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Location: When?? | To some of you virtuoso types this may be long-winded and boring-- but to an old man porch swing picker like myself it’s really a quandary-- one of aspiration with hope toward greater expanse.
Anyway, I buy this shiny new Custom Balladeer sunburst way back in ‘81. I didn’t know much how to make it play, but I needed something to keep my hands busy so I wouldn’t smoke so much. Turns out the guitar was like coffee or beer for me.. playing it only made me wanna puff a cig. So that didn’t work.
What the heck, I figure, I’m still a kid. I can master this. If I pick the thing up a couple times a month for a few minutes I’ll probably be playing like Campbell by year’s end. So I did.. and we all know that didn’t work.
Years pass, and though playing abilities plateau, I continue finding adoring love for my Ovation. I buy a computer with some high-end recording and sound software. Amazing stuff. So now, even if I have to record and patch 161 pieces and parts to render a masterpiece with this new method, hey, I’m in. Instantly Campbell, right? Nope. Didn’t work.
Finally, I wise up to its real worth. I figure since I’ve been banging on this thing for decades, and since I’ve written dozens of songs on it, even if they’re howlers, they’re mine. A savings account of personal times and sorts that I can add to today.
Winter work’s been slow so I had the time. I tweaked the old gal’s setup a bit, strung her up with my very last stash of coveted 1818s, layered on a good hard finger crust and bore down on some old fun made new. A fresh take with improving results. Even joined the OFC. Having a blast.. though yet, it has brought on a nagging itch. A quickly growing desire for something shiny and new (uh-oh).
Then, just the other night, a moment took place. I was screeching on my O while strolling about the house. In the kitchen my wife was slicing meat on the counter. As I passed behind her I casually mentioned, “I need more guitars.”
The meat cutting immediately stopped. Her response was one where the head does not move from its facing position. Only the eyeball moves, in silence, to the corner of the face. It peered. I paused, peered back, then glanced down at the hacked meat, then back at the silent eyeball. Then our tandem stare shifted toward the butcher knife.
So I ask of those who may have ever experienced that same type of spousal encounter during a spell of addictive forbearance… one, in this particular case, where the aforesaid spouse’s 2004 model car sobs in the garage seeking a vanity replacement during times of purse strings under my control.. are there any magic words to convince and soothe the savage beast, and to eek out but just one more year’s mileage on the ’04? I don't speak fluent guitar. Am I doomed??
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"She asked me to choose between her and the guitars..... I will miss her."
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Location: Frozen Tundra of Minnesota | Mr. Ovation - 2016-03-12 12:25 PM
It is at these times I look to inspiration from t-shirt slogans.
"She asked me to choose between her and the guitars..... I will miss her."
I don't miss mine one little bit....  but that is a story I will keep to myself.
Compromises can work, she gets something shiny and new, and you get something shiny and new (you have to agree ahead of time, that cost isn't the issue - if her want only costs $75, and your is $750, you both are getting what you want) I hate the "well you spent more on XXXX than I did arguments...)
Celebration Gifts work well for GAS Acquisitions, Birthdays, Anniversary's, Father's Days, Christmas, and if it is something *very* nice that you want, ask to combine them all for one BIG Present!
Or, the ploy I usually employed.... get it, and then put it in the middle of your other ones, (this actually worked best on clothes and sweaters, you could stuff them in the closet or drawer) and then get in a huff when he asks you if it is new, because you have had it forever, and he never notices you anymore!
I Love your picturesque stories, please keep them coming, I really enjoy your writing style! Very fun!! And Welcome to the OFC!! 
P.S. OH! And don't EVER say, "I need *more*..." they will jump all over you, immediately thinking you want 25 or more... one step at a time, "I would really Love to get *a* new guitar..." be careful with a woman good with a knife, if she knows how to use it, she could probably be quite convincing that it was an *Accident* to the Police.... Good Luck, and keep us posted so that we know you are okay...
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Location: Jet City | When I first joined the OFC I had a girlfriend who didn't quite understand my needs... for guitars that is.
I did the 'compromise' thing Nancy suggested. I ended up with a few new guitars, and she ended up with a few new Coach bags.
But that got old. Now she's an ex-girlfriend.
Sara understands me... no Coach bags needed. Sometimes she even encourages me... a definite keeper! |
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Location: Frozen Tundra of Minnesota | Damon67 - 2016-03-12 3:43 PM
When I first joined the OFC I had a girlfriend who didn't quite understand my needs... for guitars that is.
