Re: [MBZ] Jabba parts ban

2013-08-25 Thread Gary Hurst
that is an explanation to you? when wouldn't he have shipped when the money came in 2 or 3 days later? does it not occur to anyone here that this explanation makes no sense whatever on any level? anybody? On Sun, Aug 25, 2013 at 12:26 AM, dsereta...@yahoo.com wrote: Yes. Well it's good to

Re: [MBZ] OT Louie Louie

2013-08-25 Thread Gerry Archer
That's remarkable! A Met opera performer on the Mercedes List! A blind, music loving friend has a classical music list. With your permission, I'd like to post this on her list. (Last year?) we saw Natalie Dessay in the title role of Lucia Di Lammermoor on closed circuit. We were anxious

Re: [MBZ] OT Louie Louie

2013-08-25 Thread Hendrik and Fay
You people are all so low brow, this is the good stuff http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pDHzK3Xe7Yw Hendrik who has excellent taste in muzak On 25/08/13 16:45, Gerry Archer wrote: That's remarkable! A Met opera performer on the Mercedes List! A blind, music loving friend has a classical music

[MBZ] Opry

2013-08-25 Thread Jim Cathey
Coeur d'Alene puts on one opera a year. This year it's Rigoletto. Two performances. My wife's the pit orchestra contractor, and is playing oboe. Neighboring Spokane, with a bigger/better symphony, has no opera. Has an opera house, though. World's Fair leftover. -- Jim

Re: [MBZ] Trent parts ban

2013-08-25 Thread Hendrik and Fay
Hmmnh, sure cash flow can be a problem but it is my understanding that Rusty got you started, so would have had an understanding of the way the system works? Also I think it would have been better if you had kept your customers informed as to the situation, not go silent for a couple of months

Re: [MBZ] 91 350SDL knackers colonel milton

2013-08-25 Thread Hendrik and Fay
Problem with that is that you get all the weirdos come crawling out from under their rocks, however a throw away email address to screen the nutjobs should do the trick. Perhaps milt-the-w...@hotmail.com or sexgod...@gmail.com or to scare the tire kickers away colonelcr...@nukeyou.now I

Re: [MBZ] OT Louie Louie

2013-08-25 Thread Andrew Strasfogel
Delightful! On Sun, Aug 25, 2013 at 3:37 AM, Hendrik and Fay heni...@gmail.com wrote: You people are all so low brow, this is the good stuff http://www.youtube.com/watch?**v=pDHzK3Xe7Ywhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pDHzK3Xe7Yw Hendrik who has excellent taste in muzak On 25/08/13 16:45,

Re: [MBZ] OT Louie Louie

2013-08-25 Thread Dan Penoff
I have hung out with Sherril Milnes on a couple of occasions. Nice guy, very gracious. Dan who likes Puccini and Verdi On Aug 25, 2013, at 3:15 AM, Gerry Archer wrote: That's remarkable! A Met opera performer on the Mercedes List! A blind, music loving friend has a classical music list.

Re: [MBZ] 91 350SDL knackers colonel milton

2013-08-25 Thread mlh
I haven't been paying attention to the details, as I am not in the market for a 126 with a steering wheel on the wrong side but if the body is rust free, it should be fixed. How much is a 3 litre (not sure what that is in cubes) MB turbo Diesel from a wreck? Are LHD cars exotic there like

[MBZ] OT From the NFS files

2013-08-25 Thread Rich Thomas
http://www.foxnews.com/world/2013/08/25/crocodile-fatally-attacks-partygoer-in-australia Alcohol may have played a part in the decision to swim, he said. --R ___ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To

Re: [MBZ] Jabba parts ban

2013-08-25 Thread G. M. Brown
I agree w/ Rich: Kleb, it would be beneficial to all to just shut off his email. It would also be beneficial if folks paid some attention to I-net etiquette and not copy/paste the entire previous conversation(s) on the subject as all you're doing is using up bandwidth. G. M. Brown

