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I recently took over my uncle's car last November 2007 Honda Accord 2006 he owed 16,000.00 and the mileage was high. Now I want to get another car but looking at the Blue book I will be upside down for about $ 5,000.00. I now have the Honda Accord 2006 the mileage is 62,000.00 and I currently owe about 15,000.00. I want to get into a lease for my new car I’m looking at the IS250 Lexus. I haven’t gone to the Lexus dealership to get my Honda appraised since I saw in the Blue Book there is big gap. My only option I see is just pay off my car or since I don’t drive that much weight another year so the mileage doesn’t look so bad and also my bring down my car loan. Is there anything I can possibly do to get rid of my car?I dont want to roll over my difference since the deal for the lease will be no longer a good deall :)
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Forever It was the part of the day I would rather skip. Sitting next to crazy Ben and trying to pay attention to Mr. Weber was almost impossible. I walked into 6th period and took my usual seat. Crazy Ben wasn’t there. I tried to think of the possibilities. He was attacked by a stampede of elephants.Ms. Lillian chewed him up and swallowed him because he forgot to do his homework, again.He had another one of his chilidog contests at lunch and ate himself to death.Or my favorite, his family decided to move far far far far away so he could never come back again. Instead of Crazy Ben coming Troy Cash came and sat next to me. The most popular guy was sitting next to me.“Sup.” Troy spoke in his overly romantic amazingly sweet voice.“Hey.” I said shyly. I had to bite my lip. When I get nervous I start blabbing nonsense that no one cares about.“Shut up Riley no one cares about how the sun rotates around the Earth.” I thought to myself.“So, are you good in math because Mr. Weber is always on my case and I need help. So if you ain’t good in math I’m going to go sit down back down with my girl.” Troy spoke in the same romantic voice except this time it was rude and sarcastic.“Fine I’ll help you, but I’m not giving you an A your going to work for it.”“Uh, sure.” Troy said this time with no romance all of it was a rude tone with a stupid giggle at the end.“Why do all the hot guys have to be so rude?” I thought to myself. All of a sudden a small folded up note was tossed onto my lap. It was folded messy ,and there was a small blue peace sign on the yellow lined paper. It wrote, Dear Riley,I’m in trouble. come to my house at 5:00 P.M. cant do earlier because of detention. Be there! I got us some cool new stuff. Oh yah if you were wondering why I have been freaking mad at you all day it is because I know who is sitting next to you right now. Troy Cash!!!!!!!!! My FUTURE husband, how dare you! Love you, Cassidy Cassidy has been my best friend/troublemaker sense we were two years old. She is much more optimistic than I ever will be. She has the second hottest guy in school. Andy Thomson, he is a straight A student who gets invited to all the cool parties. How does he do it? The bell finally rang. I was out of here. I packed up all my books. Now totally ready for the weekend. I ran out of the classroom. On my way out I bumped into Andy. all of my books fell to the ground. I stood there biting my lip, again.Andy picked up all of my books and started walking. I ran after him. I supposed he needed to talk to me about Cassidy.“What do you want?” I said as sweet as I could manage. Of course it is totally visible on my face that I’m fuming. “God, can’t a guy talk to his girlfriends best friend without being patronized.” He said just as “Sweet” As I.“Sorry, I’m just not in the best mood.” I retorted. I looked up at his shimmering blue eyes and had to look away. They were way to gorgeous to resist, but I had to. His blond hair lit up in the sun and his polo really gave it an edge. His jeans were stoned washed. Not to baggy, just the way I like it. His shoes were Nike but not the want-to-be-cool type. They were just white. He was my dream guy. I couldn’t talk to him. I couldn’t look at him. I just could not! My best friends boyfriend. What was I thinking? I was thinking I’m single and Cassidy is in love with Troy anyway. I was thinking he should be mine. All mine ,but I know he was in love with Cassidy and I couldn’t let this go anywhere. I had to think mad. I might slip ,I might not. I hope not!“It’s ok. Can we talk?” Andy asked like all innocent.“Yah. Sure.” Oh no. Think mad. Think mad.“Listen, me and Cassidy are over, I think. She hasn’t been talking to me .Could you ask her what is going on? Also, do you want to come to dinner with me and her tonight? It will make things less tense.” He said like a hurt puppy.“Uh, I will ask her and I would love to go to dinner with you guys.” I answered ,my mouth hanging almost open.“Thanks.” He hugged me real tight ,gave me my books , and ran over to Charlotte, his sister. I just stood there like an idiot until Troy grabbed my elbow and shook it.“Dude. Dude. DUDE. Wakeup. Hello?” Troy kept going on. My eyes went wide.“What time is it!” I demanded.“4:52.” He said holding my hand.“4:52. I have to go! Cassidy is gonna crucify me.” I looked at his hand. I went wide-eyed. I grabbed his hand threw it off and hugged him goodbye. I had no time for giggly flirting. I threw my book bag over my shoulder. I Unlocked my bike and rode off ,leaving Mr. Ego behind me. I was realizing I dazed nowhere for three hours and eight minutes. I had to hurry over to Cassidy’s house. Our dinner was approaching and I had to look amazing.Chapter 2Narrow Eyes I pulled up to Cassidy‘s house, now fully aware it was 5:04 and I knew I was dead. I unlocked her garage ,threw in my bike, ran upstairs to her room , and jumped onto her bed. She was on her computer. My white albino skin curly brown hair and dark green eyes were nothing compared to her porcelain face with black sleek hair and silver intimidating eyes. She gave me the chills when she turned around with narrowed eyes. She looked disappointed. I was about to ask what is wrong when she flipped open her lip-gloss.“What color would you rather have, sparkly pink or daring gold for dinner tonight?” She asked in her mad but totally not noticeable voice.“Daring gold.” I tried to sound desirable it came out sounding pathetic. She laughed throwing me a darkish gold gloss. I twisted it open applied a dab and smeared it in. She threw me a red camisole and a plaid sweater that included red gold and black. Cassidy pitched me a pare of sun-washed skinny jeans that resembled hers in a way except mine were darker. She brushed my hair back and put it into a bun. She tossed over a pair of gold converse, black eyeliner, and a dark green eye shadow that matched my eye color. Cassidy was the one who stood out with her jeans and a rocker T-shirt. Red lipstick and black pumps. She had a big tote and her hair was scrunched. She was a rebel. Cassidy and I filled each other. I was the goody good. She was the radical one. I have never been jealous of her. She had a decent life , a single mom ,an awesome boyfriend. I had an amazing voice and both my parents are alive.“Ready to go?” She asked.“Yah , I guess” I said unwillingly. We walked to the garage got on our bikes and rode off into the setting sun. She watched as I began to smile. Her eyes still narrow. I pedaled faster and faster. I knew we were close. My grin got bigger and bigger. I started humming my favorite song, Thriller. She rolled her eyes then went back to narrow eyes. We were here , and she was stiff .I was giggly. We walked in and asked for a table for three. She seated us right away and asked what we would like to drink. I asked for a diet soda and Cassidy asked for a sprite. Finally Andy showed up. His blond hair was combed back and you could see his bleach blond streaks. He was wearing a brown button down shirt with a collar and dark denim jeans with some black Nike’s. His blue twinkling eyes were covered by his glasses but I didn’t mind he still looked irresistible to me. Cassidy shrugged and padded the chair in the middle. He took a seat. Andy kissed Cassidy on the cheek turned and hugged me. He complemented my lip gloss and complemented Cassidy’s shoes. He ordered a diet coke when the waiter came back. We all took our menu’s and studied them carefully. I was sick of the silence.“Andy ,I need to talk to you. Alone.” I shrugged He turned, kissed Cassidy on the forehead, and walked over to somewhere private with me.“Cassidy is not mad. She just wants some space.” I really meant it to.“Oh. Ok. That’s it?” He was confused “Yes that’s it.” I told him. Right this second I was on the verge of tearing my lip off. I was biting it so hard, and it started to bleed. He ran over and got paper towels. He dabbed them on my lip. He brought me to the bathroom.