Re: [MBZ] Far OT: Job Corps

2017-01-19 Thread Curley McLain via Mercedes
good in theory, like so many goobermnt "programs" However, I'd guess the gainfully employed "graduates" are few in number. Anyone have the stats? Scott Ritchey via Mercedes January 19, 2017 at 11:44 PM Tonight at Community Watch meeting, I heard a

Re: [MBZ] OT: '64 Skylark on BAT

2017-01-19 Thread OK Don via Mercedes
The Ford engine and tranny are suspect - it probably won't whine in every gear as it accelerates. On Thu, Jan 19, 2017 at 8:14 PM, clay via Mercedes wrote: > I like the TF > > clay > > -- > OK Don *“Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry and narrow-mindedness, and many of

[MBZ] Far OT: Job Corps

2017-01-19 Thread Scott Ritchey via Mercedes
Tonight at Community Watch meeting, I heard a presentation from the local Job Corps. It sounded like Job Corps might be a good program that gives 16-24 year old kids the social, work, and technical skills to succeed in the world. But that's their perspective. There is much expertise on this

Re: [MBZ] Ludmilla "Shakes when starts"

2017-01-19 Thread archer75--- via Mercedes
On Thu, 19 Jan 2017 20:57:04 -0500 Dan Penoff via Mercedes wrote: > Trivia question: What was Ludmilla’s full name? > > D- ~~ Full name: Liudmyla Mykhailivna Pavlychenko

Re: [MBZ] OT Student Loans, was Stealers

2017-01-19 Thread clay via Mercedes
As long as it is some of the older ammo. Current cartridges are edging above $0.50 a round. A slip of the scalpel would have been better. VA docs around here are well know for less than optimal outcomes. clay > On Jan 19, 2017, at 2:45 PM, Curley McLain via Mercedes >

Re: [MBZ] OT: '64 Skylark on BAT

2017-01-19 Thread clay via Mercedes
I like the TF clay > On Jan 19, 2017, at 10:17 AM, Andrew Strasfogel via Mercedes > wrote: > > Nostalgia on wheels. Honest car and the enticing price. > > http://bringatrailer.com/listing/1964-buick-skylark-3/ > ___ >

Re: [MBZ] Ludmilla "Shakes when starts"

2017-01-19 Thread Rick Knoble via Mercedes
Glumpkin or some such.  Rick Trivia question: What was Ludmilla’s full name? D- ‎ ___ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to:

Re: [MBZ] OT Student Loans, was Stealers

2017-01-19 Thread Rick Knoble via Mercedes
Kyle,  The Chairman Mao‎ Max was referring to is Tin.man.  maontin@gmail.com  Aka Mao Aka tin.man.  Confused? Yeah. Me too.  Several folks on this list now go by pseudonyms... Rick  Who knows tin.mans real given name. ___ http://www.okiebenz.com To

Re: [MBZ] Ludmilla "Shakes when starts"

2017-01-19 Thread Kaleb C. Striplin via Mercedes
Oh hell its on the top of my tongue Sent from my iPhone > On Jan 19, 2017, at 7:57 PM, Dan Penoff via Mercedes > wrote: > > Trivia question: What was Ludmilla’s full name? > > D- > ___ > http://www.okiebenz.com > > To search list

[MBZ] Ludmilla "Shakes when starts"

2017-01-19 Thread Dan Penoff via Mercedes
Trivia question: What was Ludmilla’s full name? D- ___ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com

Re: [MBZ] OT: Self sufficiency (long)

2017-01-19 Thread Curley McLain via Mercedes
Manfred's stove is a thing of beauty. All the upper crust now are buying reproductions of such stoves, but Manfred's is the real thing. In college i commandeered my mom's 48" GE stove with the "deep well." It worked wonderfully, but the oven was small (24") I want an oven that will take

Re: [MBZ] OT Student Loans, was Stealers

2017-01-19 Thread Kyle Arola via Mercedes
Yep. Truth. Kyle On Jan 19, 2017 5:45 PM, "Curley McLain via Mercedes" wrote: > > > Kyle Arola via Mercedes wrote: > >> Tinman, BRADLEY Manning is still a dude. A messed up in the head with >> psychiatric problems man who is most certainly not any type of Red pill or >>

Re: [MBZ] OT: Self sufficiency (long)

2017-01-19 Thread Mountain Man via Mercedes
Manfred wrote: > I love our gas stove. It was 30 years old when we got it back in 74. It > hasn't failed to work yet. Same here in 74 but that stove is gone. Chambers cast iron cook box. tin-man ___ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives

Re: [MBZ] Here is a good laugh!

2017-01-19 Thread Curley McLain via Mercedes
Hehe! Your younger brothers in arms did a nice job launching 105 smart bombs from KS B2s, flying around the world with 5 refuels, then mop up the runners with drones. Now if we could get them to make all those with lard. If I was a bomb loader, I'd carry a pound of lard with me to make

Re: [MBZ] Here is a good laugh!

