Catspaw Home!!!!4 Feb 2011

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw - Change of Plan - UPDATE GOOD NEWS
From: olddude
Date: 16 Jan 11 - 11:28 AM

well its about time you are starting to get better "Numb Nuts"

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw - Change of Plan - UPDATE GOOD NEWS
From: Janie
Date: 16 Jan 11 - 03:22 PM

"Spaw come back to us, Bud, so we can lay this thread to rest before I have to go out to Idaho and throttle somebody;>)

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw - Change of Plan - UPDATE GOOD NEWS
From: SINSULL
Date: 16 Jan 11 - 05:30 PM

Timeout



Idaho?

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw - Change of Plan - UPDATE GOOD NEWS
From: Jeri
Date: 16 Jan 11 - 05:35 PM

Rhymes with zapadee.

Spaw, HEAL!

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw - Change of Plan - UPDATE GOOD NEWS
From: bbc
Date: 16 Jan 11 - 07:33 PM

Well, it's certainly great to hear this news! Keep up the good progress, Pat!!!

love,

Barbara

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw - Change of Plan - UPDATE GOOD NEWS
From: jacqui.c
Date: 16 Jan 11 - 07:43 PM

Janie - I'll join you! Music Stands should be seen and not heard!

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw - Change of Plan - UPDATE GOOD NEWS
From: ClaireBear
Date: 16 Jan 11 - 07:54 PM

Jacqui, we ARE seeing him. Imagine if we had to hear him reciting that!

Oh please, please get better quick, Spaw, and restrain brother Rapparee!

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw - Change of Plan - UPDATE GOOD NEWS
From: Rapparee
Date: 16 Jan 11 - 08:21 PM

What? You don't like excerpts from the unexpurgated director's cut of Moby-Dick? One of America's greatest novels? For shame!

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw - Change of Plan - UPDATE GOOD NEWS
From: katlaughing
Date: 16 Jan 11 - 09:37 PM

It's a vast improvement on the original, imo...never could stand it, m'self. Your wit gives me great, belly laughs!

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw - Change of Plan - UPDATE GOOD NEWS
From: Rapparee
Date: 16 Jan 11 - 10:30 PM

If Spaw doesn't get better soon I'm going to start on The Vision of Drythelm by the Venerable Bede. If the telling of a pre-1000 visit to Hell doesn't get him up and going, then to hell with it!

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw - Change of Plan - UPDATE GOOD NEWS
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 17 Jan 11 - 01:37 AM

While a laptop computer can be a fairly involved purchase, I wonder if a netbook, a small wireless device with a monitor and keyboard (that can be hooked to a data port or used wireless, and can be set up in an office with a regular monitor, regular keyboard, and mouse) might be a useful device for Spaw? The smaller device might be easier to use.

Looking at Kat's remarks I get the impression they don't have one now. Laptop or other. Sam's Club has them starting at $300.

Just a thought. I'll chip in a few bucks.

SRS

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw - Change of Plan - UPDATE GOOD NEWS
From: Donuel
Date: 17 Jan 11 - 03:36 AM

Ok Spaw I'm thowin down the gauntlet for a challenge of story tellin

True Story Tellin

I triple dog dare ya




On Niagara Blvd, north of Buffalo in Tonawanda there is a Volkswagen dealership named Schmidt's. Old man Schmidt was an honest guy who looked like a heavy set Bob Newhart. He was a hands off owner and didn't pressure or pry anyone especially the sales manager Lance Parker who impressed Mr. Schmidt because he was an intimidating guy.
Parker came from a military and law enforcement family going back 3 generations. Lance was sales manager since he was over the top assertive and also because he got thrown off the DC police force from one too many kills with his police weapon.

