Last weekend I called in to my nearest model shop to pick up some bits and pieces. Whilst I went to the counter the wife was hovering at the other end of the shop. I asked the guy behind the counter if he had a can of airbrush cleaner. He did and I mentioned how good a product it was, I also said I needed it to try remove some dried paint from the carpet. He laughed as I glanced round to make sure SWMBO hadn't heard.

After paying I rounded up the wife and was walking out the door when he said loudly "See you later, HOPE THAT STUFF GETS THAT PAINT OFF THE CARPET!"

SWMBO stopped and glowered at me and the model shop guy started laughing. The next five minutes conversation with SWMBO consisted of her giving me a bollocking and me repeating every two minutes "He was only JOKING, I didn't spill any paint!"

IS IT ANY WONDER THAT THIS HOBBY IS IN DECLINE?

:-) :-) Good thing you didn't say anything about the honey on the siding........ :-)
Hey Martin, you ever get that tattoo???

Hi Martin!

I guess that guy isn't married... but it's the kind of joke I could have done myself

Jean-Luc

It's funny because my favourite way of winding her up is to say to her "You still haven't spotted that thing I broke/spilled/ruined have you?" This usually has her replying "WHAT HAVE YOU DONE NOW?!!" and looking round the house in a mood. When she can't spot anything I say "If you don't spot it I haven't broken it." Heh heh. Keeps her on her toes.




Yes, it's a dragon on my forearm. I don't know which was more painful, having it done or paying for it.

He could have said something like "next time just give me $100 next paycheck" or something like that.

Hi Martin
oh dear...oh dear...... :-) :-) :-) :-)

Where exactly is the carpet?

My brother has turned his garage into a breakfast lounge.... :-)
Its still a garage with all his tools and gadjets plus his Suzuki. But at the far end near the workbench he's got a fridge with beer in it...not for long when I visit...lol.
Plus a heater for when the weather turns a bit parky or even brass monkeys. There's a kettle, coffee, tea etc and a whacking great armchair right in front of a TV.
The sister in law works nights at a hospital so its an ideal lair for the likes of us of the male gender.
I've watched many a F1 GP and football match in there happily ensconsed amongst the smell of Castrol R. away form the ladies.
Its a man thing or so my version of SWMBO says.

Its one of the first jobs on my house renovation...lol.

Cheers
Peter

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You Brits crack me up with your colloquialisms............weather turning brass monkeys and a whacking great chair to sit in. :-) :-)

Of course I am sure you are just as amused at ours (I come from the South) like ya'll and "fixin to" Here's one of my favorites...when something is too expensive we say "he sure must be proud of that"

Just tell her it's bether removing the paint using the cleaner than using the scissors...

My wife resigned herself with me: I drilled holes in our wooden floor, "painted" carpets not to mention my best clothes, even my airbrush had a mallfunction once and paint sprayed all over the livingroom.
She only says; hhhhh! an shake her head. You can hear her think: should have listened to my mother :-)

Paul

PS: I did paint the walls of the livingroom after that Airbrush fiasco!

Good looking ink..... what that set you back?.....

Lol, the funny thing is that now every time she comes home from work and sees my modelling stuff out she automatically looks round the room for breakages or spills or some other mishap.


It cost £100, it was a picture I took with me for the tatooist to copy so it cost more than one of his standard designs. Two hours of pain, my ass went numb sitting on the hard seat and the wife complained for the next couple of weeks about scabs getting in her hair! I keep asking myself if it was worth it.......

Hi Martin, to save you any spillages on the carpet do what i did and buy a cheap rug. My rugs now a Tamiya paint chart with patches of glue. The best thing about it is when the beloved has vistors she just rolls it up and throws it in the outhouse (also saves me getting nagged :-) ).
Like the tattoo, will you be getting anymore done.

:-) :-) 100 quid..... :-) :-) The ones on my forearms set me back 400 genuine US green backs each..... and each took 6 hours to do...... and original art to boot......
One is in memory of my dear old ex-wife...... she always wanted me to get a tattoo for her when we were married..... so John the tattoo artist drew up a nice 7 headed dragon, (Chinese style) on my right forearm...... One head for each year of blissful marriage to the Dragon B*tch..... :-) :-)

Hi Blaster...
the full expression is..."Its cold enough to freeze the balls off a brass monkey"

*Before our moderators scrub it....the true meaning is not as rude as it may first seem.*

In the old days of ships of the line there was a brass stand affair next to each cannon called a brass monkey. It was a group or horizontal rings with legs to support it. Cannon balls were placed in the rings to stop them rolling round the deck. However in extreme freezing weather the iron balls contracted faster than the brass holder and could slip through the ring...hence the expression.
Well thats what I heard anyway... :-)

"Peas above sticks" it must have been.

Cheers
Peter
:-) :-)

HA HA HA HA HA :-) :-)

haha, Thanks for the laught martin! makes me think of my first kit.
Revell-Monograms f-15
set of aircraft colors (enamel)
Built it on hte kitchen table, and painted on a pretty new living room set of tables that cost my parents a a third of an arm while the couches cost the remaining 2 thirds of thier arm... well as guessed i was all happy i finished it in a few hours, and put it on display in my room when my mom shouted "FRANK!" i ran up to see her unhappy face staring at me while her finger pointed my mess... hopefully my dad had his autobody repair "buisness" in our garage so he had the right stuff to clean my mess... thats the last time i had the chance to build in my living room... then there are the obiouse times when they came in my room and saw my desk which was part of hte wall covered in paint.... dry paint.... lol

Next time, order online :-)

Frank