Handle that will hold 40 pounds of salt without tearing to shreds, more like it.

Well, it depends on the moving crew and truck you need to hire to move from point A to point B, and who's paying for it. I remember Dad telling me he used most of a tractor-trailer to haul everything one time. The company probably paid for it, so he didn't worry about it. Now, if it's you paying for it, I can see…

Well, for one thing, they put the tail fins on the wrong end of the car.

One question, if I may. What happens to the other head? You know, the one you're removing from the donor body to replace with Dick Cheney's head?

Well, I guess mornings are out, then. I shower off, put on my bizniss casual stuff, and off to work I go. If I had to do all that other stuff, I wouldn't be getting up at 5 to do it, that's for sure.

Maybe they need to get busy on the new-new Top Gear. Find an Englishman, a Scot, and an American (for comic relief), and put them together in an all new format, the implementation of which I will leave to the fine producing people at the BBC.

True. No real sports car would only have just two gears in a system that they had to know sucked up quite a bit of that available power for itself. While having a smaller/lighter, but souped-up inline 6 probably made perfect sense, chaining it to a transmission more suited toward sedate family sedans kind of…

They don't have showers at your gym? That sucks.

I might point out that 150 HP was a lot in 1953, especially for a car the size of a '53 Corvette. I'm sure the car was plenty quick.

As did I. I remember watching the Reds split a doubleheader with the Dodgers back in the Big Red Machine era. Good times. I tell you all, the 1970s was the true golden age of baseball.

5am? Are you insane?

My frau the correctional officer just built enough seniority (about 17 years) to get day shift. The bad news is, the shift starts at 7AM with a pre-shift briefing at quarter 'til. So we're up at 5:30 so we can properly caffeinate and maybe have a light breakfast. Anyway, I'm out the door by 6:10 in my gym clothes,…

It can't affect my life if I don't waste time watching it. The moment I saw Chumlee drive the reasonably-priced car (I have no idea what idiot thought it was a good idea to change the name to "Big Star?/Small Car"), I knew A&E Networks wasn't really serious about putting out a quality show.

And those English teeth! Blimey!

And while we're splitting hairs, "north" and "south" are arbitrary designations. Since most of the land lies north of the equator, the pole where all the land is (but is underwater) gets to be north, while the one where there's not much going on but a continuous ocean (but is on dry land) is stuck with being south.

That and the gravitational pull of the Moon.

Rum and Coke, as long as Coke means Coca-Cola, and not some off-brand stuff you might find at Wal-Mart. If you're worried about what might be in the well, you can specify Bacardi and Coke without offending the bartender.

Yep, kind of hard to screw up beer, seeing as somebody else made it. I think we were looking for cocktails, though.

The CNN article at the link suggests something like, "I'm currently (or was) making $X (the real number) to do such and such. What is the salary range for this job?" I would think that wouldn't automatically price you out of the job you are trying to get, while placing your expectations in line with both reality and…

I'm ambivalent about this. US labor regulations state that if tips don't add up to minimum wage, your employer has to make up the difference. So this business of $2.13/hr. is kind of, well, not as bad as it sounds. It still sucks.