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A tow truck is here to take my neighbor's BMW away. It just doesn't get any
better than this. The tow truck is blocking the driveway so he can't get
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On Jul 30, 1:12*pm, "JimT" wrote:
A tow truck is here to take my neighbor's BMW away. It just doesn't get any
better than this. The tow truck is blocking the driveway so he can't get
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I take it you don't like your neighbor?
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A tow truck is here to take my neighbor's BMW away. It just doesn't get
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I take it you don't like your neighbor?


It goes back along ways. :-)

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On Jul 30, 1:12 pm, "JimT" wrote:

A tow truck is here to take my neighbor's BMW away. It just doesn't get
any
better than this. The tow truck is blocking the driveway so he can't get
out.

I take it you don't like your neighbor?


It goes back along ways. :-)


My wife has that with one of our neighbors. They are oblivious to
their barking dogs outside when anyone walks by.
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My wife has that with one of our neighbors. They are oblivious to
their barking dogs outside when anyone walks by.


heh I don't have a problem with him. It's the other way around. He's
scared half to death of me and that's working out real well for me. I don't
hear a peep out of that that guy. Intimidation works



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My wife has that with one of our neighbors. *They are oblivious to
their barking dogs outside when anyone walks by.


heh I don't have a problem with him. It's the other way around. He's
scared half to death of me and that's working out real well for me. I don't
hear a peep out of that that guy. Intimidation works


OK...stupid question(s).

If you don't have a problem with him, why have you intimidated him to
the point where he's afraid of you?

If you don't have a problem with him, why has the misfortune related
to his bimmer made this the best day of your life?

P.S. You have my sympathies if this truly is the best day of your
life. How sad.
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My wife has that with one of our neighbors. They are oblivious to
their barking dogs outside when anyone walks by.


I have one of those handheld devices that make barking dogs cringe. Works
very well in most cases.


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On Jul 30, 1:40*pm, "JimT" wrote:
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On Jul 30, 1:12 pm, "JimT" wrote:

A tow truck is here to take my neighbor's BMW away. It just doesn't get
any
better than this. The tow truck is blocking the driveway so he can't get
out.
I take it you don't like your neighbor?


It goes back along ways. :-)


My wife has that with one of our neighbors. They are oblivious to
their barking dogs outside when anyone walks by.


I have one of those too. I can't even use my back porch, with the yapping
mutts.
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If it's convertible. Can you go out and fill it with the garden hose,
before the tow guy moves it?

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I take it you don't like your neighbor?


It goes back along ways. :-)


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If it's convertible. Can you go out and fill it with the garden hose,
before the tow guy *moves it?

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I take it you don't like your neighbor?


It goes back along ways. :-)


Concrete is better.


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On Fri, 30 Jul 2010 11:47:29 -0700 (PDT), harry wrote:

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If it's convertible. Can you go out and fill it with the garden hose,
before the tow guy *moves it?

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I take it you don't like your neighbor?


It goes back along ways. :-)


Concrete is better.


Think "Back to the Future".
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It belongs to the finance co. now.

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It belongs to the finance co. now.



This sort of thing has a funny way of coming around again. When's the last
time your water heater decided it was time for you to have a trout hatchery
in the basement?


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A tow truck is here to take my neighbor's BMW away. It just doesn't get
any
better than this. The tow truck is blocking the driveway so he can't get
out.


I take it you don't like your neighbor?


Don't know about you, but I don't like anyone who owns a BMW. They have a
Mercedes wannabe complex, and act out. Hey, I can't help it if they can't
afford a Mercedes and have to settle for a Beemer.

Steve


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A tow truck is here to take my neighbor's BMW away. It just doesn't get
any
better than this. The tow truck is blocking the driveway so he can't
get
out.


I take it you don't like your neighbor?


Don't know about you, but I don't like anyone who owns a BMW. They have a
Mercedes wannabe complex, and act out. Hey, I can't help it if they can't
afford a Mercedes and have to settle for a Beemer.

Steve


I wouldn't own one but the are nice looking cars. Too pricey for me, and my
neighbor apparently. I still drive my 1998 Toyota Tacoma and will until the
wheels fall off. Car pmts. are a thing of the past for me. He was living
beyond his means. Seem to be the thing to do around here. Seemingly everyone
here (Austin) has a Lexus, Infinity, BMW, Corvette, etc.... I just never got
into the status car thing. I'd much rather have another dirt bike and a
trail to tear up. :-) Or a boat.



