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I have a Cort, semi-acoustic, 3/4 sized, with a cutaway body. Excellent acoustics, very sensitive pickups and very playable, and priced under 500.00. Cort makes some fantastic semi-acoustic guitars.

Okay, this one may draw ire:

What's the difference between a Hoover and a Harley?

The size of the dirtbag!

Yes, indeedy, I was. It was a big hit in the late 60's or early 70's. Can't recall the band that recorded it, though.
I play it regularly on my pub nights.
"I Like Beer" is simply awesome, especially the sing-a-long chorus.

I almost got a tattoo once, when I was in the Army (1971is), but I sobered up before it was my turn!

A girl with no arms and no legs is sitting on a blanket on the beach. Summertime, with couples in love everywhere. She's a bit blue, though. She's 30 years old, with no arms or legs!

As she watches a couple kissing, she thinks to herself, "geez, I'm 30, and I've never been kissed by a man", only her thoughts are spoken aloud. A young man walking by hers her lament, bends down and tenderly kisses her lips, and walks away.

A few minutes later, she sees another couple, embracing on a blanket. She thinks to herself how she has never been held in a man's arms, and again, her thoughts come out of her mouth. Another young man, walking by, hears her, feels compassion, and tenderly lifts her into his arms and holds her close. He lays her back down and walks on.

Shortly afterward, she spies a real hunk walking by, and the wheels are turning! She fairly shouts: "I'm 30 years old with no arms and no legs, and I've never been screwed!" Mr. Beefcake hears her, of course.

He bends down, picks her up, sails her into the surf and yells: "Now you're screwed!"

That's young from my perspective!

Just bought an '80's Vantage 12 string for $100.00 ! I should say, my wife bought it for me, after a long search in Kijiji. The Vantage is a real solidly-built machine, compared to my broken Gianini 12-string, and its deeper body really resonates. Haven't had a 12-string for several years, and I didn't realize how much I missed that "wall of sound" when playing and singing. Anyone else own a Vantage? Japanese, no longer manufacturing, I think, but well made with a lovely matte finish, not too gaudy and stays in tune forever. Can't be beat for a hundred bucks!

I predict Mubarak will step down on around day 20, which would be Valentine's Day, or thereabouts. He will be forced to step down. I think that the U.S. and E.U. will cut the flow of money to Mubarak's regime and freeze Egyptian assets on the 13th or so. This will force Mubarek out. Hopefully, the Egytian parliament will then name the Speaker as the interim president, as is written into their constitution, and the political games will begin for a September election in Egypt.

Unless, of course, in the next few days, the military simply decides to find a suitable staff officer and appoint him president in a coup. This, I think, is a low probabilty, but, the military IS the actual government. Mubarak is still in power because the military has yet to choose sides. They are the wild card in the mix.

I don't think that the Muslim Brotherhood is altogether to be feared by the west. Egypt is a secular country, and the vast majority of Egyptians prefer it that way. Anyway, interesting times indeed.

The entire Arab world is in turmoil. The U.S. should be able to make some historic inroads into previously hostile countries, although it is a tricky situation. Mubarak should just leave, since the Egyptian constitution allows for peaceful transition via the "speaker of the house", who is supposed to become interim president until the next election cycle.

That being said, the guy (Mubarak), obviously doen't like "30 and out", and things will get much uglier there before they get better. Yemen is in the same boat, and the leaders in Syria and Jordan are shitting bricks right now, too. These are world-changing events unfolding, like the Jewish curse, we are living in "interesting" times.