"Larry Jaques" wrote in message
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On Sun, 16 Sep 2007 06:22:36 -0400, with neither quill nor qualm, "Ed
Huntress" quickly quoth:


"Larry Jaques" wrote in message
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On Sat, 15 Sep 2007 20:18:04 -0400, with neither quill nor qualm, "Ed
Huntress" quickly quoth:

I just found out about the deal today, and he's away at college. He took
11
AP classes, though, so he'd be a candidate. He buys lots of books and
his
tastes are...eclectic.

"AP" classes?

Advanced Placement. Those are college-level courses you take in high
school.
If you get an A, or sometimes a B (depending on the college's
requirements)
on a national test after taking the courses, you get college credit for
them
and place out of college courses. It saves Dad some money, too.

The latter is always a good thing.


The NYT article said the free books were going to Advanced Placement
students.

Y'know, I didn't even key on that.


Um, enjoy! titter

Phfft. Some people got no appreciation. d8-)

What, for scratching balls, spitting tobacco goo, and steroids?

What is your mother, a communist? I'll bet she doesn't like hot dogs,
either, right? Very suspicious...

Mom still eats pork, but my sister and I don't after she took that
Biology class at ASU (Tempe, AZ.) The teacher brought in an unopened,
fully-cooked canned ham. They opened it and looked at it under the
microscopes. She saw lifeforms, all the worms coming to the surface of
the ham and wiggling their bodies, and we haven't eaten pork since.
None of us eats the "meat" weiners, pork/chicken/beef byproducts, but
we do still like Foster Farms turkey dogs. I made a couple of FFT dogs
last week with focaccia bread. Very tasty.

I figure the worms are bonus protein. What kind of worms to turkey dogs
have? Do they use the whole turkey?

I'd think the feathers would make them kind of dry.


I loved football until they went on strike. I lost interest after
that. (Well, that and the Chargers always losing.)

Football? You mean, 300-pound mutants trying to break each others' knees
while trying to stay out of prison? Oh, there's a great sport. g

400-pound. But with perfect spirals of 50 yards and graceful, midair
catches by Jerry Rice, what American could NOT like football?

It's OK, but I'm more into sinking fastballs, two-seamers, and cutters.
Admittedly, I lost interest in baseball decades ago, when the Yankees had
the Billy Martin and George Steinbrenner comedy act, but my son was his
school's ace pitcher and was all-county (and third-team all-state) in high
school. He's trying out for his college team this week. That keeps my
interest up. I picked up my interest in pro ball again in '96, when the
Yankees came out of nowhere to win the Series, and it's stuck with me ever
since.



Say, Ed. Can you 'splain the price these SnapOn body tools are
fetching on eBay? http://tinyurl.com/33copr thud

'Don't know. I had some good ones 40 years ago and they weren't cheap
then.
How does the price compare with the cost of new?

$20 for a Chiwanese import set of 7 pieces. $90 for a set from
Eastwood. Hmm, they also have an 8-pc $190 set. Amazing. I guess the
prices aren't all that far out of line after all.

I bought some good body tools from Sears back in '65, when they made very
good hand tools. They were all forged and the hammer faces were hard in the
middle, softer on the rims, like good hammers are supposed to be. The
dollies were forged, too, and good steel. They cost me a bundle.

Then I bought some cheap Asian tools to fill in my set, and they were (no
kidding) cast iron. One of the hammers broke the whole face off.

So there's a wide range of quality, and quality body tools cost a lot more
than you would think they should.

--
Ed Huntress