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#2453
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On a semi-related note, have you ever run across a quarter painted red with fingernail polish? You see one rarely nowadays but they were more common when I was a kid. I'll await answers. No fair Googling.
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#2456
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I don’t recall that. But I do recall scouring my change for wheatie pennies (pre 1959) and silver dimes/quarters (pre 1965) back in the 1970’s.
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Sure. I don't know the reason for the paint though.
#2461
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#2462
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#2463
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My aunt ran a cafe when I was kid and I would bug her to give me a red quarter for the juke box.
A cafe that I frequented till it closed around 1990 had a coffee cup full of painted quarters behind the counter and the waitress would plug one in the machine occasionally so I know they still did it up till then.
Anyway, you still run across one every now and then when you get change. I’ve also seen blue or green ones, too, but primarily, they’re red.
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#2469
smelling the roses
Join Date: Nov 2010
Location: Tixkokob, Yucatán, México
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We finished digging the trench today, with just a little bit of clean-up left to do, before interring the cable=laden conduit. My right hand man, age 34, and his right hand man, age 16, arrived to do the bulk of what was left. I did not get a HIIT workout in this morning, but I am plenty tired none=the=less.
We had this baby in operation for three hours, to make our way across that 2 meter section of surface bedrock.
I think they managed to get 3" deep.
We had this baby in operation for three hours, to make our way across that 2 meter section of surface bedrock.
I think they managed to get 3" deep.
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Took yesterday off work to drive one of our cats to the veterinary clinic at a university 1.5 hours away to do an endoscopy. She's been having digestive issues lately and we can't figure out what's wrong.
My wife has had two cats who had cancer so we're understandably paranoid about that possibility, so we're just having the endoscopy done now so we can hopefully figure out whatever it is early and start treating it. Won't know for sure until they get the biopsies back but yesterday the vet called after the preliminary exam and said that the possibility of cancer was moving further down the list, so fingers crossed.
We have four animals in the house - two cats, two dogs -- and the absence of even one of them for a day is strikingly noticeable.
This is Charlotte. She will get on my wife's stomach and drool. She's very silly.
Probably contemplating bird murder.
My wife has had two cats who had cancer so we're understandably paranoid about that possibility, so we're just having the endoscopy done now so we can hopefully figure out whatever it is early and start treating it. Won't know for sure until they get the biopsies back but yesterday the vet called after the preliminary exam and said that the possibility of cancer was moving further down the list, so fingers crossed.
We have four animals in the house - two cats, two dogs -- and the absence of even one of them for a day is strikingly noticeable.
This is Charlotte. She will get on my wife's stomach and drool. She's very silly.
Probably contemplating bird murder.
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Stretching isn’t required. Especially if you mount them with gluing tape instead of glue.
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I plan on using glue. I've read of too many negative aspects of tape. Mainly the clean-up process after tire removal. And I'm a bit of a purist, in some respects. Certainly not all. I have a really hard time driving to the beginning of a ride, for example. Though I'm happy to throw the bike in the car at the end, and ride home with my wife.
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We finished digging the trench today, with just a little bit of clean-up left to do, before interring the cable=laden conduit. My right hand man, age 34, and his right hand man, age 16, arrived to do the bulk of what was left. I did not get a HIIT workout in this morning, but I am plenty tired none=the=less.
We had this baby in operation for three hours, to make our way across that 2 meter section of surface bedrock.
I think they managed to get 3" deep.
We had this baby in operation for three hours, to make our way across that 2 meter section of surface bedrock.
I think they managed to get 3" deep.
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