“Wash your lip with soap. Then come back out and we can sit and I will try to stop the bleeding. Okay? “I’m so sorry . I didn’t mean to.” I stared at him with puppy dog eyes.“Why are you sorry? You bit your lip to death? There is nothing to say sorry for . I ran in to the bathroom. I washed my lip with there lavender soap and put some lotion on my hands. I ran back out to find no one was there .I ran to the table the check was there. Paid. No friends were there. The waiter was coming by.“Excuse me miss, where did my friends go?” I asked politely.“They left you a note. Here.” The waiter spoke just as polite. I tipped her nine dollars and got myself to unravel the small piece of yellow line paper with a peace sign on front. Dear Riley,I’m sorry , I really do like you but I cant .You know I love Cass. I cant abandon her .She is my life. Don’t blame me for leaving .Cassidy pulled me out .I have your bike. I will lock it up at the school tomorrow so you can get home. Hope it helps. Xoxo, Andy ThomsonChapter 3Home Home wasn’t were I wanted to go. There I would have to be interrogated by my father, Ted. He is big and tuff. He loves sports and it was his dream to have a boy. Ted is an overly protective Teddy bear who wouldn’t hurt a fly. My mom, Tessa is a soccer mom. She love having cool things and going shopping. She might not be able to pay attention for one minute, but sometimes she makes that a good thing. Autumn, my sister is 18, three years older than me, she practically lives at her boyfriends house. She is attending college, is 5 months pregnant, and is trying to juggle a part-time job at a local restaurant. My brother Dylan is 13. He is a weird kid .Dad was mad about that. He would rather sit inside all day playing auto theft 4 then going and throwing some balls at Fletcher park. I flopped my bike on the ground and fling my book bag into the car so I wont have to do that tomorrow morning. I unlock the door and force the key out of the hole.“Anyone home?” I shouted. There was no answer. I shrugged and went up to my room. I flopped on my bed. I opened my book and started to read the first line of page 456 when Dylan slammed his door. I figured autumn was home. Our house was decent .Two stories, and four bathrooms. We lived in the town of Silver Tree, the state of Seattle. It always rains and there hasn’t been a sunny day since January 22, 2008. Three whole months with no sun. We used to live in Little Rock, Arkansas but we had to move because of inflation. I was only one. We picked the white house that we have today. Right next to Cassidy. I stomped into my brothers bedroom. Autumn was on the ground throwing her usual fit and mood swing thanks to the big belly.
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my friend is selling one that he fixed up for $4500 and its right when I need a new car. It has a little under 100K miles. He bought it for a 1K with a broken axle and a few other minor damages that he fixed up. Blue book has it lowest value for the car at $4800, so assuming its fixed up well, I'm getting a very good deal. I want something very reliable and good on gas. I would also love a car thats fun to drive and has a nice interior. I'm not really looking to race or anything, so I dont need speed. i really like the rally type cars like this and it seems like its perfect for me. The only thing that concerns me is its quality and whether or not it will break down a lot. I recently owned a GM car and it was a very frustrating experience owning it due to its lack of reliability, so this is a major decision-making factor.
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I started to look around for a car a couple days ago but becaus eof my credit no one could help me out except jd byrider. And i made the mistake of going there by myself...i know nothing about cars. So i ended up signing a contract for a 2000 grand am gt 4door. Which i looked up the blue book value and it is only worth 6000 in excellant condition. i am paying 12000, then when it came to signing the papers in went up to 19000. with payments of 400 a month. I could do it if i have to but it is going to be very hard. Does anyone know about jd byrider or indiana laws? Is there any way i could get a cheaper car or smaller payments now? Has anyone had a good experience with jd? So far i have not seen that happen. Any advice would help! BTW I know i made a stupid choice in doing this! I have definaitly learned a lesson abotu signing stuuf! Thank you!also i dont know if it matters or not but i have not taken the car off the lot yet
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Hi, my 1992 toyota paseo car is only valued at around $3,000.00 in the kelly blue book, but I have it well taken care of, and with $1000 rims, and more with a great soundsystem(including subwoofers). I have always taken care of it, and people always comment on it, young and elder. Thing is, he wants to give me $6,000 for it, that is way too much, and beside, my car is not for sale. Why are some people willing to pay more money for something if it isnt worth that much in value to begin with. I wont sell only because I love my car, Im not money hungry, and its in great condition.
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he didnt want to do it he's done it before in there and the teacher saw him do it before but at the moment he didnt want to do it my wife even went to the school and he just did not want to do it when he got home i asked him to do it and he did it .now the teacher suggested we take him to get evaluated just because he didnt want to do it .i told them he did those activities since he was 2 .i told them at home he gets on the cpu and does everything he goes to the picture folder and edits them he learned from seeing me do it one time he copys pic from websites clicks on them send them to pic. folder then goes and edits them.he also learns everyword to the movies he likes he knows how to get everywhere in the car he knows where to turn to get to the place we are going.sometimes he reads words out the blue like books or cpu.when he was born at like a month he was lifting himself up with his arms turning around holding his bottle.anybody think he has a problem should we get him evaluatedshe said evaluate him cause he didnt want to draw a circle or stack the blocks that was the only reasonits a daycare school kind of program she said he does everything at school seen him do it before she said get him evaluated to see why he didnt want to do the test that they take every 45 days he has passed it before yesterday all of a sudden he got on the cpu and started doing math like 2+2+1 and he knew all the answers we didnt even knew he knows that as they are not doing that at his school
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I'm looking into buying a used car and found a dealership that would give me minimim problems as far as getting a loan. They go through a private bank that only deals with people in college, who work for the goverment or the hospital. Max interest rate would be 10.5%. I've gone through other dealers (just looking) and they have tried giving me a 20% interest just because I'm a first time buyer. Anyways the asking price of a 03 Nissan Altima 85,300 miles was $11,995. There are some small things inside of the car that need fixing (A compartment doesn't stay shut in the console and a few things like that) He took $500 off of the asking price for them things. Which brought the price down to $11,495. I looked up the blue book value and they gave me the quote of $10,540 for one in EXCELLENT condition. Only 5% of cars fall into that catergory. This car has some defects on the paint so it would be considered in GOOD condition. Which would drop the price more.Excellent condition again is $10,540. This car would be considered in good condition. Do you think $9,500 is a good offer? It's $1,000 under the asking price of one in excellent condition.I'm 22 years young and currently own a 97 Chevy Cavalier. The car is still running strong and I'm quite attached to it. I'm just looking to upgrade to something that something that cosmetically looks better. I drove a Altima and simply fell in love with the car. It's good on gas and is spacious.I also took the advice of one posters and looked up the book value on edmunds.com. They quoted me a price of $8,592. So now I'm thinking more along the lines of offering $9,000 flat out.
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so my sister is selling me a ford taurus 99 for 2,500. should i get it? i blue booked it and its only valued at 3000., im so confused because i dont want to get it then it just breaks down!!!!
Resolved Question: 2001 Olds Alero.....?