I did the 'compromise' thing Nancy suggested. I ended up with a few new guitars, and she ended up with a few new Coach bags.
But that got old. Now she's an ex-girlfriend.
Sara understands me... no Coach bags needed. Sometimes she even encourages me... a definite keeper!
She is a Good Woman Damon, she likes to see you happy!! Just don't forget to reward her *understanding* with lots of "I don't know what I would do without you" and long hugs, those are the best rewards you can get as a woman!
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Location: Utah | Accidentally leave your browser up with photos of various member's collections. Nance, ProfBB, Damon, and many others here have exquisite collections. Or just large collections. Then when you say you just want "one more" it doesn't seem nearly so bad. You could, after all, be one of those nuts with rooms full of guitars!
Another strategy is to buy guitars that all have similar cosmetics. All sunburst, for example, or all natural wood. Chances are she won't notice the differences... |
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Location: Frozen Tundra of Minnesota | FlySig - 2016-03-12 6:25 PM
Accidentally leave your browser up with photos of various member's collections. Nance, ProfBB, Damon, and many others here have exquisite collections. Or just large collections. Then when you say you just want "one more" it doesn't seem nearly so bad. You could, after all, be one of those nuts with rooms full of guitars!
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Dew Spew!!!!! Gotta go clean my screen again, Thanks FlySig!! LMAO!!!!!!
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Location: Frozen Tundra of Minnesota | Mark in Boise - 2016-03-13 3:11 PM
And more than one wife is way more expensive than more than one guitar. Mine told me many years ago that cars were lots cheaper than bimbos and guitars are lots cheaper than cars.
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Location: When?? | Oh, my.. I had no idea there would be so many responses to my post! Thank you all for your insight, suggestions and thoughtful wit!
I see that I may just fit in around here since we all seem to have our way of interpreting the rules of marriage, especially as they pertain to GAS (which, by the way, thank you, Cavalier, for enlightening me to the definition). Now I just have to figure out which one to use.. though as the enjoyable preponderance and mystic resolutions fade and the hangover sets in, I have a strong feeling there is probably going to be both a new guitar and a new car in our household's future; so it looks like Nancy's idea will most likely be credited as the solution :-)
Now a whole new problem.. I want a two-door coupe, and she wants a small SUV. Damn, man, it never stops.. but I won't trouble you all with that one. So off I go to the Motor Trend forum. As long as there's enough room in said vehicle to transport my new Ovation home, I guess all will be fine (I guess). Anyone here work for a bank?
Thank you all again for your kind replies! I am humbled.
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Location: Keepin' It Weird in Portland, OR | Love O Fair - 2016-03-13 4:09 PM
Now a whole new problem.. I want a two-door coupe, and she wants a small SUV.
No Problem.
You want guitars, let her have the SUV.
You can haul many more guitars in an SUV that a small coupe. 
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Location: Frozen Tundra of Minnesota | Old Man Arthur - 2016-03-13 6:23 PM
Love O Fair - 2016-03-13 4:09 PM
Now a whole new problem.. I want a two-door coupe, and she wants a small SUV.
No Problem.
You want guitars, let her have the SUV.
You can haul many more guitars in an SUV that a small coupe.
+1 Arthur!!!!
PLEASE get her the SUV!!! I have driven a regular car all my life, and wanted an SUV, finally (after getting rid of the obstacle in the way), I bought myself a Cherry Red Saturn Vue SUV, and I LOVE it!!! It is SO easy to get in and out of, you can load and unload groceries so easily, and to be honest, you could offer me Dr Savages' "vette, and I would pick my little "Ruby" over it!!! That really is important for Women, you sit higher, see better, feel safer, and makes you feel like a Queen of the Road!!! Let her have her SUV, and you will get anything you want!!! AND like OMA said, you can carry more Ovations in the back!
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Nancy, this is Beth. Beth, this is Nancy (Hi. Hi.)
So, now you can both commence to pummel me together for being a selfish *man* who will gladly sacrifice the practicality of an SUV just to keep a visual of his babe pulling up the driveway in a cute little girly car (her '04 is a Toyota Celica). However.. I am now thinking of just biting the bullet and going for a sex change. Yep. It's just GOTTA be easier that way (except for long nails digging into a fret board.. yikes!)
And Arthur.. while you are right about the SUV's guitar hauling capacity, you're not helping matters on the mano front.. unless you want to marry me after "the change" since I suppose Beth will likely be kinda put off by it. If so, then I'll probably want the SUV!
