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Old Jun 1, 2002 | 07:20 PM
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Question What's the odds of your main gallery picture showing up on the home page at sign on?

Wow,

I worked on my fence all day, logged onto to the site and there was a picture of my truck from my gallery. Now what are the odds of that ever happening to an F-150 online member? Those odds must be a billion to one since the pictures are randomly selected from member's galleries.

Sometimes I think I should have tried my hand at gambling since the weirdest things seem to happen to me.

Once, when I was in college, I was working on a complex computer program to rotate a solid object in 3-D space using vector equations and as I hit the execute button, I thought that I might cause the mainframe computer to crash if I get the program stuck in an infinite loop. At the precise instant I hit the enter key, the lights in the whole building went out and all the computers in the lab shut down. I said, oh crap, and I got my bags and ran out of the lab. As I got down the stairs, out of the building and out on the street, everyone was looking around trying to figure out what had happened and I said nothing. A few minutes later, the campus police showed up and they told everyone that a car hit a power pole down the street and clipped it such that it came down and took out all the power on the block.

Now, how freaking weird is that, and what are the chances of that happening to someone? It seems as if weird crap like that has happened to me throughout my life. What about you?

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Old Jun 2, 2002 | 10:53 AM
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Well, a good one happened to me just a few months ago.

Part of my job is to test protective devices on electrical power systems. So I'm at a rather large, government-funded radio transmitting station setting up my gear to start testing. There I am, with all my gear spread out and I've got the door to the main breaker feeding the whole place open. At this point all I'm doing is filling out my test sheets with the information on the devices I've got to test when I hear the main breaker open.

So here comes entire facility maintenance crew running wondering what the heck I did. I finally convinced them they really had a problem and the trip wasn't accidental, but I guess I did look somewhat guilty out there.
 
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Old Jun 2, 2002 | 10:57 AM
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Your odds improve if you visit the site 100 times per day.

The same can't be said for Las Vegas.
 
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Old Jun 2, 2002 | 11:24 AM
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Damn, I visit this place 400-600 times per day (I think ). Heck, my photos should be showing up every third time or so...

LMAO

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Old Jun 3, 2002 | 10:26 AM
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I think your chances are greatly increased if ya have a chick in a bikini or scantily clad standing next to your truck....after all this is a male dominated website right?
 
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Old Jun 3, 2002 | 10:38 AM
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I think your chances are greatly increased if ya have a chick in a bikini or scantily clad standing next to your truck....after all this is a male dominated website right?
The majority of the audience here is male, you are correct, as it reflects fairly accurately the actual demographic of F150 owners. But just to let everyone know, I actually went through all of the "cover" pictures from the 1500+ albums and made sure that those that I felt were in poor taste (including "cheesecake" photos) or of poor quality (or did not contain trucks) would not appear in the rotation. If you spot one, let me know and I will remove it.
 
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Old Jun 3, 2002 | 10:39 AM
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I think your chances are greatly increased if ya have a chick in a bikini or scantily clad standing next to your truck....after all this is a male dominated website right?
That don't work, I tried it.
After going to all the trouble of finding a bikini that small and getting it to stay in one spot long enough to snap the pic.

Steve, got a call from the SPCA and the photo was yanked.

Wonder if a piglet in a bikini would work?
The SPCA don't care about piglets, do they?
 
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Old Jun 3, 2002 | 10:40 AM
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I think animal rights activist might care!
 
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Old Jun 3, 2002 | 12:01 PM
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Hey, I've got a pic of me in a bikini. You think that'd help my chances on making the front page? LMAO

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Old Jun 3, 2002 | 12:17 PM
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eeeeeck @the thought of Rockpick in a bikini
 
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Old Jun 3, 2002 | 12:39 PM
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LMAO... but you know what's worse? DAVE in his bikini!
 
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Old Jun 3, 2002 | 12:56 PM
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ok let's face it....any man in a bikini is just wrong....and while I am at it that includes lycra, spandex, speedos, or anything extremely tight fitting.....it is just wrong.
 
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Old Jun 3, 2002 | 01:43 PM
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Ahh, that rules out my next mod. I was going to have a pair of Speedo's airbrushed with a picture of my truck on the ***. You'd LOVE those pictures!

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Old Jun 3, 2002 | 10:00 PM
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Ahh, that rules out my next mod. I was going to have a pair of Speedo's airbrushed with a picture of my truck on the ***.
I was going to do this when I got my truck last year but I got kinda depressed when I took the Speedos to the airbrush guy and he asked "what else would you like on there with your truck?" I asked "Whadaya mean?" and he says "Well, the picture of your truck won't take the entire back-side and there will be plenty of room left to paint something else on."

 
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Old Jun 4, 2002 | 08:36 AM
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ROFLMAO @ SCREWED IN NC...
 
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