My car was recently "totaled" during a hail storm. The blue book is around $5750 and my insurance company offered me $6180. However, I still owe a balance of $3488 which they will pay off and give me the remainder or drop the offer to $4614 and allow me to purchase the car back for $1457. I'm looking to save money, but I'm trying to do what is economically best at this point because the car still needs to be repaired (not sure how much it will cost-still getting estimates). Any suggestions? Thanks in advance.
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I have a 98 honda prelude, the gas station messed up and put their diesel fuel into the premium gas tank and when I filled my car up I put diesel fuel in my premium unleaded tank. 2 days later my car broke down and the engine caught fire, pretty much destroying the engine. the gas station has assumed responsibility. I looked on kelly blue book for the retail price but what am i entitled to from the gas station? will i need a lawyer? whats my next move?
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We have a 91 nissan maxima that needs a tranny, wont smog and needs water pump and timing belt is going to need to be changed. All in all tooo much to fix. So I love Maxima's feel, and found a 93 at a dealer that is only $2750 with a new engine in it! I checked blue book and that's a great deal, but my son is saying there is gotta be a reason for so cheap that we are not seeing. Plus our old car has tinted windows, new car doesnt. So is this a good deal? And can I get the windows swapped. and lastly, what kind of mileage would I get? My old car always had something wrong, so it was at 12-14 because of all problems. What is good running 3.0 l engine on a maxima get?
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i found a used/pre-owned Acura that i am interested in purchasing, sitting in the lot of a local dealership. It is 6 years old, has a little over 60K miles on its odometer, and looks to be in fair condition. the one thing that allured me to it at first was the price they put up on the dealer's website. the current price is a REDUCED from the original which should have been closer to blue book value. however, the paper/sticker posted up on the side window indicates that it is being sold AS-IS with NO WARRANTY. feeling obligated to check its vehicle history report on carfax.com using the vehicle id # from the windshield, the report came out to check out fine for all the major checkpoints regarding its past, but what has me worried is the fact that it was owned by two separate owners. it was sold at 50K, bought again by another, then sold once again to be where it is now. the first owner used it in Illinois, but owner # 2 drove it to New York. curiously, it ended up back here in illinois.
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I bought a 2000 Dodge Caravan from a used car dealership a year ago. At the time of purchase, I was told that it had been regularly maintained and that the high mileage on the car was due to it being towed behind an RV; that the actual mileage on the thing was around 100,000 miles less than what the digital odometer reads.Looking at my registration, which was done by the dealer, I see that he claimed to the DMV that the mileage was only 48k. Also, the car has been into the shop several times since I bought it, for mechanical problems. These mechanics have told me that not only is the engine as worn as the mileage reflects, but that it hadn't had maintenance in QUITE some time.This ticks me off, as I'm sure you understand.What are my legal remedies here? I looked up Blue Book value and I got overcharged by $4000 on the value of this van.
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I'm looking to buy a Honda 2002 LX that has 59,000 miles on it. It's being sold for $7,000. I took it for a test drive and it runs really smooth and there isn't any damage to the body. I really like the car and want to buy it. The owner said he changed the oil on time always. Just wondered if $7,000 is too much. I know the Blue Book value is higher than $7000 but I'm not sure if that means anything.bum28 - yes I'm buying from a private dealer.
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Penguins are the only bird that can leap into the air like porpoises. India has 50 million monkeys. By some unknown means, an iguana can end its own life. Americans spend around $3 billion for cat and dog food a year. Pigs can cover a mile in 7.5 minutes when running at top speed. You breathe about 10 million times a year. The colder the room you sleep in, the better the chances are that you'll have a bad dream. The first non-human to win an Oscar was Mickey Mouse. Lee Harvey Oswald was booked with mugshot number 54018. The Gulf Stream could carry a message in a bottle at an average of 4 miles per hour. The bullseye on a dartboard must be 5 feet 8 inches off the ground. The foot is the most common body part bitten by insects. The most common time for a wake up call is 7am. The doorbell was invented in 1831. The are 255 squares on a Scrabble board. The electric shaver was patented on November 6, 1928. There are 500 sheets of paper in a ream. The monkey wrench was invented by Charles Moncke. Japan is the largest exporter of frog's legs. There are seven points on the Statue of Liberty's crown. There are approx. 550 hairs in the eyebrow. The most common non-contagious disease in the world is tooth decay. The shell constitutes 12 percent of an egg's weight. A squid has 10 tentacles. A snail's reproductive organs are in its head. A cow's only sweat glands are in its nose. The word "AND" appears 46,277 times in the Bible. The first word played in the Scrabble rules demonstration game is "horn". The telephone's U.S. patent number is 174,465. The typical person goes to the bathroom 6 times a day. There are 17 steps leading up to Sherlock Holme's apartment. When a horned toad is angry, it squirts blood from it's eyes. Napoleon was terrified of cats. The first Lifesaver flavor was peppermint. The typical American eats 263 eggs a year. The ballpoint pen was invented in 1938 by Laszlo and Georg Biro. The fastest growing nail is on the middle finger. The parking meter was invented by C.C. Magee in 1935. In 1961, an IBM 7090 computer calculated Pi to 100 265 digits. The human body weighs forty times more than the brain. After eating too much, your hearing is less sharp. A person swallows approximately 295 times while eating dinner. The oldest known vegetable is the pea. Jack is the most common name in nursery rhymes. The avocado has the most calories of any fruit. The first zoo in the USA was in Philadelphia. The letter N ends all Japanese words not ending in a vowel. France has the highest per capita consumption of cheese. The hardest bone in the human body is the jawbone. 4000 people are injured by teapots each year. The typical American consumes 27 pounds of cheese each year. The shortest English word that contains the letters A, B, C, D, E, and F is feedback. The ostrich has a 46 foot long small intestine. The state of California raises the most turkeys out of all of the states. The most sensitive finger on the human hand is the index finger. George Washington Carver invented peanut butter. The typical hen lays 19 dozen eggs a year. Stainless stell was invented by Harry Brearley in 1913. A scallop has 35 blue eyes. The left leg of a chicken in more tender than the right one. The only dog that doesn't have a pink tongue is the chow. Iceland was the first country to legalize abortion in 1935. The giraffe has the highest blood pressure of any animal. The dumbest domesticated animal is the turkey. Russia has the most movie theaters in the world. Albert Blake Dick invented the mimeograph machine. The strongest muscle in the human body is the tongue. The most fatal car accidents occur on Saturday. An Oscar weighs seven pounds. It takes the typical person seven minutes to fall asleep. Gabriel Fahrenheit invented the mercury thermometer. The Eiffel Tower has 1792 steps. The mongoose was barred live entry into the U.S. in 1902. Ants stretch when they wake up in the morning. Thomas Edison, lightbulb inventor, was afraid of the dark. About 3000 years ago, most Egyptians died by the time they were 30. A sneeze travels out your mouth at over 600 m.p.h. The average person has over 1,460 dreams a year. Lightning strikes about 6,000 times per minute on this planet. Owls are the only birds who can see the color blue. A jellyfish is 95 percent water. The elephant is the only mammal that can't jump. The penguin is the only bird who can swim, but not fly. America once issued a 5-cent bill. Like fingerprints, everyone's tongue print is different. Fortune cookies were actually invented in America, in 1918, by Charles Jung. A giraffe can clean its ears with its 21-inch tongue. Chewing gum while peeling onions will keep you from crying. Bats always turn left when exiting a cave. Fingernails grow nearly 4 times faster than toenails. You blink about 84,000,000 times a year. In England, in the 1880's, "Pants" was considered a dirty word. A toothpick is the object most often choked on by Americans. Every 45 seconds, a house catches on fire in the United States. The sun is 330,330 times larger than the earth. A hummingbird weighs less than a penny. A cockroach will live nine days without it's head, before it starves to death. The most used letter in the English alphabet is 'E', and 'Q' is the least used. Dogs and cats, like humans, are either right of left handed... or is that pawed? The opposite sides of a dice cube always add up to seven. Men are 6 times more likely to be struck by lighting than women. Of all the words in the English language, the word set has the most definitions. Bulls are colorblind, therefore will usually charge at a matador's waving cape no matter what color it is -- be it red or neon yellow. Apples are more efficient than caffeine in keeping people awake in the mornings. Smelling bananas and/or green apples (smelling, not eating) can help you lose weight. After eating, a housefly regurgitates its food and then eats it again! When someone annoys you, it takes 42 muscles to frown, but it only takes 4 muscles to extend your arm and whack them in the head. Coca-Cola was originally green. Hong Kong has the most Rolls Royce's per capita. Alaska is the state with highest percent of people who walk to work. 28 percent of Africa is wilderness. 