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Old Mar 1, 2006 | 10:22 AM
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...can't participate in "poll"-will only let me answer "once"

***you have already answered this poll-only one click allowed per poll-please use your f'kin back button.
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Old Mar 1, 2006 | 12:01 PM
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25 years. I figure I'll keep it another 25 years before giving it to my daughter or grandchild.
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Old Mar 1, 2006 | 12:05 PM
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Just about 10 years for the '80 and coming up on 3 years for the '82. Sad thing is that if I had any ambition I coulda been driving the '82 2 & 1/2 years ago,,,no closer now then I was when it seemed like a good idea,,,this spring and summer tho,,,yep I be Peace,,,Moosie,
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Old Mar 1, 2006 | 03:36 PM
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Since 1987 / 19 years.
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Old Mar 1, 2006 | 06:27 PM
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I'll have owned my '80 for 11 years in May.
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Old Mar 1, 2006 | 06:31 PM
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I bought my 1980 a little over a month after Hurricane Hugo (1989) hit us on Halloween from a couple going through a divorce. It had 46 miles on it and drove like a new car. I don't think I would ever get rid of it!
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Old Mar 1, 2006 | 06:33 PM
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After working on everyone elses for the last 10 yrs I finally got my own last month!
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Old Mar 1, 2006 | 06:48 PM
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2001 for the C-3 2005 for the C-5
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Old Mar 1, 2006 | 08:26 PM
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One year+4days w/ many more to come!
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Old Mar 1, 2006 | 11:10 PM
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3 yrs. next month.
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Old Mar 1, 2006 | 11:11 PM
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8 months
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Old Mar 1, 2006 | 11:28 PM
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Spikink of spoons....reminds me of a story....

Man goes into a restaurnant and notices all the waiters have 2 spoons in their shirt pockets. His curiousity gets the best of him and asks his waiter what's with the spoons in the shirt pockets.

Waiter tells the customer that a few months ago an efficiency expert conducted a study to save manhours. The efficiency expert found that a waiter could give a customer a clean spoon if a spoon was dropped on the floor, and would save time going to the kitchen to get a clean spoon.

No sooner the waiter finished, the customer dropped his spoon on the floor. The waiter quickly gave the customer another spoon from his shirt pocket. The customer was impressed and agreed that indeed, it would save time. Then he noticed the waiter had a string coming out of the fly. He asked the waiter about the string.

Waiter said the same efficiency expert said man hours would be saved when the men would go the the john to pee. Rather than handle the pecker, use the string to take it out and put it back, this way time is saved not washing the hands.

The customer pondered a bit and asked, what if the string breaks? Waiter replied: "I don't know what the other guys do, but I use the spoon in my pocket."

Now, back to your regular scheduled programming...sorry for the interruption....
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Old Mar 1, 2006 | 11:32 PM
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Slow nite, huh?
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Old Mar 1, 2006 | 11:38 PM
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some reason, I'm wide awake, and teh woman, well...you know that part of the month?
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Old Mar 2, 2006 | 12:03 AM
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It will be three weeks on 3/3/06, now it's in the shop getting sorted out so probably anothe three weeks before I get it back. Then on to doing the whole interior myself , fun I hope!
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