...Kingdom of the Crystal Skull...ok it’s pretty clear immediately you win.

Yeah but today we have Jurassic Park, Rocky, Star Wars, Caitlin Jenner, The Muppets Show, the...wha?

I’m just glad I was never alive during the Malaise Era.

Again, huge exhaust for huge engines. US helos be all like VTEC kickin’ in yo! While Russians prefer big blocks, if that kind of helps. Particularly for this helicopter which is designed to be particularly fast. Also this design dates back to before the Russians much cared for shielding from heat-seeking missiles…

I refuse to believe that a factory can have any legitimacy to being the finest center of craftsmanship in the world unless it has Brienne of Tarth and her loyal squire Podrick as employees. Also, please help me I can only see the world in terms of Game of Thrones now please I’m begging you.

If they had given it an aluminum block engine that wasn’t an Army-spec explosive device in the shape and form of an aluminum-block engine history may have been different.....

That’s actually where the engines actually end. The rest of the hump is transmission, IIRC. But it is a big problem since heat-seeking missiles like to hit right there.

Huge exhaust for huge engines.

Huh, I always thought it was an APU (which technically *is* a third engine). The circle-thingies are also sand filters, and they’re off-and-on mounted but they’re really only necessary for environmentswith a lot of, well sand (or helicopters that spend a lot of time on ships, they’re also handy for keeping saltwater…

Was Jason the one who drove the Beast of Turin? Yeah, maybe he drove it a little bit too much.

If you haven’t read Mary Walton’s Car: A Drama of the American Workplace it’s worth it just to see exactly this issue in action. People working on the DN101 Taurus typically drove Tauruses. People who wanted something more upscale or exciting were encouraged to drive Taurus SHOs or Continentals. Then they got their…

weighs 666 pounds wet

OPTION E: Redheads do sign up for The Bachelor, but keep dying in freak accidents before they arrive because did you know that 94 percent of redheads perish in freak accidents?

So basically you’re saying The Bachelor is like Game of Thrones but with dating instead of swords?

Pontiac Bonneville Station Wagon: Preferred Frogman Ingress Deployment Vehicle.

This is actually where Hemis came from (tanks and aircraft, IIRC)

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Dang, I remember where I was when I heard about this.

20 personnel lost

...is that William Shatner fresh off the set of Star Trek V?