Tennis Warehouse-Mid Atlantic Chapter

[JRstriker12]

Originally Posted by PaulMan

I'm just looking forward to playing relatively pain-free in the beautiful outdoors again...

How's the knee and did you sure the airlines yet for their tight azz isles?

Originally Posted by downs_chris

yeah...85 inside my house! my new roommate was some sort of master AC person...he took a look at it, and found something that they forgot to do in the fall...so i think you're right...they're probably scamming us somehow...

Sad thing is, we have a maintenance agreement with these dudes, same company that installed when we bought our house new. Maybe your roomie can come over and check my place out. LOL!

BTW- Fresh Lux Alu rough @ 55lbs is pure magic! Won both the tie breakers I played tonight in practice. Couldn't miss. I need a reel of this stuff!

[downs_chris]

Originally Posted by JRstriker12

BTW- Fresh Lux Alu rough @ 55lbs is pure magic! Won both the tie breakers I played tonight in practice. Couldn't miss. I need a reel of this stuff!

fresh alu (rough or non-rough) is awesome...period...

[PaulMan]

Originally Posted by JRstriker12

How's the knee and did you sure the airlines yet for their tight azz isles?

Knee is improving but so slowly that it's agonizing! Nah, it ain't the airline's problem for what I did. It's mine for being a dumbazz...

[hollywood9826]

Originally Posted by downs_chris

is it bad that i want this now?

Is it bad I dont even know what it is and I want one?

What is that thing?

[tennismonkey]

AQ -- had a '84 rx7 gsl. poop brown. 5 speed manual. sunroof. and kick azz pop up headlamps. drove like a champ and for its day - pretty fast. looked it up, 0-60 in 8 seconds. so a minivan is faster but i got mine up to 120+ mph back in the day. woot.

jrstriker -- i had dead poly/syn gut last night and it didn't feel nearly as magical as fresh alu. a lot less than magical. fortunately my game isn't dependent on hitting the strings very hard or sometimes at all. 6-0, 6-3 for middle aged slice and dice. woot again.

chris downs -- so the kai rabert isn't just chicken with basil minus the basil? i thought it's very similar. both sweet, spicy with fish sauce. not sure what else they are adding to their recipe.

[JRstriker12]

Originally Posted by hollywood9826

Is it bad I dont even know what it is and I want one?

What is that thing?

WORD! Looks tasty. Where can I get one?

Originally Posted by tennismonkey

AQ -- had a '84 rx7 gsl. poop brown. 5 speed manual. sunroof. and kick azz pop up headlamps. drove like a champ and for its day - pretty fast. looked it up, 0-60 in 8 seconds. so a minivan is faster but i got mine up to 120+ mph back in the day. woot.

jrstriker -- i had dead poly/syn gut last night and it didn't feel nearly as magical as fresh alu. a lot less than magical. fortunately my game isn't dependent on hitting the strings very hard or sometimes at all. 6-0, 6-3 for middle aged slice and dice. woot again.

chris downs -- so the kai rabert isn't just chicken with basil minus the basil? i thought it's very similar. both sweet, spicy with fish sauce. not sure what else they are adding to their recipe.

Hurray!!! for Middle aged slice and dice! LOL!

I swear of the racket had no strings and just a flat surface made out of the same stuff as the frame, I'd be world champ. Frame shots are a weapon

BTW- My other two rackets are strung up with a big ace/ Maxim Touch hybrid and that felt pretty good too. Not magical though.

[TheJRK]

So apparently Rio (I call her Rizzles 4 Shizzles) got into her first little scrap at daycare yesterday. She was playing with a toy phone and some other kid wanted the phone but Rio wouldn't let them have it, so he/she bit Rio on the arm. She had a perfectly red bite mark!

I guess the daycare's policy is that they can't tell us who the kid was so we can't sue or beat the ***** out of the parents.

[Sup2Dresq]

JRK,

Look for the kid with the toy phone fascination and similar bite pattern/teeth pattern. Just saying...

[hollywood9826]

Or beat up all the parents. Then I bet they tell you next time.

[sapient007]

chances of being tfm's minions is very high. i think he trains his kids at an early age @ being able to chew/eat their way out of anything.. not to mention he has like 20 bazillion kids

[TheJRK]

Originally Posted by Sup2Dresq

JRK,

Look for the kid with the toy phone fascination and similar bite pattern/teeth pattern. Just saying...

Well I did look at the bite mark... whoever the kid was had a lot of damn teeth. Rio only has 4 on top and 3 on the bottom. Maybe I'll let her take one of my wooden kendo swords with her to daycare next time.