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On Jul 30, 8:13*pm, "Steve B" wrote:
A tow truck is here to take my neighbor's BMW away. It just doesn't get
any
better than this. The tow truck is blocking the driveway so he can't get
out.


I take it you don't like your neighbor?


Don't know about you, but I don't like anyone who owns a BMW. *They have a
Mercedes wannabe complex, and act out. *Hey, I can't help it if they can't
afford a Mercedes and have to settle for a Beemer.

Steve


A Beemer is a BMW motorcycle. The BMW car is called a Bimmer.

http://www.bmwccbc.org/misc/tech-and-trivia/bimmer.html
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A Beemer is a BMW motorcycle. The BMW car is called a Bimmer.


http://www.bmwccbc.org/misc/tech-and-trivia/bimmer.html


Whatever....they were built by Nazis. I wouldn't own one.

from Wiki:

Nazi connections
Günther Quandt, whose family became major shareholders of BMW 15 years after
the war, was a member of the Nazi Party from 1933. After the election of
Hitler, he was appointed to the position of Leader of the Armament Economy,
which was a title given to industrialists who played a leading role in the
Nazi war economy. Quandt's factories supplied ammunition, rifles, artillery
and batteries for the Nazis and, it is claimed, used slave labourers from
concentration camps in some of his factories.[14]
A documentary aired on German TV in 2007 claimed that Quandt not only used
slave labour, but also sidestepped postwar recrimination. BMW itself was not
implicated in the documentary, and the firm has made no comment about the
Quandts, but claims to have confronted its own wartime history via
independent research projects.[14] The Quandt family responded by pledging
to fund a research project into the family's Nazi past and its role under
the Third Reich.[15]
Former Danish freedom fighter Carl Adolf Sørensen (b. ca. 1927) has been
asked to meet with the Quandt family and possibly receive compensation, but
has repeatedly refused to do so on the grounds that it is too late. In 1943,
as a 17-year-old, he and 39 other resistance fighters were sent to Germany
where they worked with dangerous chemicals, some dying within a few months,
and only four of the group were still alive as of May 2009.[16]

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On Jul 30, 8:13 pm, "Steve B" wrote:
A tow truck is here to take my neighbor's BMW away. It just doesn't
get
any
better than this. The tow truck is blocking the driveway so he can't
get
out.


I take it you don't like your neighbor?


Don't know about you, but I don't like anyone who owns a BMW. They have a
Mercedes wannabe complex, and act out. Hey, I can't help it if they can't
afford a Mercedes and have to settle for a Beemer.

Steve


A Beemer is a BMW motorcycle. The BMW car is called a Bimmer.

http://www.bmwccbc.org/misc/tech-and-trivia/bimmer.html

Oh, dopey me. I only parked them on the Las Vegas Strip for ten years.
What do I know? Part of that ten years was from 68 to 70 when they were
looked at as a foreign piece of ****. Then from 82 to 90, when they were
better. But we called them Beemers. I've probably driven more of them than
you've ever seen. I even got to drive the Beatle's psychedelic Bentley.
They didn't own it at the time, Dr. Lonnie Hammargren, a local brain surgeon
did. But, hey, you know more than I about such things, so call it whatever
makes you happy.

Steve

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On Jul 31, 3:28*am, DerbyDad03 wrote:
On Jul 30, 8:13*pm, "Steve B" wrote:

A tow truck is here to take my neighbor's BMW away. It just doesn't get
any
better than this. The tow truck is blocking the driveway so he can't get
out.


I take it you don't like your neighbor?


Don't know about you, but I don't like anyone who owns a BMW. *They have a
Mercedes wannabe complex, and act out. *Hey, I can't help it if they can't
afford a Mercedes and have to settle for a Beemer.


Steve


A Beemer is a BMW motorcycle. The BMW car is called a Bimmer.

http://www.bmwccbc.org/misc/tech-and-trivia/bimmer.html


In th UK BMW is Black Mans Wheels. Second hand in Europe they're
ptretty cheap. Not the repairs or the insurance however.
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On Jul 30, 8:13 pm, "Steve B" wrote:
A tow truck is here to take my neighbor's BMW away. It just doesn't
get
any
better than this. The tow truck is blocking the driveway so he can't
get
out.