38 percent of America is wilderness. A duck's quack does not echo and no one knows why. It costs $6400 to raise a medium size dog to age of 11. Average number of people airborne over the U.S. during any given hour: 61,000. 70 percent of Americans who visited Disneyland/World. Intelligent people have more copper and zinc in their hair. The youngest pope was 11 years old. Iceland consumes more Coca-Cola per capita than any other country. The sentence "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog." uses every letter in the alphabet and was developed by Western Union to test telex/twx communications. Average life span of a major league baseball: 7 pitches. The San Francisco Cable cars are the only "mobile" National Monuments. The only 15-letter word that can be spelled without repeating a letter "uncopyrightable."Did you know that there are coffee flavored PEZ? The reason firehouses have circular stairways is from the days of yore when the engines were pulled by horses. The horses were stabled on the ground floor and learned how to walk up standard staircases. When opossums are playing 'possum, they are not "playing." They actually pass out from sheer terror. The Main Library at Indiana University sinks over an inch every year because, when it was built, engineers failed to take into account the weight of all the books that would occupy the building. 111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321 Clans of long ago that wanted to get rid of unwanted people (without killing them) used to burn their houses down - hence the expression "to get fired."Only two people signed the Declaration of Independence on July 4th, John Hancock and Charles Thomson. Most of the rest signed on August 2, but the last signature wasn't added until 5 years later. The longest recorded flight of a chicken is thirteen seconds. David Prowse was the guy in the Darth Vader suit in Star Wars. He spoke all of Vader's lines, and didn't know his voice was going to be dubbed over by James Earl Jones until he saw the screening of the movie. The Pentagon, in Arlington, Virginia, has twice as many bathrooms as is necessary. When it was built in the 1940s, the state of Virginia still had segregation laws requiring separate toilet facilities for blacks and whites. The cruise liner, Queen Elizabeth II, moves only six inches for each gallon of diesel fuel that it burns. The highest point in Pennsylvania is lower than the lowest point in Colorado. Nutmeg is extremely poisonous if injected intravenously. If you have three quarters, four dimes, and four pennies, you have $1.19. You also have the largest amount of money in coins without being able to make change for a dollar. No NFL team which plays its home games in a domed stadium has ever won a Superbowl. The only two days of the year in which there are no professional sports games (MLB, NBA, NHL, or NFL) are the day before and the day after the Major League All-star Game. Only one person in two billion will live to be 116 or older. Pound for pound, hamburgers cost more than new cars. The 3 most valuable brand names on earth: Marlboro, Coca-Cola, and Budweiser, in that order. It's possible to lead a cow upstairs...but not downstairs. Ninety percent of New York City cabbies are recently arrived immigrants. In 10 minutes, a hurricane releases more energy than all the world's nuclear weapons combined. Reno, Nevada is west of Los Angeles, California. The cigarette lighter was invented before the match. If you yelled for 8 years, 7 months and 6 days, you would have produced enough sound energy to heat one cup of coffee. The human heart creates enough pressure when it pumps out to the body to squirt blood 30 feet. Banging your head against a wall uses 150 calories an hour. On average people fear spiders more than they do death. You can't kill yourself by holding your breath. You are more likely to be killed by a champagne cork than by a poisonous spider. Right-handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left-handed people do. In ancient Egypt, Priests plucked every hair from their bodies, including their eyebrows and eyelashes. A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out. Butterflies taste with their feet. A cat's urine glows under a blacklight. The first couple to be shown in bed together on prime time television were Fred and Wilma Flintstone. Coca Cola was originally green. The Ten Commandments contain 297 words. The Bill of Rights is stated in 463 words. Lincoln's Gettysburg Address contains 266 words. A recent federal directive to regulate the price of cabbage contains 26,911 words. There are more collect calls made on Father's Day than on any other day. Every day more money is printed for monopoly than the US Treasury. Men can read smaller print than women, women can hear better than men. Barbie's measurements if she were life size: 39-23-33. The world's youngest parents were 8 & 9 and lived in China in 1910. Honey is the only food that doesn't spoil Half of all Americans live within 50 miles of their birthplace. The youngest Pope was 11 years old. "I am." is the shortest complete sentence in the English language. The nursery rhyme Ring Around the Rosey is a rhyme about the bubonic plague. Infected people with the plague would get red circular sores (Ring around the Rosey...). These sores would smell very bad so people would hide flowers on their bodies in an attempt to mask the smell ("pocket full of posies..."). People who died from the plague would be burned to reduce the spread of the disease ("ashes, ashes, we all fall down"). The citrus soda 7-UP was created in 1929; "7" was selected because the original containers were 7 ounces. "UP" indicated the direction of the bubbles. Mosquito repellents don't repel. They hide you. The spray blocks the mosquito's sensors so they don't know you're there. Dentists have recommended that a toothbrush be kept at least 6 feet away from a toilet to avoid airborne particles resulting from the flush. The liquid inside young coconuts can be used as substitute for blood plasma. American car horns beep in the tone of F. No piece of paper can be folded more than 7 times. 1 in every 4 Americans has appeared on television. You burn more calories sleeping than you do watching television. Oak trees do not produce acorns until they are fifty years of age or older. The first product to have a bar code was Wrigley's gum. The king of hearts is the only king without a mustache. A Boeing 747s wingspan is longer than the Wright brother's first flight. American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by eliminating 1 olive from each salad served in first-class. Venus is the only planet that rotates clockwise. The first CD pressed in the US was Bruce Springsteen's "Born in the USA."The 57 on the Heinz ketchup bottle represents the number of varieties of pickles the company once had. Most dust particles in your house are made from dead skin.Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia is the fear of long wordsDid you know you share your birthday with at least 9 million other people in the world.More people are killed by donkeys annually than are killed in plane crashesThe continents names all end with the same letter with which they startA pig's orgasm lasts for 30 minutesTo "testify" was based on men in the Roman court swearing to a statement made by swearing on their testicles
