There was only 5 drivers wearing them at that race. It unfortunately takes a tragedy to give big safety advancements.

The thing that made Dale Earnhard’s death so frustrating was his refusal to use a HANS device, which was fairly new at the time and not yet mandatory in NASCAR.  There is a very good chance it would have saved his life in that crash.

Oh it’s pickup truck drivers now.  Especially if they’re lifted.  It’s getting so obnoxious lately.

Spiders?! Hell, Australia is the only place in the world that I can think of where the national mascot carries an STD

Australians are apparently pretty sensitive, considering they live in a country where it rains spiders.

Which BMW driving legislator came up with this ridiculous law?

I’d probably want a little more variety, sure, but I’m a sucker for matching sets.

The last time Aston’s looked really good. Too bad that shade of orange is not great. Something a little more coppery would be nicer.

Well let’s see. I’ll get ‘em started off:

Meh, it could be worse. With my luck it would be this

He’s an awesome guy. Always had/has cool cars. Always has a Jag in the garage. He had a gorgeous De Tomaso Mangusta for 20+ years that he partially restored himself. His very last project was a channeled and chopped Model A with an SVO engine wedged in it. Talk about terrifying.

70's Tonka trucks. Had 3 or 4, a couple dump trucks and a crane.

I had the obligatory Matchbox/Hot Wheels cars that I played with forever and have passed onto my kids, but my absolute favorite was one of these keys.

The roster of top authors and journalists who had stories and pieces published in Playboy is pretty astounding.  Nabokov, Updike, Irving, Hunter Thompson (OK that one’s not so astounding), Stephen King, Frank Herbert...the list goes on.

It’s really kind of hard to explain to people now that yes, the nudity was the primary draw, but Playboy really did have good articles too.  Long-form journalism and short fiction, vs the listicles that most latter day lad magazines featured.

I made the mistake of Googling “adrenochrome” and skipping the results from Wikipedia and NIH. 

I don’t know what that means, but Google says it’s a part number for Caterpillar.

Wild, didn’t know that. And he died a couple years ago https://www.nytimes.com/2021/08/21/arts/television/tony-mendez-dead.html

Seth Meyer’s cue card guy, Wally, gets featured quite a bit on the show and even has a side business selling cue cards.

yeah i’m kinda torn - this is probably the only time anyone has ever actually made proper use of one of those abominations, and yet I still feel like the guy is a tosser.