double post..

When outsiders ask me how many machines I have, and I say "7", I quickly follow it up with "my brother has 15!"

i sometimes browse pinside while... nevermind.

I've never met, phoned, emailed, texted, or communicated with Bryan Kelly in any way, but 75% of my restoration practices I learned from him.

This is the dumbest thing I've read on Pinside in a long time. And that's saying something.

Don't worry. He was probably Drunk Posting. He will change it tomorrow morning when he is sober. lol

i sometimes browse pinside while... nevermind.

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I sometimes post stupid sober comments on pinside.

lol same

I intentionally make double posts so I can edit the second one to say "Double post" but still get karma for it.

Double post

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You now have "Bad Karma"!! Lol, J/K Karma is all bullshit anyway.

btw, I use to live near Appleton.

I have 2 funhouses and I can't decide which one to sell.
Sometimes I will go into my game room and turn on all of the machines and just sit with a beer and watch all the lights blinking.
I've used a broom handle to hold playfields in a better 'up' position.
I clean the glass so often that my wife calls windex "pinball cleaner" (and she knows where to find the bottle when it's not under the sink)
I've offered a seller more then he was asking for a machine.(after we had made the deal)
I'm embarrassed when people find out how many pins I have (and I want MORE!)
I have a few hundred extra LED's in case I get a new machine tomorrow (or hopefully today)
I had a special bumper sticker made that says, "I buy pinball machines" with my phone # on it - the only call I ever got was from a guy behind me in traffic that asked if I had any for sale.

I confess I was not only totally sober but I firmly believe that and have for years. The Fragile was the last really good record he did. Starting with "With Teeth" I found every record he's done since to be incredibly boring. I just listened to the new on this week and there wasn't a single song on there that made me think "wow this is really good".

I dropped an Earthshaker playfield on my head. ES was my first machine and I had it less than a week when I was diagnosing a flipper issue. The playfiled was up against the backbox and the machine was in test so flipper coils were firing as I was leaning over the buttons looking at the contacts getting pushed together. I had no idea what I was doing really. I guess the vibrations were enough to tip the playfield back toward me. WAM! No stitches just some bloody paper towels.

The worst part was I heard it coming as it began its decent. Though it only took a split second I had enough time to think do I pull my head away and let the pf slam with some excessive force, or just take my punishment? That quarter second was in slow motion, but the impact was in fast forward. I did my best to kind of meet it and cushion the blow, but it still got me pretty good. Lesson learned the hard way.

I'm pretty sure that's how someone met his demise in Final Destination 4

If it was my TFTC I would have been guillotined for sure.

I really believe that someone will make a TBL LE (The Big Lebowski) pin one day.

And I will gladly pre-pay in full for the LE....

I often feel like it's a real bummer that many of you great pinball people live so far away.
Good thing we have Pinside.

Sometimes I click on a thread/topic just to see "who the heck started that thread?"
And sometimes I even guess it right as to who the OP is.

I sometimes just sit on a chair in the middle of my game room and look at my machines in awe while saying Sweet Jesus while holding a 12-pack as they become a 0-pack.

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*Oh.. And...Someone please clean that Persians eyes.

I occasionally refuse to let threads die.

Sometimes I click on 'Member Only' threads even if I don't own that game. I mostly stop myself, because I tend to feel guilty if I read them.

That's ok swampfire.
You're still earning extra credit on your Metal thread that is still alive.
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Damn I was waiting to use that when this thread slowed LOL.

I like the smell of routed games.

I sometimes F&^*N swear on pinside and promised the admins I will wash my mouth out with soap and try to act civilized.

Over the course of the past five days I drove 2200 miles to pick up a pin without looking closely enough at the photos, and in the end I came home empty handed. That's not the confession part though; the confession is that I played so much pinball on the trip that I wasn't even remotely bummed about the wasted trip. Oregon!

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I tell my wife that this is the last game I'm going to buy for awhile & believe it right up until I buy another one..

I looked inside the Original Wisconsin-Minnesota Thread and what I saw was at once frightening and exciting

I wash my hands with novus 1.

I don't care about what you like.

To quote a line in a The Tragically Hip song. "I don't give a f--- about hockey!"

I only pretend to like Shasta soda on Pinside.

I'm not buying any more pinball machines right now because I have no room. Arcade machines on the other hand... well i can probably squeeze one in if I can find a good one.

Forgive me, for I am considering sinning.

Don't back off now... we know you're a sucker for Shasta and the deli sandwiches...... c'mon its confession time!!

I don't have a ceiling in my basement but I figure that money could be spent on another pin...If I'm playing I don't look up anyway...

I killed a man in Reno, just to watch him die.

WTF.. Explain this?

A few months ago a guy posted a CL ad for a WCS94 for $300 (maybe you saw it?) I immediately emailed him and said he wasn't asking enough for the machine and to call me. As you can imagine he got dozens of replies to his ad and when I talked to him he admitted that he didn't know what the machine was worth. I told him I'd look at the machine and give him more. The machine was in pretty bad shape (bad dmd, kept resetting, rubbers were almost gone, broken plastics, bad wear around free kick, ball was painted with a sharpie, dent in backbox etc...) He was embarrassed about the condition and said that he'd take $300 for it. I told him I'd give him $600 and he was thrilled.
My wife wasn't too happy with me, and when I told my brother in law the story he thought I was an idiot.
I've gotten ripped off on two machines (dishonest sellers) in the past and wanted the good karma I guess. I think the karma thing worked too as pinside member TaylorVA gave me a used plastic for the game that would have been really hard to find
I've spent a bunch of money and time bringing it back and it now looks pretty good and plays great.

I once paid more, as well. I feel good about making a fair deal, not hoodwinking the ignorant.

Now THAT is funny. Reminds me of years back when my buddies and I would rent movies from Blockbuster. One of my buddies had a crush on a checkout lady who worked there. One day another buddy said to the checkout lady "See that guy over there? He doesn't even own a VCR. He just likes YOU." The dude with the crush heard it and he RAN out of the store in embarrassment. I laughed myself sick.

In less than 3 hours I will be purchasing enough deli meats to feed 24 people. I will check to see if the store sells Shasta.

lol those are great!

I don't yet own my first machine.

I would love to join a local pinball club or tournament but don't because I suck at pinball.

But I love pinball.

I just lost my job over $1.27....

And I'm kind of okay with that.

I'm tired, but my feet aren't.

The best way "not to suck" is to play and playing with better players will only make you better.
Join a league, your play will improve quickly.