Screwball

No, I used a computer and excel. 😉

My first car was a 65 Buick Skylark. I put a standard transmission in it and ran the snot out of it until I had it about wore out and a skirmish with tree ended it. I had a really cool Mustang T-top and rolled it down a hill on a winding road having only owned it for two weeks. A Vega that went through a stop sign and a tee road that ended up 300 feet across some farmers yard into his bushes. The cops were really impressed with that one. One truck (S-10) got T-boned by a fireman who was running to a call and drove me into a 10 foot ditch, so that one wasn't my fault. Another pickup head on into a telephone pole (ice problem). That one should have done me in. Left front tire was under my seat. Hurt too. I knew my insurance lady really really good.

I wrecked every car I ever owned until I was about 30, off and on the streets. I shouldn't be here.

Jesus H Christ Doesn't anyone remember when the wankin ****in bankers blew up the world financial system back in 2008/2009 and NOBODY went to jail? Only to see the same swine pricks who caused the entire mess which cost people billions and lose their homes get bailed out to the tune of Trillions over the next 10-15 years (yes, with a T)? WTF. Wake the **** up.

I don't know if they sound dubbed it or not, and it really doesn't matter. As far as the engines, I don't remember the RPM of the 390, and it would depend on how it was built. I'm guessing that car didn't have a stock engine. I know iron blocks back in that day got quite a bit more than that. I had a Chevy 350 that could get upwards of 7500 (but built to do so). The 390 was considered a big block back then and they were heavier than the small blocks. I had a Ford 455 in my race car (65 T-bird). Generally, they couldn't get the RPM like the small blocks. Once you got them wound up though...hang on... There is no substitute for horsepower.

1968 was the muscle car era. Mcqueen got more credit than he should have for doing the driving stunts, but he was into racing so that probably helped spin that. It was a 390 Ford so it would make plenty of noise (with headers), but you wonder what technology back then they had to record the sound. At the time it was a neat movie for car guys. The 68 Camaro was my favorite car. So many cool cars back then.

Here is how I used to make money with the lottery. A local speakeasy I used to frequent had two lottery machines (Ohio) where you could buy all sorts of tickets, including Keno. Beside the two machines (which could also check for winning tickets by reading the bar code) was a trash can. Or, you might say, the pot of gold. I would grab a handful of tickets when I was there and scan the ticket (losing ticket) into my Ohio Lottery phone app. Each ticket was 5 points for the most part. You could scan 1200 points a month. I used two phones so I could double up. Once I got to 10,000 points I would redeem them for a $100 gas card. So about every 4 months I got a hundred bucks in free gas. Some thought I was nuts for diving in the trash but I could care less. Free money is a good thing. 🙂

That was a good game. I think he traveled.

He doesn't play the game the way we do.

I found this interesting. From Feb 24, 2025; Berkshire Hathaway’s Cash Pile Swells To A Record $334 Billion - Yahoo Finance About a half hour ago from Barchart Twitter; Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway $BRK.B is now outperforming the Magnificent 7 since the start of 2024!  King Buffett does it again I'm no fan of Buffet, but it makes me wonder why so much in cash - if true.

Jack Bogle and Vanguard are a quality brokerage, with a solid plan and product for masses of people. That doesn't mean they are the holy grail. At the end of the day it's all about timing. Sometimes you are lucky enough to be born at the right time and hit the greatest bull market in history - example; starting after the depression until the dot-com bubble blew up in 2000. It took 8 years for the market to recover but the swine bankers blew up the world financial system in 2009. Those scheduled to retire shorty after that got ****ed after the S&P went from 1500 to 666 in March of 2009. And then swine pricks got bailed out to tune of trillions of dollars - thank you very much. Volatility is where the money is made. Wall Street owns that - they don't care if it goes up or down - they make money both ways. Welcome to the world of heads they win, tails you lose.

The ultimate irony of the Troll Tesla™ scam would be if done from work. What a ****ing world we live in.

But there are political points to be made. That's more important. That's why we tried to keep this thread separate from all the other stupid horse**** posted elsewhere. Look at that cesspool of slop. This is the third iteration of this board. At one time it was good place for intelligent conversation, both political and investment (although filtered from the first). How far it has fallen. It has become aisle lunatic and mostly unreadable, which is why hardly anyone posts here anymore. The investment thread in particular had some really good participants - all gone now. A fish stinks from the head down.

People don't realize how good these guys really are. It's off the charts incredible how they can hit a golf ball. Larger and more fit players along with advances in technology has made the game much longer. That matters, but at the same time, what really matters is not ****ing up. You can't **** up. Hitting a little white ball over 300 yards, iron shots into impossible greens, chip, putt (on greens the ball wants to roll of of) - and not **** up? Sammy was right - a 5 is a lot closer to a 15 than a 2. These guys are machines playing the game to the highest level ever achieved. Then there is bowling. I used to work in a bowing alley. I still follow it to some extent. This sport, unlike golf, has went the other direction. I see videos of people throwing 800 series that wouldn't have averaged 170 30 years ago.