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Dead Clown Tools

So I'm driving along the backroads near where I live, and I approach this particular place where a family of clowns used to live. (Yeah, that's what I said, a family of clowns.) They were once a staple of every area parade and festival around these parts. Their clown car was always parked out along the side of the house, and it always made me smile when I drove past. (presumably they had another 'regular' car for their ordinary comings and goings.)

. . . anyway, I'm just thinkin' to myself that I hadn't seen hide nor hair of these clowns in the longest time - when I notice some rusty ancient old tools that have been hauled out to the road with a 'FREE' sign taped on 'em.

Well never one to pass up free tools, I snatch 'em up and haul 'em home . . . and I'll be damned if they're not just the items I need to finish up my makeshift cbg workshop .

I scored this primeval scroll saw:

AND LOoK AT THIS MUTHA . . .

It's a homemade, cobbled together, clown-hacked drill press. I LOVE IT.

(The drill motor didn't come with it, and doesn't quite fit in the mount. I just sat it there to give an idea of how it would work.)

Anybody else got any scarfed freebie tools to showoff?

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Permalink Reply by Kevin Sprague (Knotlenny) on September 12, 2010 at 2:19pm

We're all Bozos on this bus.

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Permalink Reply by Cigar Box Nation on September 12, 2010 at 4:15pm

My next band name...

Roosterman said:

'Cows with Guns'...

i frickin love it!

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Permalink Reply by Train train on September 13, 2010 at 11:54pm

Anybody catch the latest music awards on TV this past weekend. Lady Ga Ga wore an outfit made of raw meat. Somehow, I do not get what the symbolism is or what kind of statement she is making. I just realized that she would fit perfectly in this thread. The Dead Clown Society.

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Permalink Reply by Paul Stephen Eklund on September 14, 2010 at 11:35am

Nope Train Train, didn't watch the show. But i'm kinda thinking that maybe she wore the meat because wearing fur would be cruel to animals. LOL Lady ga ga is proof that clowns are still liked by the masses...

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Permalink Reply by Kevin Sprague (Knotlenny) on September 16, 2010 at 5:07pm

Paul Stephen Eklund said: " . . . . i'm kinda thinking that maybe she wore the meat because wearing fur would be cruel to animals."

Dead Clown Logic. Gotta Love it.

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Permalink Reply by Outhouse Instruments on September 17, 2010 at 1:35am

Knotlenny said:

Paul Stephen Eklund said: " . . . . i'm kinda thinking that maybe she wore the meat because wearing fur would be cruel to animals."

Dead Clown Logic. Gotta Love it.

I really don't think there was that deep of thought ( or that deep thinking is actually possible ) .... it was just wearing something she thought was beyond fashionable ..... but yeah, she is a clown. ( but a clown with lotsa moolah)

Matt