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Title: Looking for Acme Low B-2
Post by: valvil on November 20, 2006, 05:09:14 PM: Hello folks,

ever since by beloved Acme Low B2 (series II) was used as a hotel by a family of mice, I've been wanting to replace it. Before I call Andy and get me another one, I thought I'd check here on the club to see if anyone has one they want to get rid of. I might be interested in a Low B4 too.

If so, let me know, please.

Thanks

Valentino
Title: Looking for Acme Low B-2
Post by: Bradley Young on November 20, 2006, 08:18:27 PM: Valentino,

Those weren't just any mice; they are the protrusions into our dimension of hyper-intelligent pan-dimensional beings.

Bradley
Title: Looking for Acme Low B-2
Post by: lbpesq on November 21, 2006, 06:24:49 AM: 42

Bill, tgo
Title: Looking for Acme Low B-2
Post by: Bradley Young on November 21, 2006, 12:48:46 PM: And by evicting them, you've stopped their 10 million year computation to find the question.

Hopefully the Vogons won't be arriving anytime soon.

Bradley
Title: Looking for Acme Low B-2
Post by: cozmik_cowboy on November 21, 2006, 02:44:52 PM: I'm Peter, and here's my towel.
Title: Looking for Acme Low B-2
Post by: alembic_doctor on November 21, 2006, 02:52:37 PM: Anybody know where to get a good Pan Galactic Gargle Blaster around here?

42
Title: Looking for Acme Low B-2
Post by: 76ac070 on November 21, 2006, 03:32:23 PM: Sorry, I just arrived back from having thrown myself at the ground....and missed!!

:>)
Title: Looking for Acme Low B-2
Post by: alembic_doctor on November 21, 2006, 03:43:04 PM: has anyone seen Marvin?(http://club.alembic.com/Images/395/33645.jpg)
Title: Looking for Acme Low B-2
Post by: Bradley Young on November 21, 2006, 05:13:39 PM: Okay, so here's one: did anyone ever play the Infocom game?
Title: Looking for Acme Low B-2
Post by: lbpesq on November 21, 2006, 05:37:36 PM: Is it anything like Fizbin, the game that led to the fall of Cracko and Bela Oxmyx?

Bill, tgo
Title: Looking for Acme Low B-2
Post by: Bradley Young on November 21, 2006, 07:44:00 PM: Not so much. Don't change subjects!

Bradley
Title: Looking for Acme Low B-2
Post by: alembic_doctor on November 21, 2006, 09:32:46 PM: Pardon me for breathing, which I never do any way so I don't know why I bother to say it, oh God, I'm so depressed.

Marvin
Title: Looking for Acme Low B-2
Post by: foth on November 22, 2006, 01:46:26 AM: If it smells like a mice, looks like a mice, and walks like a mice....it's not a mice?
Title: Looking for Acme Low B-2
Post by: effclef on November 22, 2006, 05:01:35 AM: I've got a pain in all the q-switches...er, diodes down my left side.

EffClef
Title: Looking for Acme Low B-2
Post by: alembic_doctor on November 22, 2006, 09:17:44 AM: Do you want me to sit in the corner and rust, or just fall apart where I'm standing?

I'm not getting you down at all, am I?
Title: Looking for Acme Low B-2
Post by: valvil on November 22, 2006, 11:41:37 AM: Well, they got more than evicted...
the Grim Squeaker got 'em...with an assist from my dog, and they weren't all that smart I have to say. And I was talking to Marvin just yesterday...at least that was the name of the salesman at the BMW dealership.

I should have known that 14 answers to my post were unlikely to contain offers for a load of Low B2s...oh well...

Valentino
Title: Looking for Acme Low B-2
Post by: alembic_doctor on November 22, 2006, 11:51:09 AM: Maybe Hotblack Desiato has some.
Title: Looking for Acme Low B-2
Post by: newuser on November 22, 2006, 12:08:33 PM: Val, check your email!
Title: Looking for Acme Low B-2
Post by: Bradley Young on November 23, 2006, 11:43:33 AM: http://www.talkbass.com/forum/showthread.php?t=290158

Here's an Acme B-4, at a pretty good price.

So, the Death of Rats showed up for them? (Since there are HHGG fans, there have to be at least a couple of Pratchett fans here).

In fact, I think that the Discworld (elephants, Atuin, the whole deal) would be a great inlay.

If you're a Discworld fan, you've got to see this:

http://homepages.tesco.net/~janefisk/discworld/discworld.htm

Bradley
Title: Looking for Acme Low B-2
Post by: valvil on November 24, 2006, 12:10:51 AM: I figured someone here would spot the Discworld reference & I am not surprised it's you, Bradley.

Yep, he came and got 'em. I did leave them an out, but they went the wrong way.

Terry Pratchett is just about where it's at for me, writing-wise. Much more than just an hysterically funny writer.

Valentino
Title: Looking for Acme Low B-2
Post by: Bradley Young on November 24, 2006, 05:55:28 PM: I'll admit that I have a fairly serious reading habit, and I'd say that Pratchett is the tippy-top of my favorite authors. Much, much more than just satire, but actually laugh-out-loud funny when being satirical.

He's gotten a lot more serious of late, I'll admit a slight lump-in-the-throat formation when Sam Vimes is working to be on time for the 6 o'clock reading of Where is My Cow. Kids, you'd move Heaven and Earth for them.

To not change the subject-- have you considered just getting it re-coned? I've heard Andy's a little paranoid about his speaker recipe, but maybe he'd be willing to sell you new speakers.

Bradley
Title: Looking for Acme Low B-2
Post by: valvil on November 25, 2006, 11:53:57 AM: Hi Bradley,

yes I've consdered it, but we're talking a lot more damage than just tears in the cone. Other than one woofer, everything is shot. I had to take out all the fill, which was full of mice crap, and the circuit board is all messed up too. Just talking to Andy we figured the only parts worth keeping are 1 woofer and the cabinet itself. Add shipping to & from Colorado and it begins to cost about as much as a used one.

Well, Thud had a pretty dramatic reading of Where's My Cow, but it was still hysterical. The confusion of the dwarfs was just too much.

Valentino
Title: Looking for Acme Low B-2
Post by: alembic_doctor on November 26, 2006, 01:45:43 PM: for what it's worth, cabinet stuffing is available at any fabric store such as Anna's Lenens. Place like that. Just ask a woman or a lighting designer where the closest one is.
Title: Looking for Acme Low B-2
Post by: valvil on November 29, 2006, 02:05:12 PM: I just want to thank everyone for their help; I am going to be a happy Acme owner again in a few days.

Valentino