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                        ironically shocking discovery

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                        Swanny
                        • Member since
                          February 2003
                        • From: Sandusky Ohio, USA
                        ironically shocking discovery
                        Posted by Swanny on Thursday, June 24, 2004 7:24 PM
                        So here I sit at the modeling desk applying some putty to my Vac SB-2 when I reach for the Acetone Based fingernail polish remover and IT'S GONE!!!! I yell across the hallway to my daughter's room to find that she used it up removing her fingernail polish! I am flabbergasted, like, what's next? Will I find my wife mopping the floor with my future or sewing buttons on a blouse with my invisible thread?!?! I just don't know if I can go on. I would wander away in baffled amazement but I think I superglued my elbow to the desk.
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                        Foster7155
                        • Member since
                          July 2003
                        • From: Pensacola, FL
                        Posted by Foster7155 on Thursday, June 24, 2004 7:36 PM
                        LOL,

                        Kids!!! Leave it to them to start using products for their intended purpose. Next thing you know, she'll be using toothpicks to pick her teeth! I can't understand it!

                        LOL,

                        Robert Foster

                        Pensacola Modeleers

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                        Swanny
                        • Member since
                          February 2003
                        • From: Sandusky Ohio, USA
                        Posted by Swanny on Thursday, June 24, 2004 7:52 PM
                        WHAT! You can pick your teeth with those things???? What will they think of next?
                        Swanny's Models
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                        Woody
                        • Member since
                          December 2002
                        • From: Third rock from the sun.
                        Posted by Woody on Thursday, June 24, 2004 8:00 PM
                        WaaaHaHa hee Hee *chuckle-snort*

                        Phew.....Ok I'm alright.hee hee

                        " I wish to have no connection with any ship that does not sail fast; for I intend to go in harm's way." --John Paul Jones
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                        MikeV
                        • Member since
                          April 2003
                        • From: Hayward, CA
                        Posted by MikeV on Thursday, June 24, 2004 8:12 PM
                        Swanny,

                        Just think, they may even use your toothbrush sander to actually brush their teeth! [:0] I can't stand the thought. Disapprove [V]

                        Mike

                        “Wisdom is the right use of knowledge. To know is not to be wise. Many men know a great deal, and are all the greater fools for it. There is no fool so great a fool as a knowing fool. But to know how to use knowledge is to have wisdom. " Charles Spurgeon
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                        Anonymous
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                          November 2005
                        Posted by Anonymous on Thursday, June 24, 2004 8:19 PM
                        thats why i buy double of everything, just for that cause, my mom is using my stuff all the time.
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                        paulnchamp
                        • Member since
                          January 2003
                        • From: Warwick, RI
                        Posted by paulnchamp on Thursday, June 24, 2004 8:22 PM
                        I feel your pain, Swanny! [:0]My kids take my white glue, my tweezers, my toothpicks, masking tape, X-acto knives, straightedge, paintbrushes -whatever's not nailed down!
                        Nothing's safe anymore! I'm lucky they OCCASIONALLY return the stuff when they're through (if there's any left!) Disapprove [V]
                        Paul
                        Paul "A man's GOT to know his limitations."
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                        rjkplasticmod
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                          February 2003
                        • From: A Spartan in the Wolverine State
                        Posted by rjkplasticmod on Thursday, June 24, 2004 8:46 PM
                        In my house it's just the opposite. I am constantly raiding my wifes stash of those little make-up sponges ( great for applying Pastels ), Panty Hose ( makes great paint strainers ), Nail Polish remover ( smooths putty ), & misc. stuff like nail files, clippers, etal. Whenever she can't find said items, she has learned to head straight for my work-bench.
                        RICK At My Age, I've Seen It All, Done It All, But I Don't Remember It All...
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                        MusicCity
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                          January 2004
                        • From: USA
                        Posted by MusicCity on Thursday, June 24, 2004 8:51 PM
                        I have no kids ... now I remember one of the reasons why!
                        Scott Craig -- Nashville, TN -- My Website -- My Models Page
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                        Anonymous
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                          November 2005
                        Posted by Anonymous on Thursday, June 24, 2004 9:14 PM
                        I'm with Music City. I don't have kids either and every day someone somewhere gives me reason to raise my eyes to the heavens and praise the lord (or whoever it is up there!).

                        Let Swanny's words be words of contraception advice to all you younger modellers!

                        How you going getting that elbow off the desk Swanny?

