Well Jades, I'd laugh at you (hysterically actually) but...

-October, 2003.  Pittsburgh, PA, Station Square Complex:

My birthday's in September, and a friend of mine named Patricia was wanting to take my out for my B-Day but we just couldn't get together because of my classes and things, until October.

She offered to take me to one of the most expensive Steak Places in the city (Pittsburgh Rare) because she's got $ out the whazzoo and knew I'd wanted to try this place for ages, so I happily accepted this as my birthday gift...  The Restaurant has an extensive wine list as well, so we drank 3 bottles between us over our dinner.

This was also my first night to take Patricia out for a ride in my "new" car I got over the summer, a 1994 Chrysler Le Baron Convertible, which is a dark green with a tan/gold top.  Very clean shape...  Like new really because it was some rich snot's car who kept it in a garage because after she got it her daddy immediately bought her a jeep too so the Le Baron was put in storage...  But I digress.

Anyway, very proud of the car and showing it off to my friend for the first time.

We Drink and Eat the night away at this place anyway...  Then go across the street to a club to just sit, drink heavily, and watch the crowd...  And drink after drink after drink, Patricia's loading me up pretty good.  Vodka and Cranberry's the drink of choice, with some LI Teas mixed in too, as well as a couple shots.

I'm sloshed...  As (EDIT) Poo-faced as I've been in a LONG time...  

Patricia and I start for my car, which is in the South lot at Station Square...  (Bare in mind this is one of my FIRST nights out and about with the car too, in general)

The South Lot is near a club in an old warehouse called Matrix.  It's like the "big" club in Pittsburgh for the most part...

So it's late, closing time-ish, and I try getting into my car...  

My key won't work though, and then I notice it in the moonlight...

The top's cut and tattered...  There's dents in the doors and fenders, scrapes and scratches...  

My car means my world to me (It's sad, but it does mean a lot to me) and I freak out...  I'm thinking someone broke a screwdriver off trying to break in my door, and they cut the top trying to get in, etc., etc...  There's even a big circular smash in the front window.

I'm LIVID.  I'm swearing up a storm (slurred)...  I punched the window, hard, pissed off...  Subsequently cracking some bones in my hand.  I kicked the door a couple times...  Patricia doesn't know what to do,  nor has seen me this PO'd so she's sort of antsy about that and she says "honey, maybe it's not your car?" and I can't even comprehend this at this point...

Then, 3 hot girls walk up PO'd because we're "near" their car, and too close to it, and hear Patricia say what she just did and one girl says "That's because It's NOT your car" (real snotty).

Sooooooooooo

Egg on my face.

The girl says then, "Yours is down there", and low and behold...  IDENTICAL in every way (color, year, etc.) except that mine is in good shape...  There sits my car by its lonesome.

I am a douche.

I can blame it on the alcohol...  But I won't.  I am merely an idiot.

I will say however that my Grandmother, my mother, and my aunt have ALL tried getting into a car that is NOT theirs at one point or another.  Don't feel bad.  

Only feel bad if it REALLY doesn't look a thing like your car...  Like wishful thinking that this were your car or something.  

It undoubtebly will, as it was my request personally that got the last one closed...  I don't like this kind of conversation around these parts personally since it's something I utterly DESPISE over at Rebelscum where it's let roam relatively free (it spills over from the W&P thread, so that doesn't detain it adequately IMO).

It breeds bad blood between members...  To me then, if it's irrelevant to Star Wars toys, it's not worth having at the site.

Keep this civil...  

Virex, a couple ?'s...

1) What are you doing to get rid of this Celica...?  I mean, the hypothetical YOU of course.    Junking it?  Trade-in?  Selling it yourself?

2) Not a Q so much as advice, but even on  POS I recommend glass breakage...  I've carried it since I've owned a car, and trust me I've own some big POS's in my time...  1986 Plymouth Caravelle with 130k miles...  I've driven turds on wheels my friend, but with how often those F'n "anti-skid" stones kick up here and break/chip windows in winter to the point they won't pass inspection, it's worth it...  Not sure what OK's rules are on junk like that though since inspection and car rules in general change by state.  

That's just a suggestion though...

3) What are the laws there?  Like will the fuzz pull you over for broken windows like they will here?  

My opinion is this...

Don't fix the dents at all...  Tape isn't goiong to cover anything a "buyer" won't notice and they're not gonna hurt youor car either.

If the law's gonna give you BS over the window, obviously I'd say fix it depending upon where/how often you plan on driving the car still.

If you're SELLING the car, definitely fix it.  People will laugh at a car that needs a window replaced that you're not replacing yourself (Paying to have it replaced that is) because it's such a little thing (it can cost a ton though, I know how you're feeling, especially rear-windows).  They may question you NOT fixing it, like think the car's got so many problems you're not bothering to fix the window,e tc...  Then again that is your intent I guess, but this hinges on if you WANT to sell it or try trading it in on a new car.

As for fixing it yourself, I'm gonna say that unless you fix car windows yourself for a living it's not possible really....  At least I've never known ANYONE to do that themselves, evenn people who restore cars from the ground up...  It always has to go to a glass place...  

