I see the one in Niles, IL is getting the chop (as are several others in Chicago’s NW suburbs). This Toys R Us has occupied that corner of Golf and Milwaukee Roads for around fifty years since it opened as Children’s Bargain Town; I bought a ton of model cars there when I was a kid. Its parking lot was where I first…

But you don’t get to be on TV and get a round of applause.

Uncle Poodle isn’t, I hope.

Double post - aw, ISWYDT.

And here’s the actual F-89 Scorpion that launched the Genie, on display in Montana.

I’ll believe it when I see it. More likely we’ll hear some mushmouth line in the vein of “fine people on both sides.”

Thank you! That’s what we were taught as kids - some 40-50 years ago.

And why weren’t we invited?

In fabulous stereo for BOTH ears!

I hope to see that dropped mike displayed at the Obama Library, if not the Smithsonian.

OK, who wants to try Duel edited down to the instruments? (And yes, the odometer will be somewhat inconsistent from shot to shot.)

And unlike the Grinch, if her heart grew three sizes - well, three times zero is still zero.

Let’s see if I get out of the grays this year:

I’m surprised they left in Kate’s “Oh shit - are you OK?” line in the gift wrap sketch.

I notice from the DMV website the ‘77 Wagoneer has no smog test records on its license number (4HIN243). Is Nevada City one of the handful of areas in CA that doesn’t have smog tests?

Or being factory blue, USAF?

Which works until Paul says, “That wasn’t me - mine smell like this (brrrrrap)...

Probably will stay stuck in the gray, but from the Great Doggy Beyond, here’s our Norwegian Elkhound Loki circa ‘75 or so:

Between your avatar and the photo I get a mental picture of Oscar the Grouch cowering and screaming in the bottom of the trash can as he awaits his doom. Thanks.