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For every human being on earth, there are about 200 million insects. The harmonica is the world's most popular instrument. By the time they are 65 years old, most Americans have watched more than nine years worth of television. The puck in ice hockey can travel at up to 118 mph (190 km/h). If you stretched all the nerves in the body from end to end, they would be about 47 miles long. Humans have more than 600 muscles in their bodies. Rubber bands last longer when refrigerated. Peanuts are one of the ingredients of dynamite. There are 293 ways to make changea for a dollar. The average person's left hand does 56% of the typing. A shark is the only fish that can blink with both eyes. There are more chickens than people in the world. Two-thirds of the world's eggplant is grown in New Jersey. The longest one-syllable word in the English language is "screeched."All of the clocks in the movie "Pulp Fiction" are stuck on 4:20. No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver or purple. "Dreamt" is the only English word that ends in the letters "mt."All 50 states are listed across the top of the Lincoln Memorial on the back of the $5 bill. Almonds are a member of the peach family. Winston Churchill was born in a ladies' room during a dance. Maine is the only state whose name is just one syllable. The largest cabbage weighed 144 lbs. There are only four words in the English language which end in "-dous": tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous. Los Angeles's full name is "El Pueblo de Nuestra Senora la Reina de Los Angeles de Porciuncula" - and can be abbreviated to 3.63% of its size: "L.A."A cat has 32 muscles in each ear. An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain. Tigers have striped skin, not just stripped fur. In most advertisements, the time displayed on a watch is 10:10. Al Capone's business card said he was a used furniture dealer. The characters Bert and Ernie on Sesame Street were named after Bert the cop and Ernie the taxi driver in Frank Capra's "Its A Wonderful Life."A dragonfly has a life span of 24 hours. A goldfish has a memory span of three seconds. It's impossible to sneeze with your eyes open. (DON'T try this at home!) The giant squid has the largest eyes in the world. In England, the Speaker of the House is not allowed to speak. The microwave was invented after a researcher walked by a radar tube and a chocolate bar melted in his pocket. Mr. Rogers is an ordained minister. There are 336 dimples on a regulation golf ball. "Stewardesses" is the longest word that is typed with only the left hand. Many hamsters blink one eye at a time. The inventor of the flushing toilet was Thomas Crapper. The average bed is home to over 6 billion dust mites. Plastic lawn flamingos outnumber real flamingos in the U.S.A. Whitby, Ontario has more donut stores per capita than any other place in the world. Starfish have no brain. Dolphins sleep with one eye open. Ernest Vincent Wright wrote a novel with over 50,000 words, none of which containing the letter "E". Bulls are color blind. A can of SPAM is opened every 4 seconds. "Babe" was played by over 48 pigs. Mosquitoes have 47 teeth. Lip stick contains fish scales. The Poison Arrow frog has enough poison to kill 2200 people. The largest known kidney stone weighed 1.36 kilograms. Kidney stones come in any color from yellow to brown. Women blink twice as many times as men do. The McDonalds at the SkyDome in Toronto, Ontario is the only one in the world that sells hot dogs. A bowling pin only has to tilt 7.5 degrees in order to fall down. The first episode of Leave It To Beaver aired on October 4, 1957. Beaver Cleaver's locker number is 9. The first flushing toilet seen on TV was on Leave It To Beaver. Jerry Seinfeld's apartment number (on the show) is 5A. In the old episodes it was 3A. The life span of a taste bud is ten days. Pi has been calculated to 2,260,321,363 digits. The billionth digit in Pi is 9. The first 100 numbers of Pi are: 3.141592653589793238462643383279502884... 58209749445923078164062862089986280348... Click HERE for 99,999 digits of pi! A stretched out Slinky is 87 feet long. An iguana can stay under water for 28 minutes. Emus can't walk backwards. A group of unicorns is called a blessing. A group of kangaroos is called a mob. A group of whales is called a pod. A group of geese is called a gaggle. A group of owls is called a parliament. A group of ravens is called a murder. A group of bears is called a sleuth. 12 or more cows is called a flink. A baby oyster is called a spat. Chickens can't swallow while they are upside down. In the October 22, 1945 edition of Life magazine there was a picture of a chicken with its head cut off. It was alive too! The average garden variety caterpillar has 248 muscles in its head. Pinocchio was made of pine. The largest pumpkin weighed 377 lbs. A mule won't sink in quicksand but a donkey will. More people are killed annually by donkeys than in airplane crashes. Alfred Hitchcock had no belly button for it was eliminated during surgery. There are 22 stars in the Paramount logo. The average human produces 10,000 gallons of saliva in a lifetime. A quarter has 119 grooves around the edge. A dime has 118 ridges around the edge. Cranberry Jell-0 is the only kind that contains real fruit. The plastic things on the end of shoelaces are called aglets. Every time you lick a stamp you consume 1/10 of a calorie. The pound sign # is called anoctothorpe. Maine is the toothpick capital of the world. New Jersey has a spoon museum with over 5,400 spoons from almost all the states. There was once a town in West Virginia called "6". Singapore only has one train station. The parking meter was invented in North Dakota. Napolean made his battle plans in a sandbox. Roman Emperor Caligula made his horse a senator. The green stuff on the occasional freak potatoe chip is chlorophyll. If you ate too many carrots you would turn orange. Pluto's orbit crosses Neptune's making Pluto the eighth planet from the sun. It has been that way since 1979 and will remain that way until 1999. The earth is approx. 6,588,000,000,000,000,000 tons. The force of 1 billion people jumping at the same time is equal to 500 tons of TNT. Popeye was 5'6". Howdy Doody had 48 freckles. The first word spoken on the moon was "Okay". Neil Armstrong stepped on the moon with his left foot first. The average speed of Heinz ketchup leaving the bottle is 25 miles per year. Hilary Clinton once said We are the President. The percent of women who wash their hands after leaving a restroom is 80%. The percent of men who wash their hands after using a restroom is 55%. There are 333 toilet paper squares on a toilet paper roll. The Eifel Tower has 2,500,000 rivets in it. "Jaws" is the most common name for a goldfish. On an average work day, a typist's fingers travel 12.6 miles. The average American eats 2 donuts a day. The longest word in the Old Testament is Malhershalahashbaz. The longest time a person has been in a coma is 37 years. Every minute in the U.S 6 people turn 17. It takes the Where's Waldo artist one month to complete a drawing. 2500 lefties die each year using products designed for righties. A baby is born every 7 seconds. 10 tons of space dust fall on the Earth everyday. On average, a 4 year old child asks 437 questions a day. Blue and white are the most common school colors. Swimming pools in Phoenix, Arizona, pick up 20 pounds of dust a year. The first message tapped by Samuel Morse over his invention the telegraph was: What hath God wrought?. The first words spoken by over Alexander Bell over the telephone were: Watson, please come here. I want you. The first words spoken by Thomas Edison over the phonograph were: Mary had a little lamb The three words in the English language with the letters uu are: vacuum, residuum and continuum. A baby in Florida was named: Truewilllaughinglifebuckyboomermanifestd... His middle name is George James. It is illegal to ride a street car on Sunday if have been eating garlic in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. In a normal life time an American will eat 200 pounds of peanuts and 10,000 pounds of meat. A new book is published every 13 minutes in America. America's best selling ice-cream flavour is vanilla. American's eat 18 billion hot dogs a year. American's eat 134 pounds of sugar a year. Every year the sun loses 360 million tons. Because of Animal Crackers, many kids until they reach the age of ten, believe a bear is as tall as a giraffe. You can tell if a skunk is about if you smell only .000 000 000 000 071 ounce of its spray. Animal breeders in Russia once claimed to have bred sheep with blue wool. Penguins are the only bird that can leap into the air like porpoises. India has 50 million monkeys. By some unknown means, an iguana can end its own life. Americans spend around $3 billion for cat and dog food a year. Pigs can cover a mile in 7.5 minutes when running at top speed. You breathe about 10 million times a year. The colder the room you sleep in, the better the chances are that you'll have a bad dream. The first non-human to win an Oscar was Mickey Mouse. Lee Harvey Oswald was booked with mugshot number 54018. The Gulf Stream could carry a message in a bottle at an average of 4 miles per hour. The bullseye on a dartboard must be 5 feet 8 inches off the ground. The foot is the most common body part bitten by insects. The most common time for a wake up call is 7am. The doorbell was invented in 1831. The are 255 squares on a Scrabble board. The electric shaver was patented on November 6, 1928. There are 500 sheets of paper in a ream. The monkey wrench was invented by Charles Moncke. Japan is the largest exporter of frog's legs. There are seven points on the Statue of Liberty's crown. There are approx. 