50 is the New 60...

[geofflambert]

Remember how there were always rusted cans with wheels and belching smoke running around all over? Remember homes that had ugly heaps of rust parked in their front yard? Nowadays you can go to the poorest and most dangerous neighborhoods and all the cars look great. No need for Earl Scheib anymore. No need for undercoats anymore, ha ha, like you ever needed that.

[btd64]

ORIGINAL: Gandalf

ORIGINAL: Zorch
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I still have my copies, punched but little played. Terrible Swift Sword was my poison.
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Also, visited TSR's main store in Wisconsin, while doing a stint again at Great Lakes, IL. Got a little distracted by all the beauties wandering around nearby... Wondered what the ????. Found out later it was the home of the Playboy mansion. And all I could think of was finding the TSR wargame store! I was seriously addicted to boxed wargames. TSR however was going heavily into the Dungeon and Dragon junk, so the visit there was somewhat wasted except for the walking scenery. LOL ole geo... would have been in lizard heaven.

The gorn only likes lady lizards....GP

[geofflambert]

We are job creators. What would lounge barkeeps do for a living without us? Ever ask yourself that?

[Marshall]

Lizard snacks! Any bartender should serve them
Amazing they actually taste good

[Macclan5]

ORIGINAL: Gandalf

Also, visited TSR's main store in Wisconsin, while doing a stint again at Great Lakes, IL. Got a little distracted by all the beauties wandering around nearby... Wondered what the ????. Found out later it was the home of the Playboy mansion. And all I could think of was finding the TSR wargame store! I was seriously addicted to boxed wargames. TSR however was going heavily into the Dungeon and Dragon junk, so the visit there was somewhat wasted except for the walking scenery. LOL ole geo... would have been in lizard heaven.

I also visited the Lake Geneva Wisc. store circa 1984 ....wait for it ...aged 16

(Yes go ahead do the math) [:D]

Was very enthralled with all of the above both RPGs and Avalon Hills "eye candy" board games (as relatively expensive as they were at the time).

The store in Lake Geneva actually had a 'smallish' section of war - board games as I recall but to me it was almost heaven because they actually stocked product I had never seen before.

Locally in Canada even at the most complete hobby stores across multiple cities I was hard pressed to find such a selection of everything.

(Albeit I did not reside in Toronto where I would have had an opportunity possibly)

[geofflambert]

Good thing it wasn't in Lake Geneva Switzerland, all that cardboard would be pretty soggy.

[Zorch]

Do Gorns find themselves drawn to power plants?

[geofflambert]

By power plants, do you mean female gorns? Female gorns eat their mates. I run the other way whenever possible.

[Orm]

Female gorns eat their mates.

Do they eat your tail if you accidently, purposefully, dropped it?

[geofflambert]

ORIGINAL: Orm

Female gorns eat their mates.

Do they eat your tail if you accidently, purposefully, dropped it?

If there's a bottle of hot sauce handy.

[Orm]

ORIGINAL: geofflambert

ORIGINAL: Orm

Female gorns eat their mates.

Do they eat your tail if you accidently, purposefully, dropped it?

If there's a bottle of hot sauce handy.

*cringe*

I am sorry that I asked. [:(]

[Will_L_OLD]

What kind of hot sauce? There's a world of difference between them.
I'm partial to Chipotle Tabasco, Don Shula's Special #347 & Cholula.

[Zorch]

ORIGINAL: geofflambert

By power plants, do you mean female gorns? Female gorns eat their mates. I run the other way whenever possible.

Gorn family reunions must be very awkward.

[geofflambert]

Well, I've been using Frank's RedHot lately, but not for gorn tails but to keep squirrels away from my blackberries. Hot stuff doesn't have any effect on birds though, but deterring squirrels saves a lot for me. It's interesting that the very reason some plants have fruit (and peppers count) that is hot is because the plant has evolved to have birds spread their seed as opposed to mammalian varmints who don't go very far before taking a crap. I mix the hot sauce in a hand sprayer at a proportion of 1 to 10 and spray the emerging fruit after each rain. It works.

[geofflambert]

ORIGINAL: Zorch

ORIGINAL: geofflambert

By power plants, do you mean female gorns? Female gorns eat their mates. I run the other way whenever possible.

Gorn family reunions must be very awkward.

Not for the ladies, they have a blast.

[wdolson]

ORIGINAL: geofflambert

Remember how there were always rusted cans with wheels and belching smoke running around all over? Remember homes that had ugly heaps of rust parked in their front yard? Nowadays you can go to the poorest and most dangerous neighborhoods and all the cars look great. No need for Earl Scheib anymore. No need for undercoats anymore, ha ha, like you ever needed that.

The climate affects how cars age too. In places where they salt the roads, car bodies rot out. They rot out slower than they used to, but they still do. In climates where there is either no need to salt roads (no snow) or they don't salt roads (like the NW US), car bodies tend to last forever. In this region cars fail mechanically before the bodies rot out.

Here west of the Cascades yard cars do tend to grow a green patina of algae, especially in the winter. They also usually get buried under blackberry vines.

Bill

[wdolson]

ORIGINAL: geofflambert

By power plants, do you mean female gorns? Female gorns eat their mates. I run the other way whenever possible.

So are gorns arachnids or insects? You're kind of missing a few limbs for that. Mating cannibalism doesn't happen among any species higher than insects.

Even in insects cannibalism during mating is not universal. With praying mantises the female munches her mate less than 50% of the time. A lot depends on how hungry she is as well as the male's position. A few years ago there was a male Carolina mantis who was mating wit all the female Chinese mantises. Carolina mantises are smaller and no female could reach him. He was an aggressive bug. He beat several male Chinese mantises to the female.

Bill

[Admiral DadMan]

The genesis of my post was on my 50th birthday last Saturday, I made a joke about the significance of the age I was turning, and I inadvertently said, "50 is the new 60", to which my 60 year old brother replied, "Yes, and apparently you're aging like milk; you smell, and you're making people sick."

[TOMLABEL]

His company painted my 1974 Firebird in 1981. Hadn't heard that name in a long time.

TOMLABEL

[Will_L_OLD]

ORIGINAL: geofflambert

Well, I've been using Frank's RedHot lately, but not for gorn tails but to keep squirrels away from my blackberries. Hot stuff doesn't have any effect on birds though, but deterring squirrels saves a lot for me. It's interesting that the very reason some plants have fruit (and peppers count) that is hot is because the plant has evolved to have birds spread their seed as opposed to mammalian varmints who don't go very far before taking a crap. I mix the hot sauce in a hand sprayer at a proportion of 1 to 10 and spray the emerging fruit after each rain. It works.

Nice, to keep the squirrels out of our garden I peel apples and powder them with cayenne pepper
then leave them near my zucchini plants, also leave peeled apples without cayenne so they don't
just avoid them. Darn things love to nibble the ends off the young zucchinis.
Hilarious when one takes a bite and then scrambles up the fence and starts grunting.