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Posted by mitsdude on Thursday, January 12, 2012 3:35 AM

Adaster

My modeling area (table) is off limits to the wife and the dogs. The wife has an incredible knack of picking up wet models, snapping off antennas, landing gear, props, ect, ect. ect. This morning woke up and went to my modeling area (table) and my B17 fuselage halfs were where I put them last night but all of the windows on the right fuselage were missing. After a quick search I fould all five windows on the floor. I suspect the wife only because the dogs normally don't put things back after they knock them off my table.

I believe what you have is an unkown invisible entity common in homes with wives, children, and pets. It usually manifests itself by breaking only your stuff. It is also know to take away your tools. This enity will place these tools in places only occupied by wives and children who will of course deny any knowledge of how the tool got to its location. This devious creature will also sometimes arrange the broken item in such as way as to make you think you broke it when you pick it up or move it. Occassionally this entity apparently will sometimes feel remorseful and actually try to repair your item. Children and wives are typically as flabergasted as your are as to how these things happen!

One positive note is that this entity will gradually reduce but not totally eliminate its behavior when children move out of your house to live on their own. Its also know to reduce its behavior anytime the wife leaves the home for an extended period of time.

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Posted by carsanab on Wednesday, January 11, 2012 3:52 PM

how many cases of them could you hide in your shell....

The World Wonders.....

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Posted by Gamera on Wednesday, January 11, 2012 3:12 PM

Yeah, Twinkies will last forever.

So I figure when they go out of production only I will have them!

In six months I'll be able to sell them on ebay for fifty bucks a box!!!

Remember the big 'New' Coke fiasco?

BAHAHAHAHHAHAHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

"I dream in fire but work in clay." -Arthur Machen

 

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Posted by Hercmech on Wednesday, January 11, 2012 3:06 PM

carsanab

 Hercmech:

Better get your Twinkies now

 

what about peanut butter....I heard the price of that was going up too....

Peanut flavored twinkies or jelly filled cupcakes?  You choose


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Posted by carsanab on Wednesday, January 11, 2012 3:01 PM

Hercmech

Better get your Twinkies now

what about peanut butter....I heard the price of that was going up too....

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Posted by Hercmech on Wednesday, January 11, 2012 2:43 PM

Better get your Twinkies now


13151015

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Posted by carsanab on Wednesday, January 11, 2012 2:41 PM

panzerpilot

 Gamera:

Is that the worst thing you guys have to worry about? Now with Hostess filing for bankruptcy I'm trying to figure where to store these three pallets of Twinkies I ordered.

Get 'em while you can folks!

 

I put one twinkie in with every model in my stash. Urban legend has it they are good for 30 years.

..I prefer cupcakes....but not from the second row.....Ick!

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Posted by panzerpilot on Wednesday, January 11, 2012 2:40 PM

Gamera

Is that the worst thing you guys have to worry about? Now with Hostess filing for bankruptcy I'm trying to figure where to store these three pallets of Twinkies I ordered.

Get 'em while you can folks!

I put one twinkie in with every model in my stash. Urban legend has it they are good for 30 years.

-Tom

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Posted by Hercmech on Wednesday, January 11, 2012 1:35 PM

VanceCrozier

 Sprue-ce Goose:

 

 VanceCrozier:

 

 

 Sprue-ce Goose:

 

 

 

 

BTW.....what does the "Hausfrau " or - better half? Embarrassed -say about your kit building hobby?

 

 

Despite my taking over the kitchen table, she's actually alright with it. Cheaper than lottery addiction, safer than drinking and less toxic than smoking. Mostly. She's even helped me find more than a few tiny pieces that shot off into nowhere. We both, however, wish I had a little more room somewhere else in the house to keep "my bench" and display shelves set up in.

 

 

any chance of hanging a small folding table on a wall near an outlet in a side room?

 

 

Possibly. We're in a fairly small town-house setup. There is a spare bedroom upstairs, which quickly turned into the "this is where everything goes when we can't think of someplace else for it to go..." room. We did some foundation repairs last summer that seem to have taken care of some water leakage issues we always had to deal with. Looks like the crawl-space basement is safe for storage now but will require a good cleanup, paint on the floor, closing up the open floor joists etc.

Or.... I could turn that area into my man-cave. I'd just have to work on a short table, sitting on the floor! Hmm

That is how I ended up in the basement...SWMBO couldn't find a better place for ME to go.  LOL


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Posted by Gamera on Wednesday, January 11, 2012 1:19 PM

Is that the worst thing you guys have to worry about? Now with Hostess filing for bankruptcy I'm trying to figure where to store these three pallets of Twinkies I ordered.

Get 'em while you can folks!

"I dream in fire but work in clay." -Arthur Machen

 

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Posted by panzerpilot on Wednesday, January 11, 2012 12:27 PM

carsanab

...or a dungeon for interrogating "spies"

Proper ID required. 'Papers, please! Your papers,...are not in order. To the cooler!" Oh, and bring me a frosty beverage...

-Tom

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Posted by p38jl on Wednesday, January 11, 2012 12:17 PM

Le Meouw !

and my space is a seperate room.. closed door when I'm not in it.. and.. I have no wife,, anymore.. move along. these are not the "______" you are looking for..

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Posted by carsanab on Wednesday, January 11, 2012 11:22 AM

VanceCrozier

Or.... I could turn that area into my man-cave. I'd just have to work on a short table, sitting on the floor! Hmm

...or a dungeon for interrogating "spies"

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Posted by VanceCrozier on Wednesday, January 11, 2012 11:09 AM

Sprue-ce Goose

 

 VanceCrozier:

 

 

 Sprue-ce Goose:

 

 

 

 

BTW.....what does the "Hausfrau " or - better half? Embarrassed -say about your kit building hobby?