550 hairs in the eyebrow. The most common non-contagious disease in the world is tooth decay. The shell constitutes 12 percent of an egg's weight. A squid has 10 tentacles. A snail's reproductive organs are in its head. A cow's only sweat glands are in its nose. The word "AND" appears 46,277 times in the Bible. The first word played in the Scrabble rules demonstration game is "horn". The telephone's U.S. patent number is 174,465. The typical person goes to the bathroom 6 times a day. There are 17 steps leading up to Sherlock Holme's apartment. When a horned toad is angry, it squirts blood from it's eyes. Napoleon was terrified of cats. The first Lifesaver flavor was peppermint. The typical American eats 263 eggs a year. The ballpoint pen was invented in 1938 by Laszlo and Georg Biro. The fastest growing nail is on the middle finger. The parking meter was invented by C.C. Magee in 1935. In 1961, an IBM 7090 computer calculated Pi to 100 265 digits. The human body weighs forty times more than the brain. After eating too much, your hearing is less sharp. A person swallows approximately 295 times while eating dinner. The oldest known vegetable is the pea. Jack is the most common name in nursery rhymes. The avocado has the most calories of any fruit. The first zoo in the USA was in Philadelphia. The letter N ends all Japanese words not ending in a vowel. France has the highest per capita consumption of cheese. The hardest bone in the human body is the jawbone. 4000 people are injured by teapots each year. The typical American consumes 27 pounds of cheese each year. The shortest English word that contains the letters A, B, C, D, E, and F is feedback. The ostrich has a 46 foot long small intestine. The state of California raises the most turkeys out of all of the states. The most sensitive finger on the human hand is the index finger. George Washington Carver invented peanut butter. The typical hen lays 19 dozen eggs a year. Stainless stell was invented by Harry Brearley in 1913. A scallop has 35 blue eyes. The left leg of a chicken in more tender than the right one. The only dog that doesn't have a pink tongue is the chow. Iceland was the first country to legalize abortion in 1935. The giraffe has the highest blood pressure of any animal. The dumbest domesticated animal is the turkey. Russia has the most movie theaters in the world. Albert Blake Dick invented the mimeograph machine. The strongest muscle in the human body is the tongue. The most fatal car accidents occur on Saturday. An Oscar weighs seven pounds. It takes the typical person seven minutes to fall asleep. Gabriel Fahrenheit invented the mercury thermometer. The Eiffel Tower has 1792 steps. The mongoose was barred live entry into the U.S. in 1902. Ants stretch when they wake up in the morning. Thomas Edison, lightbulb inventor, was afraid of the dark. About 3000 years ago, most Egyptians died by the time they were 30. A sneeze travels out your mouth at over 600 m.p.h. The average person has over 1,460 dreams a year. Lightning strikes about 6,000 times per minute on this planet. Owls are the only birds who can see the color blue. A jellyfish is 95 percent water. The elephant is the only mammal that can't jump. The penguin is the only bird who can swim, but not fly. America once issued a 5-cent bill. Like fingerprints, everyone's tongue print is different. Fortune cookies were actually invented in America, in 1918, by Charles Jung. A giraffe can clean its ears with its 21-inch tongue. Chewing gum while peeling onions will keep you from crying. Bats always turn left when exiting a cave. Fingernails grow nearly 4 times faster than toenails. You blink about 84,000,000 times a year. In England, in the 1880's, "Pants" was considered a dirty word. A toothpick is the object most often choked on by Americans. Every 45 seconds, a house catches on fire in the United States. The sun is 330,330 times larger than the earth. A hummingbird weighs less than a penny. A cockroach will live nine days without it's head, before it starves to death. The most used letter in the English alphabet is 'E', and 'Q' is the least used. Dogs and cats, like humans, are either right of left handed... or is that pawed? The opposite sides of a dice cube always add up to seven. Men are 6 times more likely to be struck by lighting than women. Of all the words in the English language, the word set has the most definitions. Bulls are colorblind, therefore will usually charge at a matador's waving cape no matter what color it is -- be it red or neon yellow. Apples are more efficient than caffeine in keeping people awake in the mornings. Smelling bananas and/or green apples (smelling, not eating) can help you lose weight. After eating, a housefly regurgitates its food and then eats it again! When someone annoys you, it takes 42 muscles to frown, but it only takes 4 muscles to extend your arm and whack them in the head. Coca-Cola was originally green. Hong Kong has the most Rolls Royce's per capita. Alaska is the state with highest percent of people who walk to work. 28 percent of Africa is wilderness. 38 percent of America is wilderness. A duck's quack does not echo and no one knows why. It costs $6400 to raise a medium size dog to age of 11. Average number of people airborne over the U.S. during any given hour: 61,000. 70 percent of Americans who visited Disneyland/World. Intelligent people have more copper and zinc in their hair. The youngest pope was 11 years old. Iceland consumes more Coca-Cola per capita than any other country. The sentence "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog." uses every letter in the alphabet and was developed by Western Union to test telex/twx communications. Average life span of a major league baseball: 7 pitches. The San Francisco Cable cars are the only "mobile" National Monuments. The only 15-letter word that can be spelled without repeating a letter "uncopyrightable."Did you know that there are coffee flavored PEZ? The reason firehouses have circular stairways is from the days of yore when the engines were pulled by horses. The horses were stabled on the ground floor and learned how to walk up standard staircases. When opossums are playing 'possum, they are not "playing." They actually pass out from sheer terror. The Main Library at Indiana University sinks over an inch every year because, when it was built, engineers failed to take into account the weight of all the books that would occupy the building. 111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321 Clans of long ago that wanted to get rid of unwanted people (without killing them) used to burn their houses down - hence the expression "to get fired."Only two people signed the Declaration of Independence on July 4th, John Hancock and Charles Thomson. Most of the rest signed on August 2, but the last signature wasn't added until 5 years later. The longest recorded flight of a chicken is thirteen seconds. David Prowse was the guy in the Darth Vader suit in Star Wars. He spoke all of Vader's lines, and didn't know his voice was going to be dubbed over by James Earl Jones until he saw the screening of the movie. The Pentagon, in Arlington, Virginia, has twice as many bathrooms as is necessary. When it was built in the 1940s, the state of Virginia still had segregation laws requiring separate toilet facilities for blacks and whites. The cruise liner, Queen Elizabeth II, moves only six inches for each gallon of diesel fuel that it burns. The highest point in Pennsylvania is lower than the lowest point in Colorado. Nutmeg is extremely poisonous if injected intravenously. If you have three quarters, four dimes, and four pennies, you have $1.19. You also have the largest amount of money in coins without being able to make change for a dollar. No NFL team which plays its home games in a domed stadium has ever won a Superbowl. The only two days of the year in which there are no professional sports games (MLB, NBA, NHL, or NFL) are the day before and the day after the Major League All-star Game. Only one person in two billion will live to be 116 or older. Pound for pound, hamburgers cost more than new cars. The 3 most valuable brand names on earth: Marlboro, Coca-Cola, and Budweiser, in that order. It's possible to lead a cow upstairs...but not downstairs. Ninety percent of New York City cabbies are recently arrived immigrants. In 10 minutes, a hurricane releases more energy than all the world's nuclear weapons combined. Reno, Nevada is west of Los Angeles, California. The cigarette lighter was invented before the match. If you yelled for 8 years, 7 months and 6 days, you would have produced enough sound energy to heat one cup of coffee. The human heart creates enough pressure when it pumps out to the body to squirt blood 30 feet. Banging your head against a wall uses 150 calories an hour. On average people fear spiders more than they do death. You can't kill yourself by holding your breath. You are more likely to be killed by a champagne cork than by a poisonous spider. Right-handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left-handed people do. In ancient Egypt, Priests plucked every hair from their bodies, including their eyebrows and eyelashes. A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out. Butterflies taste with their feet. A cat's urine glows under a blacklight. The first couple to be shown in bed together on prime time television were Fred and Wilma Flintstone. Coca Cola was originally green. The Ten Commandments contain 297 words. The Bill of Rights is stated in 463 words. Lincoln's Gettysburg Address contains 266 words. A recent federal directive to regulate the price of cabbage contains 26,911 words. There are more collect calls made on Father's Day than on any other day. Every day more