So they get three stupids and I only get one?!

I once worked at a chain of stores that used to be owned by a local (and somewhat national) SportsBall celebrity. He sold his stores to BigRetail at one point but BigRetail paid him 27.623 buttloads of cash to keep using his name.

Josiah and Dusty?

On Sergio’s desk is a spiral notebook. The pages of which are filled with innane scribblings in pink and purple pen;

I call a large peanut butter milkshake a “protien smoothie.” Makes it a legit choice for breakfast and lunch.

Hipsters! thats whats with sundried/asiago/ghost pepper/pumpkin/quinoia. Goddammed hipsters!

Sounds good! Unless you like weird flavors in your bagel. Salt is good. So is plain. I will live with onion or garlic. Fruit flavors, and you got some ‘splaining to do.

Dammit; Now I have to go to the deli!

Don’t think it’s really a bad car. But I want a new Transit Connect. LWB, non-turbo engine, cargo model. I keep trying to justify it by saying that I need it for my busniess. (Everything i need to haul for work fits in what I drive now.) It’s slow. It’s top heavy, and it has a small case of the uglies. But something…

Dealers ordered them in 2wd and the manual so they could put one, (Just One) in their newspaper ad. “Explorer Sport-Trac.....$18,988” Always a 4x2 manual, usually in white.

But he used the magic word “Rat Rod” Makes it worth all the dollars

When I started selling cars I actually had a training course. (Quelle Suprise!!) It was old school 4-square with a script that we had to memorize and we would be tested on it. When we would sit back down with the customer after we got our “starting numbers” the first line of the script scared some of the green peas so…

The Lansing Mafia?

I am a Capital D Drunk. A lose your wife/job/house type of drunk. When I lived in states with no Sunday sales I would drink vanilla extract. I would drink brown Listerine.

You seem to have a lot more faith in the manufactuers than I do. If they all get to sell direct, and knowing that the market will bear X dollars for Y type (or class) of car. Do you not see them keeping that “dealership premium” for themselves.

So if a new Ford can be sold for $30,000. And people pay that. (Within 1-2%) under the current dealership model. Don’t you think the parent company has noticed that?

He really did define the look of Cosmo in the ‘80s and beyond

A) The covers aren’t nearly as racy as they were during the Scavullo years;

Even more “WTF OMG You Have Got To Be Kidding Me.” than asking the Subway clerk if the cookies at Subway are any good;

My Northern Itialian Ex-FIL, when he taught me his recipie for meat sauce. Taught me to put just the smallest shake of cinnamon in the sauce just before you let it simmer.