I always thought of it as “the Lubbock of California.”

I also remember a college buddy of mine asking me about the object on the package shelf of the car ahead of us. He thought it was a radar detector and I explained it was a CHMSL, a “center-mounted high stop light.”

I remember that he introduced the Voevodsky Cyberlite back in the 1980s.

It was just melting the snow...

He could really have used sand or cheap kitty litter under the wheels at some point.

So does FesterPesterMisterBoo.

I remember going to a 500 mile sports car race here in the 1990s (I think it was the Superflo 500 in 1996) with some friends. We saw Thierry Boutsen driving a golf cart in the infield and went through the pedestrian tunnel under the track while they were racing right above our heads.

I know I do. Your mileage may vary.

Judging from driver behavior, most expensive cars like Range Rover don’t even have them as standard equipment.

Emissary?

Military Industrial Complex. The force President Eisenhower warned us about in his farewell address, to wit:

“In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced…

I have a friend who owns a 2009 Jetta TDI wagon and has no plans to sell it any time soon

Agreed their perceptions are out of date. They may or may not be idiots though.

My ship isn’t coming and I just can’t pretend...

Mad Max?

I’m in Texas and it’s 78f this morning.

I rode one of these on the ice in Roswell NM back in the early 1980s.

Agreed.

More like a trough to me....

I’d say it was more of a trough, but that’s just my opinion.