I've had at least one Benz in my garage for the last 43 years.

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62 220sb
67 250S
72 280SE 4.5
74 280C
77 300D
82 240D
85 190E 2.3
86 300E RIP 12/28/09
85 300SD
92 300D 2.5
00 E320 Current
Over 1,000,000 miles in Benzes, Since66

....and a whole passel of BMW 2002 and Tii

...keeps going through my head. You're not suggesting this crowd isn't capable of cerebral improvement?

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It's what I do.
I used to be "Stonecutter" in the late 80's and early 90's.
These days I probably should change my handle to "Desk Jockey", or "crochetty old flart"

'hogweed" and "mightyhogweed" derive from an early genesis (peter gabriel era) song titled "return of the giant hogweed"..having always been a huge art-rock fan, and thinking it sounded funny, i chose it as my first email address and now use it online in some form or another

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James 4:8

"...let us put aside the blindness of mind of those who can conceive of nothing higher than what is known through the senses"
-Saint Gregory Palamas, ---Discourse on the Holy Transfiguration of Our Lord God and Savior Jesus Christ


Centrally located in North East Central Pa.

...watch out, he might get "pissed" at that

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James 4:8

"...let us put aside the blindness of mind of those who can conceive of nothing higher than what is known through the senses"
-Saint Gregory Palamas, ---Discourse on the Holy Transfiguration of Our Lord God and Savior Jesus Christ


Centrally located in North East Central Pa.

At my place of work, close friends address me as the 53 year old guy who drives that stinky old diesel mercedes benzes. So DieselGuy53 stuck with me...

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1987 300SDL 314K mi, counting; #22 Head
1999 E300Turbo 405K original miles
1997 E320 180K mi (Son's)
2002 ML320 (Son's)
1998 S320 140K mi (Son's) sold
1985 300SD 311K mi
1984 300D 324K mi (killed by a hit-n-run turd)
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Mine is self explanatory

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MBlovr
'59 180 Dad's original
'59 180 Dad's 2nd one
'67 250SE Dad's last one
'59 220 SE My first one
'62 220SE Coupe second one
'89 190E 2.6 5spd third one
'06 E350 4matic (sold)
'10 E350 4matic

oh no not pissed lol

Ha, death god (or reaper)!

Mine is my name. Stunning I know.

Thats how I thought of it as well.

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2016 Corvette Stingray 2LT
1969 280SE
2023 Ram 1500
2007 Tiara 3200

Way back before the internet was invented......there were some system administrators at the University of Kentucky (UK basketball, Lexington, KY) that had too much free time on their hands. This would have been in the early 80's. Anyway, UK began installing PRIME computers for students to learn how to program in BASIC, PASCAL, C, etc. The IBM 370 (at the time) was reserverd for FORTRAN and that other programming language which excapes me at present.

Refocusing......So, these bored system administrators wrote an interactive chat program. Of course, you could chat to anyone else who started the program on their terminal. And if you knew how to "find the maps" of each computer room, you could decipher the account of the pretty girl (or boy) or woman (or man) who was sitting across the room from you. Then you could send that person an email .....introducing yourself .....along with a *wink*.

Ooops....refocusing, again. So, one night a young college lady introduced me to this world of chatting using the talk program the 2 bored system administrators had written. She was sitting next to me explaining the commands.....and when I typed in my first name to use as my chat handle, she said.....oh, someone already is using that name, so I typed in "daw". She said it outloud phonetically (sp?), and it has stuck as my online/computer handle every since.

When I first registered as daw on Yahoo, I got an interesting email from another daw saying I couldn't use daw because he was daw. So, I started using daw_two as my online/computer handle. This was in the very EARLY days of Yahoo when more than one person could have the same handle.

So, if you look on eBay, there is a daw_two (that's me), and on yahoo, and here, and most other online stuff........and people who I meet in person for the first time....will say:

"Hi daw"
At UK, lots of online chatting people (we started having parties) knew me as daw but didn't know my real name.

Of course, when people refer to me as Daw, I have to correct them by saying it is daw with a small d... ----- but that is another long story for another time.


Sincerely,

daw

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daw_two
Germantown, TN

Links:
Sold last car --- 05/2012 1984 300D Light Ivory, Red interior
No longer selling Cluster Needles Paint
No longer selling New Old Stock (NOS) parts

Past:
3/2008 1986 300SDL "Coda"
04/2010 1965 190D(c) "Ben"
& many more

I am not mr. lebowski...you are mr. lebowski...I am the dude you know...so that's what they call me...dude or his dudeness or duder or ol' duderino or the dudester...

You used to drink bergin.

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1991 560 SEC AMG, 199k <---- 300 hp 10:1 ECE euro HV ...

1995 E 420, 170k "The Red Plum" (sold)

2015 BMW 535i xdrive awd Stage 1 DINAN, 6k, <----364 hp

1967 Mercury Cougar, 49k

2013 Jaguar XF, 20k <----340 hp Supercharged, All Wheel Drive (sold)

I own an interior landscape company.

When I go to offices and people can't rememeber my name they say , "Oh it's the plantman".

.03

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Enough about me, how are you doing?

Could you relocate to Dallas/Fort Worth and give this recent college graduate a job?