At 13 or 14, I lost a coin flip to take a big jump at the bottom of a steep hill that used to exist in Pullen Park in Raleigh, NC and got hit in the face by the stem and handlebars as soon as I impacted the jump. I got sick air and did a superman, but did a 180 along my long axis mid-air and landed on my back,…

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-Wear long sleeves and pants, but in light material. Allows you to leave window open without getting roasted by the sun. Alternately, bring a tea towel to put over your left leg if wearing shorts.

I’m blaming the victim here, but he did choose to put his feet up on the dashboard instead of where they belong.

Another alternative would be to go the Washington Football Team route and call it “Nice Price or The Answer Indicating Disagreement with the Value Proposition of this Vehicle”

So you want to eliminate a reference to drug use and replace it with a reference to gambling?!

I think you’re right.  It was probably more like 2 or 3.

Were there other candidates for the new poll name? I’m struggling to think of anything good right now, but was there a focus group or how did this go down?

A cross country teammate in high school, while helping clear out the course with a weed whacker, ended up spraying his legs in a fine mist of urushiol from pulverized poison ivy. He had to wear full-leg bandages for a week, if I remember correctly.

I used to work with a flock of peacocks and peahens that had been captured from the wild in California and Florida, IIRC.  In that setting, the pecking order was well-established and I really only had to fear the alpha female, who was a terror.

Hmm, reminds me of those “cloud kitchens.”

Yep. About 6 years ago, when I had very little credit history because of being discouraged from using credit cards as a kid, I tried to rent a car from the airport. Of the 10 or so rental agencies, only one would rent me a car, and that was because they had a rule allowing that if you had a round trip plane ticket…

even with a modestly low $2,500 asking price it failed to find favor with the vast majority of you, falling in a 69 percent Crack Pipe loss.

Your stuff has had a nice element of difference to set it apart, a bit of the exotic.  Thank you and good luck.  Don’t live with old friends and party too much and pull 2 all-nighters a week during your first year of grad school like I did.  

Just don’t do what I did as a teenager and go there during a big drought.  Ended up drinking out of a puddle.  

I’m still developing something clever for a philosophy that involves some amount of sensibility and self-restraint:

There was a guy with a Euro Fahrvergnugen plate on his modified Golf in my NC neighborhood. It was a fake Euro plate, but he put his real registration sticker on it, so I figured it was probably the same deal where he had the issued NC inside the car somewhere.

What a face!

It feels weirdly tippy, though,

This was a 12 footer. No roof rack required. Just strap thwarts to seat rails and you’re golden.