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So, you just got yourself a new motorcycle helmet. What do you do with the old one?
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Saddle Sore
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Saddle Sore
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Make an earring out of it .
Mmmm , tribal.
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Stickman Yogi
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Give it to locopony for oil changes.
Live to love, love to live.
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Check Pants
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Check Pants
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Keep it as a spare until you get another...
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Loquacious
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ya start a collection and hang them on the garage wall. i used to frequent a drinking establishment that had an old h.d. sprint suspended from the ceiling laying on its side and he also let everyone hang their old helmets from the ceiling, alot of them had the names or a message written on them. 
ENJOY!!!!! NEWT!!!!!
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Fe Butt
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Give it to locopony for oil changes.
Yep! Just like a good Single Malt Scotch, you might call me "an acquired taste" TOO.(among the many OTHER things you may care to call me, of course)
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Fe Butt
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I just tend to let 'em collect dust over on a ledge in the corner of my garage. But, this reminds me of what my Mom did years and years ago with one of those old German ceremonial spiked helmets that my Pop brought back home after WWII(aka: "Spoils of War")...she made a flower pot out of it and stuck it(spike pointed down, of course) out in our back yard. (...talk about "recyclin'", huh?!...I guess you might say my Mom was on the "vanguard" of this whole movement!!!) 
Yep! Just like a good Single Malt Scotch, you might call me "an acquired taste" TOO.(among the many OTHER things you may care to call me, of course)
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"Lighten up, Francis."
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"Lighten up, Francis."
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Get a miniITX board and use it as a PC case.
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Fe Butt
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Get a miniITX board and use it as a PC case.
Eeh!!! You kids and your dagnabbit flippity-flab lingo today!!! 
(...HEY, did I just turn into that old fart interacting with Flo in the latest Progressive Insurance commercial OR WHAT???!!!) 
Yep! Just like a good Single Malt Scotch, you might call me "an acquired taste" TOO.(among the many OTHER things you may care to call me, of course)
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Learned Hand
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Recycle it. Put on the curb and someone will come by and take it.
This is what I do with anything that I cannot put in the recycle bin, yet isn't exactly trash, but not good enough for Goodwill. Usually it is gone within an hour.
Tom
Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.
Benjamin Franklin, US author, diplomat, inventor, physicist, politician, & printer (1706 - 1790)
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Learned Hand
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Make cool lookin pot plants outa them. 
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Fe Butt
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Hey Steve, IF you would've read what I said above, THEN you would've known that MY MOM was ALREADY usin' "your" idea YEARS ago, back in the 1950s, dude!!!!  (...except of course those old German spiked helmets would stay pretty much where ya stick 'em and wouldn't roll around on ya like these here newfangled Shoeis probably would once ya plant your geraniums in 'em!)
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Stickman Yogi
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Make cool lookin pot plants outa them.
Pot plants, potted plants, or potted pot plants?
Live to love, love to live.
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"Lighten up, Francis."
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"Lighten up, Francis."
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Fe Butt
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Yeah, relax there, Keith. In fact, "ironically", I have a little suggestion for ya in order to ACHIEVE just THAT!!! And I'll give ya THREE guesses as to what that suggestion IS!!! (...though somethin's tellin' me you'll hit "paydirt" on your very first guess here!!!)
Yep! Just like a good Single Malt Scotch, you might call me "an acquired taste" TOO.(among the many OTHER things you may care to call me, of course)
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Learned Hand
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Whoops sorry there Dwight. It must be that short term memory loss. My bad. 
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Fe Butt
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Eeh! That's okay, Steve! No harm, no foul! (...it's just a good thing for you that dear ol' Mom ain't still around or else she'd probably want some royalty checks comin' from ya, that's all!!!)
Yep! Just like a good Single Malt Scotch, you might call me "an acquired taste" TOO.(among the many OTHER things you may care to call me, of course)
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Stickman Yogi
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Yeah, relax there, Keith. In fact, "ironically", I have a little suggestion for ya in order to ACHIEVE just THAT!!!
And I'll give ya THREE guesses as to what that suggestion IS!!!
Coffee and Baileys it is! 
Live to love, love to live.
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Yeah, relax there, Keith. In fact, "ironically", I have a little suggestion for ya in order to ACHIEVE just THAT!!!
And I'll give ya THREE guesses as to what that suggestion IS!!!
Coffee and Baileys it is!
Okay...then what's your SECOND guess, ol' buddy???
Yep! Just like a good Single Malt Scotch, you might call me "an acquired taste" TOO.(among the many OTHER things you may care to call me, of course)
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Stickman Yogi
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Yeah, relax there, Keith. In fact, "ironically", I have a little suggestion for ya in order to ACHIEVE just THAT!!!
And I'll give ya THREE guesses as to what that suggestion IS!!!
Coffee and Baileys it is!
