Thursday Portrait.....

Ahhhh....Bike Night at Scooters Bar and Grill.

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With every drink that you buy at Bike Night you get a numbered ticket.

Every 1/2 hour they pick a ticket. If your number is called , you get to choose a prize that usually has a Harley theme to it. Tonight the G-Man was lucky enough to have his ticket pulled once again (I have won many things over the years).

How do I look in my new 80 Dollar Shades?? Hehehehe...

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And last but not least...The beautiful Yvonne Perry.

She is a very successful local real estate agent, and she and her husband 'Killer' both ride, and are both friends of mine.

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I hope all you kiddies are contemplating your Friday 55!

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Peace...!!!

Retro Wednesday........

The first two pics are actual newspaper clippings matted and framed in my office.

1969 is when our founder Vic Canever bought the dealership..

We moved to our present location in 1973..Check out the prices!

The last photo is a painting of EXACTLY how our present dealership looks now..

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Have a great Hump Day.... Peace!!

TMI Tuesday.......

I'm tired about boring you another day with details about my boring life, so hows about an old fashioned TMI Tuesday...OK?

Now we all remember from English class what an eponym is right?

Really...? You slept thru that one eh?

When you say...Band Aid, you mean adhesive bandage.

Rolodex....A rotory phone number storer

Scotch tape...Cellophane tape

You get the picture...Today I thought it would be interesting to share the origin of one of our most valuable luxuries....Kleenex!

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In 1914, WWI was being fought in Europe and the cotton that soldiers needed for bandages was starting to run out. So the Kimberly-Clark Co. devised a product called Cellucotton. An absorbant, soft paper that could be used to dress wounds. It was so effective that the Army looked for other uses for it...They found one. They used it as filter for gas masks!!

After the war they had warehouses full of the stuff left over so they had to find a way to market it in peacetime. Their clever solution? A sanitary cold cream remover!

Calling it Kleenex Kerchiefs, they hired movie stars to endorse it as a secret path to glamor. It was a Huge success!!!

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But Americans found another use for the product...Nose Blowing!!

Men in particular wanted to know why Kleenex had to be a women's product. And women griped that men were stealing their Kleenex to sneaze into. It also seemed that teen-age boys were also finding a use for these soft disposable little wipes, sometimes as many as 4 or 5 times a day!!

Anyway, during the 1920's Kimberly-Clark introduced the pop-up box that always left one sticking out of the box waiting to be grabbed.

So the question remained...Were people buying Kleenex as a cold cream remover, or a nose blower? A survey showed in the 60's that most folks used it as the latter. So thats what K-C emphasized, and thats how we think of it today.

And now you know....The rest of the story! Good Day.

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Peace...!!!

Back to Work..........

Hi everybody...I hope you all had a great a 3-Day weekend as I did!!!

First of all, Car sales for the month of May SUCKED. I only sold 8 cars, and I barely broke even.

June was headed for the dumper as well, then GM put 0% for 72 months on several models, and I ended up with 15 cars delivered for the month...

So after working every waking minute the last week in June...

And the weather being perfect for 3 straight days...

And having friends and Family over for a couple of cook-outs...

And 3 days of FABULOUS bike riding..

And Once again G-Man emerging as the Pyrotechnics Champion of his street!!!

I feel sooooooo content...

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...And speaking of Pyrotechnics.

This year more than ever, there seemed to be more ass-holes blasting, and blasting, and blasting. Till well late into the Morning!!!

I bet starting about 8 pm on Thursday night, the barrage was non-stop till Saturday night!!

It fricken sounded like Bagdad!!

I know how much this shit costs...Did these people take out a loan?

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Anyway...The first pic is my new fire-starter chimney. I loaded the bottom with wadded up newspaper, and it caught the charcoal on fire just perfect!!

With NO petroleum aftertaste!

The second pic is my friend Alex's massive back yard.

He spreads corn out in front of his little shed that you see, and I've counted as many as 25 Wild Turkeys feeding at one time.

You probably can't see them on this primitive phone, but all the way to the back and left of his yard, there are 4 turkeys and a single deer. I can't tell on my lousy PC...

Can you see them?

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Peace..!!!

Friday Flash 55......

Of the men that attended the Constitutional Congress of 1787...

Nineteen of the 74 people chosen to attend were No-Shows!

Of the 55 that DID show, only 39 signed the document.

But their bar tab was.....

132 bottles of wine

8 bottles of whiskey

8 jugs of cider....

America was born.....At Happy Hour!!!!

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Hi everybody, if you or anyone you know has done a Flash Friday 55, come tell the G-Man. I will visit, read, enjoy, comment, then BOOK!!

ALSO...I know that July 4th celebrates the signing of the Declaration of Independence, NOT the Constitution, but this really happened. Big deal, it's still stuff about America...

Peace...!!!

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.Also If I haven't already blabbed it enough, Saturday is Lisa's aka. Java Jazz's birthday..

Please go get a piece of birthday rugeluh at her place, she's an Excellent baker...

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Everyone else...Happy 4th of July!!!!!!!!!

Thursday Portrait......

Yes my friends...The G-Man wears many hats, ( although not in these pics ).

Galen Haynes...Biker Businessman!!

And Bathroom Boy in his 'wife-beater'...

Hehehehehe...

Start thinking about your Holiday 55, although Ake, and Mona, don't celebrate July 4th as a holiday...Or KB, but you still play...Please??????

See ya tomorrow...Peace...!!!

Word Play Wednesday.....

Hi everybody...enough of the golf already!!!

I'm shelving Retro Wednesday this week in favor of...

Word Play Wednesday!!

I had such fun with the Oxymoron schtick, that I'd thought I'd try something different!

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I wondered why the baseball was getting bigger.. Then it hit me!

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Police were called to a day care, where a 3 year old was resisting a rest.

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Did you hear about the guy whose whole left side was cut off?

He's all right now!

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The roundest knight at King Arthur's Round Table, was Sir Cumference!

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To write with a broken pencil is pointless.

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When fish are in schools, they sometimes take debate!

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The short fortune teller who escaped from prison was...

A small medium at large!!!

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A thief that stole a calender got 12 months.

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Thieves that steal corn from a garden, could be charged with stalking.

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We never run out of math teachers because they always multiply.

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When the smog lifts in Los Angeles, U.C.L.A.

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The math teacher went crazy on the blackboard..

He did a number on it!

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The dead batteries were given out free of charge.

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If you take your laptop PC for a run..

You could jog your memory!.

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This last one I stole years ago from the GREAT Soupy Sales...

"You can lead a horse to water, but a pencil must be lead!!"

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I hope you had some fun today...

Peace...!!!