Aw, I thought you all meant "God Save The Queen" by the Sex Pistols.

Ours was in the 160s in Upstate New York. Similar climate, less crime (and more cows). When I got WGN, I used to watch your weather to find out what we were in for in two to three days.

If only we could force some of that basement air upstairs.

That's why you put in breaks in the masonry, spaces between certain bricks with no mortar. Our old house in South Carolina was supposedly in an earthquake zone, and every house had those.

Our house has out-of-this-world frontage, but one side of it gets blasted all winter long with the damned wind. You'd think they'd at least have planted a few trees on that side, but no. Our house's previous owners were lazy bastards, and apart from a lone and rather scraggly crabapple tree (since removed because we…

And Germany (the southern part) is on the same lattitude as southern Ontario. When I was stationed there, we waited until nearly 11PM for July 4th fireworks.

Most European countries have summer temperatures similar to those in Vermont. Most cars, even some expensive ones, don't come with A/C. It's not uncommon to see drivers in Germany drive 7-series BMWs with the windows rolled down in July.

It's a joke, son.

Cabletown pisses on your Olympic traditions.

Why not a for-reals Civic wagon? 5-door hatches suck. Not only that, they cost extra and get fewer MPG. For that, I want a real station wagon. No more half-measures.

I'd do a Rockford in my gravel driveway once in awhile, when there aren't any other cars parked there. And yeah, it's a lot more fun in snow.

Basically, that's what the dealer tells you to keep you from turning the car back in under the state lemon law. Pretty much same here. There are three cars in the driveway, and none of them leak/burn oil at anywhere close to that rate. Car engines are made to such tight tolerances nowadays that they run on 0W20…

There was a saying back when Ralph Nader was relevant - if you're not part of the solution, you're part of the problem.

Well, you don't want to buy a used car from me. It'll usually have a ridiculously large number on the odometer, along with the aforementioned wear and tear associated with winter in Upstate NY.

Thank you. It's not the prettiest, nor the fastest, nor the most comfortable, nor the least of any of those. It's just a car, a solidly reliable and economical one. It's sturdy enough to put up with my wife driving it every day, and she tends to be rather hard on machinery. It will start every day, in any weather,…

The Civic, at least the previous generation car that I own, is a damn fine compact sedan. Too bad Honda had to go and make it into a Corolla.

I had fun once looking at the specs of some of these luxury cars from this period. Massive 12 or 16 cylinders engines with equally massive frames to support them. Horsepower in the 150 range, about the same or somewhat less than a typical midsize to compact Chevy or Ford today. I'd hate to know what the mileage…

Whoppers are in a class by themselves.

If Big Macs are so good for you, why do they have 50% more bread than a regular burger? My guess is, whoever invented the Big Mac back in the 1970s put that middle slice in there for its visual impact, which was important in the 1970s. It's not a club sandwich, so there really isn't any other reason for it to be…