Re: [MBZ] netiquette

2013-08-25 Thread Rick Knoble
On Aug 25, 2013, at 12:39 PM, G. M. Brown g_010...@hotmail.com wrote: It would also be beneficial if folks paid some attention to I-net etiquette and not copy/paste the entire previous conversation(s) on the subject as all you're doing is using up bandwidth. So post like this? Rick Sent

Re: [MBZ] Jabba parts ban

2013-08-25 Thread Rick Knoble
Not like this? Rick Sent from my iPhone On Aug 25, 2013, at 12:39 PM, G. M. Brown g_010...@hotmail.com wrote: I agree w/ Rich: Kleb, it would be beneficial to all to just shut off his email. It would also be beneficial if folks paid some attention to I-net etiquette and not copy/paste

Re: [MBZ] OT From the NFS files

2013-08-25 Thread Larry T
That's like a redneck saying Hold my beer and watch _this_! You know something bad is going to happen larryt On 8/25/2013 12:29 PM, Rich Thomas wrote: http://www.foxnews.com/world/2013/08/25/crocodile-fatally-attacks-partygoer-in-australia Alcohol may have played a part in the

Re: [MBZ] Jabba parts ban

2013-08-25 Thread Richard Hattaway
Will someone define bandwidth for me, please. -- I agree w/ Rich: Kleb, it would be beneficial to all to just shut off his email.

Re: [MBZ] Jabba parts ban

2013-08-25 Thread Gary Hurst
ok, you know like your pants and then you can add on that extra to the waist? that's bandwith! On Sun, Aug 25, 2013 at 3:06 PM, Richard Hattaway rhatta...@rocketmail.comwrote: Will someone define bandwidth for me, please.

Re: [MBZ] Jabba parts ban

2013-08-25 Thread Larry T
snip, snip, snip!! :-) On 8/25/2013 3:06 PM, Richard Hattaway wrote: Will someone define bandwidth for me, please. -- I agree w/

Re: [MBZ] Jabba parts ban

2013-08-25 Thread Rich Thomas
no ___ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com

Re: [MBZ] Jabba parts ban

2013-08-25 Thread WILTON
- Original Message - From: Rich Thomas richthomas79td...@constructivity.net no No, what? ;) Wilton ___ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to:

Re: [MBZ] Jabba parts ban

2013-08-25 Thread rickknoble
Will someone define bandwidth for me, please. -- http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Bandwidthmobileaction=toggle_view_desktop All those characters in that

Re: [MBZ] Jabba parts ban

2013-08-25 Thread Rich Thomas
lowbandwidthreply ___ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com

[MBZ] Gravity powered LED light

2013-08-25 Thread mlh
Now here's a reading light for undeveloped areas that makes sense. Lift a 10 kilo sack of dirt, read for a half hour, when the light goes out lift the sack again. http://www.fastcoexist.com/1681067/a-5-light-for-the-developing-world-with-an-ingenious-fuel-gravity?partner=ps03101changegen#5

[MBZ] Iamgoingtostartonlypostinginthesubjectlineinordertosavebandwidth

2013-08-25 Thread Kaleb C. Striplin
Sent from my iPhone On Aug 25, 2013, at 2:55 PM, Rich Thomas richthomas79td...@constructivity.net wrote: lowbandwidthreply ___ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery

Re: [MBZ] Inlyhv5Mb/sbndwdthcnxnsowilldothesmndstrpoutsmvwls

2013-08-25 Thread Rich Thomas
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Re: [MBZ] Iamgoingtostartonlypostinginthesubjectlineinordertosavebandwidth

2013-08-25 Thread OK Don
BTT -- Fail! -- OK Don They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety. - Benjamin Franklin 1775 in this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes. - Benjamin Franklin 1789 2013 F150, 19

Re: [MBZ] Inlyhv5Mb/sbndwdthcnxnsowilldothesmndstrpoutsmvwls

2013-08-25 Thread OK Don
Hmmm -- seems I like vowels, now that they are gone . . . -- OK Don They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety. - Benjamin Franklin 1775 in this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes. - Benjamin

