Agreed. It is only through wanting to maintain familial peace I have turkey at Thanksgiving. It is also the only time all year I eat turkey. Christmas Eve we have ham. Christmas we have rib roast. Alternating leftovers after that is amazing.

I have had a chocolate pecan pie, and it was pretty damn good. Alas, this was a work function and not a family gathering though. Sometimes family members are, shall we say, resistant to change.

Canned cranberry sauce is good for one thing: taking a small slice, throwing it on some bread with stuffing and turkey for a Thursday night/Friday afternoon sandwich.

Agreed. I can’t remember the last time I had a chocolate dessert at Thanksgiving. Pecan, apple, pumpkin, or sweet potato pies. Chocolate can wait.

We always get some really weird ones in Florida. There was 2000, where we voted for high speed rail. Then people balked at the price, so we repealed it in 2002 and now there is also a vague requirement that amendments need to have costs associated with them included in the language. 

Haha, bad (or perfect) choice of words on my part.

Welcome to 2018, where you can make a case of anything! Personally, I’d just take all the free shit I could from them and move on. I don’t see a need for lawyers here.

I would have immediately drank the entire mini-bottle of gin and responded with “I’m going to need more than one mini-bottle if you expect me to make it through this flight.”

This is pretty much correct, too. While I may have a side with pizza, I often don’t.

My opinion is that is a horrible idea unless that restaurant is putting on all the condiments I don’t keep around the house at all times and am too lazy or just don’t want to buy. Hot dog at home: spicy brown mustard, diced onion, relish, celery salt. Hot dog at a restaurant and not from a cart better have way more…

I was perplexed by that one, too. Fries are completely natural with hot dogs. With pizza, there’s many other things I’d have first as fries just don’t feel like a natural accompaniment. Breadsticks, or another main course like chicken wings, hell, I’d even have a side salad first.

The asking price isn’t horribly out of line, but I wouldn’t pay that much. It would need to be cleaner to command just shy of $50,000. A really nice one went for $28k on BaT a few months ago, but that seems to have been an aberration.

Well, you’re in luck. The 2.5T gets to the CX-5 starting with the 2019 models. Grand Touring Reserve and Signature trims, just as in the 6. Out of luck on the transmission, but I've never thought their six speed was an issue.

I would argue concern over The Noise is just simply unfamiliarity with the car. We’ve all been there until we gain enough mileage in a car to have figured out its quirks. You’ll probably be completely familiar with everything and have gained that confidence about one mile before you arrive at your destination.

“On today’s episode of Hoarders, we feature a young man from Michigan who has a love of non-running Jeeps that are slowly suffocating him under rust.”

I can't wait to see what's next because this series needs to live on. 

I really wanted to NP this because of wagon, turbo, manual, and AWD. But a couple commenters who had personal experience say CP, so I’m inclined to think they know of what they speak. CP, even though that puts me squarely outnumbered.

Being a huge Mazda fan, I was happy to see them finish second and third, even if they still don’t have that elusive win. I didn’t know until the day after that it was the #55 that had gone into the grass. The head on shot Fox Sports used at the finish line didn’t allow for identification of any of the cars. When I saw…

Trolling is the only possible reason here. That or they are currently on crack. 

I’d call bullshit and say there’s no way this thing didn’t get towed for 250,000 of those miles, but the digital odometer has me thinking this might be legit.