Date: Sat, 17 Feb 2007 11:19:20 -0600
Reply-To: Jim Felder <felder@KNOLOGY.NET>
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From: Jim Felder <felder@KNOLOGY.NET>
Subject: Re: Friday/NVC: Tool calendars?
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This stuff is SO right on so many levels, I can't believe that I ever
thought it was just salacious exploitation. There's a deep balance
here. Did you see the big pipe cutter?
Jim
On Feb 17, 2007, at 11:15 AM, Michael Elliott wrote:
> Ah -- May and June 1976. A sweet-faced well-endowed young woman in
> a two-piece bathing suit, frolicking in the surf without a care in
> the world. While holding a conduit bender.
>
> A perfect composition. Now THAT'S what I'm talking about.
>
> --
> Mike "Rocket J Squirrel" Elliott
> 71 Type 2: the Wonderbus
> 84 Westfalia: Mellow Yellow ("The Electrical Banana")
> 74 Utility Trailer. Ladybug Trailer, Inc., San Juan Capistrano
> KG6RCR
>
>
>
> Jim Felder typed:
>> The King of all garage pinup calendars was and is the Rigid Tool
>> Calendar. Here's somebody's collection from the 70son Flickr <http://
>> www.flickr.com/photos/umpqua/sets/917376/>
>> Warning: Be prepared to see WOMEN holding TOOLS.
>> They are still being produced. Get yours here <http://www.ridgid.com/
>> Tools/Calendar/index.htm>
>> Jim
>> On Feb 17, 2007, at 12:54 AM, Philip Zimmerman wrote:
>>> From: Michael Elliott <camping.elliott@GMAIL.COM>
>>>
>>> Is this delightfully tacky eye candy no longer
>>> socially acceptable?
>>>
>>> From: Robert Fisher <refisher@MCHSI.COM>
>>> Subject: Re: Friday/NVC: Tool calendars?
>>>
>>> http://www.pirellical.com/thecal/home.html
>>> -----------
>>>
>>> Great fryeday question Mike, as the list looks
>>> real quiet today. R&Ring ball joints will get
>>> a guy thinking about such things. (RVC)
>>>
>>> Pirelli still seems to think they are acceptable.
>>> Although, the French are way ahead of most neanderthal
>>> countries around issues of human body. Or perhaps
>>> the French choose to ignore the nay-sayers and print
>>> what they enjoy... I dunno....
>>>
>>> Thanks Robert for the link and trip down memory
>>> lane. Wow, I miss my miss-spent youth.
>>>
>>> The old-school Mechanic I rent shop-space from
>>> still receives the occasional calendar from his
>>> suppliers. The content is more bent on promoting
>>> some product like Optima batteries with a tease of
>>> cheese-cake to help the male ego remember the product.
>>>
>>> Ben, the mechanic, still has a calendar from 1979
>>> hanging on the back of his office-door. The pig I
>>> am, I still enjoy a gaze at that calendar.....
>>> Almost every time I close the door behind me.
>>>
>>> Phil Z.
>>> dazed & depraved in
>>> Campbell River, BC
>>>
>
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