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Looking good, Aqua!
I found this on a defunct Timothy Carey (producer of the World's Greatest Sinner) page:
“When I was working with Debbie Reynolds for the second time (in THE SECOND TIME AROUND, a western comedy) at 20th Century Fox, a fellow came up to me
and complimented me on my acting. He said he was a composer and the guy he came with, his next-door neighbor, played the guitar. I said, ‘What’s
your name?’ he said, ‘Frank Zappa’. So I said, ‘OK, I have something for you. We have no music for THE WORLD’S GREATEST SINNER. If you can supply
the orchestra and a place to tape it, you have the job’. And that’s what he did. Around the same time he was on the Steve Alan Show. That’s where
our friendship stopped. Steve asked him what films he did. He said, ‘I did THE WORLD’S GREATEST SINNER, the world’s worst film and all the actors
were from skid row.’ It wasn’t true. The press said I was the world’s greatest ham, and that THE WORLD’S GREATEST SINNER was a travesty of the arts.
Zappa didn’t like that and he started to get on their bandwagon. The opening night at the directors guild, he was in complete awe. He walked into
the window and banged himself in the head. He didn’t even know there was a window there.
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Very cool aquagoat.Who's the little cartoon guy at the top of the body on back? It looks like Homer Simson playing a guitar,but is really too small to
make it out clearly.
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aquagoat
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It's a kind of turtle guy that serves the Warmoth company as a mascot:
[Edited on 29-8-2012 by aquagoat]
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Well Homer is shaped like a turtle.Ha,ha! I really like the wood grain patterns very classy.Hope the tones right for you.
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we'll hear that when I've received and assembled the parts. I think it'll be good.
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that looks really nice aqua. what kind of wood is it?
thanks for buying american 
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The body's made of black korina with a glossy finish and the neck is wenge with an ebony fretboard with no finish. First I intended to buy that kind
of body:
but you rarely see so much of that reddish/orange colour in that wood so when I saw the other body I knew I had to buy it. I plan to put a Floyd rose
tremolo system and Dimarzio Fast track 2, Red velvet and Pro track pickups in it, so it won't really sound like a strat. haha 
As to buying american, it wasn't really a criterion but I couldn't find a company doing the same thing with the same level of quality and for the same
price in france, so I didn't really have the choice.
[Edited on 31-8-2012 by aquagoat]
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punknaynowned
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it looks very nice and I hope it gives you years of enjoyment!
ha! the buy america thing is an uncharacteristic thing for me to say anyway.
but it's also nice to hear that they had what you wanted.
To know that we still can and do that. Despite transatlantic costs...
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As a kid, my favourite friends were my soft toys. Whether I got bullied at school or I had to rehearse a talk in class, my plushies were the place to
go to.
Even in secondary school I just couldn't bear to throw them out of bed. Until that vacacion between secondary school and university.
I got these horrible sleeping problems, sore eyes and a runny nose kept me awake every night. After some deduction I found it were my dear friends who
caused this grief. I spent one summer day cleaning them thoroughly, but it didn't help.
When there was no space in bed anymore, the 100+ toys quickly took over the room. Eventually, after a lot of nagging from my father, I succumbed to
putting all but a handful of favourites in cardboard boxes. They were stored in the attic.
Disaster struck. Mice took over the attic and destroyed one childhood doll. Since I cannot climb up into the attic myself, I had no choice but to let
them at my cherished friends. It broke my heart.
Today my father decided to pull them from there. He first got the boxes that held my sister's toys. The mice had been in there all-right: they were
filled with droppings and the poison we had set on them. But lo, mice don't like toys! A few were slightly damaged, one had to be thrown away and a
mouse needs a change of pants, but besides that, nothing we can't fix! I cleaned them all and they're now drying.
Then dad went up to get mine, and surprise: my boxes weren't broken into at all!
I got to rummage into the boxes. I could empty at least one of them, since many of the teddies I'm not attached to at all, but there's a couple that
really melt me. How could I ever stick them in the attic in the first place?
Anyway if I'm not there anymore tomorrow, I will have died of nostalgia. By now I believe that's possible.
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Hmmm. I believe those pictures of my leg killed the forum.
Leg's still blue.
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hahaha, yes, the forum killing blue leg has stuck again. How did you do that to you?
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Just by falling over with my bicycle and getting my leg trapped between my bicycle and the kerb.
We almost had a war here years ago over the location of a game, a game only I liked: in English it's called Key To The Kingdom. It dates from the
early 90s and is very complicated. I thought my sister had brought it with her when she moved out of the house, and my sister thought she'd put it in
the attic. She was right and we just found it.
Played it twice with my father. Lost twice.
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You're going to kill yourself with that bicycle. Careful bonny, a bicycle is a very dangerous vehicle, believe me.
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Oh right! How are your elbows, have you got all functions back yet?
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lost twice? no young lady. we played it three times and I won all of them, altough we did not compplete the first game. I had the key, a treasure and
the snake( )
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Nerve damage in right hand from op-on elbow.Hurts like hell! Type with left hand. Ouch!
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Oh poor Kirk! Get well soon hon!
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Thanx Beeps.I managed to do myself damage without the help of a bicycle! LOL!
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That's my special skill too, Kirk. 
Anyway, am thinking now what to do next on the Z-site now that the 50 titles are guessed. And am looking for birthday presents for my sister.
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my elbow's ok, it still hurts a bit
sometimes, but that's ok.
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