[Sup2Dresq]

Originally Posted by TheJRK

Well I did look at the bite mark... whoever the kid was had a lot of damn teeth. Rio only has 4 on top and 3 on the bottom. Maybe I'll let her take one of my wooden kendo swords with her to daycare next time.

Time to make smiley faces at all the kids and start counting.

[downs_chris]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CgtGKurXBu4

[The_Question]

Zap, as much as I liked the NSX, it is not on-par with Ferrari. Ferrari is about the passion of driving, while the NSX is not. NSX is a copy of it, telling the Italians that yes, Japanese can make a car and perform nearly as good as Italian’s exotics. Very much like the 1st generation MR2, a copy of a 308. The motor in the NSX is always lack luster with its 290bhp 6 cyl., even for its days, it wasn’t impressive. I know you’re a Honduh boy, but c’mon, really?

The Corvette with its LS7 is impressive for the price, but it’s a vette, it doesn’t have the prestige of their Italian competitions. Vette comes with plastic dash, doors, trunks, OHV motor, well, you get what you paid for, yes?

[Topaz]

The_Question...now I know who to take with me the next time I go car shopping!

[hollywood9826]

Originally Posted by The_Question

Zap, as much as I liked the NSX, it is not on-par with Ferrari. Ferrari is about the passion of driving, while the NSX is not. NSX is a copy of it, telling the Italians that yes, Japanese can make a car and perform nearly as good as Italian’s exotics. Very much like the 1st generation MR2, a copy of a 308. The motor in the NSX is always lack luster with its 290bhp 6 cyl., even for its days, it wasn’t impressive. I know you’re a Honduh boy, but c’mon, really?

The Corvette with its LS7 is impressive for the price, but it’s a vette, it doesn’t have the prestige of their Italian competitions. Vette comes with plastic dash, doors, trunks, OHV motor, well, you get what you paid for, yes?

I was comapring a Vette to an NSX. Just from a performance standpoint.

For the price of used NSX you can get a mid 2000's ZO6. From a performance standpoint that ZO6 will compete just fine with an NSX. Add in the fact that vette parts are a dime a dozen and its way chaeper to own a better performing vette than an NSX.

The only car I would remoltey compare to Italian counterparts would have been the Ford GT which for 150 thousand was a huge value. But Im sure was no where near as refined. Those Italian Supercars just have the styling.

[TheJRK]

So I call up the Audi folks to see about them buying back my A4 like they did my other A4 (something about them needing to keep a certain amount of "used" cars on the lot).

The guy is like "sure, come on in and we'll talk, by the way we got the new A7 in stock now..."

WTF is an A7? Why would I want an A7 when I am trying to get rid of my car?

BTW, if you ever want to get an Audi, don't go to the one in Tyson's Corner. Go to the one way the f**k out in Chantilly, it's much better and the people are nicer.

[tennismonkey]

hwood you're being kind. the z06 is a helluva lot faster than the nsx. heck my dad mobile sedan is as fast as a last gen nsx. honda seems to like bringing knives to a gunfight and always loses in sheer HP in just about every car segment they compete in -- and i'm a honda fan. but dems the facts.

[The_Question]

Originally Posted by hollywood9826

I was comapring a Vette to an NSX. Just from a performance standpoint.

For the price of used NSX you can get a mid 2000's ZO6. From a performance standpoint that ZO6 will compete just fine with an NSX. Add in the fact that vette parts are a dime a dozen and its way chaeper to own a better performing vette than an NSX.

The only car I would remoltey compare to Italian counterparts would have been the Ford GT which for 150 thousand was a huge value. But Im sure was no where near as refined. Those Italian Supercars just have the styling.

I understand your comparison of NSX and Vette. As performance and bang for the buck goes, a Z06 will stomp a NSX stock for stock. The old saying, there is no replacement for displacement is the truth, but quality and reliability is a different issue.

Personally, 2012 Nissan "Skyline" GTR is probably the prefer choice as for dollar value, performance, handling, and technology goes...imo

[tennismonkey]

JRK -- i'd recommend taking your car to carmax. my bro works in the car sales biz and he always has me take my car to carmax for an appraisal. they usually offer more than dealerships because dealerships like to say -- "oh yes we'll give you $1000 more on your trade in than carmax". and then they add $1000 more to your purchase price of your new car.

plus you can just sell the car at carmax and not buy another car. i've sold 4 cars at carmax. yes i go through cars like i go through underwear. once a year.