                        Bob
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                        Swanny
                        • Member since
                          February 2003
                        • From: Sandusky Ohio, USA
                        Posted by Swanny on Thursday, June 24, 2004 9:27 PM
                        QUOTE: Originally posted by Bob Raymount

                        I'm with Music City. I don't have kids either and every day someone somewhere gives me reason to raise my eyes to the heavens and praise the lord (or whoever it is up there!).

                        Let Swanny's words be words of contraception advice to all you younger modellers!

                        How you going getting that elbow off the desk Swanny?

                        Bob

                        OUCH! That was skin!

                        I have to forgive my daughter cause she is a modeler also - she builds Sci-Fi.
                        Swanny's Models
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                        MusicCity
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                          January 2004
                        • From: USA
                        Posted by MusicCity on Thursday, June 24, 2004 10:10 PM
                        QUOTE:
                        I have to forgive my daughter cause she is a modeler also - she builds Sci-Fi.

                        If that's the case, just wait until she's fixing a seam or doing her nails and stel her nail polish remover Evil [}:)]
                        Scott Craig -- Nashville, TN -- My Website -- My Models Page
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                        Woody
                        • Member since
                          December 2002
                        • From: Third rock from the sun.
                        Posted by Woody on Thursday, June 24, 2004 10:13 PM
                        Sci-Fi. . . Ah a discriminating modeler.Wink [;)]

                        " I wish to have no connection with any ship that does not sail fast; for I intend to go in harm's way." --John Paul Jones
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                        fightnjoe
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                          September 2011
                        Posted by fightnjoe on Friday, June 25, 2004 12:26 AM
                        i just cant understand the thinking of kids these days. my kids use the masking tape for unbelievable reasons. they use it to hang pics in their rooms. really unbelievable.

                        joe

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                        darson
                        • Member since
                          February 2003
                        • From: Melbourne, Australia
                        Posted by darson on Friday, June 25, 2004 1:27 AM
                        My daughter when she was three used half a (new) roll of Tamiya masking tape to decorate the legs of our dining room table because she liked the colour!

                        My wife is also constantly borrowing my Xacto knives and using them to cut up boxes and so on. The knives are always returned, but I only discover that the new blade that I put in the other night is blunt when I'm trying to trim something delicate and vital. Banged Head [banghead]

                        Cheers
                        Darren
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                        KJ200
                        • Member since
                          July 2003
                        • From: Bicester, England
                        Posted by KJ200 on Friday, June 25, 2004 2:14 AM
                        This has to be an argument for secure storage......

                        ........like a mini modelling vault!!!!!

                        Or just secure storage of the kids instead!!!

                        My youngest keeps nicking the Blutack I use for masking.

                        Karl

                        Currently on the bench: AZ Models 1/72 Mig 17PF

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                        Anonymous
                        • Member since
                          November 2005
                        Posted by Anonymous on Friday, June 25, 2004 3:07 AM
                        QUOTE: Originally posted by Swanny

                        I would wander away in baffled amazement but I think I superglued my elbow to the desk.
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                        lmao.......Laugh [(-D]
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                        leemitcheltree
                        • Member since
                          January 2003
                        • From: Washington State
                        Posted by leemitcheltree on Friday, June 25, 2004 3:39 AM
                        I've got a pretty substantial set of modeling tools - I'm probably a bit OCD about it all - a specific place for everything - that way I always know where it is. But those horrible folks who share my house (my wife and kids) often "borrow" my tools and THEY DON'T PUT THEM BACK!!!!!!!!!
                        Drives me in-freakin-sane!!!
                        I'm thinking about installing electrified barbed wire, moats full of crocodiles, and minefields.
                        And if it continues, I'll get serious!!!

                        Cheers, LeeTree
                        Remember, Safety Fast!!!

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                        nicholma
                        • Member since
                          September 2003
                        • From: New Zealand
                        Posted by nicholma on Friday, June 25, 2004 5:03 AM
                        Actually I found shutting the door worked quite well!!
                        Kia ora, Mark "Time flies like the wind, fruit flies like bananas"
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                        zokissima
                        • Member since
                          July 2003
                        • From: Toronto, Ontario, Canada
                        Posted by zokissima on Friday, June 25, 2004 7:54 AM
                        QUOTE: I have to forgive my daughter cause she is a modeler also - she builds Sci-Fi.