 

 

Despite my taking over the kitchen table, she's actually alright with it. Cheaper than lottery addiction, safer than drinking and less toxic than smoking. Mostly. She's even helped me find more than a few tiny pieces that shot off into nowhere. We both, however, wish I had a little more room somewhere else in the house to keep "my bench" and display shelves set up in.

 

 

any chance of hanging a small folding table on a wall near an outlet in a side room?

 

Possibly. We're in a fairly small town-house setup. There is a spare bedroom upstairs, which quickly turned into the "this is where everything goes when we can't think of someplace else for it to go..." room. We did some foundation repairs last summer that seem to have taken care of some water leakage issues we always had to deal with. Looks like the crawl-space basement is safe for storage now but will require a good cleanup, paint on the floor, closing up the open floor joists etc.

Or.... I could turn that area into my man-cave. I'd just have to work on a short table, sitting on the floor! Hmm

On the bench: Airfix 1/72 Wildcat; Airfix 1/72 Vampire T11; Airfix 1/72 Fouga Magister

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Posted by Sprue-ce Goose on Wednesday, January 11, 2012 10:44 AM

VanceCrozier

 

 Sprue-ce Goose:

 

 

 

 

BTW.....what does the "Hausfrau " or - better half? Embarrassed -say about your kit building hobby?

 

 

Despite my taking over the kitchen table, she's actually alright with it. Cheaper than lottery addiction, safer than drinking and less toxic than smoking. Mostly. She's even helped me find more than a few tiny pieces that shot off into nowhere. We both, however, wish I had a little more room somewhere else in the house to keep "my bench" and display shelves set up in.

any chance of hanging a small folding table on a wall near an outlet in a side room?

 

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  • From: Rothesay, NB Canada
Posted by VanceCrozier on Wednesday, January 11, 2012 10:12 AM

Sprue-ce Goose

 

 

 

BTW.....what does the "Hausfrau " or - better half? Embarrassed -say about your kit building hobby?

Despite my taking over the kitchen table, she's actually alright with it. Cheaper than lottery addiction, safer than drinking and less toxic than smoking. Mostly. She's even helped me find more than a few tiny pieces that shot off into nowhere. We both, however, wish I had a little more room somewhere else in the house to keep "my bench" and display shelves set up in.

On the bench: Airfix 1/72 Wildcat; Airfix 1/72 Vampire T11; Airfix 1/72 Fouga Magister

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Posted by Jon_a_its on Wednesday, January 11, 2012 10:08 AM

not to scale? Surprise

East Mids Model Club 32nd Annual Show 2nd April 2023

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Don't feed the CM!

 

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Posted by panzerpilot on Wednesday, January 11, 2012 10:03 AM

...Nice weathering.

-Tom

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Posted by Sprue-ce Goose on Wednesday, January 11, 2012 9:57 AM

carsanab

 

 VanceCrozier:

 

 

 Manstein's revenge:

Post pics...

 

 

And why do you keep asking for pictures of a post? Here you go:

http://www.downbeast.com/FencePost.jpg

Whistling

 

 

needs more rust...........

I see a seam......

BTW.....what does the "Hausfrau " or - better half? Embarrassed -say about your kit building hobby?

 

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Posted by carsanab on Wednesday, January 11, 2012 9:46 AM

VanceCrozier

 Manstein's revenge:

Post pics...

 

And why do you keep asking for pictures of a post? Here you go:

http://www.downbeast.com/FencePost.jpg

Whistling

needs more rust...........

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Posted by panzerpilot on Tuesday, January 10, 2012 5:20 PM

Find something she likes and screw it up. Blame it on the dogs.

-Tom

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Posted by Milairjunkie on Tuesday, January 10, 2012 5:10 PM

An interesting post;

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Posted by Sprue-ce Goose on Tuesday, January 10, 2012 4:39 PM

VanceCrozier

 

 Manstein's revenge:

 

Post pics...

 

 

And why do you keep asking for pictures of a post? Here you go:

http://www.downbeast.com/FencePost.jpg

Whistling

( with apologies to Adaster  for the interruption)

Vance:

I believe Manny is referring to photos of this Post:

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Posted by Sprue-ce Goose on Tuesday, January 10, 2012 4:37 PM

Adaster:

I feel your pain........

Unfortunately, wives and cats seem to share the same trainability traits when fragile model kits are involved.

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Posted by Tojo72 on Tuesday, January 10, 2012 4:35 PM

my wife knows better,she goes no where near my bench unless I invite her Whistling

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Posted by Hans von Hammer on Tuesday, January 10, 2012 4:26 PM

I just get a another wife...

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Posted by Adaster on Tuesday, January 10, 2012 9:50 AM

LoL I work out of the doghouse quite often Doogs :)

 

Will

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Posted by Reasoned on Tuesday, January 10, 2012 9:49 AM

Sooo..... you "suspect the wife" but have yet to determine the guilty?

I bet that makes for an..... interesting conversation.

Science is the pursiut of knowledge, faith is the pursuit of wisdom.  Peace be with you.

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Posted by DoogsATX on Tuesday, January 10, 2012 9:30 AM

One of the advantages of working out of the garage - the wife and dogs never go near the bench. The kids do, out of curiosity, but they're not of an age where we let them out there unattended yet.

If I set up inside, I'm reasonably certain our yellow lab would consume half my paint. He's eaten rocks, metal, wood and every kind of plastic known to man, so what's a little acrylic?

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