You'd have been yearning for a beige car within a couple years after purchasing a silver one, believe me. Silver should be for German racing cars (no nonsense, and so wicked fast, who cares what it looks like?), and nothing else.

My new peeve is silver. I got a silver '99 Accord, which I found not to be up to Honda's usually high quality standards, then a '05 Scion xA, also in silver. My wife had a '02 Subaru Forester in silver for awhile. By 2010, I was so sick of silver, I could just choke the shit out of the first car salesman who showed…

"...and for some reason include taxes for sports stadiums and whatnot (NO idea why)."

I just tell 'em I'm letting the Stig drive.

I couldn't have said it better myself. When you're dealing with a company that pretty much exists to screw people over, and you try to get a little bit of (legal) revenge against said company, you have absolutely nothing to apologize for, especially to the turd....er...insurance industry lobbyist upthread.

Of course, the midsize you'd probably get wouldn't be much larger than the Yaris you did get. I once got a Nissan Versa, which was in Hertz's midsize class. The poor bastards who ordered compacts got Chevy Aveos.

Oh yeah. I forgot about the upsell part. Wifey reserved this one on our trip to PHX. I guess the general rule about not even trying to rip off the middle-aged because most of us know better and it'll piss us off doesn't apply to the rental car industry. "You're going to the Grand Canyon? You'll probably want an…

You reminded me of another thing they like to pull. The rental industry's concept of 'intermediate' is pretty much everybody else's concept of 'compact'. So you might a Volkswagen Jetta (which I hated because it smelled like wet dogs when I dared turn off the AC, and it was beat on as if the Stig were taking it on…

Got my '10 Civic LX for 17K. You gotta wait for Mr. Opportunity to come knocking. Usually around August.

They were still using it in '80, at least. I had an '80 Chevette with brown metallic that had already degraded to a crazed mess by the time I got hold of it in about 1988, and I know it had to have taken awhile to get to that state. Powdery old-car paint by around 1984? Sounds about right.

Keep in mind that any Ford smaller than an aircraft carrier is likely to have been built in Mexico. Stay away from any car with a VIN starting with 3. Stay far away.

I can't get away from that psychotic clown face on the Mazda 3. Absolutely hideous, and I don't give a damn how good the car is. Give me a Civic any day.

Don't forget about the powdery baby-shit brown.

The Leafs last won the Cup in 1967. The Cubs haven't won a National League championship since World War II, or a World Series in over a century.

The Cubs will win the Pennant before this happens.

Anyone who accuses CNN of putting words in one's mouth like that, and has the nerve to link to Wikipedia's definition of fascism on top of it, is someone who doesn't deserve to be taken seriously.

It's kind of like trying to explain algebra to your cat.

Thank you. I don't have to like Barack Obama (I do, but that's beside the point). I only have to know he's the best man (or woman) for the job among the available candidates. And yes, a minor party candidate I might like better, but has no chance, is pretty much disqualified in my book because I might as well be…

You're either four feet tall, or you drive some kind of monster truck.

To defund an organization you don't like, write them a check for ten dollars. They will spend years and many times that amount trying to get another donation out of you. Not only that, they'll hand out your name to any other similar organization who simply asks for it until you have a literal army of fundraisers…