I challenge someone to diagram that sentence. No, seriously, I want to see what that sentence diagram ends up looking like.

Yes, the panel discussion confirmed that Santaolalla does do the music for Part II. They even played a bit of the music from Part II.

I’ve been under the impression that the guys are playing up the legal aspects for comedy value. It’s just like all the rest of the scripted stuff they did while on Top Gear.

I’d be OK with just about everything about the Prime... except that weird dual hump tailgate. That alone is enough to put me off of this car.

When my father died last year, we called the local PD and let them know we would be out of town for a day or so for a funeral, and asked them to add patrols through the neighborhood. They didn’t hesitate; it seemed to be a fairly routine request for them. We also called our neighbor across the street to have them keep…

Milwaukee built the Bradley Center to attract an NHL team in 1988, but one never came.

Yup. There were some really bad front loaders 5-6 years back, most notably the Maytag/Whirlpool (same manufacturer) washers that netted a class action lawsuit. Unfortunately, those bad washers also sold particularly well, leaving a lot of people who bought them (and everyone they told) with a stigma about front…

Well, if you compare HE top loaders to HE front loaders, HE front loaders will win any day. They clean better and treat clothes more gently. HE top loaders, from everything I’ve heard, are pretty much rubbish. And since it seems virtually all washers on the market these days are either HE top or HE front washers,…

Good to know. I have a *very* low mileage 2006 GT, and I’m about to try and sell it. I saw the values that NADA and KBB had for it, and was planning on trying to sell it somewhere near that amount. Hearing your experience is disappointing, but at least it sets my expectations appropriately low.

There were two reasons the US series improved when they ditched the studio. The first was that all three US hosts weren’t really great on camera... but more than that, they were HORRIBLE interviewers. The only one that was barely tolerable at interviewing was Rutledge, and even he wasn’t great.

Call me old if you will, but I really like actual, physical buttons and dials for as much stuff as possible in a car. Touch screens just don’t provide a tactile response that a button or dial does. Without even looking, you can reach over and find a button or dial, but you almost always have to look over to figure out…

I agree. Carrabba’s was ranked way too low, and Buca di Beppo was bizarrely high. Buca has insane amounts of barely adequate pasta, while Carrabba’s stuff actually is quite good. (I really dig their Tag Pic Pac.)

Sonic is fast food. It wouldn’t appear on this list any more than McDonald’s or Burger King would be on it.

Grill and headlamp assembly looks almost identical to that used on the 1984 Plymouth Voyager.

Does that headline make absolutely no sense, or is it just me?

You could also use MOCA (ethernet over coax) - even if you don’t have cable.

There are two big issues with getting around Milwaukee that I can see. One is that they don’t have a complete “ring road” bypass around the city. I-894 is a good bypass from the west to the south - but there isn’t a matching equivalent going north. Your best alternative is to take the newly renamed I-45, then a side…

Yes, Top Gear made Clarkson... but then Clarkson remade Top Gear. The Top Gear that most people today are most familiar with is the one that Clarkson (and Wilman) crafted out of the rubble of the canceled old show, and imbued with their voices.

I had a Cirrus, so I know your pain.

I had a Dodge Spirit in blue that did the same thing. I just took to calling it Blue Dalmatian, because it had grey primer “spots” all over.