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Postby NailedPenguin » Fri Sep 21, 2018 11:45 am

I'd just like to be able to buy more than 1 pair every 2 years that my insurance allows.

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Postby Morkle » Fri Sep 21, 2018 11:53 am

Zenni, EyeBuyDirect are the two I use. Like C2I said. I usually get my free ones from Insurance, then buy extra cheapos that I beat up throughout the year.

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Postby Morkle » Fri Sep 21, 2018 11:58 am

EyeBuy just sent me a code 20FALL for 20% off.

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Postby shafnutz05 » Fri Sep 21, 2018 8:08 pm

I'd just like to be able to buy more than 1 pair every 2 years that my insurance allows.
I get new contacts and glasses every year. It is almost excessive (for the glasses anyway) but I'm not complaining.

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Postby tifosi77 » Sat Sep 22, 2018 9:05 pm

I've heard nothing but good things about Warby Parker.
I own a pair, and like them. But for me, Zenni is where it's at. They're less expensive, have a wider variety of frame styles and materials, and you don't need to upload your actual Rx (you can just manually input the diopter info). I've purchased I think four pair from Zenni in two years.

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Postby dodint » Wed Sep 26, 2018 10:07 pm

Driving Loafers

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Postby CBear3 » Thu Sep 27, 2018 9:18 am

Driving Loafers
I was full driving preppy, gloves and Piloti's back in my M3 days. No aviators though.

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Postby dodint » Thu Sep 27, 2018 9:26 am

Piloti was running a really great deal a few weeks weeks; that's when I learned they don't sell size 14 shoes. :(

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Postby blackjack68 » Thu Sep 27, 2018 10:00 am

Driving Loafers
Were you watching this week's episode of Ballers?

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Postby Tomas » Mon Oct 08, 2018 2:47 pm

Dominik Hasek's (birth) last name is Kastanek. His parents got divorced whan DH was 2. His mother then married Mr. Hasek. Hasek got his present name at the age of 10, after his biological father had agreed with the name change.

BTW, Kastanek = LITTLE BUCKEYE (both "tree" and "nut")

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Postby Viva la Ben » Tue Oct 16, 2018 7:41 am

A loofa sponge isn’t an aquatic sea creature, rather it’s a gourd like plant.

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Postby Lemon Berry Lobster » Tue Oct 16, 2018 7:44 am

Well stick me in the back of a convertible and call me JFK because my mind is blown.

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Postby shafnutz05 » Tue Oct 16, 2018 8:27 am

That's a quality post Ben. A TIL for all of us

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Postby Lemon Berry Lobster » Tue Oct 16, 2018 8:30 am

Except for nobody, he knew already. He has a family member that has a luffa farm, and a cousin that has a loofa factory.

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Postby Viva la Ben » Tue Oct 16, 2018 9:00 am

One weird trick that Big Loofa hates!

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Postby Freddy Rumsen » Tue Oct 16, 2018 4:43 pm

:lol:

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Postby grunthy » Tue Oct 16, 2018 5:10 pm

Except for nobody, he knew already. He has a family member that has a luffa farm, and a cousin that has a loofa factory.
TIL I had a family member that has a loofa farm and one that works at a factory.

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Postby Shyster » Tue Oct 16, 2018 5:30 pm

I can honestly say I had no idea that loofahs were plants.

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Postby mikey » Tue Oct 16, 2018 5:48 pm

Yup, no clue.

Also, lol'd at VLB's comment. He must visit weather.com all the time...

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Postby Jim » Thu Oct 18, 2018 10:17 am

Driving Loafers
I was full driving preppy, gloves and Piloti's back in my M3 days. No aviators though.

I never got the reason for driving gloves.

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Postby CBear3 » Thu Oct 18, 2018 10:25 am

Driving Loafers
I was full driving preppy, gloves and Piloti's back in my M3 days. No aviators though.

I never got the reason for driving gloves.
I thought I looked cool :face:

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Postby iamjs » Thu Oct 18, 2018 10:38 am

Pac-Man was based on the concept of eating, and the original Japanese title is Pakkuman (パックマン), inspired by the Japanese onomatopoeic phrase paku-paku taberu (パクパク食べる), where paku-paku describes (the sound of) the mouth movement when widely opened and then closed in succession.

The game was originally called Puck Man in the US as a reference to the main character's hockey puck shape. Later in 1980, the game was picked up for manufacture in the United States by Bally division Midway, which changed the game's name from Puck Man to Pac-Man in an effort to avoid vandalism from people changing the letter 'P' into an 'F' to form the word f*ck.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pac-Man#D ... and_naming
Despite it's appearance, Crazy Kong was not a Donkey Kong bootleg. It was licensed in Japan when Nintendo couldn't keep up with the demand and was created using different hardware.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crazy_Kong

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Postby tifosi77 » Thu Oct 18, 2018 6:12 pm

Here's a fun one.

Hasbro's original GI Joe was sold in Japan under license. But being large and plastic, it was expensive to produce. So the toy company came up with a series of smaller human form toys called Microman. That eventually morphed into machines, mainly robots and vehicles, called Diaclone and Micro Change. Hasbro was taken with this concept, so they licensed the idea for production and sale in the US, which is how we got Transformers. So even though the first run of around two dozen or so characters were directly lifted from the Japanese company, the Transformers line was born out of a direct evolution of their own product.

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Postby tifosi77 » Thu Oct 18, 2018 6:13 pm

Pac-Man was based on the concept of eating, and the original Japanese title is Pakkuman (パックマン), inspired by the Japanese onomatopoeic phrase paku-paku taberu (パクパク食べる), where paku-paku describes (the sound of) the mouth movement when widely opened and then closed in succession.

The game was originally called Puck Man in the US as a reference to the main character's hockey puck shape. Later in 1980, the game was picked up for manufacture in the United States by Bally division Midway, which changed the game's name from Puck Man to Pac-Man in an effort to avoid vandalism from people changing the letter 'P' into an 'F' to form the word f*ck.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pac-Man#D ... and_naming
Despite it's appearance, Crazy Kong was not a Donkey Kong bootleg. It was licensed in Japan when Nintendo couldn't keep up with the demand and was created using different hardware.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crazy_Kong
Mrs Tif told me the colloquial phrase for 'chicken f**ker' in the Osaka area is 'tori paku paku'. So it's for other kinds of sounds, too.

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Postby shafnutz05 » Mon Oct 22, 2018 2:17 pm

TIL that the famous "Falling Man" photo from 9/11 has been identified by most accounts as Jonathan Briley, a sound engineer working at Windows on the World at the top of the North Tower. His brother is one of the original members of The Village People (the GI), Alex Briley.

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