i’ve been at 2 KC135 bases and observed walks at both - elephant is definitely a solid term.

I knew of a man back in the 80's/90's who lived in a state where they couldn’t sell cold-singles of beer, but could sell cold 6/12/24 packs. Periodically, said man would buy a 12 pack from the package store near his office and they’d write his name on the box. On the way home from work, man would drive through (yes…

love this car - First car I ever went over 100MPH in. I think i was maybe 14 (and a passenger), riding with a friend and his dad. Thought it was the fastest car on the planet at that particular moment in time.

Must know more...this sounds like an epic trip of awesome. With the family to boot :)

We got our daughter the Kano computer for Christmas. She’s 6 and has had it for 3 weeks and is already piecing together code and navigating the Linux terminal (with a bit of shoulder surfing from dad). The bluetooth keyboard is sweet - just a bit small for adult hands, perfect for hers. Right now, we’re using a spare…

100% agree with this. In fact, it’s more important than “the sex talk” IMO, most all kids are getting some sort of it in formalized schools today. You don’t get family medical history from anyone but your family. Case in poiint, I’m a 35 year old man and just had a conversation with my dad about hereditary heart valve…

My grandfather had one of those too - it had 40mph air conditioning, standard transmission and a radio...no tape deck. Learned to drive stick on that thing and it took a beating in the process. Great little “pick ‘em up” as he used to call them.

what? I can’t see what you did there...

I would think that the point is that even the erudite readers of this esteemed website may know someone who might be in dire-enough straits to consider being lured into this sort of a scam (reading some of the other comments, they do or actually have been those people). We, being the clearly thoughtful and caring…