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I preferred the Carol Burnett version Went with the Wind! from 1976...

I do like Rhett Butler telling off that manipulative Ashley-chasing ho bag in the original.

Speed Queen or the commercial Maytag (as above) no matter what the cost. TOP LOAD ONLY

We inherited a new top load GE with a house and I have replaced the water fill assembly, and the door lock controller; both after separate incidents of failure.

Previous Bosch front loader often won't drain enough to spin, door seal gets gross, washer door gasket retaining ring rusted and broke on an annual basis --frequently enough that I broke down and bought the special pliers for the retaining ring spring.

MIL's LG front load blew the water fill assembly (while also slow leaked out of the solenoid winding itself -- first I had ever seen that) it slow leaked all over the floor, sub floor, and eventually into the wall. Wires to the main motor (cool design...except for the wire routing) on the back of the drum broke from the vibration - that took a while to track down. Suspension spring for the whole outer drum broke and tore the door seal...oh yea door seal itself too...and the washer door gasket retaining ring.

We have a Samsung gas stove and I am happy to report it has been great...except the the knobs which have a plastic core and only last about 10 years. Seems like every one else has huge issues with Samsung gas stoves....not us.

We have reached the point where cars and appliances are now so crammed with so much electro-crap they cannot reliably fulfil their intended purpose more than a year or two from new.

They sell it to you and you are screwed for any help to repair.

Joe Lynn Turner (Rainbow, Deep Purple, and Yngwie Malmsteen) has had Alopecia totalis since he was a toddler. Must have been hell, but he had a great wig.

He had invitations from both Bad Company and Foreigner to join them, but luckily did Deep Purple's 'Slaves and Masters' instead...one of my favorite albums. Deep Purple Mk2 with Gillian is the gold standard, but I really like JLT in both DP and Rainbow! (and Yngwie!)

Kojak...Bang Bang

Forevermore - Whitesnake
In the End - Rush (technically then it ends soft...I guess)

Best I have ever heard it said is that "if you can work on them, buy anything you want."

A few objective examples that I know of:

BMW 325xi - dream to drive, but just out of warranty the cooling system fell apart at 68,000. Took a year of replacing this and that before it got anywhere near reliable. Many used BMWs have warped heads because wives drive them "another few miles" over-temp. It went thru both front axles, both control arms, sway bar end links etc., by 90,000 miles.

BMW X3, nearly the same experience, but sunroof never worked right.

Alfa Romeo Stelvio 100,000 miles - with turbo water O rings at 60K under warranty. FCA blew it on this as these are great cars, but few dealers anymore.

05 Caddy Escalade 212,000 - nothing but air shocks at 200K

96 Toyota Tacoma 225,000 - nothing but T belt at 212K...(way long, don't advise)

2010 Toyota Tundra 212,000 - nothing!

Amazon Refurb often has stupid cheap HP EliteDesk Mini's > make SURE the CPU is on the Windows 11 OK list. Something like an HP EliteDesk 800 G6 Mini Core i5-10500T w/ Win 11 can be had for $300 with 3 HDMI...might find one one with a VGA. Exact offerings change all the time. An i3 would do for the folks. For about 12 bucks you can get a metal combo under desk / wall mount for these...very slick...Mom will like the tidy look.

I sprang for a Mini instead of messing with my pimped Win10 desktop with the good video card, and edit controller. Way happy. :nana:

The are multiple tiers of plastic surgeons to the stars. There are several elite ones who do the likes of Shania (and they have a great face to work with!), some who do mid grade famous babes, and some who get stuck with Ashley Judd.

Father Time comes for all. It is nice to see the likes of Shania, Elizabeth H, and Christie B...gives us all something to look at while we remember not having to get up in the middle of the night so much..... :violin:

Home Depot $61 for 3/4 10 foot

My favorite Rotten Tomatoes critic swipe is always American Sniper; Tomatoemeter (critics) was at 17%, while Popcornmeter was 99%. It has even'd out over the last decade. I knew is was going to be amazing from that....