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Location: Houston, TX | I was searching through old threads looking for information about the UKII and stumbled across this:
"Guitars are art, they are meant to be hung on the walls.
Guitars are functional, they are meant to be played.
Guitars are useful, like the Vox fat jazz pos that was in a case and held up the bottom of the sofa for 2 years in college.
Guitars are currency, I've made some great trades, a Les Paul for a Caddy conv. one guitar for carpeting...
guitars are engineering marvels, how you make those parts make those sounds.
Guitars can be a nice investment vehicle and they usually appreciate tax free
Guitars make you feel good, looking at them, playing them, and he who dies with the most guitars wins."
I agree with all of it - but I am unsure how to trade a guitar for carpet, should the need arise. |
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Location: closely held secret | You must not be married... |
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Location: 6 String Ranch | find a carpet guy who wants a guitar.... |
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Location: Cicero, NY | ...and then trade the Taylor. |
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Location: NJ | . . . for a nice Oriental. |
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Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | Geez, Cliff, quit taunting me so...
restraint, Jeff, restraint... |
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| So you're wearing the restraints again huh? |
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Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | ......."So you're wearing the restraints again huh?"......
...and just waiting for Sumi the Dominatrix |
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Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | She prides herself on being the world's only Redneck Asian Desciplinarian |
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Location: Fayetteville, NC | LOL!!!! good one Bongo Boy!! :D |
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| Originally posted by Jeff W.:
She prides herself on being the world's only Redneck Asian Desciplinarian So did Darlene Yamamoto retire or did Sumi take her out? |
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Location: NJ | ". . . Me ruv you wrong time . . ." |
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Location: Boise, Idaho | Here's how a married guy trades a guitar for carpet. I get a 1537, my wife recarpets the family room and den. I pay for both, but my wife writes the checks.
I know it's not really a trade. I get the guitar, but "we" get the new carpet. |
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Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | So did Darlene Yamamoto retire or did Sumi take her out? Power grab by Sumi... she took Yamamoto out in a moment of rare vulnerability when Darlene's Fluggerhaustamessenschiter malfunctioned. |
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Location: Cicero, NY | ...and a good time was had by all. |
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Location: closely held secret | Originally posted by Mark in Boise:
Here's how a married guy trades a guitar for carpet. I get a 1537, my wife recarpets the family room and den. I pay for both, but my wife writes the checks.
I know it's not really a trade. I get the guitar, but "we" get the new carpet. Mark gets it.
I do believe this thread has gone downhill faster than anything since "Big Stubby", which took the lead right out of the gate. |
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Location: Boise, Idaho | I figured that was the kind of trade Waskel was talking about. But his wife let him get an Adamas. |
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Location: closely held secret | Well, that's true... but the theory remains sound.
Within 2 weeks after receiving my Adamas, we had a new oak kitchen floor... |
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Location: Tidal Mudflats of Virginia | "How true, how true"...Her half was a new 12' sofa with recliners on each end, new carpetting for the living room and finally a Temper-Pedic bed.. |
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Location: Boise, Idaho | That's why GAS is so expensive. My wife did pay for the mother of all decks and a few other obscenely expensive remodel projects out of her inheritance, however, and a trip to Italy out of her wages. This was just an awfully expensive year for me to become obsessed with buying Ovations. It's all you guys' fault. |
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Location: closely held secret | Sounds like your wife makes more money than you. Get her to buy your guitars. |
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Location: Boise, Idaho | I tried to get her to buy my guitars. She wouldn't do it. So now I just spend "our" money on guitars, so she has to spend "her" money on other stuff because we ran out of "our" money.
I'm sure she makes more than me per hour, especially since I spend most of my time at work on this board. It doesn't pay very well. |
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Location: SoCal | Mark, what does your wife do? Neurosurgeon? |
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Location: NJ | My ex makes more than I do, too . .
. . unfortunately, she does it with MY money!! :rolleyes: |
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Location: Boise, Idaho | Not quite, Moody, she's a nurse. Neurosurgeons in this area make as much as anywhere in the country and we have the largest number of them per capita. Therefore, we have more back surgeries per capita than anywhere in the country.
Unfortunately, for attorneys we are "the Bosnia of legal fees", to quote a former partner of mine.
When you add in my money to her money and figure she controls all our money, she does make a lot more than me. |
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Location: SoCal | My wife is a nurse as well at a large, well known private hospital in Newport Beach. They advertise that they are number one in treating cardiac care in the country. Now, does that mean that I live in an extemely stressful area, or that everything to them is a heart problem? |
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