Very appropriate username.

Certainly more creative than an LS swap!

By train, plane and sedan chair, Peter Ustinov retraces a journey made by Mark Twain a century ago. The highlights of his global tour include encounters with Nelson Mandela, an 800-year-old demigod and a dildo collector.

It’s like why the space shuttles used core memory through the 80s - radiation didn’t affect it as much as the smaller, simpler, cheaper MOS memory

I’d say Arizona counts, but mostly northern AZ. Flagstaff especially stands out to me as nice, since summer wrenching is possible there, but I wouldn’t even want to try in Phoenix.

That’s not true at all. You are describing SEMI-automatic weapons. Automatic weapons (which are illegal to own without a class III firearms permit) cycle a new round and continue firing until the trigger is released.

it’s a very compelling vehicle; one that debuts an all-new aluminum architecture, a bevy of neat technology

For confused americans (or similar)- remember that the car is right-hand drive.

People tend to forget just how much China hates Japan, but Nanking isn’t a big topic in the history texts anymore...

Actually, the idea this gives me...

This one time the store was out of pork rinds :/

Being that it’s a suzuki, I imagine it with some insanely-boosted Hatabusa engine.

I drive a’94, if that counts

Think “Eat at Joe’s” or “I’ll be at my mom’s” - there’s an implied object.

Translation, nobody is buying this bloated beast, so get one and never lose it in a parking lot.

Maybe they randomize the standard features on each one, so that you have to pay more to get what you actually want?

Call it period vernacular. It would be like saying “Come on over to my mom’s.” or “I’ll be at Joe’s.” - there is an implied meaning; “house”, “place”, “location”, etc.

Then again, maybe I missed the memo that said the Iranian Revolutionary Guard has diversified into ship-to-shore white glove concierge service for American gunboats.

You say that and I just imagine...

He’s still kind of an unofficial spokesperson/mascot, though!