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Location: undisclosed | As a single Dad for the past 17 years I seemed to attract the ones that needed mending before flying off again, but really love shouldn't be about clipping wings but setting free. It's a big world out there. Now with my son in college I actually have more time to look around but when things seem far between I hum the bluegrass tune "There's more pretty girls than one." I 'd stay away from the Bad Girl Gas though, because it will use money you could spend on guitars.
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Location: Frozen Tundra of Minnesota | Cavalier - 2016-03-13 7:21 PM
Plus there is a back seat in the SUV if you ever decide to change your gas attack to Bad (Girl Acquisition Syndrome) GAS!
And in an SUV, you can fold down the back seats, and have a full length space for being naughty, and/or star gazing with Beth!!!
Nope, I would never call you *selfish* you care about what she thinks, ergo, not selfish! Keep your pair, there are enough willing to give theirs up, the real men need to keep them! (and that is far enough past my comfort zone on that subject...)
Could you take out the loan for the SUV, and get a little extra for a new Ovation??? The interest on a car loan is much lower than a CC rate. If you need to see a "Babe" in a hot, sporty car, rent "Vacation" and watch Christy Brinkley, I have never seen it, but I hear she is really hot in it! LOL!!! In real life, a 2 door really sucks for doing groceries, or if you have children or pets... they look sporty, but Oh! So impractical for doing the practical everyday things.
I think it is really nice that you are thinking of her too LOF, you are not selfish, you just have a bad GAS attack, and I no stranger to that mentally debilitating ailment! It can make you do incredibly stupid things, and justify them with micro-thin, flimsy logic, and still be very happy, and proud of yourself for coming up with ANY justification for it! LOL!!!
Best of Luck on your decisions, I hope that you have taken the very drastic one off the table! Believe me, you don't want to be a female, we get blamed for every evil that has befallen man since Adam & Eve.
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Location: Jet City | Old Man Arthur - 2016-03-13 4:23 PM You can haul many more guitars in an SUV that a small coupe. 
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Location: Frozen Tundra of Minnesota | Mark in Boise - 2016-03-13 9:24 PM
An SUV is slightly less useful, but more rugged than a minivan. Don't kid yourself about the safety, Nancy. Bigger isn't necessarily safer. There's nothing scarier to me than a tailgating woman in an SUV talking on a cell phone.
Mine was being in my tiny little car, and seeing a loaded Semi coming towards me, fast - it almost always felt like it was going to flip me over, or blow my car off the road, especially in the winter. And tailgating guys in their pick up trucks always blinded you at night (any tailgater for that matter really) scares the begeebers out of me.
I do feel safer up higher in my SUV than that teeny-tiny car. Although, I do miss the cornering on that low little bugger! But I am much safer now, because with the SUV I feel very unstable trying to corner too fast, and in the little car, it was always my "little race car, and the road was a course to beat", so I have slowed down significantly. |
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Location: undisclosed | Nancy - 2016-03-13 7:04 PM
Cavalier - 2016-03-13 7:21 PM
Plus there is a back seat in the SUV if you ever decide to change your gas attack to Bad (Girl Acquisition Syndrome) GAS!
Best of Luck on your decisions, I hope that you have taken the very drastic one off the table! Believe me, you don't want to be a female, we get blamed for every evil that has befallen man since Adam & Eve.
Nancy it takes two to tango, blame is lame and if you are lame you can't dance.
I like Eve!
How do you like them apples?
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Maybe it is because I think like a tramp...
But when buying a car I always think "Can I Sleep In It?"
Get an SUV or a Mini van... whichever.
So long as the back seat folds down and you can lie-down.
Therefore, a RAV4 is not what I am thinking of.
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In our modern software company, E Den, are 2 interns, we'll call them Adman and Even, The use the corporate software to do their office chores but the CEO won't let anyone access the code to write their own programs. Even found this annoying because she liked to think for herself and come up with creative solutions.
One day Even's computer encountered a worm virus that delivered to her the software code. She showed her buddy Adman during their lunch break and he said, "Wow this is neat! Do you know how much time we could save if we made a few changes?" Even replied, "The shocking thing is the worm virus showed the code isn't copyrighted or patented. "
The CEO walking by heard their chatter and said, "Hold it you two, here it is my way or the highway. Because you can code you'll have to leave because I can no longer trust that you won't mess up the corporate software. Your life in E Den was set with catered lunches, a climbing wall and great health plans, Good luck on your own."