The sales staff was Don the soft spoken rookie who said he had been a hypnotist, soul brother Charlie with an infectious smile and finally Mark Levin who was top dog salesman and should have been a politician and might be one day since his dad was a judge. Mark Levin had come from his own business where he contracted to train and motivate sales staffs. His dynamic personality cut that career short when he jumped on a disagreeable sales manager's desk and pissed all over the desk and manager. The manager had apparently made a few disparaging remarks about Jews in which Mark voiced a fluid resignation speech.
Since Lance was a Viet Nam veteran, a disgraced dismissed policeman and a recent divorce' he relied on his sales staff for his therapy in the form of dishing out vengeance for all the grief that the world had dumped on him. One day he asked the rookie Don about how the Police Chief's son was doing after test driving the Wolfsburg GTI. Don mumbled something about the kid being a snotty show off and nearly wrecked the car. As if on cue Lance stood and shouted "what are you, some kind of hero to zero? He is the Chief's son you son of a bitch and you're not worthy to wipe his ass" Don said he was glad about that and was summarily told to get the F out of the office.
The next day Charlie told Don that he better watch out, Parker has a way of getting even the devil hates.
Charlie and Don were friends only after Don said he would kick Charlie's ass. Although Charlie was twice his size he took it as some kind of macho respect and sort of looked out for Don after that.
The showroom speaker barked "Don to the sales office" Don walked in sheepishly while Mark was writing two sales contracts at once. Don stood there for almost two minutes while Lance went through the motions of paperwork. There was a grilled chicken sandwich from Chick Fillet on the desk that smelled delicious. "Sit down" Lance said in a tone that almost sounded apologetic. "It looks like the Chief's son is buying a Charger, I guess it's a better fit. So anyway you need 3 more sales to beat your draw so show those Golf GTIs, they have the best spread. Don said OK while looking at the sandwich. Lance said "have you had lunch? 'no' "here take this extra sandwich, Debbie brought me lunch but I already ate" "Thanks". Don was not without suspicion but the sandwich said "I taste even better than my delicious aroma"
Despite the subtle warning, Don did not know that Lance had a older brother Randy in the FBI with total access to black ops labs. What you thought were rumors about the FBI carrying our covert operations in Cuba to discredit or even eliminate Castro, were all true. Even the chemical that purportedly caused such intestinal distress that they planned to give it Fidel in a drink to cause him pain or embarrassment while giving a speech. Randy gave some of this elixir as a present to Lance for a ex wife prank that they had only joked about until today.
Don jumped in his VW Golf and was on his way to pick up his girlfriend at University of Buffalo on the bright June evening. In the car his stomach was making a squeaking sound like clean tires on the showroom linoleum floor. Don had followed Cindy from Rochester and they had been together for 3 years. Don and Cindy stopped at the Hertel Ave sub shop and got 2 hot meatball and cheese subs if laid end to end were over 4 feet long.
Back at the apartment the bedroom was hot. The windows had been painted shut decades ago. The living room opened to a porch door but whenever the dog upstairs went to the bathroom the porch would rain dog pee so the door stayed closed except for this first really warm June night. Don had discovered that the TV in the tiny living room would work only if he took a spray bottle of water and squirted the back of the TV but Cindy wanted to get right to bed. While they both felt a bit like beached whales they laid spooning after love making for a bit when the persistent stomach noises all day changed frequencies into a much deeper register. Suddenly Don realized that he was actually swelling before his eyes. There was no pain but he knew time was up. First he had to lift a leg over Cindy to get out of bed. Oh my god that's impossible without unclamping the desperate sphincter of doom. Trapped on the inside of the bed he began to sweat trying to think of some kind of rolling move but the bed was right against the wall. He thought maybe I could just stand and run when Cindy asked "Are you OK?
He was halfway over Cindy when she broke the silence and all hell wanted to break loose. Don's failed choreography turned to plan B which was to just let go under the sheet and blanket and hope for the best. Just then a near perfect B flat tuba blast from Also Sprach Zarathustra began to sound and to both their amazement grew deeper down to the range of the bottom pedal bass note on the grand organ. The sound resonated in Don's chest. Maybe the submarine sandwich saved his life from an intestinal tear but it may have acted like cannon wadding. Ten seconds had passed and so had at least 6 liters of gas as it neared the 15 second mark. Cindy's eyes were as big as saucers, Don was looking for any opportunity to force some kind of emergency cut off valve attempt but the end wasn't even close.
Twenty miles away was Erie Lackawanna renown for the slinkiest steel mills in the country. Tonight Lackawanna was a garden of lilies compared to Don's bedroom. The only place that had more methane was the moon Titan. Just when the staggering duration of window rattling woofer splitting bass notes became truly terrifying as a cannon like retort introduced the finale like fireworks on the 4th of July. Bambambam BAAM Bam bam.
It was dark. There was no breathing. They both staggered out of the bedroom and breathed their first deep breath at the back porch door as though they had emerged from a deep dive while holding their breath. The only other door opened to a stale hallway so the apartment did not exchange a bit of air. There were flies on the floor spinning on their backs. Don and Cindy gasped for Oxygen.
Neither of them had anything to compare it to as they headed for the car at midnight. While they didn't know it yet they were actually drawn closer by this near cosmic event. It had been the fart of a lifetime, the fart of the century. There had been nothing like it for eons since the dinosaurs had died out.
Don returned to work the next day and felt Lance's eyes study every move for any detail, for any clue. He hovered nearby to catch any word or tell tale indication what had happened last night. Don never gave him the satisfaction. Even Mark cracked first and spilled the beans that he was told to find out if anything unusual happened last night.
What Lance didn't know was that he had given Don ten times the recommended dose of "FBI Castro Oil". The next time he tried it he gave his wife's new husband 100 times what he gave Don. It was the first case of spontaneous human combustion that Tonawanda had ever seen.

