It happens when...
You get yer ..
Cheapo guitar.. (not Martin) ..delivered..in a Martin &Co. Box...
:0)
Fake news,,, I mean contents
So that's what one of those boxes look like! Brad
If need to get rid of garbage but its not garbage day you can fill that box with trash and leave it in the center of your front porch.
Perfect box for a porch pirate.
Paul
Cheapo guitars are getting pretty dang good. I just bought a $300 Chinese "Fender" and I'm most impressed with it.
I got a Recording King 4 string Dirty 30's tenor..
$189.00 delivered..
Just happeded to come well packed..in this box.. ;0)
Walking home from work one day, spotted a CHIVAS REGAL bottle peeking from an uncovered trash can.
Took it home, washed it out well.
Went ti the liquor store, got a bottle of their VERY CHEAPEST liquor.
"Highland Mist"
Refilled the bottle.
Friends would come by.
I would say that, as a mere 23 year old, I was not familiar with ALL the brands of booze on the market. Would they like to taste and render an opinion on what's in THIS bottle?
Every danged one of them told me it was REALLY good!
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Originally posted by mike gregoryWalking home from work one day, spotted a CHIVAS REGAL bottle peeking from an uncovered trash can.
Took it home, washed it out well.
Went ti the liquor store, got a bottle of their VERY CHEAPEST liquor.
"Highland Mist"
Refilled the bottle.
Friends would come by.
I would say that, as a mere 23 year old, I was not familiar with ALL the brands of booze on the market. Would they like to taste and render an opinion on what's in THIS bottle?
Every danged one of them told me it was REALLY good!
Heh...
Back in the 70's..as a party goin teen ager...
I aquored a ..Coors beer can ..
N would covertly fill it at the party ..keg...
Got
All... the young lady attendtion..
That a young guy could want... :0)
At that time..you did not get ..Coors beer..in the East..or Newingland..
N.. the Movie..Smokey and the bandit was popyouliar... ;0)
I bought half a dozen Silver Creeek and Flint Hill guitars in 2010.
Paid $230/ea. for solid rosewood and mahogany dreadnaughts and solid spruce tops.
Martin copies with scalloped braces and forward shifted x-bracing.
They need final set ups in the bridge and nut heights.
I sold 4 and kept a rosey and mahogany for myself.
Wicked things! So good Martin shut them down,but not before I got mine.
".... and render an opinion on what's in THIS bottle? Every danged one of them told me it was REALLY good!"
Reminds me of my two and only attempts at brewing beer:
In the first instance I bottled (?) it in quart sealers .... It didn't taste particularly good, and about 1/4" of some sort of chalky dust/paste/?? settled in the bottom. This was prior to buy-beer-on-Sundays in Man-ee-toe-bah, so one Sunday a few of my friends came calling ... they relieved me of the entire stock [maybe 1/2 a dozen quarts?], but a couple of hours later one of them was back, telling me how good it was and, "...did I have some more?"
In the second instance, I'd graduated to a "real" bottle capper 
... but the taste was certainly no better than ^^ "didn't taste particularly good." 
One bottle exploded while they were "carbonating properly" up atop the kitchen cupboards, and another bottle [partly consumed] took the finish off the coffee table where it sat overnight. Being one to quit when I'm behind, I set the remainder out on the wooden stand for the small apartment block's garbage cans. That evening a friend, from an adjacent apartment, popped in and regaled me about his lucky find... and how good it tasted. I never did let on, though I wonder if he wondered why I didn't accept his offer of a bottle.
Edited by - Owen on 12/12/2024 15:20:54
I once accepted delivery of a banjo shaped box addressed to my wife just before Christmas - I passed it to my daughter and got her to say she’d accepted it and then I acted surprised on the 25th. A few days ago I mentioned out loud to same daughter that that we should get an electric sandwich toaster, the next day I accepted delivery of an unwrapped sandwich toaster box addressed to my daughter - I don’t think the acting surprised will work again this year.
I try to do well by my kids and grandkids at Christmas, but they've all kind of adopted the same rule; don't buy anything for granddad, he will be having his own gift to himself delivered any day now.
This year it was a motorcycle trailer. The motorcycle was this past summer, and if there's one thing I have noticed about my small city and the local drivers is, if you're on a bike, it seems like you are a target. So I will take it out of town to ride. Many adventures await warmer weather.
Now I will need a pannier for the Banjo case.
