100 stars to StatBox for this video (please Kinja gods, just this once, make it rain!)

At 1:03, that's L&B Spumoni Gardens... and that's how you know you are in Brooklyn, because only a true New Yorker would...

I've already staked my claim on "Low Gear" to go with Jeremy's low-brow humor. Just imagine what a fully un-censored version would look like, given that the BBC acceptable version had at least one crudely drawn juvenile cartoon of a gentleman's sausage per episode (which they had to blur for the sensitive American…

Since no one was seriously injured... "stuck the landing"

What gear do you grab for "spinning through the grass"? Nice choice whatever it was by Jason Connole!

you got it in one, Green Pig. If he "begged off" or "legged it" from the successful $$$ juggernaut TG has become, he would have been painted by the BBC and the popular press as the villain. Consciously or sub-consciously, he knew it was time to exit and this was the only acceptable escape clause short of doing…

Any reference to TANSTAAFL gets an automatic Recommend!

I fixed it for you... "The production quality of NASCAR FOX1 is really piss poor." It's not the sanctioning body or the racetrack, it's the TV crew. Give them two or three years practice and the improvement will be noticeable.

As an ex-Grumman employee who has there at the end of the F-14 program, the leading rumor on the deciding factor was not weight... or cost, but crew. The F-14 required two crew members, pilot and RIO, whereas the F-18 only required one. FWIW, no idea if that's really what the Pentagon or the Navy brass really thought.