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw - Change of Plan - UPDATE GOOD NEWS
From: SINSULL
Date: 17 Jan 11 - 09:56 AM

I always wondered why the whale was named Moby Dick. Now I have a clue. Thanks, Rap...I think.
Hi Spaw. How are we doing? Nurse Ratched is readying the bed pans in the freezer. I'd gett better fast if I were you.
SINS

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw - Change of Plan - UPDATE GOOD NEWS
From: Rapparee
Date: 17 Jan 11 - 10:26 AM

And the "freezer" is liquid nitrogen. If you ever thought getting your tongue stuck to a flagpole was bad....

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw - Change of Plan - UPDATE GOOD NEWS
From: katlaughing
Date: 17 Jan 11 - 10:38 AM

I think that is a great idea, SRS, esp. the size, etc.! Either that, or whatever olddude might be able to work out without burdening himself (do you hear that Dan!?)

I will be back, right now I've got a hot date sitting here waiting for me to paay Battlegons...cover me, I'm going in!

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw - Change of Plan - UPDATE GOOD NEWS
From: Lonesome EJ
Date: 17 Jan 11 - 11:55 AM

Donuel, that story demonstrates that there is often a methane to any madness.

Subject: UPDATE 17 Jan 2011
From: katlaughing
Date: 17 Jan 11 - 03:50 PM

Pat is now in a private room and will be having his first physical therapy session, today. He is at "Select Acute Care Facility" room #336, but Karen didn't have the addy handy and I am not sure I found the right one online, so I'll have to post it later.

Anyway, he is on his way back up, but it could be a long haul. Karen said this is the first time she's seen him seem so overwhelmed, getting over the shock of how long it's been and what it has entailed. He's feeling really anxious to get better but is very, very weak. They've stopped all antibiotics, but one and will wean him off the vent over about a week and a half. They really need the "output" to slow down so that he can take care of himself. He's worried that he won't be able to work up to a strong enough point before the next three weeks are over, plus the pain of it all is very wearing.

Karen is really impressed with this facility. At the hospital he'd been in, she said the docs were never around or available to speak with. At this place, everyone seems available and caring. They are having a meeting on Thursday with his case mgr., docs, Karen & Pat, obviously, plus all other people involved, to map out their strategies for getting him on his way back.

I felt a nice, deep sleep come over me this morning...the kind that comes after deep fatigue...may it bode well for our friend.

Karen asked me to tell you all THANK YOU...it means a great deal to her, esp., to know we are all out here sending them good thoughts and all. She thought maybe she could get some handicapped program to help with a laptop or something, but she hasn't much time for looking into it and was grateful and overwhelmed at even the thought of some help for a notepad(?) or laptop for him.

