Merry Christmas everyone, except oej719!

[Eduardo]

Johnnyflection with no time to mess around here because he would rather spend time with his family is sure spending a lot of time messing around here on christmas.

[vidopoker]

Johnnyflection with no time to mess around here because he would rather spend time with his family is sure spending a lot of time messing around here on christmas.
His son must not have arrived yet from Georgia.... He must have made a pit stop off at the Casinos

[johnnylong]

Johnnyflection with no time to mess around here because he would rather spend time with his family is sure spending a lot of time messing around here on christmas.

i hope i dont make you cry waa waa waa but how many times do you guys try to look dumb? My sons 23 and he was here for the festivaties then went out with friends like any normal american. you oughta talk, have you seen how many posts youve made since joining? You must not live near the border or else youd be posting less with the good weather.
 
How about me tosing another tough question your way eduardo. how about explaining the namecalling in johnnyflection? or you going to stay inline with the rest of your backwatchers and duck another one.

[Eduardo]

Wow. that IS a tough question. Too tough. Give me something simple like the odds of flipping over the same card when I discard one. I think it might be 1 in 47 but I would have to go through the mindnumbing task of using an autoshuffler and dealing myself hundreds of hands and performing the task manually before I would believe such advanced math.

[johnnylong]

Wow. that IS a tough question. Too tough. Give me something simple like the odds of flipping over the same card when I discard one. I think it might be 1 in 47 but I would have to go through the mindnumbing task of using an autoshuffler and dealing myself hundreds of hands and performing the task manually before I would believe such advanced math.

You babble eduardo and i see clearly why your also cry.

[Eduardo]

I think I like you johnny but your friend is a nother story.
When I was little in my country my mother told me a beautiful story about a princess and a pea. Your friend's video poker story and career is very much the same. Except he is a princess sleeping in his own pee.

[Tedlark]

  johnnylong this is the last time I will discuss my workouts with you as it seems to be a futile effort on my part. I travel with my workout gear. The operative word in that previous sentence was my. I have yet to walk in to a gym that provided members with: gloves, wrist wraps, sure grip straps, belts, and super wrap 10's. Other than that I have figured out that the gyms regularly do provide: bars, plates, dumb bells, benches, squat racks, smith machines, hammer strength equipment, and lockers.
 
  As for having a beer belly because you don't run that's too bad. I learned many many years ago that the heart is actually the strongest muscle in the human body and it should be worked out through cardiovascular exercise often. I bet you watch those yoga workout shows on television and think those girls aren't so tough because they don't have beer bellies. Try yoga sometime. Heck even try a beginners aerobics class and do some sit ups. My cardio workout consists of riding a lifecycle 15 miles a day after my workout. This equates (relax I'm not going to do much math here, don't break out in to a cold sweat) to burning about 450 calories in a 45 minute period. Just the other day a guy, probably very similar to what you would be like in the gym, was working out there, I had never seen him there before. He was a blowhard who was pressing the 60 pound dumb bells and I asked him if I could use them for a quick set. He gave me a funny look and said yes. I then told him I would only need them for a quick warmup. I did the warmup set and he gave me a funny look when I did my next 5 sets with the 100 pound dumb bells. See Thursday is a rep day for chest for me. He shut up right about the time I was finishing my 3rd set.   
 
  It's nice that you own the shop where you work, now on tho the billing rate that you charge. That charge is not what you the owner of the establishment earns. Please follow me here and I'll try to use small words that you will be able to understand, ok? The biggest word but it goes by fast if you read it fast is: overhead. Out of per hour charge that you get overhead is the costs of doing business, commonly refered to as the CODB. Rolled in to these costs may be: the rent you pay for the building (or the mortgage if you own the building but please remember that if the building is in your name and you lease it back to your business that's a whole other series of issues), monthly bills for electricity, water, insurance, coffee for the customers, health insurance for your employees if they are lucky, the cost of the gasoline you put in to your parts truck, the insurance on your parts truck, the fee that your accountant charges every year to do the business taxes, any licenses or permits required by the state and local governing bodies, and the cost of such things as cleaning supplies so your place looks approachable to possible customers, etc. God forbid we would have to get in to a lesson on EBITA, LIFO, FIFO, depreciation, parts markup, inventory personal property taxes, or something else that would indicate the TRUE cost of running a business.
 
  I will not be responding to any more of your posts and no you are not getting to me. I just think this exchange between us has run its course. It's too bad, really though because I had yet to become as mean, nasty, and creative as I really can be.
 
  Regards and good luck with your video poker play.

