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kc7jty
10-22-2010, 08:51 PM
http://i54.tinypic.com/nvtq9v.jpg

L) Pilsner glass (big one)
M) Tulip glass, Belgians, Stouts
R) Wine glass (very big one) (better to sniff you with my dear)

total cost for the lot, $3.
NA4BH
10-22-2010, 08:52 PM
Dollar Tree? Sweet.......
kc7jty
10-22-2010, 08:57 PM
Our Chinese friends are very industrious these days.
They are all nice, no wobble/egg shape, no boogers in the glass, etc...
al2n
10-22-2010, 09:14 PM
Got my bar ware at an auction (surprise). Only catch was that we had to buy a case of each kind of glass. Several of us each bought a case or two of different styles and then traded afterward. Got 4 each highball, pilsner, snifter, shot, old fashioned, and wine glasses for 5 bucks total.
kc7jty
10-22-2010, 11:15 PM
Somebody always has to do it better, my tire just went flat.
I used to break wine glasses at the rate of about 1 every two months till I perfected my hand washing technique. I have one that has lasted 3 years or better now.
W3MIV
10-23-2010, 06:11 AM
Good find, Bill. Like the tulip especially.

Since I generally only drink reds, I opted for stemless balloons. Loaded up on them when Linens'n'Things went belly up some time back. This has greatly reduced my breakage -- it was almost always the stems I was snapping with my ham-handed management.

Several years back (at least fifteen, but the mind balks), when a couple of friends "borrowed" our house for their wedding, the caterer who did the reception here afterward left a rack of 64 standard small stems. Several calls to them failed to produce a response, so I stowed them away. I haul them out in small lots for them who want chilled whites (though I don't know why I bother since the uncultured boobs always handle the glasses by the bowls, anyway). Most of the rack remains intact.
KG4CGC
10-23-2010, 02:26 PM
Nice find, Bill.
Now about that scanner, that isn't the first time I've seen it appear in your photos.
I'd like to know what you monitor with it, in the kitchen and or dining area :)
kc7jty
10-23-2010, 02:52 PM
Nice find, Bill.
Now about that scanner, that isn't the first time I've seen it appear in your photos.
I'd like to know what you monitor with it, in the kitchen and or dining area :)

Got that Bearcat 201 in 1985 to monitor the local railroad bands. Use it now to monitor 146.560 (our simplex freq), and occasionally the weather.
The rg8x line is a jumper attached to a so-239 dipole cut for 2 meters. It hangs from a hook screwed into the ceiling proving I'm single. No woman alive would allow such a thing in her house.
It performs surprisingly well.
KG4CGC
10-23-2010, 03:12 PM
It hangs from a hook screwed into the ceiling proving I'm single. :lol::lol::lol:
True dat!

Fine Business Olde Mahn HiHi QSO?

I fashioned and indoor equivalent of a bipolar discone back in the 90's supported by a tripod on the dresser. We have separate bedrooms.

As far as glassware goes, the boy broke pretty much everything and he wonders why we ushered him out of the dwelling as soon as he was, of age. He complained that his sister got preferential treatment. She didn't break everything in sight. Something that he mistook as an entitlement.
kc7jty
10-23-2010, 09:03 PM
there was a boy too...A?
kd8dey
10-23-2010, 09:33 PM
Somebody always has to do it better, my tire just went flat.
I used to break wine glasses at the rate of about 1 every two months till I perfected my hand washing technique. I have one that has lasted 3 years or better now.

So now you set the glass down BEFORE you wash your hands !! :)
WØTKX
10-24-2010, 12:56 AM
http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41VHYdtmY0L._SL500_.jpg
kc7jty
10-24-2010, 01:02 AM
So now you set the glass down BEFORE you wash your hands !! :)

It's a play on words
N2NH
10-24-2010, 01:37 AM
The Pilsner looks great. Best tasting beer comes in a Pilsner glass.

I guess I'm like a dog I once owned. She always thought the best food came in a green bowl.
kc7jty
10-24-2010, 02:55 AM
woof
n2ize
10-24-2010, 03:16 AM
Glasses ? why bother when i can drink it right outta the bottle. :)
kc7jty
10-24-2010, 05:03 PM
Glasses ? why bother when i can drink it right outta the bottle. :)

Out here in Idaho they sit at the bar and drink it from the CAN till it's finished.
NQ6U
10-24-2010, 05:05 PM
Real men drink it directly from the keg.
KG4CGC
10-24-2010, 08:33 PM
Real men drink it directly from the keg.
With dirt.
NQ6U
10-24-2010, 09:00 PM
With dirt.

And rocks, of course.
KG4CGC
10-24-2010, 09:57 PM
And rocks, of course.
Well of course.
Real beer also contains livestock piss.
W1GUH
10-28-2010, 02:45 PM
What I keep looking for and have't found yet -- at least when i could buy it -- are scotch tasting glasses.

http://d185947.u36.u2-web.com/images/SM%20Scotch.jpg

Seems like any liquor shop that sells a good selection of single malts would have them, but they don't.
kc7jty
10-28-2010, 03:05 PM
haven't seen them at the dollar tree either
W3MIV
10-28-2010, 03:17 PM
Hell, I can't even find them around here in Yuppyville. Stemless balloons work well for the task, though, as would the classic tulip Bill posted above. Persnally, I find the stems to be a PITA and the most frequent source of breakage. You only NEED a stem on a glass you will use for a chilled beverage. For duties like tasting reds and whiskeys, the lack of a stem is no encumbrance for it permits easy warming of the fluid, thus building both nose and palate more surely and swiftly. I also find the recurve of a balloon (like that of a snifter) an aid to the process rather than a hindrance. Natually, the size of your nose may be a factor. ;)

Of course, YMMV.