When I called, just now, I got to talk with Tristan! He told me he and his mom were cleaning house and that he was fine and, yes, he had been cleaning the snow, too. I love the way he says my name, "caught."He is such a sweet young man. Karen said she had to do some deep cleaning, stuff that's been piling up, including the two of them moving the piano out of the middle of the room!*bg* We didn't get around to Michael, but I would guess he was either helping or out with his gf. They've both been great for Karen and good about going to see Pat.

That's it for a few more days, unless something happens. I'm going back to rest some more

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw - Change of Plan - UPDATE 17 Jan 2010
From: gnu
Date: 17 Jan 11 - 03:54 PM

Good news. Thanks kat.

Not many words here. Just T&Ps for all.

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw - Change of Plan - UPDATE 17 Jan 2010
From: Rapparee
Date: 17 Jan 11 - 04:12 PM

So...I continue with "Moby-Dick."

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw - Change of Plan - UPDATE 17 Jan 2010
From: katlaughing
Date: 17 Jan 11 - 04:15 PM

I told her of your monumental efforts and of my own preference for same...she was going to be sure to tell Pat...most impressive, Rapparee!:-)

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw - Change of Plan - UPDATE 17 Jan 2010
From: SINSULL
Date: 17 Jan 11 - 04:28 PM

What about our monumental effort in reading through that nonsense?
SINS

Glad the news keeps getting better.
M

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw - Change of Plan - UPDATE 17 Jan 2010
From: olddude
Date: 17 Jan 11 - 06:03 PM

Kat
within the next week or so Spaw will have a loaded Toshiba notebook with carrying case and two batteries. The retired CEO of a major company is a friend of mine and said he will ship it right out to me. It was his old one (better than the one I have LOL) ... so Spaw and Karen will be all set and we can get the old goat back online

Love Dan

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw - Change of Plan - UPDATE 17 Jan 2010
From: olddude
Date: 17 Jan 11 - 06:25 PM

Kat will you please let Karen know so she does not buy anything. normally I would not have posted this but i don't want anyone buying one since it already has been taken care of. ... non issue.

Dan

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw - Change of Plan - UPDATE 17 Jan 2010
From: katlaughing
Date: 17 Jan 11 - 06:31 PM

Dan, you are incredible. I just sent someone a reply PM that I didn't have the energy to handle fundraising if we all decided to purchase one via you or what SRS had posted, for which they had pledged a very generous donation, and here you are! Thank you, thank you! I am sure that will lift both their spirits.

Much love to you all,

kat

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw - Change of Plan - UPDATE 17 Jan 2010
From: Rapparee
Date: 17 Jan 11 - 06:36 PM

...No man prefers to sleep two in a bed unless it be with a woman. In fact, you would a good deal rather not sleep with your own brother, especially were he younger and prone to dampening the mattress at night. I don't know how it is, but people like to be private when they are sleeping alone. And when it comes to sleeping with an unknown stranger, in a strange inn, in a strange town, and that stranger a harpooneer, then your objections indefinitely multiply. Nor was there any earthly reason why I as a sailor should sleep two in a bed, more than anybody else; for sailors no more sleep two in a bed at sea, than bachelor Kings do ashore, which isn't saying much when you think about it. To be sure they all sleep together in one apartment, but you have your own hammock, and cover yourself with your own blanket, and sleep in your own skin, unless the cabin boy be comely.

The more I pondered over this harpooneer, the more I abominated the thought of sleeping with him. It was fair to presume that being a harpooneer, his linen or woollen, as the case might be, would not be of the tidiest, certainly none of the finest, wore he any at all. I began to twitch all over. Besides, it was getting late, and my decent harpooneer ought to be home and going bedwards, especially as I would be sharing him. Suppose now, he should tumble in upon me at midnight - how could I tell from what vile hole he had been coming?

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw - Change of Plan - UPDATE 17 Jan 2010
From: Bill D
Date: 17 Jan 11 - 06:46 PM

If "Morbid Dick" doesn't ruin a new laptop, all will be well....

It is good to have friends....

