Schmidt Meister's Grab Bag

[Schmidt Meister]

It’s been my experience that Beemer drivers tend to be arrogant, non-driving asswipes. So I always try to stay away from them … and any vehicles with Texas and NY tags.

 

[Batesmotel]

37 minutes ago, Schmidt Meister said:

It’s been my experience that Beemer drivers tend to be arrogant, non-driving asswipes. So I always try to stay away from them … and any vehicles with Texas and NY tags.

 

Looks like he is trying to blame the school bus. 

[Schmidt Meister]

1 hour ago, Batesmotel said:

Looks like he is trying to blame the school bus. 

Yeah, that's what I was thinking. I'm thinking he was freaking out trying to find anybody he could blame it on. After his insurance company sees that dash cam video, he's gonna have a hell of an increase in his rates.

[janice6]

2 hours ago, Schmidt Meister said:

It’s been my experience that Beemer drivers tend to be arrogant, non-driving asswipes. So I always try to stay away from them … and any vehicles with Texas and NY tags.

 

Memory:  I was in St. Paul during rush hour.  I was stopped on a divided street alongside of a school bus.  The light turned green and the school bus extended it's stop sign and stopped just passed the intersection.  I stopped along side and behind the school bus.  The children exited the school bus and crossed all traffic lanes in front of me.

A car behind me hit me in the rear causing a fair amount of damage to my car.  Later his insurance agent interviewed me and asked me what I could have done to avoid the accident!

I told him I could have proceeded to run down a bunch of school children so his insured could make it home on time.

I said also, if I hadn't been there to stop his insured, he would have a considerable number of lawsuits from the parent of the school children he would have ran over. 

So It seems that the bill for my car was going to be minimal compared to what it would have cost them to pay for a group of dead, injured and maimed children that did nothing wrong.

They asked me how much money I wanted.  I said "repair my car!".  Yes!  This really did happen!

[DAKA]

10 hours ago, janice6 said:

Memory:  I was in St. Paul during rush hour.  I was stopped on a divided street alongside of a school bus.  The light turned green and the school bus extended it's stop sign and stopped just passed the intersection.  I stopped along side and behind the school bus.  The children exited the school bus and crossed all traffic lanes in front of me.

A car behind me hit me in the rear causing a fair amount of damage to my car.  Later his insurance agent interviewed me and asked me what I could have done to avoid the accident!

I told him I could have proceeded to run down a bunch of school children so his insured could make it home on time.

I said also, if I hadn't been there to stop his insured, he would have a considerable number of lawsuits from the parent of the school children he would have ran over. 

So It seems that the bill for my car was going to be minimal compared to what it would have cost them to pay for a group of dead, injured and maimed children that did nothing wrong.

They asked me how much money I wanted.  I said "repair my car!".  Yes!  This really did happen!

Love the sneakers.....what a PUTZ

[Schmidt Meister]

[Schmidt Meister]

The Historic Blue Swallow Motel on Route 66 in Tucumcari, NM. In operation on the Mother Road since 1939. Originally The Blue Swallow Court and Cafe. Placed on the National Register Of Historic Places in 1993.

[Schmidt Meister]

Bridgestone Steer It Up Commercial from 2011.
The music is Mambo #5 by Perez Prado, not that it matters but this is a cool commercial that I never remember being on TV.

 

 

[Schmidt Meister]

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[Schmidt Meister]

Cancel the honeymoon ... and her attitude ought to already be making him nervous because he's doing everything he can to help and she's beating on his head.

[Schmidt Meister]

