Official Off Topic Discussion Thread #1

[fishhead0103666]

The honor is almost unbearable!

The American motorcycle association has been trying to get me to join since the 1970s and I’ll bet that over the years they have sent me at least 100 different membership packages.

Well now they have sent me their 100th anniversary package, including this terribly valuable and collectible 100th anniversary temporary ID card.
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They also sent an envelope containing an envelope and a letter and a flyer and a folder and an ID card glued to another card and these silver stickers. At today’s prices it must cost them about four dollars apiece to mail these out.

I figure they’ve spent about $200 to recruit me over the years, and I will never join, because I am not a 99%er. But none of that is very interesting. Here is the part that interested me the most. Look at the logo on that ID card. Notice anything strange?

OK, here I’ve made it easy. This is one of the silver stickers that they send you. What the devil is that thing?

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That’s the emblem of the least successful motorcycle engine of all time. The Wankel rotary!

Then inside they put this swirly thing that reminds me of the three running legs at the Isle of Mann motorcycle races.

But if you read it in the direction of the swirl it says MAA. You have to read it backwards (Counter clockwise) from the top in order for it to say AMA.

So maybe they just did all that to give people something to talk about? Well it worked. But I’m still not signing up or sending them a single sheckel.

I can respect the stubbornness on both ends lol.

 

[krichardson]

 

[Ulu]

I showed this photo to my wife. She grunted and asked how much I spent on it.

I didn’t have a clue, but I suspect you’d need to hire the Calypso and the Glomar Explorer to go find even one.

I told her I was still negotiating the price.

 

[jjohnwm]

Lol, if I saw you posting that pic without any explanation, I would simply have complimented your beautiful welding job...

 

[krichardson]

I showed this photo to my wife. She grunted and asked how much I spent on it.
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I didn’t have a clue, but I suspect you’d need to hire the Calypso and the Glomar Explorer to go find even one.

I told her I was still negotiating the price.

That is one sad looking coelacanth!

 

[Chet E.]

I was in 5th grade reading Tolkien when a teacher came and took it from my hand. She told me to find some easier book. I picked up a book on coelacanth... then went back to Tolkien.

 

[esoxlucius]

As a kid I remember having one of those sticker books where you received a couple of free stickers when purchasing gum. One particular book was on dinosaurs and I was that determined to complete the full set that every bit of spare change I had would go on chewing gum, lol.

The Coelacanth was portrayed on one of the stickers in the ocean section of the sticker book. They had a little write up on each animal and I remember the Coelacanth had quite a story to it. It was thought to have been extinct for 70 million years.....until divers started spotting them!!! The first sighting was back in 1938 and of course we now know they are very much still alive.

That Coelacanth sticker soon became my favourite one in the whole book.

 

[Ulu]

We got gum with baseball trading cards and monster trading cards. I didn’t care much for either. I was more attracted to Bit-O-Honey and Rollo.

 

[krichardson]

So who's up for a gyro?

 

[esoxlucius]

So who's up for a gyro?

Would that be with or without relish!! Ugghhh.