> > > > > 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.  
> 
> It's a crappy team and not a huge market. The 
> estimated value of the team is 40% of the Red Sox
> or 30% of the Yankees.
> 
Those sound generous.  I'm guessing the Pawsox are probably valued 
higher.

> > If she turned herself into your personal Uber driver it might not 
> > have been a bad deal, but...
> 
> Any woman I go out with is my personal driver.

If you're going anywhere, she's driving. Naturally.  
 
> > > Poor student redux, perhaps?
> > Run the wheels off whatever I get is more like it. They're fairly 
> > basic transport.
> 
> My father had a 280Z, made by that company. It
> was apparently not a basic car.

That was a sports car.  They were pretty nice, back in the day.
 
> > > > 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.
> 
> I'd find it hard to believe that a musician would
> characterize him/herself as an ocarinist.

Perhaps not here, but hard core players elsewhere in the world might 
make a living at it.  
 
> > > > > not sure I would have had the guts to do so anyway.
> > > > Sheep thrills? 
> > > Bah. That was a catty remark.
> > Synthetic humor more like.
> 
> Shedding a ray on your mental processes.

Just brushing up on my critical thinking. 
 
> > 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 
> 
> If it had been really horrid, nobody would have
> played it half to death.
> 
Possibly not to start with at least. It wasn't in the best of shape.

> > but the chin cup was plastic and NOT bakelite.
> 
> I thought bakelite was plastic.
> 
It's plastic, but looks and feels quite different from the modern 
acrylics.  It was a much heavier and higher quality material.

> > > 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.
> 
> Not within my radar. Is she also called Brinkley?

Not that I know of.  I think she uses it as a middle name.  Sailor 
Cook, I think.