Take your time, Pat...we'll all be here when you are better. You need to GET better so you can resume a full life with that great wife & kids......and besides, Rita & I want to visit the Columbus zoo with you 'someday'.

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw - Change of Plan - UPDATE 17 Jan 2010
From: Fortunato
Date: 17 Jan 11 - 07:11 PM

I'm glad to hear you're getting better 'Spaw.

Some of us are about fed up with speaking civilly to/about you.

I'm worried about Kendall, a blivet can only hold so much.

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=blivet

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw - Change of Plan - UPDATE 17 Jan 2010
From: Maryrrf
Date: 17 Jan 11 - 07:21 PM

Great news!

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw - Change of Plan - UPDATE 17 Jan 2010
From: Bill D
Date: 17 Jan 11 - 07:24 PM

naaawww,,,THIS is a blivet.

"authoritative source"

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw - Change of Plan - UPDATE 17 Jan 2010
From: Lonesome EJ
Date: 17 Jan 11 - 07:31 PM

Way to go, Olddude!

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw - Change of Plan - UPDATE 17 Jan 2010
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 17 Jan 11 - 07:50 PM

great! I'm looking forward to spaw's first post

Sending hugs to him & his family (including Kat) & the wonderful folks looking after him

sandra

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw - Change of Plan - UPDATE 17 Jan 2010
From: olddude
Date: 17 Jan 11 - 07:54 PM

Dave (my friend) just told me what it has in it .. Holy Cow what a great machine. He also tossed in a leather carrying case a docking station and a wireless mouse if he chooses to use those .. My friend
Dave is always helping others, that is the way he is made. All I had to do was ask and he was right there. I can't thank him enough. It will be good to get some insults again from our brother Spaw

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw - Change of Plan - UPDATE 17 Jan 2010
From: olddude
Date: 17 Jan 11 - 08:05 PM

And even the best part, the machine is 2 years old ... way cool , way cool , Now we need to get him an MP3 players so he can listen to some music while he is stuck in that place ...

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw - Change of Plan - UPDATE 17 Jan 2010
From: olddude
Date: 17 Jan 11 - 08:13 PM

Ok you folks can help me with the password, what should I put on it when I get this? i was thinking "numbnuts' but I am sure you folks can come up with a better one than that.

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw - Change of Plan - UPDATE 17 Jan 2010
From: ClaireBear
Date: 17 Jan 11 - 08:28 PM

How about jadrool49?

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw - Change of Plan - UPDATE 17 Jan 2010
From: Janie
Date: 17 Jan 11 - 08:51 PM

No words. Just smiles.

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw - Change of Plan - UPDATE 17 Jan 2010
From: Rapparee
Date: 17 Jan 11 - 09:15 PM

Why does he need a password?

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw - Change of Plan - UPDATE 17 Jan 2010
From: katlaughing
Date: 17 Jan 11 - 09:17 PM

"Peaches?" (It's who he was in an old story thread and I named my dulcimer after his character 'cause he found me a good one and recommended it.)

That sounds fantastic, Dan! Please be sure to let your friend, Dave, know how much we appreciate his and your generosity.

Don't forget, folks, it may be a while before we actually see him posting. I am sure the spirit will be willing and the PT folks will assist, but it's just going to take some time from what Karen said, today. We'll have to keep the home fires burning.

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw - Change of Plan - UPDATE 17 Jan 2010
From: olddude
Date: 17 Jan 11 - 11:15 PM

anybody got an extra pair of headphones they can send spaw so he can listen to music and watch youtube on the notebook?

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw - Change of Plan - UPDATE 17 Jan 2010
From: Rapparee
Date: 17 Jan 11 - 11:53 PM

Yeah. PM me the addy.

