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I just added up all the money I've spend on the car. NOT counting the car itself, I'm less than $50 shy of $10K - so far.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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"Why don't you tie a kerosene-soaked rag around your ankles so the ants won't climb up and eat your candy ass." - Dale Earnhardt, 1997 -
I just added up all the money I've spend on the car. NOT counting the car itself, I'm less than $50 shy of $10K - so far.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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"Why don't you tie a kerosene-soaked rag around your ankles so the ants won't climb up and eat your candy ass." - Dale Earnhardt, 1997Well, that sounds like you've gotten good value for your money. Try figuring out what you'd had to pay here in Norway :laugh: So just to give you an idea: a new Cadillac Escalade Platinum 6,0 V8 Hybrid costs nearly $300000,-
Espen Harlinn Principal Architect, Software - Goodtech Projects & Services AS My LinkedIn Profile
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Well, that sounds like you've gotten good value for your money. Try figuring out what you'd had to pay here in Norway :laugh: So just to give you an idea: a new Cadillac Escalade Platinum 6,0 V8 Hybrid costs nearly $300000,-
Espen Harlinn Principal Architect, Software - Goodtech Projects & Services AS My LinkedIn Profile
"Hybrid". Uh-huh.
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"Hybrid". Uh-huh.
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"Hybrid". Uh-huh
Just to give you an idea about the prices over here ... that's not my car. I wouldn't mind having one ...
Espen Harlinn Principal Architect, Software - Goodtech Projects & Services AS My LinkedIn Profile
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I just added up all the money I've spend on the car. NOT counting the car itself, I'm less than $50 shy of $10K - so far.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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"Why don't you tie a kerosene-soaked rag around your ankles so the ants won't climb up and eat your candy ass." - Dale Earnhardt, 1997It adds up quick don't it? I've done the same recently with photography equipment.
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"Hybrid". Uh-huh.
Software Zen:
delete this;Mine's a hybrid. Runs on dead dinosaurs and dead hippies.
*pre-emptive celebratory nipple tassle jiggle* - Sean Ewington
"Mind bleach! Send me mind bleach!" - Nagy Vilmos
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It adds up quick don't it? I've done the same recently with photography equipment.
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Version 3.0 now available. There is no place like 127.0.0.1Wait till you take up golf! £300 for a driver, £300 for a set of decet irons. £150 for a bag, then add in the balls, tees and towels. Of course the shoes aren't cheap, my Footjoys were £115. So maybe £1000 and you haven't stepped onto a golf course yet! Membership is £800 a year, plus £25 green fees per round. Then we go to other courses and that can be expensive. I played the Celtic Manor 2010 Championship course, and that is £75 for a round. On the other hand, as any other member who plays golf will tell you, you don't even notice the expense when you are listening to the ping of the driver as your ball sweeps away from you in a dead straight line and finishes 300 yards away. There is no feeling like sinking that 30ft putt for a birdie or pitch from 50 yards that ends up a foot from the hole.
--------------------------------- I will never again mention that I was the poster of the One Millionth Lounge Post, nor that it was complete drivel. Dalek Dave CCC Link[^] English League Tables - Live
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Mine's a hybrid. Runs on dead dinosaurs and dead hippies.
*pre-emptive celebratory nipple tassle jiggle* - Sean Ewington
"Mind bleach! Send me mind bleach!" - Nagy Vilmos
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regular dinosaurs or premium? :confused:
Luc Pattyn [My Articles] Nil Volentibus Arduum
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Wait till you take up golf! £300 for a driver, £300 for a set of decet irons. £150 for a bag, then add in the balls, tees and towels. Of course the shoes aren't cheap, my Footjoys were £115. So maybe £1000 and you haven't stepped onto a golf course yet! Membership is £800 a year, plus £25 green fees per round. Then we go to other courses and that can be expensive. I played the Celtic Manor 2010 Championship course, and that is £75 for a round. On the other hand, as any other member who plays golf will tell you, you don't even notice the expense when you are listening to the ping of the driver as your ball sweeps away from you in a dead straight line and finishes 300 yards away. There is no feeling like sinking that 30ft putt for a birdie or pitch from 50 yards that ends up a foot from the hole.
--------------------------------- I will never again mention that I was the poster of the One Millionth Lounge Post, nor that it was complete drivel. Dalek Dave CCC Link[^] English League Tables - Live
That's one of the reasons I never took it up, fraid I would get addicted. Another reason is my son would always try to get me to go with him with the excuse; Him: Dad you ought to go it's so relaxing and we have a good time. Me: Son what happened to your club why is it bent like that? Him: I don't want to talk about it.
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regular dinosaurs or premium? :confused:
Luc Pattyn [My Articles] Nil Volentibus Arduum
Unleaded - he wouldn't want to brain damage kiddies.
Ideological Purity is no substitute for being able to stick your thumb down a pipe to stop the water
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Unleaded - he wouldn't want to brain damage kiddies.
Ideological Purity is no substitute for being able to stick your thumb down a pipe to stop the water
Well, the benzene that got substituted isn't particularly harmless for the brain either. :doh:
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That's one of the reasons I never took it up, fraid I would get addicted. Another reason is my son would always try to get me to go with him with the excuse; Him: Dad you ought to go it's so relaxing and we have a good time. Me: Son what happened to your club why is it bent like that? Him: I don't want to talk about it.
