Starred for, “The guy lives in Texas, so you need to crank up the level of absurdity.”

Fuck cancer ... except in the case of Lee Atwater

I went through a way better than average public school system in an upper-middle class neighborhood. But even there, there were many bullies. That made me dismiss a public high school education because so many worthless and vicious assholes were still able to graduate. I regarded my four years in HS as a…

“I took down every photo of my family from my house. … I took every piece of ethnic artwork out, so any African artwork, I took it out. I displayed my degrees, I removed certain books.” Duffy also had one of her white friends sit in on the third appraisal, and she didn’t declare her race to the appraisers at any…

I will sell the resulting Frankenstein

Here was a nice, rust-free, red, base-model manual transmission Jeep Grand Cherokee holy grail, but it was missing its driveline. Meanwhile, in Wisconsin, days from heading to the scrapyard, is a rusted-out holy grail, but with a complete driveline...Starting next week, it’s transplant time.

ZPG!! We only have one and our kid only wants one.

The only ones seemingly having large families are the lower income and Conservative or religious ones.

Glad/not glad to see there are testosterone-poisoned young assholes everywhere and not just here in The States.

Faced with uncertainty, NFL front offices relied on powerhouse programs more than usual.

Probably better than sex, that was.

I’d nominate the 2001-2004 Z06 Corvette for “Most extensive use of titanium at the time in a mass production vehicle”. GM engineers designed a lot of Z06-specific parts to bring down the weight compared to lesser C5s, including a thinner windshield (saving 8 lbs per one reference). The Z06 exhaust system used…

This was super-common in the 60s and 70s if you didn’t get the optional tachometer plus gauge package and/or electromechanical clock.

I bought my first silver car, a 2000 Civic hatchback, in 2004 and drove it until 2012. I ordered my ‘13 Sonic hatch in silver because I didn’t want red, white, or black. I’ve had a silver DD for 17 years now...never again. I would never choose a color based on resale value – does anyone? FWIW, our vehicles are…

“Technically correct is the best kind of correct.”

Ah, so that’s how that, uh, set of organs can work. Fortunately I’ve never been subject to the very high voltage discharge featured in that gif.

I was part of a vanload of people taking a corporate field trip to one of our customers during the Obama years. One person was trash-talking “Obama phones” until one of my colleagues pointed out the subsidized cell phone program started during the Bush-Cheney Maladministration.

Given Bob Sinnot’s history, I suspect “the other kind”.

When I was seven years old in 1962, my parents built their Dream House in a suburb of Cleveland, Ohio called Pepper Pike (then a village under Ohio law). There were multiple large-diameter “traffic circles” in that village even back then, I’m guessing on at least a 100-foot or more radius. Many years later ca.…

My wife and I visited the UK in 2007, back when the conversion rate was USA$2 to one British Pound, but that’s another story. Our rental choices ran from a Ford Ka to a Saab 9-5 turbodiesel wagon estate car, all amazingly at the same rental cost. Being USA tourists, we opted for the Saab as we were driving across…