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Well it was inevitable wasn't it---the most attention-seeking/relevance-craving/acceptance-needing/prolific serial liar on gaming forums ever, has hung himself (with rope I hope I had something to do with providing ).

Kew is solid gold proof that people who enter forums with the specific purpose of concocting a mostly phony internet forum life, with the goal of trying to impress others with a skill they aren't as good at as they'd hope it would be, eventually always must endure watching it all come tumbling down--and in this case, gloriously right on top of him.

Permanently buried with this clown should be all or at least most of the lies he perpetually repeated about those of us who really have had the successes we've reported. No one but us really knows how truthful every claim is, and it's everyone's right to question, doubt, or believe/disbelieve them as they choose. We live on--but kew couldn't. Because he had invested SO much of his otherwise worthless life into everyone believing everything he said about himself...or ELSE...and how super important it was that no one question his lies about us, it all culminated to his ultimate demise.

I understand MrV taking a short break as he works on his clunker after having such a bad read on this guy. But it's probably taken a toll.

I'm glad I had the time to post this, as my wife's relaxing reading her kindle while I post this from the guest recreation room at the RV park we're at nearby the Lake. I imagine kew isn't having such a rewarding time right now, in his little high rise apt. waiting for baby bro to finish popping pimples so he can use the crapper.

 

Would that lake you're looking at be Lookout Shoals or Lake Hickory? LOL.

New nickname for Rob: The Tahoe Kid.

 

Robert, leave my Volvo out of this.

This business with KJ has been both entertaining and interesting and it seems I may have been wrong about his injury claim, but that came from believing his earlier claims of playing blackejack.

I enjoy sticking up for the underdog, and the way he was picked on surely qualifies for that label.

It will be interesting to see if he returns, and also to see whether Robert hangs around as now he is sans a foil.

IIRC, didn't KJ post something about the way to fight trolls is with an even bigger troll?

As for lakeside, I just booked travel arrangements to visit family back east this summer; I will stay at our home lakeside on Lake Winnipesaukee.

Reality ALWAYS trumps bullshit forum games...

This excursion ship plies the lake waters daily and for evening events.

Much better vacation venue than Lake Tahoe (or Lookout Shoals or Lake Henry).

 

Looks good. Lookout Shoals, by the way, is technically a reservoir, so no cruise excursions for Rob there. There are about a dozen lakes within a stone's throw of Rob, so I'm sure there are some nice views. And Cherokee isn't far, either, if he's hell bent on extracting another 1.5 mil from a casino. LOL.

Tahoe's a measly 2500 miles or so, as the RV flies.

 

It started off with an UNKewl guy who plays a lot of video poker and was supported by the older guy who lived with him. When the sugar daddy died he switched to hustling to earn his bones. Along the way he studied up on blackjack and assumed the online persona of a card counter, but never played enough to discuss anything more than the theory of the game.

accountinquestion on the UNKewl one: Literally, your story is something anyone who cares enough could figure out via books and reading the internet. While I find your stuff interesting to read, you've never said anything interesting except for some story you told me in private. I believed it but now I wonder if I wasn't just fed bullshit. At the time I thought you were a legitimate person and have taken things from that convo as true. I now believe this was a mistake.

His claims were that his wins at blackjack were “right in line with expected theory” (surprise!) and whenever he encountered anyone online that he decided was winning something other than expected, he would challenge him. When people wouldn’t believe his claims about others, he started making up lies to try to support whatever he had to say,

MickeyCrimm on how UNKewlJ is incapable of telling the truth: He'd rather climb to the top of a tree just to tell a lie than stand on the ground and tell the truth.

When he

was with his claim that he was so tight with casino executives that they would visit his apartment on Halloween (of all days ) to hand him reams of player records for someone that he had decided was MDawg.

From that point on his claims got increasingly absurd (and still, consistently with no backup provided)

culminating in this latest absurdism – his backrooming arm breaking rife with contradictions settled for ever increasing sums in two weeks or less lawsuit of which there is no public record.

What should have happened to this bum, is not accidentally breaking his arm by being flung into a chair, and not for card counting (he doesn't actually do that) but for something along the lines of this, for the offense of lying online without end for years on end.