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I just added up all the money I've spend on the car. NOT counting the car itself, I'm less than $50 shy of $10K - so far.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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"Why don't you tie a kerosene-soaked rag around your ankles so the ants won't climb up and eat your candy ass." - Dale Earnhardt, 1997I wonder what the cost of a bullet-hole repair is. Do they give you a discount on volume ? best, Bill
"Humans are amphibians ... half spirit and half animal ... as spirits they belong to the eternal world, but as animals they inhabit time. This means that while their spirit can be directed to an eternal object, their bodies, passions, and imaginations are in continual change, for to be in time, means to change. Their nearest approach to constancy, therefore, is undulation: the repeated return to a level from which they repeatedly fall back, a series of troughs and peaks.” C.S. Lewis
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Wait till you take up golf! £300 for a driver, £300 for a set of decet irons. £150 for a bag, then add in the balls, tees and towels. Of course the shoes aren't cheap, my Footjoys were £115. So maybe £1000 and you haven't stepped onto a golf course yet! Membership is £800 a year, plus £25 green fees per round. Then we go to other courses and that can be expensive. I played the Celtic Manor 2010 Championship course, and that is £75 for a round. On the other hand, as any other member who plays golf will tell you, you don't even notice the expense when you are listening to the ping of the driver as your ball sweeps away from you in a dead straight line and finishes 300 yards away. There is no feeling like sinking that 30ft putt for a birdie or pitch from 50 yards that ends up a foot from the hole.
--------------------------------- I will never again mention that I was the poster of the One Millionth Lounge Post, nor that it was complete drivel. Dalek Dave CCC Link[^] English League Tables - Live
If ever I go broke, I might take up golf. I have a 50* foot sailboat in the local marina. Mooring fees $4k p.a. Insurance $3k p.a. Annual haul-out + anti-fouling $2k p.a. General maintenance $2k p.a. Incidental costs (outboard petrol, water-maker filters etc. etc. ad infinitum) $1k p.a. This winter I flushed the diesel tanks, so they will have to be refilled - one thousand litres - about $2k nm.p.g under power = 2 I only mention this because I am just now recommissioning her for the summer season, and the bills are rolling in! X| * This is an exaggeration - she is actually only 49 feet 7 inches. :-\
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If ever I go broke, I might take up golf. I have a 50* foot sailboat in the local marina. Mooring fees $4k p.a. Insurance $3k p.a. Annual haul-out + anti-fouling $2k p.a. General maintenance $2k p.a. Incidental costs (outboard petrol, water-maker filters etc. etc. ad infinitum) $1k p.a. This winter I flushed the diesel tanks, so they will have to be refilled - one thousand litres - about $2k nm.p.g under power = 2 I only mention this because I am just now recommissioning her for the summer season, and the bills are rolling in! X| * This is an exaggeration - she is actually only 49 feet 7 inches. :-\
All of a sudden I feel better about my golf expenses! :)
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Wait till you take up golf! £300 for a driver, £300 for a set of decet irons. £150 for a bag, then add in the balls, tees and towels. Of course the shoes aren't cheap, my Footjoys were £115. So maybe £1000 and you haven't stepped onto a golf course yet! Membership is £800 a year, plus £25 green fees per round. Then we go to other courses and that can be expensive. I played the Celtic Manor 2010 Championship course, and that is £75 for a round. On the other hand, as any other member who plays golf will tell you, you don't even notice the expense when you are listening to the ping of the driver as your ball sweeps away from you in a dead straight line and finishes 300 yards away. There is no feeling like sinking that 30ft putt for a birdie or pitch from 50 yards that ends up a foot from the hole.
--------------------------------- I will never again mention that I was the poster of the One Millionth Lounge Post, nor that it was complete drivel. Dalek Dave CCC Link[^] English League Tables - Live
I think my 'hobby' is a lot more affordable. $115 every six months for running shoes, plus fees for whatever races I run. Fees range from $3 for Ohio River Road Runners[^] club events to $105 for the Flying Pig Marathon[^] which I'm running next weekend. I probably spend around $400 a year.
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I think my 'hobby' is a lot more affordable. $115 every six months for running shoes, plus fees for whatever races I run. Fees range from $3 for Ohio River Road Runners[^] club events to $105 for the Flying Pig Marathon[^] which I'm running next weekend. I probably spend around $400 a year.
Software Zen:
delete this;Running is not a hobby, it is a chore :) I swore the day I left the Army that I would never run again, and so far I haven't. I used to run marathon distances, but usually in boots and 'Greens', so I was fit as elephant, but in the intervening years I have slothed my way to middle aged unfitness, and very happy I am too.
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I just added up all the money I've spend on the car. NOT counting the car itself, I'm less than $50 shy of $10K - so far.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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"Why don't you tie a kerosene-soaked rag around your ankles so the ants won't climb up and eat your candy ass." - Dale Earnhardt, 1997I personally would have put the money into a V8 instead of personalizing the car. But then again I would also rather get a '69 instead.
Light moves faster than sound. That is why some people appear bright, until you hear them speak. List of common misconceptions
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I personally would have put the money into a V8 instead of personalizing the car. But then again I would also rather get a '69 instead.
Light moves faster than sound. That is why some people appear bright, until you hear them speak. List of common misconceptions
Jörgen Andersson wrote:
I would also rather get a '69 instead
Yeah, me too.
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All of a sudden I feel better about my golf expenses! :)
--------------------------------- I will never again mention that I was the poster of the One Millionth Lounge Post, nor that it was complete drivel. Dalek Dave CCC Link[^] English League Tables - Live
...and so you should! :) Not only have I eased you conscience, but if you let your good lady see my post, you can point out to her how cheap your golfing really is. However, I suggest you do that just after you have bought a new set of top bats clubs. :laugh:
