Just joined, and wanted to say hello...with a flock of '79 T-Birds

[Kingface66]

Ouch! Late 81/early 82 I sold my 79 Ric to buy an aluminum neck Kramer. Which was eventually replaced by a Guild Pilot. Which was eventually replaced by a Ric. 

Welcome Kingface!

There was an electric blue aluminum neck Kramer floating around a group of friends back in the day! It was bought by someone's girlfriend, but co-opted by the dude's brother, who then traded it to the brother (the one w the girlfriend) for a bunch of X-Men comics....including X-Men #1. During that time, every one of us used it at least once or twice.
That thing weighed a TON.

[BTL]

Welcome!

I understand about half of what is going on in this thread.

Par for the course for me here, I'm afraid.

[Pilgrim]

Refer to earlier WWII threads, the Tom Brady dildo thread, and see miscellaneous T-bird worship throughout the forum.

That's all the context you need.

[TBird1958]

Ok. Let's see:
- I love Deep Purple, but am not crazy at all about Rickenbacker basses. I still play Machine Head at least every few weeks.
- In order of personal favorites: Spitfire Mk Vb, F4U-4 Corsair (I grew up watching "Baa Baa Blacksheep"), Bf 109k, and the MiG3, (just 'cause the winter white camo with the red arrow on its fuselage was so cool-looking).
- Not a train guy. Nothing against them, just never got into them.
- Gonna hold-off on that last one.

 Corsairs are cool (It's helpful to be able to recognize them vs. a Hellcat, ask Kenny!) and as the resident model train and provocateur of "the love that dare not speak it's name" I can only say that it's never too late to try something new 

[Highlander]

Ah yes... the "Hellcat Incident..." 

Do your research, Mr K66, or ensure your resilience in the face of a frontal assault, or a posterial...

[uwe]

"I still play Machine Head at least every few weeks."

Ok, I think we have something to work with then. 

[OldManC]

You already fit in just fine (no pun intended). Glad to add another to our ranks!

[godofthunder]

   NICE collection ! I have a black 77 in the herd.

[Kingface66]

   NICE collection ! I have a black 77 in the herd.

Why is it always so great seeing one out in the wild??

[godofthunder]

   My first Thunderbird was a 76 I bought new, then a year or so later I discovered nonrevese Thunderbirds. Sadly I sold the 76 in '84. I found the black 77 on GCs  website about 5 years ago. It  filled the void nicely.  One of my NRs  😉

[godofthunder]

  Oh  yeah, welcome!

[Kingface66]

  OH yeah, welcome!

Thank you, man! Good to be here!

[Nocturnal]

Great collection!! Nice to see another Andy with a fetish for black Thunderbirds    Welcome to the Outpost!!

[66Atlas]

Nice looking quartet!

[exiledarchangel]

I've been vocal in my support for Led Zep and their much deserved success here at all times!

Doctors smoke because they know that all medicine and surgery is ultimately futile. And they tend to rely on statistical survival rates. My dad has been a smoker of 10 to a pack a day since his teenage days, he is 85 now, no matter what he does, cancer won't catch up with him anymore. That's not me advocating smoking, I never did (I would have been allowed to from at home no sweat, so there was no revolutionary point ever starting it). But as a liberal non-smoker, I've ironically been surrounded by smokers all my life. Smoking friends, smoking parents, smoking wives and even smoking kids! My dad, the perennial smoker, raised non-smokers (my brothers don't smoke either) and I, the non-smoker, did the reverse with my kids.

We've got a saying for this, "a priests son is devils grandson". My father smokes like a chimney, almost 2 packs a day, my brother and me both hate it. Lets see what happens with the little one...