Sunday, June 10, 2007
Music group brain teaser
Well, there went more days scooting past. Why that always surprises me, I don't know.
We are keeping reasonably busy here at the House of 1,000 Unfinished Projects. Nothing of anecdotal interest, sadly, except for my little story of how Rick the Car Doctor came to our aid in a brand new way.
We had had a funny car part sitting around for a while. It came in a box at an auction with a bunch of other stuff. It looked new, and we knew it was a "spindle" because it still had the invoice with it from the car dealership that sold it in 1998.
I'd tried looking it up online, but with no way to know what it was FOR, that quickly proved hopeless. Then I got the bright idea to show it to Rick. When I did, quick as a flash he said, "It's a spindle!"
He did go on to explain that it was part of a wheel assembly, although he was puzzled because it was so very small. But Rick knew what to do next! He called up one of his parts buds of the flavor named on the invoice. Amazingly, the part number was still in the system, and that's how we found out it was a rear wheel spindle for a 1992 Ford Festiva! Which let me list it on eBay, where it has already gotten two bids!
And now for the fun quiz.
An LJ friend of mine, Sigma7, periodically puts up a post of picspam (say THAT three times fast!), things he finds on the various pic reposting sites which amuse or please him. The other day, he found this weird alphabetical depiction of musical performers. The link came from a site all in Russian, so there is no way to find out who made it or, more importantly, who some of these people are supposed to BE.
I only knew a few of them myself. Perhaps YOU can provide some identifications?
We are keeping reasonably busy here at the House of 1,000 Unfinished Projects. Nothing of anecdotal interest, sadly, except for my little story of how Rick the Car Doctor came to our aid in a brand new way.
We had had a funny car part sitting around for a while. It came in a box at an auction with a bunch of other stuff. It looked new, and we knew it was a "spindle" because it still had the invoice with it from the car dealership that sold it in 1998.
I'd tried looking it up online, but with no way to know what it was FOR, that quickly proved hopeless. Then I got the bright idea to show it to Rick. When I did, quick as a flash he said, "It's a spindle!"
He did go on to explain that it was part of a wheel assembly, although he was puzzled because it was so very small. But Rick knew what to do next! He called up one of his parts buds of the flavor named on the invoice. Amazingly, the part number was still in the system, and that's how we found out it was a rear wheel spindle for a 1992 Ford Festiva! Which let me list it on eBay, where it has already gotten two bids!
And now for the fun quiz.
An LJ friend of mine, Sigma7, periodically puts up a post of picspam (say THAT three times fast!), things he finds on the various pic reposting sites which amuse or please him. The other day, he found this weird alphabetical depiction of musical performers. The link came from a site all in Russian, so there is no way to find out who made it or, more importantly, who some of these people are supposed to BE.
I only knew a few of them myself. Perhaps YOU can provide some identifications?
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