2017-01-19 Thread Curley McLain via Mercedes
Hehe! Floyd Thursby via Mercedes January 19, 2017 at 4:47 PM NO! NO! MOHAMED! NOT THE BLUE WI --FT Curley McLain January 19, 2017 at 2:40 PM Justice! Terror bomb maker accidentally blows up self, 4 sons If every Islamic

Re: [MBZ] Here is a good laugh!

2017-01-19 Thread Floyd Thursby via Mercedes
NO! NO! MOHAMED! NOT THE BLUE WI --FT On 1/19/17 3:40 PM, Curley McLain via Mercedes wrote: Justice! Terror bomb maker accidentally blows up self, 4 sons If every Islamic terrorist were this clumsy, the problem would solve itself! The Afghanistan government says a reportedly “expert” bomb

Re: [MBZ] OT Student Loans, was Stealers

2017-01-19 Thread Curley McLain via Mercedes
Kyle Arola via Mercedes wrote: Tinman, BRADLEY Manning is still a dude. A messed up in the head with psychiatric problems man who is most certainly not any type of Red pill or MRA or MGTOW. Shoulda been hung. or shot. Only 30¢ to eliminate the problem before he decided he was an "it" and

Re: [MBZ] OT Student Loans, was Stealers

2017-01-19 Thread Kyle Arola via Mercedes
Oh, Red pill is the opposite of the 90's to current era bromance types. More like men being men. Being the head of household, taking care of themselves, placing themselves first, knocking the feminist modern woman off her pedestal. The Mr. Cleaver of the modern age. Totally opposite of the March

Re: [MBZ] OT: '64 Skylark on BAT

2017-01-19 Thread Floyd Thursby via Mercedes
A buddy had a 65 in high school, sky blue, white interior, white ragtop, 445 Wildcat engine (!!!) w/auto. HOLY SH*T would that thing go. It was gorgeous. Tranny went bad while I was off at college, so he sold it and got something else. I grieved. I wanted that car so bad, though I

Re: [MBZ] OT Student Loans, was Stealers

2017-01-19 Thread Mountain Man via Mercedes
Max wrote: > I think chairman Mao has cornered the market on "No illusions about his > fellow man" on this list. Eh? - Probably more like... dense / clueless - be honest, insult can be weathered here, explain? Masculine Men's movement? - count me out. Is that like... BroForce? or, a

Re: [MBZ] OT: '64 Skylark on BAT

2017-01-19 Thread M. Mitchell Marmel via Mercedes
On Thu, Jan 19, 2017 at 1:30 PM, OK Don via Mercedes wrote: > That one is too big. You want the '61 to '63 model, with the aluminum block > V-8. > CAR SHAKE AT START. ___ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives

Re: [MBZ] Here is a good laugh!

2017-01-19 Thread Craig via Mercedes
On Thu, 19 Jan 2017 15:49:44 -0500 WILTON via Mercedes wrote: > Worthy of an ATTABOY! Touché! Craig > - Original Message - > From: "Curley McLain via Mercedes" > To: "Mercedes Discussion List" > Cc: "Curley

Re: [MBZ] OT Speaking of Student Loans

2017-01-19 Thread Curley McLain via Mercedes
Who? Obummer? Yeah, we already know that. This is just one more example of the lies from the what was supposed to be "The most open administration" but is the most obfuscating, lying regime ever. Andrew Strasfogel via Mercedes January 19, 2017 at 2:41 PM

Re: [MBZ] Here is a good laugh!

2017-01-19 Thread WILTON via Mercedes
Worthy of an ATTABOY! Wilton - Original Message - From: "Curley McLain via Mercedes" To: "Mercedes Discussion List" Cc: "Curley McLain" <126die...@gmail.com> Sent: Thursday, January 19, 2017 3:40 PM Subject: [MBZ] Here is a good laugh!

[MBZ] BAT: $55,000 for a 911T?

2017-01-19 Thread Mitch Haley via Mercedes
So, it's been upgraded, it still has all the provenance of the lowest of the 911 models... http://bringatrailer.com/listing/1973-porsche-911-3/ ___ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change

Re: [MBZ] OT: '64 Skylark on BAT

2017-01-19 Thread Mitch Haley via Mercedes
High BidUSD $8,688 (Reserve Not Met) > On January 19, 2017 at 1:17 PM Andrew Strasfogel via Mercedes > wrote: > > > Nostalgia on wheels. Honest car and the enticing price. > > http://bringatrailer.com/listing/1964-buick-skylark-3/ >

Re: [MBZ] OT: '64 Skylark on BAT

2017-01-19 Thread Andrew Strasfogel via Mercedes
For $7500 I will take the '64 as a decent driver. On Thu, Jan 19, 2017 at 2:42 PM, Curt Raymond via Mercedes < mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: > You don't want no stinking manual trans in a convertible, its not a race > car. You need an automatic so you can cruise down the drag with your arm >

Re: [MBZ] OT Speaking of Student Loans

2017-01-19 Thread Andrew Strasfogel via Mercedes
??? He has a HUUGE disdain for acts/truth. On Thu, Jan 19, 2017 at 3:16 PM, Rick Knoble via Mercedes < mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: > http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-01-19/us-government- > caught-massively-fabricating-student-loan-default-data > > I wonder, now that Trump is in office, will

[MBZ] Here is a good laugh!

