# want it, need it, gotta have it **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [April 11, 2002, 5:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/want-it-need-it-gotta-have-it/102977 "2002-04-11T05:01:53Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![teela\_brown](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/d9b06d/32.png) [@teela\_brown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/teela_brown)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2002, 8:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/want-it-need-it-gotta-have-it/102977/21 "2002-04-11T20:14:10Z")
Turpentine and Pucette: Until you get your own hedgehog, you might like checking here: [http://www.whh.org/photos/default.htm](http://www.whh.org/photos/default.htm) I like 'em too. ---
**Author:** ![Pucette](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/278dde/32.png) [@Pucette](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pucette)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2002, 8:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/want-it-need-it-gotta-have-it/102977/22 "2002-04-11T20:39:04Z")
Oh good lord, pugluvr. _squeals_ ---
**Author:** ![Lissla\_Lissar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/8491ac/32.png) [@Lissla\_Lissar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lissla_Lissar)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2002, 10:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/want-it-need-it-gotta-have-it/102977/23 "2002-04-11T22:38:14Z")
A 1905-1908 cream silk chiffon evening dress, with beadwork and lace insets. I saw one at a vintage clothing show. I almost bought it. Aagh. ---
**Author:** ![ChoosyChipsAndCeilingWhacks](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c77e96/32.png) [@ChoosyChipsAndCeilingWhacks](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ChoosyChipsAndCeilingWhacks)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2002, 11:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/want-it-need-it-gotta-have-it/102977/24 "2002-04-11T23:03:38Z")
I used to have a hedghog named Prick. He died of heat stroke one summer and I was horribly sad. I still miss him! He didn’t smell bad at all. I really want this sweater kit: [http://www.nakedsheep.com/rainandar.html](http://www.nakedsheep.com/rainandar.html) It looks really difficult and it’s a pretty expensive project, but I look at it all the time and wish I had it. Sigh… L ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2002, 11:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/want-it-need-it-gotta-have-it/102977/25 "2002-04-11T23:08:15Z")
Various clothing patterns. Especially a Titanic dress. I often go to my friend, Tracie’s [site](http://www.moviegowns.com) and drool over the flying dress and the swim gowns. _sigh_ I want my sewing machine fixed in the WORST POSSIBLE WAY. ---
**Author:** ![Lissla\_Lissar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/8491ac/32.png) [@Lissla\_Lissar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lissla_Lissar)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2002, 11:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/want-it-need-it-gotta-have-it/102977/26 "2002-04-11T23:26:40Z")
> [@](#): > > I want my sewing machine fixed in the WORST POSSIBLE WAY. Should be easy. Do you have a hammer? 😃 (Ducks, and runs off giggling.) ---
**Author:** ![njufoic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/278dde/32.png) [@njufoic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/njufoic)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2002, 12:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/want-it-need-it-gotta-have-it/102977/27 "2002-04-12T00:16:19Z")
I want a new brake master cylinder for my car. It’s been sitting in my driveway with inoperable brakes for two weeks. My mechanic can’t figure out what’s wrong with it, I’m at college and don’t have time to go home and mess with it, and a new master cylinder from GM is $1600. Leave it to GM to design an otherwise indestructible car and cripple it with the brake system from hell. -Andrew L ---
**Author:** ![trishdish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/d2c977/32.png) [@trishdish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/trishdish)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2002, 1:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/want-it-need-it-gotta-have-it/102977/28 "2002-04-12T01:27:17Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Why A Duck \* > \*\*A Kitchen-Aid stand mixer. > > Exciting, No? \*\* Ooooooh, I still stroke and mollycoddle my Kitchen Aid mixer. I love him. His name is Bob and I love him. ---
**Author:** ![trishdish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/d2c977/32.png) [@trishdish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/trishdish)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2002, 1:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/want-it-need-it-gotta-have-it/102977/29 "2002-04-12T01:28:37Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by SexyWriter \* > \*\* > I really want this sweater kit: [http://www.nakedsheep.com/rainandar.html](http://www.nakedsheep.com/rainandar.html) > > It looks really difficult and it’s a pretty expensive project, but I look at it all the time and wish I had it. Sigh… > > L \*\* A fellow knitter, no? I like! ---
**Author:** ![ChoosyChipsAndCeilingWhacks](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c77e96/32.png) [@ChoosyChipsAndCeilingWhacks](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ChoosyChipsAndCeilingWhacks)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2002, 1:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/want-it-need-it-gotta-have-it/102977/30 "2002-04-12T01:31:19Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by trishdish \* > \*\* > > A fellow knitter, no? I like! \*\* Yes! I can’t stop! It’s like a disease. I’m dying to do the Tradition sweater at [www.philosopherswool.com](http://www.philosopherswool.com) too. Beautiful! Check out the Deep Sea colorway. Yum! I need a support group. And more storage space for materials. Send help. ---
**Author:** ![Arnold\_Winkelried](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Arnold\_Winkelried](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arnold_Winkelried)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2002, 2:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/want-it-need-it-gotta-have-it/102977/31 "2002-04-12T02:02:15Z")
The OP seems to me like a “polling” type of thread so I’ll move it to IMHO. ---