'I Dream of Jeannie' Home, A Jim Beam Whiskey Bottle, Expected to Fetch $100,000 At Auction.
Ever wish you could own your own genie in a bottle? Or at least the bottle from I Dream of Jeannie? Now you can. On April 28, (2017) Julien's Auctions will be selling the bottle that Jeannie, played by Barbara Eden, called home during the five season-run of I Dream of Jeannie. The bottle is expected to sell for upwards of $100,000. (The bottle sold for $34,375 in 2017)                                                      
For those who don't remember it, I Dream of Jeannie was an NBC comedy starring Barbara Eden as a pretty stunning 2,000-year-old genie, "Jeannie," starring opposite Larry Hagman as astronaut Tony Nelson, her "master." Created by Sidney Sheldon who was tasked by NBC with developing a rival to the highly successful ABC show, Bewitched, the show first aired in 1965.
The bottle in which Jeannie lived was originally a 1964 Christmas edition decanter sold by Jim Beam for its whiskey. According to Julien's, the show's first director, Gene Nelson, was searching for just the right type of bottle to serve as home for Jeannie when he walked by a liquor store and saw the whiskey decanter in the window. Back then, it is estimated that the Jim Beam bottle would have cost about $5.99.
For the 139 episodes of I Dream of Jeannie that aired, it is estimated that about 12 of the bottles were used. Some were used as stunt bottles to make the smoke effect that accompanied Jeannie's exit from the bottle into Major Nelson's  home (or other places she opted to pop into). The smoke was made in the bottles using heat and chemicals and sometimes the bottle would break.
In its original format, the bottle was smoke-green, but they had it hand-painted with a gold leaf pattern give it a more antique look. During the second series of the show, when it went from black-and-white to color, the bottles were painted pink and purple to make them more feminine and attractive.
Gene Nelson directed the pilot and the first 13 episodes of I Dream of Jeannie, but it is said that repeated differences between him and Hagman prompted his decision to leave the show. The original 14-inch bottle purchased by Gene Nelson remained in his possession for more than 30 years. He took it with him when he left the show and kept it until his death in 1996. His children have had it in storage since then.
This bottle, the original one that was painted on set, is being auctioned along with a letter of authenticity from Barbara Eden stating that it was the first bottle used on the set of the show. It seems that when the show became a hit TV series, many bottles were made in a second-edition as memorabilia (those claim about $70 at resale today).
Barbara Eden kept, and still has, the pink/purple colored stunt bottle that was used on the last day of filming of the final episode.

 

[Schmidt Meister]

[pipedreams]

removed

[Schmidt Meister]

6 hours ago, pipedreams said:

Pipe, all I can see is a link and this is the message I get when I try to open your link:

The file you were looking for could not be found.

[Schmidt Meister]

I found this picture from the ISS and I found out where it was and labelled the best known locations. The top of the picture is actually South.

[pipedreams]

1 hour ago, Schmidt Meister said:

Pipe, all I can see is a link and this is the message I get when I try to open your link:

The file you were looking for could not be found.

I didn't mean to put it in this thread  and deleted it, meant to put a "Removed"  note there.

[Batesmotel]

22 minutes ago, Schmidt Meister said:

I found this picture from the ISS and I found out where it was and labelled the best known locations. The top of the picture is actually South.

Thanks. That’s home. 

[Schmidt Meister]

I found the first painting and started searching and found out who the artist was (David Lozeau) and found more of his art in his "Day of the Dead" theme.

[Schmidt Meister]

1 hour ago, Batesmotel said:

Thanks. That’s home. 

My wife and I love it out there. We live in FL but her family is in CA and whenever we go out there, we have to drive because my wife will not fly anymore. Anyway we always try to find a different route home and we went through there in 2018. We drove out to the Salt flats when I had the Jeep. That was when CA was having all the big fires and it was hazy all the way over in UT.

[Batesmotel]

1 hour ago, Schmidt Meister said:

My wife and I love it out there. We live in FL but her family is in CA and whenever we go out there, we have to drive because my wife will not fly anymore. Anyway we always try to find a different route home and we went through there in 2018. We drove out to the Salt flats when I had the Jeep. That was when CA was having all the big fires and it was hazy all the way over in UT.

We drove highway 50 through Nevada that summer. Visibility sucked. 

[railfancwb]

23 minutes ago, Batesmotel said:

We drove highway 50 through Nevada that summer. Visibility sucked. 

Highway US50 is billed as the loneliest highway. 

[Schmidt Meister]

1 hour ago, Batesmotel said:

We drove highway 50 through Nevada that summer. Visibility sucked. 

I was just beginning to have troubles with COPD that year and I suffered a little all the way back across the states until we got past UT and then we decided to head south a little to get out of the dreggy haze.

[Schmidt Meister]

A while back I posted, somewhere, about TiggerWelding and his fantastic "Piston Head" soldier creations. Here's more of his art. He has access to returned/broken Craftsman tools and they allow him to use it to make the skull art.

[Batesmotel]

On 9/13/2022 at 2:49 PM, railfancwb said:

Highway US50 is billed as the loneliest highway. 

We got the passport and all the stamps along the way. Turned it in and the Governor sent us the signed certificate. Pretty cool road trip with my wife.