My next article is going to be about why nothing qualifies as a supercar.

What size tire do you need?

and to top of the weirdness....there's apparently an 8-bit Battle Tank driving down a wall in the background.

He owes a ridiculous amount of money, and as I recall half of his income has to go towards the payment of his debt.

Um, I hate to be a nitpicker, but if she "raced against the best in the first half of the 20th century" and is 77 now, she must have been very precocious indeed...

I thought being a nerd was cool now?

Gets the job done. Tight old city streets, maneuverability becomes more important than mass and intimidation. When they make an arrest, they send for a wagon (van) to come take away the apprehended.

You were right, and I was wrong! About the horses, the Lippizaners. They are from Spain, not Portugal!

Now you may have been proved right Mr ATC, but in so far as the letter of the law is concerned, you were both right - and you were also both wrong. This is the dilemma that will occupy this blog, this ATL, and this country's pilot forces as a whole long after you leave this room.

That's where you're wrong. The tower wasn't totally in the right. They were both right, and they were both wrong. The tower told him which taxiway to go down but not which way to get to it (and the pilot calls him out for it) so they call him to double check he's going to the right taxiway. The pilot not having been…

Here's a PDF of ATL.

Ha ha! The last guy, "You want us on mike or Lima?" (poke poke)

Hi Travis, the plane was an MD83 belonging to Swiftair, a spanish company, and they were covering the route for Air Algerie.

More like March 30, 1990.

I completely agree.

Don't buy Monster. Just don't.

Don't buy Monster. Just don't.

Not that that isn't tough, but I note a distinct absence of a need to share the road with soldiers on camels and wandering cows the last time I made my way through the big dig...

Finally, Crazyvan heads directly for the intersection, where it's promptly hit by a trolleybus, putting it out of its misery.

It looks like it hit someone else! Or rather, two other people:

So what you're saying is, the airliner was flying safely and outside of the closure area. Also, it was shot down military forces of disputed origin outside that closed off area.