[New2vp]

Gee, Ted.  With all that going for you (the physical shape, business knowledge and even car talk), johnny will probably think that the vp strategy you use must be terrific, especially if it's different than that used by those dreaded and boring math types.  Now, you will have to be able to hang your four diplomas on a wall so he can see them, five if you count high school, to seal the deal (but you never know; that might be too many diplomas for him; that requires counting higher than the credentials of his current hero, so you may be trying to be too smart).Oh wait, there's that other necessity to keep that insult meter running.  Try to denigrate more people here and then complain about their responses regardless of their logic, reasonableness, and relevancy.  Don't worry about the truth here.  Lying and saying they must be weak to post a response is crucial.  And one last thing, try and misspell a few words and torture the structure of a sentence or two so no one can figure out what they mean or why they are included in your post (or video poker strategy, for that matter).I think that's his entire checklist.  Press on, but I suppose even though you've covered every point, you're still in for some zany retorts.

[johnnylong]

I think I like you johnny but your friend is a nother story.
When I was little in my country my mother told me a beautiful story about a princess and a pea. Your friend's video poker story and career is very much the same. Except he is a princess sleeping in his own pee.

Your confusing me with some one who is effected by or cares about his vid pok story and career half as much as you.

[johnnylong]

johnnylong this is the last time I will discuss my workouts with you as it seems to be a futile effort on my part. I travel with my workout gear. The operative word in that previous sentence was my. I have yet to walk in to a gym that provided members with: gloves, wrist wraps, sure grip straps, belts, and super wrap 10's. Other than that I have figured out that the gyms regularly do provide: bars, plates, dumb bells, benches, squat racks, smith machines, hammer strength equipment, and lockers.
 
Dont think im making fun of you because im all braun & no brains too, but you never talked about this before. the other part of that still doesnt make sence. Who goes to Lvegas to do workouts?
 
As for having a beer belly because you don't run that's too bad. I learned many many years ago that the heart is actually the strongest muscle in the human body and it should be worked out through cardiovascular exercise often. I bet you watch those yoga workout shows on television and think those girls aren't so tough because they don't have beer bellies. Try yoga sometime. Heck even try a beginners aerobics class and do some sit ups. My cardio workout consists of riding a lifecycle 15 miles a day after my workout. This equates (relax I'm not going to do much math here, don't break out in to a cold sweat) to burning about 450 calories in a 45 minute period. Just the other day a guy, probably very similar to what you would be like in the gym, was working out there, I had never seen him there before. He was a blowhard who was pressing the 60 pound dumb bells and I asked him if I could use them for a quick set. He gave me a funny look and said yes. I then told him I would only need them for a quick warmup. I did the warmup set and he gave me a funny look when I did my next 5 sets with the 100 pound dumb bells. See Thursday is a rep day for chest for me. He shut up right about the time I was finishing my 3rd set.
 
im no cardio guy im too big and feel and look silly on that equipment. i get a darn good workout in the shop every day. Sure im not happy about the little gut but im very solid above that and my arms are as big as most guys legs.   
 
  It's nice that you own the shop where you work, now on tho the billing rate that you charge. That charge is not what you the owner of the establishment earns. Please follow me here and I'll try to use small words that you will be able to understand, ok? The biggest word but it goes by fast if you read it fast is: overhead. Out of per hour charge that you get overhead is the costs of doing business, commonly refered to as the CODB. Rolled in to these costs may be: the rent you pay for the building (or the mortgage if you own the building but please remember that if the building is in your name and you lease it back to your business that's a whole other series of issues), monthly bills for electricity, water, insurance, coffee for the customers, health insurance for your employees if they are lucky, the cost of the gasoline you put in to your parts truck, the insurance on your parts truck, the fee that your accountant charges every year to do the business taxes, any licenses or permits required by the state and local governing bodies, and the cost of such things as cleaning supplies so your place looks approachable to possible customers, etc. God forbid we would have to get in to a lesson on EBITA, LIFO, FIFO, depreciation, parts markup, inventory personal property taxes, or something else that would indicate the TRUE cost of running a business.
 
Some thing this posse does is make up that they know it all, no wonder you guys get easily intimadated by falala. he mustof ripped you all up something feirce back when. Here you think you know more than i do about my own business but you only did what your crews been doing and talked your self into a corner.
 
My bill rate is $90 an hour and i darn near make that much myself clear. i need a good wage for us the shop and the X plus i help out the son. When your as good as i am and get specialized work from all over the south west you bring in the big wheels who want  $27000 engines and 5figure tire & wheel/brake& handling packages. many of them tip big because theyre all excited when they see the work and test drive it. im not the dumb butt mecanic you think.
 
I will not be responding to any more of your posts and no you are not getting to me. I just think this exchange between us has run its course. It's too bad, really though because I had yet to become as mean, nasty, and creative as I really can be.
 
Doesnt matter either way. i like writing about what i do for a living.