FartMaster 2000 Reprised

This page is a tribute to a good friends first visual basic application in the mid 1990's.  At the time I had a copy of VB5 and had a total mind block as to how it worked.  You see I was accustomed to old style coding.  Windows uses a type of coding that is "event driven".  Often when I have a mental block such as this I go to this friend and many times he breezily picks up the stuff.  At that point I usually go aha! THAT'S what they mean and through monkey see monkey do I go on my merry way.  Thus I want to make it perfectly clear I am not the author of FartMaster 2000 and can in no way claim credit for this great creation of western culture.

A side story on this is quite funny.  Shortly after this was coded I passed a copy to my girlfriend's son who proceeded to really like it and obsessively play the sounds.  This drove his sister nuts as you know it would most women as they do not share our masculine preoccupation with great farts and their high fidelity simulations.

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David Spade and the 1978 Pinto With the Killer Boom Box

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This is embarrassing but I had yet another celebrity infested dream.  I am not one given to royalty worship but yet I have these dreams where they show up.  When they are very vivid and funny I have to share.  Here is the latest one:

I'm in a garage admiring a 1978 Ford Pinto. You know one of the last models and it had that one with the garish grillwork. It as in perfect condition and all polished up.  The interior was perfect.  It was one marvelous Pinto.  In walks David Spade:

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David starts talking about how he's kept the car all these years since it was new because he doesn't want to let go of his childhood.   He goes on to say its a really great car and that it has a killer boom box in it.  He pulls out a chrome plated speaker box and shows me.

I'm duly impressed by his nostalgia and launch into how its nostalgic for me as my dead mother drove a Ford Pinto.  Of course I comment on how "down to earth he is for a hollywood type".

When we're done talking David's sister meets us in the garage and says "You're driving right ?!"  ….like she was excited to be rolling in the Pinto.  I was excited too because Dave's sister was cute and we could ride in the back while Dave chauffeured us.

Yes Ford Pinto. You remember it?  If you drove it over 70 the windows would roll themselves down. 

**As a FootNote: In Brazil they use the word "pinto" as slang for penis.  Thus if you own one you are driving a Ford Penis.

See some sweet Ford Pintos