Hello mudda,
hello fadda,
I am driving,
a Ford Granada.

Great writeup, although I disagree about the diving bits which I wholeheartedly enjoyed. Tons of atmosphere, and although it wasn’t as fast paced as a land based battle, the tension created by cut air hoses, etc more than made up for it in my opinion... This is coming from a non-swimmer, however.

I’ve always had a fantasy where they bring out the family and kids, and when they say turn around or Let’s welcome home Corporal Marine Todd, the family turns around overjoyed and then they wheel out a casket with the flag draped over it.

I went over it before a bit in this post http://foxtrotalpha.jalopnik.com/us-air-forces-… and sprinkled throughout a bunch more. During a 1V1 fight it is especially useful, especially when the aircraft also has helmet mounted cuing and a high-off-boresight short range air-to-air missile. The capability is less of an…

Not on a bike, not on a trike

Latrine

The C-5M climbs surprisingly fast for how big it is; I’ve seen climb rates greater than 7000 feet per minute.

The video is private :D

It’s been proven in the documentary “Idiocracy”.

When I was little, in the early eighties, there was a blue ford van that rolled the ‘hood, it had a silver chain steering wheel, (I thought it was so cool) and it had the name Poon Hunter painted on it. When I asked, my parents told me a poon was a type of fox. I guess in a way, they weren’t lying. Meanwhile, my dad…

Here’s one I actually remember from when I was a kid.

Van-A-White

For the last 20 years, I’ve been playing in the Abilene Philharmonic, and whenever I’m in town (I live in Austin), I spend my free time out at Rister Park, smoking cigars and watching the show. I’ve gotten some pretty good spots out there, including this E-4 and this P-8. And here’s a Dyess Bone for good measure.…

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as a non-motorcycle owner living in the free state of NH which hosts Laconia Bike Week I will say straight pipes are the most annoying. From summer’s start to the last gasps of fall’s Indian summer the quite rural peace is punctured by the noise of straight piped V-twins. I get the “loud pipes save lives” logic, but…

How to get the entire family to remember to put both the seat and lid down, in two easy steps.

A Rolls Royce is one of the last cars anyone thinks about when they think of Elvis. If he was alive he’d be driving a Ciel: