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Needs a little TLC: http://www.vehbidz.com/290296918,auctio ... on_details" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Jason Isley BS RX8 wrote:Needs a little TLC: http://www.vehbidz.com/290296918,auctio ... on_details" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Very Interesting! I wonder how they will go about selling that car ( since it is sitting in my garage )
Keep me posted on that, would you Jason?

Tom Berry wrote:

Jason Isley BS RX8 wrote:Needs a little TLC: http://www.vehbidz.com/290296918,auctio ... on_details" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Very Interesting! I wonder how they will go about selling that car ( since it is sitting in my garage )
Keep me posted on that, would you Jason?

You've moved it to the garage? I thought it was an outside pet?

Tom Berry wrote: Very Interesting! I wonder how they will go about selling that car ( since it is sitting in my garage )
Keep me posted on that, would you Jason?

Did you double check, is it still in the garage?

I'm thinking there is law against trying to sell something that you do not have possesion of.

Joey Schilling wrote:I'm thinking there is law against trying to sell something that you do not have possesion of.

I think the Boss at T and T Auto put it up for sale.

I just sent a query into that website and gave them the skinny.....

Pete Loney wrote:I just sent a query into that website and gave them the skinny.....

I'm not familiar with that term. Is this correct? skinny
What did you tell them?

Michael Palero wrote:

Pete Loney wrote:I just sent a query into that website and gave them the skinny.....

I'm not familiar with that term. Is this correct? skinny
What did you tell them?

Bingo...

Just told them it was already bought/sold a while ago.

Michael Palero wrote:

Pete Loney wrote:I just sent a query into that website and gave them the skinny.....

I'm not familiar with that term. Is this correct? skinny

I could do so much with this post , that i would be banned from the forum.

Michael Palero wrote:

Pete Loney wrote:I just sent a query into that website and gave them the skinny.....

I'm not familiar with that term. Is this correct? skinny
What did you tell them?

Although I know what the term means, I still don't understand how the term "get the skinny on" came to be..

Ron Tsumura wrote: Although I know what the term means, I still don't understand how the term "get the skinny on" came to be..

Ron, you're not the only one...
http://www.phrases.org.uk/bulletin_boar ... es/75.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

"The skinny" does indeed mean "the straight story" or, more precisely, "the inside story, the real truth." The first citation for this use of the word in the Oxford English Dictionary is remarkably recent, from 1959. Since it appeared in the linguistics journal "American Speech" in that year, however, we can safely assume that the term had been in circulation for quite a while before it was reported. "The skinny" is defined as a slang term in the Third Edition of the American Heritage Dictionary, but no clue is offered as to its origin. Related slang uses of the word "skinny" aren't much help. As of 1934, according to Eric Partridge's Dictionary of the Underworld, "skinny" meant a ten-cent piece, probably related to the classic "one thin dime." In Australian slang, a "skinny" is a young woman, and in the linguistic outback of the world of high fashion, "skinny" means "tight-fitting." "Skinny-dipping," of course, is the perennial youthful ritual of displaying your birthday suit under the guise of swimming. Finally, according to Wentworth and Flexner's Dictionary of American Slang, if you happened to be a cadet at Annapolis in the mid-1920's, "the skinny" meant a course in physics or astronomy. Go figure. Ultimately, "the skinny" seems to be one of those slang phrases without a catchy story to explain its origin. Most likely, it was a takeoff on the idea of "getting down to the skin" of a story, beneath the flourishes and frippery.

How about this for a guess: maybe "the skinny" means "the naked truth." Skin = naked.

Tom Denham wrote:

Michael Palero wrote:

Pete Loney wrote:I just sent a query into that website and gave them the skinny.....

I'm not familiar with that term. Is this correct? skinny

I could do so much with this post , that i would be banned from the forum.

Thanks Robert!

Must be what Tom was getting at.. :ibrightdea: