Had there been a flood/hurricane in the months prior to your CarMax visit?

Slightly-used Hondas are always high-priced, from what I’ve seen. Same goes for other brands which are popular for reliability: most Toyotas, Subaru, etc. The depreciation play makes far more sense on domestics, luxury cars, particularly 2nd-tier makes/models.

She should have taken after Mr. Roy Bent, as reported by Michael Palin on Monty Python:

“Excuse me, flight attendant, but there’s a lizard in my meal!”

Keep in mind, that’s to work in a part of northern Alberta where you’re living in a dorm with a bunch of other men, well-away from “civilization”. In the winter months, the weather is near-Arctic, and the sun doesn’t shine much.

I was expecting it to be some little rural town in the western MD panhandle. CHEVY CHASE??? That’s awfully expensive and upscale relative to most parts of the country.

Lots of good submissions here, but I’m going to post a suggestion that will probably get me flamed:

Hey, at least Mrs. Rubio didn’t commit that most archetypal Miami traffic violation, “sudden-elder acceleration”, which is stepping on the gas pedal instead of the brake, by mistake.

In the stamp, she looks so glammed up that she’s unrecognizable.

I’m not defending what she said, but the prejudices she expressed privately were probably quite common among white southerners of her generation and social set. She came of age in the 1930’s - 1940’s, when Jim Crow was well-entrenched, and before the modern (postwar) civil rights movemenent existed. It’s another…

Yes, and furthermore, there are several widely-used people-finder websites on the internet that pull their data from credit-report headers and that will openly display the age of any person you are searching for. The age information isn’t always shown (state privacy laws differ?), but often a person’s age is readily…

Knowing Jim Glickenhaus, this isn’t surprising. He makes a point of registering and driving all of his classic racing cars on public roads.

+1 There was the prime-time restrospective hosted by Ray Romano a couple of weeks ago on CBS. It was the usual fast-cut edit collection of clips, but the biggest problem with it was that content from the old NBC show was very sparse. I guess NBC let them use some material, so much good stuff from the early years was…

I wonder if the office-park shot in the Mazda ad could have been done at Mazda USA’s headquarters in Irvine, CA. I was there once for a C&C, and it looks like that.

To echo what others have said, I suspect the paint shop upgrade is probably due to new regulatory requirements for emissions, VOCs, worker safety etc., and/or energy effiency or new paint formulations. Cost accounting can drive upgrades like that too.

I’m a bit surprised that nobody’s pointed out that Nell Scovell, the author of this piece, also worked as a writer for David Letterman in the 1980’s, after she worked for Spy magazine. She wrote about the sexual shenanigans going on with staff members after Letterman’s extortion scandal in 2009:

Great find! Letterman had Mario on his show back in the ‘90’s sometime. Mario gave a pretty good interview. He talked about immigrating to the USA and how he and his brother Aldo got started racing when they saw local racers towing their jalopies to a dirt track around Nazereth, PA. He said something to the effect of…

He was SO much funnier, more original and more interesting on the old 12:30AM NBC show during 1982-’93. When he moved to CBS to retaliate against NBC in 1993, the show got a lot blander. A lot of old segments from the ‘80’s are on youtube and are worth searching out.

Heck, I heard Richard Nixon make basically the same joke in a TV interview in 1992.

Hard to believe it’s been 30+ years since Stefan Bellof’s record of 6:11:13