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Happy Birthday to Big Al!

VCRs go pretty cheap these days. I think these kinds of electronics are so inexpensive that you replace rather than repair. If you get five years out of it then fine. Not bad for $60. Then Best Buy tries to sell you some kind of repair warranty. I just tell them that the only insurance I buy is health, life, auto, homeowners. Maybe I'll consider long term care down the road.

Cripes, Arm, It would be easier to make a nuclear weapon than follow your directions here.

Same here, Chris. That soap is foul!

I've only got one Cal Tjader and it's upstairs. I'm in the basement right now. It's called some Spanish name... It's pretty good. I'll look it up after I get caught up with my posts here.

CDs with green rings do not count!

I'm sure Bradley is lurking around somewhere as well. B)

Ok, here's the chance for those boardmembers who are quick on the trigger but discover that they either bought too much or as in my case bought a double! Offer your stuff here! Me and Al are waiting...

That's right. You're a Paul too. Must be something about us Pauls. We like trombones. Wonder what JazzyP thinks about that subject?

Hermie's got the look that says, "Humph, I would have done a better job!" Cats are hard to please...

Happy Birthday to a fellow Paul!

Wonderful news, Dan!!

This has got to be the reason.

Maybe your skin just prefers dirty clothes, Jim.

When the Metropolitan Museum bought this (in the late 1960s?), they paid the highest price that had ever been paid for a painting to that time. It was in private hands in England, and auctioned off. It is supposed to be in beautiful condition, much better than the Velasquezs in the Prado (which I have never seen). Apparently the former curator of the Prado used to clean the paintings by pressing squashed up pieces of bread on them. This did clean them, but it also flattened them, so the textural quality of those paintings has been lost. It's amazing how great art is often damaged by caretakers. Who would have thought about using squashed up bread?

I don't think it really matters when you put your bid in. I've won many auctions by just putting in the highest price I'm willing to pay and just leave it. Then I've won others by sniping at the end. As I type this, I just lost out on a book because I was sniping and my first sniped bid wasn't high enough. I timed out before I could increase it. The bottom line is that if there are a host of others desiring the same thing then you are likely to lose out employing either method. If you are the only one or there are just a handful of interested bidders then either method will succeed. I don't know if there's a single correct way to do it and ensure success. I don't think so.

Probably will be hard to sell this one now that the Conn came out with all the extra tracks.

Holy Crap!! Happy Birthday Jim. And you too Alex.

Read my comment to this tune on page 1 of this thread. I knew Jim would love this tune! I like it myself.

Well said, Alex. It's the contradictions and the nonsense of it all that shied me away from my Catholic upbringing. Made absolutely no sense at all. But then I realize that faith is beyond reason. I can grasp that as well; just not willing to embrace it personally.

Looks nice, Jim. Herman no doubt approves as well.

Only with your lawn care employees, Chris!

Beautiful tune, but it's hard to listen to anyone play it after Clifford Brown's version. You can't say that about Lee Morgan's version on "The Gigolo". I think it is the best version of that tune erver recorded, at least in my opinion. Hmm, I'll have to go and put that one on. That's another cd that has been sitting in my collection forever and I haven't listened to it yet. Thanks for the prompt!

Evan, don't try to fool us. You're not interested in the cd. You just wanted to show off the babe on the cover!