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw - Change of Plan - UPDATE 17 Jan 2010
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 17 Jan 11 - 11:56 PM

My goodness! I made that suggestion yesterday, figuring I'd toss it out and see who saluted. And come back today and offer to accumulate cash and make the purchase. But this is even better, and thank you Dan, to the rescue again! Is there anything else this computer needs? A percussion pad for sitting on Spaw's lap, or do you suppose he'd blow his own - er - first - anyway, will he destroy the computer without having a barrier? ;)

mp3 players are all over the place these days. My last two or three phones could act like mp3 players. The last dedicated players I bought were for my son and myself, replacing a couple we'd bought 2 years earlier. He managed to wear his out then kill mine when I gave it to him. He wore out the new one in one semester and I didn't give him mine again, having learned my lesson. I offer this story only as a way to suggest that the SansaFuze 8 gig player sounds good, but it doesn't hold up as well as others might. Any suggestions on other players, or perhaps we can make sure to send mp3 files on something like a flash drive and a good set of earphones to use with the computer? Or a Pandora account for his computer? I have heard good things about those, but have never tried it.

SRS

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw - Change of Plan - UPDATE 17 Jan 2010
From: katlaughing
Date: 18 Jan 11 - 12:06 AM

Pandora is free. He just has to log in on his computer. That Sansa is what we bought the grandkids this year. Have to see how they do.

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw - Change of Plan - UPDATE 17 Jan 2010
From: KT
Date: 18 Jan 11 - 04:42 AM

Old Dude, you are somethin' else!! And how good it is to hear about Dave and his kindness to a stranger! So glad you could make this happen!

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw - Change of Plan - UPDATE 17 Jan 2010
From: maeve
Date: 18 Jan 11 - 06:14 AM

Thank you, Dan, Dave, and Rapparee...and those so eager to pitch in.

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw - Change of Plan - UPDATE 17 Jan 2010
From: mouldy
Date: 18 Jan 11 - 08:01 AM

Ah! Faith in humankind upheld well and truly. What a saint your friend is!

Spaw, your fighting spirit is a true example to us all. You have a phenomenal wife and family, and all I can offer is my love and admiration to you all. Don't beat yourself up if you feel your progress is slow. Better that than none at all. We all want you to mend properly. I think it is going to take you several days to get through reading all the posts, let alone being able to reply, so just take your time. We'll all still be here.

Andrea xx

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw - Change of Plan - UPDATE 17 Jan 2010
From: olddude
Date: 18 Jan 11 - 09:06 AM

One of the great NFL linebackers started a charity for spinal chord injury after he broke his neck in a playoff game in the 1990's. His wife asked me if I could help with getting some drink boxes fruit snacks and stuff for the kids during their fundraiser walk. I called Dave, 200 cases of very expensive product was delivered all the way to Seattle. One other time I sold my signed Superbowl football to raise money for an autistic child. I was 500 bucks short of what I wanted to give the family ... bam a personal check shows up at my mailbox .. Dave again. That is the way he is made, always there to help. He was a CEO, worked his way up from nothing .. and never forgot .. he gives back all the time. He bought this for his wife but she really wanted a mac .. and he got her a mac, so it is perfect. When I told him what I needed it for, 2 seconds later, I will ship it right out to ya ... That is Dave. God Bless him

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw - Change of Plan - UPDATE 17 Jan 2010
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 18 Jan 11 - 10:02 AM

Looks like Spaw had a Secret Santa this year after all!

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw - Change of Plan - UPDATE 17 Jan 2010
From: Ebbie
Date: 18 Jan 11 - 12:52 PM

How absolutely lovely it is to be speaking post crisis. Spaw, they say it is the sick child in a family that makes the tightest bonds- well, hey, from time to time you are our child. :)

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw - Change of Plan - UPDATE 17 Jan 2010
From: Rapparee
Date: 18 Jan 11 - 01:33 PM

Yeah, and there ain't no sicker child than you-know-who.

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw - Change of Plan - UPDATE 17 Jan 2010
From: Lonesome EJ
Date: 18 Jan 11 - 01:44 PM

Olddude, would you mind letting Dave know that I have recently been experiencing some significant post-holiday depression which could easily be alleviated with a 1968 Malibu convertible with a 396 ci engine in excellent running condition? Preferably metallic royal blue, white top. Rolled and pleated white leather interior and a Hurst shifter would also be very kind, but not necessary, as I am a man of simple tastes. Chrome wheels, white sidewalls nice, but not a deal-breaker.