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Old Feb 24, 2009 | 02:42 PM
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Originally Posted by dennisd63
I think I can strike that off my life list....Only, I can't really remember what "triplets" meant on my life list...a list I created when I was 18!?
I'm sure it had something to do with Night Fire so close enough!!
 
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Old Feb 25, 2009 | 05:15 AM
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Triple Sec? That is as close to triplets as I want to get.
 
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Old Feb 25, 2009 | 06:27 AM
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33...CJ sent me your particulars! Welcome aboard Canuck! I'm from Winnipeg....we need a few more Canadians on this site...It's kind of lonely sucking back slurpees alone north of the border!
 
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Old Feb 25, 2009 | 02:57 PM
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Yay! The dealer called today and said I would be picking up my brand new Clubman this Friday after work. I'm hoping that everything will go smoothly. I've been debating back and forth if I should get the extended warranty or any of the other "extras" they pack on at the end of a sale. Any advice?

Additional good news: I was able to sell my Hyundai last night... sadly I only sold it for $1250... which I think I'm going to put towards pre-paying my insurance for awhile.
 
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Old Feb 25, 2009 | 06:36 PM
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I got the water boiling Dennis! Bring this one on home! Woo Hoo!
 
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Old Feb 26, 2009 | 04:22 AM
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The glasses are clean and the bottle is ready to open!

Uh,..well,..yeah,..that is true for any given Friday, Saturday, Humpday, or any other excuse I can come up with to make with the silly, slurry talk.
 
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Old Feb 26, 2009 | 05:46 AM
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Originally Posted by the3rdgemini
Yay! The dealer called today and said I would be picking up my brand new Clubman this Friday after work.
Something has come up for me on Friday and I can't celebrate the delivery, do you think you can wait until Saturday? Or Monday. Monday would be great.
 
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Old Feb 26, 2009 | 08:55 AM
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Quiet! This delivery is going to be a tricky one; I need to concentrate!

Keep pushing Gemini...I think I can see the headlights already?
 
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Old Feb 26, 2009 | 11:14 AM
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Originally Posted by dennisd63
33...CJ sent me your particulars! Welcome aboard Canuck! I'm from Winnipeg....we need a few more Canadians on this site...It's kind of lonely sucking back slurpees alone north of the border!
G'day!!

No slurpees for me - - too cold here today for that.

Give me a large Tim's with double cream, please!

Looking forward to Spring - any day now - PLEASE!!

Thanks for the welcome. I've been lurking here since before I ordered my MINI (last May) so I don't really feel like a newcomer.

BTW, the MINI is a great car for our wonderful Canadian winter climate, if anyone out there was wondering. Put on a cheap set of 15" steelies and some good snow tires and you can go anywhere. All the electronic traction goodies really work with the snows to get you through the deep snow and ice that we here in Canada seem to cheerfully put up with for 4 or 5 months of the year.

Thanks again for the welcome!
 
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Old Feb 26, 2009 | 11:20 AM
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Originally Posted by 33EJB
G'day!!

I've been lurking here since before I ordered my MINI (last May) so I don't really feel like a newcomer.
A lurker!!! I feel so used.
 
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Old Feb 26, 2009 | 02:39 PM
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Originally Posted by carjoy
A lurker!!! I feel so used.
A REFORMED lurker!

I hereby ask forgiveness for my former lurkish ways...
 
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Old Feb 26, 2009 | 02:53 PM
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Originally Posted by 33EJB
A REFORMED lurker!

I hereby ask forgiveness for my former lurkish ways...
OK. But it goes against my nature to be so nice!
 
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Old Feb 26, 2009 | 02:59 PM
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A peeper! EEEEEEK! Listen to carjoy,..she'll set your hair on fire and toss you a bucket of gasoline to put it out with.

Although, I do like a good barbeque myself.

You're just lucky you are NFR.

Someone wipe dennisd's forehead,...STAT!!
 
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Old Feb 26, 2009 | 04:19 PM
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Oh quit Skuzzy! You are making me blush!
 
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Old Feb 27, 2009 | 04:15 AM
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Just wait until I break out the macaroni and motor oil.
 
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Old Feb 27, 2009 | 07:03 AM
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Shhhh....this is delicate work delivering a NFR.

But, as a side note, I totally agree with 33 on the winter status. I've never had a car so good on the ice & snow...you just need to have those ugly winter tires with the grip on them!
 
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Old Feb 27, 2009 | 07:06 AM
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Originally Posted by dennisd63
Shhhh....this is delicate work delivering a NFR.
You know, you are getting cranky in your old age.
 
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Old Feb 27, 2009 | 08:39 AM
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It'ss the perpetual cold. It ages you faster than normal. The slurrpies can't help either.
 
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Old Feb 27, 2009 | 08:43 AM
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I found this for you D!

 
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Old Feb 27, 2009 | 10:28 AM
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Originally Posted by carjoy
I found this for you D!

I need a chair without arms so I can still deliver those NFR's...and I think it was last June's trip to Texas & Arizona that pissed me off....I didn't want to come back to our winters! Do you blame me? Today it's still - 33!
 
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Old Feb 27, 2009 | 10:43 AM
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It is a chilly 68 right now but tomorrow will be 85! Come on down!
 
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Old Feb 27, 2009 | 02:09 PM
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...as soon as I get these deliveries finished...and make enough money to live independently anywhere in the world...I'm on my way!
 
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Old Feb 28, 2009 | 04:42 AM
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Well, for what it's worth, it is 37F right now in the Dallas/Ft. Worth area. But two days ago it was 85F. Supposed to get to 27F tonight.
 
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Old Mar 1, 2009 | 12:51 AM
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Man, what a weird day it was picking up my new car. I was nervous and excited going to the dealership... went with my friend on BART (bay area rapid transit for you non-CA folks) after work and the MA picked me up at the last stop. We drive in to the dealership and he says, "Look, there's your car!" and I'm like "that's not my car."

I saw a Nightfire Red Clubman... but there were no bonnet stripes. :( Put me in an instant bad mood. The dealership made up for it and I'll get my stripes on Monday... but it wasn't the first impression I was hoping for. I had to go through all the rest of the paperwork to make sure that nothing else was missing from my order.

I felt better by the end of the night, but I was tired and it was late. (To top it off my insurance company wants to charge me more than my car payment for insurance every month... so I told them that I wasn't going to be their customer anymore).

Now that I've got to drive the Clubman for a little roadtrip today, I think me and the car have bonded I'm just absolutely paranoid that it's going to get damaged somehow... or that I'm going to put too many miles on it.

Anyhow, meet LISTER (yes, I changed its name... that doesn't screw up your database, does it?):

A bit naked without his stripes


 
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Old Mar 1, 2009 | 05:02 AM
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It's Romi's big brother!!

Congratulations!
 
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