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Location: Warren,Pa. | All sorts of reasons why old Ovations sell cheap. I've been watching this '76 Legend at the local store for 3 or 4 years now. There on consignment, the owner lost some fingers in an accident a few years back and can't play anymore. Paid for some repairs to the guitar..so he wanted $300 to get back his money. The guitar was dirty, smelled REALLY bad,ratty case, needs some work. So there it sat...until the other day, when I saw it in its case all cleaned up (well...a little cleaned up), new strings. Seems the owner came in the other day after being in a motorcycle accident. He was in really bad shape, never to play guitar again, and needed cash. He dropped the price to $150. I walked out with it, and am in the process of fixing it up. I'll bring it with me on the next tour to have Kim update electronics and generally "work his magic". Sad sad story, and I feel a little like I took advantage of this poor guy. But his guitar will get another loving home for another 28 years...when I'll be falling apart and need some cash and.... John <>{ |
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Location: 6 String Ranch | That's the way it goes sometimes, if it wasn't you it would be someone else and they probably wouldn't care as much so it's better off this way. |
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Location: Upper Left USA | Each day is a gift. I have known a few players that have had crashes, accidents, congenital disabilities and woodshop injuries. It broke their hearts and bodies.
These instruments that are passed to and through us can be amazing tools, but tools they are. |
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Location: NJ | That is the way it goes. but you always have to remember karma |
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Location: Minden, Nebraska | Everyone needs to know a good, reliable karmacanic. |
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Location: NJ | Karma Electra?? |
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Location: Phoenix, AZ | Originally posted by alpep:
That is the way it goes. but you always have to remember karma
Isn't karma the Spanish word for mauve? |
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Location: Phoenix AZ | I would not consider John's good fortune to be taking advantage of others misfortune at all. There are things we just can't control.
With this in mind, I read the obituary section of the local paper every single day just scouring for the poor wealthy executive in his mid 40's who has met an untimely death. If he is survived by a wife and no childres, I'm all over it. Middle aged widowed woman, plenty of money, no kids ... oh yeah baby. I'm not above catching them on the rebound. Some would call me an opportunistic scum bag, others would simply view my behavour as "market driven". |
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Location: Lake Hiawatha, New Jersey | DOH! |
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Location: Ottawa, Ontario, Canada | Do Buddhists drive Karma Ghias? |
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Location: Upper Left USA | Dave - favorite quote from "Toy Story":
"You're a sad, strange little man. You have my pity."
Where as that is akin to a Lawyer chasing ambulances, catching opportunities are different.
Camera: Fade out
Lights: Dim
Music: come in on Cat Steven's "Moonshadow".
...and if I ever loose my eyes, all my colors all run dry...
...I won't have to cry again... |
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Location: Upper Left USA | "Do Buddhists drive Karma Ghias?"
You want me to learn discipline from a 600 pound, unemployed bald guy? |
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Location: NJ | . . . a Bhuddist walks up to a guy at a hot dog cart and says:
"Make Me One with Everything" . . . . .
sorry. |
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Location: Midland, MI | Originally posted by cliff:
. . . a Bhuddist walks up to a guy at a hot dog cart and says:
"Make Me One with Everything" . . . . .
sorry.
Between this, Paul's karmachanic and SO's rundown on his dating habits, I can't stop laughing.
But, your quip reminds me of another, unrelated one:
A student asked Descartes if the proof he proposed for a particularly troublesome theorem was valid. Monsieur Renee replied, 'I don't think so.' Just then he disappeared.
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Location: Ottawa, Ontario, Canada | Good one, Cruster. Our local newspaper had a contest to see who could come up with the best line for Ahnold to say in the Terminator III movie when he kills the female cyborg. My entry: "I think, therefore you're not." |
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Location: Upper Left USA | Too deep for me.
Back to John - To everything there is a season. |
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Location: Phoenix AZ | A wise man once said "If it was not for the misfortunes of others, I would have no good fortune myself." |
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Location: Upper Left USA | "If it weren't for bad luck, I'd have no luck at all! Doom, despair, excessive misery."
The Hee Haw Gang, circa 1974? |
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Location: Ottawa, Ontario, Canada | "If it wasn't for bad luck, I wouldn't have no luck at all." From "Born Under a Bad Sign" on Cream's Wheels of Fire album. |
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Location: NJ | If it weren't for the misfortune of a good friend going through an ugly divorce, I wouldn't own my SlotHead (even though I'D "found" it 20 years previous).
Ironically, a couple years after obtaining the guitar, I'D gotten divorced . . .
. . . . perhaps I need to find a shaman to dance around the guitar, waving some chicken bones under a full moon . . . . |
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Location: NJ | I was once at a flea market with a friend and ran across an old martin guitar. It had major cracks in the top and side and was missing pieces of wood. I asked the price. the woman said $6 I pulled out my wallet paid her and walked away.
My friend said "why didn't you bargain her down? she probably would have takend $3"
My response was "if she ever found out she sold a martin for $6 the least she could think is at least the guy paid my price."
karma
btw I sold it for $250 to a guy that was going to rebuilt it. He was real happy and so was I. |
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Location: Houston, Texas | Then there is always the ubiquitous (at least at one point in time) bumper sticker that read:
"My Karma ran over my Dogma" |
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Location: Ottawa, Ontario, Canada | You know all those bumper stickers that say "I brake for (fill in blank)"? I came up with one: "I break for wind." |
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Location: NJ | Years ago, they used to have those stupid little bumperstickers with the red heart graphic on it like "I (heart) My Golden Retriever". . . .
When I used to work in a silkscreen shop, another guy and I made little stickers to go over the "heart" (with "similar" graphics) and would freely apply them to people's bumperstickers - without their knowledge, of course . . .
Some of the "results" were pretty cool:
"I (spade) My Dog"
"I (club) Ny Wife"
"I (screw) My Labrador Retriever"
. . . ah, the joys of mis-spent youth . . . . |
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Location: Pacific Northwest Inland Empire | Ah, a career in graphic arts. Cliff, you are truly gifted- twisted, maybe, but a genius, notwithstanding! |
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