The narrator's tone reminded me of fluttering 35mm movies shown in classrooms aeons ago.

That's a gorgeous machine.

Hey, Patrick, someone has suggested that there are reasons why cars are painted boring colors these days.

Looks like just the ride for Route Irish.

My favorite color is plaid.

That color looks right on that car, but which years was it that Detroit decided that "aubergine" was the new black? Horrible!

How's that PMY working for you?

Um, I think your light-hearted post was pretty funny, and the mangled Italiano served well in that regard.

To save weight, like jockeys?

If you can "monster truck" your way over the fragile F1s, you don't need aerodynamics.

Terrifying.

It fascinates me that there are a number of trees and other plants that compete by changing the chemistry of their surrounding soil—true chemical warfare, as you wrote. I am also in awe of the way maple trees send their sap below ground during freezing temperatures and above ground as the day warms, and then back down…

Thanks, Alan, much appreciated!

Um, awesome enough for a star finally at Lifehacker?

Sounds like it would make a good trail breakfast, if you sealed it in foil and surrounded it with hot campfire embers. (Would be a tasty break from eggs and bacon cooked in a paper bag.)

You make butter-saturated popcorn sound like a bad thing.

Because sometimes the left hand doesn't know what the right hand is doing?

Chalkboards? I've gotten so tired of the way PowerPoint has hijacked us that I've constructed my own FELT boards to use during training.

Abattoir, Amazon distribution center, or logging operation?

You probably need a decision node: "Are you male or female?"