You can take that comment and stick it up your .... oh, wait.

D’oh, I missed that. Plus, “realism”, “not tempting fate too much”, and “knowing one’s limits” didn’t really fit with the narrative of this article, so I must have subconsciously skipped it.

“...News reports are coming in of outbreaks of tetanus across the Michigan, Kansas and Utah tri-state area. The Center for Disease Control is baffled but advises residents not to panic....”

Sort of like this.

ITYM Tonneau cover?

Someone here really, REALLY needs to re-write either this one:

You jest, but a friend of mine restored a 1950s Morgan 3-wheeler about 5-10 years ago, that was barely more than that. Just a wheelbarrow load of rusty parts.

Yay! I got noticed and lifted out of the grey, and by none other than the legendary $kay!

“Carp-uretors might be flooded.”

Whatever it is, it’s turbot-charged.

No, you have to use a Lhasa pointer for that.

Any relation to those campaigning for physical controls on fishing boats?

I am a permanent resident in the USA, but can’t vote, so I’m just an interested observer to the insanity that is Election 2016. A crook or a toupé’ed pumpkin? Fun choice.

What you’re ALL overlooking is that he’s referring to British (i.e, Imperial) miles. Just as a British gallon is not equal to a US gallon, a British mile is actually a different distance. Officially defined in 1541 as the distance between King Henry VIII’s nipples, multiplied by the length of an average horse.…

...forgot to stress, although it should be semi-obvious from context - I only do this when there’s ALREADY a stopped driver behind me. If I’m the last car in the stopped line, I keep my brake lights on (and pump them with the shifter in neutral if there’s a car coming up behind at high speed, who might not have…

There’s another good reason for this behavior, which I haven’t seen mentioned here yet (though as I am frustratingly still stuck in the grays, no doubt it’ll have been mentioned a hundred times by the time anyone sees my comment... it seems if you’re not one of the “clique” around here, you don’t get to make a…

OK, so the article (and this COTD follow up) made me think of Chris Rea’s “Road To Hell”:

I had a colleague many years ago who did that. Let’s just say he wasn’t the sharpest knife in the drawer. He accidentally filled his diesel Frontera with petrol. We laughed a little, and sympathised a lot, as he had to pay to get it drained/flushed.

“Dude, nice car, what is it?”

I starred your comment because of all the theories already posted here, yours seems the most plausible. But even so, if it was a case of “put a seat into this truck so we can at least drive it off the line and over to the rework area”, surely they wouldn’t bother to hook up the electric heating/adjustment loom etc.?…