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  1. saddlebum
    Actually seeing as how this is a PG site I sensored and edited out the dozen or so cuss words that the original letter had in it
  2. saddlebum
    Sent to me by a friend, her experience with the Slap Chop!!! http://by142w.bay142.mail.live.com/mail/SafeRedirect.aspx?hm__tg=http://65.55.153.121/att/GetAttachment.aspx&hm__qs=file%3d4f5ba173-0f05-46b1-b25f-161f03b97cba.jpg%26ct%3daW1hZ2UvanBlZw_3d_3d%26name%3daW1hZ2UwMDEuanBn%26inline%3d1%26rfc%3d0%26empty%3dFalse%26imgsrc%3dcid%253aB59C2A8FB78B4E41A3E87105FE88FAB0%2540MichellePC%26msgHash%3dffffffffffffffff&oneredir=1&ip=10.1.106.117&d=d3092&mf=0&a=01_876752f5a38dcbe369b438544ef070645335e5b51bc47bf368a50c8ebb40c734 Ok so I got a slapchop for Christmas.......... This dirty SOB Vince convinced me that this invention would save time, and help me eat healthy. Vince and his GDM chopped nuts,fettuccine, linguine, martini, bikini. Let me tell you what this holy terror of a kitchen utensil really does......absolutely nothing. Let's look at a few things: 1. This thing is made of plastic and has a sharp blade hooked to a spring and a plunger. This is a poor combination to begin with. 2. The slapchop is about the size of a coffee grinder, which means a you need to slapchop size your food prior to actually using the slapchop. In order to do that you need a knife, if I have a knife in my hand already I may as well chop the vegetable right then and there. 3. One slap for large sizes, 2 to slaps for smaller sizes, three slaps for a fine dice....Thank you VINCE! Here's what it actually goes like!! One slap, twist and pry on plunger because vegetable is wedged in the cutting mechanism. Two slaps, still wedged and no smaller than the last slap.... why? because the blade didn't actually cut anything..it just did a quarter turn with potato stuffed inside. Three slaps, another quarter turn and now your potato is wedged so far into the wretched machine the plunger won't come out. Now since the veg is stuffed deep inside this devil contraption you must now take the thing apart, easier said than done. Vince says "its easy as one two three"THANK YOU AGAIN VINCE! It's easy to take apart sans potato stuffing however once those blades are full it becomes more difficult. Picture this, a slapchop full of potato, the plunger is stuffed all the way to the bottom so you can't undo the top part, and it won't turn enough to pry the bottom protector part off. Now keep in mind that this contraption has a sharp blade in it...so using your fingers to pry out the potato chunks is ill advised. What do you do? Three cut fingers and 7 band-aids later, Get a tool if course....now because you already had to cut your vegetable to slapchop size , you just happen to have a knife close by. It only makes sense to use that to dig out the jammed veg. Ahem... Caution at this point the slapchop is no longer a slapchop, it suddenly becomes a spring loaded vegetable cannon! As soon as you wiggle a tiny piece of the vegetable in question out of harms way you can fully expect to get showered in large chunks of potato (or onion, or peppers)...remember these are large chunks that fly fast and hard....because this stupid device still hasn't actually CUT ANYTHING! I am going to personally kill the man that invented this GDM thing...in fact ....because Vince says it works great on nuts...I feel like using it on his I bet this stupid SOB has a SNUGGIE as well.....
  3. saddlebum
    Its the only option left you can put on a 2nd gen, That a 1st gen doesn't already have :rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl:
  4. saddlebum
    I agree you should get your license, but I disagree he should give up the trike. If he is retired then he certianly is not going to want to sit home all day with nothing to ride while the trike sits idle in a parking lot all day .
  5. saddlebum
    Different !!!
  6. saddlebum
    appears to me that the cop should also have taken note of the following subsection as well. It states that the person covering his face must alsoHAVE INTENT to do harm or deprive another of his rights and freedoms.
  7. saddlebum
    By service dog I hope you don't mean a seeing eye dog
  8. saddlebum
    Glad to have you back Annie. Sorry about your leg though, but hope things improve quickly for you. P/S my aunt had one leg that would no longer bend because they put a steel pin right in the knee. Never slowed her down much, she even still rides a bicycle al over the place. So best of luck Annie
  9. saddlebum
    I like telling them that it was a trend started in prison. That it was how a fella let other inmates know, he was available. Wether or not its true I really don't know, but its funny how some of them start pulling their pants up all of a sudden. :rotfl::rotfl:
  10. saddlebum
    Aaaaa Shadddup :snow2::snow2::snow2:
  11. saddlebum
    Hey I still have all that chrome I haven't put back on the bike yet.-----I can always send that up for a wee bit o polishin
  12. saddlebum

    computer help

    saddlebum replied to rod's topic in Watering Hole

    Heck You are one:backinmyday::rotfl:
  13. saddlebum
    Thats what it is all about. Pride in finding out what you actually are capable of.
  14. saddlebum
    That is realy a tuff break and I feel very sorry for her. However being the upstanding person you are I am sure you will make her time at home as comfortable and stress free as possible. I am sure she will find something shortly.
  15. saddlebum
    unless he chewed through the air filter, or you did not have one, nothing should go into the engine
  16. saddlebum
    It is but if you go to a hose and fitting supplier instead you can get the hoses in silicone which stands up to heat better, were the hose's are in close proximity to a heat source such as an exhaust pipe etc.
  17. saddlebum
    When I had my bike apart I replaced my hoses with silicone heater hoses
  18. saddlebum
    If he plans on towing it any where he better look again and see which end he is towing it from, ... unless he is just bringing back:rotfl::rotfl:
  19. saddlebum
    Plastex is what I used to rebuild my bike after it was written off in 2008. The stuff is stupid simple to use and works great. I pieced all the broken pieces together, and even made one good fairning out of two bad ones. It actually welds the plastic. You can see the finished bike in my profile, and those VR members that have seen it up close could not tell. here is a link to plastex [ame=http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-9209022121022498415]Plastex Plastic Repair http://www.Plastex.ca[/ame]#
  20. saddlebum
    Check out princess auto
  21. saddlebum
    In Europe there was an incident were one of these animal rights activists walked up behind an elderly lady and spray painted her fur collar. Turned out her fur collar was actually her pet ferrit curled around her neck having a snooze. The activist was charged with cruelty to animals.
  22. saddlebum
    Awsome the new 2010 model has arrived Yammer you must have been really WOWWED,----- you totally forgot to point out it was blue. --- Me thinks you are slipping, must be a retirement thing--:rotfl:
  23. saddlebum
    I grew up with that kind of snow and weather and I loved it. I actually miss the fact that we don't get that kind of weather anymore thanks to global warming I guess
  24. saddlebum
    Of course You are :rotfl::rotfl:
  25. saddlebum
    I am going to go out on a limb here but it is quite obvious that 1st gen ventures used 2 different diff styles. However I feel to make a personal comment such as "but were you a good one" is a little over the top. It would have been much more polite to ask "if the person was sure that this applied to all venture diffs, because according to my manual it states etc. etc. etc.". Steve obviously has experience in this area far beyond most of us, and I for one appriciate his input. Having said that being a mechanic myself for forty years I have seen even the best of us be mistaken on something, This does not make one a bad mechanic, just a human being. As well I have seen maney error's or misprints in Manual's were one has to make his own judgment call, which is usually based on experience, of which I have no doupt Steve has plenty off Once again Steve thanks for your input and for the rest, please do not take Steve's warning lightly.
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