And say what you want about Camrys, but you gotta admit, they do the job - over and over again, without complaint.

Oh, you mean silver. Ack! In the Northeast, about every third car is silver, as if no one up here has a sense of humor or fashion sense.

As awesome as this is, it's still cheating. It's not the way you'd do it in the real world, let alone the way we were taught in Driver's Ed, with oncoming traffic preventing you from doing this J-turn in the first place, and no conveniently-placed patch of sand to facilitate the slide.

Last I heard, CR liked to option out their cars as if they were 25 year old housewives who were buying their very first new car. There's a new Accord? We'll review and rec the V6 model and ignore the four-banger, mileage be damned.

Actually, the leading edge of the windshield moved forward considerably, to the point what used to be the hood is now part of the dashboard. I looked under the hood of my '10 Civic, and it seems they stuck most of the rarely-serviced pieces (hoses and such) under there.

I bring you, the Dustbuster.

Our son was brought from the hospital on one of those. FAIL.

Do the Sekrit Service call it that, or the Tea Party?

God, I hate those. I want to get my wife a set for her car, with her and about 30 of the cat stickers. That'd be a conversation starter, I tells ya.

More expensive until you realize you don't have to change the litter anywhere near as often. Just scoop, top off as necessary and you're good to go for a few weeks. Fewer litter changes has got to be a good thing for the environment, and actually being able to remove the cat piss instead of absorbing it goes a long…

Damn, I forgot about the oven-like temperatures in those dryers. You could bake a cake in there if you could keep the drum from rotating.

You would be surprised. Even a childless/empty nest couple will generate about that much laundry. I think I'm the only one who uses towels more than once.

Any two-door car, that is. Four door sedans would be more problematic.

Or what if I decide to downrate every article? All of them, regardless of merit. What then? Haven't I made the sort of mockery of their rating system that Stephen Colbert often talks about?

But who would play Mrs. Peel? Diana Rigg was one of a kind.

Aw, man! I thought it was gonna be about this hot 60s-fashion-wearing British chick and a dude with an umbrella and a bowler hat.

I bet that chick Sabine can drive it around in ten minutes.

Or you could do this particular piece of operator maintenance at the beginning of the season (like most people), when the gas tank is empty and you're probably going to change the oil anyway. So sharpen the blade while the crankcase is empty, and it won't matter on which side the mower is tipped.

Premium midsize, probably.

Yeah, you gotta do the math on the gas thing. Sometimes you do get a better deal buying their full tank in advance, that is, if you plan on going through at least one full tank during your trip as we did. The trick is figuring out by just how much to top it off so that it's running on fumes by the time you turn it…