When I first saw the story about the minesniffer rats a week or so ago, my first thought was that I wanted to see Pixar make a sequel to Ratatouille in which Remy and company join the Foreign Legion and wind up cooking for a groupement of sapper rats like these.

I’d blame the Chinese. They build both licensed and knock-off Toyotas, often as CKD kits to be assembled in third countries. And the Chinese are ALWAYS looking for an excuse to call the Japanese “warmongers” and “imperialists”.

This was also the first time the 007 franchise only gave lip service to what was in the novel and created an original story. After all, the original plot was that Bond had just lost his wife Tracy at the end of ON HER MAJESTY’S SECRET SERVICE and M gave him an impossible mission to try to break through his depression.

And how disappointing it was, three seasons of searching for St. John (“Sinjin”) Hawke and he turned out to be Barry Van Dyke!

I want VW’s Bugatti division to get into F1 at least as an engine constructor, if not an actual team. BTW, I’d kept track of previous US F1 drivers and their best race numbers...

I think Reese on Person of Interest has him beat.

Will Glorious Kazakhstan prevail or will Borat be execute?

You have okay taste in aircraft.

Careless Talk and Wormholes...

Nobody got hurt? So who are they going to blame for having a failed homosexual affair and being all suicidal about it?

Hollywood reboots THE PARTRIDGE FAMILY and at the end the scheming boy is being driven around in the patchwork Ferrari by the band’s lawyer.

No worries, I got mine (thanks to Greenlight diecast and my sister, who gave me the Amazon.com gift card I used to buy it!).

I used to enter a lot of sweepstakes (and I sort of still do, but not as much) and then my inbox would fill up with come-on ads for “local” dealerships that aren’t anywhere near me, because the hosts of the sweepstakes have passed on my contact information. Even if I said in my sweepstakes entry that I wasn’t in the…

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The Foose Imposter, of which I speak.

See what Chip Foose did to a Corvette chassis this season? Maybe he could flop some muscle-era Mopar styling onto this guy.

In the words of the late Jeremy Clarkson: “More buttons, equals better.”

I thought the later version of the Coyote was a Delorean—specifically, the one originally for Lee Horsley on MATT HOUSTON. Urban legend is that Horsley was too tall for the car and at one point they had to cut it open to get him out after a shoot.

Remember THX 1138!

Anybody yet mention The Harpy from ENEMY ACE? Vowed eternal damnation on Hans Von Hammer after he saved her life, and we never saw her again.

Once upon a time I posited a concept I called LEMON PEEL. Top Gear meets the reality game show. Contestants who have never driven as race drivers are given a budget (through a Quiz round that is based on rules of the road, automotive culture, sports trivia etc.), must buy a used car (that is converted to…