Date: Sat, 17 Feb 2007 13:25:39 -0600
Reply-To: Max Wellhouse <maxjoyce@IPA.NET>
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From: Max Wellhouse <maxjoyce@IPA.NET>
Subject: Re: Friday/NVC: Tool calendars?
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WAIT A MINUTE!! No properly clad shop wall is complete without a
24x36" poster of Cheryl Tiegs in her prime. Need one that size of
her SI swimsuit cover from 77 or 78. As Randy Newman would say,
"baby, BABY, baby, baby!!!"
DM&FS
At 11:24 AM 2/17/2007, Jim Felder wrote:
>BTW I checked out the 2007-2008 Ridgid Tool calendar so you wouldn't
>have to, and there are NO TOOLS. Just skimpily-clad, good-looking
>women. Another example of how this country is losing its way. What
>was art is now just cheesecake.
>
>Jim
>
>On Feb 17, 2007, at 11:15 AM, Michael Elliott wrote:
>
>>Ah -- May and June 1976. A sweet-faced well-endowed young woman in
>>a two-piece bathing suit, frolicking in the surf without a care in
>>the world. While holding a conduit bender.
>>
>>A perfect composition. Now THAT'S what I'm talking about.
>>
>>--
>>Mike "Rocket J Squirrel" Elliott
>>71 Type 2: the Wonderbus
>>84 Westfalia: Mellow Yellow ("The Electrical Banana")
>>74 Utility Trailer. Ladybug Trailer, Inc., San Juan Capistrano
>>KG6RCR
>>
>>
>>
>>Jim Felder typed:
>>>The King of all garage pinup calendars was and is the Rigid Tool
>>>Calendar. Here's somebody's collection from the 70son Flickr <http://
>>>www.flickr.com/photos/umpqua/sets/917376/>
>>>Warning: Be prepared to see WOMEN holding TOOLS.
>>>They are still being produced. Get yours here
>>><http://www.ridgid.com/>> Tools/Calendar/index.htm>
>>>Jim
>>>On Feb 17, 2007, at 12:54 AM, Philip Zimmerman wrote:
>>>>From: Michael Elliott <camping.elliott@GMAIL.COM>
>>>>
>>>>Is this delightfully tacky eye candy no longer
>>>>socially acceptable?
>>>>
>>>>From: Robert Fisher <refisher@MCHSI.COM>
>>>>Subject: Re: Friday/NVC: Tool calendars?
>>>>
>>>>http://www.pirellical.com/thecal/home.html
>>>>-----------
>>>>
>>>>Great fryeday question Mike, as the list looks
>>>>real quiet today. R&Ring ball joints will get
>>>>a guy thinking about such things. (RVC)
>>>>
>>>>Pirelli still seems to think they are acceptable.
>>>>Although, the French are way ahead of most neanderthal
>>>>countries around issues of human body. Or perhaps
>>>>the French choose to ignore the nay-sayers and print
>>>>what they enjoy... I dunno....
>>>>
>>>>Thanks Robert for the link and trip down memory
>>>>lane. Wow, I miss my miss-spent youth.
>>>>
>>>>The old-school Mechanic I rent shop-space from
>>>>still receives the occasional calendar from his
>>>>suppliers. The content is more bent on promoting
>>>>some product like Optima batteries with a tease of
>>>>cheese-cake to help the male ego remember the product.
>>>>
>>>>Ben, the mechanic, still has a calendar from 1979
>>>>hanging on the back of his office-door. The pig I
>>>>am, I still enjoy a gaze at that calendar.....
>>>>Almost every time I close the door behind me.
>>>>
>>>>Phil Z.
>>>>dazed & depraved in
>>>>Campbell River, BC
>
>
>
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