Jelly is a pure, delicious substance. Smooth with a single consistency. Clear looking as you hold it up to the sun. Marmalade is some sort of jelly, mixed with some fruit run through a blender, and mixed with some sort of non-drying resin. Jam is... ummmm, somewhere between the two.

Oh, and thanks for the new word.

I probably don’t want to install them, after some thought. My Wife drives like she’s in a F-16 and our drive is the deck of the Nimitz. Her Buick wouldn’t last a week with those.

I take it you weren’t politically active in 1988. After the machine gun ban, which I particularly agreed with, they were coming up with all kinds of ideas. Politicians figured they were on a roll. Everyone knows the ‘high-capacity magazine’ ban attempts, but the arguments on just what ‘high capacity’ meant got…

Albeit without the flowery wording, I agree. I’m a retired Marine, pretty much a conservative, and I own guns. My Wife owns guns. I come from many generations of gun owners. Many of them used such tools to eliminate Nazis and other assorted hooligans.

Good Gods. And I can fit 4 cars in my driveway. But I have no bollards. That must be why it’s so expensive. How much does a good bollard go for?

That’s not a thing... but it should be.

Wouldn’t the answer be to develop something new instead of the turbo thing? I know that sounds dumb, but... The basic engine design is, like, 100 years old. Regardless of advances in engineering and tech, the whole crankshaft/cam/piston/valve thing is about as refined as it’s going to get. That whole concept,…

No kidding. I have to go through the fender lining to change mine.

I have read it’s for safety. Shards of plastic in an accident are less lethal than shards of glass. Not my call.

I tend to believe you. It seems that today, any time the maker can put care and expense on the driver, they’ll do it. I never had any such problems when I used the old round glass thingys.

1st. That’s not surprising, since makers are switching to cute streamlined assemblies with fancy lighting.

But Arizona’s okay, right?

Hey, what about the HHR SS in the background???????

You didn’t get it. A bullet only works one way. There is no ‘test mode’. It only fits one way, it only travels one way. There is no subterfuge in it’s operation. You can’t make it do anything else. 

Nobody ever told you about the secret ‘murder switch’ inside pistols, did they?

The big question that nobody has answered satisfactorily is just WHY that mode existed at all? What legitimate reason?

The bullet comparison doesn’t hold up. When you buy a bullet, it is obvious, and limited, what it’s usage is. There is no question. It fires from a gun. It will not work correctly in your weedeater.

I think the Bosch thing is different that a lot of others, though. Apparently, from all the information, Bosch put the ‘cheat code’ in the software they put in the computers themselves. Then, it looks like they just told VW; “By the way, here’s the code, but never, ever use it.” *wink* *wink* *nudge* *nudge*.

The HHR got a lot of flack about plastic interior, but after 8 years it’s still like new. Even shuttling the dogs around. I like a nice, simple, solid interior myself.