, punk?" We maybe could have gotten 5 more years out of it, or maybe 5 more days. 20 year old car with 125k miles. But having to call a tow truck from god knows where by the side of some road when the engine suddenly dies and won't start up again regardless of how much I crank it would suck. And then towing it to some unknown rip-off shop and having it be kind of urgent to get it fixed in a hurry. Maybe having to rent a car to get home. Buy a hotel room for a couple days while they do the work. Ugh. I feel like they have made movies about this kind of scenario. And then I meet the wife of some powerful business man in the one bar in the little desert town where I broke down, and after having an affair with her, everyone wants to kill me. But I can't leave because my car is still in the damn shop. Much better to do it now.

04-28-2016, 09:37 AM	#72
BigV Goon Squad Leader Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Seattle Posts: 27,063	I'll say this for you, glatt. You do not lack imagination. I like that about you. __________________ Be Just and Fear Not.

04-28-2016, 02:33 PM	#74
xoxoxoBruce The future is unwritten Join Date: Oct 2002 Posts: 71,105	glatt is really Sean Penn? __________________ The descent of man ~ Nixon, Friedman, Reagan, Trump.

05-24-2016, 01:38 PM	#75
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