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Post by A-Barr » Thu Mar 02, 2006 8:44 pm

This thing is the tapeop bigfoot.
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Post by r0ck1r0ck2 » Thu Mar 02, 2006 8:58 pm

Mark Alan Miller wrote:I hear the sound of a chain being yanked somewhere... :)
HA!!!!
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Post by RefD » Thu Mar 02, 2006 9:27 pm

r0ck1r0ck2 wrote:
Mark Alan Miller wrote:I hear the sound of a chain being yanked somewhere... :)
HA!!!!
that's just the wind in the willows.
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Post by r0ck1r0ck2 » Thu Mar 02, 2006 9:36 pm

aaahhh one of my favourite books as a child...
wonderful!!
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Post by RefD » Thu Mar 02, 2006 9:45 pm

r0ck1r0ck2 wrote:aaahhh one of my favourite books as a child...
wonderful!!
"Hullo, Rat."

"Hullo, Mole."


that and Mistress Masham's Repose by T.H. White.
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Post by mildred-pitt » Fri Mar 03, 2006 12:31 am

I found it!

http://cgi.ebay.com/Radio-Shack-Realist ... dZViewItem
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Post by trodden » Fri Mar 03, 2006 1:35 am

jebus christoff, what part of "black face" do you not understand. UTFSF!
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Post by RefD » Fri Mar 03, 2006 9:44 am

perhaps she thought it was the "silver'd black of epitaph"?
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Post by jv » Fri Mar 03, 2006 11:10 am

OK, here it is:
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I just found this in the trash. I'll be putting it up on ebay with a starting bid of $2999.99.
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Post by jtienhaara » Fri Mar 03, 2006 11:15 am

I'll give you $3K cash if you want to skip the EBay route.

Can you email me photos of the innards? I want to make sure it's not just a silverface with the front painted black.
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Post by Mark Alan Miller » Fri Mar 03, 2006 11:39 am

Photoshop is a forger's best friend in this day and age it seems. :P
he took a duck in the face at two and hundred fifty knots.

http://www.radio-valkyrie.com/ao/aoindex.htm - download the new record (free is an option!) or get it on CD.
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Post by RefD » Fri Mar 03, 2006 12:11 pm

Mark Alan Miller wrote:Photoshop is a forger's best friend in this day and age it seems. :P
unless your audience, like my good self, has seen the REAL DEAL and knows this bears not even a passing resemblance to it! :lol:
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Post by jtienhaara » Fri Mar 03, 2006 12:48 pm

Are you all implying this is a scam? Damn, thanks for the warning dudes. I would've been out of pocket 3 grand. :ar15:
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Post by jtienhaara » Fri Mar 03, 2006 12:56 pm

jv, I've reported you to PayPal, EBay, the FBI, NAFTA, and the RCMP.
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Post by jv » Fri Mar 03, 2006 12:59 pm

For you doubters, here's a picture of the guts:
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It's very well built for a Radio Shack box :wink:
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