> > > You'd be surprised, because of the tv advertising revenues.
> > > Anyway, starting in 2021, they're the WooSox, not PawSox.
> > Worcester?  Cool.  
> 
> It's an up-and-coming city, which Pawtucket is not.
> 
True.  It's got the transportation access Pawtucket doesn't.  

> > > The dollar costs are less than Uber, but there are other
> > > costs as well.
> > It's that whole dating thing. 
> 
> For sure, but I never actually dated much, if
> that term implies the ritualistic stuff.

I wouldn't know either.  
 
> > > coot who should have been driving a Trabant if anything.
> > No one should be driving a Trabbie.  A golf cart maybe; there's 
> > limited trouble you can get into with a golf cart, and they don't 
> > smoke like chimneys. 
> 
> A Trabant wouldn't have gone fast enough for
> him to have gotten into the trouble that he did.

Did Trabants get out of first gear? 
 
> > > Collecting money using baskets woven by their wives.
> > Or their mothers, the money a musician earns not being enough to 
> > attract a wife. 
> 
> You'd be surprised. There are a lot of desperate
> women out there.

And some women like starving artists. Go figure.
 
> > > > > Shedding a ray on your mental processes.
> > > > Just brushing up on my critical thinking. 
> > > I'm not sweatering it.
> > Or shedding a tear, cats not being fond of sweaters. 
> 
> Which they tear to shreds.

Or at least pull to death.  Christmas sweaters done in by Santa 
Claws.
 
> > > It doesn't take much time to get a piece of wood to
> > > look beat up. I played on the Betts Stradivarius, which
> > They played the varnish right off the back of the neck.  The 
bridge 
> 
> A normal condition.
> 
> > was a bridge to nowhere, since the bit that holds the strings on 
the 
> > bottom was only half there.  Etc.
> 
> Eh, that can be fixed.

The question being is the violin worth enough to bother. 
 
> > > to my ear, but it was pristine, probably the only originally 
> > > fitted classic never repaired violin I've ever seen.
> > Can't say I've ever heard one.  Possibly just as well.
> 
> Whether one has heard one or not is a massive
> irrelevancy to one's life. I know that jewelry can 
> be worth a lot, despite not having worn any.

Or at least it sells for a lot; worth is another story.  
 
> > Two pieces of bakelite make a "clunk" when clinked together, and 
you 
> > can feel the difference sometimes too.  The black stuff doesn't 
> > chemically test too well, if at all, so that's no help.  Acrylic 
> > tends to feel like a cheaper material.  Lucite doesn't so much. 
> 
> I always liked the name lucite.

Dupont got one right then.
 
> > > > Not that I know of.  I think she uses it as a middle name.  
> > Sailor 
> > > > Cook, I think.
> > > I knew a sailor cook, I think you could characterize Bryan 
> > > Shipp as such. I've known various other sailors and cooks
> > > but not at the same time.
> > I've known my fair share of sailors, or ex-Navy at least, who 
cook. 
> > I've even known folks named Sailor, but it was a last name.
> 
> I knew a Saylor, whose forbears must have included a 
> sailor who couldn't spell.
> 
Back 250 years ago, nobody could. They probably knew a bunch of 
Taylors and such. 
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