I take it you don't like your neighbor?


Don't know about you, but I don't like anyone who owns a BMW. They have a
Mercedes wannabe complex, and act out. Hey, I can't help it if they can't
afford a Mercedes and have to settle for a Beemer.

Steve


A Beemer is a BMW motorcycle. The BMW car is called a Bimmer.

http://www.bmwccbc.org/misc/tech-and-trivia/bimmer.html

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A former boss of mine began buying BMWs back in the mid 1970s. After two
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Old joke:
What's the difference between a BMW and a porcupine?

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A tow truck is here to take my neighbor's BMW away. It just doesn't
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Old joke:
What's the difference between a BMW and a porcupine?

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Location...location...location.
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A tow truck is here to take my neighbor's BMW away. It just doesn't
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Old joke:
What's the difference between a BMW and a porcupine?

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Porcupine has the pricks outside. Ba-da-bing!

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A tow truck is here to take my neighbor's BMW away. It just doesn't
get any better than this. The tow truck is blocking the driveway so he
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Old joke:
What's the difference between a BMW and a porcupine?

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Porcupine has the pricks outside. Ba-da-bing!




Ba-da-boom!


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A tow truck is here to take my neighbor's BMW away. It just doesn't
get any better than this. The tow truck is blocking the driveway so he
can't get out.


Old joke:
What's the difference between a BMW and a porcupine?


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Porcupine has the pricks outside. Ba-da-bing!


Ba-da-boom!

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Exacty what I said...

Location...location...location.

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A tow truck is here to take my neighbor's BMW away. It just doesn't
get any better than this. The tow truck is blocking the driveway so he
can't get out.


Old joke:
What's the difference between a BMW and a porcupine?


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Porcupine has the pricks outside. Ba-da-bing!


You know, here in the UK we notice that BMWare driven by pillocks too.
Must be something about them..
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A tow truck is here to take my neighbor's BMW away. It just doesn't get any
better than this. The tow truck is blocking the driveway so he can't get
out.


My neighbor and I were out in our respective backyards and I loudly told my
wife: "Honey! Longhorn Towing has a nice silver BMW for sale cheap!"

This is one of those rare moments where everything just falls together
perfectly.

I think I'll buy that BMW and park in my driveway.

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My neighbor and I were out in our respective backyards and I loudly told my
wife: "Honey! Longhorn Towing has a nice silver BMW for sale cheap!"

This is one of those rare moments where everything just falls together
perfectly.

I think I'll buy that BMW and park in my driveway.


Yuh ain't got much goin' on in yer life, do ya'?

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On 2010-08-01, JimT wrote:

My neighbor and I were out in our respective backyards and I loudly told
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wife: "Honey! Longhorn Towing has a nice silver BMW for sale cheap!"

This is one of those rare moments where everything just falls together
perfectly.

I think I'll buy that BMW and park in my driveway.


Yuh ain't got much goin' on in yer life, do ya'?

nb


Not too much. That's why I'm posting to Usenet on a Sat. night. What's your
excuse? :-)

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Not too much. That's why I'm posting to Usenet on a Sat. night. What's your
excuse? :-)


I'm a caregiver for my senile mom. I have NO life!

nbxc


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Not too much. That's why I'm posting to Usenet on a Sat. night. What's
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I'm a caregiver for my senile mom. I have NO life!

nbxc


Too bad man. I wish her the best. You're a damn good son.

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On 7/30/2010 12:12 PM, JimT wrote:
A tow truck is here to take my neighbor's BMW away. It just doesn't get
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repo?

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A tow truck is here to take my neighbor's BMW away. It just doesn't get
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repo?

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Yes. Longhorn Towing.

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JimT wrote:
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It's called "schadenfreude" - "epicaricacy" in English.


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On Aug 3, 3:29*am, "HeyBub" wrote:
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A tow truck is here to take my neighbor's BMW away. It just doesn't
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It's called "schadenfreude" - "epicaricacy" in English.

Aha. Been to Wiktionary eh?



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