So Adman and Even began a start up. At times things were hard and they had to live with the consequences of their mistakes but their product caught on and their users multiplied. More than once the CEO was heard to say, "Someday I'd really like to get Even."
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Location: Indiana | Old Man Arthur - 2016-03-13 10:26 PM
Now that this has drifted to automobiles....
Maybe it is because I think like a tramp...
But when buying a car I always think "Can I Sleep In It?"
Right with ya, OMA. The first big record I had as a songwriter... I bought a new minivan. Had a mentor that advised me to do that. "You'll always have somewhere to live." |
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Location: Frozen Tundra of Minnesota | ProfessorBB - 2016-03-14 8:35 AM
It is possible to reach a point where there are so many guitars (and amps and neon signs) that new additions go completely unnoticed. I just tell SWMBO that the damn things are now breeding.
LOL!!!! That is exactly what I used to tell the ex-HWMBO too, about my Model Horses!!
Now they pay for my New Bad Habit!
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Location: Frozen Tundra of Minnesota | Ok, to bring it back on topic, LOF is your Wife a "yes" person, or a "no" person - when you ask her a question, or ask her to do something, does she typically say, "yes" or "no"??
I took a Class at work that taught us to deal with "No" people. (I don't believe it was supposed to teach us about training our Bosses, but the process adapted very well on them!) If they like to say No, you can still get what you want, and they still get to say No, and everyone gets what they want! Simple Question Re-Structuring!!!
My Boss was a No person, first thing out of his mouth was always No!, so I learned to ask for what I wanted, in a way that he could still say No, and I would get what I wanted! e.g. Instead of saying, "Bill, can I leave 15 minutes early today?" to which he would reply, "No", I would say; "Bill, would you have a problem with me leaving 15 minutes early today?" He would automatically say "No". I got to leave 15 minutes early, and he got to say No. Once I had that figured out, I used it very successfully for years, and we both got what we wanted!
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Location: Boise, Idaho | I'm sure mine would prefer it if I didn't ask, so she could just roll her eyes and give me "the look" and then tell all our friends who don't play guitar or aren't interested in music how I have 17 guitars made by the same company. (She usually estimates on the low side, so I don't correct her.) That's what I think she prefers, anyway. I've never asked. I think she secretly enjoys my guitar room.
We've talked about having separate accounts like the Professor does, but that involved too much work for me and she was robbing "her" account to pay for "our" stuff, so she closed her account. Everyone needs to find out what works for them. Our method will have been working for 40 years next year, so it's not likely to change. |
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Location: Utah | Love O Fair - 2016-03-13 6:41 PM
Cavalier.. your post came in while I was writing mine. Ya know, I think you may be onto something there. I'm calling the surgeon to cancel.
And Nancy.. you didn't see this!
http://youtu.be/RAyKvN8gVi4
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Location: Frozen Tundra of Minnesota | Regardless of your methods, you both have worked it out with your SO, and I applaud you both, Mark & Dave!!!
40 years, Holy Buckets! I love to hear Sucess Stories like this! It restores my Faith in that Fine Institution! It really does!!! Great job Guys!!!
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Location: Sydney, Australia | nerdydave - 2016-03-15 10:37 AM You just have a yours account a my account and an ours account. Household stuff comes out of our account. Your guitars come out of your account and it is no one else's business. Works great for us. My account struggles to buy strings  |
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Do not, put yourself in a position of driving home with your spouse/sig other etc... and pull into the driveway when there are 11 guitar boxes sitting on the porch. I don't know how I didn't know they would all show up that day.... I don't know why it was MY idea to come home for lunch. Just don't do it that way is all I'm saying. I honestly don't remember her words, but mine were something like "aba ah da ba ahhh" followed by mumbling.
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Location: Frozen Tundra of Minnesota | Mr. Ovation - 2016-03-15 5:25 AM
and pull into the driveway when there are 11 guitar boxes sitting on the porch.
Miles, you are The Man!!!! 11 Guitars at one time!!!! WOW!!! |
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Location: Pittsburgh | That's a great story, Nancy! Hope he appreciated all you went through to pull it off. |
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Location: Keepin' It Weird in Portland, OR | My tops was 3.
Found an Ovation at Silver Lining Pawn Shop...
Came home to find that FedEx had left one at the front desk.
Then the mailman brought one.
That was a Good Day!
