Do any of you own anything made in the bowels of hell?

[Oeditpus Rex]

A Pinto, perhaps? Some New Kids on the Block CDs? A beautifully restored Third Reich swizzle stick? :shrug:

[Robeson]

1. I owned an AMC Gremlin onetime. So this post certainly applies...

...to me...:-)

[Oeditpus Rex]

5. Aw, man

I liked Gremlins. :(

The Levi™ Gremlin, anyway. With a... what was their small-block, a 323?

[Robeson]

6. Yeah, I thought the looks were cute, too....

...only problem was, if it rained, it didn't start, and only started about 40% of the other times. Biggest piece of crap I've ever owned.

[Oeditpus Rex]

7. Weird

Must've been after... who bought AMC? :shrug:

Through most of the '60s, AMC/Nash/Rambler had a real good rep for reliability. They were marketed as basic, reliable transportation, and they delivered. My dad loved 'em; he owned four, all told.

[Robeson]

9. Yep, my grandfather had a rambler, and it was a war wagon....

...it was the 70's when the quality control on AMC's went straight to hell. Of course, they weren't alone in that category in the 70's for U.S. auto makers.

[Oeditpus Rex]

10. One of my dad's was

a '59 American station wagon that he called the Crap Wagon. He had a decent-sized garden behind the house, and we used the car to drive to the stables behind the Rodeo Grounds and haul as many five-gallon paint buckets as it would hold, filled with horse manure mixed with hay for fertilizer. :7

One time it blew a head gasket and I changed it in like six hours. That flathead six was a freakin' dream to work on, and it'd run forever. Only 90 horsepower, but it just wouldn't break.

[krispos42]

12. Chrysler bought AMC

I don't know when, though, but they got the Jeep brand as well in the deal, IIRC.

[Oeditpus Rex]

14. That's it

Thanks. :hi:

[krispos42]

20. my pleasure :-)

[Robeson]

15. Yep, I had bought some AMC stock because my dad told me it....

...was such a good deal. Of course, the quality of their cars sucked in the 70's, so my stock never gained much. Then, Chrysler bought them out - basically for the Jeep label - and my stock went further done, because Chrysler stock sucked in the 70's. Long-story-short, I don't have many positive memories of AMC.

[Heidi]

2. I still have a copy of my divorce decree

from my pre-Call Me Wesley marriage. Does that count?

[Robeson]

3. Sure it does....

...I know Mrs. Robeson could relate!...:-)

[Heidi]

4. Hahahahahaha!

Here's to you, Mrs. Robeson! :toast:

[Oeditpus Rex]

8. You'll have to ask CMW

:7

[Maddy McCall]

11. Clackers.

I still have them from my childhood. They were forged from the wax of Beelzebub's ear.

[Oeditpus Rex]

13. I dunno if this was a regional thing or what

but we called those "Knockers."



Obviously, we had to employ some discretion in context.

[Robeson]

16. You still have a pair?....

...too cool!

[Maddy McCall]

17. I do. And I can still work them.

I handed them down to my son when he turned 13, and he can clack them for over a minute. Sometimes it sounds like the report from a fully-auto assault rifle coming from his room.

[Xipe Totec]

41. I do wish you would rephrase that... n/t

[woo me with science]

36. I could not find those even on ebay!

I found the balls, but not attached to strings, and I wasn't sure they had holes in them so strings could be attached.

I figured the safety police had rounded up and demolished all clackers long ago, or they are stockpiled in a secret underground vault.


You are a very lucky woman!

[BlueIris]

18. Well, I do have an iMac.

Sigh. I'm so ashamed.

[krispos42]

19. Yes, the Elmo Giggle Drill

Oh, wait, I have two...



For my two-year-old to play with. I bought him one a few months ago as a stand-alone item, and then for Christmas my parents bought him an Elmo tool belt. With, of course... another one.

So, now my kid runs around like a gunslinger, drilling the cats, me, himself, and the damn drills are laughing and giggling the entire time. Often in synch, or in a form of an echo.

They don't have an off switch, either. Fortunately they only talk briefly when the trigger is pulled?

[HughBeaumont]

21. Once. It was called a Ford Escort.

Damn thing nearly killed me while driving it. WHAT car almost spontaneously destructs WHILE driving it? This thing did. Had it towed and never set foot in it again. Sold it the next week. No wonder they don't make them anymore. My Cavalier, the car critics shat on, has TWICE the shelf life that piece of shit could ever have HOPED for.

[Mad_Dem_X]

22. I feel your pain!

I had the misfortune of owning an Escort in the early 90's. Had trouble with it from practically the moment I drove it off the lot. POS.

[HughBeaumont]

25. I mean, WHO starts a car by putting a pencil in the butterfly valve to keep it open?

They erased the EV1 from existence . . . yet they market behemoth gashogs and Bicmobiles like the Escrap year after year after year . . .

[Oeditpus Rex]

44. That *is* bizarre

I've always used a screwdriver. :crazy:

[woo me with science]

37. My husband had one of those.

It caught on fire on the highway.

[TheBaldyMan]

23. A copy of Microsoft Windows n/t

[RetroLounge]

24. My 2 kids...

:rofl:

RL

[Auggie]

26. My Epson printer

[ileus]

27. I used to own a gateway...

[crim son]

28. My youngest son Henri Le Terrible.

He spends half his days in the principal's office because he's "too sociable". I'd be worried if he weren't also very bright and kind.

[Connonym]

29. Just the president of my country

a very unholy creation. Even though I'm atheist/agnostic, I find that I cross myself whenever I see his picture.

[jakefrep]

30. Several versions of QuickBooks nt

[sniffa]

31. i passed a stone once... but i didn't keep it.

[femmedem]

40. The last time I went to a dinner party, someone showed us his "stone."

He was feeling impish, seated next to his wife's ex-husband, and he relished telling the story of his kidney stone, every other sentence "my penis...my penis." :rofl:

[jobycom]

32. You can't exactly own a cat...

But her place of origin is not in question.

[montanto]

42. looks like you're the one who got pwn3d

:evilgrin:

[unsavedtrash]

33. textbooks

they count right?

[terrya]

34. I once owned a Chevrolet Vega

Does that count?

[Oeditpus Rex]

43. Was it stock?

Then, yeah. :(

[ContraBass Black]

35. Gifts from an Ex.

I should get around to donating/destroying those.

[rateyes]

38. Tickle me, Elmo! nt

[GoddessOfGuinness]

39. My father-in-law has a picture of Dumbyass and Pickles

"signed" by the dimson himself.

Father-in-law has Alzheimer's.

[Xipe Totec]

45. A Nazi coin, strangely enough.

Given to me by an acquaintance, about 20 years ago.

[LeftyMom]

46. My very own copy of Windows ME

But, praise Randomness, I think that computer's finally bit the dust.