money is printed for monopoly than the US Treasury. Men can read smaller print than women, women can hear better than men. Barbie's measurements if she were life size: 39-23-33. The world's youngest parents were 8 & 9 and lived in China in 1910. Honey is the only food that doesn't spoil Half of all Americans live within 50 miles of their birthplace. The youngest Pope was 11 years old. "I am." is the shortest complete sentence in the English language. The nursery rhyme Ring Around the Rosey is a rhyme about the bubonic plague. Infected people with the plague would get red circular sores (Ring around the Rosey...). These sores would smell very bad so people would hide flowers on their bodies in an attempt to mask the smell ("pocket full of posies..."). People who died from the plague would be burned to reduce the spread of the disease ("ashes, ashes, we all fall down"). The citrus soda 7-UP was created in 1929; "7" was selected because the original containers were 7 ounces. "UP" indicated the direction of the bubbles. Mosquito repellents don't repel. They hide you. The spray blocks the mosquito's sensors so they don't know you're there. Dentists have recommended that a toothbrush be kept at least 6 feet away from a toilet to avoid airborne particles resulting from the flush. The liquid inside young coconuts can be used as substitute for blood plasma. American car horns beep in the tone of F. No piece of paper can be folded more than 7 times. 1 in every 4 Americans has appeared on television. You burn more calories sleeping than you do watching television. Oak trees do not produce acorns until they are fifty years of age or older. The first product to have a bar code was Wrigley's gum. The king of hearts is the only king without a mustache. A Boeing 747s wingspan is longer than the Wright brother's first flight. American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by eliminating 1 olive from each salad served in first-class. Venus is the only planet that rotates clockwise. The first CD pressed in the US was Bruce Springsteen's "Born in the USA."The 57 on the Heinz ketchup bottle represents the number of varieties of pickles the company once had. Most dust particles in your house are made from dead skin.Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia is the fear of long wordsDid you know you share your birthday with at least 9 million other people in the world.More people are killed by donkeys annually than are killed in plane crashesThe continents names all end with the same letter with which they startA pig's orgasm lasts for 30 minutesTo "testify" was based on men in the Roman court swearing to a statement made by swearing on their testicles
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i have a lincoln navigator and i owe 11k which is also the blue book value. i want to trade it in for a more fuel efficient car or truck. lets say i find a dealer willing to give me 10k. and the car i am interested in getting is only 9k. how should this all play out? i want to go there pretending i know what i am doing.
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I have 5000 i want something that is 2000 or a later year. I dont want a honda because the prices are way over the blue book value.
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ok I want to buy a 65 mustang 289 c code the car is in outside perfect conditions no rust at all the inside is ok the engine needs some work this is a 289 2b c code hard top coupe I'm going to buy the car for 6k do you think the car is worth it for how much this car's are sell for I try kelly blue book but they don't go all the way to 65 they stop on 80'
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We are trying to sell a car that is financed through GMAC credit. We aren't buying another vehicle, so we can't trade it in on one, we need to see it private party. I saw a similar question asked, but this vehicle is not financed at a local bank. We bought it from the GMAC dealership and it is their credit services that we financed it thorugh. Our payoff amount is right at what the Kelly blue book value is, which is all we want. How do we go about selling this car when they have the title to it?
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babygirl-Drives a Mustang, fights in pubs.just wondering--ugly shithead who everybody hates.neo complete loser, hated by his parents.ps is that neo the oneSAMATHA --Drop dead gorgeous enters conan dreams at night hey i didnt write thisJohn Paul.--wannabe sex machine. tends to kill small animals.,Morgen--Drinks anything so long as it's got vodka in it.sorry for the re.re.repost but conan boredand im trying to fiinish my list so your names not there it will be ..
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These are from a book called "Disorder in the Court."These are things people actually said in (an American) court, word for word:Q: What is your date of birth?A: July fifteenth.Q: What year?A: Every year.---------------------------------------------------Q: What gear were you in at the moment of the impact?A: Gucci sweats and Reeboks.---------------------------------------------------Q: This myasthenia gravis, does it affect your memory at all? A: Yes.Q: And in what ways does it affect your memory?A: I forget.Q: You forget. Can you give us an example of something that you've forgotten? ---------------------------------------------------Q: How old is your son, the one living with you.A: Thirty-eight or thirty-five, I can't remember which. Q: How long has he lived with you?A: Forty-five years.---------------------------------------------------Q: What was the first thing your husband said to you when he woke that morning? A: He said, "Where am I, Cathy?"Q: And why did that upset you?A: My name is Susan.---------------------------------------------------Q: And where was the location of the accident?A: Approximately milepost 499.Q: And where is milepost 499?A: Probably between milepost 498 and 500.---------------------------------------------------Q: Sir, what is your IQ?A: Well, I can see pretty well, I think.---------------------------------------------------Q: Did you blow your horn or anything?A: After the accident?Q: Before the accident.A: Sure, I played for ten years. I even went to school for it. ---------------------------------------------------Q: Do you know if your daughter has ever been involved in voodoo or the occult? A: We both do.Q: Voodoo?A: We do.Q: You do?A: Yes, voodoo.--------------------------------------------------Q: Trooper, when you stopped the defendant, were your red and blue lights flashing? A: Yes.Q: Did the defendant say anything when she got out of her car? A: Yes, sir.Q: What did she say?A: What disco am I at?---------------------------------------------------Q: Now doctor, isn't it true that when a person dies in his sleep, he doesn't know about it until the next morning? ---------------------------------------------------Q: The youngest son, the twenty-year old, how old is he? ---------------------------------------------------Q: Were you present when your picture was taken?---------------------------------------------------Q: So the date of conception (of the baby) was August 8th? A: Yes.Q: And what were you doing at that time?---------------------------------------------------Q: She had three children, right?A: Yes.Q: How many were boys?A: None.Q: Were there any girls?---------------------------------------------------Q: You say the stairs went down to the basement?A: Yes.Q: And these stairs, did they go up also?--------------------------------------------------Q: How was your first marriage terminated?A: By death.Q: And by whose death was it terminated?---------------------------------------------------Q: Can you describe the individual?A: He was about medium height and had a beard.Q: Was this a male, or a female?---------------------------------------------------Q: Is your appearance here this morning pursuant to a deposition notice which I sent to your attorney? A: No, this is how I dress when I go to work.---------------------------------------------------Q: Doctor, how many autopsies have you performed on dead people? A: All my autopsies are performed on dead people.---------------------------------------------------Q: All your responses must be oral, OK? What school did you go to? A: Oral.---------------------------------------------------Q: Do you recall the time that you examined the body?A: The autopsy started around 8:30 p.m.Q: And Mr. Dennington was dead at the time?A: No, he was sitting on the table wondering why I was doing an autopsy. ---------------------------------------------------Q: Are you qualified to give a urine sample?---------------------------------------------------Q: Doctor, before you performed the autopsy, did youcheck for a pulse?A: No.Q: Did you check for blood pressure?A: No.Q: Did you check for breathing?A: No.Q: So, then it is possible that the patient was alive when you began the autopsy? A: No.Q: How can you be so sure, Doctor?A: Because his brain was sitting on my desk in a jar.Q: But could the patient have still been alive nevertheless? A: Yes, it is possible that he could have been alive and practicing law somewhere.I just love the Americans, I would love to get something the same from a Scottish Court of Law, I think that would be hilarious.