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Location: Boise, Idaho | Nancy, I've had similar dreams, where the guitar I hinted at like crazy disappeared from the market, so I thought it would show up under the tree. But I always woke up to the reality of "you don't need more guitars." I'd rather have her complain that I bought a guitar she was going to buy as a present. The OFC 1 was essentially that--birthday, Father's Day and Christmas present. Buy your own present and tell your spouse that you saved her the trouble. |
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Location: Jet City | I don't recall the most I've bought in a single day used, but I remember quite well buying 2 brand new ones. A brand new Adamas 2 Reissue from Alpep and a new 2078 Custom Elite from a local dealer at the Ovation Roadshow.
That was an expensive day. |
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Location: Frozen Tundra of Minnesota | I will never forget getting my 4 at once last Spring (3 from Tony, and the Nakao from John B) with all of you guys there to be excited with me! One of my very Favorite Days!!! I was so excited, I didn't know which one to open first, and was literally bouncing off the walls! LOL!! Too Much Fun!!! |
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Location: Boise, Idaho | Damon, I was there that day and came home with one song book. I really liked the wood topped Adamas and wish I'd have bought it. |
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Location: When?? | Now you guys are just taunting me, right? Showing off? 2.. 3.. 4.. 11 guitars in ONE day? Oh well, I guess that's just part of the dues I must pay for being such a junior member on here. But just you wait.. one of these days, I'll show you.. you'll see. I'll prove that I can get just as messed up on this stuff as the rest of yas!
::enduring the envy::
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Location: Keepin' It Weird in Portland, OR | Mark in Boise - 2016-03-15 2:52 PM
Damon, I was there that day and came home with one song book. I really liked the wood topped Adamas and wish I'd have bought it.
When the Roadshow came through Portland, I could have bought a nearly new Wood-Top Adamas for $1500! And I didn't What was I thinking?
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Location: Boise, Idaho | We blew it, Arthur. At least one of us should have it. |
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Location: Frozen Tundra of Minnesota | Love O Fair - 2016-03-15 4:53 PM
Now you guys are just taunting me, right? Showing off? 2.. 3.. 4.. 11 guitars in ONE day? Oh well, I guess that's just part of the dues I must pay for being such a junior member on here. But just you wait.. one of these days, I'll show you.. you'll see. I'll prove that I can get just as messed up on this stuff as the rest of yas!
::enduring the envy::
~LOF~
When you do, we will be there to cheer you on!!!!
We get excited about 1 coming in!!! |
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Location: Keepin' It Weird in Portland, OR | But it is a slippery slope.
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Location: Sydney, Australia | Old Man Arthur - 2016-03-16 8:11 AM Mark in Boise - 2016-03-15 2:52 PM Damon, I was there that day and came home with one song book. I really liked the wood topped Adamas and wish I'd have bought it. When the Roadshow came through Portland, I could have bought a nearly new Wood-Top Adamas for $1500! And I didn't What was I thinking? Didn't you have a spare kidney? |
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Location: Keepin' It Weird in Portland, OR | In 20/20 Hindsight, it was a Stupid Move.
I would have had to wait until the Roadshow was over to receive the guitar.
But I had the money!
I was unemployed, but I was getting a check at that time.
(and my unemployment check was more than the paycheck of many people that I knew)
I hadn't thought about that for a looong time.
But now that MIB reminded me of that, I have been mentally kicking myself.
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Location: The Great Pacific Northwest | Beal - 2016-03-15 1:13 PM
Only 11?
LOL... yeah.. that day.. |
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Location: Frozen Tundra of Minnesota | Beal - 2016-03-17 1:56 PM
LOL welcome to the club.
I am intrigued.... How do you even find 11 guitars you want all at once, let alone orchestrate them all into arriving on one day???? |
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Location: When?? | @Nancy >>>I am intrigued.... How do you even find 11 guitars you want all at once, let alone orchestrate them all into arriving on one day????<<<
Yeah, I was wondering that, too. I guess if someone were to haul off and buy a music store it could happen pretty easy, but other than that it would seem to be a very unique day in one's life. Then again, from some of the collections I see on here, eleven at once could easily be a "meh" to a true addict.
Who was it did the lyric?... "There's a hole in Daddy's arm where all the money goes."
I guess it could be changed to, "There's a room down the hall where all the money goes."
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Location: Frozen Tundra of Minnesota | ~LOF~
LOL!!!!!!!!! You Got It!!!! There are allot worse things to spend money on! |
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Location: NJ | "There's a hole in Daddy's arm where all the money goes."
- John Prine |
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Location: When?? | Cliff... I knew that.
Okay, well, maybe I USED to know it.. lol. Thanks for the refresher :-) |
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