Re: [MBZ] Iamgoingtostartonlypostinginthesubjectlineinordertosavebandwidth

2013-08-25 Thread G Mann
You have saved so damn much precious bandwidth I now have absolutely NO IDEA what the hell you are responding to or talking about. I don't know what genius here complained about top posting to a thread of conversation, and don't care. If, in this perfect electronic world of modern computer magic,

Re: [MBZ] Iamgoingtostartonlypostinginthesubjectlineinordertosavebandwidth

2013-08-25 Thread WILTON
'Nother goodun, Grant! BTW, is that one TABLE setting? :)), ;)) Wilton - Original Message - From: G Mann g2ma...@gmail.com To: Mercedes Discussion List mercedes@okiebenz.com Sent: Sunday, August 25, 2013 6:59 PM Subject: Re:

Re: [MBZ] Iamgoingtostartonlypostinginthesubjectlineinordertosavebandwidth

2013-08-25 Thread Gerry Archer
4 COL. AWGTHTGTTA? (EMFJI) http://www.netlingo.com/acronyms.php Gerrysaving bandwidth 'Nother goodun, Grant! BTW, is that one TABLE setting? :)), ;)) Wilton - Original Message - From: G Mann g2ma...@gmail.com To: Mercedes Discussion List

[MBZ] rare mercedes content, not about parts dealers

2013-08-25 Thread Rick Hawkins Java
Folks, Sorry if this is on the topic of mercedes cars Do any of you have a decent extra steering wheel for a 123 car ? By decent, i mean one that is smooth all the way around and has an intact covering ... factory wheel The steering wheel on my 1982 300td has developed a tear in the

Re: [MBZ] rare mercedes content, not about parts dealers

2013-08-25 Thread Kaleb C. Striplin
I may have I will look and see. Sent from my iPhone On Aug 25, 2013, at 7:54 PM, Rick Hawkins Java macj...@aol.com wrote: Folks, Sorry if this is on the topic of mercedes cars Do any of you have a decent extra steering wheel for a 123 car ? By decent, i mean one that is smooth all

Re: [MBZ] rare mercedes content, not about parts dealers

2013-08-25 Thread Peter Frederick
Try shoe goo for the repair, it will hold much better than rubber cement, but only if the material is still solid enough to glue. Peter ___ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery

Re: [MBZ] rare mercedes content, not about parts dealers

2013-08-25 Thread Gary Hurst
i once tried shoe goo on some sneakers and didn't like the results at all On Sun, Aug 25, 2013 at 10:17 PM, Peter Frederick psf...@earthlink.netwrote: Try shoe goo for the repair, it will hold much better than rubber cement, but only if the material is still solid enough to glue. Peter

Re: [MBZ] rare mercedes content, not about parts dealers

2013-08-25 Thread Peter Frederick
It requires at least overnight to fully set, even when used as a contact cement. When it holds, it's great stuff. Really messy, though! Peter ___ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change

Re: [MBZ] rare mercedes content, not about parts dealers

2013-08-25 Thread G Mann
For a complicated curve piece such as a steering wheel.. shoe goo works best if the offending pieces are held in intimate contact with each other during the cure.. No clamping action directly equates to failed fix. My experience with steering wheels is to apply shoe goo [or other adhesive of

Re: [MBZ] parts site?

2013-08-25 Thread Benz Hogs
Ya, but Skype is just another thing I'd have to install/run. Google chat has voice, video, and text just like Skype. I already have Voice running on my cell giving me a 2nd and local phone number for business use. Luther KB5QHUForest Park, IL '98 ML320 Max (170,xxx mi) On 8/24/2013

Re: [MBZ] parts site?

2013-08-25 Thread Gary Hurst
did you see the pick of my bicycle? On Sun, Aug 25, 2013 at 11:17 PM, Benz Hogs benz-n-h...@gulseth.net wrote: Ya, but Skype is just another thing I'd have to install/run. Google chat has voice, video, and text just like Skype. I already have Voice running on my cell giving me a 2nd and

Re: [MBZ] Jabba parts

2013-08-25 Thread Benz Hogs
I think that'd be fun! An apple and banana! :) Luther KB5QHUForest Park, IL '98 ML320 Max (170,xxx mi) On 8/24/2013 2:49 PM, Gary Hurst wrote: we'd be a perfect silent movie comedy team On Sat, Aug 24, 2013 at 3:28 PM, Mitch Haleym...@voyager.net wrote: Mike Esh wrote: Sorry, I

Re: [MBZ] parts site?

