On Fri, 10 Jun 2011 21:22:01 -0700, Larry Jaques
wrote:

On Fri, 10 Jun 2011 17:45:48 -0700, "Jon Danniken"
wrote:

Larry Jaques wrote:
Kids nowadays just don't know how good they have it. Remember Mom and
Dad's budgets back then? Compare them to now. Mom and Pop are
dropping a few grand a year on toys today. UFR!

It used to be all a sportsman needed was an old pickup truck and a little
boat with a motor to go fishing with. Now there's an arms race of guys with
monster trucks and brand-new shiny boats showing up at the fishing holes.

I liked it better before.

To to hunting now, you need a grand worth of special pattern camo
gear, a $4k rifle, a $1k rangefinder, a $12k quad, $2k in camping
gear, a hunting license, etc.

Where the hell do you live?

Total kit value for most of the old boys around here is $500...including
the pickup truck G

Gunner

"As physicists now know, there is some nonzero probability that any object will,
through quantum effects, tunnel from the workbench in your shop to Floyds Knobs,
Indiana (unless your shop is already in Indiana, in which case the object will
tunnel to Trotters, North Dakota).

The smaller mass of the object, the higher the probability.
Therefore, disassembled parts, particularly small ones,
of machines disappear much faster than assembled machines."
Greg Dermer: rec.crafts.metalworking