Hey, thanks picking the COOT, and extra thanks for posting the video! I spent a few summers traversing the wilds of northern Canada in that thing, and the video tour brought back a lot of good memories.

Gas is short for gasoline.

you have to call it petrol

For me, it’s the COOT 4x4 amphibious all-terrain vehicle. It’s basically two steel tubs connected by an articulating collar, powered by what’s basically a big Briggs & Stratton lawnmower engine. The drive shaft setup looks like something out of Mad Max, with a centrifugal clutch like on a snowmobile. The articulation…

Oh, crap; I’d forgotten about that. I think I was in denial that someone so very familiar with The Handmaid’s Tale would be cool with being in a controlling cult.

Yeah, it’s amazing how he just rolled and popped right up. I’m wondering if it’s because he was actually leaning on the car that hit him rather than being any distance away from it. He got pushed rather than punched, if you know what I mean.

Anyone old enough to have seen rule number two flip back and forth a couple of times? When I was a kid, you didn’t want to run batteries flat (if you needed to, you bought a “deep cycle” battery that could better withstand the extremes). Then came the “memory effect” that the very common NiCad or NiMH batteries would…

Wow, that’s a lot of writing to defend the guy. You also happened to leave out all the important stuff showing that Lindbergh was an unabashed anti-Semite. He wasn’t only about “let’s not get dragged into a war.” He described the war in Europe as:

Nobody ever actually said or wrote that. You know that, right?

Good strategy as long as you do it before you are on the road. You don’t want a Del Griffith situation.

I have to admit that the first time I saw the video, I said to Mrs. Muck - “assuming no one was seriously hurt, I would have really enjoyed that.” The idea of flying over a city in a passenger jet “with the window down” is really appealing to me. (For a short period of time, of course, and just the once should do me,…

“There is a need for a bold fighter to stand between the people and the ever-expanding government that is infringing on our God-given freedoms.”

There is totally a great joke here involving the words “Rubicon”, “die”, and “cast”, but I don’t have the energy to figure out what it is.

I thought they were referencing the Frank Sinatra song.

who can manage to walk away with as much of their dignity intact as possible

Kevin Costner’s ex-wife Christine Baumgartner is now apparently dating Costner’s friend, financier Josh Connor

It was on a work trip with my boss in northern Saskatchewan in the dead of winter, meeting with clients in Prince Albert. We drove up from Saskatoon in the morning in a rental car for the initial meet & greet. Did I mention that she was a control freak and a terrible driver? She insisted on driving, and even on a…

It’s the former. That is, they literally ask “If you had it to do all over again, would you definitely buy or lease the same model?”

OK, this is the second time I’ve seen a comment here expressing confusion over that wording. Have you kids really never heard/used the phrase “near as makes no difference”?? Well, la-di-da. I bet you all park your cars in garages, too.

Seems odd that are so many uses of “panic” and “panicked” in those reports. I’m sure many were terrified, but it looks like everyone behaved extremely calmly and rationally under the circumstances.