Okay...then what's your SECOND guess, ol' buddy???
Live to love, love to live.
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I live in the sun downunder
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I live in the sun downunder
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You can always put legs on them and slide them under the bed. 
FrankW
Ex Speedmaster rider, went to the Dark Side now riding an America.
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Fe Butt
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You can always put legs on them and slide them under the bed.
You mean, where all the MONSTERS live???!!!
(...ooooh, I don't know about that, Frank...Monsters don't take too kindly to havin' their space moved in on, ya know!!!)
Yep! Just like a good Single Malt Scotch, you might call me "an acquired taste" TOO.(among the many OTHER things you may care to call me, of course)
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Yeah, relax there, Keith. In fact, "ironically", I have a little suggestion for ya in order to ACHIEVE just THAT!!!
And I'll give ya THREE guesses as to what that suggestion IS!!!
Coffee and Baileys it is!
Okay...then what's your SECOND guess, ol' buddy???
Hmmm. I get the feeling that Keith's coffee and Bailey's may be similar to Richard Pryor's milk and cookies.
Contra todo mal, mezcal; contra todo bien, también
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You can always put legs on them and slide them under the bed.
You mean, where all the MONSTERS live???!!!
(...ooooh, I don't know about that, Frank...Monsters don't take too kindly to havin' their space moved in on, ya know!!!)
Now I have this image of helmets with little legs running out from under the bed and scaring the crap outta me!
Live to love, love to live.
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Fe Butt
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You can always put legs on them and slide them under the bed.
You mean, where all the MONSTERS live???!!!
(...ooooh, I don't know about that, Frank...Monsters don't take too kindly to havin' their space moved in on, ya know!!!)
Now I have this image of helmets with little legs running out from under the bed and scaring the crap outta me!
Yeah! I can certainly understand THAT, Keith!!!
(...those MONSTERS are bad enough ALREADY, huh?!)
Yep! Just like a good Single Malt Scotch, you might call me "an acquired taste" TOO.(among the many OTHER things you may care to call me, of course)
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I live in the sun downunder
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I live in the sun downunder
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You can always put legs on them and slide them under the bed.
You mean, where all the MONSTERS live???!!!
(...ooooh, I don't know about that, Frank...Monsters don't take too kindly to havin' their space moved in on, ya know!!!)
Now I have this image of helmets with little legs running out from under the bed and scaring the crap outta me!
Well Keith, you certainly get the idea of where the crap goes. 
FrankW
Ex Speedmaster rider, went to the Dark Side now riding an America.
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Yeah, relax there, Keith. In fact, "ironically", I have a little suggestion for ya in order to ACHIEVE just THAT!!!
And I'll give ya THREE guesses as to what that suggestion IS!!!
Coffee and Baileys it is!
Okay...then what's your SECOND guess, ol' buddy???
Hmmm. I get the feeling that Keith's coffee and Bailey's may be similar to Richard Pryor's milk and cookies.
Yeah Bill, come to think of it, those might be Keith's euphemisms for his...well...his "stuff"!!!
(...I just hope that Keith doesn't set HIMSELF on fire like the aforementioned comedy great did while HE'S indulging himself up there...where evidently a keyless-entry device comes in MIGHTY HANDY when they're tryin' to get into their cars!!!)
Yep! Just like a good Single Malt Scotch, you might call me "an acquired taste" TOO.(among the many OTHER things you may care to call me, of course)
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Adjunct
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Pot plants, potted plants, or potted pot plants?
Uhhhhh-----huh? What? Hold on a sec---Ahhhhh---(cough,cough)-----OH! OooooK---now I get it----
07 America, Pacific Blue/New England White.
SSgt. USAF 67-71
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Bar Shake
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Bar Shake
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` A little fire might be welcome, to get the doodad unstuck.
Contra todo mal, mezcal; contra todo bien, también
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You can hang that old brain bucket from the bars while you are working on your bike. To throw bolts and other small parts into so you can keep up with them.
It might be cool to hang from the eve of your porch and put a hanging plant in. If its a half shell you could take the liner out and use it as a food bowl for the dog.
You could build a cannon and see how far you can shoot it.
Modify the straps and use as a jock strap. IF you got two you could make a bra out of them.
I have no faith in human perfectability. I think that human exertion will have no appreciable effect upon humanity. Man is now only more active - not more happy - nor more wise, than he was 6000 years ago.
Edgar Allan Poe
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Should be Riding
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Get a miniITX board and use it as a PC case.
That's actually not a bad idea at all.
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Check Pants
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Check Pants
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Mounted 'tween two skinny Alders with old screen door springs and they make a decent feedback target for pistol practice.
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Loquacious
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Loquacious
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I dunno. Only have one and it was only on a road trip whereas my travels mighta took me through one of them less Free states.
"Proud to be an Infidel" ... "100% pure American Jingoist"
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