I could have been rich if I wasn't a procrastinator

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RAT ROD AL

RAT ROD AL

MOPAR ARCHEOLOGIST - one parts hoard at a time!
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For me it started back in the 70s, I always here the term " Don't make me open a can of woopass on ya! " Heard the phrase in different forms . Looked around to see where you could buy some of this stuff and it really didn't exist. So I got ta thinkin-- I otta see about making it and selling it. Well never got around to it, and a few years go by and damn there some is on the shelf at Spencers gift. MISSED that one. Then in the 90s A buddy of mine always wore these RUN WITH THE BIG DOG T shirts. You know the ones showing off the back side of a nasty old bull dog. Thought He was the big dog I guess. Any way he was a Ford guy and bought a new 3500 power stroke and at the time I had a 3500 ram cummins. ON different occassions we'd have a few beers around a camp fire and end up hookin em up, and drag his ford around the field. SO I got ta thinkin, I could make up a nice pair of Balls and hang em on the back of my truck for him to look at. YOU know , like on his shirts. Well never got around to that on either. Next thing you know every Red Neck in country is sportin them things. I've even seen pink ones on a ladies truck.???? MISSED THAT ONE TOO. Then just this week I realized , watching the news for the past few years, Just think if you would have opened a CUSTOM MADE TO ORDER PROTEST TEE SHIRT , SIGN AND BANNER shop!!! I'm thinkin BILLIONS. YA guess I missed that one too. Thanks for letting me waste your time.
 
Back in '69 i worked night shift with an old guy that insisted on "his" fresh ground coffee to start our shift.
He would grind it right before he came in and it was the best coffee i had ever had.I remember thinking this stuff is so good you could make a few bucks just selling fresh ground coffee and doughnuts!
Well,you know the rest of the story....
 
Thanks for making me think about all the things I thought of and never did. And all the things I will think of and never do.
 
Back in school (1978) I wanted to put the law books on disc. But the only storage was 3 1/2 floppy ds/dd that held about 2 1/2 mb. It would take 100s of floppies. Windows 95 was years away. There was no internet. And Al Gore did not invent it.
Now we have terabyte hds and 32 gigabyte thumb drives.
And somebody else ran with my idea.
 
When I was young I called the Kellogg's tip line. Suggested putting chocolate chips and other toppings on their rice Krispy treats. I got a thank you letter a few months later and then a year later poof all kinds of rice Krispy treats with toppings started coming out. Never got a dime for that.
 
AJ/FormS said:
I won!
Got me a helpmeet, for the cost of a ring, which in 77 was about a hundred bucks. It wasn't an original idea tho, millions of guys have done it. I saved a lot on rubbers tho.
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OK.....What the hell is a helpmeet? Is that like an inflatamate?
 
It's a commandment; I'm not always real excited about it.But one, or both, of us is gonna die soon, so meh. I mean we are in our 60s. Threescore and 10 and all that; 4 score if by reason of good health.
 
AJ/FormS said:
I won!
Got me a helpmeet, for the cost of a ring, which in 77 was about a hundred bucks. It wasn't an original idea tho, millions of guys have done it. I saved a lot on rubbers tho.
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------LOL
 
My grandfather work for general tires building truck tires after WWII They used to spin the outer ring of the tire around their waste, arms,legs, and neck. You guessed it! He always says he could have been a millionaire if he made a hoola hoop.
 
Jadaharabi said:
Back in school (1978) I wanted to put the law books on disc. But the only storage was 3 1/2 floppy ds/dd that held about 2 1/2 mb. It would take 100s of floppies. Windows 95 was years away. There was no internet. And Al Gore did not invent it.
Now we have terabyte hds and 32 gigabyte thumb drives.
And somebody else ran with my idea.
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All al gore did was dupe the stupid people that believed his bull **** !!
I know, old thread!
 
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