I have many types of vehicles in my collection, ranging from normal run-of-the-mill cars to racing cars to one-offs

Posted by: @charles-rockett

Posted by: @jack-dodds

Posted by: @100ford2003

Posted by: @jkuvakas

@jack-dodds, you are hardly a trusted resource for the nature of universalism, considering your reluctance to do what everybody was doing in the seventies. It's easy to stand on the sidelines and throw stones. Just remember that old adage, "The higher you go, the higher you are." and never forget that there are a lot of people out there.

I always thought it was something like "The higher you go, the further is the fall".

No Charles, it actually goes "The higher you go, the longer it takes to come down."

Perhaps you've been on the Mimosas too?  I believe your reply should have been directed to someone else.

Sorry for the mix up Charles and Steve , I was a bit rattled by *BS attempting to set the virus free in our midst again.

* Bologna Smoker

Ahhh, but you digress. Let's get back to more important matters, such as the complete and sovereign authority the Committee has over all matters pertaining to the forums, particularly in the area of chromaticity.

Posted by: @jkuvakas

Ahhh, but you digress. Let' get back to mroe important matters, such as the complete and soveriegn authority the Committee has over all matters pertainign to the forums, particularly in the area of chromaticity.

Ahhh....the Moderator flexes his muskles. 

While it is true that I do possess an impressive academic background, I must admit that you are intellectually miles ahead of me* Mr. Moderator.  I confess I had to look it up in my Funk & Wagnell....

* in all education areas except spelling (see recent post).

I feel bewildered and betrayed.

After a calm and peaceful Saturday evening, having been compelled by the relentless advance of Greenwich Mean Time to take to my bed, which obviously left me in no position to monitor proceedings, I wake up this morning to find that a whole insubordinate, out-of-control mob of fevered, mimosa-addicted souls, driven by absurd technicolour delusions of intellectual supremacy, have taken advantage of the situation and filled page after page with the kind of multi-polysyllabic pseudo-academic tosh that would make any average sesquipedalian like myself feel compelled to issue a public apology for their regrettable excesses of pretentious verbosity.

Not only that, but they appear to believe that they have been spurring one another to ever more exalted heights of IQ-driven transcendence. "The higher you go ..." etc.. etc.

While I admit that one part of me (the lower brainstem, to be precise) somewhat regrets not having been involved in this farrago of nonsense, it does allow me to maintain a more sober and realistic assessment of my place in the greater scheme of things. To paraphrase dear old Isaac Newton, if I have got where I am today, it is by crouching on the buttocks of pygmies.

By the way, in my review of the Stamp Cadillac yesterday I forgot to mention that by way of a "Thank you" for my expensive purchase, Legacy Diecast enclosed a small pack of boiled sweets. I kid you not. Things are getting serious.

p.s. Is Mimosa actually a psychotropic drug? Apart from its obvious effect of engendering pervasive delusions of grandeur, does its ingestion actually produce any pleasurable sensations? Having once experienced a 3-day hallucinogenic bender after combining two paracetamol with a nasal decongestant, I am understandably a bit wary of these things. (Even those boiled sweets got me a little giddy).

@graeme-ogg

Dear Bewildered and Betrayed:

I must agree with your assessment of yesterday's yackfest Graeme.  I must say that I feel blessed to have been present throughout in order to at least help to maintain the quality of decorum and maturity we have come to expect on this Forum.  I do what I can but alas, I am just one man-child.  Thank you very much for today's contribution and also for the warning about virus injected sweets arriving in our model deliveries. In return The Moderator has approved that we send you his smoked bologna recipe and a 3-pack of Weber's Mustard in hot, horseradish and the new jalapeno flavours.

Btw all the best with your sesquipedalian efforts;  jumping horses can be exhilarating!  Have to run and look up "farrago"....but I vaguely recall driving one in 1969; it was a great truck....a real workhorse as it were.  Have a great day!

Graeme;

p.s. Is Mimosa actually a psychotropic drug? 

I can say from personal experience (and I'm sure Karl will back me up on this) that mimosas, even at Karl's level of consumption, pose no threat of physical or mental harm to the consumer; save for perhaps waking up foggy headed with a little drink umbrella stuck up ones nose*.

* Anecdotal experience contributed by Karl

Thank you for that.  I appreciate that you were really up against it and did the very best you could with the admittedly limited intellectual resources at your disposal.

Just a small correction on the "sesquipedalian" front. Nothing to do with horse-jumping. It is a reference to the arcane sport of riding bicycles with six pedals (i.e. 3 sets of pedals).

This was a uniquely Scottish sport which came about because although frames could be knocked together cheaply enough from old musket barrels and prosthetic limbs, wheels were absurdly hard to come by, mainly because all the thin wire for making spokes had been the subject of a compulsory purchase by the Government for the manufacture of anti-self abuse gauntlets, which were considered an essential component of the Scottish education system and were offered free of charge to all 12-18 year old pupils. (This was regarded as a cost-effective measure due to the marked reduction in demand for expensive prescription glasses in later years.)

@graeme-ogg Absolutely fascinating information as always Graeme.  These tri-pedal pushers must have to generate a considerable speed and utilize quite a steep ramp to launch that contraption over multiple horses.  Here in North America we do it using a motorcycle and parked school buses. 

One small correction though if I may.....my earlier post referred to actually riding the horse in question and training it to jump over barriers of various heights; as opposed to cowboys jumping up onto them while fleeing a bank hold-up or similar.  You may have mistakenly assumed the latter after have seen an example of it in posts submitted earlier this year by our own JayBee, featuring The Blue Aqua Velva Gang, aka The Bent Barrel Boys....

I would like to applaud the decision regarding diverting material sources required for the gauntlets, even though it did in turn delay production of the subject extended bicycles. This was evidently well considered; including avoidance of both the unnecessary premature loss of vision for young men and the considerable health plan financial impact of subsidizing the purchase of eye glasses.  Bravo!

It is hard to believe that Joop’s simple but complicated introduction to this post should produce such a quantity of verbal effluvium likely caused by too much indulgence this weekend.

A few tried to answer but all that sugar from another post seemed to spread a type of diabetic delirium.

We know what Karl and Charles collect but I’m far from sure about everyone else’s collections other than a propensity for Americana on an extremely wide scale with a bulge in the fifties, sixties and seventies.

Despite what I just said, an entertaining read. Thank you gentlemen, all.

@david-green Thank you for the positive acknowledgement David.  Frankly I think it is inevitable that verbal effluvium, like rich cream, would rise to the top as it were, considering the degree of education and life experience of the contributors.

Posted by: @ed-davis

John K sure knows how to start a stimulating conversation.

Forget the stimulating conversation, how's the smoked bologna doing ?

Thanks to David's topic revisitation prompt this morning I add the following in response to Joop's question:

I collect only 1:43 scale models now but have many DM, FM, etc. models still stored away. I collect Brooklin, some Durham Classics, most of the Goldvargs, Ebbro Japanese cars and have a wide selection of European car models from a variety of makers in both resin and white metal.  I also have a large collection of vintage Dinky, Corgi and Matchbox Toys and a decent number of Tonka Toys from the 50's and early 60's.

Posted by: @100ford2003

Posted by: @ed-davis

John K sure knows how to start a stimulating conversation.

Forget the stimulating conversation, how's the smoked bologna doing ?

LOL.  A man who has his priorities straight! 

You bet I do ! 

Imma gonna head up to Main Street because they have a farmer's market on Sundays and there's this gentleman that comes down from Pacoima and has the best tamales !