Yave you done this yet?

[Charlie Self]

Silvan responds:

You think? My father went nuts when I bought a new Chevy convertible in '57. Just under 3 grand. That was the 283, dual 4s, close ratio column 3 speed and absolute shit for brakes and gas mileage, though that sucker would fly. He had bought 2 new cars when he and my mother got married in '34: under a grand, well under, and one was a car I'd kill for today, a rumble seat Ford coupe.

Of course, there are people today who will just about kill for that '57, but that's a "been there, done that" and scared myself spitless a few times with the handling and brakes. It was wonderful at 19, but not now.

Comparable car today? $45,000? Better, sure, but...

Charlie Self "One of the common denominators I have found is that expectations rise above that which is expected." George W. Bush

[Charlie Self]

Silvan responds:

Bubba, I done seed your pixture with clothes in the Roanoke paper one day. No thanks. I'll look at pixture of ME nekkid first.

Charlie Self "One of the common denominators I have found is that expectations rise above that which is expected." George W. Bush

[jo4hn]

Jeeeeeeezz. A whole newsgroup full of babe magnets. urp, j4

[jo4hn]

That's not a bad price for the home, but then I suppose you're forecasting rampant inflation with a concurrent collapse of the housing market. As to the Bugger King lunch, that's probably the super-cholesterolized version, which we're better off without. Yep, I guess everybody needs a little gloom in their lives. zorp, jo4hn

[damian penney]

You're not really 45k behind if you continue working though are you? If you make more than $950/mth then you'll still end up with more in the end. SS is also in no danger of imploding, here is a well researched article about it

if you're interested

[Leon]

We are talking pay out from SS checks and not your job check. So yes you would be behind in SS pay out if you wait till 66 to start drawing rather than 62. Also you can draw SS and still work.

[Tim Douglass]

Well, so much for my breakfast!

Tim Douglass

[damian penney]

I didn't know you could draw and work, but I'm only 32 so I haven't studied it too much :)

[bridger]

ya know, you'd prolly do better around here selling nekkit pitchers of Robin's butt. Iffen I wanted to see a nekkit wooddorker, I'd look in the mirror. Since I don't do that too often, I guess I must not.

[Doug Winterburn]

Ah, you're one of the lucky ones that not only gets to pay the excess SS taxes now, but will also get to pay increased income taxes starting in about 12 years to pay off those "investments" Uncle Sam is buying with those excess contributions for the trust fund. We're enjoying spending those excess contributions on ourselves now and appreciate that you and your kids will pick up the tab later. And it will only get better for us older guys if the SS tax is increased now so even more can be spent on us and even more "investments" can be placed in the trust fund for you and your kids to pay off :-)

- Doug

[jo4hn]

Don't know that Rob is gonna supply you a photo though... j4

[Rob Mitchell]

Perhaps the lesson is "don't glue up stuff on your table saw?" I know I never will again!

[Silvan]

You don't have to. Haven't you ever heard of Social Security? You can retire at 111 and live forever on $2 a day.

[Silvan]

Whenever I look at my butt in the mirror I just get depressed. I look like Hank Hill.

[Tim Douglass]

By the time I'm 111 I'll be way to anti-social to draw social security. They're more likely to be sending security to pick me up.

Tim Douglass

[Tim Douglass]

I believe that's an occupational hazard.

Tim Douglass

[Silvan]

ROFL!! I was afraid somebody was gonna see those. :)

Now you have a leg up on about every other Wrecker though. You know what SWMBO and the young'uns look like.

[Silvan]

Or not pessimistic enough? :)

Yeah, Dad came home with a '57 Bel Aire one day. A friend of his is a Jay Leno wannabe. I drove it a little. Beautiful car. Cherry. Gorgeous. But it weighed 400,000 pounds and it only had about 1/16 oz. of brake fluid in the ultra miniature master cylinder. Holy shit dude, WTF were they thinking back then? No power steering either. Pretty to look at, but it really sucked to drive. That ended my infatuation with the '57 Chevy forever.

I kind of outgrew cars more generally anyway though, really. Cars are one huge black hole for cashola. A habit I never could afford, and I finally stopped daydreaming about it.

That expensive, really? What sets it apart as being a $45,000 car? Just the chick factor? I'd say it's more of a $25,000 car, but maybe I'm dreaming.

Everything is relative though. My grandfather paid $3,000 for a house in

1950-something, and he paid $3,000 for a car in 1970-something, and he paid $3,000 for pills in 2004.

[Silvan]

Excellent. OK, Wreck, for $500 I promise not to allow myself to be seen /en deshabillé/ (that's nekkit for you ignernt types what ain't learnt no French) for 7 whole days. Pay up. If'n y'uns don't pony up the greenbacks, I'm a-showin' y'all the fat back.

[Silvan]

True, and for a truck driver, um, freight distrubution engineering technologist, I'm actually pretty sexy and stuff. Sort of.