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I'd have to go with a cell phone that I paid $250 when it first came out and then 6 months later I could have gotten it as a free upgrade.....

Atleast I didn't spend my money on one of these: DVD rewinder
 
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xbox 360. Just sold it yesterday with my games for less then 1/2 of what I paid.
 
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My firearms.  Spent about $1,500 on a shotgun, .270 Winchester rifle, Ruger .22 long rifle, and .380 pistol. 
 
Been hunting twice with my shotgun and once with my .270....been target shooting once with my .22 and once with my .380.  That's about $300 paid for each of the 5 outings I've had with them....that's over the last 10 years or so. 
 
Only saving grace is I can sell them and get most of my money back anyway. 
 
Next up would be a boat.  Bought it, had it about 3 years....spent about $12-$14K in payments and upkeep, sold it, and barely broke even. 
 
Don't EVER make payments on a boat. 
 
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A wife
 
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IT WASN'T ME, IT WAS MY WIFE:  $600 on a ski machine which she tried exactly ONE time and announced that it hurt her back and she NEVER TRIED AGAIN.  It still sits in my Konex.  I have tried to give it away several times.  One friend that accepted it gave it back.  I have seen them advertised for $100 but this was back when they were in vogue.
 
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A parking spot at Turner field.
 
Big Mac was in town to play my bravos.   Three hour drive up to the Atl.   Didnt know that i needed a colored pass to park.   Paid a homeboy in the hood $40 bucks to park in his yard.
 
Well a few longballs, beers and hours later.   I leave the ladies at the front of the park while i walk back to get my truck......
 
Well imagine this..... NO truck, NO ride, stuck in the hood @ 1:30am.
 
To  sum it up..........I paid a homeboy $40 to park in some other homeboys Momas yard, where the truck was promptly stolen
 
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i got ripped off in a vegas clip joint for between 500-700, prolly closer to 700. i was real drunk.
 
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 My Nephew.
 
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Quote Originally Posted by TIMBER9:

A parking spot at Turner field.
 
Big Mac was in town to play my bravos.   Three hour drive up to the Atl.   Didnt know that i needed a colored pass to park.   Paid a homeboy in the hood $40 bucks to park in his yard.
 
Well a few longballs, beers and hours later.   I leave the ladies at the front of the park while i walk back to get my truck......
 
Well imagine this..... NO truck, NO ride, stuck in the hood @ 1:30am.
 
To  sum it up..........I paid a homeboy $40 to park in some other homeboys Momas yard, where the truck was promptly stolen
 
Hay seeds

That is fucking great

 
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Quote Originally Posted by TIMBER9:

A parking spot at Turner field.
 
Big Mac was in town to play my bravos.   Three hour drive up to the Atl.   Didnt know that i needed a colored pass to park.   Paid a homeboy in the hood $40 bucks to park in his yard.
 
Well a few longballs, beers and hours later.   I leave the ladies at the front of the park while i walk back to get my truck......
 
Well imagine this..... NO truck, NO ride, stuck in the hood @ 1:30am.
 
To  sum it up..........I paid a homeboy $40 to park in some other homeboys Momas yard, where the truck was promptly stolen
 
Hay seeds




Reminds me of one time I went to Bmore and didn't want to pay for parking and ended up parking in the hood. There were some others parking there as well. When I got back my car was there but one of the others who had parked there... their car was up on cinder blocks
 
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If i told you guys.......The rest of the story.      It would blow your mind.     Imagine a drunk guy with a country accent, pissed off in the downtown ATL hood at 1:30 in the morning.
 
I got my truck back three days later btw........    It had a new PAINT job!
 
 
 
 
 
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My girlfriend and I had reservations at a very nice steakhouse.  We get out of the car and are walking inside when one of the valets says he needs my keys.  I told him I parked the car myself.  He said they had "mandatory valet parking."  So, even though I had already parked my car (20 yards from the front door of the restaurant), I had to give him my keys so that when we walked out I could give him the fucking valet ticket, he could drive my car around the block and pull it to the fucking curb in front of us.  This took 5 times as long as it would have taken for us to just get in the fucking car ourselves.  Of course I had to pay this little fuck $10 for something I did not want in the first place and it inconvenienced me.  
 
 
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i'm starting to think its this $250 Wii fking thing that my kids have also invested about $200 in games and they have used it about 15 times and its now been collecting dust for 2 months.
 
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Quote Originally Posted by robbie0570:

i'm starting to think its this $250 Wii fking thing that my kids have also invested about $200 in games and they have used it about 15 times and its now been collecting dust for 2 months.

The Wii bowling and baseball are both pretty decent on the disc that comes with it.  Do the fitness test and see how many homers you can crank.  
 
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Quote Originally Posted by Henry-Lilly:


The Wii bowling and baseball are both pretty decent on the disc that comes with it.  Do the fitness test and see how many homers you can crank.  

 

do you ever play the hoop game where its like the ones in an arcade?? the "hot shots" one....i'll school your ass in that one my high score is like 205.

 
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Quote Originally Posted by robbie0570:

 

do you ever play the hoop game where its like the ones in an arcade?? the "hot shots" one....i'll school your ass in that one my high score is like 205.


You mean where you are shooting the small basketballs?  205?Fuckin shit!  Yea, I think you would school me on that.  But I can crank more home runs on the Wii than Barry Bonds with a syringe hanging out of his ass. 
 
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Quote Originally Posted by robbie0570:

 

do you ever play the hoop game where its like the ones in an arcade?? the "hot shots" one....i'll school your ass in that one my high score is like 205.



This is part of Wii Sports?  Is there an updated version of it out w/ basketball?
 
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Holiday gifts for an ex gf when we broke up Mid January
 
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Quote Originally Posted by KQC:



This is part of Wii Sports?  Is there an updated version of it out w/ basketball?

 

yes this particular one has hoop, darts, lawn darts, and a couple other games....it was $50 at target.

 
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Quote Originally Posted by Henry-Lilly:


You mean where you are shooting the small basketballs?  205?Fuckin shit!  Yea, I think you would school me on that.  But I can crank more home runs on the Wii than Barry Bonds with a syringe hanging out of his ass. 

 

 
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I got taken by a midget on Fremont St. for ten dollars in three-card monte.
 
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150 for an std in a mexican person house
 
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I dunno where to start..
 
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Hutch, you finally got rid of that fuckin boat?
 
 
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