As a devotee of the Alfa Romeo cult, I highly appreciate this prose

We get that you don’t know who, Aunt Karen. Settle down.

Should I call my son Brougham D’Elegance?

I think modern electric aftermarket power steering would solve his no?

I envy you from afar, Scorpions are so pretty it might be worth just having one sitting in the garage whether it runs or not!

I came into this article thinking it would be about an oil pump starvation when corning problem, like the Toyota/Yamaha 2ZZ-GE engine is known to have - but that’s really only a problem on sticky tires on a track in an MR2 or Celica GT-S.

And remember that if you find your Lancia overengineered, the pre-FIAT ones were even more so.

Let’s not forget its cousin, the Alfa Busso V6, that if allowed to roll backward would unwind the timing belt and similarly mulch its valvetrain upon starting.

So I own a Lancia (not this one but @Torch if you are ever in the NorthEast you are welcome to take it for a drive) and EVERYTHING is ridiculously over engineered. It’s what makes them great. It’s the attention to detail while totally missing the point that makes them one of the greatest brand marquees ever. If you…

Holy crap, how does a car company let that happen?

Ah, it’s so perfectly Italian.

Did you become a doctor because you wanted to help people? Or because you wanted to make money?

It’s crazy because it has totally been like this for as long as people have been born too... Like in Mesopotamia they had to get everyone in the village in your hut so that your baby could be born....

Yup. Same at Universities.

You forgot that the 10 layers of admins, lawyers, and executives in between the actual hospital costs and the insurance company which also demands another fat profit margin on top of their admins and lawyers.

Hey, this is America. We can be stupid in LOTS of different ways at the same time!

Let me check your long list again.... OK! My minivan is not on the list.  Or is it a boring appliance?

Wowza... awesome list.

I have live shrimp in my garage.

I have ducks in my garage. It's a long story.