2017-01-19 Thread Curley McLain via Mercedes
Justice! Terror bomb maker accidentally blows up self, 4 sons If every Islamic terrorist were this clumsy, the problem would solve itself! The Afghanistan government says a reportedly “expert” bomb maker for the Taliban inadvertently killed himself and his four sons in northern Afghanistan,

[MBZ] OT Speaking of Student Loans

2017-01-19 Thread Rick Knoble via Mercedes
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-01-19/us-government-caught-massively-fabricating-student-loan-default-data I wonder, now that Trump is in office, will more government agencies start telling the truth, instead of lying by statistical glitch? Rick ‎ ___

Re: [MBZ] OT: '64 Skylark on BAT

2017-01-19 Thread Curt Raymond via Mercedes
You don't want no stinking manual trans in a convertible, its not a race car. You need an automatic so you can cruise down the drag with your arm around sweet thing, thats a car to be seen in is what it is... -Curt From: OK Don via Mercedes To: Mercedes Discussion

Re: [MBZ] OT: '64 Skylark on BAT

2017-01-19 Thread OK Don via Mercedes
That one is too big. You want the '61 to '63 model, with the aluminum block V-8. The only down side is the two speed automatic, but it can be replaced with a decent four speed manual. On Thu, Jan 19, 2017 at 12:17 PM, Andrew Strasfogel via Mercedes < mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: > Nostalgia on

Re: [MBZ] OT Student Loans, was Stealers

2017-01-19 Thread Meade Dillon via Mercedes
I think chairman Mao has cornered the market on "No illusions about his fellow man" on this list. On January 18, 2017 7:44:35 PM EST, Kyle Arola via Mercedes < mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: > > It is also a huge segment of the masculine mens movement. > > Kyle > > On Jan 18, 2017 7:31 PM, "Rick

[MBZ] OT: '64 Skylark on BAT

2017-01-19 Thread Andrew Strasfogel via Mercedes
Nostalgia on wheels. Honest car and the enticing price. http://bringatrailer.com/listing/1964-buick-skylark-3/ ___ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to:

Re: [MBZ] OT Student Loans, was Stealers

2017-01-19 Thread MG via Mercedes
Lots of work here he does overtime a lot especially toward the end of a contract when the work is running late. Too bad he isn't very confidant about opening a business, given that he has two kids and a wife to keep going and no business skills at all I can't really blame him. Manfred Curt

Re: [MBZ] Stealers

2017-01-19 Thread Curt Raymond via Mercedes
Mine was Hammie the '83 240D. Bought originally for $1500, drove for I think around 75,000 miles, sold for $800. Bought back a couple years later for $400, drove another 25,000 miles until a failed oil cooler line made his demise. Sold for $200 as scrap. Actually the unnamed '98 Jetta is doing

Re: [MBZ] OT Student Loans, was Stealers

2017-01-19 Thread Curt Raymond via Mercedes
Sure, if theres lots of commercial work around, especially data centers and the like the demand will be up.I also suspect the average grunt doesn't make much. I know a guy who owns a fire sprinkler business. His sprinkler fitters make peanuts, $10-$15 an hour. The owner is rolling in the

Re: [MBZ] Stealers

2017-01-19 Thread Jim Cathey via Mercedes
> > Best purchase was Gump, for $117, and she ran for 8 years Frankenheap was $100, been driving it for 12 years now. It's _made_ me money, what with the insurance settlement. Poor thing's practically a zombie now, though. Gotta love those old 115's. -- Jim

Re: [MBZ] OT Student Loans, was Stealers

2017-01-19 Thread MG via Mercedes
That probably depends where you live. A friend of mine has been a commercial electrician working for the same company for 20 years no and gets paid less then $20 an hour. Manfred Curt Raymond via Mercedes wrote: If I could go back and talk sense to myself I'd tell 18yo me to become a

Re: [MBZ] Brake Light on (was Best Axle Choice)

2017-01-19 Thread MG via Mercedes
Try taking the switch out. The brake fluid probably won't leak. See if the switch will cause the light to light up with it connected and grounded to the cylinder or other good ground. If so then the switch is bad. If not then the piston is probably not centered. Try to get a look into the hole

Re: [MBZ] Anybody need a MOG?

2017-01-19 Thread MG via Mercedes
Jim Cathey wrote: But that one has a bucket and the backhoe. The combination is more useful then a crane. You can use the backhoe as the crane or fix a boom to the bucket for use as a crane. I put a non-rolling 190D (201) on and off the car trailer with my Mog's crane. It is significantly