That picture is from back when Al and Tipper were serving as the inspiration for "Love Story."

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That car ran in the 1970's. ATMs did not become common until the 1980's and credit cards were not nearly so universally accepted as they are now. You usually had to take Traveler's Checks on trips in order to be sure you'd be able to pay for things.

Good find! That looks as if it might be a condensed version of the original, from one of her compendium volumes, but the wording and tone are no doubt the same.

On a related topic - Is the negative review that Pauline Kael wrote for The Sound of Music posted online anywhere? According to legend, it's what got her fired from McCall's.

Somehow, I've got a feeling that slow depreciation isn't something that prospective SS owners will need to worry about.

1. What was the existing lap record? Did Gordon break it by 0.1 sec, 1.0 sec, 2.0 sec., 10 sec., a minute?? Most motorsports journalists would include that.

I've heard that that's the biggest-selling postcard at the Musee d'Orsay's gift shop.

I have always suspected Elaine Chao is a beard for Mitch McConnell.

I'm trying to understand how this calculator takes inflation into account. Berger talks about rates of return like 10%, which is a common number associated with stock investing. However, at 3% or 4% inflation, that's an inflation-adjusted return of only 6 or 7%. Having, say, 1,000,000 in 25 years is not as much…

Maybe she just wanted some good, cheap, Major Brand Gas? Or is that street slang for Meth?

There were some pretty macabre stories about the weak Park-Reverse detent on the Ford Column shifters back then.

Do you have the volume sliders for both the Youtube window and your PC speakers turned up?

Sounds plausible, it's a variation on the old interpersonal dynamic of "We'll get along fine as soon as you recognize that I'm God."

Come on girls! You know you can't get a man with a gun!

Right, you have to show thanks to the sponsors

He's still got a way to go before he'll match the old Petty Enterprises Junkyard (which has now been buried).

Definitely post those paddock stories! It would make interesting reading.

I can totally believe it. I remember hearing about an incident at an ALMS race some years ago where one of the Prototype-1 teams (might have been Audi or Panoz?) had a $100k steering wheel stolen from the paddock.

"Good news for Travis Kvapil! According to WXYZ, the Team Xtreme race car Kvapil was supposed to race at Atlanta Motor Speedway was found early today by the side of the road northwest of Atlanta in Gwinnett County, Georgia, twenty miles from where it was found."