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What is it? for July 5

Posted July 05, 2015 12:00 AM
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Re: What is it? for July 5

07/05/2015 12:17 AM

Too Easy!
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07/05/2015 2:34 AM

You've got no imagination....What could it be?

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Re: What is it? for July 5

07/05/2015 6:46 AM

As Lyn said - too easy. Took 2 minutes to find the original pic.

BUT no scale is given, so it could have been ....

.... handlebar grips.

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07/05/2015 10:34 PM

"Took 2 minutes to find the original pic."OK, how did you "find the original" - that process I would like to know, and is more interesting to me than the exerciser roller. Did you guess (yeah, I guessed pretty close) but didn't look to "find the original" -- thought that would be like looking for a needle in a haystack.Will you spill the beans?
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07/05/2015 11:08 PM

Right click on photo....click on search google for this photo...takes about 3 seconds, but an imaginative use or alternative purpose is more of a challenge in this case....

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07/06/2015 1:23 AM

Using Firefox. That option does not appear on right click.

It does for selected text but not images.

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07/06/2015 10:27 AM

I didn't know one could do that!

You must have a slow connection - 1.03seconds

Thanks for the tip!
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07/06/2015 2:30 AM

I did a Google search for X-Firm, then clicked "images" at the top of the search results page.

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07/06/2015 2:56 AM

To used Google image search, right-click the image and "copy image location" and paste the resulting URL into Google image search.

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07/05/2015 8:37 AM

I'm told they sell those at a sex shop near here!

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07/05/2015 9:44 AM

It used to be a bike shop, but there was some extra stock left in the back that no one knew what to do with...
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07/05/2015 9:54 AM

Like I said

Rumble Roller Compact Foam Deep-Tissue X-Firm Roller ...
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07/05/2015 7:07 PM

Crap,... Read yours after I posted.... Ga.

Glad I reframed from saying a female toy.

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Re: What is it? for July 5

07/05/2015 10:33 AM

Don't need it....

(But if I did, these aren't big enough....)

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07/05/2015 11:52 AM

Boasting, or complaining?
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07/05/2015 1:05 PM

New composite roller wheels for compacting dirt....

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07/06/2015 5:43 AM

Yes, but is that Firm or Extra Firm?

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07/05/2015 1:17 PM

Special effect paint rollers....

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07/06/2015 12:10 PM

I call foul!

That's a WA, not a GA.

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07/05/2015 1:20 PM

New improved tool for spreading thinset evenly when laying tile...

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Re: What is it? for July 5

07/05/2015 7:06 PM

Well, I have a few guesses, of what I could use them for?...,..... They look like that would be very soothing to run up and down your back or for fallen arches..... Ahhhh, not that I have fallen arches,.... Its for a friend of mine,..... Ya, that's it, for a friend,..... ;-)

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07/05/2015 8:33 PM

Conversion kit to turn your Roomba into an all terrain assault vehicle....

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