That’s the Victorian interpretation (and the source of the word “pornography,” which literally meant ‘advertising for prostitution’). Victorian archaeologists were so aghast at the open exhibition of sexuality Pompeiian art that they decided it all had to do with brothels. They even went so far as to destructively…

Don’t worry, Durham has a couple of 12'0", 11'8", 11'4" and 11'0" bridges along the same railway right of way. They regularly eat trucks. (And we have exploding garbage trucks, too.)

ETA: Kinja totally mangled those links when pasted in nicely.

David, take your phone to a cell phone repair shop and have them check the internals.

My first car was a 1965 Ford Mustang. In 1965, passenger mirrors, seat belts, a tachometer, and reverse lights were optional. My car had none of them when it was bought from the dealer.

They confirmed that he still needs to perfect that system:

Not really. In late 1977, in what is known as the “Cincinnati Coup,” a group of highly-reactionary members ousted then-NRA EVP Maj. Gen. Maxwell Rich (ret.), who was planning to move the NRA to Colorado and effectively cease political involvement by the group. For 106 years, the NRA had been focused on marksmanship…

Pfft.

Circling back to let you know I ended up taking your advice and bought a 2012 Prius V Five, yesterday. (I’d been borrowing a friend’s ancient Civic and had planned to hold onto that through August, when I’ll have my debts wiped out, but it’s cooling system died — I swear I don’t chew on the hoses or anything).

“We are a family-owned business, a family-led business, and we are married to our first wives…”

I don’t trust the E39 540i/6 — it’s stranded me too many times — and I’ve spent far too much of my own time fixing it, over the past eight years of ownership. (My prior E24 was rock-solid, save for an intermittent MAF failure that took forever to figure out.)

I’d thought about it — the 540i/6 runs, now, but I still don’t trust it not to strand me — but I think buying an aging 16+ year old luxury car loaded with electronics is simply asking for trouble.

Thanks, other than trying to model healthy relationships (and self-worth) for my kids, I’m really big on teaching them the lesson of “it’s really easy to say something nasty to an anonymous person on the interwebs, but that doesn’t mean you should.”

Dan here.

Who said that I didn’t contest the matter with the NC Employment Security Commission?

I know someone who “moved” to Alabama so that she could get divorced immediately and then “moved” back to NC. But she also didn’t have kids and was on her third marriage at age 23, so… yeah.

I’m leaning towards your Postscript. (Though I have a line on a sub-$1000 Subaru Outback that needs a little work and should carry me through the end of the year, when the fiscal situation should be much better; A gearhead friend is trying to convince me to buy her 1999 Nissan Quest for $2000, but I’m worried about…

She’s intimated in the past that she would pound me into the ground with legal filings and made not-so-veiled threats about my custody of the kids at the mere mention of alimony and child support.

NC requires 366 consecutive days of separate habitation before filing. Buying made more sense than renting in this market. A cancer diagnosis at 358 days led to my ex going from “damn your feelings, all ahead flank speed!” to “I can’t deal with this, right now.” We’re still in the middle of filing, right now.

Funny thing is: in order to get to that level of savings, I need to get to work.

Thanks, dude.