> > > Well, the Padres are basically nobody's home team.
> > Does anyone admit to following the Padres? 
> 
> I've not met any - that was sort of what I was saying.
>
I've heard of some but never met one.  
 
> > > > All those Mercedes car payments? :-)  
> > > Something like. I was once briefly smitten by a
> > > girl who wanted a Miata, and I looked into it and
> > Why I don't know....
> 
> She would not have been a worse bargain than the one 
> who bought her own sports car.

If she turned herself into your personal Uber driver it might not 
have been a bad deal, but...
 
> > > out with a woman who could buy her own Miata. 
> > Smart move. I drive a 2005 Nissan m'self.  
> 
> I'm not sure what the current reps of car brands
> are, so I'm nt sure what that says about you.
> Poor student redux, perhaps?

Run the wheels off whatever I get is more like it. They're fairly 
basic transport.
 
> > as long as you duck when someone tries to shoot you for bringing 
> > something horrible across state lines.
> 
> The only time anyone pointed a firearm at me in
> Texas when I was canvassing for Eugene McCarthy.

They had reason.
 
> > > I had an ocarina once - wonder where it went.
> > Probably smash, if it was ceramic like the ones I used to see.
> 
> It was plastic. Sounded sort of real, though.

I think the professional ones are plastic these days, if there is 
such a thing.
 
> > > Being lower strung, they were easier to tune, but I'm
> > > not sure I would have had the guts to do so anyway.
> > Sheep thrills? 
> 
> Bah. That was a catty remark.

Synthetic humor more like.
 
> > > > > I had only the violin, but I think it went to Goodwill.
> > > > Not a bad place for them. 
> > > How much would I have gotten, 10 or 20 bucks?
> > Something like that.
> 
> If it had been 50, I'd have regretted a little.

I found a violin in an antique store the other day. It had some age 
on it, but nothing like antique.  Someone had played it half to death 
but the chin cup was plastic and NOT bakelite.
 
> Fred Gwynne was amusing and a talented guy:
> https://www.pinterest.com/pin/379920918537023069
> But, speaking of Texas, Carolyn Jones trumps, er, 
> beats all.

Not my personal taste of course but I can see why you'd like her.  
Fred Gwynne was a blast.
 
> > > He was not on my hot scale, either. I mean, those ears.
> > And the wrong gender, as far as I know.
> 
> He presented as a guy, anyhow. There was some modelicious
> woman with that surname, though; I always hoped she was
> some relation, for the perverse fun of it.

Christie? I don't think she's related.  One of her daughters is 
modeling now too, and doing well at it apparently.