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I don’t care who you are that’s funny right there!

OK, so we’re Larry the Cable Guy fans, right? Who isn’t.

Everyone has to admit he’s one of the hottest comedians these days. He’s a riot, Blue collar comedy tour and all of that.

We heard he was going to be near us at Belterra Casino, and thought, hey, let’s go check him out and have us a good ol time!

Well I don’t think so. You know what Larry’s charging to grace us with his presence?

$75 a seat.
Yeah you read that right Seventy Five Dollars
$25 short of a Ben Franklin
Now that’s funny right there, I don’t care who you are, that’s funny!

That’s a bucket of beer short of a hundred dollars, a Ben Franklin, and with the price of gas what it is, you’ll end up spending well over two bills to drive from Cincinnati to Belterra to see Larry. Over 2 bills for a date to laugh at regurgitated CD material that you could have had for less than $20 bucks.

Now I’m not denying the man the right to earn a living, but for crying out loud this is comedy after all, and he’s just a good ol red neck like the rest of us right?

But $75 is Rolling Stones or Elton John kinda pricing and Larry just isn’t up to that. I wouldn’t pay that for Seinfeld either. Especially in an 1800 seat theater. Cmon… Smaller comedy clubs are where it’s at anyway. Maybe $75 in a small cozy club, that could be good. But no, sorry Larry, uhuh, Mamma didn’t raise her no dumby. The Blue Man Group don’t charge that much.

So maybe when he comes to Cincinnati, to the US Bank Arena, which holds a lot more people. Then perhaps he’ll adjust his pricing and I’ll get to see him for around $35 to $40 which makes a little more sense.

Larry, you’re letting us down man. It’s one thing to make jokes about us but to try and rob us blind while you make jokes about us is just plain wrong. We love you man and you are one of us, that’s why we all laugh as hard as we do. The truth hurts you know.

That aint Git-N-R-Done with your fans.

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Men, Women, & Hair Color

I’m probably about to step in it in a really big way… But this is about the only way I can think of to explain the situation.

When I married my wife she was a blond. For the purpose of this discussion we’ll use this color to signify blond:

Over the years she’s taken her hair back to her natural color, more of a brunette color, for that color I’ll use this to illustrate:

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Families and Christmas What’s it all about?

We have a medium to large (extended) family. Though in the overall scheme of things, it’s probably small by some standards.

As long as I can remember (and I’m nearly 40) the family has gathered at Christmas time. We’ve gathered at other times of the year as well but rarely all of the family. We certainly saw each other during other times of the year but we (ALL) always got together at Christmas.

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LG Lemon Dishwasher Update

OK, we’re on our way…

We purchased a replacement LG Dishwasher to replace the lemon. We took care of that last weekend and it was delivered on Monday. I had hoped to install it sooner but it hadn’t worked out that way.

It’s installed now and we’ll be returning the original one shortly as our Home Depot 90 day satisfaction guarantee is running out.

The replacement sounds excellent, at least on the first test Quick Wash. Nice and quiet. Of course the first one started out that way too.

We’ll see. More to follow on this saga.

We did understand from the repair guy when they called that they are receiving a LOT of repair calls on the LG units, this is NOT good. We also understand that a friend of the family purchased an LG refrigerator and that they were supposed to get an accessory or something with it that wasn’t there. Not sure what it was but it took forever to get. I’ll talk to them and find out. Not sure if this is repair related or not. But it sounds like LG might not have their act together in the states.

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LG Dishwasher – Our Experience

Caveat Emptur

Home Depot item information:

LG Electronics
Semi Integrated Tall Tub Stainless Interior Dishwasher, White
Model LDS5811WW
Store SKU # 143898
Internet # HD0000009493
Catalog # 100385663

First, we are a larger than average family. We have 6 people in our household. We cook at home 3 meals a day so we use the heck out of a dishwasher and we wear them out. We run one 2x a day and have very hard water. Yes, we have a water softener but even with one, we still have harder than average water and appliances just aren’t made like they used to be. I figure 5 years is about the average life cycle these days.

Our last dishwasher was a Kenmore and we got a good years out of it. We broke it about once a year. In fact there was a part in the top that was simply a poor design element. We were able to pick this part up for $8 at RepairClinic.com and I highly recommend that site. But after 5 years of use and abuse if finally gave it up. The pump quit and we decided we wanted something newer. We didn’t have a ‘high-end’ Kenmore but it wasn’t a bargain basement builder model either. something in the $350 range 5 years ago.

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