What happened with the Noho Mercurys?

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Post by Ninja Mike 808 »

What's a noho?
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North Hollywood, CA. It's a term the city likes using, but nobody actually says. Unless they're hipsters.
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Post by Ninja Mike 808 »

And so, some dudes, such as Malik, decided to design and sell a guitar, but was awfully slow or never did it?
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Post by Justin J »

nah, aug and dodgedartdave started a guitar company called 'noho' and started making guitars. they had a model called "mercury" and some members wanted to buy them.
i don't know the whole story as to why euan didn't get his.
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At first I thought the name "NoHo" was just another one of Aug's blundering dashes through the minefields of taste and deceny.
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Z-ING.
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jcyphe wrote:The word Flake itself implies that your behavior was "not cool". There was nothing really flaky about what he did, or what NoHo did if they returned his deposit. I'm assuming they did.
Yes they did.
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ROFFLES NOHO
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Post by Mike »

Let's all not forget that euan is a prick.
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i saw a post, then it was gone....
am i tripping again........
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Post by Mike »

Blame that intolerable muppet euan.
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GODAMNIT EUAN!!!!
dude, do i owe you a pg, i just got this weird feeling that i did.
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Not yet Robert. I'm a bit low on money for guitar projects at the moment.
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BobArsecake wrote:At first I thought the name "NoHo" was just another one of Aug's blundering dashes through the minefields of taste and deceny.
I thought it was some sort of 133T speak variation for OHNO!!!!!!!!!1111111111

I needs that emoticon with the wee fellas running about the shop swinging there arms around them.
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Post by Doog »

((run)) NOHO!!! ((run))
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Post by More Cowbell »

2 pages, 2 days, and no replies from a NOHO rep?
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DO WANT NOHO PRESS RELEASE!
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I heard they'd gone bust.
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Post by Mike »

I heard one of them was unmasked as the Hamburglar.
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Post by Bacchus »

I heard one of them was a peeeedophile.


Oh wait, that's not funny, and might be construed as a personal attack, in which circumstance the above comment is withdrawn.
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