2013-08-25 Thread Gary Hurst
pic On Sun, Aug 25, 2013 at 11:19 PM, Gary Hurst jabbahur...@gmail.com wrote: did you see the pick of my bicycle? On Sun, Aug 25, 2013 at 11:17 PM, Benz Hogs benz-n-h...@gulseth.netwrote: Ya, but Skype is just another thing I'd have to install/run. Google chat has voice, video, and

Re: [MBZ] take 3

2013-08-25 Thread Benz Hogs
Is that a Road Morph on your top tube? If so, damn good pump! Luther KB5QHUForest Park, IL '98 ML320 Max (170,xxx mi) On 8/24/2013 7:53 PM, Gary Hurst wrote: clearly amazon cloud is failing me badly. or visa versa https://www.amazon.com/clouddrive/share?s=sDgiYAz-R-ovDbjpLfT0ZI

Re: [MBZ] Jabba parts

2013-08-25 Thread Gary Hurst
another fine mess you've gotten us into! On Sun, Aug 25, 2013 at 11:19 PM, Benz Hogs benz-n-h...@gulseth.net wrote: I think that'd be fun! An apple and banana! :) Luther KB5QHUForest Park, IL '98 ML320 Max (170,xxx mi) On 8/24/2013 2:49 PM, Gary Hurst wrote: we'd be a perfect

Re: [MBZ] take 3

2013-08-25 Thread Gary Hurst
a good eye for hardware have you, young jedi http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000FI6YOS/ref=wms_ohs_product?ie=UTF8psc=1 seems i also once bought a pocket rocket but i have no clue where it ever ended up as i never used it and would have as i have this super crazpy schwinn labeled one of hte

Re: [MBZ] OT Louie Louie

2013-08-25 Thread Benz Hogs
Uh, no. Try Mahler, Brahms, Bruckner, Dvorak, Berlioz, Wagner, Puccinni, Rossini, Faure, Debussy, Mendelssohn, Chopin, Liszt, Schumann, Verdi, Smetana, Strauss clan, Tchaikovsky, Greig, Rachmaninoff, oh my, where do I stop! That's not even half of the names in my CD library. Don't get me

Re: [MBZ] OT Louie Louie

2013-08-25 Thread Benz Hogs
Not in Chicago. I'm 10-15 years or more older than the youngest every performance I've seen at the Lyric. Luther KB5QHUForest Park, IL '98 ML320 Max (165,xxx mi) On 8/24/2013 7:05 PM, Gary Hurst wrote: i became an opera fan a year ago. i spent my whole life thinking opera was some

Re: [MBZ] OT Louie Louie

2013-08-25 Thread Gary Hurst
regarding wagner, you clearly missed my review of parsifal, so i will share it with you here: parsifal is like getting kicked in the balls for six hours straight. it may end up the most profoundly meaningful experience of one's life, but why would anyone do it voluntarily? On Sun, Aug 25, 2013

Re: [MBZ] OT Louie Louie

2013-08-25 Thread Benz Hogs
Sam Ramey teaches 8 miles away from where I live and I've watched two of his master classes recently. I've also had lessons and a master class from Ariel Bybee, 18 year vet of the Met Chorus. Luther KB5QHUForest Park, IL '98 ML320 Max (170,xxx mi) On 8/25/2013 7:28 AM, Dan Penoff

Re: [MBZ] OT Louie Louie

2013-08-25 Thread Benz Hogs
Without Wagner, we have no lite-motif and no inspiration for melodrama music or the great Lord of the Rings soundtrack. :) Luther KB5QHUForest Park, IL '98 ML320 Max (170,xxx mi) On 8/25/2013 10:53 PM, Gary Hurst wrote: regarding wagner, ___