Rear-windows can cost an assload though, and if youo're NOT driving it a lot and the fuzz aren't on you about it, and yoou're not reselling it (just scrapping it to a junkyard) I say try taping/covering it with plastic and just limp it through to the end.  A new rear-window for my T-Bird would run me something like $500 I was told (it needs one)...  I imagine your car wouldn't be TOO much less.

Hah!

That's a Greggory Prick classic...  

Not a single legitimate answer to WHY that got closed from anyone in that other than Scott posted "too many topics at once".

I have thought of how "spam" is defined, and still cannot come up with how posting a lot of topics at once is spamming.  Flooding perhaps, but not spamming...  Still, I'd have to see how some of those topics NEEDED closing.  They were good relevant topics to most people...  

Kudos to Scott for being that creative at the time.

I'm really at a loss for this set right now...  

I mean, it could really be a great set, or it could suck the sweat from a dead man, as they say.  

The Imp. Forces set was, to me, the pinnacle of Hasbro's efforts with these sets...  And I can say I didn't even go ga-ga over that one, though it was decent for the price...  3 decent army builder-esque figures and a nice enough Vader for the kids (though you toss in a grey Imp. Officer or a Motti with Imp. Officer head and I'd have been all over multiples of that set!).

With this set, this is what I'd LIKE to see, and cntrastly what I think we'll get...

What I'd LIKE:
-Han...  A NICE softgoods coat...  Something new, very Vintage-esque with a better deco on it...  Loose fabric like Total Control Mace's robe, and I'd be content.  

Underneath the coat, the figure's a modified torso of Cantina Han, and his legs, and perhaps some unique arms?  Include the more accurate Han Blaster from Saga figures and AT-ST han head (or I'd take Bespin Capture's head) and that'd be a GREAT figure to me.  Worthy of being single-carded even.

What We'll GET:
-Saga Han Endor with softgoods coat from Accessory set

What I'd LIKE:
-2 unique Ewoks using the Teebo sculpt with a tan and brown paintjob (respectively), and reusing the Wicket hood cast in 2 unique colors.  Include spears, or a vintage bow/arrow would be so sweet for one of them at least.  

What We'll GET:
-Wicket and Logray...  We already seem to know this.  Too bad since I think kids could give a rat's ass which Ewok they get, just so they get AN Ewok.  Dumb Hasbro.

What I'd LIKE:
-Imperial Biker Scout...  New lower torso and new poseable arms...  A guy can dream, right?  This would be enough articulation to make the guy Super Articulated, or damn close.  At least give him ball/socket knees, elbows, and some wrist joints ya know?  Oh well...

What We'll GET:
-POTJ repack...  No changes.  Ah well...  Some are happy with this, but that figure blew bigtime to me.  Tiny head, and craptacular "pose".  I mean, at least make it neutral, ya know?  

What I'd LIKE:
-Endor Soldier...  Saga figure's torso/arms with retooled shooulders to have the shoulders of the vest be part of the arms (So the guy can move his damn arms!), and a new head...  Attach the torso to the POTF2 lower body (lower torso and legs) for a neutral pose.  

What We'll GET:
-Saga Soldier (knowing Hasbro, the bearded one) with no changes, or POTF2 one...  

What I'd LIKE:
-All new, to-scale sculpt of the speederbike...  No features, just an accurately SMALL bike a rider could actually sit on and his feet could connect to the pedals.  

Either the all new bike or a NICE re-release of the catapult!

What We'll GET:
-POTF2 bike, no doubt...  I could see the Saga bike (droopy nose one) get cast in brown though...  Eh, it sucks too though except the handlebars.

What I'd LIKE:
-Ewok Bow & Arrow sets, some GOOD STURDY Rebel Rifles, a weird "vine" trap or thing for Ewoks to swing on you attach to the all, that REALLY nice Han Endor coat (Oh man, I can wish for that), a softgoods "shoulderbag" for the bombs from the Saga Han or accessory pack...  Etc.

What We'll GET:
-Some POTF2 Endor Rifles probably...  Some Rebel Backpacks with awkward plastic hooks molded on them that are somehow intended to fit on the figure's shoulder but have not the slightest chance in hell of ever doing so...


Call me jaded...  The 4-packs have steadily declined in quality to me (starting with the Hoth set), and overall "value" to me as a consumer, and unless Hasbro really imrpesses me with another army-builder focused set that shows some real creativity on their part, I just will look at this set poorly.  

Man, reading that thread makes me wanna kick it back into OD over there...

F  Greggory Prick there.

I wanna look at pics of Punky and hear some more mammor...  I mean memories about that show!

I thought the secondary messages of banging some 21 year oold who got her tubes tied, girls cheating with this fellow, carrying a pistol to intimidate people at clubs, and otoher nonsense were more "silly" than the lyrics about drinking.

By the way, I can understand it because ***In Best Chapelle Voice***

"I'm from the streets bitch!"

hahaha...  I love Chapelle's Show...  There's a line for everything from it.