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Date:         Sat, 17 Feb 2007 11:24:01 -0600
Reply-To:     Jim Felder <felder@KNOLOGY.NET>
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From:         Jim Felder <felder@KNOLOGY.NET>
Subject:      Re: Friday/NVC: Tool calendars?
In-Reply-To:  <45D73826.1030807@gmail.com>
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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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