**Author:** ![MagicalSilverKey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/8797f3/32.png) [@MagicalSilverKey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MagicalSilverKey)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2002, 3:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/want-it-need-it-gotta-have-it/102977/32 "2002-04-12T03:30:28Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Arnold Winkelried \* > \*\*The OP seems to me like a “polling” type of thread so I’ll move it to IMHO. \*\* :rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![racinchikki](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/eada6e/32.png) [@racinchikki](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/racinchikki)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2002, 4:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/want-it-need-it-gotta-have-it/102977/33 "2002-04-12T04:01:18Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by MagicalSilverKey \* > \*\* > > :rolleyes: \*\* What? He’s right! No need to get all uppity and roll-eyes over a thread move. I want a butane lighter and an acetylene torch. ---
**Author:** ![Reeder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c6cbf5/32.png) [@Reeder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Reeder)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2002, 4:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/want-it-need-it-gotta-have-it/102977/34 "2002-04-12T04:11:40Z")
**Debij** And I get to handle her tomorrow…🙂 Hehehe! ---
**Author:** ![Creaky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e68b1a/32.png) [@Creaky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Creaky)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2002, 4:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/want-it-need-it-gotta-have-it/102977/35 "2002-04-12T04:22:18Z")
Okay, I thought of something. I always, always want those really, really big pre-stretched canvases I see every time I go to the art supply store, like, 4’ X 6’ or something (haven’t checked actual measurements), or even bigger. But I have no room for them in my apartment, and I keep putting off renting studio space so I could have somewhere to keep the things. (There’s also no studio space for rent that I know of close to my place.) Now, I _could_ move to one of those “artist’s loft”-type places, but you can’t find a whole lotta them in the 'burbs, and there is NO way I will live in Baltimore City. (Yes, buck-buck-buck, I’m a chicken.) And since painting is my hobby, not my living, I guess I’ll have to continue lusting for them big ole canvases from afar for now. Oh well, my paintings are big in my head, anyhow…! 😛 ---
**Author:** ![cercaria](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/87869e/32.png) [@cercaria](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cercaria)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2002, 4:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/want-it-need-it-gotta-have-it/102977/36 "2002-04-12T04:54:06Z")
Friends. I don’t have any right now. I mean, I have NONE. _sigh_ ---
**Author:** ![Creaky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e68b1a/32.png) [@Creaky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Creaky)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2002, 5:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/want-it-need-it-gotta-have-it/102977/37 "2002-04-12T05:06:53Z")
[hijack, please excuse me] **cercaria** , that’s not good! If you had listed an e-mail, I’d have put this in an e-mail, but you didn’t, so I’m posting it. I’ll be your online friend, if you like. Look, for what it’s worth, I don’t have a whole lot of friends, but I’m used to doing stuff by myself. I actually kind of like it, being all self-centered and set in my ways. However. It can be lonely, I’m sure. So, if you want to e-mail me, if you feel like it, that’s cool. I’m not handing you a platitude or charity or anything of the sort. I just know what it feels like to be by myself and wish I had a friend. Please forgive me in advance if I’m being pushy or forward; that is not my intent. And look, there are, I think, plenty of New York Dopers that would also be glad to hang out with you, I bet! Anyhow, whatever you decide, good luck! [hijack is finished, thank you] ---
**Author:** ![MagicalSilverKey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/8797f3/32.png) [@MagicalSilverKey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MagicalSilverKey)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2002, 5:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/want-it-need-it-gotta-have-it/102977/38 "2002-04-12T05:31:43Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by racinchikki \* > \*\* > What? He’s right! No need to get all uppity and roll-eyes over a thread move. \*\* I’m not getting “uppity,” It’s just that I felt my op was _very_ M&P. Sigh, oh well. Can’t get em right _every_ time. ---
**Author:** ![Survey1215](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecb155/32.png) [@Survey1215](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Survey1215)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2002, 6:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/want-it-need-it-gotta-have-it/102977/39 "2002-04-12T18:16:25Z")
A new softball glove - specifically, a Rawlings 13 inch softball glove. There’s just always somethin better to spend the $65 on:o ---
**Author:** ![JohnM](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/848f3c/32.png) [@JohnM](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnM)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2002, 7:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/want-it-need-it-gotta-have-it/102977/40 "2002-04-12T19:14:48Z")
Well, I started lusting for the previous model of Canon’s SLR digital camera, and now there’s one with twice the resolution for about $US1000 less on the street. So, as soon as I can convince my wife that I really _need_ to drop two grand on a camera (likely to be followed by new printer, at least one new lens, maybe a microdrive card, and oh yeah, a new desktop PC would be really nice), I’ll be buying the Canon D60. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/want-it-need-it-gotta-have-it/102977.md?page=1)