Let's just hope that he makes good on his promise to stay away, so that we don't waste more time on him. As much fun as it is to poke the fat kid in class it also becomes an utter waste of time when he keeps coming back with more nonsense.

 

Being from New England, I am very familiar with Winnipesaukee. Always has been a great place to visit. My wife is from closeby Vermont and her grandparents also had a lakeside home there in NH. But by every count, we both love Lake Tahoe and the surrounding area much better. That's why we spend our summers here instead of S. Dakota.

Is that Volvo a stickshift, because at least until 2000, that's how most of the cars in Sweden came--even many luxury versions.

 

Tahoe is fine for what iit is and what it offers.

I did swim in it at The Hyatt in Incline Village but it was nippy; like Crater Lake it is cold water.

Winnipesaukee is spring fed, formed by glaciers, and the climate in NH is cooler than NJ so it was a great place to escape to when I was a kid; we didn't have AC then in NJ and sweltered during the summer heat and humidity; vacationing every year for a couple weeks during summer gave us relief.

During late summer the water temp is perfect: damned refreshing.

Most of my family eventually moved from NJ to NH but I chose Portland, Oregon: "Go West young man..."

Yeah, the Volvo is a manual transmission, and a clutch probem led to me pulling the engine / transmission: the clutch fork was flawed and bent to the point it was unable to remain in adjustment and failed.

Replacing all the seals and gaskets as well as a few mechanical components; the '92 244 Turbo is my daily driver; currently I am driving my back up Turbobrick, a manual transmission equipped '86 740 Turbo.

 

See for yourself: nice, eh?

(note: not our property, but representative}

 

I do know it's nice. Been there many times.

Right now Tahoe is surrounded by beautiful snow-capped mountains. I'll grab a current pic when we go over to the lake again.

 

Tahoe is certainly pretty / picturesque, no question.

But do many people swim, ski etc. on it?

Where is Fredo sleeping with the fishes?

 

No skiing, some daredevil young people swimming but the water is very cold since the snow slowly melts up high, lots of boats and some jetski's. We're going fishing in a few weeks.

 

I owned a Transmission Franchise, and sold the entire chain of 37 locations all over the east coast in 2001 to a huge company.

 

Now THAT's what I call an advantage play.

 

Do you have a short list of franchises you would recommend or conversely, is there a franchise you would not recommend? Or do the local individual franchise owners really determine the quality of the work, and not the franchise label itself?

Our neighbor about a hundred yards up the road owns a Jiffy Lube, so I'm always interested in how these automotive franchises work. The neighbors are obviously doing well, as they own a huge piece of land right here a half mile from the university.

 

Redietz,

Feel like reading a little?

As a child growing up my brother and I were always forced to work on cars along with anything else that broke in our family. Back then if anything broke and we could not fix it, we would do without it unless of course essential things. We grew up living very modest. My father was a jack of many trades, and I mean many trades. Including a half-acre garden. He was old school.

I got a job working in a transmission shop right out of high school. Was a rookie but caught on fast, and was rewarded as my talents grew, eventually becoming a top technician.

Other than the two years I spent in the Army after getting drafted I was around transmissions till I sold (my) chain in 2001. Rebuilding transmissions back in the day were nothing like they are today. Mostly 2 and 3 speed automatics when I started. Manuel transmission were always considered fixing a toy. Today you are dealing with 8 and 10 speed plus automatics, fully electronic and computer controlled.

It was a very secretive trade and I was lucky to be trusted into it, obviously a result from my hard work ethic. I was considered a good investment.

Two years after the military I opened my own independent Transmission shop. For 20K you could find a closed-up gas station or repair shop. The gas corporations had to rid the pumps and tanks. Most abandoned gas station companies would sell you the lifts and equipment in the repair section for a dollar each. Obviously becoming your problem to remove if you lose your lease or whatever with landlord and they wanted them removed. Remember back then all lifts were in ground. Today their mostly electric and above ground. The properties were always owned by private people with leases to gas corps. I could write a book about all the different conditions available back then for finding and opening repair shops.