                        Nuff said about that. Encourage it at all costs, AT....ALL....COSTS!!!! Smile [:)]
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                        pdunkel
                        • Member since
                          December 2003
                        • From: Englewood, CO
                        Posted by pdunkel on Friday, June 25, 2004 10:39 AM
                        I wouldn't mind it so much as my oldest is a model builder, but why must he use all my brand new paints before I have had a chance to use them. I have replaced 3 bottles of dark yellow, 5 bottles of flat black and numerous bottles of other colors. It seems to me that he is in his own little battles in North Africa, Eastern Front and Western Europe every other week. Maybe I need to find a place that sells Tamiya Paint by the gallon.
                        Phil Dunkel http://photobucket.com/albums/v335/pdunkel/ "People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf" .........George Orwell "This is a war of unknown warriors; but let all strive without failing in faith or in duty. . . "...........Winston Churchill "The only thing neccessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing"...............Edmund Burke
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                        yw18mc
                        • Member since
                          April 2004
                        • From: sunny imperial beach
                        Posted by yw18mc on Friday, June 25, 2004 11:17 AM
                        You very funny man swanny!!. I know your pain. thats why I broke my daughters dinner plate and made her move out. she still sneaks in and leaves tell/tell signs of her passing through the neighborhood. semper fi, mike
                        mike
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                        gar26
                        • Member since
                          July 2003
                        • From: Canada
                        Posted by gar26 on Saturday, June 26, 2004 11:58 AM
                        The last visit my sister and her family made my niece wanted to paint me a picture while I was at work. You can probably guess by now that she used my paints and left the lids of all the jars. You can't get angry, but next time I visit I think I'll use all her crayons.
                        gpebernat
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                        chopperfan
                        • Member since
                          November 2003
                        • From: Oklahoma
                        Posted by chopperfan on Saturday, June 26, 2004 12:34 PM
                        Next thing you know they'll be putting rubberbands around newspapers and doctors will start using hemostats for something silly, like...............surgery!!!

                        Randie Cowboy [C):-)]
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                        Anonymous
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                          November 2005
                        Posted by Anonymous on Sunday, June 27, 2004 11:00 PM
                        I have kids as well NEED I SAY MORE.

                        NO you guys understand.LOL
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                        dtraskos
                        • Member since
                          March 2003
                        • From: Fowlerville, Mich
                        Posted by dtraskos on Sunday, July 18, 2004 10:55 AM
                        Only a Labrador Retreiver and I occupy this house. He is not at all interested in models and I still can`t find things many times
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                        shrikes
                        • Member since
                          November 2003
                        • From: Manila, Philippines
                        Posted by shrikes on Sunday, July 18, 2004 12:03 PM
                        Hahahaha!!!! LOL!! That's Hilarious!
                        What's next?!? People will start eating miracle whip? Why would you when you can do this!
                        Tongue [:P]

                        pssst! hope it's okay i linked to your site, Matt!
                        Blackadder: This plan's as cunning as a fox that used to be Professor of cunning at Oxford University but has now moved on and is working with the U.N at the high commission of cunning planning
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                        gringe88
                        • Member since
                          July 2004
                        • From: ...Ask the other guy, he's got me zeroed-in...
                        Posted by gringe88 on Sunday, July 18, 2004 8:42 PM
                        I'm still a junior modeller, so I dont even have a girlfriend yet. but when I have kids, I guess I'll have to make a few provisions to highersecurity guards, special detectlor equpment....
                        LOL

                        ====================================== -Matt
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                        Anonymous
                        • Member since
                          November 2005
                        Posted by Anonymous on Monday, July 19, 2004 6:19 PM
                        Oh man oh man oh man, matt thansk for posting this. I really needed somewhere to vent LOL. I came home the other night from work and found my wife in the kitchen... mopping the floor.... with my big bottle of future.... my spare bottle that I havent opened yet. Ok, our 1 br apartment is 740 SQF total so you know its not a big kitchen, the 2 of us cant be in there at the same time. I was like, ok thats cool have a nice shinny floor in here I can slide on in my socks...cool. Told my wife it looked really good in there and thanked her. She smiled and squeezed some more on, that's when I noticed HALF the frikkin bottle was gone. I had a small nuclear explosion inside but didn't say anything but went to my workbech and cried. WOMAN!!
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                        wbill76
                        • Member since
                          July 2004
                        • From: Texas
                        Posted by wbill76 on Monday, July 19, 2004 8:03 PM
                        My wife decided to clean my workbench area once early on in our marriage (will be 8 years in August) and do me the "favor" of organizing things.

                        While we are on the subject of alternate uses, who knew that channel-lock pliers were good for anything but opening paint bottles? Big Smile [:D]

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