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Original message:701 days 19 hours 25 minutes ago
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Member: JTC
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Ever pick up the guitar and cant find a pick. You do the old play with your thumb and finger for a minute... get frustrated... then break out the sissors and start looking for something to turn into that much needed little triangular piece of heaven.

I've used playing cards, piece of an old LP record, credit cards, pennies, cut up casset case, a stick, toothpick, flattened beer cap, Hmmm... What else?
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Reply:701 days 19 hours 16 minutes ago
Member: Xarkzila
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Used to happen, but then I started buying my picks by the gross and now I never have a problem finding one.

I couldn't use most of the stuff you listed. I like .38mm picks. Paper thin with just enough spring. Hard to find a substitute for it actually. It's got to be 20+ years since I've had to make my own pick to play. Cheap plastic containers will work in a pinch. Now where the hell are the scissors?
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Reply:701 days 18 hours 21 minutes ago
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i have had to use name tags or even poker chips when i go camping ive even used a twig once before
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Reply:701 days 16 hours 9 minutes ago
Member: dcunning30
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name tags, pennies, credit cards (uncut of course). like xark, i buy my picks by volume. so i never come up short, unless i deplete my wallet supply and i'm visiting the music store. i like to keep about 3 picks in my wallet at all times
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Reply:701 days 14 hours 7 minutes ago
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me too
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Reply:701 days 2 hours 18 minutes ago
Member: JTC
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me too
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Reply:701 days 14 hours 29 minutes ago
Member: MizzLizzBeck
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I keep some of those plastic nail tips in my bathroom cabinet (the ones for making the drag queen nails for Halloween), and those do the trick. They're thin enough for even the pick-iest player (HA!), but they hold up through a good jam session. Moral of the story...buy a package of Lee Press-On Nails to keep in your bag, just in case.
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Reply:701 days 14 hours 1 minutes ago
Member: SATAN
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i think i may have you guys beat... and disgusted.....

i was at band practice once, and there was not a pick to be found, and as i tried different things, i bit off one of my fingernails, folded it in half, and used it for a song or two..... sick, i know... but when you have to rock, you have to rock....
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Reply:701 days 13 hours 59 minutes ago
Member: MizzLizzBeck
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Satan, you kick ass. Lets have babies.

LoL
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Reply:701 days 13 hours 3 minutes ago
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it would be a sin for me to make children. armies would collide, meteors would hit, empires would fall, and after all of the dust settled, there wqould be my son or daughter, standing in the middle of the rubble with a childish grin on their face, and then, they would speek their first word.... "oopsy!"
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Reply:701 days 1 hours 30 minutes ago
Member: the BIG Mac!
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I use spare change
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Reply:701 days 1 hours 27 minutes ago
Member: ibzRG
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Picks? Who needs picks? :P

Seriously now, I always have a pick in my front left pocket, and I always have a front left pocket. Should hell freeze and I get stuck without a pick, I still got my fingernails. If the ole fingerpicking style doesn't cut it, I can always use a fingernail as pick (without ripping it off of my finger, unlike SATAN)...
I also used to have a pick as pendant on my neck and I still and always have a pick attached on my keyring. So if I want a pick, I always have one.

At home every guitar has it's own pick(s) on its own holder and there are always some spare picks around that I don't like but can always turn to should my favourites all disappear.

I tried using a coin, card and other stuff and it just didn't do the trick.
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Reply:700 days 19 hours 40 minutes ago
Member: SATAN
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JTC will appreciate this one, and i am posting this because at this very moment i amplaying my guitar with it.....

AN AAFES POG!!! i cut it into the shape of a pick! hahahaha!

if you know what that is then you completely understand, if not, dont bother to try...
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Reply:700 days 18 hours 20 minutes ago
Member: JTC
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Ha Ha!!! How long does it last? Can you even get thru one song?

You are absolutely right. I appreciated it. Luckily I brought plenty of picks so I won't need this tip. But that is certainly a viable field expediant if in need and the best use for a AAFES pog that I've ever seen.

I keep picks jammed everywhere... Car, pockets, guitar cases, gig bags, in the back of the amp, in the crown royal can on top of my microwave, wallet, wifes purse, on and on... But pick failure is what brought me to this practice...

My acoustic at home has probably 10 or 12 floating around in side of it. Sometimes I can shake one out when it's necessary.
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Reply:700 days 14 hours 54 minutes ago
Member: MizzLizzBeck
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Satan...you can't use the "that would be a sin" arguement. Your name is Satan.

I probably wouldn't survive that pregnancy anyway, demon spawn and all.
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Reply:700 days 14 hours 20 minutes ago
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the demon spawn dont really start growing horns until about 9 1/2 months after conception..... so as long as your not late... you should be all good.... they kick hard though..... like my demon son Tom Cruise.... his demon mother (barbra streisand) said he kicked like a ninja.
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Reply:700 days 14 hours 18 minutes ago
Member: MizzLizzBeck
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If you combine the ninja kick with what my kid did when I was pregnant with him, I'm sure to die. He would stick his feet on the outside of my ribcage. Hurt like a bitch. I'll take a rain check on the impregnation.
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Reply:700 days 14 hours 15 minutes ago
Member: dianna
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I am not liking the idea of this demon spawn one bit. Ever see the movie Rosemary's Baby? MizzLizz, we'd have to drug you and do evil blood-letting rituals, and I'd get stuck taking care of the evil bastard while you two were out raising havoc.

No...I do not like this one bit...Satan, you're breaking my heart.
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Reply:700 days 14 hours 12 minutes ago
Member: MizzLizzBeck
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I would never do that to you, Dianna. If it were possible, I'd rather have your babies. LoL
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Reply:700 days 14 hours 10 minutes ago
Member: dianna
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Awww, thank you MizzLizz. You rock. I guess I can't blame you for wanting to steal SATAN from me. Those evil men can be so irresistible sometimes...
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Reply:700 days 14 hours 8 minutes ago
Member: MizzLizzBeck
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Alas, I could never have him anyway. My evil husband's rath would ensue. Besides, I'm a one man woman. You rock, too sweets.
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Reply:697 days 21 hours 18 minutes ago
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i cant decide whether to get aroused or start going to church. i guess i should stay out of this conversation. LOL
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