The word "toothbrush" always reminds me of a story regarding three dudes who ran into a problem:
"Luigi" was sharing a pad with two friends--"Morris" and "Boris;" (they all owned and rode 1971 Masi Gran Criterium road bikes.) Rent on the place was $600./month.
Well, somewhere along the line, Luigi and Boris had a "falling out." One day Boris gave his 30-day notice and told Luigi and Morris that he was NOT going to pay his rent for those final 30 days. Apparently no deposit was required to live at this place so Luigi and Morris could not use the deposit as Boris' final rent payment.
Luigi and Morris tried every civil approach to getting the last month's rent out of Boris that they could. But nothing worked. At one point they called me and asked what I would do given the situation. I told them to pawn Boris' Masi to pay the rent. They were too scared to go into the pawn shop because all of these hostile lookin' guys kept walking in the door to pawn shot-guns. So Luigi thought up something ingenious:
As Boris was still living in the household (with a week to go at this point) Luigi summoned Morris into the bathroom. Morris found Luigi bent over with Boris' toothbrush stuck in his ass. Luigi instructed Morris to take a close up photo (with the Polaroid camera Luigi had ready in the bathroom) of the inserted toothbrush. After the "photography session," the toothbrush was rinsed (so as to look clean) and placed back in the holder where Boris kept it. Keep in mind the Masi's were all in a separate rooms.
Three weeks later when Boris had moved and settled into his new digs, Luigi sent him the Polaroid photo of the toothbrush inserted in his bung-hole! Wish I could have been there to see the expression on Boris' face! The Masi's were all from Italy. One survives today, (the one Morris owns.) The other two have found separate homes.
I heard through the grapevine that Boris is so paranoid about his new toothbrush that he keeps the brush, t-paste, and floss in his cycling seatbag!
Ted Baer
Time for a tranquilizer in
Palo Alto, CA
>
> Ray Dobbins wrote:
>
> i've never had a problem with simple green and
> discoloration, but i
> never soak the parts, i just spay and scrub with a
> toothbrush, and then
> rinse with water. i'm thinking now that a good
> rinse is probably a
> very good idea, otherwise discoloration or spotting
> could occur even
> without soaking.
>
> But what kind of toothbrush is best? OK, just
> kidding. Actually I was
> scrubbing the little triangular cutouts in the rear
> brake bridge
> reinforcements with a toothbrush and Simple Green,
> when it occurred to me
> that I might be able to really get into those tight
> areas if I used one of
> my kids' toothbrushes.
>
> There's a moment in the movie "Thelma and Louise"
> when Thelma (or is it
> Louise?) says to her friend something like "I've
> done crossed over some
> kind of line, and I can't go back." Sitting on the
> porch, contemplating
> stealing my daughter's toothbrush to clean my Masi,
> I knew what she meant.
>
> Have good weekend,
> Marcus Helman
> Huntington Woods, MI
>
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