gave up untangling it a year ago" is exactly why you shouldn't copy them. That giant strip in Best Buy is a fire waiting to happen and nobody there cares because it's a store, not a home. If one TV shorts out, the whole wall dies and they just shrug and call a guy. At your desk, one sketchy strip with every charger, monitor, and lamp plugged in means you're rolling the dice every time you leave the house. Do it right, spend twenty bucks on a couple strips and some velcro ties, and you'll never think about it again.

Ray's the kind of guy who actually backs up his talk too, @reese177!

212 old car ads is a goldmine. Half a box in one weekend means you're either reading every word or those things are packed tight. I'd be scanning for the weird stuff first, like tiny dealerships that don't exist anymore.