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Forever It was the part of the day I would rather skip. Sitting next to crazy Ben and trying to pay attention to Mr. Weber was almost impossible. I walked into 6th period and took my usual seat. Crazy Ben wasn’t there. I tried to think of the possibilities. He was attacked by a stampede of elephants.Ms. Lillian chewed him up and swallowed him because he forgot to do his homework, again.He had another one of his chilidog contests at lunch and ate himself to death.Or my favorite, his family decided to move far far far far away so he could never come back again. Instead of Crazy Ben coming Troy Cash came and sat next to me. The most popular guy was sitting next to me.“Sup.” Troy spoke in his overly romantic amazingly sweet voice.“Hey.” I said shyly. I had to bite my lip. When I get nervous I start blabbing nonsense that no one cares about.“Shut up Riley no one cares about how the sun rotates around the Earth.” I thought to myself.“So, are you good in math because Mr. Weber is always on my case and I need help. So if you ain’t good in math I’m going to go sit down back down with my girl.” Troy spoke in the same romantic voice except this time it was rude and sarcastic.“Fine I’ll help you, but I’m not giving you an A your going to work for it.”“Uh, sure.” Troy said this time with no romance all of it was a rude tone with a stupid giggle at the end.“Why do all the hot guys have to be so rude?” I thought to myself. All of a sudden a small folded up note was tossed onto my lap. It was folded messy ,and there was a small blue peace sign on the yellow lined paper. It wrote, Dear Riley,I’m in trouble. come to my house at 5:00 P.M. cant do earlier because of detention. Be there! I got us some cool new stuff. Oh yah if you were wondering why I have been freaking mad at you all day it is because I know who is sitting next to you right now. Troy Cash!!!!!!!!! My FUTURE husband, how dare you! Love you, Cassidy Cassidy has been my best friend/troublemaker sense we were two years old. She is much more optimistic than I ever will be. She has the second hottest guy in school. Andy Thomson, he is a straight A student who gets invited to all the cool parties. How does he do it? The bell finally rang. I was out of here. I packed up all my books. Now totally ready for the weekend. I ran out of the classroom. On my way out I bumped into Andy. all of my books fell to the ground. I stood there biting my lip, again.Andy picked up all of my books and started walking. I ran after him. I supposed he needed to talk to me about Cassidy.“What do you want?” I said as sweet as I could manage. Of course it is totally visible on my face that I’m fuming. “God, can’t a guy talk to his girlfriends best friend without being patronized.” He said just as “Sweet” As I.“Sorry, I’m just not in the best mood.” I retorted. I looked up at his shimmering blue eyes and had to look away. They were way to gorgeous to resist, but I had to. His blond hair lit up in the sun and his polo really gave it an edge. His jeans were stoned washed. Not to baggy, just the way I like it. His shoes were Nike but not the want-to-be-cool type. They were just white. He was my dream guy. I couldn’t talk to him. I couldn’t look at him. I just could not! My best friends boyfriend. What was I thinking? I was thinking I’m single and Cassidy is in love with Troy anyway. I was thinking he should be mine. All mine ,but I know he was in love with Cassidy and I couldn’t let this go anywhere. I had to think mad. I might slip ,I might not. I hope not!“It’s ok. Can we talk?” Andy asked like all innocent.“Yah. Sure.” Oh no. Think mad. Think mad.“Listen, me and Cassidy are over, I think. She hasn’t been talking to me .Could you ask her what is going on? Also, do you want to come to dinner with me and her tonight? It will make things less tense.” He said like a hurt puppy.“Uh, I will ask her and I would love to go to dinner with you guys.” I answered ,my mouth hanging almost open.“Thanks.” He hugged me real tight ,gave me my books , and ran over to Charlotte, his sister. I just stood there like an idiot until Troy grabbed my elbow and shook it.“Dude. Dude. DUDE. Wakeup. Hello?” Troy kept going on. My eyes went wide.“What time is it!” I demanded.“4:52.” He said holding my hand.“4:52. I have to go! Cassidy is gonna crucify me.” I looked at his hand. I went wide-eyed. I grabbed his hand threw it off and hugged him goodbye. I had no time for giggly flirting. I threw my book bag over my shoulder. I Unlocked my bike and rode off ,leaving Mr. Ego behind me. I was realizing I dazed nowhere for three hours and eight minutes. I had to hurry over to Cassidy’s house. Our dinner was approaching and I had to look amazing.Chapter 2Narrow Eyes I pulled up to Cassidy‘s house, now fully aware it was 5:04 and I knew I was dead. I unlocked her garage ,threw in my bike, ran upstairs to her room , and jumped onto her bed. She was on her computer. My white albino skin curly brown hair and dark green eyes were nothing compared to her porcelain face with black sleek hair and silver intimidating eyes. She gave me the chills when she turned around with narrowed eyes. She looked disappointed. I was about to ask what is wrong when she flipped open her lip-gloss.“What color would you rather have, sparkly pink or daring gold for dinner tonight?” She asked in her mad but totally not noticeable voice.“Daring gold.” I tried to sound desirable it came out sounding pathetic. She laughed throwing me a darkish gold gloss. I twisted it open applied a dab and smeared it in. She threw me a red camisole and a plaid sweater that included red gold and black. Cassidy pitched me a pare of sun-washed skinny jeans that resembled hers in a way except mine were darker. She brushed my hair back and put it into a bun. She tossed over a pair of gold converse, black eyeliner, and a dark green eye shadow that matched my eye color. Cassidy was the one who stood out with her jeans and a rocker T-shirt. Red lipstick and black pumps. She had a big tote and her hair was scrunched. She was a rebel. Cassidy and I filled each other. I was the goody good. She was the radical one. I have never been jealous of her. She had a decent life , a single mom ,an awesome boyfriend. I had an amazing voice and both my parents are alive.“Ready to go?” She asked.“Yah , I guess” I said unwillingly. We walked to the garage got on our bikes and rode off into the setting sun. She watched as I began to smile. Her eyes still narrow. I pedaled faster and faster. I knew we were close. My grin got bigger and bigger. I started humming my favorite song, Thriller. She rolled her eyes then went back to narrow eyes. We were here , and she was stiff .I was giggly. We walked in and asked for a table for three. She seated us right away and asked what we would like to drink. I asked for a diet soda and Cassidy asked for a sprite. Finally Andy showed up. His blond hair was combed back and you could see his bleach blond streaks. He was wearing a brown button down shirt with a collar and dark denim jeans with some black Nike’s. His blue twinkling eyes were covered by his glasses but I didn’t mind he still looked irresistible to me. Cassidy shrugged and padded the chair in the middle. He took a seat. Andy kissed Cassidy on the cheek turned and hugged me. He complemented my lip gloss and complemented Cassidy’s shoes. He ordered a diet coke when the waiter came back. We all took our menu’s and studied them carefully. I was sick of the silence.“Andy ,I need to talk to you. Alone.” I