What are you listening to?

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Re: What are you listening to?

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InlinePaul wrote:
Squint wrote:Sometimes I feel like ClutchDisc and Paul need to just talk face to face. Get some human interaction.

It seems like half of their normal daily conversations occur on SS :lol: :lol:
It beats clogging up our email inboxes.
:lol: Yea and it makes interesting posts like this happen.

Edit: Here we go, another conversation...
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Re: What are you listening to?

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Hey Clutchdisc, check out this Neil Young tune:
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That's one of my favorites! :D
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Re: What are you listening to?

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InlinePaul wrote:
Squint wrote:Sometimes I feel like ClutchDisc and Paul need to just talk face to face. Get some human interaction.

It seems like half of their normal daily conversations occur on SS :lol: :lol:
It beats clogging up our email inboxes.
As long as you don't turn on the setting for email notification of responses to threads. :wink:
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Here is another great Neil Young performance:

Its amazing. Anybody else and I would not watch this for 2 seconds, but Neil is great, no mater what he does, it is good. Much like Bob Dylan, yet so different.

Here is a Dylan tune I would not listen to for 2 seconds if it were anybody else, but Dylan make it work for me. This is great:
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Re: What are you listening to?

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Now here is an absolutely wonderful piece of music:
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Re: What are you listening to?

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InlinePaul wrote:
Squint wrote:Sometimes I feel like ClutchDisc and Paul need to just talk face to face. Get some human interaction.

It seems like half of their normal daily conversations occur on SS :lol: :lol:
It beats clogging up our email inboxes.
The old lady probably doesn't want to hear about gear ratios, short throws, and new bushings.
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tankinbeans wrote: The old lady probably doesn't want to hear about gear ratios, short throws, and new bushings.
Neither of the ladies (my wife, and Clutchdisc's sister) want to hear any gearhead talk whatsoever. But funny, they come to us first thing if the car won't start. :lol:
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Sounds about right. What's her name, ThrottleCable?
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:lol: :lol: :lol:
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Re: What are you listening to?

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tankinbeans wrote:Sounds about right. What's her name, ThrottleCable?
I suppose if the ladies had any gearhead tendencies they would be members of
ILoveAutomatics.com and would have usernames such as

TorqueConverter

and ElectronicOverdrive

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Re: What are you listening to?

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InlinePaul wrote:
tankinbeans wrote:Sounds about right. What's her name, ThrottleCable?
I suppose if the ladies had any gearhead tendencies they would be members of
ILoveAutomatics.com and would have usernames such as

TorqueConverter

and ElectronicOverdrive

:lol:
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Re: What are you listening to?

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InlinePaul wrote:Now here is an absolutely wonderful piece of music:
Yanno Beethoven is dead, right?
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Re: What are you listening to?

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Rope-Pusher wrote: Yanno Beethoven is dead, right?
No! It cannot be. Do you have proof of this? If so, what will become of his music then? :(
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Re: What are you listening to?

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InlinePaul wrote: Yanno Beethoven is dead, right?
No! It cannot be. Do you have proof of this? If so, what will become of his music then? :([/quote]

Oh, ha ha ha ha. I get it. You have a typo. You meant to say "Yanno Beethoven is deaf, right?"
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