Eventually I opened another shop with a related family member. With my support and abilities that shop also became very profitable. Then I eventually opened two more with other people I knew who worked for me. I always tried to make deals with the landlords to eventually own the property or purchase them at the very beginning. Another book on all those scenarios.

Of course, money could make a blind man see. I knew stealing profits from me was easy and ongoing. If I fired anyone that stole, I would shortly have no one to operate the locations. Talented technicians although openly being taught and broken into the trade took time and lots of support. We were not getting college graduates looking to get into the grease monkey business.

I soon put together a team with a real estate lawyer and sales people. We put together a franchise agreement (royalties, rules, requirements, advertising expenses both for local papers and corporate which usually took care of radio and TV.) Another book on all this stuff.

We eventually went into the tri-state area then going up and down the coast.

This was an independent shop transforming itself into a well-known franchise. (On east coast) All with my blood, sweat, and tears. It was nothing like a Jiffy Lube. Think Jiffy Lube came around in the early 80’s and we thought it could never work. Think they flopped early on. They were public and IPO shot to 15/20 then tanked rather quickly if my memory serves me right. Today with the cost and importance of specified oil qualities per different vehicles, I think it ended up working out. Today you could pay up to twenty dollars and above a quart of oil for synthetic and other additives needed for your cars oil. Some vehicles take eight quarts per change. Back then it was four dollars a gallon. Same with transmission fluids. Transmission fluid today is just as critical and you need to stock several different types. Today it is usually cheaper to stock your different fluids by the case. Its always cheaper to by bulk off a truck but EPA tank requirements make that even more costly. The customer always ends up paying the unnecessary prices created by our government.

I have no short list of franchises to recommend. Maye a McDonalds?? I am so far out of the loop today I have no clue what is going on. In my day it was like living on earth with locations, landlords, workers, equipment, the list is endless. When it comes to today it would be like living on Mars in a spacesuit when it comes to franchises and opportunities. We came a long way, and I’m not sure its all good.

I should write a book about this journey, but I am rather impressed I even got this far.

 

BH, reading your story was like remembering how different--and how much better and uncomplicated it was when people weren't afraid of hard work--it was back then.

But I thought you were a broke loser because kew said so

 

That and he also assumed I worked for upper-level casino management. Just throwing another dig at his stupid assumed bullshit.

I also wanted to mention in 2001 I sold the chain to investors. But I held onto 3 of the locations. It was weird paying royalties to others. They were the biggest of the chains bread winners at the time. My two boys ran them for 9 more years and sold them.

 

That is a really interesting and excellent summary. I was always fascinated by people running the automotive franchises. I grew up next door to a Gulf Station owned by a guy named Max Hoffman. I was probably in the place (or at least the office) every day for at least a few minutes when I was 8-11 years old. When we moved a mile or so away, we were a couple hundred yards from a Sunoco, which also became a kind of hangout, even though I knew nothing about cars. Yeah, I could change my own oil and sparkplugs, but that was about it.

What I was wondering was if you could recommend a transmission franchise today that might be a cut above others. My thought right now is that I have a 12-year-old BMW 335i that I really like, and I can see hanging onto this vehicle until I'm in the ground. But at some point, I'll need transmission work, and I have no idea which of the small city southern franchises would do better work than others on a non-American car.

The story you started telling is really pretty fascinating. It takes a lot of learning on the fly, from what my brother-in-law told me. He started with one private investigating office, then expanded to franchises all over New Mexico. You have to wear so many different hats, business-wise, and know everything from the ground up. Sounded really, really complicated and a 24/7 job.

I did want to plug that book I mentioned, not because it's a plug for me (my story may be the most poorly written), but because you might enjoy the book. It's called Driving Southern, and the short stories are all about coming of age with particular vehicles. The other authors are all more car savvy than me, and most of the stories are nostalgic and entertaining. Anyway, it's on Amazon. I don't know how to PM here, but if you figure it out, PM me an address and I'll send you a copy. You might, of all people on here, appreciate it the most.

 

BH's story is nothing but concocted UNCONFIRMED bullshit!!!

 

At least I'll end it now. I won't be talking about it for 20 plus years.