Date: Sat, 17 Feb 2007 09:15:18 -0800
Reply-To: Michael Elliott <camping.elliott@GMAIL.COM>
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From: Michael Elliott <camping.elliott@GMAIL.COM>
Subject: Re: Friday/NVC: Tool calendars?
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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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