Re: [MBZ] take 3

2013-08-25 Thread Benz Hogs
I own one as do about 6 different guys I ride with. Oh, and I made my bro-in-law buy one before he started bike commuting 10 mi to work in Pittsburgh. Luther KB5QHUForest Park, IL '98 ML320 Max (170,xxx mi) On 8/25/2013 10:32 PM, Gary Hurst wrote: a good eye for hardware have you,

Re: [MBZ] take 3

2013-08-25 Thread Gary Hurst
i could commute up to about 15 miles each way but that is deceptive as it's really flat here. when i was in GA this winter with the up a hill down a hill i was good for less than 5 miles each way and i'd cry at the end of it On Mon, Aug 26, 2013 at 12:01 AM, Benz Hogs benz-n-h...@gulseth.net

Re: [MBZ] rare mercedes content, not about parts dealers

2013-08-25 Thread Benz Hogs
There might be a good 123 steering wheel on the homestead in AR. I'll let you know tomorrow. Luther KB5QHUForest Park, IL '98 ML320 Max (170,xxx mi) On 8/25/2013 7:54 PM, Rick Hawkins Java wrote: Folks, Sorry if this is on the topic of mercedes cars Do any of you have a decent

Re: [MBZ] take 3

2013-08-25 Thread Benz Hogs
Hit that hill 3 times a week and cry with it, you'd see the weight drop like a rock off a cliff :) Luther KB5QHUForest Park, IL '98 ML320 Max (170,xxx mi) On 8/25/2013 11:05 PM, Gary Hurst wrote: i could commute up to about 15 miles each way but that is deceptive as it's really flat

Re: [MBZ] take 3

2013-08-25 Thread Gary Hurst
it woudl help but i have other issues, mostly relating to blood sugar, that make me a fat retaining machine of the first degree. i was riding in atlanta in the winter, but i don't think i could do it now as the heat would just sap all my strength. but hills are where it's at if you want to bike

Re: [MBZ] take 3

2013-08-25 Thread Benz Hogs
Dude, quit making excuses and figure a way around it. It'll put some hair on your chest and make a man outta you yet :) Luther KB5QHUForest Park, IL '98 ML320 Max (170,xxx mi) On 8/25/2013 11:11 PM, Gary Hurst wrote: it woudl help but i have other issues, mostly relating to blood

Re: [MBZ] OT Louie Louie

2013-08-25 Thread Gary Hurst
have you endured parsifal? On Sun, Aug 25, 2013 at 11:57 PM, Benz Hogs benz-n-h...@gulseth.net wrote: Without Wagner, we have no lite-motif and no inspiration for melodrama music or the great Lord of the Rings soundtrack. :) Luther KB5QHUForest Park, IL '98 ML320 Max (170,xxx mi)

Re: [MBZ] take 3

2013-08-25 Thread Gary Hurst
ah, luther, you wouldn't be impressed by me. i'm a typical fat man. i'm lazy and like to eat and good at both those things the only real progress i've made since i was last around you fellas is that i am much small clothes wise. i was an 8x or 9x back in the glory days but a 5x today. i look

Re: [MBZ] OT Louie Louie

2013-08-25 Thread Benz Hogs
Enjoyed it, but not live, only live-radio. Luther KB5QHUForest Park, IL '98 ML320 Max (170,xxx mi) On 8/25/2013 11:21 PM, Gary Hurst wrote: have you endured parsifal? On Sun, Aug 25, 2013 at 11:57 PM, Benz Hogs benz-n-h...@gulseth.net wrote: Without Wagner, we have no lite-motif and

Re: [MBZ] OT Louie Louie

2013-08-25 Thread Gary Hurst
it was one of the worst experiences in my life :( have you looked at thomas ades yet? On Mon, Aug 26, 2013 at 12:27 AM, Benz Hogs benz-n-h...@gulseth.net wrote: Enjoyed it, but not live, only live-radio. Luther KB5QHUForest Park, IL '98 ML320 Max (170,xxx mi) On 8/25/2013 11:21